Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080273702 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ATTACHING A TITLE KEY TO ENCRYPTED CONTENT FOR SYNCHRONIZED TRANSMISSION TO A RECIPIENT - A method and system for attaching a title key to encrypted content for synchronized transmission to, or storage by, a recipient is provided. Specifically, under the present invention, an elementary media stream is parceled into content units that each include a content packet and a header. The content packets are encrypted with one or more title keys. Once the content packets have been encrypted, the title keys are themselves encrypted with a key encrypting key. The encrypted title keys are then attached to the corresponding encrypted content packets for synchronized transmission to a recipient. | 11-06-2008 |
20090177536 | DYNAMIC, SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN CHARGING MODELS FOR MEDIA DISTRIBUTION - A system and method is provided to implement charging models for subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving content of a first media type over a network from a sending client. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to a receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes generating a billing record based on the content and user preferences of a sending client and/or a receiving client. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177794 | SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN MEDIA AGNOSTIC CONTENT DELIVERY ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to the receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes notifying at least the receiving client that the content is to be received by the preferred device. | 07-09-2009 |
20090182888 | SOURCE UPDATING FOR STREAMING BASED SERVERS - A method includes the steps of: detecting a request from a client to restart a streamed multimedia presentation from a new starting point; determining if an update to a source file of the streamed multimedia presentation is available; if the update is available: closing the source file, opening the update, and establishing a link to the existing data channel; locating the new starting point of the streamed multimedia presentation; and streaming the multimedia presentation from the new starting point. | 07-16-2009 |
20090201812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RULES BASED WORKFLOW OF MEDIA SERVICES - A method for executing services over an enterprise service bus includes analyzing a message of a first service to a second service to determine a nature of a digital media object sent from the first service to the second service, analyzing one or more media rules to determine whether one or more intermediary services are to be performed based on the nature of the digital media object, and when it is determined that one or more intermediary services are to be performed, executing, after the first service and before the second service, the one or more intermediary services. | 08-13-2009 |
20090299809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ALLOW AN END USER TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A SUB WORKFLOW - A first party, such as a service provider maintains a workflow, and defines at least one access point therein. The first party obtains, from a second party, such as an end user, a specification of at least one sub workflow, for insertion at the access point. The first party runs the workflow. The first party obtains, from the second party, an indication of identity of the second party. During the processing of the workflow, the first party executes the sub workflow, when the access point is reached, based on the indication of identity of the second party. The processing of the workflow thus produces a customized result for the second party. | 12-03-2009 |
20090313300 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING ACTIONS ASSOCIATED TO OPERATIONS ON RICH MEDIA OBJECTS - Utilizing a service oriented architecture middleware to allow services to process media, the method including dynamically defining one or more media properties and operations available to a service, generating a media object with selected properties and operations, communicating the media object to the services, dynamically defining an action associated to an operation in response to an operation request from the service, implementing the action and communicating the result of the action to the service. | 12-17-2009 |
20100174931 | MANAGING ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION BY CONFIGURING ELEMENTS OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM - A method and system for managing electric power consumption by elements of a distributed computing system comprises: determining one or more system metrics that relate to electric power usage as consumed by elements of a configured distributed environment; determining a system value in response to the one or more system metrics, the value determined according to one or more value criteria; and, while in-progress applications are being run in the computing environment, evaluating one or more potential changes in the distributed computing environment and determining an alternate system value based on the changes; and, re-configuring elements of the distributed computing environment dynamically while the computing environment is operating, in accordance with a determined alternate system value. The re-configuring elements step is in accordance with a potential change operative to alter electric power consumption. | 07-08-2010 |
20100287295 | ARCHITECTURE FOR BUILDING MULTI-MEDIA STREAMING APPLICATIONS - A streaming engine and method includes a plurality of input types configured to pass one of samples and frames from an input stream. A processing block is configured to process the samples and frames independently of input and output types and produce any kind of output samples and frames in accordance with processing elements employed in the processing block. A plurality of output types is configured to initiate a session which determines connections between inputs and outputs so that the samples and the frames are received from the processing block in accordance with the session to appropriately direct the stream. | 11-11-2010 |
20110246658 | DATA EXCHANGE OPTIMIZATION IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for optimizing data exchange in a peer-to-peer network (PTPN). In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of optimizing real-time data exchange in a peer-to-peer network (PTPN), the method comprising: receiving, from each peer in the PTPN: an upload limit of the peer; a download limit of the peer; and a delay to each other peer in the PTPN; determining, for each peer in the PTPN: a rate at which data may be transferred to at least one other peer in the PTPN (transfer rate); and a rate at which data may be received from at least one other peer in the PTPN (receive rate); and instructing each peer in the PTPN to: transfer data to at least one other peer in the PTPN at the transfer rate; and receive data from at least one other peer in the PTPN at the receive rate. | 10-06-2011 |
20110286718 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION - A system and method for recording a collaborative session includes two phases. One is performed in real-time and includes determining portions of a composite image of collaborative session content that are constant over time or preprocessed. The portions are removed from the composite image of the collaborative session content. Remaining content of the composite image and any of the portions not already compressed is compressed and stored. A second phase is performed when off-line and includes decoding the remaining content of the composite image and the portions to reconstruct the composite image of the collaborative session content and formatting the composite image. | 11-24-2011 |
20120151027 | POLICY DRIVEN DYNAMIC COMPOSITION OF SERVICE DATAFLOWS - An information processing system receives a request from a client. A first set of dataflows that enforces at least one set of policies is retrieved in response to receiving the request. Each dataflow in the first set of dataflows is a software component that processes a set of messages sent from the client to a service. A dataflow execution plan is generated that include the first set of dataflows. At least one dataflow in the first set of dataflows is determined to be associated with a dataflow policy. At least a second set of dataflows associated with the dataflow policy is retrieved in response to the determining. At the at least second set of dataflows is inserted into the dataflow execution plan preceding the at least one dataflow. | 06-14-2012 |
20120233249 | SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN MEDIA AGNOSTIC CONTENT DELIVERY ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to the receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes notifying at least the receiving client that the content is to be received by the preferred device. | 09-13-2012 |
20130007248 | POLICY DRIVEN DYNAMIC COMPOSITION OF SERVICE DATAFLOWS - An information processing system receives a request from a client. A first set of dataflows that enforces at least one set of policies is retrieved in response to receiving the request. Each dataflow in the first set of dataflows is a software component that processes a set of messages sent from the client to a service. A dataflow execution plan is generated that include the first set of dataflows. At least one dataflow in the first set of dataflows is determined to be associated with a dataflow policy. At least a second set of dataflows associated with the dataflow policy is retrieved in response to the determining. At the at least second set of dataflows is inserted into the dataflow execution plan preceding the at least one dataflow. | 01-03-2013 |
20130346407 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE MEDIA AND INFORMATION - Systems and methods for creating and processing context sensitive media objects are disclosed. One method is directed to processing a context sensitive media object in a target context. The method includes receiving an object with one or more object rules embedded within the object such that the one or more object rules are propagated with the object. Further, a determination of whether the object is context sensitive is made. If the object is context sensitive, the method prioritizes between the one or more object rules and one or more context rules related to a target context. In addition, a determination of which method or methods should be executed to process the object in the target context is made based on the prioritization. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140114784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM-FITTING SERVICES TO CONSUMER REQUIREMENTS - Systems and methods for custom-fitting a service solution to consumer requirements are provided. A method for custom-fitting a service solution to consumer requirements, comprises acquiring a request for the service solution from a consumer via a conversational interface, and issuing a query to a service knowledge base to obtain a set of service knowledge representation items from the service knowledge base and analyzing each service knowledge representation item to determine whether a custom-fit service solution can be developed. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM-FITTING SERVICES TO CONSUMER REQUIREMENTS - Systems and methods for custom-fitting a service solution to consumer requirements are provided. A method for custom-fitting a service solution to consumer requirements, comprises acquiring a request for the service solution from a consumer via a conversational interface, and issuing a query to a service knowledge base to obtain a set of service knowledge representation items from the service knowledge base and analyzing each service knowledge representation item to determine whether a custom-fit service solution can be developed. | 04-24-2014 |
20140136722 | STREAMING DATA ON DATA PROCESSES - A method, system and computer program product for servicing media content. In one embodiment, the media content is processed by having each of a group of services process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and the order in which the services process these increments is orchestrated to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure. In one embodiment, the increments of the media content are passed, one increment after another, to at least a plurality of the services in a defined order. In an embodiment, each time one of the plurality of services passes one of the increments of the media content to a subsequent one of the services in the defined order, the one of the plurality of services requests another increment of the media content from a preceding one of the services in the defined order. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136725 | STREAMING DATA ON DATA PROCESSES - A method, system and computer program product for servicing media content. In one embodiment, the media content is processed by having each of a group of services process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and the order in which the services process these increments is orchestrated to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure. In one embodiment, the increments of the media content are passed, one increment after another, to at least a plurality of the services in a defined order. In an embodiment, each time one of the plurality of services passes one of the increments of the media content to a subsequent one of the services in the defined order, the one of the plurality of services requests another increment of the media content from a preceding one of the services in the defined order. | 05-15-2014 |
20140164166 | PROVIDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESILIENCY IN A CLOUD-BASED SERVICES MARKETPLACE - A method for providing a cloud-based service includes receiving information from a customer of the service over a conversational interface, the information identifying a requirement of the customer related to a resiliency of the service, and identifying a service provider who provides the service in a manner that satisfies the requirement. A method for building a knowledge base of cloud-based service providers includes receiving information from a service provider, the information specifying at least one resiliency attribute of the service provider, matching the information to a standardized service descriptor, wherein the service descriptor is indexed within an ontology-based organizational framework that indexes a plurality of service descriptors, and storing the service descriptor for the service provider. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164184 | PROVIDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESILIENCY IN A CLOUD-BASED SERVICES MARKETPLACE - A system for providing a cloud-based service includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium that stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving information from a customer of the cloud-based service over a conversational interface, the information identifying a requirement of the customer related to a resiliency of the service, and identifying at least one service provider who provides the cloud-based service in a manner that satisfies the requirement of the customer. Another embodiment of a system for providing a cloud-based service includes a conversational interface for receiving information from a customer of the cloud-based service, the information identifying a requirement of the customer related to a resiliency of the service and a resiliency analysis engine for identifying at least one service provider who provides the cloud-based service in a manner that satisfies the requirement of the customer. | 06-12-2014 |
20140337010 | INTERACTIVE ACQUISITION OF REMOTE SERVICES - A natural language specification of at least one high level information technology services requirement is obtained from a user, via a conversational interface; the same is parsed into first pre-defined semi-structured data, using a conversation parser. Based on the first pre-defined semi-structured data, a subset of candidate information technology services is identified, with a dialog engine, from a plurality of candidate information technology services provided by a plurality of vendors, the dialog engine is used to formulate a response including second pre-defined semi-structured data. The response is reverse-parsed into a natural language response, using the conversation parser. The natural language response includes a question for the user to assist in further refining the subset of candidate information technology services; the natural language response is presented to the user via the conversational interface. | 11-13-2014 |
20140366082 | OPTIMIZING RISK-BASED COMPLIANCE OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) SYSTEM - For each of a plurality of endpoints of an information technology system having a plurality of security policies, a probability of being safe of each of said endpoints is determined according to each of said security policies. Said determining takes into account probability of security compromise for a single violation of each given one of said security policies. A risk-aware compliance metric is determined for said information technology system based on each of said probabilities of being safe for each of said endpoints and each of said policies. At least one of an operation and a remediation is carried out on said information technology system based on said risk-aware compliance metric. Techniques for optimizing risk-aware compliance are also provided. | 12-11-2014 |