39th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150271263 | COLLECTING APPLICATION SHARING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for collecting users' application sharing information. The method comprises: receiving a request from a first user for sharing a first application; generating information regarding the first user sharing the first application; transmitting the information regarding the first user sharing the first application; receiving a result of sharing of the first application, such that the first application shared by the first user may provide an extra function to the first user according to the result of sharing of the first application. According to the present invention, relevant information regarding sharing an application through an SNS website, a forum or even between mobile terminals can be collected, such that the shared application may provide an extra function to the sharer based on the result of sharing of the application. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271264 | Service Processing Method and Device - The embodiments of the present document disclose a service processing method and device, wherein the method includes: converting formats of service instructions received from multiple interfaces of a terminal to a uniform format recognizable by the terminal; and scheduling the converted service instructions according to a preset policy. According to the embodiments of the present document, the problem occurring when a multi-interface terminal utilizes multiple interfaces in related art is solved, multiple interfaces of the terminal is efficiently used to provide services to subscribers at the same time, and meanwhile the technical support is supplied to cooperative work of multiple terminals to serve subscribers. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271265 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE, DATA RECEIVING SYSTEM AND DATA RECEIVING METHOD - The data transfer device receives file data through a network and writes the file data to a storage device on a block basis, in which the communication processor receives a receiving instruction for the file data from an external host CPU and receives the file data via one or more packets from the network according to the receiving instruction, the receiving buffer stores data received in the communication processor therein upon receiving each packet, and the command issuance controller acquires, from the external host CPU, map information indicating a position to write the file data in a storage area of the storage device, specifies data in the receiving buffer for writing according to a data storing status of the receiving buffer, issues a write command for writing a specified data to the storage device and sends it to the storage device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271266 | URBAN MOBILE NETWORK SYSTEM - An embodiment of a mobile communication system includes a plurality of mobile units operating within a defined operating area, each of the mobile units having a processor, a memory for storing a mobile unit file structure, an application running on the processor for operating on the mobile unit file structure, and a receiver for receiving on a common receive communication channel data. The mobile communication system further includes a plurality of geolocation markers disposed within the defined operating area, each having a memory for storing geolocation information to define a relative position within the defined operating area, and a geolocation transmitter for transmitting the defined geolocation information on the common receive communication channel, the geolocation transmitter having a geolocation transmit range less than the defined operating area. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271267 | CONTENT-ORIENTED FEDERATED OBJECT STORE - A content-oriented federated object store facilitates processing queries on metadata from a collection of content objects. During operation, the system can receive, from a first entity, a query that includes one or more search parameters. The first entity can include a local application, or a peer network device. The system can analyze a local metadata repository to search for metadata entries that satisfy the query, such that the metadata repository can include metadata entries for a plurality of content objects. The system can also issue the query to a remote network device, to obtain search results from a metadata repository at the remote network device, or at a device accessible from the remote network device. If the system obtains a set of search results from the local metadata repository or from a remote metadata repository, the system returns the set of search results to the first entity. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271268 | VIRTUAL CUSTOMER NETWORKS AND DECOMPOSITION AND VIRTUALIZATION OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION LAYER FUNCTIONALITY - Aggregate functionality associated with multiple network communication layers may be decomposed and respective functionality associated with different network communication layers may be implemented on different devices. One or more aspects of respective functionality associated with a particular network communication layer may be virtualized based on the decomposition of the aggregate functionality. Virtual customer networks may be established for providing network-based services to a subscriber of an access network. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271269 | INCREASED INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS AND HARDWARE FUNCTIONS - The invention is directed to increasing interoperability between web-based applications and hardware functions of a mobile device. The invention includes a thick-client hardware compatibility wrapper (HCW), which renders web-based applications and manages communication between hardware functionality and the web-based application. Specifically, the HCW monitors the web-based application and identifies commands to the hardware components of the mobile device. These commands are interpreted by the HCW, which then uses native calls to perform the hardware-specific activities. The HCW is also capable of calling functions on a webpage within the web-based application in response to query commands to the web-based application or in response to hardware events from the hardware components. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271270 | TUNNEL BROKER IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A computer device includes logic configured to implement a tunnel broker. The tunnel broker is configured to receive a request from a client device for a service in a system, the service having a requested service property; select a first node in the system that hosts a first service instance having the requested service property; and establish a communication tunnel with a first end at the client device and a second end at the selected first node. The tunnel broker is further configured to determine that the first node no longer hosts the first service instance having the requested service property or that the first node has become unreachable; select a second node in the system that hosts a second service instance having the requested service property; and move the second end of the communication tunnel from the first node to the second node. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING DYNAMIC REST MESSAGES WITH WEB-SOCKETS - A system and method thereof of a communication device that uses dynamic REST messages with Web sockets. The device includes a port configured to transmit and receive a data stream via a persistent stateless connection. The device includes a memory for storing a dynamic REST API model. The device includes a processor configured to connect to a second communication device over the persistent stateless connection. The processor formats a request message with the stored dynamic REST API model to produce a self-describing request message. The processor causes the self-describing request message to be transmitted over the port. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MESSAGE ROUTING USING NAME-BASED IDENTIFIER IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of routing messages in a distributed computing environment is provided. The method includes providing a platform server, a set of intermediary servers, and a set of edge servers, collectively defining a network. The method includes binding, at the platform server, at a first instance, the end-point device to the platform server wherein the platform server binds, at the first instance, the end-point device using a non-addressable name value associated to the end-point device. The binding associates a first path across the network. The method includes communicating a first message to the end-point device along the first path. Method includes rebinding, at the platform server, at a second instance, the end-point device to the platform server, where the rebinding uses the non-addressable name value and associates a second path across the network. The method includes communicating a second message to the end-point device along the second path. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271273 | System for Using a Device as a Side Car - A system for sharing a communications session between multiple devices is disclosed. The system may receive a first request to establish the communications session from a first device associated with a user. The system may establish the communications session for the first device associated with the user in response to the first request. Additionally, the system may receive, from a second device associated with the first user, a second request to join the communications session. Furthermore, the system may join the second device to the communications session if the first request and the second request include a common identifier for the first user. Moreover, the system may transmit instructions for causing communications associated with the first device to be presented on a user interface of the second device during the communications session. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271274 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING TRANSFER OF COLLABORATIVE SESSION CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - A method for performing an inter-user equipment (UE) transfer (IUT) of a collaborative session. The method according to one embodiment is performed by a UE and includes transmitting a subscription message to a network element for requesting notification of information regarding at least one or more other UEs; receiving a subscription acceptance message in response to the subscription message; and receiving a notification message. The notification message includes the information regarding the at least one or more other UEs and a controller UE capability of controlling the collaborative session. The method according to the embodiment further includes performing a process of transferring control with respect to the collaborative session established with a remote party to a specific UE, which is checked as capable of being a controller UE based on the received information, without transferring the collaborative session to the specific UE. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271275 | SESSION RESTORATION METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM - The invention provides a session restoration method, device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a standby PCRF, a CCR-U message sent by a PCEF, where the CCR-U message is sent by the PCEF after determining that a session needs to be updated; and according to the CCR-U message, re-establishing, by the standby PCRF, a session and making a PCC policy decision. According to embodiments of the present invention, signaling interaction overheads can be reduced, and a signaling processing capability of a standby PCRF can be improved. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271276 | CAPABILITY MONITORING IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A system includes a first service registry that includes a first list of services available in a first one or more nodes of the system and a second service registry that includes a second list of services available in a second one or more nodes of the system, wherein the second service registry is connected to the first service registry. The system further includes a service manager configured to manage a capability of the system, which is realized through a set of one or more services; connect to the first service registry; receive a notification, from the first service registry, indicating a change in the second list of services included in the second service registry; and initiate deployment of a new service for the capability, or locate a deployed instance of the new service in the system, in response to receiving the notification. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271278 | DISPLAY DEVICE CONNECTED TO NETWORK, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display device includes: a storage unit, a reception unit, a comparison unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores preregistered position information. The reception unit receives position information sent from a terminal device. The comparison unit compares the received position information with the stored position information. The control unit displays display information on a display unit on the basis of a result of the comparison made by the comparison unit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271279 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING - A communication system ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150271280 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE SERVER PLACEMENT DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatus for determining recommended geographic server locations for online social networks by attempting to minimize user-server latency and inter-user communications latency. In an embodiment, geographic and relationship information for a plurality of users is acquired. The plurality of users may belong to one or more networks. The acquired information is transformed into a graph. A first plurality of clusters is generated with a first clustering algorithm. A second plurality of clusters is generated by iteratively examining pairs of the first plurality clusters, and swapping nodes between the examined clusters if it will reduce a total cut weight of the graph and locate each pair of nodes within a defined maximum distance from the centroid of the target cluster. In an embodiment, a method uses a joint analysis approach based upon characteristics of a plurality of existing networks. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271281 | METHOD, SERVER AND AGENT FOR MONITORING USER INTERACTION PATTERNS - The present invention relates to method performed by an analysis server for monitoring user interaction patterns in client applications interfacing a server. The present invention further relates to an analysis server for performing the method. The present invention further relates to an agent executing on a client computing device for identifying and transferring analysis data to the analysis server. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271282 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACTIVITY-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Embodiments of computer-implemented methods and systems for activity-based recommendations are described. One example embodiment includes receiving data indicating historical activities of a user community, the historical activities including historical activities of the target user, selecting a reference group of users from the user community based on analysis of the historical activities of the target user, receiving generally current time activities of the reference group of users, the generally current time activities including those activities that have occurred within a defined time window, and recommending items to the target user based on the generally current time activities of the reference group of users. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271283 | CONSOLIDATED NETWORK REPOSITORY (CNR) - An architecture that can facilitate support for or integration of disparate communications networks. The architecture can embody a consolidated network repository (CNR) that can be configured as a single logical repository that can potentially be configured according to a common schema regardless of the type or number of schema employed by the disparate communications networks. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271284 | Local Data Caching for Data Transfers on a Network of Computational Devices - In accordance with some embodiments, a computational machine having one or more processors, a local cache and memory receives from a first machine a data request that is used to request specific data. The computational machine determines whether the computational machine stores the specific data in the local cache. In accordance with a determination that the computational machine does not store the specific data in the local cache, the computational machine responds to the data request by passing the data request to a second machine and returning the specific data to the first machine when the second machine returns the specific data to the computational machine. Additionally, the computational machine determines whether to store the returned specific data in the local cache according to a data caching method. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271285 | Data Caching and Distribution in a Local Network - A data caching and distribution method, performed by a plurality of in a linear communication orbit, includes generating a data request by a first machine to request specific data, and passing the data request along a data request path that tracks the linear communication orbit until the request is received at a second machine, in the linear communication orbit, that returns the specific data in response to the data request. The method includes, at a third machine between the second machine and the first machine in the linear communication orbit, conditionally storing the specific data in a local cache of the third machine according to a data caching method. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271286 | Data Transmission - Embodiments of this disclosure belong to the data processing field and disclose a method and apparatus for data transmission. The method comprises sending a first request to a server in response to a first file locally cached having expired. The first request is for obtaining a first file in a new version, and the first request containing a first version identifier. The first version identifier being for indicating a version of the first file locally cached. Receiving a first response includes difference information and a second version identifier. The difference information makes it possible to obtain the first file in the new version based on the first file locally cached, and the second version identifier is for indicating the new version. The first file in the new version is obtained based on the difference information and the first file locally cached. Using the technical solution provided by the present embodiment(s), pressures on network transmission are reduced. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271287 | ALLOCATING NETWORK BANDWIDTH TO PREFETCH REQUESTS TO PREFETCH DATA FROM A REMOTE STORAGE TO CACHE IN A LOCAL STORAGE - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for allocating network bandwidth to prefetch requests to prefetch data from a remote storage to cache in a local storage. A determination is made of access rates for applications accessing a plurality of files, wherein the access rate is based on a rate of application access of the file over a period of time. A determination is made of an access rate weight for each of the files based on the access rates of the plurality of files. The determined access rate weight for each of the files is used to determine network bandwidth to assign to access the files from the remote storage to store in the local storage. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271288 | CONTROLLING THE PRE-DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for controlling pre-delivery of content to user devices, such as mobile devices, from remote content servers (e.g., content delivery nodes over a network) are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods receive an indication that a content item at a remote content server is available for pre-delivery to a mobile device over a mobile network, determine the mobile device is associated with sufficient content delivery credit to pre-deliver at least a fraction of the content item to the mobile device, and cause the at least fraction of the content item to be pre-delivered to the mobile device based on the determination. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271289 | DETERMINING REPUTATIONS OF USERS BASED ON ENDORSEMENTS - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271290 | PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS TO DEVICES BASED ON REAL-TIME CONDITIONS RELATED TO AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE - A system and method for providing notifications is described. The system accesses a notification database that stores a plurality of notification entries. Each notification entry includes notification text, location information, and condition information. For each of a plurality of devices, information is received that includes a current location of that device and a current status associated with that device. At least one device is determined to meet the condition information of a notification entry based on the received information. A notification corresponding to the notification entry is transmitted to the at least one device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271291 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL CONTENT TO THE USER OF THE INTERNET NETWORK - A system comprises a routing module ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150271292 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To improve convenience in use of a web service in a secure communication environment, an information processing apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert a communication request according to a first format into a communication request according to a second format, a request transmission unit configured to transmit the communication request according to the second format that is converted by the conversion unit, a response reception unit configured to receive a communication response according to the second format returned in response to the communication request according to the second format transmitted by the request transmission unit, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a communication response according to the first format converted from the communication response according to the second format received by the response reception unit as a response to the communication request according to the first format. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271293 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION SHARING METHOD - A terminal device includes: an output unit which outputs a terminal identification image including first terminal identification information used to identify an own terminal device; a display unit which displays a list of one or more other terminal devices acquiring the terminal identification information; and a data transmission unit which executes processing of transmitting data to another terminal device selected from the list. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271294 | SOCKET PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE AND WEB SERVER - The method for processing a Socket is applied in a Web server. The Web server is based on a platform for providing an asynchronous unblocking-mode Socket. The method includes: monitoring a client request of a port of the Web server; according to the monitored client request, registering a Socket event through an asynchronous selection operation; judging whether the Socket event is a READ event and/or a WRITE event, to obtain a judgment result; when the judgment result indicates that the Socket event is a READ event and/or a WRITE event, starting timing; and when the timing reaches a preset threshold and the Web task does not receive a first semaphore sent by a Socket underlying layer, sending a second semaphore to the Web task, so that the Web task can be activated, and a corresponding procedure is processed according to the Socket event. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INJECTING STATES INTO MESSAGE ROUTING IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of operating resources within a distributed computing environment. The resources include a platform server and intermediate servers where each of the intermediate servers connects and maintains a persistent connection to the platform server a number of edge servers. The method includes injecting state identifier information into service requests from a given edge server to the intermediate server and transmitting the service request to the platform server. The method includes receiving a response message from the platform server where the message includes the state identifier. The method includes using the state identifier to route the message to the given edge server. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271296 | Enterprise Application Store for an Orchestration Framework for Connected Devices - Aspects described herein allow multiple devices to function as a coherent whole, allowing each device to take on distinct functions that are complementary to one another. Aspects described herein also allow the devices function as a coherent whole when interconnected devices and their respective applications are configured to operate in various operation modes, when management policies are employed to control the operation of the interconnected devices and their respective applications, when transferring content between the interconnected devices and storing the content at those devices, when obtaining access credentials for the interconnected devices that enable the devices to access enterprise resources, when a policy agent applies management policies to control operation of and interaction between the interconnected devices, and when the interconnected devices are used to access an enterprise application store. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271297 | BROADCASTING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION USING FOUNTAIN CODES - Technologies for broadcasting management information include a management server and a number of client devices. The management server encodes management data such as a certificate revocation list into a number of message fragments using a fountain code encoding algorithm and broadcasts the message fragments continually over a network. Each client device analyzes the network during a boot process to receive the broadcast message fragments. Each client device decodes the message fragments using a fountain code decoding algorithm and determines whether the message is complete. If the message is complete, the client device parses the message to retrieve the management data and may install the management data on the client device. If the message is incomplete, the client device may store the message fragments in nonvolatile storage for processing during future boot events. The client device may perform those operations in a pre-boot firmware environment. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271298 | REDUCED LATENCY MEDIA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A system for distributing audio or video data across a network, wherein an input data rate controller at a server controls the transmission rate to a client such that it matches the intended rendering rate of the data, and time stamps the data using a clock that is synchronized with the clock of the client. The client monitors the rate at which data is received, compares the rate against the rate at which the data is actually rendered, and adjusts the rate at which the data is actually rendered depending on the comparison. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271299 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ABSTRACTING COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL USING SELF-DESCRIBING MESSAGES - A system and method for abstracting communication protocol using self-describing messages. The method includes providing a first communication protocol having control codes and binary messages having a self-describing schema of a data object model. The method includes providing a second communication protocol where instances of the second communication protocol are associatively mapped to the instances of the first communication protocol. The method includes receiving a message in the second communication protocol. The method includes classifying the message as being either a control message or a data message and translating it to a second message where upon the message has been classified as a control message, the processor maps the control message to one or more control codes and where upon the message has been classified as a data message, the processor maps the data message to a corresponding binary message having the self-describing schema. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271300 | REDISTRIBUTION OF OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE REDEPLOYMENT OF GRID CLIENTS - A client-server network environment is temporarily transformed into a grid computing environment through the deployment of a network -booted grid operating system to each of a plurality of network clients. Each participating client operates in the client-server mode under a local operating system. At an appropriate time, a server transmits to each client a thin-client boot image (a dynamically built customized image or an image obtained from a store of predefined boot images) along with a grid application for which the thin-client has been optimized for peak performance. Each client re-boots using the thin-client image, thereby entering the grid mode and executing the grid application. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MESSAGE ROUTING VIA CONNECTION SERVERS IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of message routing messages via connections in a distributed computing environment. The method includes providing a platform server, a set of intermediary servers, and a set of edge servers. The method includes receiving, by a port at the platform server, a first data message from a first end-point device over a first persistent connection. The message has been routed through a an intermediate server over a second persistent connection. The method includes receiving a second data message from a second end-point device over a third persistent connection where the second data message has been routed through another intermediate server over a fourth persistent connection. The method includes servicing, by a processor at the platform server, the first data message and the second data message where the intermediate servers manage connectivity between the end-point devices and the platform servers. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271302 | TRANSPORT ACCELERATOR IMPLEMENTING CLIENT SIDE TRANSMISSION FUNCTIONALITY - Transport accelerator (TA) systems and methods for accelerating transmission of content from a user agent (UA) of a user device to a remote recipient are provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure. Embodiments comprise a TA architecture implementing a connection manager (CM) and a request manager (RM). A RM of embodiments subdivides fragments of content provided by the UA into a plurality of content chunks, each fragment may be subdivided into multiple content chunks. The RM of embodiments provides content chunks to a connection manager (CM) of the TA for transmitting the content chunks. The CM of embodiments transmits the content chunks via a plurality of connections established between the CM and the remote recipient. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271303 | MULTIPLE LEVELS OF LOGICAL ROUTERS - Some embodiments provide a managed network for implementing a logical network for a tenant. The managed network includes a first set of host machines and a second set of host machines. The first set of host machines is for hosting virtual machines (VMs) for the logical network. Each of the first set of host machines operates a managed forwarding element that implements a first logical router for the tenant logical network and a second logical router to which the first logical router connects. The implementation of the second logical router is for processing packets entering and exiting the tenant logical network. The second set of host machines is for hosting L3 gateways for the second logical router. The L3 gateways connect the tenant logical network to at least one external network. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271304 | SEPARATION AND ISOLATION OF MULTIPLE NETWORK STACKS IN A NETWORK ELEMENT - Separating and isolating multiple network stacks in a network element may enable a network element to simultaneously operate within multiple forwarding planes respectively corresponding to the multiple network stacks. In addition to the network stack, other protocols and routing tools may also be instantiated for each desired forwarding plane. The different instantiations of the network stacks may be executed in parallel in respective memory spaces that are distinct and separate. In this manner, each forwarding plane may operate independently on the network element from other forwarding planes. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271305 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device of the present invention includes a first flat section which is positioned on a back surface side of a flat-type device body, a second flat section which openably and closably covers a front surface of the device body, and a coupling section which couples the first flat section and the second flat section together such that the first flat section and the second flat section are foldable. The first flat section has a first folding section provided in parallel with the coupling section, and the second flat section has a second folding section provided in parallel with the coupling section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271306 | INTEGRATED MOBILE PHONE CASE AND LIGHTER COMPARTMENT - An integrated cell phone case and lighter comprises a phone casing, a bottom backing and a removable lighter and is sized and shaped to be placed on over a conventional cell phone in a manner such that it substantially covers the cell phone on all sides except for the side with the touch screen. The phone casing is a viscoelastic body that includes a phone holding level for holding a cell phone and a lighter holding level adapted to enable a lighter to be stored in a the lighter holding compartment thereon. The bottom backing is a rigid shell which is sized to fit over the combined cell phone and phone casing assembly. The removable lighter is defined by a battery operated, butane refillable lighter in a modified rectangular exterior that includes side recesses and a finger gripping. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271307 | Modular Device and Methods Therefor | 2015-09-24 |
20150271308 | DEVICE ARRANGEMENT - A device arrangement may include an inner casing. The inner casing may include an inner casing base and an inner casing cover defining a cavity therebetween. The cavity may receive an electronic device. The inner casing base may have a first viewing window. A window pane may be composed of a transparent material and be attached to at least one of the electronic device and the inner casing. The window pane may at least partially seal the first viewing window. An outer casing may at least partially encase the inner casing. The inner casing may be mounted on the outer casing via a suspension/damping device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271309 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR ATTACHMENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - The systems and methods of the present invention allow a radio communications device to attach to a mobile device via a protective case, the protective case housing the radio device and mobile device. When interconnected with the radio device, the mobile device may use Software Defined Radio capabilities to direct the radio device to perform a number of operations. For example, the mobile device may direct the radio device to receive weather information to be displayed on the mobile device, to act as a radio scanner, to provide two-way radio communications with a separate radio device, and/or to record the aforementioned communications on the mobile device. Moreover, the mobile device, acting through the radio device, may increase the power output efficiency of the interconnected devices. The mobile device may further identify a whitespace channel through which radio communications may be facilitated. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271310 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A terminal device includes: a determination unit that determines whether a user intends to use a non-contact reception function based on information indicating a state of a terminal device to output a determination result; and a display unit that displays a mark to be used for alignment between the terminal device and the opposed device based on the determination result. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271311 | Independent Smart Headset Networked Via Wireless Mobile Telecommunications Technology - The present invention relates to an independent smart headset apparatus networked via mobile wireless technology. The apparatus may comprise of a host portion and a headset portion. The host portion can include, among other things, a printed circuit board, a tactile sensor board, a user interface, a power source, a memory card, a wireless mobile telecommunications (e.g., 3G or 4G) module, a wireless local area network (e.g., WiFi) module, and a wireless data exchange (e.g., Bluetooth®) module. The headset portion can include a tactile sensor device, a matching wireless data exchange (e.g., Bluetooth®) module, a power source, a left earshell, a right earshell, a microphone (MIC), and an audio cable interface. The independent smart headset apparatus can also utilize a mobile operating system (e.g., Android™). The present invention improves over the current generation of music listening and socializing devices that require multiple independent devices. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271312 | Motion to Connect to Kiosk - A user may associate an electronic device such as a smartphone with a public device by imitating a pattern for a target with a gesture of the mobile device. The physical movement of the smartphone may be compared to the movement data for the target. If there is a match, the public device and the electronic device may be associated with one another. The association may allow a user to interact with the public device using the smartphone. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271313 | USING A VOICEMAIL SYSTEM - A method and system for using a voicemail system. A command is received, from a first telephone device connected to the voicemail system after a call from a second telephone device was received by the first telephone device,. The command is for the voicemail system to pause a process of recording a voicemail message being spoken by a user using the first telephone device. In response to the receiving the command, the voicemail system is directed to pause the process of recording the voicemail message, which results in the process of recording the voicemail message being paused by a pause/resume invocation system that is remote to the voicemail system. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271314 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVING APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING TWO DIFFERENT RADIO WAVE INTENSITIES - A radio wave receiver that receives two different sets of radio waves and displays intensity of the received radio waves. First and second radio wave processing portions receive respective radio waves and output various kinds of information, such as video information and audio information. A switching portion receives output signals from the first and second radio wave processing portions, and switches the output signals according to a switching instruction of a controller to supply the output signals to a display portion and a speaker. The controller causes the intensities of the received radio waves in respective tuners of the first and second radio wave processing portions to be displayed simultaneously or in a switching manner based on a user's operation irrespective of which tuner's received radio waves are being processed. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271315 | ACCESSING IN CASE OF EMERGENCY INFORMATION IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of accessing In Case of Emergency ICE information in a mobile entity ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150271316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A method of providing content in a terminal includes obtaining a first message that is input through a user interface of the terminal that is provided by a messaging application that executes a messaging service in the terminal; generating content based on the first message, and a second message stored in the terminal; and providing the generated content via the terminal. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271317 | HYBRID TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK CONNECTION INDICATOR - A mobile device having capabilities to access connections to cellular and Wi-Fi portions of a hybrid telecommunications network is configured to display a variety of different icons that graphically indicate a current connection status for both data usage and voice calling on a graphical user interface (GUI). A user can put the GUI into an expanded state to show additional information about the connection status including textual descriptions of icons to instruct the user as to the specific meaning of a given icon. The textual descriptions enable an association between the iconography and the connection state to be established for the user. The icons can then quickly and effectively convey connection state to the user in a comprehensive manner while efficiently using the available display space on the device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271318 | EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF 4G LTE CAPABILITIES - A mobile device executes a background process under an on demand model that queries a remote service exposed by a mobile broadband network to receive status updates as to the capabilities of devices, such as the ability to stream video, that are associated with contacts that are stored on the mobile device. When a mobile device user invokes an action like using a dialer application that causes a contact to be displayed on the device's user interface (UI) such as in a contact card or contact list format, the background process immediately retrieves status for that contact card or list. While waiting for the status retrieval to complete, the background process will trigger the display of a temporary UI on the mobile device which can show either unknown capabilities status or show the most recently retrieved status that is read out of a cache. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271319 | Call log for a Hand Held Communication Device Simultaneously Displaying Most Frequent and Most Recent Communications - A method of implementing a communication log for a hand held communication device is provided. The hand held communication device comprises a transceiver for wireless communication, a central processing unit and a display. A plurality of communication incidents of the communication device is logged. A recent communication incident log is determined. The recent communication incident log comprises information regarding the most recent communication incidents of the communication device (CI). A most frequent communication incident log is determined, wherein the most frequent communication incident log comprises information regarding the sender or receiver of the most frequent communication incidents (MF). A combined communication log is generated (CCI). The combined communication log comprises a portion of items relating to the recent communication incident log and a portion of items relating to the most frequent communication incident log. A first number of items of the combined communication log corresponds to the first N items of the recent communication incident log and a second number of items of the combined communication log corresponds to the first M items of the most frequent communication incident log. The combined communication log (CCI) is displayed on the display enabling a user of the communication device to select an item from the combined communication log to initiate a communication based on the selected communication incident. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271320 | MOBILE PHONE - A mobile phone is disclosed. The mobile phone includes a touch panel, a correspondence execution determination part, and a correspondence selection part. The correspondence execution determination part determines whether or not to correspond with respect to an incoming call from other telephone, in response to an input from the touch panel. The correspondence selection part, when the correspondence execution determination part determines to correspond with respect to the incoming call from the other telephone, in response to the input from the touch panel, selects to at least answer the incoming call or ignore the incoming call. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271321 | MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATION ANALYZER & LOGGER - In one aspect, the present invention facilitates the investigation of networks of criminals, by gathering associations between phone numbers, the names of persons reached at those phone numbers, and voice print data. In another aspect the invention automatically detects phone calls from a prison where the voiceprint of the person called matches the voiceprint of a past inmate. In another aspect the invention detects identity scams in prisons, by monitoring for known voice characteristics of likely imposters on phone calls made by prisoners. In another aspect, the invention automatically does speech-to-text conversion of phone numbers spoken within a predetermined time of detecting data indicative of a three-way call event while monitoring a phone call from a prison inmate. In another aspect, the invention automatically thwarts attempts of prison inmates to use re-dialing services. In another aspect, the invention automatically tags audio data retrieved from a database, by steganographically encoding into the audio data the identity of the official retrieving the audio data. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271322 | MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATION ANALYZER & LOGGER - In one aspect, the present invention facilitates the investigation of networks of criminals, by gathering associations between phone numbers, the names of persons reached at those phone numbers, and voice print data. In another aspect the invention automatically detects phone calls from a prison where the voiceprint of the person called matches the voiceprint of a past inmate. In another aspect the invention detects identity scams in prisons, by monitoring for known voice characteristics of likely imposters on phone calls made by prisoners. In another aspect, the invention automatically does speech-to-text conversion of phone numbers spoken within a predetermined time of detecting data indicative of a three-way call event while monitoring a phone call from a prison inmate. In another aspect, the invention automatically thwarts attempts of prison inmates to use re-dialing services. In another aspect, the invention automatically tags audio data retrieved from a database, by steganographically encoding into the audio data the identity of the official retrieving the audio data. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271323 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MISSED CALL - A method and apparatus for processing a missed call are provided. In one embodiment, an electronic device checks whether an incoming call received through a communication network is connected. If the incoming call is not connected, the electronic device detects whether the incoming call is terminated. If the incoming call is terminated, the electronic device recognizes this as a missed call and maintains a call notification in the same form as used when the incoming call is received. Other various embodiments are provided. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271324 | MANAGING A PHONE COMMUNICATION RESPONSE - A computer implemented method for managing a phone communication response is disclosed. The method can include creating a set of phone communication response preferences. The method can include setting, in response to a triggering event, a phone communication response configured to provide status information including arrival time information and location information. The method can include resolving, in response to receiving a phone communication, a correlation between identifying information of the phone communication and at least a portion of the set of phone communication response preferences. The method can also include providing, in response to resolving the correlation, the phone communication response. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271325 | METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT INCOMING CALL REJECTION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method for non-contact incoming call rejection and a communication system using the same. The method generally includes the steps of entering into a normal operation mode to check if a call rejection signal is received when a call message is received, checking, entering into a call rejection mode and turning off the prompt device if the call rejection signal is received, checking if the call rejection signal continues, turning off the call rejection mode and recovering the original settings of the prompt device if the call rejection signal does not continue, returning back to the normal operation mode, and repeating the subsequent steps. Therefore, the present invention automatically enters into the call rejection mode based on the call rejection message transmitted by the near field wireless communication device without performing any physical operation. Particularly, the present invention is suitable for the communication device for driving. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CALLS TO AN INVALID CALLED-TO NUMBER - A system for processing a call initiated at a calling terminal includes a call-screening processor within a central office network switch, wherein the network switch is in communication with the calling terminal, and an intercept service processor in communication with the call-screening processor via the network switch. Methodology executed within the system entails determining that the call is directed to an invalid called-to number, ascertaining characteristics associated with the call, and developing a call profile for the call based upon the characteristics. A targeted message is selected in response to the call profile and the targeted message is presented to a caller via the calling terminal. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271327 | VERIFYING TELEPHONE CALLER ORIGIN - An aspect includes verifying a telephone caller origin carried out at a security application. The verifying includes activating a security process during an active telephone call to a user received at a first call identifier, accessing registered user service providers to obtain contact details of a registered service provider purporting to be the origin of the active telephone call, and sending a query to the obtained contact details of the registered service provider. The query includes the first call identifier. The verifying also includes receiving a returned query result confirming or denying that the telephone call is from the registered service provider. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271328 | System And Method For Prompt Modification Based on Caller Hang Ups in IVRs - In a method for use in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, an IVR is configured such that voice prompts provided to a caller vary systematically and caller hang-up activity is attributed to the particular version of a prompt played to the caller. Voice prompt modifications are chosen based on how long the caller willingly listens to the voice prompt. A relatively short time listening to a prompt before hang-up, indicates dissatisfaction with that prompt. The system compares caller hang-up rates for each of the phrases in a prompt and chooses the optimum solution, which is the variant of the prompt with the longest caller listening time. Optionally, the system compares hang up rates to a threshold and contingent on that comparison chooses an alternative version of the prompt. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271329 | NON-CONTACT STRESS ASSESSMENT DEVICES - Embodiments of a system are disclosed for stress assessment of a call center agent while interacting with a customer. The system is for use with a communication network. The system includes a stress assessment device and an agent device that includes an imaging unit. The agent device is configured to capture video of a target region of exposed skin of the agent using the imaging unit, collect customer interaction data based on interaction with a customer device over the communication network, and communicate the captured video and the customer interaction data to the stress assessment device. The stress assessment device is configured to passively estimate agent stress-level based on the received video, and generate feedback to the agent based on correlation between the customer interaction data and the estimated stress-level over a predefined time interval. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND REPORTING COMPLIANCE DATA - A system and method for reporting invalid recordings of interactions. An interaction exchange list of interactions may be received that is transferred from an interaction exchange, e.g. to a contact center. A recorded interaction list may be generated listing recorded interactions stored in a memory. Records from the interaction exchange list may be matched with records from the recorded interaction list. For each record in the interaction exchange list, if a matching record from the recorded interaction list is found, it may be determined if the associated recorded interaction is operational. If no matching record is found or if the associated recorded interaction is determined to be non-operational, the associated recorded interaction may be reported as invalid. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271331 | RESOURCE SHARING IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK OF CONTACT CENTER NODES - A system and method for local survivability in a distributed contact center environment has a first processor in a first contact center node receiving a first request for interaction. The first processor transmits a first message to a second contact center node in response to the request for interaction. The first message is configured to invoke a first resource associated with the second contact center node for handling the interaction via the first resource. The first processor monitors connection with the second contact center node. The first processor receives a second request for interaction, and further determines lack of connection with the second contact center node. In response to determining lack of connection with the second contact center node, the first processor refrains from transmitting a second message to the second contact center node. According to one embodiment, the second message is for invoking a second resource associated with the second contact center node for handling the interaction via the second resource. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271332 | CALL MAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING BAYESIAN MEAN REGRESSION (BMR) - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for ranking individuals in a contact center system including ranking a first individual in a set of individuals based on relative amounts of data for the first individual and one or more other individuals in the set of individuals. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL QUEUING OF CALLS - The present method and system provides a virtual queuing technique including the method and system providing for receiving a communication request from a user for telephonic communication with a communication agent, wherein the communication request includes user information. The method and system includes receiving a call back request from the user to avoid the on-hold wait time and based on the call back request, placing the communication request and the user information associated therewith into a queuing system. The method and system thereby meters the communication request in the queuing system for a metered wait time based at least on a queuing factor relating to at least one of: the on-hold wait time and the user information and after expiration of the metered wait time, bridges a communication connection with the user and the communication agent based on the communication request. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271334 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION ROUTING - A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code is provided wherein an electronic communication is received. A communication routing matrix is accessed, from a relational database platform, to select a service representative for the received communication. It may then be arranged for the received communication to be routed in accordance with the selected service representative. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271335 | Integrating Telephony And Voice Mail Routing - A data processing system comprises call processing logic comprising a voice mail subsystem, or a call management subsystem configured to process voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls, or both a voice mail subsystem and a call management subsystem; service advertisement logic coupled to the call processing logic and operable to send one or more service advertisement messages by unicast to a remote peer data processing system that is also configured with compatible service advertisement logic, wherein the remote peer data processing system is located in a different LAN segment than the data processing system; and each service advertisement message comprises one or more network addresses associated with the call processing logic, and one or more data sets each comprising an identifier value, a first value that indicates that the identifier value is associated with a telephone extension, and a second value that indicates that the identifier value is associated with a voice mailbox. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISION OF A SECOND LINE SERVICE TO A TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE USING MIXED RELATIONSHIP NUMBERS - A method and system are described for servicing a second line service (“SLS”) based communication request originating from a subscriber's telecommunications device (“TD”) even if the call signal does not include sufficient information to identify the phone number from which the subscriber initiated the call. The method involves associating the SLS phone number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and the primary number of a third party via a special relationship number. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271337 | INTERNATIONAL DIALING THROUGH A RELAY - In example embodiments, a system and method for international dialing through a relay is provided. A call is received from a device of a caller to a pool number. An identifier of the caller is identified from the call. A pool string is determined from the pool number whereby the pool string having one or more digits of the pool number. A destination string is identified to which a combination of the identifier of the caller and the pool string maps in a database whereby the destination string by itself is insufficient to obtain a destination number. The destination number is constructed using the destination substring and one or more digit keys associated with the call. The call is forwarded to the destination number. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271338 | INTERNATIONAL DIALING THROUGH A RELAY - Systems and methods for international dialing through a relay are provided. In an example embodiment, a communication is received at a server from a communication application installed on a device of a caller. The communication includes a destination number. A mapping of the destination number to a single call attribute is stored in a database of the server. A call to a pool number is received at the server from the caller. A determination is made of a call attribute from the call. Based on the call attribute from the call matching the single call attribute mapped to the destination number, the call is connected to the destination number. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271339 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING A CALL BETWEEN DEVICES OF A SINGLE USER - A method and device enables transferring a call between devices of a single user. The method comprises pairing, over a master-less communication link, a narrowband communication device operating in a narrowband communication system and a broadband communication device operating in a broadband communication system. A radio identifier is shared between the narrowband communication device and the broadband communication device, enabling call details to be transferred between the narrowband communication device and the broadband communication device. An operational status of either the narrowband communication device or the broadband communication device is then evaluated. When a call associated with particular call details is prior established on both the narrowband communication system and the broadband communication system, the call can be transferred, using the radio identifier and the call details, and based on the operational status, from one to the other of the broadband communication device and the narrowband communication device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271340 | METHOD OF CALL FORWARDING BETWEEN DEVICES - An electronic device and method are disclosed, including a first communication module configured to perform a cellular communication, a second communication module configured to perform a communication to connect the electronic device to an external electronic device, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first and second communication modules, executing the method, which includes activating the first communication module in response to detecting a preset condition, and transmitting a signal requesting call forwarding via the first communication module. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271341 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A CONFERENCE - A method can include the steps of logging in of mobile devices of participants when they are located in the same physical conference environment and managing the resources of these devices such that the resources of the logged-in devices are combined into an audio system to output audio conference information using a sound output process in the conference environment. The conference environment may be a conference room. The audio conference information may be audio to be output to the participants at the conference environment. The formed audio system can include speakers of the user devices for outputting such audio. The microphones of the user devices may also be used to form an audio input system for the conference for allowing audio of the participants to be received and transmitted during the conference. A communication system can be configured to implement embodiments of the method. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271342 | NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The present subject matter discloses systems and methods for allocating network resources in a communication network. In one implementation, the method for allocating network resources for a current call made by a subscriber comprises determining a previous actual usage parameter associated with the subscriber, wherein the previous actual usage parameter is indicative of previous allocation of the network resources made to the subscriber for at least one previous call; retrieving a previous expected usage parameter associated with the subscriber, wherein the previous expected usage parameter is indicative of expected usage of the network resources made by the subscriber for the at least one previous call; and computing a current usage parameter associated with the subscriber for a current allocation of network resources based on the previous actual usage parameter and the previous expected usage parameter. The method further comprises allocating network resources to the subscriber based on the computing. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271343 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES FROM DISPARATE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS - The technique relates to a method and system for providing a plurality of telecommunication services from disparate telecommunication service providers. This technique involves authenticating the client at the time of login to the system based on the received user credentials from the client. Displaying a list of available telecommunication services and service providers to the authenticated client and prompting the client to select one or more telecommunication services and service providers from whom the client wishes to avail the selected services. Once the client selects the desired services and service providers, it generates a service request and forward the same to the APIs of the selected service providers for rendering the selected services. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271344 | Method and Apparatus for Online Charging of Pre-Fetched Content - In one aspect of the teachings herein, an Application Function, AF, in a wireless communication network is configured to support online charging for the consumption of content that has been pre-fetched to a wireless device via the network. The AF functionality thus provides a mechanism by which content may be pre-fetched to a wireless device in advance of charging for that content, while reliably conditioning the later consumption of that content at the wireless device on the online charging decisions made by an online charging system. In another aspect, a wireless device is configured to send a consumption request for pre-fetched content towards such an AF and condition its consumption of the pre-fetched content on the consumption response returned to it. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271345 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The surrounding environment where an electronic apparatus is placed is detected according to external sounds, and therefore it is difficult to accurately switch the output of a ring-tone. A control apparatus controls the sound generated by the electronic device. The control apparatus includes a sound producing section that outputs a sound output signal causing a sound output section to generate the sound, a sound acquiring section that acquires a sound input signal generated from external sound, and an adjusting section that adjusts the sound output signal or the output of an output device according to the sound input signal acquired in a state where the sound is being generated. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271346 | ePOS Printing - A script language compatible with HTML is used to define methods or objects capable of communicating directly with an intelligent module for printing operations without going through a web browser's print selection option. A print API library provides the needed methods/objects for embedding into a web page. The intelligent module may be a stand-alone electronic device, or may be an intelligent device incorporated into a printer. The intelligent module may manage multiple printers directly or through a network, and it functions to provide a communication bridge for translating/conveying communication between the print APIs on a web page and a target printer. The print API knows the fixed IP address of the intelligent module, and define a print document or print commands and send it directly to the intelligent module by means of the known IP address. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271347 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus, includes an image forming section to form an image on a paper sheet based on image data; an output image reading section to read the image formed on the paper sheet by the forming section and to produce formed image data; a data memory section to memorize various kinds of data; an attribution information producing section to discriminate the contents of the formed image data and to produce attribution information which shows the attribute of the formed image data; and a control section to control image formation by the image forming section, reading by the output image reading section, and memorizing by the data memory section, wherein the control section controls the memorizing by the data memory section for formed image relating information in association with the formed image data based on the attribution information. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271348 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a first selection unit configured to select a workflow for executing at least one process with respect to data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from a terminal, which includes an access function for accessing a storage service, authentication information used by the terminal upon using the storage service; and an instruction unit configured to instruct an execution of a communication process of exchanging the data with the storage service using the authentication information acquired by the acquisition unit in a case where the workflow selected by the first selection unit includes the communication process. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus having a touch panel and capable of smoothly displaying an image even though the image forming apparatus has scarce hardware resources. The image forming apparatus includes an operation unit provided with a touch panel configured to display a screen sequentially shifted by an operation of a user, determines a type of operations such as a flick and a drag executed on the touch panel by the user, and displays a screen on the touch panel by shifting the screen by N-screens (N is an integer of two or more) if the operation is the flick while displaying a screen on the touch panel by shifting the screen by one screen if the operation is the drag. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271350 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A control unit includes a touch panel display capable of presenting preview display of multiple pages of document images in a scrollable manner on the display panel. The touch panel display controller includes: a commanded position detecting controller that detects a commanded position relative to one of document images being a reference in the preview image displayed on a display panel; a preview layout direction switching controller that switches the layout direction in the preview image in accordance with the commanded position; and a scroll direction switching controller that switches the scrolling direction in the preview image in accordance with the detected commanded position. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271351 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains image information for forming a confirmation image, a state of formation of the confirmation image at a peripheral portion of a recording medium when an image formation position with respect to the recording medium is a predetermined position differing from a state of formation of the confirmation image at the peripheral portion of the recording medium when the image formation position is shifted from the predetermined position; and a forming section that, when ascertaining the shift of the image formation position from the predetermined position, performs an image forming process using the image information obtained by the obtaining unit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a memory, a function executing unit, an acquiring unit, an authentication unit and an operation unit. The memory stores first authentication information. The function executing unit executes processing. The acquiring unit acquires second authentication information. The authentication unit executes authentication of an user by using the first authentication information and the second authentication information. The operation unit accepts operation input. When the authentication succeeds and first condition is satisfied, the function executing unit executes the processing with the operation unit restricting the operation input. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271353 | DOCUMENT OUTPUT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT OUTPUT METHOD - A document output system includes a document registration unit that registers, for each one of events, data of one or more documents in association with identification for identifying the event related to the documents in a memory, an acceptance unit that accepts an instruction for outputting the documents, the instruction including identification for identifying an event related to the documents to be output, and an output unit that outputs the documents associated with the identification of the instruction in a predetermined order as a series of the documents. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271354 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an illuminating device including a cylindrical lens in which a light incidence surface and a light emission surface, which are opposite to each other, extend in a longitudinal direction, and a light source that is disposed in such a manner that a positional relationship between a paraxial virtual image of the light source due to the light incidence surface of the cylindrical lens and a center of curvature of the light emission surface is in a predetermined range. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271355 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - During capturing, image data obtained by applying a simplified development process to RAW image data is recorded together with a RAW image. Afterward, image data obtained by applying a high quality development process to the RAW image data is generated, and this image data replaces the image data obtained by the simplified development. During capturing, a plurality of pieces of image data are generated by using a plurality of different development parameters for RAW image data, and recorded in association with the RAW image data. The development parameter corresponding to image data selected by the user is decided as a development parameter used for the subsequent high quality development process for the RAW image data, thereby facilitating the setting of the development parameters of the RAW image. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271356 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An image coding apparatus is an image coding apparatus which encodes a plurality of to-be-displayed images forming video by using inter prediction. The image coding apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a reference-specific image which is an image different from the plurality of to-be-displayed images or different from a plurality of reconfigured images obtained by reconfiguration of the plurality of to-be-displayed images and which is an image used as an image that is specific to reference for the inter prediction, and an encoding unit that encodes one or more to-be-displayed images among the plurality of to-be-displayed images by referring to the reference-specific image as a reference image for the inter prediction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271357 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271358 | LUMINOUS PRINTING - A method and a device are disclosed for luminous printing of an original image using fluorescent ink or other fluorescent display pigments. In some embodiments, the original image is separated into multiple layers, including at least a brightness layer and an inverse brightness (or darkness) layer, by applying extracted brightness data and inverse brightness data, to the original image, respectively. Each of the layers is associated with a set of corresponding printing channels. The sets of printing channels are applied by a printing device to print the original image on a print medium, such as paper, mylar, fabric, and other print surfaces. Multiple visual effects may be realized using the aforementioned process, including fluorescent images that are only visible under UV (Ultra Violet) or black light, images with high-fidelity colors under daylight and dark conditions, and shadow effects such as depth illusion. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271359 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STATUS MONITORING - An image processing apparatus receives, via a user interface setting screen, a designation to determine a specification of RFC used to return a value indicating a status of the image processing apparatus in response to a request from a host. A control unit of the image processing apparatus returns the value indicating the status conforming to a specification determined according to the designation in response to a request issued at the predetermined time interval from the host. The control unit further returns the value indicating the status conforming to a specification determined according to the designation in response to a request issued at a time interval shorter than the predetermined time interval from the host in a case where it is determined by the host that the former returned value indicates an abnormal state of the image processing apparatus. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271360 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a generating unit that generates combined image data by size-reducing and arranging document read images having plural pages in accordance with a specified number of pages, a deciding unit that decides a compression method for the data, and a compression processing unit that compresses the data by a compression method decided by the deciding unit. During processing for determining a compression method suitable for the contents of each page of the data that is performed on the pages when the compression method for the data is specified, when a determined compression method for a particular page included in the data is an overriding compression method, the deciding unit cancels the processing and does not perform the processing on remaining pages, for each of which a compression method has not been determined, and sets the overriding compression method as the compression method for the data. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271361 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives data of an image, an encoding unit that encodes multiple data blocks respectively representing multiple partial images forming the image to generate multiple pieces of encoded information, a determining unit that determines a reading sequence of the data blocks with respect to each of multiple image rotation angles, and a memory that stores, in an associated form, multiple pieces of sequence information representing the determined sequences with respect to the image rotation angles, and the multiple pieces of generated encoded information. | 2015-09-24 |
20150271362 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a rotation processing unit, an output image information output unit, and a shared area generation unit. The rotation processing unit performs a rotation process on an image to generate a rotated image. The output image information output unit performs, based on the rotated image, an output image information output process of outputting output image information of an image to be output. The shared area generation unit generates a shared area in a memory in the image processing apparatus shared by the rotation process and the output image information output process. The rotation processing unit stores information of the rotated image in a region in the generated shared area. The output image information that is output in the output image information output process is stored in the region in the shared area storing the information of the rotated image. | 2015-09-24 |