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| 20080312924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING PERSONS OF INTEREST VIA VOICEPRINT - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for tracking a person of interest. The method embodiment comprises identifying a person of interest, capturing a voiceprint of the person of interest, comparing a received voiceprint of a caller with the voiceprint of the person of interest, and tracking the caller if the voiceprint of the caller is a substantial match to the voiceprint of the person of interest. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090132999 | Secure and fault-tolerant system and method for testing a software patch - Disclosed is a system and method for testing a software patch. An input is provided to a computer already patched with the software patch and a computer not yet patched with the software patch (i.e., an unpatched computer). A response to the input is generated by each computer. A comparator compares the responses to determine if the responses from each computer are the same. If the responses are the same, then the patch is installed on the previously unpatched computer. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090150437 | System and method for tracking an individual using typeprinting - Disclosed is a system and method for tracking an individual of interest over a network. Keystroke dynamics of users using computers are obtained in order to identify the individual of interest when the individual of interest uses one of the computers. Usage data of the individual of interest is recorded when the individual of interest is identified as using one of the computers. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100138517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BROKERING - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for brokering online multimedia content. The method includes receiving an online request (such as a search) for multimedia content from a user, retrieving a user profile associated with the user, locating a plurality of online multimedia providers having multimedia content satisfying the request, identifying a preferred provider from the plurality of online multimedia providers, determining information required by the preferred provider for access to the multimedia content satisfying the request, transmitting the required information from the user profile to the preferred provider in order to access the multimedia content satisfying the request, and instructing the preferred provider to transmit the multimedia content to a playback device of the user. The method can further include receiving a payment from the user for the multimedia content, and paying the fee charged by the preferred provider. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146395 | Method and System for Exploiting Interactions Via A Virtual Environment - A method on a computer readable storage medium operable to store a virtual representation of a plurality of physical components, introduce a component having a predefined functionality to interact with the virtual representation and generate indications of a response of the virtual representation to the interactions of the component. A system having a memory configured to store a virtual representation of a plurality of physical components and a processor configured to introduce a component having a predefined functionality to interact with the virtual representation and generate indications of a response of the virtual representation to the interactions of the component. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100161636 | Messaging Personalization - Participants in a communication are rendered by determining whether each entry in a list of participants in the communication satisfies criteria specified by a user participating in the communication. The criteria are used to identify a first subset of participants that are to be rendered in a first style that differentiates the first subset from remaining participants in the list. The first subset of participants is formatted in the first style. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162378 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENHANCE SECURITY IN RESIDENTIAL NETWORKS - Example methods and apparatus to enhance security in residential networks and residential gateways are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a transceiver to receive an Internet protocol (IP) packet, a first packet processing module associated with a protected IP address, the first packet processing module to be communicatively coupled to a first network device, a second packet processing module associated with a public IP address, the second packet processing module to be communicatively coupled to a second network device, and a packet diverter to route the received IP packet to the first packet processing module when the IP packet contains the protected IP address and to route the IP packet to the second packet processing module when the IP packet does not contain the protected IP address. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110093473 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGED CONTENT ANALYSIS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work (MMW), perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the MMW, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the MMW, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093902 | System and Method to Process a Data Stream Having Different Content Types - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a data stream at a set-top box device from a residential gateway. The data stream includes first data having a first content type, second data having a second content type, and third data having a third content type. The method includes assigning the first data for processing at a first machine of the set-top box device. The method also includes assigning the second data for processing at a second machine of the set-top box device. The method further includes assigning the third data for processing at a third machine of the set-top box device. The set-top box device is configured to selectively output at least one of the first data, the second data, and the third data for display at a display device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110107386 | System and Method of Problem Detection in Received Internet Data, Video Data, and Voice Data - Methods and systems for problem detection related to received Internet data, video data, and voice data are disclosed. A method may include monitoring, at a set top box device, Internet data to detect a first problem related to the Internet data. The method may further include monitoring, at the set top box device, video data to detect a second problem related to the video data. The method may include automatically taking a first action upon detecting the first problem and automatically taking a second action upon detecting the second problem. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110113182 | Devices, Systems and Methods for Time-Sensitive Data and Limited-Persistent Storage - Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which relate to devices utilizing time-sensitive memory storage. The time-sensitive memory storage acts as normal device memory, allowing the user of the device to store files or other data to it; however the information stored on the time-sensitive memory storage is automatically erased, based on some storage time period. A limited amount of persistent storage is used for names and message headers. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110131650 | METHODS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR EDGE DRIVEN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SECURITY MONITORING - An edge monitoring approach can be utilized to detect an attack which includes a plurality of relatively low bandwidth attacks, which are aggregated at a victim sub-network. The aggregated low bandwidth attacks can generate a relatively high bandwidth attack including un-solicited data traffic directed to the victim' so that the aggregated attack becomes more detectable at an edge monitor circuit located proximate to the victim. Related systems, devices, and computer program products are also disclosed. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110137557 | CELLULAR-BASED LIVE TRAFFIC SERVICE - A cellular-based live traffic service that does not require pre-deployment of infrastructure or GPS-enabled devices uses signals provided by cellular devices to determine course resolution localization and tracking information of the cellular devices. Specialized statistical analysis is performed on the course resolution data to infer the fine resolution positions of the cellular devices. In an example embodiment, the localization and tracking information is provided on a map, or the like, to show relative position and/or trajectory of cellular devices. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138467 | Method and System for Content Distribution Network Security - A content delivery system includes an upload module, a content delivery module, and a monitoring module. The upload module is configured to receive content from a content provider, detect content containing malicious software or proprietary information, and provide information about the content to a monitoring module. The content delivery module is configured to detect content containing malicious software or unauthorized changes, detect operational changes to the content delivery module, provide information about the content and the operational changes to the monitoring module, receive a request for the content from a client system, and provide the content to the client system. The monitoring module is configured to monitor a network for potentially malicious traffic, receive information from the content delivery module and the upload module, correlate the information and the potentially malicious traffic to identify a security event, and trigger a response to the security event. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141900 | System and Method for Location, Time-of-Day, and Quality-of-Service Based Prioritized Access Control - A priority server for a provider network includes a traffic volume detection module, a traffic analyzer module, and a rules module. The traffic volume detection module receives operational information from the provider network and determines that a host is experiencing a flash event based upon the operational information. The traffic analyzer module determines that the flash event is not a distributed denial of service attack on the host. When it is determined that the flash event is not a distributed denial of service attack, the rules module provides a priority rule to an access router that is coupled to the host. The priority rule is based upon a characteristic of packets routed in the provider network that are associated with the flash event, and the characteristic is determined not solely by information included in the packets. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145317 | DATA ROUTING IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR MOBILITY DELIVERY - System(s) and method(s) are provided to route data within a network of content with specific service constraints to mobile devices. A mobile network management component receives an identifier (ID) of a base station that serves a mobile device that originates a request for data, and relays the ID to a network platform that administers content. A mapping that associates one or more base stations with a deployed content node and the received ID are utilized to identify a content node to serve the request for data via the base station. The received request for data is directed to the identified content node. A service constraint configuration can be allocated for exchange of payload data between the mobile device and the network platform. For a request to consume data and a request to supply data, identified content node delivers data and receives data, respectively, in accordance with the service constraint allocation. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145833 | Multiple Mode Mobile Device - In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform displaying, on a handheld device, multiple icons associated with multiple segments; receiving first user input indicating a first segment of the multiple segments; executing a first virtual machine associated with the first segment on the handheld device; executing a first application on the first virtual machine; receiving second user input indicating a second segment of the multiple segments; executing a second virtual machine associated with the second segment on the handheld device; and executing a second application on the second virtual machine. In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can further perform before executing the second virtual machine, receiving authentication information and determining that the user is authenticated. In one or more embodiments, the authentication information can include at least one of a user name, a password, and/or biometric information. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145887 | System and Method of Selectively Applying Security Measures to Data Services - Systems and methods of applying security measures to data services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor determines when more than one data service is used by or is accessible to a subscriber device and applies a security measure to at least one data service. | 06-16-2011 |
