Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090116394 | System and method for skype traffice detection - Networks carry various kinds of traffic and ISPs are keen to analyze the traffic so as to be able to support QoS on the distinct traffic flows. Traffic can be broadly categorized into two types: plain traffic and encrypted traffic. Further, each of these traffic types is based on either a standard protocol or a proprietary protocol. While it is fairly straightforward to analyze traffic that are based on standard protocols, it is extremely difficult to analyze encrypted traffic based on proprietary protocols. A system for Skype traffic detection involves analyzing encrypted traffic based on proprietary peer to peer protocol. The proposed approach is based on building Skype traffic models and using the same to determine Skype traffic in the network traffic. | 05-07-2009 |
20090292644 | System and method maximizing video license utilization using billboard services - Key to overall video license utilization lies in a cooperative sharing of licenses between the different branch operators of the licenses before the expiry of the licenses. A branch operator has a region of operation and stimulating the demand for licenses that are about to expire across multiple regions increases the overall license utilization. Billboard service provides subscribers with information and facility to preview and select movies for viewing online and it provides an opportunity for branch operators and central operator to maximize the utilization of available licenses. Central billboard provides a platform for branch operators to submit and trade their surplus licenses while a local billboard that is part of a branch operator infrastructure helps create demand for such surplus licenses. Central billboard supports both regulated and unregulated pricing and trading thereby enhancing the chances of trading of licenses that are about to expire. | 11-26-2009 |
20100011021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT MAP GENERATION - Personalized services and targeted services demand the exploitation of context—say, context of an environment, context of a product, context of a service, and context of a customer or user or individual. In order for the personalized and targeted services to have a greater impact, the identified context used by a context aware processing engine needs to be accurate and current. Such an up-to-date context is called as context map and a system and method for generating a customer-specific context map involves the processing of customer transactions, abstracting and generalizing these transactions into entities, and inter-relating these entities. The context map, for example, is useful in ad targeting in mobile environments, and in quicker and efficient problem resolution in contact center environments. | 01-14-2010 |
20100049739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOUNDED ANALYSIS OF MULTIMEDIA USING MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS - Multimedia content usage is on the rise and hence, it is becoming increasingly necessary to automatically analyze the multimedia content in order enhance the effective applicability and usage of the content. The richness of a multimedia content demands multi-fold analysis of the content and further, this richness also leads to openness and vastness. Hence, the outcome of the multiple analyses techniques needs to be carefully analyzed in order to avoid limited or inconsistent content description. A system and method for bounded analysis of multimedia using multiple correlations addresses the issues related to richness and vastness of a multimedia content to enable describing of the multimedia content in a maximally consistent manner. Such a content description is very useful in the semantic characterization of multimedia. | 02-25-2010 |
20100057909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT DELIVERY IN A MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI DESTINATION NETWORK - Real-time delivery of multimedia content puts extreme demand on both computational and network resources. Many a times, the requirement is to handle multiple such delivery requirements and as a consequence, the overall delivery efficiency gets affected. Another dimension of complexity is that (a) the multimedia content to be delivered may not always be highly reliable, and (b) the network may also be not highly reliable. In such a situation, it becomes even more difficult to satisfy the quality of service requirements. When content to be delivered to multiple destinations is available at multiple sources, there is an opportunity to overcome the above mentioned complexity. The system and method for efficient delivery in a multi-source multi-destination network involves pulling of data from the multiple sources by measuring quality of service and reliability parameters, and efficiently loading the systems and the network in a cooperative manner. | 03-04-2010 |
20100073496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE USAGE MODELING - Remote control units are used to interact with a variety of devices. Modeling of the usage of a remote control unit while interacting with a device helps in (a) redesigning the remote for better usability; (b) dynamic adapting of the remote to provide improved interactions; and (c) characterizing the usage behaviors. In particular, it is very popular to use remote control units to interact with TVs and PVR devices. A system and method for the modeling of a remote usage involves the use of both pre-defined models and discovered models. Specifically, a pattern of usage of a remote control unit is abstracted to be one of either a pre-defined model or a discovered model. The model discovery involves the process of generalization based on a set of particular remote control unit usage patterns. The labels associated with the models help in characterizing the remote control unit usage patterns. | 03-25-2010 |
20100122297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER LIKES MODELING - Modeling user likes and dislikes is an important aspect of target marketing. Typically, a user performs several activities related to a particular domain, and the outcomes of these activities indicate the extent of liking/disliking that resulted on account of these activities. Further, many of these activities are performed on a routine basis. The problem of user likes modeling is to analyze these various activities performed by the user and the solution is to arrive at a likes/dislikes model of the user. Such a likes/dislikes model helps in, for example, ad targeting in the context of TV viewing and cross-selling in the case of mobile services. | 05-13-2010 |
20100167709 | System and Method for Supporting Peer Interactions - Peer to peer interactions are a popular way of social networking. Such peer to peer interactions play an important role in (a) obtaining relevant and latest information; (b) obtaining relevant experiential information; (c) obtaining of relevant opinions on, say, products; (d) collaborative problem solving, and so on. Consider a scenario of classified ads: a user visiting a portal through a mobile phone to decide on buying of a product can be well assisted by facilitating peer to peer interactions. In many situations, it is required to make the right selection of peers in order to be able to obtain the right information, and furthermore, voice is a preferred mode of interaction if mobile phones are used in peer to peer interactions. Also, in peer to peer interactions, anonymity is important in order to protect the privacy of the peers. A system and method for supporting peer interactions, especially in a mobile scenario involving classified ads, need to address the issues related to (a) selecting and displaying of the right information; (b) selecting of right peers; and (c) facilitating anonymous peer interactions. | 07-01-2010 |
20110010590 | ENTERPRISE BLACK BOX SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA CENTERS - Enterprises are fast moving towards restructuring their IT infrastructure by exploiting the emerging models of data centers. In one extreme, the whole of application, storage, and network needs of an enterprise are to be managed by third party data centers. While the use of third party data centers is an attractive proposition for enterprises, it can potentially put their intellectual property in the form of applications and data assets under threat. There is a need for a system that is a part of a data center but owned by an enterprise that provides a single point of entry and exit for interacting and communicating with the data center and the enterprise relies on this system to obtain an insight into the functioning and behavior of the data center. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP PACKET INSPECTION - IP networks carry packets that consist of headers and payloads. Typical traffic analysis systems at layer 3 process packet headers in order to obtain as much information about the traffic as possible. However, performing of deep packet analysis requires the processing of packet payloads as well. Another important requirement of layer 3 processing is the need to process the payloads at wire speeds. A system and method for deep packet inspection at layer 3 involves (a) an approach for packet payload processing; (b) accounting for out of order arrival of packets; (c) an approach for partial match analysis so as to be able to analyze the traffic flows when only partial information is available; and (d) an approach for effective payload processing for attempting to achieve wire speed processing. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022470 | System and Method for Real-Time Ad Selection and Scheduling - Ads play an important role in enhancing the market reach of the products. Televisions are one of the major targets for advertising to reach mass market. With the advent of the Internet, video on demand mode of delivering content, to a variety of devices such as personal computers and mobile phones, has become a possibility. New ad targeting opportunities arise when the multitude of technologies are combined. One of the aspects of ad targeting, to keep the viewers' attention focused on ads, is to “beat the expectations.” A system and method to help in keeping viewers' attention focused on ads involves randomly selecting an ad to be displayed using a randomly selected ad display model at a randomly selected time interval during the course of watching of content. Further, a viewer's attention on ads gets enhanced when the randomly selected ads are appropriate from the point of view of the content being watched. | 01-27-2011 |
20110055266 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIERARCHICAL IMAGE PROCESSING - Video processing in general and image processing in particular is a very complex process. This is more so when the analysis is required to extract information from the images for providing of the same directly or indirectly to the users. This additional complexity is due to the direct competition with users who are used to analyzing of the images both syntactically and semantically. One of the ways to contain the complexity of image analysis is to exploit the domain semantics during image processing. A system and method to help in semantics based image processing involves the identification of one or more domain relevant semantic hierarchies and using of the same during image processing. | 03-03-2011 |
20110087703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP ANNOTATION AND SEMANTIC INDEXING OF VIDEOS - Video on demand services rely on frequent viewing and downloading of content to enhance the return on investment on such services. Videos in general and movies in particular hosted by video portals need to have extensive annotations to help in greater monetization of content. Such deep annotations help in creating content packages based on bits and pieces extracted from specific videos suited to individuals' queries thereby providing multiple opportunities for piece-wise monetization. Considering the complexity involved in extracting deep semantics for deep annotation based on video and audio analyses, a system and method for deep annotation uses video/movie scripts associated with content for supporting video-audio analysis in deep annotation. | 04-14-2011 |
20110107090 | System and Method for Flying Squad Re Authentication of Enterprise Users - Enterprise users access several applications and services routinely to carry out their work-related activities on a day-to-day basis. These applications and services could be hosted within an enterprise or on a third-party data center. The enterprise users login into the applications and services so as to gain access to the applications and services. In the case of single sign-on, it is expected that the users authenticate once to a specific application/service/system and obtain access to any other application/service/system. In such a scenario, it is important to ensure that during the course of this authenticated access grant, the right users are provided access to right information. This is achieved by a re-authentication system that demands minimum re-authentication effort from “right” users and maximum re-authentication effort from “non-right” users. A system and method of on the fly re-authentication involves a novel challenge-response mechanism. | 05-05-2011 |
20110276508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INFLUENCE BASED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF A UNIVERSITY - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. Relating and correlating this data at and across various levels help in obtaining a perspective about the educational institution. A structural representation captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner and an important aspect of the relationship is the so-called “influence factor.” This factor indicates influencing effect of an entity over another entity, wherein the entities are a part of the structural representation. Given such a structural representation, a system and method that propagates the influence factors of the entities to arrive at a stable representation from the point of view of influences is discussed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSITY MODEL GRAPH BASED VISUALIZATION - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. A structural representation that captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner has concise information about the educational institution, and visualization is a way to bring out all this information in an explicit manner so that the various of the users of the educational institution system understand effectively their system. A system and method for visualization based on the structural representation of a university along a variety of dimensions is discussed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110320500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A UNIVERSITY MODEL GRAPH - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. Relating and correlating this data at and across various levels help in obtaining a perspective about the educational institution. A structural representation captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner and an important aspect of the relationship is the so-called “influence factor.” This factor indicates influencing effect of an entity over another entity, wherein the entities are a part of the structural representation. A system and method for the construction of such a structural representation of an educational institution based on the educational institution specific information is discussed. | 12-29-2011 |
20120072235 | System and Method for Personal Healthcare Analysis and Distributable Archive - An individual has a large number of health related transactions during their lifecycle right from birth. As technology is fast evolving and medical profession demanding accurate description of a situation for effective handling of the patients, it is very useful, and often a necessity, to keep a record of all of the health related transactions. A system and method for recording the large and growing number of health transactions in a structured manner, analyzing and relating of the same, and making them available to any agency is described. The structuring of the transactions is based on a set of dimensions and the analysis leads to the linking of the transactions across these dimensions and deriving of the meta-information for assisting the individual to be more health conscious. | 03-22-2012 |
20120109718 | System and Method for What-If Analysis of a University Based on Their University Model Graph - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. Specifically, the model is quite beneficial for undertaking the analysis of the various issues faced by the educational institute. A what-if scenario requires the model to be suitably changed to address the issue under consideration and the changed model needs to be analyzed to determine how the issue could be handled. A system and method for what-if scenario analysis based on the university model graph is discussed. | 05-03-2012 |
20120130998 | System and Method for Comparing Universities Based on Their University Model Graphs - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. Such a model helps compare educational institutions at various levels—university level, department level, faculty member level, or student level. One of the requirements of comparison is to normalize the similarities and identify and elaborate the differences across multiple educational institutions. A way to achieve this is to model the educational institutions using comparable elements; specifically, the university model graph allows for such comparison as multiple educational institutions are modeled based on the same set of concepts and notions. A system and method for comparing educational institutions based on their respective university model graphs is discussed. | 05-24-2012 |
20120142423 | System and Method for Game State Reduction - Massively multiplayer network games are fast becoming prevalent all over Internet. Servers that support such network games demand huge computing and storage infrastructure. Storage associated with game servers store game related information as well game-instance related information. Game states provide all the information about a game being played and storing them provides an opportunity to continue the game after a pause. An effective representation of game states allows for reduced demand on the storage. An efficient approach for archiving of game states is discussed. | 06-07-2012 |
20130124240 | System and Method for Student Activity Gathering in a University - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. In order to build an effective university model graph, it is required to gather and analyze the various activities performed on the university campus by the various entities of the university. A system and method for automated activity gathering that involves instrumented components, sub-systems, and networks is discussed. Specifically, the presented system allows for reliable identification of activities performed by a student of the university based on inputs received from multiple sources associated with the instrumented components, sub-systems, and networks. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138572 | System and Method for Generating Student Activity Flows in a University - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. In order to build an effective university model graph, it is required to gather and analyze the various activities performed on the university campus by the various entities of the university. A system and method for automated generation of activity flows involves analysis of multiple student specific sub-activities and correlating them from temporal and spatial points of view. Specifically, the presented system allows for reliable identification of activity flows accounting for duplicate and missing sub-activities. | 05-30-2013 |
20140108285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INFLUENCED BASED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF A UNIVERSITY - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. Relating and correlating this data at and across various levels help in obtaining a perspective about the educational institution. A structural representation captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner and an important aspect of the relationship is the so-called “influence factor.” This factor indicates influencing effect of an entity over another entity, wherein the entities are a part of the structural representation. Given such a structural representation, a system and method that propagates the influence factors of the entities to arrive at a stable representation from the point of view of influences is discussed. | 04-17-2014 |
20140156358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSITY MODEL GRAPH BASED VISUALIZATION - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. A structural representation that captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner has concise information about the educational institution, and visualization is a way to bring out all this information in an explicit manner so that the various of the users of the educational institution system understand effectively their system. A system and method for visualization based on the structural representation of a university along a variety of dimensions is discussed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A UNIVERSITY MODEL GRAPH - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. Relating and correlating this data at and across various levels help in obtaining a perspective about the educational institution. A structural representation captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner and an important aspect of the relationship is the so-called “influence factor.” This factor indicates influencing effect of an entity over another entity, wherein the entities are a part of the structural representation. A system and method for the construction of such a structural representation of an educational institution based on the educational institution specific information is discussed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140172508 | System and Method For Generating Student Mirror Maps In A University - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. The analysis of the various activities performed on the university campus by the various entities (such as students) of the university leads to the generation of student specific activity maps. These maps play a role in counseling students in organizing and planning of their activities in the context of the university. A system and method for automated generation of mirror maps involves the combined analysis of a set of activity maps of a set of students to measure their similarities. Such similarities help, for example, in the process of formation of teams, and identification of meeting times and venues. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172844 | System and Method For Generating Student Activity Maps in A University - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. In order to build an effective university model graph, it is required to gather and analyze the various activities performed on the university campus by the various entities of the university. A system and method for automated generation of activity maps involves analysis of multiple student specific activity flows (activities), and aggregating and abstracting them to generate a variety of student-specific activity maps. These activity maps play a role in the student counseling process. | 06-19-2014 |