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| 20080222253 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING AND RATING ITEMS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - A system and method for providing items to users and, more particularly, a system and method for rating items and placing such items into a queued list. The method includes providing an item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and placing the item into a queued list with respect to other items based on a rating. The system includes a computer infrastructure being operable to provide a rated item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and place the rated item in a queued list with respect to other items. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080245862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MARKETING TO CONSUMERS - A system and method for interactive marketing to consumers and, more particularly, to a system and method for marketing merchandise to consumers in an interactive retail environment. The method includes detecting a disturbance in an area and sending information related to the disturbance to a back end merchandising system. The method further includes retrieving relevant information related to the detected disturbance from the back end merchandising system and displaying the relevant information on a display surface. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090051507 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TONAL AUDIO-BASED MONITORING OF NETWORK ALARMS - A method, system and program product for audio tonal monitoring of an alarm generated by a device in a network. The method includes mapping a severity level for an alert to be generated for a device in a network to at least one audio tone having a plurality of audible characteristics, generating an alert for the device when an error associated with the device is learned and sending to a monitoring system the alert generated, the alert containing data or information. The method further includes decrypting the alert received and formatting the alert received to add additional information and forwarding the formatted alert to an alert-to-audio cue manager. Further, the method includes mapping the alert forwarded to the audio tone having the plurality of audible characteristics, and playing the audio tone, such that the audio tone played audibly alerts a client of the alert generated by the device. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090058647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RFID DYNAMIC CONTENT PRESENTATION - A system and method for providing RFID dynamic content presentation using wireless devices and RFID technologies. The method comprises providing a wireless capable device which is configured to receive RFID information and store the RFID information in storage for later retrieval. The system is an infrastructure which comprises at least one RFID tag which stores RFID information; and a wireless capable device which is configured to receive the RFID information and store the RFID information in storage for later retrieval. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090061909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING AND PROVIDING SMS HTTP TAGGING - A system and method for sending text messages and, more particularly, a system and method for forcing SMS capable devices to communicate via SMS using, for example, SS7 protocol. A method comprises providing a tag forcing a return text message to be sent via SS7 protocol. In use, the system and method is configured to force the use of SMS messages via the SS7 protocol. The system and method can be implemented over any network, for example, and any existing mobile device and related infrastructure can be modified to take advantage of the benefits and functionality of the system and method of the invention. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE TRANSCODING OF CONTENT IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - A system and method for streaming media and, more particularly, to a system and method for active transcoding of content in a distributed system. The method includes receiving a file having predetermined parameters and sizing the file up to an optimal packet size according to a logarithmic scheme. The optimal packet size is a largest packet size. In further aspects, the method also includes providing a computer infrastructure operable to perform the steps herein. The system includes a media service, rules engine, log based job creator and a stream constructor. A computer infrastructure having computer readable medium to perform the processes described herein is also provided. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SENDING COMPRESSED HTML MESSAGES OVER TELEPHONY PROTOCOL - A system and method for sending compressed html messages and, more particularly, a system and method for sending compressed html messages over a telephony protocol. the method comprises compressing an html message and sending the compressed html message via a telephony protocol. The compressed html message is sent as an SMS message and the telephony protocol is SS7 protocol, bypassing TCP/IP. The compressed html message can be coded with a return number, forcing a return message to be sent via a text message over SS7 protocol. The system and method includes a computer infrastructure operable to compress an html message and send the compressed html message such as and SMS message via a telephony protocol. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium for performing the processes is also contemplated. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090177536 | DYNAMIC, SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN CHARGING MODELS FOR MEDIA DISTRIBUTION - A system and method is provided to implement charging models for subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving content of a first media type over a network from a sending client. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to a receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes generating a billing record based on the content and user preferences of a sending client and/or a receiving client. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177794 | SUBSCRIBER DRIVEN MEDIA AGNOSTIC CONTENT DELIVERY ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to the content to the receiving client in a preferred media type and to a preferred device in accordance with at least one preference of the receiving client. The method also includes notifying at least the receiving client that the content is to be received by the preferred device. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090202115 | MINUTIAE MASK - A system and method of authenticating fingerprints. A method of authenticating a fingerprint includes comparing a geometric shape of a scanned fingerprint to a corresponding geometric shape of a stored fingerprint. The geometric shape and the corresponding geometric shape are defined by vertices. The vertices are defined by minutiae points, while the vertices are spaced apart from the minutiae points. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204617 | CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION - A system is provided which solves content acquisition issues by providing an automated method to acquire content in mass and maintain an association between available meta-data and the actual content, e.g., video file. The system includes a first component configured to log network traffic. The system also includes a second component configured to correlate downloaded content of the logged network traffic with an XML stream of URLs and respective content descriptions. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING COMPLEX CUSTOM OBJECTS - A system and method is provided for reconstructing one or more collections of objects across platforms. More particularly, Java Annotations are used to assist a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) wizard in reconstructing a collection of objects. In implementation, the system and method parses the object types such that a wizard can recreate or reconstruct the collection of objects for use by a receiving service. The method comprises reconstructing a collection using one or more annotations that document a base object of the collection. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090245515 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASYMMETRIC KEY GENERATION - In asymmetric cryptography, initially-set public key and private keys are updated as a function of the chosen prime number pair, a host sending an updated public key exponent and a unique prime-pair key associated with the chosen prime number pair to the client, the client using the unique prime-pair key to look-up and retrieve the chosen prime number pair and determine the updated public key and the updated private key as a function of the retrieved chosen prime number pair, the host and the client encrypting and decrypting exchanged messages with the updated public key and the updated private key without executing another handshake. In one aspect, a large even integer is used by host and client to generate a plurality of prime number pairs, and the unique prime-pair key may be a distance between each prime number of an associated prime number pair. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090276388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF LOAD BALANCING USING FUZZY LOGIC - A system and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic and, more particularly, to a system and method of load balancing tasks over a grid environment including, for example, CPU utilization, traffic over a network and other functions. The method comprises defining cause and effect relations associated with input variables and output variables. A current utilization is assessed. The method further includes determining which cause and effect relations are associated with the current utilization and calculating a weighted balancing factor for the cause and effect relations having membership with the utilization. A load is balanced using the weighted balancing factor. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090286553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING LOCATION BASED SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES - A location based system is provided for providing messages to a user and, in particular, to a location based advertising system using multiple geo-boundaries and which is configured to provide advertisements to a user and to track the effectiveness of such advertisements. The method includes defining a zone with a plurality of geo-boundaries and detecting when a mobile user has crossed a first boundary of the plurality of geo-boundaries and a second boundary of the plurality of geo-boundaries. The method further includes sending a message to the mobile user upon the determining that the mobile user has crossed the first boundary. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090323953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DECOUPLING AND EXPOSING COMPUTING DEVICE ORIGINATED LOCATION INFORMATION - A system and method is provided to determine location information of a portable computing device and, in particular, to a secure and scalable system and method of decoupling and exposing handset originated location information to third parties. The system includes a location platform to determine location information of a remote user, and an encryption service configured to secure the location information of the remote user and send the secure location information to a content provider. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100009657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRIVACY AND LIMITED EXPOSURE SERVICES FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES - A system and method is provided for providing privacy and limited exposure services for location based services. The system includes at least one module configured to provide fictitious location or route information of a mobile user to selected users or group of users based on a mobile user provided profile. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100015993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING AND RESERVATIONS USING LOCATION BASED SERVICES - A system and method for providing reservation services to users of mobile devices. The system is implemented in a reservation computer device having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The reservation computer device is operable to prioritize a reservation schedule of a service establishment based on a route and projected arrival time of one or more subscribing users such that earlier arriving users and users that have already arrived at the service establishment are given priority in the reservation schedule regardless of prearranged reservations. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100030609 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND FUZZY LOGIC BASED METHOD TO DETERMINE PROJECT RISK - A method, service, and product for changing project length based on fuzzy logic techniques where a subject matter expert assigns a pre-determined risk rating to each of a set of tasks. A fuzzy engine assigns a human grammar to each of the pre-determined risk ratings for each of the set of tasks, the human grammar being defined by a numeric range and assigned to the risk rating for each value falling within the numeric range. The fuzzy engine determines which rules from a set of rules apply to the task with the assigned human grammar, the set of rules being preprogrammed into the fuzzy engine, which then evaluates the tasks with the assigned human grammar using the determined rules. The fuzzy engine thereafter creates an adjusted-time allocation for each task and creates an adjusted-task-length for the set of tasks based from all of the created adjusted time allocations. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100036608 | GEOBOUNDARIES USING RECTANGULAR FENCING AND COUPLING OF GPS/LBS SYSTEMS - A method for establishing a geographic boundary and monitoring an object within the boundary is provided. At least one first entity provides a second entity a request to form the geographic boundary and monitor the object within the boundary. The request may include parameters including at least a first set of coordinates of a geographic location associated with the geographic boundary to be formed. The method includes determining if the parameters provided include additional sets of coordinates for additional geographic locations associated with the geographic boundary to be formed. A footprint of the geographic boundary is selected dependent on whether the parameters provided include additional sets of coordinates. A rectangular footprint may be selected if the parameters include additional sets of coordinates and the coordinates form an isosceles triangle. The method includes forming the geographic boundary having the selected footprint. The object may be monitored within the geographic boundary. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100041369 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING DIAMETER BASED SIGNALING TO SUPPORT BILLING MODELS FOR VISUALLY RENDERED SERVICES - A system and method of using Diameter based signaling is provided to track usage to support multiple billing models for visually rendered revenue generating services in an IP Multimedia subsystem based network. The system includes a computer system includes first program instructions to provide usage information to an accounting platform for processing charging information for visually rendered services in an IP Multimedia subsystem based network. The computer system also comprises a computer readable media which stores the first program instructions and a central processing unit to execute the first program instructions. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES USING COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS - A system and method is provided for providing location based services. The system includes at least one module configured to publish location information of a mobile user using a publish subscribe format based on a user preference mode of notification. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100073373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODEL APPLICATION MATURITY - A system and method is provided for modeling an application and, more particularly, to a system and method for providing a maturity model of an application (e.g., web 2.0 maturity model). The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure and includes a computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium and operable to graphically compare at least a current state of a plurality of technology areas based on a normalized score for each of the plurality of technology areas. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100075610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING LATENCY OF LOCATION BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM A LOCATION SERVICE - A system and method is provided for reducing latency when providing user location information services. The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure which comprises computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The executable code is operable to trigger a location based service to obtain user location information prior to the user registering for location services. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100094984 | METHOD FOR OPTMIZING A PRESENCE ENABLED MANAGED SERVICE - Methods, systems, processes and devices are provided for optimizing throughput and quality of service of a presence enabled managed service. The method includes at least a first entity requesting from an aggregator of presence services presence information of a second entity. The method includes looking up a profile of the aggregator stored in a cache of a presence server hosted by the presence enabled managed service. The method includes determining from the profile an aggregator level of service the aggregator has subscribed to from the presence enabled managed service, wherein the aggregator level of service is one of high level service, medium level service, and low level service. The method includes storing presence information of the second entity on a presence document on the cache and returning the presence information to the first entity based upon the aggregator level of service. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100099418 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF CALL ROUTING BASED ON SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL PRESENCE INFORMATION - An architecture and method of call routing is provided based on session initiated protocol presence information of a callee. The method includes providing a computer infrastructure operable to: receive presence information of a callee upon detecting when the callee is within a certain proximity; and provide call routing information to at least one callee designated device based on customized rules provided by the callee and correlated to the presence information of the callee. The presence information is updated by a SIP based notification. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100112990 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LOCATION BASED ROUTING AND ADVERTISING FOR STREAMED MEDIA AND MEDIA BLOCKING - A location based service configured to route local advertising for streamed media and media blocking based on a location of the recipient. The method include detecting a location of a mobile user and routing streaming media of a local affiliate to a mobile device of the mobile user based on the detected location of the mobile user. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100113065 | GPS DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE FOR DELIVERY OF LOCATION BASED MULTIMEDIA AND METHOD OF USE - An architecture, system and method of use sends location based multimedia to participants of a geo-tour or other application using geo-boundaries and/or other location information. The method includes detecting when a user has crossed within a geo-boundary. The method further includes determining a content type to be sent to a mobile device based on preferences provided by the user. Additionally, the method includes sending user location specific content of the determined content type to the mobile device when the user has crossed within the geo-boundary. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100113066 | GEO-BOUNDARY TRIGGERED MESSAGING AND SCHEDULE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A location based system is provided is configured to provide messages to a recipient based on time and location based information. The a method includes detecting when a mobile user has crossed within a predefined geo-boundary. The method further includes sending a message to the mobile user when the mobile user has crossed within the predefined geo-boundary during a predetermined time period set by an originator of the message. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100124236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF LEVERAGING SIP TO INTEGRATE RFID TAG INFORMATION INTO PRESENCE DOCUMENTS - A system and method is provided for converting RFID tag information into presence documents and, in particular, a system, topologies and a method is provided for leveraging session initiation protocol (SIP) to integrate RFID tag information into presence documents. The method is implemented in a computing environment, which includes receiving RFID information from a RFID gateway and converting the RFID information into a SIP message. The SIP message is published to a presence server. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATION BASED SECURE CACHING - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive an object from an application server and detect that an object encryption is activated for the object. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to inspect an annotation for the object and determine that the object or one or more attributes of the object require encryption based on the inspecting. Furthermore, the programming instructions are operable to encrypt the object or the one or more attributes of the object that require encryption based on the determining using an encryption type and serialize and cache the object in a cache storage. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100130232 | Location Based Services with Multiple Transmission Methods - A location-based service system for providing messages to a recipient and, in particular, to transmission methods and systems for providing location data of a device to a location-based service system. A method of updating a location of a mobile device includes determining a location of the mobile device and, based on Internet accessibility of the mobile device, transmitting the location via Internet communication when Internet access is available and via SS7 communication when Internet access is unavailable. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100135278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO INITIATE A PRESENCE DRIVEN PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATIONS SESSION ON NON-IMS AND IMS NETWORKS - An architecture and method is provided for call routing using both IMS and non-IMS frameworks. The method includes receiving presence information of a third party from a non-IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network device. The method further includes routing the third party to at least one callee designated device based on configurable preferences provided by the callee and correlated to presence information using an IMS compliant component. The method additionally includes providing a charging record for the routing on an IMS complaint charging platform. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100203903 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION USING LOCATION BASED QUEUES - A location based service and method configured to provide a mechanism for delivering location to a subscribing user using a location queuing system. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure and includes receiving one or more SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) messages with location information of a user. The method further includes publishing the location information to a location system queue with related timestamp information | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205169 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT USING CUSTOMIZED RSS AGGREGATION FEEDS - A system and methods are provided for aggregating content and sending the same using customized RSS aggregation feeds. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure. The method includes indexing items from at least one of multiple RSS sources and non-RSS sources and aggregating two or more of the items from the indexed items associated with one or more user preferences. The method further includes sending an aggregated RSS feed to a user which includes the aggregated two or more of the items associated with the one or more user preferences. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SUPPORT IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION AS PART OF A DISTRIBUTED SERVICE ORIENTED ECOSYSTEM - A system and method to support identity theft protection and, in particular, to a system and method for supporting identity theft protection as part of a distributed service oriented ecosystem in information management systems (IMS) and non-IMS networks. The system includes an identity session initiation protocol (SIP) application server configured to act as a security assertion markup language (SAML) bridge, which allows an SIP enabled device or a non-SIP enabled device to attach to a telecommunications service provider network. A user may accept or reject an authorization request using the SIP enabled device or non-SIP enabled device. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211300 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GEOBOUNDARY BASED TRAFFIC MONITORING USING QUICK TEAR DOWN BOUNDARIES - A location based service and method configured to provide a mechanism for delivering traffic information to a subscribing user. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure and includes setting up geo-boundaries at one or more predefined intervals. The method further includes receiving a signal from an active mobile device as it passes at least two of the geo-boundaries at the one or more predefined intervals, and determining a traffic incident from the received signal. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100215157 | Callee Centric Location and Presence Enabled Voicemail Using Session Initiated Protocol Enabled Signaling for IP Multimedia Subsystem Networks - An architecture and method of voicemail based on session initiated protocol presence and location information of a callee is disclosed. A method of providing voicemail includes determining a location and a presence of a callee, and playing a customized voicemail greeting to a caller based on preferences defined by the callee and also based on at least one of the location and the presence. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100215163 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF LOCATION SENSITIVE CALLER AND CALLEE BASED CALL PRIORITIZATION - A system and method of call prioritization and, in particular, a system and method of location sensitive caller and callee based voice call prioritization are disclosed. A method includes: determining that an incoming call is designated as priority by a caller; determining that the caller is contained in a whitelist; and handling the incoming call as a priority call at a callee telephone when the incoming call is designated as priority by the caller and the caller is contained in the whitelist. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE POWER CONSUMPTION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to detect an occurrence of at least one of a geoboundary event, a radio frequency identification (RFID) event; and a local area network (LAN) event. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to adjust one or more power consumption settings of an environment based on the occurrence. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217634 | TRANSITIONING TO MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SHARED SERVICE - An approach that transitions to management of a service oriented architecture (SOA) shared service is provided. In one embodiment, there is a service transition tool, including a project component configured to provide a SOA shared service developed as part of a SOA shared services project, and a planning component configured to plan a transition from development of the SOA shared service to management of the SOA shared service. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217636 | MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SHARED SERVICE - An approach that manages a service oriented architecture (SOA) shared service is provided. In one embodiment, there is a service management tool, including an identification component configured to identify a SOA shared service that needs to be revised; and a revision component configured to develop a revision procedure to address the SOA shared service that needs to be revised, and implement the revision procedure for the SOA shared service. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218010 | MODULAR POWER CONTROL SYSTEM TO MANAGE POWER CONSUMPTION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive an indication of a geoboundary event and determine an occurrence of at least one of a radio frequency identification (RFID) event and a local area network (LAN) event. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to adjust one or more power consumption settings of an environment based on at least one of the receiving of the indication of the geoboundary event and the determination of the occurrence of the at least one of the RFID event and the LAN event. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100228546 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VOICE TRANSCRIPTION - A system and methods is provided for providing SIP based voice transcription services. A computer implemented method includes: transcribing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based conversation between one or more users from voice to text transcription; identifying each of the one or more users that are speaking using a device SIP_ID of the one or more users; marking the identity of the one or more users that are speaking in the text transcription; and providing the text transcription of the speaking user to non-speaking users. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228587 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE LIFECYCLE ORGANIZATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT - An approach that manages an SOA lifecycle organization change is provided. In one embodiment, there is a change management tool, including a retrieval component configured to retrieve a proposed change; a lifecycle defining component configured to define an SOA lifecycle based on the proposed change; a services portfolio component configured to identify a plurality of SOA shared services in services portfolio that addresses the proposed change; a stakeholder component configured to identify stakeholders having an interest in the proposed change; an impact component configured to determine impacts of the proposed change on the stakeholders; a deployment planning component configured to develop a service deployment plan and communication plan related to the proposed change; and an implementation component configured to implement the plurality of SOA shared services that addresses the proposed change. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235213 | HUMAN TASK INTEGRATION INTO BPEL PROCESS VIA PRESENCE DRIVEN DELIVERY - An approach that provides presence driven notification to a subscriber when a business process automation chain requires manual intervention is provided. In one embodiment, there is a notification tool, including a routing component configured to transmit a message to the subscriber based on data gathered relating to subscriber presence, location and preferences. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100250293 | SOA POLICY VERSIONING - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for controlling versioning of a service. A programmable policy broker is configured to communicate with a service registry and a policy repository comprising different service levels of a service. A location lookup is centralized in the service registry for different versions of the service. A call for a service by a consumer is mediated by causing the policy broker to select and return a correct service level from the policy repository as a function of a requirement of the consumer, look up a proper version of the service in the service registry from the different versions as a function of the returned correct service level, and call the looked-up proper service from a location associated with the proper service in the service registry. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250295 | SOA LIFECYCLE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for implementing a service-oriented architecture governance framework. A programmable device configured by a logic component identifies a gap within a service-oriented architecture service orientation enterprise of concern as a function of a service-oriented architecture governance dimension. The service-oriented architecture governance dimension may be a service-oriented architecture business and information technology alignment dimension, a service-oriented architecture ownership and decision rights dimension, a service-oriented architecture asset lifecycle enablement and management dimension or a service-oriented architecture operational management and monitoring dimension. Some methods also identify and select a process within a service-oriented architecture governance dimension applicable to an identified enterprise of concern, apply the selected process against a stage of a service-oriented architecture business service lifecycle management component of the enterprise of concern, and customize and enable a change management process and capability corresponding to the enterprise of concern. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250296 | CALIBRATION FRAMEWORK FOR EFFORT ESTIMATION - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for calibrating and customizing an estimation model as a function of a service-oriented architecture environment. A programmable calibration engine device configured by a logic component generates a service-oriented architecture solution effort estimate as a function of a business available resource input and a required business functionality input. Some methods also include managing a calibration constraint, a policy, an end-user access control, an output scope and an output format and providing a programmable effort estimation engine, providing a set of a predefined constraint, a boundary value and historical calibration data to the effort estimation engine, and generating a service-oriented architecture solution effort estimate as a function of the provided set, the policy and an input of a solution parameter within the scope of a service-oriented architecture transformation. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250316 | DEVELOPING A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SHARED SERVICES PORTFOLIO - An approach that develops a service oriented architecture (SOA) shared services portfolio is provided. In one embodiment, there is a portfolio tool, including a decomposition component configured to decompose a business architecture of an enterprise into a set of SOA shared services, and a development component configured to develop a SOA shared service portfolio that is populated with the set of SOA shared services. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250320 | ENABLING SOA GOVERNANCE USING A SERVICE LIFECYCLE APPROACH - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for creating and using shared services through service-oriented architecture governance and a services lifecycle process. Service lifecycle steps are identified within a service-oriented architecture shared services model. Service stakeholders, decision-making touch-points and service state transition touch-points are identified in the shared services model, and service state-based lifecycle governance checkpoints within the shared services model are defined as a function of the identified service lifecycle steps, service stakeholders, decision-making touch-points and state transition touch-points. Further, integration points to existing processes are defined as a function of defined service state-based lifecycle governance checkpoints, governance fit-gap analyses are performed as a function of defined service state-based lifecycle governance checkpoints and identified service stakeholders, and services lifecycle gap touch-points are implemented as a function of the governance fit-gap analysis. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100251327 | SOA POLICY ENGINE FRAMEWORK - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices provide a policy engine framework. A consumer policy request for a web service is mediated through a functional web service or a policy web service. A single unified method call is made to policy adapters in response to the mediated customer request, each of the policy adapters in communication with a policy server. The policy adapters transform the single unified method call into formats acceptable by each associated policy servers and place the transformed requests to the associated servers. Results from the policy servers are formatted by policy adapters and a policy is selected from a policy registry repository as a function of the formatted results and returned to a requesting consumer. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100259386 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LOCATING MOBILE DEVICES USING LOCATION AND PRESENCE INFORMATION - A location based service and method configured to provide recovery assistance for a misplaced or stolen mobile device. The location based system and method is configured to locate (recover) high value mobile devices using location, presence and other IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based telecommunications network assets. The method includes leveraging location dips performed for other services to drive a recovery process for a mobile device to thereby reduce resource overhead on a location platform; locating the mobile device using the location dips performed for other services; and sending a notification to a subscriber of the location of the mobile device for recovery of the mobile device. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPTIMIZING DIGITAL MEDIA PROCESSING IN A CARRIER GRADE WEB PORTAL ENVIRONMENT - A computer implemented method includes storing generated digital media created by each portal server of a plurality of portal servers in a destination accessible by at least one of a plurality of HTTPD servers in response to a request for web content including the generated digital media. Additionally, the method includes determining that a subsequent request for digital media received by an HTTPD server of the plurality of HTTPD servers is for generated digital media created by any of the plurality of portal servers in the destination and accessible by the HTTPD server. Furthermore, the method includes serving the generated digital media from the HTTPD server to a browser. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100280856 | IDENTIFYING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SHARED SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES - An approach that identifies a service oriented architecture (SOA) shared service opportunity is provided. In one embodiment, there is an opportunity tool, including an identification component configured to identify a plurality of projects from each of a plurality of lines of business; a selection component configured to select a set of projects common to more than one line of business from the plurality of lines of business; and an evaluation component configured to evaluate the set of projects common to more than one line of business from the plurality of lines of business to identify a SOA shared service opportunity. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100306074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SUPPORT CODEC DELIVERY MODELS FOR IMS NETWORKS - An architecture (system) and method is provided for transcoding codec information to be sent in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling stream for rendering rich digital media content. The method is implemented on a computer infrastructure and includes: determining a codec associated with content to be sent to one or more requesting devices; determining that at least one of the one or more requesting devices do not have the codec associated with the content to be sent to the one or more requesting devices; providing codec information to the at least one of the one or more requesting devices; and sending the content to the one or more requesting devices. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110023133 | GRID LICENSING SERVER AND FAULT TOLERANT GRID SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method for managing licensed and non-licensed resources in a grid network is provided. A license server receives and processes requests for a license and determines whether a license is available and, if necessary, causes a new configuration to be created on a server for satisfying the request. A new grid node may also be created and configured to be added to the grid for creating additional capacity for grid processing. The configuration may be performed at a time prior to an actual need by the grid, perhaps due to a faulted node, and quickly brought on-line with a simple configuration update. The new grid node may also have a virtual IP address reassigned to quickly redirect processing from the faulted node to the newly configured node. Also, an external resource dispatcher may add new resources such as storage or processing capacity to the grid and may coordinate the new resources with the license server. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110131078 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODEL AND FORECAST TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION - A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to at least one of receive and assess current technology adoption trends. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to provide a technology adoption forecast. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131197 | OPTIMIZING CACHING PERIOD OF LOCATION DATA FOR NETWORK BASED LOCATION SERVICES - A system and associated method for optimizing caching period of location data for network based location services. A location caching server receives a location request from a mobile device. The location caching server calculates, pursuant to a predefined calculation rule, a caching period of a location cache entry for the mobile device based on a precision level requested by the mobile device and a service precision level assigned for a type of location service for which the location request was made. The location caching server obtains real location data of the mobile device of the calculated caching period is expired. The location caching server subsequently adjusts the caching period based on a distance traveled by the mobile device pursuant to a predefined adjustment rule, and updates the location cache entry. | 06-02-2011 |
