| 23rd week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 76 |
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| 20160164927 | SOCIAL MEDIA SESSION ACCESS - A method for social media session access includes, by a computing device, receiving a user request to join a social media session. If the social media session has less than a predetermined quantity of current users, the user is granted access to the session. If the social media session has the predetermined quantity of current users, information about the user is stored user in a list of users waiting to join the session. As slots in the session become available, users are selected from the waitlist. An owner of the session may determine the criteria used in selecting from among multiple users in the waitlist. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164928 | Goal-Based Connection Management Between Parties - A monitoring computer system receives a message, from a first party, which identifies a goal of the first party. The monitoring computer system receives an identity of a second party that has been selected by the first party to assist the first party in achieving the identified goal of the first party. An electronic communication connection is created for electronic communications between the first party and the second party, wherein the electronic communications are related to accomplishing the goal of the first party. The electronic communications between the first party and the second party are monitored by executing message analytics to determine a status of the goal of the first party. In response to determining that the goal of the first party has reached a predefined status, a predefined action that has been associated with the predefined status of the goal is executed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164929 | CONTROL FOR CONTENT CHANNEL IN WEB REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - In order to provide compatibility between WebRTC communication endpoints and legacy communication endpoints that use BFCP, a web media gateways is used to establish a conference call between the communication endpoints that use WebRTC and the legacy communication endpoints that use BFCP. A floor command is received to control the floor of the conference call from a first communication endpoint. The floor command is translated from WebRTC into BFCP or from BFCP to WebRTC. The floor command is sent to the second communication endpoint. This allows a conference call where communication endpoints support both WebRTC and BFCP. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164930 | USAGE AUTHORIZATION CONTROL FOR GROUP COMMUNICATIONS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments described herein provide usage authorization control for group communications. In one embodiment, a network element identifies a group communication for an end user of User Equipment (UE), and identifies a group ID for the group communication. The network element retrieves a user profile of the end user from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), and determines from the user profile and the group ID whether the end user is a member of the group. The network element provides, on the condition that the end user is a member of the group, the group ID to the HSS and receives group usage rules for the group from the HSS. The network element allows the group communication on the condition that the group communication is permitted by one or more of the group usage rules. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164931 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - The invention discloses a method and system for displaying electronic information for an Online Dating Service. Information is received through a variety of means including electronic analysis of photographs and communications as well as direct questions posed to an individual. Once the information is received a profile describing the interest, personality traits and what traits the individual looks for in a companion is created. To prevent priming based on physical appearance the word cloud is displayed to other individuals prior to a photograph. The photograph can be revealed to the other individuals if they take affirmative action to view the photograph or after an arbitrary period of time such that the other individuals can be primed based on the information in the word cloud without losing the emotional investment in finding a companion. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164932 | Encrypted streams to receivers - A stream receiver device that receives information indicative of streams to be played from remote devices. The stream receiver has a network connection, receiving information indicative of streams to be played from remote devices, e.g., stream senders. A processor in the stream receiver operates to receive the information and operates to play a stream based on the information. The stream receiver has an access list, which can be a white list or a black list. The stream is played when allowed by the white list or not-blocked by the black list. The lists can also include times during which the entries are active, and file types to be allowed or blocked. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164933 | DISCOVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF SYNCHRONOUS AUDIO OR VIDEO STREAMING SERVICE TO MULTIPLE SINKS IN WIRELESS DISPLAY SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and devices are described for service discovery and session establishment framework to enable a synchronous audio/video streaming service from a source to multiple sink devices. In accordance with the present disclosure, a plurality of sink devices (e.g., Wi-Fi speakers) may be deployed in a flexible (e.g., plug-and-play) fashion and may be discoverable by the source device. In some examples, the devices from multiple vendors may interoperate and easily connect with the source device for flexible configuration based on the media content or number of available sink devices. Thus, the present disclosure provides a method for service specific discovery associated with synchronous audio/video streaming by utilizing Application Service Platform (ASP) service discovery prior to establishment of a display service session from a source device to multiple sink devices. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164934 | INTERACTIVE JUKEBOX SYSTEM AND DISPLAY - An interactive jukebox system. The system includes a local controller located at a venue and a central server located remotely to the venue. Patrons of the venue can use their private mobile devices to select content to be broadcast at the venue. The patrons' selections are communicated to the central server. The central server tallies the selections of a plurality of patrons at the venue and provides the local controller with a ranked ordering of content to be broadcast at the venue. The local controller broadcasts the content in the ranked order. A dashboard display is provided on a display device at the venue and presents information associated with current and upcoming broadcasts of content, messages posted by patrons, videos, and advertisements. A DJ mode is provided in which the ranked order of content is provided to a DJ at the venue to aid selection of content for broadcast. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164935 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATES IN MULTICAST COMMUNICATIONS - A resource such as a server derives multiple streams of data based on particular content. Each of the multiple streams of data is encoded to enable play back of the content according to a different level of quality. The server transmits the multiple streams of data of differing levels of quality on a multicast link downstream to one or more intermediate nodes that, in turn, distribute the streams of data to end users. For example, an intermediate node retrieves a respective stream of data from the multiple streams of data and forwards the selected stream of data over a second portion of the multicast link to a respective client device. The intermediate node can transmit a different stream of data to the respective client device depending on available bandwidth. The client device plays back the transmitted stream of data to produce a rendition of the particular content. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164936 | PERSONAL AUDIO DELIVERY SYSTEM - The personal audio delivery system executed in part on a personal communication device to facilitate an enhanced audio experience for a user to select one or more audio streams to be delivered based on personal preferences and which may include related streams. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164937 | ADVANCED COMFORT NOISE TECHNIQUES - Various of the disclosed embodiments enable managing and augmenting “comfort noise” during a network call, such as a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) connection. Particularly, traditional systems typically send machine-generated comfort noise, or a command to generate comfort noise at the recipient, on a channel separate from the conversation content. Some embodiments reduce this overhead by embedding the comfort noise in the media stream. In other embodiments, audio encoding is stopped at the source when the speaker falls silent and the recipient, after detecting the cessation, will generate white noise at its end. These approaches may be used in conjunction with a determination of the available bandwidth and channel parameters. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164938 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTED DOCUMENTS - Devices and methods for obtaining media stream with adaptive resolutions. The device includes a receiver in communication with a processor, and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of media signals. The processor is programmed to communicate with a terminal device in the home network, obtain a corresponding display resolution of the terminal device, and select a media signal according to the corresponding display resolution of the terminal device and a video resolution of the media signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit media stream corresponding to the selected media signal to the terminal device. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164939 | Systems and Methods for Automatically Generating Top Level Index Files - Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files for use in adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the method of the invention includes receiving a request from a playback device at a playback server, where the request identifies a piece of content, retrieving a list of assets associated with the identified piece of content using the playback server, filtering the list of assets using at least one predetermined criterion using the playback server, generating a top level index file describing each asset in the filtered list of assets using the playback server, and sending the top level index file to the playback device using the playback server. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164940 | PERFORMING AN ACTION ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON A CONTENT IDENTIFIER EMBEDDED IN PROVIDED CONTENT - A content source provides metadata associated with content, such as an audio signal or video data, to a social networking system. The metadata identifies characteristics of the content or specifies an action for the social networking system to perform. A content identifier associated with the metadata is generated by the social networking system, and an association between the content identifier and the metadata is stored. The content identifier is provided to the content source, which encodes the content identifier into the content (e.g., as a watermark). When a client device receives the content encoded with the content identifier, the content identifier is extracted and communicated to the social networking system in connection with a user account associated with the client device. Based on the content identifier, the social networking system retrieves the corresponding metadata and performs an action in connection with the user account based on the metadata. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164941 | METHOD FOR TRANSCODING MUTIMEDIA, AND CLOUD MULIMEDIA TRANSCODING SYSTEM OPERATING THE SAME - Provided is a multimedia transcoding method and a cloud multimedia transcoding system (CMTS) for performing the method, wherein the method includes receiving video data, generating video blocks by dividing the video data, and transcoding the video blocks, and the receiving, the generating, and the transcoding are performed by a transcoding module. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164942 | DECOUPLED AUDIO AND VIDEO CODECS - Various of the disclosed embodiments present systems and methods for improving improve audio and video quality in a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) connection including that includes both audio and video. Particularly, different audio and video codecs may be used and parameters assigned based upon the context in which the communication occurs. For example, audio quality may take precedence to video quality when discussing a matter in a chatroom. Conversely, video quality may take precedence to audio quality when playing a collaborative video game. VP9 may be used to encode video while a combination of ISAC and SPEEX may be used to encode audio. Bandwidth determinations for each channel may also influence the respective codec selections. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164943 | TRANSPORT INTERFACE FOR MULTIMEDIA AND FILE TRANSPORT - A server device for transmitting media data includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit comprises one or more processing units configured to send descriptive information for media data to the second unit of the server device, wherein the descriptive information indicates a segment of the media data or a byte range of the segment and an earliest time that the segment or the byte range can be delivered or a latest time that the segment or the byte range of the segment can be delivered, and send the media data to the second unit. The second unit thereby delivers the segment or the byte range of the segment according to the descriptive information (e.g., after the earliest time and/or before the latest time). | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164944 | DEPLOYING A PORTION OF A STREAMING APPLICATION TO ONE OR MORE VIRTUAL MACHINES - A streams manager monitors performance of a streaming application, and when the performance needs to be improved, the streams manager determines from split rules how to split the flow graph for the streaming application. The streams manager requests virtual machines from a cloud manager. In response, the cloud manager provisions one or more virtual machines in a cloud. The streams manager then modifies the flow graph so a portion of the flow graph is deployed to the one or more virtual machines in the cloud. In this manner a streaming application can dynamically evolve to increase its performance as needed. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164945 | Method Of Service Capability Discovery Based On Subscriptions For Service Notifications - A method of capability discovery notification is provided. The method includes receiving, from a representational state transfer (REST) client, a subscription for service notifications. The service capability of the REST client, which is based on the subscription for service notifications received, is stored in memory. A request for the service capability of the REST client is received from a network and the service capability of the REST client is retrieved from the memory based on the request received. A response to the request for the service capability of the REST client is sent to the network. The response includes the service capability of the REST client retrieved from the memory. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AUTOMATIC FRESH BROWSER INSTANCE FOR ACCESSING INTERNET CONTENT - A system and method for securing access to sensitive content on the web is disclosed. The approach automates compartmentalization practices for accessing different kinds of content with different browser instances. The automation is transparent to the user and does not require any modification of how non-sensitive content is accessed. For sensitive content, a Fresh Browser Instance (FBI) is automatically created to access the content. In addition, the automatic FBI system may provide support for novice users with predefined sensitive content sites as well as for more experienced users who can define conflict of interest (COI) classes which allows content from sites in the same user-defined class to coexist in a browser instance. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164947 | TECHNIQUES FOR METADATA-DRIVEN DYNAMIC CONTENT SERVING - Techniques for metadata-driven dynamic content serving. Metadata content is stored as a source instance. The metadata content is utilized to provide dynamically-constructed pages. The metadata content is published to runtime pods communicatively coupled to receive the metadata content. The source instance includes a metadata definition repository and is a primary source of dynamic data for serving pages in the runtime pods. The runtime pods are groups of multiple servers that act as a single entity to dynamically generate metadata-driven content in response to requests received from client devices. A request for content is received with a selected one of the runtime pods for a specific site. The specific site is mapped to a user identified by a user identifier. The user identifier is utilized to retrieve site metadata from a site metadata server. Content is provided in response to the request with the selected runtime pod utilizing the metadata content. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164948 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND READER/WRITER PROVIDING SYSTEM - A communication device includes an IC (integrated circuit) chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip. Also, the communication device downloads an agent from an information processing device connected to the network. Here, the agent is provided as application software operating the IC chip as a reader/writer. Furthermore, the communication device downloads a role from the information device connected to the network using the agent downloaded therefrom, where the role is provided as script data in which part of the contents of processing of the reader/writer performed by the agent. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164949 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA FROM A RESOURCE WEAK DEVICE TO A COMPUTER CLIENT - A method and a system for providing data from a resource weak device to a computer client connected to the resource weak device, allowing the computer client to receive and send information from and to the resource weak device, and a data stream between the resource weak device and the computer client is mapped from a low level data format to a high level data format by a mapping function in the computer client, the mapping function comprises static data relating to the resource weak device and the high level data format link to the static data, the second high level data format is used for displaying the data from the resource weak device at the computer client. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164950 | SENDING FILES FROM ONE DEVICE TO ANOTHER DEVICE OVER A NETWORK - Techniques are provided for causing a file to be sent from a source device over a network to one or more destination devices. An intermediary receives a notification of a file and determines which destination device(s) are to retrieve the file. The intermediary may determine the destination device(s) based on one or more attributes of the file. The intermediary may cause the file to be stored in persistent storage that is maintained by a separate storage service. The intermediary may cause the file to be deleted after a particular period of time. The source device may send multiple versions of a file to the intermediary, which determines which destination device is to receive which version. The file may be a digital image and a destination device may be a device that displays a slideshow of digital images while the destination device receives the digital image over a network. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164951 | APPLICATION ACCELERATION - A method of transmitting content from a server to a client executing an application is disclosed. A request from a client for a file that includes content related to executing an application is received. The request is responded to by transmitting a modified file that includes initial portions of the file that are sufficient to permit initial functioning of the application, wherein the modified file is formatted with at least one placeholder for remaining portions of the file. The application can begin to access the initial portions of the file by accessing the modified file. The application can access the remaining portions of the file using the at least one placeholder. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164952 | Systems and Methods For Information Centric Networking - A networking approach that maintains the benefits of ICN, but that can also be used to implement N-way commit protocols. In one aspect, a method performed by a routing apparatus is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes the routing apparatus receiving a request message transmitted by a requesting apparatus, the request message comprising a first content name. The routing apparatus forwards the first request message towards a publishing apparatus. After forwarding the first request message, the routing apparatus receives, via a network interface, a first response message transmitted by the publishing apparatus, the first response message comprising the first content name and a second content name. The routing apparatus forwards the first response message towards a requesting apparatus and links the second content name with a network interface identifier for identifying the interface via which the routing apparatus received the first response message. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164953 | RUNTIME GENERATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL SERVICES - An application specific interface (API) for a service that is accessible by remote procedure calls is generated at run-time from an interface language definitions file. In operation, a client application requests a connection to a server and then a runtime API generator connects to the server and downloads an interface definition language (IDL) file that defines services provided by the server. The runtime API generator parses the IDL file and generates the corresponding service API. Subsequently, upon receiving a client application request, the API generator generates a set of instructions that, when executed, emit one or more remote procedure calls that cause the server to implement the client application request. Because the API is generated at run-time, the runtime API generator enables client applications that are implemented in dynamically typed languages to access the service by providing access to the data type metadata that cannot be expressed in such languages. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164954 | DELIVERY OF INSTRUCTIONS IN HOST APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more processes remotely delivering customized code to a host application and/or computing device. The host application may be configured as an Application Programming Interface with a customized code processing library that may configure the host application to receive further instructions remotely. The host application may be further configured to execute host code and/or third-party code. The host application may be configured to receive remote application logic, after the host application has been installed on a computing device, and to execute the received application logic to alter the behavior of the host application, such as selectively tracking end user interactions. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164955 | SCALABLE NETWORK APPARATUS FOR CONTENT BASED SWITCHING OR VALIDATION ACCELERATION - A network apparatus is provided that may include one or more security accelerators. The network apparatus also includes a plurality of network units cascaded together. According to one embodiment, the plurality of network units comprise a plurality of content based message directors, each to route or direct received messages to one of a plurality of application servers based upon the application data in the message. According to another embodiment, the plurality of network units comprise a plurality of validation accelerators, each validation accelerator to validate at least a portion of a message before outputting the message. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164956 | ROUTING OF COMMUNICATIONS TO ONE OR MORE PROCESSORS PERFORMING ONE OR MORE SERVICES ACCORDING TO A LOAD BALANCING FUNCTION - Systems and methods for routing communications to a platform service are provided. A message including payload data is received. The information in the payload data of the message is examined in order to determine the type of message. The message is then relayed to an appropriate platform service based on the type of message. Some embodiments assign numbers to the packets that make up the message. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164957 | Host Optimization For Network Accessible Software - A system for determining optimal hosting providers and optimal providers for network accessible software applications including a system computer that communicates with a host server running the software application to determine actual usage or computing loads associated with the software application. The usage and/or computing loads are compared to billing models and performance data associated with different servers and/or different hosting providers to determine if options are available that could save money on the cost associated with the software application or provide different performance levels. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164958 | DELIVERING PERSONALIZED CONTENT TO AUTHENTICATED USER DEVICES - Techniques for generated scannable coded images or user actionable-link with corresponding personalized content are described. In an example embodiment, the personalized content may only be accessed via the scannable coded image by authenticated user devices, wherein the permissions associated with the authentication are determined at the time the personalized content is generated. Responsive to a user device attempting to access the contents of a scannable coded image, the user device is first identified and authenticated. Only after the device is authenticated can the content corresponding to the scannable coded image be accessed by the user device or delivered to the user device. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164959 | CODE-BASED DEVICE ACCESS METHOD AND USER DEVICE FOR CODE-BASED DEVICE ACCESS - Disclosed are a code-based device access method and a user device for a code-based device access. A PN code is generated by combining a general subscription phone number and/or a particular number based on a conventional phone number system with a special number existing in a dial pad. An exemplary system for the code-based device access method and the user device for the code-based device access may include a PN code server including a communication server, a registration server or a notification server, a network, a mobile device, and a site server. The mobile device may include an application which provides a PN code service, and the application may include a module which can communicate with the PN code server, another mobile device and/or the site server through the network. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164960 | RUNNING SOFTWARE APPLICATION WITH DYNAMIC ACTION DELEGATION - A solution for running a software application on a computing machine is provided, which includes registering a capability of a delegation component to execute at least one action on the computing machine, each one defined by at least one characteristic thereof, receiving a request for executing the at least one action from the software application by the delegation component, the request being bound to the delegation component at run-time according to the capability registration thereof, and delegating, by the delegation component, the execution of the at least one action to at least one local component of the computing machine being capable of executing at least part of the at least one action and/or to at least one remote component of at least one remote computing machine being capable of executing at least part of the at least one action according to an availability of the at least one local component. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CONTENT USING CLOUD - A method of providing content is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a target device, first content from a source device; establishing, by the target device, a connection with a cloud computing device; transmitting, by the target device, the first content and content control information to be used to convert the first content, to the cloud computing device; and receiving, by the target device, second content obtained by converting the first content based on the content control information, from the cloud computing device. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164962 | Reducing the Impact of Noisy Neighbors via Pro-Active Log Offloading in Shared Storage Environment - Methods and systems may provide for reducing workloads of neighboring virtual machine tenants in a cloud environment with shared storage using pro-active log offloading. Additionally, logging activity may be redirected to reduce input/output resource consumption. Trends in future input/output activities may be determined and preemptive action may be implemented to reduce performance impact of the neighboring tenants. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164963 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING SERVER HARDWARE RESOURCES IN A CLOUD SCHEDULING ENVIRONMENT - A method, system, and device for managing hardware resources in a cloud scheduling environment includes a zone controller. The zone controller can manage groups of node servers in a cloud datacenter using a checkin service. The checkin service allows server groups to be created automatically based on one or more hardware characteristics of the node servers, server health information, workload scheduling or facilities management parameters, and/or other criteria. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164964 | Optimized Consistent Request Distribution for Balanced Load Distribution in a Content Delivery Network - Some embodiments provide a proprietary 64-bit consistent distribution scheme that preserves the efficiencies of CARP while providing a significantly more balanced distribution of requests that is on par with schemes reliant on computationally expensive cryptographic hashes. The scheme performs hashing of requested URLs and identifiers of available servers over a 64-bit space while optimizing the hashing to remove computationally expensive operations. Some embodiments provide a variant of the scheme to provide a differentiated distribution on the basis of one or more differentiating factors. A first variant utilizes load factor values to adjust the resulting hashes and to produce a first distribution of differentiated content that varies from a second distribution of undifferentiated content. A second variant identifies requests for differentiated content from requests for undifferentiated content and utilizes a first scheme to distribute the differentiated content and a second altered scheme to distribute the undifferentiated content. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164965 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGREGATING LAYER SEVEN CONTROL AND DATA TRAFFIC - A load balancer forwards a content request from a client system to a proxy server, receives from the proxy server a modified content request based on the content request and including information identifying a content origin server, opens a connection with the content origin server in response to receiving the first modified content request, and sends a second modified content request based upon the first modified content request to the content origin server. The load balancer also receives content associated with the content request from the content origin server, and forwards the content to the client system. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164966 | Peer-to-Peer Communication of Non-Common Data - A first peer device receives distinct first and second metadata. The first metadata includes a common identifier having a one-to-one relationship with a common data piece of a data entity. The common data piece is common to the first peer device, a second peer device, and a third peer device. The second metadata includes one or more non-common identifiers. Each of the one or more non-common identifiers has a one-to-one relationship with a non-common data piece of the data entity that is common to a group of peer devices including the first peer device and excluding the third peer device. The first peer device also receives a third identifier from the second peer device. The first peer device determines whether the second peer device is in the group of peer devices based on whether the third identifier is included in the one or more non-common identifiers. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164967 | AD HOC DECENTRALIZED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - Technologies for establishing and utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure using a plurality of mobile computing devices include broadcasting for the formation of the decentralized cloud computing and storage infrastructure and establishing wireless communications between the plurality of mobile computing devices. The plurality of mobile computing devices self-organize and cooperate with one another to establish a structured decentralized cloud infrastructure to expose and sharing resources, services, and/or applications for ad hoc or socially-driven decentralized, cloud computing purposes. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164968 | ADAPTIVE CONNECTIVITY IN NETWORK-BASED COLLABORATION BACKGROUND INFORMATION - Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, software, and data structures for peer-to-peer exchange of at least a portion of networked collaboration session data. Client and server solutions allow for switching between peer-to-peer and server-centric modes of collaboration data sharing. Some embodiments also allow for sharing of data of a first type via a collaboration server and data of a second type via peer-to-peer connections. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164969 | Personal Computer Network, Mobile Connection and Searching Systems - The computer users connected to the PCN logically communicate with the network through the interface. PCN centralizes all the services, functions and features, and provides the public applications, secret applications and private applications, including customized applications to the computer users. The user's computer is configured to receive all the services, functions and features from the network. Six layers of Transmission Control Protocol are defined. All TCP control the incoming data and outgoing data separately in PCN. The manuals and standard display page are designed and configured for the users to choose and switch the services. In PCN, the data structure from/to Local Server is different from the data structure flowing in the network as a feature of the network. TCP Availability Server which contains the information of status of all the protocols in the country is defined for the application servers to determine the fixed routing. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164970 | Application Synchronization Method, Application Server and Terminal - An application synchronization method, an application server and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: an application server receiving a request for acquiring associated contents associated with first terminal primary content sent by a first terminal or a second terminal; the application server accessing content viewing information of the first terminal primary content; and the application server acquiring the associated contents according to the content viewing information and returning the associated contents to the first terminal and/or the second terminal. With the application synchronization method, the application server and the terminal in the embodiments of the present invention, a simple and effective scheme of synchronizing the associated contents with the primary content is provided. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164971 | REGISTRY SYNCHRONIZER AND INTEGRITY MONITOR - According to one general aspect, a method may include determining the validity of a registry entry, wherein the registry entry is included in a deleted items registry, the deleted items registry including registry entries previously determined to be invalid. Upon determining the registry entry is valid, moving the registry entry to a valid items registry, and upon determining the registry entry is invalid, determine if the registry entry has been invalid more than a threshold number of times, upon determining the registry entry has not been invalid more than the threshold number of times, increase a period of time before a next determination as to whether the registry entry in the deleted items registry is valid, and upon determining the registry entry has been invalid more than the threshold number of times, remove the second registry entry from the deleted items registry. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164972 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE DATA STREAMS - Configuring device data streams (DDSs) of a mobile device is described herein. DDSs can include sensor data (captured from one or more sensors of the mobile device) and user-specific data (including application data from applications executed via the mobile device, as well as non-application data). DDS configuration parameters define modifications for the user-specific data and/or the sensor data of the DDS; these modifications can include removing or altering the user-specific data and/or the sensor data. DDSs can be sent to an external storage device via a network, and DDS modifications can be made at the mobile device or at the external storage device. Modified DDSs can be provided to requestors, and thus, the DDS configuration parameters allow a user to control what data is, or is not, included in a DDS for reasons related to privacy, data usage, etc. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164973 | MASTER DEVICE FOR USING CONNECTION ATTRIBUTE OF ELECTRONIC ACCESSORIES CONNECTIONS TO FACILITATE LOCATING AN ACCESSORY - A connection-indicative signal can be received at a master electronic device from an electronic accessory. The connection-indicative signal can include a connection attribute indicative of a presence or characteristic of a connection between the electronic accessory and at least one other electronic accessory of the master electronic device. A location of the master electronic device can be determined at the master electronic device. The location can be stored at the master electronic device in association with the connection attribute. The master electronic device can detect a locate-accessory input that corresponds to a request to locate the at least one other electronic accessory; or that a locate-accessory condition is satisfied based on another connection attribute included in another connection-indicative signal received from the electronic accessory. The stored location can be retrieved in response to the detecting. A presentation that includes location information that corresponds to the stored location can be presented. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164974 | Service Content Tailored To Out Of Routine Events - In implementations, a divergence from a pattern of detected instances of an event is identified, where the event is of a routine of a user. The identified divergence corresponds to an out of routine event. Contextual information is generated corresponding to the identified out of routine event. Furthermore, one or more recommended actions for presenting content to the user are selected based on the contextual information. An indication of the identified out of routine event, the contextual information, and the one or more recommended actions are provided to a service, which may be an application on a user device. The service can present content to the user based on the identified out of routine event, the generated contextual information corresponding to the identified out of routine event, and the selected one or more recommended actions. The service may follow or disregard any of the selected one or more recommended actions. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164975 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASHING UP HETEROGENEOUS SENSORS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - Disclosed is a method for mashing up heterogeneous sensors, which includes collecting an activity log from at least one sensor, converting the collected activity log into a common markup format, extracting an activity of a user from the activity log, based on an activity model which defines relations among activities, and outputting the extracted activity of the user in a semantic unit. Thus, it is possible to integrally utilize information of heterogeneous sensors, provide meaningful and intuitive information to a user, and share information of various applications and devices. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PRESENCE - Remote presence systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a pilot workstation comprising a pilot computing station having a display, a microphone, a camera oriented to capture images of the pilot, a network connectivity subsystem, and a master input device such as a keyboard, mouse, or joystick. The pilot network connectivity subsystem may be operatively coupled to an electromechanically mobile workstation comprising a mobile base interconnected to a head component. The mobile workstation may comprise a display, a microphone, a camera oriented to capture images of nearby people and structures, and a workstation network connectivity subsystem that preferably is operatively coupled to the pilot network connectivity subsystem. Preferably by virtue of the system components, the pilot is able to remotely project a virtual presence of himself in the form of images, sound, and motion of the mobile workstation at the location of the mobile workstation. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDIATING AND PROVISIONING SERVICES - Equipments and methods for a mediator server controlling communication between clients and service provider(s). Clients are associated with a client identifier address. The mediator uses multiple addresses for receiving communications from the clients regarding the provider(s). The mediator sends to the clients a set of inquiry messages pertaining to the service provider, in a first communication format and associated with a particular reply address. The mediator receives reply message(s) from the clients at the particular reply address, the reply message including the client identifier address and a reply generated at the client terminal device. The mediator sends the client terminal device(s) service continuation information by which the client(s) can continue service provisioning in a second communication format which is different from the first communication format. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE MONITORING - A communication system includes a switch device communicatively connected to terminal devices and a computer device. The computer device is configured to initiate a connection to the switch device and, after establishment of the communication connection, initiate a bulk start-up of device monitoring for devices to which the switch device is connected. In some embodiments, the bulk start-up of monitoring can be initiated by obtaining an identification of all relevant devices in a reply to a single request sent by the computer device to the switch device. In some embodiments, the computer device can also be configured to send a monitor stop request to the switch device to stop the monitoring of devices. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164979 | TRANSCRIPTION OF COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A system, methods, nodes, and computer programs for transcribing of a communication session in a communication network are described. The communication network includes a control server for controlling the communication session, wherein the communication session is established between a user equipment and a remote end. The method includes that the control server receives a service indication indicating that a transcript of the communication session is requested and sends a transcription request for the communication session to a policy controller of the communication network. The policy controller determines at least one policy rule corresponding to the received transcription request and sends the determined at least one policy rule to a packet gateway node of the communication network. The packet gateway node provides, based on the at least one policy rule, a transcription or transcript chunk of at least one speech stream related to the communication session. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164980 | PREDICTIVE CONNECTION REQUEST SHEDDING - According to one or more embodiments, a method may include obtaining a connection request to communicate with a database. The method may further include determining a predicted wait time for the connection request. The predicted wait time may include a predicted amount of time until a connection with the database will be available to communicate with the database. The method may further include determining whether to shed the connection request before a connection request timeout time. The determination as to whether to shed the connection request may be based on whether the predicted wait time exceeds the connection request timeout time. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164981 | GENERATING BUSINESS INSIGHTS USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from beacons of a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), session information for users of an online social network. A mobile device of each user may have been in at least one wireless communication session with at least one beacon, and during the session the mobile device was proximate to the at least one beacon. The session information may include an identifier for each of the users, which may be used to access social-networking information for each user. A report of business insights may be generated based on aggregated social-networking information (e.g., demographics) and aggregated session information (e.g., average duration of sessions) of the users. For example, the report may include statistics regarding the business' clientele. User-specified permissions may delimit which information may be included in the report. The report may be sent to a third-party system for display. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164982 | CUSTOMIZING THIRD-PARTY CONTENT USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes sending, via a beacon of a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), a request to associate with a user's mobile device. The request may be sent when the mobile device is proximate to the beacon, which may be located within a place of business. The request may include an attribute of the business (e.g., the type of business). A wireless communication session may be established between the beacon and the mobile device, and, in response, social-networking information of the user may be received, via the beacon. The particular information sent may be tailored to the business based on the received attribute, and a set of user-specified permissions may delimit what information is sent and to whom the information is sent. Third-party content may be customized based on the received social-networking information and sent to the mobile device for display. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164983 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a communication system including: a first apparatus and a second apparatus being communication terminals at least one of which resides on a mobile object; and a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a determination block configured to determine whether the first and the second apparatuses are in close proximity to each other based on position data of the first apparatus and on position data of the second apparatus; and a communication block configured such that if the determination block determines that the first and the second apparatuses are in close proximity to each other, the communication block transmits preinstalled content data to at least one of the first and the second apparatuses. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164984 | Determining Browsing Activities - Determining browsing activities is described. In one or more implementations, browsing history data, indicating navigation to websites using a web platform, is analyzed to determine a browsing activity, such as shopping, planning a trip, and so forth. The websites navigated to using the web platform as part of the browsing activity are then stored with the browsing activity to enable subsequent access to the websites. In one or more implementations, for each browsing activity, one or more suggested websites which are related to the browsing activity are determined and stored with the browsing activity to enable access to the suggested websites. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164985 | SELECTING COMMENTS FOR PRESENTATION TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER ALONG WITH A CONTENT ITEM - A social networking system maintains various content items with one or more content items associated with comments provided by social networking system users. When a user requests a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user performing a type of interaction with the one or more comments based on characteristics of the comments. For example, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user requesting to view one or more of the comments. Based on the determined likelihoods, the social networking system generates an instruction describing presentation of comments. The instruction may identify a set of comments for presentation along with the content item that are selected based on the determined likelihoods. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164986 | MULTI-PURPOSE APPLICATION LAUNCHING INTERFACE - A computer and a computer-implemented method with a user interface for displaying and queueing notifications in a multi-purpose application environment are provided. The method includes displaying an application launching interface comprising a plurality of applications in response to a user gesture, wherein the application launching interface is hidden from display prior to the user gesture; displaying a notification associated with one of the plurality of applications to the user; and queueing an action when the user provides a queueing gesture for the notification, wherein the queued action is displayed for later performance when selected by the user. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions which, when performed by a processor in a computer cause the computer to perform a method as above is also provided. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING AND SEARCHING SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA - A system for continuously monitoring and searching social networking media allowing at least one client to access the system through a respective connection link and for connecting to at least one social networking media through a connection link. The system further comprises a connecting module comprising at least one connecting unit to connect to the at least one social network media for receiving continuously for a time selected by the activity data shared in real time and/or posted by users of the social network media; and a processing module comprising a processing unit, configured to process continuously for the time selected by the client the received activity data based on at least one pre-determined monitoring criterion selected by the client from a number of predetermined criteria, and a notification unit configured to send a notification to the client when the received activity data meet the selected monitoring criteria. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164988 | ENABLING PHOTOSET RECOMMENDATIONS - In a social networking system, photographs and photographic sets are recommended to a user based upon information gathered from the user's social networking profile, as well as information gathered from the social networking profile of the user's friends, and the general pattern of usage by the user of various elements of the social network. In one embodiment, information entered into the social networking profile of the user is used to recommend additional photos and sets of photos. In one embodiment, user preferences indicated by the user via elements of the social network are considered in recommending photos or photo sets. In one embodiment, the general usage pattern of the social network is considered when recommending additional photos and sets of photos to the user. In one embodiment, profile information, usage information, or the indicated preferences of the user's friends are used to recommend additional photos and photo sets. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164989 | MEDIA EXPOSURE AND VERIFICATION UTILIZING INDUCTIVE COUPLING - Examples disclosed herein collect a cookie at a first device based on media accessed via a web page at the first device, obtain user information from a second device via communicative coupling between the first device and the second device, and in response to an instruction embedded in the media, send a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request to a server, the HTTP request including the cookie, the user information, and information identifying exposure to the media. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164990 | Method for Sending Heartbeat Message and Mobile Terminal - A method for sending a heartbeat message and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes determining, according to a heartbeat message sending period, a first time point at which a heartbeat message needs to be sent; before the first time point arrives, determining whether a push message has been received to obtain a first determining result; and when the first determining result is no and the first time point arrives, waking up the modem to send a heartbeat message to a service push server. Using the method or the mobile terminal of the present disclosure, power consumption for sending a heartbeat message by a terminal may be reduced, and further average standby power consumption of the terminal may be reduced, thereby prolonging a standby time of the terminal. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164991 | INFORMATION PUSH METHOD, SERVER, USER TERMINAL AND SYSTEM - An information push method includes: an information push server determining recommendation information that currently needs to be pushed to a target user; the information push server obtaining setup information of the target user, where the setup information includes personalized graphic information preset by the target user; the information push server generating, according to the setup information of the target user, a personalized two-dimensional code that bears the recommendation information, where an image of the personalized two-dimensional code carries the personalized graphic information preset by the target user; and the information push server pushing the personalized two-dimensional code to the target user. By using the present disclosure, a click-through rate and conversion rate that a two-dimensional code pushed on the Internet has from a user can be improved. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164992 | Multi Delivery Method Policy Controlled Client Proxy - A system for providing a multi-delivery-method policy-controlled client proxy is disclosed. The system may receive a request for a network service from a client. Based on the request for the network service, the system may detect the presence of a client proxy associated with the client. If client proxy is detected, the system may provide a data object that includes information that indicates that the client proxy is a primary source for content that may be requested by the client. The system may redirect, based on the data object, a request for the content received from the client to the client proxy. The system may then obtain, via the client proxy, the content by utilizing a delivery method that is selected based on a policy. Finally, the system may provide, via the client proxy, the content to the client. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164993 | PROCESSING HYBRID DATA USING A SINGLE WEB CLIENT - According to an aspect, techniques for processing hybrid data include receiving a web request and translating the web request into a translated native request. The translated native request and a native request are sent to a server via a single web client. A response is received from the server via the single web client. It is determined whether the response corresponds to the translated native request or to the native request. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164994 | PROCESSING HYBRID DATA USING A SINGLE WEB CLIENT - According to an aspect, techniques for processing hybrid data include receiving a web request and translating the web request into a translated native request. The translated native request and a native request are sent to a server via a single web client. A response is received from the server via the single web client. It is determined whether the response corresponds to the translated native request or to the native request. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164995 | Content Engine for Mobile Communications Systems - An exemplary content engine includes a content gateway configured to analyze and route content requests to a content server. The content server can be a cache server or a mobile content server. The cache server can be configured to receive and store cacheable web content from a controller that is configured to receive the cacheable web content from at least one cacheable web content provider, such as a web server, and route the content to the cache server. The mobile content server can be configured to receive, from the controller, and store the digital media content. The controller can be further configured to receive the digital media content from at least one external content server and route the content to the mobile content server. The content gateway can be further configured to receive non-cacheable web content from at least one non-cacheable web content provider. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164996 | METHOD FOR ADAPTING THE BEHAVIOR OF A CACHE AND CORRESPONDING CACHE - The invention concerns a method for adapting the behavior of a cache located along the transmission path between a client terminal and a server, such a client terminal being able to receive from the server content parts of a multimedia content, | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164997 | System And Method For Routing Content Based On Real-Time Feedback - A method includes receiving at a cache server a content request from a client system, determining that the cache server is overloaded in response to receiving the content request, and in response to determining that the cache server is overloaded, returning to the client system a domain redirection response including a load status of the cache server. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164998 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE PREFETCHING - A cache server prefetches one or more web pages from an origin server prior to those web pages being requested by a user. The cache server determines which web pages to prefetch based on a graph associated with a prefetch module associated with the cache server. The graph represents all or a portion of the web pages at the origin server using one or more nodes and one or more links connecting the nodes. Each link has an associated transaction weight and user weight. The transaction weight represents the importance of the link and associated web page to the origin server and may be used to control the prefetching of web pages by the cache server. The user weight may be used to change a priority associated with a request for a web page. The user weight and transaction weight may change based on criteria associated with the origin server. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160164999 | HYBRID WEB STORAGE MODEL - Embodiments of the invention provide for hybrid Web Storage performing mixed utilization of a localStorage object and remote storage. A method for hybrid Web Storage performing mixed utilization of a hypertext markup language (HTML) version 5 localStorage object and remote storage includes receiving a cache request in a key usage engine of a mobile device by an application executing in the mobile device. The method further includes determining in the key usage engine based upon at least detected network connectivity whether to process the cache request in a localStorage object of the mobile device, or to process the cache request in remote storage external from the mobile device over a computer communications network. Finally, the method includes processing the cache request in the localStorage object of the mobile device responsive to a determination by the key usage engine to process the cache request locally, but otherwise processing the cache request in the remote storage. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUBLIC COMPUTING - Provided are systems and methods for configuring a portable computer for transient use by a plurality of guests at a selected location. According to some embodiments, the system and methods include displaying a first selection of content on a display screen of the portable computer, initiating a first session responsive to a first guest accessing the portable computer via a user interface of the portable computer, creating a first guest profile responsive to the first session being initiated, displaying a second selection of content on the display screen during the first session, the second selection of content comprising more available content than the first selection of content, terminating the first session responsive to one of a termination action taken by the first guest and expiration of a time-out period, and erasing history of the first session on the portable computer responsive to termination of the first session. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSERTING OWNED MEDIA CONTENT INTO MOBILE APPLICATIONS - A method includes transmitting a request to a server from a mobile device. The request may be initiated by an application executing on the mobile device. The method includes receiving a message at the mobile device from the server. The message may include first validation information and information indicating a location where the mobile device can retrieve content. The method includes retrieving the content from the location indicated in the message, and generating second validation information based on the retrieved content. The method includes validating the content based on a comparison of the first validation information and the second validation information. The method includes selectively storing the content based on whether the validation of the content indicates the content is valid. The content may be stored for subsequent publication at the mobile device via the application. The content may be published while the mobile device is offline. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165002 | GENERATING USER NOTIFICATIONS USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), session information of the first user of an online social network. The first user's mobile device may be proximate to and in a wireless communication session with the beacon, which may be located at the third-party content provider. One or more second users, who are each connected to the first user in a social graph, may be selected. A communication session is not active between the beacon and the mobile devices of the second users. The selection may be based on selected second users being located within a predefined distance of the beacon (e.g., in the same neighborhood). A notification referencing selected second users (e.g., a prompt to invite the selected second users to the beacon location) may be sent to the first user's mobile device. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165003 | MODIFYING AVATAR BEHAVIOR BASED ON USER ACTION OR MOOD - Techniques are described for enabling the selection of wallpaper to modify the mood projected by an avatar. The mood projected by an avatar may be modified, for example, by modifying behaviors and/or appearance of the avatar to characterize a mood to be projected. The mood projected by an avatar also may be modified based on user action, such as user input of a mood to be projected by the avatar. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165004 | AUTOMATIC SERVICE EXTENSIBILITY - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems, including a method for automatically extending a service associated with data access. A request is received from a client, the request being for data associated with a first service. The first service is identified by a service identifier included in the request and defining a first behavior associated with the first service and use of the requested data. Using the service identifier, an extension service is identified that is associated with the first service. The identifying occurs automatically based on additional registry entries for the extension service, without modifying original registry entries for the first service, and without modifying a first service implementation associated with the first service. Data responsive to the received request is provided to the client. The data is provided according to a second behavior associated with the extension service. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165005 | Combining disparate applications into a single workload group - Different protocol applications (e.g., TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications) are monitored and combined into a same workload, and load balancing decisions are made that affect both types of applications. In the approach, monitoring agents verify the health and availability of both the TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications, and such information is then used by a workload manager to create a distribution policy for the workload. The workload manager provides the distribution policy to a load balancing mechanism, which is operable to distribute workload connections to any of these applications. The TCP/IP connections and SNA sessions for a workload group are then routed to one site, or to an alternate site. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165006 | Combining disparate applications into a single workload group - Different protocol applications (e.g., TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications) are monitored and combined into a same workload, and load balancing decisions are made that affect both types of applications. In the approach, monitoring agents verify the health and availability of both the TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications, and such information is then used by a workload manager to create a distribution policy for the workload. The workload manager provides the distribution policy to a load balancing mechanism, which is operable to distribute workload connections to any of these applications. The TCP/IP connections and SNA sessions for a workload group are then routed to one site, or to an alternate site. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165007 | QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE FOR COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing quality of experience for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a participant focus metric for each of a plurality of participants of a communication session. The method may also include identifying one of the plurality of participants of the communication session as having sufficient capacity to support the communication session based upon, at least in part, the participant focus metric for each of the plurality of participants of the communication session. The method may also include selecting the one of the plurality of participants having a sufficient capacity to support the communication session as a selected focus for the communication session. The method may further include adaptively implementing a centralized communication session architecture utilizing the selected focus. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE - A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second devices communicating with each other through the network. A front-end device is provided within the network that communicates data traffic with the first device. A back-end device is also implemented within the network and communicates data traffic with the second device. A communication channel couples the front-end device and the back-end device. Data traffic may be encoded into a different type or protocol for transport through the communication channel by the front-end device and back-end device. The front-end device and back-end device exchange quality of service information and may alter characteristics of the data traffic through the communication channel according to the quality of service information. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165009 | QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE FOR COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing quality of experience for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a participant focus metric for each of a plurality of participants of a communication session. The method may also include identifying one of the plurality of participants of the communication session as having sufficient capacity to support the communication session based upon, at least in part, the participant focus metric for each of the plurality of participants of the communication session. The method may also include selecting the one of the plurality of participants having a sufficient capacity to support the communication session as a selected focus for the communication session. The method may further include adaptively implementing a centralized communication session architecture utilizing the selected focus. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165010 | CREATION OF A BINDING BASED ON A DESCRIPTION ASSOCIATED WITH A SERVER - A description of an application programming interface (API) of a server system may be received at a client system. One or more methods associated with the API of the server system may be identified from the received description. The one or more methods may be associated with accessing functionality of the server system. Furthermore, a binding may be created at the client system in view of the identified one or more methods that are associated with the received description of the API server system. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165011 | REQUEST AND RESPONSE DECOUPLING VIA PLUGGABLE TRANSPORTS IN A SERVICE ORIENTED PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE FOR A REQUEST RESPONSE MESSAGE EXCHANGE PATTERN - A computer-implemented system and method for decoupling processing of request and response messages supporting different pluggable respective transports in a service-oriented pipeline architecture for a request-response Message Exchange Pattern (MEP) is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes receiving a message having coded therein information identifying a desired pluggable transport mechanism respectively for a request and a response; processing the message through a message processing pipeline; dispatching the processed message to a dispatcher; determining if the desired pluggable transport mechanism is available; activating the desired pluggable transport mechanism, if the desired pluggable transport mechanism is available; and transporting the processed message via the desired pluggable transport mechanism. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - A method and a system for transmitting data are provided. In a source apparatus, original data is divided into a plurality of source segments, a similarity calculation is performed for each of the source segments to obtain a similarity set, and the similarity set is transmitted to a target apparatus. In the target apparatus, whether a target segment corresponding to the source segment exists in the target apparatus is determined according to the similarity set to obtain a comparison result, and the comparison result is transmitted to the source apparatus. In the source apparatus, after the original data is dehydrated according to the comparison result to obtain dehydration data, the dehydration data is transmitted to the target apparatus. In the target apparatus, the dehydration data is rehydrated to the original data. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165013 | SCHEME FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting information in a transmission time interval by a device in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes fragmenting the information into two or more information fragments, if a size of the information is greater than a transportable size of unit transmission resource used for transmission of the information; generating a protocol data unit (PDU) including fragmentation information and one of unfragmented information and a fragmented information fragment; and transmitting the PDU through the unit transmission resource. The fragmentation information includes an identity of a specific unit transmission resource within the at least one transmission time interval and fragmentation control (FC) information indicating at least one of whether the information is fragmented or not and a position of the fragmented information fragment within the two or more information fragments. The identity of the specific unit transmission resource is uniquely assigned within the transmission time interval. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165014 | INTER-DOMAIN SERVICE FUNCTION CHAINING - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet in a service function chain at a network device located at a border of a first administrative domain, the packet comprising a service function path identifier and a service index, processing the packet at the network device, wherein processing comprises modifying the packet based on the service function path identifier and the service index to direct the packet to a second administrative domain, and forwarding the packet from the network device to the second administrative domain for processing in the service function chain. The service function chain extends over the first and second administrative domains. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165015 | EMBEDDED RTCP PACKETS - Various of the disclosed embodiments reduce the impact of RTCP overhead by including RTCP information in the media packets themselves. The values in the RTCP headers may be selected based on the context and organized in a unique format for transport in the media packets. For example, RTT, packet loss, and bandwidth estimates may dictate when and how RTCP data is moved into the media packet. An interface may be provided for extracting the data so that clients may easily integrate the embodiments with existing RTCP-based systems. Inclusion of the RTCP information in the media packet may increase the media packet size, which may be anticipated in bandwidth assessments and accommodations. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165016 | ENCODING PARAMETERS FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, information bits to be included in the PHY data unit are received. A number of padding bits are added to the information bits. The number of padding bits is determined based on respective virtual values of each of one or more encoding parameters. The information bits are parsed to a number of encoders and are encoded, using the number of encoders, to generate coded bits. The coded bits are padded such that padded coded bits correspond to respective true values of each of the one or more encoding parameters. The PHY data unit is generated to include the padded coded bits. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165017 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNAL, METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNAL, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNAL, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNAL - The present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating a plurality of items of signaling information for signaling broadcast data; generating a link layer packet using the plurality of items of signaling information; generating a broadcast signal using the link layer packet; and transmitting the broadcast signal. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165018 | HOUSING WALL - A housing wall for a data communications device includes a metallic and electrically conductive main body. A slotted area having a number of slots is provided in a region of the housing wall, in such a way that in a region of the slotted area the housing wall is permeable to magnetic fields for inductively coupling-in signals for wireless communication. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165019 | Terminal Equipped with a Removable Intelligent Multifunction Device - Disclosed is an intelligent terminal equipped with removable function component, including the main screen device, the withdrawing apparatus inside the main screen device and removable function component in the withdrawing apparatus. The withdrawing apparatus is installed with power supply interface and data exchange interface; the main screen device includes the touchable screen, audio devices and memory; when the removable function component separates from the withdrawing apparatus, data exchange between the main screen device and removable function component is achieved via the data exchange interface. Through embodiments of the intelligent terminal, additional configuration of charger and data cable is unnecessary for the wearable device, and also provides an optimal placement method for wearable devices, in order to meet the fundamental needs of high efficiency, energy conservation and convenience. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165020 | PAIR OF INTEGRATED WIRELESS EARPHONE FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A pair of integrated wireless earphone for a mobile communication device. Particularly, the application provides a pair of integrated wireless earphone for a mobile communication device, comprising a pair of collapsible silicon ear channel stopper/holder; a System On Chip (SOC); a speaker driver; a mic; and a charging contact. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165021 | DUAL ANTENNA COMMUNICATIONS HEADSET - A communications headset having an antenna on each earpiece and having an RF switch for determining which antenna is receiving the superior signal and selecting that signal for amplification and distribution to headset speakers. A cable, supported and secured to a headband of the headset, connects the two earpieces for signal and power transfer. An illustrated embodiment has a transceiver and a speaker in an earpiece, with the RF switch, switching logic, and audio processor in one earpiece. Other configurations are within the scope of the invention. The RF switch selects the superior signal responsive to signal strength, signal to noise ratio, and/or similar figures of merit. Monitoring for signal superiority is at a high bandwidth to prevent granularity in the switching becoming noticeable to the user. The antenna corresponding to the superior signal is also used for transmitting from the headset. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165022 | Cellular Phone Charging Case Assembly - A cellular phone charging case assembly includes a housing with a back wall and a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall extends away from the back wall and has a distal edge with respect to the back wall. A lip is attached to and is coextensive with the distal edge. The lip extends inwardly and is positioned over the back wall. The lip releasably retains a cellular phone within the housing between the lip and the back wall. A male plug is mounted within the housing and engages the cellular phone when the cellular phone is positioned within the housing. A plurality of photovoltaic cells is mounted on an outer surface of the back wall. The plurality of photovoltaic cells is in electrical communication with the male plug to supply electricity to the male plug when the plurality of photovoltaic cells generate electricity. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165023 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ROTATING INPUT UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device includes a first body having a first display on a first surface of the first body and a second body having a second display on a first surface of the second body and an input unit on a second surface of the second body. The first body and the second body are rotatably coupled with each other. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165024 | Apparatuses and Methods for a Flexible Display on a Mobile Device - Embodiments are provided for mobile phones, and similar sized electronics devices, with flexible displays, which allow suitable viewing sizes for different applications. The embodiment devices combine, into one compact package, the benefits of a small carry size with those of a large display. An embodiment mobile phone with a flexible display includes a first part having a first surface and a first edge, and a second part having a second surface and a second edge. A rotatable hinge couples the first edge of the first part is coupled to the second edge of the second part. The flexible display of the mobile phone is a continuous flexible display which has a back surface disposed on the first surface of the first part and on the second surface of the second part. The viewing surface of the flexible display is opposite to the back surface. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165025 | HOLDER FOR CLAMPING AND WIRELESSLY TRIGGERING MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a holder for clamping and wirelessly triggering a mobile terminal device, which includes a fixed portion, a slidable portion having one end movably inserted in the fixed portion such that a clamping space is formed therebetween and serves to receive the mobile terminal device clamped therein, an elastic portion mounted in the fixed portion and corresponding to the slidable portion so as to apply a force to the slidable portion for adjusting the clamping space, and a controller having one side movably mounted to the fixed portion and a button provided on the top side thereof. When wireless connection is established between the controller and the mobile terminal device, a press on the button causes the controller to generate a control signal, send the control signal to the mobile terminal device, and thereby trigger the mobile terminal device to perform a corresponding procedure. | 2016-06-09 |
| 20160165026 | Remote Controller Utilized with Charging Dock for Controlling Mobile Device - Provided is a console unit for controlling a mobile device. The console unit includes a remote control unit and a tower section. The tower section includes a receptacle adapted for receiving the remote control unit at least partially therein. The tower section further includes a housing and an interface configured for coupling to the mobile device. The interface is configured for selectively receiving high definition media data and USB protocol data from the mobile device and for charging the mobile device. The tower section includes at least one media port for providing the high definition media data to a media player device and a power port for receiving power. The remote control unit includes a communications transceiver configured to communicate with the mobile device. The remote control unit includes a touchpad for receiving input from a user, including gestures, while the mobile device is coupled to the tower section. | 2016-06-09 |
