Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080229358 | Program selection assistant for IP TV - A method and a system are disclosed for providing program selection information to users of IP TV services. The program selection information provides users with real-time information about the viewing behavior of other users. The program selection information can be used by a user to select a particular television program, and can be used in addition to the information that is contained in an electronic program guide (EPG). | 09-18-2008 |
20080306974 | Network service for user-controlled allocation of data items - A network service processes an electronic data item, addressed to a user, under control of rules specified by the user. The service is configured to process the item regardless of the software application used by the supplier of the item to deliver the item. | 12-11-2008 |
20080313303 | Device and Method for the Provisioning of Personal Service Hosting - It is disclosed that a personal service box ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090141147 | Auto zoom display system and method - Auto zoom display system and method for user interaction with a display screen. The auto zoom display system has a display screen for displaying an image, and a viewing distance detector. The display screen and viewing distance detector are connected to a processing system, the processing system being arranged to detect a viewing distance between a user and the display screen. Furthermore, a zoom property of the displayed image is adjusted depending on the detected viewing distance. | 06-04-2009 |
20090150956 | Television program broadcasting arrangement, and method - A television program broadcasting arrangement includes a television program broadcasting network, at least one broadcast system, a television program receiver, a data network, a presence server, and a presence client. The at least one broadcast system is configured to broadcast television programs via a plurality of network channels. The television program receiver is configured to receive television programs that are broadcast via the television program broadcasting network. The presence server is configured to provide the data network with television channel presence information associated with the network channels. The presence client is configured to receive the presence information, provided by the presence server, via the data network. The presence client and television receiver are associated with one another such that the television receiver is controllable via the presence client. | 06-11-2009 |
20090163196 | Community photo service on a data network - A service is provided to a user of a mobile electronic device. The device has an interface to a data network, a component for capturing information, and a user interface for control of the device. The service configures the device for identifying a predetermined network address on the data network without user intervention and for automatically initiating setting-up a unidirectional data communication of the captured information to the predetermined network address, all upon user actuation of an element in the user interface. | 06-25-2009 |
20090271440 | Personal Address Book Communication Service - A communication service is provided for establishing via a communication network a communication from a first party to a second party. The service receives from the first party data including a first identifier for identifying the first party to the service, and a second identifier for identifying the second party to the service when combined with the first identifier. The data is used as an entry to a database for determining a communication address of the second party. The service then initiates the communication between the first and second parties on the basis of the communication address determined. | 10-29-2009 |
20100005532 | Software Usage Controlled by CPU Utilization - A data processing apparatus has a data processor manager that checks and updates the credit account that is associated with the usage of a software application at the apparatus. The processor manager determines whether or not to proceed with execution of the software application dependent on the number of processor cycles left in the credit account. If the number of processor cycles in the account falls below a predetermined threshold, the software application is barred from being executed further. The user then can replenish the account by means of purchasing or otherwise obtaining further credits in terms of processor cycles for spending on the future execution of the software application. In this manner, a scenario is implemented for a business model based on prepaid software wherein the user pays exactly for the actual usage in terms of processor cycles. | 01-07-2010 |
20100011398 | Method and System for Automatic IP TV Program Generation - According to this invention content can be uploaded by an upload device ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100076955 | DATA NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON PROFILING CLIENT-ADDRESSES - A service is provided on a data network. The data network comprises a plurality of clients and one or more servers. Each specific client has a specific network address. In a database, respective groups are formed of the network addresses. Each respective group has a respective profile. Each respective profile is determined by one or more respective commonalities in requests sent by the clients to the one or more servers over a period of time. Each specific network address is grouped in at least one specific group based on the requests sent by the specific client and matching a specific profile. | 03-25-2010 |
20110131311 | Optimizing Buddy Finder Telecommunication Service - A service is provided to users of communication devices present in a geographic service area. Each device is associated with a specific user. The service comprises conditionally alerting a user, via his/her communication device, to a presence of another device of another user. The alerting occurs if the other user is registered as a buddy of the user and if a geographical distance between the user's device and the buddy's device is smaller than a pre-determined threshold. A succession of polling cycles is run. In each polling cycle, the mobile devices are sequentially polled based on location and according to a ranking determined in a preceding polling cycle that minimizes a value of a sum of terms. Each respective term indicates a respective difference between rankings of the mobile device of the respective user and of the mobile device of the buddy of the respective user. | 06-02-2011 |
20120331551 | Detecting Phishing Attempt from Packets Marked by Network Nodes - A service is provided to an end-user of a first data communication device when receiving via a data network a plurality of data packets from a second data communication device. At least a particular data packet has been marked with node attribute data by one or more network nodes. The attribute data is indicative of a path of the data packet across the data network. An identifier, as declared by the second device is determined and correlated with one or more reference identifiers registered in advance. If there is a correlation, the node attribute data is correlated with reference attribute data registered in advance as associated with the reference identifier. If there is a discrepancy between the node attribute data and the reference attribute data, an alert is issued. | 12-27-2012 |