21st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130132393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ACTIVITIES OF FRIENDS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - Method and system for displaying activities of friends. The method includes, generating activity information from the activities of friends according to the friend relationship chain; classifying the activity information according to the preset classification rule to obtain the corresponding classification collection; acquiring the screening condition, extracting activity information that meets the screening condition from the classification collection, and displaying the activity information extracted. According to the method and system, through the classification and screening of activity information, the activities of friends which meet screening conditions entered by a user can be obtained and displayed. Using this method and the system, a large amount of information can be quickly screened and all the friends' effective activities can be provided to the user allowing user to achieve personalized browsing. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132394 | Integration and Combination of Random Sampling and Document Batching - Methods and systems of integrated batching and random sampling of documents for enhanced functionality and quality control, such as validation, within a document review process are provided herein. According to various embodiments, a batching request may be received and may include a population size that corresponds to a total amount of documents available for sampling. The batching request may also include an acceptable margin of error. A random sample size may be calculated based on the batching request, and then a subset of documents corresponding to the random sample size may be selected from the total amount of documents available for sampling. The subset of documents may be grouped into one or more batches, and the one or more batches may be assigned to one or more review nodes. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132395 | MOBILE SOCIAL GROUPS - Expanding a user's social connections to include mobile contacts includes: receiving a user's call logs for call/text transactions from a mobile device; deriving usage information from the call logs to determine social pairs; ranking the social pairs based on strength of connectedness; and merging the ranked social pairs with the user's contacts from on-line social networks. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132396 | METHOD FOR GENERATING LOCATION TARGETED, KEYWORD-TRIGGERED, ADS AND GENERATING USER RECALLABLE LAYER-BASED ADS - Location-specific content is automatically generated for a particular entity having a plurality of physical locations. Database entries that contain identifying data associated with the particular entity are searched for to obtain location information of each of the plurality of physical locations. The location information, in correlation with one or more keywords associated with the particular entity, is stored in a computer-readable electronic database such that a user-generated query that includes at least one of the keywords and a search location causes a processor to execute operations that initiates a search of the computer-readable electronic database for the location information of the physical locations that are in proximity to the search location. At least one result that is displayable to the user is provided. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132397 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING INDEXES USING A JOURNAL IN A KEY VALUE MEMORY DEVICE - An apparatus for generating indexes of data may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including obtaining an order number responsive to receipt of a request from a device to index an item(s) of data. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to map the order number to a key value and link the key value to the data and provide one or more index entries to a memory device to enable storage of the index entries. The index entries may include information corresponding to the key value and the data. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign a new index row(s) including the data for inclusion in a set of index rows of a designated partition(s) to obtain a built index(es) of the data. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132398 | Location Based Full Text Search - A method and system for a location based full text search is disclosed. The system generates interwoven bit vectors for documents that are stored in a database. The system may determine a location value based on a portion of a map that a user is viewing. The system may also receive at least one search term inputted by a user. Based on the location value and the search term, the system may generate one or more interwoven bit vectors, which may be used to query an index that identifies responsive documents stored in the database. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132399 | INCREMENTAL CONTEXT ACCUMULATING SYSTEMS WITH INFORMATION CO-LOCATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AND REAL-TIME DECISIONING SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for incrementally integrating and persisting context over an available observational space. At least one feature associated with a new observation is used to create at least one index key. The at least one index key is used to query one or more reverse lookup tables to locate at least one previously persisted candidate observation. The new observation is evaluated against the at least one previously persisted candidate observation to determine at least one relationship. In response to determining the at least one relationship, a threshold is used to make a new assertion about the at least one relationship. The new observation is used to review previous assertions to determine whether a previous assertion is to be reversed. In response to reversing the previous assertion, the new observation, the new assertion, and the reversed assertion are incrementally integrated into persistent context. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132400 | INCREMENTAL CONTEXT ACCUMULATING SYSTEMS WITH INFORMATION CO-LOCATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AND REAL-TIME DECISIONING SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for incrementally integrating and persisting context over an available observational space. At least one feature associated with a new observation is used to create at least one index key. The at least one index key is used to query one or more reverse lookup tables to locate at least one previously persisted candidate observation. The new observation is evaluated against the at least one previously persisted candidate observation to determine at least one relationship. In response to determining the at least one relationship, a threshold is used to make a new assertion about the at least one relationship. The new observation is used to review previous assertions to determine whether a previous assertion is to be reversed. In response to reversing the previous assertion, the new observation, the new assertion, and the reversed assertion are incrementally integrated into persistent context. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132401 | RELATED NEWS ARTICLES - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing internet content, such as related news articles. One method includes an operation for defining a plurality of candidates based on a seed. For each candidate, scores are calculated for relevance, novelty, connection clarity, and transition smoothness. The score for connection clarity is based on a relevance score of the intersection between the words in the seed and the words in each of the candidates. Further, the score for transition smoothness measures the interest in reading each candidate when transitioning from the seed to the candidate. For each candidate, a relatedness score is calculated based on the calculated scores for relevance, novelty, connection clarity, and transition smoothness. In addition, at least one of the candidates is selected based on their relatedness scores for presentation to the user. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132402 | QUERY SPECIFIC FUSION FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods for image retrieval include constructing a plurality of graphs including a first graph for candidate images retrieved based upon holistic features of a query image and a second graph for candidate images retrieved based upon local features of the query image, wherein constructing includes weighting connected images based upon a Jaccard similarity coefficient. The plurality of graphs are fused to provide a fused graph. Candidate images of the fused graph are ranked, using a processor, to provide retrieval results of the query image. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132403 | TENANT PLACEMENT IN MULTITENANT CLOUD DATABASES WITH DATA SHARING - A method for tenant placement in a multi-tenant system is shown that includes creating a weighted graph of tenants and sharing relationships between tenants, where a weight for each tenant and each sharing relationship represents an associated degree of resource consumption; and adding one or more tenants to a database using a processor based on said weighted graph and a database capacity, such that the combined weight of the added tenants and the sharing relationships belonging to the added tenants are within the database capacity. If a tenant cannot be added to the database without exceeding the database capacity, a new database is created and the one or more tenants are added to the new database, subject to a new database capacity. The adding and creating steps are repeated until all tenants have been added to a database. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132404 | TENANT PLACEMENT IN MULTITENANT CLOUD DATABASES WITH ONE-TO-MANY DATA SHARING - Methods for generating a data fetching plan in a multi-tenant system include placing tenants in consecutively allocated databases according to a weighted graph of tenants and sharing relationships between tenants, where at least one sharing relationship includes multiple accessing tenants accessing a given set of data from a provider tenant. For each sharing relationship, if a current database has one or more accessing tenants and does not have the provider tenant, data is fetched from the latest-allocated database prior to the current database that has accessing tenants, if such a database exists; if a current database has the provider tenant, data is provided to the earliest-allocated database after the current database that has accessing tenants if such a database exists. The fetching and providing steps are repeated for each allocated database. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132405 | Dynamically Associating Different Query Execution Strategies with Selective Portions of a Database Table - A query facility for database queries dynamically determines whether selective portions of a database table are likely to benefit from separate query execution strategies, and constructs an appropriate separate execution strategies accordingly. Preferably, the database contains at least one relatively large table comprising multiple partitions, each sharing the definitional structure of the table and containing a different respective discrete subset of the table records. The query facility compares metadata for different partitions to determine whether sufficiently large differences exist among the partitions, and in appropriate cases selects one or more partitions for separate execution strategies. Preferably, partitions are ranked for separate evaluation using a weighting formula which takes into account: (a) the number of indexes for the partition, (b) recency of change activity, and (c) the size of the partition. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132406 | Neuroimaging database systems and methods - Systems for and methods of utilizing a neuroimaging database are presented. The systems and methods include techniques for analyzing the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a treatment for a chronic brain disease, obtaining data for research of a chronic brain disease, searching for chronic brain disease symptoms identified in a clinical patient, searching a database by comparing the brain scan images of patients with suspected indications of chronic brain disease with other patients in the database to identify sets of patients with similar indications in their brain scan images, displaying brain scan information regarding a person, and using image pattern matching to analyze the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a proposed or previously administered treatment for a chronic brain disease. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132407 | Robust Fitting of Surfaces from Noisy Data - Various embodiments of methods and apparatus for fitting a surface to a data set are disclosed. A frequency distribution of an input data set is determined. Determining the frequency distribution includes assigning each data point of the input data set to a category representing a value of a variable for the respective data point. Responsive to identifying one or more discontinuities of the frequency distribution, a continuous section of the frequency distribution is identified as a first data set. A first equation is fit to the first data set. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132408 | System and Method for Using Bloom Filters to Determine Data Locations in Distributed Data Stores - A server computing device identifies locations of a plurality of data items in a distributed data store. The server computing device generates at least one bloom filter that contains information to identify probable locations of the plurality of data items. The server computing device transmits the at least one bloom filter to one or more client computing devices, wherein the at least one bloom filter is usable by the one or more client computing devices to determine the probable locations of the data items. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132409 | Systems And Methods For Providing Multiple Media Items To A Consumer Via A Simplified Consumer Interaction - Methods and systems of providing media to a media consumer are disclosed herein. A media rating for at least one media item can be received from a consumer and stored on a consumer profile. Using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to import all available media having a consumer rating higher than a predetermined threshold to an online media library of the consumer. In another embodiment, using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to add to an online music library all media items associated with an artist, a genre, or other media item attribute. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132410 | Systems And Methods For Identifying Potential Duplicate Entries In A Database - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for identifying potential duplicate entries in a database. Matchcodes are generated for a plurality of records, wherein a matchcode for a record may be generated by: receiving a character string from the record; determining whether the character string includes a non-essential character substring; if the non-essential character substring is missing from the character string, then generating the matchcode from the character string and adding a wildcard character to the matchcode in place of the missing non-essential character substring. The matchcodes for the plurality of records may be compared to identify matching pairs of matchcodes, wherein for the purpose of identifying a matching pair of matchcodes, two characters are considered the same if they are equal or if one or both are wildcard characters. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132411 | Full Text Search Based on Interwoven String Tokens - A method and system for full text search (FTS) using a navigation system is disclosed. The FTS system generates interwoven data tokens for documents that are stored in a database. An interwoven data token is combination of two or more data tokens and is formed by interweaving characters of one data token with characters of another data token. The FTS system may generate and store interwoven data tokens in a full text search index for each document stored in a database. The FTS system may receive two or more search terms inputted by a user and generate one or more interwoven data tokens based on the inputted search terms. The FTS system may then use the generated interwoven data token to query the full text search index. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132412 | AUTO-ACTIVATION OF FONTS - A method and an apparatus that search for font data associated with an electronic document in a system in response to a font request are described. A font search is automatically activated when a requested font is determined not yet registered in a system. As a result of the font search, a requested font may be registered into a system. If a font search cannot locate a requested font in local storages and remote systems, a replacement for the requested font is selected from registered fonts. A replacement font may be one of the registered fonts most similar to the requested font according to a similarity measurement based on font attributes. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132413 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CREATING COMBINED SPACE OF INTEREST OBJECT AND CONTENTS - One aspect of the invention provides an apparatus for creating a combined SOI object and contents. The apparatus includes: a first creation unit creating uppermost contents including theme information of the combined SOI object; an SOI storage unit storing information on a space including location information, shape information, and identifier information; a lower content storage unit storing a plurality of lower contents; a second creation unit creating lower contents according to a request by a user; and a relationship information creating unit searching the lower contents and the SOI requested by the user in the lower content storage unit and the SOI storage unit and then creating a first relationship information between the uppermost contents and the searched or created lower contents and creating a second relationship information between the uppermost contents and the searched SOI. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132414 | IMAGE INFORMATION SEARCH - To inform a user that image data including an image of the user or the like is posted on a network, an information providing apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring an action log including a history of a set of a user's positions and dates and times when the user was at the positions. The apparatus further includes a search unit for searching for image data that has been captured at a location and a date and time corresponding to a position of the user and a date and time included in the action log from image data posted on a network. The apparatus also includes a matching unit for detecting image data that includes an image relating to the user from pieces of image data found by the search unit. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132415 | System and Method to Improve Communication Between Virtual Objects - The present invention provides a system and method to improve virtual object communication. This is dependent on a method of comparing data sets, characterising data according to its use, for rapid assessment of the correlation between data sets, especially as used to correlate human emotional needs in interpreting data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132416 | Compatibility Mechanisms for Devices in a Continuous Analyte Monitoring System and Methods Thereof - Methods, devices, and kits are provided for determining a compatibility of one or more devices in an analyte monitoring system. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132417 | MAP MATCHING SYSTEM, MAP MATCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a map matching device, method and program. The map matching device may comprise a road grid dividing unit and a grid road combining unit. The road grid dividing unit is for deriving a grid obtained by the division of a region where a road network exists in a latitude direction and a longitude direction by equal spaces and correlating the grid and an arc crossing the grid. The grid road combining unit is for assigning a common arc ID to a plurality of grids which are adjacent to each other and whose sets of arcs correlated are coincident and assigning an arc ID to a grid whose set of arcs correlated is different from a set of arcs of any of adjacent grids to generate information indicative of a relationship among a range of a grid, a grid ID and an arc passing the grid. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132418 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DISCOVERING A TEXT QUERY FROM EXAMPLE DOCUMENTS - Discovering a keyword query corresponding to an input collection of documents taken from a candidate pool includes selecting a document from a working set as the input set, and extracting a list of snippets in the selected document. For each snippet, executing a set of proximity queries based on selected terms in that snippet, and finding all possible proximity queries that return less than N query results from the candidate pool. A query is selected from said proximity queries, based on the selected query returning the greatest number of working set documents, and returning the smallest number of documents not in the working set. Documents returned by the selected query are removed from the working set, and the above steps are repeated until no documents remain in the working set. The disjunction of selected queries is returned as the discovered query. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132419 | Component Independent Process Integration Message Search - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for centralized message searching of business processes. One process includes identifying a process integration (PI) domain associated with a message search, where the PI domain includes at least one PI component, and receiving a set of user-defined search attributes for searching messages within the identified PI domain, where each search attribute associated with a corresponding value. At least one message corresponding to the set of the received user-defined search attributes associated with at least one PI component is identified, and information associated with the identified at least one message corresponding to at least a portion of the set of received search attributes is retrieved. At least a portion of the retrieved information associated with the identified at least one message is presented via a user interface. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132420 | Graphical Exploration of a Database - Techniques implemented in methods, computer-readable media apparatus, and systems for graphically exploring an in-memory database include: identifying a selected data object; searching an in-memory database for a data element associated with a search term; and determining a relationship between the data element and the selected data object; and generating a displayable graph of the relationship as a path between the data element and the selected data object, the path comprising at least two nodes, where a first node represents the selected data object and a second node represents a node associated with the data element. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132421 | LAYERED BODY TEMPLATE BASED MEDICAL RECORDS - A device receives medical data associated with a user of the device, and creates a body template based on the received medical data, where the body template includes layers that are representations of a human body associated with the user. The device also displays the body template to the user, where the user is capable of manipulating one or more layers of the body template in order to review the medical data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132422 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND CONTROLLING AN APPLICATION OPERATING ON A PLURALITY OF COMPUTER PLATFORM TYPES - This invention discloses a novel system and method for organizing content to be use in the creation, operation and updating of applications that target multiple types of computer platform types such that the author creates one version of the content and application, which is automatically formatted for the entire set of targeted computer platform types and further when maintenance or updating of the content occurs, only one set of data files needs updating. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132423 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AN APPLICANCE BASED ON USERS' FEEDBACK INFORMATION - A method and system for detecting an appliance based on users' feedback information, particularly a nonintrusive load monitoring method and system based on a user's feedback information and a joint strategic decision search algorithm are disclosed. By means of obtaining the users' feedback information on an appliance inputted by users or a search result of the appliances being confirmed by the users to generate a mapping between the model of the appliances and at least one load signature of each model of appliances; the users' feedback information is recorded into a smart meter or a cloud computing system, and a mathematical analysis is further used to compute an occurrence of any one signature of the appliance and the identification rate of each signature; then the joint strategic decision search algorithm automatically identifies various models of appliances and analyzes the operating states of the electric appliances in homes or offices. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132424 | MASSIVE MODEL VISUALIZATION WITH SPATIAL INDEXING - Systems and methods for massive model visualization in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes storing a hierarchical product data structure that includes a plurality of occurrence nodes and component nodes. The method includes creating an occurrence equivalency table from, the hierarchical product data structure, that identifies at least one anchor occurrence node and at least one equivalent occurrence node. The product component corresponding to the equivalent occurrence node is spatially located within a specified distance threshold of product component corresponding to the anchor occurrence node. The method includes creating an anchor occurrence table corresponding to the hierarchical product data structure that lists a plurality of unique occurrence chain represented by the hierarchical product data structure, where each equivalent occurrence node is replaced by its corresponding anchor occurrence node, and that associates each listed unique occurrence chain with an associated cell index value. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132425 | QUERY DEFINITION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTI-TENANT - The present invention relates to a query definition apparatus and method for multi-tenant. The query definition apparatus includes a schema generation unit for, when a tenant accesses a Software as a Service (SaaS) system, generating a basic schema required to execute an application program requested by the tenant on a SaaS platform. A schema editing unit edits the basic schema in response to a request of a tenant manager. A query definition unit is configured to, when the basic schema is edited, provide a query definition interface required to define queries for the edited schema to the tenant manager, and define a query statement by extracting corresponding queries depending on manipulation of the query definition interface. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132426 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A PATH - One aspect of the invention provides a method for generating a path. The method includes: storing, in a storing unit, at least one path for each arbitrarily set section; setting, in a path setting unit, a main path from an origination to a destination input from a user and then displaying the main path through a display unit; searching, in a path generating unit, for at least one recommended path for one or more sections corresponding to a theme selected from the user and then displaying a searched recommended path through the display unit; receiving, in an input unit, a selection of one or more recommended paths; and generating, in the path generating unit, a final path based on the selection of one or more recommended paths for the one or more sections. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132427 | APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SPACE OF INTEREST - One aspect of the invention provides an apparatus for searching for position information. The apparatus includes: a search input unit for receiving a search request from a user, the search request specifying (i) one or more search terms and (ii) one or more space of interest (SOI) objects in which the search is to be conducted; a search processing unit for conducting a search for the one or more search terms within the one or more SOI objects specified in the search request and one or more sub-SOIs of the one or more specified SOI objects; a database; and a search output unit for outputting a result of the search by the search processing unit to the user. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132428 | Systematic Process for Creating Large Numbers of Relevant, Contextual Marginal Comments Based On Existing Discussions Of Quotations and Links - A system for searching digital works for comments includes search software capable of searching web pages for comments about a referenced work. In one embodiment, the software searches a web page for delimiters such as quotes that are in proximity to a link to another web page. The software stores any comments in proximity to the quoted content for use in a comment display system where it may be displayed as comment marginalia. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132429 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RETRIEVES DATA FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE AND CREATES ONE OR MORE OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to include data from an external source as an object in the repository managed by the CMS. The CMS includes an external data mechanism that processes a document with a query to a data source external to the repository. The external data mechanism executes the query, and creates one or more objects in the repository according to the type of data returned. Each object containing data returned from the query is linked to that query via a formal relationship in the CMS. When an object that has a formal relationship with a query is checked out of the repository, the query corresponding to the object may be executed, and the data returned from the query may be stored in the object. Alternatively, the data may be used directly if a corresponding lifecycle policy indicates the corresponding query should not be executed. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132430 | Location Based Sales System - A location-based sales system includes a non geographically based information set with non-geographical based input characteristics that are from online classifieds for goods and services. Further included is a geographically based database with geographically based input attributes sets, wherein each set is associated with each of the online classifieds, each set includes geographic parameters. In addition, a query component based upon a buyer initiated search for the goods or services includes a geographic tag for the buyer. Also included are programs having instructions for executing the buyer initiated search in the information set and outputting a search result that matches the buyer initiated search, plus instructions to map a proximate path as between the buyer geographic tag and each one of the attribute sets associated with the search result group, wherein operationally the buyer can view goods or services search results that include geographic mapping for each specific search result. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132431 | Proximity Alert System - A proximity alert system includes a non geographically based information set with non-geographical based input characteristics associated with an individual that are from online sources. Further included is a geographically based database with geographically based input that is also associated with the individual that are also from online sources. In addition, a query component based upon a member initiated search for the selected individual includes a geographic tag for each selected individual. Also included are programs having instructions for executing the member initiated search in the non geographical and geographical databases that outputs a search result that matches the member initiated search, plus instructions to map a proximate path as between the member geographic tag and the selected individual geographic tag, wherein operationally the member can view the selected individuals associated information that include geographic mapping between the member and the individual. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132432 | MASSIVE MODEL VISUALIZATION IN PDM SYSTEMS - Massive model visualization in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes storing a massive model database for a product data structure in a PDM server system, including storing a spatial bounding box hierarchy that acts as a spatial index for spatial bounding boxes of a plurality of unconfigured components of the product data structure and storing a cell table that associates cells of the spatial bounding box hierarchy to corresponding component identifiers of the product data structure. The method includes responding to component identifier requests from a client system by sending requested component identifiers from the product data structure to the client system. The component identifier requests correspond to visible components of an assembly represented by the product data structure. The method includes transmitting geometric data to the client system, the geometric data corresponding to components of the product data structure associated with the requested component identifiers. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CATEGORIZING WEB-SEARCH QUERIES IN SEMANTICALLY COHERENT TOPICS - A method and system for categorizing web-search queries in semantically coherent topics. The method includes receiving plurality of web-search queries from one or more users and storing the plurality of web-search queries in a query log. The method further includes processing the plurality of web-search queries for topic generation by generating plurality of missions from the query log and merging together one or more missions belonging to a similar topic. Further, the method includes determining topical user profile of a user by matching each mission of the user with one or more relevant topics, and detecting user activity of the user from random user activity. Moreover, the method includes naming one or more semantically coherent topics using a set of common concept terms extracted from the plurality of web-search queries. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132434 | USER-ASSISTED IDENTIFICATION OF LOCATION CONDITIONS - Location-based devices (e.g., GPS receivers) may be used to identify and track traffic conditions. However, such scenarios are difficult to extend to the identification of relevant facts other than traffic, such as road or weather conditions (e.g., debris, animals, or ice). Presented herein are techniques for receiving and aggregating reports of location-based conditions received from users, either spontaneously (“I just witnessed an accident”) or in response to a query (e.g., “did you encounter road ice one kilometer ago?”) From such reports, location conditions of respective locations may be automatically extracted (e.g., using natural-language parsing techniques), and users in the vicinity of or routing through a particular location may be automatically notified of location conditions (e.g., “ice reported one kilometer ahead”). Such systems may also communicate with users in a voice-only interface while the user is operating a vehicle, and may additionally receive and utilize vehicle telemetry to determine location conditions. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132435 | Method And System For Providing Business Intelligence Data - A system for data mining and providing business intelligence data including a source system having a computer readable database storing data aggregated from one or more data sources, and an analytics server in communication with the source system and including a computer readable medium having an intermediate data file stored thereon. The intermediate data file consisting of the data aggregated from the one or more data sources. The analytics server includes computer readable instructions for: importing the data aggregated from the one or more data sources for storing on the intermediate data file in the form of source data; normalizing the source data using predetermined scripts into normalized data stored in normalized data tables on the computer readable medium; generating one or more dimensions from the source data, wherein the one or more dimensions define categories into which portions of the normalized data can be grouped; generating one or more measures from the source data linked to the one or more dimensions; and, generating one or more formulae for calculating information from one or both of the dimensions and the measures. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132436 | REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ADDRESS DATA FOR EACH SERVICE POINT IN A TERRITORY - A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matching. The set of mined data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms with nodes joined according to common characteristics. A computer system and method for maintaining a central database of preferred addresses is also disclosed. Selected address data gathered in a queue may be scored by characteristic, grouped by consignee location, and staged for processing. The scored queue of data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132437 | OPTIMIZING INTERNET CAMPAIGNS - In an example embodiment, signals are collected from one or more first channels in a communication network. The one or more first channels may include at least one of organic search, paid search, or social media. Based on the collected signals, a recommendation is made with respect to a campaign within a second channel. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132438 | Systems, methods, and computer program products for searching for space of interest (SOI) - One aspect of the invention provides a space of interest (SOI) search system including: an SOI dictionary unit configured to match a plurality of place-name identifiers (IDs) based on a geographical location to an SOI ID; and an SOI storage unit configured to store the matched SOI ID, place-name IDs, and related SOI information. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132439 | ORGANIZING VERSIONING ACCORDING TO PERMISSIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing data according to permissions. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of identifying a version of a data item to be stored; determining permissions associated with the version of the data item; and storing the version of the data item at a storage location that is based on the determined permissions. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132440 | ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATING AND MANAGING A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT - In some embodiments, a construction project administration system and method are disclosed that queries an administrator as to ownership, construction specifications, bidding parameters etc. for a proposed construction project using active first, second and third level questions and accepts and stores replies to the active questions. The stored replies can be compared to predetermined answers, and questions that become irrelevant based on the answers can be deactivated and taken off a list of questions to be asked. After a sufficient amount of questions are answered, the system can auto-configure a process for online construction management. For example a website can be set up that can be used by all parties to the project to automate communications, the exchange of data, status updates etc. including the submission of bids, acceptance of bids, and the award of contracts and many more paperless construction management features. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132441 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RETRIEVES DATA FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE AND CREATES ONE OR MORE OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to include data from an external source as an object in the repository managed by the CMS. The CMS includes an external data mechanism that processes a document with a query to a data source external to the repository. The external data mechanism executes the query, and creates one or more objects in the repository according to the type of data returned. Each object containing data returned from the query is linked to that query via a formal relationship in the CMS. When an object that has a formal relationship with a query is checked out of the repository, the query corresponding to the object may be executed, and the data returned from the query may be stored in the object. Alternatively, the data may be used directly if a corresponding lifecycle policy indicates the corresponding query should not be executed. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132442 | ONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION - Disclosed are methods in which ontologies are automatically (i.e., with little or no human interaction) constructed from data. The constructed ontology may be provided for use by an application or device. An ontology may be constructed as follows. Firstly, a lexical graph is constructed. Secondly, a concept-detection process is performed on the lexical graph to detect concepts (prominent terms) in the lexical graph. Thirdly, a clustering method is performed on the lexical graph to form groups of concepts. Fourthly, relationships between the concepts are determined based on the interconnections of the concepts in the groups. Lastly, the concepts and detected relationships therebetween are structured using a formal ontology specification. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132443 | STRUCTURE-SPECIFIC RECORD COUNT DATABASE OPERATIONS - Methods and systems are disclosed to perform record counts of particular structures without causing database-wide locking to occur while such counting is being performed. A Data Definition Language (“DDL”) syntax referred to as RECORDCOUNT is specified at the structure level to enable a particular structure to be locked for performance of record count operations without locking the global dataset record. Updates or deletions/insertions to other structures can still be made by locking the structures associated with the RECORDCOUNT operation and not the global dataset. Further, the RECORDCOUNT option can be added to existing structures to enable structure-specific locking for performance of record counts. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132444 | CLOUD STORAGE FOR IMAGE DATA, IMAGE PRODUCT DESIGNS, AND IMAGE PROJECTS - A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132445 | NETWORKED PROCUREMENT - A method may include receiving unstructured content data related to a business entity by a networked service application; selecting, via a user interface of the networked service application and based at least in part on the received unstructured content data, a business template, the business template being a representation of a networked business object data structure having associations with structured data; and creating, by the networked service application, an instance of the networked business object by associating at least some of the received content data with the business template and the networked business object associated with the business template. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132446 | WRITE INSTRUCTION DATASOURCE FOR DATABASE WRITE PROCEDURE - A computer implemented system and method for enabling a database write operation for an application that only has a database read operation is disclosed. At least one data source is stored in a database, the data source having at least one pre-coded stored write operation. A database read operation that calls the data source is received. The read operation is performed on the database, the read operation causing the database to execute the pre-coded stored write operation on the database. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132447 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS IMPROVED IN EFFICIENCY OF DELETION OF FILES, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A document management apparatus which, when an instruction for collective deletion of files and folders is given, is not required to wait until a user terminates manipulation of a file or a folder, thereby making it possible to enhance working efficiency of the system administrator. A file management system manages a plurality of files. A main controller and a user interface receive an instruction for collectively deleting the files managed by the file management system. The file management system deletes the files according to the instruction. When the instruction is received, a CPU controls the file management system such that out of the plurality of files, files being accessed are deleted after files not being accessed are deleted. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132448 | MEMORY SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE TELEPHONE - A memory system is constituted of a file storage flash memory storing a control program required for a control portion and a large amount of data, and a random access memory storing a program used by the control portion and functioning as a buffer memory for received data. Thus, a memory system for a portable telephone capable of storing a large amount of received data at high-speed and allowing reading of the stored data at high-speed is provided. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132449 | MOBILE DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132450 | NODE DETERMINING PROGRAM, NODE DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND NODE DETERMINING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program causing a processor to execute an operation, the operation includes associating a mathematical function of which a domain includes a key to uniquely specify data to be stored, with each node; associating an index value indicating an amount of the data, with each node; substituting the key in the mathematical function to calculate a value of the mathematical function; substituting the value of the mathematical function and the index value in a weighting function, of which a domain includes the value of the mathematical function and the index value, and in which a size relationship of values of the weighting function is defined in a range of the weighting function, to calculate a value of the weighting function for every node; determining a node in which the data is to be stored, based on the size relationship; and outputting the node. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132451 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS - A power supply control apparatus includes a first adder configured to generate a difference signal based on a target value and a feedback signal; a compensator having a first transfer function Wc(z) and configured to generate a control signal based on the difference signal; a control target having a second transfer function Wp(z) and configured to output an output signal generated in response to the control signal; a disturbance canceller having a third transfer function {1+Wc(z)·Wp(z)}/{Wc(z)·Wp(z)} and configured to generate a disturbance cancelling signal based on the output signal corresponding to a control amount y; a second adder configured to generate a differential disturbance signal based on an output of the first adder and the disturbance cancelling signal; and a filter circuit which generates the feedback signal based on the differential disturbance signal. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132452 | Method and Apparatus for Fast Computation of Integral and Fractional Parts of a High Precision Floating Point Multiplication Using Integer Arithmetic - A system and method which multiplies the bits using integer multiplication is set forth. More specifically, performing a floating point operation using integer multiplication includes performing a high precision multiplication of an input ‘x’ having a first bit width using a plurality of integer multiplication operations of a second bit width, the second bit width being smaller than the first bit width, the plurality of integer multiplication operations each generating a result corresponding the first bit width. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132453 | GENERATING UNIQUE RANDOM NUMBERS FOR MULTIPLE INSTANTIATIONS - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for generating a random number for an instance of a hardware description language definition is provided, the method comprising: generating a unique signature for the instance; applying a message digest generation process on the unique signature to arrive at a message digest having a fixed length; and applying a random number generation process on the message digest. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132454 | Feedback-Based Particle Filtering - Methods for estimating a conditional probability distribution for signal states of a non-linear random dynamic process. The filter is based on multiple particles, each defined by a state space model similar to the dynamic process. Each particle is updated on the basis of a control input derived by proportional gain feedback on an innovation process. The innovation process is the difference between an increment in an observed quantity measured by one or more sensors and an average of a function of the particles. The particle filter of the invention may also be applied to filtering problems with data association uncertainty where multiple measurements are obtained, of which at most one originates from a specified target. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132455 | ELECTRONIC CONTENT EDITING PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - Briefly, embodiments are disclosed that relate to various computing environments for editing electronic content. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132456 | DECOUPLING CLUSTER DATA FROM CLOUD DEPOLYMENT - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for decoupling cluster data from cloud deployment. The decoupling facilitates taking down and reattaching a cluster to persisted data as needed. Other embodiments of the invention include resuming a cluster's execution on a different topology and/or different system states based on a persisted data set. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132457 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HAND-OFFS IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium for handling hand-offs in a cloud computing environment is provided. The method includes identifying, at a cloud governance module of a server device, a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of servers belonging to a plurality of cloud computing service providers. The method includes determining based upon information in a policy module, to hand-off an execution of at least one identified application executing on a first cloud computing service provider platform to a second cloud computing service provider, determining whether the second cloud computing service provider satisfies one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application, and handing-off the execution of the at least one identified application to a second cloud computing provider platform based upon the second cloud computing provider being compliant with the one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PARTICIPANT ORDER IN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS - A coordinator running on a computing device identifies a plurality of participants for a distributed transaction, wherein the coordinator coordinates the distributed transaction. The coordinator determines a participant order for the plurality of participants based on one or more ordering rules. The coordinator sends a message to a first participant in the determined participant order. The coordinator then waits until a response is received from the first participant before sending the message to a second participant in the determined participant order. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132459 | INFORMATION-SHARING COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - The invention relates to a computer system that is set up to access an extended network. Said computer system is characterised in that it includes: a memory ( | 2013-05-23 |
20130132460 | ADMINISTERING INCIDENT POOLS FOR EVENT AND ALERT ANALYSIS - Administering incident pools including receiving, by an incident analyzer from an incident queue, a plurality of incidents from one or more components of the distributed processing system; assigning, by the incident analyzer, each received incident to a pool of incidents; assigning, by the incident analyzer, to each incident a particular combined minimum time for inclusion in one or more pools, each particular combined minimum time corresponding to a particular incident; in response to the pool closing, determining, by the incident analyzer, for each incident in the pool whether the incident has met its combined minimum time for inclusion in one or more pools; and if the incident has been in the pool for its combined minimum time, including, by the incident analyzer, the incident in the closed pool; and if the incident has not been in the pool for its combined minimum time, including the incident in a next pool. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132461 | TERMINAL USER-INTERFACE CLIENT FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE SERVERS IN HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - In one exemplary embodiment, a terminal user-interface (UI) client is configured to accept a user-scripted command from a user. The user-scripted command includes an operating system command or a user-customized command. The user-scripted command is passed to a distributed server management platform. A node tag input by a user is accepted. The node tag identifies at least one agent node in a server in the cloud-computing platform to execute the user-scripted command. A distributed server management platform that passes the user-scripted command to a group broker of an agent group comprising the agent node identified by the node tag, and to pass a command result to the terminal UI. A group broker to pass the user-scripted command to the agent node, and to pass a command result from the agent node to the distributed server management platform. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132462 | Dynamically Generating and Serving Video Adapted for Client Playback in Advanced Display Modes - Systems and methods are presented for adaptively streaming a time-ordered sequence of video frames from a video server, across a wide area network, to a remote client video device, to accommodate advanced video display modes. Based on indications received from the remote client, the video server obtains and sends to the remote client encodings of video frames adapted to facilitate smooth, timely transitions between display modes at the client, and optimal playback quality across all modes, subject to various operational constraints. Advanced playback modes include fast forward and reverse, slow forward and reverse, frame-by-frame stepping, and other modes that specify displaying video frames on the client at a rate different from the normal display rate, or that specify displaying video frames in a different order than the normal time-ordering of the sequence of video frames. The systems and methods may be incorporated into collaborative online video editing environments. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132463 | CLIENT APPLICATION FILE ACCESS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a client application with access to a file based upon a local offline version of the file and/or web online version of the file. That is, a file may be shared/synchronized from a remote source, such as a web storage service. A web online version of the file may be maintained by the web storage service, while local offline versions of the file may be stored at client devices. A sync module comprising knowledge of the local and/or web versions of the file may provide a client application with access to the file based upon the local and/or web version of the file. The sync module may also delegate synchronization authorization to the client application given that the client application may comprise sophisticated file handling functionality. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132464 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION WITH A USER OF A SIMPLIFIED COMPUTING PLATFORM - Described herein are systems and methods for providing simplified computing functionalities to a user. One embodiment provides a method for reporting on activity of a user of a simplified computing platform. The method includes making available at the simplified computing platform one or more normalised content items received from a data handling server. The data handling server is configured to receive data indicative of content items designated for display at the simplified computing platform, the data indicative of content items being received from a plurality of correspondents via a plurality of input channels. The server additionally normalises the content in accordance with a content normalisation protocol, and delivers the normalised content items for display at the simplified computing platform. An interface allows a user of the simplified computing platform make an interaction in respect of a given one of the content items. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132465 | AUTOMATED DELIVERY OF MEDICAL DEVICE SUPPORT SOFTWARE - Embodiments of the present invention include a portable medical device with an integrated web server. The portable medical device is configured to establish a communication session with a user device. The integrated web server is configured to load software onto the user computing device for exchanging data with the portable medical device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132466 | 3D MODELING SYSTEM DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN A CLIENT DEVICE WEB BROWSER AND A SERVER - A system and method for implementing the functions of a web-based 3D modeling system partially as a script interpretable by a client browser application and partially as a component executing on a server modeling engine. A client-side script component may execute lightweight modeling system commands while the server-side modeling engine may execute computationally expensive 3D modeling system commands. For example, the script component may be accessed by the client device upon visiting a web page of the modeling service hosted by the web server. The script may include Javascript® instructions for viewing a 3D model in a browser window without installing a browser plug-in or a standalone application on the client device. However, to edit the model, the script component may forward commands and requests to the server via the network and also receive modified model data from the server. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132467 | METHOD OF USING APPLICATION, GATEWAY USING THE METHOD, TERMINAL USING THE METHOD, AND TERMINAL SYSTEM USING THE METHOD - Provided is a method of using an application, the method including: requesting to transmit a predetermined application from at least one terminal; storing the predetermined application which is decompressed according to a request to transmit the predetermined application, in a storage device; extracting a script file which manages execution of the predetermined application from the decompressed predetermined application; and updating a list of applications stored in the storage device using the script file. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132468 | DISCOVERING, ORGANIZING, ACCESSING AND SHARING INFORMATION IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A system of providing a single secure site for a user to discover, access, view and manage a plurality of resources. The method includes a decision engine that offers resources to the user based on the user information. The method creates and stores a list of updateable resources based on the user information and queries. The system opens and establishes secure sessions to the websites designated by the user at a webtop without a second sign-on. The system provides the ability for a user to share resources with other like-minded users. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132469 | ELECTRONIC CONTENT DELIVERY USING DIVERSIFIED NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for electronic content delivery of an electronic data file to be provided to a first client device may include a computer identifying two or more recipient client devices as members in a distribution group with the first client device. The computer may divide the electronic data file into two or more segments based on respective parameters for different transmission paths to the two or more recipient client devices. The computer transmits the two or more segments concurrently over the different transmission paths to the two or more recipient client devices. The computer may generate instructions for assembling the two or more segments to obtain the electronic data file, and transmit the instructions to at least one of the first client device or the two or more recipient client devices. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132470 | Method and System for Storing Time-Dependent Data - A method for processing time-dependent data including downloading source data stored on one or more computer readable media at one or more data sources; wherein said source data includes a plurality of records each of which includes a time stamp; determining by a computer system a time zone offset of said time stamp; converting said time stamp by said computer system to a common time zone stamp; and storing said source data with said common time zone stamp. The time dependent data is preferably energy market data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132471 | Application Development Support Device, Program and Storage Medium - The development of an application program that includes a user interface (UI), which can provide a processing parameter to be handed to a web service when a UI screen is called via a link, is realized without coding operations. When the UI screen is called via the link, in which link information is embedded with the processing parameter, a platform program obtains the processing parameter and stores the processing parameter in a corresponding storage region. A call program that has been attached to an unconditional starting button, which is located in the UI screen by a developer, in advance activates the web service by using the processing parameter in the storage region as an argument. After the processing for storing the output variables of the web service in the corresponding storage region is carried out, the processing, in which the called UI screen is generated and distributed, is carried out. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132472 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING CACHING OF DYNAMICALLY GENERATED OBJECTS IN A DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for maintaining a cache of dynamically generated objects. The method includes storing in the cache dynamically generated objects previously served from an originating server to a client. A communication between the client and server is intercepted by the cache. The cache parses the communication to identify an object determinant and to determine whether the object determinant indicates whether a change has occurred or will occur in an object at the originating server. The cache marks the object stored in the cache as invalid if the object determinant so indicates. If the object has been marked as invalid, the cache retrieves the object from the originating server. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132473 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANONYMISING USER DATA BY AGGREGATION - In one aspect of a method of anonymising user data by aggregation, at least one server-side device receives an anonymous aggregation command from a user client device. The anonymous aggregation command includes a specification of a set of users and an action to be taken. A list of users who meet the specification in the anonymous aggregation command is generated. The list of users who meet the specification is validated as meeting at least one criterion for anonymous aggregation. The action in the anonymous aggregation command is triggered to be taken in respect of the validated list of users who meet the specification. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132474 | FOR DEFERRING INVITATIONAL CONTENT - The present discloser relates to deferring invitational content. A content delivery system is configured to deliver invitational content to user terminals and can also provide a means to defer the invitational content until a condition has been met by providing a user interface element configured to terminate the content. The deferred content can be entered into a deferral queue. Conditions can be a set time or based on capabilities of the user terminal. The conditions can be set by the system or a user. The user can specify parameters through use of user interface elements. Deferral can be handled by the user terminal or a server. In addition content management systems can be configured to manage campaigns including tracking costs and impressions. When content is deferred, the initial impression is not fully counted; however, redelivery can be counted as an enhanced impression with a higher value. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE ON A WEB CONTENT PAGE BY CATEGORIZING CONTACTS AND RELEVANT POSTS - A method and system for enhancing user experience on a web content page. The method includes extracting a list of contacts of a user from one or more networking websites based on a relationship level. The method also includes analyzing a plurality of posts generated by the list of contacts. The method further includes categorizing each contact in the list of contacts and the plurality of posts under one or more web content topics. Moreover, the method includes displaying, to the user, one or more contacts along with a set of posts relevant to a web content topic on the web content page. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132476 | Defining Future Plans in Connection with Objects in a Social Networking System - A social networking system that provides a system allowing users of the social networking system to define future plans, whereby users of the social networking system who view the plan are permitted to add themselves to the plan independent of whether they were explicitly specified as attendees of the plan. The social networking system is capable of auto-filling some missing plan details through inference. The social networking system is also capable of merging similar plans together. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132477 | Location Aware Shared Spaces - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system maintains a data store of shared space, wherein each shared space comprises one or more content objects, a location, and one or more privacy settings. The geo-social networking system allows a user read-access to a shared space based on privacy settings associated with the shared space. The geo-social networking system allows a user write-access to a shared space if the user is at the location associated with the shared space. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132478 | Establishing Communication Among Parties Based on Location - Disclosed are various embodiments for transmitting a location of a first client device to a server device. A communication request is transmitted from the first client device that requests a conference with a second client device. A conference is established with the second client device using a communications link. The communications link facilitates the conference being established over a network between the first and second client devices. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132479 | RATING BASED ON RELATIONSHIP - People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating may find more reliable. The information provided to a person may, in some manner, differentiate between ratings that were provided by members of the person's social network and ratings that were provided by those outside of the persons' social network. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132480 | Event Data Processing Apparatus - An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132481 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE USING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - A method, an apparatus, and a system for providing a social network service capable of automatically extracting and analyzing social activities of a user to automatically generate a social network applicable to the user are provided. The method for providing a social network service through the user's social activities by automatically recognizing a user's social activities to includes: a profile generating step of generating a user profile based on a user activity profile obtained by collecting and classifying the user's social activities and a user information profile; and a network generating step of generating a social network by analyzing a user interest level based on the user profile. Thus, a multi-aspect social network fitting a time and space can be configured based on collected and analyzed user activities to thus provide social network services. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132482 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132483 | Fake Check-In Entries Posted on Behalf of Social Network Users - An approach is provided in a fake check-in event is received at a software application corresponding to a user of the software application. Fake check-ins are initiated on behalf of the user in response to the fake check-in event. The software application posts a set of fake check-in entries on behalf of the user while the user is away. The posted fake check-ins are visible by other users of the software application and are used to obfuscate others that the user is out-of-town. In one embodiment, check-in entries that are received from the user after fake check-ins have been initiated are cached. In this embodiment, a local check-in event is received when the user is within the user's geographical local area and the cached check-in entries are posted so that they are now visible by the other users of the software application. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132484 | Network-Traffic-Analysis-Based Suggestion Generation - In one embodiment, a networked device running a social networking application logs local area network traffic in order to maintain a table of connected users on the same LAN. In such embodiments, the networked device uploads its log of LAN traffic to a social networking system, which associates each MAC address with a user of the social networking system, and detects and identifies recurring patterns when the user of the networked device and other users are on the same LAN. Based upon such patterns, the social networking system may suggest that the two users become friends or otherwise interact on the social networking system. In particular embodiments, a networked device running a social networking application may broadcast mDNS messages containing its social networking ID, allowing other similarly configured devices on the same LAN to interact with the user of the device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132485 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLABORATIVE REMOTE APPLICATION SHARING AND CONFERENCING - Systems and method for providing a collaborative conferencing capability to an application remotely-accessed by client computing devices. A client media sharing application is provided in a client tier, and the client media sharing application allows at least one of the client computing devices to share media with the client computing devices. A conferencing manager application that receives the shared media is provided to the server tier. The conferencing manager application makes the shared media available to the client computing devices. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132486 | SERVICE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD - In a case where a service for performing specified processings of document data as one job is processed in a cooperative manner on a network, a service processing state is exhibited in a proper notice form in each job unit and in each processing unit in the job, so that the processing state can be properly recognized from the viewpoint of accounting, security and privacy. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132487 | PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - In a peer-to-peer connection establishment method, processing modules installed at the two peers use a reliable network space as a transmission medium to transmit an online transmission request to the space to obtain channel establishment information from the opposite party, such that data can be communicated between both parties directly via a remote connection to assure the privacy of information, so as to enhance the safety of using a network. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132488 | Location Aware Sticky Notes - In one embodiment, a computer system creates for a first user a location-triggered note specific for a second user and for a particular location, determines the second user's location, and transmits the location-triggered note to the second user if the second user is at the particular location. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132489 | LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system incorporating techniques described in this paper includes a bubble server capable of facilitating the creation of location-based virtual networks (“bubbles”) that bubble clients can join. Bubble clients can be implemented on mobile devices that can contact the bubble server via a network connection. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132490 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN APPLICATION MESSAGING INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for an application messaging integration framework. An example method includes receiving a user input at a first clinical viewer via an integrated interface. The example method includes sending a message based on the input to a second clinical viewer via an application and messaging integrator. The application and messaging integrator is created to facilitate communication between the first and second clinical viewers. The example method includes updating information at the second clinical viewer based on the message. The example method includes displaying the updated information at the second clinical viewer via the integrated interface. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132491 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DATABASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES SAID PROGRAM | 2013-05-23 |
20130132492 | Electronic Mail Display Device - To provide a technique for facilitating the management of an attachment file attached to an electronic mail. A client apparatus acquires attachment position information in a text of the electronic mail and stores it associated with an identifier of the electronic mail, in receiving the electronic mail with attachment file. Upon receiving an instruction for displaying the electronic mail from the user, the client apparatus arranges a graphic representing the attachment file of the electronic mail on a child screen that displays the reduced screen of a parent screen that displays the electronic mail based on the corresponding attachment position information, and displays the child screen together with the parent screen. | 2013-05-23 |