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20100229121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING, AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING ATTENTION HOTSPOTS IN SHARED MEDIA - A method and system for providing an attention hotspot in temporal media is provided and executes following explicit or implicit user actions. The method comprises identifying at least one event related to playback or browsing of the temporal media, deriving the significance of the identified event in accordance with one or more rules, assigning a signifier based on the derived significance of the event, and associating the signifier with a specific segment of the temporal media and user. The system comprises a server and a mobile device, wherein the server is operable to identify at least one event related to playback of the temporal media, derive the significance of the identified event in accordance with one or more rules, select a signifier based on the derived significance of the event, and associate the signifier with a specific segment of the temporal media. The server aggregates and averages the cumulative attention hotspots of a greater community for the purposes of improving user experience. The server provides the signifier(s) to the mobile device. A computer program product embodying the method is also disclosed. | 09-09-2010 |
20100233999 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIVACY-ENABLED MOBILE LOCATOR SERVICES WITH DYNAMIC ENCOUNTER HORIZON - A method and system for managing awareness information relating to a mobile device's visibility with respect to other buddy devices, the system comprising; the mobile device, a mobile application listing one or more buddies, an application listener which tracks the one or more buddies zoom operations and radar zoom factors, and a server, the server comprising an encounter manager, an approach manager and a notification marshalling system. | 09-16-2010 |
20110178969 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY IN HOME ENVIRONMENTS - Method and system for improving personal productivity in home environments may store state information associated with an environment and one or more users in a knowledge base, detected activity of a user, infer location of the user based on the detected activity, and suggest one or more tasks to be performed based on the inferred user location. | 07-21-2011 |
20110238379 | ENABLING CAPTURE, TRANSMISSION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF RELATIVE CAUSITIVE CONTEXTURAL HISTORY FOR RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED STREAM COMPUTING APPLICATIONS - A scalable middleware for supporting energy-efficient, long-term remote health monitoring and the capture and transmission of relative causative contextual history where data is collected using physiological sensors and transported back to the middleware through a mobile device serving as a gateway. The key to energy efficient operations lies in the adoption of an Activity Triggered Deep Monitoring paradigm, where data collection episodes are triggered only when the system is determined to possess a specified set of causative contexts. The system supports on-demand collection of causative contextual history using a low-overhead provenance collection sub-system. In a preferred embodiment the behavior of this sub-system is configured using an application-defined context composition graph. The resulting causative context history stream provides valuable insight into the states and conditions surround sensor readings and allows improved human interpretation of the ‘episodic’ sensor data streams. | 09-29-2011 |
20120002733 | OPTIMIZING EVALUATION PATTERNS AND DATA ACQUISITION FOR STREAM ANALYTICS IN RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS - Mobile wireless devices may receive data streams from multiple remote sensors. The sensors may have limited power supplies and memory capacity. Aspects of the invention use statistical characteristics of the sensor data streams and the cost of acquiring a single element of each stream to determine what sequence the sensors should send their data streams in. The cost of acquiring the data may be, modified dynamically, depending on parameters such as block size. Additional factors, such as a sensor's buffer capacity, may limit the amount of stream elements that may be cached and affect the sensors' stream transmit sequence. The evaluation order may be dynamically modified using an event processing engine, to reflect both changing statistics of underlying sensor stream tuples and time-varying acquisition costs associated with individual streams. This helps to increase in the operational lifetime of the sensors and associated monitoring applications. | 01-05-2012 |
20120028643 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SUPPORT USER-CENTRIC SELECTION OF POINT OF ATTACHMENT THROUGH MOMENTARY INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE CONVEYANCE AND THROUGH CORRELATION OF WEB LINKS TO QUALITY AND EXPERIENCE METRICS - A system and method for improving quality of experience (QoE) of using a mobile device can comprise utilization of stored information relating to RANs of service providers and QoE ratings, receiving an event related to the RANs or to mobile Web browsing actions, receiving requests for QoE metrics based on the event, parsing and interpreting results of the QoE metrics; preparing and beginning an emulation session of the RANs, choosing a presentation style, rendering QoE in accordance with the browser actions and the presentation style which can be purely quantitative comparison, pre-recorded session, limited interaction-emulated session, live interactive session and live automatically controlled non-interactive session, and enabling user input according to the presentation style. The method can comprise standardizing information to allow comparison of the information, rendering network-related information on a display and updating the presentation of the network-related information to maintain a fair representation of the RANs being emulated. | 02-02-2012 |
20120192115 | System and Method for Interactive Projection and Playback of Relevant Media Segments onto the Facets of Three-Dimensional Shapes - A system for interactive media skimming and search on a device comprises a scene manager building a model of a 3D scene of a multimedia segment of the media visible on a screen of the device, facets of scene objects in the 3D scene are used to dynamically convey visual imagery as a texture from a multimedia source and maintaining a logical navigable relationship between the scene objects, the object facets and the multimedia segments, and further comprising an interaction manager, a user manager securely storing user information and preferences, a playback component initiating rough or high definition playback, a texturizer creating a 2D texture artifact from a set of the multimedia segments in the media for a 3D facet, a transformer transforming and modifying pixels, a cache and scene heuristics maintaining a set of 3D scenes comprising objects, object facets, a virtual camera, and positions of the objects. | 07-26-2012 |
20120221700 | System, Method and Program for Telecom Infrastructure Virtualization and Management - A virtualized telecom system and a method for managing service continuity and mobility in a virtualized telecom system. The system comprises a plurality of execution nodes each configured to execute a network function by registering; and a manager node for registering each of the plurality of execution nodes, assigning a node identifier (Node ID) to each of the plurality of execution nodes, periodically polling each of the plurality of execution nodes for a status, and issuing control instructions to each of the plurality of execution nodes based upon the status of a respective execution node. Each of the plurality of execution node responds to the polling by transmitting its status to the manager node. The status includes runtime information and pre-configuration information. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226736 | METHOD AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING MOBILE COALITIONS - A system and method for supporting mobile coalitions for entertainment comprises devices including a master device, a server having a multimedia service executable by the master device and modules operable to recommend formation of a coalition based on the service, invite the devices to participate in the coalition, set up the coalition by determining the devices to participate, launching on each device a link to the coalition, performing emulation of the coalition by streaming a portion of the service to each device until experience is satisfactory, and continuing by transmitting the service to the devices, capture interactions on the devices by users, the interactions comprising at least gestures, taps correlating to messages of quality of experience, adapt the coalition by managing user inputs conveying quality of experience, maintaining synchronization of the devices, and maintaining the service when one or more of the devices cease to participate, and terminate the coalition. | 09-06-2012 |
20120239727 | MULTIMEDIA SERVICE NETWORK AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THE SAME - An overlay service network and method for delivering a multimedia service. The overlay service network comprises a user interface for subscribers to request an available service as a requested service, a register server for registering and storing a database of available services, a plurality of service nodes for executing at least one available service and a controller for receiving a request for an available service, searching the register server for the requested service, selecting one or more of the plurality of service nodes to execute the requested service and establishing a chaining sequence between a node requesting the service, the one or more selected execution nodes and a destination node to execute the requested service. | 09-20-2012 |
20130225126 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIVACY-ENABLED MOBILE LOCATOR SERVICES WITH DYNAMIC ENCOUNTER HORIZON - A method and system for managing awareness information relating to a mobile device's visibility with respect to other buddy devices, the system comprising; the mobile device, a mobile application listing one or more buddies, an application listener which tracks the one or more buddies zoom operations and radar zoom factors, and a server, the server comprising an encounter manager, an approach manager and a notification marshalling system. | 08-29-2013 |
20140074982 | Optimizing Evaluation Patterns and Data Acquisition for Stream Analytics in Resource-Constrained Wireless Environments - Mobile wireless devices may receive data streams from multiple remote sensors. The sensors may have limited power supplies and memory capacity. Aspects of the invention use statistical characteristics of the sensor data streams and the cost of acquiring a single element of each stream to determine what sequence the sensors should send their data streams in. The cost of acquiring the data may be modified dynamically, depending on parameters such as block size. Additional factors, such as a sensor's buffer capacity, may limit the amount of stream elements that may be cached and affect the sensors' stream transmit sequence. The evaluation order may be dynamically modified using an event processing engine, to reflect both changing statistics of underlying sensor stream tuples and time-varying acquisition costs associated with individual streams. This helps to increase in the operational lifetime of the sensors and associated monitoring applications. | 03-13-2014 |
20140080106 | Method and System for Improving Personal Productivity in Home Environments - Method and system for improving personal productivity in home environments may store state information associated with an environment and one or more users in a knowledge base, detected activity of a user, infer location of the user based on the detected activity, and suggest one or more tasks to be performed based on the inferred user location. | 03-20-2014 |
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20090037832 | Method and System for Mashing Up and Presenting Contextual Suggestions to Mobile Users - An inventive system and method for determining and presenting contextual suggestions on a mobile device is presented. The invention comprises a server having an incoming context handler, and a context presentation manager, a notifier, and a goal resolution component all on the mobile device, and user context, wherein the incoming context handler emits an event toward the mobile device, the goal resolution component determines the event causes a change in the user context and forwards notification to the context presentation manager, the notifier receives notification, renders notification on the mobile device, and presents the contextual suggestions based on the change in the user context on the mobile device. The system may further comprise a goal inferral component operable to determine detailed user context based on the event. In one embodiment, the notifier renders notification by causing the mobile device to vibrate, display multiple colors and/or emit sounds. | 02-05-2009 |
20090037928 | System for Intelligent Context-Based Adjustments of Coordination and Communication Between Multiple Mobile Hosts Engaging in Services - A system and method for intelligent, context-sensitive enhancement of transactions among a plurality of mobile hosts, each having a local coordinator, engaging in services comprising an actual coordinator and an intelligence coordinator that determines context regarding the mobile hosts, and leverages the context to enhance the transactions between the local coordinators and the actual coordinator. The context can be leveraged by reducing the number and/or the amount of data of the transactions. The context can comprise a physical location, temporal data, and a network load near and at a network location of the mobile host. The system can also have an application operating on the services, in which the intelligence coordinator can improve performance of the application. The intelligence coordinator can receive and parse a meta-expression piggy-backed on a transaction message to enhance transactions. | 02-05-2009 |
20090081994 | Method and System for Improving Wireless Customer Experience by Anticipating and Explaining Communication Quality Problems Through Notifications - In wireless mobile device system a distributed set of software and/or hardware components provide continual warnings, monitoring, and explanations of device and system communication issues to mobile devices/users. The warnings and explanations are relevant to past, current, and future communications events that cause end-to-end quality problems such as disruptions including “dropped call”. | 03-26-2009 |
20090279483 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS OF HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLES - A system and method for managing wireless communications for a plurality of devices in a high occupancy vehicle is presented. The method comprises steps of creating a global bandwidth usage map across all vehicles, routes, and passengers, transmitting the global bandwidth usage map to a vehicle controller, interpreting the global bandwidth usage map and creating a local usage map, and commanding a wireless concentrator to manage the wireless communications for the devices in accordance with the local usage map. Further, the global map can be created by gathering ticket and route information, obtaining customer productivity data from a network, and parsing obtained data into canonical form. A step of inputting the ticketing information by one of the user, and a ticketing agent can be included. A step of displaying messages using a wireless access application residing on the device can be included. | 11-12-2009 |
20090300498 | Method and System for Generating and Presenting Mobile Content Summarization - This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments to the screen, a rendering module rendering the assigned media segments on the screen, a playback module playing the assigned media segments, a catalog module representing media metadata about the mobile content, a summarization module stewarding the media metadata, and a remote server storing the mobile content and the media metadata. The application retrieves the mobile content from the remote server and accesses the assignment, the rendering, the playback, the catalog, and the summarization modules. The system also comprises a method to log and analyze the browsing interactions of one or more users, and present a view of the media that reflects what is interesting to the user. | 12-03-2009 |
20090300530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-TOUCH-BASED BROWSING OF MEDIA SUMMARIZATIONS ON A HANDHELD DEVICE - The inventive system comprises a touch screen on a mobile device and an application that defines a set of functioning components that provide the functionality for navigating media. The inventive application comprises components including event handling touches on the touch screen, presentation and layout interacting with event handling, content cache storing media and metadata, and content loading connecting to and loading the media and the metadata from a remote storage device, such that the event handling component invokes one or more of the presentation and layout component, the content cache component and the content loading component in response to various touch screen interactions. The various touch screen interactions perform setting a browser shape, setting a range, focus, zoom in and out, and/or level of detail of the media segments, moving laterally in time, resetting a view, annotating and/or viewing annotations, playing, pausing, and stopping the media summarization. | 12-03-2009 |
20110047175 | Querying Target Databases Using Reference Database Records - Input data queries directed at a plurality of target databases and originating from any of a plurality of sources are first converted to validated canonical forms, which are then used to query the target databases. Specifically, upon receiving an input data query, a relatively accurate reference database is selected based on the type of the input data. This reference is then queried for the input data with the intent of finding an exact matching record or a near-matching record that can be considered an exact match and thereby validating the input data. Otherwise, the requesting source is instructed to provide a new query. Once having a validated record, it is converted to a canonical form, which is then used to query the target databases intended to be searched. In a further embodiment, multiple reference databases are queried to determine a canonical form of the data or to determine multiple canonical forms of the data. | 02-24-2011 |
20140006093 | Method for Systematic Modeling and Evaluation of Application Flows | 01-02-2014 |