16th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110093455 | SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SHORT MESSAGES UTILIZING MESSAGING CONTEXT AND KEYWORD FREQUENCY - Systems and methods of identifying and retrieving messages that satisfy a search query using the context of the message and term frequencies are provided. One embodiment includes identifying at least one category relevant to the search query, wherein a plurality of scored keywords are associated with each category, selecting at least one of the scored keywords that is relevant to an identified category, performing a plurality of searches of messages from a social networking messaging service to retrieve messages, where at least one search includes retrieving messages based on the original search query and one of the selected scored keywords, scoring the retrieved messages with respect to each of the at least one identified categories using at least the scored keywords relevant to each category, and returning at least the message with the highest score as the search result. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093456 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - A method of providing an Internet search results list in response to an Internet keywords search request includes: receiving a list of keywords, a list of web pages associated with the keywords in said list of keywords, and quality factors associated with keyword-web page combinations, the quality factors being determined from user activities in response to a site specific search request. The method further includes receiving the Internet keywords search request; retrieving a listing of web pages associated with keywords in the Internet keywords search request; ranking said web pages in said listing based upon associated quality factors to produce a ranked listing; and providing the ranked listing in response to the Internet keywords search request. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093457 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING RESOURCE POINTS OF RESOURCE INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTING POINTS - An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method that provides an objective value evaluation with respect to various resources to be posted to a community by users over a network and accumulated in a database; and which allows this value to be distributed within the community. The system generates an association (link) with respect to the various resources to be accumulated in the database according to a content of an automatically retrieved tag as well as user behavior over the resource. Using these resources and their associations, the system automatically provides an objective valuation with respect to the entire community by a predetermined valuation method and further associates the points based on this valuation with the resource thereby to present the user a relative value within the community, wherein further based on the points, given points will be taken as a reward dividend to be allotted and distributed to the user who has posted the resource, thus allowing the points to be distributed in the community. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093458 | RECOMMENDING POINTS OF INTERESTS IN A REGION - Techniques for searching and providing geographical regions are described. The process searches and recommends points of interests based on a user-specified region. Points of interests include spatial objects (e.g., buildings, landmarks, rivers, parks) and their distributions in a geographical region. The process searches and recommends points of interests by partitioning a spatial map into grids to identify representative categories located in each of the grids. In response to the user-specified region, a set of geographical candidates containing the representative categories is retrieved. The process determines whether the user-specified region and the set of geographical candidates include similar or common representative categories and similar or common spatial distributions of the representative categories. Then the process provides the top ranked set of geographical candidates that have similar content information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093459 | Incorporating Recency in Network Search Using Machine Learning - In one embodiment, access a set of recency ranking data comprising one or more recency search queries and one or more recency search results, each of the recency search queries being recency-sensitive with respect to a particular time period and being associated with a query timestamp representing the time at which the recency search query is received at a search engine, each of the recency search results being generated by the search engine for one of the recency search queries and comprising one or more recency network resources. Construct a plurality of recency features from the set of recency ranking data. Train a first ranking model via machine learning using at least the recency features. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093460 | Ranking Search Results Based on the Frequency of Access on the Search Results by Users of a Social-Networking System - Particular embodiments access a search query submitted by a first user of a social-networking system; identify one or more web pages in response to the search query; retrieve, from the social-networking system, social-networking information of the first user to identify one or more second users of the social-networking system who are connected to the first user within a predetermined degree of separation within the social-networking system; for each of the one or more web pages, determine a value indicating a number of times that the web page has been accessed by the one or more second users; rank the one or more web pages based on the value determined for each web page; and send a ranked set of hyperlinks for the one or more web pages to a second computing device associated with the first user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093461 | Extensible Custom Variables for Tracking User Traffic - A system and method for presenting custom variables to a user of a web analytics system. An activity file of a web server is received, wherein the activity file includes activity file hit records that provide information about respective requests for documents made by visitors of web sites. A custom variable tag of an activity file hit record in the activity file is identified. Attribute-value pairs of the custom variable tag are then extracted. The attribute-value pairs of the custom variable tag are stored in a database hit record of a database of the server. One or more attribute-value pairs of a plurality of custom variable tags assigned to the custom variable of the web site are then prepared to be presented to a user, wherein the user is separate and distinct from the authors of the documents of the web site. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093462 | HIERARCHICAL METADATA GENERATOR FOR RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method of locating information in a database of electronic documents includes defining fragments of the documents, associating the fragments with the document from which the fragments originated, and associating metadata with the fragments, where the metadata associated with a fragment includes metadata related to one or more topics of the fragment. A query for one or more documents containing information about a topic is received, and a document is located from the database based on a comparison of the query with the metadata associated with a fragment of the document. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093463 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING AND INJECTING INFORMATION SPACES - An approach is provided for managing projection and injection operations on information spaces with respect to their information content. An information space projection module receives a query to project a first information space from a second information space. In response to the query, the module extracts a subset of information content from the second information space by using a partitioning function. The module also extracts a subset of rules from the second information space by using the partitioning function. The module then creates the first information space using the extracted subset of information content, and the extracted subset of rules while maintains a link between the first and the second information spaces. An information space injection module enables further injection of the first information space back into the second information space. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING MULTIPLE STREAMS OF DATA - A document clustering system and method of assigning a document to a cluster of documents containing related content are provided. Each cluster is associated with a cluster summary describing the content of the documents in the cluster. The method comprises: determining, at a document clustering system, whether the document should be grouped with one or more previously created cluster summaries, the previously created cluster summaries being stored in a memory in a B-tree data structure; and if it is determined that the document should not be grouped with the one or more previously created cluster summaries, then creating, at a document clustering system, a cluster summary based on the content of the document and storing the created cluster summary in the B-tree data structure. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093465 | PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - Data is analyzed by a computer for the automated creation of a new data structure for information technology objects. The objects represent technical components from the mechanical engineering sector or the electrical industry and are assigned to a company. The objects to be structured are captured and then subjected to a parsing. Technical relationships are then created between the parsed objects to construct technical metrics. The data structure is derived from the technical metrics. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093466 | HEURISTIC EVENT CLUSTERING OF MEDIA USING METADATA - Event clusters are create based on a first metadata and second metadata of the electronic document. The event clusters are associated with an event id and each electronic document is associated with the event identifier of its corresponding event cluster. A user may then browse or otherwise access the electronic documents based on the event identifier. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093467 | SELF-INDEXING DATA STRUCTURE - A machine based tool and associated logic and methodology are used in converting data from an input form to a target form using context dependent conversion rules, and in efficiency generating an index that may be utilized to access the converted data in a database. Once the data has been converted, an index data structure for each data object may be automatically generated that encodes one or more characteristics or attributes of the converted data so that an entity may access the data using the index structure. As an example, the one or more characteristics may include categories, subcategories, or other attributes of the data. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING STORAGE AND RETREIVAL OF DOCUMENTS - A system and method for enhancing the storage and retrieval of documents includes employing information about documents filed in a retained document filing arrangement and information about document processing channels. The information is used in the system and method to implement a document processing channel that enhances the further storage and retrieval of document filed in the retained document filing arrangement. A controller computer may be in communications with sensors connected to the retained document filing arrangement to provided attribute data for retained documents. The document processing channels can employ scanning, digitizing and indexing. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093469 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTRACTING SEMANTIC DATA STORES - Techniques for enforcing policies. A set of data is stored in one or more data stores. A plurality of semantic concepts for an ontology are defined and a map is constructed from the set of data to the concepts. The map is executed in order to transform data from the set of data to a second set of data. The second set of data is stored according to the ontology. The second set of data is reasoned in order to determine compliance with one or more policies. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLINE INDEXING OF CONTENT AND CLASSIFYING STORED DATA - A method and system for creating an index of content without interfering with the source of the content includes an offline content indexing system that creates an index of content from an offline copy of data. The system may associate additional properties or tags with data that are not part of traditional indexing of content, such as the time the content was last available or user attributes associated with the content. Users can search the created index to locate content that is no longer available or based on the associate attributes. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093471 | LEGAL COMPLIANCE, ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT HANDLING OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE COPIES OF DATA - Systems and methods of electronic document handling permit organizations to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, electronic discovery and legal hold requirements, and/or other business requirements. The systems described provide a unified approach to data management that enables compliance, legal and IT personnel to focus efforts on, e.g., a single data repository. The systems permit users to define and utilize information governance policies that help automate and systematize different compliance tasks. In some examples, organizations may push data in any third-party data format to the systems described herein. The systems may permit compliance or IT personnel to detect when a legally sensitive production file has been changed or deleted. The systems may also provide a unified dashboard user interface. From a dashboard interface, users may perform searches, participate in collaborative data management workflows, obtain data management reports, and adjust policies. Other elements and features are disclosed herein. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE AGGREGATED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - Some aspects include determination of a first relationship between a first entity and a second entity, determination of a first trust coefficient associated with the first relationship based on a first generation rule, determination of a second relationship between the first entity and the second entity, determination of a second trust coefficient associated with the second relationship based on a second generation rule, and determination of a trust value of an aggregated relationship between the first entity and the second entity based on the first trust coefficient and the second trust coefficient. In some aspects, it is determined that the trust value exceeds a threshold, the aggregated relationship is presented to the first entity, a confirmation of the aggregated relationship is received from the first entity, and at least one of the first generation rule and the second generation rule is changed based on the confirmation. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093473 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGED CONTENT ANALYSIS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work (MMW), perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the MMW, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the MMW, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093474 | System and Method for Tracking and Scoring User Activities - A system for tracking user activities on a computing network and generating a peer-group score based on those activities may be implemented in hardware and software that when executed performs steps for receiving at a server information including a device identifier, a user score associated with the device identifier, and content provider information from a content provider, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of a user device used to access network-accessible content of the content provider, categorizing the content provider as belonging to one or more classes of service based on the received information, retrieving from a database one or more provider-generated user scores belonging to an identical one of the one or more classes of service and being associated with an identical device identifier, and generating a peer-group score for the received device identifier based on the received user score and the one or more retrieved provider-generated user scores. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE BROADCAST CONTENT AND SCHEDULING IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - A broadcast system, method and apparatus providing content on demand. In one embodiment, the disclosed broadcast system includes a server that broadcasts meta-data to a plurality of clients. The meta-data describes a plurality of data files that are to be broadcast or potentially broadcast later by the server. Each client receives the broadcasted meta-data from the server and updates and maintains a local meta-data table and a content rating table. Based on the meta-data, previous access habits of the user and optional user classifications, the client system selectively receives and/or stores the data files that are later broadcast by the server. In one embodiment, the client systems transmit back to the server ratings of each one of the data files described by the meta-data based on the user's previously accessed data files and optional user classifications. The server then determines the data files to be broadcast and the broadcast schedule based on the ratings received from the clients. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093476 | RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - A recommendation information generation apparatus and a recommendation information generation method that can select a similar user appropriately even if the amount of history information is small. In an information distribution server, a user characteristic vector calculation unit calculates a user characteristic vector of each of users, and a similar user calculation unit calculates the degree of similarity between the users based on the calculated user characteristic vector of each of the users. The similar user calculation unit then selects a similar user who is similar to a first user based on the calculated degree of similarity. A relevance evaluation unit generates recommendation information for the first user based on the characteristic vector of the selected similar user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093477 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF ORDER-BASED STATISTICS ON SLOWLY CHANGING DISTRIBUTIONS - A computer-implemented method for estimation of order-based statistics on slowly changing distributions of data stored on a computer. An initial set of data is converted to an initial histogram based representation of the data set's distribution. New or removed data is converted into a new histogram separate from the initial histogram. The new histogram is combined with the initial histogram to build a combined histogram. Percentiles and order-based statistics are estimated from the combined histogram to provide analysis of a combination of the initial set of data combined with the new or removed data. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093478 | FILTER HINTS FOR RESULT SETS - Systems and methods to provide filter hints for a result set are provided. In example embodiments, a search request is received and a search is initiated. Documents retrieved from the search are analyzed to determine filters, which may be organized into filter groups. A filter count for each filter is determined. The filter count indicates how many documents match the filter within a current result set or how many additional documents match the filter if selected. The current result set is a set of remaining documents based on any number of previously selected filters from any one or more filter groups being applied thereto. In example embodiments, the filters include enabled filters and any disabled filters, whereby the disabled filters have a zero filter count in the current result set. A visual indicator may also be provided to indicate at least one filter being selected within a collapsed filter group. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093479 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING IN STORAGE, SEARCHING AND PROVIDING OF DATA OR OTHER CONTENT INFORMATION - A system and method for using semantic understanding in storing and searching data and other information. A linearized tuple-based version of a conceptual graph can be created from a user input. A plurality of conceptual graphs, or portions thereof, can be compared to determine matches. An associative database can be created and/or searched using a hierarchy of conceptual graphs in tuple format, so that the data storage and searching of such database is optimized. The associative database can be used to integrate data from multiple different sources; form part of an Internet or other search engine; or used in other implementations. Also disclosed herein is a system and method for use of semantic understanding in searching and providing of content is described herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a Syntactic Parser (SP) or statistical word tokenizer for data retrieval and parsing; a Syntax To Semantics (STS) transformational algebra-based semantic rule set, and an Associative Database (ADB) of linearized tuple conceptual graphs (TCG), utilizing a conceptual graph formalism. Data can be represented within the ADB, enabling both fast data retrieval in the form of semantic objects and a broad ranging taxonomy of content. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093480 | ACCOMODATING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS OF REFERENCES TO COMPONENTS IN COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS - A core idea of present invention is not only to have one fixed link/reference to one specific database, but to use a script/formula (e.g. a Notes @formula/expression) that resolves to a link to a specific database at runtime. This allows pointing to different NSFs in the development environment vs. production environment vs. any other environment. This reference (e.g., the @formula/expression) is written in a new user interface (UI) of the Lotus Notes Composite Application Editor (CAE) that is part of the current UI to define component property preferences. This UI would generate the XML below so that users don't have to do this manually. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093481 | Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System - In general, a computer-implemented method is described for receiving one or more requests to generate a medical study, retrieving from one or more data repositories one or more medical study instruments, receiving a selection of a particular medical study instrument to use in the medical study, generating by one or more computers a list of one or more research collaborators invited to review the medical study, and generating by one or more computers a list of one of more participants invited to join the medical study. Additionally, the computer-implemented method generates by one or more computer systems a data filter to format medical data from a first data format to a second data format, wherein the second data format complies with a third data format associated with one or more medical study instruments. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093482 | Geometrization For Pattern Recognition Data Analysis, Data Merging And Multiple Criteria Decision Making - An analyzer/classifier/synthesizer/prioritizing tool for data comprises use of an admissible geometrization process with data transformed and partitioned by an input process into one or more input matrices and one or more partition classes and one or more scale groups. The data to be analyzed/classified/synthesized/prioritized is processed by an admissible geometrization technique such as 2-partition modified individual differences multidimensional scaling (2p-IDMDS) to produce at least a measure of geometric fit. Using the measure of geometric fit and possibly other 2p-IDMDS output, a back end process analyzes, synthesizes, classifies, and prioritizes data through patterns, structure, and relations within the data. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA EXCHANGE IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - An apparatus for exchanging data in a distributed system with constrained resources without symmetric metadata knowledge between senders and receivers. The sender includes an encoding module, which when encoding messages for a receiver, is operative to perform the following: generate metadata descriptions for unique combinations of subset of fields of data structures, where each metadata description defines for the receiver how to decode data in the corresponding subset of fields of that data structure included in messages and does not include the data currently in those corresponding subset of field; generate a unique metadata description identification for each different metadata description; include metadata descriptions in the messages as well as the corresponding metadata description identifications to the receiver that has not previously received those metadata descriptions, whereby the messages are encoded without per field overhead. The receiver includes a decoding module, which when decoding messages received from the sender, is operative to: store metadata descriptions in a metadata description data structure as they are received from the sender, where each metadata description is associated with a metadata description identification, whereby the metadata description data structure is progressively populated with metadata for data structures as messages are received from the sender that include metadata descriptions; and decode those messages received from the sender that do not include metadata descriptions based on the stored metadata descriptions that correspond with the metadata description identifications included in these messages, whereby these messages are decoded without those messages including metadata descriptions. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093484 | CONFIGURING STATE MACHINES USED TO ORDER AND SELECT MATCHING OPERATIONS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER AN INPUT STRING MATCHES ANY OF AT LEAST ONE REGULAR EXPRESSION USING LOOKAHEAD FINITE AUTOMATA BASED REGULAR EXPRESSION DETECTION - State machines used to order and select matching operations for determining whether an input string matches any of at least one regular expression are configured by ( | 2011-04-21 |
20110093485 | LEVERAGING STRUCTURED XML INDEX DATA FOR EVALUATING DATABASE QUERIES - A query may be rewritten to leverage information stored in a structured XML index. An operator in the query may be analyzed to determine an input source database object for the operator by traversing an operator tree rooted at the operator. The path expressions associated with the operator tree may be fused together to form an effective path expression for the operator. If the effective path expression directly matches a path expression derived from the index, the query may be rewritten using references to the index. Operators in a query that have effective paths that refer to data in the same index table may be grouped together. A single subquery may be written for a group of operators. Also, a structured XML index may be used as an implied schema for indexed XML data. This implied schema may be used to optimize queries that refer to the indexed XML data. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093486 | DATA QUERY METHOD, DATA QUERY SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE AND WRITABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A relational database query system for a relational database is provided, wherein the relational database comprises several relational tables including at least one constant table storing several unique data. The relational database query system comprises a query receiving module for receiving an extensible-markup-language query (XML query); at least a constant mapping tree respectively corresponds to one of the at least constant tables, wherein the at least constant mapping tree comprises several tree nodes respectively with node numbers respectively corresponding to the unique data in the at least constant table; a query generator for converting the XML query to be a structured query language (SQL) query according to the at least constant mapping tree; a query module for querying the relational database with the SQL query. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093487 | DATA PROVIDER WITH TRANSIENT UNIVERSE - A computer-implemented system to receive an instruction to initialize a data provider associated with an analysis cube and a dataset, and, in response to the instruction, acquire first metadata associated with the analysis cube and generate, based on the first metadata, second metadata of an abstraction layer comprising a plurality of objects. A query comprising a first plurality of objects of the abstraction layer is received, the query is transformed to a query state based on the second metadata of the abstraction layer, and a result set is acquired from the dataset using the query state and the analysis cube. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093488 | DYNAMIC SEARCH SUGGESTION AND CATEGORY SPECIFIC COMPLETION - Methods and systems for providing dynamic and category specific search suggestions are provided. According to one embodiment, a partial search query entered by a user can be used to determine a set of relevant search queries, which can be displayed as search suggestions within a search query suggestion window. Each query in the list can be associated with at least one specific category. According to various embodiments, the set of relevant queries and associated categories are dynamically updated as the user modifies the partial search query. Furthermore, each category is selectable by the user such that a detailed list of items associated only with the selected category can be displayed to the user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093489 | DYNAMIC TAGGING - A method for dynamic tagging includes receiving input of a name of at least one tag into an information object implemented by an application that is executed by a computer system that is in communication with at least one tag repository external to the application; querying the at least one tag repository for the tag with the application executed by the computer system; and responsive to receiving at least one match from the at least one tag repository, incorporating the content into the information object with the application. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093490 | Event Processing with XML Query Based on Reusable XML Query Template - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for event processing with a query based on a reusable XML query template. A particular method includes receiving a plurality of events from a source and generating a plurality of event objects based on the plurality of events. A query represented by an XML file based on a reusable XML query template is executed with respect to the plurality of event objects to produce a plurality of result objects. Each result object is produced based on an application of at least one operator of the query. A plurality of results is generated based on the plurality of result objects, and the plurality of results is transmitted to a sink. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093491 | PARTITIONED QUERY EXECUTION IN EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for partitioned query execution in event processing systems. A particular method includes receiving a plurality of events via an input stream. The plurality of events is partitioned into one or more groups, and a query application module is instantiated for each of the one or more groups based on a compiled query application plan. Each particular query application module for a particular group is configured to apply a query to events of the particular group to generate partial results. The method includes merging the partial results of each of the query application modules to generate merged output results and providing the output results to an output stream. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093492 | System and Method for Indexing, Searching, Identifying, and Editing Multimedia Files - A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music. The multimedia bookmark facilitates the searching of portions or segments of multimedia files, particularly when used in conjunction with a search engine. Additional methods are provided that reformat a video image for use on a variety of devices that have a wide range of resolutions by selecting some material (in the case of smaller resolutions) or more material (in the case of larger resolutions) from the same multimedia file. Still more methods are provided for interrogating images that contain textual information (in graphical form) so that the text may be copied to a tag or bookmark that can itself be indexed and searched to facilitate later retrieval via a search engine. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093493 | BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SITE CATEGORIES - An approach relating to providing a user an ability to place sites into multiple categories and providing applications an ability to query a configuration for members of the categories. The approach not only may provide a user an ability to easily create, deploy, modify and monitor a multi-site enterprise hundreds and thousands of remote building management system site controllers and allow the user to establish each site within the context of a single enterprise group, but it may also incorporate where the site controllers can be identified, sorted or managed within multiple categorical groupings. For example, categorical groupings may facilitate managing the configurations at the sites, applying an operational setting by selecting a logical category, applying common operating parameters to multiple sites, and so forth. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY BROWSE DATA ITEMS - A method and system to receive a query, from over a network, and identify a first plurality of data items based on the query. The first plurality of data items including a second plurality of data items. Next, the system computes a quantity of the first plurality of data items by counting the first plurality of data items and compares the quantity of the first plurality of data items with a determined threshold to identify the quantity of the first plurality of data items as being greater than the determined threshold. Next, the system presents a user interface, over the network, to the computer system, the user interface includes the second plurality of data items, and further includes at least one user interface element responsive to the identification of the quantity of the first plurality of data items as greater than the determined threshold. The at least one user interface element is selectable to browse the first plurality of data items. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING DATA FROM STORAGE - A system and method are provided which avoid the storage of multiple objects for a single entry in memory, in particular where the entry needs to be stored at least once anyway, a reusable data structure can be implemented which allows both easy and efficient use/reuse of Patricia tree components that are already in use. The data structure can be an integer built from a combination (e.g. concatenation) of a location where the corresponding string has been stored in memory, an offset for finding the word within the string, and a length for extracting all characters from the string that make up the word. Another data component can also be added, which can encode any other feature associated with the word such as a bias level for sorting multiple search results. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093496 | DETERMINING WHETHER AN INPUT STRING MATCHES AT LEAST ONE REGULAR EXPRESSION USING LOOKAHEAD FINITE AUTOMATA BASED REGULAR EXPRESSION DETECTION - Previously configured state machines may accept an input string, and for each of the regular expression(s), check for a match between the input string accepted and the given regular expression using the configured nodes of the state machine corresponding to the given regular expression. Checking for a match between the input string accepted and the given regular expression using configured nodes of a state machine corresponding to the given regular expression by using the configured nodes of the state machine may include (1) checking detection events from a simple string detector, (2) submitting queries to identified modules of a variable string detector, and (3) receiving detection events from the identified modules of the variable string detector. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093497 | Method and System for Data Input - A method and system for inputting text into a computing device utilizing a software application that runs on a computing device. The application, containing a database of language constructs such as words and sentences, displays a virtual keyboard with a set of keys each of which depicts a language construct. Each key press corresponds to the selection of that language construct depicted on the key. The selected language construct is compared to entries in the database to determine data matches of an entry. For each matching entry, the next word, the word immediately following the part that matches an entry, is entered into a list. After going through all the database entries, a word list is thus collected. This word list forms the set of keys of the virtual keyboard, which is then redrawn to reflect the new layout of the virtual keyboard. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093498 | Clarifying Search Results Using Social-Networking Information - Particular embodiments access a query from a first user, the query comprising a first user attribute; identify a plurality of candidate users sharing the same first user attribute; retrieve one or more members of a social-networking system who are connected to the first user within a threshold degree of separation; compare each candidate user with each member who is connected to the first user within the threshold degree of separation; and if a candidate user matches a member who is connected to the first user within the threshold degree of separation, then identify the matching candidate user as a match result to the query. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093499 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DYNAMIC SKEW AVOIDANCE FOR GENERIC QUERIES - A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate dynamic skew avoidance are provided. The disclosed mechanisms advantageously do not require any statistic information regarding which values are skewed in a column on which a query is applied. Query selectivity is evaluated at a check point and thereby facilitates accurate detection of an overloaded processing module. The successful detection of an overloaded processing module causes other processing modules to stop sending more skewed rows to the overloaded processing module. Detection of an overloaded processing module is made when the overloaded processing module has received more rows than a target number of rows. Further, skewed rows that are maintained locally rather than redistributed to a detected processing module may result in more processing modules becoming overloaded. Advantageously, the disclosed mechanisms provide for a final redistribution adjustment to provide for even distribution of rows among all processing modules. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093500 | Query Optimization - A new database design is implemented in which everything in the database is modeled with primitives, including the links and nodes for a graph tuple store. A query syntax provides a nested tree of constraints with a single global schema. Various optimization techniques for queries and replication techniques are also 10 described. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093501 | DOMAIN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATING DATA AGGREGATION - A computer automated method of presenting data. The method includes the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a computer database system, inputting a user query into said computer database system, mining the computer database system for data relevant to said user query, creating a data set comprising the data relevant to the user query, and selecting at least one presentation report for compiling the data, wherein the selection is based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage. At least one presentation report is then displayed to the user, wherein the displaying process further includes the step of graphically arranging the at least one presentation report based on an available viewing area of a device accessing the at least one presentation report. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093502 | RELATED CONTACT AND RECORD RECOMMENDATION FOR PRODUCT DESIGN - In one embodiment, a description of a product design is received. The description is analyzed to determine terms describing the product design. The determined terms are compared to a plurality of stored records. A subset of the stored records is determined based on the comparison. The stored records are considered relevant to the description of the product design. A set of recommended contacts associated with the subset of stored records is then determined. The recommended contacts are considered to have knowledge relevant to the description of the product design. At least one of the subset of stored records and the set of recommended contacts is output. For example, at least one of the subset of stored records and the list of recommended contacts may be displayed on an interface that is being used to input the description of the product design. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093503 | Computer Hardware Identity Tracking Using Characteristic Parameter-Derived Data - A method for computer identity tracking may be implemented by executing software, for example, from a server, for generating a baseline machine fingerprint for a client device by reading data indicating current configuration states of hardware making up the client device and processing the data to generate the baseline machine fingerprint, storing the baseline machine fingerprint in a database of stored machine fingerprints, subsequently generating a working machine fingerprint for the client device, the working machine fingerprint derived from a portion of the data, the portion determined according to a sampling protocol, querying the database of stored machine fingerprints using the working machine fingerprint and the sampling protocol to determine whether the working machine fingerprint matches a machine fingerprint previously stored in the database, and providing an indication of results from querying the database. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING AND UTILIZING ACTIVITY INFORMATION AND CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A method of aggregating and using medical device data from a plurality of remote institutions. The system and method electronically receives at a central computer system a plurality of established medical device data, each of the plurality of established medical device data being received from a respective medication delivery system, each of the respective medication delivery systems having a respective plurality of medical devices within the respective remote institution, such as medication delivery pumps, associated therewith and utilized therein. The system and method electronically combines and stores the plurality of established medical device data from each of the plurality of remote institutions within a memory, and electronically provides a remote client computer access to at least one of a central reporting application adapted for providing summary information to the remote client computer about the medical device data, and/or other applications. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093505 | ASYNCHRONOUS STATE ENGINE WITH PLUG-INS FOR FLEXIBLE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT - Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an asynchronous state engine incorporated within a host application program. The state engine may operate based on a state transition table that may be updated independently of the host application. The state transition table may instruct the asynchronous state engine as to actions that should be performed prior to changing states. Such actions may include interacting with external applications. The state transition table may also instruct the host application to reside in a hold state until responses from external applications are received. Furthermore, the state transition table may instruct the host application as to follow up actions that should be performed when a state is entered. By allowing an external application to plug-in criteria for state changes within the host application, development of the host application may maintain a significant level of flexibility. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093506 | Controlling Access of User Information Using Social-Networking Information - Particular embodiments access a query submitted by a first user; retrieve information concerning one or more second users; retrieve a degree of separation between the first user and each second user within a social-networking system; and for each second user, if the degree of separation between the first user and the second user is less than or equal to a threshold degree of separation, then send the information concerning the second user to the first user in response to the query. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093507 | DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS - A system for dynamic assignment of rights, in one example embodiment, comprises a communication module to receive an indication of a start of a user session, the user session being an instance of an application installed on a user device, the communication session to further receive parameters associated with the user session, the parameters including data indicative of a user associated with the user session, a processing module to determine, based on the parameters, a channel associated with the user session according to predetermined criteria, and an assigning module to selectively assign to the channel, based on the channel determination, an ownership right to the user session, the right including redirecting the user to a further application from the channel, branding the application, receiving access to user actions, responding to the user actions, and streaming data to the application during the user session. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093508 | AUTOMATED BILLING AND DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM FOR APPLICATION PROVIDERS - Integrating a network-enabled application with a platform having a plurality of users and a plurality of communication channels with a respective plurality of wireless network carriers, including receiving a request from a third-party provider to integrate a network-enabled application with the platform, receiving a set of registration data corresponding to the network-enabled application from the third-party provider, the set of registration data including a link to an application location for accessing the network-enabled application, receiving a set of pricing structure data corresponding to the network-enabled application from the third-party provider, updating a system database in the platform to include the set of registration data and the pricing structure data corresponding to the network-enabled application, and enabling the network-enabled application to be accessible to the plurality of users via a networked interface operated by the platform. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093509 | COMMON INTERACTION LOG REPOSITORY WITH ADVANCED CONTENT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES - A communication is received at a communications center, from a user initiated via a first interactive session over a first service channel. First interaction data associated with the first interactive session is stored in at least one database, either concurrently with the first interactive session or upon termination of the first interactive session. At least one processor retrieves the first interaction data when a subsequent interactive session is initiated, by either of the user or an agent, via at least one of the first service channel and a second service channel and subsequent interaction data is obtained. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093510 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SERIALLY TRANSMITTING RECORDS IN XML FORMAT - A portable electronic medical device and method for serially transmitting one or more records from the portable electronic medical device are disclosed. The portable electronic medical device includes a processor and memory for storing the one or more records, each record having one or more data entries. An XML (Extensible Markup Language) template may be parsed by the processor, wherein the XML template has one or more XML elements associated with the one or more data entries. The one or more records may be read as well as the XML elements appended to the associated data entries of each record by the processor such that the appended data entries are in XML format. The processor may then serially transmit the appended data entries of each record. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING DATA - There is provided a computer-implemented method of aggregating data. An exemplary method comprises receiving an aggregation scheme and generating numerous first aggregations by aggregating data at a first level of granularity. The data may be associated with a time and stored in a first table. Further, generating the numerous first aggregations may be based on the time and the aggregation scheme. The exemplary method further comprises generating a second aggregation by aggregating the first aggregations at a second level of granularity based on the aggregation scheme. The second level of granularity may comprise the first level of granularity. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093512 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BUSINESS OBJECTS - Described herein are systems and methods for managing business objects. In overview, various embodiments provide software, hardware and methodologies underlying a data driven application including a data driven business layer, optionally in combination with a data driven user interface and presentation layer. In overview, an object-oriented computer program includes a presentation layer, a business layer, and a database. The business layer provides business objects, which effectively interpose the presentation layer with the database. Substantive business object data is defined within the database, and loaded to the business layer following the receipt of a page call-up request at the presentation layer. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093513 | INTEGRATING DATABASE DEPLOYMENT WITH CODE DEPLOYMENT - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to integrated database deployment. In aspects, code corresponding to a software project and data that encodes database operations are placed in a deployment package. When executed in a first environment such as a development environment, the code is arranged to access a first database of the first environment. The database operations indicated in the package may be used to create and/or update a second database of a target entity such that the second database is consistent for use by the code after the code is installed on the target entity. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093514 | System and Method for the Derivation and Application of Sub-iteration Contexts in a Transformation Operation in a Data Integration System - Methods and systems for improving a data transformation operation that converts a source data instance containing repeating elements into a target data instance having a user-specified structure, based solely on a user's specification of a target template. The methods and systems derive and calculate sub-iteration contexts by applying a selected heuristic to the source data instance and the target template, and use these sub-iteration contexts to create a target data instance having a repeating structure that agrees with the user-specified target template. The methods and systems can be customized by the selection of heuristic, and by the specification of explicit sub-iteration contexts that may override the derived contexts. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093515 | MOBILE LOCAL SEARCH PLATFORM - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a method comprising hierarchically structuring geographic locations to attach and deliver content to individuals near the geographic locations through a web-based search facility, wherein the geographic locations have data associated with them; storing the geographic locations with their associated data as points of interest (poi) in a poi database; and claiming ownership of the poi by an entity associated with the poi, via an Internet web application and whereby an entry in the poi database is marked as being owned by that entity. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093516 | IMPLEMENTATION METHOD FOR UPDATING THE TERMINALS IN BATCHES - An implementation method for updating the terminals in batches is applicable to a terminal updating system including at least one terminal and a management server the method comprises: the first step, setting at least one version file server in the terminal updating system, for providing a description file and an updating file required by the updating to the respective terminal; the second step, connecting the respective terminal to the management server which configures a corresponding version file server parameter to the respective terminal; the third step, connecting the respective terminal to the corresponding version file server according to the configuration information and acquiring version updating information; and the fourth step, the respective terminal downloading an updating file and performing the updating according to the version updating information and informing the management server of the updating result. When the number of the terminals is large, it can ensure the normal terminal updating and downloading service, and at the same time, it can realize the terminal updating by the initiative trigger and control and secure the file downloading and updating process safe by a safety security mechanism. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093517 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Target Search - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide data processing circuits that include both a main data processing circuit and an adaptive setting determination circuit. The main data processing circuit receives a series of data samples and includes: an equalizer circuit and a data detector circuit. The equalizer circuit receives the series of data samples and provides an equalized output. The equalizer circuit is controlled at least in part by a coefficient. The data detector circuit receives the equalizer output and provides a main data output based at least in part on a target. The adaptive setting determination circuit receives the series of data samples and the main data output, and operates in parallel with the main data processing circuit to adaptively determine the coefficient and the target. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093518 | NEAR OPTIMAL CONFIGURABLE ADDER TREE FOR ARBITRARY SHAPED 2D BLOCK SUM OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES (SAD) CALCULATION ENGINE - Embodiments of a near optimal configurable adder tree for arbitrary shaped 2D block sum of absolute differences (SAD) calculation engine are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a configurable two-dimensional adder tree architecture for computing a sum of absolute differences (SAD) for various block sizes up to 16 by 16 comprises a first stage of one-dimensional adder trees and a second stage of one-dimensional adder trees, wherein each one-dimensional adder tree comprises an input routing network, a plurality of adder units, and an output routing network. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMPLOYING A CLIENT SIDE DEVICE TO ACCESS LOCAL AND REMOTE DATA DURING COMMUNICATION DISTRUPTIONS - A method and system are provided for locally storing data obtained from a plurality of sources, including a remote server, a local server and a client terminal device. A local communication device is provided to include a plurality of applications that access data stored on at least one of the remote server, the local server and the client terminal device and provides access to the data during time periods when the client terminal device is disconnected from at least one of the local server and the remote server. The local communication device includes applications that gather data from the local server, the remote server and the client terminal device and generate a database to store the gathered data. The local communication device includes a conversion module that generates a predefined format for the gathered data prior to storing the data on the database. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093520 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AND SUMMARIZING CONTENT PUBLISHED BY KEY INFLUENCERS - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing first data describing online activities of a user and accessing second data describing online activities of each of one or more content publishers. The method includes, based at least in part on the first data and the second data, determining one or more similarities between the user and each of the content publishers. The method includes, based at least in part on one or more of the similarities, selecting each of one or more of the content publishers as a key influencer for the user and selecting particular content published by a particular one of the key influencers for summary and delivery to the user. The method includes generating a summary of the particular content and automatically delivering to the user the particular content and the summary. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093521 | System and method for broadcasting content items to client devices in an electronic network - A system and method for supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a high-power wireless transmitter that broadcasts content items received from a content source to target devices that are configured in a peer-to-peer network. An electronic device may obtain current storage locations of a required one of the content items from a tracking server via a back channel. The electronic device may then generate a content request to at least one of said target devices in the peer-to-peer network for accessing the required one of the content items. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093522 | Method and System to Determine an Application Delivery Server Based on Geo-Location Information - A method and system to determine a web server based on geo-location information is disclosed. The system includes: a local DNS server coupled to a web client; a plurality of web servers; and a global load balancer coupled to the local DNS server. The global load balancer: receives a request for a web service sent by the web client, the request comprising local DNS server information; determines a geographic location for the local DNS server based on the local DNS server information; determines a web server from the plurality of web servers based on the requested web service; determines a geographic location for the determined web server; determines that the geographic location for the local DNS server matches the geographic location for the determined web server; selects the determined web server; and sends a response comprising information on the selected web server to the local DNS server. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093523 | System and method for associating a client identity between servers - A client identity is associated between servers by establishing an identity for the client at a first sever, storing information about the client at the first server, identifying the client at a second server using a second ID transmitted by the client to the second server, linking the first ID and the second ID, and associating the information about the client with the second ID. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093524 | ACCESS LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD - In a gateway device holding a traffic relay function, the storage cost and the retrieval time for a great amount of access logs are prevented from increasing. The gateway device includes a traffic relay function, a protocol analysis function, a log output function and a log retrieval function. These functions output an access log in compressed or uncompressed form in compliance with a rule for each protocol designated by the manager in accordance with the degree of importance. The retrieval is carried out for the uncompressed file. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING REMOTE USER INTERFACE - Provided are a network system and method for profiling a remote user interface (RUI), and more particularly, a network system and method for performing optimal RUI profile matching between an RUI client and an RUI server in order for optimal service adaptation for various contents based on composite capabilities/preference profiles (CC/PP). | 2011-04-21 |
20110093526 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - A cloud computing system includes a remote host, a portable computer comprising a display, a keyboard, a multiplex IC interface, a register interface, a network card interface and a display interface and linked to the remote hole through the internet when started up. When an array of signals are inputted into the portable computer by means of the keyboard, the inputted data is transmitted by the multiplex IC interface to the register interface and then transmitted through the network card interface to the remote host via the internet, and the data that is transmitted by the portable computer to the remote host through the internet is then computed by the remote host, and then the remote host transmits the processed data through the internet back to the portable computer, enabling the processed text and/or graphic data to be displayed on the display by the display interface. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093527 | DISTRIBUTED HYPERMEDIA METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY INVOKING EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS PROVIDING INTERACTION AND DISPLAY OF EMBEDDED OBJECTS VIA A SCRIPTING PLATFORM - A system is described which provides the capability for high-level extensible scripting language interpreters to incorporate and employ Web browser plug-ins as components within script-based programs. A script interpreter extension is described which simulates the plug-in API interface of a Web browser, from the point of view of the browser plug-in, to allow program scripts to cause browser plug-ins to be launched and manipulated, in a manner similar to the scripting platform's native widgets, from within the executing program script. This system allows embedded external program objects to be used to display and enable interactive processing of embedded data objects. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING INTERACTION WITH A CLIENT TO EXTRACT DATA FROM A USER - A method and system for providing interaction with a client to extract data from a user. The method includes providing a user interface to the client, receiving data from a user of the client on a server, categorizing the data based on one or more parameters, processing the data based on the categorization, and updating the client based on the processing. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093529 | METHOD OF DELIVERING INFORMATION OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A technique and apparatus for delivering information to the subscribers (terminals) on a communications network. The information is simultaneously displayed in a web browser without interfering with the display of subscriber's selected data in the web browser. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093530 | SERVER PERSISTENCE USING A URL IDENTIFIER - A method of accessing a web page from a plurality of servers over the Internet include receiving a request for the web page from a client computer at a load balancer and sending the request to a first server of the plurality of servers. The load balancer receives the web page from the first server and adds an identity of the first server to all URLs on the web page that reference the plurality of servers. The load balancer then forwards the data to the client computer. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093531 | SERVER PERSISTENCE USING A URL IDENTIFIER - A method of accessing a web page from a plurality of servers over the Internet include receiving a request for the web page from a client computer at a load balancer and sending the request to a first server of the plurality of servers. The load balancer receives the web page from the first server and adds an identity of the first server to all URLs on the web page that reference the plurality of servers. The load balancer then forwards the data to the client computer. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093532 | NETWORK-ASSISTED REMOTE MEDIA LISTENING - Improved approaches for media listening amongst different users are disclosed. For example, methods, systems or computer program code can enable users to have a remote listening experience in real time. Advantageously, a remote user at a remote client device can in effect listen to a particular digital media asset that is being played at a local client device of a local user. Media information and/or user profiles can also be provided about themselves and shared with other users. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093533 | GENERATING SITE MAPS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating sitemaps. The method includes scanning network traffic between a server and one or more clients requesting resources from the server, the network traffic including resource request messages from the one or more clients and resources served by the server in response to the resource request messages. The method also includes automatically extracting data from the traffic served by the server to the one or more clients, the extracted data including one or more Uniform Resource Locators that identify the resources served by the server to the one or more clients. The method automatically generates a sitemap from the extracted data, and stores the sitemap in a computer-readable memory. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093534 | System For Delivery Of Content To Be Played Autonomously - The dynamicity of current content delivery environments demands the use of highly complex algorithms. A content delivery system for delivering content to clients in a content delivery network is disclosed and further comprises a method for placing the content in the content delivery network. The content delivery system comprises at least one mobile object adapted to be executed on the content delivery system but also adapted to be executed on other content delivery systems. Each mobile object comprises a media file and is adapted to monitor data related to the clients access of the media file. When certain conditions are met, e.g. when many clients that are accessing the media file are closer to another content delivery system, the mobile object can decide to move or copy itself to the other content delivery system. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093535 | CLIENT DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY OF ACCESSING NETWORKED SERVICES - A system makes it possible to use services offered by a plurality of servers different from one another is realized with the use of a common API. The system includes a plurality of service-offering servers, a client that uses services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers, and an interchange server that performs intermediary processing when the client uses a service. The client performs communication with the interchange server while using a common API when using any service among a plurality of services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers. The interchange server uses a unique API, which is unique to the service-offering server that offers the service selected by the client, to execute a processing sequence that is unique to the service-offering server. The client may use any service among services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers with the use of a common API without any need to use a unique API, which is unique to each of the plurality of service-offering servers. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093536 | GROUP OWNER SELECTION WITH CROSSING REQUESTS - A method of operating an apparatus, and apparatus, and a computer program product in an apparatus are provided in which a first request message is sent to a second apparatus. The first request message is associated with first information. In addition, a second request message is received from the second apparatus. The second request message is associated with second information. In addition, the first information and the second information are compared. Furthermore, whether to send a response to the second apparatus in response to the second request message is determined based on the comparison of the first information and the second information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093537 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AND COMMUNICATION SESSION INFORMATION SERVER - A method for ascertaining active communication sessions may include receiving a request to ascertain active communication sessions by a communication session information server; transmitting respective challenges to determine whether communication sessions are currently active from the communication session information server to at least two communication session servers; receiving respective challenge responses from the at least two communication session servers, which indicate one or more active communication sessions controlled by the respective communication session server or indicate that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server; and transmitting a first response, which indicates one or more active communication sessions controlled by the at least two communication session servers or indicates that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093538 | COLLABORATIVE CALENDAR AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - Collaborative calendar and workflow management that includes receiving, by a processing device, a workflow of a user comprising workflow tasks, accessing a calendar of the user by the processing device, and inserting, by the processing device, calendar entries of the user and the workflow tasks together in the calendar of the user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093539 | System And Method For Innovation And Idea Management - A computer-base system provides a structural environment for innovation and idea management within an organization. Communities of users within the organization and/or other communities of external users may interact with the system via browser-based user interfaces. Each submitted idea or request for ideas is assigned a facilitator who is responsible for performing tasks designed to advance the idea within the organization. The system tracks performance of these tasks and provides information, such as a list of experts available to consult in relation to an idea or task. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093540 | Method and system for communications using cooperative helper nodes - A method and system for communicating a message are disclosed. An exemplary system includes plural nodes and an exemplary information transmitter that includes a processor. The processor can detect a number of the nodes within communication range of the information transmitter as helper nodes. The processor can process a message into a number of portions as a function of the number of helper nodes detected. The processor can transmit at least one of the portions of the message to at least one of the helper nodes for wireless communication of at least one portion by the at least one helper node. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING A DEVICE MANAGEMENT (DM) MESSAGE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Device Management (DM) client apparatus and DM server apparatus and methods for their operation in a communication system are provided. The method for operating the DM client apparatus in a communication system includes receiving a message from a DM server, determining if a response message should be suppressed based on the received message, if it is determined that the response message should be suppressed, suppressing the response message by not transmitting the response message to the DM server, if it is not determined that the response message should be suppressed, transmitting the response message to the DM server, and receiving another message from the DM server. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093542 | SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) SIGNALING TO KEEP A VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VoIP) SESSION ACTIVE DURING A CALL HOLD - A device monitors a session description protocol (SDP) parameter associated with a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call provided via a network and a user equipment, and determines, based on the SDP parameter, whether the VoIP call changed from an active state to a hold state or from a hold state to an active state. The device also sends, after the VoIP call is determined to change from an active state to a hold state, a session initiation protocol (SIP) keep alive message to the user equipment to prevent the user equipment from entering a dormant state and to prevent a radio link connection between the user equipment and the network from being released. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093543 | MESSAGE SERVER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MESSAGE DELIVERY - An exemplary method of controlling message delivery includes receiving a message from a user at a message server. A determination is made whether the message requires a user-specified delivery criterion to be met prior to delivery of the message. The message is sent to an intended recipient if the message does not require the user-specified delivery criterion. The message is held in a specified delivery buffer if the message does require that the user-specified delivery criterion be met. The message from the specified delivery buffer will be automatically sent on behalf of the user to the intended recipient responsive to the user-specified delivery criterion being met. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093544 | Message Routing in a Unified Messaging System - A sender is identified based at least in part on originator identification information associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified sender and one or more databases associated with message recipients by comparing the originator identification information to one or more entries in the one or more databases. The incoming communication is routed to the determined message recipient of a shared mailbox of a unified messaging system. An intended recipient is identified among the owners of the shared unified messaging mailbox owners. Only the determined message recipient is notified of the deposited message, based on the dynamic information derived from each deposited message. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093545 | VOICE-ACTIVATED ACQUISITION OF NON-LOCAL CONTENT - Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to enabling a vehicle user to obtain, via a voice-activated system, content that the user requests and that is not to be locally stored. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises, in a vehicle, a voice-activated computing device including a processor, and memory comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to receive from a user an input of a voice command requesting an item of content, determine whether the item of content is stored locally, and if the item of content is not stored locally, then send via a network the voice command to a remote service for analysis. The computing device is further configured to receive a response from the remote service comprising information regarding the item of content for presentation to the user, and present the information via an output to the user. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093546 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SORTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A method of sorting a message from a sender to a recipient based on a key code incorporated in, attached to, or logically associated with the message, and ascertaining the validity of the key code. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093547 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONFERENCE WITH A COMMUNICATION FLOW MIXING POLICY - To access a communication managed by a host communicating entity between participant communicating entities including the host communicating entity via a packet network (RP), a third-party communicating entity transmits a message (MI) to the host communicating entity, which message comprises at least one parameter (PM) associated with an identifier of at least one participant communicating entity. The third-party entity's access to a peer-to-peer communication established between the host entity and a participant entity may create a conference between the three entities. The third-party entity's access to a conference communication may cause a participant to be added to the existing conference. The host communicating entity applies a restrictive policy on mixing communication flows exchanged between the communicating entities as a function of the parameter and the identifier of the participant communicating entity associated with the parameter. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093548 | CONFERENCE-ENHANCING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INFORMATION - A conference participant attempting to log into a conference that has been rescheduled is informed that the conference has been rescheduled to such-and-such date and/or time. If the login attempt is before or during the conference, the participant is offered information pertaining to the conference. If the login attempt is after the conference has ended, the participant is offered the information plus a recording of the conference. An identifier is associated with the conference and used by the host and the participants to uniquely identify the conference. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093549 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093550 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093551 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093552 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Smart Mail - Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093553 | Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from an Operating System - A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information. | 2011-04-21 |
20110093554 | BROKERAGE SERVER FOR SUPPORTING FAST DATA ACCESS FOR USER TERMINAL, METHOD OF OPERATING BROKERAGE SERVER, USER TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATING USER TERMINAL - A service providing system using a brokerage server that supports fast data access according to a location of a user terminal when the user terminal uses a data center on the Internet is provided. The brokerage server receives an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved, from the user terminal, and generates a service quality alarm when the number of the received alarm messages exceeds a previously set number. The brokerage server determines a location of the user terminal as the service quality alarm is generated, and reallocates a data center capable of providing fast data access among a plurality of data centers according to the determined position. | 2011-04-21 |