| 23rd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
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| 20130144897 | Comparator - A method, a data network arrangement and a computer program product, by means of which a comparator can be implemented in a data network, in which comparator a possibility of online chat can also be utilised. The comparator user stores his evaluation of the properties included in the targets being evaluated in a database in the server in the data network by using a graphic one- or two-dimensional evaluation frame. In the comparator the comparator user's evaluations are compared to property values set for each target being evaluated. During the comparison the comparator analyses the data entered into the comparator by the comparator user against predetermined online chat threshold values. If even one online chat threshold value is exceeded, it is in the comparator according to the invention possible to offer the comparator user an online chat with the service provider's customer servant in order to support the decision-making. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144898 | INTELLIGENT VENDOR RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144899 | Ambiguous Structured Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving an unstructured text query comprising an ambiguous n-gram, identifying nodes and edges that correspond to the ambiguous n-gram, generating a first set of structured queries corresponding to the identified second nodes and edges, receiving from the first user a selection of a first structured query form the first set, and generating a second set of structured queries based on the selected first structured query. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER LANGUAGE INTENT - A system and machine-implemented method for determining a language intent of a user submitted query is provided. A user query comprising text and a user location is received and a language usage signal based on the text of the user query is identified, wherein the language usage signal is associated with a first language. A second language associated with the user location is identified and a translation of the text of the user query from the first language to the second language is generated. A strength of the language usage signal is determined based on an amount of variation between the text of the user query and the translation of the text. When the strength of the language usage signal is greater than a predetermined threshold, an output language for the query is adjusted and results for the query are returned according to the output language. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144901 | REAL-TIME DATA REDACTION IN A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A database server receives a data request from a client. In response to the data request, the database server selects, from a database, actual data that satisfies criteria specified by the data request. The database server retrieves the selected actual data from the database. Also in response to the data request, the database server redacts the retrieved data in real time without modifying the actual data contained within the database. This may be accomplished by the prior insertion of masking operators into a top SELECT clause of a query representation generated during semantic analysis. The database server returns the redacted data to the client as a reply to the data request. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144902 | INDUCTIVE SYNTHESIS OF TABLE-BASED STRING TRANSFORMATIONS - Inductive synthesis and combination framework technique embodiments are presented that generally perform string transformations involving lookup operations in one or more relational tables, either alone or in combination with other non-lookup operations. More particularly, a semantic string lookup transformation language is presented, which can be used to generate an inductive synthesis procedure that synthesizes a set of transformations involving lookup operations that are consistent with the given set of input-output examples. In addition, a combination framework for combining the lookup transformation language and its synthesis procedure, with other transformation languages and their associated synthesis procedures, is presented. The resulting combined synthesis procedures enable the combination framework to synthesize transformations on a rich variety of data-types. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144903 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATION AND PLAYBACK OF SUPPLEMENTED VIDEOS - The present invention is a method and system for generation and playback of supplemented videos which include interactive features. The supplemented video includes hotspots that allow a video viewer to interact with the video when the video viewer sees an object. The hotspots can be manually defined. Information regarding the object and the hotspot can be stored in a separate XML file. Furthermore, the present invention can be a marketplace where a desired object can be found by searching the XML file. The search results can list the supplemented videos which contain hotspots corresponding to the object and also the time in the supplemented video in which the object is found. The present invention can also aggregate data about the objects based on the playback of the supplemented videos and the video viewer's interaction with the supplemented videos. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUERY USING AN IMAGE - A method and system for providing a query using an image is disclosed. A search keyword is determined using an image and position information of a terminal that are received from the terminal. Search queries associated with the determined search keyword are provided to the terminal. Lower search queries may be provided to the terminal if one of the provided search queries is selected. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144905 | MOBILE IMAGING DEVICE AS NAVIGATOR - Embodiments of the invention are directed to obtaining information based on directional orientation of a mobile imaging device, such as a camera phone. Visual information is gathered by the camera and used to determine a directional orientation of the camera, to search for content based on the direction, to manipulate 3D virtual images of a surrounding area, and to otherwise use the directional information. Direction and motion can be determined by analyzing a sequence of images. Distance from a current location, inputted search parameters, and other criteria can be used to expand or filter content that is tagged with such criteria. Search results with distance indicators can be overlaid on a map or a camera feed. Various content can be displayed for a current direction, or desired content, such as a business location, can be displayed only when the camera is oriented toward the desired content. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLIENT TRANSPARENT VIDEO READDRESSING - Network operators are striving to find ways to provide stable video services amid a rapid increase in video traffic. In order to provide stable video services with constrained network resources, network operators attempted to reduce video file sizes using a content adaptation engine (CAE). However, network operators failed to efficiently readdress video flows to CAEs. This disclosure provides systems and methods for efficiently readdressing video flows to CAEs. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144907 | METADATA EXTRACTION PIPELINE - The present discussion relates to patient image data workflows. One example can temporarily serially arrange a set of semantic labeling modules in a patient image data workflow pipeline responsive to receiving an event trigger. The example can also remove the set of modules from the patient image data workflow pipeline responsive to receiving an event completion trigger. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144908 | Pattern-Based Stability Analysis Of Complex Data Sets - Methods and systems for identifying stability exceptions in a data log are disclosed. In one method, at least one key that is present in the data log is determined. The data log is comprised of at least one data set, at least one of which includes a plurality of iterations indicating states of the corresponding data set at different points in time. For each data set and for each key, a map is generated. The map indicates, for each iteration of the corresponding data set, whether the corresponding key is present in the corresponding iteration. Moreover, at least one expression pattern rule that models data item stability characteristics over data set iterations is compared to each of the maps to determine whether the corresponding map satisfies the one or more expression pattern rules. Further, at least one unstable data item is identified in the data log based on the comparison. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144909 | Systems and Methods for Generating Issue Libraries Within a Document Corpus - A computer-implemented method of generating an issue library from a corpus of documents defining a citation network includes semantically linking, by a computing device, electronic documents within the corpus of documents by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents and storing citation entries associated with the semantically-linked electronic documents in a citation-pairing metadata file. The method may further include searching the citation-pairing metadata file for reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue to thereby group similar documents and reasons-for-citing by issue, and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in a plurality of issue library metadata entities. Each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING THE ARRANGMENT OF SPATIAL ELEMENTS - In a data visualization system, a method of analysing and representing spatial data sets to optimize the arrangement of spatial elements, the method including the steps of: retrieving data from a data storage module that is in communication with the data visualization system, determining lift values for a plurality of predefined spatial areas from the retrieved data based on a set of fuzzy association rules applied to the predefined spatial areas, determining spatial performance values for the predefined spatial areas, and calculating a weighted spatial relationship between the determined lift values and spatial performance values. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144911 | DATA MIGRATION APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING DATA BETWEEN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A data migration apparatus, which migrates data from a first document management system capable of setting an access right in document units to a second document management system incapable of setting an access right in document units and capable of setting an access right in folder units, includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an access right to document data of a document to be migrated inherits an access right to a higher-level folder or is unique to the document, a sub-folder creation unit configured to create a sub-folder to which a same access right as that unique to the document is set at a migration destination, if the determination unit determines that the access right to the document data is unique to the document, and a document storage unit configured to store the document data to be migrated in the sub-folder created by the sub-folder creation unit. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144912 | Facilitating and Supporting Electronic Communication of Ideas - A method and apparatus effectuates bilateral commerce in ideas. An originator and user-driven on-line commercial network system is designed to facilitate idea submission, purchase, and licensing, and is easily adapted to business-to-business transfers of innovation as well as consumer-to-business transfers of innovation. The invention allows originators of ideas to communicate nondisclosing synopses of ideas globally to potential users, for users conveniently to search for relevant ideas and for users potentially to bind an originator to a limited duration license granting user the exclusive right to access and consider confidentially the originator's fully disclosed idea. The invention also allows users to communicate confidentially or nonconfidentially unsolved problems or needs globally to potential originators, for originators conveniently to search for relevant unsolved problems or needs, and for originators to submit and communicate confidentially proposed solutions to the soliciting user. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144913 | METHOD AND SYSTEM AND FILE FORMAT OF GENERATING CONTENT BY REFERENCE - A method of generating content defined by a file of a prescribed format. A portion of a first work of content is automatically identified responsive to a user selection thereof. The first work of content may be audio, video, and still images. A reference to the portion of the first work of content is generated responsive to the identifying. Instructions associated with the portion of the first work of content operable for use by a playback device to render the content are generated. The reference and the instructions are incorporated in a digital file of a prescribed format operable for use by the playback device during rendition of the content. The file may be stored in a memory component. The playback device is operable to use the reference to access the portion of the first work of content from a source other than the file during rendition of the file. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144914 | ACQUIRING STATISTICAL ACCESS MODELS - The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and computer-readable media for acquiring statistical access models. One or more embodiments include collecting data associated with a first access profile, collecting data associated with a second access profile, determining whether the data associated with the first access profile has a particular number of characteristics in common with the data associated with the second access profile, assigning a statistical access model associated with the second access profile to the first access profile based on the particular number of characteristics that the data associated with first access profile has in common with the data associated with the second access profile, and detecting an anomalous access event based on the statistical access model. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144915 | AUTOMATIC MULTI-USER PROFILE MANAGEMENT FOR MEDIA CONTENT SELECTION - A profile management apparatus for controlling available media content includes an individual identifier module, a profile creation module, a profile selection module, and a media control module. The individual identifier module automatically identifies one or more individuals as currently within a perceiving range of an output device receiving input from a media player without user input. The profile creation module automatically creates a new profile without user input in response to determining that a profile associated with the one or more individuals does not exist. The profile selection module selects at least one profile associated with the one or more individuals. The media control module controls media that is available for selection on the media player based one or more of media usage information and content restriction rules of the at least one profile. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144916 | Systems and Methods for Mapping New Patient Information to Historic Outcomes for Treatment Assistance - Exemplary systems and methods for predictive visualization of patients are provided. In various embodiments, a system comprises a map and a location engine. The map includes a plurality of groupings and interconnections of the groupings, each grouping having one or more patient members that share biological similarities, each interconnection interconnecting groupings that share at least one common patient member, the map identifying a set of groupings and a set of interconnections having a medical characteristic of a set of medical characteristics. The location engine may be configured to determine whether a new patient shares the biological similarities with the one or more patient members of each grouping thereby enabling association of the new patient with one or more of the set of medical characteristics. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144917 | INTEGRATING MIND MAPPING TECHNOLOGY WITH CASE MODELING - Mind mapping technology is integrated with a case management solution. Business process design discussions and brainstorming details from a mind mapping tool can be captured, and key nodes that are relevant for case management can be identified in a mind mapping diagram. The key nodes can then be augmented by associating metadata therewith, enabling data associated with the nodes to be transformed for use as case management objects in the case management solution. In preferred embodiments, this transformation comprises generating a markup language document to represent the objects that correspond to the key nodes, wherein this markup language document conforms to syntax requirements of a solution definition file that is consumable by the case management system. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144918 | MOBILE METADATA MODEL REPOSITORY - A system includes creation of a first data structure defining a generic business object model in a storage medium of a first device, creation of a second data structure defining a specific business object model in the storage medium of the first device, where the specific business object model being an instance of the generic business object model, reception of the second data structure defining the specific business object model at a mobile device, and storage of the second data structure in a storage medium of the mobile device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144919 | TEMPLATE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON REPORTED ASPECTS OF A PLURALITY OF SOURCE USERS - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing a plurality of relevant reported aspects associated with a plurality of source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the providing of the plurality of relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on relevancy of the plurality of relevant reported aspects with respect to the one or more target outcomes; and developing a template designed to facilitate one or more end users to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects included in the template are emulated, the development of the template being based, at least in part, on the providing of the plurality of relevant reported aspects associated with the plurality of source users In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144920 | CREATING A CONFIGURATION FILE TEMPLATE - Methods and systems are provided for creating a configuration file template. One method for creating a configuration file template includes presenting | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144921 | ROOT NODE FOR FILE LEVEL VIRTUALIZATION - Root node arrangements configured to carry out file level virtualization for logically providing a plurality of share units that can be shared among file systems of the root node or other one or more root nodes, to a client. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144922 | Device and Method for Evaluating and Optimizing Signals on the Basis of Algebraic Invariants - Signals (for example audio signals) which seem to be completely random, yet for which universally valid statements should be made, for example in the form of parameterizations which, on average, are accurate and can be determined only on the basis of short signal sections. Instead of simulating for example a Gaussian process, projections of algebraic operations—on the plane of real or complex numbers—of said signal sections for example are observed and proven for said astonishingly simple algebraic invariants. Said invariants are subsequently used as tags in order to perform, for example, a selection according to their frequency. On average, the present system proves to be more efficient than known methods to date. The practical-commercial application of said system covers nearly the entire signal processing field. The present document addresses in particular the stochastic observation of audio signals, as known for example from the field of digital audio broadcasting. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144923 | Quadratic Innovations for Skewed Distributions in Ensemble Data Assimilation - Methods of computer-implemented data assimilation are presented which permit more accurately finding a posterior distribution and estimating the mean | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for distributing objects. In one embodiment, the method comprises computing a modulus operand based on a number of objects to be distributed and a number of objects pertaining to a first category; computing a modulus operation based on a number of distributed objects and the modulus operand; and distributing a first object or a second object based on a result of computing the modulus operation. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLVING COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS - Solving computational problems may include generating a logic circuit representation of the computational problem, encoding the logic circuit representation as a discrete optimization problem, and solving the discrete optimization problem using a quantum processor. Output(s) of the logic circuit representation may be clamped such that the solving involves effectively executing the logic circuit representation in reverse to determine input(s) that corresponds to the clamped output(s). The representation may be of a multiplication circuit. The discrete optimization problem may be composed of a set of miniature optimization problems, where each miniature optimization problem encodes a respective logic gate from the logic circuit representation. A multiplication circuit may employ binary representations of factors, and these binary representations may be decomposed to reduce the total number of variables required to represent the multiplication circuit. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144926 | MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR PROCESSING - A first systolic array receives an input set of time division multiplexed matrices from a plurality of channel matrices. In a first mode, the first systolic array performs triangularization on the input matrices, producing a first set of matrices, and in a second mode performs back-substitution on the first set, producing a second set of matrices. In a first mode, a second systolic array performs left multiplication on the second set of matrices with the input set of matrices, producing a third set of matrices. In a second mode, the second systolic array performs cross diagonal transposition on the third set of matrices, producing a fourth set of matrices, and performs right multiplication on the second set of matrices with the fourth set of matrices. The first systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the triangularization, and the second systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the left multiplication. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MULTIPLICATION IN A PROCESSOR - A method and apparatus are described for performing multiplication in a processor to generate a product. In one embodiment, a 64-bit multiplier and a 64-bit multiplicand may be multiplied together over four cycles by merging different partial product (PP) subsets, generated by a Booth encoder and a PP generator, with feedback sum and carry results. The logic inputs of a plurality of multiplexers may be selected on a cyclical basis to efficiently compress (i.e., merge) each PP subset with feedback sum and carry results. A pair of preliminary sum results stored during one cycle may be outputted during a subsequent cycle and processed by a logic gate (e.g., an XOR gate) to generate a feedback sum result that is merged with a feedback carry result and a PP subset. Final sum and carry results may be added to generate the product of the multiplier and the multiplicand. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144928 | MINIMAL DOWNLOAD AND SIMULATED PAGE NAVIGATION FEATURES - Embodiments are provided that include client-server computing architectures that use minimal download features and functionality as part of page navigation operations, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a client-server computer system uses a page transition strategy to navigate between electronic pages based in part on script, style, content, and/or other page differences that can be used as part of providing minimal download features and functionality. A method of an embodiment operates to package page incremental rendering information for use in rendering a new electronic page without having to reapply common aspects of the new electronic page and a reference electronic page. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144929 | Information Processing System, Information Processing Server, Information Processing Method,Information Processing Program, Computer Readable Storage Medium Storing Information Processing Program - An information processing system includes a first server and a second server. The first server includes a first executing unit configured to execute an application at a first speed, using input information items sequentially obtained, and a first transmission unit configured to send a result of execution of the application to a terminal. The second server includes a reproduction data obtaining unit configured to obtain reproduction data containing the input information items sequentially obtained, for reproducing a state of the first executing unit, an input information obtaining unit configured to obtain input information items sequentially sent from the terminal in response to an input information transmission instruction to the second server, a second executing unit configured to execute the application, and a second transmission unit configured to send a result of execution of the application by the second executing unit to the terminal. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144930 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - This information processing system processes information through communication between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The second information processing device has a recording unit and a control unit. The recording unit records a first OS and a second OS. The control unit selects one of the first OS and the second OS, according to a connection state with the first information processing device. The control unit controls the second information processing device or a combination of the first information processing device and the second information processing device, using the OS selected here. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144931 | CANDIDATE SET SOLVER WITH USER ADVICE - A stream application uses small chunks of executable code configured to process data tuples flowing into a processing element. A scheduler allocates the processing elements to individual compute nodes or hosts for execution. However, the stream application may assign various constraints that stipulate which hosts are suitable for a particular processing element. If a host meets the constraints, it may be categorized as an unconditional candidate host. In addition, the scheduler may also track conditional candidate hosts that would be suitable for the processing element if a certain user action is performed—e.g., modifying a constraint, removing a constraint, modifying a stream element, and the like. The list of conditional candidate hosts may then be displayed to the user who can choose to perform the one or more actions to change the conditional candidate host to an unconditional candidate host for the processing element. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144932 | SELECTED ALERT DELIVERY IN A DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for selected alert delivery in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include receiving a plurality of events from one or more event producing components of the distributed processing system; creating, by an incident analyzer, in dependence upon the events a truth space representing events that make one or more conditional event processing rules true, the truth space including a set of truth points, each truth point including a set of events and a set of event locations; creating, by the incident analyzer, in dependence upon the truth space one or more alerts including assigning one of the locations of the truth space to one or more of the alerts; and sending, by the incident analyzer, the alerts to at least one component of the distributed processing system. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144933 | System and Method for Fault Tolerant Processing of Information Via Networked Computers Including Request Handlers, Process Handlers, and Task Handlers - Systems and methods for processing information via networked computers leverage request handlers, process handlers, and task handlers to provide efficient distributed and fault-tolerant processing of processing jobs. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144934 | Web Content Targeting Based on Client Application Availability - Targeting content from an online service is provided. A server may query a plug-in in a client application to determine whether an application is installed on a client computing device for viewing the content from the online service. The server may then receive a response to the query from the plug-in. The server may then query a web service to determine a license status for a roaming application for viewing the content from the online service the client computing device. The server may then receive a response to the query from the web service. The server may then present one or more options for targeting the content from the online service to the client computing device based on the response to the query from the plug-in and the response to the query from the web service. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144935 | System and Method for Running an Internet Server Behind a Closed Firewall - A system for running an Internet server behind a closed firewall, wherein a relay agent (RA) is coupled through a closed firewall to relay server software (RSS) for initiating communications with the RSS, receiving an end-user request from the RSS, for forwarding the end-user request to an Internet server, for receiving a response from the Internet server, and for forwarding the response to the RSS for forwarding to an end-user client software. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144936 | Method and System for Broadcasting Multimedia Data - A broadcast system provides support for clients to receive transmissions over a unicast or a multicast channel from a broadcast server. A server administrator configures each of a first server and client systems connected to the server to receive data in one of a multicast or unicast transmission mode. An empirical test determines whether an intervening network can support the configured mode and if not, transmission is performed using a fall back mode. The first server is able to provide access to data streams from other servers to the client systems connected thereto. Upon requesting a data stream from another server, the first server receives the data stream, replicates the data stream, transmits the data stream to the requesting client system and stores the replicated data stream for immediate access by any requesting client server connected thereto. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144937 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING USER'S EMOTION - An emotion sharing apparatus includes an emotion classification unit configured to classify a recognized emotional state of a user of a terminal into one of at least two kinds of emotional states; an emotion analysis unit configured to calculate an emotion rate defined based on a ratio of one kind of emotional state of the at least two kinds of emotional states to another kind of emotional state of the at least two kinds of emotional states; a change-in-emotion rate calculator configured to calculate a change in the emotion rate; and a transmitter configured to transmit the change in the emotion rate to another terminal. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144938 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144939 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING A PERSONAL CLOUD-COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT WITH UBIQUITOUS MOBILE ACCESS AND SOURCE-INDEPENDENT, AUTOMATED DATA AGGREGATION - The present invention discloses methods, devices, and systems for enabling a personal cloud-computing environment with ubiquitous mobile access and source-independent, automated data aggregation. Methods include the step of: upon receiving at least one file-selection notification from at least one computing device operationally connected to the personal cloud-computing environment, determining, based on at least one file-selection notification, whether to perform a local file-access operation on at least one computing device or to perform a remote file-access operation on a remote storage element in the personal cloud-computing environment. Other methods include the steps of: utilizing a phone-network infrastructure for maintaining operational connectivity of a personal cloud, wherein the personal cloud resides in a local network, and wherein the operational connectivity includes connectivity with at least one foreign network; and providing at least one data-management capability via the phone-network infrastructure to at least one computing device operationally connected to the personal cloud. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144940 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SYNCHRONIZING AND MANAGING CONTENT OVER MULTIPLE DEVICES - In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an active device configured to utilize content; identify the content and a current location of the content; detect an idle device configured to selectively deliver the content; detect a transition parameter for determining a transition to the idle device; and transition the content from the active device to the idle device wherein the idle device is capable of utilizing the content based on the transition parameter. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144941 | FAST FILE SERVER METHODS AND SYSTEM - The invention provides, in one aspect, an improved system for data access comprising a file server that is coupled to a client device or application executing thereon via one or more networks. The server comprises static storage that is organized in one or more directories, each containing, zero, one or more files. The server also comprises a file system operable, in cooperation with a file system on the client device, to provide authorized applications executing on the client device access to those directories and/or files. Fast file server (FFS) software or other functionality executing on or in connection with the server responds to requests received from the client by transferring requested data to the client device over multiple network pathways. That data can comprise, for example, directory trees, files (or portions thereof), and so forth. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144942 | SESSION PERSISTENCE FOR ACCESSING TEXTSITES - A method for accessing content during a client server application session comprises receiving a first request to access the content using a first network protocol, the first request comprising a first user identifier, generating a user data item for including in a user data set of the client server application session, wherein the user data set is tagged with the first user identifier, receiving a second request to access the content using a second network protocol, wherein the second request comprises a second user identifier; analyzing the second request to obtain the first user identifier; retrieving the user data item from the user data set based on the first user identifier, and providing a requested portion of the content based on the user data item. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING DISPARATE NETWORKED SERVICES - A system and method for connecting a plurality of disparate social networks or social media systems and providing for transfer of user generated content. The system comprises a broadcaster operatively coupled to a plurality of service managers. Each of the service managers is associated with or operatively coupled to a social media system or social network. The service managers are configured to receive and transmit data from the associated social media system or social network. The broadcaster is configured to receive data from any one of the service managers and re-route or replicate the data to any one of the other service managers. According to another aspect, the service managers are configured to generate a proxy user for data replicated on one or more social media systems where the originating user for the data does not have credentials. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144944 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL EVENT OPPORTUNITY NOTIFICATION - Methods and apparatus for arranging event opportunities are disclosed. For example, the method detects the event opportunity that matches user profiles of at least two users who are unassociated with one another, verifies a safety parameter for one of the at least two users, wherein the safety parameter is defined by the one of the at least two users, and if the safety parameter is satisfied, sending an invitation to the event opportunity to each of the at least two users. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144945 | ESTABLISHING BUSINESS NETWORKS USING A SHARED PLATFORM - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing business networks based on shared usage of a common platform. One process includes receiving a set of registry data associated with a collaboration system from a first network participant executing a first application based on a first application platform. A request from a second network participant executing a second application on a compatible platform to the first application platform to access the set of registry data from the first network participant is received. Access is provided to the second network participant of a subset of data shared by the first network participant for collaboration. In some instances, providing access to the second network participant can include identifying a user associated with the second network participant to provide data access with the first network participant and assigning corresponding access authorizations to development entity instances associated with the identified user. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144946 | INTELLIGENT CONNECTION MANAGER - Methods, devices, and storage media may provide for receiving a request from a subscriber device for a connection service pertaining to a machine-to-machine communication; determining whether the request is a valid request for the connection service; selecting a connection to a target device of the machine-to-machine communication in response to determining that the request is valid; executing a command included in the request to be directed to the target device; receiving a response from the target device; and transmitting the response to the subscriber device of the machine-to-machine communication. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144947 | Using Text Summaries of Images to Conduct Bandwidth Sensitive Status Updates - Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144948 | Pages: Hub Structure for Related Pages - Pages are created in a social network for a topic of interest and are organized and connected to each other based on related topics or categories. Relationships between parent pages and child pages are created based on the same or related topic of interest. Pages in the same category can also be connected. Information is shared among related pages in the social network. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144949 | Crowd-Sourced Resource Selection in a Social Network - A resource selection server that performs crowd-sourced resource selection over a social networking service, absent a central ratings database. A device subscribed to a social networking service implementing the inventive resource selection server, may register as a resource offering a particular skill. Additionally, any device subscribed to a relevant social networking service may transmit a skill request to the inventive resource selection server, to request a best-fit resource be returned for a particular skill of interest. The resource selection server queries a subscriber account database to identify resources on a social networking service, registered to offer a requested skill. The resource selection server additionally prompts subscriber devices within ‘n’ degrees of separation of a requesting device, to submit real-time trust ratings for resources complying with a particular skill request. The resource selection server analyzes ratings submitted by selected subscriber devices to return a best-fit resource for a particular skill request. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144950 | Seamless collaboration and communication - The embodiments herein relate to user interaction and, more particularly, to enabling collaboration and communication in a seamless manner between multiple users. Once the user select the content to be collaborated using a user device, the system provides the user a list of available collaboration modes for the user to start collaboration. Further the user selects atleast one user to start collaboration with. Further the system selects atleast one best communication mode for each user to communicate. The system uses parameters such as augmented ubiquity, to identify best communication mode for each user. Further the system starts collaboration and communication session. The system may automatically begin the collaboration session at a preset time. The system facilitates collaboration and communication together in a seamless manner. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144951 | Communication management system with extensible command language to consolidate and control multiple diverse communication mechanisms - A computer-implemented communication management system allows its Users to consolidate a plurality of communication mechanisms and provides a single point of control to manage the reception, routing, processing, and retransmission of messages. The system includes an extensible command language that enables various user intentions, including complex routing, group creation, and group management, to be specified as single commands. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PRIVATE MODERATOR CODES FOR CONFERENCE CALLS - A method, mobile device, and conferencing system are provided for automatically establishing a conference event having a plurality of invitees. In one implementation, a method is provided for determining whether an invitee of a conference event is a moderator of the conference event. The method also automatically establishes the conference event using a moderator code responsive to determining that the invitee is the moderator of the conference event. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144953 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is a computer system provided with: a plurality of execution servers that execute a plurality of jobs; and a scheduling server that is connected to the execution servers. The execution servers hold a plurality of data that are processed by the jobs, and the scheduling server generates a plurality of first sets that each contain a plurality of data processed by the plurality of jobs that are continuously executed, extracts, from the plurality of first sets, second sets containing data held by one of the execution servers and data held by another execution server, and determines data contained in the extracted second sets to be data to be transferred to a newly added execution server. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144954 | Method and Apparatus for Cooperation Between Push Devices - A method and an apparatus for cooperation between push devices to improve the validity and reachability of Internet Protocol (IP) connections. The method for cooperation between push devices includes: obtaining, by a Push proxy, a Push identifier and an address of a Push client; storing, by the Push proxy, a mapping between the Push identifier and the address of the Push client; and if the address of the Push client changes, updating, by the Push proxy, the corresponding address in the mapping. With the embodiments of the present invention, validity and reachability of IP connections can be improved, and the real-time performance and reliability of Push messages can be improved. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144955 | ACTIVE CONTROL OF COLLABORATIVE DEVICES - Control of collaborative devices, including providing at least two collaborative devices, wherein each collaborative device comprises a client device and an embedded Java server, providing a registry service to which the collaborative devices are coupled for data communications, and providing at least one registry table, wherein the registry table includes registry records, wherein the registry records include registry records representing capabilities of collaborative devices, wherein the registry records representing capabilities of collaborative devices include data elements describing, for each collaborative device, capabilities, tertiary relationships, and network connectivities. The method further includes providing a service bundle of OSGI-compliant Java servlets comprising at least one predetermined algorithm for controlling the collaborative devices, and controlling the collaborative devices in accordance with the predetermined algorithm. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144956 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A message data acquisition unit acquires message data including a message and additional information. An event ID acquisition unit acquires, when a condition fulfillment detection unit determines that a condition is fulfilled, condition identification information identifying the fulfilled playing condition in the game. A display information generation unit displays a message in the message data including the additional information corresponding to the acquired condition identification information, in a game screen displayed on a display device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144957 | Real-Time Social Networking - Techniques for exploring social connections in an in-memory database include identifying an attribute in a user profile associated with a first user; executing a query against a data element stored in an in-memory database, the query including the attribute in the user profile; identifying a second user from results of the query, the second user associated with the data element based on a relationship between the second user and the first user defined by the attribute; and generating displayable information associated with the second user. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144958 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING GAME MECHANICS TO ENCOURAGE SMARTER REPOSITORY USE BY EMAIL USERS - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for processing an email are disclosed. For example, the method receives a statistic associated with the email, calculates a score for the email based upon the statistic, updates an overall score of a sender of the email based upon the score that is calculated, and presents the overall score that is updated to a display device of the sender. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144959 | Using Text Summaries of Images to Conduct Bandwidth Sensitive Status Updates - Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOUNCING DEATH OF A USER IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and a system are provided for announcing and checking an accuracy of a user death event in a worldwide communication network. The identity of an announcer of a death news is registered in the network. The inquiry messages are sent to the user and his/her reliable friends to authenticate or deny the death news. The user profile in the network is customized based on the predefined conditions set by the user before his/her death to send a user created preset death message to the friends/members and to display the preset message in a personal page of the user profile after confirming the death news. The preset messages are sent to the friends/member at preset dates/intervals, after the death of the user. The preset user request is sent to the internet service providers to block the user email addresses and registered profiles after the death. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION INTERACTIVELY BY INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - An information providing method and system that may provide information while conversing with a user through an instant messaging application is disclosed. The information providing system enables a user terminal to add, as a friend, a software bot which may be a virtual friend configured in an artificial software program through the instant messaging application executed in a user terminal. When the user inputs and transmits a message to the software bot through a conversation session, the information providing system may retrieve an appropriate response corresponding to the message from a database by inputting the message as a query, and may transmit the response to the user terminal, thereby providing the response to the user through the conversation session. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144962 | System and Method for Enhancing Digital Content - A computer-readable medium including computer-executable code for enhancing an electronic document with one link and being served via a network responsively to a request received via the network and correspondent to an electronic document. The chat application may be for use with a mobile device and be less computing resource intensive. Certain embodiments of the present invention may not require a code or applets to be inserted to provide chat functionality. Advantageously, only a link may need to be inserted, for example. This may provide particularly well suited for use with websites where traditional chat code or applets may not be inserted. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144963 | Sua sponte establishment of large-scale person-to-person emergency electronic messaging communications based in part on subscriber telephone numbers - Lessons of the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attack (9/11), the Aug. 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, the Mar. 11, 2011 tsunami off the coast of Tohoku Japan and ensuing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant malfunction, and the Oct. 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy are incorporated. Methods are disclosed for rapidly establishing alternate electronic messaging for person-to-person communications in a large-scale emergency. Details for constructing electronic access addresses comprised in part by subscriber telephone numbers and an event identifier, allows the provider to establish a default system with no specific information from the user while allowing the user to access the messages in a systematic way. No registration or passwords are required, which allows free access to all interested parties. Methods are disclosed to reunite lost pets with owners and employ cloud computing and data storage services to provide the equipment on an as needed basis. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144964 | MANAGING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS ON MULTIPLE DEVICES - Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at 5 least a second instant messaging controller on a second device, where the user is signed on concurrently to the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device. At least a portion of the selected instant messaging session is transferred from the first instant messaging controller on the first device to the second instant messaging controller on the second device and the transferred portion of 10 the instant messaging session is made perceivable on the second instant messaging controller on the second device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144965 | SUSTAINING SESSION CONNECTIONS - In an embodiment, techniques for sustaining session connections are provided. The techniques send heartbeat messages when not sending a message may cause the session connection to close because of a timeout condition. Heartbeat messages are valid transport layer messages that will be ignored by protocols at higher levels of a data communications stack. As an example, the techniques may send a TCP message containing only a carriage return and line feed (“CRLF”) in its payload. Because the TCP layer considers a message containing only a CRLF to be a valid TCP message, intermediary computing devices such as proxy servers may not interpret heartbeat messages as “keep alive” messages, and may sustain session connections. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144966 | COORDINATING WRITE SEQUENCES IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for coordinating write sequences in a data storage system is disclosed. The method includes: responsive to a primary device receiving a request to write to primary storage, receiving from the primary device a request for a sequence number; generating a current sequence number for the write; generating a first identifier indicating an identity of secondary devices writing to secondary storage based on the current sequence number; generating a second identifier indicating an identity of secondary devices writing to secondary storage based on the current sequence number and a previous sequence number; transmitting the current sequence number and the second identifier to the primary device; and transmitting the current sequence number and the first identifier to the secondary devices writing to secondary storage based on the previous sequence number. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144967 | Scalable Queuing System - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for providing queuing semantics in a distributed queuing service while maintaining service scalability. The method includes supporting at least one of an en-queue and a de-queue operation of one or more queued messages in a non-guaranteed order, maintaining the ordering of the one or more queued messages, and routing an en-queue operation to a persistent queue server and a de-queue operation to a cache manager in the maintained ordering of the one or more queued messages to provide queuing semantics in a distributed queuing service while maintaining service scalability. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144968 | SHARING FILES ON A WIRELESS DEVICE - Among other features, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented in methods that include, from a wireless handheld device, automatically transferring to another location a media object captured on the wireless handheld device without requiring a user of the wireless handheld device to initiate the transfer of the media object, and regulating the transfer in response to information about a condition of the wireless handheld device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144969 | INDIRECT CONTROL OF CONTENT CONSUMPTION IN AN APPLIANCE - Aspects of the disclosure relate to control of consumption of content in an appliance. The content can include linear programming and non-linear assets. Such control can permit (i) changing a channel in the appliance (e.g., a CPE without upstream functionality) and thus selecting a linear-programming asset, a non-linear asset, and so forth, and (ii) controlling consumption of such assets. In one aspect, a device with upstream network connectivity can control the consumption of media in the appliance. The device can leverage data management and control functionality of a service provider network to acquire information related to assets available for consumption and to transmit asset requests to the service provider network, which can transmit content and signaling to the appliance in accordance at least in part with the asset request, thus controlling media consumption in the appliance. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144970 | SYSTEM FOR SERVING CONTENT BASED ON A USER PROFILE - There is provided a computer implemented system and method for building a profile of a user associated with a particular IP address. The system and method include establishing a proxy server for a plurality of discrete client IP addresses and providing a connection there from to a wide area network through the proxy server. A list of resources provided to each of the discrete client IP addresses is logged on the proxy server, and a profile is determined for each of the discrete client IP addresses based on a predetermined formula. Advertisements and content are served to each of the discrete client IP addresses corresponding to the user's profile. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144971 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144972 | NETWORK ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL - The invention relates to a protocol for communications between networked devices. The devices are logically arranged as a hierarchy of device types including a controller device type from which no other device type depends and a basic device type from which a number of other device types depend. The devices implement a simple device description message of fixed length and format which includes the device type, and some devices further implement an extended device description message including additional information. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144973 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF NETWORK TRANSFER ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - A method and system for performing network transfer adaptive optimization in a large-scale parallel computing system. The method of network transfer adaptive optimization includes forming a message to be transferred through the network based on obtained information related to a task executed by computing nodes, wherein the message includes identification information of the computing nodes to perform data transfer and corresponding sink nodes, and an amount of data the computing nodes to transfer to the corresponding sink nodes; transferring the message to a network layer; and forming a new data transfer pattern for data transfer between the computing nodes and the corresponding sink nodes in accordance with the received message. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144974 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING PUSH NOTIFICATION - Techniques for sending push notifications from Websites and consuming them in a browser on a mobile device are described. A native mobile component acts as a bridge during registration, receipt, and consumption of the push notifications. An Internet service acts as a registration and relaying mechanism to pass data to the native mobile component. When a push notification is consumed, the user is directed to the specified URL in a browser on the mobile device rather than a native application. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144975 | IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image information processing apparatus which processes image information to be provided to user terminals via a communication network includes a user information obtaining section obtaining user information from the information sent from the user terminals, and an image correcting section attaching a selected profile based on the user information to the image information to be sent to the user terminals capable of processing the profile, correcting colors according to the profile for the user terminals incapable of processing the profile before sending the image information to the user terminals. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144976 | System for Image Analysis in a Network that is Structured with Multiple Layers and Differentially Weighted Neurons - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating the usage of an online workforce to remotely monitor security-sensitive sites and report potential security breaches. In some embodiments, cameras are configured to monitor critical civilian infrastructure, such as water supplies and nuclear reactors. The cameras are operatively connected to a central computer or series of computers, and images captured by the cameras are transmitted to the central computer. After initially registering with the central computer, Guardians “log on” to a central website hosted by the central computer and monitor the images, thereby earning compensation. Site owners compensate the operator of the computer system for this monitoring service, and the operator in turn compensates Guardians based on, for example, (i) the amount of time spent monitoring, and/or (ii) the degree of a given Guardian's responsiveness to real or fabricated security breaches. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144977 | SHARED-BANDWIDTH MULTIPLE TARGET REMOTE COPY - In one embodiment, a method for sharing bandwidth in a data processing system having a plurality of locations includes splitting data into a plurality of data elements, sending each one of the plurality of data elements to a different location selected from the plurality of locations, wherein each data element is different, and sending a message to each of the locations. In another embodiment, a method for sharing bandwidth in a data processing system having a plurality of locations, wherein the plurality of locations comprises a first location and plurality of further locations, includes receiving a first data element, receiving a message, wherein the message comprises an address of each of the further locations, and sending the first data element to each of the further locations of the plurality of further locations, responsive to determining the address of each of the further locations. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144978 | DATA RELOCATION IN GLOBAL STORAGE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and systems for data relocation in global storage cloud environments are provided. A method includes locating a data server near a travel location of a user based on one or more travel plans of the user. The method further includes transferring data of the user from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the travel location. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144979 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT VIDEO DELIVERY AND CACHE MANAGEMENT - Network operators are striving to find ways to provide stable video services amid a rapid increase in video data traffic. In order to provide stable video services with constrained network resources, network operators attempted to reduce video file sizes and to cache videos for future use. However, network operators failed to exploit user information and to leverage benefits of distributing these functionalities across the network. This disclosure provides systems and methods for efficiently delivering video and managing video caches by exploiting user information and by distributing video delivery functionalities across the network. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144980 | System and Method for Re-Directing Requests from Browsers for Communication Over Non-IP Based Networks - A method and system for deploying content to client applications is provided. Inbound messages are accepted from a client application running on a client device via a proxy IP/port. The inbound messages are packaged into an internal message format with an HTTP redirector. The packaged message is forwarded to a back-end server via a message router. A response is received form from a web server. The response is packaged into the internal message format with the back-end server. The response is then forwarded to the HTTP redirector via a message router. The response can then be transferred to the client application running on the client device, via the proxy IP/port. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144981 | CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICE, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to be output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium. The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144982 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CONTENT EXCHANGE - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144983 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CDN SHAPING - The distribution of media content within a subscriber domain is controlled at a server. A subscriber domain is defined as an association including one or more subscriber devices, which can access content from one or more gateways, using one or more content distribution networks. The server is performing a CDN Shaping Service (CSS) for optimizing the operations of the content distribution networks based on domain analytics data. The domain analytics data is computed with previously acquired domain monitoring data. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144984 | Systems and Methods for Connection Pooling for Video Streaming in Content Delivery Networks - System and methods for connection pooling for video streaming in content delivery networks (CSNs) are provided. An embodiment method for connection pooling in a content delivery network (CDN) by a proxy server includes receiving, from a client, a request for media content, sending, to a control server, a query to locate an origin media server having the media content if the media content is cache-missing, receiving, from the control server, information regarding the origin media server having the media content requested by the client, and forwarding the request for the media content to the origin media server having the media content using a reusable connection from a pool of the reusable connections between the proxy server and the origin media server if the reusable connection is unoccupied. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144985 | TERMINAL, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION SERVER, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a technology which eliminates distribution modality choices that are intrinsically unnecessary, as follows. For each content item on a content list containing identifying information for content to play on a terminal, information on distribution modalities supported by that content item is acquired from a server. On the basis of the acquired distribution-modality information and content playback preparation statuses for each distribution modality, pairs comprising content items in playable states and distribution modalities therefor are searched for, and said content items are played using said distribution modalities. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144986 | BROADCAST CONTENT TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND BROADCAST CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS - When only part of content that is stored inside a terminal is updated, the updated content is allowed to be received efficiently, taking into account reducing the power consumption of the terminal. This broadcast content delivery apparatus ( | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING SYNDICATION OF INTERNET CONTENT - A method and system for syndicating content via a plurality of publication venues is provided. In one embodiment the method includes storing in a memory a plurality of videos; storing a content identifier (ID) for each of the plurality of videos; storing a syndication ID for each of the plurality of publication venues, wherein at least some of the plurality of publications venues act as a referring venue for other publication venues; and storing information sufficient to identify the referring venue for the other publication venues. The method may further comprise receiving a syndication request for a first video from a requester, wherein the request includes a first content ID for the first video and a first syndication ID; generating code that includes the first content ID and a second syndication ID; associating the first content ID, the first syndication ID and the second syndication ID in a memory; and providing the code to the requester. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144988 | NETWORK-OPTIMIZED CONTENT DELIVERY FOR HIGH DEMAND NON-LIVE CONTENTS - A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium distribute a non-live content stream in a network. An initial meta-file is transmitted in response to a request for the content, which identifies a division of the content stream into blocks, and available sources for delivery of the blocks. The initial meta-file can identify a first multicast and a second multicast server, assigning a first and second portion of the blocks for delivery using the first and second multicast source server, respectively. The first and second portions are transmitted using the first and second multicast source servers, respectively. The first and second portions correspond to distinct non-overlapping portions of the non-live content stream. The initial meta-file can also identify a unicast source server, assigning a third portion of the blocks for delivery using the unicast source server, the third portion being transmitted by the unicast source server. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144989 | UNIFIED DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A unified device management method and system for unified management of a fixed and mobile device includes a command execution controller which receives a device management command, sends a query message to the device, receives a response message transmitted by the device, creates a command execution policy based on the settings contained in the response message, and executes the device management command according to a policy, the device which generates and sends the response message to the command execution controller according to user inputs, and a remote access server which connects the device and the command execution controller by using a remote access protocol. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144990 | CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF COMPLEX NETWORK AND CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT MODULE OF SERVER RESOURCES - A method and system for configuring a complex network and a server resource configuration and management module are provided. The method comprises: obtaining an access record of each cloud computing server in a cloud server pool in a network; constructing a complex network model according to the access record(s); performing a community division process to the complex network model to obtain a community structure and memberships of members in each community; and configuring a structure of the network according to the community structure and the memberships of the members in each community. The provided technical scheme is applicable to a cloud computing network. The method and system for configuring a complex network and the server resource configuration and management module, realize configuring the network according to the usage of each cloud computing server in the current network, solve the problem of no mechanism for configuring a cloud computing network reasonably. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144991 | Wireless Configuration For A Computing Device - Wireless configuration for a computing device, the computing device including computer memory, a wireless receiver, and a device configuration management module, including: receiving, by the device configuration management module via the wireless receiver, configuration data for the computing device, wherein the computing device is packaged in original equipment manufacturer (‘OEM’) packaging; and storing, by the device configuration management module, the configuration data for the computing device in the computer memory of the computing device. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144992 | Distributed Dynamic Virtual Machine Configuration Service - An approach is provided in which a local module receives a discovery message from a virtual network endpoint that is devoid of a corresponding virtual IP address. The local module sends one or more unicast network configuration messages to a dynamic configuration service and, in turn, the local module receives one or more unicast network configuration responses from the dynamic configuration service. One of the unicast network configuration responses includes one or more network configuration parameters. The local module configures the virtual network endpoint according to one or more of the network configuration parameters. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144993 | Network Data Configuration Method and Network Data Configuration System - The disclosure provides a network data configuration method and a network data configuration system. The network data configuration method includes the following steps: when receiving a configuration command that instructs configuring data for a network device, the network data configuration system enters a global configuration mode; when receiving in the global configuration mode a mode switch command that instructs switching to a first configuration mode, the network data configuration system switches directly from the global configuration mode to the first configuration mode, wherein the first configuration mode is any configuration mode under the global configuration mode; when receiving in the first configuration mode a mode switch command that instructs switching to a second configuration mode, the network data configuration system exits from the first configuration mode and switching directly to the second configuration mode, wherein the second configuration mode is the global configuration mode or any configuration mode under the global configuration mode. The application of the disclosure can effectively reduce mode switch operations in the process of network data configuration and improve the configuration efficiency of network data. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144994 | Content Delivery Network and Method for Content Delivery - The disclosure provided a content delivery network, which comprises a content locating system, a delivery configuration managing system and at least one content providing node; wherein the content providing node is configured to acquire and provide a content; the content locating system is configured to determine a download location of a content requested to be downloaded and provide the determined download location information to a content download requester; and the delivery configuration managing system is configured to maintain and/or generate the delivery configuration information of the content, determining a delivery configuration of the content to be downloaded according to the received information of the content requested to be downloaded, and notify the same to the download requester. Further the disclosure provided a method for content delivery on the basis of the content delivery network described above. The technical solution of the disclosure supports various content delivery configurations with relatively low complexity and costs. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144995 | CONTROL APPARATUS, A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, A COMMUNICATION METHOD AND A RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON A COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - A control apparatus for controlling packet transfer between terminals belonging to a first virtual network identified by a first identifier includes a network configuration information management unit for holding configuration information on a second virtual network identified by a second identifier so that the terminals belong to the second virtual network; and a path control unit for controlling communication between the terminals based on the configuration information on the second virtual network. | 2013-06-06 |
| 20130144996 | INTERFACING BETWEEN A COMMAND LINE INTERFACE-BASED APPLICATION PROGRAM AND A REMOTE NETWORK DEVICE - A method for interfacing between a command-line-interface (CLI)-based application program (CLI-AP) residing in a client network device, and remote network devices. The method includes predefining at least one CLI-based program routine (CLI-PR) comprising at least one CLI-based command wherein the CLI-PR is defined externally to the CLI-AP, determining by CLI-AP a set of data to be obtained from the remote network device; selecting by CLI-AP a predefined CLI-PR from the predefined CLI-PRs, the selected predefined CLI-PR corresponding to the remote network device and determined set of data to be obtained; instructing the client network device by CLI-AP to execute the selected predefined CLI-PR, wherein executing selected predefined PR will cause the selected predefined CLI-PR to obtain the determined set of data from remote network device and to configure the obtained data in a predetermined format; and querying configured data by CLI-AP to retrieve the determined set of data. | 2013-06-06 |
