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20080294607 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO PROVIDE TARGETED CONTENT TO USERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system, apparatus, and method for providing targeted content to users of a social network. The system, apparatus, and method may be used to provide advertisements, promotions, and other relevant content to a user of a social network based on analysis of the user's preferences, interests, and tastes as expressed in data contained in the user's social network. Additional targeted-content may be selected and provided to a user based on the preferences, interests, and tastes of a user's friends within the social network. | 11-27-2008 |
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20140032676 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERY OF MUSIC WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, apparatus, and method to assist in the discovery of music or other content by members of a social network. The present invention permits network members to network together and share information about their music collections and listening habits with a processing platform and with each other. The processing platform processes music library content and playback related data to produce similarity and compatibility measures between artists (that is, an artist-to-artist measure) and between network members (that is, a network member-to-network member measure). By combining the content and playback related data with filtering mechanisms, recommendation techniques (which may be based on the calculated measures), and set membership concepts, the present invention provides network members of the network with tools to discover artists and/or songs that are likely to be of interest to them. | 01-30-2014 |
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20110026454 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a communication system comprises exchanging initial communications between a wireless communication device and a communication network over a wireless connection between the wireless communication device and a network access system and over a network connection between the wireless device and the communication network. The method further comprises, in response to a loss of the network connection due to a deterioration of the wireless connection, determining if a partial network entry process is possible to regain the connection, and if the partial network entry process is possible to regain the network connection, performing the partial network entry process. The method further comprises, in response to an improvement of the wireless connection and upon regaining the network connection, exchanging new communications between the wireless communication device and the communication network over the wireless connection and the network connection. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026455 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a communication system comprises exchanging initial communications between a wireless communication device and a communication network over a wireless connection between the wireless communication device and a network access system and a network connection between the wireless communication device and the communication network. The method further comprises performing a plurality of ranging processes to monitor a status of the wireless connection. Upon successfully completing a ranging process of the plurality of ranging processes, the method comprises determining a duration elapsed since the last successful ranging process and processing the duration to determine if the duration satisfies a criteria. The method further comprises, if the duration does not satisfy the criteria, then setting the indicator to indicate that a partial entry process is required to regain the network connection, and in response to the deterioration of the wireless link, processing the indicator to determine if the partial network entry process is required to regain the network connection. | 02-03-2011 |