Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080294656 | Loose Pattern Identification Using a Smart Multiset Intersection Approach - A system and method of identifying loose patterns using a smart multiset intersection operation are provided. Data segments are received from a data segmentation algorithm and sorted into corresponding multisets. A retain operation may be performed on the multisets. A normalization operation is then performed on the repeating elements in the multisets to identify the loose pattern. The loose pattern is stored in a database. | 11-27-2008 |
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. | 10-14-2010 |
20100299418 | CONFIGURATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OVER NOTIFICATION PROCESSING IN OMA DM - A method and a device are configured to receive a signal from a server to perform administrative and configuration control. During Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) session, the device receives either an administrative or configuration signal from the server. The administrative signal may instruct the device to inhibit or allow a trigger processing capability. The configuration signal may instruct the device to apply a set of parameters to the device settings that are related to notification processing. | 11-25-2010 |
20110022667 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE MANAGEMENT RESPONSE MESSAGES - A device for use in a communication system and a method for its operation are provided. The method of operating a Device Management (DM) client of a device in a communication system includes receiving an out-of-band DM message from a DM server, determining if out-of-band message response (OOBMsgResponse) reporting is inhibited based on an OOBMsgResponse node in a Management Object (MO), and if it is determined that OOBMsgResponse reporting is not inhibited, sending a response message in response to the out-of-band DM message received from the DM server. | 01-27-2011 |
20110047253 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING GATEWAY FUNCTIONALITY TO SUPPORT DEVICE MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for operating a Device Management (DM) gateway in a communication system including the DM gateway, a DM server, and an end device, which cannot be directly controlled by the DM Server, to enable the device to be managed by the DM server, via the DM gateway, a method for a DM gateway in a communication system to update the bootstrapping information for a certain class of devices, a method for a DM gateway in a communication system to process DM commands, a method for a DM gateway in a communication system to process trap messages, a method for a DM gateway in a communication system to process a periodic service/capability advertisement message, and a method for a DM gateway in a communication system to process a heartbeat timeout are provided. The method for operating the DM gateway in the communication system including the DM gateway, the DM server, and the device includes receiving, by the DM gateway, a service/capability advertisement message from the device, determining, by the DM gateway, one or more characteristics of the device based on information included in the received service/capability advertisement message, and invoking, by the DM gateway, an algorithm based on the determined one or more characteristics of the device, wherein the DM gateway operates according to the invoked algorithm, so that the DM Server can subsequently manage the device, by sending management commands to the device, via the DM gateway, and by processing alerts received from the device, via the DM gateway. | 02-24-2011 |
20110074926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING 3D VIDEO - A system and method for generating 3D video from a plurality of 2D video streams is provided. A video capture device for capturing video to be transformed into 3D video includes a camera module for capturing a two-dimensional (2D) video stream, a location module for determining a location of the video capture device, an orientation module for determining an orientation of the video capture device, and a processing module for associating additional information with the 2D video stream captured by the camera module, the additional information including the orientation of the video capture device and the location of the video capture device. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082747 | MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING ENABLED BY BAR CODES - A method and system for employing barcodes in a social network is disclosed. The method includes extracting location information from a scanned barcode, transmitting the location information to a social network server, and receiving location information of other users in a social network based on the transmitted location information. | 04-07-2011 |
20110093541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING A DEVICE MANAGEMENT (DM) MESSAGE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Device Management (DM) client apparatus and DM server apparatus and methods for their operation in a communication system are provided. The method for operating the DM client apparatus in a communication system includes receiving a message from a DM server, determining if a response message should be suppressed based on the received message, if it is determined that the response message should be suppressed, suppressing the response message by not transmitting the response message to the DM server, if it is not determined that the response message should be suppressed, transmitting the response message to the DM server, and receiving another message from the DM server. | 04-21-2011 |
20110238806 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING DEVICES NOT DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE TO DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVER - Methods and devices for managing devices not directly accessible to device management server are provided. A device for communicating a Location Update Alert message to a Device Management (DM) Server via a DM Gateway includes a memory for storing code of a DM client and a plurality of DM MOs, each of the plurality of DM MOs including one or more nodes, a processor for executing the code of the DM client stored in the memory, a communications unit for receiving and sending messages for the DM client, and the DM client for communicating a Location Update Alert message to the DM Server via the DM Gateway upon detecting a change in an address of the device, based on a LocationUpdate node of at least one of the plurality of DM MOs. | 09-29-2011 |
20120143987 | TECHNIQUES FOR SESSIONLESS REPORTING BY DEVICE MANAGEMENT CLIENT - A device and method for performing sessionless reporting are provided. The device includes a memory for storing code of a Device Management (DM) Client and a Sessionless Report Configuration Management Object (MO), the Sessionless Report Configuration MO including one or more nodes, a processor for executing the code of the DM Client stored in the memory, a communications unit for sending and receiving information for the DM Client, and the DM Client for sending one or more sessionless reports to a DM server, and, while awaiting acknowledgement of the one or more sessionless reports from the DM Server in a subsequent DM Session, for controlling sessionless reporting based on criteria specified in at least one node included in the Sessionless Report Configuration MO. | 06-07-2012 |
20130066482 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING ENERGY DEMAND RESPONSE PROCESS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER NETWORK - A demand response (DR) architecture performs processes for use in an electrical power network. The DR architecture performs a method for selecting a process to use for scheduling devices. The method includes receiving, by a demand response controller, demand response specific input. The method includes determining a process to use to schedule device running time patterns, based on the received input. The method further includes executing the determined process. | 03-14-2013 |
20140040973 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INITIAL ACCESS RIGHTS TO OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVERS - A client device and a server device communicate using an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)-Device Management (DM) protocol. The client device is configured to grant the desired access rights to a newly bootstrapped DM server, upon successful completion of a bootstrap procedure, by using nodes in the Bootstrap Config Management Object (MO) to specify the access rights for different portions of the Management Tree. | 02-06-2014 |
20140098811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA DATA DELIVERY CONTROL - A method and apparatus control delivery of media data in a transmission system. A method of operating a sending entity in the transmission system includes identifying a fixed delay associated with transmission of media data in the transmission system and sending information about the fixed delay as a requirement on a length of time after transmission that the media data is passed to an application layer component or presented to a user of a receiving entity. A method of operating a receiving entity in the transmission system includes receiving media data and information about a fixed delay associated with the media data and identifying a requirement on a length of time after transmission that the media data is passed to an application layer component or presented to a user from the information about the fixed delay. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101195 | INCREMENTAL VISUAL QUERY PROCESSING WITH HOLISTIC FEATURE FEEDBACK - To reduce communication costs and computational complexity, only a subset of ranked SIFT points within a query image for a visual search request is transmitted to the visual search server in each iteration of an incremental search. For each candidate match, a flag identifying the matching points is returned by the server for use in computing holistic (e.g., histogram) information for a bounding box within the query image including the matching points. Distance from that query image holistic information is used to reject images from a short list used for a subsequent iteration, if any. If all images are rejected or a match criteria is met during one iteration, the search may terminate early without consideration of remaining SIFT points. | 04-10-2014 |
20140136727 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE STREAMING - A method includes calculating a complexity value for each segment or version of multimedia content. The multimedia content has multiple versions associated with common content and different encoding parameters, and each version is divided into segments. The method also includes adaptively streaming the multimedia content to a client device based on at least some of the calculated complexity values. The complexity value for each segment or version is calculated by summing multiple operation complexity values defining complexities of operations for decoding the segment or version. The operation complexity values could include values for a bit parsing operation, a buffer initialization operation, an intra-prediction operation, an inverse quantization and transform operation, a reference block fetch operation, a fractional interpolation operation, and in-loop deblocking operation, a sample adaptive offset correction operation, an adaptive loop filtering operation, and a de-ringing filtering operation. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCAPSULATION OF MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP MEDIA TRANSPORT ASSETS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION BASE MEDIA FILES - An apparatus includes receive path circuitry configured to receive a Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) container and a processing device configured to identify locations of one or more media fragment units (MFUs) in the MMT container using a hint track within the MMT container. Another apparatus includes transmit path circuitry configured to transmit an MMT container and a processing device configured to identify locations of one or more MFUs in the MMT container using a hint track within the MMT container. | 05-29-2014 |
20140185941 | ROBUST KEYPOINT FEATURE SELECTION FOR VISUAL SEARCH WITH SELF MATCHING SCORE - To improve feature selection accuracy during a visual search, interest points within a query image are two-way matched to features in an affine transformed image or otherwise transformed version of the query image. A user device implements a method for selecting local descriptors in the visual search. The method includes: detecting a first set of interest points for the original image; computing an affine transform matrix; computing a new image as a transformation of the original image using the affine transform matrix; detecting a second set of interest points from the and new image; performing a two-way matching between the first set of interest points and the second set of interest points; sorting matching pairs according to a specified self-matching score (SMS); assigning an infinite value to SMS of unmatched interest points from the original image; selecting the interest points based on SMS. Significant performance gains reduce false positive matches. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195560 | TWO WAY LOCAL FEATURE MATCHING TO IMPROVE VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY - To improve precision of visual search processing, SIFT points within a query image are forward matched to features in each of a plurality of repository images and SIFT points within each repository image are backward matched to features within the query image. Forward-only, backward-only and forward-and-backward matches may be weighted differently in determining an image match. Two way matching may be triggered by query image bit rate in excess of a threshold or by a sum of weighted distances between matching points exceeding a threshold. Significant performance gains in eliminating false positive matches are achieved. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201200 | VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY WITH HAMMING DISTANCE ORDER STATISTICS LEARNING - Global descriptors for images within an image repository accessible to a visual search server are compared based on order statistics processing including sorting (which is a non-linear transform) and heat kernel matching. Affinity scores are computed for Hamming distances between Fisher vector components corresponding to different clusters of global descriptors from a pair of images and normalized to [0, 1], with zero affinity scores assigned to non-active cluster pairs. Linear Discriminant Analysis is employed to determine a sorted vector of affinity scores to obtain a new global descriptor. The resulting global descriptors produce significantly more accurate matching. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENFORCING BEHAVIOR OF DASH OR OTHER CLIENTS - A method for obtaining content includes determining that a playout of one or more other pieces of content is dependent upon a playout of a first piece of content. The method also includes obtaining the first piece of content and identifying a forced content token associated with the first piece of content. The method further includes obtaining an access token using the forced content token. In addition, the method includes using the access token to obtain the one or more other pieces of content. The forced content token could be identified as a hash of the first piece of content or as a watermark extracted from the first piece of content. The forced content token could also be identified by creating a thumbnail for each of one or more frames in the first piece of content and calculating a differential trace signature for each of the one or more frames. | 07-17-2014 |