| 47th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
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| 20120296973 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING EVENTS AND MATCHING USERS VIA BLENDED PROFILES - Certain embodiments teach a method and system for pairing users, whom do not know each other for an event, on a social networking platform. The social dining system matches people with common interests and organizes an offline event, such as a meal at a restaurant, based on user profiles, availability, and other attributes. For example, the social dining system can schedule a group meal for a user, and five to seven other people that share an interest with the user. In cases where a user prefers to be attend events with at least one known user, a single profile for the user and the known user is created as a mutual or a blended profile. The system then creates an event by matching the mutual profile with other members using a blending algorithm. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296974 | SOCIAL NETWORK FOR MEDIA TOPICS OF INFORMATION RELATING TO THE SCIENCE OF POSITIVISM - Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296975 | SELECTION OF A COMMUNICATION MODE - The present invention pertains to a method for selecting a communication mode between a first and a second user of at least one communication network comprising the following steps:
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| 20120296976 | Delivering Messages in a Communication System - Message delivery systems and methods for delivering messages to a computing system are described. The system uses a message ID structure and a message ID database to allow a user to check whether he or she is recipient of a new message without having to contact the message server that holds messages to be delivered. The resource load related to users checking for messages is therefore left to a separate computing system, allowing the message server to dedicate its resources to the receiving and delivering of messages. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296977 | CENTRALLY MANAGING AND MONITORING OF CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES - An apparatus, system, method and program providing a multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) application or cloud computing service that manages and monitors the use of other SaaS applications or cloud computing services via a common connection and database framework. An Internet-based interface is provided as a single portal for monitoring and managing the use of SaaS applications or cloud computing services. Objects and the state of these objects including all associated attributes related to the SaaS applications or cloud computing services are stored in databases associated with the Internet-based interface. The Internet-based interface also provides a social networking infrastructure and an application exchange infrastructure that allows sharing of information related to the SaaS applications or cloud computing services. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296978 | CONTENT MANAGING APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGING METHOD, CONTENT MANAGING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content managing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains (i) a first content item held by a first user, (ii) a metadata item that indicates attribute information for classifying the first content item, and (iii) information on a sharing state, between the first user and a second user who is a user other than the first user, of a second content item having a metadata item identical to the metadata item held by the first content item; a degree of interest calculating unit which calculates a degree of interest that is an index indicating an interest of the second user on the metadata item; and a managing unit which manages the first content item based on the degree of interest of the second user. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296979 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conference system comprises an operation input part for receiving an operation input for selecting a send object file, which is given by a user who is a conference participant, an image pickup part for picking up an image of said user, a motion detection part for detecting a predetermined motion of said user on the basis of a picked-up image obtained by said image pickup part, and a sending operation control part for sending said send object file under the condition that said predetermined motion is detected. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296980 | SYSTEM FOR NETWORKED DIGITAL PATHOLOGY EXCHANGE - A computer-based method and apparatus facilitate exchange of pathology studies enabling primary and secondary pathological diagnoses. A study consists of lower-resolution images, references to the corresponding higher-resolution images, associated image metadata, study metadata and patient metadata. The studies are exchanged from one organization (hospital, practice, or individual physician) to another organization through a set of interconnected dispatcher services. In a cloud model, a plurality of dispatchers may be connected through a Global Dispatcher, both facilitating the addition of new organizations to the cloud and allowing for the addressing of studies from any organization in the cloud to any organization, group or individual in the cloud. Efficiency in diagnosis is improved through the addressing of a study to a plurality of qualified recipients, as the first recipient with an appropriate, available resource may review and provide a diagnosis for the study. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296981 | Method for Reduction of Disk Space Usage of Electronic Messages in a Network - A method is presented for reducing the total amount of disk space used by multiple recipients of an electronic message in a network. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296982 | Automatic Scheduling Tool - Embodiments of the invention relate to a message based scheduling tool employed to function with an electronic calendar. As messages are transmitting between clients, a tool is employed to parse the messages to search for one or more string(s) of characters characteristic of a meeting. Based upon these characteristics and the parsing, the electronic calendars are searched to find an available time slot on both calendars in which a meeting can take place, and, if an available time is found, the meeting is scheduled and the clients are sent notification of the scheduling. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296983 | MANAGING COMPRESSION DICTIONARIES - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for managing compression dictionaries. In particular, messages between a sender and a recipient may be compressed using a combination of static compression dictionaries and/or dynamic dictionaries. The static compression dictionaries may be updated with new dictionary entries based upon a recipient decompressing a compressed message received from a sender, a dynamic dictionary associated with the compressed message and/or a prepared response. In this way, the static dictionary may evolve over time to provide a flexible and customized approach for managing compression dictionaries. Dictionary versioning may be provided, such that a sender dictionary and a recipient dictionary may be updated to maintain synchronization. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296984 | PRESENTING INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACTS LISTED BY PROXIMITY TO SET LOCATION - An electronic device having instant messaging (IM) capabilities within one or networks. The technology provides means and methods whereby an electronic device is enabled to evaluate and present information regarding available IM contacts based on geographic criteria. Location information from devices which are associated with instant messaging contacts of a first electronic device are received. IM contacts contact can be display based on geographic location, including proximity to one or more set locations. The technology can be customized dynamically on a per device basis. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296985 | Apparatus, Method, and a Computer Program for a Form Identification Number - Embodiments of the present invention pertain to an apparatus and a method that are configured to receive a request to generate a form identification number for a particular form and generate a form identification number for the particular form in response to the request. The apparatus and method also configured to transmit a message comprising the form identification number to a form generator. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296986 | AUTO CONNECT IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A wireless device that automatically forms a connection to a remote device in accordance with a peer-to-peer protocol. The remote device may be designated as an auto-connect device for the wireless device such that, when the wireless device determines that it is in the vicinity of the auto-connect device, it can re-form a connection to the remote device based on stored information for re-establishing connections among a persistent group of devices, but without any express user input. When a user requests that the wireless device perform a function that involves interaction with an auto-connect device, that function may be performed with the delay associated with forming a connection. Any of multiple techniques may be employed for identifying devices designated as auto-connect devices and for determining when the wireless device and a remote, auto-connect devices are in close proximity. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296987 | Lightweight Messaging with Location Between Users of a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides a mechanism for lightweight messaging (e.g., a “poke”) between users of a social networking system. To initiate a new message from one user to another, the sender requests a poke by specifying the intended recipient. The system receives the request, obtains a location of the sender, verifies that the sender and recipient are both users of the social networking system and have established a connection, and then transmits a lightweight message to the recipient. The message history between users may be stored for later viewing, and third party services may access the messaging capability, e.g., via APIs. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296988 | EMAIL SPAM ELIMINATION USING PER-CONTACT ADDRESS - A method and system to transparently generate or manually allocate an authorized email address per contact and accept email sent to the authorized email address from the contact. If an authorized email address is leaked, it will be detected quickly, revoked and the assignee of the authorized email will be notified. When one of the user's contacts has sent an email to multiple recipients including the user, replies to the present conversation are allowed from other recipients. The user can generate a few open addresses that can receive email from any address. This allows the user to post email addresses on print or electronic publications and websites to allow readers to send email. This address could be revoked after a certain point in time or expire after an allocated lifetime. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296989 | FILE TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND FILE TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR SUPPORTING FILE TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE MESSAGING SERVICE - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a file transmission management system and a file transmission management method for supporting a file transmission in a mobile messaging service. The file transmission management system may include a file transmission manager to receive a file from an Internet storage space associated with a user when the user requests a transmission of the file stored in the Internet storage space. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296990 | SHARED CONTENT SERVER FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for reducing the total amount of disk space used by multiple recipients of an electronic message in a communications network. The present invention removes the requirement that all recipients ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296991 | ADAPTIVE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR IDENTIFYING POPULAR TOPICS FROM MESSAGES - An adaptive system architecture for identifying popular topics from messages are disclosed. In one aspect, one example of a system which includes a client device which determines, from the set of messages, commonly or frequently occurring topics and computes at least a portion of the analytics for the commonly or frequently occurring topics in the set of messages that indicate respective levels of popularity. Other portions of the analytics used to determine the respective levels of trendiness of the commonly or frequently occurring topics can be computed by other client devices. Such computation can take place in the web-browsers forming a web-based crowd computing platform for message stream analysis. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296992 | INSTANT MESSAGING VALIDATION - A character string can be received. A determination can be made of whether the received character string includes or is a request for a network resource. When it is determined that the received character string comprises a request for a network resource, an identical network resource address can be determined from a browser history of a web browser. The identical network resource address can be communicated to an instant messaging client application. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296993 | Automatic Scheduling Tool - Embodiments of the invention relate to a message based scheduling tool employed to function with an electronic calendar. As messages are transmitting between clients, a tool is employed to parse the messages to search for one or more string(s) of characters characteristic of a meeting. Based upon these characteristics and the parsing, the electronic calendars are searched to find an available time slot on both calendars in which a meeting can take place, and, if an available time is found, the meeting is scheduled and the clients are sent notification of the scheduling. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296994 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING COMMUNICATION SERVICE WITH MULTI-PLAYER APPLICATIONS - A method provides users of a communication service access to a third party application over a wide area network. The method includes (a) receiving from one of the users a request for access to the third party application; (b) over a predetermined application program interface, sending a message to a server hosting the third party application indicating the request for access; (c) receiving from the server one or more resource locators for use by the users to access the third party application; and (d) distributing the resource locators to the users. The third party application may be a game, for example. Upon receiving the message, the server of the third party application initiates the game. The application program interface may be provided through a POST command under the hypertext transport protocol. In addition, parameters for the third party application may be specified in the POST command. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296995 | Network-Application Association Method and System - A network-application association method comprises: performing corresponding operations for applications according to instructions of users; sending out association information according to users' relationship chains of the users and relations among the applications; judging whether the users respond to the association information; if the users respond to the association information, updating the users' relationship chains of the users or performing corresponding operations for the applications, according to operations for the users responding to the association information. In addition, the present invention further provides a network-application association system. In the above network-application association technology analyzes the users' relationship chains of the users and the relations among the applications, to find out the implicit relations among the users of the different applications, so as to use the association information to built the association among the different application and inform the users, such that the different applications are combined together, to enrich network service. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF MESSAGE TRANSACTIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - The invention provides a method and system for fusing message paths that occurred in a first domain in a communication network, with message paths that occurred in a second domain in the communication network a communication channel exists between the two domains. A first message path that occurred in the first domain and included a message sent to the second domain along the communication channel is fused to a second path that occurred in the second domain that included the message received from the first domain. Each message that is transmitted in the communication channel between the two domains is assigned a message unique identifier that allows each domain to associate a message sent from one domain to the other with a response message sent in the opposite direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296997 | Method and device for message prompting - A message prompting method applied in the field of computer technology is disclosed, which comprises acquiring a feature of an operation of a user on software as well as whether or not the operation is successful, determining a feature group of the feature and its corresponding weight, the feature group containing features of a same category and having a weight which represents a relevance among the features within the group, and determining the message to be prompted to the user according to the weight and a pre-determined threshold in combination with whether or not the operation is successful. A message prompting device is also disclosed. The disclosure prompts software features with better pertinence to a user according to behavior features of the user, provide a personalized way of feature notification, avoid disturbing the user, improve the user experience, enhance friendliness, and can provide effective guidance to the user. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296998 | RECEPTION ACCORDING TO A DATA TRANSFER PROTOCOL OF DATA DIRECTED TO ANY OF A PLURALITY OF DESTINATION ENTITIES - A data processing system arranged for receiving over a network, according to a data transfer protocol, data directed to any of a plurality of destination identities, the data processing system comprising: data storage for storing data received over the network; and a first processing arrangement for performing processing in accordance with the data transfer protocol on received data in the data storage, for making the received data available to respective destination identities; and a response former arranged for: receiving a message requesting a response indicating the availability of received data to each of a group of destination identities; and forming such a response; wherein the system is arranged to, in dependence on receiving the said message. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120296999 | DYNAMIC OBJECT MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL - An extensible communications protocol configured to enable dynamic discovery and management of self-aware devices in a multiple element computing architecture is provided. The protocol enables a message consisting essentially of a destination ID, a source ID, a message type, optional payloads, and a delimiter arrangement. The protocol is based on a scheme which represents structured data. Within the scheme, stacked delimiting characters are used to separate higher level data. Escape sequencers are selected to represent at least the escape character, the delimiting character, and the NULL (nothing at all). | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method and system for managing email between a sender and a recipient wherein the method and system provide the recipient with control over routing an email message, wherein the control includes predefining directions to be performed upon the receipt of an email message, and wherein the directions are dependent upon the properties of the email message. The recipient may enable or disable the control at any time. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297001 | Method and System for Message Pacing - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits first and second messages to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by a characteristic of the second message. The system receives a first message and sends the first message to an intended recipient. When the system receives a second message for the recipient, the system determines a separation based on a pacing algorithm and send the second message to the recipient according to the separation. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297003 | NEGOTIABLE INFORMATION ACCESS IN ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for implementing an electronically-based negotiation session between users within an ESN. The method includes sending a message including a request portion and a response portion from a first user to a second user in a round of successive rounds, and in response to receiving the message from the first user, sending a message from the second user to the first user in a subsequent round, the message from the second user including a response portion responsive to the request portion of the message from the first user and a request portion. When a new round is performed, evaluating whether an agreement exists by checking messages previously exchanged, and exchanging subsequent messages, when any rounds remain and the session has not been terminated, and granting access and exchanging data between the users, executing actions, and setting policies as negotiated, when the session has been terminated and an agreement exists. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297004 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A messaging method is implemented by a system in a mobile network in which there are mobile devices including devices A, B, C, D, and E. An originating device sends a message addressed to multiple terminating devices. The system receives the messages and correlates them and routes them to the terminating devices. The system correlates the messages by grouping them according to originating device and sending time frame. The system allocates a global title record address from a pool for the session. The system forwards the messages with an MT-FSM, in which the originating device information is included in the message body, and the recipient address is that of the specific terminating device. The system transmits a confirmation message to the originating device. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297005 | BREAKING LOCKS HELD BY TWO-PHASE COMMIT TRANSACTIONS WHILE PRESERVING DATA CONSISTENCY - A technique for breaking locks held by two-phase commit (2PC) transactions while preserving data consistency that guarantees that either the “commit” phase or the “abort” phase of the 2PC protocol is completed at a higher-priority server. Accordingly, all locks on data objects are released and a high-priority operation can proceed. Data consistency is also preserved because the 2PC coordinator adheres to the 2PC protocol and properly notifies both the higher-priority server and one or more lower-priority servers when they are available. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297006 | MULTI-DOMAIN CO-BROWSING UTILIZING LOCALIZED STATE MANAGEMENT - A master and a slave computing device within a co-browsing session can be identified. The devices can be associated with a first Unified Resource Identifier (URI) where a portion of the URI is a fully qualified domain name of a Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy. The devices can be associated with a co-browsing application. A request associated with a second URI from the master computing device can be detected. The second URI can share a root domain with the first URI. A portion of a master artifact associated with the master device can be conveyed to the slave device. The master artifact can be associated with state information of the session. A portion of a slave artifact linked to the slave device can be modified with the portion of the master artifact. The devices can be navigated to the second URI in response to the request. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297007 | MULTI-DOMAIN CO-BROWSING UTILIZING LOCALIZED STATE MANAGEMENT - A master and a slave computing device within a co-browsing session can be identified. The devices can be associated with a first Unified Resource Identifier (URI) where a portion of the URI is a fully qualified domain name of a Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy. The devices can be associated with a co-browsing application. A request associated with a second URI from the master computing device can be detected. The second URI can share a root domain with the first URI. A portion of a master artifact associated with the master device can be conveyed to the slave device. The master artifact can be associated with state information of the session. A portion of a slave artifact linked to the slave device can be modified with the portion of the master artifact. The devices can be navigated to the second URI in response to the request. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297008 | CACHING PROVENANCE INFORMATION - Techniques are disclosed for caching provenance information. For example, in an information system comprising a first computing device requesting provenance data from at least a second computing device, a method for improving the delivery of provenance data to the first computing device, comprises the following steps. At least one cache is maintained for storing provenance data which the first computing device can access with less overhead than accessing the second computing device. Aggregated provenance data is produced from input provenance data. A decision whether or not to cache input provenance data is made based on a likelihood of the input provenance data being used to produce aggregated provenance data. By way of example, the first computing device may comprise a client and the second computing device may comprise a server. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297009 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAHING IN MOBILE RAN - A non-transitory computer readable medium and a method that may include receiving, at a first level cache that is coupled to a radio access network (RAN) component, a data entity that comprises an address; wherein each cache of the hierarchical group of caches is coupled to a component of the RAN or to a component of a core network that is coupled between the RAN and the Internet; identifying the data entity as comprising a request to receive information from a requesting entity that is wirelessly coupled to the RAN—if the address belongs to a root cache address range; providing the information, by the first level cache, to the requesting entity if the content is stored in the first level cache; and sending to an intermediate level cache the data entity if the information is not stored in the first level cache. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297010 | Distributed Caching and Cache Analysis - In a distributed caching system, a Web server may receive, from a user device, a request for a Web service. The Web server may parse the request to identify a cookie included in the request and determine whether the cookie includes allocation information. The allocation information may indicate multiple cache servers temporally store certain data associated with the Web service. The Web server may request for the certain data from the cache servers and then transmit the certain data to the user device. If one of the cache servers fails to respond to the request, the Web server may reallocate the cached data and update the cookie by overwriting the allocation information stored in the cookie. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297011 | Intelligent Reception of Broadcasted Information Items - A method comprising: receiving a plurality of broadcasted information items in a client device; determining fondness of the information items to the user of the client device according to predefined criteria; and selecting a subset of the information items to be stored in a memory of the client device at least partly based on the determined fondness of the information items. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297012 | UPDATING MULTIPLE COMPUTING DEVICES - A system includes a server site that includes a memory for storing update data sets that correspond to data sets stored on multiple computing devices of a user. The system also includes a synchronization manager for determining that one computing device associated with the user and another computing device associated with the user are absent one or more data updates stored in the memory at the server site. The synchronization manager is configured to send in parallel, absent establishing a data transfer lock, the one or more data updates to the both computing devices of the user for updating the corresponding data stored on each computing device. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297013 | CONTENT ELEMENT EDITOR - A system may include a communications device. The system may further include a content editor executed by said communications device and configured to present a content element including a plurality of contexts, each of said plurality of contexts associated with a version of content items to be included in a content presentation and a set of context attributes descriptive of user attributes for which said context is to be provided. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297014 | METHOD FOR COMPILING INFORMATION FROM MOBILE COMMUNICATORS - A method for compiling information indicating that an identified user has been in communication with at least one of a plurality of differently located and identified information sources includes using a receiver to receive first information that an identified user has been in communication with at least one of the plurality of differently located and identified information sources, using a receiver to receive second information that the identified user has interacted with the first information, and using a processor to compile the first and second information to determine the relative effectiveness of the identified information source. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING DATA RELEVANT APPLICATIONS - A secure environment where third party application can access confidential consumer information without having the confidential consumer information identifiable to the third party application. The method and system may include pushing information to the third parties servers. Multiple data access methods may be used including direct token based access to data stored on systems as well as access to external information using a anonymous token generation per an external request. The external response would be normalized and merge with managed data into a single set of data for third party application processing. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297016 | CROSS-CLOUD MANAGEMENT AND TROUBLESHOOTING - A cloud management system is described herein that provides the ability for an application to span two or more clouds while allowing operation, management, and troubleshooting of the distributed application as a single application. The system provides infrastructure that communicates across datacenters for execution and for centralizing knowledge of instances of an application that are running at different locations. The infrastructure provided by the system monitors both the application and connections between the clouds, with intelligence to know if issues are within the application or because of the connection between the clouds. The system coordinates management functions across multiple cloud platforms/locations. Thus, the cloud management system creates a single monitoring and troubleshooting interface and knowledge and execution fabric across multiple clouds so that applications spread across multiple clouds can be monitored, managed, and debugged more easily. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297017 | PRIVACY-CONSCIOUS PERSONALIZATION - Personalization is enabled in a privacy-conscious manner. User interest information can be determined as a function of user behavior with respect interaction with content, for example. Such private information can subsequently be disseminated in a controlled fashion based on permission of the user to which the information pertains. Additionally, core functionality can be supplemented by third-party extensions allowed by a user. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297018 | PROMPTING SERVICE - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for establishing and updating a prompting scheme for soliciting feedback from a customer. Initially, the customer provides a type of occasion to monitor and temporal criteria for receiving communications from a service. The service generates a prompting scheme based on the type of occasion in order to properly compose solicitations for feedback from the customer. Also, the service uses the temporal criteria for establishing the prompting scheme, which influences the scheduling of communications bearing the solicitations, respectively. Upon delivering the communications, interaction between the customer and the service is monitored and evaluated in order to update the prompting scheme. Specifically, the scheduling of communications is updated based upon the most common time periods at which the customer responds to the communications, while the composition of the solicitations is updated based upon which communications the customer considers worthy of response. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297019 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND A HAND-HELD DEVICE USING THE SAME - A hand-held device can communicate with at least one electronic device via a communicating platform. The hand-held device includes a location database, at least one orientation device, a computing module, a comparing module, a control unit, and a transmitting module. The at least one orientation device detects a direction information related to the pointed-to electronic device relative to the hand-held device. The location database stores a location information related to the position of each electronic device relative to the hand-held device. The computing module can calculate a pointed-to location information related to the position of the pointed-to electronic device relative to the hand-held device based on the direction information. The comparing module can distinguish the pointed-to electronic device by comparing the pointed-to location information with the location information in the location database. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297020 | RECEPTION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, SERVER, TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided a reception terminal including a display control section which performs control of displaying content data shared with a transmission terminal, and an acquisition section which acquires, from a server, event identification information for identifying an event occurred in the transmission terminal regarding the content data, wherein the display control section adds a display associated with the event identification information acquired by the acquisition section to the content data. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SUPPORT CODEC DELIVERY MODELS FOR IMS NETWORKS - An architecture (system) and method is provided for transcoding codec information to be sent in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling stream for rendering rich digital media content. The method is implemented on a computer infrastructure and includes: determining a codec associated with content to be sent to one or more requesting devices; determining that at least one of the one or more requesting devices do not have the codec associated with the content to be sent to the one or more requesting devices; providing codec information to the at least one of the one or more requesting devices; and sending the content to the one or more requesting devices. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297022 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR EXECUTION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A method of executing a software application. A storage device stores connection data, an identifier of the software application, a context selector, and an application launcher. An execution device connects, using the connection data, to a server. The storage device transfers the context selector to the execution device, which executes it to generate a first context for the execution device. The identifier and the first context are sent to the server from which the storage device receives the software application, which is stored with the first context. The application launcher is transferred to the execution device for execution. A second context of the execution device is generated and the storage device checks if it matches the first context. If so, the storage device transfers the software application to the execution device where it is executed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297023 | Method and System for a Persistent Request Generated by a Wireless Device, Executed Remotely and Output to Configurable Local Resources - Methods and systems for a persistent request generated by a wireless device, executed remotely and output to configurable local resources are disclosed and may include generating via a handheld wireless communication device (HWCD) a persistent request for a user that may be communicated to remote devices for execution and storage of results. The stored results may be received from local resources local which may be configured by the remote devices based on user preferences to deliver the stored results to the user. The stored results may be received by the user via the HWCD or another wireless communication device, and the identity of the user may be authenticated prior to receiving the stored results. The remote devices may discover the local resources based on the detection of the user logging into the network. User preferences may be stored in networked devices or may be stored in the HWCD. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297024 | Intermediary Content Provider - Methods of providing published content are presented. Content providers, including advertisers, can have their network addresses become black listed through no fault of their own. Content providers can utilize one or more intermediary providers each having their own distinct network address, possibly a registered domain name. An advertiser or other content provider can engage members of a distribution channel to disseminate promotional information to consumers where the promotional information comprises a network address of the intermediary provider. Upon a request directed toward the network address, the intermediary transforms published content obtained from the primary provider to make the content appear as though it originated from the intermediary provider. Should a black listing event occur, only the intermediary provider would be affected. An updated or new intermediary provider having a new, distinct network address can be instantiated to replace the black listed provider. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297025 | DETECTION OF BOILERPLATE CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating query recommendations. One method provides selecting one or more nodes of an object model that models a resource as a hierarchy of nodes, and determining that the selected nodes exhibit one or more predefined traits that are characteristic of boilerplate content, wherein boilerplate content comprises content that is repeated in multiple resources of a particular web site or content which is not relevant to the main content of a resource. A score associated with the selected nodes is adjusted responsive to determining that the selected nodes exhibit the predefined traits, and information is provided to a query recommendation engine, the information including textual content associated with the selected nodes, and the information identifying the adjusted score associated with the selected nodes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297026 | AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A computerized aggregation system, the system including: a master server system programmed to receive data from a user computer, to store the received data, and to process the received data to produce information including credentials, and to provide the information to a client-side application piece at the user computer system, the user computer system adapted to receive said provided information and to communicate said credentials received from the master server system respectively to each of a plurality of third party server systems to facilitate obtaining information from the third party server systems, whereby the user computer system is enabled to aggregate at least some information from the third party server systems on an aggregation template. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297027 | REDUNDANCY FOR STREAMING DATA IN AUDIO VIDEO BRIDGING NETWORKS - Aspects of a method and system for implementing redundancy for streaming data in audio video bridging networks are provided. Network resources may be reserved over a plurality of network paths. Reserved resources may be utilized for the transmission and/or reception of a corresponding plurality of data streams, wherein one or more of the streams may comprise redundant data. A plurality of data streams may be transmitted and/or received by a plurality of network interface hardware devices. Similarly, a plurality of data streams may be transmitted and/or received by a plurality of ports integrated into a single network interface hardware device. Each of the plurality of data streams may be assigned a unique identifier and the identifier of a first data stream may differ by one bit from an identifier of a data stream comprising data redundant to the first data stream. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297028 | INTEGRATED REMOTE POLLUTION MONITORING AND INDEXING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The invention relates to a system for integrated remote monitoring and measuring of real time pollution levels together with real time weather details and a method of aggregating, analyzing and indexing the disparate data into a single measurable and accessible real time data for the user. The invention further relates to a method and means of displaying the pollution index of different types of pollution levels of air, water, sewage, noise, radiation, light and soil and weather details in real time through various displaying methods. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297029 | Method and Apparatus For Routing XCAP Requests - The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for finding out which XDM server a specific user is allocated to in a network with several XDM servers. An HTTP proxy ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297030 | DOWNLOADABLE STANDALONE OFFLINE APPLICATION WITH INTEGRATED DATA FOR DISTRIBUTED OFFLINE PROCESSING - In a system and a method, a request from a client device to generate a downloadable file representing an offline version of a web-based application hosted by a web server is received. Application components and data used by the web-based application are packaged into the downloadable file, and the downloadable file is transmitted to the requesting client device. The web-based application is locked to prevent access to the web-based application. A revised downloadable file is received that includes changes to at least one of the application components and the data contained in the downloadable file. As applicable, the application components and data used by the web-based application are updated with the changes to the at least one of the application components and the data contained in the revised downloadable file. Subsequent to the updating, the web-based application is unlocked, and the downloadable file is invalidated. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297031 | Anonymous Signalling - Embodiments include a method in a server for facilitating anonymous communication between a first web browser on a first communication device and a second web browser on a second communication device. The method includes dynamically establishing a signalling channel on the server for the first web browser responsive to the first web browser browsing to the server. The method further includes creating a unique identifier for the signalling channel, temporarily storing the unique identifier at the server, and then sending the unique identifier to the first web browser. The first communication device correspondingly sends the unique identifier to the second web browser, such an in an email or text message. Then, responsive to the second web browser browsing to the server using the unique identifier, the method includes connecting the second web browser to the established signaling channel for anonymous communication between the first and second web browsers over that channel. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297032 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TUNABLE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - A method and system for tunable distribution of content are disclosed. Preferably, the content comprises digital rights and/or watermark information. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a request from a client. One or more content files related to the request and a user profile of a user are determined. One or more seeders are assigned to start the delivery of the one or more content files. The client is allowed to obtain a plurality of pieces of the one or more content files from the one or more seeders. At least one piece of the plurality of pieces of the one or more content files contains digital rights and/or watermark information. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297033 | PARTIAL OBJECT DISTRIBUTION IN CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Techniques for the distribution of content objects in a content delivery network (CDN) are disclosed. A CDN distribution server detects a content object's availability and determines whether the content object is a candidate for distribution. The distribution server detects the availability of the content object in response to a provider making new or updated content available at a content site or a location within the CDN. The distribution server obtains identifying information for a candidate content object and determines a select portion of the content object to be distributed within the CDN. The select portion can be a predetermined number of bytes located at a predetermined position in the content object, the size and location of which may be determined according to content-specific mapping data. The distribution server pushes the select portion of the content object to one or more groups of CDN edge servers absent an end-user request. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297034 | Method, Device and System for Running Application - A method, a device and a system for running an application are disclosed. The method includes: creating a process corresponding to the application, and loading pre-generated data file description information of the application ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING POLICIES ON A COMPUTER - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing policies on a computer having a foreign operating system. Policies may specify hardware or software configuration information. Policies on a first computer with a native operating system are translated into configuration information usable on a second computer having a foreign operating system. In an embodiment, a translator manager manages the association between the policy on the first computer and the translator on the second computer. Computer management complexity and information technology management costs are reduced by centralizing computer management on the native operating system. Further reductions in management complexity are realized when the present invention is used in conjunction with network directory services. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297036 | Modifying Operating Parameters of a Device Based on Aging Information - Monitoring aging information for multiple devices. Aging information of the devices may be received. Statistics regarding the multiple devices may be determined based on the aging information. For at least some of the devices, update information may be determined based on the respective aging information. The update information may include modifications to operating parameters of the devices. For example, the devices may operate according to initial parameters that are above sustainable parameters and the update information may lower the operating parameters based on the aging information. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297037 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS TO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS IN COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM NEWLY ADDED AND METHOD FOR NEWLY ADDING COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM TO COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer subsystem is provided with a switch apparatus group that is at least one switch apparatus that is coupled to the communication network and a plurality of communication apparatuses that includes an internal management apparatus (an internal apparatus). The internal management apparatus transmits a request of a plurality of IP addresses that are allocated to the plurality of communication apparatuses to an external management apparatus that is disposed outside the computer subsystem. The external management apparatus manages whether or not each of M static IP addresses can be allocated, specifies a plurality of static IP addresses that can be allocated in response to the request, and transmits the plurality of specified static IP addresses to the internal management apparatus. The internal management apparatus allocates the plurality of static IP addresses to a plurality of internal apparatus. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297038 | Recommendations for Social Network Based on Low-Rank Matrix Recovery - Techniques describe analyzing users and groups of a social network to identify user interests and providing recommendations for a user based on the user's identified interests. A content-awareness application obtains a collection of images and tags associated with the images belonging to members in the social network. The content-awareness application decomposes the members into a representative matrix to identify users and groups in order to calculate a similarity matrix between the users and their images based on a visual content of the images and a textual content of the tags. The content-awareness application further constructs a graph Laplacian over the users and the groups to align with the representative matrix based at least in part on the similarity matrix and further provides recommendations of groups for a user to join in the social network based at least in part on the graph Laplacian identifying the user's interests. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297039 | AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR MANAGED HARDWARE IN A STORAGE AREA NETWORK - In one aspect of the present description, a systems manager based upon a common model of information protocol or standard includes automated storage area network (SAN) expansion management which permits additional provider modules to be automatically installed if needed in response to devices being added to the SAN. In addition, the automated SAN expansion management permits installed provider modules to be automatically configured in response to devices being added to the SAN. Still further, in another aspect, the automated SAN expansion management can automatically determine if a suitable host processor exists to host installation of a new provider module and if not, the automated SAN expansion management | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297040 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a storage block configured to store information about a combination of devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a first application and devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a second application; and a selection block configured to select, among the devices controllable by the function of the second application, a device in the same combination being selected to be controlled by the function of the first application on the basis of the above-mentioned information stored in the storage block. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297041 | Shell Integration on a Mobile Device for an Application Executing Remotely on a Server - The systems and methods described herein are directed to permit roaming of applications across devices consistently and dynamically. Other aspects include roaming of application idiosyncrasies, data or content specific to each application, user preferences specific to each application or content, such as pinning or unpinning, and user history specific to each application in a consistent and complete fashion across diverse devices to provide seamless integration with the native device user interface. Application idiosyncrasies may include different options supported by the applications, groups of tasks or content, dynamically changing user interface, and tasks or content based on application state or user actions. In another aspect, the systems and methods described herein seamlessly integrate roaming with the user interface of the native device, such as a tablet or a smart phone. The systems and methods described herein make “work shift” in distributed and diverse device environment practical and extremely usable. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA CENTER SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS LEVERAGING SERVER SOCs OR SERVER FABRICS - A data center security system and method are provided that leverage server systems on a chip (SOCs) and/or server fabrics. In more detail, server interconnect fabrics may be leveraged and extended to dramatically improve security within a data center. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA CENTER SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS LEVERAGING MANAGED SERVER SOCs - A data center security system and method are provided that leverage server systems on a chip (SOCs) and/or server fabrics. In more detail, server interconnect fabrics may be leveraged and extended to dramatically improve security within a data center. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297044 | ENHANCED POLICY CAPABILITIES FOR MOBILE DATA SERVICES - A system and method for a mobile data access network to make policy control and charging decisions based on domain name queries. A mobile device sends a query about a domain name associated with a service a user of the mobile device wishes to engage. The access network carries the domain name query from a mobile device to a domain name server. The access network detects the domain name query and copies the queried domain name. The access network uses the queried domain name to make an incomplete policy decision. The policy decision is incomplete because one or more service data flow filters in the decision lack addresses for providers of the service. The access network detects a response to the domain name query and copies a service provider address from the response. The access network uses the service provider address to complete the policy decision. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297045 | Method and device for recording data of terminal - A method and device for recording data of a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: setting a relation condition list for triggering recording among function modules, and setting a corresponding random probability generator for each function module; determining whether to start recording data, and whether to end the data recording operation in accordance with the relation condition list or the random probability generator, during the operation process of each function module; and sending the respective data packets obtained by recording to a data management module for storage after the data record operation of each function module is ended. By adopting the method and device, fuzzy recording can be performed on data of the terminal, and data of different function modules can be stored centrally, and a query operation is simplified. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297046 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GSLB SPILLOVER - The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for global server load balancing spillover. An intermediary device providing global server load balancing (GSLB) identifies a spillover threshold for a first GSLB virtual server of the intermediary device. The first GSLB virtual server resolving DNS requests to a remote site of a plurality of remote sites. The intermediary device monitors spillover related statistics of each of a plurality of services at the plurality of remote sites, establishes a first spillover aggregate statistic for the plurality of services, determines that the first spillover aggregate statistic exceeds the spillover threshold for the first GSLB virtual server, and receives a DNS request and directing the DNS request to a second GSLB virtual server of the intermediary device responsive to the determination. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297047 | DONOR/BORROWER INCIDENT NOTIFICATION FOR DAEMONS - A device may include a donor to maintain a pool of addresses; a group of borrowers to obtain addresses from the donor; a daemon that has registered an interest in one or more borrowers in the group of borrowers; and a library to maintain first relationships between donors and borrowers that have obtained addresses from the donors, maintain second relationships between daemons and borrowers in which the daemons have registered an interest, receive a notification regarding an incident associated with the donor, identify, in response to the notification, the group of borrowers based on the first relationships, determine that the daemon has registered an interest in the one or more borrowers in the group of borrowers based on the second relationships, and output, to the daemon, a notification regarding the incident associated with the donor. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297048 | Computer and Main Circuit Board Thereof - A computer system and a main circuit board thereof are provided. The computer system includes a main circuit board. The main circuit board includes a main system chip module, a south bridge chip module, a WIFI HUB chip module, a first WIFI interface and a second WIFI interface. The main system chip module, the south bridge chip module, the WIFI HUB chip module, the first WIFI interface and the Internet are connected to form a first signal path. The main system chip module, the south bridge chip module, the WIFI HUB chip module, the second WIFI interface and an outside computer are connected to form a second signal path. The outside computer, the second WIFI interface, the WIFI HUB chip module, the first WIFI interface and the Internet are connected to form a third signal path. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURABLE SECURITY MONITORING UTILIZING AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM - A system and method for implementing an integrated information system are provided. A premises server is in communication with a variety of information sources that produce monitoring data for a premises. The premises server collects, presents, and transmits the monitoring device data to a central server capable of processing data from multiple premises servers. The central server receives the data and traverses one or more logical rule sets to determine whether the inputted data violates the rules. Based on an evaluation of the rules, the central server generates outputs in the form of communication to one or more authorized users via a variety of communication mediums and devices and/or the instigation of a variety of acts corresponding to the evaluation of the rules. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297050 | Collecting Information Regarding Electronic Aging of Products - Monitoring aging information for multiple devices. Aging information of the devices may be received. Statistics regarding the multiple devices may be determined based on the aging information. For at least some of the devices, update information may be determined based on the respective aging information. The update information may include modifications to operating parameters of the devices. For example, the devices may operate according to initial parameters that are above sustainable parameters and the update information may lower the operating parameters based on the aging information. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297051 | P2P ACTIVITY DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT - A network device may receive a peer-to-peer (P2P) activity record corresponding to a P2P data flow of P2P activity in a network. The P2P data flow may include content information communicated from a first user equipment device (UE) to a second UE via the network, and the P2P activity record may include information identifying the P2P data flow. The network device may insert the information identifying the P2P data flow into a P2P activity map and compare the P2P activity map to a P2P pattern of interest. The network device may also determine a P2P activity of interest probability based on the comparison of the P2P activity map to the P2P pattern of interest, which may describe the likelihood that P2P activity of interest is occurring in the network. The network device may also generate a system response based on the P2P activity of interest probability. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297052 | DETERMINING MISCONNECTION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO A NETWORK DEVICE USING ZONE INFORMATION - Connection of an electronic device to a particular port of the network device is detected. It is determined based on zone information whether a misconnection has occurred. The zone information defines plural zones. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297053 | UTILIZING SIGNATURES TO DISCOVER AND MANAGE DERELICT ASSETS OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT - A set of asset signatures can be analyzed. Each asset signature can be associated with an asset. Derelict assets can be discovered based on the asset signatures. The asset can represent a fundamental structural unit of an information technology (IT) environment. A multi-stage screening process can be performed to discover derelict assets. In a first stage, assets having a normal state are able to be changed to a suspect state based on results of analyzing the corresponding asset signature. In a second stage, assets having a suspect state are able to be selectively changed in state to a normal state or to a derelict state. An asset management system record can be maintained for each of the set of assets. Each record of the asset management system can be a configuration item (CI), which indicates whether each of the set of assets is in a normal state, a suspect state, or a derelict state. The asset management system can periodically reclaim resources consumed by derelict assets. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297054 | Monitoring Service in a Distributed Platform - Techniques for enabling monitoring across one or more domains are provided. The techniques include identifying information technology resources across one or more domains, collecting information technology dependency information relating to the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, collecting monitoring data from the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, and using the dependency information to aggregate the monitoring data into one or more pre-determined metrics. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297055 | System and method for wireless network offloading - Wireless offloading provides tools to a service provider to encourage or direct a subscriber to offload from a first network, e.g., a cellular network, to a second network, e.g., a Wi-Fi network. The cellular service provider can use network data to determine wireless offloading priorities for cellular subscribers on an individual or group basis. The cellular service provider may use wireless network data it has and/or wireless network data it learns about networks from the wireless devices (which may obtain Wi-Fi network data from beacon frames of Wi-Fi networks or active scanning and which may report to the cellular service provider). Each wireless device can be given scanning assignments to ensure that the reporting task is shared among subscribers or adjusted to fill in gaps in data. With the network data, the cellular service provider is capable of generating useful prioritized network lists for wireless devices, either individually or as a group. Preferences can be encouraged in the form of incentive offers to subscribers to, e.g., offload from the cellular network to a Wi-Fi network. Incentive offers can include offers to lower service costs or provide additional or improved services. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297056 | EXTENSIBLE CENTRALIZED DYNAMIC RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION IN A CLUSTERED DATA GRID - A centralized resource distribution is described where the decision portion of partitioning data among cluster nodes is made centralized while the actual mechanics to implement the partitioning remain a distributed algorithm. A central distribution coordinator is used to create an extensible central strategy that controls how the data will be partitioned across the cluster. The work to implement this strategy is performed by all of the members individually and asynchronously, in accordance with a distributed algorithm. The central strategy can be communicated to all cluster members and each member can perform the partitioning as it relates to itself. For example, in accordance with the distributed algorithm, one node may decide that it needs to obtain a particular partition in light of the central strategy and carry out the necessary steps to obtain that data, while other nodes may be asynchronously performing other individual partition transfers relevant to those particular nodes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297057 | Hardware-Assisted Integrity Monitor - A hardware-assisted integrity monitor may include one or more target machines and/or monitor machines. A target machine may include one or more processors, which may include one or more system management modes (SMM). A SMM may include one or more register checking modules, which may be configured to determine one or more current CPU register states. A SMM may include one or more acquiring modules, which may be configured to determine one or more current memory states. A SMM may include one or more network modules, which may be configured to direct one or more communications, for example of one or more current CPU register states and/or current memory states, to a monitor machine. A monitor machine may include one or more network modules and/or analysis modules. An analysis module may be configured to determine memory state differences and/or determine CPU register states differences. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297058 | MATCHING ENGINE FOR COMPARING DATA FEEDS WITH USER PROFILE CRITERIA - An event notification matching system, including an event matching table forming a plurality of nodes. Each node is assigned a subscriber request value and contains identifiers for one or more subscribers to be notified at the occurrence of an event relating to the subscriber request value. The event notification matching system may also include a table index. The table index receives input values from an event processing module and selects one or more of the nodes that have subscriber request values corresponding to the received input values. The event processor receives event data from a predetermined source, and formats the input values to simplify the operations performed by the event matching table. The event notification matching system is configured such that the event data need not be compared to non-matching nodes in the event matching table. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297059 | AUTOMATED CREATION OF MONITORING CONFIGURATION TEMPLATES FOR CLOUD SERVER IMAGES - Monitoring configurations for monitoring systems are automatically created for cloud server instances by polling the cloud controller to detect creation of each new instance, obtaining the image ID for the new instance from the cloud controller, and using a monitoring configuration template associated with the image ID to create the monitoring configuration. If a monitoring configuration template is not available for the image ID, a new template is created, either manually and/or automatically, and added to the template database. Automated template creation can include polling and analyzing instance ports and/or detecting and interrogating embedded monitoring agents such as WMI or SNMP. Monitor packs including detection criteria and interrogation checks can be used to detect monitoring agents and construct appropriate templates. Embodiments further monitor the cloud controller to detect termination of instances, and remove corresponding monitoring configurations from the monitoring to avoid generating false alerts. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297060 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a device information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on other devices connected via a network, and a setting file creation unit configured to, on the basis of the information on the other devices acquired by the device information acquisition unit, create a setting file by causing the information processing device to describe in the setting file information on content that is managed by the information processing device, the setting file being adapted to be forwarded to the other devices. The setting file creation unit describes in the setting file an order in which the setting file is to be forwarded. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND MANAGING NETWORK DATA - Some embodiments include a method and/or a system for collecting and managing network data. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are disclosed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND REPORTING COOKIE VALUES AT A CLIENT NODE - A method and apparatus for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site whereby cookie data is compiled at the visitor computer using cookie processing script embedded within the web page downloaded over the Internet and operable on the visitor computer. Data mining code within the downloaded web page is operable on the visitor computer to obtain web browsing data. The cookie processing script operates in consideration of this web browsing data and an old cookie previously stored on the visitor computer and associated with the visited web page to obtain new cookie values. These new cookie values are then stored on the visitor computer and also attached to an image request sent to a data collection server where they are processed and posted for viewing by the web page owner. As cookie processing and writing occurs completely within the visitor computer, cookie-blocking technologies are circumvented. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297063 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POPULATING A SOFTWARE CATALOGUE WITH SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE GATHERING - A method and a corresponding apparatus for inventoring software products on a plurality of computer are proposed. The inventoring system aims at populating a software catalogue without the manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalogue) which contains definitions of software products and the related signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process which gathers information from a potentially very large collection of computers. Any occurrence of a group of identical files across multiple computers is considered a reliable indicator that they belong to the installation footprint of a product. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN MTC USER EQUIPMENT TO DETECT AND REPORT A PREDETERMINED EVENT TO AN MTC SERVER - The invention proposes a detecting and reporting method and apparatus in a user equipment of a machine type communication based communication system. The MTC user equipment firstly detects whether a predetermined event occurs; and the MTC user equipment transmits a first report message to one or more servers if the predetermined event occurs. With the technical solution of the invention, the MTC user equipment can detect the occurrence of the predetermined event, for example, the MTC user equipment being stolen, the MTC user equipment being in illegal movement, the MTC user equipment being damaged, the MTC user equipment being powered off or a predetermined data value measured by the MTC user equipment being above or below a predetermined threshold, and notify an MTS server. The MTC server can take the further action upon acquisition of the relevant condition, for example, recover the MTC user equipment, bill the user of the MTC user equipment, charge the user of the MTC user equipment, etc. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297065 | PRIORITIZATION OF THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO AN ONLINE COMMERCE SITE - Providing prioritization of user online access to an online commerce site. Third party applications using API function calls to access an online commerce site are restricted to specific services by an access rule, An access rule defines which API server on the online commerce site a specific third party application may access when using a specific API function call. In this way, the operator of the online commerce site may prioritize server access per service level agreements based on a specific third party application and API function call. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297066 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPARATUS MEANS FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE REQUESTED BY A CLIENT IN A PUBLIC CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - A method and a system are disclosed for providing a service requested by a client in a public cloud infrastructure including at least one cloud service server and at least one on-premise server being the initial contact point for the service. In at least one embodiment, transparency is provided to the client in that client does not know if the service is running on-premise or in the cloud. It ensures that an instance of the service is always accessible. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297067 | Load Balancing System for Workload Groups - An apparatus for managing requests. The requests are received by a workload manager system to perform operations on data. A set of server applications is identified by the workload manager system to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications. The set of server applications is in a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of application groups. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297068 | Load Balancing Workload Groups - A method for managing requests. The requests are received by a workload manager system to perform operations on data. A set of server applications is identified by the workload manager system to perform the operations in the requests based on a set of common resources used by the set of server applications. The set of server applications is in a workload group and the workload group is comprised of a plurality of application groups. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297069 | Managing Unallocated Server Farms In A Desktop Virtualization System - Methods and systems for managing the allocated and unallocated server farms in a desktop virtualization system are provided herein. A server farm management device may store and maintain one or more unallocated server farm thresholds for the desktop virtualization system. The current number of unallocated server farms may be determined in response to a trigger or according to a predetermined schedule. When the number of unallocated server farms falls below a threshold, one or more new unallocated server farms may be created using the available servers in the desktop virtualization system. Thresholds may relate to overall number of unallocated server farms in the desktop virtualization system, as well as to the numbers of unallocated server farms of certain types or having certain characteristics. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297070 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SCHEDULED OPERATIONS IN HYBRID NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus for intelligent scheduling of client device tasks based on one or more network scheduling constraints. During normal network operation, a client device performs an array of scheduled maintenance tasks to optimize network performance (e.g., signal strength measurements, etc.) However, during hybrid network operation, regularly scheduled maintenance tasks for a first network can interrupt higher priority tasks on other networks. Consequently, the present invention in one embodiment provides a method for a client device to properly prioritize and re-schedule maintenance tasks. For example, CDMA 1X cell selection (or cell re-selection) procedures have flexible time constraints, and can be postponed (or expedited) to minimize impact on LTE network traffic. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297071 | CLOUD COMPUTING ROAMING SERVICES - The present invention provides approaches for Cloud roaming services. It allows Cloud services to be offered to requestors that are abstracted from the underlying Cloud provider used to fulfill those services. The present invention provides the ability for Cloud providers to be dynamically associated with currently available Cloud services for requestors. The system and method describes two scenarios—a pull and push model—to align requestor required services to currently available services from Cloud providers. The requestor has a profile determining a prioritized list of Cloud providers that may be used, OR the primary Cloud provider may outsource services to a partner cloud. The algorithm shows how the provider decides which requestors have access to which services—based on current utilization and forecast. Also, location, roaming, network bandwidth and requestor processing capabilities may be sent to the provider of Cloud services to determine whether a change is needed. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120297072 | MANAGING LOGICAL SOCKETS - A method includes receiving a request from a network source to create a logical socket on a logical port. The method includes accessing a structure that indicates a plurality of logical socket allocation policies to select a first of the plurality of socket allocation policies that corresponds to the logical port. Each of the plurality of logical socket allocation policies governs logical socket allocation for one or more ports, wherein logical allocation policies govern at least one of 1) the number of logical sockets that are allocated to the one or more logical ports, 2) a maximum number of logical sockets shared between a grouping of two or more logical ports, and 3) a maximum number of logical sockets. The method includes determining if the first logical socket allocation policy allows for allocation of the logical socket for the network source to communicate. The method includes allocating a logical socket. | 2012-11-22 |
