Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090037211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING COMMUNITY BASED AND CONTENT BASED INFORMATION NETWORKS - A system for storing, managing, and accessing information on a network by providing an interface between a social network and a content network includes an applications platform. The system provides messaging and social networking facility incorporating enhanced instant messaging, file synchronization, network presence, interactive chat capabilities, text messaging, voice and video messaging, blogging, and email. The system includes a viewer, an indexing facility, and a storage facility. The viewer enables users to traverse content and provides services based upon context of time, place, structure, node, and observed user behavior. The viewer provides a means for users to interact with information on the network and services to manipulate information and transact activities. The indexing facility manages the structure of the network and tracks attributes and controlled vocabularies. The indexing facility supports navigation across the structure and resolves the logical index to a physical storage location. The storage facility provides physical persistence for an information component. | 02-05-2009 |
20090292709 | INTELLIGENT CLIENT ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A collision detection and data synchronization mechanism operates to expand the speed and capability of distributed applications. The execution environment employs collision detection and data synchronization to distribute data objects to appropriate network nodes to support local processing. The collision detection and data synchronization mechanism defines the set of processes and algorithms used to track distributed data objects and to manage changes to the distributed objects throughout a network of intelligent computing devices. Data and code are distributed to local computing devices necessitating tracking and synchronizing updates. The system and method ensures that data updates received during the course of a local transaction do not unwillingly affect the results of other transactions by notifying the local computing devices of changes to the data that are subject of the transaction. These conflicts are then resolved in the applications, and notification of the resolution is sent to the remaining intelligent computing devices. | 11-26-2009 |
20110047413 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING SERVICE FAILURES AND MAINTAINING COMPUTING SERVICES USING A RESILIENT INTELLIGENT CLIENT COMPUTER - Intelligent client computing devices track and record the changes they make to data, applications, and services. Systems, devices, and computer readable media for detecting service tier failures and maintaining application services provide a resilient client architecture that allows a client application on an intelligent client to automatically detect the unavailability of server tiers or sites and re-route requests and updates to secondary sites to maintain application services at the client tier in a manner that is transparent to a user. The resilient client architecture understands the level of currentness of secondary sites in order to select the best secondary site and to automatically and transparently bring this secondary site up to date to ensure no data updates are missing from the secondary site. | 02-24-2011 |
20120110322 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DELIVERING CONFIDENTIAL ELECTRONIC FILES - A private document delivery system and method includes a sending computer configured to transmit an electronic document over a computer network, a dynamically established encrypted line to traverse the computer network from a receiving computer to the sending computer where the delivery address of the receiving computer is resolved a at the time of transmission of the private message such that no third parties to the message receive a permanent copy of the message. The system and method also includes a signaling mechanism configured to notify the receiving computer that the electronic document is waiting for delivery. The system and method includes a verification agent configured to verify the receiving computer's identity with a protocol specified by the sending computer and to provide access instructions to the receiving computer with which the receiving computer locates the sending computer via the dynamically established encrypted line and receives the transmitted electronic document. | 05-03-2012 |
20120158733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING COMMUNITY-BASED AND CONTENT-BASED INFORMATION NETWORKS - A system for storing, managing, and accessing information on a network by providing an interface between a social network and a content network includes an applications platform. The system provides messaging and social networking facility incorporating enhanced instant messaging, file synchronization, network presence, interactive chat capabilities, text messaging, voice and video messaging, blogging, and email. The system includes a viewer, an indexing facility, and a storage facility. The viewer enables users to traverse content and provides services based upon context of time, place, structure, node, and observed user behavior. The viewer provides a means for users to interact with information on the network and services to manipulate information and transact activities. The indexing facility manages the structure of the network and tracks attributes and controlled vocabularies. The indexing facility supports navigation across the structure and resolves the logical index to a physical storage location. The storage facility provides physical persistence for an information component. | 06-21-2012 |
20120179659 | INTELLIGENT CLIENT ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A collision detection and data synchronization mechanism operates to expand the speed and capability of distributed applications. The execution environment employs collision detection and data synchronization to distribute data objects to appropriate network nodes to support local processing. The collision detection and data synchronization mechanism defines the set of processes and algorithms used to track distributed data objects and to manage changes to the distributed objects throughout a network of intelligent computing devices. Data and code are distributed to local computing devices necessitating tracking and synchronizing updates. The system and method ensures that data updates received during the course of a local transaction do not unwillingly affect the results of other transactions by notifying the local computing devices of changes to the data that are subject of the transaction. These conflicts are then resolved in the applications, and notification of the resolution is sent to the remaining intelligent computing devices. | 07-12-2012 |
20120265828 | HOME BRIDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DELIVERING CONFIDENTIAL ELECTRONIC FILES - A private document delivery system and method includes a home bridge computer configured to securely deliver an electronic document over a computer network. The home bridge computer combines SSL security, authentication, and direct data transfer in a link delivery system to maintain security of private electronic documents. The private electronic documents and messages transmitted via the home bridge computer are not stored during transit on the computer network, and no third parties to the message receive a permanent copy of the message. The systems and methods also include signaling mechanisms configured to notify the receiving computer that the electronic document is awaiting delivery. The system and method includes a network registry configured to verify the receiving computer's identity with a protocol specified by the sending computer and to provide access instructions to the receiving computer with which the receiving computer locates the home bridge and retrieves the private message. | 10-18-2012 |
20140129873 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING SERVICE FAILURES AND MAINTAINING COMPUTING SERVICES USING A RESILIENT INTELLIGENT CLIENT COMPUTER - Intelligent client computing devices track and record the changes they make to data, applications, and services. Systems, devices, and computer readable media for detecting service tier failures and maintaining application services provide a resilient client architecture that allows a client application on an intelligent client to automatically detect the unavailability of server tiers or sites and re-route requests and updates to secondary sites to maintain application services at the client tier in a manner that is transparent to a user. The resilient client architecture understands the level of currentness of secondary sites in order to select the best secondary site and to automatically and transparently bring this secondary site up to date to ensure no data updates are missing from the secondary site. | 05-08-2014 |
20150081567 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH PARTICIPANT AUTHENTICATION VIA SEPARATE AUTHORITY FROM REAL-TIME PAYMENT VALIDATION - A system and method of exchanging assets splits authentication of the parties in the transaction from real-time validation of the assets used in the transaction. Electronic representations of currency or other value of an asset provide a mechanism for the electronic transfer of the ownership of those assets. Digital tokens or other electronic money is created, issued, purchased, validated, and redeemed within an electronic exchange. Ownership of the token is established by the physical possession of the token along with a public key certificate that decrypts the owner's copy of the token. Tokens are stored in digital wallets and are transferred using private p2p communications channels or NFC. The separation of the authentication of the parties using an authentication authority (registry) and the validation of the assets using a transaction authority allows personal anonymity. Privacy is maintained, and no single authority has a complete audit trail of the transaction. | 03-19-2015 |