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20080215413 | PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE FOR PROJECT PREPARING A PROCUREMENT AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM - A program storage device for coordinating a project for designing, implementing, and using a general procurement and accounts payable (GP/AP) system for a customer. A playbook database is created and includes templates of information relating to designing, implementing, and using the GP/AP system. The templates are particularized for the customer. A playbook summary view is generated from the playbook database. The playbook summary view displays a folders and views section, a task title display and selection area, a summary task creation button, and a detailed task creation button, which visually appear together in an undivided display area within the playbook summary view. Communication is between team members of a team and the playbook database via a server coupled to the playbook database and an intranet coupled to both the server and the team members. The team members have responsibility for the designing and implementing of the GP/AP system. | 09-04-2008 |
20080306755 | SYSTEM FOR PROJECT PREPARING A PROCUREMENT AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM SURFACE - A system for coordinating a project for designing, implementing, and using a general procurement and accounts payable (GP/AP) system for a customer. A playbook database is created and includes templates of information relating to designing, implementing, and using the GP/AP system. The templates are particularized for the customer. A playbook summary view is generated from the playbook database. The playbook summary view displays a folders and views section, a task title display and selection area, a summary task creation button, and a detailed task creation button, which visually appear together in an undivided display area within the playbook summary view. Communication is between team members of a team and the playbook database via a server coupled to the playbook database and an intranet coupled to both the server and the team members. The team members have responsibility for the designing and implementing of the GP/AP system. | 12-11-2008 |
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20090150768 | COMPOSITION-BASED APPLICATION USER INTERFACE FRAMEWORK - A method and computer readable device for enabling a plurality of telematics services providers to deliver multiple telematics applications to a telematics user device simultaneously by enabling a user interface of each telematics applications to be composed onto a single screen of said telematics device. The method comprises: receiving a content file and a layout file associated with each of the plurality of telematics service by a content push agent, the content file comprising support files including a text file, a graphical file and/or a sound file or the content file comprises a message document including configuration information as to the integration of the support files; storing the support files in a memory cache device by a content manager for storing local copies of the support files for frequent request by a plurality of extendible set of viewers; routing the message document to a viewer compositor which acts as a communication bus between the plurality of extendible set of viewers based upon the message document; and rendering the said plurality of extendible set of viewers simultaneously onto the single screen of the telematics device by a layout manager based upon the layout file. | 06-11-2009 |
20090240807 | CONTENT PUSH SERVICE - A method, system and computer program product for pushing contents to client devices is disclosed. The method, system, and computer program product handles group pushes, manages different content priorities, prevents one content push from starving others, and handles different transport mechanisms for different clients. | 09-24-2009 |
20100185932 | TOOL AND METHOD FOR MAPPING AND VIEWING AN EVENT - A tool for mapping an event includes a map generator for generating an event map, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and in another aspect, a tool for annotating an event map includes a map generator for generating an event map, an annotating unit for annotating the event map based on a user input, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185933 | TOOL AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING AN EVENT MAP, AND COLLABORATING USING THE ANNOTATED EVENT MAP - A tool for mapping an event includes a map generator for generating an event map, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and in another aspect, a tool for annotating an event map includes a map generator for generating an event map, an annotating unit for annotating the event map based on a user input, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map. | 07-22-2010 |
20120278558 | Structure-Aware Caching - Techniques for structure-aware caching are provided. The techniques include decomposing a response from an origin server into one or more independently addressable objects, using a domain specific language to navigate the response to identify the one or more addressable objects and create one or more access paths to the one or more objects, and selecting a route to an object by navigating an internal structure of a cached object to discover one or more additional independently addressable objects. | 11-01-2012 |
20120311082 | CONTENT PUSH SERVICE - A method, system and computer program product for pushing contents to client devices is disclosed. The method, system, and computer program product handles group pushes, manages different content priorities, prevents one content push from starving others, and handles different transport mechanisms for different clients. | 12-06-2012 |
20140137259 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGEMENT - Systems and techniques for managing software licensing are described. When a computing system service request is made, the request is intercepted and software information that may be more or less continuously updated in a managed computing environment is examined to determine the effect of the service request on software usage by the system. The software usage represented by the service request is evaluated based on licensing information to determine license usage by the system and changes in license usage based on the service request, and license usage information is determined based on the software usage and the licensing information. The license usage information may be used in connection with a system of rules to govern actions such as reporting licensing usage or allowing or preventing the use of software based on whether use of the software will violate licensing requirements. | 05-15-2014 |
20140137261 | Methods and Apparatus for Software License Management - Systems and techniques for managing software licensing are described. When a computing system service request is made, the request is intercepted and software information that may be more or less continuously updated in a managed computing environment is examined to determine the effect of the service request on software usage by the system. The software usage represented by the service request is evaluated based on licensing information to determine license usage by the system and changes in license usage based on the service request, and license usage information is determined based on the software usage and the licensing information. The license usage information may be used in connection with a system of rules to govern actions such as reporting licensing usage or allowing or preventing the use of software based on whether use of the software will violate licensing requirements. | 05-15-2014 |
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20120005051 | Semi-Automated Customer Model-Based Service Deployment Into Data Centers - A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying instructions executed by a processor to perform a method for service creation and mapping between at least two support systems includes receiving a request for a new service, wherein the request includes resource requirement information and QOS requirement information corresponding to the new service, determining a location that the request originated from, identifying at least one data center within a communication range of the location, identifying at least one data center having resources complying with the resource requirement information, identifying at least one data center complying with the QOS requirement information, and deploying the new service into each data center that is within the communication range of the location, that has resources complying with the resource requirement information, and that complies with the QOS requirement information. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005236 | Cloud Services Creation Based on Graph Mapping - A method for service creation based on graph mapping including constructing a graph having leaf nodes in an environment including business support nodes associated with respective services and operations support nodes including attribute models, identifying a plurality of services at a level of the leafs in the graph, extending the graph by representing existing services offerings in terms of operation level service definitions and new services at the level of the leafs, and re-combining leaf nodes to define new services at service creation time. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005342 | Cloud Service Cost-Optimal Data Center Assignment - A method for service creation and mapping between at least two support systems includes provisioning a service based on a service requirement and a plurality of available data centers, collecting a value of the service requirement and a cost associated with the service, matching resource types of the data centers to resource availability, determining at least one valid data center from the plurality of data centers, and selecting a valid data center with a minimum cost for service placement and provisioning. | 01-05-2012 |
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20080261621 | DYNAMIC SERVICE BINDING PROVIDING TRANSPARENT SWITCHING OF INFORMATION SERVICES HAVING DEFINED COVERAGE REGIONS - It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second information service when the location of the mobile device is not within a coverage region of the first information service. The second information service generally has a coverage region encompassing the location of the mobile device. Communications between a mobile device and a first information service are redirected to another information service when properties of the new information service are determined to meet predetermined criteria set by a user of the mobile device, by an application, or both. In yet another aspect of the invention, Replacement of information services can be “aggressive” or “non-aggressive.” Communications between a mobile device and an original information service are redirected to another information service when the original information service fails | 10-23-2008 |
20090017811 | EVALUATION OF SPATIAL RULES OVER A MOBILE POPULATION - Spatial rules involve locations of entities, such as wireless devices, from a mobile population. When evaluating rules in a communication network, attributes of an entity are determined, where one of the attributes comprises location of the entity. Rules are evaluated to produce one or more results, each of the rules operating on the attributes of the entity. Specified actions for the rules are performed, based on the evaluation of the rules. At least one of the specified actions comprises communicating a result to an application. The communication network may have a portion that is wireless. An attribute of the entity can include subscriber information and an entity generally corresponds to a particular subscriber in the communication network, but the entity may also correspond to multiple subscribers. An entity may be a wireless device, which can subscribe to a network. Rules can apply to particular geographical regions, to particular subscribers, to both, or to additional criteria. | 01-15-2009 |
20110074767 | Generation of Composite Spatial Representations - Techniques for generating a composite spatial representation are presented. For example, a method includes obtaining a plurality of source spatial representations from a plurality of source applications, and forming the composite spatial representation by combining the plurality of source spatial representations. The composite spatial representation is operative to interact with at least one behavioral element that is separate from the composite spatial representation. The obtaining of the plurality of source spatial representations and the forming of the composite spatial representation are executed on a computing system comprising a processor and a memory. One or more computer program instructions for implementing the obtaining of the plurality of source spatial representations and the forming of the composite spatial representation are obtained from the memory and executed by the processor device. | 03-31-2011 |
20110246253 | PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES AS A SERVICE - A method of providing support services as a service is presented. For example, the method includes providing to a service provider one or more service modules operative to provide the support services to the service provider. The one or more service modules are provided by one or more suppliers of the support services and include instruction code operative to be performed on a processor device and one or more application programming interfaces operative for programmatic access to the one or more service module. The service modules may further include one or more user interfaces operative for interactive access to a respective service module. The one or more service modules may include, for example, one or more of a profile service module, an offering service module, a customer service module, a process service module, a user interface service module and a revenue service module. | 10-06-2011 |
20110296018 | ONTOLOGY BASED RESOURCE PROVISIONING AND MANAGEMENT FOR SERVICES - Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for ontology based resource provisioning and management for services. For example, such an ontology based approach can be utilized in conjunction with a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment. | 12-01-2011 |
20110296020 | EXTENSIBLE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for implementing an extensible support system for multiple service offerings. For example, such a support system can be a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment. | 12-01-2011 |
20130013462 | EXTENSIBLE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for implementing an extensible support system for multiple service offerings. For example, such a support system can be a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment. | 01-10-2013 |
20140047120 | ONTOLOGY BASED RESOURCE PROVISIONING AND MANAGEMENT FOR SERVICES - Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for ontology based resource provisioning and management for services. For example, such an ontology based approach can be utilized in conjunction with a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment. | 02-13-2014 |