Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090276529 | CONNECTING EXTERNAL DEVICES TO A GAMING VOICE CHAT SERVICE - Voice chat enhances the game playing experience by allowing gamers in different locations to have conversations within the gaming environment. Functionality can be implemented within a gaming system to send an external invitation a user who is logged out of the game system to participate in a voice chat and/or multiplayer game session. The user can choose to accept the invitation and participate in the voice chat session on a device such as a mobile phone. Automatically generating external requests improves convenience for players, especially when inviting several other players to a voice chat session, because they do not have to find external contact information for each player who is not logged in. | 11-05-2009 |
20110022565 | COHERENCY OF RELATED OBJECTS - A service, which in one embodiment is a fashion social network, applies pre-defined criteria to items proposed for selection by a user, in order to determine if the proposed items are compatible with descriptive attributes and/or current possessions of the user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110035258 | ADDING CURRENTLY-PREVIEWED MEDIA TITLE TO LIST FOR FUTURE USE - A user viewing a preview of a media title using a media player can elect to add that media title to a list for future use, such as a future rentals list maintained by a rental media provider. The media player communicates with the rental media provider for updating a list for the user which is stored at (or accessible to) the provider. Optionally, a filtering capability may be provided to suppress viewing of particular previews which are stored on media inserted into the media player (for example, because the user has already rented the previewed media title, because the preview does not match filtering criteria such as parental controls, etc.). The filtering may comprise preventing media titles from being added to the future rentals list. Optionally, substitute previews may be provided for the previews which are suppressed by the filtering. | 02-10-2011 |
20110052158 | RENDERABLE CONTENT PARTITIONING AND PORTABILITY - A storable duration of renderable content, based upon available memory for storage of renderable content associated with a mobile device, is determined in response to detecting a request for a portion of renderable content via an input device. The request for the portion of the renderable content based upon the storable duration is sent to a renderable content storage device, where the renderable content is identified by a content identifier. A content partition identifier and the portion of the renderable content having a duration less than or equal to the storable duration is received at the mobile device in response to the request. The content identifier, the content partition identifier, and the portion of the renderable content are stored within the available memory for storage of renderable content associated with the mobile device. | 03-03-2011 |
20110075884 | Automatic Retrieval of Object Interaction Relationships - A method for automatically retrieving interaction information between objects, including: with a server, transforming a first image and a second image submitted to said server from a source into first and second sets of parameters, respectively; searching a database for an interaction relationship between the first and second images using the first and second sets of parameters; and returning a representation of the interaction relationship to the source. | 03-31-2011 |
20120172098 | SUGGESTING GAME ROLES FOR DIFFERENT PLAYERS BASED ON A PLAYER'S GAMING STATISTICS FROM OTHER GAMES - In one embodiment of the invention, game specific statistics for previously played games are obtained for each player of a game. Weights and corresponding generic attributes are associated with each game specific statistic. For each game specific statistics, a generic attribute score is computed based on the corresponding weight and generic attribute. In response to a request to play a game, generic attributes are determined for each role of the game. For each generic attribute of each role of the game, the generic attribute scores of each player are compared and a specific role is suggested for each player. If all the players accept their respective and suggested roles, then those roles are assigned to the players. If one or more players rejects a suggested role, that player may request a different role and another role will be suggested for that player. | 07-05-2012 |
20130159709 | SESSION COMPLETION THROUGH CO-BROWSING - A method, system and computer program product for session completion through co-browsing is claimed. The method can include establishing a content browsing session between a first computing device and a content server serving access to content to the first computing device and maintaining state data for the content browsing session. A co-browsing arrangement of the content can be created as between the first computing device and a second computing device and at least a subset of the state data can be cloned for use by the second computing device during co-browsing of the content. Thereafter, a modified form of the subset of the state data can be received from the second computing device resulting from the co-browsing of the content by the second computing device and the modified form of the subset of the state data can be provided to the first computing device for use during the content browsing session. | 06-20-2013 |
20140052868 | COBROWSING MACROS - Methods and systems of conducting co-browsing sessions may involve joining a co-browsing session with another peer device, receiving a plurality of web requests in a particular sequence from a macro, and transmitting the plurality of web requests in the particular sequence to a server associated with the co-browsing session. In one example, the particular sequence defines a navigation path to a requested resource. | 02-20-2014 |
20140289722 | PARALLEL PROGRAM INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION - A method, computer-readable storage medium, and computer system are provided. In an embodiment, begin installation of a first program product with an installation manager. Poll the first program product to determine whether an operation milestone has been reached during the installation of the first program product. Upon detecting an operation milestone, performing the parallel operation substantially concurrent with the installation. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289723 | PSEUDO PROGRAM USE DURING PROGRAM INSTALLATION - A method, computer-readable storage medium, and computer system are provided. In an embodiment, install a first program product with an installation manager. Run a pseudo first program product while the first program product is installing. Perform functions of the first program product with the pseudo first program product while the first program product is installing. | 09-25-2014 |