31st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140214888 | SUPPLEMENTING A HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS STORE WITH EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL EVENTS TO RESPOND TO AN EVENT QUERY - Embodiments are directed are towards the transparent summarization of events. Queries directed towards summarizing and reporting on event records may be received at a search head. Search heads may be associated with one more indexers containing event records. The search head may forward the query to the indexers the can resolve the query for concurrent execution. If a query is a collection query, indexers may generate summarization information based on event records located on the indexers. Event record fields included in the summarization information may be determined based on terms included in the collection query. If a query is a stats query, each indexer may generate a partial result set from previously generated summarization information, returning the partial result sets to the search head. Collection queries may be saved and scheduled to run and periodically update the summarization information. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214889 | Anticipatorily Retrieving Information In Response To A Query Of A Directory - A technique includes receiving a query to a directory in a file system. In response to the query, both information targeted by the query and additional information are retrieved in anticipation of another query for the additional information. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214890 | DATABASE SHARD ARBITER - Techniques described herein provide for a shard arbiter to act as an intermediary between querying and/or data-inserting applications and sharded databases. The shard arbiter can provide an interface with which the applications can provide a request (e.g., data insert and/or query) in any of a variety of database languages, and the data is inserted into and/or retrieved from sharded databases without the need for customization or any knowledge of how data is sharded. The shard arbiter can use business rules to determine how data is sharded among databases, and may utilize different types of databases—communicating with each database in its native language. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214891 | HIERARCHICAL USER INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONAL APPARATUS - A hierarchical data management tool and user interface that provides an efficient and effective means for an organization to organize both users and their access to a system consisting of a large number of remote sensing locations. Various levels of notifications for specified personnel allow the notified persons to respond to alerts in an efficient manner. Personnel can be hierarchically organized according to their qualifications and proximity to the sensing location/alert type. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214892 | ADVANCEMENTS IN DATA DISTRIBUTION METHODS AND REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY - An elastic parallel database system where data distribution is container- and container-context based. Container Based Tables are defined and Container Member Tables achieve co-location of data as needed. A polymorphic key may also establish polymorphic key relationships between rows in one table and rows in many other possible tables. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214893 | PLATFORM AGNOSTIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING - An elastic parallel database system where metadata is specified out-of-band during database operations via a set of augmentation rules. The rules are used to augment or modify commands received, and indicate whether they are to be used for specific connections on which they are received, for all client connections, or some other scope. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214894 | ADVANCEMENTS IN DATA DISTRIBUTION METHODS AND REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY - An elastic parallel database system where data distribution is container- and container-context based. Container Based Tables are defined and Container Member Tables achieve co-location of data as needed. A polymorphic key may also establish polymorphic key relationships between rows in one table and rows in many other possible tables. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214895 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR THE PRIVACY-MAINTAINING STRATEGIC INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC AND MULTI-USER PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DATA AND HISTORY - In one embodiment, a method of transmitting a directed query from a client device that stores private data elements includes determining relationships between elements of the private data, where each of the relationships associates two or more elements of the private data. The method may further include receiving a query related to a target element of the private data, where the query requests data related to the element that is not present in the private data. The method may further include storing the query in electronic memory. The method may further include determining a recipient for the query based on the relationships associated with the target element of the query. The method may further include electronically transmitting the query to the recipient. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214896 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TIMECORRECTION VALUES - A first memory stores requester event records describing events that occurred in relation to processes executed in a first server. A second memory stores requestee event records describing events that occurred in relation to processes executed in a second server in response to execution requests issued from the first server. An associating unit searches the first and second memories for requester event records and requestee event records whose transaction identifiers are identical and associates the found records together. A determining unit compares the associated event records with each other in terms of their time information. Based on this comparison, the determining unit determines a correction value for correcting time differences between requester event records in the first memory and requestee event records in the second memory. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING A NoSQL DATABASE USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS - A method for querying an NoSQL provider includes a server receiving a relational database query from an application running on a client computer that is coupled to the server via an electronic communication network, parsing the relational database query, creating an execution plan based on the results of the parsing step, transmitting a NoSQL query to the NoSQL provider, the NoSQL query including at least a portion of the execution plan, transforming at the server a response from the NoSQL provider into a relational format, and providing the transformed response to the client computer application. A system for implementing the method and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214898 | PERFORMING APPLICATION SEARCH BASED ON ENTITIES - In one embodiment, a search query is received from a computing device, the search query including one or more search terms. Based on the one or more search terms, one or more entities are identified from a set of multiple entities. Each of the one or more identified entities is associated with one or more application functionalities. In addition, a set of applications are identified based on the one or more search terms. Based at least on a type of at least one of the identified one or more entities, a determination is made that a particular application from the set of applications supports the at least one of the identified one or more entities. Thereafter, the applications in the set are ranked based in part on the determination that the particular application supports the at least one of the identified one or more entities. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214899 | LEAF NAMES AND RELATIVE LEVEL INDICATIONS FOR FILE SYSTEM OBJECTS - In some implementations, a first data structure includes leaf names identifying file system objects, the first data structure not including information relating to file system paths of the respective file system objects. Indications of relative levels of the file system data objects are provided, where a given one of the indications specifies a level of the corresponding file system object relative to a previous file system object identified in the first data structure. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214900 | SUPPORTING FLEXIBLE TYPES IN A DATABASE - Providing database support. A first group of data are received, the first group of data being expressed in a first format, and a second group of data are received, the second group of data being expressed in a second format, the second format being different from the first format. The first and second groups of data are merged, and are represented in at least one common column. Such representing includes: maintaining the first and second formats; and providing a tuple map which provides reference to the first and second formats. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214901 | VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND FILE STORING METHOD - A virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network and a file storing for storing electronic documents within a virtual storage system where the virtual storage system includes at least one processor that receives a selection of an electronic document to be uploaded from an external system, creates an identifier corresponding to the electronic document, and creates a folder structure using the identifier, for storing the electronic document. The virtual storage system further includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor and each configured to store the electronic document within a folder of the folder structure created. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214902 | RESOLVING IN-MEMORY FOREIGN KEYS IN TRANSMITTED DATA PACKETS FROM SINGLE-PARENT HIERARCHIES - A method of creating multi-parent relationships from single-parent data may include receiving a data set that includes a plurality of objects organized in a hierarchy. The method may also include parsing the data set to locate at least two objects in the plurality of objects. Each of the at least two objects may be associated with an identifier. The method may additionally include creating a data record to represent information associated with the at least two objects. The data record may be associated with a plurality of parent data records. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING WEARABLE DEVICES TO DETERMINE A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214904 | DATA ENTRY - There is set forth herein in one embodiment a method of receiving data for a plurality of fields in a target database comprising allowing the user to enter a single composite data string, determining at least one piece of contextual data, and using the data string and said contextual data to generate a plurality of data elements suitable for entry into said target database fields. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214905 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING GRAPHICAL NARRATIONS - An online network collects a dataset of an individual's information through a computer-implemented method. An individual enters a dataset of the information and a plurality of an individual's life events into a computer system. The dataset is arranged and converted into a graphical representation for display. The online database receives and stores the dataset. The database associates the dataset with the plurality of the member's life events and then the dataset and the life events are outputted into the graphical representation for display for a witness. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214906 | SCALABLE NETWORKED DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDINGS VIA SHARD-BASED ARCHITECTURE - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the storage of digital media recordings. According to various embodiments, a system may include a plurality of shards. Each shard may include a storage system operable to store a plurality of digital media recordings. Each shard may also include one or more recording writers. Each recording server may be operable to store digital media recordings stored in the storage system. According to various embodiments, the system may also include a recording manager. The recording manager may be operable to select one of the plurality of shards for storing a designated digital media recording. The recording manager may also be operable to transmit an instruction to the selected shard to store the designated digital media recording. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214907 | MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROCESS - A system and method for managing a plurality content items employs an ingest station which may digitize the content items, generate metadata corresponding to each of the content items, and store the metadata and the content items in a storage medium or mediums. The content items may be audio content, video content, or audio/video content. The system and method may provide an association between the metadata and a corresponding content item to facilitate retrieval of the content item. The content items may be retrieved, at least in part, by searching the metadata and employing the association between the metadata and a corresponding content item to locate the desired content item. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214908 | MEDIA DELIVERY PLATFORM - A method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file including, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers to an electronic device with or without an Internet connection, said method comprising transmitting and audio and/or visual media file in compressed format to said electronic device, and wherein the electronic device is effective to receive said audio and/or visual file and playback said audio and/or visual content on demand by a user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214909 | MODIFYING DATA STORAGE IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF A MEMORY SYSTEM IMBALANCE - A computing device includes an interface, memory, and a processing module. The memory stores a directory and inode tables. The directory stores a file identifier and a corresponding inumber for each file that is stored in storage units. An inode table stores an inumber, metadata, and a DSN address for each file stored in a corresponding storage unit. The processing module is operable to monitor, for each of the inode tables, utilization of the memory. The processing module is further operable to monitor, for each of the storage units, utilization of memory of the storage units. The processing module is further operable to process, for the inode table and/or the corresponding storage unit, per inode table memory utilization data and per storage unit memory utilization data to adjust memory utilization of the inode table and/or memory utilization of the corresponding storage unit. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214910 | Implementing Modified QR Decomposition in Hardware - System and method for computing QR matrix decomposition and inverse matrix R | 2014-07-31 |
20140214911 | Software Tool for Implementing Modified QR Decomposition in Hardware - System and method for developing a circuit for QR decomposition with auxiliary functionality. A first function is included in a first program. The first function is configurable to specify an auxiliary function to be performed by a modified QR decomposition circuit in addition to QR decomposition of a matrix A into two matrices Q and R using a Modified Gram Schmidt process. A second program is automatically generated based on configuration of the QR decomposition and the first function. The second program includes program code implementing the QR decomposition and the auxiliary function for the first function in the first program. A hardware configuration program (HCP) may be automatically generated based on the first program, including the second program, where the HCP is deployable to hardware, e.g., a programmable hardware element, thereby implementing the modified QR decomposition circuit, including the QR decomposition of the matrix A and the auxiliary function. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214912 | PERFORMING BATCHES OF SELECTIVE ASSIGNMENTS IN A VECTOR FRIENDLY MANNER - Embodiments of the invention relate to processing queries. A query operation to be performed on a table of data is translated into a series of bit level logical operations using expansion and/or saturation operations. A mask is created from the series of bit level logical operations. This mask is then simultaneously applied to multiple rows from the table of data. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214913 | ADDER CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF UP TO N-BIT DATA AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF A PLURALITY OF DATA TYPE USING THE ADDER - An adder for supporting multiple data types by controlling a carry propagation is provided. The adder includes a plurality of first addition areas configured to receive pieces of incoming operand data, wherein each of the plurality of first addition areas includes a predetermined unit number of bits, and a plurality of second addition areas configured to receive pieces of control data based on a type of the operand data and an operation type, wherein the plurality of second addition areas are alternately arranged between the plurality of first addition areas. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABSTRACTING AND ORCHESTRATING MOBILE DATA NETWORKS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving data from a network element, determining a candidate data processing task for the received data based upon a first similarity metric between the received data and data currently associated with the candidate data processing task, and sending the received data to the candidate data processing task. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214915 | Methods and Systems of Tracking and Verifying Records of System Change Events in a Distributed Network System - This disclosure has reference to verifying records of system change events in a distributed network system providing cloud services. In one embodiment, the methods and systems observe system update messages sent and received among components of the distributed network system, generate a record of the state of the object in response to the update messages, and compare the record of the state of the object with information from a periodic system status message to verify the accuracy of the periodic system status message. Advantageously, the present embodiments provide increased reliability for system status tracking, resource management, and billing for consumption of resources in distributed network systems. Additional benefits and advantages of the present embodiments will become evident in the following description. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214916 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS, INFORMATION AND SERVICES - The invention provides a system, a method and a computer program product that facilitate access to one or more applications by a computing device. The invention includes determining one or more contexts associated with at least one of the computing device and a user of the computing device, such that the one or more contexts describe at least one of an environment and an activity of the at least one of the user and the computing device. Thereafter at least one contextual tag corresponding to the one or more contexts is generated. Subsequently, the one or more applications associated with the at least one contextual tag are identified and the computing device is enabled to access the one or more applications. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214917 | Custom Voice Track - Local stations can generate their station broadcast logs based on a master broadcast log. In some cases, local stations are allowed to edit some positions, or slots, in their local logs, so that the local logs do not match the master log. This can create complexity when voice tracks for empty voice track slots are provided to the local stations, because voice tracks often reference the media in slots on either side of the empty voice track slots. A display is presented that facilitates recording custom voice tracks by providing indications about which local stations have confirmed receipt of voice tracks, and whether the media items scheduled on either side of the voice track slot in the master log have been changed by the local stations. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214918 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN APPLICATION COMPONENTS DISTRIBUTED AMONG DEVICES - Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating communications between application components that are distributed among many devices across a network. This allows for the application to execute as if on one device even though the application components are on many devices. A component interface is generated for the application components. The component interface intercepts communications sent from an application component, locates the intended receiving application component, and generates a component interface packet with the location. The component interface packet is then put into a network stream. The receiving component listens to the stream to obtain component interface packets that indicate the location of the device running the receiving application component. The component interface decodes the component interface packets intended for components associated with the component interface and sends communications encoded in the packet to the application components. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214919 | ARCHITECTURE FOR SHARING BROWSING SESSION HISTORIES - Features are disclosed for enabling users to efficiently store and share browsing sessions or portions thereof with other users or the general public. Browsing session requests and other activities may be sent to an intermediary system, which can retrieve requested content and store a representation of the requested content or data regarding the requested content. The stored data may be organized as a saved browsing session such that users may access the shared browsing session at a subsequent time and view the browsing session substantially in its entirety. Users may search for shared browsing sessions and access data regarding the requests made during a browsing session. In addition, data regarding client devices used during shared browsing sessions may be tracked and associated with the shared browsing sessions such that subsequent users can search for shared browsing sessions based partly on such device characteristics. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214920 | System and method for interactive remote movie watching, scheduling, and social connection - Disclosed is a media sharing system that provides shared experiencing of licensed media content such as movies. The system includes a web server that communicates with multiple client devices over the internet whereby a user's multiple social contacts can participate in a synchronized stream of licensed media content such as movies. The system is able to schedule the multi-user experiencing of the licensed media content and further synchronize the streaming of the licensed content so the participating users receiving the media streams in a substantially synchronized manner. The system still further provides for social content interaction amongst the multiple recipients so that the multiple users can interact in a time-contextual manner consistent with the substantially synchronized receipt of the licensed media content. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF AN APPLICATION EXECUTED ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for uniquely identifying an application executed on a mobile device is provided. The method comprises trapping a request to execute an application by the mobile device, wherein the request is initiated by the application and directed to an Internet resource associated with the application; identifying a source of the request; generating metadata respective of the application initiated the request; and sending the metadata to the a proxy server communicatively connected to the mobile device, wherein the proxy server is configured to uniquely identify a name and a type of the application by matching information in the metadata to an app-index. This is subject to a user's privacy, opt-in, or opt-out settings. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214922 | METHOD OF PROVIDING VIRTUAL MACHINE AND SERVICE GATEWAY FOR REAL-TIME VIRTUAL DESKTOP SERVICE - Disclosed herein is a method of providing a virtual machine and service gateway for real-time virtual desktop service. The service gateway includes a user information management unit, a virtual machine information management unit, and a virtual machine generation unit. The user information management unit authenticates user information. The virtual machine information management unit generates access information about a virtual machine corresponding to the user information, and provides the generated access information to a client unit. The virtual machine generation unit selects a service provider server in response to a request from a client unit, and generates a virtual machine in the selected service provider server. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214923 | CLIENT, SERVER, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF THE SAME - A client includes a registration unit that registers operation control information received from a server and corresponding to a service provided by the server, a calling unit that calls the service in order to cause the server to execute the service when a user selects the service corresponding to the operation control information registered by the user, and an execution unit that, when the user selects the service corresponding to the operation control information registered by the user, executes processing to be executed by the client indicated by the operation control information corresponding to the service, in calling of the service. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING OBJECT, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING THE OBJECT - A first device for displaying an object related to content reproduced by a second device is provided. The first device including a sensor which senses an exit of the first device from a service zone of the second device during reproduction of the content by the second device; a communication device which requests a management server for an object related to the content, the object including link information for receiving information about the content reproduced by the second device at a point of time when the sensor senses the exit, and for receiving the object related to the content from the management server; and a controller which controls a display to display the received object related to the content on a predetermined screen of the first device. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214925 | REMOTE ACCESS TO AN APPLICATION PROGRAM - Systems and methods for providing remote access to an application program. A server remote access program may cooperate with display data interception application to provide display data to a client computing device. The client computing device may connect to the application at a Uniform Resourced Locator (URL) using a client remote access application to receive the display data. The client remote access application may provide user inputs, received at the client computing device, to the application to affect the state of the application. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214926 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ITS METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ITS METHOD - This invention relates to a communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus, the second apparatus comprising: a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium; communication means for communicating data with the first apparatus; edit means capable of editing the management information; and control means for making a control to transfer data stored in the second storage medium to the first storage medium by way of the communication means on the basis of the management information edited by the edit means. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214927 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CONTEXT MEDIA CONTROL AND PLAYBACK - An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for detecting a first input; and determining whether a change to the first input is detected within a first time period after detecting the first input. In accordance with a determination that a change to the first input is detected within the first time period after detecting the first input, first media content is added to a playlist. In accordance with a determination that a change to the first input is not detected within the first time period after detecting the first input, the first media content is caused to be presented. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PRE-FETCH DATA IN A NETWORK - A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network, are provided. In an example embodiment, computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network comprises receiving a request from a user device for a first network-accessible data item in the plurality of network-accessible data items; transmitting the first network-accessible data item to the user device; identifying a second network-accessible data item in the plurality of network-accessible data items; and transmitting the second network-accessible data item to the user device, the second network-accessible data item being transmitted before receiving a request for the second network-accessible data item from the user device. Pre-fetch logic may be embedded in the first network-accessible data item. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214929 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Disclosed is a method and system for sharing content between a plurality of electronic devices including identifying an event and detecting one or more electronic devices based on the identified event. Electronic content is obtained from one or more of the electronic devices related to the event and provided to one or more output devices based on a comparison. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214930 | CHANGING SETTINGS - A computing system is able to modify one or more settings controlling the operation of an interactive application system. The interactive application system is configured with a plurality of accounts to enable, at least, attribution and authorization by the interactive application system of interactions with the interactive application system. One or more settings control the operation of the interactive application system with regards to the interactions and the accounts. The computing system is configured to receive a plurality of inputs in relation to a first setting of the one or more settings, the inputs being associated with different ones of the plurality of the accounts. The computing system then correlates the plurality of inputs and modifies the first setting in dependence on the correlated inputs. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214931 | INTEGRATING SOCIAL-NETWORKING INFORMATION - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message associated with a user at an information exchange system. At least one correspondent associated with the user may be determined, based on the message. A social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent may be assessed with respect to a social-networking system. The information exchange system may provide an interface for display to the user, the interface comprising information associated with the message. If the social connection is confirmed, the interface may include social-networking information associated with the at least one correspondent. Otherwise, the interface may provide functionality to create a social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent with respect to the social-networking system. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214932 | PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB PORTAL AND A METHOD OF REGISTERING THEREIN - The present invention discloses a professional social networking web portal exclusively for professionals, which confirms registration upon verifying the professional identification information of a member. The social networking web portal includes profiles of registered members including verified professional identification information, a database containing profile information and the professional identification information of all the verified members, a search application that allows a first verified member to discover desired verified members and relevant information based on predetermined search criteria, and a communication platform that allows the first verified member to communicate with the other verified members. Such communications may be exclusively secured within a predefined professional group or shared to other predefined professional groups or all professional groups based on user preference. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214933 | Method and Apparatus for Vehicular Social Networking - A system includes a processor configured to communicate with a remote server to receive a list of friends who are currently driving their respective vehicles. The processor is also configured to display the list of friends in a selectable manner. The processor is further configured to receive selection of one or more friends from the list and send data to the remote server to be shared with the one or more selected friends. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214934 | Composition Engine as a Service - A method includes: providing a composition engine as a service configured to receive requests from multiple service consumers using any of multiple service consumer protocols; receiving a first request in the composition engine as a service conforming to a service consumer protocol from a service consumer operated by a customer; generating a second request to each of one or more provider systems, the second request conforming to a provider system protocol, the composition engine as a service configured to generate requests conforming to any of multiple provider system protocols; receiving, by the composition engine as a service, information from the provider system, and adapting the received information to conform to the service consumer protocol; and exposing, by the composition engine as a service, a web service that makes the adapted information available to the service consumer. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214935 | Managing Content Across Different Device Types - A method, system or computer usable program product for automatically navigating content on different devices using markers including identifying a set of device types for receiving content stored in memory, utilizing a processor to provide markers to the content, the markers being selective by device type, and displaying on a display a portion of the content on each device type according to the provided markers. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214936 | IDENTIFYING SUBGRAPHS IN TRANSFORMED SOCIAL NETWORK GRAPHS - A graph of a social network is received. The graph may include a node for each user account and an edge between nodes that represent social networking relationships such as messages between the user accounts or a friend relationship. The graph is transformed into a transformed graph where nodes have direct edges depending on a local test among its neighbors in the original graph. Small subsets of the transformed graph are categorized. The categories are used to identify subgraphs in the transformed graph. Each subgraph is grown by adding an edge from the transformed graph to the subgraph depending on local tests among nodes associated with the edge that have at least one edge that is already in the subgraph. The categorized subgraphs are used to provide targeted advertising, suggest new connections, identify different personalities and interests of users, or to provide other services. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214937 | Activity Graphs - The description relates to activity graphs. One example can obtain details from multiple activity cards. The example can identify relationships between at least some of the details of the multiple activity cards. The example can also generate an activity graph that reflects at least some of the relationships between individual activity cards. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214938 | IDENTIFYING PARTICIPANTS FOR COLLABORATION IN A THREAT EXCHANGE COMMUNITY - Identifying participants for collaboration in a threat exchange community can include receiving security data from a plurality of participants at a threat exchange server within the threat exchange community; and in response to receiving from a first participant from the plurality of participants security data associated with a security occurrence, identifying at the threat exchange server the first participant and a second participant from the plurality of participants for collaboration based on characteristics of the first participant and the second participant. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214939 | NETWORK DISCOVERY USING UNICAST COMMUNICATIONS - A first printer acquires a first network address from an external server using unicast (non-broadcast) transmissions. Then, second printers and an external computerized device also acquire the first network address from the external server, similarly using unicast transmissions. The second printers contact (e.g., say “hello” to) the first printer using a peer-to-peer network. The external computerized device contacts (again using unicast transmissions) the first printer using the first network address to cause the first printer to transmit a list of the second printers that have contacted the first printer to the external computerized device. The external computerized device then contacts (again using unicast transmissions) the second printers using the list of contacted printers (which includes network address information of the second printers) to allow the external computerized device to configure the second printers | 2014-07-31 |
20140214940 | NETWORKED DEVICES MATCHING CAPABILITIES WITH TASKS - Devices in a local network can cooperatively share functionality by advertising their available services and current service needs with an agent being executed in the network. The network can be automatically configured by device discovery or manually configured by a user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214941 | CONTACT PRIORITIZATION AND ASSIGNMENT USING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A prioritizing entity prioritizes external contacts using a social network and determines people at the external contact who may influence execution of a given matter. The prioritizing entity also prioritizes internal resources with respect to the prioritized external contacts based on social proximity to people at the external contact, also by using the social network. The prioritizing entity assigns a prioritized internal resource to a prioritized external. Prioritizing external contacts includes ranking the external contacts based on an estimate of the amounts individual external contacts could spend on a given matter. Prioritizing internal resources includes determining explicit connections and inferred connections with people at the external contact, using the social network. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214942 | BUILDING A SEMANTICS GRAPH FOR AN ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Building a semantics graph for an enterprise communication network can include extracting a first signifier and a second signifier from the enterprise communication network, determining a semantic proximity of the first signifier and the second signifier using an engine executing computer readable instructions, and building the semantics graph, wherein the first signifier and the second signifier are represented as nodes connected by an edge representing the semantic proximity of the first signifier and the second signifier. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214943 | NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITY AND PROFILE TRIGGERS - An embodiment searches a social network for at least one trigger event, detects one or more trigger events, and communicates the detected one or more trigger events as an alert. Searching the social network comprises searching member profiles and searching member activities. Detected one or more trigger events are centralized into a sortable list and prioritized based on business entities and the importance of the trigger events to persons related to the business entities. The centralized sortable list is fed into a customer relations management system which presents the alerts on a user interface. A plurality of types of triggers includes people updates, company updates, product purchases, and product usage. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214944 | INCORPORATION OF CONTENT FROM AN EXTERNAL FOLLOWED USER WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A following user follows a followed user on a third-party application. The followed user may additionally approve the inclusion of content posted by the followed user on the third-party application within an account of any following users on the social networking system. Subsequent postings by the followed user on the third-party application cause the third-party application to notify the social networking system of the posting. The social networking system in turn incorporates the posting of the followed user on the third-party application into a user interface that it displays to the following user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214945 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM A SOCIAL GRAPH - A method, system and article of manufacture for determining a global hierarchy of an entity by computing subjective coherence strength between nodes of first members of a social network service, computing objective entanglement strength between nodes of second members of the social network service, using subjective coherence strength and objective entanglement strength, compute the pairwise latent relationship probabilities between different ones of the nodes of the social network service, and using the pairwise relationship probabilities, compute the global hierarchy relationship. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214946 | BATCH CONNECT - Disclosed in some examples is a method including determining a set of recommended connections for a member of a social networking service based upon a recommendation criteria; presenting the set of recommended connections to the member; receiving from the member a selection of a set of target members; and for each particular member in the set of target members: determining a second set of recommended connections for the particular target member, the second set of recommended connections based upon the recommendation criteria and based upon the set of target members; and sending a notification to the particular member, the notification including the second set of recommended connections. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214947 | PRESENTING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Systems and methods for generating and presenting visual representations associated with profiles of members of social networks are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods access member profile information associated with a member of a social network render a visual representation of the accessed member profile information that includes a first visual representation layer associated with a first category of the member profile information and a second visual representation layer associated with a second category of the member profile information, and presents via a user interface the rendered visual representation of the accessed member profile information. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214948 | ELASTIC LOGICAL GROUPS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214949 | FORMING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION GROUP BASED ON PRIOR COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, logical relationship information between a first user and other users are recorded. Communications between the first users and other users are monitored, and content is received from the first user, the content having associated metadata. A first group to add the first user to is determined based on the logical relationship information, the communications, the content, and the metadata. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214950 | ADDING USER TO LOGICAL GROUP BASED ON CONTENT - Systems and methods for the transmission of content are provided. A user group is defined and a group data structure corresponding to the user group is stored. An item of content is received and stored as a child data structure of a parent data structure of the group data structure. In response to this storage, the item of content is automatically transmitted to all other users of the user group | 2014-07-31 |
20140214951 | DETERMINING LOGICAL GROUPS BASED ON BOTH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE ACTIVITIES OF USER - Systems and methods for adding a first user to a first group of users are presented. First, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Then potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on the logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module, the scores based at least partially on both passive and active interactions between the first user and other users, the first group of users containing a plurality of users, including one or more users who are not logically connected to the first user. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214952 | COASTING MODULE TO REMOVE USER FROM LOGICAL GROUP - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message received at a user device from a server system, the message indicating that a user of the user device has been added to a logical group of users. Then content may be transmitted from the user device to the server system for distribution to the logical group of users. Then, in response to determination that the user device has been out of communication with the server system for a predetermined period of time a determination is made, utilizing a coasting module on the user device, that the user should be removed from the logical group of users based on a factor other than a length of time the user device has been out of communication with the server system. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214953 | USER DEVICE GROUP FORMATION - Systems and methods for adding a first user to a first group of users are presented. First, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Then potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on the logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module, the scores based at least partially on a loneliness score for the first user. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214954 | ADDING USER TO LOGICAL GROUP BASED ON SCORING OF GROUPS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214955 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHODS FOR FACILITATINGONE-WAY ORDERING OF MESSAGES - Methods, apparatus and systems for facilitating one-way ordering of otherwise independent message classes. A one-way message ordering mechanism facilitates one-way ordering of messages of different message classes sent between interconnects employing independent pathways for the message classes. In one aspect, messages of a second message class may not pass messages of a first message class. Moreover, when messages of the first and second classes are received in sequence, the ordering mechanism ensures that messages of the first class are forwarded to, and received at, a next hop prior to forwarding messages of the second class. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SESSIONS OF DIFFERENT WEBSITES - A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product manages sessions of different websites. Respective session identifiers of a plurality of websites are recorded, where each of the respective session identifiers of the plurality of websites identifies a session established in response to a page open operation for a respective website, and where pages of the plurality of websites are integrated into one page on one website. An operation request for a page of a first website of the plurality of websites is received. In response to receiving the operation request, a session synchronization request message that requests that a session of the first website be synchronized with sessions of the plurality of websites is generated and transmitted from the first website to other websites from the plurality of websites. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214957 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DATA TRANSMISSION PROGRAM PERFORMED BY COMPUTER - A data processing device is provided with a job accepting portion to accept a job to transmit data to a transmission destination defined in relation to a transmission-destination user, a candidate deciding portion to decide on one or more cloud services in which an operating user who inputted the job has an account to be a candidate service, a service deciding portion to decide on a candidate service which is accessible by the transmission-destination user among one or more candidate services decided, to be an accessible service, and a data transmission portion to store the data in the decided accessible service as well as to transmit access information for accessing the data stored in the accessible service to the transmission destination for the transmission-destination user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214958 | HYBRID UNICAST/MULTICAST DNS-BASED SERVICE DISCOVERY - This document describes a “hybrid proxy,” which is a network node that enables hosts outside of a link to discover services that are available on the link, by answering service discovery queries from hosts outside of the link. A hybrid proxy may use “zero configuration” networking technologies such as Multicast Domain Name System (mDNS), Domain Name System-Service Discovery (DNS-SD), and/or Domain Name System Long-Lived Queries (DNS-LLQ). As one example, a hybrid proxy may receive a unicast DNS-SD query, transmit a corresponding mDNS query on its link to obtain information responsive to the query, and then transmit a unicast DNS-SD response to the querying host. As another example, a hybrid proxy may receive a unicast DNS-LLQ query, transmit an initial DNS-LLQ answer to the querying host, transmit an mDNS query on its link to obtain additional information, and then transmit subsequent DNS-LLQ update messages to the querying host. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214959 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for managing relationships on a social networking environment. In particular, establishing an augmented relationship connection between a first user account and a second user account in response to the setting of a first user augmented relationship indicator and the setting of a second user augmented relationship indicator. Existence of the augmented relationship connection enables additional functionality for interaction between the first user account and the second user account within the social networking environment. However, the setting of the augmented relationship indicator by the first user to indicate the second user is not discoverable by the second user prior to the second user independently setting their own augmented relationship indicator to indicate the first user, and vice versa. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214960 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TARGETING QUERY MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL GRAPH - Techniques for communicating a query message to a target audience within a social graph are described. Consistent with some embodiments, content to be published as a query message is received. The content may be published on behalf of a first member of a social graph maintained by a social network system. Further, a selection of a skill attribute capable of being listed with one or more members of the social network service is also received. A second member of the social graph is identified based on the second member listing the selected skill attribute. Responsive to identifying the second member, the content from the query message is then published in a personalized content stream accessible to the second member. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214961 | Methods and systems for continuous compilation of non-interactive video with supplemental renderings of interactive content to produce real-time, personalized video for individuals and/or groups in a shared experience - The invention is a method for real-time compilation of linear non-interactive media content (multicast/unicast video and/or audio) along with supplemental interactive-content to create new linear media content. The invention includes the systems and processes to support the creation and/or integration of the supplemental interactive-content via interactive-devices controlled by consuming participants of the compilation, and where the compilation is presented as a single linear media with or without further interaction, and each consumer of the compilation is capable of receiving and/or influencing uniquely personalized supplemental content to be utilized in the compilation. The invention combines computer servers, computer networks, human and computer processes, registration and management computer-interfaces, and multi-modality-media compilation servers. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214962 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE MEETING ROOM - A different unique identification is assigned to each of a plurality of users for establishing conference sessions. A different dedicated virtual private session room is allocated to each of the plurality of users for use in multiple conference sessions. The different unique identification is assigned to the different dedicated virtual private session room for each user. Conferencing resources of a network over which conference sessions are provided are dynamically allocated to the conference sessions to obtain expected levels of service for the conference sessions, based on the users logging in to the conference sessions. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214963 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SHARING IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide method, server and system for data sharing in a social networking service (SNS), and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the system to perform the method for data sharing the SNS. The method includes upon detecting that an account is logged into through a first terminal, establishing a connection of communications to the first terminal; if the account is currently logged into from multiple points, associating an address identifier of the first terminal with an address identifier of at least one second terminal logging into the account, so as to obtain mapping relationship information; and according to the mapping relationship information, forwarding received data of the first terminal to the at least one second terminal, and forwarding received data of the at least one second terminal to the first terminal. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214964 | Conversion Tracking of Organic Content in a Social Networking System - A user posting content to a social networking system provides a conversion definition along with the content. The conversion definition identifies a type of interaction associated with the content, such as type of interaction with the content that the user would like to track. After the content is presented to additional users, the social networking system identifies additional users performing the type of interaction with the content identified by the conversion definition. One or more metrics describing the interactions of the type of interaction associated with the content are provide to the user that posted the content. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214965 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device is disclosed. The information processing device includes an identifier acquisition unit configured to receive an identifier of an associated device, and an application specifier generation unit. The application specifier generation unit is configured to generate a first application specifier identifying a first application corresponding to the information processing device, and a second application specifier based on the received identifier and identifying a second application corresponding to the associated device. The information processing device further includes a transmission unit configured to transmit the first and second application specifiers to a server, and an application reception unit configured to receive the first application. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214966 | Social Networking With Video Annotation - A method and system for annotating Playable Media Files in a social network having a plurality of members, wherein the method includes receiving the Playable Media File from a first member, receiving an annotation from another member, and embedding the annotation in the Playable Media File. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214967 | RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD - A receiver includes: a terminal-side server unit configured to receive a request output by a device executing an application; a receiver-side server unit configured to receive a request output by an application execution unit executing an application; a connecting unit configured to establish connection among the terminal-side server unit or the receiver side-server unit, the application execution unit, and the terminal; and a bridge unit configured to bridge-connect the terminal-side server unit and the receiver-side server unit via the connection established by the connecting unit. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214968 | BROKER FACILITATED PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISHER COLLABORATION IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for broker facilitated, publisher peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration in a publish-subscription (pub/sub) environment. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a broker system acts as an intermediary between publisher systems and subscriber systems in the pub/sub environment. Along these lines, the broker creates an administrative communication channel between known publisher systems and the broker system. Using this administrative communication channel, the broker system informs individual publisher systems about other publisher systems such that peer-to-peer communication channels between two or more publisher systems can be established. This can be accomplished using the broker system's knowledge of data being published by the individual publisher systems. Regardless, the publisher systems can then use information received from the broker system to: establish a P2P communication channel with one or more other publishers; identify a set of data that has commonality to the peers (and thus has a potential to be cached); and negotiate a caching schema/approach to store the data in a cache. The broker system may generate a set of cache key/unique identifiers and communicate the unique identifiers to at least one of the publisher peers, which will then share the unique identifiers among the peers. The set of data will then be cached (e.g., by a publisher system, a broker system and/or a subscriber system) using the unique identifiers. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214969 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MAIL FOR AN END-USER THAT IS UNAVAILABLE - A first computer sends an electronic message transparently to a second computer of intended recipients of an electronic mail (e-mail), in response to the e-mail addresses of the intended recipients being entered, by a first end-user on the first computer, into a ‘To’ message header field of the e-mail. The second computer sends a Boolean value to the first computer, wherein one of the intended recipients is not available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer queries a repository to return to the first end-user contact information of backup contact entities to respond the e-mail for the intended recipients that are not available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer sends the e-mail to the backup contact entities that are available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer deletes the e-mail from each inbox of the backup contact entities that received but did not read the e-mail before the intended recipients read the e-mail. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214970 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DIGITAL TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES - Embodiments relate to a controller operable to transmit digital data messages to a receiver via a communication link having at least a first and a second transmission path, the controller comprising a first signal terminal the first transmission path and a second signal terminal for the second transmission path. The first signal terminal is operable to digitally transmit a first message to the receiver according to a first transmission technique and the second signal terminal is being operable to digitally transmit a second message to the receiver according to a second, different transmission technique. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214971 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON SOCIAL OR BUSINESS NETWORK FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from at least one of: a social network graph and a business network graph, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214972 | RECONSTRUCTION OF SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) DIALOGS IN A SIP NETWORK - A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session dialog is established between a first user agent and a second user agent. The SIP server receives an in-dialog message for the SIP session dialog. At this point, the SIP server is no longer aware of the SIP session dialog, for example, because the SIP server was rebooted. In response to receiving the in-dialog message, the SIP server sends a request not found message to the first user agent that comprises a server accessible value. The SIP server receives an out-of-dialog SIP REFER message. The out-of-dialog SIP REFER message comprises call state information for the SIP session dialog and is sent based on the server accessible value. The SIP server sends the out-of-dialog SIP REFER message to the second user agent. The SIP session dialog is reestablished. The SIP server can be a SIP proxy server or a Back-to-Back User Agent. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214973 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON PREVAILING ACTIVITY FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from a determination of a prevailing activity level of a sender, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214974 | UNIFIED MESSAGING PROXY, A SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a unified messaging proxy and a method thereof. The unified messaging proxy advantageously enables a user to be communicatively coupled with the same account on a messaging platform using multiple end user devices at the same time, allowing the user to read messages on a first end user device and send messages from a second end user device. The unified messaging proxy manages the multiple end user devices and intercepts all messages to and from the multiple end user devices and the messaging platform. From its perspective, the messaging platform only sees a single client messaging application. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214975 | COACHING WITH COLLABORATIVE EDITING - A method has acts for coupling from a computerized server executing software on a processor from a non-transitory medium to two or more computerized appliances operated by persons in a contact center, and updating text composition and editing results in real time in a display of each of the computerized appliances as any person operating a coupled computerized appliance composes or edits in a text-based communication application. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY ORDERING AND SELECTING RECIPIENTS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL - Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214977 | TOPIC DISCARD INDICATION - In a message delivery system wherein messages having topic portion defining a topic and a body portion containing information relating to the defined topic are delivered to subscribers based on the topics associated with the messages, the messages are placed in a queue for delivery, and in the event of congestion one or more of the messages are replaced with discard indication messages containing the topics associated with the discarded messages without the corresponding body portions. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214978 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to monitor impressions of social media messages. An example method includes receiving at a server a request for media, the request addressed to a uniform resource locator, the request corresponding to a social media message to be presented with the media, and the request including a user identifier. The method also includes crediting the social media message with an impression based on the request being addressed to the uniform resource locator. The method also includes identifying that the impression corresponds to an original intended recipient of the social media message based on the user identifier matching a second user identifier stored in a list of subscribers that subscribe to receive messages from an original sender of the social media message. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214979 | PROVIDING ALERTS ON COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system of providing an alert of an event on a communication device are disclosed. A determination may be made that a communication device of a user is a preferred communication device among a plurality of communication devices of the user based on an indication of an activity on the communication device. An indication of an event may be received. In response to the indication of the event, an attempt may be made to cause an alert for the event to be generated only on the preferred communication device. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214980 | SPOILER ALERT SCHEME - Technologies are generally described for a spoiler alert scheme. In some examples, a spoiler alert system may include an event determination unit configured to determine an event of interest to a user for which a spoiler alert is to be provided, a spoiler identification unit configured to identify one or more posts in an online forum that include spoiler information regarding the determined event of interest, and a spoiler control unit configured to hide the one or more identified posts from the online forum, as displayed to the user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214981 | PUSHING TUNING PARAMETERS FOR LOGICAL GROUP SCORING - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. Tuning parameters are pushed to a first user device operated by a first user, the tuning parameters specifying weights and/or functions to be applied to data from one or more sensors on the first user device. Tuned data is received from the first user device, the tuned data representing data from the one or more sensors that has been tuned in accordance with the tuning parameters. Then potential membership of the first user in a first group of users is determined based on logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module using the tuned data. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214982 | Systems and Methods for Remote Access to a Display-Based Bulletin Board in a Shared User Environment - An electronic bulletin board for use in a shared always-on environment wherein a user may manipulate messages from a remote location. The electronic bulletin board may be implemented via database and programming logic on an application server accessible from any network node, including wireless devices. The always-on environment may be set up on a computer or broadband internet appliance or other communications device. Remote users may perform operations such as updating an existing message, posting a new message, download messages, and the like. The bulletin board also supports shared messages designed for special purposes, for example, an electronic grocery list that is accessible from remote locations, | 2014-07-31 |
20140214983 | PAUSING OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN PUSH NOTIFICATIONS - A delivery of a message of a notification to a user account may be paused, by the processing device without intervention by a user of the user account, when a first action related to a media event has occurred. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING E-MAIL ATTACHED WITH LARGE FILE ON MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for transmitting an e-mail having an attached file are provided. The system includes a mail server configured to receive the e-mail including the attached file, store the attached file at a storage location in a cloud storage system, and replace the attached file with location information. The location information may indicate the storage location. The system includes the cloud storage system configured to store the attached file at the storage location. The mail server may be further configured to send the e-mail with the location information and without the attached file. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214985 | CONTROLLER FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION ON MACHINE OR CONTROLLER VIA E-MAIL - A controller that controls a machine detects an event that has occurred in the controller or the machine to compose and store event information that contains the event. Upon receiving an e-mail acquisition request from a terminal, the controller retrieves the stored event information, composes an e-mail that contains the event information, and transmits the e-mail directly to the terminal. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214986 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SHARING REAL TIME VIDEO THROUGH CHATTING WINDOW OF MESSENGER SERVICE - A method of sharing video through a chatting window of a messenger service includes generating a chatting window according to a request to create the chatting window. The request to create the chatting window is received from one of a plurality of chatting window participants. The chatting window includes a first portion where messages are to be displayed and a second portion where video is to be displayed. The first portion is allocated according to the request to generate the chatting window. A request to share video is received by at least one of the plurality of chatting window participants. The second portion is allocated according to the request to share video. The video is provided by displaying the video in the second portion, where at least one of the chatting window participants accessing the video via the second portion. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214987 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method and system of providing an instant message service are provided. Combined data is generated through a first terminal. The combined data is transmitted to a server through a network. The transmitted combined data is stored in a database of the server in a predetermined format. A first text is entered through the first terminal. The entered first text is transmitted to the server. Whether the combined data matches the first text is determined. When the combined data matches the first text, the combined data is transmitted to the first terminal and a second terminal that communicates with the first terminal. | 2014-07-31 |