44th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120278336 | REPRESENTING INFORMATION FROM DOCUMENTS - Systems and techniques are disclosed for representing information included in unstructured text documents into a structured format. The systems and techniques identify events and information associated with the events in unstructured documents, classify the identified events and information, and represent the identified events and information in a structured format based on a computed classification score. The systems and techniques may also assign a confidence score to identified events, compare the confidence score associated with events to a confidence score associated with a trained confidence model, and represent the identified events and information associated with the events in a structured format based on the comparison. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278337 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED TAGS FOR VIDEO FILES - Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278338 | PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS FOR GALLERY WEB PAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for classifying web pages as gallery web pages, and for presenting search results for gallery web pages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a web page that includes text and one or more images, evaluating one or more characteristics of the web page against predefined criteria, generating a score for the web page based on evaluating the characteristics of the web page against the predefined criteria, and classifying the web page as a gallery web page or as not a gallery web page when the score meets or does not meet a predefined threshold, respectively. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278339 | QUERY PARSING FOR MAP SEARCH - Implementations for computer-based systems, apparatus and methods for map search based on user query parsing. For example, a computer-implemented map search method is provided to include parsing an input entry from a user for map search into a location part indicating location information in 5 the input search entry and a query part indicating a search target associated with the location part in the input entry; and conducting a map search to obtain a geographic area or location based on the location part and to search for information on one or more entities that are associated with the query part and that are located at, within, or near the obtained geographic area or location. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278340 | DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING RECORDS AND ENTITY REPRESENTATIONS WITH SUFFICIENTLY HIGH CONFIDENCE - Disclosed are a system for, and method of, determining whether records correspond to the same individual. The system and method provide such a determination with a known minimum level of confidence. That is, the system and method provide an indication that records correspond to the same individual along with an associated confidence level. The system and method may be used to link records in a database that correspond to the same individuals, creating entity representations in the database. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278341 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND ASSOCIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and systems for indexing a plurality of documents, each document comprising a text portion, the method parses the text portion of each of the plurality of documents to form a plurality of respective local document indexes each associated with a respective document, and stores the local document index in a database, Each local document index has a plurality of local text terms and a local weighting associated with each text term From the plurality of local document indexes, forming a global document index associated with each global text term. The global weighting is determined with respect to a parameter associated with a reference global text term. Also, methods and systems for analyzing a text portion, retrieving documents from a database relevant to the text portion and for refining the results of a search are disclosed. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278342 | INTELLIGENT DEFAULT WEIGHTING PROCESS FOR CRITERIA UTILIZED TO SCORE MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - A system and method are provided for intelligently, or programmatically, assigning weights for one or more criterion utilized to score media content items based on an analysis of a group of media content items. In general, scoring criteria to be used to score media content items for a user are defined. A group of media content items associated with the user is then analyzed with respect to the criteria to provide results such as a number or percentage of media content items from the group of media content items that satisfy each of the scoring criteria. Based on the results of the analysis, a weight is assigned to each of the scoring criteria. Thereafter, media content items are scored for the user as a function of the weights assigned to the scoring criteria. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278343 | PROVIDING SYNDICATED CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A LINK IN RECEIVED DATA - Data is received by a first device from a first source, where the data contains a link to a particular web page. Responsive to the data, a repository of syndicated content items associated with web pages is accessed. If a particular syndicated content item associated with the particular web page is in the repository, the particular syndicated content item is retrieved and provided to a second device for display at the second device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278344 | PROXIMITY GRIDS FOR AN IN-MEMORY DATA GRID - Techniques are described for scaling an in-memory data grid to satisfy the needs of client applications requesting data from the in-memory data grid. The in-memory data grid may monitor a variety of factors, such as data traffic or number of received queries from a particular geographical region, to determine whether to create a proximity grid. A proximity grid is an extension of the in-memory data grid that services queries originating from a defined geographic region. Each proximity grid stores data objects relevant to the proximity grid's assigned geographic region. Queries originating from the client applications within the geographic regions are then routed to the corresponding proximity grid for execution. The proximity grid may be terminated when the need of the client applications within the geographic region has subsided. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278345 | Variable Substitution Data Processing Method - In an embodiment the present invention relates to a method comprising: inputting data in binary form; arranging the input data in segments; determining a plurality of values based on respective ones of said segments; using said values to determine locations where a predetermined transformation is to be applied to a sequence of bits; performing said predetermined transformation on said sequence of bits at each of said locations; outputting the sequence of bits as first output data. The present invention can be applied to encryption and decryption of data, data comparison and verification, and random data generation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278346 | Frequent Pattern Mining - A system for frequent pattern mining uses two layers of processing: a plurality of computing nodes, and a plurality of processors within each computing node. Within each computing node, the data set against which the frequent pattern mining is to be performed is stored in shared memory, accessible concurrently by each of the processors. The search space is partitioned among the computing nodes, and sub-partitioned among the processors of each computing node. If a processor completes its sub-partition, it requests another sub-partition. The partitioning and sub-partitioning may be performed dynamically, and adjusted in real time. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278347 | FAST ESTIMATION OF BINARY DATA LENGTH USING MEMORY CORRUPTION - Various embodiments are described herein for a method and related device for processing a first dataset comprising a second dataset and a third dataset in order to locate the third dataset. The second dataset has a variable data length and terminates with an ending marker and the third dataset starts after the ending marker. The method involves preprocessing a memory element by storing a plurality of locater markers, storing the first dataset in the memory element thereby overwriting a portion of the plurality of locater markers, locating which of the plurality of locater markers is closest to the end of the first dataset; and locating the third dataset by searching for the ending marker of the second dataset based on the position of the closest locater marker. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278348 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING CONTENT - Systems and methods enhance content from one source with content obtained from another source. Information about content, such as content that is or will be experienced by a user, is used to identify the content from another source. The content from the other source may be content of a different type than the content being enhanced. The content from the two (or more) sources are combined and provided simultaneously. The combined content may be provided using a set of one or more electronic devices. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATION OF INEXACT SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA - The data constraint framework solution of the present invention addresses data quality issues by standardizing, verifying, matching, consolidating and merging data records using powerful inexact matching logic and search reduction technologies. The data conditioning framework uses these technologies to more efficiently condition data to improve the quality of data and/or resolve quality data issues such as incomplete, inaccurate and duplicate data records. For example, the data conditioning framework is used to “cleanse” incorrect, incomplete and duplicate data from a data source, such as an information system. The data conditioning framework uses the following approximate searching and matching techniques to improve the efficiency of the approximate matching, reduce the search space for approximate matching, and improve the speed of executing approximate searches and matches: 1) inexact trimmed matching, 2) adaptive search ordering, 3) cascading search space reduction, 4) tiered and metric indexing, and 5) domain knowledge matching. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278350 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROVIDING EFFECTIVE INTERACTIVE QUERY SUGGESTIONS WITHOUT QUERY LOGS - Methods and arrangements for providing interactive query suggestions. A partial user query phrase is received, the partial query phrase comprising a final word element. A vocabulary is accessed and, from the vocabulary, at least one possible completion of the final word element is ascertained. A phrase index is accessed and, from the phrase index, at least two phrases corresponding to completions of the partial user query phrase with the at least one possible completion of the final word element are ascertained. A probability score is assigned to each of the at least two phrases, and the at least two phrases are ranked based on probability. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278351 | PRESENTING RESULTS WITH VISUAL CUES - Concepts and technologies are described herein for presenting results with visual cues. A differencing tool is executed by a client or a server computer. The differencing tool is configured to generate or receive queries for querying data, and to obtain results satisfying the queries. The differencing tool further is configured to generate views for presenting the results. The views can include representations of data corresponding to the results. The differencing tool also can store history files including data that indicates values associated with one or more iterations of the results. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278352 | COMPUTERIZED DATA SET SEARCH METHOD AND APPARATUS - Systems and computer program products provide computerized searching of a data set. A computer system, for determining the location of an item in a contiguous data set including a plurality of items, the data set stored in the computer system, includes assigning a numeric value to each of the plurality of items in the data set. A least square polynomial may be created for the data set using ordered pairs of (x, y), wherein x is the assigned numeric value of the item the data set and y is the location of the item in the data set. A command is received to search for the location of a target item in the data set, and a calculated target item location in the data set is generated using a target item assigned numeric value and the least square polynomial | 2012-11-01 |
20120278353 | SEARCHING WITH TOPIC MAPS OF A MODEL FOR CANONICAL MODEL BASED INTEGRATION - Receiving a search query from a user including a domain, a topic, a scope and a radix. Searching within a topic map based index of a topic map meta-model with instance ontology using as search parameters, the domain, the topic, the scope, and the radix of the search query. Displaying, for a user, results from the topic map meta-model with instance ontology which satisfy all of the search parameters of the search query. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278354 | USER ANALYSIS THROUGH USER LOG FEATURE EXTRACTION - Systems, methods, and computer media for efficiently processing user log data are provided. A received user log data analysis request specifies: target user log features that identify users in a target user group, analysis user log features that identify data associated with the users in the target user group, and an analysis to perform on the identified data associated with the users in the target user group. Occurrences of specified features are extracted from user logs and stored. Users associated with an occurrence of each of the extracted and stored target user log features are identified as users in the target user group. Occurrences of the analysis user log features that are associated with a user in the target user group are extracted and reformatted for the analysis specified in the analysis request. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278355 | Graphic Query Suggestion Display Method - A method which generates at a user's computer system a display which graphically shows the relationships among a core query and one or more suggested related queries in a search conducted through an online search engine. The display preferably is a set of partially overlapping geometric figures such as circles, with the size of each circle indicating the number of resources found by the search queries and the overlap indicating commonality between a core query and a suggested related query. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278356 | RESEMBLING CHARACTER-CODE-GROUP SEARCH SUPPORTING METHOD, RESEMBLING CANDIDATE EXTRACTING METHOD, AND RESEMBLING CANDIDATE EXTRACTING APPARATUS - From among a plurality of character code groups, a resemblance determining apparatus searches for a character code group resembling a character code group specified by the user. At that time, when each character code included in the specified character code group is within a predetermined numerical range, the resemblance determining apparatus excludes character code groups having character codes outside of the predetermined numerical range and extracts the remaining character code groups. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278357 | FUNCTIONAL CHANGE TRACKING FOR INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE PRODUCTS - Techniques are disclosed that allow for automated tracking of changes to software modules between two or more software projects that use functionally similar but otherwise different software modules. The techniques can be used, for instance, to manage similar or identical changes to multiple otherwise independent software products. Thus, in accordance with an example embodiment, a software change that has been successfully applied to a first software product having a given functionality can be readily identified and applied another software product that is independent of the first software product but can benefit from a similar software change. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278358 | PERFORMANCE DATA SEARCH USING A QUERY INDICATIVE OF A TONE GENERATION PATTERN - A user inputs, as a query pattern, a desired search-object rhythm pattern using a control, corresponding to a desired one of a plurality of performance parts constituting a performance data set (automatic accompaniment data set), in a rhythm input device. An input rhythm pattern storage section stores the input rhythm pattern (query pattern) into a RAM on the basis of a clock signal output from a bar line clock output section and input trigger data. A part identification section identifies a search-object performance part corresponding to the user-operated control. For the identified performance part, a rhythm pattern search section searches an automatic accompaniment database for an automatic accompaniment data set including a rhythm pattern that matches, i.e. has the highest similarity to, the input rhythm pattern (query pattern). | 2012-11-01 |
20120278359 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE SERVER AND MEDICAL IMAGE STORAGE METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image diagnostic apparatus includes an examination information acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The examination information acquisition unit searches a medical image server based on patient information to acquire past examination information corresponding to the patient information automatically from the medical image server. The imaging unit performs imaging according to an imaging condition set by referring to the examination information. Alternatively, according to one embodiment, an image diagnostic apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition setting unit automatically sets or indicates an imaging condition closest to information designating an imaging condition included in examination order information directed to an image diagnostic apparatus made by another maker or a different type of an image diagnostic apparatus made by a same maker. The imaging unit performs imaging according to the set or indicated imaging condition. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278360 | Short Point-of-Interest Title Generation - Short POI titles are generated by removing unnecessary administrative area prefixes from existing POI titles and replacing necessary administrative area prefixes with shorter aliases. Administrative area prefixes are identified and analyzed to determine whether they are necessary. The analysis includes determining (1) whether the remainders with the prefixes excluded include a common suffix as a prefix, and (2) whether the remainders are unique in an applicable metropolis area. If a remainder does not include as a prefix a common suffix and is unique in the applicable metropolis area, the corresponding prefix is determined unnecessary and removed from the existing POI title to generate a short POI title. Otherwise, the corresponding prefix is determined necessary and replaced with a shorter alias to generate a short POI title. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278361 | USING WEB-MINING TO ENRICH DIRECTORY SERVICE DATABASES AND SOLICITING SERVICE SUBSCRIPTIONS - A system and method are provided for augmenting information on business directory databases and communicating with businesses is disclosed. Using the enriched business directory database and Web mining technology, customized email message are sent inviting businesses to enter their enriched business information into the directory or even subscribe to other paid services provided by the directory service. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278362 | TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - In an implementation, a query signature corresponding to a query sequence based on a set of closest cluster centroids is generated. Based on the query signature, one or more target reference signatures from a plurality of reference signatures are identified. Further based on the one or more target reference signatures, a probable taxonomic group is identified and assigned to the query sequence. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278363 | ONTOLOGY EXPANSION - Techniques for ontology expansion are provided. In one disclosed method, an ontology is first identified. Terms in the ontology are disambiguated to identify term senses. Additional senses are identified using a lexical database. The additional senses are then added to the ontology to generate an augmented or expanded ontology. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278364 | Automatically Modifying A Tree Structure - A method and system are provided to support automated modification to a multiple node tree structure. Each clause and each logical operator are defined in the tree structure as nodes. In addition, each link emanating from a child node to a parent node is defined as a child link, and each link emanating from a parent node to a child node is defined as a parent link. The selection and location of an operator for placement in the tree structure will be automated in response to the position selected. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278365 | GRAPH DATABASES FOR STORING MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS OF SOFTWQARE OFFERINGS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the maintenance and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains model data associated with a multidimensional model of the software offering. Next, the system stores the model data in a graph database. Finally, the system uses the graph database to facilitate management of the software offering. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278366 | CREATION AND USE OF ORPHAN OBJECTS - Product data management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving a request to create an object. The method includes determining that the system is in a conditional mode. The method includes creating an orphan object in response to the request and in response to determining that the system is in the conditional mode. The orphan object corresponds to a hierarchy but is not included in the hierarchy. The conditional mode is one of a deferred session or an exploratory session. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278367 | PROCESSING OF SPLITS OF CONTROL AREAS AND CONTROL INTERVALS - A data structure maintained in a computational device stores how many control areas splits have occurred to store a data set, wherein each control area split causes an addition of a single new control area. A command is received to add a new data record to the data set. A determination is made as to whether adding the new data record to the data set will result in a threshold for control area splits to be exceeded. In response to determining that adding the new data record to the data set will result in the threshold for control area splits to be exceeded, creating at least two new control areas in addition to continuing to use one existing control area for storing the data set. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278368 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVISION NETWORK RESOURCE RECORDS - Methods and apparatus to provision network resource records are described. An example method includes creating a statement representative of a plurality of numbers to be provisioned to a plurality of users via an iterative process; and, for each iteration of the iterative process, generating an instance of the statement to form a resource record by replacing a first character in a domain name segment of the statement with a first version of a respective one of the numbers; replacing a second character in a resource identifier segment of the statement with a second version of the respective one of the numbers different than the first version; and storing the instance of the statement as a resource record in connection with the respective one of the numbers. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278369 | Graphic Query Suggestion Apparatus and Program Product - An apparatus and a program product which generates at a user's computer system a display which graphically shows the relationships among a core query and one or more suggested related queries in a search conducted through an online search engine. The display preferably is a set of partially overlapping geometric figures such as circles, with the size of each circle indicating the number of resources found by the search queries and the overlap indicating commonality between a core query and a suggested related query. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278370 | STASHING OF LOCALLY PERSISTED DATA TO NETWORK ACCESSIBLE STORAGE - Techniques are disclosed for identifying and stashing all or portions of application data to a network accessible storage device or location. Identifying and stashing are accomplished in a fashion that is transparent to a user such that a user is not burdened by the process of managing and stashing a full or partial set of application data. The system, the application, or a combination of system components and the application persist and manage data locally and stash portions of the local data to one or more network accessible storage devices or locations. One or more links are provided in place of the stashed portions of data. The application uses the links in a same or similar fashion as handling local data while providing little to no loss of functionality due to all or portions of the local data being stashed. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278371 | METHOD FOR UPLOADING A FILE IN AN ON-LINE STORAGE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING ON-LINE STORAGE SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for uploading in an on-line storage system a file from a user client device through a gateway connected to the client device through a local area network and to the on-line storage system through a wide area network. The on-line storage system comprises a storage server coupled to a target storage device in which the file is to be stored. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278372 | Cryptographic Random Number Generator Using Finite Field Operations - An apparatus and method are provided in various illustrative embodiments for an integrated circuit chip that provides a fast, compact, and cryptographically strong random number generator. In one illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes an initial random source, and a post-processing block in communicative connection with the initial random source. The post-processing block is configured to receive signals from the initial random source, to apply one or more finite field operations to the signals to generate an output, and to provide an output signal based on the output via an output channel, in this illustrative embodiment. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278373 | DATA REARRANGING CIRCUIT, VARIABLE DELAY CIRCUIT, FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM CIRCUIT, AND DATA REARRANGING METHOD - A data rearranging circuit includes variable delay means and control means. The variable delay means, by imparting a delay of a number of delay cycles that differs for each input cycle and moreover for each port to each unit of data of a data group that is applied as input to a plurality of ports and in a plurality of cycles, switches the order of the data in the same port and supplies the data as the data group at a predetermined delay. The control means supplies control information that includes the number of delay cycles used in the variable delay means. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278374 | Decimal Floating-Point Quantum Exception Detection - A system and method for detecting decimal floating point data processing exceptions. A processor accepts at least one decimal floating point operand and performs a decimal floating point operation on the at least one decimal floating point operand to produce a decimal floating point result. A determination is made as to whether the decimal floating point result fails to maintain a preferred quantum. The preferred quantum indicates a value represented by a least significant digit of a significand of the decimal floating point result. An output is provided, in response to the determining that the decimal floating point result fails to maintain the preferred quantum, indicating an occurrence of a quantum exception. A maskable exception can be generated that is immediately trapped or later detected to control conditional processing. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278375 | Exponentiation System - A method for computation, including defining a sequence of n bits that encodes an exponent d, such that no more than a specified number of successive bits in the sequence are the same, initializing first and second registers using a value of a base x that is to be exponentiated, whereby the first and second registers hold respective first and second values, which are successively updated during the computation, successively, for each bit in the sequence computing a product of the first and second values, depending on whether the bit is one or zero, selecting one of the first and second registers, and storing the product in the selected one of the registers, whereby the first and second registers hold respective first and second final values upon completion of the sequence, and returning x | 2012-11-01 |
20120278376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPARSE MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLICATION PROCESSING - Systems and methods for sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV) are disclosed. The systems and methods include a novel streaming reduction architecture for floating point accumulation and a novel on-chip cache design optimized for streaming compressed sparse row (CSR) matrices. The present disclosure is also directed to implementation of the reduction circuit and/or processing elements for SpMV processing into a personality for the Convey HC-1 computing device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEVICE COMPLIANCE AND RECRUITMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data provided by portable user appliances (PUAs) that are configured to provide research data that includes media exposure data. Each of the PUAs include a detector or sensor that reports a configuration and/or usage of the PUA. The configuration and/or usage is processed to determine if the PUA is in compliance with a predetermined usage criteria. Under one example, each panelist is equipped with a plurality of PUAs such as smart phones, computers or other devices, and compliance is measured for each panelist across the plurality of PUAs while research data is collected. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278378 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS OF DECOMPOSING SERVICE REQUESTS INTO DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SERVICE REQUESTS - The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems that enable decomposing abstract service requests into resources rules, which may include receiving an abstract service request (e.g., a request specifying a functional requirement) via an exposed public interface, generating domain-specific resource rules based on the received abstract service request, identifying relevant components in a telecommunications domain for enforcing the generated domain-specific resource rules, and send the domain-specific resource rules to the identified components (e.g., online charging server, policy management server, etc.) for enforcement. Generating domain-specific resource rules based on the received abstract service request may include generating the rules consistent with the existing resource rules of the domain. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278379 | Relay Node, Distributed Network of Relay Node and Networking Method Thereof - A relay node, a distributed network of a relay node and a networking method thereof are provided by the present invention, which can manage and select the relay node efficiently. The networking method of the distributed network of the relay node includes: a relay node joining in a distributed peer-to-peer network with its own home domain information being carried, and constructing a local route table; the relay node, according to a pre-obtained neighbor home domain information of a present node, searching the local route table of the present node or searching the local route table of the present node and the local route table of other relay node for the relay node in a neighbor home domain, and constructing a candidate relay node list of the neighbor home domain. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278380 | Outdoor Tracker System with Visual Communication Devices - An outdoor tracker system includes a web-based computer with hunter/outdoorsman mapping software which provides a login interface for user registration requiring unique identifying information data for the user to enable logging into a hunter/outdoorsman website. Upon logging in, the software provides for designating a geographic location and generates a map with hunter/outdoorsman geographic location thereon for display or printing and a client computer having a web browser thereon operably connected to the web-based computer. An illuminating portable board is provided to display the map at the hunt/outdoor site, preferably on a vehicle. A marking slap stick is also provided for marking trees. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278381 | Integrating an Online Meeting with an Offline Calendar - A method is provided for integrating an online meeting with an offline calendar. The method provides an offline calendar software application. A meeting originator (user) schedules a meeting in the offline calendar via a user interface, and selects a virtual room resource having an email address. The offline calendar sends an email meeting invitation to the virtual room resource email address. An online meeting service software application has an email client monitoring emails sent to the virtual room resource email address. The online meeting service automatically scheduling an online meeting associated with the virtual room resource. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278382 | EXTENT-BASED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE - An extent-based storage architecture is implemented by a storage server receiving a read request for an extent from a client, wherein the extent includes a group of contiguous blocks and the read request includes a file block number. The storage server retrieves an extent identifier from a first sorted data structure, wherein the storage server uses the received file block number to traverse the first sorted data structure to the extent identifier. The storage server retrieves a reference to the extent from a second sorted data structure, wherein the storage server uses the retrieved extent identifier to traverse the second sorted data structure to the reference, and wherein the second sorted data structure is global across a plurality of volumes. The storage server retrieves the extent from a storage device using the reference and returns the extent to the client. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY BROKERING OBJECT MESSAGES AMONG OBJECT MODELS - The present invention dynamically brokers object messages between object models. A mediating component provides a bridge between object models such that messages can be transmitted in either direction between object models. The mediating component can be resident on a client machine, a server machine, or both. The mediating component can be used as a bridge between two instances of the same object model running on different machines. Thus, network communication is made possible for objects of an object model that otherwise lacks a networking capability. A client object's message is forwarded to a server object. The mediating component performs any necessary translation of arguments or format of the message. In addition, the mediating component translates a server object's response. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278384 | Method and Arrangement for Providing Different Services in a Multimedia Communication System - A method and application server for providing different services and performing service changes in a multimedia communication system. When a first client invites a second client to join a multimedia session, the server learns which media types are supported by each client, including first and second media types supported by the server. The first client then sends the server a request on a media control channel to transmit media of the first and second types. The server verifies the requested media types are supported by the second client and sends the first client a grant for the requested media types. The server receives a first media burst of the first media type from the first client and retransmits the burst to the second client, and then receives a second media burst of the second media type from the first client and retransmits the burst to the second client. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278385 | Managing Connection Pools for User Devices - In one embodiment, a first computing device, maintains a set of connections for the first computing device; intercepts a request from a software application executing on the first computing device to establish a connection with a second computing device; selects from the set of connections an available connection; and assigns the available connection to the software application for connecting to the second computing device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278386 | ASSET SHARING WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE USING A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A method and system for sharing an asset in a peer-to-peer network. Meta data and a source node identification are received. The meta data specifies properties and content of the asset to be shared by the source node. The received source node identification and the meta data are locally stored as a couple in a catalog. Subsequently, content specifying the asset and a request to search for and retrieve the asset based on the content is received. The locally stored catalog is loaded and searched to detect the couple that includes the source node identification and meta data, where the received content matches the meta data. The source node is identified based on the detected couple. A request is sent to the source node to retrieve and share the asset, and in response, the asset is received. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278387 | Automated Event Tagging - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system that automatically determines an event and tags the event to photos uploaded from multiple users based on social and spatio-temporal proximity. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT - A system and method are disclosed. One or more processors prioritize at least some tasks and actions associated with a user. A to-do list is provided that includes the prioritized task. First electronic data event information representing a sending or receiving of data associated with at least one of the tasks is received and at least one of the tasks and at least some of the actions are reprioritized. The to-do list is modified based at least on the reprioritizing, and is provided to the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELEGATING GROUP OWNERSHIP IN A WI-FI PEER TO PEER NETWORK - A method for exiting, by a peer owner, a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) peer-to-peer network including the peer owner and a plurality of client devices, and the Wi-Fi peer-to-peer network are provided. The method includes delegating ownership of the peer-to-peer network from the peer owner to a new owner from among said the plurality of client devices; and exiting the network after delegating the ownership to the new owner. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278390 | SAVING DEVICE FOR IMAGE SHARING, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SHARING METHOD - The saving device for image sharing saves images offered by a sharer of the images for image sharing and accessibly shares in an album form among at least one share. The device includes a sharee layout storing means configured to store first layout information of a sharee's album, a shared area determining means configured to determine a shared area to be shared in the sharee's album from a sharer's album, and a layout changing means configured to automatically change a layout of the shared area based on the first layout information of the at least one sharee. An image sharing system includes the device, and an image sharing method uses the device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278391 | SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL YEARBOOK WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING - An application for a system for providing a customized digital yearbook includes a server, a personal computer connected to the server and a user device for presenting content on a display. Yearbook software creates yearbook user accounts for users of the system and, after the yearbook software creates each yearbook user account, the yearbook software communicates with social network software and the social network software creates a corresponding social network user account. The yearbook software receives yearbook data from the personal computer through the network and stores the yearbook data in the database and the yearbook software extracts approved yearbook data, that data being a subset of the yearbook data that is approved for distribution. The social networking software provides features such as maintaining buddy lists, posting text, messages, images and/or video, messaging between buddies, and displaying of the postings of yourself and others. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278392 | DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY - Systems and methods for implementing a distributed shared memory (DSM) in a computer cluster in which an unreliable underlying message passing technology is used, such that the DSM efficiently maintains coherency and reliability. DSM agents residing on different nodes of the cluster process access permission requests of local and remote users on specified data segments via handling procedures, which provide for recovering of lost ownership of a data segment while ensuring exclusive ownership of a data segment among the DSM agents detecting and resolving a no-owner messaging deadlock, pruning of obsolete messages, and recovery of the latest contents of a data segment whose ownership has been lost. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING MEDIA COLLECTIONS BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS OF A SHARING NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally, the user may select one or more of the shared media collections for aggregation with the local media collection of the user. The shared media collections selected by the user, or alternatively all of the shared media collections, are then aggregated with the local media collection of the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278394 | Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278395 | Dynamic Tagging Recommendation - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system automatically tags one or more social contacts of a first user to a photo of the first user by ranking the social contacts based on spatial and temporal proximity to the first user, and in response to the first user's selection of one or more top ranked social contacts, associating the selected social contacts to the photo. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278396 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing messages is provided. The method comprises receiving a first message, the message containing one or more recipient identifiers and a subject; controlling a display to generate a message interface comprising a representation of the first message; receiving a command from an input device, the command being a command to suppress subsequent messages related to the first message; selecting suppression criteria including the subject and at least one of the one or more recipient identifiers; receiving input data comprising at least one additional suppression criterion; and, suppressing the display of subsequently received messages based on the suppression criteria and the at least one additional suppression criterion. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278397 | APPLYING ACTIONS TO ITEM SETS WITHIN A CONSTRAINT - Items of an item set may be stored by an item server (e.g., mail messages comprising a mailbox stored by a mail server) that supports the application of actions, but only within a constraint (e.g., a maximum duration or computational resources consumed by the action). The application of complex actions to large item sets may exceed the constraint if performed in one request. Moreover, the request may be made by a user interface of a user device, but the user interface may stall while interoperating with the item server to perform the action. Instead, a background process may issue a sequence of requests applying the action to respective batches of items within the constraint. This architecture may enable the user interface to remain responsive to the user while the action is performed, and even to be terminated without jeopardizing the completion of the action upon the item set. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION WITH GUARANTEED SERVICE LEVELS - A computer-implemented system and method are described for exchanging messages between nodes and servers in accordance with specified service level guarantees, while at the same time retaining compatibility with other nodes and servers not subject to the same service level guarantees. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a first cluster of servers having messaging applications executed thereon for enabling message passing between a first plurality of nodes, a first message database maintained by the first cluster of servers for storing an archive of messages passed between the first plurality of nodes; a second cluster of servers having the same messaging applications executed thereon for enabling message passing between a second plurality of nodes; and a second message database maintained by the second cluster of servers for storing an archive of messages passed between the second plurality of nodes; wherein the first cluster of servers implement a first set of protocols for ensuring latency and/or data retention requirements above a first specified threshold when exchanging messages between the first plurality of nodes. The first set of protocols may ensure various other characteristics of communication including, by way of example and not limitation, message delivery receipts and guaranteed call quality for voice calls. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278399 | PROFILE MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS - A first user device receives user profile data from a user of the first user device, generates a user profile based on the user profile data, receives profile availability data from the user of the first user device, and designates a user profile availability status based on the profile availability data. A second user device receives target profile data from a user of the second user device, generates a profile message based on the target profile data, and communicates the profile message. The first user device receives the profile message, determines whether the target profile data corresponds to the user profile data of the first user device, generates a user alert when the target profile data corresponds to the user profile data, and enables the user of the first user device to respond to the profile message via a dynamic dashboard. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278400 | Effective Circuits in Packet-Switched Networks - The creation of an effective circuit between a sender device and a receiver device over the packet-switched network is described herein. To establish the effective circuit, the sender device sends a request to the receiver device through the packet-switched network. The request is associated with a bandwidth reservation from the receiver device for reception of a message from the sender device. The receiver device receives multiple requests from multiple sender devices and reserves bandwidth for at least one of the sender devices. The receiver device then sends a response to the at least one sender device providing clearance to send the message to the receiver device using the reserved bandwidth, the request and response establishing the effective circuit. The receiver device may also decline the requests of the other sender devices, causing the other sender devices to send other requests to other receiver devices. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278401 | MAKING DOCUMENT CHANGES BY REPLYING TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Document changes are sent within a body of an electronic message to reviewers that are collaborating on the document. The document may be any type of document to which changes/comments are made, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, and the like. A reviewer receiving the electronic message may accept/reject changes and/or make comments/modifications to the document changes that are contained within the electronic message. For example, a reviewer may edit the document changes that are included within the body of the electronic message to add a comment and/or make changes to the change. A reviewer may also have the option to accept/reject changes directly from within the electronic message. After making any changes, the reviewer replies to the electronic message and the changes that are included within the electronic message are applied to the document. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278402 | PRESENTING LINKS TO CONTENT AS ATTACHMENTS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A user receiving an electronic message is presented with linked content within an attachment area of the message for easier access than having to locate the link within the body of the message. Links to content that are placed within the body of a message are automatically detected and displayed as an attachment. When a user views the message, the linked content remains in view when scrolling the body of the message. The links may be to any type of content, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites and the like. The linked content may also be automatically downloaded such that the content is available offline. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278403 | PRESENTING LINK INFORMATION NEAR LINKS WITHIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Link information is presented near a link within an electronic message that describes activity information relating to the linked content. The link information may include many different type of information. For example, the link information may include editing information for the linked content (e.g. editors, editing time, number of edits), who has/has not reviewed the linked content, linked content information (e.g. summary, permissions, type of content, update times) and the like. The linked content may be a link to any type of content, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites and the like. Viewing the link information for the linked content provides a user with an indication of the activity regarding the linked content. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278404 | UPLOAD OF ATTACHMENT AND INSERTION OF LINK INTO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An option is presented with an electronic message to automatically upload and permission an attachment to the electronic message. A single click may be received to upload the attachment to a shared location (e.g. network share, online service, and the like). Permissions may be automatically set for the message recipients of the electronic message. For example, a default set of permissions and/or custom permissions may be set for each of the recipients listed on the To:/Cc:/Bcc: lines. A link to the shared location may also be automatically inserted into the electronic message along with or in place of the attachment. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278405 | UPLOADING ATTACHMENT TO SHARED LOCATION AND REPLACING WITH A LINK - The size of attachments to an electronic message are examined before the message is sent to determine if the attachments exceed a size threshold. When the size of the attachments exceed the threshold, one or more of the attachments are uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location such that each of the recipients of the message are able to access the uploaded attachment. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278406 | MOST RECENTLY USED LIST FOR ATTACHING FILES TO MESSAGES - A user may select an attachment for an electronic message from a most recently used (MRU) list of files. For example, when a user is composing an electronic message, they may select a file to attach to the message from the MRU list. The recently used files that are included within the MRU list may be related to or more applications/locations and/or one or more computing devices. For example, the MRU list may include files accessed by one or more different authoring applications and/or files that have recently been accessed/created that are associated with the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278407 | AUTOMATIC UPLOADING OF ATTACHMENTS TO A SHARED LOCATION - Electronic messages are examined before they are sent to determine any attachments to the message. One or more of the attachments are automatically uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location for each of the recipients of the message. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278408 | Meeting Management System Including Automated Equipment Setup - In an illustrative embodiment, a method comprises displaying at least one preset parameter associated with a conference type. The conference type is associated with preset resources. The method further comprises accepting information defining the conference type, receiving preset information from the at least one displayed preset parameter, automatically determining a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received preset information, and sending at least one command to control the associated preset resources in response to the start time and end time. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278409 | MAIL SYSTEM - A mail system includes: a data store server that stores a mail transmitted to a user of a terminal device; a mailbox server that controls the storage of the mail. A storage part of the data store server has a first storage part and a second storage part. A control part of the mailbox server determines whether a mail is stored in the first storage part or in the second storage part, based on at least one of a feature of the mail, a feature of the storage part of the data store server, and setting information. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278410 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USERS BASED ON MOTION OF MOBILE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION ABOUT TIME - A social network service providing system and method for setting a relationship between users based on a motion of a mobile terminal, and information about time. The social network service providing system may include a request receiver to receive, from a mobile terminal, a request generated in accordance with a motion of the mobile terminal, an information providing unit to provide location information of the mobile terminal, and information about at least one of a local time when the request is transmitted by the mobile terminal, and an arrival time when the request is received, a mobile terminal identifying unit to identify at least one other mobile terminal based on the location information and the information about the at least one of the local time and the arrival time, and a user information providing unit to provide information about a user of the at least one other mobile terminal. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278411 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPANDING A WEBSITE - Information regarding the structure of information in a content database is maintained in a structure database. The structure database is used to correlate the data structure of a query to the structure of the content database, in order to determine that information in the content database which needs to be provided to a searcher in response to the query. In one embodiment, this search method is used in an online forum, and the forum maintains a reputation score for users with respect to given subject matter. The reputation score is dependent upon the quality of a user's participation in the forum. A user's reputation score depends upon the evaluation by others of information he posts and. upon the user evaluating information posted by others. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278412 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY EMPLOYING THIRD PARTY INFLUENCES - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ the two or more events to correlate [holistic messages] considered important by the user. The method and system may also employ third party influences when generating the messages. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER INITIATED ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ user's emotions to correlate holistic messages considered important by the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC EVENT CORRELATED MESSAGE DELIVERY - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ a predetermined objective associated with the one or more users to identify events and correlate holistic messages considered important by the user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278415 | EMAIL SERVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self configure, without requiring dedicated servers, through self addressing and discovery and announcement protocols. An email server can act as a primary email server by executing an administration tool allowing an administrator to modify the configuration data set which the email servers utilize, and the primary email server will then announce the resulting change in the version level of the configuration data set to other email servers. Each email server will then determine and request any needed updates to its respective configuration data set from the primary email server or another email server. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278416 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USING BEARER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TO REDUCE TRAFFIC WITHIN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention a method may be provided, which method may comprise receiving a first message comprising a bearer management information for a session of a user, selecting a first network device wherein the selected first network device may be located in a down-stream direction towards the user and sending a second message comprising the bearer management information to the selected network device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278418 | Initiating Multiple Connections from Multiple Communication Devices - Methods for establishing simultaneous connections on a plurality of communication devices associated with a user implemented on an instant messaging program by issuing ring tones, audible notifications, or visual indications to the plurality of communication devices and constructing a state diagram for sending the ring tones, the audible notifications, or the visual indications to the plurality of communication devices. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method of storage of an e-mail includes either receiving the e-mail at a portable electronic device or sending the e-mail from the portable electronic device. The e-mail is marked for saving at the portable electronic device and transmitted by radio communication for receipt by a server and for storage of the e-mail in a backup database. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278420 | Methods and Systems for Facilitating the Provision of Opinions to a Shopper from a Panel of Peers - In particular embodiments, a request for at least one opinion is received from one or more participants regarding an image of the user's appearance. An image of the user's appearance is determined, wherein the image showing how the user's appearance is changed by a product or changed after a service has been performed. The one or more participants from whom to obtain the at least one opinion are then selected. Each of the one or more participants may have a rating above a certain level. At least one response to the request is received from at least one of the one or more participants, each response comprising an opinion of the respective participant. An indication of at least one opinion of at least one participant from whom a response was received is then provided, the indication being based on the received responses regarding the user's appearance. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278421 | PROVIDING A DATA SAMPLE IN A MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided are a method, an apparatus, an integrated circuit, and a system for providing data samples in a measurement and control system. The method comprises obtaining one or more data samples; time stamping the one or more data samples using respective local sampling times according to a local time clock; storing time stamped data samples; time stamping at least one stored data sample using a master sampling time calculated based upon the respective local sampling time and a time clock offset between the local time clock and a backup master time clock of a master device; and sending to the master device the at least one stored data sample time stamped using the master sampling time. With the method, the apparatus, the integrated circuit, and the system, a “point-to-point” serial direct hardware connection between the master devices and A/D Converters may be eliminated, and thereby reducing construction cost significantly. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278422 | LIVE OBJECT PATTERN FOR USE WITH A DISTRIBUTED CACHE - A live object pattern is described that enables a distributed cache to store live objects as data entries thereon. A live object is a data entry stored in the distributed cache which represents a particular function or responsibility. When a live object arrives to the cache on a particular cluster server, a set of interfaces are called back which inform the live object that it has arrived at that server and that it should initiate to perform its functions. A live object is thus different from “dead” data entries because a live object performs a set of function, can be started/stopped and can interact with other live objects in the distributed cache. Because live objects are backed up across the cluster just like normal data entries, the functional components of the system are more highly available and are easily transferred to another server's cache in case of failures. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278423 | Method for Transmitting Data by Means of Storage Area Network and System Thereof - In the technical field of data storage and access, the invention relates to the technique of data transmission using a storage area network (SAN) in a magnetic disk storage device environment, including a method for transmitting data over a SAN in such an environment, including: determining a logical volume accessible to a server of the magnetic disk storage device; obtaining information on a logical volume accessible to a client of the magnetic disk storage device, which is determined by the client; establishing a corresponding relationship between the logical volume accessible to the server and the logical volume accessible to the client; receiving a request for using the logical volume of the magnetic disk storage device from the client; and informing the client of an available logical volume by utilizing the corresponding relationship so that a data access to the available logical volume is performed by the client over the SAN. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278424 | SYSTEM, A METHOD, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COMPUTER COMMUNICATION - A system, a method and a computer program product for transmission over a network, the method includes: receiving, by an intermediate system coupled to the network, a portion of a data structure that is aimed to a recipient computer; generating a stamp that is responsive to a content of a segment of the data structure and is indifferent to transfer information about a transmission of the data structure; wherein the portion may include the segment or equals the segment; determining, by the intermediate system, whether to cache the portion, in response to at least a comparison between the stamp and stamps of cached portions of data structures; selectively caching the portion in response to the determination; and transmitting to the recipient computer either one of the portion of the transmitted data structure and a cached version of the portion of the transmitted data structure. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-TENANT POLICY MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK DEVICE - A communication between a client and an intermediary device on a network is evaluated at multiple communication flow checkpoints according to a tenant-specific policy current at the outset of the communication and selected according to an identification of a tenant with which the client is associated, the identified tenant being one of a plurality of tenants services by the intermediary device. Non-current policies are maintained by the intermediary device for use in connection with communications that have not yet been fully processed so that consistency of policy enforcement is maintained even if policies change while transactions are in process. Further, long-standing transactions may be reevaluated in light of changed policies to determine whether or not the transactions should be dropped. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278426 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND ITS MANAGEMENT METHOD - Resources migrated from migration source storage apparatuses to a migration destination storage apparatus are appropriately allocated to each migration source user. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278427 | Method for transmitting information between multiple electronic pages - The present invention is to provide a method for transmitting information between multiple electronic pages. The method is applicable to an information transmission system, which includes at least one terminal device, a web server, a toolbar server and an application server. The terminal device obtains a background page from the web server and a toolbar page from the toolbar server and embeds the toolbar page into the background page. When a user clicks on any of at least one application linking object on the toolbar page through the terminal device, the terminal device is able to obtain a status page from the toolbar server and then store page information on the background or toolbar page into the status page and connect to the application server for obtaining an application page corresponding to the application linking object clicked on, so as to enable the application page to access the page information. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278428 | CREATION AND PRESENTATION OF SELECTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT FEEDS - Methods and systems for creating and presentation of selective digital content feeds are disclosed. A user can design a selective feed comprised of video feed items, for example. An aggregation system searches two or more Internet services specified by the user to gather feed items. Those feed items are filtered according to a media type, such as video, such that each feed item is a video or has a link to a video. The feed items are gathered for presentment with a user interface that allows playback of the video feed items organized in some way, such as ascending order. For one embodiment, Internet video content is gathered from various sources to provide a consistent interface to the video content without the need to navigate all over the web to manually locate each video item. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278429 | CLUSTER SYSTEM, SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROLLING METHOD, SERVER, AND SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROLLING PROGRAM - A cluster system includes an active server and an additional server, and each of the servers includes a database (DB) storing therein client data, information indicating the location of the client data, and information indicating a record status as a record. The active server transmits a record included in the DB as first information as well as type information indicating the first information to the additional server, and when the record is updated, transmits the record thus updated as second information as well as type information indicating the second information to the additional server. The additional server receives the first information or the second information from the active server. The additional server then generates a record for the information thus received in the DB depending on the received type information and the status of the record stored in the DB and identified by the received information. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278430 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF ORCHESTRATING RESOURCES AND SERVICES ACROSS MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS - The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems for controlling services across multiple heterogeneous networks, which may include receiving a service request, identifying two or more telecommunications domains required to fulfill the received service request, generating two or more domain specific service requests based on the received service request, associating at least one of the generated plurality of domain specific service requests with one of the identified telecommunications domains, and sending the associated domain specific service requests to exposed public interfaces of the associated telecommunications domains. A component in the telecommunications domain may receive the domain specific service request, decompose the request into resource rule(s), and send the resource rule(s) to a relevant component within the associated telecommunications domain for enforcement. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278431 | MOBILE DEVICE WHICH OFFLOADS REQUESTS MADE BY A MOBILE APPLICATION TO A REMOTE ENTITY FOR CONSERVATION OF MOBILE DEVICE AND NETWORK RESOURCES AND METHODS THEREFOR - Mobile device which offloads requests made by a mobile application to a remote entity for conservation of mobile device and network resources and methods therefor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device is able to detect, from an identifiable pattern in a set of requests, that the set of requests are generated from a given mobile application and can communicate the set of requests or the identifiable pattern to the remote entity to offload subsequent occurrences of the set of requests to the remote entity. The remote entity is able to simulate subsequent occurrences of the set of requests on behalf of the mobile application on the mobile device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING REQUESTS ON BEHALF OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON ATOMIC PROCESSES FOR MOBILE NETWORK TRAFFIC RELIEF - System and method for making requests on behalf of a mobile device based on atomic processes for mobile network traffic relief are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for simulating traffic requests from a mobile device, which can be implemented on a system includes, predicting that a request is to be made by the mobile device, in advance of the request being sent to a destination by the mobile device and making the request, at an entity separate from the mobile device, on behalf of the mobile device to the destination. The entity can simulate the request and based on a traffic pattern of outgoing requests by an application on the mobile device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278433 | Method for transmitting and receiving multimedia information and terminal - The disclosure discloses a method for transmitting and receiving multimedia information and a terminal. The method for transmitting multimedia information includes: dividing multimedia information to be transmitted into multiple information segments; combining the information segments to obtain multiple messages, wherein each of the information segments includes a position identification of the information segment in the multimedia information to be transmitted; in addition, a length of each of the messages is less than or equal to a predetermined length, and each of the messages contains at least one information segment; and sending some or all of the multiple messages to a receiver. By means of the disclosure, a more complete message can be obtained, and multimedia information can be transmitted by lesser messages, so that a cost of a user is reduced and a network burden is alleviated. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278434 | MEDIA PREDICTIVE CONSIGNMENT - A method and system for enhanced electronic delivery and sale of a content item. In order to speed delivery and avoid congestion of a delivery channel, a potential customer is identified and the item delivered prior to solicitation by the customer. Delivery is at a time when communication resources available prior to a critical time of peak demand. Delivery of the item may be enhanced via multicasting. Sale of the item is encouraged through one click context sensitive buying. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278435 | COOPERATIVE OPERATION METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL THEREOF, MAIL TRANSCEIVING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When an application activation instruction is input, it is decided whether the application is expected to access a high-level protection resource or low-level protection resource (step S | 2012-11-01 |