41st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100262567 | Puzzle-Based Fundraising Method Implemented with Trading Cards - A fundraising method is presented including the sale of trays and trading cards, the latter exchanged between participants in a competitive fashion to complete a collection of cards so as to unlock a code or puzzle. Trays and trading cards include clues suggesting the proper placement of the cards onto the trays. The fundraising method includes selling a plurality of trays and trading cards from a fundraiser to a plurality of participants, exchanging the trading cards between participants, assembling the trading cards onto trays by participants, assisting participants to complete at least one tray with correctly assembled trading cards, and awarding a winner. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262568 | Scalable Clustering - A scalable clustering system is described. In an embodiment the clustering system is operable for extremely large scale applications where millions of items having tens of millions of features are clustered. In an embodiment the clustering system uses a probabilistic cluster model which models uncertainty in the data set where the data set may be for example, advertisements which are subscribed to keywords, text documents containing text keywords, images having associated features or other items. In an embodiment the clustering system is used to generate additional features for associating with a given item. For example, additional keywords are suggested which an advertiser may like to subscribe to. The additional features that are generated have associated probability values which may be used to rank those features in some embodiments. User feedback about the generated features is received and used to revise the feature generation process in some examples. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262569 | DATA CONVERTING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM HAVING DATA CONVERTING PROGRAM - A data converting apparatus and a data converting program are suitable to quantitatively estimate, based on a temporal alteration of a stimulus value, a temporal alteration of a sensitivity brought to human beings. The data converting apparatus includes a decomposing unit subjecting temporal alteration data of a stimulus value to wavelet decomposition to extract plural time-frequency components contained in the temporal alteration data, a weighting unit weighting the plural extracted time-frequency components weighting coefficients which are predetermined based on a relationship between a temporal alteration of a stimulus value and a temporal alteration of a sensitivity of human beings to the stimulus value, and a synthesizing unit subjecting the plural weighted time-frequency components to wavelet synthesis to estimate a sensitivity brought to human beings when the stimulus value is subjected to temporal alteration according to the temporal alteration data. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262570 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program Thereof - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262571 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA SETS - A method is provided for organizing data sets. In use, an automatic decision system is created or updated for determining whether data elements fit a predefined organization or not, where the decision system is based on a set of preorganized data elements. A plurality of data elements is organized using the decision system. At least one organized data element is selected for output to a user based on a score or confidence from the decision system for the at least one organized data element. Additionally, at least a portion of the at least one organized data element is output to the user. A response is received from the user comprising at least one of a confirmation, modification, and a negation of the organization of the at least one organized data element. The automatic decision system is recreated or updated based on the user response. Other embodiments are also presented. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262572 | INCORPORATING REPRESENTATIONAL AUTHENTICITY INTO VIRTUAL WORLD INTERACTIONS - A system that incorporates representational authenticity into virtual world interactions can include user representational authenticity data and a virtual world computing system. The user representational authenticity data can be used to describe the physical characteristics of a human user. The physical characteristics can be quantified utilizing standardized measurement techniques. The virtual world computing system can be configured to adjudicate the conduction of interactions performed by a virtual representation of the human user within the virtual world environment utilizing the user representational authenticity data. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262573 | LOGGING AND ANALYZING COMPUTER USER'S CONTEXT DATA - A facility for logging context attributes is described. For each of a set of selected context attributes, the facility, determines a target frequency with which values of the selected context attribute are to be logged. For each of the set of selected context attributes, the facility obtains values of the selected context attribute at a frequency approximating the target frequency determined for the selected context attribute. Then, for each obtained context attribute value, the facility writes the obtained value to a storage device in a manner that identifies its context attribute. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING BREADTH-FIRST AND DEPTH-FIRST SEARCH STRATEGIES WITH APPLICATIONS TO GRAPH-SEARCH PROBLEMS WITH LARGE ENCODING SIZES - A system and method to integrate breadth-first and depth-first strategies in a single search technique or routine is provided. It combines the complementary strengths of both strategies to achieve significantly improved speed over either strategy used alone. The new algorithm can be used to efficiently find solutions to the treewidth problem that has applications in areas such as diagnosis using probabilistic inferences. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262575 | FASTER MINIMUM ERROR RATE TRAINING FOR WEIGHTED LINEAR MODELS - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods for training feature weights in a statistical machine translation model. The system can include components that obtain lists of translation hypotheses and associated feature values, set a current point in the multidimensional feature weight space to an initial value, chooses a line in the feature weight space that passes through the current point, and resets the current point to optimize the feature weights with respect to the line. The system can further include components that set the current point to be a best point attained, reduce the list of translation hypotheses based on a determination that a particular hypothesis has never been touched in optimizing the feature weights from at least one of an initial staring point or a randomly selected restarting point, and output the point ascertained to be the best point in the feature weight space. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262576 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING A PATH THROUGH CONCEPT NODES - A method for determining a path through concept nodes. The method includes calculating a spatial cost function between adjacent concept nodes in a lower dimensional layout representation of a network of concepts in a n-dimensional space and determining a path that follows a minimum spatial cost function through the concept nodes. The spatial cost function may be used to predict a next node in the path. The method may also include receiving an origin concept node or a goal concept node. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262577 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SECURITY ACCESS POLICY FOR A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and system for providing an automated security access policy in a document management system are described. The security policies are applied based on metadata rules. Once a document is added to the document managements system, the metadata rules are evaluated using the metadata of the document. Based on the results of the evaluation security access policies are applied to the document. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262578 | Consolidating File System Backend Operations with Access of Data - Mechanisms for performing a backend operation in a file system are provided. A backend operation on a portion of the file system is initiated. At least one indirect transition table data structure is created for performing the backend operation. Metadata corresponding to the portion of the file system is linked to the at least one indirect transition table data structure. The backend operation is performed on data in a sub-portion of the portion of the file system and the at least one indirect transition table data structure is updated with pointers to new locations of the data in the sub-portion as transitions of the data are completed. At least one data access operation is performed to the portion of the file system at substantially a same time as performing the backend operation on the data in the sub-portion of the portion of the file system. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262579 | Reducing Transmission of Location Updates Based on Loitering - The mobile communications device may reduce the amount of location updates transmitted by applying algorithm-based filters. By setting a minimum distance threshold applied to a location update, the mobile communication device reduces the amount of location updates transmitted when the mobile communication device is “loitering” at a specific location. This disclosure describes a use of a minimum threshold used in loitering analysis and improvements to loitering calculations. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262580 | DATA SYNCHRONIZING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING XRI DATA LINK - The present invention relates to a data synchronizing system and method using an XRI data link. The data synchronizing system includes a user data provider, a user data consumer, and an XRI resolver that analyzes received XRI identifiers and rovides metadata related to the XRI identifiers. The user data provider instructs the user data consumer to update data using the metadata related to the XRI identifiers, and provides a data synchronizing function, which has been provided in the form of a Web service, through the XRI data link. As a result, an application program can facilitate data synchronization, and thus the efficiency of a system can be improved. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262581 | Order commitment method and system - An order commitment method and system are described. The method includes the steps of identifying services and data capable of supporting an order commitment, and mapping the services to enable synchronized on-demand queries. The mapping step includes determining relationships among the services and the data and maintaining the relationships, wherein links are established to create fulfillment information. The method also includes using the fulfillment information to generate the order commitment. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262582 | CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTERS - Methods and systems provide a tool for synchronizing content across multiple computers. In one or more embodiments, files and folders can be automatically synchronized when multiple computers are available. Further, in at least some embodiments, automatic synchronization can be effected on each of two or more computers by a single user action on a single computer, such as a mouse click. Additionally, in other embodiments, the tool can present an option to synchronize content across multiple computers. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262583 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AN ARCHIVE ROUTINE FOR PROTECTING DATA IN A DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM - A method for creating an archive protection plan for archiving a backup of data is provided. An indication of an archive data protection kind and an archive data protection duration are received. In response to receiving the archive data protection kind and the archive data protection duration, an archive scheme is determined and an archive protection plan representative of the archive scheme is generated. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262584 | Disinfecting a file system - A method and apparatus for disinfecting an infected electronic file in a file system. A file system is scanned using an anti-virus application to identify the infected electronic file. Once the infected file has been identified, information identifying the infected electronic file is sent to a remote node, which queries a database storing a plurality commonly used electronic files to determine whether a clean version of the electronic file is stored at the database. If so, then all or part of the clean version of the infected electronic file is sent from the remote node, and used to replace all or part of the electronic file stored in the file system. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262585 | VIRTUAL MACHINE FILE-LEVEL RESTORATION - Disclosed is a method and system for selectively restoring file-level data from a disk image backup. In embodiments, a virtual machine backup may be performed by dividing a virtual machine virtual disk file into a plurality of discrete fixed-sized data blocks sharing a common index file that is stored on a backup medium, such as a hard drive, to form a backup set. The index file is referenced to determine which fixed-sized block contains volume information, such as a partition table, of the backed-up virtual machine file. The individual blocks are processed as a virtual filesystem which is presented to an access module, which traverses the filesystem and provide access to individual files in the image backup to a client process, the restore files may be delivered to the client in a container file, which may be compressed to increase transfer speed. The container file may include executable instructions for automatically restoring the files to a desired location. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262586 | VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA REPLICATION - Disclosed is a method and system for selectively restoring file-level data from a disk image backup. In embodiments, a virtual machine backup may be performed by dividing a virtual machine virtual disk file into a plurality of discrete fixed-sized data blocks sharing a common index file that is stored on a backup medium, such as a hard drive, to form a backup set. Upon restoration of data from the backup set, individual blocks of the data set are compared to corresponding blocks of the target virtual machine file. Redundant data and unchanged blocks are skipped, and only those block which have changed are restored to the target file. In this manner network bandwidth and processor resources are conserved, and replication times decreased. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262587 | DEVICE FOR REMOTE DEFRAGMENTATION OF AN EMBEDDED DEVICE - An embedded device ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100262588 | METHOD OF ACCESSING A MEMORY - A method of accessing a memory is implemented on a memory system having a main memory and a secondary memory. The main memory includes a compressed data area that has a SWAP file zone predefined therein. When the main memory is insufficient for data buffering, the predefined SWAP file zone is provided for data swapping. A newly defined SWAP file zone is dynamically created in the compressed data area whenever each last defined SWAP file zone is insufficient for data swapping, and the secondary memory is substitute for data swapping only when the compressed data area has insufficient capacity. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262589 | Web-Browser Based State Repository - A method includes associating a state identifier with a page of a user interface; associating an element identifier with an element of the page of the user interface; and tracking a state of the element based on the state identifier and the element identifier throughout a user session of the user interface. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262590 | MULTI-COMPUTER DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING WITH REPLICATED LOCAL MEMORY EXCLUSIVE READ AND WRITE AND NETWORK VALUE UPDATE PROPAGATION - A modified computer architecture enables an applications program to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M | 2010-10-14 |
20100262591 | METHOD FOR INPUTTING COMMAND IN MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - The present disclosure is related to a method of inputting a command in a mobile terminal comprising; storing a table including at least one drawing pattern and a command on the each drawing pattern; receiving a user drawing on a touch screen; and determining a drawing pattern matching with the user drawing pattern by comparing the user drawing pattern and the table to execute a command corresponding the determined drawing pattern, and a mobile terminal using the same. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262592 | Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites - Methods and systems for a web crawler scheduler that utilizes sitemaps from websites are described. A web crawler scheduling system receives a notification from a website or web server. In response to the notification, the system accesses one or more sitemap(s) for documents associated with the website or web server. The system schedules crawls of the documents based on information identified from the sitemaps. The system crawls at least a subset of the documents scheduled for crawling. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262593 | AUTOMATED FILTERED INDEX RECOMMENDATIONS - The described implementations relate to filtered index recommendations. In one case a filtered index recommendation (FIR) tool is configured to recommend a final set of filtered indexes to use with a workload. The final set is selected from a first set of candidate filtered indexes and a second set of merged filtered indexes. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262594 | REDUCING ACCESS TIME FOR DATA IN FILE SYSTEMS WHEN SEEK REQUESTS ARE RECEIVED AHEAD OF ACCESS REQUESTS - Reducing access time for data in a file system when seek requests are received ahead of access requests. In one embodiment, an operating system providing access to the file system receives a seek request (from a user application) indicating an identifier of a file and a location within the file at which a data is sought to be accessed. In response, the operating system computes the offset of a disk block containing the location (thereby the data that is sought to be accessed). On receiving an access request (after the seek request from the same user application) indicating an operation to be performed on the data, the operating system executes the operation on the data using the pre-computed offset of the disk block. The computation of the disk block is performed before the access request is received thereby reducing the time required to process the access request. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262595 | FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORD MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a file management system for collectively managing a plurality of files stored and managed in at least one file storage device and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for performing file management. The file management system includes a file search module for designating one or more fields as search conditions and then searching for one or more files, listing found files together with registration information and then displaying this list on a screen, and listing a plurality of files together with registration information and then displaying this list on the screen; a registration information management module for performing entry, deletion and modification of file registration information and addition and deletion of one or more file registration information fields; and a rearrangement module for, using one or more selected file registration information fields as criteria for arrangement, changing a relevant folder structure with reference to registration information of files at selected locations and rearranging files and folders. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262596 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DERIVING DEMAND METRICS USED IN ORDERING ITEM LISTINGS PRESENTED IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - Methods and systems for using a half-life formula for deriving demand metrics used in ordering item listings, when presenting those item listings in a search results page, are described. In some embodiments, a demand metric for an item listing is derived by monitoring events associated with item listings, such as, keeping a count of the number of search impressions an item listing receives. A half-life formula is used to ensure that events occurring earlier in time contribute less to the demand metric than more recently occurring events. The demand metric are used to order the item listings, when the item listings are being presented in a search results page. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262597 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION OF COLLECTIVE EMOTION BASED ON COMMENTS ABOUT CONTENTS ON INTERNET - The present invention relates to information search method and system aggressively using comments written by users who have appreciated content. An object of the invention is to display a search result, which is sorted by a proper ranking, in response to a query including an emotional word. For that purpose, while a search database is constructed, firstly emotional words are extracted from the comments and categorized. Next, impressions, or metadata about content are organized from them. Finally the metadata and information about the content are stored. Afterwards, when a user enters a search query including an emotional word, firstly emotional words and non-emotional ones are extracted from the query. Next, content relevant to the non-emotional word is found. Lastly, a ranking result is adjusted according to ‘checked/unchecked’ values (or scores) of an impression item, which matches the emotional word, of the found content. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262598 | USER INTERFACE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE RECOGNITION METHOD - A search rule generation unit ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100262599 | CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A content processing system may include any of a number of content processing techniques such as condensed content management, multi-content compilation management, associated content compilation management, recommended content management, and content cluster management. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262600 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DERIVING DEMAND METRICS USED IN ORDERING ITEM LISTINGS PRESENTED IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - Methods and systems for using a half-life formula for deriving demand metrics used in ordering item listings, when presenting those item listings in a search results page, are described. In some embodiments, a demand metric for an item listing is derived by monitoring events associated with item listings, such as, keeping a count of the number of search impressions an item listing receives. A half-life formula is used to ensure that events occurring earlier in time contribute less to the demand metric than more recently occurring events. The demand metric are used to order the item listings, when the item listings are being presented in a search results page. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262601 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF AN ITEM LISTING - Methods and systems for assessing the quality of an item listing are described. In an example embodiment, a listing quality score for an item listing is derived as a weighted sum of first and second parts. The first part represents a predicted score based on a comparison of item attributes for the item listing that are known at listing time, with item attributes of similar item listings that have historical data available for assessing their actual performance. The second part is based on one or more observed demand metrics representing actual historical performance of the item listing. The weighting factor is derived, such that over time, the emphasis shifts from the predicted to the observed score. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262602 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DERIVING A SCORE WITH WHICH ITEM LISTINGS ARE ORDERED WHEN PRESENTED IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems for analyzing, ordering and presenting item listings are described. In one example embodiment, a search query is processed to identify item listings satisfying the search query. Then, for each item listing that satisfies the search query, a ranking score is derived and assigned to the item listing. The ranking score is based in part on a relevance score, a listing quality score and a business rules score (or, adjustment factor). Finally, the item listings are ordered, based on their corresponding ranking score, and presented in order in a search results page. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262603 | SEARCH ENGINE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING RELEVANT TOPICS - The present invention provides search engine methods and systems for displaying relevant and timely topics. In an embodiment, a method for displaying topics related to a search constraint entered by a user includes receiving a search constraint; identifying a first preliminary set of topics related to the search constraint, wherein the first preliminary set of topics are representative of a sample set of general data items; identifying a second preliminary set of topics related to the search constraint, wherein the second preliminary set of topics is representative of a sample set of current event data items; identifying a set of display topics that is a subset of the first preliminary set of topics and the second preliminary set of topics; and displaying the set of display topics. In other embodiments, other systems and methods are provided. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262604 | DATABASE MESSAGE ANALYSIS SUPPORT TECHNIQUE - A method includes: collecting message sequences including a series of messages issued in response to one processing request; classifying the collected message sequences into groups of the message sequences whose simplified message sequences generated by excluding words other than reserved words from a database message that is a message including a SQL sentence are identical, wherein the database message is included in the series of messages; generating, for each group, a normalized expression including the reserved words in the database message as fixed character strings and arbitrary character strings replaced with portions other than the fixed character strings in the database message, for the database message included in the message sequence belonging to the group; and generating a rule for converting the database message considered to be identical with the normalized expression into a series of fixed character strings included in the normalized expression. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262605 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The attribution information of a plurality of pieces of image data photographed by a plurality of photographing apparatus is obtained. The image data is classified into a predetermined time period on the basis of a photographing date and time obtained from the attribution information. The number of the photographing apparatus photographing the image data classified every predetermined time period is discriminated, and the image data classified into the time period in which the number of the pieces of image data is larger than a threshold value is extracted. The extracted image data is discriminated from the other image data to be displayed. Thereby, even if a plurality of pieces of still image data and moving image data photographed by a plurality of digital cameras and video cameras exists, a candidate of the image data relatively significant among them can be extracted easily. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262606 | Method for Scoring Content of Nodes in a Database - The following disclosure contains a method and system for establishing, maintaining, reporting and presenting data regarding the scoring of content and entities, specifically levels of veracity in information or content and the credibility of an evaluating entity or entities that communally determine this veracity. An aspect of the invention permits reporting on an active node, file or files with an associated communally derived veracity score. Scores can be filtered contextually allowing for veracity scores to reflect specific communal or contextual values which are likely to vary from general scores. Scores are generated through a weighted system of consumption, verifications and disputes. The weighted system is comprised of a communally derived credibility scores of each evaluating entity within the system. Evaluating entities are awarded credibility scores through communal verifications of authored public content, referential treatment to this public content as well as a demonstrated awareness of overall existing content. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262607 | System and Method for Automatic Matching of Contracts to Impression Opportunities Using Complex Predicates and an Inverted Index - A method for indexing advertising contracts for rapid retrieval and matching in order to match satisfying contracts to advertising slots. The descriptions of the advertising contracts include logical predicates indicating applicability to a particular demographic. Also, the descriptions of advertising slots contain logical predicates indicating applicability to a particular demographic, thus matches can be performed using at least matches on the basis of intersecting demographics. The disclosure contains structure and techniques for receiving a set of contracts with predicates, preparing a data structure index of the set of contracts, receiving an advertising slot with predicates, and structure and techniques for retrieving from the data structure contracts that satisfy a match to the advertising slot predicates. The disclosure includes cases were the predicates are presented in conjoint forms and in disjoint forms, and techniques are provided to consider indexing and matching in cases of IN predicates and well as NOT-IN predicates. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262608 | INDEX AGING AND MERGING - Systems and methods for processing an index are described. An index may be merged with another index of comparable age and size into a single index. Since older indexes are less likely to need updating, they are “set aside” to age based on certain adaptive criteria such as the age and size of the index, percentage of deletions, and how long it takes to update the index. An index that has been set aside may be compacted into a format that is optimized for fast searching. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING MULTIMEDIA DATA ELEMENTS TO WEB PAGES - A method for linking between a multimedia data element (MMDE) and a web page. The method comprises receiving a MMDE from a source; generating a signature representative of the MMDE using a signature generator; matching the generated signature with a plurality of signatures stored in a database to find at least one matching signature; extracting a universal resource locator (URL) of a web page associated with the matching signature, wherein the URL is part of a metadata of the matching signature; and providing the URL to the source over a network. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262610 | Identifying Subject Matter Experts - Identifying subject matter experts including receiving, by an SME search engine from a user, a search request including text corresponding to a particular subject matter; finding, in one or more information repositories, in dependence upon the text of the search request, one or more resources, including determining for each resource a credibility rating; identifying one or more potential subject matter experts associated with the resources; calculating, for each of the potential subject matter experts, in dependence upon the credibility rating of the each resource, a weighted expert score representing an estimated level of expertise for each potential subject matter expert; and returning, to the user by the SME search engine as one more search results, the potential subject matter experts in order of the weighted expert scores along with resources associated with the potential subject matter experts. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MATCHING OF USER PROFILES BASED ON VIEWING AND CONTACT ACTIVITY FOR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP SERVICES - A method and system which adaptively recommends potential relationships to individual users based on a set of items that are known to be of interest to the user, such as a set of potential matches previously messaged by the user. The system generates the adaptive recommendations using previously-generated user activity that indicates the user's preferences of particular attributes. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262612 | RE-RANKING TOP SEARCH RESULTS - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating sorted search results for a query. An interface component can receive a query in a first language. A first ranker can be trained from a portion of data related to a second language. A second ranker can correspond to the first language, wherein the second ranker is untrained due to a limited amount of data related to the first language. A sorting component can invoke the first ranker to generate and order a pre-defined number of search results for the received query and subsequently invoke the second ranker to the pre-defined number of search results to generate a re-ordered number of search results in the first language for the received query. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262613 | Data Stream Processing - A method of processing a stream of raw data from a plurality of distributed data producing devices includes reducing the raw data to a plurality of representative synopsis coefficients, organizing the synopsis coefficients into a data structure with at least three dimensions, including a time window dimension and an accuracy dimension. Responsive to a detected anomaly in the data structure, at least one of a predetermined autonomous action and an action directed by a user is performed. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262614 | Odor inspection system - Readings of odorous air concentration or strength are taken at various locations in the vicinity of a site being monitored for odorous air and are entered into an electronic database and electronically combined with a map of the vicinity of the site to produce a visual pattern of the odorous air with respect to the site. Readings may further include meteorological data, odor descriptors, time and date. and the like and some of the readings may be transformed into symbolic form for visual display on the map. Preferably the map is an Internet accessible on-line map. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262615 | 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. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262616 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VISUAL SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - An approach is provided for modifying the image content of returned images resulting from a search query. The portions of each image that is unrelated to the search query is omitted or other wise obscured so as to reduce the amount of image data in the search results. Additionally, related advertising, hyperlinks, or other object can be combined with the image data to enhance the information returned to the user. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262617 | Database index key update method and program - A method of database update processing for updating efficiently database index keys, when new database index keys are supplied to replace index keys already in the database, generates a delta data between the new and old data comprising insert and delete keys by delete processing from a coupled node tree holding the index keys in the old data using index keys of new data as delete keys, and generates new data by delete and insert processing from and into a coupled node tree holding index keys in old data as index keys using the delete keys and insert keys of the delta data. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262618 | System and method for real-time media presentation using metadata clips - There is provided a system and method for real-time media presentation using metadata clips. There is provided a media device for providing one or more media files for a display, the media device including a memory and a processor. The memory includes a plurality of metadata clips, wherein each of the plurality of metadata clips references a referenced source media from the media files, a referenced start position, and a referenced end position. The processor can determine a playlist including some of the plurality of metadata clips for streaming segments of media files as defined by their referenced start and end positions. Flexible behaviors can also be added to enhance playback logic or to enforce access restrictions, and metadata clips and playlists may also be user generated. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262619 | PROVISION OF APPLICATIONS TO MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments related to the provision of applications to mobile devices are disclosed. One embodiment provides a mobile device application server system, comprising a database, a processor, and memory comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to perform a method of providing applications to mobile devices. The method comprises receiving a first application configured to be run on a first mobile device type, storing the first application, receiving a second application configured to be run on a second device mobile device type, and storing the second application. The method further comprises receiving a request for the first application from a first mobile device of the first mobile device type, providing the first application to the first mobile device, receiving a request for the second application from a second mobile device of the second mobile device type, and providing the second application to the second mobile device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262620 | CONCEPT-BASED ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA USING CONCEPT INHERITANCE - In one embodiment, a method comprises defining a set of concepts based on a first set of structured and unstructured data objects, defining a business rule based on the set of concepts, applying the business rule to a second set of structured and unstructured data objects to make a determination associated with that set, and outputting to a display information associated with the determination. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262621 | IN-CONTEXT EXACT (ICE) MATCHING - Methods, systems and program product are disclosed for determining a matching level of a text lookup segment with a plurality of source texts in a translation memory in terms of context. In particular, embodiments of the present invention determines any exact matches for the lookup segment in the plurality of source texts, and determines, in the case that at least one exact match is determined, that a respective exact match is an in-context exact (ICE) match for the lookup segment in the case that a context of the lookup segment matches that of the respective exact match. The degree of context matching required can be predetermined, and results prioritized. The invention also includes methods, systems and program products for storing a translation pair of source text and target text in a translation memory including context, and the translation memory so formed. The invention ensures that content is translated the same as previously translated content and reduces translator intervention. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262622 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - In an information providing apparatus, a keyword attribute file KF which brings a keyword which can be inputted by a user, a keyword attribute corresponding to the keyword, and a judgment value in correspondence with each other is referred to, and based on a comparison of a judgment value corresponding to an input keyword with a judgment reference value, a keyword attribute is extracted, and based on the extracted keyword attribute and an input keyword, information to be searched is searched, and provided to a user. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262623 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING WEB SEARCH SPEED IN MOBILE TERMINALS - An apparatus and a method for web searching in a mobile terminal that supports a wireless Internet are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for web searching, for improving a search speed by determining a searching result corresponding to a keyword, and changing an output point of the searching result based on the keyword. In the method, an output point of search results is changed before the search results corresponding to a web search request are output. The search results are output according to the changed output point. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262624 | DISCOVERY OF INACCESSIBLE COMPUTER RESOURCES - A request for a search of computer resources can be received at a search engine. The search of the resources can be conducted, and search results can be produced. The search results can include an accessible resources set, which includes one or more representations of one or more resources to which an object associated with the request has access. The search results can also include a discoverable resources set, which includes one or more representations of one or more resources to which the object does not have access, but does have permission to request access. Additionally, the search results can include a set of one or more identifiers that distinguish between the accessible resources set and the discoverable resources set. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262625 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINE-GRANULARITY ACCESS CONTROL FOR DATABASE ENTITIES - Method and system embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing fine-granularity access control to data entities within databases. Certain method and system embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing row-and-column-level access control to relational tables, relational views, and other database entities managed by relational database management systems. Certain embodiments of the present invention employ additional database tables, user-defined functions, and automatically created security views to create and maintain a view-based interface to an underlying database through which users access data stored in the underlying database. The view interface includes automated access control features that provide row-and-column access controls to users of the database management system. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262626 | Flexible and Extensible Framework and Model for Systems Manageable Components - A method, a system and a computer program product for defining manageable component objects to an application utilizing data roots. A manageable component engine creates a bridge manageable component model utilizing the data roots. Data roots, or root data, are retrieved and stored in a manageable component persistent index of an application. The manageable component persistent index is processed for one or more root objects during an initialization of a manageable component engine. The manageable component engine queries one or more data sources, and accesses data required for creating a manageable component object instance. One or more manageable component objects are registered in a manageable component repository. The manageable component bridge model is created and displayed via a graphical user interface. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING A HIERARCHY IN A RDBMS - A method allows one to store in a parallel way branches and nodes of a hierarchy into a database by creating queues. Each queue has a status and a unlock item indicating if a superior node has already been stored. A process looks up these indicators and performs according to commands received from a first process control of the queues. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA DATA TRANSMISSION - The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for processing readable content stored in a stream of data which contains samples for presenting a presentation at a plurality of views. In one embodiment, the first stream is stored and a second stream is derived from a first stream, where the second stream contains references to the first stream for use in selecting data, for an operating point within the content that includes the plurality of views, from the first stream. According to one aspect of the invention, references contained in stored second stream are accessed to transmit or store the data from the first stream. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262629 | SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AN ONLINE BUSINESS COMMUNITY - Systems and methods of the present invention allow for providing and managing an online business community. An exemplary system may comprise at least one Hosting Server maintained by a Hosting Entity; a Community Website accessible to a plurality of Clients and hosted on said at least one Hosting Server; a Resource Database storing a plurality of Content, wherein at least some of said Resources are generated by a Member; a Directory Database storing a plurality of Member Information; and a Network communicatively coupling said Hosting Server, said Community Website, said plurality of Clients, said Resource Database, and said Directory Database. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262630 | ADAPTIVE PROFILE FOR DIRECTING GRAPHICAL CONTENT IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM - Embodiments for directing graphical user interface elements to an adaptive device are disclosed. One example embodiment includes a method of directing graphical user interface elements to an adaptive device. The method comprises discovering an adaptive device in communication with the computing device. The adaptive device includes one or more graphical display fields and one or more depressible buttons for receiving user input. The method further comprises retrieving an adaptive profile for the adaptive device in response to discovery of the adaptive device. The adaptive profile defines a rule set by which graphical user interface elements are directed to one or more graphical display fields of the adaptive device. The method further comprises presenting the graphical user interface elements at the one or more graphical display fields of the adaptive device according to the rule set of the adaptive profile. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262631 | Mapping Information Stored In a LDAP Tree Structure to a Relational Database Structure - A method for mapping an information directory such as a LDAP directory tree to a relational database structure. The method includes accessing an information directory, which has a number of data entries at nodes of its tree structure and each of these entries may include a number of attributes defined by one or more object classes. The method includes storing a distinguished name (DN2ID) index table including generating records the data entries that include a DN field containing the entry's attributes. The method includes forming a relational table associated with each of the object classes defined for the information directory, and the records of the relational tables may be linked to the records/entries of the DN2ID index table. The method may include determining an entry identifier for each of the entries of the directory and storing these in the records of the DN2ID index table and in the relational tables. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262632 | DATA TRANSFER FROM ON-LINE TO ON-PREMISE DEPLOYMENT - A customer can request migration of its data from a multi-tenant hosting environment to a local environment. The customer's data is pulled from the multi-tenant hosting environment and scrubbed so that it is compatible with a local version of the application previously hosted in the multi-tenant hosting environment. The data is made available to the customer at a secure location in the hosting environment. The customer retrieves the data, after proper authentication, to its local data store, and then imports the data into the local version of the application. Users of the local version of the application are then mapped from previous multi-jurisdictional identifications to local user identifications in the application. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262633 | MANAGING DATABASE OBJECT PLACEMENT ON MULTIPLE STORAGE DEVICES - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product optimize the placement of database objects on a multiplicity of storage devices. A set of database objects are placed on a first storage device in a multiplicity of storage devices. Each storage device comprises differing characteristics. A query workload is run on the set of database objects that have been placed on the first storage device. Profiling information associated with the query workload that is running is collected. A subset of database objects is selected from the set of the database objects to be stored on a second storage device. The second storage device is a separate physical device from, and performs faster than, the first storage device. The subset of database objects is stored on the second storage device and all remaining database objects in the set of database objects on the first storage device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262634 | FILE MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A file managing system manages files in a mobile device when the files are uploaded into a computer system. The file managing system builds a storing rule, creates new folders in the computer system according to the storing rule, and names the new folders according to information of the files. The file managing system further copies the files in the mobile device into the new folders in the computer system according to the information of the files in the mobile device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262635 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE FOR COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL MEDIA - A media archiver that detects receipt of a plurality of first computer readable mediums from different users. Each of the first computer readable mediums includes a set of content items generated by a respective different real-time content capture device that captured each content item of the set in real time by a respective user. Upon receipt of each of the plurality of first computer readable mediums, the media archiver detects a property of a content item(s) in the first computer readable medium that indicates the content item was created during a predetermined time period. The media archiver copies the content item (i.e. the content item created during the predetermined time period) from the first computer readable medium to a second removable computer readable medium to allow a user to collect all content items in one place from all users. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262636 | GARBAGE COLLECTOR WITH EAGER READ BARRIER - A garbage collection system that needs to meet real-time requirements uses an eager read barrier that performs a forwarding operation as soon as a quantity is loaded. The barrier maintains a to-space invariant by including a forwarding pointer in the header of objects to be moved or accessed that normally points to the object itself. However, if the object has been moved, the forwarding pointer points to the new object location. The eager read barrier maintains the registers and stack cells such that the registers and stack cells always point into to-space. Barrier-sinking and common sub-expression elimination are used to minimize the overhead associated with the read barrier. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262637 | FILE CONTROL SYSTEM AND FILE CONTROL COMPUTER FOR USE IN SAID SYSTEM - A situation where, even though a file system set with an additional function has been expanded, the additional function is unable to operate is prevented from occurring. Provided are a file control computer and its system having a main computer including a file system for managing reading and writing of data between the client computer and the storage device, a control circuit for controlling the file system, and a memory circuit for storing management information of the file system. The memory circuit stores setting information which is set with an additional function that is set to the file system, and a condition necessary for operating the additional function. Upon expanding the file system based on the management information, the control circuit determines a status of fulfillment of the condition in the expanded file system, and outputs warning information if the determination result denies fulfillment of the condition. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262638 | Computing Device Having a Merged Directory Hierarchy From Multiple Filesystems - A computing device comprises a plurality of data images for controlling operation of the device, wherein each image contains an independent filesystem containing a directory hierarchy and file list applicable to the contents of that image, and in which the computing device additionally contains a single directory hierarchy and file list applicable to the entire body of embedded software. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262639 | DIGITAL DATA PROCESSOR - A digital data processor which receives an N-bit input signal from a data source and converts the N-bit input signal into an M-bit output signal, the M-bit being larger than the N-bit. The digital data processor includes: an weighted addition circuit which is operable to perform weighted addition on at least the input signal and a signal being time-shifted with respect to the input signal and output as a weighted added input signal; an arithmetic shift circuit which is operable to perform an arithmetic rightward shift operation on the weighted added input signal for a predetermined number of shifts and output as a processed input signal; a bit extension circuit which is operable to attach a predetermined bits to an LSD side of the input signal to generate an intermediate signal of M bits; and an addition circuit which is operable to perform addition of the intermediate signal and the processed input signal so as to generate the M-bit output signal. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262640 | HIGH-SPEED CONTINUOUS-TIME FIR FILTER - A high-speed continuous-time FIR (finite impulse response) filter comprises a plurality of processing cells configured in a cascade topology. Each processing cell receives a first signal and a second signal from a preceding circuit and a succeeding circuit, respectively, and outputs a third signal and a fourth signal to the succeeding circuit and the preceding circuit, respectively. Each processing cell further comprises a delay cell and a summing cell. Each of the delay cell and the summing cell performs a high speed signal processing using a combination of a feedback loop and a feedforward path. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262641 | Method and System for Estimating and Applying a Step Size Value for LMS Echo Cancellers - Disclosed is an improved method and apparatus for estimating and applying a step size value for a least mean squares echo canceller. A power estimate of an excitation signal is compared to a reference power level to determine a shift adjustment. The shift adjustment is added to a reference shift amount to determine a shift amount. The product of an excitation signal and an error signal is then calculated and the product is stored in a memory register comprising a plurality of bits. The bits stored in the memory register are shifted either left or right based upon the shift amount. The shift adjustment may be based in part upon the ratio of the excitation signal power estimate and the reference power level. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262642 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNATURES - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for media monitoring are disclosed. In particular, the example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture generate signatures. Initially, a first plurality of filtered values are identified by performing a wavelet transform on a first frame of media samples. A first energy value is determined based on a first portion of the first plurality of filtered values, and a second energy value is determined based on a second portion of the first plurality of filtered values. A first descriptor of the first frame of media samples is determined based on a comparison of the first energy value and the second energy value. A first signature is generated based on the first descriptor. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262643 | COMPUTING MINIMAL POLYNOMIALS - Described is a technology, such as implemented in a computational software program, by which a minimal polynomial is efficiently determined for a radical expression over the ring Z of integer numbers or the ring Q of rational numbers. The levels of the radical are grouped into a level permutation group that is used to find a level permutation set. An annihilation polynomial is found based upon the level permutation set. The annihilation polynomial is factored, and a selection mechanism selects the minimal polynomial based upon the annihilation polynomial's factors. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262644 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUALIFYING A GENERIC TRIGGER - A method and system of qualifying triggers within a context aware mechanism in an execution environment that includes a network element, the method defining aspects that at least one application employs, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service; associating, at the network element, at least one aspect triggers with said aspects from the defining step; deriving qualifiers at the network element for each of the at least one aspect triggers; and qualifying each of the at least one aspect triggers at the network element with the qualifiers derived in the deriving step. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPTIMIZING DIGITAL MEDIA PROCESSING IN A CARRIER GRADE WEB PORTAL ENVIRONMENT - A computer implemented method includes storing generated digital media created by each portal server of a plurality of portal servers in a destination accessible by at least one of a plurality of HTTPD servers in response to a request for web content including the generated digital media. Additionally, the method includes determining that a subsequent request for digital media received by an HTTPD server of the plurality of HTTPD servers is for generated digital media created by any of the plurality of portal servers in the destination and accessible by the HTTPD server. Furthermore, the method includes serving the generated digital media from the HTTPD server to a browser. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262646 | OBTAINING INSTRUMENTATION DATA - An apparatus described herein includes a request receiver component that receives a request for application data over a network from a client computing device. The apparatus also includes an instrumentation component that causes instrumentation logic to be transmitted to the client computing device responsive to receipt of the request for the application data. The instrumentation logic is configured to cause the client computing device to analyze a cookie to determine whether to capture instrumentation data pertaining to the client and, if it is determined that instrumentation data is desirably captured. The instrumentation logic is also configured to cause the client computing device to capture quantitative instrumentation data pertaining to the requested application data and cause the client computing device to transmit the quantitative instrumentation data over the network to a data repository. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262647 | GRANULAR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION FOR EDITING MULTIPLE DATA OBJECTS - Embodiments are provided for the granular data synchronization of multiple data objects. A three-tiered cache may be automatically generated by an application program. A server data object may be stored in a first tier and may include a first set of properties for a current state of data stored on a server. A client data object may be stored in a second tier and may include a second set of properties including one or more properties in the first set and/or un-persisted edits made to the first set. A view data object may be stored in a third tier and may include a third set of properties including un-persisted and unsaved edits made to the first or second set which are being viewed on a client. The server and client data objects may be synchronized to determine edits made to the data stored on the server. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262648 | Processing an Event Stream for a Data Pipeline - A method and a system are provided for processing an event stream for a data pipeline. In one example, the system receives one or more plug-in components from one or more consumer devices. The system generates a layout for the one or more plug-in components. The system receives one or more events from an input source. The system then provides filtered events to at least one consumer device by using the layout for the one or more plug-in components. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING NON-TERRORISTS USING SOCIAL NETWORKING - A method for identifying non-terrorists among a plurality of participants and/or potential participants using a communication system includes electronically communicating a verification request from a first participant to a second participant, wherein the second participant is a member of a personal network of the first participant, and electronically communicating a verification request from the second participant to a third participant, wherein the third participant is a member of a personal network of the second participant. The method also includes receiving replies to the verification requests sent by the first and second participants, and determining a likelihood that the first participant is a non-terrorist threat based on the replies received from the second and third participants. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTION MANAGEMENT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGING OVER HTTP - Described are methods and systems for managing the connections between a client, an intermediary appliance and a server, so that asynchronous messages can be transmitted over HTTP from the server to a client. When a connection is established between a client and an intermediary, and the intermediary and a server to establish a logical client-server connection, that logical client-server connection is labeled and not maintained, while the connection between the client and the intermediary is maintained. Messages generated by the server and destined for the client are transmitted to the intermediary along with the connection label. The intermediary can then use the connection label to determine which client should receive the message. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262651 | METHOD TO PREVENT SERVER OVERLOAD FOR BROADCAST PROTOCOLS BY ADAPTIVELY APPLYING PRESCRIBED RESPONSE BEHAVIOR PROFILES - In a communication system, a server is operable to control responses from a number of client devices to prevent overload conditions of the server resulting from the responses. The server includes a controller configured to select a desired response profile for a plurality of broadcast client devices from a plurality of response profiles based upon current resource conditions and to include a prescribed response behavior for the client in the broadcast message. The broadcast message includes a response control field providing information regarding the desired response profile. The client devices include a receiver configured to receive the broadcast message. The client devices also include a controller configured to decode the control field in the broadcast message to determine the response behavior and respond to the broadcast message as prescribed by the server. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262652 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a case where a user scans a document by a MFP or the like, a plurality of specific folders are determined based upon a storage history of the documents which the user has scanned in the past to produce shortcuts of the document scanned at this time in the plurality of determined specific folders. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262653 | TASK HIERARCHY IN AN EVENT-DRIVEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A hierarchy of project and personal tasks is maintained for users associated with multiple projects. The hierarchy is maintained using a computer server machine having a processor and network connection to a client machine having a computer display. A user-task list is obtained. The user-task list includes a first-project task having an initial first-project task score, wherein the first-project task is associated with a first-project, the first-project having a first-project task list including the first-project task The user-task list also includes a second-project task having an second-project task score, wherein the second-project task is associated with a second-project, the second-project having a second-project task list including the second-project task. The user-task list also includes an initial user-task hierarchy ranking the first-project task and second-project task based on the initial first-project task score and the second-project task score. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262654 | CALL CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A method, a device, and a system for realizing unified communication in the field of communication are provided, so as to solve the problems in the conventional art that a client can only initiate a call to a terminal instead of controlling the subsequent call and that no call association exists between the client and the terminal. A call control method of a softswitch equipment includes: sending a call identification and call state information to an application server, so that the application server sends the call identification and the call state information of the call to a client bound to a terminal; receiving a control request including the call identification and a control instruction and sent by the application server; and controlling the call corresponding to the call identification according to the control instruction in the control request. The present invention is applicable to the unified communication mode. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262655 | System, Method and Computer Program Product to Maximize Server Throughput While Avoiding Server Overload by Controlling the Rate of Establishing Server-Side Network Connections - A method for maximizing server throughput while avoiding overload of a server is presented. The method involves intercepting, via an interface unit, a client request for information from the server. Next, the interface unit determines the current server performance, where the server performance is based on the number of connections opened to the server, the response time of the server and the rate at which the response time is changing. Finally, the interface unit forwards the client request to the server if the current server performance is close to an optimal performance, whereby avoiding overload of the server. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262656 | Systems and methods for computer and voice conference audio transmission during conference call via VoIP device - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support canceling audio streams leaked from a speaker to a microphone so that a clean audio stream of a presenter or viewer speaking at a conference call is transmitted. Here, the audio streams being canceled includes the computer audio stream of an application being run or a material being presented online during a web conference and/or the audio stream received from the rest of the group of participants at the conference call. The computer audio stream is then transmitted in addition to the presenter or viewer audio stream, and separate from any other audio stream captured by the hosting device during the conference call. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262657 | METHOD OF SHARING IMAGE BASED FILES BETWEEN A GROUP OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods and associated mobile devices are disclosed for sharing an image based file between a group of communication devices. The image based file is scaled based on a display capacity of the devices within the group. The group of communication devices including a sending mobile communications device. The method includes: accessing from a memory of the sending mobile communication device a display capacity of each of the devices in the group, determining whether the resolution of the image based file exceeds an image resolution threshold based on the display capacity of the devices in the group, and if so scaling the image based file to within the image resolution threshold, and sending the image based file from the sending mobile communication device to one or more receiving communication devices in the group. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262658 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AN ELECTRONIC RECOMMENDATION - The invention concerns a system for transmitting an electronic recommendation to members of a social network, the system having a user activity monitor ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100262659 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVELY ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for sharing annotations associated with an electronic document. The annotations are created by one or more annotation authors and are shared with one or more other users. A method includes determining frequently annotated portions of the electronic document and providing indicators within the electronic document of the frequently annotated portions. In one embodiment, frequently used words within the annotations are also indicated within the text of the electronic document. In addition, or in another embodiment, the annotations can be searched based on a user's location within the electronic document. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262660 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING A SERVERLESS PRESENCE SYSTEM - A method, system and mobile communication device for implementing a serverless presence system are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of sharing presence information between a group of mobile communication devices configured to communicate over a wireless network, the mobile communication devices defining the group members of the group, the method comprising: sending a data packet from a sending group member to at least one of the other group members; determining a presence status in accordance with whether a delivery acknowledgement is received by the sending group member from each of the other group members to which the data packet was sent within a predetermined duration from the sending of the data packet; storing the determined presence status in memory; and sending a presence update comprising the determined presence status of at least some of the group members to all of the group members. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A PRESENCE CONTEXT WITHIN A PRESENCE PLATFORM - A method within a computing execution environment for the establishment of a context for a watcher, the method receiving a subscription request including a service identifier; associating the service identifier with a service context for a service; and applying the service context to information returned to the watcher. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262662 | OUTBOUND SPAM DETECTION AND PREVENTION - A usage control mechanism is disclosed for use in deterring automated “bot” access. When implemented within an email or messaging system, the mechanism and system prevents generation of spam by the bots, while also minimizing collateral deterrence of desirable human usage. In a disclosed embodiment, a reference image is part of a message composition screen, and a message may be composed but not sent unless a user selects, from a plurality of screening images, an image containing an alphanumeric string or other object that matches that of the reference image. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262663 | UNIVERSAL STATE-AWARE COMMUNICATIONS - A communications system for general business environments that exploits knowledge of user state to provide advantages of efficiency and control for individual users and for the business. The communications system also provides particular advantages in environments where users have multiple communication devices and for communications of a business with external parties. In other aspects, the communication system provides features of application flexibility and system fault-tolerance with broad applicability to communication systems. The communication system includes a controller that receives requests for establishing communications when a user is in an appropriate state to receive communications and communicates state of the user to other users. The controller receives a user request for establishing a communication when the user is not in the appropriate state for communication, receives a user request for a state change to the appropriate state to receive the communication, and initiates the communication without changing state of the user. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262664 | Transmission of Status Updates Responsive to Status of Recipient Application - Selecting and modifying the transmission rates and sizes of status update messages transmitted by a mobile communications device to a recipient application based on use of the updates by the recipient application improves resource utilization or accuracy. During one mode of operation, a mobile communications device transmits status messages using a conservative message transmission mode. This allows the mobile communications device to transmit a greater number of status updates for future processing by the recipient application while conserving resources. When the recipient application is actively processing status updates from the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device transmits the status messages using an accelerated message transmission mode with a different number of status updates in each status message and different delay between status messages, which may reduce delay or improve accuracy. Similarly, the mobile communications device may reduce the number of status updates transmitted by applying algorithm-based filters described herein based on the expected usage by the recipient application. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262665 | CLASSIFIED PROCESSING METHOD FOR EVENT MESSAGE OF INFORMATION HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES - The invention provides a classified processing method for an event message of an information household appliance including: a house gateway server sends an event occurrence message to an information household appliance data management server; according to an event class and a policy of classified notification of event, the information household appliance data management server sends an event occurrence notification message to an instant communication terminal, or sends an event occurrence notification message to an instant communication terminal and notifies a communication device at a preset communication destination; according to an event class and a policy of classified prompt, the instant communication terminal performs an operation of prompting the user. The method in the invention, the user can obtain the current status of the information household appliances, and the user or the related department may know the emergency or abnormal events in time, thus reducing the potential threat against safety. | 2010-10-14 |
20100262666 | System and Method for Silencing Notifications for A Message Thread - Methods, systems, and computer programming products are provided for silencing message threads. Incoming messages related to the same matter are grouped into one or more message threads. A user can select to silence a message thread. Once a message thread has been silenced, the user will no longer receive notifications of new messages added to the thread. | 2010-10-14 |