26th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120166496 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING CUSTOM OBJECTS REPRESENTING CONTENT FILES - Techniques for generating custom objects for content files are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to generate a tile object for a digital montage, the authoring component to receive a control directive to associate a content file with a presentation tile of a presentation surface of the digital montage, identify a content file type for the content file, and generate the tile object with information from the content file in accordance with the content file type. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166497 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING DATABASE AND PROCESSING USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING BUILDING INFORMATION IN REMOTE BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM - An apparatus for establishing a database and processing a user interface for monitoring building information in a remote building control system includes: a database establishing apparatus for receiving building information collected from at least one building and analyzing the received information and storing the building information in respective databases by position, equipment and time. The apparatus further includes a user interface processing apparatus for collecting object information from the respective databases in response to an inputted monitoring request to generate display information based on the collected object information to output the generated display information. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166498 | GARBAGE COLLECTION IN A MULTIPLE VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT - Garbage collection processes are automatically tuned on a system comprising a plurality of virtual machines running on a physical processing device with multiple physical processors. Tuning is implemented for each garbage collection process, by updating a load variable to reflect that a new garbage collection process has started, the load variable having a value that is based at least in part on a number of garbage collection processes that are currently running on the system. Tuning further comprises creating a number of garbage collection threads based at least in part on the current value of the load variable and/or number of processors, where the garbage collection threads are used to perform at least a portion of at least one phase of the new garbage collection process. Tuning further comprises re-updating the load variable to reflect completion of the new garbage collection process. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166499 | CONCURRENT DIRECTORY UPDATE IN A CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM - A method for avoiding directory conflicts across a file system having multiple nodes with one node representing a token manager. For each directory, at least one metanode responsible for directory updates. The method involving obtaining a name-based lock on a filename. Querying the token manager for a lock token. If a new token is obtained, sending a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the metanode to obtain matching directory entries, and caching the result of the RPC so that subsequent operations on that filename can be satisfied without additional messages sent to the metanode. Updating a cached directory block in memory by creating a new directory entry in the block or deleting an existing directory entry from the block. Information regarding the updating is sent to the metanode on one of: periodic schedule, a subsequent synchronization event, or when the name-based lock token is revoked. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166500 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION IN AN APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for integrating a plurality of web-based applications with a web-based file management system. The web-based application may provide a service to the users of the web-based file management system, such that the web-based application can interact with the files of said users. The integration of the service of the web-based application with the web-based file management system is achieved through a simple web interface to configure the service, without the developer of the web-based application having to change the application programming interface (API) of the application. The user of the web-based file management system may add services of a plurality of available web-based applications and use these services with one or more files that are stored on the web-based file management system. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166501 | COMPUTATION OF JACOBIAN LOGARITHM OPERATION - An apparatus generally having a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of first signals carrying (i) a maximum value among a plurality of input values and (ii) a plurality of difference values based on the input values. The second circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of second signals carrying a plurality of intermediate values based on the difference values. The intermediate values are generally respective powers of two. The third circuit may be configured to generate a third signal carrying an output value by adding the maximum value and the intermediate values. The output value may be a Jacobian logarithm computation of the input values. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166502 | LOW-COMPLEXITY INVERSE TRANSFORM COMPUTATION METHOD - A low-complexity inverse transform computation method, comprising following steps: firstly, analyzing an end-of-block (EOB) point in a matrix of a block; next, determining whether a bottom-left corner coefficient or a top-right coefficient before said EOB point is zero, and if it is zero, reducing further size of said matrix; then, determining an adequate operation mode to reduce computational complexity; and finally, realizing 2-D inverse transform through simplified 1-D inverse transforms. An inverse transform process of said method mentioned above is capable of lowering computation amount, reducing burden and computational complexity of a decompression system, and shortening effectively computation time of said 2-D inverse transform, such that it is applicable to inverse transforms of various video and still image codecs. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166503 | METHOD FOR FULLY ADAPTIVE CALIBRATION OF A PREDICTION ERROR CODER - Method for fully adaptive calibration of a prediction error coder, comprising a first step of initialization; a second step of reception and accumulation of block-size data samples wherein for each received value, it is added one to the histogram bin associated to that value; a third step of analysis of the histogram and determination of the coding option; a fourth step of analysis of the histogram and determination of a coding table; a fifth step of output a header with the prediction error coder coding table determined; and wherein previous steps are repeated if more samples need to be compressed. It is useful as a data compression technique, with the advantage of being faster and more robust than the current CCSDS lossless compression standard. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166504 | Coefficient Boost Multiply Accumulate Unit - In order to reduce the area and power consumption of MAC units, some aspects of the present disclosure relate to MAC units having a feedback path with an arithmetic element disposed thereon. The arithmetic element is often controlled so as to limit the number of bits needed in the data path, thereby limiting power and area required for the MAC unit. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166505 | S12 TX FIR ARCHITECTURE - A FIR transmit architecture uses multiple driver divisions to allow signals with different delays to be summed into the output signal by the driver itself. The architecture includes a first multiplexer, a plurality of delay cells, a plurality of sign blocks, a switch block, a second multiplexer, and a plurality of drivers. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166506 | Measuring Sum of Squared Current - A modulator can be configured to sense a change in current flow in a circuit and to generate an oversampled, noise-shaped signal. A first decimation filter is coupled to the modulator and is configured to generate instantaneous current data at a first data rate. The instantaneous current data can be input into a multiplier circuit. The output of the multiplier circuit (the instantaneous current data squared) can be input to a second decimation filter. The second decimation filter can be configured to generate a sum of the squared current data at a second data rate. The sum of the squared current data can be used by an application (e.g., battery power management) to compute power measurements or for other purposes. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166507 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PERFORMING FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM - Disclosed are a method and apparatus of performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT). The apparatus include a plurality of single-path delay feedback (SDF) butterfly blocks which performs butterfly operations, respectively; a plurality of memories which are connected to the SDF butterfly blocks, respectively; and a controller which controls the plurality of SDF butterfly blocks, wherein the plurality of SDF butterfly blocks are connected in a pipeline structure and thus output from one SDF butterfly block is input to a following SDF butterfly block. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166508 | FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMER - A fast Fourier transformer (FFT) includes a radix-2 butterfly unit configured to perform a butterfly operation on input data; a buffer unit configured to buffer data outputted from the radix-2 butterfly unit and output the buffered data to the radix-2 butterfly unit; a multiplexing unit configured to selectively output a twiddle factor; and a constant multiplier configured to multiply the data outputted from the radix-2 butterfly unit by the twiddle factor outputted from the multiplexing unit. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166509 | Performing Reciprocal Instructions With High Accuracy - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a reciprocal instruction and an operand in a processor, accessing an entry of a lookup table based on a portion of the operand and the instruction, generating an encoder output based on a type of the reciprocal instruction and whether the reciprocal instruction is a legacy instruction, and selecting portions of the lookup table entry and input operand to be provided to a reciprocal logic unit based on the encoder output. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166510 | METHOD FOR ENCODING FLOATING-POINT DATA, METHOD FOR DECODING FLOATING-POINT DATA, AND CORRESPONDING ENCODER AND DECODER - An algorithm for efficiently compressing floating-point data in 3D meshes is disclosed. 3D meshes are represented by topology data, geometry data and property data. Geometry data specify vertex locations and are usually represented by floating-point coordinates. While geometry data are usually compressed by quantization, prediction and entropy coding, the present invention uses no prediction. A floating-point number consists of mantissa and exponent, and normally the exponent, sign and mantissa are compressed separately. A method for encoding floating-point formatted data comprises determining if a current floating-point value was previously stored in a memory, storing the current value in the memory if it was not previously stored in the memory, and encoding it. Otherwise, if the current floating-point value was previously stored in a memory, the storage position of the value within the memory is determined and a reference pointing to the storage position is encoded. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166511 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY OF EXECUTION IN SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS - Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing a complex multiplication instruction in a computer processor are described. In some embodiments, the execution of such instruction causes a real and an imaginary component resulting from the multiplication of data of first and second complex data source operands to be generated and stored. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166512 | High speed design for division & modulo operations - Techniques for efficiently performing division and modulo operations in a programmable logic device. In one set of embodiments, the division and modulo operations are synthesized as one or more alternative arithmetic operations, such as multiplication and/or subtraction operations. The alternative arithmetic operations are then implemented using dedicated digital signal processing (DSP) resources, rather than non-dedicated logic resources, resident on a programmable logic device. In one embodiment, the programmable logic device is a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and the dedicated DSP resources are pre-fabricated on the FPGA. Embodiments of the present invention may be used in Ethernet-based network devices to support the high-speed packet processing necessary for 100G Ethernet, 32-port (or greater) trunking, 32-port/path (or greater) load balancing (such as 32-path ECMP), and the like. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166513 | UNIFIED ACCESS TO RESOURCES - Architecture that provides a unified interface to access resources in different formats and in disparate resource locations for a process (e.g., consuming application). The unified interface is extensible such that users can add additional components to the unified interface to provide access to new resources and new resource references. The interface provides the capability to create a single comprehensive index of all available resources regardless of the resource format. Format-specific indexers are provided for the resources to find, enumerate, and process the resources into a structure suitable for processing by an indexing component into the index. A user can introduce new format-specific indexers for new resources and new resource references for processing by the indexing component into the index. The unified interface now provides access to the new resources and new resources references as well. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166514 | TASK ALLOCATION IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM - Work is distributed amongst a plurality of nodes. A first plurality of tasks is extracted, where the number of tasks is selected in correspondence to the number of nodes, and where sizes of the tasks are sized based on a job load metric. The first plurality of tasks is distributed. A determination is made whether a time difference between a response from a node that is first to complete its task and a response from a node that is last to complete its task exceeds a predefined threshold. In response to a determination that the time difference exceeds the predefined threshold, the job load metric is adjusted. A second plurality of tasks is extracted, where the number of tasks is selected in correspondence to the number of nodes, and wherein sizes of the tasks are sized based on the adjusted job load metric. The second plurality of tasks is distributed. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166515 | Providing and Resolving an IP Address for Swarm-Based Services - Providing and maintaining an IP address for swarm-based services. A swarm is a group of digital devices operating cooperatively on a network, such as a group of wireless access points. Services may be distributed over members of the swarm, with each service having a master which is hosted on one member of the swarm. The master broadcasts a periodic heartbeat, advertising its service and the address of the host member. If a swarm member fails to hear a particular service's heartbeat for a predetermined interval, it broadcasts a message announcing its intent to be master for the service. If the swarm member does not receive any other broadcasts from members indenting to take the role of master for the service, it takes over the role of master for the service and begins broadcasting periodic heartbeats identifying itself as the service master. If multiple swam members broadcast their intent to become master of the same service, a resolution protocol is invoked and one swarm member is selected to be master. In operation, each member of the swarm maintains a table of services and the address of the swarm member hosting the service; this information is obtained from the periodic heartbeats broadcast by each service master. When a swarm member receives a service request, the request is either redirected to the service master, or the request is terminated at the swarm member and handled. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING VIRTUAL COMPUTING CLOUDS - Networking systems and methods for establishing and maintaining virtual computing clouds are disclosed. A networking system can comprise a server and various instances of a software agent, each agent being installed on a computing device participating in a virtual computing cloud. The server can maintain account setting for a user, wherein the settings can indicate which files on indicated computing devices are included in the virtual computing cloud. The networking system can selectively synchronize data between the computing devices automatically and in a secure manner, and can transmit data in real time to simulate local storage when synchronization of certain files is inappropriate in light of file incompatibility. As a result, the networking system can provide the user with a seamless, automatic system and method for accessing a total computing environment. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166517 | Intelligence Virtualization System and Method to support Social Media Cloud Service - The present invention relates generally to intelligence virtualization system and method to support social media cloud service and more particularly to multi agent structure automatically performing intelligent virtualization method for service resource for a user's access and allocation of virtualized resources and more particularly to a intelligence virtualization system and method to support social media cloud service that automates learning process of multi agents for distribution of new social media service resources and service resource management of additional component of social media cloud computing. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166518 | PROVIDING STATE SERVICE FOR ONLINE APPLICATION USERS - Online application state information is automatically saved for a user interacting with the application content. Saved states are presented to the user upon the user's return to the application. Upon the user's selection of a state, the user is presented with the online application populated with state information from prior interaction. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166519 | Provisioning a Swarm - Provisioning access points operating in a swarm. A swarm is a plurality of digital devices, such as access points, connected using a digital network and operating in a cooperative manner. When an access point (AP) is first powered up, it lacks provisioning information such as channel numbers, power levels, SSIDS, security settings, and so on. The process of supplying this information required to get the AP operating as part of a network is called provisioning. An unprovisioned AP in a swarm first attempts to obtain a DHCP address. Once it gets a DHCP address or selects an address such as from the link-address (169.254.xx.xx) group, it advertises a predetermined wireless SSID which is only used for provisioning the swarm. The swarm | 2012-06-28 |
20120166520 | Determining Advertising Effectiveness Outside of a Social Networking System - A social networking system or other user registration site builds a log of exposures by users to advertisements outside of the user registration site to determine their effectiveness. For each user exposed to an advertisement, a log entry is created indicating that the user has been exposed to the advertisement. Tracking pixels are embedded into advertisements that, when accessed, enable the social networking system or user registration site to log access to the advertisement by the user. From the log files, the user registration site identifies exposed users and selects unexposed users with similar demographics and/or behavior information to generate a control group. The two groups can be surveyed about the advertisement to determine its effectiveness. The user exposure information also can be used to retarget advertisements, to measure advertising effectiveness on connections of exposed users, and to measure actions of exposed users. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN COMPONENTS IN A HYBRID ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods described herein provide for communication between a base component and a slate component of a hybrid computing system. The hybrid computing system is in a connected state when the base component and slate component are connected. Embodiments provide that the base component may control the slate component when the hybrid computing system is in a connected state. In addition, embodiments provide that a server module running on the display component and a client module running on the base component facilitate communication between the hybrid computing system components. Furthermore, systems and methods described herein provide that the base component may control hardware devices, peripheral devices, or software applications of the display component through communications between the server module and client module. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166522 | SUPPORTING INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE INTERACTIONS - Concepts and technologies are described herein for supporting intelligent user interface interactions. Commands accepted by applications can be published or determined. Before or during access of the application, the commands can be presented at clients to indicate commands available for interfacing with the application. The commands can be presented with information indicating how the user interface and/or input device of the client may be used to execute the available commands. Input received from the client can be compared to the available commands to determine if the input matches an available command. Contextual data relating to the client, preferences, and/or other data also can be retrieved and analyzed to determine the intent of the client. The intent can be used to identify an intended command and to modify the input to match the intended command. The modified input can be transmitted to the application. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166523 | GENERIC BOXED COMPONENTS FOR MULTI-CLIENT SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, a method includes defining a parent structure including an extension. A polymorphic structure is defined for the extension. The polymorphic structure is associated with a plurality of client specialization structures, each client specialization being associated with a client in a plurality of clients. During runtime by a computing device, the parent structure is generated with an extension to a client specialization structure associated with one of the plurality of clients where client specialization structures associated with other clients are not visible to the parent structure. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166524 | Information Processing Apparatus and Removable Media Management Method - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an identifier generation module, an identifier write module, an identifier storage, and a removable media control module. The identifier generation module generates a media identifier for a removable medium connected to the information processing apparatus. The identifier write module writes the generated media identifier in a predetermined area in the removable medium. The identifier storage stores the generated media identifier in an identifier list. The removable media control module permits use of a removable medium which is newly connected to the information processing apparatus if a media identifier included in the identifier list is written in a predetermined area in the newly connected removable medium. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALING FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF CONCURRENT USERS - A computer-implemented method for providing a stateful computer application to a multitude of users. The method may comprise generating a session identification (e.g., a primary key) for a user session for one user and retrieving a state representation using the session identification. The state of the stateful computer application may be described by a set of user-specific session variables that may be reconstructed from information contained in the state representation. The method may further comprise restoring the set of user-specific session variables using the retrieved state representation and calling functional computing logic based thereon. The functional computing logic may comprise the code of the stateful computer application and the call may provide an updated set of user-specific session variables. Upon completion of functions performed by the called functional computing logic, an updated state representation may be assembled from the updated set of user-specific session variables and stored. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166526 | REQUEST FORWARDING AND RESULT AGGREGATING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - Systems, methods and computer readable media for web request forwarding and result aggregating include a client-side forwarder that processes user requests and forwards the browser to a forwarding URL based on web request URL processing and user data processing. User data can remain private on the client system. Request aggregating can include processing a request to identify a plurality of URLs. Sending a processed request to the plurality of URLs. Obtaining results from the plurality of URLs and presenting the results in a single page for viewing by a user. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166527 | MODIFYING SERVICE PROVIDER CONTEXT INFORMATION TO FACILITATE LOCATING INTERCEPTOR CONTEXT INFORMATION - A method and system for tracking context information of a service provider and interceptors of service provider requests is provided. An interceptor modifies a portion of service provider context information to reference interceptor context information associated with a client. When the client requests a service of the service provider, the client provides the modified service provider context information along with the request. The interceptor uses the reference of the modified portion of the service provider context information to retrieve its context information. The interceptor then restores the modified portion of the service provider context information to the original unmodified portion, which the interceptor retained as part of its context information. The interceptor then forwards the request along with the original service provider context information to the service provider. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PROVIDER-SELECTED MESSSAGE IN RESPONSE TO A USER REQUEST FOR USER-SELECTRED INFORMATION - A method for providing a provider-selected message in response to a user request for user-selected information is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a client program for user-selected information. If a provider-selected message has not been previously transmitted to the client program, the method further includes transmitting provider-selected information to the client program. If a provider-selected message has been previously transmitted to the client program, the method further includes transmitting the user-selected information. In one embodiment, the method also includes receiving a second request from the client program for the user-selected information after the provider-selected information is displayed for a limited time. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166529 | MODIFYING SERVICE PROVIDER CONTEXT INFORMATION TO FACILITATE LOCATING INTERCEPTOR CONTEXT INFORMATION - A method and system for tracking context information of a service provider and interceptors of service provider requests is provided. An interceptor modifies a portion of service provider context information to reference interceptor context information associated with a client. When the client requests a service of the service provider, the client provides the modified service provider context information along with the request. The interceptor uses the reference of the modified portion of the service provider context information to retrieve its context information. The interceptor then restores the modified portion of the service provider context information to the original unmodified portion, which the interceptor retained as part of its context information. The interceptor then forwards the request along with the original service provider context information to the service provider. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166530 | TIMING FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A USER BASED ON USER INTERACTION WITH NOTIFICATIONS - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166531 | LOCATION SHARING SESSION - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing location sharing sessions are disclosed. One method includes receiving signaling from a first endpoint for establishing a location sharing session. The method also includes signaling at least one second endpoint for establishing the location sharing session and receiving signaling from the at least one second endpoint accepting the establishment of the location sharing session. The method also includes, in response to receiving the signaling from the at least one second endpoint, establishing the location sharing session between the first and the at least one second endpoint such that the first and at least one second endpoint shares location media directly using the location sharing session. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166532 | Contextually Relevant Affinity Prediction in a Social Networking System - A tunable affinity function serves one or more processes running in a social networking environment, where each process may request a measure of affinity for a particular user. A module that implements the affinity function computes the requested measure of affinity by combining (e.g., adding) a weighted set of predictor functions, where each predictor function predicts whether the user will perform a different action. The weights are provided by the process that requests the measure of affinity, which allows the requesting process to weight the predictor functions differently and thus tune the affinity function for its own purpose. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166533 | PREDICTING REAL-WORLD CONNECTIONS BASED ON INTERACTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system performs account recovery for a user with the help of the user's connections (e.g., friends). The social networking system selects connections of the user based on information indicating likelihood of real-world interactions between the user and the selected connections. Access codes are sent to the selected connections and the user instructed to obtain access codes from the selected connections via a communication that is outside the social networking system, for example, via phone. The user provides the access codes obtained from the selected connections to the social networking system. If the access codes provided by the user match the access codes sent to the selected connections, the user is granted access to the account. Real-world interactions between two users are determined based on sharing of devices between the users or information indicating presence of the users in the same place during same time interval. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for grouping e-conference participants. A system identifies participants for an e-conference and identifies groups based on e-conference participant characteristics. Participant characteristics such as job function, skill set, department, business unit or physical location are used to group participants. Each of the e-conference participants is associated with at least one group and the system visually displays participants in groups through an e-conference user interface. Additionally, the system retrieves a stored list of e-conference participants and groups from a previous e-conference and restores the list of participants and groups for a current e-conference. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166535 | Complimenting a User's Experience in a Social Networking System - A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows users to compliment the user on the experience. If a user wants to compliment another user on an experience not present on that user's user profile, the user can add the experience along with the compliment. Complimenting users on their experiences allows a reputation ranking to be created based on compliments received in a particular domain, which are searchable by user of the social networking system. The compliments may be used by the social networking system to build a domain-based reputation ranking of users of a social networking system. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUERY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR SOCIAL NETWORK - A portable terminal which supports a social network, more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating a community with agents of the same character in a social network and processing an answer to a query by sharing information between the generated communities. The apparatus includes an agent determiner configured to set an agent for a first network object. The apparatus also includes a community setting part configured to establish a community with an agent for a first network and an agent for a second agent, select a first representative agent of the community, and establish a community with the first representative agent selected and other adjacent representative agents. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166537 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BY USING SMART GRID IN UPNP - A system for performing information exchange by using a Smart Grid (SG) is provided. The system includes a first device and a second device having SG service types; and an SG Control Point (CP) for transmitting an SG capability request message to the first device and the second device, receiving SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, matching function sets of the same type to one another if the function sets of the same type are included in the received SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, and connecting the first device and the second device to one another for the information exchange. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166538 | VIRTUAL SMART HOME SYSTEM, SERVER, HOME GATEWAY BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SMART HOME SERVICE METHOD - A smart home system based on a cloud computing includes: a home gateway connecting a home network device to an external network, the home network device being connected to a home network at each home. The system further includes and a cloud server, connected to the home gateway, for collecting contents information stored in the home network device and resource information of the home network information and performing a unified management of the contents information and the resource information at the each home. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166539 | SHARED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF AUTOMATION SYSTEMS OF A DIFFERENT KIND IN AN AUTOMATION-ORIENTED COMPLEX - A shared communication system is provided for a plurality of standardized control systems and at least one gateway having different kinds of communication protocols in an automation-oriented installation. Each of the different kinds of control systems and the at least one gateway has a respective communication interface based on the same global signal transmission protocol for the purpose of connection to a shared communication network, which sets up information interchange between the different kinds of standardized control systems and the at least one gateway beyond the system boundaries of the control systems. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166540 | TARGETING BASED ON SOCIAL UPDATES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, are described for providing content to a user. A method comprises: receiving an update for publication to an activity stream associated with the user, the activity stream being produced by a social application executing on one or more server computers and being published for consumption by one or more subscribers to the social application that have been designated by the user as being authorized to receive the update; and targeting additional content to the user based on the received user update. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION OVER A PEER TO PEER NETWORK - A method of collecting information concerning peers of a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. The network includes at least one peer running exchange software configured to broadcast data to at least one client according to a selective exchange protocol enabling the peer to apply a selection of the clients to which data are transferred, this selection being made on the basis of one or more characteristics of the clients. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166542 | Automated File Distribution - Automated file distribution is described. A member of a peer-to-peer network receives from a file server, a file to be distributed. The file is then distributed via the peer-to-peer network to other members of the peer-to-peer network. Members of the peer-to-peer network can choose whether or not to receive a file from another member based on a trust level or reputation associated with the member. The trust level may be based, at least in part, on a number of degrees of separation between the members. Furthermore the file is verified, for example, by validating a digital signature associated with the file. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166543 | HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER - To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units | 2012-06-28 |
20120166544 | Content Sharing - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods that allow for the robust, flexible, and efficient sharing of content. In embodiments, content items may be associated with labels, tags, or other identifiers, third parties may be associated with labels, tags, or other identifiers, and sharing with the third party may be based upon comparisons of the labels, tags, or other identifiers associated with the content items and the labels, tags, or other identifiers associated with the third parties. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166545 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR COMMUNICATING DURING AN ONGOING ONLINE MEETING - In various embodiments, an attendee of a live online meeting selects screen data from an earlier point in time in the online meeting for playback while the meeting is still ongoing. Automatically generated image thumbnails of the screen data for the online meeting may be employed to navigate to the earlier point in time. Attendees may annotate screenshots associated with the thumbnails, and a summary document may be generated that includes the screenshots and the annotations. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166546 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMART MEDICAL COLLABORATION - Certain examples provide collaboration systems, apparatus, and methods to facilitate automated command recognition and execution in collaborative communication. An example system includes a communication interface to accept a communication input in an electronic collaboration session regarding clinical content. The system also includes a collaboration engine to automatically analyze the input to identify one or more instructions corresponding to the input and to automatically execute the identified one or more instructions with respect to content associated with the collaboration session. The collaboration engine is to provide results of the execution of the identified one or more instructions to at least one collaborator in the collaboration session. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING AND DISTRIBUTING MEDIA - The system includes providing a recorded version of a popular song for download to a plurality of users. One or more of the plurality of users are allowed to download the popular song, record their own voice to the popular song, and save the new version of the modified popular song. The modified popular song is received and providing for download to the plurality of users. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166548 | AUTO UPDATE UTILITY FOR DIGITAL ADDRESS BOOKS - An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user (i.e. people who's contact information or partial contact information is present in the user's address book application) to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user's address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166549 | Method, Apparatus and System for File Transfer Based on File Directory - The present disclosure provides a file directory-based file transfer method, apparatus and system to address the problem that conventional instant messaging (IM) systems cannot directly implement one-time transfer of an entire file directory. In one aspect, a the sending IM client sends files under root directories of one or more file folders under a file directory one file folder after another. Before sending files under a root directory of a respective file folder, the receiving IM client may send a notification message including a name of the respective file folder and location information of the respective folder under the file directory, and then send all files under the root directory of the respective file folder one-by-one. The receiving IM client establishes a file folder according to the received notification message, and stores files received after the notification message into a root directory of the established file folder. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166550 | LIGHTWEIGHT ONTOLOGY BASED REALIZATION OF A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS PROTOCOL AND A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION ENGINE - Disclosed is a method of business-to-business messaging by receiving a human-cognizable business-to-business message; parsing the human-cognizable business-to-business message; validating the human-cognizable business-to-business message using a message protocol ontology; and selecting and executing a service call corresponding to the particular human-cognizable business-to-business message based upon a message-to-service ontology. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166551 | METHODS FOR EMAILING LABELS AS PORTABLE DATA FILES AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, computer readable medium and device that enables emailing a label as a portable data file to destination information associated with a mobile computing device includes obtaining at a proxy server device a web page with a label from a web server device in response to a request from a mobile computing device. The proxy server device obtains destination information for the label associated with the requesting mobile computing device. The proxy server device converts the label into a portable data file and transmits the portable data file using the destination information for the label associated with the requesting mobile computing device. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166552 | Managing Messaging Subscriptions in a Messaging System - A messaging system for managing messaging subscriptions. A messaging provider receives a request to subscribe a user's message account to a subscription system. The messaging provider associates the subscription system with the user's message account to indicate to the messaging provider that the user has subscribed to receive messages from the subscription system. The messaging provider also communicates an identifier for the message account to the subscription system, which is used by the subscription system in sending messages to the user's message account. By subscribing to receive messages from subscription systems via the messaging provider in this manner, the messaging provider is automatically notified of the subscription systems that a user has subscribed to, enabling the messaging provider to more accurately determine how incoming messages should be handled. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166553 | USING SOCIAL GRAPH FOR ACCOUNT RECOVERY - A social networking system performs account recovery for a user with the help of the user's connections (e.g., friends). The social networking system selects connections of the user based on information indicating likelihood of real-world interactions between the user and the selected connections. Access codes are sent to the selected connections and the user instructed to obtain access codes from the selected connections via a communication that is outside the social networking system, for example, via phone. The user provides the access codes obtained from the selected connections to the social networking system. If the access codes provided by the user match the access codes sent to the selected connections, the user is granted access to the account. Real-world interactions between two users are determined based on sharing of devices between the users or information indicating presence of the users in the same place during same time interval. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166554 | AUTOMATICALLY COMPRESSING E-MAIL FORWARDED TO A USER TELEPHONE - A method receiving an e-mail message addressed to a recipient and comprising header data and message content. The method applies a template to transform the e-mail message to an SMS (Short Message Service) format. The method also forwards the message to the recipient as a first SMS message. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166555 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING SPORTING EVENT INFORMATION - A method of communicating information related to sporting event information can include the steps of accessing a website, entering sporting event information into the website, and broadcasting the first sporting event information via a plurality of emails. The first email can contain the first sporting event information in a first format and a second email can contain the first sporting event information in a second format. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166556 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE DISCOVERY BASED ON DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE - A method, a device, and a system for real-time publish subscribe (RTPS) discovery based on a distributed hash table (DHT) are provided. The method for RTPS discovery based on a DHT includes: registering, by a participant peer of participants, the participants in a distributed hash table (DHT) of an overlay network; obtaining location information on relative participants to be discovered from the DHT; sharing information on entities of the relative participants by exchanging a discovery message with the participant peer based on the location information on the obtained relative participants; and performing handshaking between the entities of the participants and the entities of the relative participants. Therefore, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can rapidly and efficiently perform the discover of the participants based on the DHT. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166557 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD USING ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS - A user can search information about products or services, its description, its price or price range and any other information by sending electronic mails or short message service, where user identifiers are replaced with search words that each search word is connected by underscore character or other distinctive character to data servers. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166558 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORWARDING EMAIL - An email forwarding apparatus and method are provided. The email forwarding apparatus for an original email received from a transmitter email providing apparatus to a mobile communication terminal device in response to a request from the transmitter email providing apparatus, the email forwarding apparatus includes a data communication unit to transmit and receive information regarding an email to and from the transmitter email providing apparatus or the mobile communication terminal device; a file storage unit to store an attachment file that is attached to the original email; and a control unit to transmit to the mobile communication terminal device an email which includes access information associated with the attachment file stored in the file storage unit and/or text information contained in the original email and transmit to a receiver email providing apparatus a forwarding email which includes the attachment file stored in the file storage unit and/or remade text information. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166559 | VESSEL AND LAND MESSENGER SERVICE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VESSEL MAINTENANCE SERVICE - A vessel messenger service apparatus includes: a vessel messenger service unit for providing messenger service between vessel, converting a local message from a vessel client into a global message to be transmitted to a land client, converting a message generated from the land client into a local message and providing the converted local message to the vessel client; and a vessel maintenance service unit for providing a remote vessel maintenance service and a messenger service between the vessel client and the land client by interworking with a unified vessel maintenance service unit on land. The apparatus further includes a database managing unit for managing information for the vessel client and the land client. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166560 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, CONTENT PROVIDING SERVER, COMMUNICATION RELAY SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD - An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display control for reproducing the content data on a display portion; and a bidirectional communication portion which carries out bidirectional communication with other information processing unit connected to the content providing server, in which, when the content data is reproduced, the bidirectional communication portion selects a communication message to be received from communication messages sent from the other information processing unit corresponding to an execution state of the bidirectional communication. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166561 | Multi-Channel Dynamic Response Communication Engine - An interactive communication system in which a communication established between a user and a content provider comprises of a plurality of disparate communication devices for engaging at least one user, a plurality of gateways in communication with the plurality of disparate communication devices, a multi-channel proxy service, a response engine, a message push engine, a message push scheduler and a content database. The response engine has a dynamic response engine and a just in time response engine. The interactive communication system having an inherent ability to anticipate a response from a user have the ability to construct an expected and coherent response dynamically to the user. The interactive communication system is also capable of completing and/or continuing communication through a time tagged data management. The interactive communication can be obtained by broadcasting a message to a user and receiving a reply from the user for training, quizzing, studying, polling and surveying. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL CONVERSATION - A system and method for routing SIP session which can refer to converged IP messaging (CPM) are provided in the present invention, which can send the SIP session invite message to the same user's multiple devices with the same user identifier of the same user; when the multiple devices belonging to the recipient are online simultaneously, the SIP session invite message is respectively routed by the service system to multiple devices. Thereby the problem of routing the SIP session of “one number, multiple devices”, which can refer to the CPM message and CPM session invite message, is solved, and the user experience is improved. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166563 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES - Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References to stored messages of a predetermined type are not maintained in the filtered index. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166564 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - In a printer connected to a network, email appended with link information is prepared for enabling an administrator to access information about the printer network terminal. The email is transmitted to the administrator terminal at a predetermined timing. Then, the administrator terminal accesses the information based on the link information appended to the email. As such, when a problem occurs in the printer, operations for resolving the problem can be quickly undertaken by the administrator. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACKNOWLEDGING CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are provided for communicating calendar appointment acknowledgements to a sender from a recipient device, in particular a mobile communication device capable of receiving SMS messages. The sender creates a calendar object comprising calendar event data, designates a recipient, and selects a transport method for delivering the calendar event data. If the transport method is SMS, then a calendar object message in plaintext SMS format is prepared, comprising a unique identifier, and transmitted to the recipient. The recipient's mobile communication device receives the SMS message and parses the message to extract the calendar event data, and transmits an acknowledgement to the sender including the unique identifier. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166566 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MAIL RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic equipment sends a mail specifying destinations, confirms mail delivery to the destinations based on a delivery confirmation notification received for the mail with respect to the destinations, records in a first storage the sent mail whose delivery is being confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is being confirmed, records in a second storage the mail whose delivery is confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is confirmed, and copies the mail from the first to the second storage when the notification is first received and moves each destination for which the notification is received to the second storage. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166567 | E-Mail Proxy - In one embodiment, a method for processing an e-mail message addressed to an e-mail client is disclosed. The method comprises receiving at a mail server an e-mail message addressed to the e-mail client, the e-mail message including an attachment which is characterized by a size; reducing the size of the attachment to create a reduced size attachment; preparing a formatted message, which includes the reduced size attachment and a link to the attachment, wherein the attachment is downloadable from the mail server using the link; and delivering the formatted message to the e-mail client for display on a computational device. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP MESSAGING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for group messaging are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a group messaging system receiving a broadcast message from an originating user, imposing a limit on a number of text characters included in the broadcast message, identifying a group of intended recipients of the broadcast message, determining contact information for an intended recipient included in the group, determining at least one broadcast message sending method for the intended recipient, and sending the broadcast message to the intended recipient using the at least one broadcast message sending method. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166569 | CREATING RICH EXPERIENCES IN MAIL THROUGH ATTACHMENTS - The disclosed embodiments provide for an email and messenging system that allows a user composing a message to select an application which will appear next to the composition screen at both the sending and receiving computer. The application is specified as an attachment at the sending client and when received at a receiving client of a user with an enhanced or compliant mail/messenging account the application will be executed at the receiving client, thus customizing the functionality of the receiving client computer and the mail experience between sender and receiver. An unapproved application sent as an attachment will not be executed and/or alter the receiving client interface. Similarly, the application will simply appear as a standard attachment at a non enhanced recipient client/account. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166570 | OPERATION AND CONTROL METHODS FOR HOST APPARATUS - An operation method for a first host apparatus is provided by the present invention. First, the operation method captures an event of the first host apparatus, so as to generate an event information. Then, the event information is transmitted to a second host apparatus, so as to control the second host apparatus. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE SERVICE IN A MOBILE COMMNUCATION NETWORK - Apparatus, system, and method for providing a mobile service to a mobile node in a mobile communication network. In order to provide the mobile service, a request may be received from a mobile node for connecting to a mobile router. When the mobile node is authorized to access the mobile router, the authorized mobile node may be connected to a file server in the mobile router. Then, a storage service may be provided to the authorized mobile node. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166572 | CACHE SHARING AMONG BRANCH PROXY SERVERS VIA A MASTER PROXY SERVER AT A DATA CENTER - A method for cache sharing among branch proxy servers. A branch proxy sever receives a request for accessing a resource at a data center. The branch proxy server creates a cache entry in its cache to store the requested resource if the branch proxy server does not store the requested resource. Upon creating the cache entry, the branch proxy server sends the cache entry to a master proxy server at the data center to transfer ownership of the cache entry if the master proxy server did not store the resource in its cache. When the resource becomes invalid or expired, the master proxy server informs the appropriate branch proxy servers storing the resource to purge the cache entry containing this resource. In this manner, the master proxy server ensures that the cached resource is synchronized across the branch proxy servers storing this resource. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166573 | CENTRALIZED FEED MANAGER - A method delivering content from a plurality of sources to a plurality of end servers through a central manager is provided. The method includes receiving the content from the plurality of sources at the central manager, formatting the content to a form usable by the plurality of end servers, creating a transaction generic to the plurality of end servers where the transaction includes a reference to a set of instructions for storing the formatted content, sending the transaction to an end server in the plurality of end servers, and calling the reference to execute the set of instructions where the set of instructions store the formatted content into the memory of the end server. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166574 | PARTIAL OBJECT CACHING - Techniques for partial object caching are disclosed. For example, a method includes receiving, at a content delivery network (CDN) from a end user device, a request for at least a portion of an object, retrieving the portion of the object from a content site and delivering the portion of the object to the end user device, and caching, in a partial object cache, the portion of the object. Further, the method may include receiving a subsequent request for the portion of the object, and retrieving, from the partial object cache the portion of the object and delivering the portion of the object in response to the subsequent request. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166575 | INFORMATION SYSTEM HAVING COMPUTER AND STORAGE APPARATUS COUPLED TO NETWORK - The present invention is an information system that includes: a first computer; a first storage apparatus; a first network apparatus, to which the first computer and the first storage apparatus are connected, providing a first fabric service; a second computer; a second storage apparatus; a second network apparatus, to which the second computer and the second storage apparatus are connected, providing a second fabric service; and a network that connects the first network apparatus and the second network apparatus, wherein the first computer accesses the first fabric service, the second computer accesses the second fabric service, and the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus access the first fabric service and the second fabric service, respectively. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166576 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE REMOTE STORAGE - Systems and methods are provided for transmitting data to at least one storage system. A request is received to store a data set in a storage location. In response, a first plurality of shares is generated, each containing a distribution of data from the data set, and at least one share is stored in a local memory configured for backup in at least one remote storage system. At least one share is transmitted to the at least one remote storage system. Systems and methods are also provided for improving data availability. In response to a restoration event, if insufficient shares of data are available to reconstruct a data set, a read instruction in a journaling message is transmitted to a remote storage system requesting an additional share. The additional share is received and stored in a local storage, and the data set is reconstructed. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166577 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a communication device connected to a host device includes a wireless communication unit; and a communication control unit configured to control the wireless communication unit to transmit a file, which is stored in a storage unit of the communication device by the host device, to a transmission destination corresponding to a type of the host device and a type of the communication device using wireless communication. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY SERVICE - A terminal to provide augmented reality (AR) service using AR history information stored in a server includes a communication unit to receive AR history information from the server; and a control unit to receive AR history information from the communication unit, to generate a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information, and to output the friend recommendation list to the terminal. A method for providing AR includes requesting AR history information from a server; receiving the AR history information; generating a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information; and displaying the generated friend recommendation list. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166579 | Method and system for transmitting large message mode converged IP messaging - The present invention provides a method and system for transmitting a large message mode CPM message. A MSRP link is created respectively between a CPM client at a sending end and a participating function entity at a source end, between the participating function entity at the source end and a CPM control function entity, and between the CPM control function entity and an inter-working function entity based on a media negotiation process before the CPM client transmits a large message mode CPM message to a non-CPM system receiver in a target group; then, the CPM client at the sending end sends the contents of the large message mode CPM message to the inter-working function entity through each created MSRP link sequentially; and the inter-working function entity sends the received contents of the large message mode CPM message to the non-CPM system receiver after performing protocol conversion on the received contents. The method and the system solve the problem that a large message mode CPM message cannot be transmitted to a group in the prior art and the user experience is improved. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION USING HETEROGENEOUS PROTOCOLS - Heterogeneous protocol stacks are used in an approach including analyzing a destination network ID of data received by a shared, lower layer protocol stack, a data type field value, and/or whether any of the upper layer protocol stacks support broadcasting. An upper layer protocol stack is selected based on the results of the analysis. The received data is transmitted to the selected upper layer protocol stack. Accordingly, heterogeneous protocol stacks may be realized in one chip. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166581 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTENT-REPRODUCTION-TAKEOVER METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an input section configured to receive an instruction from a user to cause an other information processing apparatus to take over reproduction of content provided through a global network; and a sending section configured to transmit to the other information processing apparatus, when the instruction is received by the input section, a reproduction-takeover-command including content-access-information necessary to obtain the content from the global network. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING-BASED INTERNET SECURITY - Method and system for improving the security of storing digital data in a memory or its delivery as a message over the Internet from a sender to a receiver using one or more hops is disclosed. The message is split at the sender into multiple overlapping or non-overlapping slices according to a slicing scheme, and the slices are encapsulated in packets each destined to a different relay server as an intermediate node according to a delivery scheme. The relay servers relay the received slices to another other relay server or to the receiver. Upon receiving all the packets containing all the slices, the receiver combines the slices reversing the slicing scheme, whereby reconstructing the message sent. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166583 | SEMANTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING - A system for exchanging various forms of information between computer-executable agents. A computing device is configured to determine semantic data associated with each data object (DO) of a plurality of DOs. Each DO is associated with a location, and the semantic data describes the content of the associated DO. The computing device receives, from a first user computing device, a request for DO information and, in response to the request, provides DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the user computing device by (a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and/or (b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were previously transmitted. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166584 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING UPnP NETWORK AREA - An apparatus and method for extending a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) network are provided. The method includes, registering, by a transmission-side remote access agent, a plurality of transmission channels for transmitting data; storing, by the transmission-side remote access agent, when an event request message is received from at least one UPnP apparatus located in a transmission-side network, access information regarding at least one UPnP apparatus included in the event request message; and converting, by the transmission-side remote access agent, the event request message to an event request message, which can be used in the registered transmission channels, and transmitting the converted event request message to a reception-side network. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166585 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING VIRTUAL DESKTOP - Disclosed herein is an apparatus for accelerating a virtual desktop, including: a plurality of media processors, processing media data; a processor, extracting data attribute information from virtual desktop acceleration commands for a client apparatus received from a host apparatus and transmitting the virtual desktop acceleration commands to any one of the plurality of media processors according to the attribute information; a transmission unit, transmitting processed results for the virtual desktop acceleration commands, processed through the plurality of media processors, to the client apparatus; and a transmission command pool, transmitting a complete signal, indicating that the processed results have been transmitted to the client apparatus, to the host apparatus. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166586 | BIDIRECTIONAL DATA TRANSFER OPTIMIZATION AND CONTENT CONTROL FOR NETWORKS - A method of transferring data objects over a network comprises intercepting a network transfer message with a passing object, creating a unique identifier for the object using a predetermined function, the same function having been used to provide identifiers for objects stored at network nodes, removing the object and sending on the network transfer message with the unique identifier in place of the object. Then, at the recipient end it is possible to obtain the unique identifier and use it as a key to search for a corresponding object in the local nodes. The search starts with a node closest to the recipient and steadily spreads outwards. The object when found is reattached for the benefit of the recipient and network bandwidth has been saved by the avoidance of redundant transfer since the object is brought to the recipient from the node which is the closest to him. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166587 | SAFE OUTPUT PROTOCOL FOR FILES TO MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS WITH INTEGRITY CHECK - Protocol is provided for safe transfer of files from between nodes of a communication system. The protocol includes a handshake operation between a source (local or initiating) node sending one or more files and a remote (responding) node receiving the files to ensure that control of the file remains with the source node a configurable amount of time until the file is successfully transferred. A file transfer manager controls the transfer process through a series of file moves that include moving the file into a directory associated with the file transfer manager, from which the file is sent and moving the file out of that directory after the remote node acknowledges a safe copy operation of the file. Files can be retrieved by the remote node after they have been transmitted, after which they will be deleted from the local node. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166588 | SHARED-BANDWIDTH MULTIPLE TARGET REMOTE COPY - A computer management apparatus one embodiment includes a split component configured to split data into a plurality of data elements; a send component configured to send each one of the plurality of data elements to a different location selected from a plurality of locations in response to the split component splitting the data, wherein each data element is different; and a message component configured to send a message to each of the locations. A computer management apparatus in another embodiment includes a receive component configured to receive a first data element; an analyze component configured to recieve a message, wherein the message comprises an address of each of the further locations; and a send component configured to send the first data element to each of the further locations of the plurality of further locations in response to the analyze component determining the address of each of the further locations. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166589 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK FOR RFID DEVICES - A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is selected for hosting the program. The system monitors the status and performance of each distributed computing server. The system provisions additional servers when traffic levels exceed a predetermined level for a customer's application program and, as traffic demand decreases to a predetermined level, servers can be un-provisioned and returned back to a server pool for later provisioning. The system tries to fill up one server at a time with customer application programs before dispatching new requests to another server. The customer is charged a fee based on the usage of the distributed computing servers. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166590 | Reading and Writing During Cluster Growth Phase - A client device configured to write to both a growth server and a live server replica that the growth server is replacing during a growth phase is described herein. The client device first determines the growth server designated to replace a corresponding live server replica of a set of server replicas associated with a storage index. The client device then transmits a write request associated with the storage index to the set of server replicas and to the growth server. The client device may perform the determining based on storage assignment mappings. The storage assignment mappings are provided to the client device by a metadata server while the growth server retrieves data associated with the storage index from the live server replica. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166591 | ANYCAST REDIRECT TO UNICAST CONTENT DOWNLOAD - A method and system for delivering content with a content delivery network (CDN) to a user computer is disclosed. After an initial request to a point of presence (POP) of the CDN for the location of the content object, an Anycast Internet protocol (IP) address is assigned. The user computer requests the content object which may find its way to the same or a different POP depending on what is closer in Internet terms. The request returns a POP-specific IP in a redirect such that the request resolves to the POP referenced in the immediately preceding sentence. One or more edge servers deliver the content object to the user computer. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166592 | Content Delivery and Caching System - The present invention provides a method and system for managing data exchange between a remote server and a client on a local area network (LAN). The invention includes a caching system within the LAN that stores data for immediate access by clients at maximum available bandwidth on the LAN. Data stored on the remote server is downloaded to the cache system in advance of use by the client, thereby avoiding potential bandwidth bottlenecks from the client retrieving such data directly from the server in real time. Conversely, data uploaded from the client to the remover server is first uploaded to the cache system at maximum LAN bandwidth to minimize client upload times. The cache system subsequently uploads the data to the remote server at available Internet bandwidth with no perceived delay from the standpoint of the client. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166593 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING RELAY SERVER - Provided are a data transmission system and method of using a relay server. In the data transmission method using the relay server, the relay server transmits a registration result message to a client after registering the client through a registration packet when the client transmits the registration packet to the relay server. The relay server transmits registration information of the client to a location server. The location server stores client registration information according to each client. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166594 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a storage for storing content identification and content type information in association with each other, the content identification identifying a content that a renderer acquired from a server and reproduced; an input unit for receiving a reproduction request specifying the content type information; and a transmission unit for retrieving the content identification associated with the specified content type information from the storage and transmitting to the renderer an instruction for reproduction, the instruction for reproduction including the content identification. | 2012-06-28 |
20120166595 | METHOD FOR PRE-FETCHING DATA CHUNKS OF AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for downloading an attachment to a portable electronic device's attachment viewer includes: sending an initial request from the attachment viewer to a server in response to receiving an email including the attachment by the device; from the server, accessing a graph structure representing a map of the attachment previously built on the server; reconstructing the graph structure in response to the request and encapsulating the graph structure in data having an attachment viewer readable format; (i) downloading successive chunks of the data from the server to the attachment viewer responsive to successive requests; (ii) storing each of the successive chunks on the device prior to display thereof; (iii) displaying the successive chunks on the device and automatically downloading respective next chunks of the data from the server; and (iv) while chunks remain to be downloaded from the server performing (i) to (iii). | 2012-06-28 |