| TELEFONICA, S.A. Patent applications |
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| 20120137362 | COLLABORATIVE SECURITY SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTIAL USERS - The invention relates to a collaborative system for security information exchange between users, based on the fact that a determined function (whether storing or processing) is spread out at different points of a network to achieve more scalable processing and storing factors than if they were all done at one and the same point. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120083255 | METHOD FOR GENDER IDENTIFICATION OF A CELL-PHONE SUBSCRIBER - The invention relates to a method for gender identification of a cell-phone subscriber. There are two main steps: constructing a general model of female and male calling behaviour from a set of variables obtained for each subscriber; and classifying an individual calling behaviour of a subscriber comparing it with the general model. The method includes the step of constructing the general model comprises obtaining a set of data, that may be obtained from calling detail records, that are saved at a database every time a subscriber makes or receives a phone call; computing a set of variables using a set of instances from subscribers who their gender is already known; and applying an algorithm which generates groups labelled as male or female behaviour. Finally, in the step of classifying, the gender of the subscriber is identified by assigning to the subscriber the label of the closest group. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120059785 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS FROM A USE PROFILE - The invention relates to a content recommendation method and system based on psychological factors from a use profile, which comprises: (a) a website for downloads that is accessible for the user, where said site comprises means configured for the detection of his consumption profile ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058757 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF NETWORK INCIDENTS ON TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES OFFERED TO USERS - The present Invention relates to a method and to a system for identifying and characterizing the impact of network incidents on the telecommunication services offered to users. According to the invention, the system for identifying and characterizing an incident in a service offered to a user of a telecommunications network comprises an unavailability selection module ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120008494 | Offering Incentives under a Flat Rate Charging System - The invention describes a method of providing incentives to users via supporting mechanisms and algorithms for facilitating the move of DT traffic to off-peak hours. It proposes an efficient utilization of the network resources during peak hour under a flat-rate pricing scheme with the cooperation and blessing of the users and without adding complexity to billing. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120005324 | Method and System for Operations Management in a Telecommunications Terminal - A method for managing an operation in a service terminal through a remote server, wherein said service terminal comprises a plurality of modules, and a communications interface configured for communicating with said remote server, wherein said remote server comprises a plurality of applications and a communications interface. The method comprises the following steps: generating an event as a response to a user interaction with one of said modules of the service terminal; associating an information to said event; sending said information to the remote server through said communications interface; processing said received information in the remote server and running an application which obtains a response to the information associated to said event; sending said response to the service terminal through the communications interface; processing said response and identifying the module of the service terminal affected by said response; and interacting with said module by performing an operation in the service terminal. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320207 | CODING, MODIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH SEGMENTS - The invention relates to a method for speech signal analysis, modification and synthesis comprising a phase for the location of analysis windows by means of an iterative process for the determination of the phase of the first sinusoidal component and comparison between the phase value of said component and a predetermined value, a phase for the selection of analysis frames corresponding to an allophone and readjustment of the duration and the fundamental frequency according to certain thresholds and a phase for the generation of synthetic speech from synthesis frames taking the information of the closest analysis frame as spectral information of the synthesis frame and taking as many synthesis frames as periods that the synthetic signal has. The method allows a coherent location of the analysis windows within the periods of the signal and the exact generation of the synthesis instants in a manner synchronous with the fundamental period. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320197 | METHOD FOR INDEXING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION - It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and language models adapted for the ASR process at least before the latter processes the multimedia file, i.e. “a priori”. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110276649 | Method for Efficient Partition and Replication of Social-Based Applications - Method, system and computer program to provide transparent scalability to Online Social Networks and better performance of its back-end databases, by an efficient partitioning of the underlying community structure and replicating of user profiles, ensuring that every user has a master or slave replica of all his neighbours on the same partition where he is located. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110230987 | Real-Time Music to Music-Video Synchronization Method and System - Method, system and computer program for real time synchronizing an audio file and a video file in a multimedia device. The present invention determines the optimum alignment path between the audio signal of the audio file and the audio track signal of the video file, starting from an initial path and performing a post-alignment processing to improve the user satisfaction when playing. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110224984 | Fast Partial Pattern Matching System and Method - Method, system and computer program for determining the matching between a first and a second sampled signals using an improved Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, called Unbounded DTW. It uses a dynamic programming algorithm to find exact start-end alignment points, unknown a priori, being the initial subsampling of the similarity matrix made via definition of optimal synchronization points, allowing a very fast process. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110219096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL WITH A STATE MACHINE - A method for managing an operation in a service terminal through a remote server includes sending a request from said service terminal to said remote server to download, at least, one algorithm of, at least, one application; transmitting said, at least, one algorithm from said server to the service terminal and loading it in said state machine; generating an event as a response to a user interaction with one of said modules of the service terminal; associating an information to said event and sending it to the state machine; processing said information in the state machine and obtaining at least one operation to be performed on any of the modules of the service terminal by using said, at least, one algorithm already loaded in the state machine; identifying the module on which said at least one operation is intended to be performed and interacting with said module by performing said at least one operation in the service terminal. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110206025 | ACCESS POINT WHICH SENDS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONING INFORMATION FROM THE ACCESS POINT TO MOBILE TERMINALS AND MOBILE TERMINAL WHICH RECEIVES THE INFORMATION AND ESTIMATES THE POSITION THEREOF BASED ON SAID INFORMATION - The invention relates to an access point ( | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110200303 | Method of Video Playback - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes a computer-readable code for executing a method of video playback, capable of displaying a video file in a three-dimensional environment ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110197132 | Cloud Desktop System with Multi-Touch Capabilities - The present invention provides a collaborative tool which is a distributed multi-touch cloud-connected desktop tool comprising a client application and/or webtop with an integrated immersive Natural User Interface adapted for any input device having a touch screen. Thanks to the invention users can access their desktops from everywhere, at anytime and from any capable device, as the desktop is multiplatform and can be accessed from mobile devices, web browsers or from desktops as standalone application without the necessity of a desktop computer. Thanks to the invention, users can share digital content, edit it and interact with it in a cooperative and collaborative manner while still able to individually and independently arrange objects and/or applications in each of the clients for the best convenience of each user. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110194772 | Efficient scale-space extraction and description of interest points - Method, system and computer program for efficiently extracting and describing scale-space interest points. It is designed towards low overall computational complexity. On one hand, the data acquired during extraction in the description phase is intensively re-used. On the other hand, an algorithmic optimization of the description that dramatically speeds up the process, is proposed. First, the image is filtered with triangle kernel at different scales. The triangle filtered images are reused for extraction of the keypoints dominant orientation and the computation of the DAISY-like descriptor | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110158173 | SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING BROADBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS INDOORS - system for distributing broadband wireless signals indoors includes a radio access node, connected to a telecommunication access network via an access interface, where said radio access node comprises a broadband-signal-transmitting/-receiving module configured to transmit and receive broadband wireless signals via a broadband radio interface; at least one client device comprising a broadband-signal-transmitting/-receiving module configured to transmit and receive broadband wireless signals to/from said radio access node via said broadband radio interface. It also comprises a control channel configured to exchange control signals between said radio access node and said at least one client device over a control radio interface, each of said radio access nodes and at least one client device comprising a control-signal-transmitting/receiving module configured to establish said control channel for transmitting and receiving wireless signals over said control radio interface. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110137726 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM BASED ON EXPERT OPINIONS - The invention refers to a method and system for recommending items of interest to a target and more particularly to a recommender system predicting user interest based on expert opinions. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110113205 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE - A data storage device connectable to an electronic device and a remote storage serve, which comprises memory managing means configured to receive a request for a piece of information from the electronic device and if said piece of information is stored both in a local memory of the data storage device and in the remote server, retrieving the requested piece of information from the local memory to reduce latency. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20100114345 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION OF AUDIOVISUAL INFORMATION - Method and system of classification of audiovisual information from a data stream by means of audio stream comparison. After detecting segments of the data stream containing advertisements, the segments are compared to a plurality of audio files stored in a database to cluster the detected advertisements. If the segment is not detected in the database it is included as a new audio file with its information in the database. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100111312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REAL-TIME IDENTIFICATION OF AN AUDIOVISUAL ADVERTISEMENT IN A DATA STREAM - Method and system of identification of at least one audiovisual advertisement in a data stream, such as a digital television broadcasting, by detecting energy drops in an audio stream of the data stream and comparing a segment of the audio stream starting at the energy drop with an audio segment of the advertisement. The comparison step requires only a few seconds of data to perform the detection. Therefore, the identification of the advertisement is provided before the end of the advertisement in the data stream. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20080263014 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Method, device, and computer program for managing information relating to a person, including a stage of storing at least one item, wherein the stage of storing includes selecting an item which is to be saved; assigning to the item one or several identifying markers, wherein the markers are based on the human mind operation model; saving the item together with its marker or markers; obtaining a key associated to the item to subsequently retrieve the item. | 10-23-2008 |
