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| 20090112821 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MONITORING BOOKMARKED WEB PAGES - The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a bookmarked web page and a system and a computer program implementing such a method. A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first phase, including steps for storing, in association with each other, user identification data and an active version of the web page. The method further includes at least one iteration of a second phase, including a step for sending from user's browser to a network server a request for change information about the bookmarked web page since the stored version was active. On response of the server, if the web page has changed, the user has the possibility to choose to keep the stored old version of the web page or to accept the current version of the web page. The network server may be a server associated with the web page, e.g., a web site server, or an ISP server. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113512 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A CONTINUOUS PROGRAMMING SEQUENCE AT A CLIENT TERMINAL - A method and system of presenting a continuous programming sequence at a client terminal, e.g., a set top box. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: defining a programming sequence at a server; and the server instructing the client terminal associated with the programming sequence to retrieve a first program item specified in the programming sequence from a specified location. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090135898 | METHOD AND USER DEVICE FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL TRANSMISSIONS - The invention provides a user device ( | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING DIGITAL CONTENT - A system for delivering digital content to user devices. The system includes a content delivery server for establishing respective sessions with the user devices and for delivering streams of content to the user devices during the sessions according to a streaming protocol. An asset server is communicatively coupled to the content delivery server through an asset protocol for maintaining an asset scheduling table including asset entries, each asset entry including an asset identifier identifying a given asset in association with a starting time parameter, user identifiers identifying at least one target user device, and a set of session identifiers each identifying a session established with a target user device identified by the user identifiers. The content delivery server inserts, for each asset entry in the asset scheduling table, and for each session identified by a session identifier in the asset entry, the asset identified by the asset identifier of the asset entry into the stream of content delivered during the session, at a predefined insertion time. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138776 | RETRANSMISSION MANAGER AND METHOD OF MANAGING RETRANSMISSION - The invention provides a retransmission manager for use in a digital content delivery system, wherein the delivery system comprises a plurality of user devices, a set of content providers for delivering digital content to the user devices in the form of bursts of content through a source unit. The retransmission manager is connected to the user devices to receive notifications therefrom, each notification received from a given user device identifying a burst received by the given user device which is candidate for retransmission. The retransmission manager selects a set of bursts among the bursts identified by the notifications based on the amount of available bandwidth at the source unit and on negotiation messages received from at least one of the plurality of content providers, the negotiation message being related to at least one burst identified in the notifications and including, for each burst, a negotiation parameter. The retransmission manager then sends a request for retransmission of the selected bursts to the source unit. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138932 | QUALITY MANAGER AND METHOD FOR USE IN A DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - The invention provides a quality manager for use in a digital content delivery system. The digital content delivery system comprises a plurality of user devices, a source unit connected through a communication network to the user devices for delivering digital content to the user devices in the form of bursts of content. The quality manager is connected to the user devices and adapted to receive notifications therefrom, each notification received from a given user device identifying a burst received by the given user device and including a quality indicator related to the quality of the received burst. The quality manager is further adapted to select a set of bursts among the bursts identified by the notifications, based on predefined rules comprising a rule related to the quality indicator included in the notifications, and for sending a request for retransmission of the selected bursts to the source unit. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090144269 | RESOLVING UNKNOWN MAILBOXES - The present invention relates to a method and system for processing electronic mails in case of a address change of the addressee. It provides an ECOA resolving process of searching for a new or alternative address for this addressee, optionally triggered in case of unknown address or non delivery notification message. This process comprises forwarding the email under ECOA resolving from one MTA to another MTA in the network, for trying to reach a MTA connected with a database where old and new addresses are memorized in association. Such resolving forwarding is done according to specific routing tables, possibly independent from DNS routing server, which may include specific or local analysis rules based on the invalid address. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090165044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A PROGRAM ITEM - A method of selecting a program item by defining a programming template relating to a predetermined period for an individual viewer. The programming template includes a plurality of sequential time slots, each time slot being associated with a particular content type selected from a standard program content classification structure. For a given time falling within a respective the time slot, a program item is selected from a plurality of candidate program items. This program item identified as having content of the type associated with the one of the time slots. Thus an EPG is automatically compiled on the basis of a user profile which calls for a certain type of content (film/news/weather/clips etc.) at certain times of the day or week. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100057866 | DELIVERING AND REPLYING TO EMAIL USING HIDDEN ADDRESS - A method for use when an original email is sent from an originator to a receiver, having a real email address, at a destination email address, which includes a concatenation of an alias and a magic number, is provided and includes replacing the destination email address with the real email address of the receiver, adding a new header field to the original email indicating that the destination email address was an original destination of the original email and forwarding the original email to the receiver at the real email address. If the receiver replies with a reply email, the method further includes setting a from header field in the reply email with a new header field indicating that the destination email address was an original destination of the original email, and if the original email is appended, removing the new header field from the original email. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100077039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLAYING VIDEO ON A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a system and a method for automatically switching from a local storage to a remote storage for recording a broadcast video stream, the switching being triggered by the fact that the local storage is almost full, and for automatically switching from a local storage to a remote storage for playing a broadcast video stream in a delayed manner, the switching being triggered by the fact that the video frames in the local storage are exhausted. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100115554 | INTELLIGENT TV MOSAIC FOR IP TV - A method of building an interactive display related to TV programs in an internet protocol television (IPTV) environment includes parsing a plurality of TV programs provided in an IPTV environment for display to a user. The step of parsing includes capturing an image in each TV program, identifying video content in each captured image, interpreting the video content, capturing audio data, identifying an audio content in each captured audio data, and interpreting the audio content for each captured audio data. The method further includes the steps of identifying a selected TV program by the user; determining a correlation level between the interpreted video and audio content of the selected TV program and the interpreted video and audio content of each of the other TV programs; determining TV programs other than the selected TV program; and building and presenting a mosaic display on a TV display including the selected TV program. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100151840 | GENERATING ALERTS BASED ON PREDICTED WIRELESS CONNECTION LOSSES - A method and system for generating alerts based on predicted wireless connection losses. A message is received that includes a first position of a mobile device, an indication of a service being provided to the mobile device via a wireless connection provided by a first bearer, and an mobile device identifier. A direction and speed of the mobile device is received. An amount of time elapsing before the mobile device moves to a second position at which the mobile device experiences a loss of the wireless connection via the first bearer is predicted. An alert that indicates that the loss is occurring in the amount of time is generated. The alert is sent to the mobile device as a response to the message. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153001 | GENERATING OPTIMAL ITINERARIES BASED ON NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A method and system for generating optimal itineraries based on network connectivity. A computer receives a first message from which a current position of a vehicle on a trip, destination, service(s) being provided to mobile device(s) in the vehicle, service provider(s) and network(s) are extracted. Optimal itineraries are generated by generating sets of optimal parameters that include paths for which connectivity measures satisfy predefined criteria and hops that indicate positions associated with connectivity changes. A response to the first message indicates the optimal itineraries and the associated sets of optimal parameters and is sent to a vehicle-based device. Sending the response results in the mobile device(s) making the connectivity changes when the vehicle is detected at the hops. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100161752 | Method and System of Administrating a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Network - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for administering a peer-to-peer file sharing computer network. The method includes: maintaining a reference associating a particular shared file with a seeder in a community of peers and a number of seeders in the community; and registering a second peer as a second seeder of the particular shared file, if a first seeder in the community of peers has informed the peers of a termination of the availability of a file seeding of the particular shared file. The system includes means for performing the steps of the method. The computer program product includes computer program instructions for carrying out the steps of the method. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100198924 | INTERACTIVE AVATAR IN MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A sender sends an email message to a receiver. The message includes an avatar representing the sender. Upon receiving the message, if the receiver has a question related to the message, the receiver sends the question to the sender via the avatar. After receiving the question, the avatar remote server device correlates the question with the message through a MSG-ID associated with the receiver or avatar. The avatar remote server device parses and analyzes the question and then searches mailboxes, agendas, previous answers, toDoLists, folders, resumes, and/or address books of the sender to find a corresponding answer for the question. Then, the avatar remote server device provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. Alternatively, upon receiving the question, the avatar remote server device sends a notification to the sender. If the sender has an online connectivity, the sender provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. | 08-05-2010 |
