26th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130166590 | CONTENT SEARCH RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON SEMANTIC NETWORK - A content search recommendation apparatus and method based on a semantic network are provided. The content search recommendation apparatus may include a watch history storage to store a watch history of a user, a mobile device to receive input of a user command and transmit the user command, a smart agent server to extract a content name from the watch history in response to the user command and to output knowledge information corresponding to the content name, and a search recommendation server to search for the knowledge information related to the content name from a content knowledge information storage that stores and manages content knowledge information in the form of a semantic network, and to transmit a search result to the smart agent server. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166591 | Systems and Methods for Searching for Items of Fashion and other Items of Creation - Systems and methods according to the invention make feature-based and visual search possible. They allow users to provide us a visual representation that we can apply against available items of creation and return items that are like the visual representation in terms of features and other parameters that user can specify. More generally, the invention relates to searching items using visual representations. In particular it provides visual features of an item of creation and methods for recognizing images in terms of those features, and converting the deduced knowledge in a form that is searchable against a database of items of creation. Thus, for example, one aspect of this invention provides for creation of the framework in which an item of creation can be represented visually. This framework can be of many types: a canvas or a touch-sensitive computer screen and so on. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166592 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CONTACTS VIA NETWORK AFTER INPUTTING CONTACT INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method for obtaining information provided by contacts via network after inputting contact information. The method includes the following steps: step A, user A obtains user B's contact information; step B, user A inputs user B's contact information to address book; step C, user A sends inquiry request to a contact information server according to user B's contact information; step D, according to the contact information submitted by user A, the contact information server searches the information stored in the server to find out whether there is some information from user B related to the contact information. If yes, it returns the related information to user A, else, it informs user A that there is no related information. This invention breaks out the limit that the name card can only transfer information with limited number of words and limited size of images, and it expands the amount of information carried by the name card and the expression forms of information. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166593 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR LABORATORY TESTING SERVICES - Systems, methods, and media for laboratory testing services are disclosed. Medical information can be received from an electronic device. One or more laboratory tests can be recommended based at least in part on the received medical information. For example, if one or more symptoms are received, then one or more laboratory tests may be suggested based at least in part on the received symptoms. As another example, if an order for one or more laboratory tests are received, then one or more additional and/or alternative laboratory tests may be suggested. Suggested laboratory tests can be based on medical symptoms, medical conditions, medical codes, medical history, medications, laboratories, healthcare providers, insurance companies, financial factors, locations, turnaround time, other factors, or a combination thereof. One or more of the suggested laboratory tests can be ordered. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166594 | Advertisement, Feature and Data Provisioning Based on Dialed Numbers and Other Addresses - Telecommunication devices described herein are configured to display media, such as advertisements or coupons or options to perform actions, responsive to associations between the media and addresses, such as phone numbers, inputted on the devices. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166595 | System and method for controlling access to files - A system and method provides a service, such as complete access to a file or a socket request, in response to a file describing permissions for individual or multiple domains. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166596 | USER INTERFACE MODEL DRIVEN DATA ACCESS CONTROL - According to one general aspect, a method of retrieving data entities from a backend data device may include maintaining a data model of data entities employed by a user interface. The data model may include a hierarchical relationship between a leading data entity and at least one child data entity. The method may also include authorizing, with an authorization device, when retrieving the leading data entity. The method may include instructing the authorization device that data retrievals of subsequent data entities are to be authorized based upon the authorization of the leading data entity. The method may also include retrieving at least one child data entity of the leading data entity without providing additional authorization credentials. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166597 | Context Object Linking Structured and Unstructured Data - A context object provides an interface between structured data present in a database, and relevant unstructured data that is available outside of the database. The context object includes an objective, and access to unstructured data is determined based upon the objective. According to certain embodiments a context object may be configured to store meta information related to the structured data, for example references in the form of active links to pertinent entries in an email system, a social network, a wild, and/or blog. Maintenance of the context object may be achieved through automated crawling techniques and/or manual intervention by the user. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166598 | Managing Business Objects Data Sources - Methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems for managing business objects data sources. Multiple business objects data sources, each storing multiple data items, are accessed. For each data source, multiple computer-searchable index documents and multiple metadata tables, including master tables and mapping tables, are generated. The multiple computer-searchable index documents and the multiple metadata tables are provided to perform a search for data items in the multiple business objects data sources. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166600 | Segment Matching Search System and Method - A planning and search system are described wherein a graph search and segment matching are used to handle very large searches at a higher speed. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166601 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RELIABLE ASSESSMENTS WITH CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION - Systems and methods for social graph data analytics to determine the connectivity between nodes within a community are provided. A user may assign user connectivity values to other members of the community, or connectivity values may be automatically harvested, calculated, or assigned from third parties or based on the frequency of interactions between members of the community. Connectivity values may represent such factors as alignment, reputation, status, and/or influence within a social graph within the network community, or the degree of trust. Social graph data analytics may be used to determine a network connectivity value from all or a subset of all of the retrieved paths and/or one or more connectivity statistics value associated with the first node and/or the second node. A parallel computational framework may operate in connection with a key-value store to perform some or all of the computations related to the connectivity determinations. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166602 | CLOUD-ENABLED BUSINESS OBJECT MODELING - A method to model and implement a business object in a consolidated user interface is disclosed. The user interface is presented to a client to form and implement a business object at a server. A structure of the business object is modeled in a metadata repository at the server based on the user interface at the client. An implementation of the structure of the business object is generated at the server and stored at the database. An enhanced controller object (ECO) calls a corresponding metadata repository application programming interface (API) and the program generation application programming interface (API) | 2013-06-27 |
20130166603 | CONSUMER-RELATED SPECIALIZATION OF METADATA MODELS BASED ON A TEMPLATE-PROJECTION APPROACH - The present description refers to a computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving a metadata model template that generically defines structure and behavior for a plurality of metadata models, the metadata model template including a union of the attributes and services needed by runtime engines associated with any of the metadata models, receiving a first runtime engine-specific projection definition that identifies a first subset of the attributes that have been selected and the services that have been enabled for a first runtime engine, and generating a first metadata model projection based on the metadata model template and the first runtime engine-specific projection definition, the first metadata model projection associated with the first runtime engine. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166604 | Identifying and Reacting to Changes in an Extensible Automatic Runtime Object Management System - A method includes receiving input indicating a listener object and an interface for an object class corresponding to a persisted object of an object model retained by a database, where the interface has multiple different implementations within the object model; recording information indicating that the listener object has an interest in persistent data associated with the interface for the object class corresponding to the persisted object; in connection with a transaction with the database and when each of multiple calls is received for the database, checking whether the interface for the object class corresponding to the persisted object is associated with the call, wherein each of the calls alerts the database to changes for data managed by the database; and communicating with the listener object when the interface for the object class corresponding to the persisted object was associated with at least one of the calls during the transaction. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166605 | HIERARCHICAL BEHAVIORAL PROFILE - In a hierarchical profile, each node represents at least one feature of behavioral data collected about an entity profiled, with the topmost node selected as the “statistically most informative” feature of the data. A profile can cover numerous domains and be predictively very powerful in each domain. A number of observations can be “aggregated” together into a single datapoint. In use, the structure of the profile is compared against current information associated with the entity to produce a recommendation or prediction. If the profile represents at least some data aggregation, then new observations are folded into the profile based on statistical weights of the aggregations. Because of the way the profile is created and updated, its hierarchical structure maps the collected observations. Therefore, as new observations are incorporated, if the new observations change the profile's structure significantly, then it can be hypothesized that something “interesting” has happened to the entity. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166606 | TABLE CREATION FOR PARTITIONED TABLES - A table creation request pertaining to a table in a database maintained on a multi-node data partitioning landscape that comprises a plurality of processing nodes can specify a number of partitions to be generated. At run time, a currently available number of processing nodes in the multi-node data partitioning landscape can be queried, and this currently available number of processing nodes can be compared with the specified number of partitions to be generated for the created table. The table can be generated with the specified number of partitions such that the generated partitions are located across the plurality of partitions according to a load balancing approach if the number of processing nodes equals the number of partitions to be generated or according to other information in the table request if the number of processing nodes does not equal the specified number of partitions. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166607 | System for Managing Risk in Employee Travel - A system for managing risk in employee travel may track a location of users of the travel risk management system during travel. Travel itinerary information for a user may be input into the travel risk management system, including user identification information, travel date information and geographic location information for travel destinations. During the travel period, the system may communicate with a portable computing device to determine the user's actual location, and update the stored travel itinerary information if the user's actual location is different than the user's expected location. The system may transmit a location request message to the user's portable computing device, or a mobile application may cause the portable computing device to transmit the user's location without prompting. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHEMICAL DATA REPOSITORY - Methods for chemical management, observing the effectiveness of an industrial facility, or of organizing the assets of a business organization. The method is computerized and may involve receiving specification data for pieces of equipment and organizing the equipment into data structures of templates. The templates may be organized in a hierarchical structure where the lowest levels correspond to templates for a single piece of equipment and higher levels correspond to categories of pieces of equipment. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166609 | HIERARCHICAL BEHAVIORAL PROFILE - In a hierarchical profile, each node represents at least one feature of behavioral data collected about an entity profiled, with the topmost node selected as the “statistically most informative” feature of the data. A profile can cover numerous domains and be predictively very powerful in each domain. A number of observations can be “aggregated” together into a single datapoint. In use, the structure of the profile is compared against current information associated with the entity to produce a recommendation or prediction. If the profile represents at least some data aggregation, then new observations are folded into the profile based on statistical weights of the aggregations. Because of the way the profile is created and updated, its hierarchical structure maps the collected observations. Therefore, as new observations are incorporated, if the new observations change the profile's structure significantly, then it can be hypothesized that something “interesting” has happened to the entity. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166610 | Computer System and Computerized Method for Storing Business Objects and Business Mapping Data - A computerized method for accessing a business object for a user defined process includes receiving at a computer system a request for generation of a user process for access to a business object, and generating via the computer system an SADL (Service Adaptation Definition Language) from a data mapping of business object data of the business object, wherein the data mapping includes a mapping of the data mapping. The computer method further includes generating via the computer system a plurality of artifacts to support the user process, wherein the SADL file is an artifact for designing the user process at a design time and for run time execution of the user process. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166611 | FILE SYSTEM AND FILE STORING METHOD - Provided is a storage device configured to store a file system including (1) a personality oriented file information (PFI) directory entry including a first directory entry having a file allocation table (FAT) structure, and a second directory entry having a structure different from that of the first directory entry, the second directory entry including additional information instructing an access device on at least one parameter associated with creation and storing of a storage file, and (2) an entry table including location information of the PFI directory entry. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING DATABASE INSERT CALLS IN A MES SYSTEM - A method and a system execute database insert calls in a MES system. The data to be stored into the database are represented in XML tree formats according to the S95 hierarchy model. The method includes: a) receiving as input a given XML tree corresponding to a given S95 hierarchy data to stored into the database; b) processing the given XML tree in order to generate a corresponding parallel structure; c) getting a given S95 entity type and its given set of node references from the given parallel structure; d) if the given set of node references is not empty, composing a database insert call passing the information of the given set of node references; e) if the given set of node references is not empty, executing the composed database insert call; and executing items c) to e) for all the S95 entity types of the given parallel structure. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166613 | INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT - It is an objective to diminish time required to read or write divided data. An information processing equipment that can be connected to a storage includes a division processing section for dividing original data into a plurality of sets of divided data and a storage location selection section that selects either the storage or a storage section of the information processing equipment as a divided data storage location and that stores the divided data into the selected storage location, wherein the division processing section determines a division ratio of divided data according to a data reading rate and/or a data writing rate of the storage location selected by the storage location selection section. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166614 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A computer system of an embodiment includes a processor and a storage device for managing real file systems and a virtual file system virtualizing the real file systems to control relocation of a file in the virtual file system. Volumes different in access performance provided by a storage system are assigned to the real file systems belonging to tiers different in access performance. The storage device stores file usage state information representing usage states of files in the virtual file system and storage usage state information representing a usage state of the storage system. The processor generates control information associating characteristics of files with evaluation values of the tiers using the two pieces of information and determines an evaluation value for each of one or more relocation destination tier candidates of a first file in the virtual file system based a characteristic of the first file and the control information. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166615 | CONTINUUM MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND CONTINUUM MOTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a communication-path control program causing a computer to execute a process which includes receiving input of data including information of an influence range representing each of continuum particles when the continuum is represented as a particle, and data representing each micro-surface component, which includes information of a normal direction when a fixed boundary is represented as a set of minute regions; calculating a repulsive force of a normal direction of the micro-surface component, which acts on the continuum particle from each of the micro-surface components intersected with the influence range of the continuum particle; calculating a force from the fixed boundary acting on each of the continuum particles by adding the repulsive forces acting on each of the continuum particles from each of the micro-surface components; and analyzing the motion of the continuum, based on the force from the fixed boundary. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166616 | System and Method for Implementing a Multiplication - The present system and method relate to a system for performing a multiplication. The system is arranged for receiving a first data value, and comprises means for calculating at run time a set of instructions for performing a multiplication using the first data value, storage means for storing the set of instructions calculated at run time, multiplication means arranged for receiving a second data value and at least one instruction from the stored set of instructions and arranged for performing multiplication of the first and the second data values using the at least one instruction. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166617 | ENHANCED BARRIER OPERATOR WITHIN A STREAMING ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are described for processing data. Embodiments receive streaming data to be processed by a plurality of processing elements. An operator graph of the plurality of processing elements that defines at least one execution path is established. Additionally, a first processing element in the operator graph includes a barrier operator that joins the output of one or more upstream operators included in one or more of the plurality of processing elements. Embodiments initiate one or more timeout conditions at the barrier operator. Embodiments also determine, at the first processing element, that one or more timeout conditions have been satisfied before data has been received from each of the one or more upstream operators. Upon determining that the one or more timeout conditions have been satisfied, Embodiments generate output data at the barrier operator without the data from at least one of the one or more upstream operators. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166618 | PREDICTIVE OPERATOR GRAPH ELEMENT PROCESSING - Techniques are described for predictively starting a processing element. Embodiments receive streaming data to be processed by a plurality of processing elements. An operator graph of the plurality of processing elements that defines at least one execution path is established. Embodiments determine a historical startup time for a first processing element in the operator graph, where, once started, the first processing element begins normal operations once the first processing element has received a requisite amount of data from one or more upstream processing elements. Additionally, embodiments determine an amount of time the first processing element takes to receive the requisite amount of data from the one or more upstream processing elements. The first processing element is then predictively started at a first startup time based on the determined historical startup time and the determined amount of time historically taken to receive the requisite amount of data. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166619 | ACCESSING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WORKFLOWS - A request to access an action of a workflow from a number of business intelligence (BI) workflows in a computer system is received, where the action of the workflow is encoded. A generator encodes the action in generic syntax to identify and locate the action. The generator encodes the action of the workflow based on context parameters associated with the action. An interpreter interprets the encoded action of the workflow and processes the context parameters associated with the action. In response to the access request, the action of the workflow is launched. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166620 | ENHANCED BARRIER OPERATOR WITHIN A STREAMING ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are described for processing data. Embodiments receive streaming data to be processed by a plurality of processing elements. An operator graph of the plurality of processing elements that defines at least one execution path is established. Additionally, a first processing element in the operator graph includes a barrier operator that joins the output of one or more upstream operators included in one or more of the plurality of processing elements. Embodiments initiate one or more timeout conditions at the barrier operator. Embodiments also determine, at the first processing element, that one or more timeout conditions have been satisfied before data has been received from each of the one or more upstream operators. Upon determining that the one or more timeout conditions have been satisfied, Embodiments generate output data at the barrier operator without the data from at least one of the one or more upstream operators. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166621 | CLOUD ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING THE SAME - The present disclosure discloses a cloud robot system, including: a cloud. computing platform and at least one robot; wherein the cloud computing platform is used for receiving perform information sent by the at least one robot in the system; the perform information includes data, status and requests of the at least one robot; the cloud computing platform is used for processing the data and status, sending process results back to the at least one robot, and sending control instructions to corresponding robot according to the requests; the at least one robot is used for sending the perform information to the cloud computing platform, receiving process results from the cloud computing platform, and performing according to the control instructions sent from the cloud computing platform. By using the present disclosure, computing ability and storage capacity of the robots can be expanded unlimited, while the thinking ability and memory of the robots are improved. Besides, the ability of the brains of the robots can be allocated according to demand, thus lowering the cost of the robots. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166622 | Using Mobile Device Location Data with Remote Resources - A mobile computing device may use location data to select one or more servers with which to connect. The location data may be communicated to the one or more servers and used by the one or more servers to tailor virtual applications to the location of the mobile computing device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166623 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COOPERATIVE APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods provide communications between applications in terminal nodes and applications agents in access nodes. The APP-agent cooperative communications can be used to improve quality of experience for users or the terminal nodes. An access node may, for example, have parameterized scheduling system that incorporates information from the APP-agent cooperative communications in determining scheduling parameters. An application at a terminal node may, for example, modify requests for communication based on information about communication capabilities received from an access node. For APP-agent cooperative communications for multiple applications, an access node may include a master application agent to facilitate and coordinate communications to specific application agents that address APP-agent cooperative communications for specific applications. Similarly, a terminal node may use a master application and specifications for APP-agent cooperative communications. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166624 | DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AGENT STATUS IN A COMMUNICATION CENTER - An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources, and at least one second portion for integrating the data and rendering the agent states to the to subscribing applications. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166625 | Optimizing Caches For Media Streaming - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for establishing a grouping rule and a mapping protocol at a cache server system for caching fragments of a media stream that includes a timed-sequence of video frames. The fragments can be generated and identified at media source systems in accordance with a fragmenting format and an indexing protocol, respectively, which are common across the media source systems. Further, the established mapping protocol can be different from the indexing protocol. The methods include retrieving at least a portion of the fragments of the media stream by the cache server system from the media source systems. The methods also include allocating the retrieved fragments to local fragment groups at the cache server system based on the established grouping rule. The methods further include mapping the allocated fragments to the local fragment groups based on the established mapping protocol. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166626 | Capturing Frames From an External Source - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for designating a memory region for receiving image frames from an image frame server, the image frames are from a first sequence of image frames. Each image frame in the first sequence of image frames is associated with a time position on a first timeline. A needed image frame is selected, the needed image frame associated with a second time position on a second timeline. The second time position is mapped on the second timeline to a first time position on the first timeline. The image frame server is requested to provide an image frame from the first sequence of image frames at the first time position on the first timeline. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166627 | Clearing Locally Stored Objects Of A Browser Plugin - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage device, are described for browser plug-in functionality for clearing locally stored objects (LSOs). A described method includes providing a clear data interface of a plug-in program to a browser, the browser configured to call the clear data interface in response to a clear data event, obtaining, via the clear data interface, an indication of the clear data event; and deleting, based on the indication, one or more data objects (e.g., LSOs) stored by the plug-in program from a computer storage device. The clear data interface is able to be invoked regardless of whether an instance of the plug-in program is running. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166628 | TRANSACTION SERVICES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - One or more network devices send to a user device a user interface with options for configuring a network to provide transaction services between transaction devices and host processing devices. The user interface is accessible to the user device via a private network connection. The one or more network devices receive from the user device configuration settings for a particular host processing device. The one or more network devices store the configuration settings in a database of transaction services data for multiple host processing devices, to be accessed by another device within the network for configuring the network for the particular host processing device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166629 | Method For Remote Desktop Control By Remote Host Input Devices - A system for establishing a remote desktop connection between a client projector and a host computer, the client projector and the host computer being connected by a network. A private remote desktop service virtual channel is established between the host computer and the client projector. In the client projector, a processor initiates a remote desktop connection process, and completes a remote desktop connection to the host computer. The client projector receives keyboard and mouse events from the host computer across the private remote desktop service virtual channel. The keyboard or mouse events received by the client projector are injected into an operating system of the client projector. They are interpreted by a client application remote desktop connection as a valid input device event, and forwarded to the host computer to actuate a graphical user interface of a remote desktop session. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166630 | Method and System for Data Exchange and Exception Handling in a Data Processing Environment - System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for data exchange and exception handling in a data processing environment are described. Aspects include providing a generic data structure to store a value object and a collection of value Objects based upon built-in programming capabilities of a client system and a server system that achieve a rich Internet application experience within a data processing network, and utilizing the generic data structure to exchange data between the client system and the server system of the data processing network. A specialized result form of the generic data structure is also provided and utilized to manage generated exceptions of the data exchanges. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166631 | DEVICES AND METHOD FOR REMOTE USER INTERFACING - The present invention is related to a server device ( | 2013-06-27 |
20130166632 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOTTING PROCESSING - The disclosed invention describes an information processing apparatus, including a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor execute a procedure, including: while the second processor executes an image processing, obtaining utilization ratios of the second processor at two or more timings; first determining, by using the obtained utilization ratios, whether or not a predetermined change occurred in the utilization ratios of the second processor; upon determining that the predetermined change occurred, second determining, based on obtained utilization ratios, which processes of a plurality of processes to be executed to display screen data on a client terminal should be allocated to the second processor; and performing a setting to execute the plurality of processes according to a determination result. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166633 | CONFIGURABLE OFFLINE DATA STORE - A method and apparatus for a configurable offline data store are described. For example, a method includes receiving a request for a first set of one or more records from a client application, wherein the first set is stored in a client data store and the client application also has access to a server data store unit of a server. The method further includes determining whether a first set of records in the client data store unit is valid; and upon determining the first set is valid, deleting those records of the first set in the client data store unit that are outdated. The method further includes upon determining the first set is not valid, deleting the first set; determining whether the record is in the client data store unit; and upon determining the record is in the client data store, transmitting a version of the record to the client application. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166634 | ASSESSMENT OF CONTENT DELIVERY SERVICES USING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS FROM WITHIN AN END USER CLIENT APPLICATION - A system for measuring and monitoring performance of online content is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes an intermediary device, such as a web proxy, that receives client requests for content, such as requests for web pages. The device obtains the requested content, modifies it by applying one or more performance optimizations, and serves it to the client. The device also inserts code into the content for execution by the client to gather and report data reflecting, e.g., how quickly the client is able to get and process the content. The code includes information identifying the modifications the device made, and this is reported with the timing data, so that the effect on performance can be analyzed. In other embodiments, the device selects one of multiple versions of content, and the inserted code contains information identifying the selected version. The foregoing are merely examples; other embodiments are described herein. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166635 | CLIENT DEVICE CONNECTABLE TO SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A client device connectable to a server and a control method thereof are provided. The client device includes: a communication unit connectable to at least one of a plurality of servers providing contents; an output unit outputting the contents provided from the servers; an input reception unit receiving input from a user; and a controller displaying a list of the servers arranged in an order of priority, selecting any one of the servers according to the input by the user, and performing control to receive the contents from the selected server. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166636 | PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR A MOBILE NETWORK - This terminal includes: means for wireless communications with the network; and a MMI for inputting information from the user and making available information for the user; and a browser capable of accessing the Internet network and including means for requesting a Web page on the network, direct access means for accessing a server having an original page available and means for receiving and making available the original page. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166637 | Apparatus and Method for Domain Name Resolution - An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. Multiple edge servers and edge caches are provided at the edge of the network so as to cover and monitor all points of presence. The edge servers selectively intercept domain name translation requests generated by downstream clients, coupled to the monitored points of presence, to subscribing Web servers and provide translations which either enhance content delivery services or redirect the requesting client to the edge cache to make its content requests. Further, network traffic monitoring is provided in order to detect malicious or otherwise unauthorized data transmissions. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166638 | TRANSACTION SERVICES DATA SYSTEM - A device may include a transaction web server. The transaction server may be configured to receive a hypertext markup language HTTP message that includes information sent from a transaction device, determine whether the message is a request to authorize a transaction or a request to settle a transaction, route a first portion of the HTTP message to a customer device to obtain an authorization from the customer device when the HTTP message is a request to authorize the transaction, and route a second portion of the HTTP message to the customer device to settle the transaction when the HTTP message is a request to settle a transaction. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166639 | Tagging Posted Content in a Social Networking System with Media Information - A social networking system allows a user to insert media information into content posted by the user, where the media information identifies a media item that the user is consuming while composing the posted content. When a user of a social networking system composes content via a composer interface, the user may select an option on the composer interface to record audio using a microphone on the user's device. A media item is identified from the recorded audio and information about the identified media item is added to the user's posted content. The system may also update information about the identified media item and the composing user. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166640 | REAL-TIME MARKUP OF MAPS WITH USER-GENERATED CONTENT - User-generated content that is associated with a geographic location is uploaded to existing networked services or directly to a digital map updating service. Distinct digital map updating services can be assigned to defined geographic areas, such that they are only notified of, or poll for, new user-generated content within their defined geographic areas. Utilizing the geographic location associated with such user-generated content, the digital map updating service identifies one or more digital map “tiles”, which are updated to include new user-generated content and capable applications on client devices can be notified directly of such new user-generated content if they are accessing the relevant tiles. Additionally, data mining can be performed and deductions of events from data mining can be indicated in the digital map in the same manner. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166641 | POWER OUTAGE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SMART GRID USING FINITE STATE MACHINES - A power outage detection system. The system includes a device configured to increment a reboot counter when the device is powered up, and to transmit a first message when the device loses power and a second message when the device is powered up, and a back office system. The first message includes the value of the reboot counter and a timestamp, and the second message includes the value of the reboot counter. The back office system includes a finite state machine configured to receive the first and second messages. The finite state machine determines if the received first message is valid using the value of the reboot counter and the timestamp, and determines if the received second message is valid using the value of the reboot counter. The finite state machine then outputs an accurate indication of the state of the device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166642 | COMMUNICATION FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES - Systems and methods for communication between an implantable medical device and an external device. Data blocks are generated and transmitted between the implantable device and the external device. The data blocks include a first flag indicating whether the data block is a first data block in a message and when the data block is a subsequent data block in a multiple data block message. When the first flag indicates that the data block is a first data block in a message, the data block also contains a device ID, a command token, and message content. When the first flag indicates that the data block is a subsequent data block in a multiple data block message, the data block contains additional message content that is appended to message content from a previously received data block. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166643 | Systems and Methods for Online Ad Hoc Matching - The invention is generally directed to systems and methods for operation of a match service, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable online ad hoc matching between two or more subscribers. If a first subscriber to a match service identifies a second subscriber, in a preferred embodiment, the first subscriber can obtain the second subscriber's electronic match profile data and initiate an ad hoc compatibility analysis to assess compatibility. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166644 | System and Method for Resource Management in Multiple Communications Point Operation - A method for operating a communications point includes receiving a first message from a candidate communications point in a communications points set associated with a user equipment (UE), where the first message includes a resource report advising of an available portion of an upper layer communications resource that can be committed by the candidate communications point in a collaboration with a first communications point to communicate with the UE. The method also includes sending a second message to the candidate communications point, the second message including a resource reservation request to reserve a subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource. The method further includes receiving a third message from the candidate communications point, the third message including a resource reservation response indicating whether the subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource has been reserved as requested. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166645 | Flexible Content-Consumer and Content-Producer Rendezvous - A scheduling and multimedia delivery system for announcing, subscribing to and delivering live audio, video, audio/video, text or combination reports helps reporters and performers build an audience of viewers interested in participating in an interactive presentation. Viewers can also find archived copies of previous reports. Systems offering the data processing facilities to support such services are also described and claimed. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES BASED ON CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION - An approach is provided for providing social network services based on connectivity information. A social network management platform provides processing and/or facilitating a processing of connectivity information associated with one or more devices to determine one or more social networks among the one or more devices. The social network management platform also determines to cause, to recommend, or a combination thereof a creation, a modification, an initiation, or a combination thereof of the one or more social networks | 2013-06-27 |
20130166647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB DATA SHARING - A system capable of sharing web data includes a number of clients communicable with each other. The clients communicate with network servers. The client includes a content accessing module, a storage module, a page loading module, and a browser module. The content accessing module accesses web pages on the network servers in response to a user's requests from the client and stores the accessed web pages in the storage module. The stored accessed web pages are accessible by the client and the remaining clients. The page loading module loads web pages from storage modules of the remaining clients. The browser module displays the web pages loaded by the page loading module. A related method is also provided. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - A system and method for measuring the efficiency of social media campaigns. The system collects searchable activity data of members of a social network and processes this data locally to extract interaction data happening on the profile page of the social media campaign on the social network. The interaction data is then weighed in accordance with its type. The system may also determine an effort score representing a monetary value of the profile page based on the volume of contribution by the owners of the social media campaign. The efficiency score may then be determined based on a relationship between the number of interactions, the weight associated with each interaction, and the effort score. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166649 | SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL-BASED FILTERING AND CONTRIBUTED PLAYLIST GENERATION - A non-transitory computer readable medium, a system and a method for generating a playlist, the method includes: receiving or detecting social network contextual information indicative of a sharing of a certain media entity between certain social network members; and updating, by a playlist generator, a playlist of media entities to be provided to an entertainment application user in response to the detecting of the social network contextual information. The entertainment application user is virtually linked to at least one of the certain social network members. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166650 | Efficient Frame Forwarding in Large Scale Real-Time Screen Content Sharing Meetings - Techniques are provided to improve user experience at endpoint devices that are participating in a multipoint screen content sharing session. A server in a multipoint communication system receives video frames from a sending endpoint device in the communication session that involves one or more other endpoint devices that are to receive video frames from the sending endpoint device. The video frames include key reference frames that use either intra-frame prediction or inter-frame prediction based only on other key reference frames. The server stores the key reference frames. When a new receiving endpoint device joins the communication session, the server sends all the stored key reference frames to the new receiving endpoint device. All video frames received from the sending endpoint device are forwarded to existing ordinary receiving endpoint devices. Key reference frames and some, but not all, non-key reference video frames are forwarded to existing low-capacity receiving endpoint devices. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166651 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA UPON REQUEST VIA SOCIAL NETWORKS - An approach is provided for determining requests for media and responding in substantially real-time utilizing a single user interface. The social network client determines one or more requests from one or more requesting users to capture media related to at least one social networking status of one or more sharing users. The social network client then causes, at least in part, an indication of the one or more requests to the one or more sharing users related to the at least one social networking status. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166652 | SENDING SNIPPETS OF MEDIA CONTENT TO A COMPUTING DEVICE - Techniques include: providing media content to a computing device; waiting a period of time; determining that the media content has not been used; sending a snippet to the computing device, where the snippet corresponds to a portion of the media content that is executable on the computing device; and repeating waiting, determining and sending until the media content has been used or a limiting factor has been met. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166653 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING THIRD PARTY CONTENT TO USERS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system of providing Internet content to a user utilizing social networks is disclosed. The method comprises providing Internet usage data for a plurality of users, determining which users belong to the same social network, and providing at least one of the users access to Internet usage data for those other users who are in the same social network. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166654 | Method and Arrangement in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A method and arrangment for enrolling a joining peer ( | 2013-06-27 |
20130166655 | CROSS-PLATFORM SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION - Methods, apparatus, and systems for cross-platform software distribution are described. An example method includes receiving, at a first distribution server of a first vendor, a first version of a software application for a first platform and information about the software application, wherein the information about the software application includes: an identification of a second version of the software application for a second platform and an identification of a second distribution server of a second vendor at which the second version of the software application is available; storing the information in a physical storage; and transmitting the information from the physical storage to a purchaser of the software application. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DIGITAL IMAGES - A method, implementable on a computing device, for downloading original images includes downloading an image via a communications network; calculating a unique picture ID (UPID) for the downloaded image, where the UPID is a mathematical construct with a generally unique, resolution independent, relationship with the downloaded image; sending a download request with at least the calculated UPID to an image brokerage server, where the brokerage server is configured to store at least the UPIDs associated with the original resolution images stored on other devices; and receiving the original resolution image of the downloaded image from one of the other devices, where the UPID associated with the original resolution image matches the calculated UPID. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166657 | E-mail Systems - Here, we are providing solutions to improve the performance of email systems in different aspects, e.g. in terms of reliability, efficiency, redundancies, safety, security, and convenience for the users. The system can be on a computer, PDA, tablet computer, phone, smart phone, electronic device, game device, e-book reader, game console, communication device, computing device, PC, server, terminal, kiosk, video game, entertainment device, multimedia device, movie player, or calendar device. Other than the email, these teachings also apply to SMS, MMS, XMS, and texting. Various applications and examples are given. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166658 | Processing Method and Processing System for Instant Messages in Network Conference - The embodiments of the present invention provide a processing method and processing system for instant messages in a network conference. The processing method for instant messages comprises: establishing connection between a conference application server and an instant message server, wherein the conference application server is further connected to a conference client, and the instant message server is further connected to an instant message client; and controlling message transfer between the conference application server and the conference client or between the instant message server and the instant message client according to the state of the conference client and the state of the instant message client. With the manners above, the processing method and processing system of the present invention enable a message client to which the conference client in the network conference corresponds to receive instant messages in a more humanized manner, thereby improving the experiences of the user. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166659 | METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENTS TO PEERS BY MEANS OF MULTICAST CONNECTIONS WITHIN A P2P INFRASTRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SERVER - A control server is intended for controlling content distribution to peers coupled to a communication network which comprises at least one content serving means (CNS, N | 2013-06-27 |
20130166660 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ATTACHED FILE OF MESSAGE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method list and manage information about an attached file of a multimedia message in a portable terminal. An apparatus for managing a message in a portable terminal includes a communication unit for transmitting/receiving a message including an attached file, a display unit for displaying a message transmission process and a content of an attached file included in a message, a message analyzing unit for acquiring an attached file from a message including an attached file, a file list generating unit for generating an attached file list about an acquired attached file, and a control unit for performing control to display an attached file list. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166661 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED NOTIFICATIONS - A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also include features for enabling users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. In addition, the system may automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166662 | Methods, Systems And Computer Program Products For Electronic Identification Card Creation And Transfer During Communications - A method for creating an electronic identification card during a communications session including: presenting a user with an option to enter personal information; receiving a command from the user to send the electronic identification card including the personal information during the communications session; recording the personal information for the electronic identification card with a data entry method; and sending the electronic identification card to a device involved in the communications session. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166663 | WORKFLOW AND IN-CONTEXT E-MAIL RECIPIENT HANDLING - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the workflow process for resolving data elements, such as email addresses. These technologies and techniques allow the user to perform such tasks in the same context as the activity or message. In addition, user can start and stop the resolution process at any point in the process of composing the activity or email. The activity cannot be finalized, such as an email message being sent, until all of the data elements are resolved. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166664 | SCHEDULABLE E-MAIL FILTERS - An e-mail filter may be associated with a schedule defining a recurrent active time period. As such, some e-mail filters may be active at specific times of day and on specific days of the week and inactive the rest of the time. Before applying any filters, the current time is determined and it is determined which filters are active. The determination of which filters are active is based on the current time being within the active time period. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF MESSAGING SETTINGS ON A MESSAGING CLIENT - A method and system of selecting messaging settings on a messaging client are provided. When an outgoing message to be sent from the messaging client is addressed to a message recipient, the messaging client accesses a data store to determine whether specific messaging settings have been stored for the message recipient. If specific messaging settings have been stored for the message recipient, the messaging client selects the specific messaging settings for the message recipient to control the message characteristics of the outgoing message. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166666 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING DEVICE, SEND TIME SETTING METHOD, SEND TIME SETTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic mail such as a remind mail is sent at a timing which encourages bidding on an auction to apply to purchase a product. An electronic mail sending device sends an electronic mail which notifies an application deadline in transaction for which the application deadline to purchase a product is set, and which includes link information to a webpage which lists information about the product to be traded, receives access information to the webpage indicated by the link information included in the electronic mail, from a terminal device, receives application information to purchase the product whose information is listed in the webpage, from the terminal device, decides whether or not the application information is received by the application deadline, compares the access time to the webpage and the first time, and, when it is decided that the application information is received by the application deadline and when the access time comes later than the first time, makes a relative send time of an electronic mail to be sent next come earlier than a relative send time of an electronic mail which has already been sent. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166667 | DYNAMIC NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention provides a system and method for filtering unsolicited network messaging in a network comprising at least one remote messaging device, at least one data routing device and at least one remote destination device. The invention provides a means for determining a probability of the network message being unsolicited; and means for translating a first network address into a second network address associated with unsolicited network messaging when the probability determining means indicates a high probability of unsolicited network messaging. In a further embodiment there is provided a means for translating the first network address into the at least one second network address associated with legitimate network messaging, when the probability determining means indicates a low probability of unsolicited network messaging. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166668 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROCESS INTEREST MESSAGES AND DATA MESSAGES BASED ON PRIORITIES IN CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORK (CCN) - A method and apparatus to process interest messages and data messages based on priorities in a Content-Centric Network (CCN) are provided. The method and apparatus to process interest messages and data messages based on priorities in a CCN provides different Quality of Service (QoS) based on type of contents by extracting a traffic type of each of the contents. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE DEVICE TO USE PHYSICAL STORAGE OF ANOTHER DEVICE FOR CACHING - Systems and methods for a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device is able to receive over a cellular or IP network a response or content to be cached and wirelessly access the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166670 | NETWORKED STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING PRIVATE DATA NETWORK - A networked storage system includes a source mass storage device coupled to a client via a storage area network (SAN). A target mass storage device is coupled to the source mass storage device via a private data network. The source mass storage device stores source data which is provided to the client via the SAN in response to a request by the client to read the data. If the request is to copy or move the source data, however, the source mass storage device determines an identifier for the target mass storage device and directly provides, based on the identifier, the source data to the target mass storage device via the private data network. The transfer via the private data network bypasses the client and the SAN. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166671 | NODE CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NODE CONTROLLER - A node controller includes: a reception processor configured to receive a packet and to generate a read request or write data and a write request for requesting to write the write data, according to a destination and a type of the packet; a collected data processor configured to collect the received packet, to generate collected data according to the collected packet, and to generate a collected data write request for requesting to write the collected data; a switch configured to output the write data and the write request received from the reception processor or output the collected data and the collected data write request received from the collected data processor; and a memory controller configured to write the write data to a memory and to write the collected data to the memory in accordance with the collected data write request received from the switch. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166672 | Physically Remote Shared Computer Memory - A computing system with physically remote shared computer memory, the computing system including: a remote memory management module, a plurality of computing devices, a plurality of remote memory modules that are external to the plurality of computing devices, and a remote memory controller, the remote memory management module configured to partition the physically remote shared computer memory amongst a plurality of computing devices; each computing device including a computer processor and a local memory controller, the local memory controller including: a processor interface, a local memory interface, and a local interconnect interface; each remote memory controller including: a remote memory interface and a remote interconnect interface, wherein the remote memory controller is operatively coupled to the data communications interconnect via the remote interconnect interface such that the remote memory controller is coupled for data communications with the local memory controller over the data communications interconnect. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166673 | MISSED MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A web site receives, by a computer, a request from a user device to display a news item web page. The computer determines a time and date that the user previously visited the web site to view news items, identifies news items published after the determined time and date, dynamically generates a web page including at least a portion of the identified news items, and transmits the generated web page to the user device. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166674 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING CONTROL MESSAGES IN AN AVB NETWORK - A system that includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus may communicate over an Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging network. The transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus may each include an application layer module in communication with an application interface module. The application layer module of the transmitting apparatus may interface with the application interface module to send a control message over the network to control flow of a data stream over the network. The application layer module of the receiving apparatus may interface with the application to interface module to receive the control message. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166675 | Computer System and Computer Method for Coarse-Grained Data Access - A computerized method for accessing business object data stored in a data buffer of a server computer includes providing an application program interface (API) having a function for specifying a set of paths through a business object stored as a data structure in a data buffer of a server computer. Each of the paths included in the set of paths specifies a plurality of nodes of the business object for accessing hosted data at the plurality of nodes. The method further includes receiving a set of parameters for the function of the API. The set of parameters specify the set of paths. The method further includes issuing the set of parameters to the server computer, retrieving hosted data from the plurality of nodes for each path in the set of paths; and transmitting to a client the hosted data retrieved from the plurality of nodes. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166676 | DETECTION OF CUSTOM PARAMETERS IN A REQUEST URL - Identifying at least one custom parameter in a request uniform resource locator (URL). At least a first portion of source code of a Web application that typically consumes the custom parameter provided in the request URL can be identified. The Web application can be instrumented at the first portion of the source code. The Web application can receive the request URL and the Web application can be executed with the instrumented source code. At least one run-time value consumed by the second portion of the source code can be identified, and the run-time value can be compared to the request URL to determine whether the run-time value intersects with the request URL. Responsive to determining that the run-time value intersects with the request URL, the run-time value can be identified as the custom parameter. A custom parameter rule can be generated based on the comparison. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166677 | ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A role-based access control apparatus for use in a distribution system including a plurality of nodes, includes a role manager configured to assign the role of a publisher, which processes a request for a data transfer, to a node, and the role of subscribers, which request the data transfer, to remaining nodes, the role relationship between the plurality of nodes being transmitted to the remaining nodes playing the roles of subscribers and the requested data from the remaining nodes being transmitted to the remaining nodes based on the role relationship; and a role monitor configured to manage the role relationship assigned to the plurality of nodes. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166678 | Smart Suggestions Engine for Mobile Devices - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for providing relevant content to a requesting mobile device that include receiving, using at least one computer, a request for enterprise portal application content; identifying a requesting device from the received request; identifying enterprise portal application content from at least one enterprise portal application associated with the received request; determining capabilities of the requesting device; and comparing the determined capabilities of the requesting device with the capabilities required by a particular enterprise portal application. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166679 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING NOTIFICATION AT A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method of communicating between first and second communication terminals includes: exchanging data between the first and second communication terminals, the second communication terminal being located within a predetermined range relative to the first communication terminal; and notifying, at the first communication terminal, a user of the first communication terminal of an exchange of data after waiting for a predetermined time period from exchange of data. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166680 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND NETWORK SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING CONTENT - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for acquiring content, where the method includes: acquiring a content request from a client; determining the number of times for requesting requested content; and when the number of times for requesting is greater than a first preset threshold, acquiring the content from a content routing node group in a content network according to the content request, where the content routing node group has a content storage function, and sending the acquired content to the client. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose an apparatus and a network system to which the method is applied. By using the embodiments of the present invention, network transmission redundancy can be reduced, a response speed of user access can be increased, and user experience can be improved. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166681 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION - Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The end-to-end middleware architecture proposed by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging by, among other things, reducing intermediary hops with neighbor-based routing, introducing efficient native-to-external and external-to-native protocol conversions, monitoring system performance, including latency, in real time, employing topic-based and channel-based message communications, and dynamically optimizing system interconnect configurations and message transmission protocols. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166682 | 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. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166683 | DEVICE CAPABLE OF SAFELY COMMUNICATING DEVICE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device which is capable of minimizing the use of resources in devices and safely communicating information such as settings on devices. The device is capable of communicating with another device via a wireless communication network and manages the other device. The device leaves a first wireless communication network to which the device is currently connected. Then, the device wirelessly connects to the other device so as to construct, with the other device that left the first wireless communication network after the device, a second wireless communication network, which is different from the first wireless communication network, by using a setting network ID for use in a setting change mode for changing setting values of the other device. The device sends setting data to the other device, to which the device was wirelessly connected, via the second wireless communication network. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166684 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PARTIAL CONTENTS - An apparatus includes a contents identifier configured to identify contents displayed on a first device among a plurality of devices, a usage history monitor configured to monitor usage history of a second device among the plurality of devices, a partial contents generator configured to generate partial contents, which is a part of the contents, based on the monitored usage history and a partial contents transmitter configured to transmit the partial contents to any one of the plurality of devices. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166685 | PORTABLE DATA CARRIER AS A WEB SERVER - The invention relates to a method for providing hypertext data through a hypertext server on a portable data carrier for a terminal connected to the portable data carrier, and to an accordingly adapted portable data carrier. The hypertext server receives a hypertext query of the terminal and thereupon provides hypertext data relating to the hypertext query. The hypertext server then sends the provided hypertext data as a hypertext response to the terminal. The method is characterized in that upon the providing of the hypertext data at least one hyperlink contained in the hypertext data is checked and the checked hyperlink is contained in the hypertext response. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166686 | Data Transmission Security Improvements - This disclosure provides for a method of securely transmitting communication information from a first terminal operating in a first coordinate measurement domain to a second remotely-located terminal operating in a second coordinate measurement domain. The method includes combining the communication information with extraneous information to create a data signal, determining a value of an identification variable expressed with respect to the first coordinate measurement domain, where the identification variable value enables the location of the communication information concealed within the data signal to be determined, using a coordinate transform function to calculate a value of the received identification variable expressed with respect to the second coordinate measurement domain, and extracting the information from the received data signal using the calculated identification variable value to distinguish the communication information from the extraneous information. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166687 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND NETWORK NODE - Disclosed is a technique for guaranteeing high-level QoS for emergent traffic to enable the transmission of the traffic. According to the technique, when a transmission unit | 2013-06-27 |
20130166688 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NETWORK STORAGE, SERVER - A communication system including a server connected to a first network, a network storage connected to a second network different from the first network and communicates with the server, and a user terminal. The network storage transmits a storage request signal to the server, the server transitions to a standby state in response to the storage request signal and issues setup information including storage identification information identifying the network storage. The network storage receives and outputs the setup information, and the user terminal transmits a user request signal including the storage identification information and terminal identification information based on the setup information. The server then associates the terminal identification information and the storage identification information upon receiving the user request signal. | 2013-06-27 |
20130166689 | Disk Management - Systems, methods, and computer-program products store file segments by receiving a first file segment, and storing the first file segment in a first memory area having a highest ranking. The first memory area is reassigned as a memory area having a next highest ranking when a second file segment is received and the first memory area has reached a maximum capacity. The second file segment is stored in another memory that is reassigned as the memory area having the highest ranking. | 2013-06-27 |