11th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140074839 | USER PROFILE BASED ON CLUSTERING TIERED DESCRIPTORS - A user of a network-based system may correspond to a user profile that describes the user. The user profile may describe the user using one or more descriptors of items that correspond to the user (e.g., items owned by the user, items liked by the user, or items rated by the user). In some situations, such a user profile may be characterized as a “taste profile” that describes an array or distribution of one or more tastes, preferences, or habits of the user. Accordingly, the user profile machine within the network-based system may generate the user profile by accessing descriptors of items that correspond to the user, clustering one or more of the descriptors, and generating the user profile based on one or more clusters of the descriptors. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING DATA DUMP DATA - An example of a system comprises a fingerprint calculator configured to receive data structure information and create a fingerprint as a function of the data structure information, a code generator configured to generate modified machine code, the modified machine code including the fingerprint embedded therein, a fingerprint identifier configured to identify the fingerprint in data received from a data dump, a data structure lookup table including the fingerprint and the data structure information associated with the fingerprint stored thereon, and a data interpreter configured to interpret, using data from the data dump and the data structure information, the data structure of at least a portion of the data from the data dump. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074841 | CONCURRENT ACCESS METHODS FOR TREE DATA STRUCTURES - In one embodiment, non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions for implementing a file system, which include operations for acquiring an exclusive lock on a first node in an ordered tree data-structure, and adding an identifier and index of the first node to a path data structure. If the value of the index in the first node is non-zero, then each exclusive lock acquired between the first node and the root of the tree data structure is released. In any case, the operation proceeds to a second node, which is addressed at the index on the first node. In one embodiment, operations further include acquiring an exclusive lock on the second node, and, if the second node is a leaf node, performing updates to the second node, and then releasing each exclusive lock in the data-structure. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074842 | Computer Method and System for Detecting the Subject Matter of Online Communications - A computer-implemented system and method for monitoring the electronic communications of a subject to determine if dangerous behavior is occurring, especially in social networking platforms. The PG Guard™ web service permits a parent to monitor all of a child's activities on a social site such as Facebook®. To maintain the privacy of the child, the service only provides information to the parents about suspicious activities comprising, for example: conversations regarding violence, sex, alcohol, etc.; when a stranger interacts with their child (or vice versa); when their child discloses personal information; when a friend seems to be of a problematic nature; when a child uploads or is tagged in new images; and when a child adds or rejects a new friend. The method comprises generating a profile of the subject based on their keywords and the probability of their intended meaning, as well as their posted “Likes” and “Recommendations”. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS, SORTING AND ACTIVE DISPLAY OF SEMANTIC-DRIVEN REPORTS OF COMMUNICATION REPOSITORIES - A collection module, an analysis module, and a report module are each operably coupled to a database. The collection module can receive data associated with a user and can send a signal indicative of an instruction to store the data associated with the user in the database. Based at least in part on a pattern analysis or a semantic analysis of the data associated with the user, the analysis module can analyze the data to define an aggregated data set representing one or more relationship attributes in the data associated with the user. The analysis module can send a signal indicative of an instruction to store the aggregated data set in the database. The report module can define a report representing the aggregated data set and can send a signal indicative of an instruction to present data associated with the report on a display of an electronic device. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074844 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT - Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for semantically analyzing the content within an internal social network. Using the results of the analysis, the executives can gain a better understanding of, and insight into, the organization and its employees. A dashboard tool may be used in some embodiments of the invention to visualize the results of the semantic analysis. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074845 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR SEMANTICALLY ENRICHING CONTENT AND FOR SEMANTIC NAVIGATION - Content of different formats may be sourced from various data sources such as content servers and ingested into a data integration server by an ingestion broker embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The ingestion broker may normalize the content of different formats into a uniform representation that can be indexed and delivered across multiple digital channels for a variety of applications. The normalized content may be analyzed and semantic metadata may be determined from the normalized content. The normalized content can be semantically enriched by associating the semantic metadata and the like with the content. The semantic metadata can be stored in a semantic index that can be used for searching via the data integration server. During search, the semantic metadata can be instantiated as facets for user navigation and refinement of search criteria and additional semantic relationships can be assigned to the words in the normalized content. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074846 | MULTI-INPUT PLAYLIST SELECTION - A computer-implemented process comprises identifying, by a computer server system, a base topic for a personalized media stream for a user of a computer system; identifying, with the computer server system, a plurality of media items associated with the base topic using a plurality of different and independent categories of media categorization data, wherein each of the categories of media categorization data is assigned a weighting; building a collection of candidate media items from the identified plurality of media items; ordering the collection of candidate media items to form a personalized media stream; and providing the ordered collection of candidate media items for playing to the user. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074847 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DEVIATIONS FROM MAP DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for identifying discrepancies in digital map data, comprising selecting one or more candidate locations as a subset of locations within positional data relating to the movement of a plurality of devices with respect to time in an area, allocating each of the candidate locations to one or more predetermined categories based upon a distribution of travel directions of the devices at each candidate location and comparing the candidate locations against a database of map data and identifying locations of possible discrepancies in the digital map data based upon the category of each candidate location. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074848 | DYNAMIC FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING - A method of psychometric testing is disclosed. Input from a plurality of users is received. The input is indicative of first and second psychometric variables, where the first and second psychometric variables are independent. The input allows classifying users into at least four classes using a first classification threshold for the first psychometric variable and a second classification threshold for the second psychometric variable. The classification thresholds are adjustable so that the classification of users into classes is altered so that a user is re-classified to a different class. The questions in the input questionnaire may also be changed, and they may e.g. be translated to another language. Furthermore, the system generates textual output based on the classification, and the users may be allowed to vote on the output descriptions. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074849 | REMOTE ARTIFACT REPOSITORY - System for generating a pseudo-repository. The system scans a directory to detect compiled binary files, and assembles an index of the compiled binary files based on metadata describing the compiled binary files. Then the system generates a pseudo-repository based on the index that maps each compiled binary file with at least one associated artifact, wherein the pseudo-repository responds to client requests for one of the binary files. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074850 | VISUALIZATION OF DATA FROM CLUSTERS - Embodiments are directed towards the visualization of machine data received from computing clusters. Embodiments may enable improved analysis of computing cluster performance, error detection, troubleshooting, error prediction, or the like. Individual cluster nodes may generate machine data that includes information and data regarding the operation and status of the cluster node. The machine data is received from each cluster node for indexing by one or more indexing applications. The indexed machine data including the complete data set may be stored in one or more index stores. A visualization application enables a user to select one or more analysis lenses that may be used to generate visualizations of the machine data. The visualization application employs the analysis lens to produce visualizations of the computing cluster machine data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074851 | DYNAMIC DATA ACQUISITION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present application relate to a dynamic data acquisition method, a dynamic data acquisition system, and a computer program product for dynamically acquiring data. A dynamic data acquisition method is provided. The method includes extracting a search term from a search request string that is received, looking up the search term in a threshold value dictionary to acquire a dynamic threshold score corresponding to the search term, using the search term as a query condition and the dynamic threshold score corresponding to the search term as a filter condition to acquire, in an index data table, one or more corresponding pieces of index information, acquiring data information corresponding to the search term based on the index information in the index data table, and sending the data information to be displayed in a page of a website. The dynamic threshold score varies based on a characteristic factor. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074852 | Visual Search Using Multiple Visual Input Modalities - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for web-scale visual search capable of using a combination of visual input modalities are provided. An edgel index is created that includes shape-descriptors, including edgel-based representations, that correspond to each of a plurality of images. Each edgel-based representation includes pixels that depicts edges or boundary contours of an image and is created, at least in part, by segmenting the image into a plurality of image segments and performing a multi-phase contour detection on each segment. Upon receiving a search query having a visual query input, the visual query input is converted into shape-descriptors, including an edgel-based representation, and the shape-descriptors, including the edgel-based representation, of each of the plurality of images is compared with the shape-descriptors, including the edgel-based representation, of the visual query input to identify at least one image of the plurality of images that matches the visual query input. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074853 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING STATISTICAL FROM A DATA WAREHOUSE - The invention relates to a method for providing statistical data from a data warehouse ( | 2014-03-13 |
20140074854 | SCALABLE RENDERING OF LARGE SPATIAL DATABASES - Aspects of the invention provide a service for data management and integration across a wide range of applications. Clustered computers may be arranged in a cloud-type configuration for storing and handling large amounts of user data under the control of a front-end management server. Communities of distributed users may collaborate on the data across multiple enterprises. Very large tabular data files are uploaded to the storage facilities. The data files are maintained as tables, and a composite table of related information is created and maintained in response to user queries. Different ways of visualizing the data are provided. Depending on the amount of information that can be displayed, features in a spatial index may the thinned for presentation. Spatial and structured queries are processing and results are intersected to obtain information for display. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074855 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TAGS - Methods, devices and computer program products facilitate enhanced use and interaction with a multimedia content through the use of tags. While a content is being presented by a device, a content identifier and at least one time code associated with one or more content segments are obtained. One or both of the content identifier and the time code can be obtained from watermarks that are embedded in the content, or through computation of fingerprints that are subsequently matched against a database of stored fingerprints and metadata. The content identifier and the at least one time code are transmitted to a tag server. In response, tag information for the one or more content segments is received and one or more tags are presented to a user. The tags are persistently associated with temporal locations of the content segments. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074856 | SOCIAL CONTENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON CONNECTIONS - A system and method for recommending content to a user in a social network, including: logging user activity for the user in the social network; categorizing the user activity across all the user's networks, wherein each category is assigned a score based on relevance to the user; assigning weights to the user activities; calculating a social index score as a function of the weighted user activity categories; logging user content into categories; scoring the user content; and generating a content social index by weighting the content scores. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074857 | WEIGHTED RANKING OF VIDEO DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for weighted ranking of video data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A weight is assigned to an aspect of the video data. A weight is assigned to a person expected to feature in the video data. A weight of the video data is computed, the weight of the video data being a factor of the weight assigned the aspect and the weight assigned the person. A ranking of the video data is computed using the weight computed for the video data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074858 | PERCENT-CONSUMED WEIGHTED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of percent-consumed weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, input data for performing media content recommendation analysis may be identified. The input data may describe the presentation of a plurality of media content items in association with a plurality of content management accounts. The input data may comprise a plurality of data points. Each of the data points may identify a respective portion of a respective one of the media content items presented in association with a respective one of the content management accounts. For each or selected ones of the data points, a respective weighting factor may be applied based on the respective portion of the respective media content item presented in association with the respective content management account. The weighted input data may be numerically modeled to produce a plurality of media content recommendations. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING AUDIENCES OF NETWORK-BASED CONTENT OF MULTIPLE CONTENT PUBLISHERS - Embodiments of a system and method for rating audiences of network-based content of multiple content publishers are described. Embodiments may include, for each of multiple users, receiving usage information specifying one or more attributes of the user's content consumption activity with respect to network-based content. The usage information received for at least some of the users may be associated with network-based content from multiple different content publishers (e.g., different websites that host content portals). Embodiments may also include determining a subset of the multiple users that share one or more characteristics (e.g., demographic characteristics). Embodiments may also include generating a report based on a portion of the received usage information that is specific to the subset of the multiple users. The report may specify one or more aggregate attributes of the subset's content consumption activity. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074860 | DISAMBIGUATOR - In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include identifying at least one ambiguous concept; collecting a first set of labels for a term, the first set of labels representative of a first context of the term in a document; collecting, for the at least one ambiguous concept, a second set of labels, the second set of labels representative of a second context of the at least one ambiguous concept in a knowledge base; determining a similarity value between each of the first labels and the second set of labels; and selecting, based on the determined similarity value, the at least one ambiguous concept, when the determined similarity value exceed a threshold, the selected at least ambiguous concept being related in meaning to the term. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074861 | System and Method for Combining Inputs to Generate and Modify Playlists - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums are provided for selecting a media content object for a user using a combination of inputs. A media input seed associated with a user is obtained. A plurality of channels of media content objects is obtained. At least one of the plurality of channels is associated with the media input seed. Also, in some embodiments, each media content object of each of those channels has a score specific to that channel. A combination score for a respective media content object is calculated based at least in part on that respective media content object's channel specific score for each of at least two of the plurality of channels. Then at least some of the media content objects are ranked based at least in part on their respective combination scores. Finally, at least one ranked media content object is then selected for transmission. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074862 | Hawkeye Graphical Search Interface - Some embodiments of the invention provide a graphical user interface as a means of inputting search parameters to database search engines. In some embodiments two or three dimensional projections spatially represent relationships between search parameters, located along the periphery of the projections and search hits whose significance are represented by position relative to the center of the projection and comparative distance from each of the search parameters. As the user manipulates the overall shape of the search projection, the weighting of search parameters adjusts, reconfiguring the search. The invention also provides, in some embodiments, an intuitive means of assimilating search parameter weightings based on peer or social network preferences with global search results. Finally, the invention provides a means of using search output itself as an input for refinement of search. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074863 | GENERATING AN IMPLIED OBJECT GRAPH BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - An online system generates implied links between objects distributed by the online system based on a plurality of users' behaviors with respect to the objects. For a behavior of a user with respect to an object that satisfies a link criterion, the online system identifies a connection between the user and the object. Local object graphs are generated to represent the relationships between the objects connected to each user, and the local object graphs are merged into a global object graph. An adjacency matrix is extracted from the global object graph as a representation of the strength of relationships between the objects distributed by the online system. The online system may then apply graph analysis techniques to the adjacency matrix, thereby analyzing the relationships between the objects without relying upon explicit links between the objects. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074864 | METHOD FOR ROBUST COMPARISON OF DATA - The present invention provides relatively robust comparison of bioinformatic data, such as gene expression data, by providing a computer-implemented method, a computer program product and a computer readable medium, that analyzes data according to the appended patent claims. The invention provides stability with respect to re-sampling of data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074865 | IDENTIFYING VEHICLE SYSTEMS USING VEHICLE COMPONENTS - Embodiments of a repair correlation system are described, wherein the repair correlation system identifies related vehicle repairs based on key parts (or the most important parts) of an automotive sub-system. The repair correlation system can use a database or other data repository of matching parts to identify related automotive sub-systems (e.g., engine, transmission, etc.) by matching key parts for sub-systems across different brands and models. For example, the repair correlation system can determine that repairs for a first engine with key parts A, B, and C are applicable to a second engine with the same key parts. Thus, an engine in a Honda car and an engine in a Ford car could be identified by the system as having co-applicable repair data based at least partly on the key parts matching, even though the engines are used by different brands and models. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074866 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING METADATA IN A VIDEO PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes detecting user interaction associated with a video file; extracting interaction information that is based on the user interaction associated with the video file; and enhancing the metadata based on the interaction information. In more particular embodiments, the enhancing can include generating additional metadata associated with the video file. Additionally, the enhancing can include determining relevance values associated with the metadata. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074867 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF BUILDING PROCESSES - Systems and methods generate a business process control chart and process report card. A method includes generating process control chart data for a building process. The method further includes generating a summary record of sample data from the control chart data. The method includes determining a process grade for each process using the summary record. The method further includes generating a process report card including the determined process grade for each process. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074868 | TECHNIQUES FOR DYNAMIC CROSS-FILTERING - Techniques for dynamic cross-filtering are described. An apparatus may comprise a filter manager component for an application program. The filter manager component is operative to manage cross-filtering operations for the application program. The filter manager component may comprise a filter control module operative to determine a selection state for a filter data element of a first filter component, and a relationship state for the filter data element of the first filter component with a filter data element of a second filter component. The filter manager component may also comprise a filter interface module communicatively coupled to the filter control module. The filter interface module is operative to dynamically display a different visual indicator for the filter data elements based on the selection state and the relationship state, among other filter criteria or filter states. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074869 | AUTOCLASSIFYING COMPOUND DOCUMENTS FOR ENHANCED METADATA SEARCH - An enterprise content management system provides automatically classified topic-specific metadata from a map file to a set of search properties associated with the topic file. An example includes parsing content from the links in a map file and storing topic-specific metadata as search properties in a content engine. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074870 | Combining Problem and Solution Artifacts - An approach is provided in which a resolution manager stores a machine-readable problem, which includes a problem signature, and a human-readable solution in a document. The resolution manager receives an output file from a computer system and matches an output entry included in the output file to the problem signature. In turn, the resolution manager identifies the human-readable solution corresponding to the matched problem signature and provides the identified human-readable solution to the computer system. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074871 | Device, Method and Computer-Readable Medium For Recognizing Places - A computer-implemented place-recognition method comprises searching text for a place-indicating text string (word or character), identifying a place reference from the text based on the place-indicating text string, and looking up the place reference in a place database to determine if the place reference corresponds to a place for which place data is stored in the place database. If the place is already in the database, a menu of user-selectable actions may be presented. If the place is not in the database, the device may ask the user whether the place should be added to the database. Searching the text may also comprise searching the text for one of a plurality of frequent search terms. If a place reference corresponding to a frequent search term is in the database, the place is linked. If not, the place is still linked but only for local search. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074872 | Managing Workload Optimized Systems using Relational Database Modeling and Triggers - Relational database modeling and triggers are employed and coordinated to maintain and manage tunable parameters and characteristics of a Workload Optimized System. The database model is initialized with pre-defined values as per definition of Workload Optimized Systems, which models the optimal configuration of the workload-optimized system, capturing various performance configurations, security and other related system and software configuration. The values present the optimal values for the entire solution. A daemon is run to monitor for changes in the tunable configuration settings, which also updates the current values of the configuration parameters on the RDBMS. SQL Triggers are implemented on the database to identify cases where corrective actions are required to the configuration parameters. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074873 | Device, Method and Computer-Readable Medium For Recognizing Places - A computer-implemented place-recognition method comprises searching text for a place-indicating text string (word or character), identifying a place reference from the text based on the place-indicating text string, and looking up the place reference in a place database to determine if the place reference corresponds to a place for which place data is stored in the place database. If the place is already in the database, a menu of user-selectable actions may be presented. If the place is not in the database, the device may ask the user whether the place should be added to the database. Searching the text may also comprise searching the text for one of a plurality of frequent search terms. If a place reference corresponding to a frequent search term is in the database, the place is linked. If not, the place is still linked but only for local search. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074874 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION-BASED MACHINE-ASSISTED INTERACTIONS - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially enabling a set of functionalities and attributes associated to an area for facilitating business transactions, networking activities, or social interactions of users who are within, proximate, or associated, at least provisionally, with said area. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074875 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STRUCTURED DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a structured document management device includes a query data receiving unit; a structural condition dividing unit; a structural condition rewriting unit; and a query execution unit. The query data receiving unit is configured to receive query data for searching a structured document. The structural condition dividing unit is configured to divide the query data into elements including a structural condition. The structural condition rewriting unit is configured to rewrite the structural condition into a rewritten query when a type of the structural condition is other than a descendant structural condition. The rewritten query is predetermined to include a joining process with a descendant structural condition so as not to affect structural conditions appearing before and after the structural condition. The query execution unit is configured to output a search result in response to query data that includes the structural condition and the rewritten query. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074876 | Distribution Cache for Graph Data - In one embodiment, a system includes a database; and a cache layer comprising one or more cache nodes, the one or more cache nodes operative to: maintain in a memory one or more data structures storing association information describing associations between nodes in a graph a plurality of distributed cache clusters for storing information in the form of a graph, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes, each uniquely identified by a node identifier, and edge information indicating associations between nodes; respond to queries for associations between nodes in the graph by accessing the memory; and forward other queries to the database for processing. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074877 | GROUPED SEARCH QUERY REFINEMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for grouping search query refinements. One of the methods includes while receiving a text input into an input field by a user and before the user has submitted the text input to a search engine obtaining query suggestions based at least in part on the text input. The method includes grouping query suggestions based on a common query term shared by the query suggestions, wherein the query suggestions include terms that refine the common query term. The method includes transmitting a set of query suggestions to a client device for presentation, wherein the set includes the query suggestions that are presented as a group with the common query term presented in a prominent position and the refinement terms presented in subordinate positions and wherein the common query term and the refinement terms are each user-selectable. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074878 | SPREADSHEET SCHEMA EXTRACTION - Aspects of the present invention provide a tool for extracting schema from a spreadsheet. In an embodiment, a set of data that is stored in an uncataloged tabular format, such as a spreadsheet, is retrieved. The structure of the retrieved set of data is surveyed to determine the dataset schema thereof. Then, data elements within the dataset schema are analyzed to obtain information regarding the data elements. Based on dataset schema and the element information, an interface can be constructed that allows remote access to the set of data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074879 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM TO RECOMMEND MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS USING METADATA - A method, apparatus, and system are configured to recommend content using metadata including an event metadata unit, a searching unit, and a control unit. The event metadata generating unit is configured to generate event metadata regarding content selected by a user. The searching unit which, on the basis of the generated event metadata and social metadata regarding content uploaded to an SNS server associated with the user, is configured to search the content uploaded to the SNS server to recommend content to be provided to the user. The control unit is configured to provide the recommended content to the user using the social metadata regarding the searched recommended content. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074880 | METHODS OF A SERVER WITH A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAIN MEMORY - In one embodiment of the invention, a memory module is disclosed including a printed circuit board with an edge connector; an address controller coupled to the printed circuit board; and a plurality of memory slices. Each of the plurality of memory slices of the memory module includes one or more memory integrated circuits coupled to the printed circuit board, and a slave memory controller coupled to the printed circuit board and the one or more memory integrated circuits. The slave memory controller receives memory access requests for the memory module from the address controller. The slave memory controller selectively activates one or more of the one or more memory integrated circuits in the respective memory slice in response to the address received from the address controller to read data from or write data into selected memory locations in the memory integrated circuits. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074881 | TENANTIZATION OF SEARCH RESULT RANKING - This disclosure describes methods and systems for searching documents in a multi-tenant hosting environment. According to embodiments, to conserve hardware resources, a plurality of documents associated with a plurality of tenants may be mapped to the same search index in the multi-tenant hosting environment. In order to search documents associated only with a single tenant in the multi-tenant hosting environment, a tenant identifier is prepended to every key stored in the search index that is associated with the plurality of documents of the single tenant. Moreover, where one document links to another document within the multi-tenant hosting environment, the link is stored in a web graph when a source tenant identifier matches a target tenant identifier for the link. According to embodiments, when conducting a search, the link is resolved only if the link is stored in the web graph. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074882 | DETERMINING COMMON TABLE DEFINITIONS IN DISTRIBUTED DATABASES - Determining common table definitions in distributed databases includes independently establishing, for a node in a distributed database, a common network definition for shared logical table names. Establishing the common network definition includes providing local definitions for at least one logical table, and querying at least one node in a network of nodes to determine any existing network definitions for the logical table. If there is no existing network definition, the method includes adding the local definition as a new network definition. If there is an existing network definition, the method includes updating the existing network definition with any extra columns of local definition, and applying an updated network definition to other nodes in the network holding a record of the network definition. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074883 | INQUIRY-ORIENTED USER INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - User input from a reduced keypad is disambiguated and compared with a first dynamic lexicon, and predicted matches (e.g. either a single word or phrase) are offered. If a user continues to type beyond a boundary condition, then input is no longer predicted from the first lexicon, but instead is interpreted as a request for matches from a second, quasi-static lexicon allowing words or phrases to be entered. When the entry is accepted, data is transmitted to a remote receiver and may be parsed as an inquiry for subsequent operation. Following acceptance, the apparatus invokes a program suitable for interacting with the response generated to the inquiry. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074884 | DETERMINING WORD INFORMATION ENTROPIES - Determining and using word information entropies includes: determining one or more categories that correspond to a plurality of queries; sorting the plurality of queries into one or more groups based at least in part on the determined categories of the plurality of queries; segmenting queries that correspond to each of the one or more groups into a first plurality of phrases, wherein each phrase includes one or more words; determining occurrence probabilities for the plurality of phrases; and determining word information entropies for the plurality of phrases based at least in part on the determined occurrence probabilities. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074885 | GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC CONTEXT OBJECTS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates and utilizes synthetic context-based objects. A non-contextual data object is associated with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, where the non-contextual data object ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters, and where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of the non-contextual data object. The synthetic context-based object is then associated with at least one specific data store, which includes data that is associated with data contained in the non-contextual data object and the context object. A request for a data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object results in the return of at least one data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074886 | Taxonomy Generator - In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include extracting, from a plurality of sources, at least one candidate concept related to a term contained in a document; annotating the at least one candidate concept with at least one of a uniform resource identifier or a uniform resource locator to identify information at a linked data source; disambiguating the at least one candidate concept, the disambiguation being on one or more distance values determined between a first context of the term and a second context of the at least one candidate concept; selecting, based on the disambiguating, the at least one candidate concept for the taxonomy, when the one or more distance values indicate a similarity between the selected at least one candidate concept and the term; and the like. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074887 | DATA MODEL FOR MACHINE DATA FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH - Embodiments are directed towards generating data models that may give semantic meaning for unstructured data or structured data that may include data generated and/or received by search engines, including a time series engine. Data models also may be generated to provide semantic meaning to structured data. A data model may be composed of a hierarchical data model objects analogous to an object-oriented programming class hierarchy. Users may employ a data modeling application to produce reports using search objects that may be part of, or associated with the data model. The data modeling application may employ the search object and the data model to generate a query string for searching a data repository to produce a result set. A data modeling application may map the result set data to data model objects that may be used to generate reports. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074888 | SEARCH AROUND VISUAL QUERIES - A method and apparatus for a data analysis system for analyzing data object collections is provided. The data analysis system includes one or more graphical user interfaces comprising various interface elements that enable users to create visual queries. A visual query is constructed as a graph representing a pattern of interest in a collection of data objects. A visual query may include one or more graph elements and property information associated with the specified graph elements. After a user has constructed a visual query, the system may transform the visual query into a query template. A query engine may then execute the query template to search a data object collection for data object results corresponding to the specified pattern. The search for instances of a specified pattern in a collection of data objects is referred herein to as a “search around.” | 2014-03-13 |
20140074889 | GENERATION OF A DATA MODEL FOR SEARCHING MACHINE DATA - Embodiments include generating data models that may give semantic meaning for unstructured or structured data that may include data generated and/or received by search engines, including a time series engine. A method includes generating a data model for data stored in a repository. Generating the data model includes generating an initial query string, executing the initial query string on the data, generating an initial result set based on the initial query string being executed on the data, determining one or more candidate fields from one or results of the initial result set, generating a candidate data model based on the one or more candidate fields, iteratively modifying the candidate data model until the candidate data model models the data, and using the candidate data model as the data model. The method further includes generating a new query string using the data model, executing the new query string on the data, and generating a new result set based on the new query string being executed on the data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074890 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONOUSLY PROVIDING DATA FROM SOFTWARE AND WEBSITE - A method of synchronously providing data from software and a website is applied in the software installed to the website, and the software creates a database, and the method includes the following steps: a user end enters into the website via a network to login the software; the user end applies for an access of the software; the software sets an authorization level of the user end; the user end obtains the access of the software; the user end creates one or more records of data in the database by the software; the user end sets an authorization level for retrieving and storing the data by the software; and the software retrieves the retrievable data from the database according to the authorization level of each user end and produces a webpage to output the retrieved data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074891 | GENERATION OF A USER INTERFACE BASED ON A RELATIONAL DATA MODEL - Technologies are described herein for generating a user interface based on a relational data model. A relational data model may be received. The relational data model may define a plurality of tables including a first table and a second table. The first table may include a first plurality of fields, and the second table may include a second plurality of fields. Relationships between the plurality of tables in the relational data model may be identified. A plurality of forms may be generated based on the relationships as identified. Each of the plurality of forms may correspond to one plurality of tables. The plurality of forms may be linked based on the relationship. The user interface including the plurality of forms as linked may be generated. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074892 | DIMENSIONALLY CONSTRAINED SYNTHETIC CONTEXT OBJECTS DATABASE - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generate and utilize a dimensionally constrained hierarchical synthetic context-based object library for multiple synthetic context-based objects. A non-contextual data object is associated with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, where the non-contextual data object ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters, and where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of the non-contextual data object. The synthetic context-based object is then associated with at least one specific data store, which includes data that is associated with data contained in the non-contextual data object and the context object. A dimensionally constrained hierarchical synthetic context-based object library for multiple synthetic context-based objects is then constructed for handling requests for data stores. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074893 | Activity Based Recommendations within a Social Networking Environment Based Upon Graph Activation - In a network environment between a group of endpoint computing devices, where content is shared between the group of endpoint computing devices via a social network platform, techniques are described herein for receiving a social activity feed associated with the social network platform, the social activity feed including activities occurring within the social network platform. An algorithm is applied to a social graph of a user at an endpoint computing device of the group to determine a prioritization of nodes within the user's social graph, activities within the social activity feed are associated with nodes of the user's social graph, and recommendations are provided to the user of activities within the social activity feed that correspond with prioritized nodes of the user's social graph. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074894 | FORMAT CONVERSION OF METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL CONTENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for format conversion of metadata associated with digital content. In a typical embodiment, a set of metadata associated with digital content may be received in a computer memory medium. A source format of the set of metadata will then be detected (e.g., by a processor, engine, or combination thereof). Based on the source format, a rule file containing a set of soft conversion rules for the set of metadata will be identified by the processor/engine. Thereafter, a selection of at least one soft conversion rule of the set of soft conversion rules may be received (e.g., from a user, or from an automatic selection made by the processor/engine). The set of metadata may then be mapped and converted to a destination format by the processor/engine using the at least one soft conversion rule. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074895 | GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION CODING SYSTEM - A system capable of receiving at least one location input, creating a code associated with that input, storing the code, receiving a created code, providing the location, and providing directions to or from the location. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074896 | System and method for data analysis and display - A system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium bearing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a logic device, carries out a method for providing data for an organization. The system includes a logic device and one or more computer non-transitory readable media. The one or more computer readable media contain a set of computer-executable instructions to be executed by the logic device. The set of computer-executable instructions is configured to connect to a database over a network. The set of computer-executable instructions is also configured to obtain information from the database regarding an organization. The set of computer-executable instructions is further configured to display the information to a user. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074897 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first saving unit configured to save a file received by a first receiving method for receiving one file via one request, a first deletion unit configured to, if it is determined that a file has been newly received, delete the file which the first saving unit has saved, a second saving unit configured to save a file received by a second receiving method which is capable of receiving a plurality of files via one request, and a second deletion unit configured to, if it is determined that a file has been newly received, delete the file which the second saving unit has saved with higher priority than deletion of the file, which the first saving unit has saved, by the first deletion unit. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074898 | CLIENT TO CLIENT RESOURCE SHARING IN A CLIENT-SERVER FILE-SYSTEM - A request is received from a first client, at a file-server, to use a handle available at the file-server, the handle corresponding to a resource available at a second client. A response message is selected, the selected response being specified in a file-system protocol. The request is multiplexed with the selected response. An identifier is added to the multiplexed response, the identifier associating a set of requests and responses between the first client and the second client concerning the resource. The multiplexed response is sent to the second client. A second response is received from the second client. Responsive to the request from the first client, and further responsive to the second response from the second client, a third response is sent to the first client, the third response enabling the client to client resource sharing in the client-server file-system. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074899 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE CONTROLLER - A computerized method for efficient retirement process of an old controller in a computer network storage system. The method provides for combining legacy non-pNFS data storage with a new temporary parallel NFS data storage. In an embodiment, the method comprises a series of relatively short time consuming operations wherein a storage system efficiently migrates the stored data from the old controller storing legacy data stored solely under pNFS storage, wherein the efficient data migration implements the ability to reclaim layouts (pNFS, stand alone pNFS MDS) and redirect the old data to new controllers. In another embodiment the method comprises a sequence of operations under which a storage system efficiently migrates data from a storage controller that has non-pNFS data storage. In this embodiment the storage utilization during the retirement period combines both legacy non-pNFS storage, as well as new temporary pNFS storage space management. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074900 | ARCHITECTURE GUIDED OPTIMAL SYSTEM PRECISION DEFINITION ALGORITHM FOR CUSTOM INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically determine an optimal number format representation for a model or code to be implemented in a custom integrated circuit (IC) by determining a ratio of dynamic range to static range in the model or code, and selecting a floating point or a fixed point number representation based on the ratio; determining the optimal number representation format based on a cost function that includes hardware area and power cost associated with a predetermined bit precision arithmetic; automatically generating a processor architecture customized to the optimal number representation format; and synthesizing the generated processor architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074901 | BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT INSTRUCTION-DRIVEN MULTIPLICATION ENGINE - Multiplication engines and multiplication methods are provided for a digital processor. A multiplication engine includes multipliers, each receiving a first operand and a second operand; a local operand register having locations to hold the first operands for respective multipliers; a first operand bus coupled to the local operand register to supply the first operands from a compute register file to the local operand register; a second operand bus coupled to the plurality of multipliers to supply one or more of to the second operands from the compute register file to respective multipliers; and a control unit responsive to a digital processor instruction to supply the first operands from the local operand register to respective multipliers, to supply the second operands from the compute register file to respective multipliers on the second operand bus and to multiply the first operands by the respective second operands in the respective multipliers, wherein one or more of the first operands in the local operand register are reused by the multipliers in two or more multiplication operations. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074902 | NUMBER REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY SYSTEM FOR ARITHMETIC - A method, device and system for representing numbers in a computer including storing a floating-point number M in a computer memory; representing the floating-point number M as an interval with lower and upper bounds A and B when it is accessed by using at least two floating-point numbers in the memory; and then representing M as an interval with lower and upper bounds A and B when it is used in a calculation by using at least three floating-point numbers in the memory. Calculations are performed using the interval and when the data is written back to the memory it may be stored as an interval if the size of the interval is significant, i.e. larger than a first threshold value. A warning regarding the suspect accuracy of any data stored as an interval may be issued if the interval is too large, i.e. larger than a second threshold value. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074903 | Dual-Path Fused Floating-Point Add-Subtract - A fused floating-point add-subtract unit includes far path logic, close path logic, and selection logic. The far path logic is configured to perform addition and subtraction operations on first and second significands of first and second operands, respectively, to produce a far path sum and a far path difference. The close path logic is configured to perform addition and subtraction operations on the first and second significands of the first and second operands, substantially concurrently with the addition and subtraction operations of the far path logic, to produce a close path sum and a close path difference. The selection logic selectively provides one of the far path sum and the close path sum as a significand of a sum output and one of the far path difference and the close path difference as a significand of a difference output. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074904 | DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE - A data-intensive computer includes a processing sub-system formed by a plurality of processing servers, a database sub-system formed by a plurality of database servers configured to form a collective database, and a unifying operating system environment. The unifying operating system environment extends across the processing sub-system and the database sub-system to coordinate operation of the plurality of processing servers and the plurality of database servers to act as components in a single data-intensive computer and presents the database sub-system to an application running in the data-intensive computer as a layer in a memory hierarchy of the data-intensive computer. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION FOR USE WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for workflow orchestration for use with a cloud computing environment. Cloud environments, such as Oracle Public Cloud (OPC), provide a suite of applications, middleware, and database offerings that can be delivered to tenants in a self-service, elastically scalable, and secure manner. In accordance with an embodiment, the cloud environment can include a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment, which provides a variety of services such as virtual assembly creation. A workflow orchestrator can be used to orchestrate operations between the cloud environment and the PaaS environment, e.g., by receiving a request from a tenant automation system, and coordinating the provisioning and deployment of virtual assemblies or applications. A customer can interact with the PaaS environment, e.g., to request a service, deploy to the service, or monitor the service. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074906 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving part that receives, via a network, a processing request for a process to be performed on management information, an execution time estimating part that estimates an execution time of the process to be performed on the management information, and a selection part that selects a notification method for notifying an execution result of the process to be performed on the management information based on a comparison result of comparing the estimated execution time with a predetermined threshold value. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074907 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY CONTROL OF APPLICATION DATA TO A MOBILE DEVICE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Apparatus and methods are provided for buffering application data from one or more application servers to be transmitted to a mobile device at a suitable opportunity. The application data may be buffered at the application servers, or at a delivery control server. An opportunity to transmit the application data may arise in accordance with detected user activity at the mobile device, or predicted imminent user activity at the mobile device, indicating that the user may wish to receive the application data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXTENDING IMS SCIM / SERVICE BROKER TO ENABLE APPLICATION SERVERS USING MSCML TO EXECUTE ON GSM CAMEL NETWORKS - Systems and methods provide unified user interaction across different network interfaces. A system to extend an IMS SCIM to enable application servers that use MSCML to execute on CAMEL (GSM) networks include an application server, including IMS applications using MSCML. The system includes a SCIM to manage communication between call parties and the applications. In a GSM network, when the IMS connects a call party to a media resource, the SCIM is configured to connect the call party to a MSC internal resource function, receive a message from the IMS applications which indicates an announcement to play to the call party and/or information to be collected from the call party, mediate the message into native CAMEL operations for the GSM network, and play the announcement and/or collect information indicated in the message. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074909 | MANAGING CONVERSATIONS IN SINGLE VIEW PANE ENVIRONMENT - A communication application displays a conversation navigation bar to manage conversations. The application inserts an interactive tile into the navigation bar for each conversation. Each tile presents status information about the conversation and the modality of the conversation. Tiles are ordered according to activity and updates. The navigation bar is adjustable to accommodate hardware and software limitations of a platform. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL CONTENTS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Method for providing digital contents in a network environment in an embodiment includes the following. In a server, the digital content request is checked for its priority. Whether a queue is full is checked. If the queue is not full, the digital content request is added to the queue. If the digital content request is not of a high priority and the queue is full, a communication link to a client device corresponding to the digital content request is disconnected. If the digital content request is of the high priority and the queue is full, the digital content request is added to an additional queue appended to the queue. With respect to a first request, a digital content required by the first request is provided to a client device corresponding to the first request. The providing step is repeated for another request obtained from the queue. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTI-SESSION - A method of managing sessions between a plurality of cloud servers and a client by a multi-session managing apparatus. The method includes receiving respective screen images of the plurality of cloud servers through a multi-session with the plurality of cloud servers; generating a single bitstream by using the screen images; and transmitting the single bitstream to the client through a single session with the client. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074912 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus has a communication part configured to communicate with a different communication apparatus, an information request part configured to generate information requests to the different communication apparatus, an information acquisition request generating part configured to generate information acquisition requests each comprising meta-information added to each of the information requests generated by the information request part, and an information request processing part configured to generate a pipeline request in which as many of the information acquisition requests as possible are concatenated within a length which does not exceed an information delimiter prescribed by a low-level protocol of a level lower than a protocol used to transmit the pipeline request to the different communication apparatus via the communication part. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074913 | CLIENT-SIDE IMAGE RENDERING IN A CLIENT-SERVER IMAGE VIEWING ARCHITECTURE - Systems and methods within a remote access environment that enable a client device that is remotely accessing, e.g., medical images, to seamlessly switch from client-side rendering of image data to server-side rendering of the image data and vice-versa. Distributed image processing may be provided whereby image data may be streamed to, and processed by the client device (client-side rendering), or may be processed remotely at the server and downloaded to the client device for display (server-side rendering). The switching between the two modes may be based on predetermined criteria, such as network bandwidth, processing power the client device, type of imagery to be displayed. The environment also provides for collaboration among plural client devices where at least one of the plural client devices is performing client-side rendering. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074914 | Data Processing Method and System - The present disclosure provides techniques for data processing. These techniques may transport, by a computing device, individual retrieving requests for second data corresponding to a first client that sends the retrieving requests for first data into the order pool. The computing device may calculate an initial value of a second total amount of the second data, and then notify a platform of a third party to send the corresponding first data to the first client. The computing device may determine corresponding qualification after retrieving requests for the second data in the order pool are changed. The computing device may return third data to a data processing server of the third party in response to qualification determination. These techniques reduce usage of network resource and therefore increase efficacy of the networking. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074915 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR REMOTELY ENABLING FEATURES - A method and apparatus enables a feature among a plurality of features in an application loaded on a client, with the client located remotely from a sewer. The server receives a data profile request from the client. In response to the data profile request, a data profile is sent from the server to the client, the data profile including a profile key to identify the client, an application identification to identify the application, and a feature selector. The application uses the feature selector to enable the feature among the plurality of features. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074916 | CLIENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM AND DISPLAY METHOD, EACH FOR DETECTING CHANGE OF DISPLAY CONTENTS IN STATUS BAR AREA TO DISPLAY THE CHANGE - A client apparatus, which requests a service to a server apparatus and receives a result corresponding to the request, comprises: a receiving section for receiving screen data corresponding to the result and a position of a status bar area in the screen data from the server; a display section for performing a display based on the screen data; and a control section for detecting a change of display contents of the screen data based on the position of the status bar area and the screen data, causing the display section to perform the display except for the status bar area based on the screen data when it is not detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed, and causing the display section to display the status bar area when it is detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074917 | REUSING SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION AND METADATA FOR RELATED OPERATIONS - Reusing system configuration information and metadata for related operations is disclosed. It is determined that a group of content management system commands may be treated as a related set for purposes of updating content management system configuration information and/or metadata. The content management system configuration information and/or metadata are updated once for purposes of processing the group. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074918 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE - The current invention discloses methods and devices that provide controlled randomization of the progression of an application program on one or more terminals connected to a server. The server may feed a seed random number to the terminals and the seed random number may be used by a platform-independent random number generator to produce random numbers. The random numbers may be fed to platform-dependent random processing commands to generate display contents, which may be displayed by the terminals. With such implementations, the same program running at different times may have different processes and show different display contents. The current invention reduces predictability and improves randomness and excitability of the program. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074919 | DATA TRANSMISSION AND RENDERING TECHNIQUES BY A DEVICE VIA A NETWORK - A technique is disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computing device. The computing device may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server computing device. A request is sent from the computing device to the server system. According to one embodiment, the request may correspond to an HTTP request for information relating to a specific HTML page or web page. A response is then received from the server system. According to one embodiment, the response includes response information comprising embedded instructions and data. The embedded instructions may include instructions for using the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The embedded instructions are then executed on the data to thereby generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. According to a specific embodiment, the formatted markup information corresponds to HTML data to be rendered for display on the computing device. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074920 | Determining User Personality Characteristics From Social Networking System Communications and Characteristics - A social networking system obtains linguistic data from a user's text communications on the social networking system. For example, occurrences of words in various types of communications by the user in the social networking system are determined. The linguistic data and non-linguistic data associated with the user are used in a trained model to predict one or more personality characteristics for the user. The inferred personality characteristics are stored in connection with the user's profile, and may be used for targeting, ranking, selecting versions of products, and various other purposes. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074921 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING CUSTOMIZED POLICY-BASED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A mechanism is described for facilitating customized policy-based notifications at computing systems according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments of the invention includes managing, at a computing device, data including at least one of power-aware data and context-aware data, dynamically customizing, at the computing device, notification policies based on the managed data, and generating, at the computing device, policy-based notifications based on the customized notification policies, and transmitting the policy-based notifications to facilitate communication of the policy-based notifications. The policy-based notifications may include at least one of a power-aware notification and a context-aware notification. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074922 | REAL-TIME NOTIFICATION OF INCREASED COMMUNICATION IN A SELECTED AREA OF INTEREST(S) ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing real-time notification of increased communication in a selected area of interest(s) on a social networking system. A plurality of resource objects are maintained on a social networking system. A resource display interface is provided on a communications device of a user. The social networking system continuously monitors resource object associations. The social networking system identifies changes in resource object associations and mean traffic data for a particular resource object. The resource display interface is updated to display additional changes in resource object associations. The social networking system determines whether mean traffic data on the social networking system for a particular resource object exceeds a threshold established by user filter data. A real-time signal is transmitted indicating that changes in activity on the social networking system for a particular resource object exceeds the threshold established by user filter data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074923 | SELECTIVE CONTENT DISCLOSURE IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK BASED ON SOCIAL COHESION - In a device that is a member of an ad-hoc group in a network, a method includes determining an encounter history of the device with other devices in the ad-hoc group and filtering content intended to be shared by the device with the ad-hoc group based on the encounter history. A device includes a network interface to communicate with other devices in an ad-hoc group of a network and a disclosure assessment agent to determine a disclosure factor for disclosure of content to the ad-hoc group based on an encounter history of the device with other devices in the ad-hoc group. The device further includes a disclosure filter agent to filter content intended to be shared with the ad-hoc group based on the disclosure factor. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074924 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING A MULTI-USER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH CENTRALIZED PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORKED MEDIA SOURCES - An apparatus for multi-user media collaboration includes a processor and memory storing executable computer program code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including generating a playlist including indications of media content responsive to requests from communication devices to include an item of media content in the playlist. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze an initial or subsequent item in the playlist to determine a communication device storing, or authorized to access, the item and to receive the item of media content from the communication device responsive to requesting the communication device to play the item. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to provide data of the item being streamed to enable users of communication devices, that are physically co-located, to listen to audio or view visible data corresponding to the item. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074925 | Social Network Mapping - Methods and systems are disclosed that may retrieve and filter a call history log or related data, select users based on the results of filtering, and provide proposed contacts to a communication service. The filtering may comprise a variety of criteria and the criteria may be assigned different weights. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074926 | User Selected Affiliation with Brands in a Social Networking System - A social networking system allows users that are people to partner with users that are non-person entities. A partnership allows the entity participating in the partnership to personalize an associated page with content from the person participating in the partnership and similarly allows the person to include certain content from the entity, made available because of the partnership, in the person's user profile. The entity may provide additional benefits, such as enrollment in a rewards program or access to new products, to a user participating in a partnership. The partnership is bidirectional, and is separate from other unidirectional connection mechanisms provided by the social networking system such as indications of affinity (e.g., “likes”), friendships, and subscriptions. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074927 | CACHING CONTENT BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK RELATIONS - Various embodiments provide for use of social networking postings to predict (e.g., where and when) caching of content (e.g., social network related content) would be beneficial (e.g., to speed access). In one example, the caching may be performed by one or more Internet Service Providers (ISPs), one or more content providers and/or one or more content distributors. In one specific example, one or more Internet Service Providers (ISPs), one or more content providers and/or one or more content distributors may be local ISPs. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074928 | SEMI-SUPERVISED IDENTITY AGGREGATION OF PROFILES USING STATISTICAL METHODS - User profiles can be analyzed to identify profiles matching to the same identity. For example, profiles from different social network systems are analyzed to determine if the profiles are associated with the same user of the social network systems. Multiple heuristics may be calculated using different algorithms. The calculated heuristics may then be combined to generate a match score that indicates whether two profiles match. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074929 | PROTECTION AGAINST THE DETECTION OF ALERT SIGNALS - A method of communicating between at least one event detector sensor and a collector of event detection data transmitted by the sensor in the form of an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by at least one spreading code. The method comprises the steps implemented by the sensor of, upon detection of an event, generation of data of event detection, of reception of a synchronization message emitted by the collector, the synchronization message comprising a seed for a pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code and of pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code on the basis of the seed. The method furthermore comprises a step of emitting an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by the at least one spreading code generated randomly, the event signalling message comprising the event detection data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074930 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONFERENCE SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a request to acquire a content to be shared among a plurality of client terminals attending a conference, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals; a determining unit configured to use first information to determine whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and a providing unit configured to provide the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074931 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUGGESTING APPLICATIONS - A method for suggesting applications applied by a terminal compatible with its operating system, is disclosed. One aspect of the method includes receiving a link for accessing the downloading of the application and restoring a message suggesting to the user the downloading; The method further includes determining at least one data structure including identifiers; selecting at least one identifier; generating from the identifier a domain name including an indication of the operating system; and sending the domain name to a server capable of providing a corresponding link for accessing the domain name. Lastly, the access link is received in response to said sending step. A system and device for implementing the method are also disclosed. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074932 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TERMINAL - Disclosed is a communication system including terminals which participate in a conference and a file sharing apparatus that provides a file to the terminals, the communication system including an attribute storage unit that stores attributes of the terminals; a shared folder location information notification unit that transmits location information of a shared folder; and a shared folder storage unit that stores the location information of the shared folder and identification information of the terminals being associated with conference identification information. The file sharing apparatus includes the shared folder; and a file synchronization unit that transmits the file to the terminals. Each of the terminals includes a folder mount unit that mounts the shared folder on the terminal; and another file synchronization unit that transmits another file to the shared folder, the other file being stored in a storage area created by the mounting. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074933 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR EDITING INFORMATION IN SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure discloses a method of editing information in a social network service (“SNS”) application, and a terminal for the same. The method can comprise: sending from a command terminal to an execution terminal a multimedia information obtaining command while the command terminal is executing an editing operation in an editing area of an SNS application; obtaining multimedia information by the execution terminal in accordance with the multimedia information obtaining command; sending the obtained multimedia information to the command terminal; and inserting the multimedia information by the command terminal into the editing area of the SNS application. The present disclosure accomplishes information editing via inter-terminal interaction, simplifies the process of information editing operation, increases the convenience of information editing, and enhances the SNS application's user loyalty. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074934 | ANALYZING SOCIAL PROXIMITY OF USERS OF A DIGITAL MAGAZINE SERVER - Connections between an online system user and one or more social networking system users maintained by various social networking systems are analyzed to determine social proximity between the online system user and social networking system users connected to the online system user via a social networking system. Social networking system users connected to the online system user via each of a plurality of social networking systems are identified. Based on a number of social networking system users connected to both the online system user and to a social networking system user connected to the online system user, a social proximity score indicating relative social “closeness” of the digital magazine server user and the social networking system user connected to the digital magazine server user is generated. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074935 | PERSONAL ALERT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A personal alert system and method are provided. The personal alert system may generate, for example, residence alerts, school alerts, finance alerts and/or public persona alerts. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074936 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND TERMINAL FOR SNS SYSTEM APPLICATION PROMPT - A method, device, and terminal for social network service (“SNS”) system application prompt are described. The method may include: obtaining location information associated with a current geographical location of a terminal; generating prompt information corresponding to the location information; and outputting the prompt information, wherein the prompt information prompts a user to start an SNS system application. The method increases SNS system applications' user loyalty and rate of utilization. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074937 | Automated Aging of Contacts and Classifying Relationships - One or more interactions between a first user and a second user of a social networking system are identified. Each respective interaction of the one or more interactions is scored based on a group score and a time penalty. The group score is based on the number of users in the respective interaction and the time penalty is based on a time between a current time and a time of a last interaction between the first user and the second user. A relationship ranking that measures the first user's affinity towards the second user is determined, where the relationship ranking comprises one or more interaction scores. An indicator representing the relationship ranking is sent to a client for display. | 2014-03-13 |
20140074938 | PROVIDING EXCESS RESOURCES AS A SERVICE - An integrated content production environment includes a connected services framework providing connectivity to a set of applications that produce content for the media industry. Users in their roles use the integrated environment to perform setting up, ingesting, logging, selecting, editing, reviewing, playout, distributing, and archiving activities. Notifications are dynamically triggered to users when their action is requested. The notifications may be instant messages, e-mails, voice mails, etc. Throughout the production of content, actions by both users the applications are tracked and stored in a log file for processing. The action data in the log file may include payload data from messages. When one or more applications or when one or more users of the environment have excess capacity, that capacity can be leveraged. External users can purchase or bid on the excess capacity and can then access the environment through available web services. | 2014-03-13 |