| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080233969 | CALL ROUTING BASED ON PHYSICAL LOCATION OF CALLED PARTY - A system may include a locator device to track a location of a user, store information identifying locations of a group of telephone devices, and identify one telephone device of the group of telephone devices based on the location of the one telephone device and the location of the user in response to an incoming telephone call request for the user. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080240401 | COMMUNICATION CENTER METHODS AND APPARATUS - A communications center supports sales and/or customer support services corresponding to a plurality of business affiliations. Operator terminals within the communications center are configurable. A management module manages the allocation of the operator terminals between the plurality of different business affiliations being supported by the communications center. The management module loads a set of configuration information into an operator terminal to match a determined business affiliation with a customer's communications device capabilities. At different times, e.g. corresponding to an initial communications session and a follow-on communications session, the same customer may be connected to different physical operator terminals and be communicating with different actual operators; however, from the perspective of the customer, the customer is made to think that the communication is with the same operator terminal and same operator. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090085770 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ALERT TONES - Systems, devices, and methods for alerting pedestrians as to the presence of a vehicle are provided. The system for providing alert tones may include a personal communication device, such as a mobile terminal, a vehicle communication system, and an output device. A driver of a vehicle equipped with a vehicle communication system may select an alert tone to download to his vehicle directly using the vehicle communication system or indirectly via a communications link between the personal communication device and the vehicle communication system. Upon approaching a pedestrian, the driver may actuate the vehicle communication system to sound the alert tone through the output device by interacting with an input device, such as a button or a switch. Actuation may also be caused by a voice command or automatically, through the detection of an object within a certain distance of the vehicle via one or more sensors. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090085803 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PREFERENCE BASED LOCATION AWARE CONTENT - A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving data associated with retrieving location specific downloadable content for a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled device via a network, retrieving location specific downloadable content at least based on an approximate location of the Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled device, and sending location specific downloadable content to the Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled device via the network. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090146831 | WIRELESS ENABLED DEVICE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods are provided for determining a location of one or more wireless devices. The method may include identifying an address associated with at least one wireless device and determining a phase relationship between a plurality of signals generated by the wireless device. The method further includes determining a location of the wireless device based on the phase relationship and the address associated with the wireless device. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100125895 | DOMAIN BASED AUTHENTICATION SCHEME - In one example, a system for authenticating domains operates by authenticating a first domain and the extensions that make up the URI of an initial or primary Internet network call. Thereafter, the system can enable the owner of the first domain to make assertions or statements about additional domains and URIs that make up the rest of the web page, session or application. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100287559 | ENERGY-AWARE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT SCHEDULER - A method includes receiving a process request, identifying a current state of a device in which the process request is to be executed, calculating a power consumption associated with an execution of the process request, and assigning an urgency for the process request, where the urgency corresponds to a time-variant parameter to indicate a measure of necessity for the execution of the process request. The method further includes determining whether the execution of the process request can be delayed to a future time or not based on the current state, the power consumption, and the urgency, and causing the execution of the process request, or causing a delay of the execution of the process request to the future time, based on a result of the determining. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110047552 | ENERGY-AWARE PROCESS ENVIRONMENT SCHEDULER - A device receives a request associated with a process, and determines one or more current states of one or more process resources used to execute the process request. The device also calculates a power consumption associated with execution of the process request by the one or more process resources, and assigns an urgency for the process request, where the urgency corresponds to a time-variant parameter that indicates a measure of necessity for the execution of the process request. The device further determines whether the execution of the process request can be delayed to a future time based on the one or more current states, the power consumption, and the urgency, and causes, based on the determination, the process request to be executed or delayed to the future time. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110167266 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENT CONTROL USING PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION - Systems and methods for document control using public key encryption are provided. An interface program serves as a software interface between user applications used to create and access documents and a data storage system that stores the documents in an encrypted form. When a document is saved for the first time, information corresponding to the destruction of that document is obtained either from a user or in accordance with predefined criteria. The document is encrypted and stored with a pointer to an encryption key on a token/key server. When the document is subsequently accessed, the interface program will read the pointer and attempt to retrieve the key. If the key has expired in accordance with the destruction policy, the document is inaccessible. Otherwise, the document is decrypted using the key. Multiple documents may be saved according to the same destruction policy and even the same key, thereby greatly enhancing the ability to “destroy” documents regardless of their location with minimal process. | 07-07-2011 |