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20150248222 | AGGREGATING ENTERPRISE GRAPH CONTENT AROUND USER-GENERATED TOPICS - Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248410 | DISCOVERING ENTERPRISE CONTENT BASED ON IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT SIGNALS - Recommending relevant content to a user based on personalized implicit and explicit activity signals aggregated for various content items is provided. A user is provided with situational awareness of content they may use by aggregating and displaying content that has been acted on by people the user works with most closely. Relationships between people and activities around content may be represented in a work graph which may be surfaced to the user. Content and relationship information pertaining to content may be surfaced to the user via a user interface. The user may query the content according to a variety of queries such as “popular with my colleagues,” “viewed by me” (i.e., the querying user), “worked on by me,” “most viewed,” and the like. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248459 | RETRIEVAL OF ENTERPRISE CONTENT THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED - When content is shared, the sharer of the content is identified, as are the audience members. An entry is generated in a data store that identifies the content, the sharer and the audience members. Content retrieval requests can then be processed against the data store to identify and return content. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248480 | DISPLAYING AND POSTING AGGREGATED SOCIAL ACTIVITY ON A PIECE OF ENTERPRISE CONTENT - A personalized view of insights into social activity surrounding a content item is provided that may indicate to a user why a given piece of content may be interesting to him/her. A user's activities, as well as the activities of others (e.g., colleagues of the user) may be shown, including such items as a total number of views, comments, followers, and likes associated with the content item. The insights view may be personalized based on the user's relationships with other users in association with the content item. The user may learn through the personalized view who among his/her relationships have commented, edited, shared, or liked the content item, as well as, how many of the user's colleagues have viewed the content item. In addition, through a search function that may be applied to the view content, a user may learn about related content items based on the social insights. | 09-03-2015 |
20160070764 | DISTANT CONTENT DISCOVERY - Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed. | 03-10-2016 |
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20080222659 | ABSTRACTING OPERATING ENVIRONMENT FROM OPERATING SYSTEM - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for abstracting an operating environment from an operating system running in the operating environment. Within an operating environment, an operating environment abstraction layer abstracts and exposes operating environment resources to an operating system. Accordingly, appropriately configured operating environment abstraction layers provide the operating system with a uniform interface to available resources across a variety of different operating environments. Each operating environment abstraction layer and the operating system include adjustable algorithms that can be adjusted to appropriately provide services to requesting applications based on exposed resources of the operating environment. Abstraction layers can be configured to analyze and become fully aware of their operating environment, including identifying the presence of other abstraction layers. An operating system and corresponding abstraction layer can be run in flexible combinations of privileged and unprivileged processor modes. | 09-11-2008 |
20110154266 | CAMERA NAVIGATION FOR PRESENTATIONS - Techniques for managing a presentation of information in a gesture-based system, where gestures are derived from a user's body position or motion in the physical space, may enable a user to use gestures to control the manner in which the information is presented or to otherwise interact with the gesture-based system. A user may present information to an audience to an audience using gestures that control aspects of the system, or multiple users may work together using gestures to control aspects of the system. Thus, in an example embodiment, a single user can control the presentation of information to the audience via gestures. In another example embodiment, multiple participants can share control of the presentation via gestures captured by a capture device or otherwise interact with the system to control aspects of the presentation. | 06-23-2011 |
20110282837 | VIRTUALLY INFINITE RELIABLE STORAGE ACROSS MULTIPLE STORAGE DEVICES AND STORAGE SERVICES - A logical file system is described that distributes copies of files across various different physical storage resources yet provides a consistent view to the user of his or her data, regardless of which machine the user is accessing the files from, and even when the user's computer is offline. The distributed file system uses smart data redundancy to enable a virtually infinite amount of storage as long as additional storage resources are made available to the distributed file system. The result is a reliable storage system that does not necessarily tie the user's data to the user's particular computer. Instead, the user's data is associated with the user—for life—or for however long the user would like the data to be maintained, regardless of whether the user's computer or data storage components are replaced or destroyed. | 11-17-2011 |
20130055116 | THEME VARIATION ENGINE - A theme variation engine generates mock web pages based on selected user inputs defining thematic aspects of a web site. The inputs may include a color, which is used to derive a color palette used in generating the mock web pages. The input can also include an image, which can be transformed in various ways, and a web page layout that determines where the transformed image may be placed. The theme variation engine uses the inputs to generate various mock web pages that the user can select and have the associated thematic parameters saved for future use. Alternatively, certain thematic parameters associated with the selected mock web pages can be used for generating additional mock web pages. The selected thematic parameters can then be used to generate the web site for the user. A computer system may implement execute instructions using a theme variation engine program module. | 02-28-2013 |
20130067338 | DYNAMIC NAVIGATION REGION BASED ON SITE USAGE - A request for a page in a site can be received. The page can include a dynamic navigation region. The dynamic navigation region can be automatically updated based on usage of the site by multiple user profiles. The updating can include querying multiple sources of navigation item data and compiling a record of dynamic navigation items to be displayed in the dynamic navigation region. The page can be generated with the dynamic navigation region, and the page can be returned in response to the page request. Also, a request to pin a navigation item from the dynamic navigation region to the static navigation region can be received. In response to the request to pin, the pinned navigation item can be added to the static navigation region, and the page can be returned with the pinned navigation item added to the static navigation region. | 03-14-2013 |
20130111324 | Theming Engine | 05-02-2013 |
20140180571 | OBTAINING AND DISPLAYING VIRTUAL EARTH IMAGES - Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Provided is a schema, repository, index, and APIs for any information, place, entity, attribute, service or person that can be referenced geographically. A system to provide real time image data includes an input component that receives image data associated with a specific geographic area, a splitter component that splits the image data into at least two quadrants, and a storage component that stores at least a portion of the at least two quadrants. Also provides is on-line or real-time advertising based on a user's mapped location and/or a user preference. | 06-26-2014 |
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20090327519 | ADDING INDIVIDUAL DATABASE FAILOVER/SWITCHOVER TO AN EXISTING STORAGE COMPONENT WITH LIMITED IMPACT - High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client. | 12-31-2009 |
20120331336 | ADDING INDIVIDUAL DATABASE FAILOVER/SWITCHOVER TO AN EXISTING STORAGE COMPONENT WITH LIMITED IMPACT - High availability architecture that employs a mid-tier proxy server to route client communications to active data store instances in response to failover and switchover. The proxy server includes an active manager client that interfaces to an active manager in each of the backend servers. State information and configuration information are maintained separately and according to semantics consistent with needs of corresponding data, the configuration information changing less frequently and more available, the state information changing more frequently and less available. The active manager indicates to the proxy server which of the data storage instances is the currently the active instance. In the event that the currently active instance is inactive, the proxy server selects a different backend server that currently hosts the active data store instance. Client communications are then routed to the different backend server with minimal or no interruption to the client. | 12-27-2012 |
20130268495 | SPLIT BRAIN PROTECTION IN COMPUTER CLUSTERS - A computer cluster can be divided into a plurality of failure scopes and a voting constraint can be enforced. The voting constraint can allow a portion of the cluster to provide the service if a majority of health votes from cluster members is obtained by that portion. A loss of connectivity between a first failure scope, which has a majority of cluster members in the cluster, and one or more other failure scopes in the cluster can be detected. The loss of connectivity can be such that the first failure scope does not have connectivity to a member in any other failure scope in the cluster. In response to detecting the loss of connectivity, a split brain situation in the cluster can be automatically protected against by preventing the first failure scope from providing the service. | 10-10-2013 |
20130346512 | ENHANCED AVAILABILITY FOR MESSAGE SERVICES - An enhanced availability environment for facilitating a message service provided by a plurality of service elements is disclosed herein. The enhanced availability environment comprises a monitoring element and an enhanced availability element. The monitoring element monitors a first service element of the plurality of service elements for a monitored characteristic, generates monitoring information corresponding to the monitored characteristic, and communicates the monitoring information to the enhanced availability element. The enhanced availability element determines an availability of the first service element for the message service based at least in part on the monitoring information and an availability characteristic of the first service element, and communicates the availability to initiate an availability action. | 12-26-2013 |
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20130328920 | Compiling Images Within a Respondent Interface Using Layers and Highlight Features - An apparatus for compiling images within a respondent interface includes a survey datastore recording surveys including one or more test images. A rendering engine accesses the survey datastore and displays the one or more test images with controls for at least one respondent to provide feedback about the one or more test images during at least two modes of operation. A respondent feedback object instantiation engine detects respondent interaction with a touch screen displaying the one or more test images during first and second modes of operation, and records results of the respondent interaction in a feedback datastore by feedback types according to the first and second modes of operation. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328921 | Utilizing Heat Maps to Represent Respondent Sentiments - An apparatus utilizes heat maps to represent respondent sentiments. A datastore has recorded therein respondent feedback corresponding to detected interaction by respondents, during first and second modes of operation, with a touch screen displaying a test image. The respondent feedback is recorded in the datastore by feedback types according to the first and second modes of operation. A feedback compilation engine compiles the respondent feedback according to the feedback types. A heat map rendering engine graphically renders the respondent feedback as a feedback type specific heat map overlaying the test image. | 12-12-2013 |
20130331089 | Optimizing Mobile User Data Storage - Systems and methods described herein provide a mechanism for optimizing the reception and storage of mobile user data. Data relating to mobile user location, behavior, and profiles are received from mobile users and stored at a storage system in an efficient manner. The efficiency is achieved by identifying what system parameters may be adjusted to reduce storage requirements while still providing sufficient data for useful analysis. System parameters that may change to reduce storage requirements include, e.g., the type of mobile user data collected, the frequency at which mobile user data is collected, the events or conditions that trigger data collection, and dynamically adjusting data collection upon detecting a number of event or time-based triggers. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332234 | Optimizing Market Research Using Indicia-Based Mobile Respondent Data - Systems and methods described herein provide a mechanism for conducting meaningful market research on respondents using mobile devices. Data contained in code-based indicia relating to a mobile respondent is leveraged to initiate more effective market research applications such as surveys and the like. Using such information, a market research enterprise interested in focused market research may initiate market research specifically related to that mobile respondent, perhaps accounting for the mobile respondent's location, purchase history, financial means and associations, etc. The market research applications may be transmitted to mobile respondents by a number of different mechanisms such as push messages, text messages, SRS messages, emails, etc. Also, mobile respondents may download and install an application that allows them to quickly access the market research applications and transmit the market research data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332235 | Optimizing Market Research Based on Mobile Respondent Location - Systems and method for conducting meaningful market research on respondents using mobile devices. Data relating to mobile respondent location is leveraged to initiate more effective market research applications such as surveys. Using a mobile respondent's location, a market research enterprise initiates market research specifically related to that location. The market research applications may be transmitted to a mobile respondent using a number of different mechanisms such as push message, text message, email, etc. Also, mobile respondents may download and install an application that allows them to quickly access the market research applications and transmit the market research data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332236 | Optimizing Market Research Based on Mobile Respondent Behavior - Systems and method for conducting meaningful market research on respondents using mobile devices. Data relating to mobile respondent behavior is leveraged to initiate more effective market research applications such as surveys. Using a mobile respondent's behavior, a market research enterprise initiates market research specifically related to that behavior. The market research applications may be transmitted to a mobile respondent using a number of different mechanisms such as push messages, text messages, SRS messages, emails, etc. Also, mobile respondents may download and install an application that allows them to quickly access the market research applications and transmit the market research data. | 12-12-2013 |
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20100172843 | NANOPARTICULATE PROBE FOR IN VIVO MONITORING OF TISSUE OXYGENATION - A new class of micro- and nano-particulate paramagnetic spin probes especially useful for magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The probes are lithium phthalocyanine derivative compounds. Also provided are suspensions and emulsions comprising lithium phthalocyanine derivative probes. Also provided are noninvasive methods for measuring noninvasive methods of measuring oxygen concentration, oxygen partial pressure, oxygen metabolism, and nitric oxide concentration in a specific tissue, organ, or cell in vivo or in vitro. | 07-08-2010 |
20120296188 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MEASURING OXYGEN - A sensor for measuring oxygen concentration in a tissue or an organ of a subject is provided. The sensor includes a sensory element comprising at least one paramagnetic spin probe compound encapsulated in a biocompatible oxygen permeable material. A barrier layer partially covers the sensory element and is comprised of at least one biocompatible oxygen impermeable material. Oxygen concentration data may be acquired by applying the sensor to the tissue or the organ of the subject, and subsequently applying a magnetic resonance spectroscopy or imaging technique. | 11-22-2012 |
20120316203 | Compositions and Methods for Inhibition of Cancers - Methods and compositions for treating cancers, including ovarian cancers, are described. The compositions generally include a redox based curcumin derivative, diarylidenylpiperiden-4-one (DAP) having a hydroxylamine moiety attached thereto. | 12-13-2012 |
20130127466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT OF OXYGENATION - A scanner for assessing localized oxygenation of a desired region of interest includes a handheld housing having a proximal end and a distal end. A resonator coil is disposed within the housing and also disposed adjacent the distal end of the housing. The resonator coil is configured to both excite and read paramagnetic materials. A magnet is disposed within the housing and also disposed adjacent the distal end of the housing. The magnet is configured to provide a substantially uniform magnetic field over the desired region of interest. The scanner is configured to use electron paramagnetic resonance to assess localized oxygenation in the desired region. | 05-23-2013 |
20140170073 | NANOPARTICULATE PROBE FOR IN VIVO MONITORING OF TISSUE OXYGENATION - A new class of micro- and nano-particulate paramagnetic spin probes especially useful for magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The probes are lithium phthalocyanine derivative compounds. Also provided are suspensions and emulsions comprising lithium phthalocyanine derivative probes. Also provided are noninvasive methods for measuring noninvasive methods of measuring oxygen concentration, oxygen partial pressure, oxygen metabolism, and nitric oxide concentration in a specific tissue, organ, or cell in vivo or in vitro. | 06-19-2014 |