36th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140250122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAVEL MANAGEMENT - A system and method comprising: receiving itinerary data from at least two sources; identifying a traveler associated with the itinerary data; and adding information about the identified traveler to the itinerary data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250123 | INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING STORED DATA - A modular data and storage management system. The system includes a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of data that is received over time. The time variance interface of the modular data and storage management system provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of an indication of the data corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved indication of the data provides a user with an option to access specific information relative to the data, such as content of files that are included in the data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250124 | DATA EDITING DEVICE AND DATA EDITING METHOD - A data storage unit of a data editing apparatus stores both a base indicating a data attribute and a data value in association with each other as data to be edited. A code acquisition unit acquires a user code, which is a code described in a first program language for describing data editing details by intensive notation and which describes editing details for the data to be edited that are based on the base. A code generation unit generates, in accordance with a predetermined correspondence relationship between a second program language for describing data editing details by extensive notation and the first program language, an execution code described in the second program language based on the user code. An editing processing unit edits the data to be edited in accordance with the execution code. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250125 | IDENTIFYING AN INCIDENT-ADDRESSING STEP - Relationships among incident-addressing steps, applications, and incidents are determined, based on information relating to the applications and the incidents. For addressing a given incident that occurred with respect to a particular application, at least one incident-addressing step is identified using the determined relationships. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250126 | Photo Clustering into Moments - In one embodiment, a method includes automatically and without user input grouping one or more images captured by a first user into clusters of particular moments based at least in part on metadata associated with one or more of the images or data determined through analysis of one or more of the images. Each particular moment being associated with a particular geo-location and time. The method also includes, for each of one or more of the clusters, determining curating information corresponding to the cluster based at least in part on the metadata associated with images in the cluster, the data determined through analysis of images in the cluster, or social-graph information associated with images in the cluster; and providing the clusters of images and at least some of the curating information corresponding to them for display on a computing device of the first user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250127 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING CONTENT ACCORDING TO SIMILARITY - Systems and methods for clustering content according to similarity are provided that identify and group similar content using a set of tags associated with the content. A topic model of a group of content is built, producing a probability distribution of topic membership for the content. Individual items of content are then clustered using a clustering algorithm, and a distance matrix from the probability distribution is built. Based on the distance matrix, individual items of content are labeled as “must-link” or “cannot-link” pairs with the group of content. The topic model is then embedded into successively smaller dimensions using a kernel method, until the clustering is stable with respect to both the behavioral and content domains. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING EVENTS OR LOCATIONS BASED ON CONTENT - Systems and methods of returning location and/or event results using information social media content are provided. One or more social networking servers are accessed to retrieve social media content. One or more items within the social media content are then identified. These items may then be categorized. Information about the categories of the one or more items are stored in a database storing information about locations or events. A search query for a location or event may be received, and results for the search query may be selected by accessing the database and utilizing the information about locations or events as well as the information about the categories of the one or more items. The results may then be returned to a user device for display. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250129 | MANAGING OWNERSHIP OF REDUNDANT DATA - According to one embodiment, a method includes storing instances of a file in a first storage tier and a second storage tier of a storage system, wherein the second storage tier uses less expensive and/or slower-to-access storage media than the first storage tier. Each instance of the file on the first and second storage tier is associated with a unique program identifier (UPI). A request to access the file or instance thereof is received from a user in a group of users, and a UPI associated with an instance of the file that exists on the first storage tier is searched for. Remote access to the instance of the file on the first storage tier is provided to the user requesting access to the file. Additional embodiments are also presented. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250130 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR UNITS-BASED NUMERIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - An information retrieval and analysis system for numeric data which provides high precision and recall for numeric search and uses a methodology for determining contextualization of the extracted data. The capabilities include extracting, parsing, and contextualizing numeric data including both a numeric value and an accompanying unit. This system facilitates the organization of largely unstructured numeric data into an inverted index and other database formats. An information retrieval system which enables the exploration and refinement of an extracted numeric data set defined by a search input that may be precise or initially vague. This system also facilitates analyzing and portraying numeric data graphically, creating knowledge by combining data from multiple sources, extracting correlations between seemingly disparate variables, and recognizing numeric data trends. This system uses local natural language processing, mathematical analysis, and expert-based scientific heuristics to score the numeric and contextual relevancy of the data to the query parameters. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250131 | Method and System for Indexing and Searching Timed Media Information Based Upon Relevance Intervals - A method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving information from timed media files based upon relevance intervals. The method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving this information is based upon relevance intervals so that a portion of a timed media file is returned, which is selected specifically to be relevant to the given information representations, thereby eliminating the need for a manual determination of the relevance and avoiding missing relevant portions. The timed media includes streaming audio, streaming video, timed HTML, animations such as vector-based graphics, slide shows, other timed media, and combinations thereof. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250132 | AUTOMATED HIGHEST PRIORITY ORDERING OF CONTENT ITEMS STORED ON A DEVICE - A method and device relate to prioritizing content items stored on a device and, more particularly, relate to automatically ordering highest priority content items stored on a device according to multiple criteria. The method and device enabling presentation, on a display of the device, the high priority content items in order of their total priority. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250133 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY - Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250134 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TARGETING QUERIES BASED ON LOCATION - A system and method for management of location based requests is described. A responder for a request may be selected based on a location associated with a request and a ranking or rating of a responder for a location. A location may be associated with a responder based on requests accepted by the responder, submitted by the responder, and/or otherwise associated with a location and a responder. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADAPTING A DATA MODEL TO A USER INTERFACE COMPONENT - A display of a source data model on a user interface component being associated with a target data model is provided. The source data model and the target data model comprise a collection of data types (class/object), each including a set of name and type attributes. For each source data type of the source data model, a matching target data type is determined among said target data types in the target data model. Said source data type is linked to said matching target data type. A display of said source data model using said link between a source data type and a target data type. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250136 | TIMELINE VIEW FILTERED BY PERMISSIONS AND AFFINITY TO VIEWER - The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on whether the viewing user has permission to view them. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by time. The timeline view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250137 | QUERYING FEATURES BASED ON USER ACTIONS IN ONLINE SYSTEMS - Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING LOG FILE FILTERING - A method and apparatus for optimizing list filtering comprising receiving a list of items from one or more servers, matching the list of items against a set of filters, ordering the set of filters based on the frequency of matches for the set of filters for each filter in the set of filters and applying the ordered set of filters for matching on a next received list of items. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250139 | Method and Apparatus Requesting Information Upon Returning To A Search Results List - A method, apparatus and computer program product for requesting information upon returning to a search results list is presented. A search results list is presented to a user. The user can then navigate to an item referenced in the search results list. The user is provided with additional content when the user returns to the search results list, the additional content permitting the user to provide comments regarding the item previously navigated to from said search results list. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES OF GRAPHS AS REPRESENTED WITHIN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - A system and method for performing searches within a social graph database or with social graph data structures of an information technology system. In one aspect, a first graph is accessed that includes a plurality of nodes and edges between pairs of the plurality of nodes. A plurality of zones within the graph are defined or discovered and a search for a pathway from a first node of a first to an Nth node of an Nth zone is initiated, and a determination is made whether a zone pathway exists between the first zone to the Nth zone. In addition, the present invention provides for determining the existence of edges between zones; forming a zone graph prior to initiating the search for a pathway; forming a superzone graph prior to initiating the search for a pathway, wherein each group of connected zones is presented as an individual node. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250141 | 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. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250142 | DISK-BASED HASH JOIN PROCESS - A database system performs hash join process for processing queries that join an inner and an outer database table. The hash join processes builds a hash table in memory for the inner table. The database system receives a limit on the memory for storing the hash table. The database system maximizes the number of partitions stored in memory for the hash table. If the hash table exceeds the limit of the memory while adding rows from the inner table, the database system selects a partition for spilling to a persistent storage. The partition selected for spilling to may be the largest partition or a partition larger than most of the partitions. The database system initializes the hash table to a number of partitions that is substantially equal to half of the total number of blocks that can be stored within the specified limit of memory for the hash table. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250143 | DIGITAL INK BASED CONTEXTUAL SEARCH - Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of tools and techniques for performing contextual searches using text determined based on digital-ink data. According to one exemplary technique, digital-ink data is received at a computing device and text is determined based on the digital-ink data. Additionally, by an application of the computing device, a contextual search is performed using the text. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION THROUGH CONNECTIVITY OF SEPARATE SOCIAL GRAPHS - A server receives a query message from a requester that identifies a source node of a first graph and includes a target information. The server then preferably searches a plurality of graphs to locate one or more nodes that include or are associated with the target information. When one or more target nodes are found by the server, the server informs the requester and requests authorization to attempt to form a pathway between the source node and one or more target nodes. The server may offer additional information harvested from a target node to the requester in order to encourage the requesting party to authorize pathway formation to the instant target node. The server directs an electronic message that may comprise an invitation to link through a graph, a network address of the source node, and/or an identifier of the requesting party. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING VERIFIED CONTENT - A system and method for creating and utilizing content is described. Content is generated which includes a query and a response to the query. A primary query may be used to generate a plurality of variant queries which may be matched to a request. A content owner or curator may review a query, a response, and/or alternate queries, and may provide access to media which may be used to generate queries and responses. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250146 | METHOD FOR GENERATING WORKFLOW FROM BUSINESS SPECIFICATION - To enable visual verification of the suitability of work items that has been recorded, with an application created in accordance with a document centric architecture. The present invention includes: extracting, from a design, a document state that will become a trigger for work activity start and a document state for the result, and, based on matching the triggers and results, diagramming through automatically structuring a flow for the plurality of activities. Specifically, design documents are analyzed and implementations for each activity support system, and extracted the collection of documents that have become the conditions for document states that will become triggers for work start, as well as the document states that will remain as work results. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250147 | Generating Search Results Containing State Links to Applications - A method for generating search results containing state links to applications. The method includes receiving a search query from a remote computing device, generating a state link to a state of a native application based on the search query and providing the state link to the remote computing device, all by a processing device. The state link is provided with one or more other state links to third party applications. The native application is a third party native application. The native application corresponds to a third party application having one or more versions. The state link includes an application resource identifier corresponding to the native application and is used to access the state in the native application version of the third party application. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250148 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IMAGES OVER A NETWORK - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing image files over a network. In an embodiment, a notification is received from a remote server. The notification may comprise an identifier of an image file that comprises scanned slide data and is stored at the remote server. In response to the notification, the identifier of the image file may be added in association with an indication that the image file is stored at the remote server to a stored catalog of image files, and a file-transfer operation may be initiated to transfer a copy of the image file from the remote server to a central database. Following completion of the file-transfer operation, the stored catalog may be updated to indicate that the image file is stored in the central database, and a request may be sent to the remote server to delete the image file at the remote server. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250149 | IDENTIFYING ELEMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN A DOCUMENT - An information processing apparatus includes a text mining section configured to perform text mining on text data acquired from the outside and to output extracted information; an identification section configured to search a development database storing elements constituting a product and the relationship among the elements by using the information extracted by text mining to identify an element related to the information; and a notification section configured to notify the identified element to a user, a program for use in the information processing apparatus. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING PATTERN OF SEQUENCE DATA - A method of searching a pattern of sequence data, includes setting an interest pattern model comprising a length of an interest pattern, a value of an allowed mismatch, and a minimum support, obtaining supports of similar patterns of a child pattern, each of the similar patterns having a mismatch value with the child pattern that is greater than the value of the allowed mismatch, based on mismatch values of similar patterns of a parent pattern, and determining whether a support of the child pattern fulfills a condition of the minimum support based on the supports of the similar patterns of the child pattern, and a support of the parent pattern. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250151 | DYNAMIC PATTERN MATCHING OVER ORDERED AND DISORDERED DATA STREAMS - Architecture introduces a new pattern operator referred to as called an augmented transition network (ATN), which is a streaming adaptation of non-reentrant, fixed-state ATNs for dynamic patterns. Additional user-defined information is associated with automaton states and is accessible to transitions during execution. ATNs are created that directly model complex pattern continuous queries with arbitrary cycles in a transition graph. The architecture can express the desire to ignore some events during pattern detection, and can also detect the absence of data as part of a pattern. The architecture facilitates efficient support for negation, ignorable events, and state cleanup based on predicate punctuations. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250152 | Method, Device, Program Product, and Server for Generating Electronic Document Container Data File - An electronic-document-container-data-file generating method for generating a data file using a computer where the data file is to be read by a playback program operating on a computer includes: acquiring at least electronic document data as content data; generating editable memo data as content data, the memo data being associated with the acquired electronic document data; generating a container portion configured to hold a plurality of items of content data including the acquired electronic document data and the generated memo data; generating definition information for defining a method for playing back and/or a method for editing the plurality of items of content data during playback by the playback program; and generating an electronic-document-container data file including the generated container portion and the generated definition information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250153 | BIG DATA IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - A big data network or system for a process control system or plant includes a big data apparatus including a data storage area configured to store, using a common data schema, multiple types of process data and/or plant data (such as configuration and real-time data) that is used in, generated by or received by the process control system, and one or more data receiver computing devices to receive the data from multiple nodes or devices. The data may be cached and time-stamped at the nodes and streamed to the big data apparatus for storage. The process control system big data system provides services and/or data analyses to automatically or manually discover prescriptive and/or predictive knowledge, and to determine, based on the discovered knowledge, changes and/or additions to the process control system and to the set of services and/or analyses to optimize the process control system or plant. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250154 | Method And System For Caching Real-Time Data - A system and method for storing data representing a multidimensional entity using corresponding dimensions for the data, storing a further dimension for the data, the further dimension being a modification timestamp indicating a time when the data was modified, receiving a request for the data representing the multi-dimensional entity, the request including a request timestamp indicating a further time when a previous request for the data representing the multi-dimensional entity was received and transmitting the data only when the modification timestamp is later than the request timestamp. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250155 | METADATA STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM - The present invention provides a metadata storage system and a management method for a cluster file system. The metadata of the cluster file system is stored by using a DRAM+SSD+HDD three-tier architecture, and the metadata is written sequentially into a metadata buffer in the DRAM based on write-in time. When a metadata buffer fully written, it is written back into the SSD sequentially to form a new metadata storage unit, and corresponding metadata index information in a header structure thereof is stored into the DRAM in a form of a metadata index unit. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250156 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION REPRESENTING PHYSICAL FEATURES OF A PORTION OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL SURFACE - A method for providing information representing physical features of a portion of a three-dimensional surface, the information including data files at different resolution levels. The data files are stored in a hierarchical file system. A hash value is computed from a file designator of a data file and is assigned to the data file. The data file is stored according to the assigned hash value in the file system. A request hash value is received from the external device, and a data file that has an assigned value corresponding to the request hash value is provided to the external device. A method for receiving such information is also provided, in which information including an information designator is requested. A request hash value is computed from the information designator and transmitted to the server. A data file that includes the requested information is received from the remote server. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250157 | FILE LEVEL HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS - Time required for a file server to determine files to be migrated from a first storage region to a second storage region is reduced. A file service system coupled to the storage system for providing a first storage region and a second storage region stores identifiers of files that have been accessed by a client, in accessed file identifier information and determines the files to be migrated from the first storage region to the second storage region based on metadata of the files stored in the first storage region and the accessed file identifier information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250158 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING FILE - A method and a system for obtaining a file are provided by this invention which adapts to computer field. The method includes the following steps: obtaining a file size of a target file; determining whether the file size of the target file is larger than a maximum file size transfer limit; and if yes, obtaining a file segment of the target file each time, until the entire target file being obtained, wherein the file segment is segmented from the target file according to the maximum file size transfer limit. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250159 | INTEGER RATIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ROTATING ASSETS - A computer-executable ratiometric analysis method determines integer components of a rational number ratio or a close approximation of an irrational number ratio. In one embodiment the method uses a ratio of rotational speeds of two rotating assets in a machine or process, generates a new rational number based on the ratio of speeds, and calculates the integer components of the new rational number. The result is the integer ratio relationship between the initial two rational numbers. The method may be used in machinery analysis applications to determine whether a low-order integer ratio relationship exists between two machinery rotating components. Low-order integer ratio relationships in machinery are generally harmful in related machinery rotating components, and detection of such relationships is an important tool in preventing damage to machinery components. In a more general embodiment the algorithm can be used to determine the closest integer roots of any fractional number where this information would be of interest to an analyst in understanding the fractional number. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250160 | RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR - A random number generator includes a first oscillator configured to output a first oscillating signal having a first frequency. A second oscillator is configured to output a second oscillating signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency. A sampling unit is configured to receive the first and second oscillating signals. The sampling unit is configured to generate at least one entropy source by combining the received first and second oscillating signals. The sampling unit is configured to generate a random bit corresponding to the generated entropy source using a third oscillating signal. A third oscillator & control unit is configured to control the first and second oscillators and to generate the third oscillating signal. A frequency of the third oscillating signal is lower than the first and second frequencies. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250161 | FUNCTION APPROXIMATION BASED ON STATISTICAL PROPERTIES - Embodiments of techniques and systems for approximating a function are described. In embodiments, a computing device may receive one or more statistical properties associated with application of an approximation function of a function over a target domain. The computing device may formulate one or more constraints on one or more parameters of a functional form of the approximation function, based at least in part on the one or more statistical properties. The computing device may then determine the one or more parameters subject to the constraints and out put results of the determination. In embodiments, the one or more parameters may be determined through application of an optimization procedure. Other embodiments, may be described and claimed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250162 | DATA CAPTURING AND EXCHANGE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for a data capturing and exchange system. The data capturing and exchange system has a plurality of devices in a sub-network and a network server connected to the sub-network. The method includes capturing an unstructured data record of a document on a device, collecting metadata associated with the unstructured data record; determining a recipient for the unstructured data record in a health information exchange, and composing a data message containing the unstructured data record. The method also includes obtaining the composed data message containing the unstructured data record, packing the composed data message into a packed message containing a structured data record corresponding to the unstructured data record, and sending the packed message to the recipient in the HIE can receive and recognize the document. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250163 | DOCUMENT DELIVERY WITH MULTIPLE ADDRESSING AND DELIVERY OPTIONS - A computer program product and method for delivery of electronic and physical documents, with multiple addressing and delivery options. The system may receive uploaded electronic documents and deliver the documents electronically based on only a substantially correct physical address, or based on only a username. The recipient may choose the method of delivery of the uploaded documents. A tag may be input in order to associate the received electronic documents with others having the same tag. Optional services include, but are not limited to, e-signatures, certified mail, electronic and physical proofs of service, and email confirmation. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250164 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL CONTEXT TO A USER DEVICE - A method for providing contextual content to a device includes determining context of a device, applying metadata to a request for a website, the metadata corresponding to the context of the device, sending the metadata to the website, and receiving from the website content based on the context. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250165 | Method and Devices for Session Timeout Management - This provides a method and devices to manage the timeout value of data sessions between messaging clients and one or more messaging servers. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250166 | Service Request Management Methods and Apparatus - A system, method, and apparatus for service request management are disclosed. An example method includes receiving service data from an information source and selecting a source data model that is associated with the information source, the source data model being configured to specify how the service data in a first format from the information source is to be mapped to data fields of a generic service data model. The example method also includes creating a service data entry of the generic service data model by applying the determined source data model to the service data and storing the service data into data fields of the service data entry. The example method further includes selecting a service provider based on the service data within the data fields of the service data entry and transmitting a service request message to the service provider including at least some of the service data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250167 | METHOD FOR MANAGNG TRANSMISSION INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method and apparatus for managing transmission information about data in an electronic include transmitting data using a first application program, generating transmission information about the data transmitted using the first application program, and displaying the transmission information about the data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250168 | OPTIMIZATION ENGINE IN A MOBILE CLOUD ACCELERATOR AND RELATED METHODS - An optimization engine embodied in an apparatus or a method is configured to control delivering content from a content source provider to a content user (UE) in a telecommunication network, by select a scenario from a plurality of possible scenarios, for delivering the content to the content user. The scenario is selected taking into consideration one or more of a viewer abandonment rate, a time of day, a UE's battery energy consumption associated with each of the possible scenarios, an amount of network signaling associated with each of the possible scenarios, preferences of the content provider, preferences of the content user, a type of the content to be delivered and a current network load. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION - When requested content is available at a data center, the data center returns the requested content to the data center. When the requested content is locally unavailable at the data center, the requested content is retrieved from an origin server. The retrieval of the content from the origin server may be delayed based on the processing load at the origin server. When retrieval of the content is delayed, the request is prioritized and placed in a queue for handling by the origin server based on the priority of the request. Also, when retrieval of the content is delayed, a status page may be communicated to the browser to inform a user of the delay and provide alternate content and status information related to the request determined as a function of the request or the current state of the origin server. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250170 | PROVIDING A USER WITH VIRTUAL COMPUTING SERVICES - Systems and methods for providing a user with virtual computing services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing virtual computing services to a specific user, may comprising: detecting a request generated from a user device of the specific user to access data; in which the data is not accessible by applications installed on the user device; identifying a file type of the data; and providing the specific user access to a remote application or a virtual desktop, in which the remote application or the virtual desktop is configured to allow the specific user to open, execute, edit, and/or access the data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250171 | OPTIMIZATION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM - In at least one embodiment, data relating to the usage and the operating status of a frontend module of a software application implemented on the client side is acquired continuously during the execution of the application by way of a monitoring frontend module implemented on the client side of a client/server system. This acquired usage and status data is transmitted by the monitoring frontend module to a monitoring backend module implemented on the server side. The usage and status data is stored by the monitoring backend module in a database on the server side. The usage and status data stored in the database is automatically analyzed by way of an analysis module. In the process, default settings of the software application are automatically modified by way of the analysis module on the basis of the result of the analysis in order to improve the performance of the application. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250172 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR INITIATING CONTROL OF AN OPERATION OF AN EXTERNAL DEVICE - There is provided a device control apparatus, a device control method and a program capable of easily initiating control of an operation of an external device through an application according to a status of the external device and a usage status of the application. An application for controlling an operation of an AV amplifier is acquired from an application server, a status of the AV amplifier and a usage status of the application are determined upon startup of the application, a screen according to the result of the determination is displayed in order to arrange an operation environment of the application and then a manipulation screen for controlling the operation of the AV amplifier through the application is displayed, and the operation of the AV amplifier is controlled according to a user manipulation performed through the manipulation screen. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250173 | Selectively porting meeting objects - Customizing an electronic meeting broadcast is described in which the meeting canvas is customized to the capabilities of the device of the participating user. The meeting server manages the electronic meeting including each of the participants' connections into the electronic collaboration space. As a part of the connection mechanism, the meeting server or a proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server has information on the capabilities of individual devices accessing the electronic meeting. Based on these capabilities and/or selections made by the meeting participant, the meeting server or proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server selectively identifies zero or more meeting objects from a collection of meeting objects supporting the meeting canvas of an electronic meeting and transmits only those meeting objects to the participant's device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250174 | INFORMATION PROVISION THROUGH TEMPORARY SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for providing location-based information via a temporary social network includes detecting each of a plurality of first user devices within a predetermined proximity of a physical location and, in response, connecting each of the plurality of first user devices to a social network that is associated with the physical location using a communications network. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of first user devices will be connected to the social network for a predetermined amount of time or for as long as they are in the predetermined proximity. While in the social network, location-based information about the physical location is received over the communications network from each of the plurality of first user devices connected to the social network. At least some of that location-based information about the physical location may then be over the communications network to a second user device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250175 | Prompted Sharing of Photos - In one embodiment, a method includes automatically and without manual input determining one or more first users of a social-networking system associated with one or more images based at least in part on social-graph information associated with or analysis of one or more of the images. The images having been captured by a second user of the social-networking system. The method also includes automatically and without user input sending a notification to a computing device of the second user that prompts the second user to provide access to the images to one or more of the first users. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250176 | AUXILIARY CONTENT SUGGESTIONS RELATING TO USER GENERATED CONTENT - In one aspect, a method includes providing a post generated by a first user for display to one or more other users of the site, receiving an indication of a request from a second user of one or more other users to suggest auxiliary content relating to at least one of one or more items represented in the post, providing a suggestion mechanism to the second user on the page displaying the post to allow the second user to provide auxiliary content relating to the at least one of the one or more items, receiving a suggestion from the second user including the auxiliary content, providing the auxiliary content for display to the first user and providing the first user with a mechanism for viewing the auxiliary content. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250177 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON PROXY-BASED PREFERENCE INDICATIONS - In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication of a user request to view content at a social networking site, identifying one or more genres associated with the user, where each genre acts as proxy for a grouping of content that is of interest to the user, determining one or more entities mapped to the one or more genres, identifying a plurality of posts associated with the one or more entities and providing one or more of the plurality of posts for display to the user in response to receiving the indication. Other aspects can be embodied in corresponding systems and apparatus, including computer program products. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250178 | CONTENT BASED DISCOVERY OF SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for identifying social connections. In some implementations, the occurrence of a first reference to a first person and a second reference to a second person is identified in unstructured data. A relationship metric is calculated between the first reference and the second reference, wherein the relationship metric is based at least in part on the co-occurrence of the first reference and the second reference. The existence of a potential connection between the first reference and the second reference is determined based at least in part on the relationship metric. A recommendation is provided to at least one of the first person and the second person to acknowledge the potential connection as an actual connection. Input is received from at least one of the first person and the second person confirming the potential connection as an actual connection. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250179 | COLONY APPLICATION - In a method for collaborating, a first computing device determines capabilities needed for an application to function. The first computing device enables one or more other computing devices to connect to the application. The first computing device determines capabilities of a second computing device, wherein the second computing device is connected to the application. The first computing device determines the capabilities needed for the application to function are met. The first computing device configures a user interface of the second device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250180 | Ranking Videos for a User - In one embodiment, a method includes determining by a computing device a set of videos that a user may watch. For each video, a coefficient value is determined for each of one or more coefficient factors. At least one of the coefficient factors has a value that would be coincident with the user watching the video. A video coefficient for each video is calculated based on the coefficient values of its coefficient factors, and the videos are ranked based on their video coefficients. The rankings are then provided for presentation to the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250181 | Method using wearable device with unique user ID and telemetry system in communication with one or more social networks - A method is provided for using telemetry data, and a wearable device that communicates with a social network. One or more sensors, coupled to the wearable device that has a unique user ID, are used to acquire at least one of a user's activities, behaviors and habit information. The wearable device has ID circuitry and a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from an ID storage. The wearable device communicates with a social network. A telemetry system communicates with the one or more sensors. The telemetry system includes a database of user ID's. Telemetry data is analyzed based on at least one of, user's activities, behaviors and habit information. Personalized information is created about the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND ANALYZING USER MIGRATION IN PUBLIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - An event selection system for computing user migration pattern across social network pages is provided. The event selection system includes a monitor module to monitor predetermined activities of social media users on preconfigured resources. The event selection system further includes a profile module to build a social media user profile based on the monitored activities of the social media users. The event selection system further includes a computing module to compute user migration patterns based on the social media user profiles. The event selection system further includes a display module to display the user migration patterns on a system user terminal. The event selection system further includes a reporting module configured to produce a report based on the monitored social media user activities. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250183 | HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - A management apparatus which collects, from a home appliance, home appliance information which is information related to the home appliance and provides a user with to-be-provided information which is information obtained from the collected home appliance information, includes: a managing unit which manages the home appliance information; and a home appliance information holding unit which holds, in association with each other, (i) the home appliance information and (ii) share information which is for sharing the home appliance information and is associated with the user. The managing unit refers to data held by the home appliance information holding unit when a request for to-be-provided information is issued by the user, obtains the home appliance information held in association with share information identical to the share information associated with the user, and provides the user with to-be-provided information obtained from the obtained information. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250184 | Content Management System using Sources of Experience Data and Modules for Quantification and Visualization - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250185 | System and Method for Displaying Data Feeds from Multiple Online Social Networks - Multiple different social networks are aggregated and placed together on a timeline. The timeline is arranged such that at any given time the user can see what information from each of the social networks was provided. The timeline is arranged in a two-dimensional grid, with the horizontal grid showing time, and the vertical grid showing the type, where the type can be video, text, wall posts, and photos. The user can select which of their friends information to appear on the timeline and can also select which of multiple different social network type sites provide content to the timeline. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250186 | FACILITATED THIRD-PARTY COMMUNICATION - In various embodiments, systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for facilitation of communication between recipients and third-parties. A recipient, such, for example, a physician may request and then be facilitated in engaging in communication with a selected third party, such as a medical specialist. The third party may be selected based on the physician's request or on other information gained prior to or at the time of request, such as in response to a questionnaire. A context for the communication may be maintained during the communication and stored thereafter. During subsequent communication, the stored communication may be used to restore the previous context of the previous communication. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TRUSTED SERVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing trusted service management services. According to one embodiment, a system can include at least one service provider gateway operable to receive and transmit messages with multiple service providers; at least one mobile network operator gateway operable to receive and transmit messages with multiple mobile network operators; at least one provisioning gateway operable to transmit mobile device application data with multiple mobile devices and to receive messages from the plurality of mobile devices. The system can further include a processor operable to execute computer-executable instructions to: facilitate service provider communications by providing a common service provider interface for the service providers; facilitate mobile network operator communications by providing a common mobile network operator interface for the mobile network operators; facilitate provisioning multiple mobile device applications with the mobile devices; and facilitate communications with the mobile devices. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250188 | DIGITAL IMAGE COMMUNICATION - A system for enhancing group communication includes a computer server for receiving a first digital from a remote client. The server analyzes the first image to determine one or more first image attributes and communicates the image to one or more recipients. Communication information including image attributes, email addresses, and names of the recipients is stored. When a second image is received the server analyzes it to determine its attributes and forms second image communication information relevant to the second image. The second communication information includes data from the first image communication information, its image attributes, and one or more separate second image recipients. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250189 | TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH NETWORKING MODULE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA USING THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving data includes receiving, via a communication unit of a terminal, at least one of displayable data and soundable data from an external device, wherein the external device includes at least one of a touch-sensitive unit, a first displaying unit and a first speaker, wherein the communication unit connects to the Internet and includes at least one of a cabled communication unit and a wireless communication unit, and wherein the displayable data is displayed on the first displaying unit of the external device, and the soundable data is outputted through the first speaker of the external device, and outputting signals associated with the received at least one of displayable data and soundable data to a connectable output unit, wherein the connectable output unit includes at least one of a second speaker and a second displaying unit. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250190 | TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH NETWORKING MODULE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA USING THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving data includes receiving, via a communication unit of a terminal, at least one of displayable data and soundable data from an external device, wherein the external device includes at least one of a touch-sensitive unit, a first displaying unit and a first speaker, wherein the communication unit connects to the Internet and includes at least one of a cabled communication unit and a wireless communication unit, and wherein the displayable data is displayed on the first displaying unit of the external device, and the soundable data is outputted through the first speaker of the external device, and outputting signals associated with the received at least one of displayable data and soundable data to a connectable output unit, wherein the connectable output unit includes at least one of a second speaker and a second displaying unit. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250191 | NETWORK MANAGER SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Embodiments of a location sharing network manager process are described. The process is executed on a server computer coupled to a plurality of mobile communication devices over a wireless network. Each mobile device is a location-aware mobile communication device. The process determines the geographic location of a mobile communication device operated by a user within an area, displays a map representation of the area around the mobile communication device on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device, and superimposes on the map the respective locations of one or more other trusted users of mobile communication devices coupled to the mobile communication device over the network. A comprehensive network manager process provides management functions to allow communication with mobile phone users outside of the service network and allows for efficient communication with groups of users within the service network. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250192 | CROWDSOURCING USER-PROVIDED IDENTIFIERS AND ASSOCIATING THEM WITH BRAND IDENTITIES - A system and method for crowdsourcing user-provided brand identifiers and distributing content based on crowd-sourced identifiers is provided. Different user-provided brand identifiers are extracted from messages provided by users of a social network. The identifiers are aggregated into two or more aggregate identity groups. When a brand identifier associated with a user request for content is determined to be in at least one of the aggregate identity groups, content items comprising one or more other brand identifiers of the at least one aggregate identity group are provided to the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250193 | GESTURE-BASED CONTENT SHARING - A user selects a content item that he wishes to send. He then performs a gesture to specify a direction toward which the content item is to be sent. For example, he pretends to “throw” his portable communications device toward the West. To receive the content item, potential recipients also make gestures that specify receiving directions. For example, a recipient pretends to “catch” a ball thrown from the East. If the sending and receiving directions are compatible, then the content item is sent from the sender's device to the recipient's device. Enhancements to the basic scheme described above can be made to, for example, specify a dispersion angle for the sending or receiving directions or to include other restrictions so that, for example, only intended recipients can receive the content even if other potential recipients are in the specified sending direction and make appropriate receiving gestures. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250194 | SYNCHRONIZED DATA CHANGES - A method synchronizes data between a first computer and a second computer. An original first data in a first computer is changed into revised first data in the first computer by inserting a data change into the original first data. The data change in the revised first data is identified and transmitted to a second computer in a message. The message instructs the second computer to convert an original second data stored in the second computer into a revised second data by inserting the data change into the original second data, where the original second data and the revised second data are used and managed by a resident application software on the second computer. The message is executable without use of the resident application software on the second computer, thus allowing changes to be made across disparate platforms. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250195 | CHATBOTS - In one aspect, the invention concerns a method of operating a chatbot to engage in a conversation with a correspondent the method comprises building a profile having plural profile variables for the correspondent; and during the conversation with the correspondent; selecting a node in the conversation data structure for processing based on the one or more profile variables, and processing the node to follow a conversation path based on the node's coded instructions and/or relationship with other nodes. In another aspect, the method comprises the steps of attempting to match the conversation data structure of the chatbot; if a matched node is found, selecting the matched node for processing; but if a matched node is not found, selecting a node for processing using a fuzzy search, or using a default procedure. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250196 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND/OR FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION REGARDING, RELATING TO, OR INVOLVING, DEFAMATORY, DEROGATORY, HARRASSING, BULLYING, OR OTHER NEGATIVE OR OFFENSIVE, COMMENTS, STATEMENTS, OR POSTINGS - A computer-implemented method, including storing, in a memory device, information regarding a search request relating to an individual; processing, with a processing device or with a computer, information regarding the search request; performing a search of the Internet or the World Wide Web using the search request; receiving search results obtained from search; generating a search report containing results obtained from the search, wherein the search report contains information regarding at least one comment, statement, or posting, which contains a defamatory, a derogatory, a harassing, a bullying, or other negative or offensive, comment, statement, or posting, about or regarding the individual; generating a notification message; and transmitting the notification message to a communication device associated with the individual. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250197 | CONTENT SERVER, TERMINAL, AND METHOD USING HTTP - The present disclosure relates to a file transfer system, server, terminal, and method using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). A content server uploads a file from a transmitting terminal using an HTTP, and file link information on the uploaded file is transmitted to the transmitting terminal. The transmitting terminal transmits the file link information to a receiving terminal through a message server, and the receiving terminal downloads a corresponding file using the file link information. According to the present disclosure, since the receiving terminal efficiently downloads a file, based on a network environment or a resource state of the receiving terminal. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEBPAGE CREATION AND UPDATING - A computer network system for posting content at a web site includes computer servers configured to host a web site for a group of users, and a data storage configured to store an email address in association with a destination at the website. The computer servers can receive an electronic message at the email address by the computer servers from a user. A computer processor can automatically extract content from the electronic message. The computer servers can automatically post the content extracted from the electronic message at the destination at the website. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250199 | Method and System for Directly Targeting and Blasting Messages to Automatically Identified Entities on Social Media - Some embodiments provide a communication tool that directly sends messages to accounts of different entities across different social media sites by automatically identifying and associating the accounts of the entities when the entities are referenced in the contents of the messages. Such identification and association is performed without the message originator manually specifying the accounts as intended recipients for the messages. The communication tool also automatically sends messages to different social media accounts of the message originator. The communication tool also blasts messages to an information aggregator that aggregates messages to develop a database from which the messages that target a particular entity can be presented irrespective of whether the particular entity has registered an account with any social media site, irrespective of which social media site the messages are originally destined for, and irrespective of whether a recipient is explicitly specified for the messages by the message originator. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250200 | USING BIOSENSORS FOR SHARING EMOTIONS VIA A DATA NETWORK SERVICE - Mobile electronic communication devices upload input data to a server via a data network. The data uploaded per device is indicative of a physiological or emotional state of the device's user, and of the user's geographical location. The server generates output data per individual user under combined control of the emotional state and geographic location of the individual user. The output data associated with multiple users is rendered as graphical symbols at one or more display monitors, thus being indicative of the geographical distribution of emotions of the population of users. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250201 | Network Support Node Traffic Reduction for Self-Organizing Networks - Described herein are techniques for limiting transmission of plurality of messages from one or more self-organizing network (SON) tools to a network support node based at least in part on performance information and on either or both of priorities associated with the plurality of messages or priorities associated with the SON tool(s). The performance information is associated with performance of a network support node. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250202 | PEER-TO-PEER INTERRUPT SIGNALING BETWEEN DEVICES COUPLED VIA INTERCONNECTS - Methods and apparatus to provide peer-to-peer interrupt signaling between devices coupled via one or more interconnects are described. In one embodiment, a NIC (Network Interface Card such as a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capable NIC) transfers data directly into or out of the memory of a peer device that is coupled to the NIC via one or more interconnects, bypassing a host computing/processing unit and/or main system memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250203 | CROSS-PLATFORM DOCUMENT EXCHANGE USING MOBILE DEVICES - Document exchange is disclosed between a computer and a portable device equipped with camera functionality, memory storage, network interface, and appropriate software. An image of a computer screen is captured by the portable device. The computer screen is displaying a document intended for exchanging. The portable device examines the image to identify marking indicia that provides location information about the document. When such marking indicia is found, it is translated and used to transmit a request for a copy to the computer where the document is stored. On receipt of the request, the computer transmits the copy to the portable device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250204 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL JOINING - Methods for establishing connection to the Internet using multiple channels. A device takes advantage of several channels available to it internally and/or from neighboring devices to request the various resources of the webpage, and assembles the webpage using the resources arriving from the different channels. When a device has the ability to connect to the Internet using multiple internal channels, the device uses internal heuristics to request the webpage resources using these channels. A cloud exit server may be used to enhance security and to handle requests that may not be handled using multiple channels. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250205 | Test management - A method and a computing resource ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140250206 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENTS, METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS, CONTENTS DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTENTS PROVIDING DEVICE - Methods and devices for displaying content are provided. A method for displaying content includes: receiving the content from a server and displaying the received content; and, in response to a request by an external device distinct from the server, transmitting display time information of the displayed content to the external device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250207 | PROXY DEVICE RECEIVING SPECIFIC DATA FROM INSTRUCTION DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO TRANSMITTED RESPONSE DATA AND TRANSMITTING SPECIFIC DATA TO OUTPUTTING DEVICE - In a proxy device, an acquiring unit acquires one of outputting-device-identification data and instruction-device-identification data from a storing unit. The storing unit stores the outputting-device-identification data associated with the instruction-device-identification data. A first determining unit determines whether the acquired outputting-device-identification data is associated with the received instruction-device-identification data. A first transmitting unit transmits the received instruction data to the particular outputting device. A second receiving unit receives response data from the outputting device. A second transmitting unit transmits the received response data to the instruction device from which the received instruction data is transmitted. A third receiving unit receives specific data that is transmitted from the instruction device. The specific data is one of output data based on which the outputting device outputs an image and location data indicating a location of the output data. A third transmitting unit transmits the received specific data to the outputting device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250208 | GROUPING PERSONAL PLAYLISTS INTO BUDDY LIST USED TO MODIFY A MEDIA STREAM - Illustrated is a system and method comprising a plurality of personal playlists, grouped to form a buddy list, the buddy list disposed on a remote storage device. The system and method further comprises logic, which when executed at the remote storage device that streams media content to at least one user device based upon a streaming media playlist. Additionally, the system and method is executed to provide access to the streaming media playlist to the at least one user device. Moreover, the system and method is executed to permit modification of the streaming media playlist by the at least one user device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250209 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WEB SERVICE IN AN NRT SERVICE AND A BROADCAST RECEIVER - A method of processing a web service in a Non-Real Time (NRT) service and the broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of providing an NRT service in a broadcasting receiver may include receiving first signaling information, identifying whether a service type of an NRT service is a web service based upon the first signaling information, identifying a web page type and a web page version of the NRT service and browsing the NRT service. The method may further include connecting a service signaling channel, parsing the received first signaling information, determining whether the NRT service is supported in the broadcasting receiver and consuming the web contents of the NRT service. The NRT service may include at least one of a fixed NRT service and a mobile NRT service. The first signaling information may be a data casting description table (DDT) if the NRT service is the fixed NRT service. The first signaling information may be a service map table (SMT) if the NRT service is the mobile NRT service. The DDT may include a first field identifying the NRT service and a second field identifying a type of the NRT service. The type of the web service may include at least one of a web document of text HTML and a web document of CE-HTML. The third field and the fourth field may be valid if the type of the received service is the web service based upon the second field. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250210 | SYSTEM FOR DELAYED VIDEO VIEWING - The disclosure concerns methods of playback of a video stream comprising: receiving from a first user device ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140250211 | CONTAINERIZED SOFTWARE FOR VIRALLY COPYING FROM ONE ENDPOINT TO ANOTHER - A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. The method includes receiving, at one or more servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250212 | CONTEXTUALLY AWARE CLIENT BUFFER THRESHOLDS - Client buffer thresholds are dynamically adjusted to provide quick start up and smooth playback in a variety of network conditions. In some examples, multiple buffer configurations are available. An initial buffer configuration may be used in typical circumstances and will yield good behavior in most cases. A modified buffer configuration can be used when limited available network resources prevent smooth playback. In some embodiments, a client buffer configuration is continuously adapted based on network throughput and data transfer rates. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250213 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device including a registration unit that registers an IP address of the communication device and a method information including a first method information indicating a first setting method for setting a dynamic IP address and a second method information indicating a second setting method for setting a static IP address. The registration unit includes a change unit that changes registered contents of a memory in accordance with a user's instruction. When the first method information and a first IP address are registered in the memory, the change unit does not change the method information in the memory from the first method information to the second method information in a case where a method change instruction for changing the first setting method to the second setting method is given by the user under a state where the first IP address has not been changed to another IP address. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250214 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, PROGRAM-COOPERATIVE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A computer system comprises at least one computer having at least one input-output interface that is connectable to at least one external device, at least one storage apparatus having at least one storage area, and a management computer having a computer management part and a storage management part. The computer management part includes a configuration information acquisition part, an allocation control part, and a storage management cooperation part. The allocation control part outputs, as at least one allocation candidate, at least one input-output interface connected to the at least one storage apparatus among the at least one input-output interface of a new computer, and receives at least one input-output interface selected by a user. The storage management part makes it possible to access, from the at least one input-output interface of which the storage management part is notified, the at least one storage area. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250215 | CONFIGURATION AND VERIFICATION BY TRUSTED PROVIDER - A computing resource is loaded with the code or data, and an audited record of the loaded code or data is generated. Furthermore, a configuration integrity is generated based on the record of the loaded code or data. The configuration integrity verifier is sent to a requestor for verification of the code or data, the configuration integrity verifier being usable as a trusted verification of the loaded code or data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250216 | Controlling Registration Floods In VOIP Networks Via DNS - A mechanism controls global synchronization, or registration floods, that may result when a large number of endpoints in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network such as an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) come online simultaneously after a catastrophic failure. The mechanism allows the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure to efficiently control the overload condition by registering user end points with backup border elements, and by staggering and by randomizing the time-to-live (TTL) parameter in registrations with backup border elements. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250217 | Interfaces To Manage Direct Network Peerings - Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage direct network peerings. A system may include a data center, endpoint routers and a connectivity coordinator. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request for dedicated connectivity to data center resources, formatted according to the interface. The coordinator selects a target endpoint router at which to establish a physical link to implement the dedicated connectivity, and transmits a response identifying the target endpoint router and including configuration instructions for setting up a physical link for the dedicated connectivity. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250218 | ADVANCED DETERMINATION, PROCESSING AND CONTROL IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method is carried out by at least one network node in a communication network. The method includes determining, from received packets, at least one characteristic of at least one end user device connected, through an end user communication terminal, to the communication network. The determining procedure includes inspecting at least one of (a) layer n control information of the received packets, wherein n is an integer one of equal to and larger than 3, and (b) the received packets' payload encapsulated by layer 7 control information. The layer level is an OSI layer in an OSI reference model. The invention also relates to network nodes and computer programs. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250219 | SYNCHRONIZING TRANSLATED DIGITAL CONTENT - Aspects of the present disclosure relate to one or more configured computing systems identifying when content includes a base content and a translated content that can be synchronously presented. Once a content match is identified, a device to receive synchronization information can also be identified. The synchronization information can enable one or more devices to synchronously present translated content while consuming a base content. For example, an English language audio book may be output synchronously with a Spanish language eBook. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250220 | Optimizing Handling of Virtual Machine Mobility in Data Center Environments - Techniques are provided for sending address information of virtual machines to a physical switch. A migration of a virtual machine to a physical server is detected. The physical server obtains address information of the virtual machine, and upon obtaining the address information of the virtual machine, the physical server sends the address information to a first physical switch that is connected to the physical server. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250221 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Detecting Communication Anomalies in a Network Based on Overlap Between Sets of Users Communicating with Entities in the Network - Anomalies are detected in a network by detecting communication between a plurality of entities and a set of users in the network, determining an overlap between subsets of the set of users that the entities comprising the plurality of entities communicated with, respectively, and determining whether the communication between the plurality of entities and the set of users is anomalous based on the overlap. | 2014-09-04 |