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20120166971 | Social Networking Timeline System And Method - The Social Networking Timeline System allows individual timeline authors to record their life histories via online timelines and to upload, store, and share personal history information to a remote database that records, stores, and parses their timeline data, preferably over the Internet. Authors are able to connect to other authors thus establishing social connections. These connections are characterized upon the historical overlaps between all parties based upon their inputs, including but not limited to where they were, what they were doing, what their physical condition was, who their associates were, what things they affiliated with, what their beliefs were, and what events they were close to (manmade or natural) at particular points in time. Further, the information created is searchable (anonymized or not) and connections may be requested between persons with shared historical characteristics. | 06-28-2012 |
20120265667 | FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT DISCOVERY, TRANSPARENCY, COMMUNICATION, AND TRADING FACILITATION - The Financial Instrument Discovery, Transparency, Communication, and Trading Facilitation invention allows parties to virtualize prospective and existing financial instruments (including derivative and other analogous complex financial instruments) into one or more computer software applications via a user authoring software toolkit, and to upload such one or more virtualized instrument to a cloud hosting environment (or analogous online storage ecosystem) for further sharing of such virtualized instruments with interested parties over a communications network where other market participants may engage with the cloud hosting environment and search for, download, and review such virtualized instruments. Further, the Invention allows for downloading parties and authors to communicate directly and to do such “peer to peer” communications on an anonymous, partially anonymous, or non-anonymous basis, and have such communications be secure and/or encrypted. | 10-18-2012 |
20120284300 | Automatically Configured Data Search Function - The subject invention describes and relates generally to searching databases and content sharing systems and associated methods of operation. Specifically, the subject invention relates to a “one click” search function that is accessible by a plurality of entities over a network such as the Internet and engages in the automatic creation of search parameters drawn from the pre-formatted, pre-populated, categorized data in a pre-existing dataset and having these automatically generated search parameters that mirror such pre-formatted, pre-populated, categorized data in a pre-existing dataset effect a search for items with similar format and categorized properties to the pre-existing dataset, thereby obviating the need for the searcher to manually construct a set of search terms in order to find similar datasets to the pre-existing dataset. | 11-08-2012 |
20130232053 | FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT DISCOVERY, TRANSPARENCY, COMMUNICATION, AND TRADING FACILITATION - This disclosure allows parties to virtualize prospective and existing financial instruments (including derivative and other analogous complex financial instruments) and other data set into one or more computer software applications via a user authoring software toolkit, and to upload such one or more virtualized instrument to a cloud hosting environment (or analogous online storage ecosystem) for further sharing of such virtualized instruments with interested parties over a communications network where other market participants may engage with the cloud hosting environment and search for, download, and review such virtualized instruments. Further, the Disclosure allows for downloading parties and authors to communicate directly and to do such “peer to peer” communications on an anonymous, partially anonymous, or non-anonymous basis, and have such communications be secure and/or encrypted. | 09-05-2013 |
20140267544 | SCALABLE AVATAR MESSAGING - Technologies for distributed generation of an avatar with a facial expression corresponding to a facial expression of a user include capturing real-time video of a user of a local computing device. The computing device extracts facial parameters of the user's facial expression using the captured video and transmits the extracted facial parameters to a server. The server generates an avatar video of an avatar having a facial expression corresponding to the user's facial expression as a function of the extracted facial parameters and transmits the avatar video to a remote computing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140361974 | KARAOKE AVATAR ANIMATION BASED ON FACIAL MOTION DATA - Apparatus, systems, media and/or methods may involve animating avatars. User facial motion data may be extracted that corresponds to one or more user facial gestures observed by an image capture device when a user emulates a source object. An avatar animation may be provided based on the user facial motion data. Also, script data may be provided to the user and/or the user facial motion data may be extracted when the user utilizes the script data. Moreover, audio may be captured and/or converted to a predetermined tone. Source facial motion data may be extracted and/or an avatar animation may be provided based on the source facial motion data. A degree of match may be determined between the user facial motion data of a plurality of users and the source facial motion data. The user may select an avatar as a user avatar and/or a source object avatar. | 12-11-2014 |
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20120036051 | APPLICATION ACTIVITY SYSTEM - A data connection method for establishing a data connection between a bandwidth user (an application user) of a network connected access device and target content on a network connected target device over a communication network where the application user's bandwidth consumption activities incur a bandwidth usage charge from the network operator providing the bandwidth connection, and may comprise providing a subsidized application to the bandwidth user that is capable of utilizing subsidized bandwidth as paid for by the application provider as it accesses such target content on a target device, as well as comprise an identification code associated with both the subsidized application and the provider of such subsidized application; further allowing the application user access to at least one specified online data address to access target content hosted on at least one target device pre-determined by the application provider; and monitoring and recording the online access activity of such subsidized application and providing to a registry the recorded online activity as well as the identification code associated with the subsidized application and the identification code associated with the access device. | 02-09-2012 |
20140337114 | Application Activity System - A data connection method for establishing a data connection between a bandwidth user (an application user) of a network connected user access device and a data source on a network connected target device over a communication network relating to the provision of data connection services to the user utilizing a subsidized application to allow the user of the subsidized application access to at least one target devices via a communication network, the method comprising: providing, via the communication network, a content and services brokerage engine, including a content and services brokerage engine web site store front, providing, via the web site, an online sale of a data connectivity package to at least one provider of a subsidized application; and, accepting, via the web site the purchase by a provider of a subsidized application of the at least one data connectivity package for inclusion by the provider of the subsidized application into a subsidized application to be used by a user of the subsidized application to access at least one target device as specified by the provider of the subsidized application on a data connection basis. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344405 | APPLICATION ACTIVITY SYSTEM WITH INTERNET PROTOCOL COLLECT CALL - A data connection method for establishing a data connection over a communication network between the user of a toll-free bandwidth-related application installed on a network connected access device and target content on a network connected target device. The application user's bandwidth consumption activities that usually incur a bandwidth usage charge from the network operator providing the bandwidth connection are subsidized and managed by a toll-free application provider. Further disclosed is a system for enabling a collect IP call software framework that allows one or more party participating in a collect call to pay for bandwidth consumed by one or more other party participating in the same collect call. | 11-20-2014 |