Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100034195 | Incremental addition and scale-back of resources adapting to network resource availability - An exemplary method includes receiving at a first network a notice of an intended communication to a called party network, wherein the intended communication requires a resource for supporting a streaming data protocol in each network between a calling party network and the called party network; forwarding the notice of an intended communication to a second network and toward the called party network; in parallel with said forwarding, initiating for the intended communication a determination of resource availability for the first network; performing for the intended communication the determination of resource availability for the first network, wherein the determination is for a first resource for the first network; and verifying resource sufficiency for the intended communication. Verification of resource sufficiency is based on resource, (e.g., bandwidth) availability being greater than a threshold for plural network segment of the calling party to calling network required for the intended call. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034196 | RPH mapping and defaulting behavior - An exemplary management method includes receiving at a first network a notice of an intended communication to a called party network, the notice including a first priority indicator, the intended communication requiring a resource for supporting a streaming data protocol in each network between a calling party network and the called party network; forwarding the notice to a second network and toward the called party network, the notice including the first priority indicator; in parallel with said forwarding, mapping the first priority indicator to a second priority indicator and initiating for the intended communication a determination of resource availability for the first network based on the second priority indicator; determining the determination of resource availability for the first network based on the second priority indicator, wherein the determination is for a first resource for the first network; and verifying resource availability for the intended communication. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034197 | End-to-end capacity and priority management through multiple packet network segments - Apparatus and method for management of a communications network are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving at a first network a notice of an intended communication to a called party network, wherein the intended communication requires at least one resource for supporting a streaming data protocol between a calling party network and the called party network; verifying resource availability of at least one resource in the first network; and in parallel with said verifying, forwarding the notice of an intended communication to a second network and toward the called party network prior to receiving an indication of resource availability of the at least one resource in the first network required for the intended communication. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034367 | Network call back to add conference participants and/or media capabilities - An exemplary method includes receiving at a calling party network a notice of an intended communication between a calling endpoint and a plurality of called endpoints located in a plurality of called party networks, wherein the intended communication requires a resource in each of the calling party network and the called party networks for supporting a streaming data protocol. The notice is forwarded toward the plurality of called party networks and in parallel with said forwarding, a determination of resource availability for the calling party network is initiated for the intended communication. The method further includes determining for the intended communication the determination of resource availability for the calling party network, wherein the determination is for a first resource for the first network; and verifying resource availability for the intended communication based on the determination for the calling party network and a resource availability indicator for each called party network. | 02-11-2010 |
20120143678 | COLLABORATION RECOMMENDATION AND EMBEDDED TRIGGER SELECTION IN DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUMS - A method of determining relevance values for triggers, in order to select relevant embedded triggers to be displayed with ads and/or content shown on billboards of various media types. The method includes determining a potential relevance of preselected ads and/or content that may provide a threshold relevance value for all triggers that are to be displayed with the preselected ad and/or content. Relevance values and potential relevance are determined by summing entity values. Entity values are determined by multiplying entity weights by a summation of keyword weights. Entity weights and keyword weights may be assigned based on industry experience or based on the ability of displayed entities and/or displayed keywords to generate revenue. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143695 | CONTENT COLLABORATION AMONG HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED MEDIUMS - A system, an arrangement and a method for tracking viewership of regional billboards to collaborate billboard displays. Viewership is tracked using triggers that may be displayed with content and/or ads. Execution of the triggers may provide feedback to collaborate content/ads across billboards on a single medium or a number of heterogeneous media types to maximize cumulative viewership and advertising effectiveness. Triggers may be tailored to track the physical location of the billboard (in any display media), the time the billboard is displayed, and the identity of the content and/or ad. Data relating to the executed triggers includes identifying information of the viewer that executes the trigger to determine the success of the trigger. Following a determination of the success of the trigger, cumulative viewership of content, ads and triggers may be managed across billboards distributed across a region and across heterogeneous media. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150654 | Method And Apparatus For Interactive Media Control - A method and apparatus for controlling an interactive billboard. A billboard controller builds a UAP dataset, using the UAP dataset for audience estimation, and causing selected content to be displayed on one or more billboards based on the estimate. The UAP dataset preferably contain scored or ranked user association sets that associate users with content and other characteristics of detected interactions with the billboard. | 06-14-2012 |
20120300647 | System and Method for Providing Communication Services - A method for determining a load measure associated with a wireless communications node, such as a Wi-Fi access point or cellular base station, is described. A time interval measure representing a time interval between frames transmitted by a node is determined, and a number of user devices associated with the node is determined based on information in the frames transmitted by the node. A load measure associated with the node is determined, based at least on the number of user devices associated with the node and the time interval measure. Systems and apparatus are also described. | 11-29-2012 |
20130041753 | System and Method for Identifying a Path of a Billboard Audience Group and Providing Advertising Content Based on the Path - A plurality of mappings corresponding to respective points of interest is generated. Each mapping indicates at least one group detected at the corresponding point of interest and respective times when each respective group among the at least one group was detected at the corresponding point of interest. A standard representation corresponding to a set of one or more groups appearing in a selected one of the plurality of mappings is defined. A path associated with the standard representation is determined, based on the plurality of mappings, the path defining a second plurality of points of interest at which the standard representation was detected and time information indicating when the standard representation was detected at each respective point of interest within the second plurality of points of interest. A point of interest may comprise a location associated with a billboard. | 02-14-2013 |