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20090024923 | Embedded Video Player - A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024927 | Embedded Video Playlists - A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist. | 01-22-2009 |
20120042250 | EMBEDDED VIDEO PLAYER - A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist. | 02-16-2012 |
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20120076354 | IMAGE RECOGNITION BASED UPON A BROADCAST SIGNATURE - Methods and apparatus for processing image data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, via an image sensor, an image that includes a plurality of objects including a target object, and receiving, from the target object, via a medium other than the image sensor, distinguishing information that is broadcast by the target object. The distinguishing information distinguishes the target object from other objects, and is used to select, within the captured image, the target object from among the other objects. | 03-29-2012 |
20140082745 | CONTENT-DRIVEN SCREEN POLARIZATION WITH APPLICATION SESSIONS - The disclosure relates to rendering content on a display. An embodiment creates a plurality of sessions between the display and a content delineating device, determines, by the content delineating device, a sensitivity level of content, and renders content having a first sensitivity level in a first session and content having a second sensitivity level in a second session. | 03-20-2014 |
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20140241354 | ESTABLISHING GROUPS OF INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES AND ENABLING COMMUNICATION AMONG THE GROUPS OF IOT DEVICES - The disclosure generally relates to enabling communication among one or more Internet of Things (IoT) device groups. In particular, various heterogeneous IoT devices that may need to interact with one another in different ways may be organized into IoT device groups to support efficient interaction among the IoT devices. For example, pre-defined IoT device groups may be formed organize certain IoT devices that perform similar activities and certain IoT devices may be dynamically allocated to ad-hoc IoT device groups for certain contexts (e.g., the ad-hoc IoT device groups may include IoT devices that can implement a desired function and therefore be dynamically formed to implement the desired function). Furthermore, the IoT groups may communicate hierarchically, wherein messages may be exchanged among IoT group owners or ranking members to support efficient communication between different IoT groups. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244834 | METHODS TO DISCOVER, CONFIGURE, AND LEVERAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) NETWORKS - The disclosure generally relates to various methods to discover, configure, and leverage relationships in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. More particularly, the methods disclosed herein may support automated processes to create configurable sub-divisions and access controls in an IoT network based on usage associated with objects that are registered in the IoT network and interactions among the registered objects. Furthermore, in one embodiment, relationships between IoT devices that belong to different users may be implicitly discovered and/or ranked based on meetings (e.g., interactions) between the IoT devices, and relationships between the different users may likewise be implicitly discovered and/or ranked. Moreover, locations and interactions associated with IoT devices may be tracked over time to further discover user-specific and potentially asymmetric relationships among the IoT devices and/or the users associated therewith (e.g., where one user considers another user a close friend and the other user considers the first user an acquaintance). | 08-28-2014 |
20140324591 | SELECTIVELY AUTHENTICATING A GROUP OF DEVICES AS BEING IN A SHARED ENVIRONMENT BASED ON LOCALLY CAPTURED AMBIENT SOUND - In an embodiment, two or more local wireless peer-to-peer connected user equipments (UEs) capture local ambient sound, and report information associated with the captured local ambient sound to an authentication device. The authentication device compares the reported information to determine a degree of environmental similarity for the UEs, and selectively authenticates the UEs as being in a shared environment based on the determined degree of environmental similarity. A given UE among the two or more UEs selects a target UE for performing a given action based on whether the authentication device authenticates the UEs as being in the shared environment. | 10-30-2014 |
20150081904 | USER INTERACTIVE APPLICATION ENABLED GATEWAY - The disclosure is related to providing interconnectivity between a plurality of user devices. A wireless interconnectivity device connects to a first user device of the plurality of user devices over a first local wireless network, connects to a second user device of the plurality of user devices over a second local wireless network, receives a request from the first user device to transfer data from the first user device to the second user device, determines whether or not a third user device has granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device, and transfers the data from the first user device to the second user device based on the third user device having granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device. | 03-19-2015 |
20150113621 | PEER BASED AUTHENTICATION - The disclosure is related to confirming an identity of a first user of a first user device. An aspect includes receiving a request to confirm the identity of the first user, determining whether or not there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and a second user of a second user device or the second user device based on a first list of user interactions associated with the first user device and a second list of user interactions associated with the second user device, and confirming the identity of the first user based on determining that there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and the second user or the second user device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150133125 | NORMALIZING LOCATION IDENTIFIERS FOR PROCESSING IN MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS - The disclosure is related to calculating a relative distance between a first node and a second node in a wireless network. An aspect of the disclosure includes detecting a plurality of transitions of a user device from the first node to the second node, determining a relationship between the first node and the second node based on the plurality of transitions, and calculating the relative distance between the first node and the second node based on the determined relationship. | 05-14-2015 |
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20090187593 | Methods and Apparatus for Targeted Media Content Delivery and Acquisition in a Wireless Communication Network - Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided for targeted media content acquisition on a wireless device. The wireless device selects media content to receive based on a resident user profile, locally constructed based on passive user data, active user data and user inference data drawn from the passive and active user data. Additionally, aspects provide for grouping of the media content prior to distribution, including communicating groups of related data in unison to limit the number of times that a wireless device needs to tune-in and/or wake-up to receive the media content, thereby reducing power consumption. | 07-23-2009 |
20090282111 | Methods and Apparatus for Referring Media Content - Methods, devices, computer program products and systems are provided for referring media content at communication devices, such as wireless communication devices. The methods, systems and devices allow for all forms of media content to be referred, such as audio, video, multimedia content and the like and, in particular advertising content. In addition, the methods, systems and device provide for the content providers to optimize the delivery schedules and/or methods of delivery based on the volume of referrals. In addition, by tracking the volume of referrals, content providers can alter billing structure, such as advertising rates associated with advertising content. | 11-12-2009 |
20100005164 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CONTROL CHANNEL IN A DATA NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for providing a control channel in a data network. A method is provided that operates to provide a control channel in a data network. The method includes receiving one or more server digests, and generating a control channel digest from the one or more server digests. The method also includes communicating with a device, and transmitting the control channel digest to the device. | 01-07-2010 |
20100142438 | MESSAGE BROADCASTING OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate broadcasting and receiving messages in a wireless media broadcast network. Mobile devices are equipped to receive media over a broadcast network where presentation of the data can be enabled through a content policy. Broadcast messages can be provisioned and delivered over the network such that mobile devices can receive the message regardless of the level or existence of purchased content. The messages can be broadcast for multiple purposes, including emergency messages, which can come from an emergency or amber alert system, venue and/or location specific messages, etc. The messages can be broadcast at a regional level as well by leveraging such functionality of the media broadcast network. | 06-10-2010 |
20130007172 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT BASED NOTIFICATION USING HIERARCHICAL GROUPS - Methods and apparatus for content based notification using hierarchical groups. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide an event notification. The method includes maintaining an event description dictionary comprising one or more event descriptors, and associating content with a selected event descriptor. The method also includes compressing the selected event descriptor to generate a compressed event descriptor, and transmitting the compressed event descriptor on a notification channel. | 01-03-2013 |