| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100070845 | SHARED WEB 2.0 ANNOTATIONS LINKED TO CONTENT SEGMENTS OF WEB DOCUMENTS - A Web document including Web content can be presented within a user interface. At least one content segment of the Web document can be associated with a visual identifier. At least one annotation can be associated with said content segment of the Web document. The annotation can be presented within an annotation view of the user interface. The annotation can include content provided by another in commentary to the Web document and in particular in commentary to the content segment of the Web document. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100174789 | RESTFUL FEDERATION OF REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A computer-implemented method that includes determining whether a predetermined collaboration client application is available locally at a local client, and using a proxy to integrate the collaboration client application into a web application of a web browser at the local client when the collaboration client application is unavailable locally at the local client, providing real-time presence awareness information of a plurality of users to a first user via the web application at the web browser, receiving, from the first user via the web application, a selection of at least one user of the plurality of users, with whom the first user desires to perform one or more real-time collaboration services, and determining at least one real-time collaboration service that is available via the web browser for use between the first user and the selected user, based at least in part on the real-time presence awareness information of the selected user. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100312793 | DISPLAYING RELEVANCY OF RESULTS FROM MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SEARCHES USING HEATMAPS - A multi-dimensional search can be performed for each search term within a search phrase. Individual relevancies that represent the relevance to each search term can be determined for each search result. An overall relevancy can be calculated based on the individual relevancies. The individual relevancies can be displayed using a heatmap that depicts the relationship between the individual relevancies. In addition, the heatmap may be color-coded based on the overall or individual relevancies. | 12-09-2010 |
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| 20080263225 | Context-Sensitive Confidentiality within Federated Environments - Techniques are disclosed for achieving context-sensitive confidentiality within a federated environment for which content is aggregated in a distributed Web portal (or similar aggregation framework), ensuring that message portions that should be confidential are confidential to all entities in the federated environment except those entities to which the message portions may properly be divulged. The federation may comprise an arbitrary number of autonomous security domains, and these security domains may have independent trust models and authentication services. Using the disclosed techniques, messages can be routed securely within a cross-domain federation (irrespective of routing paths), thereby ensuring that confidential information is not exposed to unintended third parties and that critical information is not tampered with while in transit between security domains. Preferred embodiments leverage Web services techniques and a number of industry standards. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090313467 | FEDERATED IDENTITY BROKERING - A method, system and apparatus for federated identity brokering. In accordance with the present invention, a credential processing gateway can be disposed between one or more logical services and one or more service requesting clients in a computer communications network. Acting as a proxy and a trusted authority to the logical services, the credential processing gateway can map the credentials of the service requesting clients to the certification requirements of the logical services. In this way, the credential processing gateway can act as a federated identity broker in providing identity certification services for a multitude of different service requesting clients without requiring the logical services to include a pre-configuration for specifically processing the credentials of particular service requesting clients. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100192197 | Context-Sensitive Confidentiality within Federated Environments - Techniques are disclosed for achieving context-sensitive confidentiality within a federated environment for which content is aggregated in a distributed Web portal (or similar aggregation framework), ensuring that message portions that should be confidential are confidential to all entities in the federated environment except those entities to which the message portions may properly be divulged. The federation may comprise an arbitrary number of autonomous security domains, and these security domains may have independent trust models and authentication services. Using the disclosed techniques, messages can be routed securely within a cross-domain federation (irrespective of routing paths), thereby ensuring that confidential information is not exposed to unintended third parties and that critical information is not tampered with while in transit between security domains. Preferred embodiments leverage Web services techniques and a number of industry standards. | 07-29-2010 |
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| 20080242318 | Consolidating Online Privacy Preferences - User privacy preferences are consolidated for location-based services. A mobile user is able to control the service providers to which the mobile user's location is transmitted as well as control the service providers from which the user wishes to receive content. Service providers and other online vendors request the location and network identifiers of mobile users in order to provide the mobile users with content. The user's privacy preferences are described in a document that includes the location format being used by the user, a link to the user's preference data, and the current location of the user's mobile device. The privacy preference file includes global privacy preferences that apply when the user is outside of established privacy locations and one or more privacy locations defined by geographical boundaries. These preferences apply while the user is inside the defined privacy location. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090232047 | SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTING AD HOC PICONETS TO WIDE AREA NETWORKS - A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using an ad hoc piconet protocol, and a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with a wide area network using a wide area network protocol. The application server also includes a service manifest that is configured to determine ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090232048 | Computer Program Products for Connecting Ad Hoc Piconets to Wide Area Networks - A hyper-scatternet includes a first ad hoc piconet, a second ad hoc piconet and a wide area network, wherein the first and second ad hoc piconets are configured to communicate with one another via the wide area network. Each ad hoc piconet can include an application server that includes an ad hoc piconet interface that is configured to communicate with an ad hoc piconet using an ad hoc piconet protocol, and a wide area network interface that is configured to communicate with a wide area network using a wide area network protocol. The application server also includes a service manifest that is configured to determine ad hoc piconet services that are available from the ad hoc piconet via the ad hoc piconet interface, and to advertise the ad hoc piconet services to the wide area network as wide area network services via the wide area network interface. | 09-17-2009 |