07th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150046489 | SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPANDED ADMINISTRATIVE AREA USING NEARBY ADMINISTRATIVE AREA INFORMATION - Provided is a search system and method for an expanded administrative area using nearby administrative area information. A search system may include a setter configured to set, as a search area, an administrative district corresponding to an administrative name in response to a query comprising the administrative name, and a searcher configured to conduct a search associated with the query in the search area. Here, the setter may expand the search area to another administrative district adjacent to the administrative district when a search result obtained from the search area is unsatisfactory. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046490 | ADJUSTABLE HANDS-FREE MOUNTING APPARATUS FOR TABLET PCS EMPHASIZING SECURITY AND CONNECTIBILITY FEATURES - This continuing disclosure of the invention describes product-identification and protection features including several improvements that enable the secure attachment of the apparatus to mounting locations as well as the secure retention of tablet PCs and other devices within the frames of the invention. Such security features comprise clips and modular attachment elements that may be integrated with a security system comprising audible alarm mechanisms and software-based monitoring and alert mechanisms. Moreover, a system for marking and tracking manufactured goods, including the components of the various claimed features of the invention, is also disclosed. The product marking and identification systems utilize software-based analysis of ultrastructural physical traits observable in molded plastic parts to determine origin of manufacture and to distinguish counterfeits. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046491 | Hazardous Materials Incident Location System and Uses Thereof - Provided herein are systems for locating one or more hazardous material incidents, for example, a petrochemical incident, in a geographical area of interest. The system generally comprises electronic device with at least a processor, a memory and a display coupled to the processor and at least one network connection; and a user interactive tool coupled to the electronic device. Particularly, the interactive tool or interactive mapping tool comprises activatable widgets in an interface, databases accessible by the widgets and a mapping application and displayable interactive base map. Also provided is a method and utilizing the system to locate hazardous material incidents by activating the widgets, querying the databases and displaying incident data retrieved from the databases on the base map. Further provided is a non-transitory machine-readable storage device comprising processor-executable instructions to perform the method. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046492 | QUERY-BY-EXAMPLE IN LARGE-SCALE CODE REPOSITORIES - Systems and methods for performing query-by-example are described. A query module executing on the system may maintain a source code repository containing a plurality of source code files. Each of the plurality of source code files is associated with a corresponding source syntax structure generated based on said each of the plurality of source code files. The query module may receive a query snippet, and generate a query syntax structure based on the query snippet. The query module may then identify a first source code file from the plurality of source code files for being relevant to the query snippet. The being relevant to the query snippet is determined by a first relevance score which is calculated based on the query syntax structure and the first source code file's corresponding source syntax structure. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046493 | ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT OF ENTITY-AUGMENTED CONTENT - Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046494 | MAIN-MEMORY BASED CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR FILE STORAGE AND FAST DATA RETRIEVAL - A conceptual framework is built including a conceptual hierarchy, a containment hierarchy, and concept relationships. The concepts created in the conceptual framework are associated with resources located on the local file system. The resources are stored in the conceptual framework that is stored in the main memory of the system. Thus, search capabilities based on complex multivariate queries involving relationships and multiple conditions between concepts are provided. The conceptual framework is based on an in-memory engine that enables superfast resource access, reduced file storage redundancy, reduced updating errors, increased consistency, greater data integrity and independence from application level programs, query based concept and file access. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046495 | REGISTRATION OF CIM AGENT TO MANAGEMENT AGENT AND SYSTEM - A Common Information Model (CIM) agent is registered to a management agent in a computing environment by a processor device. The management agent is discovered by the CIM agent in a management domain in response to an insertion of the CIM agent into the management domain. At least one of information of the CIM agent and the discovered management agent is registered by the CIM agent. The management agent is compliant with the CIM agent. The management agent is determined by matching a management object scope, or safety strategy in a predefined strategy of the discovered management agent with a management object, or safety strategy of the CIM agent. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046496 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING AN IMPLICIT SOCIAL GRAPH FROM BIORESPONSE DATA - In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an implicit social graph includes receiving an eye-tracking data associated with a word. The eye-tracking data is received from a user device. The word is a portion of a digital document. The eye-tracking data comprises at least one fixation period of substantially seven-hundred and fifty milliseconds and at least one regression from another portion of the digital document to the word. A comprehension difficulty of the word is determined based on the eye-tracking data. One or more attributes to a user of the user device is assigned, by one or more processors based on the comprehension difficulty, wherein the one or more attributes are determined based on a meaning of the word. An implicit social graph is generated based on the one or more attributes. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING ITEMS AT AN EVENT - A network device generates secure item records for items evaluated at an event. A network device receives, at a provider network, event registration information including an event location and receiving item information for an item (e.g., a car, boat, etc.) to be evaluated at the event. The systems and methods assign an enrollment code for the item and provide the enrollment code to an event participant as part of a pre-registration procedure. The network device receives an item registration record, for the item, with a first digital signature; receives an item judging record, for the item, with a second digital signature; and receives an item judging validation, for the item, with a third digital signature. The network device generates a hash value from the first, second, and third digital signatures and stores the item registration record, the item judging record, the item judging validation, and the hash value. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046498 | Information Exchange Engine Providing a Critical Infrastructure Layer and Methods of Use Thereof - A virtual record manager and a data exchange engine are provided for dynamically defining data records in a database and for dynamically allocating instances of defined data records. These components are capable of mediating between the database and application and client interface layers to facilitate exchange of information over a network. Embodiments are configured to allow complex data records having a plurality of related fields, and to allow management and exchange of information at both the data field level and data record level. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIEW UPDATES IN DATABASE SYSTEMS - A method of data-oriented approach for performing view updates in database systems includes: processing one or more source databases of views to generate at least one summarization of the one or more source databases; utilizing the at least one summarization of the one or more source databases to determine one or more side effects associated with the view updates; and where upon the view updates have one or more side effects, preventing the view updates from being performed. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING APPLICATION DEFINITION FUNCTIONALITY FOR GENERAL PURPOSE WEB PRESENCES - An application specification system and method are provided. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046501 | CORE SERVICE BUILD / DEPLOYMENT FOR HIERARCHIAL DATABASE - A processor-implemented method for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining a core service related to a database is provided. The processor-implemented method may include displaying a graphical user interface and identifying, from the graphical user interface, the core service. Then the processor-implemented method may include determining, from the graphical user interface, a type of folder request based on the identified core service and accessing a folder based on the determining of the type of folder request. The processor-implemented method may further include determining a lock order based on the accessed folder; and manipulating the accessed folder based on the determining of the lock order. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046502 | MIGRATING DATA FROM LEGACY STORAGE SYSTEMS TO OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEMS - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for migrating a dataset from a file storage system to an object storage system. That is, a snapshot of a file system may be received from the file storage system. The snapshot may comprise file data associated with a file of the file system. The file may be converted into an object using the file data. The object may be stored within a data constituent volume of the object storage system. A namespace volume, used to track objects, may be populated with a redirector that maps a front-end data path (e.g., a path used by clients to reference the object) to a back-end data path that specifies a path to the object within the data constituent volume. In this way, a dataset of one or more files may be migrated from the file storage system to the object storage system. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING, MANAGING, AND DISTRIBUTING COMPUTER FILES - Embodiments of the present invention may include a method and system for capturing, managing, and distributing computer files. The method and system may comprise a capture module configured to selectively capture images of computer files. The method and system may comprise a management module configured to organize the images of computer files in a unique configuration that is different than a configuration employed by a base system image. The method and system may also comprise a deployment module configured to deploy the images of computer files to a computer for recreation of the base system image. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046504 | EXTENSION OF WRITE ANYWHERE FILE LAYOUT WRITE ALLOCATION - A write allocation technique extends a conventional write allocation procedure employed by a write anywhere file system of a storage system. A write allocator of the file system implements the extended write allocation technique in response to an event in the file system. The extended write allocation technique efficiently allocates blocks, and frees blocks, to and from a virtual volume (vvol) of an aggregate. The aggregate is a physical volume comprising one or more groups of disks, such as RAID groups, underlying one or more vvols of the storage system. The aggregate has its own physical volume block number (pvbn) space and maintains metadata, such as block allocation structures, within that pvbn space. Each vvol also has its own virtual volume block number (vvbn) space and maintains metadata, such as block allocation structures, within that vvbn space. The inventive technique extends input/output efficiencies of the conventional write allocation procedure to comport with an extended file system layout of the storage system. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, comprising: acquiring a first value of a first parameter by the first sensor; acquiring a second value of the first parameter by the second sensor; judging whether a difference value between the first value and the second value is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not; determining a third value based on a first algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the third value as a value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is larger than or equal to the first threshold; determining a fourth value based on a second algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the fourth value as the value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is smaller than the first threshold. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046506 | Configurable Dynamic Load Shedding Method in Distributed Stream Computing system - A computer implemented method of load shedding used in stream computing system that considers the relative importance of each of the applications processing the incoming input data or events. The method of load shedding method also accounts for system physical constraints, such as memories and CPU utilization. The load shedding method first observes the workload of each application and arriving rate of the incoming input data or events. If the system is under an overloading condition, calculate a input data or event drop ratio for each application such that the projected sum of all applications' workload will be at or below the system capacity when the unprocessed input data or events are dropped according to the drop ratio for each application. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046507 | Secure Network Data - Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitofy computer readable medium, and method to secure network data. It is determined whether an application can execute in a first network based on information associated with the first network. The application is transferred to a second network, if it is determined that the application cannot execute in the first network. A secure connection is established between the application transferred to the second network and the data residing in the first network. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046508 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPLICATION SYSTEM - A terminal apparatus includes an inquiry unit that sends an inquiry, from a game used in the terminal apparatus among at least two games provided by an application system, about an invitation to another game, to an invitation information management unit of a management apparatus; an invitation information receiving unit that receives invitation information corresponding to the inquiry; and a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, details of the invitation according to the invitation information. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046509 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046510 | THIRD PARTY SHARING-INFORMATION SEVER AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED WEB PAGE THROUGH THE THIRD PARTY SHARING-INFORMATION SEVER - The present invention discloses a method for generating a personalized web page through a third party sharing-information server, and the method includes: a third party sharing-information server receives a first information request for updating a user's preference profile. The third party sharing-information server transmits the updated user's preference profile to a first web server. The first web server transmits a first web page to the user according to the updated user's preference profile and a first web page request. The third party sharing-information server receives a second information request for updating the user's preference profile. The third party sharing-information server transmits the updated user's preference profile to a second web server. A second web server transmits a second web page to the user according to the updated user's preference profile and a second web page request. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND PROCESSING WEB SERVICE REQUESTS - A system is provided that is adapted to service web-based service requests. In one implementation, a caching service is provided for storing and servicing web service requests. In one implementation, virtual computer systems may be used to service requests in a more reliable manner. Different operating modes may be configured for backup redundancy and the caching service may be scaled to meet service requests for a particular application. Also, methods are provided for exchanging timestamp information among web service transaction systems to reduce the amount of processing capability and bandwidth for ensuring database to consistency. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046512 | DYNAMIC COLLECTION ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF TELEMETRY DATA - Technologies are generally described for collecting, analyzing and reporting telemetry data. A telemetry engine is built into a client application installed on a client device, and the telemetry engine is configured to collect and analyze application data at the client device and report the analyzed data to a service provider associated with the application. The telemetry application includes a specialized set of components, such as a telemetry transport component configured to communicate with the service provider, a data collection module configured to retrieve data from the application, and a rule manager and analyzer configured to analyze collected data according to a set of data collection rules provided by the service provider. The telemetry engine enables collection and analysis of telemetry data from multiple distributed client devices. The client devices dynamically change over time to ensure that current and important information is reported to the service provider. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY AND USE OF INTEGRATION APPLICATIONS - A system and method of assembly and use of integration applications includes receiving a first request for services from a first client, the first request for services includes a first custom services header including one or more service descriptors, parsing the first custom services header to extract each of the service descriptors, determining a service corresponding to each of the service descriptors, inserting a request for the service into an integration application, deploying the integration application to an application server, adding a first entry to an application list, the first entry corresponding to the integration application, forwarding the first request for services to the integration application, receiving a response from the integration application, and returning the response to the first client. In some examples, the system and method further includes periodically purging one or more other integration applications from the application server based on timestamps recorded in the application list. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046514 | Target Content Video Delivery - A call manager is configured to establish an initial session between an agent and a user. A play request or a hold request from an agent device includes a video index value based on information from the user. The call manager interrupts the initial session between the agent device and the user device in response to the request and sends an invite message including the video index value to a media server. The media server accesses a video database based on the video index value for a video and establishes a communication session with the client endpoint device. The communication session includes a stream of the video from the video database. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING SPONSORED CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK INTERFACE - A system and method may optional include or utilize a processor configured to receive a request for social network content for display in a sponsored content position in a newsfeed of a social network interface, the position having a position criterion, identify a sponsored content item of multiple sponsored content items stored on a database based, at least in part, on a characteristic of the sponsored content item meeting the position criterion, a bid associated with the sponsored content item, and a scaling factor, wherein each of the sponsored content items correspond to one of multiple item types and at least two of the sponsored content items are of a different item type. The scaling factor for each of the sponsored content items is based on the item type of the corresponding one of the sponsored content items. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046516 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A first apparatus inquires the second apparatus about whether a first data can be transmitted, in a case where the transmission is approved by the second apparatus, transmits the data to the second apparatus, and in a case where the transmission is not approved by the second apparatus, receives data from the second apparatus and outputs the data with its own data to a storage medium, and the second apparatus determines that a data is transmitted from the first apparatus on the basis of a condition pertaining to a second data communications channel, and upon having determined to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, receives the data from the first apparatus and transmits the data with its own data to a server via the second data communications channel, and upon having determined not to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, transmits its own data to the first apparatus. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046517 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND CLIENT TERMINAL - A client terminal of an information delivery system displays questions for diagnosing the personality of a user, and multiple choices as answers to the questions on a personality diagnosing screen. After any of the multiple choices have been selected by the user, delivery settings corresponding to the selected multiple choices are selected as initial values, and the delivery settings are transmitted to the server in the form of the initial values as is, or after changes have been made thereto by the user. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046518 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF NOTIFYING UPDATED CONTENTS OF WEBPAGE AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING UPDATED CONTENTS OF WEBPAGE - An updated contents notification method includes determining and storing a plurality of favorite websites. The method obtains contents of webpages corresponding to the stored favorite websites from a web server via a first communication unit, and determines whether the contents of webpages corresponding to the stored favorite websites have been updated. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046519 | PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR SYNCHRONIZING BROWSER CACHES ACROSS DEVICES AND WEB SERVICES - A computer user may use a computing environment comprising a set of computers that respectively feature a web browser having a browser cache containing many types of data objects, including application resources and user-generated data files. However, the contents of a browser cache significantly contribute to the computing environment of a computer, and the computing environments presented by each computer may diverge, providing an inconsistent computing environment. Instead, the contents of browser caches of the computers comprising the computing environment may be synchronized across computers. Additionally, the browser cache may be synchronized with the other data objects of a computing environment (such as relevant portions of the filesystem); the synchronizing may be implemented as an out-of-browser process executing independently of the applications, and even when the browser is not executing; and the synchronization may be exposed through a programmatic access with which web applications may interact. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046520 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - The application relates to an image display method, apparatus, and system. An application program running on a server initiates an image display instruction for displaying an image on a remote client. The image is processed at the server according to an image processing policy which corresponds to the type or the name of the application program, and the processed image is sent to the remote client for display. The image processing policy takes into consideration of requirements of the client, thus the problem of mismatching between the processed image and the capacities of the client is avoided. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE ACCESS TO CLOUD-ENABLED NETWORK DEVICES - A system and method for optimizing communication between a client and a cloud-enabled network device communicating over the internet are provided. The method includes receiving a request from the client to access a user interface of the cloud-enabled network device; checking if the request is for a static resource of the user interface; upon determining that the request is for a static resource, sending the static resource from the cloud relay server to the client over the internet; and relaying the request to the cloud-enabled network device over the secure tunnel if the request cannot be served by the cloud relay server. In an embodiment, the cloud-enabled network device is connected in a local area network and communicates with the cloud relay server over a secure tunnel. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046522 | APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES AS A BUNDLE - A system and method are provided for managing bundles of applications and services over a network between a server system and client computers. Related applications and services are bundled together in one package so that a user is able to quickly and easily configure a computer to perform a specified task. By combining both the applications and the services in one bundle, users no longer have to search the Internet for necessary components. Furthermore, additional features that allow portability of the bundled applications and services in addition to diagnostic monitoring are included. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046523 | APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES AS A BUNDLE - A system and method are provided for managing bundles of applications and services over a network between a server system and client computers. Related applications and services are bundled together in one package so that a user is able to quickly and easily configure a computer to perform a specified task. By combining both the applications and the services in one bundle, users no longer have to search the Internet for necessary components. Furthermore, additional features that allow portability of the bundled applications and services in addition to diagnostic monitoring are included. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046524 | Data Management for Mobile Data System - A data architecture provides mobile clients with the ability to gain access to business enterprise data sources through configurable Views that interface with the data sources through Data Objects that are defined by Commands, which in turn communicate with the data sources through Connectors (also referred to as Adapters). Each type of View will interface to the data sources with a different functionality so that communications links and other system resources can be used more efficiently. The View types can include Direct Views, Derived Views, Delegated Views, and Definition Views. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046525 | REDUNDANT DATA REQUESTS WITH CANCELLATION - A method of processing a request, performed by a respective server, is provided in which a request is received from a client. After receiving the request, a determination is made as to whether at least a first predefined number of other servers have a task-processing status for the request indicating that the other servers have undertaken performance of a task-processing operation for the request. When less than the first number of other servers in the set of other servers have the task-processing status for the request, a processing-status message is sent to one or more of the servers in the set of other servers indicating that the respective server is performing the task-processing operation. Upon completion of the task-processing, a result of the processing is sent to the client contingent upon a status of the other servers in the set of other servers. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046526 | Magnetic Induction Network Device - A network device has a housing, a magnetic induction charger, a wireless data link and a processor. The housing has one or more sides. The induction charger is housed by the housing and is arranged to wirelessly charge a rechargeable battery of a portable electronic device. The electronic device is adjacent to or in contact with the housing. The wireless data link communicates with the portable electronic device. The processor communicates with the magnetic induction charger and the wireless data link. In addition, the processor recognizes the portable electronic device and associates a profile with the portable electronic device. The processor delivers content to an associated media device based on the profile. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046527 | MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE SPACE - Managing a collaborative space includes providing a collaborative space in which a number of users collaborate from respective client devices, monitoring content of the collaborative space to determine a context of collaboration in the collaborative space, and changing an operation of at least one functionality of the collaborative space based on the determined context of collaboration in the collaborative space. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046528 | OBJECTIVE VALUE MODELS FOR ENTITY RECOMMENDATION - A method for making entity recommendations to users of a social networking system (SNS) by maximizing a predicted benefit to the SNS through objective value models. The method includes generating a plurality of candidate entities eligible for recommendation, and determining a weight for each candidate entity based upon an output score generated by an objective value model. The objective value model utilizes objectively measurable input values describing the candidate entities and generates larger output scores for those candidate entities that would create larger predicted increases in an objectively measurable amount of benefit for the SNS created by a potential connection being created between the user and the respective candidate entity. One or more entities are selected based upon the determined weights, and an entity recommendation user interface is presented to the user that includes one or more recommendation modules identifying the selected one or more entities. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046529 | MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE SPACE - Managing a collaborative space includes providing a collaborative space in which a number of users collaborate from respective client devices, monitoring content of the collaborative space to determine a context of collaboration in the collaborative space, and changing an operation of at least one functionality of the collaborative space based on the determined context of collaboration in the collaborative space. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SMART POSTS IN FEEDS - Methods and systems are provided for reducing noise in a social media feed of the type including successive posts each having a substantially homogeneous format. The method may involve: identifying a plurality of related updates to a record; configuring a single smart post to include underlying content from each of the plurality of related updates, and a visual cue distinct from the substantially homogeneous format; and displaying the smart post in the feed. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046531 | MESSAGING SYSTEM, TOPIC MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MESSAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a specific message flow is formed among a plurality of processes, process insertion and removal are facilitated. A topic management device includes a correspondence table storage unit which stores correspondence data which associates an abstract topic which is a topic described in a program with a real topic which is a topic for controlling message transmission and reception for each process to be executed by a processing device, and a topic management service control unit which transmits the correspondence data to the processing device. The processing device includes a topic lookup unit which receives the correspondence data from the topic management device, and a message processing unit which transmits and receives a message using the real topic corresponding to the abstract topic described in the program of a process to be executed based on the correspondence data received in the topic lookup unit. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046532 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING AUTOMATED METADATA AUGMENTATION IN A HIERARCHICAL LEVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) CLOUD COMPUTING AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM - A method for supporting automated metadata augmentation in a hierarchical level architecture for machine-to-machine (M2M) cloud computing, wherein metadata is employed to provide descriptive information about entities, wherein said entities are generated at a lower level of said architecture, in particular at the bottom level of said architecture, wherein said entities are propagated from said lower level, in particular via one or more levels, upwards to an upper level of said architecture, in particular to the application level of said architecture, and wherein metadata is added to said entities on one or more of the levels of said architecture, is characterized in that feedback information based on one or more of said entities is generated at said upper level of said architecture, and wherein said feedback information is propagated downwards in said architecture. Furthermore, a corresponding system is disclosed. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046533 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM - A delegate unit for a conference system comprises a user interface, a web browser arranged for accessing and displaying on the user interface web-based multimedia content, a web server arranged for delivering the multimedia content to the web browser, and storage means for storing the multimedia content. The web browser and the web server are adapted for communicating with each other. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND PROCESSING SENSOR DATA IN AN INTERFACING-DEVICE NETWORK - An interfacing device is configured to process one or more rules, based on sensor data, to perform a predetermined action. During operation, the device can establish a network connection with a device controller, and receives a device configuration that includes a rule for the interfacing device. The rule can include an action description for performing an action, and can include a condition that takes sensor data as input and indicates criteria for performing the action. The device can store the rule in a rule repository, and determines data generated by processing the rule's action description. When the device receives a data-subscription request for the data generated by processing the rule's action description, the device determines a remote interfacing device which issued the data-subscription request, and stores the data-subscription request, for the data generated by the rule's action description, in association with the remote interfacing device. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046535 | Method and Computer Program Product for Operating a Relationship Mapping Site - Methods and computer program products for facilitating the operation of Internet-based (i.e., online) social networking sites are disclosed. Such methods and computer program products allow people to discover, explore and maintain relationship paths (i.e., links) with any other person in the world by utilizing the fact that every person has one or more “relationship paths” to everyone else through varying degrees of separation. The power of the Internet, via online social networking sites, is leveraged to build a comprehensive database revealing how each person is connected to everyone by designating certain users of the site as “hubs,” “gateways” and/or “connectors. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046536 | Selectively Porting Meeting Objects - Customizing an electronic meeting broadcast is described in which the meeting canvas is customized to the capabilities of the device of the participating user. The meeting server manages the electronic meeting including each of the participants' connections into the electronic collaboration space. As a part of the connection mechanism, the meeting server or a proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server has information on the capabilities of individual devices accessing the electronic meeting. Based on these capabilities and/or selections made by the meeting participant, the meeting server or proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server selectively identifies zero or more meeting objects from a collection of meeting objects supporting the meeting canvas of an electronic meeting and transmits only those meeting objects to the participant's device. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046537 | RETRIEVING VIDEO ANNOTATION METADATA USING A P2P NETWORK AND COPYRIGHT FREE INDEXES - Video programs (media) are analyzed, often using computerized image feature analysis methods. Annotator index descriptors or signatures that are indexes to specific video scenes and items of interest are determined, and these in turn serve as an index to annotator metadata (often third party metadata) associated with these video scenes. The annotator index descriptors and signatures, typically chosen to be free from copyright restrictions, are in turn linked to annotator metadata, and then made available for download on a P2P network. Media viewers can then use processor equipped video devices to select video scenes and areas of interest, determine the corresponding user index, and send this user index over the P2P network to search for index linked annotator metadata. This metadata is then sent back to the user video device over the P2P network. Thus video programs can be enriched with additional content without transmitting any copyrighted video data. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046538 | System And Method For Algorithmic Selection Of A Consensus From A Plurality Of Ideas - A system and method for algorithmic selection of a consensus from a collection of ideas is disclosed. A group of ideas is provided to a group of participants for voting. Voting may occur in a single round or in several successive rounds, optionally until a consensus idea is chosen. Typically, the votes that are cast use discrete levels, such as “approve”, “disapprove”, “positive”, “neutral” or “negative”. For ideas that receive the same votes, a differentiator may be the time spent casting the vote. A relatively long evaluation time may signal some internal conflict in the mind of the participant, when compared with a relatively short evaluation time, which may signal no such conflict. The evaluation time may be combined with the rating of the participant to form a weighted rating. Consequently, a short evaluation time of a positive rating may yield a more positive weighted rating, while a short evaluation time of a negative rating may yield a more negative weighted rating. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046539 | TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NON-MEMBER CONNECTIONS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide a relevance engine for determining a relevance of an individual (either a non-member or another member) to another individual (either a non-member or another member). This relevance engine may use signals in the form of data that the social networking service may learn about the individuals to determine how relevant the individuals are to each other. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046540 | MANAGING UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCES VIA CATEGORIES - A conference management system is described for administering large numbers of conferences in an organization. The conference management system receives a hierarchical set of categories from a system administrator and configuration settings for each category. When a user requests to create a new conference, the conference management system creates the conference and assigns the new conference to a category. The conference takes on the settings of the category to which it belongs, which eliminates individual configuration of each conference. Administrators can also delegate authority to manage conferences to others in the organization. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGING CLUSTER WITH HYBRID PARTITIONS - Described herein is a system and method for providing a messaging cluster with hybrid partitions. In accordance with an embodiment, a computer environment or messaging system includes a cluster of message brokers, which supports a hybrid of one or more fixed type partitions and/or on-demand type partitions. A message producer can be associated with a configuration that indicates a type of partition to be used for connection with that message producer. The cluster of message brokers assign to that connection a partition of the type indicated by the connection. Upon a load-balancing or failover of a message broker having active connections to message producers, those connections having an indication of fixed type partition are assigned to the same partition at a failed-over message broker, while those connections having an indication of on-demand type partition can be assigned to any on-demand partition at the failed-over message broker. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046542 | Server Device for Exchanging Messages - Since only users registered in a chatting service are subject of friends on the chatting service, unregistered users cannot become friends. A server apparatus controls a message exchanged between registered users who are registered in a chatting service, and controls a message exchanged between a registered user and an unregistered user. Also, the server apparatus manages a friend list of the registered user, and recommends other user to be added to the friend list with respect to the registered user. Also, the server apparatus determines other user to be recommended to the registered user by using a predetermined condition set according to the presence or absence of registration in the chatting service. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046543 | Real Life to Digital Life Event Correlation - A method and system for correlating events with social media is provided. The method includes retrieving from a social network, social network data associated with users of the social network. The social network data is associated with event data associated with a user of the users. Temporary actions associated with a social network account of the user are enabled and a notification is transmitted to a group of users. In response, confirmation data associated with enabling the temporary actions is received from the group of users and permanent actions associated with the temporary actions are enabled. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046544 | Mirror Presence Between Websites - A mirror presence system comprising a mirror site configured to couple to a visitor site via a communication network, establish a mirror presence relationship between the mirror site and the visitor site, perform a mirror presence at the mirror site by mirroring a direct presence of the user at the visitor site to a mirror presence of a user at the mirror site according to the established mirror presence relationship when the user is connect to the visitor site through a user device, wherein the direct presence of the user at the visitor site occurs when the user connects to the visitor site directly, and provide a caller accessing the mirror site through a calling site with an online presence state of the user at the mirror site according to the mirror presence even though the user is not directly connected to the mirror site. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046545 | SEPARATING AND SENDING PRIVATE TEXT FROM AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A computer program product including computer readable program code embodied on a computer readable storage medium, includes computer readable program code for receiving an original message from a sender, wherein the original message includes multiple portions of content and designates one or more recipients for each of the portions of content, wherein at least one of the portions of content is designated for multiple recipients. The computer program product further comprises computer readable program code for automatically, in response to receiving the original message from the sender, preparing a separate message designated for each recipient, wherein the separate message designated for a particular one of the recipients includes only those portions of content from the original message that are designated for the particular recipient. The computer program product still further comprises computer readable program code for forwarding each of the separate messages to the designated recipient. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046546 | SEPARATING AND SENDING PRIVATE TEXT FROM AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method comprising receiving an original message from a sender, wherein the original message includes multiple portions of content and designates one or more recipients for each of the portions of content, wherein at least one of the portions of content is designated for multiple recipients. The method further comprises automatically, in response to receiving the original message from the sender, preparing a separate message designated for each recipient, wherein the separate message designated for a particular one of the recipients includes only those portions of content from the original message that are designated for the particular recipient. The method still further comprises forwarding each of the separate messages to the designated recipient. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046547 | OPTIMIZING E-MAIL FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Methods and systems of optimizing e-mail for mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, an e-mail message is caused to be displayed within an e-mail client on a mobile device. The e-mail message comprises a selectable link corresponding to a website action that can be performed on a website. A user on the mobile device is enabled to cause a performance of an e-mail action corresponding to the website action via the e-mail client without navigating to the website, such as via a new e-mail message generated within the e-mail client. A mobile link configured to cause the performance of the action via the e-mail client can be included in the e-mail message. A CSS pseudo-element can be included in CSS rules for the e-mail message. The CSS pseudo-element can be configured to generate mobile content associated with the mobile link. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046548 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING CONTENTS THEREOF, AND MASSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE RELATED TO CONTENTS - A method for reproducing content by a terminal includes reproducing content received from a content providing system, receiving a first message through a user interface of the terminal while the content is being reproduced, and transmitting time information of the content at which the first message was input and the first message to a message management system. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046549 | TOOL SELECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a tool selection method, a computer refers to information of work models each associating an attribute of a work tool with a pair of an object character string related to a work object and an activity character string including verbs related to work activities, the information being stored in a memory, detects a pair of an object character string and an activity character string from an e-mail, specifies a work model corresponding to the detected pair, and specifies a work tool having an attribute corresponding to the specified work model. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046550 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums configure electronic messaging applications to communicate with a server storing messages to and/or from an electronic messaging account of a user. A method involves receiving an electronic message address and a password of the user as inputs, deriving server connection settings based on the electronic message address, and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account. Another method involves receiving an electronic message address of the user and discovering the server connection settings for the electronic messaging account on a server having a designated protocol name as a server prefix name to assist in locating the server and having the server connection settings. The method also involves retrieving the server connection settings from a file provided by the server in response to locating the server having the designated name and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Arrangements relate to the grouping electronic messages by a messaging client. A plurality of electronic messages to a message recipient from a sender electronic messaging system can be received. Each of the electronic messages can include a container specification, which can include an identifier assigned by the sender electronic messaging system. The identifiers of the received electronic messages can be compared. A plurality of the received electronic messages having the same identifier can be grouped. The grouped electronic messages can be presented as a single electronic message to the message recipient. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046552 | UPDATING AN E-MAIL RECIPIENT LIST - Arrangements describe herein relate to updating an e-mail recipient list. A first version of an e-mail can be received, the first version comprising a message header identifying at least a first e-mail recipient. The first version of the e-mail can be sent to the first e-mail recipient indicated in the message header. A second version of the e-mail can be received, the second version of the e-mail indicating at least a second e-mail recipient. The second version can be sent to the at least second e-mail recipient indicated in the message header of the second version. An update request for the first version can be received, the update request configured to be processed to update the message header of the first version to add the at least second e-mail recipient to the message header. The update request can be sent to the at least first e-mail recipient. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046553 | Communications Routing and Contact Updates - A system allowing a user to efficiently locate and contact those individuals the user would like to communicate with and for collection of data about users to determine the best contact point to use at a particular time. The system monitors the data and may determine an individual's usage patterns in order to select or suggest contact points that are the best to contact a particular user at a particular time. The system may also allow for the routing of communications to particular contact points based on how the user receiving the communication would prefer to be contacted. The system allows for the single selection of an icon by an individual and automatically determines the contact point to contact the particular user. If further allows for the particular user to push out to others updated contact information. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046554 | Dynamic Duty-Cycling of Processor of Mobile Device Based on Operating Condition of Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method includes recording a first location of a mobile device; determining, by a geographic-positioning component of the mobile device, on a periodic basis, a trajectory of the mobile device, wherein the trajectory is calculated based on present and past user locations; determining, by the geographic-positioning component, whether the trajectory is outside a geographic region defined at least in part by the first location; and if the trajectory is outside the geographic region, then transmitting, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, a message to one or more other processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the other processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046555 | MESSAGE BROKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A message broker system can include a message broker. The message broker can be configured to receive the message instances output as input message instances, store the input message instances in a message store, alter the structure or content of the input message instances according to a message brokering model to generate output message instances and provide output message instances to one or more downstream processors. According to one embodiment, input message stream processing can be decoupled from output message stream processing by the message broker. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046556 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus acquires status information representing a status of a predetermined status item in an apparatus, and decides the acquired status as a subject for notification to be notified to a user upon meeting at least one of a condition that the status of the predetermined status item represented by the status information is different from a status represented by status information acquired before the acquisition and a condition that a priority of the predetermined status item is higher than a predetermined priority. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046557 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A VIRTUAL BUCKET TO TRANSFER ELECTRONIC DATA - A system that enables a mobile communication device to transfer data to or from a computer system using communication data read from an NFC tag. The first device transfers the data and is temporarily held until the second device removes the data. Once the data is removed, the location where the data was temporarily held is emptied. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHOOSING LOWEST LATENCY PATH - A mechanism for reducing network latency by choosing the lowest latency network path, or a lower latency network path, from server to client. Instead of using a static, pre-built system for determining latency, the lowest latency path may be dynamically determined for each client connection at the time of connection establishment. Further, latency information may be periodically determined over time and averaged or otherwise utilized to account for changing network conditions. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046559 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING STATELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO OR MORE DEVICES - The present disclosure relates generally to communication technologies, and more particularly to a method and system for establishing a stateless communication between the two devices. In one embodiment, a method for providing communication is disclosed, comprising: receiving a first trigger signal from the electronic device and a second trigger signal from the mobile device; matching the first trigger signal with the second trigger signal in order to validate the communication between the electronic device and the mobile device; generating a first identification token for the electronic device and a second identification token for the mobile device based on the matching; transmitting the first identification token to the electronic device and the second identification token to the mobile device; and providing the communication between the electronic device and the mobile device based on the first identification token and the second identification token. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CUSTOMIZED DATA BROADCASTS - A system for wirelessly transmitting and receiving customized data broadcasts comprising at least one computer apparatus running an application for customized data broadcasts. The computer apparatus uses the application to transmit and/or receive at least one broadcast. The system is further comprised of a server network infrastructure with: the application, at least one application server, at least one web server; and at least one database/information server. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046561 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a packet receiving unit, a registration unit, and a software specification unit. The packet receiving unit receives a packet flowing in a communication network. The registration unit registers one or more devices connected to the communication network. The software specification unit specifies a software application installed in a registered device among the one or more registered devices, on the basis of information regarding a file contained in the packet, the packet being transmitted or received by the registered device. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046562 | WEB BROWSER ORCHESTRATION - The invention relates to enabling one or more users or applications to orchestrate, through direct or indirect communications between Web browser instances, the operation of multiple of the Web browser instances, and/or pages of the same Web browser instance, thereby enhancing user experience and functionality. The invention thus provides for interacting with a computer generated webpage. In a particular embodiment, the method defines a centrally managed target set account on a target set server, and logging-in to the target set account from each device to be included the target set. An entry is created for each such logged-in device and each entry includes at least an identifier for each device and connection information for each device. Using the target set server, the information stored in the entries in the target set can be enabled as interactive displays on each of the devices identified in the target set entries. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046563 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE, ITS ARITHMETIC PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ARITHMETIC PROCESSING PROGRAM - An arithmetic processing device includes a first storage for storing processing contents in a state where the processing contents are associated with addresses, a second storage for storing each of the addresses of the processing contents stored in the first storage, a holding portion, a reading portion-for successively reading the addresses stored in the second storage and outputting the read addresses to the holding portion, and an execution portion for reading the processing content corresponding to the address output from the holding portion from the first storage and executing the read processing content. When the holding portion holds no address, the holding portion temporarily holds the address read by the reading portion and outputs the held address, whereas when the holding portion holds the address, the holding portion waits for completion of the execution of the processing content by the execution portion and outputs the held address after the completion of the execution. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENT RELATED DATA TO AT LEAST ONE GROUPED CLIENT IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A method of transmitting content data to at least one client that is grouped in a cloud environment is provided. The method includes receiving content use influence information for each client; determining a reference client based on the content use influence information; controlling to generate a group including at least one neighbor client that has similar information as content preference information of the reference client; and transmitting content data used by the reference client to the at least one neighbor client included in the generated group. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHIVING MESSAGES - A computer-implemented method for archiving messages is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring messages associated with a messaging application running on a messaging device; detecting at least one message marked for archiving; and sending each message marked for archiving to an archiving server for storage in association with a user account. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046566 | Building a Social Graph Using Sharing Activity of Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. Building of the social graph can include creating an edge in the social graph that is representative of a particular category type. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046567 | CENTRAL SERVER, PROXY SERVER ARRANGEMENT FOR USE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET - A proxy server including a computer program product is provided. The computer program product is disposed on a computer readable media, and the product includes computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for modification of information received via the Internet, according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information, and to modify content by the proxy server, of information received via the Internet, according to the rule protocol. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLAYING MULTICAST OVER-THE-TOP (OTT) CONTENT STREAMS - A method and system for multicast transmission of OTT streams to players that do not support multicast format are provided. The method includes establishing a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection with a media player; establishing a user datagram protocol (UDP) connection with a multicast delivery server (MDS); receiving an OTT content stream in a multicast streaming format via the UDP connection; reformatting the received multicast OTT content stream into a unicast stream; and delivering the unicast stream via the TCP connection to the media player, wherein the unicast stream is a streaming format supported by the media player. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046569 | EASY RADIO STATION NETWORK - A method and system for providing a digital platform including interactive tools to a plurality of consumers to enable a consumer to be a broadcaster of content, via streaming, by hosting a personal radio station of the consumer and simultaneously to be a consumer of content broadcasted, via streaming, by other consumers are disclosed. The content can include music, video, graphics, photographs, slide show, audio and other multimedia content. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046570 | SERVER FUNCTION FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE BASED CONTENT DELIVERY - A method for operating a server includes receiving, at the server, a request from a mobile device identifying a data file and retrieving the data file from a remote storage device in response to receiving the request. A party other than a party that operates the server operates the remote storage device. A number of collaborator devices are identified. Each of the number of collaborator devices is capable of establishing a mobile-to-mobile communications link with the mobile device. Respective portions of the data file are allocated to each of the number of collaborator devices based on at least one of (a) throughputs associated with the number of collaborator devices and (b) potential debits charged by the number of collaborator devices. Respective portions of the data file are transmitted to each of the number of collaborator devices according to the allocation. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046571 | MANAGING ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF DATA VIA A COMMUNICATION CONNECTION - An example method includes requesting a data stream using a buffer with an initial maximum window size for buffering received data associated with the requested data stream, receiving into the buffer one or more data segments associated with the data stream, removing from the buffer one or more data segments for use by a receiving device, and determining a current window size of the buffer, wherein the current window size is equal to the maximum window size less any data segments which have been received that have not been removed from the buffer. The method further includes comparing the current window size to a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the current window size is less than the predetermined threshold, increasing the maximum window size, and initiating a buffer size increase timer having a current timer value and a timer expiration value. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046572 | Extending Virtual Station Interface Discovery Protocol (VDP) and VDP-Like Protocols for Dual-Homed Deployments in Data Center Environments - Techniques are provided for provisioning network resources for virtual machines. At a first switch device, a configuration request message is received from a virtual switch to provision virtual network segmentation resources for a virtual machine managed by the virtual switch. The first switch device provisions the virtual network segmentation resources for the virtual machine. The first switch devices sends to a second switch device a first synchronization message that includes information describing the virtual network segmentation resources. The second switch device is a peer of the first switch device. The first switch device also sends to the second switch device a second synchronization message that includes state information indicating that the first switch device is in an active state for servicing the virtual machine and that the second switch device is to be placed in a dormant state for servicing the virtual machine. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046573 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SERVER - In a media server, a registration processing block registers a client apparatus connectable to the media server and an information provision block provides information related with the registered client apparatus to an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus, when an information acquisition block acquires information related with two or more client apparatuses, then a display processing block generates display data for displaying type identification information and device identification information for each client apparatus. The type identification information is a name of the client apparatus and the device identification information is a MAC address. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046574 | SYSTEM TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE, THROUGHPUT AND RELIABILITY OF AN EXISTING CLOUD OFFERING - In for enhancing performance of applications, a cloud application programming interface (API) abstraction layer receives a request from an application of a given entity for core services shared among a plurality of entities. A requestor of the request is determined, and the performance level information for the requestor is determined based on entity specific performance rules defined by the given entity. The entity specific performance rules defined by the given entity are applied to requests from the application of the given entity and are not applied to requests from the other entities of the plurality of entities. The performance level information is included in the request. The request is routed for servicing by one or more of the core services using the performance level information in the request without affecting servicing of requests from other entities of the plurality of entities. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046575 | CONTENT DELIVERY METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Aspects of the present disclosure involve provisioning customers of an aggregator, such as a reseller, of a content delivery network (CDN). In one aspect, content requests to the CDN are processed in accordance with the virtual IP (VIP) address at which the request was received, according to a property template bound to the VIP where the template is selected by the customer and only involves discrete parameters for the reseller. In another aspect, cache fills of the network are processed without direct knowledge of the customer origin through a combination of some request attribute, e.g., alias host of the customer, and an attribute of the reseller to make a DNS request to a name server outside the CDN. Another aspect involves receiving a property template selection, an origin and an alias from a customer of the reseller, and providing appropriate DNS entries to validate the customer and provide origin information to the CDN. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046576 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A management server issues a token associated with friend network identification information identifying a user of a game provided by an application server, to the application server; receives the token passed from the game to another game on the basis of an operation of the user in a terminal apparatus where the game and the other game are available, from an application server that provides the other game; and manages, in association with each other, the friend network identification information related to the game and friend network identification information related to the other game for which the issued token matches the received token. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046577 | DNS PACKAGE IN A PARTITIONED NETWORK - A Domain Name System (“DNS”) package and a method for providing domain name resolution services in a partitioned network are disclosed. The system may include one or more built-in root name servers; one or more built-in top level domain (“TLD”) name servers; and a recursive name server. The recursive name server may be configured to query the one or more built-in root name servers during domain name resolution. Moreover, the one or more built-in root name servers may be configured to provide a network address corresponding to one of the built-in TLD name servers in response to a domain name resolution query sent by the recursive name server. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046578 | MOBILE TROUBLE TICKET - A device is configured to determine that the device is experiencing a problem, and to determine a problem type associated with the problem. The device is configured to determine a set of questions, based on the problem type, and to provide the set of questions to a user of the device. The device is configured to receive user input including responses to the set of questions. The device is configured to determine device information associated with one or more hardware components, hardware attributes, or software attributes associated with the user device. The device is configured to generate a trouble ticket based on the set of questions, the user input and the device information, and to transmit the trouble ticket. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046579 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DE-DUPLICATE IMPRESSION INFORMATION - Example methods and apparatus to de-duplicate impression information. An example method includes accessing a first set of cookies and a set of user identifiers, the cookies and user identifiers corresponding to devices accessing media via the Internet, identifying a pattern in the first set of cookies, obtaining impression information from a database proprietor, the impression information comprising a second set of cookies, identifying a subset of the second set of cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, and associating impressions corresponding to the identified subset with the same person. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046580 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, AND SERVER DEVICE - An information notification method for providing information from a server device to a plurality of devices connected to a network, including: reading notification information stored in association with information indicating a particular action of a user; acquiring operation histories of the plurality of devices; estimating, based on operation histories of one or more devices owned by the user among the plurality of devices, a no-operation period during which the user is unlikely to operate the one or more devices; determining, based on current operation state of the one or more devices, whether the particular action has been performed outside the no-operation period; and transmitting, when outcome of the determining is affirmative, the notification information associated with the particular action to a destination device among the one or more devices owned by the user. The destination device provides the user with the notification information. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046581 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In this invention, a start request terminal transmits start request information including participation restriction information and participation authentication information to a management system. A transmission/reception unit of a participation request terminal transmits, to the management system, participation request information with which the participation request terminal requests participating in an established session. A state management unit determines whether a participation permitted terminal ID in a terminal management table matches the terminal ID of the participation request terminal, and when the participation permitted terminal ID in a terminal management table matches the terminal ID of the participation request terminal, the transmission/reception unit transmits the participation authentication information to the participation request terminal to inquire the participation authentication information. The participation determination unit compares the participation authentication information about the participation request terminal and the participation authentication information in the terminal management table, and determines whether to allow participation in the established session. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046582 | APPARATUS FOR INTERNETWORKED WIRELESS INTEGRATED NETWORK SENSORS (WINS) - The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046583 | SYSTEM TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE, THROUGHPUT AND RELIABILITY OF AN EXISTING CLOUD OFFERING - In for enhancing performance of applications, a cloud application programming interface (API) abstraction layer receives a request from an application of a given entity for core services shared among a plurality of entities. A requestor of the request is determined, and the performance level information for the requestor is determined based on entity specific performance rules defined by the given entity. The entity specific performance rules defined by the given entity are applied to requests from the application of the given entity and are not applied to requests from the other entities of the plurality of entities. The performance level information is included in the request. The request is routed for servicing by one or more of the core services using the performance level information in the request without affecting servicing of requests from other entities of the plurality of entities. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046584 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046585 | INTER-APPARATUS CONNECTION VERIFICATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, WEB SERVER APPARATUS AND INTER-APPARATUS CONNECTION VERIFICATION METHOD - A system includes a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus configured to generate medical images of subjects and to generate connection verification support information to be used by a connection-target apparatus to verify connection with medical diagnostic imaging apparatus; a peripheral apparatus expected to be connected with the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus via a communication network and configured to operate the medical images generated by the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus; and a web server apparatus configured to record the connection verification support information generated by the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus. The peripheral apparatus verifies connection with the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus by using the connection verification support information acquired from the web server apparatus. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING CAPACITY BETWEEN SERVER CLUSTERS - A resource management system for a virtual machine computing environment includes a software component that optimizes capacity between server clusters or groups by monitoring the capacity of server clusters or groups and automatically adding and removing host systems to and from server clusters or groups. The software component may be implemented at a server cluster management level to monitor and execute host system moves between server clusters and/or at a higher level in the resource management hierarchy. At the higher level, the software component is configured to monitor and execute host system moves between sets of server clusters being managed by different server cluster management agents. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046587 | SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK FOR TRAFFIC BASED ON HEART-BEAT MESSAGES - A method of optimizing management of presence information over a mobile network includes determining, by a host server, the presence information of a user of a mobile application on a mobile device based on heartbeat messages, while a first connection between the mobile device and the host server is closed, wherein the user is determined to be online when heartbeat messages are received from the mobile device in regular intervals of time. The user is determined to be offline when heartbeat messages are not received from the mobile device. The method may further include maintaining or closing a second connection between the host server and a content server based on the presence information of the user. Maintaining the second connection allows the content server to determine that the user is online, and closing the second connection allows the content server to determine that the user is offline. | 2015-02-12 |
20150046588 | SWITCHING BETWEEN NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for switching between parallel networks. One of the methods includes maintaining a plurality of parallel networks including a first network that precludes access to secure resources, and a second network that provides access both to unsecured resources and secured resources, enabling a user device access to connect to the first network, receiving input from the user device seeking access to one or more secured resources, in response to the received input, installing a device management profile on the user device, and causing the user device to switch from the connection to the first network to a connection to the second network. | 2015-02-12 |