37th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
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20130238666 | MERGING AND IGNORING CONFIGURATION ITEMS - Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that determine whether each configuration item in a plurality of configuration items is associated with every other configuration item therein. If each configuration item in the plurality of configuration items is associated with every other configuration item therein, the plurality of configuration items are merged such that each attribute associated therewith is associated with one configuration item. If each configuration item in the plurality of configuration items is not associated with every other configuration item therein, it is determined whether at least one configuration item may be ignored. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238667 | DATABASE, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR STORING ENCODED TRIPLES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a database of graph data encoded as triples, each comprising a subject, a predicate, and an object, and each stored within a data item among a set of data items ordered according to their data and distributed across a plurality of nodes of a distributed network of nodes; wherein the node to which each of the data items is mapped is dependent upon the position of the data item within the ordered set; and each triple is stored in two or more data items each having a different configuration from among the following:
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20130238668 | IMPLEMENTING A SCALABLE TEST ENVIRONMENT - An embodiment provides a system and method for implementing a scalable test environment. The method includes modeling, within a file system environment creator executing on a computing device, a structure of a file system used by an application and intercepting a system call from the application to the file system at the file system environment creator. The method also includes generating a content of the file system dynamically within the file system environment creator based on the system call and the structure of the file system. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238669 | Using Target Columns in Data Transformation - A data transform leverages a known hierarchy within a target data structure, in order to improve query and mapping capabilities and enhance performance. Where a target data structure is hierarchical, output data of that target data structure is often built in the document order of the nodes in the structure (from top down and from left to right). Hence, when the data for a child node in the target structure is being built, the data for the parent nodes of the child node has been built. Embodiments utilize this available portion of the target data in the form of target columns, to increase processing efficiency of the transformation process. Use of target columns according to embodiments may also allow powerful and concise expression of mapping logic in the transform, facilitating the use of functions such as selection (e.g. Where clauses), uniqueness (e.g. DISTINCT), ordering (Order By, Group By), and Aggregation. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238670 | Motor vehicle inspection device and method for identifying motor vehicles - A method for identifying a motor vehicle for a plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices, including ascertaining a distinct characteristic of the motor vehicle; ascertaining basic identification data of the motor vehicle; storing the distinct characteristic and the basic identification data in an identification data set for this motor vehicle on a storage medium; identifying the identification data set associated with the motor vehicle on the storage medium based on the distinct characteristic with a first of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices; reading out the identified identification data set of the motor vehicle from the storage medium; ascertaining first identification data of the motor vehicle, which are specific to the first of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices; supplementing the read-out identification data set by the first identification data; storing the supplemented identification data set on the storage medium; identifying the identification data set associated with the motor vehicle on the storage medium based on the distinct characteristic with a second of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices; reading out the identified identification data set of the motor vehicle from the storage medium; ascertaining second identification data of the motor vehicle, which are specific for the second of the plurality of motor vehicle inspection devices; supplementing the read-out identification data set by the second identification data; and storing the supplemented identification data set on the storage medium. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238671 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MONITORING DATA ACTIVITY UTILIZING A SHARED DATA STORE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store. These mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store can enable enhanced data monitoring, more efficient data storage, improved system resource utilization, etc. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238672 | SPECIFYING DATA IN A STANDARDS STYLE PATTERN OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) ENVIRONMENTS - An approach for specifying data in a standards style pattern of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments is provided. The approach implemented in a computer infrastructure, includes defining an interface including one or more local data elements and one or more references to one or more common data elements, of a service, the one or more common data elements being defined in a library for a plurality of services. The approach further includes configuring a data definition file (DDF) which indicates whether each of the one or more local data elements and the one or more common data elements is mandatory for the service. The approach further includes validating one or more data elements from a consumer as mandatory for the service based on the configured DDF. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238673 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FILE CREATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is applied to a client management system which manages desktop environments of client terminals. The apparatus includes a first module and a second module. The first module creates a first image file for each group classified by model-independent elements of the client terminals. The first image file is a disk image file for the desktop environments. The first image file does not contain model-dependent elements of the client terminals. The second module creates a difference file for building a second image file containing the model-dependent elements of the client terminals based on the first image file. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238674 | LIVE-SERVER CONTENT STAGING - A process for staging file assets on a live Web server is described that includes detecting an index page of the Web server, creating a staging folder on the Web server, wherein the staging folder does not default to a directory listing when accessed, inserting a randomized string into a name of file assets containing content to be staged, and storing the file assets in the staging folder. By creating the staging folder that does not default to a directory listing when accessed, a system is enabled where users may access the file assets while other users may not. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238675 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus applied to a client management system managing desktop environments of client terminals comprises a first controller and a second controller. The first controller controls creation processing for first image files which are disk image files for the desktop environments and contain no information unique to the client terminals and difference files for formation of second image files respectively containing information unique to the client terminals based on the first image files. The second controller controls deletion processing for the difference file for which the second image file is completely acquired by a corresponding client terminal. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238676 | METHOD, SYSTEM, TOKEN CONREOLLER AND MEMORY DATABASE FOR IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTE-TYPE MAIN MEMORY DATABASE SYSTEM - Method, equipment and main memory data cluster, for implementing distribute-type memory database system are provided, which relates to the field of communication technology and resolve the problem of poor reliability of distribute-type memory database in prior art. The method of the embodiment main comprising: transmitting messages comprising node memory database information to at least two token controller; respectively receiving messages comprising memory database list from the at least two token controllers, wherein the memory database list comprises information within a cluster arranged according to at least one of the node memory database information; and processing transactions within the cluster according to the information within the cluster in the memory database list. The solution applies to memory database. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238677 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USING A DATABASE TO ACCESS CONTENT STORED OUTSIDE OF THE DATABASE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for using a database to access content stored outside of the database. These mechanisms and methods for using a database to access content stored outside of the database can enable embodiments to provide a database system which can be used to access content when the content is incapable of being stored in the database system, or is otherwise not stored in the database system. The ability of embodiments to provide access to such data via the database system can improve the usability of the database system. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238678 | DOCUMENT INTEGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE - A system is configured to receive a data file from an electronic device. The system, in one embodiment, is operable to receive a user's selection of a party together with information input by the user. The system is operable to send the data file to the selected party. The system stores, in association with the selected party, the input information and data related to the sending of the data file. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238679 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING FILE SYSTEM - The present invention belongs to the field of computer, and particularly provides a method, an apparatus and a system for mounting a file system. The method comprises: requesting, from a node mounted with a file system of a storage stack at the network distal end, for metadata corresponding to the mounting when the file system of the storage stack is to be mounted; receiving metadata transmitted by the node mounted with the file system of the storage stack, and caching the metadata in a memory; and mounting the file system of the storage stack according to the metadata; wherein the network bandwidth is larger than the IO bandwidth of the storage stack. The technical solutions provided by the present invention have the advantages that the time for mounting the file system is short and the reading and writing efficiency of the operating system is high. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238680 | DECIMAL ABSOLUTE VALUE ADDER - A decimal absolute value adder includes a first circuit adding two operands for a first result; a second circuit adding the two operands to 10 for a second result; a third circuit adding the two operands to 6 for a third result; a fourth circuit adding the two operands to 1 for a fourth result; a fifth circuit adding the two operands to 11 for a fifth result; a sixth circuit adding the two operands to 7 for a sixth result; and a selection circuit selecting the first, second, fourth or fifth result when adding two numbers of identical signs or adding two numbers of different signs resulting in a non-negative result, and selecting a 1's complement of the first, third, fourth or sixth result when adding two numbers of different signs resulting in a negative result. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238681 | SIGNATURE REPRESENTATION OF DATA WITH ALIASING ACROSS SYNONYMS - A system and method for generating an m-dimensional signature vector with aliasing across synonyms in a computing device is provided. Data representable by a plurality of key-value pairs, each comprising a unique identifier and an associated non-zero value of n-dimensional data is received at the computing device. Elements of the m-dimensional aliased signature vector are generated using synonym information of keys from the plurality of key-value pairs. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238682 | SIGNAL-EQUALIZING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-RATE SIGNAL - A signal-equalizing system for multi-rate signals and a signal-equalizing method for the system are provided. The system stores a number of compensation methods of equalization. The method includes the steps: acquiring all transmission rates of a multi-rate signal, loading output documents of a signal simulation software, wherein the output documents comprise channel loss values of all transmission rates of the multi-rate signal and selecting a compensation method based on channel loss in the course of the multi-rate signal transmitted and differences among all transmission rates of the multi-rate signal from the plurality of compensation methods of equalization. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238683 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING FILES TO A CLIENT - A method for providing information to a client over a peer-to-peer network, the method includes: receiving, by a tracker proxy, a re-directed first request of a client to access a tracker; and sending, by the tracker proxy, a first response that identifies a network cache as a peer. A method for providing a video file to a client, the method includes: receiving a request of a client to retrieve a video file from a web site or another external source out of multiple requests that are sent to multiple information sources; and providing to the client cache a first response that identifies a network cache as a source of the video file. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238684 | VERIFICATION OF SHARED DISPLAY INTEGRITY IN A DESKTOP SHARING SYSTEM - A system and related operating methods that achieve shared screen verification are presented here. One operating method begins by establishing a desktop sharing session between a publisher device and a viewer device, during which the publisher device renders a publisher display and the viewer device renders a viewer display that corresponds to the publisher display. The method continues by capturing first framebuffer data for a frame of the publisher display, capturing second framebuffer data for the corresponding frame of the viewer display. The method processes the first framebuffer data and/or the second framebuffer data to obtain processed framebuffer data having a consistent display resolution. Thereafter, the method compares the processed second framebuffer data to the processed first framebuffer data to obtain a measure of quality. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE FOR A REQUEST-ORIENTED SERVICE ARCHITECTURE - An approach for providing a request in a request-oriented service architecture is described. A user interface is presented. A verb-noun request based on an input into a user interface causes generation of a transaction based on a feature, declaration information, an action to be performed on the feature, and a current state of the feature. A response is received indicating that the current state of the feature is updated, at least in part, by the transaction. An indication relating to the response is presented by the user interface. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238686 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING, USING, OR UPDATING AN ENRICHED USER PROFILE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in which a communications device is operable to provide an improved user experience or to improve the performance and/or operation of the device through use of an enriched user profile. In one aspect, the communications device may obtain an attribute including a user specific informational element from a component operable on the communications device. The communications device may generate a profile synopsis from the attribute by abstracting at least a portion of the user specific informational element from the attribute, and transmit the profile synopsis. The communications device may receive an enhanced informational element derived from an aggregation of profile synopses from a plurality of devices and may generate an enriched user profile by augmenting the attribute with at least a portion of the received enhanced informational element. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238687 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is applied to a client management system which manages first-type clients and second-type clients. The apparatus includes an information generator and a delivery controller. The information generator generates delivery group information including at least one of client member indicating a first client of the first-type clients and user member indicating a user who uses one of the second-type clients, wherein the first client executes virtualization software. The delivery controller delivers a disk image to the first client if the client member is in the delivery group information, and delivers the disk image to an execution server if the user member is in the delivery group information. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238688 | DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND DISTRIBUTION SERVER - The present distribution system is formed by a plurality of clients enabled to receive a plurality of channels of signals and a distribution server enabled to output the plurality of channels of signals to respective clients. Each of the plurality of clients includes a switch unit and a transmission unit. The distribution server includes a plurality of transceiver units, a delay amount determining unit and a delay adjusting unit. The respective transceiver units output the plurality of channels of signals to the plurality of clients and receive selection information and dependent information from the respective plurality of clients. The delay amount determining unit determines delay amount to be instructed to the respective plurality of transceiver units based on the dependent information. The delay adjusting unit controls delay amount for the respective plurality of transceiver units based on the delay amount determined by the delay amount determining unit. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238689 | SERVER APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A server apparatus capable of connecting to a content providing apparatus which provides content and an image display apparatus via a network, includes an index data processing unit which provides index data to the image display apparatus, based on content to be provided by the content providing apparatus, for having the image display apparatus display a list screen including information of the content; and an image data processing unit which provides image data to the image display apparatus for having the image display apparatus display a content display screen using information of the content selected from the list screen by an operator. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238690 | PROCESSING OF APPLICATION PEAK LOAD - Methods may provide peak load processing on a computer system. A method may include receiving at a remote computer system a request from a local computer system, coupled to the remote computer system by a network, to replicate at the remote computer system a local instance of an application executing on the local computer system that is subject to user requests received at the local computer system. The method may further include replicating on the remote computer system a remote instance of the application and redirecting user requests from the local computer system to the remote computer system. The method may further include executing on the remote computer system the remote instance of the application, including processing with the remote instance of the application user requests redirected from the local computer system to the remote instance of the application. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238691 | VALIDATION ASSOCIATED WITH A FORM - Form validation is disclosed, including: generating a first parameter and a second parameter in response to a request for a form from a client device; sending a first triggering message including the first parameter and the second parameter to the client device; receiving data associated with submission of the form; and determining whether the data associated with the submission of the form includes the hidden form field that matches the first parameter and a submitted value corresponding to the hidden form field that corresponds to the second parameter, in the event that the hidden form field matches the first parameter and the submitted value corresponding to the hidden form field corresponds to the second parameter, determine that the data associated with the submission of the form is successfully validated. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238692 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMULATING AN ONLINE SESSION - A method and system for conducting an offline session simulating an online session between a client and server in a network environment. The client imports data and functional logic from the server prior to going offline. The imported functional logic is embedded into a format or document that is capable of being interpreted and performed by the local interface at the client that is used to interact with server during an online session. Whether offline or online, the user utilizes the same local interface at the client to transmit instructions to the functional logic in order to manipulate the data. In an offline session, such instructions cause the imported and embedded functional logic to execute, thereby manipulating the data that is imported at the client. Known synchronization methods may also be used in order to maintain consistency and coherency between the imported data at the client and the database at the server. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238693 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMULATING AN ONLINE SESSION - A method and system for conducting an offline session simulating an online session between a client and server in a network environment. The client imports data and functional logic from the server prior to going offline. The imported functional logic is embedded into a format or document that is capable of being interpreted and performed by the local interface at the client that is used to interact with server during an online session. Whether offline or online, the user utilizes the same local interface at the client to transmit instructions to the functional logic in order to manipulate the data. In an offline session, such instructions cause the imported and embedded functional logic to execute, thereby manipulating the data that is imported at the client. Known synchronization methods may also be used in order to maintain consistency and coherency between the imported data at the client and the database at the server. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238694 | Maintaining Data States Upon Forced Exit - Methods, program products, and systems of maintaining data states upon forced exit are disclosed. In one aspect, an application program executing on the mobile device can maintain a connection to a remote data store and retrieve and cache data from the data store. When the mobile device receives an event that forces the application program to terminate, the mobile device can provide a time window in which the mobile device can perform various state preservation actions. During the time window, the mobile device can store data states, including states of the connection and states of the cached data. When the application program is re-launched, the mobile device can use the stored data states to restore a connection and a displayed view. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238695 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO WEB APPLICATIONS - A method for communication between a first web application associated with a first browsing domain and a second web application associated with a second browsing domain. The browser-implemented applications record data from a browser software module and prohibit access to data recorded for selective browsing domains. The browser concurrently displays at least two sub-pages of an initial web page, a first sub-page being used for displaying a user interface for the first web application, a second sub-page being used for displaying a user interface for the second web application being executed independently of the first web application. A first software module of the first web application stores data in a database which is read by a second software module of the second web application, the first and second software modules being associated with a third browsing domain. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING SYNCHRONIZED MEDIA IN A DIGITAL CONTENT ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for presenting synchronized media in a digital content environment is presented. In particular, the central synchronous management system is communicatively disposed relative to the content environment and structured to identify target media or user-generated media. Specifically, the target media is analyzed for patterns of occurrences, keywords, geo-location information, etc. to be used as searching criteria. Synchronous media is then located from within the content environment and external to the content environment, combined with the initial communication or target media and displayed. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238697 | SOCIAL NETWORK CREATION AND INTERACTION - A computing device may establish a connection with a user device and retrieve address book information corresponding to the user device. The address book information may include contact information corresponding to one or more individuals. The computing device may identify social network users corresponding to the address book information. Each social network user may include a subscriber to a particular network service. The computing device may create a social network based on the social network users identified. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238698 | System and Method for Adaptively Routing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Communications - Methods and systems for connecting communication devices in a network are provided. A first and a second communication devices are connected to a proxy in the network. The proxy being configured for routing signals between the first and second communication devices. Respective network protection types of the first and second communication devices are determined, and used to determine whether a peer-to-peer connection can be made between the first and second communication devices. If the peer-to-peer connection can be made, the first and second communication devices are enabled to communicate with each other via the peer-to-peer connection. If the peer-to-peer connection cannot be made, the proxy is enabled to continue routing signals between the first and second communication devices. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238699 | SOCIAL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - The invention, Social Notification System (SNS), is a method and system for notifying users that changes have occurred to various content or events, including, changes to Web content, new product launches, updated user profiles, non-Web events (beginning of a social gathering), or other changes or events have occurred. Web surfers will select content or events from a publisher's site by clicking on a button, hypertext link, widget icon, or by selecting by other means provided by the publisher, whereby the end user will receive notifications regarding such chosen content or events. The buttons or widgets may be provided by a SNS script or may be provided by the publisher of the content or event. The content chosen will be tracked by the SNS, so that the end user can be notified, by the SNS, of changes or events. These notifications will be sent out in various intervals and methods. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238700 | Dynamic Duty-Cycling of Processor of Mobile Device Based on Operating Condition of Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method includes recording a first location of a mobile device; determining, by one or more processors of a geographic-positioning component of the mobile device, on a periodic basis, a current location of the mobile device; determining, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, whether the current location is outside a geographic region defined at least in part by the first location; and if the current location is outside the geographic region, then transmitting, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, a message to one or more other processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the other processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238701 | Calendar Matching-up Social Network System And Method For Performing The Same - A calendar matching-up social network system and a method for performing the same are introduced, which do not only periodically gather and join at least one calendared data under various different computerized architectures into a web-based calendar provided from a specified community site for respective member but also actively intermediate and collect registering data of all of the members who have the same or similar specific information as contained in the gathered web-based calendars. Then, the system provides an intermediated message to the web-based calendar of the specified community site with respect to the respective member registering data with the same or similar specific information. This will facilitates establishment of a social relationship among those members having the same or similar specific information to share the specific information via the specified community site. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238702 | WIRELESS DISPLAY WITH MULTISCREEN SERVICE - Techniques of this disclosure are generally directed to a method of transmitting content of a first wireless computing device to a second wireless computing device. A first wireless computing device may initiate a WI-FI display (WFD) connection, transmit data from the first wireless computing device via the WFD connection to the second wireless computing device, execute a media sharing application that enables the first wireless computing device to share a media item of a playlist with a wireless client computing device, transmit information that describes the media item of the playlist to the wireless client computing device, wherein transmitting the information that describes the media item causes the second wireless computing device to determine if the wireless client computing device is capable of outputting the media item, and transmit the media item to the wireless client computing device. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238703 | MASTER VIEW CONTROLLER FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COMPANION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238704 | DYNAMIC CONTROLS FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238705 | WEB METHODS FOR A CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238706 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY FOLLOWING ENTITIES IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for causing an entity to automatically follow other entities in an online social network. Location information of an entity can be received, and an automatic follow rule applicable to the entity can be determined. The automatic follow rule may cause the entity to follow other entities when one or more conditions including a designated spatial proximity of the entity to the other entities is satisfied. When it is determined that one or more conditions is satisfied, data associated with the entity can be updated to indicate that the first entity follows the other entities. In some implementations, when the entity is associated with a temporal follow status and a trigger event specified by the automatic follow rule is satisfied, data associated with the entity can be updated to indicate that the entity does not follow the other entities. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238707 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To more effectively motivate a user to transmit information, an information processing system includes an information receiver that receives real-time information transmitted by a user terminal, a distributor that distributes the received real-time information to other predetermined user terminals, an analyzer that analyzes responses, from the other user terminals, to the distributed real-time information, an evaluator that evaluates the real-time information according to an analysis result, and an incentive provider that provides an incentive corresponding to the evaluation of the real-time information to a user who has transmitted the real-time information. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CALENDAR AND SPEED DATING FEATURES FOR MATCHING USERS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request at a communication broker for a communication session to involve a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the communication broker includes a processor and a memory element. The method may also include evaluating first calendar information for a first end user associated with the first endpoint and second calendar information for a second end user associated with the second endpoint. The method may also include reconciling the first calendar information with the second calendar information to provide a time slot for the communication session. Additionally, the method may include mapping first end user data to a first identity associated with the first end user, where the second endpoint is shown the first identity, and where the first end user data associated with the first endpoint is hidden from being shown to the second endpoint. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238709 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130238710 | System Apparatus Circuit Method and Associated Computer Executable Code for Generating and Providing Content Recommendations to a Group of Users - Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits, methods and computer executable code sets for generating and providing content recommendations to match the tastes and preferences of a group of users. a Recommendation Engine is used for generating two or more individual content recommendation sets for each of the members in the user group. A Recommendation Aggregation Module is used for adding and combining the individual content recommendation sets into an aggregated recommendation set. a Recommendation Selection Module is used for selecting at least a subset of the content items in the aggregated recommendation set for inclusion in a content recommendation result set. A Profile Engine is used for building individual group users profiles from which a merged group profile is constructed, or for building a single joint group profile based on inputs from multiple group users. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238711 | PEER-TO-PEER FILE TRANSFER BETWEEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND STORAGE DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates communication with a storage device. During operation, the system provides a physically operated mechanism for enabling detection of the storage device in proximity to a computer system using a discovery protocol. If detection of the storage device using the discovery protocol is enabled, the system uses the physically operated mechanism to establish a wireless peer-to-peer connection between the storage device and the computer system. The system then uses the wireless peer-to-peer connection to transfer a file between the storage device and the computer system. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238712 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SAVING AND RESUMING A STATE OF A COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION SESSION BETWEEN DEVICES BASED ON THEIR POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIP - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for saving and resuming a state of a collaborative interaction session between devices based on the positional relationship of the devices. A method may include determining, in an instance in which a first device and at least one second device are engaged in a collaborative interaction session, a first positional relationship. The method may further include receiving an indication of termination of the collaborative interaction session, determining the collaborative interaction session state and causing that state to be stored. The method may further include determining a second positional relationship and causing the collaborative interaction session to resume at the stored collaborative interaction session state based upon a relationship between the first positional relationship and the second positional relationship. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238713 | NOTIFYING ONLINE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT OF PRESENTING IDENTIFIED PORTION OF CONTENT - In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238714 | Occasionally-Connected Computing Interface - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for allowing a user to switch between interfacing with a service through a network or through short message service (SMS). A chat service is executed through which a first user at a first computer can communicate directly with a second user at a second computer. A request is received from the first computer to enable the first user to interface with the chat service through a mobile device of the first user using SMS instead of through the network using the first computer. The chat service is configured to interface with the mobile device through SMS, including communicating chat information through SMS to the first user's mobile device, and communicating control information through SMS to the first user's mobile device such that the first user can control a full functionality of the chat service using SMS. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238715 | ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SOURCE AND TARGET MAIL TRANSFER AGENTS - A system is provided for enabling a source MTA to communicate with a target MTA via an SMTP proxy using SMTP commands for transmitting email messages in a networked environment. An email message may be received by a source mail transport agent (MTA) and the source MTA may route the incoming email message to a target MTA via an SMTP proxy. The SMTP proxy may serve as an intermediary proxy server for enabling the source MTA to communicate with an external and internal target MTA. The SMTP proxy may connect to a target MTA via a connection command, and the SMTP proxy may implement custom SMTP commands to communicate additional information about the source MTA to the target MTA. The system may additionally enable the SMTP proxy to perform actions designated by the SMTP commands and to communicate the result of the SMTP proxy's actions back to the source MTA. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238716 | PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE STATUS MESSAGE IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for providing a collaborative status message in an instant messaging system. Instant Messaging (“IM”) users that belong to a group are identified. A collaborative status message (e.g., “In Meeting with User 2 and User 3”) is generated that specifies the IM users of the group (e.g., User 2 and User 3) that are participating in an event (e.g., meeting) with an IM user upon the event occurring. The collaborative status message is broadcasted to other IM users. In this manner, more detailed information can be provided to other IM users regarding the status of the IM user in question. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238717 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ALERTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to provide a user creating an electronic message one or more alerts related to the content and addressees of the electronic message. A computer identifies the one or more addressees of the electronic message. The computer determines one or more alerts associated with each of the identified one or more addressees. The computer displays the alerts in a manner that each step is performed prior to the computer transmitting the electronic message for delivery to one or more addressees. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238718 | STORING AND PARTITIONING EMAIL MESSAGING DATA - A system is provided for storing messaging data at a mail transport agent in a network environment. An email message may be transmitted over a network from a sender client to a recipient server through a plurality of mail transport agents (MTA). An MTA may receive an email message and may store messaging data for the email message in a data store associated with the MTA. The MTA may partition the messaging data into generations representing a defined time frame for the date and time that an email message was received. The MTA may enable a search operation to be performed on the stored generations for retrieving and replaying messaging data to a downstream recipient server. The MTA may continually clean the data store by deleting from the data store a generation of data that has expired and outlived the predefined hold period. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238719 | OPTIMIZED ROUTING FOR PROXY USE - A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238720 | METHOD FOR SHARING A FILE WHEN MULTIPLE VERSIONS EXIST - The present disclosure provides a method for sharing a file when multiple versions exist. Differences between the different versions of a file (e.g., attachment) are determined and only the determined differences are communicated. The complete file (e.g., attachment) can be recreated on user devices using a previous version of the file (e.g., attachment) and the transmitted differences, and the complete file (e.g., attachment) can be displayed on user devices so that the operation of the method is not visible to device users. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238721 | Method for Detecting and Unsubscribing an Address from a Series of Subscriptions - A method for detecting and unsubscribing one or more addresses from a series of subscriptions by examining the emails in the mailbox of the address and determining if they are from a subscription/automated mailing/list server by examining the header contents, the sender's address, the subject, the body and comparing each message to other messages to identify patterns. Then, examining each message to identify methods of unsubscribing from the Subscription. Finally, unsubscribing from the Subscriptions either automatically, or in a semi-manual method and optionally deleting all messages associated with the Subscription. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238722 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, a communication device and method for processing messages are provided. The method includes receiving message data at the communication device, the message data including at least a subject; receiving an instruction to send the message data; determining, responsive to receiving the instruction, whether the message data includes a message body; and when the determination is negative, automatically adding an indicator to the subject prior to sending the message data, the indicator corresponding to the negative determination. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING STATUS INFORMATION - To avoid the need to access multiple applications and perform multiple corresponding status changes each time a user or device's status or availability changes, multiple status updates can be generated and provided to corresponding systems, according to a detected event. To enable status updates to be provided to multiple systems based on the detected event, a status update module can be used, which is operable to send multiple status updates to multiple systems on behalf of a mobile device. By using a status server or other network-based component to performing such updating, processing can be offloaded from the mobile devices and updates can be performed even when the mobile devices are not communicable with the systems being updated. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238724 | SHARING IMAGES FROM IMAGE VIEWING AND EDITING APPLICATION - Some embodiments provide an image-editing application. The image-editing application uploads an image to a remote image hosting website. From the image hosting website, the application receives data that identifies the image on the remote image hosting website. The application uses the received data to identify when a user of the remote image hosting website has commented on the image. The application displays the user comments from the remote image hosting website in the image-editing application. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238725 | CHAT AND NOTIFICATION SERVICES FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238726 | Method And System Of Transferring Electronic Messages - The invention relates to a method and system of transferring internet electronic messages (e-mails). The method comprises the steps of creating a first e-mail by sender's mail user agent ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130238727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT ENHANCED MESSAGING - A system and method for media enhanced messaging. A message from a message sender to be delivered to at least one message recipient is received over a network. The message comprises at least one delivery criteria and at least one content criteria. When it is determined, via the network that the delivery criteria of the message has been satisfied, a query is formulated based on the content criteria so as to search, via the network, for user profile data, social network data, spatial data, temporal data and topical data that is available via the network and relates to the content criteria and to media files so as to identify at least one media file that is relevant to the content criteria. The media files are inserted into the message and the message is transmitted over the network to the recipient. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238728 | Cross Platform Messaging - Described herein are methods and systems for displaying an email conversation similar to an instant message format by integrating aspects of an email system with an instant messaging interface. In one aspect, messages may be sent over existing email channels using email protocols through email servers and an email system (e.g., email client and/or email server) may identify the messages as cross-platform messages (CPM) based on whether the message body includes either no or only predefined content, or the message includes a predefined unique identifier. If a message is identified as a CPM then the message is treated similar to an instant message and may be displayed in a threaded view. In some embodiments, messages having content in the body may be treated as conventional email messages. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238729 | COMMUNICATION COLLABORATION - A communication collaboration system may include a memory storing machine readable instructions to receive a first signal representing a first mode of communication for a user. The communication collaboration system may further include machine readable instructions to seamlessly escalate the first signal to a second signal representing a second mode of communication for the user. The second mode of communication may be different from the first mode of communication. The communication collaboration system may further include a processor to implement the machine readable instructions. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238730 | ONLINE BACKUP SYSTEM - A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing files from email account systems. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing a file stored in a memory of a local device, including determining a local file path specifying the location of the file in the memory. The file is uploaded to an email server, where it is stored in association with a user's email account. The local file path, email account information, and an identifier of the file are sent for storage by a management server. The uploaded file is accessed by the email account information and the file identifier. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a handwritten comment acquisition unit configured to acquire, as an image object, handwritten comment information for a print product obtained by printing an original image, a selection unit configured to select the handwritten comment information based on a user's instruction, an electronic comment acquisition unit configured to acquire electronic comment information for the handwritten comment information selected by the selection unit, a thread management unit configured to manage, as thread information, the handwritten comment information selected by the selection unit and the electronic comment information acquired by the electronic comment acquisition unit in association with each other, and a display unit configured to superimpose the thread information managed by the thread management unit on the original image to display the thread information in a thread shape. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238732 | INSTANT MESSAGING ROBOT TO PROVIDE PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238733 | INTERFACE BETWEEN WEB APPLICATIONS FOR TEXT MESSAGING AND PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed for interfacing SMS/MMS web applications with packet-switched networks. One embodiment comprises a system that handles a Mobile Terminated (MT) text message from a web application to a packet-switched network. The system receives a send command for the MT text message from the web application. The send command is based on a standard used by the web application, such as Parlay X. The system converts the send command for the MT text message to a SIP send request, and transmits the SIP send request for the MT text message to a packet-switched network for delivery to a recipient. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238734 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically, where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user's address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238735 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically, where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user's address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238736 | COMMUNICATION NODE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A COMMUNICATION - A communication node includes a transmission and receipt setting part configured to perform a transmission setting or a receipt setting for each information based on a transmission request or a receipt request included in a transmission and receipt request information corresponding to a second communication node detected by a communication node detector among the transmission and receipt request information stored in a memory part, a communication part configured to transmit information representing the transmission setting or the receipt setting set by the transmission and receipt setting part and to receive information representing the transmission setting or the receipt setting from another first communication node, and a consistency determining part configured to determine consistency of the transmission setting or the receipt setting set by the transmission and receipt setting part and the transmission setting or the receipt setting received by the communication part from another first communication node. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238737 | PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE STATUS MESSAGE IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for providing a collaborative status message in an instant messaging system. Instant Messaging (“IM”) users that belong to a group are identified. A collaborative status message (e.g., “In Meeting with User 2 and User 3”) is generated that specifies the IM users of the group (e.g., User 2 and User 3) that are participating in an event (e.g., meeting) with an IM user upon the event occurring. The collaborative status message is broadcasted to other IM users. In this manner, more detailed information can be provided to other IM users regarding the status of the IM user in question. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238738 | DISTRIBUTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING LINK AGGREGATION CONTROL PROTOCOL (LACP) STANDARD STATE MACHINES - The present invention provides a distributed method for implementing Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) standard state machines, wherein the method includes: after receiving a message, a physical port transmits it to a receive machine; the receive machine, a periodic transmission machine, a multiplexer (MUX) machine, and a transmit machine are triggered to operate in turn; the selection logic on a master controller is triggered to operate, and the processing of the message is completed according to the physical link selection state of the selection logic on the master controller; wherein, the receive machine, periodic transmission machine, MUX machine, and transmit machine operate on the link card at which the physical port is located, and the selection logic operates on the master controller | 2013-09-12 |
20130238739 | USER DEVICE GROUP FORMATION - 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. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238740 | Caching of Fragmented Streaming Media - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for caching fragmented streaming media, e.g., for caching fragmented media documents streamed in accordance with HTTP, are described in this specification. In one aspect, a system including means for obtaining, locally, fragments of a media document from a remote media source based on a manifest that refers to storage locations where the fragments are stored at the remote media source. Further, the system includes means for generating index points into a locally cached media item of the obtained fragments, the generated index points being different from any index point of the manifest. Additionally, the system includes means for playing the locally cached media item based on the generated index points. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238741 | METHOD AND A CONTROL NODE IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK - A first control node and a method therein for selecting the first control node or a second control node to act as a server are provided. The first and second control nodes are comprised in an overlay network. The first control node obtains a first indication relating to a ranking of a suitability of the first control node to act as the server. Furthermore, the first control node receives a second indication from the second control node. The second indication relates to a ranking of a suitability of the second control node to act as the server. Then, the first control node selects, based on the first and second indications, one of the first and second control nodes to act as the server for managing a master representation of a distributed shared memory being accessible within the overlay network. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238742 | TIERS OF DATA STORAGE FOR WEB APPLICATIONS AND BROWSER EXTENSIONS - Access is provided to a first tier of limited persistent storage at a server. A first set of data from the first tier is synchronized across devices associated with a user account. Access is provided to a second tier of persistent storage on a local, tangible non-volatile storage medium, and to a third tier of temporary storage on a local, tangible volatile storage medium. A web browser receives a storage request from a web application or browser extension. The request includes a type of a tier of data storage associated with a feature of the web application or browser extension. The type includes at least one of the first tier of remote limited persistent storage, the second tier of local persistent storage, or the third tier of local temporary storage. At least one feature of the web application or browser extension is associated with the tier of data storage. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238743 | Adaptive Private Network Asynchronous Distributed Shared Memory Services - A highly predicable quality shared distributed memory process is achieved using less than predicable public and private internet protocol networks as the means for communications within the processing interconnect. An adaptive private network (APN) service provides the ability for the distributed memory process to communicate data via an APN conduit service, to use high throughput paths by bandwidth allocation to higher quality paths avoiding lower quality paths, to deliver reliability via fast retransmissions on single packet loss detection, to deliver reliability and timely communication through redundancy transmissions via duplicate transmissions on high a best path and on a most independent path from the best path, to lower latency via high resolution clock synchronized path monitoring and high latency path avoidance, to monitor packet loss and provide loss prone path avoidance, and to avoid congestion by use of high resolution clock synchronized enabled congestion monitoring and avoidance. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238744 | OBJECT MEDIATED DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems, devices and methods for transferring data between two or more different electronic devices are described further herein. The data transfer is mediated by an object, such as a stylus, having a unique identifier. The same object is used when copying the data from a first electronic device and when pasting the data at a second electronic device. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238745 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A USER ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing content. The method comprises receiving a first login request from a first device used by a user, the request being associated with a first anonymous identifier associated with the first device, and determining a user tag for the user, that does not include any personally identifiable information associated with the user. The method further comprises receiving a second login request from a second different device used by the user, the request being associated with a second different anonymous identifier associated with the second different device, and storing an association between the user tag, the first anonymous identifier and the second different anonymous identifier. The method further comprises receiving a request for content from either the first or second different device and providing content in response to the request using the association. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238746 | Non-Intrusive Proxy System and Method for Applications Without Proxy Support - A system and method is disclosed for enabling a redirection application to use non-proxy-enabled modules for communication with a server through a proxy server, in which a non-proxy-enabled module takes an address or an URL as the input to establish a connection with the server. This system and method does not require administrative access (e.g. super-user, root, and the like), which is useful for mobile devices where obtaining such privileges is typically difficult. In one embodiment, a media application may use a media player provided by an operating system as a module. In this embodiment, the media application is the redirection application and the media player is the module. The non-proxy-enabled modules use addresses or URLs to locate and fetch data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238747 | IMAGE BEAMING FOR A MEDIA EDITING APPLICATION - Some embodiments provide a method of transmitting images. The method automatically detects through a network a set of devices broadcasting wireless point-to-point communication services. The method displays a list of the set of devices to allow selection of a device in the set of devices. Upon receiving a selection of a particular device in the set of devices for receiving an image, the method identifies image data that represents the image. The method transmits the image data to the particular device for display on the particular device. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238748 | ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - Electronic distribution device for repeatedly distributing content comprising a plurality of content elements to a user terminal device at a predetermined distribution time, comprising a storage unit for storing away view history information for storing, for each content element and for each user, a view count of views of the content by the user; and a control unit for determining a combination of a content element capable of being distributed after a predetermined distribution time and a user, on the basis of the view count of the view history information, and generating and distributing the content element of the determined combination to the user terminal device used by the user of the determined combination, after the distribution time, after receiving a view request for the content element from the user terminal device. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238749 | Gateway-assisted file transfer - A file transfer application maintains a secure connection over the Internet with a file transfer gateway. A user selects a file and the file transfer application requests a unique ticket from the gateway. The ticket is stored in both the gateway and the file transfer application. Next, the ticket is then encoded in a URL that can be sent to potential recipients of the file via conventional methods. Upon entering the URL into a web browser, the recipient will navigate to the file transfer gateway. The gateway decodes the URL to recover the ticket and looks up the ticket in the database to determine the associated application instance and file description. The gateway will then request the application instance to start encrypting and streaming the contents of the file identified by the ticket to the gateway, which then retransmits the encrypted stream to the recipient's web browser. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238750 | Method and Apparatus of Determining Redirection Quality, and Method and Apparatus of Placing Promotion Information - A number of first jump visits that have been redirected by a jump server of a first website to a corresponding promotion web page in the first website through clicking of the promotion information displayed at a second website is counted. A number of second jump visits that have been redirected by a click server of the first website to a corresponding transaction web page through clicking of transaction information on the promotion web page is counted. A second jump visit rate for the promotion information is determined based on the counted number of the first jump visits and the counted number of second jump visits. The redirection quality of the promotion information is determined based on the determined second jump visit rate. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238751 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION BASED ON A VALUE METRIC - Embodiments of methods, systems and apparatuses for distributing content over a communication network based on a value metric, are disclosed. One method includes managing, by at least one content distribution server, a plurality of content. The method further includes assisting preloading of at least a portion of a content to a storage element as directed by a service provider, wherein the content is selected from the plurality of content based on a value metric, wherein the value metric includes a cost parameter, and wherein the storage element is coupled to the at least one content distribution server over the communication network. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238752 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT FOR CLOUD COMPUTING - A cloud service system includes at least one user device, a plurality of clouds for providing different cloud services, and a gateway connected between the user device and the clouds. The gateway selects at least one of the clouds according to predefined Service Level Agreement (SLA) information, and stores content provided from the user device to the selected cloud. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238753 | PROVIDING RELEVANT NON-REQUESTED CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are directed towards providing non-requested content to a mobile terminal based on characteristics of, and tracked usage of the mobile terminal to request content through an online portal service, which provides access to content in multiple subject areas. A mobile user profile is created from the characteristics and patterns of the tracked usage. The tracked usage information includes the time, location, frequency at which the content was requested. Based on the mobile user profile information, content related to previously requested content is provided to the mobile terminal upon a trigger that is related to the requested content. The trigger event may include the mobile terminal returning to a location from which certain content was previously requested. The non-requested content may further be based on a related general user profile that indicates usage of an alternate electronic device to access content through the portal. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238754 | Automated content delivery to distributed media outlets - A method can include sending a request to a media content provider requesting media content and receiving the media content and instructions from the media provider. The instructions can be utilized by the media provider to broadcast the media content. The media provider can store the received media content in a database process the instructions then distribute the media content and the instructions to distributed media outlets. The media content provider can receive information indicating that the media content was broadcast by the distributed media outlets according to the instructions. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238755 | CONTEXT-AWARE CONTENT DELIVERY - A flexible and context-aware delivery scheme for uniform resource locators builds on a generic representation that can be used for whichever binary content is to be delivered to a client. It can also be applied to improve the network operations of a network operator, the user's perceived quality of experience, and the costs of a content provider that does not need to encode and support different codecs and transport mechanisms. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238756 | SOCIAL COMPUTING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a social computing system which comprises an input channel to receive data from a source channel, a server to store a plurality of data, a processing device to compute said data into a set of output operations. The set of output operations comprise a floating motion of a plurality of users in a network, a means for linking one or more users to a point of interest in said network, a means for linking at least two users in said network and a means for following and physically attaching at least one user in said network. The present invention also relates to a method of social computing. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238757 | DISTRIBUTED PLAYBACK SESSION CUSTOMIZATION FILE MANAGEMENT - A method, device and/or system for syndicating customization files, which define playback experience for content rendered on media players. The customization files are referenced by links distributed to the media players. Each customization file references a plurality of content objects that are stitched together to create the playback experience. A delivery network is used to distribute the customization files to the media players. Updates to the customization files can be done after distribution of their corresponding links. Usage information for the customization files are reported from the media players. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238758 | METHOD FOR TRANSRECEIVING MEDIA CONTENT AND DEVICE FOR TRANSRECEIVING USING SAME - Provided are a method and device for transmitting/receiving media content via internet. The method includes: configuring the media content with a plurality of representations; dividing the configured representation into a plurality segments; aligning subsegments in the segment; and transmitting one of the representations, wherein the subsegments are aligned to allow the earliest presentation time of the kth subsegment in the first representation to be greater than the latest presentation time of the k−1th subsegment in the second representation among the representations. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238759 | SPOOFING TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSPARENT PROXY CACHING - In one embodiment, a proxy device in a computer network receives a redirected client request having a request source address as a client address and a request source port as a client port. The proxy device then decides whether to serve, proxy, or bypass the client request, and in response to deciding to proxy the client request, forwards the client request to a corresponding server with the request source address as the client address and the request source port altered to a selected proxy port value corresponding to the proxy. In addition, the proxy device may then receive a redirected server reply for the client request that has a reply destination address as the client address and a reply destination port as the selected proxy port value, wherein the redirected server reply is received from a forwarding device based on selected proxy port value within the reply destination port. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238760 | MANAGEMENT METHODS AND RELATED COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS USING THE SAME - Management methods for use in a computer system including a wireless module and a processing unit which are turned off are provided. The wireless module is activated to scan at least on access point (AP) to obtain a scanning result during each count period, the processing unit being turned off during performing scanning. Thereafter, the wireless module determines whether to activate the processing unit to wake up the computer system to download update data from a network according to scanning result and predetermined setting. When scanning result does not match with predetermined setting or no update data is to be downloaded from network, the processing unit and the wireless module are turned off. When scanning result matches predetermined setting and an update data is available to be downloaded, the processing unit is activated to wake up the computer system to download update data from network. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238761 | DISTRIBUTING CONTENT BY GENERATING AND PRELOADING QUEUES OF CONTENT - Embodiments of methods, systems and apparatuses for distributing content by generating and preloading queues of content, are disclosed. One content distribution system includes at least one network content server coupled over one or more communication networks to a plurality of user devices, and a one or more storage elements associated with the plurality of user devices, wherein each of the plurality of user devices is associated with at least one of the one or more storage elements. The at least one network content server includes at least one processor configured to generate a queue of content for each of the plurality of user devices based on parameters of a plurality of available content, and based on storage capabilities of the at least one of the one or more storage elements associated with each of the plurality of user devices, and assist preloading at of least a portion of the queue of content of each of the plurality of user devices to the at least one of the one or more storage elements associated with the user device. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238762 | CONTENT BROKER THAT OFFERS PRELOADING OPPORTUNITIES - Embodiments of methods, systems and apparatuses for a content broker that offers preloading opportunities, are disclosed. One content broker system includes at least one content distribution server coupled through one or more communications networks to a plurality of user devices and one or more content providers. The at least one content distribution server is operative to obtain at least one of a user device parameter or a user parameter, wherein the user parameter is associated with at least one user associated with one or more of the plurality of user devices. The at least one content distribution server is further operative to classify a plurality of storage elements associated with the plurality of user devices based on the at least one of the user device parameter or the user parameter, offer preloading opportunities to at least one of the one or more content providers, select a content from a plurality of content available from the one or more content providers based on the classified plurality of storage elements and responses to the offered preloading opportunities, and assist preloading of at least a portion of the selected content to at least one of the plurality of storage elements. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238763 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVISIONING A PUSH NOTIFICATION SESSION - A system and method for provisioning a push notification session via a communications network between an application on a client terminal and a server corresponding to the application. In one aspect, a push provisioning entity transmits a message to the client terminal, whereby to configure the client terminal into a state in which it is able to request a push notification session with the server. An application on the client terminal can then request establishment of a push notification session by transmitting a push notification session request message to the push provisioning entity. The push provisioning entity generates a token for use in validating the push notification session, associates the generated token with the application and transmits the token to the application, which uses it to establish the push notification session. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238764 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, SERVICE-PROVIDING METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND A PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - The effort of changing an application in conjunction with a change in process content or change in the type or specifications of a receiver can be reduced, and a cooperative process involving a plurality of receivers without going through an application can be achieved. An integrated device control service acquires output data, information related to the address of a first receiver and a first style sheet for the first receiver, and information related to the address of a second receiver and a second style sheet for the second receiver from an application and a style sheet database that stores a plurality of style sheets describing information conversion rules. In accordance with the success or failure of first conversion data distribution, the integrated device control service sends second conversion data, which is the output data converted according to the second style sheet, to the second receiver. | 2013-09-12 |
20130238765 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RAPID DATA ACQUISITION OVER THE INTERNET - The present invention includes apparatuses, methods, computer readable media and systems comprising means for rapid data acquisition from a server are discussed herein. This rapid data acquisition can be achieved using a combination of bulk data requests and small data requests. A hybrid approach that uses simultaneous bulk and small data requests can provide random access to data files while achieving the high download speeds of a large data transfer. | 2013-09-12 |