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20120013894 | OPTICAL FIBRE NETWORK TEST DEVICE - An optical fibre network test device comprising an actuator that is manually operable, without manual handling of optical fibres, firstly to direct light from a light path of the optical network so that test equipment associated with the network can be operated to test the quality of the said light path, and secondly to return the light path to its previous state after completion of the test. | 01-19-2012 |
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20140052794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CLARITY AND EXPRESSIVENESS IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications include: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; applying at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user. Embodiments include: receiving a message from a first user via a network, the message including configuration data for configuring embellishment properties of the message; decoding the configuration data and generating an embellished message with the corresponding embellishment properties, the embellishment properties including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message; and displaying the embellished message for the second user as part of a network-enabled conversation with the first user. | 02-20-2014 |
20140181229 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CLARITY AND EXPRESSIVENESS IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications include: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; analyzing the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness; selecting a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword; applying, by use of a processor, at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message, the at least one embellishment being configured in a manner consistent with the selected level or degree of emotional expressiveness; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user. | 06-26-2014 |
20140280522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ACTIVELY INVALIDATED CLIENT-SIDE NETWORK RESOURCE CACHE - A system and method for providing an actively invalidated client-side network resource cache are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: a client configured to request, for a client application, data associated with an identifier from a server; the server configured to provide the data associated with the identifier, the data being subject to subsequent change, the server being further configured to establish a queue associated with the identifier at a scalable message queuing system, the scalable message queuing system including a plurality of gateway nodes configured to receive connections from client systems over a network, a plurality of queue nodes containing subscription information about queue subscribers, and a consistent hash table mapping a queue identifier requested on a gateway node to a corresponding queue node for the requested queue identifier; the client being further configured to subscribe to the queue at the scalable message queuing system to receive invalidation information associated with the data; the server being further configured to signal the queue of an invalidation event associated with the data; the scalable message queuing system being configured to convey information indicative of the invalidation event to the client; and the client being further configured to re-request the data associated with the identifier from the server upon receipt of the information indicative of the invalidation event from the scalable message queuing system. | 09-18-2014 |
20140372516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SCALABLE TRANSLATION BETWEEN POLLING-BASED CLIENTS AND CONNECTION-BASED MESSAGE QUEUES - A system and method for providing a scalable translation between polling-based clients and connection-based message queues are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: providing a session gateway node in data communication with a client and a server via a network, the session gateway node handling all session requests from the client; providing a user node in data communication with the server and the session gateway node via the network, the user node maintaining the set of all user queues corresponding to a particular user, the user node handling all sessions for the particular user, the user node being assigned by use of a consistent hash table; providing a polled gateway node in data communication with the client and the session gateway node via the network, the polled gateway node handling all polling requests from the client, each polling request including a session identifier corresponding to a session, the session gateway node corresponding to the session returning to the client all queued session data retained since a prior polling event; establishing a client connection between the client and a network-based service at the server; configuring a user queue for the user at the user node; and using the session gateway node to route the client connection to the appropriate user queue. | 12-18-2014 |