20th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140136535 | Method and Web Platform for Brokering Know-How - A method for brokering of know-how in various formats between users on an electronic Web service platform includes the following steps: allowing users access to the electronic Web service platform, requesting registration data from a user on the platform, managing interest area categories, receiving user offers for know-how in at least one interest area category, enabling searches of users for know-how in at least one interest area category, calculating and displaying a rating in respect of offers in at least one interest area category, approving to a selected offer an agreed exchange of know-how and a corresponding transfer of credit points, conveying selected know-how from the provider to the consumer and booking a corresponding transfer of credit points, and accepting and storing a rating given to the provider by the consumer in respect of the transferred know-how, wherein the rating is assigned to the interest area category of the transferred know-how. There is not a general rating for a provider but a rating for skills or know-how in specific interest area categories. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136536 | Intent-Based Presentation of Search Results - Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter include computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems configured to respond to a search query from a computer user. In response to receiving a search query from the computer user, search results are obtained. A plurality of user intents are identified according to the obtained search results. The obtained search results are then grouped according to the subject matter of the search results, where each group corresponds to one of the plurality of user intents. A first user intent (with the corresponding group of search results) is selected. A search results page is generated from the search results of the group the search results corresponding to the selected first user intent and the generated search results page is returned to the computer user in response to the search query. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136537 | ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING SOLUTIONS - A computing system determines incremental values associated with a plurality of clustering solutions. Each of the clustering solutions groups stores of a retailer into clusters in a different way. For each clustering solution in the plurality of clustering solutions, the incremental value associated with the clustering solution indicates a difference between an estimated revenue associated with the clustering solution and revenue associated with a baseline clustering solution. The computing system then determines, based on the incremental values associated with the plurality of clustering solutions, the appropriate number of clusters. The clustering solutions that group the stores into more or fewer clusters than the appropriate number of clusters tend to be associated with incremental values that are the same or lower than the clustering solutions that group the stores into the appropriate number of clusters. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136538 | Method and Apparatus for Communications Analysis - A method of grouping communication sessions, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of communications sessions from a data stream; determining which data structures, of said communication sessions, occur more frequently than chance; and sorting the communication sessions into groups, wherein communication sessions which have similar data structures, determined to occur more frequently than chance, are sorted into the same group. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136539 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Visual Document Classification - A computer-implemented system and method for visual document classification are provided. One or more uncoded documents, each associated with a visual representation, are obtained. Reference documents, each associated with a classification code and a visual representation of that classification code, are obtained. At least one of the uncoded documents is compared to the reference documents and the reference documents similar to the uncoded document are identified based on the comparison. A suggestion for assigning one of the classification codes to the uncoded document based on the classification codes of the similar reference documents is provided, including displaying the visual representation of the suggested classification code placed on a portion of the visual representation associated with the at least one uncoded document. An acceptance of the suggested classification code is received and a size of the displayed visual representation of the accepted classification code is increased. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136540 | QUERY DIVERSITY FROM DEMAND BASED CATEGORY DISTANCE - A system and method of determining the level of diversity for a search query are described. Distances between leaf categories in a hierarchical category tree are determined using co-click counts between the leaf categories for a query. Coordinate representations of the leaf categories are determined using the distances between the leaf categories. A diversity score for the query is determined using the coordinate representations. The diversity score represents a degree of variability in what different users find relevant to the query. In some embodiments, determining distances between leaf categories comprises determining the distances using a normalization of the co-click counts that uses co-impression counts between the leaf categories for the query. In some embodiments, a manifold learning algorithm is used to determine the coordinate representations. In some embodiments, multi-dimensional scaling is used to determine the coordinate representations. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136541 | Mining Semi-Structured Social Media - Methods and apparatus for analysis of semi-structured social media are described. A method comprises classifying a plurality of user-generated content entries into a plurality of categories based at least in part on an analysis of respective structured components of at least a subset of the plurality of entries. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on an analysis of additional components of entries of a particular category, a set of representative content elements of entries of the particular category, and generating a report that comprises one or more representative content elements of the particular category. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136542 | System and Method for Divisive Textual Clustering by Label Selection Using Variant-Weighted TFIDF - A computer implemented method includes accepting a corpus of documents organized in categories. Labels are selected for the categories based upon author frequency-inverse document frequency criteria that measures the total number of authors who utilize a given term within a category in comparison to the total number of authors who utilize the term both inside the category and outside the category. Clusters within each category are created based upon the labels. Each document in a cluster contains the term selected as a label for the cluster. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136543 | AUTOCOMPLETE SEARCHING WITH SECURITY FILTERING AND RANKING - A system that provides secure autocomplete searching receives an autocomplete query from a user, the autocomplete query including a prefix of a search phrase, and retrieves security information of the user. The system searches one or more prefix indexes to find a set of matching objects, where the matching objects each include associated object security information. The system excludes matching objects that the user is not authorized to access from the set of matching objects based on the object security information and the user security information. The system then returns the set of matching objects to the user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136544 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OPTIMIZED FOR MICRO CONTENT - A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, detecting the language of the microcontent message and selecting the property dictionary for part-of-speech tag, part-of-speech tagging the microcontent message to identify related pronouns and nouns based on the selected dictionary, and extracting topics form the microcontent messages and assigning confidence values to the topics. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136545 | Multi-tier Indexing Methodology for Scalable Mobile Device Data Collection - A mobile device indexing system includes a plurality of edge nodes in communication with each other across a communication network and a plurality of mobile devices configured to communicate with the edge nodes. Each mobile device has both computing and communication functionalities. A separate mobile device index is maintained at each one of the plurality of edge nodes. Each mobile device index is a geographical spatio-temporal index having entries for a unique set of mobile devices derived from the plurality of mobile devices. Each unique set contains only mobile devices registered to the edge node associated with that mobile device index. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136546 | SOCIAL NETWORK AWARE SEARCH RESULTS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PRESENTATION - A user is provided with both identification of individuals who have authored content responsive to a user's search query and the authored content itself. A user's social network is referenced to identify those individuals to whom the user maintains human connections. Content authored by those individuals is searched and individuals authoring such content are identified, together with the authored content. Additionally, content authored by individuals having unique experiences, perspective, or specialized information is searched to identify responsive content and individuals authoring such content are also identified. An initial identification of responsive individuals comprises a portion of such content and user action directed to an identification of an individual results in additional authored content being presented, thereby enabling the user to recognize the reason for which such an individual was identified in response to the user's search query. Options for establishing interpersonal communications are also provided. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136547 | Determining Potential Enterprise Partnerships - Techniques, a system and an article of manufacture for determining potential enterprise partnerships. A method includes constructing an interaction graph for a set of multiple enterprises based on information pertaining to each of the enterprises and information pertaining to transactions conducted among the enterprises, and determining at least two candidate partnership teams among the set of enterprises based on at least one attribute of the graph, wherein each candidate partnership team comprises two or more of the enterprises. The method also includes computing a compatibility score for each pair of enterprises in each candidate partnership team based on at least one enterprise parameter, computing a compatibility score for each candidate partnership team based on an aggregation of the compatibility score for each pair of enterprises in each candidate partnership team, and outputting a suggested candidate partnership team based on selection of the highest compatibility score among the candidate partnership teams. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - A method of ranking a plurality of regulated data sources and a plurality of non-regulated data sources for a data field is provided. The method evaluates consistency and assigns a ranking for a regulated data source based upon records having identical values and records having non-identical values for the data field in the regulated data source compared to other regulated data sources under analysis. The method further evaluates consistency and assigns a ranking for a non-regulated data source based upon records having identical values compared to other non-regulated data sources under analysis. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PRODUCT MATCHING - A source product and a competitor product are automatically matched by computing similarity scores between the products. An attribute of a source product is extracted from information received from a user. The extracted attribute is then used to generate a search term. A search for competitor product information is performed using the search term and a similarity score between the source product and the competitor product is calculated. In one implementation, the similarity score is calculated by generating a first value pair for the source product and the competitor product, and for the first value pair, (1) assigning a value to a degree of similarity between the source product and the competitor product with respect to a common feature, and (2) finding the product of the assigned value and a weight value assigned to the common feature. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136550 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DECODING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS - A vehicle identification number (VIN) decoder (VDC) implementing a unique VIN decoding method may, for a given VIN, shorten the VIN and form a stem and a leaf therefrom. Utilizing the stem, the VDC may operate to find matching leaf values, if any, from a set of look up tables. Depending upon a match outcome, one or more trim identification code (TIC) values can be assigned to the VIN and a candidate list can be constructed utilizing the assigned TIC value(s). The candidate list, which can be optimized, may contain one or more candidate trims for the VIN. For each candidate trim, a confidence score and a match probability can be generated. The VDC may provide decoded information containing trim data associated with at least one of the one or more candidate trims for the VIN to a client device over a network connection. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136551 | Method and Apparatus of Generating Update Parameters and Displaying Correlated Keywords - Provided is a method of generating updating parameters. The method obtains search keywords used by users within a predetermined time period; counts the search keywords to obtain primary keywords, related keywords, co-search frequencies of each primary keyword and the respective related keywords being searched together, and search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; computes first feature values based on the search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; and then computes second feature values based on the first feature values and the co-search frequencies of the primary keywords and the respective related keywords. The second feature values serve as updating parameters for determining displaying modes of the related keywords. An apparatus of generating updating parameters, and a method and an apparatus of displaying related keywords according to the updating parameters are also provided. The solution keeps abreast with the user trends to allow a better user experience and improve computing performance and efficiency. For a service provider, no special secret algorithm is needed, and the operation is easy with a low development cost. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136552 | FILTERING VIEWS WITH PREDEFINED QUERY - An application, such as a data store application, provides a filter query to manage access to a view of a data store. The application uses the filter query to restrict or shape access to the view. A user constructs the filter query using a query constructor component of the application. The application attaches the constructed filter query to the view. The application may extract the structure of the query and combine that with the original view to generate a filtered view result in place of the original view result. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136553 | APPLIANCE FOR ACCELERATING GRAPH DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS SYSTEMS - A query on a graph database can be efficiently performed employing a combination of an abstraction program and a graph analytics appliance. The abstraction program is generated from a query request employing an abstraction program compiler residing on a computational node, and includes programming instructions for performing parallel operations on graph data. The graph analytics appliance receives or generates the abstraction program, and runs the abstraction program on data fetched from a graph database to generate filtered data that is less than the fetched data. The filtered data is returned to the computational node. The bandwidth between the graph database and the graph analytic engine can be greater than the bandwidth between the computational node and the graph analytic engine in order to utilize processing capacity of the graph analytics appliance. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING TIMELY DIGITAL CONTENT - Embodiments include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer program products for recommending timely digital content to a user. The method includes receiving a request for a digital content recommendation for a content channel, and selecting a content collection from content collections associated with the content channel, where the content collection contains pre-selected digital content. The method also includes determining digital content candidates from the selected content collection based on pre-determined editorial rankings of digital content candidates or recently popular digital content among users. The method also includes filtering the digital content candidates to determine at least one recommended digital content candidate, where the filtering is based on a length of a digital content candidate, a date and time associated with the digital content candidate, or whether the user has previously consumed the digital content candidate. The method also includes sending the recommended digital content candidate to a client device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136555 | APPLIANCE FOR ACCELERATING GRAPH DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS SYSTEMS - A query on a graph database can be efficiently performed employing a combination of an abstraction program and a graph analytics appliance. The abstraction program is generated from a query request employing an abstraction program compiler residing on a computational node, and includes programming instructions for performing parallel operations on graph data. The graph analytics appliance receives or generates the abstraction program, and runs the abstraction program on data fetched from a graph database to generate filtered data that is less than the fetched data. The filtered data is returned to the computational node. The bandwidth between the graph database and the graph analytic engine can be greater than the bandwidth between the computational node and the graph analytic engine in order to utilize processing capacity of the graph analytics appliance. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136556 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING THE SEVERITY OF INFECTION IN A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS - A computer-implemented method of monitoring the severity of infection in a group of individuals. A set of data for each individual is obtained, the data comprising at least one piece of diagnostic test data indicating the level of a biomarker associated with the individual's response to infection. The data is then split into a plurality of segments, each segment comprising all data for each individual within a corresponding one of a plurality of time periods. For each segment, a level of the biomarker across the group of individuals during the time period is estimated. The level of the biomarker for each segment to is then determined provide an indication of the change in severity of infection in the group of individuals over time. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136557 | MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS METHOD - This invention is a computerized method which unites a multivariate dataset and then performs various operations, including data analytics. The set is stored in a “bipartite synthesis matrix” (BSM), e.g., a rectangular matrix with rows of data objects and columns of variable attributes, defined by a plurality of partitions (each with a numerical range and a characteristic scale). Links within the matrix between data objects and attribute(s) are based on shared correspondences within partitions. The process exploits mode reduction in which shared correspondences of a BSM (or its graph) interrelate data objects by producing an adjacency matrix or its associated graph. The partition scale is repeatedly and incrementally altered, varying the density of shared correspondences within the data, based on partition number and size; therefore, a fully connected and weighted unipartite network may be established. Shared correspondences' given scale and variable attribute provide distance metrics for edges within the network. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136558 | Meta Data Driven Feed Architecture - A feed management system is provided that includes a first application module receiving from a user a plurality of fields for processing. The first application module reads meta data from one or more database servers so as to form configuration data for extracting information from the one or more database servers. A generic feed program receives the configuration data and invokes a plurality of extractions of feed data from the one or more database servers. The generic feed program generates one or more feed files associated with the extractions of feed data. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136559 | INTELLIGENT RESOLUTON OF CODES IN A CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - Intelligent delegation of codes for mapping between versions of a classification system includes a method for receiving data that is classified with a first code. The first code is defined by a first version of the classification system, and the first code is to be re-classified to a second code that is defined by a second version of the classification system. The method also includes searching a database of profiles for content that matches at least a portion of the data, sending the data to a converter system having one of the profiles that is associated with the content responsive to the searching, and receiving, from the converter system, a mapping of the first code to the second code. The method further includes updating a database of codes with results of the mapping. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING THE RECOMMENDED SIZE OF AN ARTICLE OF CLOTHING - The system provides the recommended fitting size of clothing. A first set of body dimensions including height, weight, and waist size; and, information regarding a selected article of clothing having a defined set of article dimensions are obtained. A first module computes a second set of human body dimensions. This module includes a first mathematical model generated by a statistical analysis of a human anthropometric database. A second module is configured to compute a recommended fitting size based on: 1) the first set of human body dimensions; 2) the second set of human body dimensions; and, 3) the defined set of article dimensions. This second module includes a data base containing clothing related look up tables for use in computing the recommended fitting size for the particular article of clothing. The second set of human body dimensions includes neck size for a clothing top, and pants size for a bottom. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136561 | Recipe Webpage Ingredients Identification - A parser unit of an apparatus in an example identifies individual ingredients on a recipe webpage. The parser unit in an example accesses source contents of the recipe webpage to identify any ingredients that are listed on the recipe webpage through employment of style sheet detection. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136562 | METHOD OF GENERATING SEARCH INFORMATION AND IMAGE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method of generating search information enables efficient navigation of content and an image apparatus therefore. The method of generating search information includes extracting and storing a portion of a plurality of searched screens, and generating search information using the stored screens. Accordingly, search information regarding digital content can be generated in a more convenient manner. In addition, since searched screens are generated as search information, search information which enables more efficient navigation can be provided to the user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136563 | Accelerating Time Series Data Base Queries Using Dictionary Based Representations - A method for accelerating time series data base queries includes segmenting an original time series of signal values into non-overlapping chunks, where a time-scale for each of the chunks is much less than the time scale of the entire time series, representing time series signal values in each chunk as a weighted superposition of atoms that are members of a shape dictionary to create a compressed time series, storing the original time series and the compressed time series into a database, determining whether a query is answerable using the compressed time series or the original time series, and whether answering the query using the compressed time series is faster. If answering the query is faster using the compressed representation, the query is executed on weight coefficients of the compressed time series to produce a query result, and the query result is translated back into an uncompressed representation. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136564 | Grammar Model for Structured Search Queries - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges that correspond to n-grams of the text query, accessing a context-free grammar model, identifying grammars having query tokens that correspond to the identified nodes and edges, determining a score for each identified grammar, and then generating structured queries based on the identified grammars based on strings generated by the grammars. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136565 | SIMILAR CONTENTS SEARCHING APPARATUS BASED ON USER PREFERENCE AND SIMILAR CONTENTS SEARCHING METHOD THEREOF - A similar contents searching apparatus based on user preference and a similar contents searching method thereof are provided. The present invention searches similar contents based on user preference using user comments that are extracted from texts input as users' responses to contents, and provides the searched similar contents. Accordingly, a similar contents search result is good in quality, thus enhancing the reliability of search. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136566 | Method, Apparatus and Computer-Readable Recording Medium for Managing Images in Image Database - Managing images in an image database is described, comprising: when a query image is input, performing a match to determine whether an image similar to the query image exists within the database by comparing the images stored in the database with the query image; and if the image similar to the query image is a recognized image, providing at least one image in an image group to which the recognized image belongs and information thereon as a result, and if the image similar to the query image is an unrecognized image, providing at least one image in an image group to which the unrecognized image belongs as a result. When at least one image of the image group including the image similar to the query image is a recognized image, information on the corresponding recognized image is assigned to the images in the image group and provided as a result. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136567 | TOPIC RELEVANT ABBREVIATIONS - Delivering a search result is disclosed. A query is received. A term in the query that is a first portion of an abbreviation pair is identified. A second portion of the abbreviation pair is determined. A search result for the query is determined based at least in part on the second portion of the abbreviation pair and the search result is returned. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC WRAPPER INDUCTION USING TARGET STRINGS - Wrappers are induced for multiple domains where, for a given target string having relatively universal distribution across domains of interest, a first wrapper may be defined and trained for a particular domain. Target strings extracted from that domain may be used to search for documents in other domains. New wrappers may be learned for other domains also containing the target strings. Further, a first wrapper may be learned for a given domain using a limited amount of training data from that single domain. The first wrapper is then applied to all pages in the domain to extract the relevant information. A few of the new words extracted are then searched against the document collection to obtain a list of domains that contain the extracted words. The updated information may be used as training data to learn new wrappers on those domains. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136569 | Taxonomy Driven Commerce Site - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for generating a webpage using one or more terms in a hierarchical taxonomy. Specifically, embodiments provide for identifying an item in a database where the item is associated with at least one term in a term set having a hierarchical structure. A uniform resource locator is generated for the webpage using the at least one term and the hierarchical structure associated with the at least one term. An identifier associated with the item is then determined and appended to the generated uniform resource locator. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136570 | CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a technique for improving the reliability of access to a database system in a controller, such as a PLC. A PLC accessible to a database accesses a DB server in response to an event in which a user program calls a DB access processing program. The DB access processing program stores status information indicating a status of accesses to the DB server in a nonvolatile memory, in accordance with an instruction of the user program. When a power interruption occurs, the PLC can obtain a status of accesses to the DB server at the timing of the occurrence of the power interruption by referring to the status information. Then, the PLC, for example, re-sends a SQL sentence, depending on the access status. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136571 | System and Method for Optimizing Data Storage in a Distributed Data Storage Environment - A growing amount of data is produced daily resulting in a growing demand for storage solutions. While cloud storage providers offer a virtually infinite storage capacity, data owners seek geographical and provider diversity in data placement, in order to avoid vendor lock-in and to increase availability and durability. Moreover, depending on the customer data access pattern, a certain cloud provider may be cheaper than another. In this respect is provided a method and a system that facilitates allocation of data objects in a distributed data storage environment. The system continuously adapts the placement of data based on its access patterns and subject to optimization objectives, such as storage costs. The system efficiently considers repositioning of only selected objects that may significantly lower the storage cost. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136572 | Taxonomy Driven Site Navigation - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for generating a uniform resource locator using one or more terms in a hierarchical taxonomy. Specifically, embodiments disclosed herein provide receiving a plurality of terms for a term set and generating a hierarchical taxonomy for the term set using the plurality of terms. Once the hierarchical taxonomy has been generated, a navigation property may be assigned to at least one term in the plurality of terms. A navigation term set that mirrors the properties of the hierarchical taxonomy is then created using the at least one term. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136573 | System and Method for Creating and Using Computer Databases Having Schema Integrated Into Data Structure - A symmetric objects database contains a plurality of data cells. Each data cell has a plurality of data fields which are the same or similar for each of the data cells. A first data cell is related or linked to a second data cell which is higher in database hierarchy than the first data cell. The linking is done through the classes field within the first data cell which contains the identifier of the second data cell. A third data cell is related or linked to a fourth data cell which is lower in database hierarchy than the second data cell. The linking is accomplished through the children field which contains the identifier of the fourth data cell. The data fields within each data cell provide for a schema which is integrated into the data structure. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136574 | HIERARCHICAL MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM COMPOSITION - A computer-based method for media composition of a family of related time-based media programs. The method involves creating a master program with time-based elements of video and/or audio as well as time-based and non-time-based metadata, creating a derivative program that includes derivative elements, defining an inheritance relationship between the master program and the derivative program that specifies elements of the master program to be inherited by the derivative program, and causing the derivative program to inherit the specified elements from the master program in accordance with the inheritance relationship. User interfaces are provided for creating, editing, and viewing hierarchical trees of related programs. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136575 | LOG-STRUCTURED GARBAGE COLLECTION - System and method for log-structured garbage collection are provided. In particular, some embodiments use write pointer to read pointer offsets to enable reclamation of space within a log-structured storage medium (e.g., sequential forward only write mechanisms such as SSD, Tape, Shingled Drives, Flash Drives, etc.). These techniques allow the garbage collection system to reclaim space without copying data from one storage medium to another. Instead of copying the data, various embodiments reset the write and read pointers. In addition, different retention policies can be easily enforced while allowing for efficient garbage collection. For example, in a backup storage, each log-structured media can be designated with a retention time and only allow workloads with the specified retention time to be stored. As a result, the garbage collection incurs only read pointer movements. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136576 | DESTRUCTION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION - Provided are techniques for deleting sensitive information in a database. One or more objects in a database that are accessed by a statement are identified. It is determined that at least one object among the identified one or more objects contains sensitive information by checking an indicator for the at least one object. One or more security policies associated with the at least one object are identified. The identified one or more security policies are implemented for the at least one object to delete sensitive information. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136577 | DESTRUCTION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION - Provided are techniques for deleting sensitive information in a database. One or more objects in a database that are accessed by a statement are identified. It is determined that at least one object among the identified one or more objects contains sensitive information by checking an indicator for the at least one object. One or more security policies associated with the at least one object are identified. The identified one or more security policies are implemented for the at least one object to delete sensitive information. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136578 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE VIRTUAL FILES - Techniques to manage virtual files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a virtual file application operative on the processor circuit to manage file operations for a virtual file, the virtual file comprising a set of calls to one or more file services arranged to manage file information for the virtual file, the file information comprising a content block or content block instructions for a content block associated with the virtual file. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136579 | FILE STORING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM, COMPUTER SYSTEM USABLE FOR THE FILE STORING METHOD - Provided is a storage media, including a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device, from which data is erasable with certainty on a file-by-file basis so that files leaks are prevented to a maximum possible degree. In a file storing method for storing a file in the storage media including a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device having a plurality of erase blocks each including a plurality of memory cells from which data is erasable as a whole, (a) one file is stored to one erase block, or (b) an overwrite operation of writing prescribed data or random data to a bit of a memory cell, at which a file to be erased is stored, is performed. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136580 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPENING FILE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD - A method for opening a file includes the following step: a web page is provided to a client device for being displayed on the client device. The web page is utilized to keep detecting if there is a request for opening a file. When the request is detected, the client device is utilized to transmit the request and the file. File information of the file is identified. A target application server, which has an ability to execute the file, is selected from several candidate application servers in an application server pool according to the file information. The target application server is utilized to execute the file, such that at least one execution frame about executing the file is generated. The at least one execution frame is transmitted to the client device, such that the client device displays the at least one execution frame. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136581 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - In an example of the invention, a first storage subsystem includes a first router, a first processor, and a second processor. The first router receives a first write command and first write data for the first write command from a host. The first router transfers the first write command and the first write data to the second storage subsystem. Upon determination that a first processor cannot process the first write command because of a failure, the first router transfers the first write command to a second processor. The second processor performs processing to store the first write data to a first volume in accordance with the first write command. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136582 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL - A method for scaling a plurality of data values includes storing a first subset of data values of the plurality of data values into a first vector register, determining a maximum data value of the first subset of data values, and storing the greater of the maximum data value and a value stored in a scalar register to the scalar register. Each data value of the subset of data values is stored in a different element of the first vector register. The method further includes determining an adjustment factor based on the value stored in the scalar register and adjusting each data value of the plurality of data values by the adjustment factor. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136583 | RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR FUNCTIONS IN MEMORY - A memory device includes but is not limited to a substrate, a non-volatile memory array integrated on the substrate, and random number generator logic integrated with the non-volatile memory array on the substrate. The random number generator logic is operable to perform at least one random number generator function in association with the non-volatile memory array. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136584 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Random Numbers - A method for generating a random number with n | 2014-05-15 |
20140136585 | PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL DENOISING - Physiological signals are denoised. In accordance with an example embodiment, a denoised physiological signal is generated from an input signal including a desired physiological signal and noise. The input signal is decomposed from a first domain into subcomponents in a second domain of higher dimension than the first domain. Target subcomponents of the input signal that are associated with the desired physiological signal are identified, based upon the spatial distribution of the subcomponents. A denoised physiological signal is constructed in the first domain from at least one of the identified target subcomponents. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136586 | METHOD OF SEEKING SEMIANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS TO MULTISPECIES TRANSPORT EQUATIONS COUPLED WITH SEQUENTIAL FIRST-ORDER REACTIONS - Disclosed is a method of seeking semianalytical solutions to multispecies transport equations coupled with sequential first-order network reactions under conditions wherein a groundwater flow velocity and a dispersion coefficient vary spatially and temporally and boundary conditions vary temporally. This invention provides a method of seeking semianalytical solutions to dechlorination equations coupled with sequential first-order reactions, wherein analytical solutions to complex problems such as inhomogeneous media and unsteady flow are derived by combining a similarity transformation method of Clement and a generalized integral-transform technique (GITT), and are verified through comparison with 2DFATMIC which is a commercial numerical program, and thereby can be utilized in nuclear waste sites contaminated with radioactive materials and decayed daughter nuclides and industrial complexes contaminated with chlorinated organic solvents such as PCE (tetrachloroethene), TCE (trichloroethene) and biodegradable byproducts thereof, and can also be widely used in verification of developed numerical programs. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136587 | FLOATING POINT MULTIPLY-ADD UNIT WITH DENORMAL NUMBER SUPPORT - The present application provides a method and apparatus for supporting denormal numbers in a floating point multiply-add unit (FMAC). One embodiment of the FMAC is configurable to add a product of first and second operands to a third operand. This embodiment of the FMAC is configurable to determine a minimum exponent shift for a sum of the product and the third operand by subtracting a minimum normal exponent from a product exponent of the product. This embodiment of the FMAC is also configurable to cause bits representing the sum to be left shifted by the minimum exponent shift if a third exponent of the third operand is less than or equal to the product exponent and the minimum exponent shift is less than or equal to a predicted left shift for the sum. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLYING BINARY OPERANDS - Method and apparatus for multiplying a signed first operand na bits and a signed second operand nb bits, wherein na and nb are different positive integer numbers, the method comprising generating single bit products of pairs of a single bit from the signed first operand and a single bit from the signed second operand with a logical AND function to produce na times nb single bit products, selectively inverting for the signed first operand and the signed second operands the single bit products of the first operand bit na−1 multiplied with the second operand bits 0 to nb−2, selectively inverting the single bit products of the signed second operand bits 0 to na−2 multiplied with the signed second operand bit nb−1, after the step of inverting adding the single bit products in accordance with their respective order for producing an intermediate product, and adding a ‘1’ bit value at bit positions nb−1, na−1 and na+nb−1 for receiving a final product. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136589 | Communication System and method for Nodes Associated with a Vehicle - Devices and nodes associated with a vehicle may communicate using a higher-level, common messaging protocol over an ad-hoc network to publish and subscribe to services, even though different nodes may utilize different types of links and channels. The network includes a rules node that is fixedly connected to the vehicle and that stores a set of rules. Given a possible publisher, subscriber, and/or a service, a node action is allowed or denied based on the set of rules. The rules may be generated or updated based on priorities, security levels, and/or characteristics of publishers, subscribers, their respective users, and/or services; a current dynamic condition; and/or user input. The rules node and at least one other node may be transported by the vehicle, and both transported nodes and nodes external to the vehicle may use the common messaging protocol to join the ad-hoc network, discover other nodes, authenticate, and publish/consume services. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136590 | NETWORK-INDEPENDENT PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR ONLINE PROCESSING IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - Systems and methods include a distributed system that uses a declarative language to separate application logic from the network technology used to communicate. For example, in a system with a plurality of processing nodes, each processing node may include at least one processor, a networking layer for communicating with other processing nodes, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing node to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a processing plan using the networking layer and analyzing the processing plan to determine a service to perform and a number of inputs anticipated for the service. The operations may also include performing the determined service. The processing plan defines a processing tree comprising a subset of the plurality of processing nodes, the processing tree having unidirectional communication from the root to a final level of the tree. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT TRIGGERED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - System and computer-based method for automatically distributing information upon the occurrence of predefined events is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a tool that provides an intuitive interface that allows users to easily create content to be stored and delivered. In a preferred embodiment, the system provides an effective information delivery system that leverages social networking. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136592 | FLEXIBLE DATA COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a processing entity ( | 2014-05-15 |
20140136593 | RETRY MECHANISM FOR DATA LOADING FROM ON-PREMISE DATASOURCE TO CLOUD - A method and system of retrying to load data from a data source to a cloud target system are disclosed. A client device sends a data packet to a cloud server via a communication connection. The data packet comprises data. The client device receives an indication of a failure in the communication connection. The client device configures, in response to receiving the indication of the failure in the communication connection, the data packet to prompt the cloud server to perform an upsert operation with the data in the data packet. The client device sends the configured data packet to the cloud server. The client device can wait a predetermined amount of time before sending the configured data packet to the cloud server. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136594 | AUTOMATIC INITIATION OF A RESPONSE ACTION WHEN AN EVENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ITEM IN TRANSIT IS BASED ON LOGISTICAL NODE SCAN DATA - A method includes processing an event data associated with an item in transit between a source location and a destination location based on a scan data of a logistical node between the source location and the destination location. The server determines if the event data associated with the item in transit between the source location and the destination location based on the scan data of the logistical node between the source location and the destination location is associated with a response action defined in a matching table by the multimodal communication server using a processor and a memory. The server automatically initiates the response action when the event data associated with the item in transit between the source location and the destination location based on the scan data of the logistical node between the source location and the destination location is defined in the matching table on the multimodal communication server. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136595 | PUSH PULL CACHING FOR SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Embodiments are directed towards modifying a distribution of writers as either a push writer or a pull writer based on a cost model that decides for a given content reader whether it is more effective for the writer to be a pull writer or a push writer. A cache is maintained for each content reader for caching content items pushed by a push writer in the content writer's push list of writers when the content is generated. At query time, content items are pulled by the content reader based on writers a content reader's pull list. One embodiment of the cost model employs data about a previous number of requests for content items for a given writer for a number of previous blended display results of content items. When a writer is determined to be popular, mechanisms are proposed for pushing content items to a plurality of content readers. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AUDIO OF A VIDEO TO DISPLAY SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIDEO - A system and method for providing a user with supplemental content associated with a product or item the user sees or hears in a video. The system and method include receiving, by a server computer over a network from a client device, an audio clip associated with a portion of a video; determining, by the server computer, that the video is a specific media program; using, by the server computer, the captured audio clip to map the portion of the video with supplemental content for a product associated with the portion of the video; and communicating, by the server computer, the supplemental content for the product to the client device for display on the client device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136597 | RELAY ENABLED DYNAMIC VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK - A method and apparatus are disclosed for configuring a virtual private network (VPN). One example method of operation may include receiving a request from a client computing device to connect to a VPN device. The method may also include identifying at least one candidate VPN device based on a predetermined criteria, assigning the at least one candidate VPN device as a VPN server, and establishing a communication link between the client computing device and the VPN server on a remote network. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136598 | Global Super Store - A system and method for networked display screens and flat-panel displays to generate, send, receive, stream, push, exchange, shuffle, intermingle, compose, influence and download digital contents to and from, between and among servers-processor units (SPU) selected networked display screens and flat-panel displays in networks of display screens and flat-panel displays affixed to surfaces of diverse public places and domains. The networked display screens and flat-panel displays for targeting networked desktops and mobile devices in the system and method for expediting and enhancing trades, commerce, businesses and transactions of goods and services between and among SPU-selected and targeted display screens and flat-panel displays, desktops and mobile devices. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136599 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR NOTIFICATION AND PROVIDING QUICK LINK OF SHARED INFORMATION SYNCHRONIZED TO LOCATION - A method for notification and providing quick link of shared information synchronized to location includes the following steps. Shared information uploaded from one local client device is received. The shared information is synchronized and distributed to another local client device. A shortcut link containing a saving path for instantly activating the shared information synchronized in another local client device is provided and sent to the another local client device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136600 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING FILE STORED IN CLOUD STORAGE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD - A method for processing a file stored in cloud storage includes the following step: an original file is added to a sharing folder, which belongs to the owner account for sharing to at least one sharing account, on a cloud storage machine through an owner client device, which is logged in an owner account. The original file stored in the sharing folder is synchronized to at least one sharing client device, which is logged in the at least one sharing account. At least one changed file, which is amended utilizing the original file, is received from the at least one sharing client device. Difference between the at least one changed file and the original file is generated to be taken as at least one changed content. A summary about the at least one changed content is generated for being displayed on the owner client device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136601 | Application Streaming and Execution System for Localized Clients - For various implementations, a first application streaming client can obtain portions of an application from a application streaming server, execute the application based on those portions obtained, and provide a second application streaming client (a pixel-based application streaming client) access to the executing application using a pixel stream generated based on output from the executing application. Depending on the implementation, the first application streaming client could execute the application, based on the portions obtained, on behalf of a user at the application streaming client, on behalf of the pixel-based application streaming client, or both. In various implementations, the first application streaming client and the second application streaming client can be communicatively coupled through a local network (e.g., LAN or local WiFi), while the first application streaming client and the application streaming server can be communicatively coupled through a wider area network (e.g., WAN or MAN). | 2014-05-15 |
20140136602 | APPLICATION STREAMING USING PIXEL STREAMING - Systems and methods for pixel streaming a stream-enabled application to a client device that is executed on an intermediary client device virtualization system. Portions of a stream-enabled application are used to begin execution of the stream-enabled application on the client device virtualization system. The output of the beginning of execution of the stream-enabled application are used to generate a pixel based stream-enabled application stream. The pixel-based stream-enabled application stream is sent to the client device. User interactions in response to the display of the stream are represented in user interaction data. The user interaction is determined from the user interaction data and application execution commands are determined based on the determined user interaction. Continued execution of the stream-enabled application occurs based on the application execution commands. The pixel-based stream-enabled application stream is modified according to the continued execution of the stream-enabled application. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LABORATORY ASSAY VALIDATION OR VERIFICATION - Systems and methods are used to generate a protocol for an assay. At least one performance characteristic parameter of an assay and at least one standardized protocol for each assay of a plurality of assays and assay types are stored. A performance characteristic parameter selection and an assay selection are received from a client device of a laboratory. One or more performance characteristic parameters and a standardized protocol are retrieved from the database device. The client device is sent the one or more performance characteristic parameters and one or more study variable values. One or more amendments to the one or more performance characteristic parameters and one or more study variable values are received from the client device. A protocol for the assay is generated based on the one or more amendments. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING WEB SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a wireless communication system, a mobile terminal providing a web service receives information about a web page for a web service from a mobile terminal, receives at least one embedded object included in the web page from a web server, sets a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) interval for the mobile terminal based on a size of the at least one embedded object, transmits information about the set DRX interval to the mobile terminal, and transmits the at least one embedded object to the mobile terminal at a time the set DRX interval ends. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136605 | Auto Update Utility for Digital Address Books - An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user (i.e. people who's contact information or partial contact information is present in the user's address book application) to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user's address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136606 | CONSUMER AND BRAND OWNER DATA MANAGEMENT - The disclosed tools include enhanced and flexible login and profile management tools as well as brand owner communication tools that provide more flexibility in regards to information sharing that benefit both users and brand owners and ease the integration of user information into brand owner databases. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING PARENT CONTROL ON MOBILE DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for applying parental control to a mobile device. The method comprises: monitoring and recording, by the client, one or more types of information of the mobile device on a website to be browsed by a first user, geographical location information, an installation event for an application and an initiation event of an application; uploading, by the client, to the server one or more of the following contents: the one or more types of recorded information, messages sent and received by the first user of the mobile device and a call record of the mobile device; and receiving, by the server, the uploaded contents and providing an interface for a second user to view the contents. The present disclosure is advantageous in that the operational behaviors of the user of the mobile device can be monitored in real time and the parents can monitor the operational behaviors of the user of the mobile device by accessing the data at the server. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136608 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING CLIENT ENVIRONMENT DATA - A server system with one or more processors and memory receives respective client environment data from a first client device of a plurality of client devices, where the respective client environment data is provided to the server system according to predetermined collection parameters. The server system determines characteristic criteria for identifying potential target clients for additional data collection based on the respective client environment data received from the first client device. The server system sends a data collection command to at least one second client device of the plurality of client devices in accordance with the characteristic criteria. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136609 | INTELLIGENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An intelligent notification system configured for receiving and processing any suitable input message, determining whether or not an output notification should be sent and for sending such output notifications with the appropriate information to the appropriate parties according to predetermined business rules. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136610 | METHOD FOR CREATING GROUPS - The present disclosure discloses a method for creating groups, the method comprising a client setting up a condition for creating groups, and sending the condition to a server; the server searching the corresponding user information according to the conditions for creating groups, creating groups according to the corresponding user information, and sending information of created groups to the client and also sending the information of created group to all users in the groups. The method for creating groups permits a user to find relevant individuals quickly and create groups easily, without need of multiple inputs or outputs; moreover, the higher matching degree of group members could improve the enthusiasm of group chats and also stimulate the users to invite their friends to the interactive experience. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136611 | MOBILE PHOTO APPLICATION MIGRATION TO CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM - Technology is disclosed herein for migrating execution of at least a portion of a photo application to a server. According to at least one embodiment, a computing device monitors the photo application executing at the mobile device to identify a background thread and a foreground thread of the photo application, determine a current workload of the mobile device, transmit a received photo and an instance of the background thread to the server when the determined current workload exceeds a predefined threshold, receive a processed photo from the server, and provide access to the processed photo through the mobile device using the user interface generated by the foreground thread of the photo application. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136612 | PROVIDING SOCIAL CONTEXT TO CALENDAR EVENTS - A mobile communication device includes an application program interface and a computer processor configured with a calendar application and calendar database. The computer processor and/or application programming interface are configured to identify an event in the calendar database that is associated with a first person, and transmit a request to a social network server and/or a business network server. The request includes an identification of the first person and a user of the mobile communication device. The computer processor and/or application programming interface is further configured to receive from the social network server and/or the business network server information relating to the first person and the user of the mobile communication device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136613 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING A MEMBER PROFILE WITH A DOCUMENT READING HISTORY - Disclosed in some examples is a method of providing a bookmarking service on a social networking service, the method including receiving, over a network, an indication that a member of the social networking service interacted with an item of content; associating the item of content with a skill using a computer processor; and storing an indication in a storage device that the member interacted with the item of content and the skill associated with the item of content. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136614 | UNDO CAPABILITY FOR REMOTELY SUBMITTED USER-AUTHORED CONTENT - A user can author content, and submit such content to be posted within a social networking context, from an external service such that the user can undo the posting of such content without such content ever having been posted in the social networking context. Additionally, once such user-authored content is posted in the social networking context, the user is provided with a single action that can remove all relevant manifestations of such content. The submission of user-authored content, to a social networking service, from an external service is delayed while, simultaneously, such external service presents the user with an interface indicating that such user-authored content has already been submitted to the social networking service and posted thereon. Should the user select to undo the posting of such content prior to the expiration of the delay, the submission can simply never be performed. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136615 | ADDRESS BOOK FOR BUSINESSES - A computer device may include logic configured to receive an indication from a user device that a user, associated with the user device, has added a business to an address book associated with the user device and include the business in the address book associated with the user device. The logic may further be configured to receive an update from a business device associated with the business; identify that the business is included in the address book associated with the user device; and send the update to the user device in response to receiving the update and based on identifying that the business is included in the address book associated with the user device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136616 | INTEGRATED PERSONALIZED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The integrated personalized content recommendation and management system aggregates content across multiple third-party websites and applications to be presented to said user based to generate personalized content recommendations. The system utilizes a unique profile associated with a particular user to generate the personalized content recommendations, and additionally, the system may seamlessly propagate the user's profile across multiple third-party websites and applications, and build social instructions based on the user's profile. The integrated personalization content recommendation and management system and method may provide an online recommendation and social networking service that delivers to users personalized content, social and/or product recommendations derived from participating electronic mediums (e.g. web sites, applications and mobile devices). The personalized content or product inventory may be derived from participating consumer or commercial web sites and web and mobile based applications | 2014-05-15 |
20140136617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ONE-WAY ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION - In an embodiment, a method of a one-way anonymous communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a first user via a first user interface to communicate one-way anonymously with a second user, and using a processor, relaying a one-way anonymous message from the first user to be received by the second user via a second user interface, wherein the one-way anonymous message discloses a second user identification to the first user while withholding a first user identification from the second user. In the embodiment, the first user and the second user are each members of the same online social network, and the first user and the second user have a contact request connection, and the contact request connection was formed by acceptance of a contact request between the first user's contact group and the second user's contact group. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136618 | METHOD, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIA FOR SEARCHING TARGET CLIENTS - A method for searching target clients, applied to a mobile device coupled to a network, is provided. A target position and a target time are generated by a positioning unit and a time generating unit of the mobile device, respectively. A target clients search message is generated according to keywords input into the mobile device, the target position and the target time and then transmitted to a server coupled to the network through the network. Then a search result transmitted by the server through the network is received. The search result comprises at least one of a target clients amount, a target clients density and a target clients occurrence probability, which are retrieved from at least one social networks data and corresponding to the keywords, the target location and the target time. A map combined with the search result is displayed. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT TRIGGERED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - System and computer-based method for automatically distributing information upon the occurrence of predefined events is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a tool that provides an intuitive interface that allows users to easily create content to be stored and delivered to a recipient upon the occurrence of a predefined event related to the location of the recipient. Location data may be retrieved from the recipient's mobile device, or social media websites. The system provides a valuable location-based information delivery system that allows for shared experience capability across time. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136620 | PROTOCOL CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A protocol conversion apparatus includes: a message filter unit for acquiring a unique type identifier by comparing an input message based on a first protocol to a message mask stored in a mask storage unit, and acquiring a message parameter by filtering the input message through the message mask; and a message generation unit for extracting a message template corresponding to the unique type identifier from a template storage unit, and generating an output message based on a second protocol by synthesizing the message parameter and the message template. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136621 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF GENRE-SPECIFIC RELEVANCE OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention relates to an operating method of operating a recommender system, a filtering apparatus ( | 2014-05-15 |
20140136622 | Automatic Wireless Device Data Maintenance - A computer-implemented method includes downloading data elements from a wireless device. The method includes determining whether a user account exists in storage and determining whether the user account currently has stored data elements of the same type as the downloaded data elements associated therewith. The method further includes comparing the downloaded data elements to the stored data elements. This method also includes storing any downloaded data elements not currently existing in the data elements associated with the user account and not in conflict with data elements associated with the user account. The method further includes resolving conflicts between downloaded data elements and currently existing data elements, to establish which of the conflicting elements is representative of a proper version of the element. Finally, the method includes storing the proper version of the element resulting from each conflict resolution. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136623 | REMOTE ACCESS TO A CUSTOMER HOME NETWORK - A wireless application server may receive, from a wireless device, information identifying an application residing on a network device in a home network. The wireless application server may further cause a connection to be established to the application and transfer traffic between the application and the wireless device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136624 | SMART LISTS IN A GEO-SPATIAL SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system of forming smart lists in a geo-spatial social network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of organizing a community network includes obtaining member data associated with a first member of the community network, determining a first location associated with the first member based on the member data, storing the member data in a member repository, determining a first number of connections associated with the first member, and obtaining a first region of influence for the first member based on the first location and the first number of connections. The method may further include displaying the first region of influence on a geo-spatial map. The method may also include bounding the first region of influence based on a connectedness of the first member in the first region of influence. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136625 | Displaying News Ticker Content in a Social Networking System - A social networking system displays raw stories about a user's friends' actions in a news ticker as those actions occur. The social networking system is monitored for actions associated with users connected with the target user. The social networking system may be continually monitored such that actions are identified in real-time as they are performed. The news ticker is updated such that stories including the identified actions and the associated connected users are displayed within a news ticker interface. The news ticker interface may be a dedicated portion of the social networking system interface, for example in a column next to a newsfeed. The news ticker interface may be updated in real time as actions associated with connected users are performed. The target user may select a displayed story in the news ticker, and additional information related to the selected story may be displayed, for instance in a separate interface. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136626 | Interactive Presentations - The description relates to interactive presentation feedback. One example can associate multiple mobile devices with a presentation. This example can receive feedback relating to the presentation from at least some of the mobile devices and aggregate the feedback into a visualization that is configured to be presented in parallel with the presentation. The example can also generate another visualization for an individual mobile device that generated individual feedback. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING A MEETING - Facilitating a meeting is described. The method comprises providing a network interface for receiving information via a network, and receiving, at the network interface, meeting information in respect of a meeting. The meeting information includes information that is indicative of at least one agenda item. The method also comprises providing a meeting structure information generator for generating meeting structure information based on received meeting information and generating, at the meeting structure information generator, meeting structure information based on the meeting information. The generated meeting structure information is provided to at least one meeting participant for use in facilitating the meeting. In a further step, agenda outcome information that is indicative of at least one outcome of the agenda item is received at the network interface. A meeting report information generator for generating meeting report information is used to generate meeting report information based on the received agenda outcome information. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136628 | SNAIL TO ELECTRONIC MAIL CONVERSION - The present invention generally relates to turning snail mail into electronic mail. The snail mail is delivered to the intended recipient's mailbox and then retrieved (i.e., intercepted by a third party) before the intended recipient receives the snail mail from the mailbox. The retrieved mail is then converted into an electronic file that is stored on a server. The intended recipient of the snail mail may then access the electronic file to view the snail mail in electronic format. If desired, the intended recipient can request delivery of the actual snail mail after viewing the electronic file. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136629 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMART NOTIFICATIONS - A device, system and method for smart notifications is provided. When a new message is received for a unified mailbox, a relevance level associated with the new message is determined at a processor of the device, the unified mailbox providing messages received via a communication interface of the device from a plurality of accounts, a notification device of the device is controlled, via the processor, to provide a notification based on the relevance level, the notification being one of a plurality of multi-level notifications, each associated with different relevance levels. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING MEETING INVITATIONS - A method includes receiving, at a messaging server, a message from a first device associated with a first user. The message is directed to a second user. The method also includes determining whether the message is associated with a meeting and, in response to determining that the message associated with the meeting, sending data related to the meeting to a platform server to enable the platform server to send an alert regarding the meeting to a second device associated with the second user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136631 | Friend Matching and Meeting-Up Management System and Its Operation Method - This invention relates to information science, and discloses a friend matching and meeting-up management system and its operation method. In this invention, a meeting check-in portion of the friend matching and meeting-up management system includes a meeting site portion and a meeting confirming portion. In the whole meeting check-in process, users utilize communicators to communicate with a system manager, and the system manager assists and manages the meeting process of the users expecting to meet after the object is determined. It has higher safety, helps ensure that users meet successfully, and saves a lot of people and material resources. In this invention, the check-in function is formed by combining positioning technology and information transmitting technology based on smart phones and mobile communication technology, or the Internet and wireless technology, which brings people together to meet in person, beyond the virtual world, breaks down barriers and narrows the distance between people. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136632 | Remote Customer Mail Processing - Mail processing systems and methods. A method includes scanning a plurality of mailpieces by a mail processing system to produce at least one associated image of each mail piece. The method includes associating each mail piece with a respective recipient and transmitting the associated image of each mail piece to the respective recipients. The method includes receiving a work order for each mail piece from the respective recipients by the mail processing system. The method includes displaying instructions corresponding to the work orders to a user, wherein the user processes the mail pieces according to the instructions. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING TIME-SENSITIVE DATA BETWEEN DEVICES WITH INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY - An apparatus and method for sharing time-sensitive data between devices are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating with other devices, a display unit for displaying a notification of a network event originating from another device, and a controller for, when the communication unit receives a first notification message about the network event from the other device, controlling the display unit to present the notification to the user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136634 | Mass Multimedia Messaging - A method and system of mass multimedia messaging in a system having a service provider and a plurality of subscriber communication terminals supported by the service provider, wherein at least some of the subscriber terminals have different messaging capabilities and different message format requirements. The method includes adaptation and handling of a mass multimedia message, and mass multimedia message notification. The system uses a retrieval platform and a processing platform. The retrieval platform generates a unique message identifier for the mass multimedia message, and pre-adapts the message into adapted content messages for the terminal types supported by the service provider. The processing platform formats message notifications for the subscriber terminals based on each terminal's messaging capabilities, with each notification containing the unique message identifier. | 2014-05-15 |