39th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130254189 | Using Anchor Text to Provide Context - A search engine can provide referencing information as context for a particular search result when an excerpt from the search result, comprising at least some similar elements to the user's query, is not generated. Referencing information can include one or more anchor texts having similarity to at least some elements of the user's query, the anchor texts being used by referencing pages to link to the page returned as a search result. User selection of the anchor text can enable the user to visit a referencing page using that anchor text to link to the page returned as a search result, and having a high static rank. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254190 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SEARCH USING BAG OF HASH BITS AND BOUNDARY RERANKING - Determining ranked candidate media in response to media query data corresponding to a query media includes receiving the media query data including feature data of the query media, coordinate data, and boundary data, matching the features with corresponding features of an media database using the feature data to identify features in the media database within a predetermined hamming distance in a hash table from the corresponding features of the query media to obtain matched features in the media database, determining candidate media whose number of matched features exceeds a matched feature threshold, generating a geometry similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the feature data and the coordinate data, generating a boundary similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the boundary data, ranking the candidate media based on the numbers of matched features, the geometry similarity scores and the boundary similarity scores. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254192 | DETERMINING MEASURES OF INFLUENCE OF USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254193 | Distance in Contextual Network Graph - A method and apparatus for determining relationships between objects in a meta-model semantic network is described. A contextual network graph comprising nodes and edges representing semantic objects and semantic relationships is generated from a meta-model of business objects from the meta-model semantic network. The contextual network graph is used to generate a unique identifier for each node and associated edge. The unique identifiers are used to compute information of cost and energy between the nodes. The information is stored in a meta-model semantic network database. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254194 | PROVIDING SETTING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method to effect setting recommendations at a communication device is described. The method may include receiving contextual data at the communication device. The contextual data may indicate conditions existing at application of a setting during use of an application at the communication device. The method may further include identifying a pattern based on the contextual data. The method may further include generating, based on the identified pattern, a setting recommendation to apply during use of the application at the communication device under conditions substantially matching the identified pattern. The method may further include presenting the setting recommendation to a user of the communication device and receiving data indicating a response to the setting recommendation. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254195 | System and Method for Traffic Engineering Information Summary of a Zone in Network Communications - A method for summarizing topology transparent zone (TTZ) traffic engineering (TE) information, comprising computing a TE link state for every TE link internal to a TTZ from a root node to one or more non-root edge nodes, wherein the TE link state comprises the maximum bandwidth of the link, summarizing the computed TE link state information and storing the summary in a memory, and distributing at least a portion of the information in the summary to at least one neighboring node external to the TTZ connected to the root node via an external link. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254196 | COST-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS AND CLUSTER SIZING FOR HADOOP - Cost-based optimization of configuration parameters and cluster sizing for distributed data processing systems are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving at least one job profile of a MapReduce job. The method also includes using the at least one job profile to predict execution of the MapReduce job within a plurality of different predetermined settings of a distributed data processing system. Further, the method includes determining one of the predetermined settings that optimizes performance of the MapReduce job. The method may also include automatically adjusting the distributed data processing system to the determined predetermined setting. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECOMPRESSION-FREE INSPECTION OF SHARED DICTIONARY COMPRESSED TRAFFIC OVER HTTP - A system and a method for decompression-free inspection of compressed data are provided herein. The method includes the following stages: obtaining a dictionary file comprising a string of symbols, each associated with a respective index; obtaining at least one delta file associated with said dictionary file, wherein said delta file comprises a sequence of instructions that include at least one copy instruction pointing to an index within said dictionary and a length of a copy substring to be copied; scanning said dictionary using a pattern matching algorithm associated with a plurality of patterns and implemented as a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA), to yield DFA execution data; scanning said at least one delta file, using said pattern matching algorithm, wherein said DFA execution data is used to skip at least part of the scanning of the copy substrings for at least one of the copy instructions. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254198 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Generating Waymarks - A computer-implemented system and method for generating waymarks is provided. A database of waymarks is maintained. Each waymark is associated with a category. A new waymark is generated. Geospatial data defining a location, metadata describing a physical object associated with the location, and at least one photograph of the location are received from a user. The geospatial data, metadata, and photograph are complied as the new waymark. One of the categories is assigned to the new waymark. The new waymark is added to the database. A search option is provided for accessing the waymark by at least one of the location and category. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254199 | PROVIDING KNOWLEDGE CONTENT TO USERS - Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for generating and providing knowledge content to users utilizing a web architecture that integrates information across data silos through a common, flexible data storage schema, such as a star or snowflake schema, are provided. Data from a content graph, a user activity graph, a social graph, and temporal data as it relates to each of the content graph, the social graph and the user activity graph, is stored in a knowledge content database utilizing the star schema. In this way, data from each of these formerly disparate sources may be accessed from a common, extensible application platform utilizing ontologies and pivot table functionality, thus providing smarter, more comprehensive knowledge in response to received user queries. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254200 | Collection and Categorization of Configuration Data - In an embodiment, a method is provided for collecting configuration data. In this example, configuration data associated with an application is searched. Additionally, metadata associated with the configuration data is searched. Changes made to the configuration data are detected, and the changes and associated metadata are stored in a storage device. The changes are then categorized based on the metadata. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254201 | DATA STRUCTURE, DATA STRUCTURE GENERATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A method for generating a tree-type data structure composed of a plurality of data strings includes the steps of: summing, with respect to a plurality of data strings classified in a parent node, the numbers of data types of data, respectively, at at least one given string position in each of the plurality of data strings; and classifying, based on the numbers of the data types respectively summed at the at least one given string position in the summing step, the plurality of data strings into a plurality of child nodes, for the respective data types at a given string position. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254202 | PARALLELIZATION OF SYNTHETIC EVENTS WITH GENETIC SURPRISAL DATA REPRESENTING A GENETIC SEQUENCE OF AN ORGANISM - A method, system, and computer program product for parallelization of updating synthetic events with genetic surprisal data comprising dividing the synthetic event into cohort parts and assigning the cohort parts to one of a plurality of computer processing elements. Within each processing element: searching data records of patients for genetic surprisal data; generating a cluster comprising a centroid by populating the cluster based on all of the matches of the data records; calculating a new centroid for each cluster; calculating a Euclidean distance in multiple dimensions for each match of data records to the new centroid for each cluster; reassigning each match of data to the new centroid of each cluster based on the shortest calculated Euclidean distance to the new centroid for each cluster; and determining at least one cohort part from the clusters and recombining the cohort parts into updated synthetic events based on the metadata. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254203 | ORGANIZING NEARBY PICTURE HOTSPOTS - A method of accessing an image database containing location data and determining one or more clusters of the digital images based on their location data. A hotspot location is determined for representing the cluster of the digital images and the results are stored for later access. The computer is connected to a network and receives data from a device including data identifying a current location. After determining that the device is within a selected notification distance from the hotspot location, a notification is transmitted over the network. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254204 | Method and Apparatus of Publishing Information - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus of publishing information in order to solve the problems of low efficiency and accuracy of published information in existing technology. The method segments primary information of a current page, extracts at least one feature term from the current page, determines a number of times that the extracted feature term appears in the current page, determines a category of the current page based on the determined number of times that the feature term appears in the current page and a set category model, and publishes relevant information that belongs to the determined category in the current page. By directly extracting a feature term from a current page and determining a category of the current page based on a number of times that the feature term appears in the current page and a set category model, the exemplary embodiments do not need to perform manual labeling for the current page. As such, the efficiency of information publication can be improved. Furthermore, the accuracy of the information publication is increased because no human error is introduced. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254205 | PROCESSING USER PROFILES OF USERS IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY - A method and system for processing user profiles of a plurality of users in an electronic community. Noun phrases are extracted from activities of each user logged in an activity log server, each user having an existing user profile stored in a user profile and relationship database that is external to the activity log server. The existing user profiles in the user profile and relationship database are updated from the extracted noun phrases, a keyword being associated with each determined noun phrase and being within a semantic hierarchical tree, the updating based on a usage frequency of the extracted noun phrases and an importance value of the keywords. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254206 | Information Entropy-Based Sampling of Social Media - The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which content items such as microblog postings may be returned to a requestor based upon a desired level of diversity based upon information entropy. Each content item is associated with a set of dimensions, which may have a learned relative importance, and the content items may be pruned into a pruned subset via a transform. A result set is constructed by finding a cluster of items having a level of entropy that is closest to a desired level. In one aspect, the result set may be ordered based upon evaluating distortion of each item in the result set. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254207 | Method and apparatus for managing a playlist by metadata - Techniques for managing a playlist in a multimedia system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, the playlist is structured to be able to include as many items as desired. To facilitate the manageability of such playlist, the playlist is built with a plurality of items. Each of the items is associated with metadata that includes information related to, for example, artist, album, genre, composer, and track number. The metadata for each item may be parsed, updated or logically operated upon to facilitate the management of the playlist. In another embodiment, each of the items is either a single item or a group item. A single item contains metadata of a corresponding source. A group item contains metadata of accessing other constituent items, which again may be single items or group items. As a result, the playlist can accommodate as many items as desired in a limited memory space without compromising the manageability of the playlist. Each of the items can be removed from, added to, or moved around in the playlist without concerning that an item may further include many items therein. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254208 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING IN DATASTORES - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for indexing information stored in data-stores. The system receives a new index request. The system creates an index in response to the request. The new index includes at least one segment, a first flag, and a last flag. Each segment comprises index summary information. The system then stores the index in memory. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254209 | CONSENSUS SEARCH DEVICE AND METHOD - A consensus search device is provided, which includes a semantic data indexing unit configured to divide text data of an electronic document written about at least one object into segments, to extract at least one semantic descriptor from the each segmented text data, and to generate a semantic data index matching each of the extracted semantic descriptor to the object and the each segmented text data. The consensus search device also includes a semantic searching unit configured to retrieve an object related to a query, based on the semantic data index. The text data is divided into the segments by units of meaning. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254210 | INDEX SELECTION IN A MULTI-SYSTEM DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system includes a multi-system database management system having a plurality of database systems. An index selection subsystem combines sets of query information from respective ones of the plurality of database systems into a workload. The index selection subsystem then generates candidate indexes from the workload, and selects recommended indexes from the candidate indexes based on one or more criteria. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254211 | MATCHING DOCUMENTS AGAINST MONITORS - Techniques and tools are described for matching documents against monitors. An index can be generated from a plurality of monitors, where the index represents the query logic of the plurality of monitors. The index can be searched using the documents as search queries. The searching can comprise matching the documents against the monitors using the query logic represented in the index. An index can be distributed to a plurality of computing devices to be searched at the plurality of computing devices, where each computing device searches a subset of a plurality of documents against the full index. Searching at the plurality of computing devices can be performed in parallel, and results can be aggregated at a central location. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254212 | DATA INDEXING SYSTEM, DATA INDEXING METHOD AND DATA QUERYING METHOD - A data indexing system is provided. The system includes: a time interval splitting unit configured to split a predetermined time range into a plurality of time intervals. A first index creating unit is configured to create a first-level index for data in a current time interval, the first-level index including a time interval index and a subspace index. A second index creating unit is configured to create, in a time interval after the current time interval, a second-level index for data in the current time interval. The second-level index has a finer granularity than the first-level index. A data indexing method and a data querying method are also provided. The cost for index maintenance can be greatly reduced in a case of frequent updates. Further, invalid scans during the query process can be reduced and the query performance can be improved. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254213 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND PRESENTING CONNECTION PATHS - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social network service to identify and then present connection paths connecting various entities are described. With some embodiments, subsequent to a user selecting or otherwise identifying two entities represented as nodes in a social graph, the social graph is analyzed to identify connection paths connecting the nodes representing the two entities. The social graph is implemented with a graph data structure having nodes and edges representing entities and associations between entities, respectively. With some embodiments, the nodes represent people, companies, educational institutions (e.g., schools, universities, etc.), and groups. After identifying the connection paths, the connection path or paths having the highest path scores, as derived by aggregating edge scores assigned to the edges, may be presented. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254214 | People Engine Optimization - Some embodiments promote website credibility and the optimization of websites for people by automatedly quantifying various elements of a website into component credibility scores. In some embodiments, a set of encoded credibility scoring rules are used to compute each of the component credibility scores, wherein the credibility scoring rules are derived based on factors that have been identified by a grouping of people that preferably represent a primary demographic of users that consume the content of a particular classified type of website. In some such embodiments, the credibility scoring rules are derived from commonality that is identified from a sample set of known credible and/or non-credible websites of a particular classification. Once the credibility scoring rules are defined, the system applies the rules to other websites having the same classification as those from which the rules are derived to automatically generate credibility scores for the other websites. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254215 | Supplementing User Web-Browsing - An apparatus and method of providing a user with a web-browser supplement is disclosed. One method includes providing access to a focal group, wherein the focal group includes at least one member having at least one association with the user. Access is provided to information associated with the at least one member having relevance to the focal group. Web browsing by the user is supplemented by the information of the members of the focal group. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254216 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating Multilingual Text Sequences - Systems and methods are provided for scoring a response to a character-by-character highlighting task. A similarity value for the response is calculated by comparing the response to one or more correct responses to the task to determine the similarity or dissimilarity of the response to the one or more correct responses to the task. A threshold similarity value is calculated for the task, where the threshold similarity value is indicative of an amount of similarity or dissimilarity to the one or more correct responses required for the response to be scored at a certain level. The similarity value for the response is compared to the threshold similarity value. A score is assigned at, above, or below the certain level based on the comparison. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254217 | RECOMMENDING PERSONALLY INTERESTED CONTENTS BY TEXT MINING, FILTERING, AND INTERFACES - A personalized content recommendation system includes a client interface device configured to monitor a user's information data stream. A collaborative filter remote from the client interface device generates automated predictions about the interests of the user. A database server stores personal behavioral profiles and user's preferences based on a plurality of monitored past behaviors and an output of the collaborative user personal interest inference engine. A programmed personal content recommendation server filters items in an incoming information stream with the personal behavioral profile and identifies only those items of the incoming information stream that substantially matches the personal behavioral profile. The identified personally relevant content is then recommended to the user following some priority that may consider the similarity between the personal interest matches, the context of the user information consumption behaviors that may be shown by the user's content consumption mode. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254218 | PARALLELIZATION OF SURPRISAL DATA REDUCTION AND GENOME CONSTRUCTION FROM GENETIC DATA FOR TRANSMISSION, STORAGE, AND ANALYSIS - A method, computer product, and computer system of reducing an amount of data representing a genetic sequence of an organism, comprising: a computer dividing a reference genome and a sequence of the organism into parts and assigning the parts to one of a plurality of computer processing elements. Within each computer processing element, comparing nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism to nucleotides from a part of the reference genome, to find differences where nucleotides of the genetic sequence of the organism which are different from the nucleotides of the reference genome; and storing the surprisal data in a repository. Combining the parts of the surprisal data from the repository to form a complete set of surprisal data representing the differences between the genetic sequence of the organism and the reference genome; and storing the complete set of surprisal data in the repository. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254219 | PROCESSING STRUCTURED DATA - The present invention provides a fast and efficient way of processing structured data by utilizing an intermediate file to store the structural information. The structured data may be processed into a Binary mask Format (BMF) file which may serve as a starting point for post-processing. A tree structure built on top of the BMF file may be constructed very quickly, and also takes up less space than a DOM tree. Additionally, BMF records may reside entirely in the memory and contain structural information, allowing SAX-like sequential data access. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254220 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND USING AN ADAPTIVE THESAURUS - Methods and systems are provided for creating an adaptive thesaurus. A term pair including an index term and an expansion term is received. A recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity of the term pair are calculated using a processor. Whether to store the term pair is determined based on the recall gain, the expansion independence, and the semantic similarity. The term pair is stored based on the determination. Methods and systems are provided for searching using an adaptive thesaurus. A search query including a query term is received. An expansion term stored in association with an index term matching the query term in the adaptive thesaurus is retrieved. Using a processor, the search query is expanded using the expansion term based on a recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254221 | KNOWLEDGE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic “facts” which can be stored in a standard relational database and processed very efficiently. It also provides for the efficient querying of a knowledge base, efficient inference of new knowledge and translation into and out of natural language. Queries can also be processed with full natural language explanations of where the answers came from. The method can also be used in a distributed fashion enabling the system to be a large network of computers and the technology can be integrated into a web browser adding to the browser's functionality. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254222 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING A VIRTUAL SEISMIC CUBE - A method for processing requests includes receiving, from a requestor, a first, read request to read a portion of a seismic cube. The first read request includes a virtual location of the portion. The method further includes querying a seismic cube index to obtain a mapping parameter and a storage location of a section including the portion of the seismic cube. The mapping parameter maps virtual locations in the seismic cube with data locations in the section. The section is identified using the virtual location of the portion. The method further includes calculating, on a computer processor and using the mapping parameter, a data location in the section corresponding to the virtual location of the portion, and transmitting a second read request to the storage location of the section. The second read request includes the data location. The requestor receives the portion from the storage location. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254223 | SEARCH FOR RELATED ITEMS USING DATA CHANNELS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a search for related items using data channels. A method includes, in a computing system having a processor and memory, processing data channels, each data channel defining a set of criteria against which to match items, receiving an input item, and applying the data channels to identify one or more additional items related to the input item. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254224 | DYNAMIC RELEVANT REPORTING - A system and method provide for an application for matching metadata from a transaction in an online transaction processing subsystem of an enterprise system to query metadata in an online analytical processing subsystem. A business object type is identified from a transaction in the online transaction subsystem using an object repository key and a corresponding data object attribute is determined from a mapping table. A new query of metadata from the online analytical processing subsystem is run, using the value of the data object attribute as a filter. This may allow for the generation of dynamic related report results for the transaction. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254225 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION SEARCH - A medical information search device, including: a case database adapted to accumulate case information; a case specification section adapted to receive specification of desired case information from the case database and to acquire the specified desired case information from the case database; a key extraction section adapted to generate an extraction key from the case information acquired by the case specification section; a differential disease table adapted to accumulate extraction keys in association with differential disease search keys; a query determination section adapted to refer to the differential disease table to determine a query that is a differential disease search key associated with the extraction key generated by the key extraction section; a differential disease search section adapted to search the case database based on the query determined by the query determination section; and an output section adapted to output differential disease information. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254226 | AUTOMATED WRIT RESPONSE SYSTEM - Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating responses to writs, such as subpoenas, in an efficient and timely manner. Implementations of the invention may include a writ response module and a queue manager to offer web service providers to automatically generate reports in response to various writs and to prioritize processing and human review prior to delivery of results. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254227 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA COLLECTION TO VALIDATE LOCATION DATA - A data collection system that provides the means to collect, store and make data available for a location analytics inference pipeline. The system incorporates a feedback mechanism enabling algorithms produced from the inference pipeline to drive the collection strategy to yield higher data quality and to produce reference data for model validation. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254228 | WRITE INSTRUCTION DATASOURCE FOR DATABASE WRITE PROCEDURE - A computer implemented system and method enables an application that only has the ability to request Structured Query Language (SQL) database read to effect a write to a SQL database is disclosed. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254229 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Utility Common Pool Database - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for providing for utility common pool database. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for utilizing a common pool database. The method may include transmitting, by one or more networks, one or more queries comprising location data from a mobile device to a server in communication with a database; receiving, from the database by the one or more networks, localized field information based at least in part on the one or more queries; and outputting the localized field information via the mobile device. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254230 | System for providing local search results - A system for providing local search results is provided with a setting module including fields including a keyword, a state, a county, a city, a mailing address, a location prominence, and a combination thereof; a database module for storing information of stores; a search algorithm module electrically connected to both the database module and the setting module for performing a search on the database module based on data input of the fields of the setting module and obtaining search results; and an information transmission module connected to a computer over the Internet and capable of sending the search results from the search algorithm module to the computer via the information transmission and over the Internet. The system can cover a narrow topic, resulting in a great reduction of both search time and the number of search results. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254231 | GATHERING AND CONTRIBUTING CONTENT ACROSS DIVERSE SOURCES - A content unification system is described herein that aligns related content from various sources into one unified stream. The system leverages tagging (e.g., hashtags or other added metadata associated with content) to filter and connect related content across sites, formats, and sources. One component of the system is a user-friendly and customizable “dash board” view of the various topics, called a “tagboard”. Tagboards can be quickly and easily created by users and can be embedded on any website. Users can interact with various content sources such as blogs, forums, or services without leaving the tagboard they are viewing. The content unification system provides users the tools to make the web efficient, increase user interaction, and increase the signal to noise ratio. The system also allows site owners and publishers to monetize their traffic better by directing advertisements to their content in real time. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254232 | Systems And Methods For Presenting Content Relevant To Text - A system and method are provided for presenting relevant content for attaching files, e.g. for an email application or an instant messaging application. In one example, a method includes providing a keyword extraction engine to extract keywords from text, and providing a keyword mapping engine to map the keywords to at least one attribute and at least one attribute value based on a pre-determined mapping scheme. In another example, a method includes receiving, e.g. from a user, at least one keyword, at least one attribute, and least one attribute value to define a mapping scheme. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254233 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-SENSITIVE ADDRESS BOOK - System and method to provide a self-organizing, context aware address book, the method including: receiving sensor data about a status of a user; receiving external data about a status of predetermined contacts of the user; data mining the external data based upon the sensor data and entries within the address book; calculating a respective likelihood value to at least a portion of the entries within the address book; determining a prominence for the portion of entries within the address book; and displaying the portion of entries within the address book with the prominence. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254234 | WEB-BASED SERVICES FOR QUERYING AND MATCHING LIKES AND DISLIKES OF INDIVIDUALS - A method for centrally providing a profile of a user's degree of preference for one or more items across categories in a plurality of domains of interest in a taxonomy of preferences is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a user's degree of preference for an item from a plurality of indicators. The user's degree of preference for the item is associated with a category in a domain of interest and is stored in a profile of the user. In another embodiment, the profile identifies preferences of the user in a taxonomy of preferences across categories in a plurality of domains of interest. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254235 | CONTENT COLLECTION SEARCH WITH ROBUST CONTENT MATCHING - Systems and approaches for searching a content collection corresponding to query content are provided. In particular, false positive match rates between the query content and the content collection may be reduced with a minimum content region test and/or a minimum features per scale test. For example, by correlating content descriptors of a content piece in the content collection with query descriptors of the query content, the content piece can be determined to match the query content when a particular region of the content piece and/or a particular region of a query descriptor have a proportionate size meeting or exceeding a specified minimum. Alternatively, or in addition, the false positive match rate between query content and a content piece can be reduced by comparing content descriptors and query descriptors of features at a plurality of scales. A content piece can be determined to match the query content according to descriptor proportion quotas for the plurality of scales. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OPERATION ACCESS SECURITY - A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage access control system may place similar access control restrictions on the backup files that existed on the original files. In this way, the backed up data is given similar protection as that of the original data. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254237 | DECLARATIVE SPECIFICATION OF DATA INTEGRATON WORKFLOWS FOR EXECUTION ON PARALLEL PROCESSING PLATFORMS - A method for receiving a declarative specification including a plurality of stages. Each stage specifies an atomic operation, a data input to the atomic operation, and a data output from the atomic operation. The data input is characterized by a data type. Links between at least two of the stages are generated to create a data integration workflow. The data integration workflow is compiled to generate computer code for execution on a parallel processing platform. The computer code configured to perform at least one of data preparation and data analysis. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254238 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING RELATIONAL DATA WITH A USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF) - Techniques for processing relational data with a user-defined function (UDF) are provided. Relational input data being requested by the UDF, from within a relational database system, is intercepted and normalized. The UDF is called with the normalized input data and as the UDF produces output data in response to the normalized input data that output data is captured and normalized. In an embodiment, the normalized output data is used to dynamically update a data model within the relational database for the input data. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254239 | Storage of a Document Using Multiple Representations - Some embodiments provide a method for storing a document. The method stores a content stream representation of the document that includes an ordered stream of code representations for primitive elements of the document. Each code representation of a primitive element has an index that indicates the order in the content stream of the primitive element representation. The method stores an object representation of the document that includes a set of object nodes arranged in a tree structure. Each object node references a range of indices in the content stream. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254240 | METHOD OF PROCESSING DATABASE, DATABASE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a method of processing a database includes dividing a first data table that includes records including data in a plurality of columns into a plurality of second data tables based on a predetermined criterion for dividing columns. Each of the second data tables includes data in at least one column. The method also includes dividing each of the second data tables into a plurality of third data tables based on a predetermined criterion for dividing data in units of a record based on the data. Each of the third data tables includes at least one record. The method also includes storing the third data tables in a plurality of storage units, respectively. Each of the storage units allows the data to be read independently. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254241 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A TEAM OBJECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN OBJECT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing a team object in association with an object. These mechanisms and methods for providing a team object in association with an object can allow for centralized management of a team in association with an object. For example, members of the team may be automatically identified (e.g. without manual intervention) for receiving notifications in association with an object. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254242 | DATABASE PROCESSING DEVICE, DATABASE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The database processing device includes: a column store database including a storage into which tuple data is stored in a unit of a column and a management structuring section into which first information indicative of a valid data range and second information including identification information of data that is already invalid are stored in terms of the storage; and a database processing section that, when performing a process of inserting data for the column store database, additionally affixes the data to an end of the storage to update the first information of the management structuring section, and when performing a process of deleting data for the column store database, additionally affixes identification information of deletion-target data to the second information of the management structuring section. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254243 | METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ONLINE AND PRINTING ON-DEMAND COMPILATION OF WORKS WITH EXCERPTS HANDLING FEATURES - A method and related apparatus for managing files for producing a compilation of works, including the step of obtaining a complete file of a work to be compiled in the compilation of works, selecting a portion of the complete file as a separate excerpt file to be compiled in the compilation of works, and independently managing the complete file and the excerpt file for producing the compilation of works. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254244 | METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ONLINE AND PRINTING ON-DEMAND COMPILATION OF WORKS WITH TYPE DESIGNATION FEATURES - A method for managing files for producing a compilation of works. The method includes the steps of obtaining a file of a work to be compiled in the compilation of works, specifying a type designation to the file or a portion thereof, and rendering special treatment of the file or the portion thereof according to the type designated to the file or the portion thereof when producing the compilation of works. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING OBJECT FILE MODIFICATIONS - A method and apparatus for performing object modifications by using change-specific executable files comprises accessing at least one modification stub associated with an object file, wherein the modification stub comprises an instruction for modifying the object file, wherein the instruction identifies an element in the object file and defines instructions for modifying the identified element; applying a selected modification stub to the object file; and modifying the object file per the instruction contained in the modification stub. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254246 | DATA PROCESSING PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM - Systems and methods of data processing performance enhancement are disclosed. One embodiment includes, invoking operating system calls to optimize cache management by an I/O component; wherein, the operating system calls are invoked to perform one or more of proactive triggering of readaheads for sequential read requests of a disk; purging data out of buffer cache after writing to the disk or performing sequential reads from the desk; and/or eliminating a delay between when a write is performed and when written data from the write is flushed to the disk from the buffer cache. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254247 | Scalable, high performance and highly available distributed storage system for Internet content - A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN). | 2013-09-26 |
20130254248 | Method And Apparatus For A Distributed File System In A Cloud Network - Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of providing a distributed network file system in a cloud network that provides performance guarantees in cloud storage that are independent of the accessed files and the access locations. A client's file system is provisioned using a file placement strategy that is based on client's access locations and determined maximum access bandwidths and does not require knowledge of file access patterns. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254249 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOW COMPLEXITY COMBINATORIAL CODING OF SIGNALS - The invention utilizes low complexity estimates of complex functions to perform combinatorial coding of signal vectors. The invention disregards the accuracy of such functions as long as certain sufficient properties are maintained. The invention in turn may reduce computational complexity of certain coding and decoding operations by two orders of magnitude or more for a given signal vector input. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEAST MEAN FOURTH ADAPTIVE FILTERING - The system and method for least mean fourth adaptive filtering is a system that uses a general purpose computer or a digital circuit (such as an ASIC, a field-programmable gate array, or a digital signal processor that is programmed to utilize a normalized least mean fourth algorithm. The normalization is performed by dividing a weight vector update term by the fourth power of the norm of the regressor. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254251 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A series generator divides a data series having an autocorrelation property equally into a certain number to generate subdata series. A modulator multiplies a predetermined amplitude coefficient and a unique number by each element of the subdata series, respectively, and rearranges the subdata series and synthesizes the rearranged subdata series to generate the modulation data. An IFFT unit performs an IFFT on the modulation data. The calculator divides the calculation result equally into the certain number to generate the sub calculation results, and multiplies an equalization coefficient by each element of the sub calculation results. A synthesizer generates a baseband signal by arranging the sub calculation results, so that an arranged position corresponds to a position at the time of being divided equally, and synthesizing the arranged result. A transmitter generates the transmission signal and transmits it to another apparatus via an antenna. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254252 | Variable Node Processing Unit - A low-density parity check min-sum decoder including a variable node processing unit having N+1 inputs. A first bank of N+1 two-input adders each have an associated output, and at least one of the N+1 inputs go to more than two of the adders of the first bank. A second bank of N two-input adders has no adders in common with the first bank. At least one of the adders of the first bank provides its associated output to more than one adder of the second bank. The banks of adders are disposed in series. A sign module outputs a sign value produced from one of the inputs and an output from one of the adders of the second bank. N+1 outputs are provided, where one of the outputs is the sign value. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254253 | Buffer-less Rotating Coefficient Filter - A circuit that provides a rotating coefficient FIR filter with all necessary coefficient sets present at the same time, without the need for delay elements, devices providing for adjustable impedances, or buffers is described. An input signal is sampled in a round robin fashion by a plurality of switches and capacitors. The capacitors are connected directly to sets of impedance devices. Each set of impedance devices implements the coefficients of the desired frequency response of the filter, adjusted to compensate for the decay of samples in the capacitors between samples. The impedance devices in each set are connected to the capacitors in a different order from each other set, so that each set of impedance devices will produce the desired frequency response when a different one of the capacitor contains a new sample of the input signal. Switches connect the sets of impedance devices to an output and a virtual ground, only one switch being connected to the output at a time to provide the output signal. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254254 | SERVICE MEDIATION MODEL - Embodiments of the invention relate to processing service requests and responses using a service mediation model. A service transaction is received and one or more processing operations are performed on the service transaction. The one or more processing operations perform one or more operations on the service transaction based on requirements associated with a service consumer and a service provider associate with the service. The service transaction is transmitted once the processing operations are complete. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254255 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are described for performing distributed computations over a data set potentially owned or controlled by many stakeholders, each of whom may set their own policies governing access to and/or other use of their individual data. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254256 | Method and Apparatus for Data Interaction - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for data interaction, and the method includes: obtaining required times of data interaction between valid applications in a background application mode and a network; selecting a minimum required time from the current required times as a target required time of data interaction, and starting timing; when the target required time expires, obtaining each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times, and determining the valid application as a target application; and activating a packet data protocol PDP, establishing a data link between the target application and the network, and performing data interaction, and then restarting timing. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254257 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A SAME PROGRAM ON A LOCAL SYSTEM AND A REMOTE SYSTEM - A system and method implemented in a Customer Information Control System (CICS) Application configured to process information residing on remote systems and display such information on a local system, using a same program residing on both the remote system(s) and the local system. The method includes, for example, sending programming functions of a local system with a request for information to a remote system. The method further includes processing the programming functions of the local system with the request for information on the remote system to obtain updated information from the remote system. The updated information is sent to the local system for display. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254258 | OFFLOADING APPLICATION COMPONENTS TO EDGE SERVERS - An apparatus and method for off-loading application components to edge servers are provided. An application is made edge-aware by defining which components of the application may be run from an edge server, and which components cannot be run from an edge server. When a request is received that is to be processed by an application on an origin server, a determination is made as to whether the application contains edgable components. If so, an edgified version of the application is created. When a request is received that is handled by a component that may be run on the edge server, the request is handled by that component on the edge server. When a request is received that is handled by a component that is not edgable, the request is passed to a proxy agent which then provides the request to a broker agent on the origin server. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PUBLICATION AND SHARING OF FILES VIA THE INTERNET - A method and system of publishing and sharing files over the internet wherein one or more files are uploaded from a software application on a client device to a web server which generates a URL location for the file(s) and an associated text message that are transmitted back to the client device for sharing with third-party devices at the same time the file(s) continue to upload on the web server in the background. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254260 | NETWORK THREAT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM WITH SERVERS PERFORMING MESSAGE EXCHANGE ACCOUNTING - A server has a firewall module that performs accounting of traffic seen at the server. The traffic includes message exchanges, such as HTTP requests and HTTP responses. The server tests the message exchanges to determine if they match any of several message exchange categories. The server keeps statistics on matching traffic, for example the rate of matching traffic generated by a particular requesting client. Typically, the server is a proxy server that is part of a content delivery network (CDN), and the message exchanges occur between a client requesting content, the proxy server, other servers in the CDN, and/or an origin server from which the proxy server retrieves requested content. Using the message exchange model and the statistics generated thereby, the server can flag particular traffic or clients, and take protective action (e.g., deny, alert). In an alternate embodiment, a central control system gathers statistics from multiple servers for analysis. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254261 | System and Method of Managing Servers for Streaming Desktop Applications - A method of a client device accessing server based applications comprising the steps of communicating to a management server an application identifier and a client identifier to the management server over a global network. Then determining a set of available worker servers from a plurality of worker servers by the management server and selecting a worker server. A desktop operating system is loaded on one the worker server along with application-persistent data associated with the client identifier and associated with the application identifier from a database. The application is then executes the application on the worker server and stores in the database current application-persistent data associated with the client identifier. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A USER TO DYNAMICALLY UPDATE A MOBILE APPLICATION FROM A GENERIC OR FIRST APPLICATION WITHIN A CLASS OF APPLICATIONS TO CREATE A SPECIFIC OR SECOND APPLICATION WITH SAID CLASS OF APPLICATIONS - A method of dynamically reconfiguring a generic class mobile application in a mobile device for a specific use within that general class comprises: downloading an adaptable framework of the generic class mobile application onto the mobile device; triggering communication between a server and the mobile device, said communication directing the server to reconfigure at least one of content, presentation and function of the generic mobile application, therein creating a specific use of the generic class mobile application. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254263 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA OF USB DEVICE TO SERVER, AND CLIENT TERMINAL PERFORMING THE METHOD - There is provided a data processing method of a client terminal that communicates with a server, including: receiving a data request message for requesting data of a USB device connected to the client terminal, from the server, the data request message including information about a size of data that is to be read from the USB device; acquiring data corresponding to the size of data included in the data request message, from the USB device; deciding a size of data that is able to be additionally transmitted from the USB device, according to operation states of other USB devices connected to the client terminal; and transmitting a data transmission completion message to the server, wherein the data transmission completion message includes information about the size of data that is able to be additionally transmitted, and the data acquired from the USB device. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254264 | TETHERING METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICES, SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE - In one aspect, a mobile browser may be used to facilitate tethering of a client computing device to a mobile device. A first data connection may be opened between a client computing device seeking internet access and a browser application executing in the mobile browser. A second data connection may be opened between the browser application executing in the browser and an internet server. The browser application may automatically relay internet-destined data received from the client device to the internet server and may further automatically relay internet-originated data received from the internet server to the client device. In another aspect, a gateway identifier identifying a gateway for accessing the internet via a wireless LAN data connection may be modified or deleted to cause the mobile device to use a cellular data network data connection, rather than the wireless LAN data connection, for relaying internet-destined data from the client computing device. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254265 | SYSTEM AND MECHANISMS FOR TRANSFERRING USER SELECTED CONTENT TO A RECIPIENT - In accordance with an implementation of the present application, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided that stores instructions executable by a computing device, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to receive an inventory listing generated by a local computing system for a plurality of visual works, wherein the inventory listing includes information for each individual visual work included in the plurality of visual works and one or more images of each individual work. Further, a selection is received of at least a portion of the plurality of the visual works and information for each individual work for inclusion in a displayable compilation of the selected portion of the plurality of the visual works. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254266 | GLOBAL API DEPLOYMENT AND ROUTING - A method and a system are provided for implementing a global application program interface and providing routing to a number of services. A global traffic manager may receive an application program interface call from an originating processing device via an open public network. The global traffic manager may return an address of a closest edge server, with respect to the originating processing device, from among a number of edge servers, in an edge network. The edge server may obtain a location having data corresponding to the application program interface call and may make a data specific application program interface call to a data center corresponding to the obtained location. The edge server may receive data from the data center and may ensure that the data is in a proper format. The edge server may send the data to the originating processing device via the open public network. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254267 | 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. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254268 | METHOD FOR STREAMING MEDIA AND MEDIA CONTROLLER - Embodiments provide a method for streaming media and a media controller. The method includes: receiving, by a media controller, a media streaming request sent by a user equipment, and allocating an index to the user equipment, wherein the index is used to indicate an address of a corresponding buffer in the media controller to which data to be streamed is stored; binding the streaming request and the index of the user equipment and storing in a table, and sending the them to a media server so that the media server controls, according to the table, a storage device to send the data to be streamed to an address of a buffer corresponding to the index; and receiving then streaming the data to be streamed that is requested by the streaming request to the corresponding user equipment by querying the table. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254269 | REQUEST ROUTING USING NETWORK COMPUTING COMPONENTS - A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing. A DNS server at a content delivery network service provider obtains a DNS query corresponding to a resource requested from a client computing device and associated with a first resource identifier. The first resource identifier includes a first portion with DNS information and a second portion with path information. The DNS server selects a network computing component for processing the requested resource based on the DNS portion of the resource identifier and transmits information identifying the selected network computing component to the client computing device. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254270 | COLLABORATIVE ONLINE SPREADSHEET APPLICATION - A distributed spreadsheet application executes at a server and a client in a network. The networked spreadsheet application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific spreadsheet software prior to using the application. In one implementation, the spreadsheet application may include a client engine that executes within browser programs of a plurality of client computing devices and server logic. The server logic may be configured to distribute the client engines to the plurality of client computing devices of the spreadsheet application when requested through the browser programs of each of the plurality of client computing devices. The server logic synchronizes a single spreadsheet document that is simultaneously open at the plurality of client computing devices. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254271 | Application Test Method Based On Service Delivery Platform, and Service Delivery Platform - Embodiments of the present invention provide an application test method based on a service delivery platform, and a service delivery platform. The method includes: receiving a service request message sent by an application server; determining whether the service request is a test request; if the service request is a test request, parsing the test request and obtaining a test instruction; and performing, according to the test instruction, a corresponding action and returning a corresponding response to the application server. With the method and the service delivery platform provided in the embodiments of the present invention, tests of all interfaces and service logic of an application can be covered without a test blind spot; and application test costs are decreased in the light of operators and application developers. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254272 | CLIENT-BASED CACHING OF REMOTE FILES - A lease system is described herein that allows clients to request a lease to a remote file, wherein the lease permits access to the file across multiple applications using multiple handles without extra round trips to a server. When multiple applications on the same client (or multiple components of the same application) request access to the same file, the client specifies the same lease identifier to the server for each open request or may handle the request from the cache based on the existing lease. Because the server identifies the client's cache at the client level rather than the individual file request level, the client receives fewer break notifications and is able to cache remote files in more circumstances. Thus, by providing the ability to cache data in more circumstances common with modern applications, the lease system reduces bandwidth, improves server scalability, and provides faster access to data. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254273 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION IN UPNP AUDIO/VIDEO - An environment variable for use cases such as UPnP AV use cases. The environment variable of the present invention is used to store the physical location of the user. For example, the environment variable can be used to identify a particular location as being a user's living room, kitchen, etc. The information stored in the environment variable can be used to enhance the user experience of the digital home or other environment by minimizing the number of manual selections that the user has to make in order to initiate a use case such as playing music in a bedroom or watching movies in a living room. The environment variable is used to trigger a change of a profile and select the devices needed to implement different use scenarios. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254274 | Method, Device, and System for Downloading Games - The present disclosure applies to the field of software, and provides a method, a device and a system for downloading games. The method includes that: after a user logs in, a client device sends a version number of a local game hall and personal information of the user to a server, which generates and returns a silent configuration file for downloading according to the version number of the local game hall and personal information of the user, wherein the silent configuration file for downloading includes a list of games that needs to be updated and/or downloaded and a silent download speed-limiting mode; the client device receives the silent configuration file for downloading returned by the server, and silently downloads and/or updates corresponding games of the local game hall according to the silent configuration file for downloading. An embodiment of the present disclosure can set the most appropriate silent download mode according to network conditions and user requirements. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254275 | DYNAMIC MESSAGE RETRIEVAL - Methods and systems for dynamically changing a message retrieval scheme during runtime include accessing messaging business rules from a memory by a message retrieval component at runtime, wherein the messaging business rules define a primary retrieval scheme and a secondary retrieval scheme, and wherein a value provided for each of the primary retrieval scheme and the secondary retrieval scheme are selected from a combination of different message retrieval types including: First In First Out (FIFO), Last In First Out (LIFO), and random. The message retrieval component subdivides the message queue into sub-queues based on at least one of a message quantity limit and a message received time limit specified in the business rules. Each of the sub-queues is then accessed using the value of the secondary retrieval scheme; and messages from each of the sub-queues are retrieved using the value of the primary retrieval scheme. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254276 | ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT RECORDS AND AGGREGATES MOOD IN COLOR - A system, method, and computer program for mood mapping with color within a social network is provided. Data about the mood and subsequent data of a plurality of social network members is received. A member of the plurality of social network members is permitted to establish a relationship with any other member of the plurality of social network members with whom a relationship is desired. Mood data and subsequent data are then shared between social network members with a relationship. A member's status is updated with their current mood represented in color as represented: GREEN (happy), ORANGE (excited), PINK (tender), YELLOW (scared), RED (angry), BLUE (sad), GREY (transition). Mood data represented in color from the plurality of social network members is aggregated and displayed in real-time on a world map and summarized via a device containing circles that proportionally displays aggregated color mood data. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254277 | Methods And Networks For Device To Device Communication - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling communications between first and second user equipments (UEs) by a base station in a network. The method includes obtaining an indication, the indication indicating if the first and second UEs are within a communication range of each other and controlling a direct communication link between the first and second UEs if the first and second UEs are within a communication range of each other. The controlling includes allocating at least a first portion of an uplink channel of the network to the direct communication link. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254278 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATCHING USERS TO GROUPS FOR ONLINE COMMUNITIES AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS - A method includes detecting a first user seeking to join a group, detecting one or more groups recruiting members, retrieving user parameters corresponding to the first user, and retrieving group parameters corresponding to each of the one or more groups. The group parameters may comprise group characteristic data and group requirements. For each group of the one or more groups, the group parameters corresponding to the group are compared against the user parameters corresponding to the first user. A score is determined for each of the one or more groups based on the comparing. One or more selected groups of the one or more groups is recommended to the first user at least in part based on the score. One or more computer programs may be adapted to execute the above steps, and a processor may be configured to perform the above steps. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES - Method for scheduling and implementing an electronic meeting conducted among remotely-located users communicating with an agenda server, including: accepting a meeting agenda that includes a plurality of topics, a quorum, an identification of resources used by each topic, an identification of data used by each topic, and an identification of data produced by each topic; partitioning the meeting agenda into at least a first and second group of topics; searching for data dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; searching for resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; if data dependencies or resource dependencies are found between the first and second groups of topics, then repartitioning the meeting agenda until the data dependencies and resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics are reduced below a predetermined dependency threshold; and concurrently scheduling and executing the first and second groups of topics. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254280 | IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Techniques for identifying influential users of a social networking service are provided. Influential users may be identified via an algorithm in which an influence score is assigned to each user based at least in part on other members of the community users having taken an affirmative step with respect to the user's communications. Iterative processing may be performed, with each user's influence score being determined by contributions from other users, and each contribution being determined by the contributor's influence score as of a prior iteration. A map-reduce framework may be employed, with data representing the community being partitioned into a plurality of discrete shards, a map process corresponding to each shard calculating an influence score for users represented in the shard, and reduce processes ranking users according to influence score across all shards. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254281 | COLLABORATIVE MEDIA GATHERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems, devices and methods are described including determining a goal for collaborative media gathering, automatically generating a plurality of tasks specifying the capture of media associated with the goal, storing the tasks, and providing the tasks to a plurality of users. The goal may be automatically determined in response to real-time social media analysis. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254282 | PROPAGATING USER EXPERIENCE STATE INFORMATION - Techniques for propagating user experience state information are described. A user experience can include various types of content that a user may consume, such as video content, images, audio content, text documents, and so on. Further, a “composition” can be created using various combinations of user experiences, such as still images inset to video content, a navigable map presented with images of geographical locations associated with the map, and so on. In implementations, techniques enable user experiences included as part of a composition to interact such that behaviors associated with one user experience can affect another user experience, and vice-versa. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254283 | Targeting Stories Based On Influencer Scores - A story describing an activity performed by an interacting user is distributed to viewing users according to the influencer scores for the viewing users. Each influencer score can be calculated based at least in part on the influence of a viewing user on those users connected to the viewing user, and on the influencer scores for the users connected to the viewing user. Based on the determined influencer scores, at least one of the viewing users can be provided with the story describing the activity performed by the interacting user. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254284 | EMBEDDING AN AUTOGRAPH IN AN ELECTRONIC BOOK - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for embedding an autograph into digital media, particularly an electronic book. A system is described that includes an author's device running a signing application and at least one reader's device storing a copy of the electronic book. Depending on the proximity of the reader's device to the author's device, the author's device automatically performs different autographing tasks. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM WITH TEMPLATES FOR ROLE-BASED VIEW OF SUBSCRIPTIONS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for notifying one or more users of information having a plurality of attributes. A plurality of subscribable objects are provided to one or more users, where each subscribable object comprises one or more attributes as required attributes and zero or more of the attributes as optional attributes. Subscription requests are received from one or more of the users based on at least one of the subscribable objects. The subscribable objects are based, for example, on a set of predefined templates. The predefined templates identify each of the plurality of attributes as a required attribute or an optional attribute. Each of the attributes is presented to a user using a display format selected based on a cardinality of the corresponding attribute. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254286 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS - In some embodiments, a method includes adding at least one virtual token to an account associated with a user of a token server, upon initial association of the user with the token server. The token server can be configured to transfer virtual tokens to and from accounts associated with a plurality of users. The token server can be accessible by one or more electronic devices in communication with the token server via a network. At least one virtual token can be transferred from an account associated with a first user of the token server to an account associated with a second user of the token server based upon a request received from the first user of the token server via an electronic device. The transferred virtual token can be associated, for example, with a popularity rating of the user receiving the virtual token. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254287 | Online Social Interaction, Education, and Health Care by Analysing Affect and Cognitive Features - A method of establishing a collaborative platform comprising performing a collaborative interactive session for a plurality of members, and analysing affect and cognitive features of some or all of the plurality of members is disclosed herein. | 2013-09-26 |
20130254288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING PARENTAL APPROVAL - An improved system and method enable website operators and online service providers to verify parental approval for access by underage users, e.g., for compliance with COPPA. The system and method herein also enable parents to monitor what sites their children have approval to visit; enable parents to withdraw approval at any time for any site(s) previously approved using the system and method described herein; and enable website operators/online service providers to admit or prevent children from logging in or accessing online services or content based on real time parental approval data. | 2013-09-26 |