37th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120233159 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES - In response to a query of discernible facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings by matching feature vectors in a bipartite graph to a base layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights parameterized by an associated base layer parameter vector. Second-layer rankings define second-layer attribute vectors as bilinear combinations of the base-layer feature vectors and associated base layer parameter vectors for common attributes, which are matched in a bipartite graph to a second-layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights parameterized by associated second-layer parameter vectors. The images are thus ranked for relevance to the query as a function of fusing the second-layer rankings. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER TO IDENTIFY THE CONTEXTS OF SEARCH RESULTS - The present invention provides a method and a system of providing assistance to a user to identify at least one context of a received content. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving at least one content location as input from the user, extracting the content from the received content location and displaying a plurality of contexts relevant to the content from the received content location, wherein the contexts include one or more topics, and wherein the topics are part of one or more ontologies. In second embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving at least one search result of a search query and providing the contexts relevant to the search results, wherein the contexts include one or more topics, and wherein the topics are part of one or more ontologies. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233161 | SEARCH ENGINE WITH AUGMENTED RELEVANCE RANKING BY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for ranking a result set. The method according to one embodiment comprises selecting an item from the result set, selecting a user profile from one or more user profiles and selecting one or more items of personalized information from the selected user profile. A rank is calculated for the item on the basis of the selected one or more items of personalized information and the selected item in the result set is ranked in accordance with the calculated rank. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233162 | METHOD OF STORING PHONE BOOK DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method and mobile communication terminal for storing phone book data in the mobile communication terminal are provided in which phone book data can be registered group-by-group, where a predetermined is selected group among the registered groups in response to a user's request, and at least one of phone book data stored in the selected group is moved and stored into a group assigned by the user when a phone book data movement request is input by the user. Accordingly, a plurality of phone book data stored in a predetermined group among phone book data stored in a group basis in a mobile communication terminal can be easily moved and stored into another group. In addition, since the user can easily store phone book data whose group is not identified in a predetermined group, user convenience improves. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233163 | DETECTING APPLICATION SIMILARITY - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes selecting for analysis by a computing device, an executable application, and identifying a group of application programming interfaces (APIs) utilized by the application when the application is executed. The method may also identifying a group of related applications that are each related to the application based on the group of APIs utilized by the application, wherein each related application of the group of related applications utilizes one or more APIs of the group of APIs utilized by the application. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233164 | MUSIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present identifies collections of digital music and sound that effectively elicit particular emotional responses as a function of analytical features from the audio signal and information concerning the background and preferences of the subject. The invention can change emotional classifications along with variations in the audio signal over time. Interacting with a listener, the invention locates music with desired emotional characteristics from a central repository, assembles these into an effective and engaging “playlist” (sequence of songs), and plays the music files in the calculated order to the listener. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233165 | DETECTING APPLICATION SIMILARITY - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes selecting for analysis by a computing device, an executable application, and identifying a group of application programming interfaces (APIs) utilized by the application when the application is executed. The method may also identifying a group of related applications that are each related to the application based on the group of APIs utilized by the application, wherein each related application of the group of related applications utilizes one or more APIs of the group of APIs utilized by the application. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233166 | TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM,CONTENT DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A content data management apparatus that manages tag data indicating attributes relating to content data, comprising: an extraction section that extracts positional information indicating geographic positions associated with the content data and time information indicating time points associated with the content data, the positional information and the time information being attached to the content data; a speed computation section that computes speeds associated with the content data, based on the positional information and the time information extracted by the extraction section; and a grouping section that groups the content data, based on the speeds computed by the speed computation section. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233167 | MEDIA ITEM CLUSTERING BASED ON SIMILARITY DATA - Methods and arrangements for facilitating generation of media mixes for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program. A program participant must send, and the system, receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. The system or program determines a relative similarity of each item from the collection of program participants as compared to each other item and from the similarity information clusters of similar items are identified. The clusters can be used to identify clusters of similar items in an individual program participant's media library and therefrom mixes of similar media items can be created. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233168 | SOUND AND IMAGE SEGMENT SORTING DEVICE AND METHOD - A sound segment sorting unit ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120233169 | Alert Notification Distribution Tool - An alert notification distribution tool is disclosed. In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving raw data from a first data source in a first format and converting the raw data to conditioned data. The method also includes selecting, based on user input, a first category of a plurality of categories included in the conditioned data. The method also includes selecting, based on user input, one or more values from a plurality of values associated with the selected first category and generating a distribution group based on the selected first category and the selected one or more values associated with the selected first category, the distribution group including one or more contact addresses. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233170 | CONTENT AGGREGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASING SYSTEM - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND UPDATING DATA FROM A NUMBER OF SOURCES FOR A PROJECT - The disclosure relates to a system and method for managing data from a number of systems. The method comprises: defining a set of objects for the data; defining a set of classes for the data; maintaining a catalog for each instance of the data; in the catalog identifying each instance's source system and its level of harmonization with other data; applying a set of harmonization rules to identify from the data a group of related data and an owner of the group; identifying differences in instantiations within the group; and initiating update requests to affected systems having the identified differences. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233172 | SYSTEM TO CATALOG AND SEARCH POINT-IN-TIME INSTANCES OF A FILE SYSTEM - A system to catalog and search point-in-tine instances of a file system is disclosed. A catalog engine takes backups of file data generated by a storage system and catalogs the backups of file data into a searchable catalog of independent metadata records. The metadata is represented by baseline structure and delta files. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233173 | DETERMINING PREFERRED CATEGORIES BASED ON USER ACCESS ATTRIBUTE VALUES - Determining one or more preferred categories for a user is disclosed, including: determining a plurality of access attribute values corresponding to a plurality of types of access attributes associated with an access of the website by the current user; determining a plurality of categories corresponding to the plurality of access attribute values based at least in part on stored corresponding relationships between categories and access attribute values, wherein at least a portion of the determined plurality of categories comprises one or more preferred categories from which one or more products are configured to be recommended to the current user; and presenting product information associated with the one or more preferred categories. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN ORDINARY ARTICLE OF COMMERCE TO ACCESS A REMOTE COMPUTER - A system and method for using identification codes found on ordinary articles of commerce to access remote computers on a network. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer is provided having a database that relates Uniform Product Code (“UPC”) numbers to Internet network addresses (or “URLs”). To access an Internet resource relating to a particular product, a user enters the product's UPC symbol manually, by swiping a bar code reader over the UPC symbol, or via other suitable input means. The database retrieves the URL corresponding to the UPC code. This location information is then used to access the desired resource. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233175 | DATABASE, SLIP DATA MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND INDEX DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a database storing an index table in which index data used for retrieval of slip data that are generated for every business unit in a business process are registered. The index data are data containing a plurality of slip processed data respectively corresponding to the slip data. The slip processed data are data in which a specific item, which contains a predetermined item suitable for grasp of a business process in each business and a key item defined in advance in each business. The content of the specific item among items respectively set up to the slip data on various kinds of businesses are associated with each other in unit of slip data. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233176 | EFFICIENT INDEXING AND SEARCHING OF ACCESS CONTROL LISTED DOCUMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing a plurality of documents in computer-readable memory, each document of the plurality of documents having a corresponding access control list (ACL), each ACL defining a plurality of users that are authorized to access a respective document, generating an index based on the plurality of users, the index comprising a plurality of partitions, each partition corresponding to a user of the plurality of users, and, for each document of the plurality of documents: ranking the users of the plurality of users, selecting a user as an indexing user based on the ranking, and storing the document in a partition of the index, the partition corresponding to the indexing user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233177 | RANKING IMPORTANCE OF SYMBOLS IN UNDERLYING GROUPED AND DIFFERENTIATED FILES BASED ON CONTENT - Methods and apparatus identify groups of files based on symbols corresponding to an underlying data stream of original bits of data that are determined to be informationally important. The resulting symbols of a selected group are ordered according to how effectively each symbol characterizes the selected group of interest. The subset of symbols is used to find similar files from a general population of files to the files in the group of interest. Additionally, groups of common files can be identified from a general population of files and a group selected therefrom for use in identifying a subset of symbols which characterize the selected group for use as a filter to identify further like files. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233178 | Generating Improved Document Classification Data Using Historical Search Results - A server system accesses, respectively, historical query information for queries that have search results corresponding to first information items and second information items and classification data of the first information items. Initially, the first information items are classified and the second information items are unclassified. Based on the classification data of the first information items and the historical query information, the server system generates classification data for the second information items and stores the generated classification data therein. In response to requests for service from client devices, the server system provides customized services to the client devices using the second information items and the corresponding classification data generated for the second information items. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233179 | System, Method and Apparatus for Tagging and Processing Multimedia Content with the Physical/Emotional States of Authors and Users - A system, method and apparatus which enables the tagging of multimedia content with the physical and emotional states of authors and users thereby making it searchable by emotion or physical state. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233180 | SELECTING A DATA ELEMENT IN A NETWORK - One embodiment of the disclosure can represent within a K-partite graph, weighting factors between a set of identifier elements and a set of data elements. The K-partite graph can also represent weighting factors between the set of identifier elements and a set of metadata elements. In the K-partite graph, the set of identifier elements, the set of data elements, and the set of metadata elements are independent and disjoint sets such that no two vertices within a same set are adjacent. A score vector can be calculated that ranks each data element in a set of data elements. The score vector can be calculated from the weighting factors. At least one data element from the set of data elements can be selected using the score vector and a predetermined selection criterion. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233181 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SEARCHING WITHIN A SUB-DOMAN BY LINKING TO OTHER SUB-DOMAINS - The present invention may provide a system, method and computer program for searching a sub-domain that involves linking to other sub-domains. In particular, the present invention may provide a sub-domain search that ranks and/or weighs search results based on relevance, such relevance being determined by a calculation operating on a broader range of domain and/or sub-domains than a single sub-domain. The present invention may weight and score a search of web pages in a sub-domain based on the content of web pages in other sub-domains. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233182 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADAPTING A DATA MODEL TO A USER INTERFACE COMPONENT - A display of a source data model on a user interface component being associated with a target data model is provided. The source data model and the target data model comprise a collection of data types (class/object), each including a set of name and type attributes. For each source data type of the source data model, a matching target data type is determined among said target data types in the target data model. Said source data type is linked to said matching target data type. A display of said source data model using said link between a source data type and a target data type. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, CALCULATION METHOD OF EVALUATION SCORES, AND PROGRAM - Techniques are disclosed for selecting an item to recommend to a user from a plurality of items. A first set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a first scoring algorithm having a first scale, and a second set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a second scoring algorithm having a second scale. The second set of scores may be adjusted to match the second scale to the first scale, and a third set of scores may be calculated for the plurality of items by combining the first set of scores and the adjusted second set of scores. An item may be selected from the plurality of items to recommend to the user based on the third set of scores. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233184 | User Interface Methods and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on User Relationships - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233185 | STRING MATCHING IN HARDWARE USING THE FM-INDEX - String matching is a ubiquitous problem that arises in a wide range of applications in computer science, e.g., packet routing, intrusion detection, web querying, and genome analysis. Due to its importance, dozens of algorithms and several data structures have been developed over the years. A recent breakthrough in this field is the FM-index, a data structure that synergistically combines the Burrows-Wheeler transform and the suffix array. In software, the FM-index allows searching (exact and approximate) in times comparable to the fastest known indices for large texts (suffix trees and suffix arrays), but has the additional advantage to be much more space-efficient than those indices. This disclosure discusses an FPGA-based hardware implementation of the FM-index for exact and approximate pattern matching. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233186 | EXPOSING AND USING METADATA AND META-METADATA - Concepts and technologies are described herein for exposing and using metadata and for exposing meta-metadata in a tabularized format. Metadata associated with one or more ERP services is collected, parsed, and loaded into one or more sets of tables. The tables of metadata are exposed to software and/or devices to provide various functionality. The tables of metadata and meta-metadata data exposed in tabularized format are used at runtime, design time and/or at other times, and are used to provide various functionality. The tables of metadata and meta-metadata also are used to identify and track modifications made to one or more application objects associated with the ERP services, and to apply the modifications to new versions of metadata associated with the application objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING AND READING TXT FILE - A method and apparatus for decoding and reading a txt file are provided, and the reading method comprises: virtually dividing the txt file into several file blocks in accordance with the set macro value; according to the reading order, loading the file blocks in turn and decoding the contents of the file blocks; in accordance with the displaying requirement, performing the paging process for the decoded file blocks and storing the page table information thereof; for the pages needed to be read, invoking the interface function of Brew platform and displaying them according to the stored page table information. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233188 | RELATIVISTIC CONCEPT MEASURING SYSTEM FOR DATA CLUSTERING - A method and apparatus for mapping concepts and attributes to distance fields via rvachev-functions. The steps including generating, for a plurality of objects, equations representing boundaries of attributes for each respective object, converting, for a plurality of objects, the equations into greater than or equal to zero type inequalities, generating, for a plurality of objects, a logical expression combining regions of space defined by the inequalities into a semantic entity, and substituting, for a plurality of objects, the logical expression with a corresponding rvachev-function such that the resulting rvachev-function is equal to 0 on a boundary of the semantic entity, greater then 0 inside a region of the semantic entity, and less then 0 outside the region of the semantic entity. Also included is the step of generating a composite rvachev-function representing logical statements corresponding to the plurality of objects using the respective rvachev-functions of the objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233189 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A FILE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method of receiving a file including receiving a file and receiving at least one tag path associated with the file. The tag path has a lowest node and a highest node and each the node having a tag vector. The method also includes selecting at least one storage path for which a similarity between the tag vector of the lowest node and the tag vector of the highest node exceeds a predetermined threshold and storing the file under the storage path. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233190 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR POLYNOMIAL-BASED DATA TRANSFORMATION AND UTILIZATION - An apparatus for polynomial based data transformation may include a processor. The processor may be configured to identify data that is relevant to a set of one or more queries and generate an information source vector that indicates information sources associated with the data. The processor may also be configured to generate a cyclotomic polynomial based on the information source vector and factor the cyclotomic polynomial to generate a plurality of orthogonal data signatures. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING CONTENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - An entity is provided a recommendation based on content associated with the entity. The entity may be a user or a group. The recommendation may be one or more other users, groups, or other data objects having associated content that is similar to the content that is associated with the entity. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARDS BY SEARCHING STORAGE MEANS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ONE OR MORE CRITERIA - A system (S) is dedicated to providing electronic business cards, comprising information related to people and to any positions that those people occupy within companies, to communication devices (EC | 2012-09-13 |
20120233193 | SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THROUGH A MUSIC CATALOG USING CORRELATION METRICS OF A KNOWLEDGE BASE OF MEDIASETS - A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog and generate recommendations using behavioral metrics such as correlation metrics (FIGS. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233194 | MEDICAL DATA GENERATING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL DATA GENERATING METHOD - A medical data generating apparatus includes a data processing unit, a work-status data generation unit, a display unit and a work-status restoration unit. The data processing unit acquires medical data from a database to perform data processing. The work-status data generation unit generates work-status data as a data record of medical data. The work-status data indicates a work status of the data processing. The display unit acquires medical data including at least one piece of work-status data from the database to list the acquired pieces of the medical data on a display device together with identification information of the acquired piece of the work-status data. The work-status restoration unit restores a work status of a data processing corresponding to a selected piece of work-status data based on the selected piece of the work-status data. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233195 | Web Service Discovery Via Data Abstraction Model - A method includes querying a discovery registry associated with a data abstraction model of a database to discover one or more web services that are resolvable based on a particular logical field selected via a database query interface. The data abstraction model includes a plurality of logical fields that each correspond to a particular data structure of the database. A web service input of a discovered web service is associated with a first logical field of the data abstraction model via the discovery registry, and a web service output of the discovered web service is associated with a second logical field of the data abstraction model via the discovery registry. A modified database query interface includes a text entry element to receive a text search term and a first selectable input associated with the first discovered web service. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233196 | CROSS LANGUAGE SEARCH OPTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for cross-language image search. One method includes receiving an image search query and image search results responsive to the image search query. Translations of the image search query into other languages are obtained, and search results responsive to each of the translations are received. Instructions are provided to a client device. The instructions cause the client device to present a user interface that includes one or more of the image search results responsive to the image search query and a cross-language search option for each of the translations. Each cross-language search option includes the translation and a preview of the image search results responsive to the translation. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233197 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND MEMBER SEARCHING AND ANALYZING METHOD IN SOCIAL NETWORK - A social network searching system includes a user profile storage, a profile search engine and a linkage construction engine. The user profile storage stores user profiles. The profile search engine obtains a target member by searching the user profile storage based on a profile query from a query user. The linkage construction engine constructs a relationship linkage and extracting an optimal path from at least two paths from the query user to the target member according to a relationship linkage. A member searching and analyzing method of social network is also disclosed. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233198 | CREATING VIRTUAL WORLDS FROM EXISTING DATA STRUCTURES - Virtual worlds are generated from pre-existing data structures containing non-geometric data. An existing data structure containing non-geometric data is access and queried to identify parameters and the dependency structure of data in the data structure. Geometric objects are designed based on the identified parameters and dependency structure, and a virtual world is created from the geometric objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233199 | Intelligent Web Caching - Methods and apparatuses that store two or more items in a persistent cache with time stamps indicating similarity of the items are described. In response to receiving a request, one of the items uniquely identified by the request may be retrieved from the persistent cache. The retrieved item may have a time stamp. In one embodiment, additional items may be searched from the persistent cache according to the time stamp. The search may identify the additional items having time stamps similar to the time stamp of the retrieved item. The additional items may be retrieved from the persistent cache and stored in a memory cache to allow faster retrieval of the additional items when requested. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233200 | DATABASE DATA LOCALIZATION - A computer ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120233201 | BIOLOGICAL DATA NETWORKS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A system and method for facilitating processing of a request in a biological data network comprised of a plurality of biological data units stored at a plurality of network nodes is disclosed herein. The disclosed method includes receiving, at a first network node included within the plurality of network nodes, the request from a client device wherein the first network node is configured to communicate with other network nodes included within the plurality of network nodes. The method also includes performing a first processing operation with respect to at least one of the biological data units based upon the request. Upon a determination being made that the processing of the request is complete, a response is sent from the first network node to the client device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233202 | BIOLOGICAL DATA NETWORKS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A method for facilitating processing of a request in a system including a plurality of biological data units stored at a plurality of network-accessible locations is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving, at a first node of the biological data network, the request from a client device. The method further includes performing a first processing operation with respect to at least one of the biological data units based upon the request. The method also includes determining, based upon results of the first processing operation, that the processing of the request is incomplete and selecting, based upon the results of the first processing operation, a second node of the biological data network to perform a second processing operation. The method additionally includes sending, from the first node, the results of the first processing operation to the second node over a network. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233203 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE - Certain embodiments provide a Web server, which is provided with a request reception unit for receiving a picture request including a picture ID for identifying a picture from a browser, and an information collection unit for finding the point ID corresponding to the picture ID included in the picture display request, and collecting the value of the point identified by the point ID from an IP controller. The information collection unit calculates the predictive starting time at which the value of the point is collected before the next picture display request is made from the current time, the collection time and the previous picture display request. The information collection unit collects the value of a point from the IP controller at the predictive starting time. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233204 | DIGITAL FILE DISTRIBUTION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - Systems and methods for obtaining a digital file similar to one used by a device associated with a member of a social network are provided. Digital file information about the digital file is stored on a web-based social network database. The digital file may be located on the same server as the web-based social network database or a third party server such as a mobile phone carrier. A user of the web-based social network database requesting the digital file may require a different format of the digital file than that used by the device of the member. If a different format is requested by the user, a server finds or converts the digital file to be compatible for use by a device specified by the user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for uploading one or more documents to a document management database are presented. The system can include a memory, a listener component that detects when a document has been dragged or dropped onto a persistent doc drop element, and a doc drop module that, as a function of the document being dragged or dropped onto the persistent doc drop element, converts the document into a portable document format and queues a converted document to a task specific queue, and in response to a user terminating a task associated with the task specific queue, uploads content queued in the task specific queue to a database associated with a web service. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233206 | Methods and Systems for Electronic Data Exchange Utilizing Centralized Management Technology - Methods and systems are provided for exchanging information between companies in a partnership. One method embodiment includes operatively associating a first company with a transaction directory through a directory management portal. The transaction directory is configured to permit establishment of at least one connection to a translation engine for permitting at least one transaction to occur through the connection. The method also includes connecting at least a second company to the translation engine to permit the transaction to occur between at least the first and second companies. The transaction includes an exchange of information between at least the first and second companies. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233207 | Systems and Methods for Enabling Natural Language Processing - Systems and methods for searching databases by sound data input are provided herein. A service provider may have a need to make their database(s) searchable through search technology. However, the service provider may not have the resources to implement such search technology. The search technology may allow for search queries using sound data input. The technology described herein provides a solution addressing the service provider's need, by giving a search technology that furnishes search results in a fast, accurate manner. In further embodiments, systems and methods to monetize those search results are also described herein. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233208 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Providing Ring Tones - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing a ring tone. An electronic database is queried for a calling number, and contact information associated with the calling number is retrieved. A ring tone database is queried for the contact information, and the ring tone database stores an association between the contact information and a ring tone. The ring tone associated with the contact information is retrieved and processed to alert a called number to a communication from the calling number. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233209 | ENTERPRISE SEARCH OVER PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DATA - A unified search service may collect information related to an enterprise from at least one of publicly available data and private enterprise data. In some implementations, crowd sourcing may be used to determine a source list of one or more sources of information. Authored content can be generated, such as by combining one or more items of information from the public data with one or more items of information from the private enterprise data. Further, in some implementations, a public index may be generated from the public data, and one or more affiliation indexes may be generated from the private enterprise data. For example, a first affiliation index may contain confidential enterprise information, while a second affiliation index may contain non-confidential enterprise information. A user's affiliation to the enterprise may be taken into consideration when determining which indexes to use when responding to a search request from the user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233210 | Storage of Arbitrary Points in N-Space and Retrieval of Subset thereof Based on Criteria Including Maximum Distance to an Arbitrary Reference Point - Provided are: 1) storage in a data store of points of interest in n-space along with arbitrary related information; and 2) efficient retrieval of subsets of those points meeting arbitrary criteria. Criteria can limit retrieval to neighbors of a reference point (i.e., points that are within a specified distance of that reference point). The method may be used to retrieve subsets from data stores which limit inequality or range operations. When used to model neighboring points on a planetary surface in 3-space, the method does not suffer from polar distortion (where spherical coordinate systems have difficulty). | 2012-09-13 |
20120233211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING A REMOTE DATABASE - A device is in communication with a server over a wireless network. Items are stored locally in the device. The device receives, from a user of the device, a request to search for items matching a search parameter. The device finds items among the locally-stored items that match the parameter. The device sends a request to the server for the server to search among items stored remotely on the server for items matching the parameter. The device receives, from the server, a list of the remotely-stored items that match the parameter without receiving the items themselves. The device displays, to the user, a composite list of both the locally-stored items and remotely-stored items matching the parameter. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Methods and systems are provided for processing social media data. The method includes receiving a request from a user for social media analytics of social media data; sending the social media data to a first analytics provider and a second analytics provider; receiving first analytics data from the first data analytics provider and second analytics data from the second analytics provider; storing the first analytics data and the second analytics data in a database; and presenting the first analytics data and the second analytics data to the user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233213 | NAMED ENTITY DATABASE OR MINING RULE DATABASE UPDATE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING NAMED ENTITY DATABASE AND MINING RULE MERGED ONTOLOGY SCHEMA - A mining rule database update apparatus using a named entity dictionary and a mining rule combined with an ontology schema includes: a named entity dictionary and mining rule database storage module storing the named entity dictionary and a mining rule database; a mining pattern generation module recognizing terminology from text and converting the terminology into the mining pattern; a named entity and mining rule search module searching for a corresponding named entity and a mining rule from the named entity dictionary and the mining rule database using the recognized terminology and the mining pattern; and a mining rule database update module estimating a relationship name using a named entity of the recognized terminology and the ontology schema, generating a corresponding mining rule, and storing the generated mining rule in the mining rule database depending on a user's selection. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233214 | NAMED ENTITY DATABASE OR MINING RULE DATABASE UPDATE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING NAMED ENTITY DATABASE AND MINING RULE MERGED ONTOLOGY SCHEMA - A mining rule database update apparatus using a named entity dictionary and a mining rule combined with an ontology schema includes: a named entity dictionary and mining rule database storage module storing the named entity dictionary and a mining rule database; a named entity and mining rule search module searching for a corresponding mining rule and a named entity from the mining rule database and the named entity dictionary using a terminology included in an inputted mining pattern and the mining pattern; and a mining rule database update module estimating a relationship name using a named entity of the terminology and the ontology schema, generating a corresponding mining rule, and storing the generated mining rule in the mining rule database depending on user's selection. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233215 | Processing Medical Records - Processing medical records may be provided. First, medical records may be received from a plurality of sources. The medical records may then be converted into a computer-readable form. Once converted, the medical records may be searched for certain key words, phrases, or symbols. These searched key words, phrases and symbols may correspond to data of interest within the medical records. Once located, the searched key words, phrases and symbols may be extracted from the medical records, as well as an area of the records surrounding the located key words, phrases and symbols. Finally, the extracted data may be used to generate a summary report. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233216 | Intelligent Policy Deployment - In an information management system, relevant policies are deployed to targets while policies which are not relevant are not. By deploying relevant policies, this reduces the amount of space requirements at the target to store the policies and the amount of data that needs to be sent to the target. Also, execution speed at the target may increase since the target does not need to evaluate policies that are not relevant. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233217 | HIERARCHY BASED DEPENDENT OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS - Embodiments are directed towards employing a plurality of object relationships to dynamically generate a hierarchical structure of dependent object relationships (“HSDOR”). Each object relationship may include a plurality of information, including, but not limited to, a consumer object, a provider object, a one or more direct values, a quantity of units consumed by the consumer object, or the like. Dependencies between the plurality of object relationships may be utilized to dynamically generate an HSDOR. In some embodiments, the HSDOR may be modified by resolving detected circularity relationships within the HSDOR and/or dynamically modifying object relationship dependencies affected by a new and/or modified object relationship. In some embodiments, the HSDOR may be utilized to iteratively determine a total value of an object as a function of total loaded values of object relationships from which the object depends. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233218 | System and Method for Delivering Brand Reinforcement as a Component of a Human Interactive Proof - A system and method for delivering brand reinforcement via a Human Interactive Proof, or reverse Turing test; said proof comprising a method for restricting access to a computer system, resource, or network to live persons, and for preventing the execution of automated scripts via an interface intended for human interaction. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233219 | Multihierarchy Control - A system and a method for switching between a plurality of sets of objects, each mapped by a hierarchical structure, are provided. Relationships of the objects are presented in a tree structure. A transition point may be used to switch between the individual different trees which represent different inter-relationships of the objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233220 | Controlling Access To A Computer System - A technique including accessing data to control permissions assigned to a given role for a computer system. The data assigns the given role with a role template and an environment template, wherein the role template defines at least one action that can be performed with the system, the environment template defines at least one resource of the system that can be accessed, and the role and environment templates are independently assignable to at least one other role. The technique includes controlling access to the system based on the data. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233221 | SEAMLESS MULTIPLE FORMAT METADATA ABSTRACTION - For seamlessly abstracting metadata in multiple formats, an abstraction module converts first metadata of an incoming object and additional metadata for the incoming object from an annotation map contained by the first metadata into a common format useable. The additional metadata is not part of an original format of the first metadata. A communication module communicates the converted metadata to an adapter in the common format, the adapter processing the first metadata and the additional metadata independent of the original format of the first metadata. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233222 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME DATA AWARENESS - A system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor is configured to passively read data in packets as the packets are in motion on a network. The processor is cooperatively operable with the sensor The processor is configured to receive the read data from the sensor; and originate real-time map profiles of files and file data, both from the read data from the sensor, as the passively read packets are in motion on the network. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233223 | EXTENDED DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - In one embodiment, an extended data storage system employs a first data storage and an extended data storage. A first level of metadata is established with respect to data from the using entity, the first level of metadata is provided in the first data storage. The data from the using entity is stored in the extended data storage. A second level of metadata at least describing the data as stored in the extended data storage is also established, wherein the second level of metadata associated with the first level of metadata for the stored data. The first level of metadata is made accessible to the using entity at the first data storage; and the second level of metadata is made unavailable to the using entity. Thus, the data is stored in the extended data storage and a small amount of metadata is stored in the first data storage. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233224 | DATA PROCESSING - Disclosed is a method for identifying inactive objects in an entity. The inactive objects may be purged from an entity to reduce the size of the entity. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233225 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FILE MANAGEMENT - On a display unit of a client terminal, a to-be-uploaded folder and a to-be-uploaded file, a display area associated with computer program that provides uploading function, and the like are displayed. When a user operates a mouse and the like such that a pointer is placed on the to-be-uploaded file and performs a drag-and-drop operation into the display area, the to-be-uploaded file is uploaded to a file management server via a network. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233226 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - In a file management method of an electronic device, multi-touch operations on a touch screen of the electronic device is detected in real-time. File attributes of operating objects of the electronic device that are selected by a multi-touch operation are acquired, and a file type is determined for each of the operating objects according to the file attributes of each of the operating objects, wherein the file type is a file or a folder. The operating objects are managed according to the file type of each of the operating objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233227 | FILE ATTACHMENT RETRIEVAL - Files located on local or remote storage device are retrieved by determining that a link attachment of an electronic communication received at a computer device matches a pointer of a file directory structure of the computer device. The pointer allows retrieving within the file directory structure a file link and file identification information, and then accessing a file at a local or remote storage device by the file link and using the file identification information. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233228 | APPENDING TO FILES VIA SERVER-SIDE CHUNKING AND MANIFEST MANIPULATION - Several different embodiments of a segmented object storage system are described. The object storage system divides files into a number of object segments, each segment corresponding to a portion of the object, and stores each segment individually in the cloud storage system. The system also generates and stores a manifest file describing the relationship of the various segments to the original data file. Requests to retrieve the segmented file are fulfilled by consulting the manifest file and using the information from the manifest to reconstitute the original data file from the constituent segments. Modifying, appending to, or truncating the object is accomplished by manipulating individual segments and the manifest file. In further embodiments, manipulation of the individual object segments and/or the manifest is used to implement copy-on-write, snapshotting, software transactional memory, and peer-to-peer transmission of the large file. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233229 | Method of Generating Statistical Opinion Data - A system is provided for detecting statistical variations and public opinion. The system comprises a respondent interface subsystem for capturing respective opinion values of a set of respondents in relation to a subject matter, said opinion values having respective validity periods associated therewith. The system further includes a database subsystem for storing the respective opinion values corresponding to each respondent and to said subject matter. The system further includes a statistical processing subsystem for calculating successive values of a collected opinion value by selecting respective subsets of said respective user opinion values according to said respective validity periods and calculating said successive values of a collective opinion value over said corresponding subset. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233230 | DOUBLE-CLOCKED SPECIALIZED PROCESSING BLOCK IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - Circuitry for increasing the precision of multipliers by a desired factor while limiting the increase in arithmetic complexity of the multiplier to that factor can be provided in a fixed logic device, or can be configured into a programmable integrated circuit device such as a programmable logic device (PLD). The smaller increase in arithmetic complexity, so that the increase is proportional to the increase in precision, rather than to the square of the increase in precision, is achieved by using specialized processing block components differently on alternating clock cycles. For example, to implement double precision, the same multiplier components are used in each of two clock cycles, but some specialized processing block internal structures (e.g., shifters and adders) are used differently in the two cycles, so that over the two cycles, a larger multiplication may be calculated from smaller partial products. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233231 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING RANDOM NUMBER - An apparatus configured to generate random numbers is provided, the apparatus having high entropy and being capable of a reduced chip size. The apparatus includes a plurality of metastable state generation units configured to generate a metastable state signal, a plurality of amplification units configured to amplify the metastable state signal, a connection signal generation unit configured to generate a first connection signal, and a first commutation unit configured to connect at least one metastable state generation unit to at least one amplification unit according to the first connection signal. For example, the number of metastable state generation units and amplification units necessary to achieve are threshold number of commutation connections can be greatly reduced as compared to conventional apparatuses for generating random numbers. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233232 | Variable Architecture for Random Number Generators - A variable architecture for random number generators is disclosed. In some implementations, the architecture of a random number generator may be varied based on microcontroller-specific data stored on the microcontroller. For example, a random number generator module may be embedded in a microcontroller circuit. The random number generator module may be designed to receive input from data sources in the circuit that contain microcontroller-specific data (e.g., a unique chip identifier, data carried in fuse bits). In some implementations, the architecture of the random number generator module may be adjusted or varied based on the microcontroller-specific data. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233233 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A RANDOM NUMBER - An apparatus and method for generating a random number are provided, the apparatus having at least one generator circuit, each generator circuit being configured to provide a first operating mode and a second operating mode, in the first operating mode each generator circuit operating as an oscillator, and in the second operating mode each generator circuit operating as a state retention element. A control signal generator then generates a control signal for input to each generator circuit. Each generator circuit is responsive to the input control signal being at a set level to operate in the first operating mode, and is responsive to the input control signal being at a clear level to operate in the second operating mode. On a transition of the input control signal from the set level to the clear level, each generator circuit is configured to capture within the state retention element a current value of the oscillator, and to output that current value to form at least part of the random number. Such an approach provides a particularly simple, efficient and low area apparatus for generating a random number. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BYPASSING UNROUNDED RESULTS IN A MULTIPLY-ADD PIPELINE UNIT - A processing unit, system, and method for performing a multiply operation in a multiply-add pipeline. To reduce the pipeline latency, the unrounded result of a multiply-add operation is bypassed to the inputs of the multiply-add pipeline for use in a subsequent operation. If it is determined that rounding is required for the prior operation, then the rounding will occur during the subsequent operation. During the subsequent operation, a Booth encoder not utilized by the multiply operation will output a rounding correction factor as a selection input to a Booth multiplexer not utilized by the multiply operation. When the Booth multiplexer receives the rounding correction factor, the Booth multiplexer will output a rounding correction value to a carry save adder (CSA) tree, and the CSA tree will generate the correct sum from the rounding correction value and the other partial products. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233235 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT - A system efficiently generates template-based applications for interacting with digital content. The applications are available to multiple kinds of application platforms and can be installed and run on such platforms, thereby allowing users to access and interact with rich, multimedia content on the application platforms. The content delivered to the application platforms is also adapted according to the properties of these platforms. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233236 | CLOUD-BASED SYSTEM FOR SERVING SERVICE REQUEST OF EMBEDDED DEVICE BY CLOUD COMPUTING AND RELATED CLOUD-BASED PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A cloud-based system includes a cloud server system with cloud computing capability, and an embedded device coupled to the cloud server system through a network. The embedded device is configured to request the cloud server system for a specific service by generating a service request to the cloud server system. A cloud-based processing method includes: utilizing an embedded device to generate a service request for a specific service, and serving the service request by cloud computing. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233237 | DYNAMIC DATA TRANSACTION PROCESSING USING GATING CRITERIA - Techniques for dynamic data transaction processing using gating criteria are described, including receiving data associated with an order, retrieving other data associated with one or more resources configured to fulfill the order, using the other data and one or more gating criteria to generate a determination to dynamically allocate the data associated with the order, and dynamically allocating the data to one or more of a plurality of services using the determination. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233238 | Dynamic Recommendations in Geo-Social Networking System - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system records location data of a user, generate a set of recommendations based on the user's location data, and present one or more recommendations of the set of recommendations to the user based on the user's current location. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233239 | Device Specific Handling of User Interface Components - One embodiment receives a request for a screen of a user interface (UI) of a software application from a second computing device, wherein the screen comprises one or more UI components; accesses a set of features of the second computing device; for each UI component contained in the screen, generates first code for rendering and displaying the UI component on the second computing device based on the set of features of the second computing device; and transmits the first code to the second computing device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233240 | SCTP ASSOCIATION ENDPOINT RELOCATION IN A LOAD BALANCING SYSTEM - Presented is a system and methods for relocating a Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) association from a first back-end server to a second back-end server without disturbing the SCTP association connection. The front-end server coordinates the replacement by requesting SCTP association connection parameters from the first back-end server and providing the SCTP association connection parameters to the second back-end server. Further, the front-end server discards any SCTP association packets, not necessary to the replacement, directed to the two back-end servers during the replacement. Throughout the replacement, the client, on the non-relocating end of the SCTP association, is unaware of the replacement or the existence of the front-end server. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233241 | Requesting, Responding and Parsing - This disclosure relates to requesting content items of a web page, via a first request and a second request and responding to the requests. The server computer receives the first request from a client computer and responds to the first request by sending a plurality of default content items to the requesting client computer. The server computer receives the second request from the client computer and responds to the second request by sending a plurality of non-default content items to the requesting client computer. In one or more disclosed embodiments, the client computer stores the plurality of non-default content items in a cache. This disclosure also relates to parsing data in the cache. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233242 | E-Book Service That Includes Users' Personal Content - Users can access personal content on multiple e-book readers. A personal document received from a user is converted from its original format into a shadow e-book of an e-book format. An e-book record is created for the personal document to store information for creating a seamlessly integrated reading experience of the shadow e-book across different e-book readers (e.g., reading position, notes). When an e-book reader requests for the personal document, the shadow e-book is transmitted to the e-book reader along with information from the e-book record. Subsequently, information is received from the e-book reader to update the e-book record. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233243 | Methods Circuits Apparatuses and Systems for Facilitating Access to Online Content - Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatuses and systems for facilitating access to online content, including personalized content. A content access peripheral (CAP) may be provided, such that the CAP may be operated in conjunction with a host computing platform (e.g. host device) in order to facilitate and/or expedite access to online content residing/stored on a computer server connected to the Internet or to another distributed data network. The CAP may initially be associated with specific content(s) residing/stored on the computer server connected to the Internet or to another distributed data network by a CAP to content correlator. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233244 | REMOTE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND REMOTE SUPPORT METHOD FOR TERMINAL - A remote system and a remote operation method are provided, being capable of starting promptly and completing remote operation immediately for a user. A support server | 2012-09-13 |
20120233245 | VOIP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING CLIENT DEVICES WITH SAME - A method registers client devices with a primary device using a backup server. The backup server detects whether the primary server is available, and when the primary server is available, the backup server evaluates the registration capacity of the primary server. The backup server further creates a queue of the client devices registered with the backup server according to the backup registration time of the client devices, and notifies the client devices individually or in groups that the primary server is again available. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233246 | SAFETY SYSTEM FOR TAXI USERS COMBINING REPUTATION MECHANISMS AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATIONS - Disclosed is an safety system for taxicab users including (a) mechanisms for profiling the reputation (including reputations of service-quality and safety) of a taxicab and/or taxi-driver and (b) mechanisms for community notification of the taxicab and driver profiles. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233247 | ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA RENDERER - A server for adaptively rendering a multimedia content stream includes a first interface for connecting the server to a multimedia network server to receive an original multimedia content stream. A second interface connects the server to a client for receiving a rendered multimedia content stream. Processing logic determines rendering parameters responsive to connection parameters related to connection bandwidth between the server and the client. Rendering logic renders the multimedia content stream from the original multimedia content stream responsive to the rendering parameters. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233248 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING REQUEST MESSAGE, AND LOAD BALANCER DEVICE - A method and a system for processing a request message, and a load balancer device are provided. The load balancer obtains a service name and an operation name through simple string matching, and a large amount of computing is performed at a server side, thereby solving a session hold problem of a composition engine cluster, reducing a computing task of a load balancer, maximizing a fan-out capability of the load balancer, and increasing a throughput of the composition engine cluster to a maximum extent, therefore satisfying a demand for a large capacity of a composition engine. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233249 | SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN MEDIA AGNOSTIC CONTENT DELIVERY ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to the receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes notifying at least the receiving client that the content is to be received by the preferred device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233250 | AUTO-UPDATABLE DOCUMENT PARTS WITHIN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Techniques are described for managing relationships between entities in a content management system. Embodiments of the invention identify a relationship between a first entity and a second entity in the content management system. Embodiments monitor the first entity in the content management system to detect an occurrence of a triggering event specified in one or more management rules. One or more actions specified by the one or more management rules are then performed on the second entity in the content management system, responsive to the detected occurrence of the triggering event. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233251 | Virtual Multi-Cluster Clouds - An improved scalable object storage system allows multiple clusters to work together. Users working with a first cluster, or with a multi-cluster gateway, can ask for services and have the request or data transparently proxied to a second cluster. This gives transparent cross-cluster replication, as well as multi-cluster compute or storage farms based upon spot availability or various provisioning policies. Vendors providing a cloud storage “frontend” can provide multiple backends simultaneously. In one embodiment, a multi-cluster gateway can have a two, three, or higher-level ring that transparently matches an incoming request with the correct cluster. In the ring, a request is first mapped to an abstract “partition” based on a consistent hash function, and then one or more constrained mappings map the partition number to an actual resource. In another embodiment, the multi-cluster gateway is a dumb gateway, and the rings are located only at the cluster level. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233252 | HANDLING RECEIPTS IN CROSS COMPONENT MESSAGE PROCESSING - By automatically obtaining the entirety of a received message to be included, an outgoing message that includes the received message can be processed in a manner that securely and accurately represents the intended outgoing message. Alternatively, a server can assemble a composite message from a new message and an original message and, in cooperation with a wireless messaging device, sign the composite message. In both the above contexts, handling message receipts when message processing ahead of message transmission involved more than one component may be facilitated by storing appropriate expected receipt content during the message processing, either on the device or the server. Validation of the receipt can then be accomplished through use of the stored expected receipt content in a manner that retains the benefits of message processing ahead of message transmission that involves more than one component. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING AND SERVICING USERS BY ORIENTATION - The present disclosure relates to a social networking service based on user orientation, particularly user political beliefs. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233254 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system which includes: a comment server that delivers to user terminals comments that are input in response to contents which are played by the user terminals, and comment input times that show the point in time when a comment was input with the contents playing start time used as a reference; and user terminals that are connected to this server, the user terminals play received contents, and also sort the plurality of comments which are delivered to it from the comment server to each one of a plurality of time segments based on the comment input time corresponding to each comment, and also output in synchronization with the contents a predetermined number of comments for each time segment. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233255 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing system capable of reflecting the relationship between users, which has been established by exchanging data between information processing terminals, to an information processing device. A first information processing terminal receives identification data which identifies a user who operates a second information processing terminal from the second information processing terminal. The first information processing terminal transmits, to an information processing device, identification data which identifies a user who operates the first information processing terminal and the identification data which identifies the user who operates the second information processing terminal in association with each other. The information processing device associates, based on the received identification data, the user who operates the first information processing terminal and the user who operates the second information processing terminal. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233256 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING SOCIAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING A SOCIAL GRAPH, TO IDENTIFY AND PRESENT CONTENT OF INTEREST - Techniques for leveraging social information, including a social graph, to identify content likely to be of interest to a user are described. With some embodiments, a content enhancement server receives a request for web-based content that is to be presented with a web page that is being presented at a client computing device. The server will then identify some web-based content that is relevant to a topic or subject matter of the web page, and also popular as determined by analyzing some social information, including in some instances information relating to asocial graph of the viewing user, that is associated with the web-based content. Finally, some items of web-based content are selected, based on a combination of the content's relevance and popularity as indicated by the analysis of the social information. The selected web content is then communicated to the client computing device for presentation with the web page. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233257 | SOCIAL ANALYSIS IN MULTI-PARTICIPANT MEETINGS - Methods and systems for social analysis in multi-participant meetings provide for receiving a data stream of a multi-participant meeting, wherein multiple topics are discussed. The data stream is analyzed to detect topics and to define topical sub-activities that are performed by at least a portion of the participants. Contributions to a topic by two of the participants in the topical sub-activities are identified and evaluated. A connection weight between the two participants is calculated based on the evaluation of their respective contributions. | 2012-09-13 |
20120233258 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING AND APPLYING DATA RELATED TO CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. | 2012-09-13 |