23rd week of 2018 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20180159910 | SOUND SIGNAL-BASED LOCAL INTERACTIVE PLATFORM SYSTEM AND LOCAL INTERACTIVE SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING SAME - The present invention relates to a technology for providing a place/time-based local interactive service, which provides multi-formatted content information to a user moving while carrying a smart terminal having a dedicated application installed therein. In particular, when moving into a place where a specific wired/wireless AP is installed, a user who carries a smart terminal with a dedicated application activated therein can receive multi-formatted content information previously mapped with the place using a place/time, without a separate manipulation of the smart terminal. According to the present invention, time periods during which the user carrying the smart terminal stays at the place where the specific wired/wireless AP is installed are accumulated and managed using time coins, and the user is then given a benefit according to the accumulated time periods. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159911 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NETWORK BASED VIDEO CLIP PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT - Methods and system for managing media clips over a data network. Media streams may be received over a data network and stored by a storage server. Metadata regarding the media streams may be generated and stored at a metadata server. A control station can retrieve media frames originating in the stored media streams from the storage server, based on metadata. Media frames from multiple media streams can be retrieved and displayed in synchronization, based on respective timecodes. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159912 | PERSONAL CONTENT SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS - Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from the local e.g., (subscription) network to a remote network upon authorization by a content manager process. Various access, business or operational rules are applied depending on the content and delivery mode; e.g., to live video broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), or archived content from the subscriber's digital video recorder (DVR) or networked PVR. Secondary content (e.g., promotions, advertisements, etc.) can also be selectively replaced if desired in order to make the remotely delivered content more appropriate to the remote user's context. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159913 | STREAMING MEDIA PRESENTATION SYSTEM - One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for providing media presentations to users of a media presentation system. A media presentation generally includes a one or more media streams provided by one or more capturing users of the media presentation system. In one or more embodiments, a user of the media presentation system may share a media presentation with a viewing user. The media presentation system can provide a number of features to produce a media stream within a media presentation. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159914 | DETECTING SIMILAR LIVE STREAMS INGESTED AHEAD OF THE REFERENCE CONTENT - A system and method includes receiving a first segment of a probe media item that is transmitted as a first live-stream of an event. The method includes determining, after a first delay period, whether the first segment of the probe media item is similar to a first segment of a first reference media item that is transmitted as a second live-stream of the event and received subsequent to the probe media item. The method includes determining, after the first delay period, whether a second segment of the probe media item is similar to a second segment of the first reference media item. The method also includes responsive to determining that the first segment and the second segment of the probe media item are respectively similar to the first segment and the second segment of the first reference media item, performing a remedial action in association with the probe media item. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159915 | VIDEO STREAM NETWORK CODING IN INFORMATION CENTRIC NETWORKS - The disclosure relates to technology for network coding a video stream in an information centric network. A network node breaks a media segment (e.g., a video segment) into chunks. The chunks for one media segment are then encoded into network encoded chunks, each of which may be a linear combination of the chunks for that media segment. Thus, a number of network encoded chunks for a media segment are generated. These network encoded chunks may be provided to a client in response to a request for content in an information centric network (ICN). When the client receives enough network encoded chunks, the client decodes them to produce the original chunks for that media segment. The client may perform bit-rate adaptation based on the time it takes to receive a media segment. The client may view the communication interfaces as a logical communication link upon which to perform rate adaptation. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOUNCING MEDIA CHANGES - In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus is described, the method, system, and apparatus including the creation of a dedicated Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS) adaptive bitrate (ABR) timed metadata stream which is located at a designated location, the populating the dedicated HLS ABR timed metadata stream with timed metadata items which signal availability of a particular subset of a superset of all media types which are anticipated as being available in streaming media playlists and making the timed metadata items available to an application on a client device. Related methods, systems and apparatus is also described. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159917 | SERVICE TO INVOKE COMPANION APPLICATIONS - A service to invoke a companion application or service is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to invoke a companion application is received in the context of a display page of a calling application. A service a call comprising a filtered set of data values derived from the display page is sent to an external service. A request associated with the companion application is received from the external service and used to invoke the companion application. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING COMMUNICATION DURING REAL-TIME EVENT - According to some example embodiments, a communication system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive data corresponding to a media event, the data comprising information corresponding to a plurality of sub-events occurring during the media event; transmit the information corresponding to the plurality of sub-events to a first electronic device operated by a first user; receive, from the first electronic device, a signal indicating approval or disapproval, by the first user, of an outcome associated with a sub-event from among the sub-events; and transmit a signal, to a second electronic device associated with a second user, including information about the approval or disapproval, by the first user, of the outcome associated with the sub-event. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159919 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING DATA - Methods and apparatuses for transmitting data to an external device are provided. The method includes establishing a communication link with the external device by using a first application, and displaying a first window that corresponds to the first application, in response to an execution request for a second application that is different from the first application, displaying a second window that corresponds to the second application as a background of the first window, receiving a sharing mode request via the first window, and in response to the sharing mode request, setting an operation mode of the device as a sharing mode, and transmitting data that is provided from the second application to the external device via the communication link. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159920 | SERVER LOAD BALANCING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SERVER DEVICE - The present application discloses a server load balancing method and apparatus, and a server device. The method includes: classifying, according to link quality of back-end servers in a server cluster, the back-end servers into multiple server groups; setting priorities of the multiple server groups according to link quality of the server groups; selecting, when an access request sent by a first terminal is received, a server group from the multiple server groups as a target server group based on the priorities; selecting a target back-end server from the target server group; and establishing communication between the target back-end server and the first terminal. When selecting a target back-end server that establishes communication with a user terminal, the implementation further takes the issue of the link quality of the back-end server into account, which avoids the problem of a relatively long communication response time caused by relatively poor link quality of the target back-end server, thus improving the efficiency of communication and the quality of communication between the user terminal and the server cluster. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159921 | TRANSMISSION OF DATA TO MULTIPLE COMPUTING DEVICES ACCORDING TO A TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE - A network system can manage a network service for a given region by receiving requests from user devices of users and matching the requesting users with available providers. In response to receiving a request from a user device, the network system can identify a set of candidate providers available to service the request. The set of candidate providers can be identified based, at least in part, on acceptance metrics indicative of the providers' historical record in responding to specified messages from the network system. The network system can transmit a set of messages relating to the request to computing devices of the set of candidate providers and subsequently select one of the providers to service the request. The network system can transmit the set of messages in accordance with a transmission schedule determined for the first set of messages. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159922 | JOB ASSIGNMENT USING ARTIFICIALLY DELAYED RESPONSES IN LOAD-BALANCED GROUPS - A detection is made that a first handshake packet has been received from a data processing system at a first system. The first system participates in a load-balanced group managed by a load-balancer. A value is obtained of a metric configured in the first system. from a set of delay functions, a delay function that corresponds to the metric is selected. Using the value of the metric in the selected delay function, a delay period is computed. A transmission of a second handshake packet is delayed for at least the delay period. An intentionally delayed transmission of the second handshake packet is caused after the delay period from the first system to the data processing system. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159923 | DYNAMIC CALL CONTROL - A request to establish a voice communications session between a user of a telephonic device and an interactive voice response (IVR) system of a call handling system is received by a dynamic call control engine. A resource requirement for the voice communications session is determined. Resource usage data for multiple call handling systems is accessed by the dynamic call control engine. A particular call handling system from among the multiple call handling systems is selected based on the resource usage data and the resource requirement. A connection to be set up between the telephonic device and the particular call handling system to allow the user of the telephonic device to participate in the voice communications session with an IVR system of the particular call handling system is enabled. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159924 | DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING AN ENTITY'S ASSIGNED DATA CENTER BASED ON TRAFFIC PATTERNS - Techniques for assigning entities to data centers are provided. In one technique, usage data associated with a particular entity that is assigned to a first data center is generated. The usage data indicates activity of multiple users relative to the particular entity. It is determined, based on the usage data, whether the particular entity is to be assigned to another data center. If so, then the particular entity is assigned to a second data center. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159925 | DEVICE TO DEVICE GROUPING OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION NODES - Systems, methods, software and apparatus enable device to device grouping of personal communication nodes include managing a communication node group having communication node members. Attribute information from the communication nodes is provided to a management system that defines communication group membership based on the received attribute information. The management system transmits group membership status notifications to the communication nodes. Membership status controls a node's participation in group communications. Attribute information can include changes (such as dynamic changes) in one or more communication node attributes, such as location, proximity to other communication nodes, speed, etc. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159926 | OPPORTUNISTIC SYNC BLOCK TRANSMISSION FOR MM WAVE NR-SS - Opportunistic synchronization block transmission for millimeter (mm) wave (mmW) new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. In the shared spectrum operations, additional opportunities for synchronization signaling are provided by piggy backing a single shot, opportunistic synchronization (sync) block onto the directional beam used for transmitting a data burst to a served user equipment. Instead of transmitting a whole sync slot, which includes sync blocks for each directional beam available at the participating mmW base station, the existing directional beam of the data burst is leveraged for transmitting the opportunistic sync block for that direction. The opportunistic sync block provides initial acquisition UEs with opportunity to obtain network access information, including timing and random access opportunities, for obtaining access to the network. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159927 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF ENTITY ASSIGNMENT IN A MULTI-DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT - Techniques for handling the dynamic reassignment of entities among multiple data centers are provided. In one technique, for each task of a plurality of tasks that are associated with a first data center of a plurality of data centers, an entity identifier that is associated with the task is identified. A call to an entity routing service is initiated, where the call includes the entity A response to the call is received from the entity routing service, where the response indicates a particular data center. An entity processor that is different than the entity routing service processes the task only if the particular data center is the first data center. If the particular data center is different than the first data center, then a data structure that stores the task is updated to indicate the particular data center and the task is eventually processed in the particular data center. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159928 | Network-Based File Cloud Synchronization Method - The present disclosure provides a network-based file cloud synchronization method, including: prior to file synchronizations between user terminals and a server, respectively creating file registration information tables for the multiple user terminals and the server, wherein the file registration information tables on the respective user terminals include identifiers of all files created by the respective user terminals and the file registration information table on the server includes identifiers of files already uploaded to the server; on the currently used user terminal, randomly scanning data of a to-be-synchronized file so as to obtain a random feature code to be stored; identifying whether the data of the to-be-synchronized file is consistent with the data of the synchronized file according to the two comparisons between the identifiers and the random feature codes and determining a whole file synchronization operation is performed, no synchronization is performed, or only an incremental synchronization operation is performed. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159929 | HYBRID CLOUD METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE FILE SHARING AND SYNCHRONIZATION WITH BACKUP AND SERVER VIRTUALIZATION - Integrated File Sharing and Synchronization (FSS) and Backup Management and Storage (BMS) in a network appliance deployed behind a firewall and within a private trusted Local Area Network (LAN). The appliance processes backup image files of a LAN server's file system to generate fully constructed backup recovery points for the LAN server. Logical blocks for backup image files and associated recovery points may be stored locally on the appliance and redundantly in a trusted cloud domain, and a hypervisor on the appliance provides virtualization of the LAN server based on backup recovery points. A relay server cluster in the cloud facilitates reliable and secure access to the FSS services by remote client devices beyond the firewall, without changing fire wall rules, by employing HTTPS between remote client devices and the relay server cluster, and Secure Shell (SSH) tunneling between the cluster and the appliance behind the firewall. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159930 | GATEWAY MANAGEMENT USING VIRTUAL GATEWAYS AND WILDCARDS - Systems, methods, and media for managing gateways. In an embodiment, a virtual gateway is generated which comprises a representation of each of one or more active scripts and/or device information (e.g., device drivers, and/or definitions and/or configurations for devices, device types, and/or device groups) stored on at least one remote physical gateway. At least one user interface is provided for editing each of the one or more active scripts and/or device information represented in the virtual gateway. Synchronization is automatically maintained, across at least one network, between the one or more active scriptsand/or device information represented in the virtual gateway and the one or more active scripts and/or device information stored on the at least one remote physical gateway. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159931 | SERVER FOR PROVIDING CLOUD SERVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An operating method of a server for providing a cloud service is provided. The operating method includes receiving shared file information from each of a plurality of devices connected to the server, transmitting the shared file information in response to a request from one of the plurality of devices, and, when receiving a request for a shared file included in the shared file information, receiving the shared file from a device in which the shared file is stored and transmitting the shared file to a device that requested the shared file. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTION AND RETRIEVAL OF NETWORK TRAFFIC RECORDS - A method includes transmitting, by a distribution server, to each of a plurality of worker computers, a request for an enumeration of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses ranked according to a criterion. The method includes receiving, by the distribution computer, from a first of the plurality of worker computers, a first partial enumeration of the requested IP addresses ranked according to the criterion, the first partial enumeration stored in a hash table. The method includes receiving, by the distribution computer, from a second of the plurality of worker computers, a second partial enumeration of the requested IP addresses ranked according to the criterion, the second partial enumeration stored in a hash table. The method includes generating, by the distribution computer, a combined enumeration including the first partial enumeration and the second partial enumeration, the combined enumeration ranked according to the criterion. The distribution computer deduplicates the combined enumeration. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159933 | MEMORY NETWORK METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS - Apparatus and systems may include a first node group include a first network node coupled to a memory, the first network node including a first port, a second port, a processor port, and a hop port. Network node group may include a second network node coupled to a memory, the second network node including a first port, a second port, a processor port, and a hop port, the hop port of the second network node coupled to the hop port of the first network node and configured to communicate between the first network node and the second network node. Network node group may include a processor coupled to the processor port of the first network node and coupled to the processor port of the second network node, the processor configured to access the first memory through the first network node and the second memory through the second network node. Other apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159934 | Control System For Drone and Internet of Things Systems - My invention is an efficient, flexible, adaptable, and innovative Control System For Drone and Internet of Things Systems which will be able to control Drones, Drone Traffic, and Internet of things system systems. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159935 | ENHANCED PROXIMITY SERVICES (ProSe) PROTOCOLS FOR VEHICLE-TO-ANYTHING (V2X) COMMUNICATION - Technology for a vehicle-to-anything (V2X) a user equipment (UE) to perform V2X communication within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The V2X UE can process, by the V2X UE, for transmission to a V2X function a V2X service registration request having one or more parameters to confirm and authorize the V2X service registration request. The V2X UE can process a V2X service registration authorization response and V2X operation parameters, received by from the V2X function, for permitting the V2X UE to operate in one of a plurality of V2X operation modes. The V2X UE can operate in the one of the plurality of V2X operation modes using the V2X operation parameters. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159936 | Wireless Trainline - In a system for providing computer network connectivity to transit cars that each include first and second mobile radios, and a memory and a processor in each car performing the steps of (a) causing the first and second mobile radios of the car to enter into a far-field mode of operation in communication with a wayside radio; (b) following step (a), the processor of a first car causing its second mobile radio to enter into a couple mode of operation with a first mobile radio of a proximate car; and (c) following step (a), the processor of a second car causing its first mobile radio to enter into a couple mode of operation with a second mobile radio of a proximate car. In the couple mode of operation, first and second mobile radios in proximate cars communicate only with each other. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159937 | MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE REAL-TIME MONITORING OF A MACHINE TOOL AND MACHINE TOOL AND TRANSCEIVER MODULE THEREFOR - A monitoring system for the real-time monitoring of a machine tool, a transceiver module therefor, as well as a machine tool including such a transceiver module, allowing that responsible persons, for example the machine operator or a production manager, can obtain in real-time relevant information regarding status parameters at a mobile data processing device, in order to initiate or implement potentially required measures, by which processing can be optimized, or in order to monitor the optimal operation and utilization of machine groups or the entire operation. The monitoring system and/or the machine tool include an app-server or a web server, which renders available and allows obtaining and displaying the parameters obtained by the electronic machine control for an application program (app) or for a web browser of the mobile data processing device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159938 | POLICIES FOR SESSION TYPES - A session-specific policy may be used to define specific configuration and operational characteristics of different types of sessions. One type of session may have one set of characteristics while a second type of session may have a different set of characteristics. The policy may be applied by a server or client, and may be propagated through an enterprise by a policy distribution management system to establish policies across multiple devices. Different session types include sessions from a local console, a remote user, a device-initiated session, a service-initiated session, and other types. Within each session type, policies may be defined for specific instances of each type. For example, different policies may be defined for different devices in a device-initiated policy. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159939 | Virtualizing Device Management Services on a Multi-Session Platform - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses may provide virtualization of device management services (e.g., device drivers) dedicated managing a particular device and designed under for or under the assumption the particular device and the device management service will be utilized in a single session/user environment, so that virtual instances of the device management services may be used in a multi-session environment. Further, a redirection and/or virtualization layer may be created for each session in the multi-session environment to perform global database redirection, object name translation, and file system translation to ensure session boundaries are maintained and global/shared resources are not inappropriately altered by a session. As an example, the redirection/virtualization layer may redirect communications associated with a session and for a global resource to access a virtual instance of the resource specific to the session. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159940 | Method And Server For Managing Content Requests - A method for managing a content request from a Communication Device, CD, is presented. The method is performed by a cache server and comprises: receiving a request for a content from a Communication Device, CD, the request further comprising a user session token; and providing the requested content to the CD when the user session token is cached on the cache server and when the content is cached on the cache server. A corresponding cache server, computer program and computer program product are also presented. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159941 | Method for connecting a client to a server in a communication system - A method for connecting a client to a server in a communication system includes following method steps:
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20180159942 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS OF BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER, MANAGEMENT TERMINAL, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A system to manage internet protocol address (IP) of baseboard management controller (BMC) includes switches, servers, and a management terminal. Each switch transmits to servers link layer discovery protocol in information packets, giving information of itself and a port of itself. Each server transmits obtained information of the switch and the port of the switch and a BMC IP of that server. The management terminal determines whether the BMC IP transmitted from each server is consistent with an assigning BMC IP corresponding to the port of the switch transmitted from the sever according to a relationship between each port of each switch, identification information of each server and assigning BMC IP of each server and displays the identification information of the server in the event that incorrect BMC IP is transmitted to enable a correction to be made. A method for managing BMC IP is also disclosed. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159943 | PERFORMING CONTEXT-RICH ATTRIBUTE-BASED SERVICES ON A HOST - Some embodiments provide a novel method for performing a service at a host computer that executes data compute nodes (DCNs). For a data message, the method identifies a service tag and a set of attributes associated with the service tag. The method then uses the identified set of attributes to identify a service rule, and performs a service on the data message based on the identified service rule. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159944 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING TIME SPENT ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a first event stream including one or more events of a first type, where each event of the first type is associated with a timestamp. A second event stream including one or more events of a second type can be obtained, where each event of the second type is associated with a timestamp. The first event stream and the second event stream can be merged to generate information associated with a metric relating to a system, based on the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the first type and the timestamps associated with the one or more events of the second type. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ADAPTIVE SEARCH ENGINE USNG DOMAIN SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159946 | ADJUSTING ATTRIBUTES FOR AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE SYSTEM BASED ON REAL-TIME INFORMATION - A system and method for dynamically adjusting attributes for a network service is described. A computing system can determine a change that is to be implemented to an attribute of the network service. For each of a plurality of computing devices, the computing system can receive information associated with that computing device from a designated application operating on that computing device. The designated application is associated with the network service. The computing system automatically implements the change to at least one but not all of the plurality of computing devices based on the information received from each of the plurality of computing devices. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159947 | NETWORK TRAFFIC ACCELERATOR - A system for improving network data communications performance between end-user devices and content origin servers. A plurality of accelerators are distributed across a network and communicate with end-user devices and content origin servers. Software development kits installed on end-user devices monitor control channel data traffic between the end-user devices and accelerators. Various data traffic efficiency approaches are implemented by the software development kits on the end-user devices and the plurality of accelerators resulting in improved data communications links between the end-user devices and the content origin servers. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159948 | PRE-FETCHING RANDOM-VALUE RESOURCE LOCATORS - Once resolved, a random-value universal resource locator (RV-URL) identifies a resource on a host server and constitutes an instruction to a local device executing a network transaction to fetch the resource. Embodiments of the invention resolve and pre-fetch an RV-URL from a remote host server and then pre-position, on a client-side of a communications link to the remote server, both resolution information indicating how the RV-URL was resolved and the pre-fetched resource. Later, when the client device is executing a network transaction and encounters an RV-URL, the client device determines whether resolution information for the RV-URL is locally stored. If so, the client device uses the resolution information to resolve the RV-URL to the same value that was used during pre-fetch. The client device then sends a request for the resolved RV-URL. The request is intercepted on the client-side of the communications link, where it is determined whether a locally cached pre-fetched resource corresponds to the intercepted request. If so, the locally cached pre-fetched resource is provided to the local device as a complete response to the request, which can then be discarded. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159949 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BUFFERING RECORDS - A device that is configured to generate reports to send to a server comprises at least one processor configured to generate the reports. Upon loss of connection, generated reports are stored in a buffer in memory of the device, capable of storing k reports. The first generated report is stored in a first part of the buffer, a most recently generated report is stored in a second part of the buffer, while the remaining reports are stored in a third part of the buffer. When the third part is full, a sampling algorithm is used to select the k−2 reports to store in the third part. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159950 | METHOD FOR CREATING CACHE TO E-COMMERCE APPLICATION IN MOBILE DEVICE - A method for creating cache to e-commerce application in mobile device that comprising an engine that provides cache storage feature to user's mobile device. The engine communicates with merchant's website by means of bundle of application programming interface functions that are attached to engine. The said engine creates a cache of required product information and other related information thus making the application function faster, by retrieving the data from both the local data storage of device and from merchant's website via application programming interface. The present invention has data consists of all the e-commerce product's information such as stock inventory information, price, image paths, relative products, description, product specification information etc. The present invention makes the mobile commerce application function faster by referring the product data stored in device cache database and refreshing intelligently as per user traversing between product ranges in mobile device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159951 | SOURCE PRIORITIZED USEFUL SUB-PAYLOAD COMPUTER DATA TRANSMISSIONS - A request to transmit an overall payload from a source computer system to a destination computer system can be received. A plurality of sub-payloads in the overall payload can be defined. Each sub-payload can be a computer-usable payload that includes feedback data regarding an experience in the source computer system and can be configured to be used without one or more other sub-payloads in the overall payload. The sub-payloads can be prioritized relative to each other to produce a computer-readable sub-payload priority order. The prioritizing can use rules that dictate different priorities for different sets of data in the sub-payloads. Sub-payload(s) can be transmitted from the source computer system to the destination computer system separately from each other in the sub-payload priority order. Also, data associating the one or more transmitted sub-payloads with the overall payload can be transmitted to the destination computer system. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159952 | Refreshing Framework - Refresh requests are received by a data source that each request a snapshot of current members of one of a plurality of dynamically changing groups and dynamically changing rules corresponding to such group. Thereafter, the data source queues the received plurality of refresh requests for selective execution or deletion into a new request queue. In addition, real-time execution of refresh jobs are initiated for all of queued refresh requests if a number of refresh requests in both of the new request queue and a waiting requests queue is below a pre-defined threshold. Alternatively, a job framework schedules execution of task jobs for a subset of the queued requests in the new request queue and the waiting requests queue if certain conditions are met. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING THE MANAGEMENT, ROUTING, AND CONTROL OF MULTIPLE DEVICES AND INTER-DEVICE CONNECTIONS - A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user configures a presentation environment into one or more sub-environments, restricts access to one or more devices of a presentation sub-environment, or schedules one or more resources within a presentation sub-environment. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159954 | NETWORK AND APPLICATION MANAGEMENT USING SERVICE LAYER CAPABILITIES - Described herein is a Network and Application Management Service (NAMS), which is a new service for the service layer (SL). In accordance with an example embodiment, the NAMS collects, consolidates, and processes information from applications, underlying networks, and other services. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159955 | Management of Pre-Loaded Content - A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159956 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTING A USAGE AWARE STANDBY SERVICE IN A GRID ENVIRONMENT - A technique for operating a grid includes receiving, by a resource manager executing on a data processing system of the grid, an allocation request from a first application for one or more resources. The resource manager determines whether a service that is in standby mode is available for utilization by the first application. In response to the service that is standby mode being available for utilization by the first application, the resource manager assigns one or more resources associated with the service and the service to the first application. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159957 | CONTEXT EXPORT FROM AN ACCESS POINT TO A FABRIC INFRASTRUCTURE - Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a network element that is configured for receiving, from an access point, a data packet originating from a client, the data packet comprising a packet header that comprises a packet header augmented with context information; decapsulating the packet header to identify the context information; applying a client-specific policy on the packet based, at least in part, on the context information; and forwarding the packet to a next hop in the network. The network element can be part of a network, such as a datacenter fabric architecture. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159958 | AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF DEVICES - A secure and automated system can be used to provision devices with configuration information. A temporary connection can be used to access configuration information from a cloud server. A unique device ID can be provided to the cloud server and the configuration information downloaded to the device. For example, a wireless network ID and password can be downloaded to configure the device for a wireless network. This avoids the requirement for the configuration information to be directly input into the device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159959 | Phased Deployment of Scalable Real Time Web Applications for Material Handling System - A system and method provides data reporting and real-time user interfaces to a client device of a material handling system according to a unified architecture. The method includes (i) receiving, by a machine automation controller, real-time data of one or more machine automation devices of a material handling system; (ii) controlling, by the machine automation controller, the one or more machine automation devices using the real-time data as feedback; (iii) shaping the real-time data according to a domain model into a staging object; (iv) maintaining a cache object that corresponds to the staging object in a broker process; and (v) responding to one or more client requests for a data item by transmitting at least a portion of data contained in the cache object to a client device for presenting in a user interface. The client device may also be collecting historical data or statistical data for reporting purposes. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CONNECTION MODE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND A SERVER - Disclosed are system and method for selecting a connection mode between a client device and a server device. An example method includes: receiving, by a processor of a gateway device deployed within a communication network, a request from a client device for accessing a desired server device; detecting locations of the client device and the desired server device; selecting a connection mode for the client device based on the locations of the client device and the desired server, the connection mode comprising at least one of a direct connection and an indirect connection via the gateway device between the client and the desired server devices; when the direct connection mode is selected, informing the client device to access the desired server device directly; and when the indirect connection mode is selected, establishing, by the gateway device, a proxy connection between the client and the desired server devices. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159961 | Dynamic Presentation - The disclosed embodiments relate to provisioning of a service, such as a financial service, to a device, such as a mobile device operative to access the service wirelessly or otherwise, in a manner which efficiently provides a consistent user experience which meets a user's expectations as to the functionality and quality of the service, including the user interface therefore and service delivery, which leverages the available capacities of the devices through which the service is provided so as to maximize the functionality and quality of the provided service without diminishing the experience, i.e. without substantially reducing the quality or functionality. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORKING MESSAGES - A computer system can compress or decompress a type-length-value (TLV) component in a message. During operation, the computer can select a compression table associated with a network interface used to send and/or to receive the message, and can search the compression table for an entry that includes a prefix of a value from type-length-value (TLV) component being compressed or decompressed. If compressing the message, the computer may generate a compressed block that corresponds to a compressed version of the TLV component, such that the compressed block includes the compression encoding in place of the prefix in the TLV component's value. The computer can also generate a compressed message that includes the compressed block in place of the TLV component, without a compression table. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159963 | COMPUTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR READING OR WRITING DATA BY COMPUTER DEVICE - A computer device and a method for reading or writing data by a computer device are provided. In the computer device, a central processing unit (CPU) is connected to a cloud controller using a double data rate (DDR) interface. Because the DDR interface has a high data transmission rate, interruption of CPU can be avoided. In addition, the CPU converts a read or write operation request into a control command and writes the control command into a transmission queue in the cloud controller. Because the cloud controller performs a read operation or a write operation on a network device according to operation information in the control command, after writing the control command into the transmission queue, the CPU does not need to wait for an operation performed by the cloud controller and can continue to perform other processes. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A MULTIMEDIA DATA PACKET - A method and an apparatus for transmitting a multimedia data packet are provided. The method includes generating Media Abstraction Layer (MAL) information for abstracting information on the multimedia data to be transmitted, generating a multimedia data packet including said MAL information, and transmitting the generated multimedia data packet to a network entity. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159965 | NETWORKED TRANSPORT LAYER SOCKET - The present disclosure generally discloses a networked transport layer socket capability. The networked transport layer socket capability, for transport layer connection of a communication device attached to a network access device, moves the transport layer connection endpoint of the transport layer connection of the communication device (which also may be referred to as a client transport layer socket of the transport layer connection of the communication device) from the communication device into the network access device. The application client at the application layer of the communication device, rather than communicating with the client transport layer socket of the transport layer of the communication device internally within the communication device, communicates with the client transport layer socket of the transport layer of the communication device, which is provided within the network access device for the communication device, via a communication path between the communication device and the network access device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159966 | Mobile Communications Device - A mobile communications device. The mobile communications device has a rectangular housing and a touchscreen. The housing has a bonding surface configured to bond with the touchscreen, one end of the bonding surface that is provided with a control button and the other end opposite to the end that is provided with a control button are each provided with a supporting surface, the touchscreen is adhered to the supporting surfaces, and two opposite side surfaces of the housing are each connected to the touchscreen in a sealed manner using a sealing piece. The two opposite side surfaces are side surfaces that are perpendicular to a frame line of the end of the bonding surface that is provided with a control button. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159967 | CLIP FOR MOUNTING EXTERNAL DEVICE TO ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In an aspect, a device-and-clip system is provided for an electronic device. The system includes an external device that cooperates with at least one electronic device feature on the rear face to perform a selected function. The system includes a clip including a first clip arm having an arm marker thereon and which is engageable with the front face of the electronic device and a second clip arm that is engageable with the rear face of the electronic device. The system further includes an application that is executable to instruct the electronic device to display a screen marker on the display screen in a selected position and in a selected orientation such that positioning and orienting of the first clip arm on the display screen of the smart phone with the arm marker aligned with the position and orientation of the screen marker positions the external device in alignment with the at least one electronic device feature. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159968 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE SHELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - Provided is an electronic device shell and an electronic device including the same. According to one or more embodiments, the shell may include a main body and a connecting part provided on the main body. The electronic device includes a mounting part that is configured to form a fixed connection to the connecting part. The main body is a knitted member. The shell of the electronic device is configured for good flexibility and resilience. In this way, damage and depression of the shell due to a bump during use may be reduced effectively without using a complicated slotting process or occupying space to accommodate a local bulge of the electronic device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159969 | Electronic Devices with Concave Displays - Electronic devices may be provided with concave displays that reduce the risk of damage in the event of a drop while maximizing the internal volume of the device. Concave displays may be formed from one or more flexible layers including a flexible display layer. The flexible display layer may be mounted to a rigid support structure or a rigid cover layer. Flexible display layers that conform to the curved shape of a rigid cover structure provide additional internal volume in which internal components of the device may be positioned. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159970 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a command switching process according to the prediction node. In a transition prediction process, a node of the data for prediction corresponding to a current node of a vehicle is set to a start point node based on data for prediction, and at least one of candidate nodes is set to a prediction node specifying a future state of the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a command generation process of generating a command for controlling the devices in the vehicle based on a correspondence relationship according to an input operation performed to the input device. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159971 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING UNLOCKING INTERFACE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and device for generating an unlocking interface, including: receiving an unlocking request; determining an application to be unlocked and a first icon file of the application according to the unlocking request; extracting a first color value according to the first icon file of the application and forming a first display layer of an unlocking interface corresponding to the application according to the first color value; acquiring a pre-generated special-effects picture corresponding to the first icon file of the application and forming a second display layer of the unlocking interface corresponding to the application according to the special-effects picture; forming a third display layer of the unlocking interface corresponding to the application according to unlocking interactive information of the application locker; superimposing the first display layer, the second display layer and the third display layer with respective specified transparencies to generate the unlocking interface. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159972 | MULTIFUNCTION WIRELESS DEVICE - A communication device and system are disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. The device can be restricted to communicating only using an internet protocol so as to restrict the device communication to an internal intranet. Wireless access points may be disposed throughout the environment to route calls and data between the device and a central processing center. By converting a protocol of the communications received from the device to a protocol used by the central processing center, minimal modifications to the central processing center are needed to support a wireless communication infrastructure. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the phone and system in order to prevent improper use. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159973 | METHOD, APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ENTERING NUMERIC SYMBOLS USING TOUCH SCREEN FRAME - A method, apparatus, computer storage medium, and terminal for entering numeric symbols using a touch screen frame related to the field of communication technology. The method includes: receiving an instruction to start a numeric keypad, opening the numeric keypad in a special region on edge of a touch screen, receiving a touch operation input by the user on the numeric keypad, and determining a number or a symbol corresponding to the touch operation based on the operation region of the touch operation and the number of the click operation included in the touch operation. Thus, users can make a phone call with one hand or can enter the corresponding number or symbol keys in the answer to the phone while listening to the information. It is easy to operate and can improve the user experience. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159974 | BI-DIRECTIONAL AUDIO GENERATION DEVICE FOR SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF TELEPHONY NETWORKS AND SPEECH CODECS - A system for bi-directional quality testing of a telephony system or network using an audio generation device configured to automate Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality assessments and connect to a communication endpoint through computer telephony integration (CTI) instruction or system configuration to enable auto-answering of the communication endpoint, listen, record, and process signals and audio data, calculate Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), generate signals and audio for playback, compare files using a full reference algorithm, and store data with MOS results displayed in data naming structure. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159975 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REMINDING CONTACT INFORMATION - A method and device for reminding contact modes are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes: a calling end initiates a call and detects a call state of a call; and interaction information used for inquiring whether to send a short message to a current call number is displayed if a detected call state shows that a called end is busy. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159976 | IP-ENABLED INFORMATION DELIVERY - A method, system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for providing Internet protocol enabled information delivery are provided. Information from a calling party is received at an Internet protocol enabled device. A lookup of information relating to the calling party is performed in a database via an Internet protocol connection. A message is received from the database comprising information relating to the calling party. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159977 | OUTBOUND CUSTOMER INTERACTION PAIRING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein relate to routing outbound communications. The methods include receiving a list of customers to contact, determining a time that each customer on the list is available, determining a personality type of each customer on the list, determining availability of one or more agents at the time that each customer on the list is available, determining, by the one or more processors, a personality type of each available agent, matching the one or more available agents with each customer on the list based on the personality type of each customer on the list and the personality type of each available agent, and routing the one or more available agents to each customer on the list. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OMNICHANNEL SUPERVISION - In one embodiment described herein, an omnichannel supervision interface system and method includes a hardware processor, and a graphics engine executed by the processor for displaying a first portion to display, for one contact center agent among a plurality of contact center agents, a near-real time transcript of the contact center agent's conversation with one customer over a plurality of channels, and a second portion to display a first media category of a session of the contact center agent and the customer, wherein the omnichannel supervision interface is operative to display a plurality of channels for the plurality of contact center agents. Related methods, apparatus, and systems are also described. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159979 | REMOTE DISTANCE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Techniques for conducting a support session and determine suitable instructions for resolving a certain technical mal-function in a device/equipment of a user. Imagery data associated the technical mal-function is received from a user's device and used for determining at least one improperly setup property associated with the mal-function in the mal-functioning device/equipment based on a comparison of the received imagery data with reference data. Instructions comprising augmented imagery for resolving the mal-function can be then generated, or fetched form a database, based on the determined at least one improperly setup property. A new database record can be generated comprising the augmented imagery data for use in future support sessions associated with the mal-function. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159980 | MOBILITY BONDING NETWORK - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a mobile-specific intermediary replacement for the toll free service. This mobile intermediary entity or service can provide four primary call invocation types. Namely, calls can be invoked through a dialer of the mobile device, through a web interface accessed through the mobile device, through a mobile application executing on the mobile device, or through a personal assistant of similar service. The mobile intermediary entity or service can also provide rich, supplementary services for mobile callers. These services can include but are not limited to menu navigation, call continuity, caller geo-location awareness, and awareness of the caller's mobile network operator's identifier. Services natively provided by the called enterprise, such as call conferencing, can also be provided within the call. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159981 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING AND OPTIMIZING INBOUND CALL FLOW TO A CALL CENTER - A method for providing inbound call reservations to a communication center has steps for monitoring service access points into the communication center by reservation software executing from a machine-readable medium, evaluating communicators and potential communicators, and issuing invitations for reserved communication sessions to qualified communicators and potential communicators, the reserved times coordinated according to data pertaining to predicted communication load and resource availability statistics. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159982 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED ROUTING OF INTERACTIONS IN A CONTACT CENTER - A system and method for performance-based routing of interactions in a contact center. A routing server receives information on an interaction to be routed, and identifies a call reason for the interaction. The identification of the call reason may be based for example, speech analytics. The routing server identifies one or more agents having experience in handling the topic. The routing server further determines a proficiency level of the identified agents in handling the topic, and selects one of the identified agents having at least a minimum level of proficiency. The routing server transmits a message for routing the interaction to the selected agent. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CALL DIVERSION - A system includes a contact center to provide an interaction between a customer and an agent workstation of the contact center. A contact center network connects a call from a mobile device to an interactive voice response application. A mobile engagement platform collect authentication information from the mobile device to authenticate a customer using the mobile device. A short message service platform sends a link to connect the mobile device to a mobile application. The mobile engagement server authenticates the customer of the mobile device for the mobile application based on the collected authentication information. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159984 | REROUTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS TO TRUSTED USER'S DEVICE WHILE A PRIMARY USER IS OCCUPIED - An apparatus for rerouting electronic communication is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a process and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to detect that a primary user is occupied, intercept an electronic communication directed to a portable communication device of the primary user, detect that a portable communication device of a trusted user on a list of one more trusted users is in proximity to the primary user, and reroute the electronic communication to the portable communication device of the trusted user, where the trusted user is determined to be in proximity with the primary user. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159985 | Method and Communications Arrangement for Operating a Communications Connection - The invention relates to a method and a communications arrangement for operating a communications connection between a communications terminal device (KE | 2018-06-07 |
20180159986 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Readable Storage Devices for Adjusting the Use of Virtual Resources Providing Communication Services Based on Load - The use of virtual resources providing communication services is adjusted based on load. A determination is made, for a specific number range, whether the virtual telephone number mapping service instances dedicated to the specific number range are being underutilized. If the virtual telephone number mapping service instances dedicated to the specific number range are being underutilized, a virtual telephone number mapping service instance dedicated to the specific number range is selected for removal. A determination is also made, for the specific number range, whether a number of virtual telephone number mapping service instances dedicated to the specific number range is sufficient to handle requests for communication services. If the number of virtual telephone number mapping service instances dedicated to the specific number range is not sufficient to handle the requests, instantiation of a virtual telephone mapping instance is initiated. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159987 | INTERACTIVE CAMPAIGN-BASED CUSTOMER FEEDBACK COLLECTION PLATFORM - This disclosure provides systems, methods, services, and platforms for prompting a user to respond to an offer on a mobile device. The disclosure enables Mobile Network Operators to create campaigns to target customers who are nearing the limit of their data plans, voice plans, SMS plans, and MMS plans. In some embodiments, the cloud server interacts with a client application to prompt the use of a mobile device to respond to an offer send in a campaign. The disclosure also provides embodiments to check to see if the user has opted out of receiving offers, or if a device can not execute a command, or if a threshold number of offers has already been sent. This disclosure also provides embodiments for authenticating third party account log-in. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159988 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquirer configured to acquire a first image displayed on a display in response to execution of an object program being a test object; an object image extractor configured to extract a partial image as an object image from the first image, based on first specification information specifying the partial image, the partial image being included in the first image and corresponding to a correct image; a determiner configured to determine whether or not the object image and the correct image accord; and a display processor configured to display a result of determination by the determiner. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159989 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image processing unit configured to perform image processing based on an adjustment condition, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on image data on which the image processing is performed, and a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form a first measurement image on a first side of a sheet, control the image forming unit to form a second measurement image on a second side of the sheet, control the reading unit to obtain reading data related to the sheet on which the first and the second measurement images are formed, and generate the adjustment condition based on the reading data and a correction condition, wherein the controller generates the correction condition based on a reading result of the first side and a reading result of the second side. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159990 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An MFP (image processing apparatus) has a scanning function for generating image data by scanning a document, and receives a scan job from a mobile terminal by using TransferJet communication with the mobile terminal. The MFP executes the scanning function based on a received scan job. The MFP transmits to the mobile terminal the image data generated by the scanning function by using TransferJet communication. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159991 | DELIVERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A delivery management system includes a multifunction peripheral for forming an image, a server communicable with the multifunction peripheral, and mobile terminal devices communicable with the server. The server includes an authorization unit and an image data generation unit. The authorization unit grants the mobile terminal devices data disclosure rights on the basis of delivery-related data, which has been received by a receiving unit. The image data generation unit generates image data on the basis of the delivery-related data received by the receiving unit. A mobile terminal device transmitting unit transmits, to the server, delivery image data read by a mobile terminal device image reading unit. A notifying unit notifies the delivery-related data that is transmitted from the server on the basis of the data disclosure rights granted to the mobile terminal devices. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159992 | MOBILE CLOUD-BASED REGISTRATION SSYTEM - Allowing for event attendees to print customized event badges may include receiving registration information associated with a particular attendee of a specified event. In response to receiving the registration information, a confirmation message that includes at least one user-selectable link is sent to the particular attendee. In response to interaction with the user-selectable link, information associated with an individual attempting to print a badge associated with the specified event is received. Based on the received information, the individual is determined to be the particular attendee. In response to determining, a user interface that allows for selecting a particular printer to be used for printing the customized event badge associated with the particular attendee is provided. A selection of the particular printer to be used for printing the customized event badge associated with the particular attendee is received. The customized event badge at the particular printer is printed. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159993 | COMPOSITE APPARATUS - A composite apparatus includes: a first apparatus and a second apparatus that operate independently; and a console display that is shared by the first and second apparatus. The first and second apparatus each includes: a display memory that stores display data; and a drawing processor that instructs the console display to display the display data. The composite apparatus further includes: a selector that selectively connects the drawing processor of the first or second apparatus to the console display; and a switch processor that receives a connection request from the first or second apparatus. The connection request includes requests to connect the drawing processor of the first or second apparatus to the console display and to instruct the selector to connect the drawing processor of either the first or second apparatus to the console display. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159994 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PREDICT AN EVENT BASED ON RESOURCE INFORMATION - An image forming apparatus includes: a schedule information generation unit that generates schedule information including an order of execution of received jobs; an acquisition unit that acquires resource information related to a resource used to execute a job; a prediction unit that predicts a timing of occurrence of an event that possibly occurs in the apparatus as the received jobs are executed in accordance with the order of execution on the basis of the schedule information and the resource information; a display information generation unit that generates display information for displaying a period of execution of the job to be executed and the timing of occurrence of the event along the same time axis, and for displaying a degree of influence of the event on execution of the job; and a display controller that controls display of the display information. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159995 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT ENSURES TRIAL PRINTING AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a copy number obtaining unit, a set value obtaining unit, a set value applying unit, and a print performing unit. When the set value obtaining unit obtains and stores a plurality of different set values, the set value applying unit applies the plurality of respective set values to the image obtained by the image obtaining unit to generate and store a plurality of different set value applied images, and the specific count of copies of the plurality of respective set value applied images are printed, the print performing unit printing any one set value applied image among the plurality of stored set value applied images. A count of copies of the printing of the one set value applied image is found by subtracting the specific count of copies from the count of print copies. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159996 | SETTING METHOD AND SETTING APPARATUS OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a setting method of an image forming apparatus including displaying character codes that the image forming apparatus supports in a case where the import of data to the image forming apparatus is instructed; receiving a selection of the character code of the data to be imported to the image forming apparatus from the displayed character codes; and importing, if the character code of the data to be imported is selected, the data to the image forming apparatus in the selected character code. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159997 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - In an input image generated as a binary image from a scanned document image, a projection image generating unit (a) tries at each primary-scanning-directional target pixel position to detect a secondary-scanning-directional run along a secondary scanning direction, projects the detected secondary-scanning-directional run at the primary-scanning-directional target pixel position and thereby generates a one-dimensional primary-scanning-directional-projection image, and (b) tries at each secondary-scanning-directional target pixel position to detect a primary-scanning-directional run along the primary scanning direction, projects the detected primary-scanning-directional run at the secondary-scanning-directional target pixel position and thereby generates a one-dimensional secondary-scanning-directional-projection image. A blank sheet determining unit determines that the document is a blank document at least on the basis of the number of runs in the primary-scanning-directional-projection image and the number of runs in the secondary-scanning-directional-projection image. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159998 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management system includes a device management apparatus, a first electronic device, a second electronic device, and an intervening apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a memory storing authorized user identification information, a receiver receiving user identification information from the first electronic device, and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, third device identification information is stored. The intervening apparatus includes a receiver receiving the user identification information from the second electronic device and processing circuitry determining whether it is allowed to use at least the first electronic device. If so, the third device identification information is received. The second electronic device includes a receiver receiving a request and processing circuitry determining whether the third device identification information in the request matches the third device identification information received from the device management apparatus, and accepts the request. | 2018-06-07 |
20180159999 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a printing apparatus including an EEE function, activation control of a printer engine upon resumption from a power saving mode is efficiently made. The printing apparatus includes: a printer engine; a network interface capable of making a transition to; a normal operation state in which communication is made with an external apparatus in a first link speed, a first sleep state in which communication is made with the external apparatus in the first link speed and in which power is saved compared to power in the normal operation state, and a second sleep state in which communication is made with the external apparatus in a second link speed that is lower than the first link speed and in which power is saved compared to power in the normal operation state. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160000 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH CAN REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION - An image forming apparatus which can reduce power consumption is provided. A service hub as an image forming apparatus has a print engine unit to form images, a MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) circuit which includes a main CPU (Central Processing Unit) to control the print engine unit, a network interface circuit to perform communication with external devices, and a server circuit which includes a main CPU to control the network interface circuit. The MFP circuit and the server circuit have a common IP address. The server circuit further includes an electric power control unit to control electric power supply to the MFP circuit and electric power supply to the server circuit being independent of each other. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160001 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveying portion, an image data outputting portion, a plurality of buffer memories, an image forming portion, and a timing control portion. At least one of the plurality of buffer memories corresponding to at least one predetermined channel among the plurality of color channels other than a head color channel is configured to store image data of two different pages individually. After the image data outputting portion starts outputting image data of the first page to the buffer memory corresponding to the predetermined channel, the image data outputting portion starts outputting image data of the second page to the buffer memory regardless of whether or not the image data of the first page has been read from the buffer memory. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160002 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a communication system, in which an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus are connected via a network and remote maintenance is performed between the image forming apparatus and the information processing apparatus, the image forming apparatus has a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication with a mobile terminal and determines whether or not remote maintenance using the mobile terminal is possible. In a case that it is determined that the remote maintenance is possible, the image forming apparatus establishes wireless communication with the mobile terminal in response to a connection request from the mobile terminal, and performs input/output of audio data via the mobile terminal with the information processing apparatus. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160003 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An illumination device includes a light guide member having a bar-like shape and a light source disposed so as to face an end surface of the light guide member. The illumination device guides light from the light source in the light guide member and emits the light from a light emission surface of the light guide member formed in a longitudinal direction of the light guide member. The light emission surface includes a first light diffusing portion that is formed in a first portion near the light source and that has a protruding/recessed shape, and a second light diffusing portion that is formed in a second portion adjacent to an end of the first light diffusing portion, the end being away from the light source. The second light diffusing portion has a protruding/recessed shape and has lower light diffusivity than the first light diffusing portion. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160004 | SCANNER FOR SCANNING MICRO-DETAILS OF SPECIMENS - The present disclosure relates to a micro-scanning device that comprises a surface on which specimen to be scanned is positioned, and at least one micro lens configured to enable scanning of the specimen so as to obtain micro-details of the specimen. One or more micro lenses are installed below the flatbed surface in an array of movable configuration or in a stationary configuration. The device further incorporates a front panel to live-view micro-detail image of a specimen placed on the flatbed surface and incorporates means to focus, size, and zoom/scale the micro-detail image of the specimen. The device can be either a portable/handheld device or a stationary device and incorporates scan firmware to save and store or send copy of image incorporating micro-details on an associated/coupled computing device and/or in the internal memory of the scanner for performing any of stitching, printing, saving or sharing. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160005 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, ORIGINAL DOCUMENT ARRANGEMENT SETTING METHOD AND NON TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS AN ORIGINAL DOCUMENT ARRANGEMENT SETTING PROGRAM - A relative position identification portion is included that identifies a relative position of a personal digital assistant with respect to an image forming apparatus. The relative position identification portion acquires the relative position of the image forming apparatus and the personal digital assistant, displays, on the display portion of the personal digital assistant, an image that shows the position and the direction of the image forming apparatus seen from a user who carries the personal digital assistant and an image of the position and the direction of an original document which is arranged in the reading portion of the image forming apparatus and which is seen from the user and thereafter transmits, to the image forming apparatus, setting information based on an input operation of the operator. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160006 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has a nonvolatile memory including a first region and a second region, a control circuit, and a data input unit. First software is used for updating. Second software is not used for updating. When a starting condition for updating is satisfied, the control circuit overwrites the second region with the first software and makes the second region a new first region. Then, the control circuit overwrites the old first region with the second software and makes the old first region a new second region. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160007 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a data sharing unit configured to cause an application selected as a data output destination to process data which is output by an application which is a data output source; a process-object-data generation control unit configured to generate process object data in one of a first format and a second format based on image data acquired by an image information interface from an image information source; and an application-information display unit configured to display identification images for identifying applications which the data sharing unit can select as the data output destination if the data sharing unit is to process either data of the first format or data of the second format. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160008 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes: a feeding unit that feeds a document sheet of a document; a reading unit that reads the document sheet fed by the feeding unit; a detection unit that detects that the document sheet fed by the feeding unit is bound to another document sheet; a controller that interrupts feeding of the document sheet by the feeding unit in accordance with detection by the detection unit that the document sheet fed by the feeding unit is bound to another document sheet; and a display unit that displays a screen that provides a notification of an action to be taken to read the document whose feeding has been interrupted in accordance with the detection by the detection unit. | 2018-06-07 |
20180160009 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a display section; an image reading section; a rectangle extracting section that extracts a rectangle-representing image from a document image acquired from reading by the image reading section and detects a size and a location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image; an identification information assigning section that sequentially assigns a piece of identification information to the extracted rectangle-representing image; a display control section; an operation acceptance section; a box information creating section that associates the rectangle-representing image specified as a box the size and location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image, and the piece of identification information assigned to the rectangle-representing image with each other to create a piece of box information on the box; a storage section; and a control section that allows the storage section to store a template containing the document image and the piece of box information. | 2018-06-07 |