| 10th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
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| 20120059845 | Detecting Repeating Content In Broadcast Media - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for detecting repeating content in broadcast media. In some implementations, a method includes: generating a database of audio statistics from content; generating a query from the database of audio statistics; running the query against the database of audio statistics to determine a non-identity match; if a non-identity match exists, identifying the content corresponding to the matched query as repeating content. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059846 | METHOD FOR RETRIEVING OBJECT INFORMATION AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE APPLYING THE SAME - A method for retrieving object information is applied to a portable electronic device and includes the following steps. A global position system (GPS) module receives a position signal to get GPS data. A magnetic sensing module senses magnetic field to get azimuth direction data. A touch input module inputs an event which is a movement moving from a touch position towards an object to get input direction data. A processing module gets angle difference data according to the azimuth direction information and the input direction information. The information of the corresponding object from a database according to the parameters of the GPS data is retrieved, and the parameters of the GPS data, the azimuth direction data and the angle difference data are used by the processing module. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059847 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALLBACK SUPPLEMENTATION OF MEDIA PROGRAM METADATA - A method and apparatus for obtaining media program metadata is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of receiving a media program callback message in a content delivery system from a client device displaying a webpage retrieved from a host server, the media program embedded in the retrieved webpage, the callback message comprising a callback address to the webpage, and storing the address as metadata associated with the media program in the database. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059848 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED USER-INITIATED REVIEW AND PURCHASE RELATED INFORMATION AND ADVERTISING - Techniques are provided which include obtaining, from a user, a query for review or purchase information from users in a social network of the user, relating to a product, service or brand that, for example, the use ay be considering or intending to purchase. Based at least in part on the query, review or purchase information is obtained from multiple users in a social network of the user, relating to the duct, service or brand, and this information is used in formulating a reply to the user. Collected information may also be used in advertising targeted to the user. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059849 | Systems and Methods for Keyword Analyzer - In one embodiment, a system and method is provided to browse and analyze files comprising text strings tagged with metadata. The system and method comprise various functions including browsing the metadata tags in the file, browsing the text strings, selecting subsets of the text strings by including or excluding strings tagged with specific metadata tags, selecting text strings by matching patterns of words and/or parts of speech in the text string and matching selected text strings to a database to identify similar text string. The system and method further provide functions to generate suggested text selection rules by analyzing a selected subset of a plurality of text strings. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059850 | COMPUTERIZED FACE PHOTOGRAPH-BASED DATING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A computer vision dating system analyzes combinations of face features of the system's user's photographs and recommends potential dating partners. A user selects preferred and not-preferred faces from a sample of other user's pictures. The system analyzes the features of the preferred and not-preferred faces comparing the combinations of features in both categories with the features of other users in the database to find the users that most match the collective features preferred by the user. These pictures are presented to the user. Data from the user's profile input are analyzed to automatically generate the sample pictures from which the user selects his/her preferences. As the users are presented pictures after their sample selection, they can continue to select and reject pictures allowing the system to learn and refine the combinations of features and better locate those that most conform to a user's most preferred photo images. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059851 | Function-Oriented Mapping of Technological Concepts - A method of mapping technologies relating to a technical database to a technical system, wherein the method comprises describing the technical system by at least one function, abstracting the at least one function by determining at least one system function, deriving, for each of a plurality of reference documents of the technical database, a corresponding set of at least one reference function indicative of at least one function of the respective technology, and querying the sets of at least one reference function with regard to the at least one system function to determine a match between at least one respective technology and the technical system. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059852 | Apparatus, System and Method for Disambiguating a Request for a Media Enhancement - The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF LEARNING-BASED MATCHING - Some embodiments match address data in a database system having a corpus of address information stored therein. In some embodiments, an external address data for a company that is associated with a set of locations is received. Some embodiments determine whether the external address data matches existing address data that includes the set of locations using fuzzy matching techniques. In order to determine whether two addresses match, some embodiments perform fuzzy matching techniques that uses learned knowledge to identify aliases in the address pair. In situations where a contact is specified along with the external address data, the contact is tethered to one of the set of locations when the external address data is determined to match an address within the existing address data. Some embodiments create a new location for the company using the external address data when the external address data does not match the existing address data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059854 | RELOCATION OF METADATA SERVER WITH OUTSTANDING DMAPI REQUESTS - A cluster of computer system nodes share direct read/write access to storage devices via a storage area network using a cluster filesystem and operating system implementing DMAPI. Threads executing on a metadata client know when a DMAPI event is required, and generate the DMAPI event on their own initiative when necessary. A metadata server maintains DMAPI queues. If the metadata server relocates to another host, the DMAPI events in the DMAPI queues are moved transparently to users. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059855 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENABLING ORGANIZATION OF MEDIA OBJECTS - A method for enabling organization of a plurality of media objects is disclosed. The method comprises playing a digital media object to a user; capturing the interaction of the user with the played digital media object; and tagging the played digital media object based on said interaction. A software program product implementing this method, a system comprising the software program product and a digital media object tagged in accordance with this method are also disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059856 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT DATA TRANSFER - A system and method for transferring data are provided. The method comprises: sending, from a receiving device, a data query to request data from a sending device; receiving, from the sending device, a data result model in response to the data query, the data result model including a table block; analyzing the data result model to regenerate the data for storage at the receiving device in accordance with the table block; and providing the regenerated data for storage at the receiving device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059857 | PRESENTATION OF DATA OBJECT HIERARCHIES - Systems and methods for use in presenting a hierarchy of data objects. Data objects in a hierarchy are each associated with a node type of a plurality of node types. A graphical representation of the hierarchy is created. The graphical representation includes including a plurality of strata corresponding to the plurality of node types. A plurality of tree nodes representing the data objects is created. Each tree node is associated with the node type that corresponds to the associated data object. The tree nodes associated with the node type that corresponds to the stratum are included in each stratum of the plurality of strata. The graphical representation may include hierarchical connectors extending between the tree nodes and representing hierarchical relationships between the data objects represented by the tree nodes. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059858 | MINIMAL REPRESENTATION OF CONNECTING WALKS - Systems and methods for use in representing a path in a graph of nodes. A computing device determines an acyclical collection of primary edges that collectively reach all nodes within the graph, and also determines one or more secondary edges (e.g., edges other than the primary edges) between nodes of the graph. The computing device further determines a path between a first node of the graph and a second node of the graph. The path includes one or more of the primary edges and one or more of the secondary edges. The computing device represents the path as an abbreviated path including the first node, the second node, and the secondary edges in the path. The abbreviated path excludes one or more of the primary edges in the path. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059859 | Data Extraction Method, Computer Program Product and System - Disclosed is a method of automatically extracting data from a target web page, comprising selecting ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059860 | NETWORK CALLING PRIVACY WITH RECORDING - Compliance with a privacy database and call-specific applications is provided within a network. A service control function (SCF), in communication with a privacy database, selectively establishes a call between an origin and a destination. Based on origin or destination identifiers, call parameters are determined for further operations associated with the call. A server, responsive to the call parameters, performs monitoring of the call or post-call disposition to update the privacy database. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A RELATIONSHIP STRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for generating a data structure. A plurality of entity reference relationship structures is accessed. Each entity reference relationship structure establishes a relationship between a different pair of entity structures of a plurality of entity structures. Each path from a first vertex to a second vertex that corresponds to a second entity structure is determined. For each path, all coupled sets of pairs of entity instance identifiers, wherein each coupled set comprises a pair of entity instance identifiers from each entity reference relationship structure corresponding to the path are identified. For each coupled set, a first entity instance identifier in the each coupled set that refers to the first entity structure and a second entity instance identifier in the each coupled set that refers to the second entity structure are stored in association with one another in a new entity reference relationship structure. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059862 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALIDATING ONE OR MORE METADATA OBJECTS - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multitenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059863 | Fast Hierarchical Enrichment - A method of generating computer instructions for creating instances of a hierarchical data format from a flat record stream, the flat record stream containing data in a flat format and containing at least some data redundancy. The method uses a computing device having at least a processor, a memory, a display device and an input device. The method includes allowing a developer to use the input device to create a graphical representation of the hierarchical data format, and allowing a developer to use the input device to create a graphical representation of a mapping between the flat format and the hierarchical format. The method further includes generating, at the processor, computer instructions which when executed on a computer cause the computer to create from the flat record stream instances of the hierarchical format, wherein the instances of the hierarchical format remove the data redundancy. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059864 | Balancing Caching Load In A Peer-To-Peer Based Network File System - Systems and techniques relating to network file systems for balancing caching load in peer-to-peer based network file systems are described. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining, by a cluster containing two or more computer systems, information about files cached at a network that includes three or more computer systems configured to cache data associated with a file server system. The method also includes receiving, from one of the computer systems of the network, a request to identify at least one computer system of the network that caches a specified file. Further, the method includes identifying, by the cluster in response to the received request, one or more computer systems of the network that cache the specified file based on the maintained information. Furthermore, the method includes providing, by the cluster to the requesting computer system, information referencing at least the identified one or more computer systems of the network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059865 | ANALYSIS METHOD USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, AND ANALYTICAL COMPUTATION PROGRAM USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - An analysis method using a finite element method includes: selecting an analysis domain to be analyzed; dividing the analysis domain into elements as calculation objects; creating a matrix of each element; integrating a general function term as a product of a Galerkin weight function and a general function; creating simultaneous equations, based on the sum of matrices of respective elements and the sum of values obtained by integrating the general function term, and obtaining a numerical solution from the simultaneous equations. In integrating the general function term, the concept of a nodal domain defined based on a result of discretization of a second-order differential term according to a Galerkin finite element method is introduced, and the general function term using a typical value of the element is integrated. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059866 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FLOATING-POINT DIVISION - A method and apparatus provides for performing floating-point division using input check/output correction floating-point division logic and a floating-point division fix-up instruction (e.g., an instruction, command, signal or other indicator). In one example, the apparatus includes a processor having a floating-point arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that includes the input check/output correction floating-point division logic. The input check/output correction floating-point division logic is responsive to the floating-point division fix-up instruction executable by the floating-point ALU that causes the input check/output correction floating-point division logic to examine a first input representing a numerator and a second input representing a denominator to determine whether a special case of floating-point division occurs. The floating-point division fix-up instruction also causes the input check/output correction floating-point division logic to provide an output representing a floating-point division result based on the determined special case of floating-point division and a third input representing a candidate quotient. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059867 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, REQUEST TARGET SELECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - The terminal device includes a processing section which performs a predetermined process; a connecting section which is configured for connection with an external apparatus capable of performing the predetermined process through a communication network; and a selecting section which selects the processing section or the external apparatus connected through the connecting section as a request target which is requested to perform the predetermined process, on the basis of a predetermined condition. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059868 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN A NUMBER OF FIRST SERVICES AND A NUMBER OF SECOND SERVICES - In a method for communicating between a number of first services and a number of second services. The number of first services belongs to a service-oriented architecture, in which a respective first service is provided by messages based on a question-answer mechanism by a first protocol. The number of second services belongs to a data-based architecture, in which second services can be switched together by a second protocol. The second protocol specifies data input and data output of the second service and transfers the data between the second services. A message of a first service, entering into the service converter, is converted into data input of a second service associated with the first service and/or data output of a second service, entering into the service converter is converted into a message emitted by the service converter, of a first service associated with the second service. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059869 | WEB BROWSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING DYNAMIC RESOURCE URIS USING SCRIPT - A method of communicating with a web server for web browsing, and an apparatus and system to perform the method, is provided. The method includes extracting resource information from script included in web page information, transmitting the resource information to the web server to request a resource corresponding to the resource information, and storing the resource. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059870 | System and Method for Territory-Based Processing of Information - A system and method for processing information leverages territory-based processing capabilities to provide efficient distributed processing of processing jobs. For example, hive engines can be organized into territories based on their physical locations to support the distributed processing of processing jobs within particular territories. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059871 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE EFFICIENT EXCHANGE OF HIERARCHICAL DATA - Systems and methods are disclose for facilitating the transfer of hierarchical data to a computer memory are provided. A disclosed method may include receiving an electronic document containing hierarchical data, memory layout information, and memory address information, wherein the memory address information comprises a base address. The data may be restructuring to conform with the memory layout of the computer memory when it is determined, based on the memory layout information, that a memory layout of the hierarchical data does not match the memory layout of the computer memory. Memory address information may be translated when it is determined that the base address is not available in the computer memory. The restructured hierarchical data may be loaded into the computer memory based on the translated memory address information. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059872 | Interactively Communicating A Media Resource - An approach is provided for communicating a media resource. The approach includes generating a widget information in response to a request by a user, associating the widget information with at least a portion of a media resource; encoding at least a portion of the media resource for a real-time exchange of communications, and transmitting at least a portion of the media resource and the widget information from one information handling system to another. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059873 | Download Logic for Web Content - A method of providing selectable media content from a server to a user at a user terminal, the method comprising: retrieving program code from the server, responsive to the user interacting with a communication client application executed at the user terminal; storing variables in a storage means at the user terminal; executing said program code at the user terminal to read said variables to determine the media content to be provided to the user based on said variables; retrieving said determined media content from the server; and providing said media content to the user at the user terminal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059874 | Help Channel - A method of providing selectable media content from a server to a user at a user terminal, the method comprising: storing variables relating to the user's familiarity with a communication client application executable at the user terminal; executing program code to read said variables to determine the media content to be provided to the user based on said variables; retrieving said determined media content from the server; and providing said media content to the user at the user terminal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059875 | CONTROL OF COMPUTING DEVICES AND USER INTERFACES - A controlling computing device connected to an interconnecting network can control specified functionality of a controllable computing device connected to the interconnecting network by using at least one unique identifier to establish a connection between the controllable computing device and the controlling computing device, with a user interface being provided to the controlling computing device. User interfaces enabling the controlling computing device to control the specified functionality of the controllable computing device may be created and modified by receiving control input comprising associations between actions on the controlling computing device and commands for controlling the specified functionality of the controllable computing device, and storing the actions, associations and commands as part of the user interface. User interfaces may be made available by storing a library of predefined user interfaces and, responsive to a request for a particular one of the user interfaces, transmitting that particular user interface to the requestor. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059876 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LAUNCHING APPLICATIONS INTO EXISTING ISOLATION ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and systems that can launch applications into existing isolation environments do so by executing a run module on a computing machine to intercept requests to execute an application. A client communicating with the computing machine generates requests to execute an application on the computing machine. A run module identifies a profile associated with the requested application and queries an application delivery service to identify at least one isolation environment that corresponds to the profile. The run module receives from the application delivery service a response that identifies a first isolation environment associated with the application, and issues a command to a launch module to launch the application into the first isolation environment. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059877 | Communication Terminals, Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Publishing, Sharing and Accessing Media Files - A method for publishing and sharing media files includes: making a published media file available to other wireless communication terminals from a publisher wireless communication terminal; establishing a connection via a wireless communication module of the publisher wireless communication terminal with a requestor wireless communication terminal seeking published media files; sending an identification of the published media file from the publisher wireless communication terminal to the requestor wireless communication terminal; sending a media file request from the requestor wireless communication terminal to the publisher wireless communication terminal requesting the published media file; sending the published media file from the publisher wireless communication terminal to the requestor wireless communication terminal in response to the media file request; and executing playback of the published media file on the requestor wireless communication terminal. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059878 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ENABLING DIFFERENTIATED COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Methods and arrangements for enabling execution of a communication service adapted to a client by an application server. One or more iFC:s are configured in a central subscriber data node for the client by including information related to user specific service data of the client in the iFC:s. When receiving a request related to the client, a session control node fetches the iFC:s of the client from the subscriber data node if the client is not registered. The service data related information is then extracted from an iFC of the client that matches the received request, which is forwarded to the application server with extracted service data related information attached. The application server creates user specific service data for the client based on service data related information in the request, and serve the client accordingly. No regular provisioning operation and interface towards a provisioning system are required for the application server. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059879 | Method for Achieving P2P Communication on Webpage - The present invention relates to the field of network technology, specifically to a method for achieving P2P communication on webpage. The method includes the steps of: 1) accessing a webpage by a user, calling an interface of a flash to connect with a socket server, connecting with a stratus server to acquire a key and monitoring received messages by the flash; 2) sending a username and the key of a source user to the socket server by the flash and storing the username and the key of the source user by the socket server; 3) acquiring the key of the target user from the socket server and sending a message out via the netconnection and the key of the target user by the flash on the webpage of the source user; 4) displaying the message on the webpage of the target user after the flash of the webpage of the target user receives the message. The method can implement p2p communication on webpage, establish connection among the users directly, reduce the pressure on the bandwidth of the server, thereby enhancing communication efficiency and network utilization. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059880 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Communication Between Participants in a Virtual Environment - A method and apparatus for managing communication between participants in a virtual environment enables the participants to elect to automatically connect with each other via a preferred communication mechanism, manually connect with each other, or choose not to connect with each other. The connection may be point-to-point between two participants or may include multiple participants. Establishment of a connection, or the ability to establish a connection, may be based on the proximity of the participants, or the Avatars representing the participants, in the virtual environment. Once the connection is established, the connection may be managed so that the connection is maintained while the Avatars remain proximate each other and is automatically severed once the Avatars move away from each other. Environmental noise and other audio aspects may be included in the connection to simulate a real-world conversation. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059881 | System and Method for Enabling Characters to be Manifested Within A Plurality of Different Virtual Spaces - A system and method for providing virtual spaces, where a character associated with a user can be manifested within instances of a plurality of the different virtual spaces. Since a single character can be manifested within instances of different virtual spaces, the character can be transferred by the corresponding user between instances of different virtual spaces and controlled by the user to interact with the different virtual spaces. When the user transfers the character between instances of different virtual spaces (and/or different types of virtual spaces), various aspects of the character may persist between the different virtual spaces (and/or the different types of virtual spaces). This may provide an enhanced continuity to the character between the different virtual spaces. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059882 | PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE BROKER MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A publish/subscribe broker messaging system and method for processing a data message based on a message broker scheduling algorithm. The scheduling algorithm can be configured in association with a message broker to receive and transmit the data message associated with one or more publishers to a subscriber. The subscriber can register a subscription with respect to the message broker to receive the data message based on a selected topic. An attribute can be added to the selected topic description based on the scheduling algorithm in order to schedule the data message from the publisher with respect to the selected topic via the message broker. The data message with respect to the selected topic from the publisher can be processed sequentially and the scheduling algorithm can process other topics simultaneously. The data messages from other publishers with similar topic can also be processed simultaneously in order to transmit a high volume of message while ensuring high levels of service. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND/OR COMMUNICATING WEB CONTENT - The present invention provides systems and methods for selecting and/or communicating web content. Systems and methods are disclosed for rendering object(s) in web pages movable by a user of a client device. The object(s) may further be selected for communication to one or more other device(s) and/or location(s). For example, the one or more other device(s) may include mobile devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, laptops, etc. In addition, the one or more other location(s) may correspond to a storage location in memory, a weblog, etc. The invention also discloses inserting a customizable window in the displayed web page for receiving selected object(s) and/or other personal text or information. Methods for performing business over a computer are also disclosed which include displaying advertisements relevant to the selected object(s) in the customizable window. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059884 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF ACCESSING AND SHARING DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT AMONG USERS WITH A WEB BASED SERVER - Systems, devices, and methods for sharing digital media content between a plurality of users across a communication network are disclosed. A web server generates and hosts a web page with a unique web address by the web server, the web page embedded with the digital content and a digital content player. The web server provides the web page to one or more client devices. The client devices may coordinate with each other and the web server to substantially synchronizing play of the digital media content among the client devices from a designated time instant. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING A MEMO USING UPnP TELEPHONY - A method and apparatus for sharing a memo using UPnP telephony. The method includes receiving a request for a memo service from one or more devices by a telephony server, receiving memo information to be shared from a first telephony control point by the telephony server, and notifying, by the telephony server, the received memo information to the one or more devices having made the request for the memo service. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059886 | REPLY MESSAGE HANDLING FOR TRANSIENT GROUP - An electronic mail client inserts an identifier into incoming messages based on determining that the incoming message is addressed to more than one addressee (e.g., the message is addressed to an addressee group). The client stores the identifiers and the addresses for the addressee group in a database. The client or other node for outgoing electronic mail analyzes outgoing messages containing the identifier to determine whether or not the outgoing message is addressed to all addresses in the addressee group, and takes an action based on the determination. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059887 | Instant Messaging - Instant messaging method and communication system for communicating between a first user at a first user terminal of the communication system and a second user at a second user terminal of the communication system. Instant messages are transmitted over the communication system in both directions between the first and second user terminals, wherein the instant messages constitute a conversation between the first and second users. Each instant message of the conversation is stored in a store at a server of the communication system, wherein the server is accessible from a third user terminal of the communication system such that the first user can retrieve, at the third user terminal, each instant message of the conversation from the store. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059888 | Communication System And Method For Communicating Over A Communication System - A communication system and method for communicating over the communication system are provided. The communication system includes a client executed at a user terminal, a front end server and a plurality of other nodes. Data packets of a point-to-point communication are transmitted between the client and one of the other nodes. A persistent connection is provided between the client and the front end server, and the communication system is configured to use the persistent connection to provide support for the point-to-point communication between the client and said one of the other nodes. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059889 | MAIL SERVER APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING METHOD - A mail server apparatus includes, a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of e-mails addressed to a user, a determination unit configured to determine a priority of each of the e-mails received by the receiving unit and a processing unit configured to select a predetermined number of e-mails from the plurality of e-mails received by the receiving unit, on the basis of priority determined by the determination unit, and treat e-mails as if the e-mails had not arrived, except for the selected predetermined number of e-mails, upon receipt of a request from a user device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059890 | MAIL SERVER - A mail server includes an address information table in which address information is registered including ability or inability to use each mail address, and a notify party information table in which notify party information is registered specifying each notify party to notify that a mail address cannot be used. The mail server further includes a control section, which carries out a first process to judge, referring to the address information table, whether a mail address of a destination of a received mail is available or not; a second process to judge, referring to the notify party information table, whether the mail address of the source of the received mail falls within the notify party information; a third process to create a reply mail stating that the mail address of the destination cannot be used; and a fourth process to transmit the reply mail to the mail address of the source. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059891 | SHORT MESSAGE NETWORK MANAGEMENT REALIZING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method, system and apparatus for implementing short message network management, and the method includes: in carrying out a short message network management process, a master control terminal and a controlled terminal setting up a service connection between them; the master control terminal sending network management short messages to the controlled terminal through the service connection; and the controlled terminal carrying out corresponding processes according to contents of the received network management short messages. The problem of bad security and real-time of the short message network management in the prior art can be overcome by applying the present invention. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059892 | UNIFIED RULES FOR VOICE AND MESSAGING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing an incoming data communication in connection with unified communications. A unified communications component can employ unified communications for a data communication with at least the following data communication modes: an email data communication mode, a voice data communication mode, and a voicemail data communication mode. A unified rules component can automatically redirect the data communication to a delegate for receipt based upon a universal rule, the universal rule is uniformly applicable to at least two of the email data communication mode, the voice data communication mode, or the voicemail data communication mode. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059893 | System for Determining Email Spam by Delivery Path - A spam detector for determining likelihood of forgery of a source in an email addressed to a destination is provided, comprising extraction means for extracting delivery path information from one or more packets in the packet flow of the email, and comparison means for comparing the extracted delivery path information with trusted delivery path information from the source to the destination. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. The module retrieves configuration conventions for the mail domain from the database and generates sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and user supplied configuration information for accessing the mailbox. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT USING MAIL EXCHANGE RECORDS - A system provisions an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox from a remote device to retrieve email. A communications module receives email address parameters of the user and transmits a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. A configuration module processes any returned MX records as a starting point for determining configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059896 | Method and System for Actively Publishing Message in IM Group Using Chat Robot - The present invention relates to a method and system for actively publishing a message in an IM group using a chat robot. The method includes: a client adding a chat robot in an IM group satisfying a configured condition; the chat robot automatically obtaining a message and publishing the message in the IM group. In the present invention, a chat robot is added in an IM group, and a function of timed publishing messages by the chat robot is added to increase the message quantity and topics of the IM group, thus not only messages can be sent to users in time, but also IM group activity may be enhanced, which enables users to accept and love the IM group gradually. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059897 | CHALLENGING A FIRST TERMINAL INTENDING TO COMMUNICATE WITH A SECOND TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method, party challenging device ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059898 | NETWORK ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL - The invention relates to a protocol for communications between networked devices. The devices are logically arranged as a hierarchy of device types including a controller device type ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059899 | Communications-Network Data Processing Methods, Communications-Network Data Processing Systems, Computer-Readable Storage Media, Communications-Network Data Presentation Methods, and Communications-Network Data Presentation Systems - Communications-network data processing methods include receiving a request to perform an action involving data associated with a configuration of a communications network or a behavior of the communications network and in response to the receiving of the request, performing the action. Communications-network data presentation methods include receiving information indicating a source of data characterizing a communications network and a desired presentation format of the data, accessing the source to obtain the data characterizing the communications network, and presenting the data according to the desired presentation format. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059900 | PERSISTENT PERSONAL MESSAGING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - A persistent personal messaging system provides shared memory space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places user data, representing the user, into the shared memory space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the shared memory space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added to the shared memory space. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTENT IN WIDGET - A system for providing social networking content in a widget includes a detection module, an authentication module, a receiving module, and a presenting module. The detection module detects an event associated with updating social networking content in the widget. The authentication module generates a request for authenticating a member identifier of a social network service. The receiving module receives, from the social network service, social networking content associated with the member identifier. The presenting module presents the social networking content in the widget. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059902 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING DATA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for downloading data in the portable terminal. The apparatus is configured to download corresponding data when entering a position supported by a special network upon a reservation download of data in a portable terminal. The apparatus provides a data reservation function in which a network environment set up by a user is applied to the data reservation download function. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059903 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SENSORY INFORMATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for processing sensory information in a wireless sensor network are provided. The method includes determining at least one of sensor gateways as a serving sensor gateway to manage a target region in response to a sensory information request from a server, collecting the sensory information by means of at least one sensor node connected to the serving sensor gateway, and transmitting the collected sensory information to the server. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059904 | Delivering a File - A method and apparatus for delivering a file from a content provider to a requesting client is disclosed. A request from a client to access a file is received, a common file that is common to all requesting clients is identified in a first storage location, in a second storage location a personalised file that is unique to said client is identified, the common file and are personalised file are analysed to find their differences, the shared data and the unique data are delivered to the client and the client is instructed to stitch the shared data and the unique data together. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059905 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DATA USAGE OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for controlling data usage of a mobile terminal. The method includes checking a plurality of web contents contained in a web page in a web browser executing mode. The method also includes selectively downloading at least one of the checked web contents when data usage for a preset period exceeds a data usage limit. The method further includes displaying the at least one downloaded web content. The apparatus performs the method. Without periodic control of data usage by a user, the data usage of a mobile terminal is automatically controlled. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059906 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ASPECTS OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING CAMPAIGN - A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING WIRELESSLY COUPLED DEVICES - A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second devices communicating with each other through the network. A front-end device is provided within the network that communicates data traffic with the first device. A back-end device is also implemented within the network and communicates data traffic with the second device. A communication channel couples the front-end device and the back-end device. Data traffic may be encoded into a different type or protocol for transport through the communication channel by the front-end device and back-end device. The front-end device and back-end device exchange quality of service information and may alter characteristics of the data traffic through the communication channel according to the quality of service information. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059908 | SEMANTIC SERVICE APPLYING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a semantic service applying system and a method, comprising: a semantic service pipeline manager which demands and receives a particular semantic service pipeline to and from a semantic service server, and stores the corresponding pipeline in a database to manage the stored pipeline; a semantic service pipeline provider which extracts corresponding semantic service pipelines and sends the extracted pipelines to the corresponding service server if the user requests at least one of a plurality of semantic service pipelines to be provided; and a database which stores information associated with a semantic service pipeline providing server as well as the semantic service pipelines, and thus various ontology-based semantic services can be applied to the web. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059909 | Information processing apparatus, communication control method, and computer-readable recording medium storing communication control program - In an information processing apparatus, a storage unit stores a keyword according to executed information processing. A communication unit transmits a message specifying a server device as a destination and receives data according to the message from the server device via a network. A controller adds at least one of the keywords stored in the storage unit to a message to a predetermined server device among the messages transmitted by the communication unit. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059910 | UNLIMITED MEDIA ACCESS OVER WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE - Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for providing unlimited access to media content, such as music. A media server environment can be provided, which maintains an instance of each subscriber account and a central archive of media content. Further, selected media content can be downloaded to, and stored locally at, a subscriber device, such as on a secure storage device. Access to the local media content can be controlled through the media server environment based on the status of the subscriber's account. If the subscriber's account becomes inactive, access to the downloaded media content can be disabled. Once the subscriber's account is reactivated, access to the downloaded media content can be restored. Additionally, access to the media server environment, including the central archive of media content, also can be controlled based on individual subscriber account status. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059911 | HEALTH KIOSK - A health kiosk system is provided. A kiosk has a computing unit and a physiological measurement apparatus connected to the computing unit. A Web browser of the computing unit transmits information corresponding to the physiological measurement apparatus and a request for a resource to a Web server. In response to receiving the request, the Web server transmits to the kiosk profile-specific Web content responsive to the request and specific to the received profile information. The information corresponding to the physiological measurement apparatus may be transmitted in a URL or HTTP Cookie of an HTTP request. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059912 | Delivering a Media File to a Client - A method and apparatus for delivering a media file stored by a content provider to a client is disclosed. A request from a client to begin streaming a media file is received. The media file includes a file header, media data and a media index. The media file is identified, and the media index is extracted and delivered to the client before commencing streaming of the file header and the media data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059913 | Method and Device for Controlling Communication in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem IMS - A control device ( | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF MEDIA ITEMS ACCESSED VIA A PERSONAL MEDIA BROADCASTER - Systems, devices and methods are described for determining attributes identifying media items from other media items. A first video sequence of a first media item is received from a media source, the video sequence including one or more images having first banner information embedded therein. The attributes of the first media item are determined. The determined attributes of the first media item can then be stored or otherwise processed as desired. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059915 | MANAGING REMOTE COMPUTER TRAINING LABS - An educational and training system allows organization and management of computers and course material used in teaching and administering classes of computer based information. Remote users access computers in laboratories or virtual classrooms as if they were actually using the computers within the laboratory or classroom. The system also allows management and tracking of the remote users and of other various course details. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059916 | NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CLIENT APPARATUS, AND NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A network device management apparatus requests, of an agent application of a client apparatus, device information of a network device corresponding to a driver program installed on the client apparatus, and outputs device information acquired as a response to the request. At this time, the agent application acquires device information stored in the client apparatus using Device Stage and the like, and then transmits the acquired device information to the network device management apparatus. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059917 | SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGEMENT WITHIN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a solution to manage software licenses within a cloud computing environment. Specifically, aspects of the present invention (among other things): determine a requester's/customer's needs; identify a set (at least one) of providers capable of addressing the requester's licensing needs; and match the customer with the most appropriate provider. The embodiments of the present invention will also analyze current licensing configurations/models of the requesters, providers, and software vendors to identify areas of potential improvement. This provides the functionality necessary to adjust software license level in a dynamic fashion so as to best meet the customer's needs. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059918 | LOCATION BASED SERVICE DATA CONNECTION SUPPORT ACROSS MULTIPLE PROFILES - In a wireless data packet network, a single mobile device is provisioned to support a plurality of user profiles including a service or application that can be associated to multiple profiles. Arbitration for requests for a data connection can be made based upon priority, with applications having the same priority allowed to share the data connection. In some instances, the profile used to establish the data connection does not support the application that can be associated to multiple profiles, such as Location Based Services (LBS). To minimize subsequent rejections of requests for a data connection by the LBS, capability scans or updates determine what services are supported by the currently active profiles. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059919 | WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENT TESTING FRAMEWORK - In one embodiment, a method of testing web services using a web service testing framework can include using a data parser to parse data for the web service to be tested. The data parser may be one of a plurality of data parsers in a test library for support of a plurality of data formats for the web service. If the web service is in a SOAP protocol, the data can be converted into framework objects. These framework objects for the SOAP protocol may then be converted into test objects. If the web service is in a REST protocol, the data itself can be converted into the test objects. A web service test can be accessed from the test library for testing the web service. The web service test can be executed using the test objects. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059920 | Traffic Modeling of Overlaid Networks - Implementations and techniques for traffic modeling of overlaid networks are generally disclosed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059921 | VIRTUAL AD HOC NETWORK TESTBEDS FOR NETWORK-AWARE APPLICATIONS - A virtual ad hoc network testbed provides the capability to instrument a testbed in order to support the execution of network-aware applications “as is.” Network aware applications are a special class of applications that interact with a network not only by using the network for communication purposes, but also configure or read the status of network devices. Local stack management provides the means to automatically construct standard APIs for accessing the information residing in a simulated or emulated network, and instantiate these APIs. The testbed is designed to bridge a standard management module (such as SNMP) and a simulation or emulation model, starting from a MIB module. The testbed uses CORBA as a communication means. The process is divided into two parts, agent side and model side. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059922 | INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is described herein a method and apparatus for providing a telecommunications link between a first user and a second user in a telecommunications network. A request is received from the first user to provide a telecommunications link to the second user. The system then determines from a server hosting a networked community of users in which users interact over a communications network independent of the telecommunications network whether the first user and the second user have a specified relationship in the community of users. At least one setting for the telecommunications link is specified based on whether the first user and the second user have a specified relationship in the community of users. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059923 | Managing Network Elements - A method for use in management of network elements in a communications network performed by a network element of said network. The method comprises receiving by an agent operating in said network element a request to execute a first function, wherein said first function relates to management of at least one network element; sending to said first function a message corresponding to said request and executing said first function. Said request being from a predefined set of requests and said first function being from a predefined set of functions. Said first function is implemented in a network element where it is to be executed. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DEVICE MANAGEMENT THROUGH A GATEWAY DEVICE, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVER - The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a method and an apparatus for performing device management through a gateway device and a Device Management Server (DMS). The method for performing device management through a gateway device includes: receiving a register message which carries a terminal ID and a gateway device address; associating and storing the terminal ID and the gateway device address; obtaining the gateway device address according to the association record; and sending a Device Management (DM) notification message to the gateway device according to the gateway device address so that the gateway device performs corresponding processing according to the DM notification message. With the technical solution of the present invention, a DMS is able to send a DM notification to a user terminal through a gateway device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059925 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION IN AN INTEROPERABILITY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating communication among a plurality of entities via an interoperability network. Each entity has policy data corresponding thereto governing interaction with the entity via the interoperability network. A message is transmitted from a first one of the entities to a second one of the entities. The first entity has first policy data corresponding thereto and the second entity has second policy data corresponding thereto. The transmitted message was handled in the network according to combined policy data representing a combination of the first and second policy data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMANTIC SERVICE - A method and system for semantic services for registering and managing semantic services by collecting the semantic services distributed among a plurality of service servers, and combining the plurality of semantic services to be matched with a condition set by a user are provided. The system includes a semantic service management server which registers, deletes, and edits the ontology and ontology-based semantic service information, and supports an information searching function performed by a semantic broker server; the semantic broker server which searches and combines semantic services through the semantic service management server, and provides the results with one of the combined semantic services or semantic workflows; and a semantic service license server which requests the results by transmitting the corresponding condition to the semantic broker server when the user inputs the condition as well as an input factor according to the preset items, and receives and outputs the corresponding results. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059927 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS AUTONOMOUS INFANT MOBILITY DETECTION, MONITORING, ANALYSIS AND ALARM EVENT GENERATION - Systems and methods for detecting, monitoring and profiling/correlating a subject's motions, such as rollovers, falls, shaking and tremors are disclosed. In particular, an infant's mobility event may cause critical event processing indicating that an infant has rolled over and may be suffocating. Such an event is classified as a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-like event. The system may include a wireless pendant device and a wireless monitor server. The wireless pendant device is configured to measure acceleration motion of a subject, to generate acceleration data from the acceleration motion and to communicate the acceleration data with the wireless monitor server. The wireless monitor server is configured to analyze the acceleration data communicated by the wireless pendant device and to provide an output related to the analysis. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059928 | Mobile Communication Terminal and Network System Including the Same - A mobile communication terminal includes a network knowledge manager collecting information required to seize an opportunity to execute an application by forming a network with a plurality of mobile communication terminals, and when a condition for executing a specific application is satisfied through the collected information, informing that the condition is satisfied, and a network instance manager generating a network instance which is a component of a network supporting the specific application, and performs management of the generated network instance including maintenance of the network instance when the specific application is executed by the network knowledge manager. A network can be promptly and ephemerally formed for a plurality of mobile communication terminals including smart phones to execute one application simultaneously, thereby reducing network management traffic required to form and maintain the network. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059929 | TECHNIQUES FOR MAINTAINING CURRENT CONTENT - Techniques, including systems and methods, for maintaining current content are described and suggested herein. In an embodiment, information from a plurality of information sources is received. Communications between the computer system and a network are monitored. Subsequent to an inability to communicate over the network, an ability to communicate over the network is detected. Responsive to detecting the ability to communicate over the network, information from one or more of the information sources is requested. The one or more information sources may be servers providing web pages. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059930 | REACTIVE MONITORING OF GUESTS IN A HYPERVISOR ENVIRONMENT - A system, method and computer program product for detecting and reacting to a network discrepancy within a data center network environment. The method comprises monitoring network traffic between a first computer configured as a first hypervisor inter-networked within the data center network environment and a second computer inter-networked within the data center network environment in order to detect a presence of a predetermined condition representing a presence of the network discrepancy in the data center network environment between a recorded state of the data center network environment and an observed state of the data center network environment. The monitoring includes determining the observed state of the data center network environment using one of: polling, event-based or a combination thereof. The method also comprises rectifying, upon the detection of the presence of the predetermined condition, an effect associated with the presence of the predetermined condition in the data center network environment. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059931 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A REPUTATION SERVICE - A system comprises a processor and storage containing software. When executed, the software causes the processor to receive a set of metrics to be monitored, cause to be monitored the set of metrics, and filter the monitored metrics per a sharing policy to produce a subset of the set of metrics. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059932 | APPLYING HOME NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES TO A WIDE AREA NETWORK - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for allowing a device on a home network to access a service outside the home network is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a server outside the home network, a registration message from the service; storing details about the service in a storage accessible by the server, wherein the details include an address for the service; receiving, at the server, a request to locate a service, wherein the request is received from the home network; locating details about a matching service stored in the storage, wherein the matching service meets criteria specified in the request from the home network; and providing the details about the matching service to the home network, enabling the device to directly contact the matching service using the address specified in the details about the matching service. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059933 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION IN AN INTEROPERABILITY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating communication among a plurality of entities via an interoperability network. Each entity has policy data corresponding thereto governing interaction with the entity via the interoperability network. A message is transmitted from a first one of the entities to a second one of the entities. The first entity has first policy data corresponding thereto and the second entity has second policy data corresponding thereto. The transmitted message was handled in the network according to combined policy data representing a combination of the first and second policy data. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059934 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-LOADING BALANCING ACCESS GATEWAYS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for self-load balancing access gateways. The systems and methods include a master access gateway that receives load metrics and capabilities from a plurality of access gateways. The master access gateway also receives requests to determine if a request to start a new session is to be redirected to an access gateways. The master access gateways uses the load metrics and capabilities to select an access gateway to service the request. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059935 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SELECT AND TO RESELECT A RESOURCE FOR PEER DISCOVERY IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided in which signals are received on each of a plurality of resources and an energy of each of the signals of a set of the plurality of resources is determined. In addition, a resource is determined based on a probability for each of the resources in a subset of the set. The probability for selecting a resource with a lower determined energy is less than one and greater than the probability for selecting a resource with a higher determined energy. Furthermore, a signal is transmitted on the selected resource. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059936 | MASTERLESS SLOT ALLOCATION - A masterless time slot allocation technique that collaboratively synchronizes, at a time slot level, devices communicating in an ad hoc network. Responsive to determining a current time slot allocated to a first device is occurring, the first device transmits a map to the other devices. The map includes an allocation of time slots to the devices, including indicators for whether each time slot is free, busy or overbooked, devices that own the time slots, and how recently information associated with each time slot was updated. After receiving the map, a second device determines a conflict in which the same time slot is allocated to the second device and to another device. The conflict is resolved by allocating another time slot to the second device and the result of resolving the conflict is each slot is allocated to no more than one device. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059937 | BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT - Bandwidth allocation management includes determining current available bandwidth of a network within which a computer system is operating. The bandwidth allocation management also includes using the current available bandwidth and applied feature delivery settings to determine an adjustment in feature delivery to the computer system. At least a portion of the feature delivery settings is specified by an end user of the computer system. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059938 | DIMENSION-ORDERED APPLICATION PLACEMENT IN A MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTER - A multiprocessor computer system comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein the nodes are ordered using dimension-ordered numbering. An application placement module is operable to place an application in nodes with preference given to nodes ordered near one another. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059939 | EFFICIENT CONNECTION MANAGEMENT AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - Call admission control (“CAC”) servers in a pool are fully connected to one another. Session data received at one of the CAC servers in a pool is synchronized to each of the other CAC servers in the pool by way of the connections. Each CAC server in a first pool may also establish a connection with exactly one CAC server in a second pool. Status updates and commit data is synchronized from a CAC server in the first pool to a CAC server in the second pool. The commit data may then be synchronized to each of the CAC servers in the second pool. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059940 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - A data synchronization method establishes a communication channel between a terminal device and a cloud server through a network. The terminal device accesses the cloud server through the communication channel, and registers a private data space in a data center of the cloud server. Then the method transmits data of the terminal device to the private data space through the communication channel according to user requirements, to back up the data of the terminal device to the private data space. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059941 | MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - To set up a multimedia communication between a visiting user and a visited user who are initially present respectively in different virtual spaces in a virtual environment managed by a server (SC) to which the respective terminals (TC) of the visiting user and the visited user are connected via a packet network (RP), the server sets up a video communication between the visited user and the visiting user, following a virtual movement of the visiting user within a virtual space providing access to the space in which the visited user is present, and sets up an audio communication between the visited user and the visiting user, following a virtual movement of the visiting user into the space in which the visited user is present. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059942 | Method and System for Session Modification - A method and system for session modification are provided. The method includes these steps: A home policy and charging rules function (h-PCRF) sends a policy and charging control (PCC) rule providing message to a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF) b according to a received PCC rule request message, an application layer service message, or an h-PCRF self-trigger event; and the h-PCRF sends a PCC rule providing message to the PCEF a according to a PCC rule response message received from the PCEF b. With this present disclosure, session modification may be implemented when two or more PCEFs are included in the PCC architecture of a system architecture evolution (SAE) system. | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059943 | Establishing a Communication Session - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem Application Server to facilitate a communication session between a first user and a second user at a required Quality of Service. The method comprises receiving a notification that a Policy and Charging Rules function associated with the first user has not authorised said required Quality of Service (B | 2012-03-08 |
| 20120059944 | ESTABLISHING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of facilitating a communication session between a user terminal and an Application Function over an IP Connectivity Access Network. The method comprises, at a Policy and Charging Rules Function, receiving information relating to the session from the Application Function (B3), determining one or more Policy and Charging Control rules for the session including deriving a Quality of Service authorised for the session, and sending the Policy and Charging Control rules, including the authorised Quality of Service, to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (B5). At the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function, installing the one or more Policy and Charging Control rules including the aurhtorised Quality of Service for the session, and, if it is determined that the authorised Quality of Service cannot be achieved due to a limitation on a Quality of Service available in the Access Network, then reporting this to the Policy and Charging Rules Function and including the available Quality of Service (B8). At the Policy and Charging Rules Function, receiving the report from the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function, including the available Quality of Service, and using the available Quality of Service to determine whether and/or how to maintain the session. | 2012-03-08 |
