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20100135243 | POLICY MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-ACCESS SCENARIOS - The invention comprises methods and arrangements for Policy Decision Point discovery in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network (IN) comprising a plurality of network elements. The invention introduces a Re-direct Policy Decision (RPDF) Function which can deliver addresses to PDPs associated to a certain Mobile Terminal. The RPDF comprises a memory for storing addresses (APDPA, SPDPA | 06-03-2010 |
20100169950 | POLICY MANAGEMENT IN A ROAMING OR HANDOVER SCENARIO IN AN IP NETWORK - The invention comprises methods and arrangements for Policy Decision Point discovery in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network (IN) comprising a plurality of network elements. The invention comprises methods and arrangement in an user equipment for receiving the address of the serving policy decision point and sending to the Home Agent a registration request comprising the local IP address of the user equipment so that the home agent can register the local IP address. The registration request will also comprise the address (ASPDP1) of the serving policy decision point (SPDP1) so that the Home Agent can forward the address of the serving policy decision point to the anchor Policy Decision Point and so that the anchor Policy Decision Point can contact the serving policy decision point by using said address of the serving Policy Decision Point. | 07-01-2010 |
20100211666 | Method And Apparatus For Improving The Efficiency Of Resource Utilisation In A Communications System - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for requesting a transport policy for a bearer of a session in a communications system ( | 08-19-2010 |
20100222039 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Customised Services In A Communication Network - A method and apparatus for offering a service to at least one client in a communication network for a specific client context, by means of a service provisioning unit. A history of client activities involving service usage in associated client contexts, is recorded in an activity database. Service templates are composed for associated client contexts based on the recorded history of client activities. When a context detector detects that the specific client context prevails, a service configurator selects a service template for the detected client context and configures a customised service from the selected service template. The customised service can then be offered to the at least one client. | 09-02-2010 |
20110208752 | Method and Apparatus for Default Rating Estimation - A method of estimating a default rating of a rated dataset is provided, where the dataset comprises at least one series of ratings associated with at least one user and each series comprise ratings associated with at least two items. For a reference user and an item for which a rated value is missing the item's average rating, i | 08-25-2011 |
20110208824 | Method and Apparatus for Service Selection and Indication - A technique for providing a service availability indication to a user terminal is described. In a method realization, the technique comprises providing a data structure representative of user terminals and of inter-terminal relationships derived from one or more communication parameters pertaining to communications between the user terminals. Additionally, for at least some of the user terminals service utilization information for each of a plurality of services is provided. The technique further includes selecting, for at least one user terminal and from the plurality of services, a service not used by the at least one user terminal, wherein the service selection is based on the service utilization information provided for user terminals having a predefined association with the at least one user terminal as determined by the inter-terminal relationships, and sending a message indicative of the selected service to the at least one user terminal. | 08-25-2011 |
20110276410 | Apparatus and Method for Advertising during Login Process - An apparatus for presenting a personalized advertisement in a login process for logging into a certain service by a user of a user terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a recognition unit configured to recognize the user terminal under the login process, an obtaining unit configured to obtain a user identity of the user using the recognized user terminal and an advertising unit configured to present to the recognized user terminal a personalized advertisement associated with the obtained user identity when the user identity is obtained by the obtaining unit. The advertising unit presents the personalized advertisement to the recognized user terminal before the user is authenticated. | 11-10-2011 |
20120072592 | Method and Arrangement for Implementing Policy Rules in Peer-to-Peer Communication - Method and apparatuses for controlling a peer-to-peer communication involving media communication between a subscriber (A) and one or more opposite peers (B, C, D). When a policy node ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120102047 | Rating and Novelty Decay - Application servers and methods of operating the same are provided for generating a personalized recommendation of items to a first user. An updated rating value N(t) of an initial rating value N(0) is determined for each rated item based on an age of each rating. The updated rating value N(t) is based on a difference between the value of the initial rating N(0) and a neutral rating value R, and on a predetermined half-life of the ratings. The updated rating value N(t) converges towards the neutral rating value R with an increase in the age t for each rating. | 04-26-2012 |
20120185481 | Method and Apparatus for Executing a Recommendation - A method, apparatus and system for generating recommendations of items to users. Ratings of items made by users are collected ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120271541 | ROUTE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A recommendation apparatus for determining, for a user, a set of one or more recommended routes going from a starting location to an ending location in response to receiving from the user a route request message identifying the starting and ending locations. Advantageously, in some embodiments, the route recommender apparatus determines a recommended route by analyzing a set of routes between the starting and ending locations, where each route in the set was traversed by a person who is in a “social graph” belonging to the user (e.g., each route in the set was traversed by one of the user's Facebook friends). In this way, routes can be recommended to the user based on routes that are popular with the user's friends. | 10-25-2012 |
20130013408 | Method and Arrangement for Network Searching - A method and arrangement for supporting network searches for information or content using one or more web-based search engines. When a search query is received ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130046623 | Method For Providing a Recommendation, Recommender System, and Recommender Computer Program Product - A recommender system that selects one or more items to recommend to a user of a communication device, wherein the recommender system uses one or more of the following profiles to select the one or more items: a device profile associated with the communication device; a location profile associated with the communication device, and a device type profile associated with a device type that matches the communication device's device type. The recommender system may also use a user profile associated with the user to select the one or more items. | 02-21-2013 |
20130066872 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing Images - A method and apparatus are defined for organizing a plurality of digital photos. The method comprises the steps of identifying a group of digital photos, receiving a number defining how many clusters to be formed from the group, receiving profile information to be used for clustering the digital photos into the number of clusters, clustering the group of digital photos according to the profile information, and identifying representative digital photo(s) of the clusters from the clustered digital photos based on the profile information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130262452 | Server for Conveying a Set of Contact Identification Data to a User Equipment, Methods Therefor, User Equipment, Computer Programs and Computer Program Products - The invention relates to a server ( | 10-03-2013 |
20130268664 | Method and Network Node for Providing Dynamic Subscriber Profiling Information - In the embodiments of the present invention, a network node in an operator network is introduced. The network node is an analysis component configured to analyze the subscriber behavior based on the internet traffic data within the network. The network node is configured to provide a dynamic profile of the subscribers based on the current and past internet traffic. The dynamic profile may be used by other applications in the operator network or third parties. For example, a content provider can take a decision on what content to provide to a certain subscriber, based on dynamic subscriber profile information of this certain subscriber received from the network node according to the embodiments of the present invention. Another example is that an operator can use the dynamic subscriber profile when selecting commercial offers to his own subscribers e.g. when a subscriber has a new music mobile when visiting music sites. | 10-10-2013 |
20130276072 | Method for Enabling Exchange of User Profiles Between a Visited Network and a Home Network - The invention relates to a method ( | 10-17-2013 |