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20080201418 | Web-Based Sharing of Documents - A technique is disclosed that enables telecommunications endpoints to conveniently share the addressing information—that is, the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)—of documents that are available on the World Wide Web. In particular, a server is used to provide a bookmark service. The server acts as a repository of tag-URI pairs, in which each tag functions as a shorthand label for the corresponding URI. In the disclosed technique, a first user creates the tag for the intended URI by assigning a keyword to represent the URI as part of a bookmark tag-URI pair that the server stores. The created tag is presumably shorter than the URI that it represents, making the tag more convenient to use. A second user is then able to retrieve and use the URI by specifying the tag to the bookmark server. In essence, the technique of the illustrative embodiment enables the sharing of Web documents by sharing the bookmarks to those documents. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201419 | EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF PRESENCE UPDATE INFORMATION TO PRESENCE SERVICE CLIENTS - To promote efficient transmission of presence update information to a presence service client associated or integrated with a communication client such as an instant messaging (IM) client, a separate computing device may be notified when the communication client becomes dormant. The separate device may buffer presence updates destined for the communication client, each presence update containing information regarding availability of at least one of a set of contacts for intercommunication via said communication client. When the separate device learns that either the communication client has ceased being dormant or that an event has occurred which shall cause the communication client to cease being dormant, the buffered presence updates may be sent to the presence service client. Presence updates within the buffered set may be reconciled to eliminate obsolete information. The result may be a conservation of wireless connection bandwidth or reduction in device power consumption. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201420 | Digital media frame with peer to peer networking - A digital media frame is provided for display of digital media data, such as digital images. The digital media frame includes a data network interface for communications via a data network such as the Internet. The digital media frame is capable of communications using an instant messaging communications protocol, through which data such as digital images can be exchanged with other devices directly and immediately. The digital media frame can also be configured and/or controlled via a web portal by transmitting configuration or control data to the digital media frame using the instant messaging communications protocol. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201421 | Community web site for creating and maintaining a web hosting community - An example embodiment of a Community Web Site includes a Home Page, a Web Presence Tool Page, and a Product and Community Forum which is created and maintained by a Hosting Provider. The Home Page may be made accessible to Hosting Customers and Partners and is an ideal location for placement of ads since all members of the Web Hosting Community are funneled through this Web page. The Web Presence Tool Page may display information generated by a Partner regarding the Partner's application which may be viewed by the Hosting Customers. The Product and Community Forum may allow the Hosting Customers to share information regarding all the applications with other Hosting Customers. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201422 | Senior citizen communication system - A system and method is disclosed whereby a patient at a senior care facility can send and receive messages via the inter-net. Tools are provided to manage the patients, the patient's relative contact, mail and photo collection. Relatives can be designated to suggest changes to the contacts and edit the contents of the patient's contacts files. The messages may be audio, video or text and the user friendly system helps the patients navigate through the process. Notification is provided so that the relatives and patients know when a message had been received. Further notification is provided if a prolonged period lapses after receipt of a message to a patient and the message has not been read. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201423 | Multisensorial Communication Method Between Services and Remote Users and System Architecture for Actuating It - A communication method between one or more users ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080201424 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A VIRTUAL CONCERT UTILIZING AUDIO COLLABORATION VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method of processing data signals. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for processing data signals in real-time via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a system for processing data signals comprises a first data signal received from a first client, a second data signal received from a second client, a mixer for mixing the first and second data signals, a first unique data mix, for the first client, generated by the mixer, a second unique data mix, for the second client, generated by the mixer, and a third unique data mix, for a Fan Room, generated by the mixer. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN REAL-TIME NETWORK PARTICIPANTS - The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility. | 08-21-2008 |
20080201426 | DISTRIBUTED MIXER FOR ON-LINE AUDIO COLLABORATION - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method of processing data signals. More specifically, in one embodiment, system architecture splits mixing functions between client and server to enable dynamic switching between a client-server and a peer-to-peer paradigm. In another embodiment, architecture allows one to efficiently trade-off computation in the server and link bandwidth in the network. In another embodiment a system is provided to minimize computational load on server subject to link bandwidth constraint. In another embodiment a system is provided to maximize use of client computational resources. In another embodiment a system is provided to adapt to changing network environments and changing service requirements (e.g. number of clients). | 08-21-2008 |
20080201427 | Method For Transmitting Destination User Part Unavailable Message - A method for transmitting Destination User Part Unavailable message includes: signaling-point-transmitting, by an Application Server Process, a received DUPU message, if the Application Server Process is a signaling transfer point. | 08-21-2008 |
20080208969 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF ONLINE CONTENT FOR SHARING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to combing websites that can be edited over the Internet using distributed revision control. This also makes it possible to use writable web sites while not being connected to the Internet. In some embodiments, the present invention is applied to wikis. When a wiki reconnects, differences are automatically sent over and changes from other wikis are merged automatically. Wikis may also be synchronized on a periodic or event driven basis. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used for load balancing between wikis, or to share information with users who can only occasionally connect to the Internet. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208970 | Systems and Methods for Enabling Selective Communications between Participants - Systems and methods for selective communications, including: establishing a communication between one or more participants, where the communication is established according to configuration instructions, where the configuration instructions determine whether a one-way communication exists between one of the participants and another one of the participants. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208971 | Social Networking via Communications over Interactive Devices - A social networking part for a mobile phone that allows initiating communications with persons within a vicinity. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208972 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STATEFUL WEB SERVICES ENABLEMENT - A web services enablement system includes a computer adapted to send and receive information to and from a first service, to send and receive information to and from a second service, which may not be a web service, to manage a connection with a third, stateful, service and to send and receive information via the stateful service based on information received from the first service or the second service. Also a method of enabling two-way web services and stateful transactions that includes steps of providing an architecture of base services and meta-services, defining a first base service comprising a core component and an extension component, combining the first base service and a meta-service to create a first usable service, managing a relationship between the first usable service and a second service through dependency or binding or utility, and performing a stateful transaction using the first usable service. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208973 | CONTEXTUAL MOBILE LOCAL SEARCH BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK VITALITY INFORMATION - A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing contextual based mobile searches. A context oriented user interface interprets inputs from a mobile user based on vitality information. In one embodiment, the input may be interpreted as a request to perform a context-based search over a network using at least some of the vitality information. Vitality information may include a location of the mobile device, a time of day, an event, information from the mobile user's calendar, past behavior of the mobile user, weather, social networking data, aggregate behaviors, or even information about proximity of a social contact. By employing vitality information to perform a mobile search, better search results and a richer user experience may be provided that includes a sense of community, a sense of presence (e.g., a sense of “here-ness.”). In one embodiment, the mobile user may provide comments to others regarding the search results. | 08-28-2008 |
20080215678 | Bookmarking URLs From An Instant Messaging Session - Bookmarking URLs from an instant messaging session, including identifying by an instant messaging client a URL in the instant messaging session, selecting by the instant messaging client at least one browser available for receiving bookmarks from an instant messaging client, and saving by the instant messaging client a bookmark for the identified URL in a bookmark repository of the selected browser. | 09-04-2008 |
20080215679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING COMMUNICATIONS AMONG REAL AND VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system and method for routing communications among real and virtual communication devices are disclosed. The system includes one or more processors configured to generate a virtual world. The one or more processors may be configured to generate a virtual communication device and implement a configurable router adapted to facilitate routing of a communication among one or more real communication devices and the virtual communication device. A user of the virtual world may be associated with a virtual communication device and one or more real communication devices. A routing preference for reception of communications targeted to the user is implemented among the virtual communication device and the one or more real communication devices. | 09-04-2008 |
20080215680 | Conference Server Operations - An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel, or redundant processing, transmission, and storage for performance, reliability, and robustness. Various parameters of the system can be monitored, and the system can be reconfigured automatically based on the observations. Varied techniques reduce the perceived end-to-end latency and take advantage of software and hardware capabilities that assets connected to the system may possess. One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream. | 09-04-2008 |
20080215681 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTI-USER COLLABORATION AND DATA-STREAM MIXING AND METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for selecting the best server to realize the best user-experience for the client. The selection of this server is selected based on the quality of each user's connection to each server. Embodiments of the present invention also generally relate to a system and method to facilitate efficient transmission and carry each user's stream to the selected server. | 09-04-2008 |
20080215682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTITY MANAGED COLLABORATION - A system and method for identity managed collaboration (IMC) that in various embodiments can provide for: identity management of participants within a collaboration session to set entitlement; identity security for participants to allow participants to determine what identity is projected; participation in a collaboration session in a monitoring mode via a browser without the need to install client software on an access appliance; audio collaboration via a plurality of communication media; and Leave Existing & Add Preferred (LEAP) capability to allow participants to dynamically changes access appliances. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222247 | Implementing a multi-user communications service - A method of implementing within a communications system an optional communications service involves the participation of a plurality of users of the communications system. The method includes, in response to an action by a first user of the communications system, instigating the preparation of one or more elements of the communication system for providing said optional communications service in relation to one or more other existing users of the communications system. When the first user thereafter accesses the optional communication service, the communications system is already prepared for participation by said one or more other existing users in the optional communication service. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222248 | System and method for message packaging - A system and method for virtual message packaging is described. A virtual package is collection of messages that share common characteristics and may be processed together. In one embodiment, messages are first grouped according to one or more rules at a client and then formed into a virtual package. In another embodiment, one or more messages are received at a server and then formed into a virtual package for later processing. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222249 | TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD AND SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - To realize a service infrastructure capable of being used as a platform for various services to be implemented through a network. In a service provision system, each of a service control server | 09-11-2008 |
20080222250 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA RELAY - Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided by said antenna; storage supporting storing data; and a controller connected to said wireless interface and to said storage, supporting an application service, a message service, and a relay service for relay messages; wherein said application service provides execution and management of one or more application programs accessible by said controller using application data stored in said storage, said message service provides building messages and processing received messages, and said relay service provides building a new relay message indicating a selected recipient to which the wireless device does not have a direct wireless connection, sending a built new relay message, and sending a received relay message that indicates a recipient other than the wireless device. | 09-11-2008 |
20080228875 | Method and system for speed dating - This computer software program provides way for people from all over the world of all ages and sex, to participate in a matchmaking experience over the internet in real time. This application includes a graphical user interface which displays a table containing say, ten people (5 pairs per session). It is based on what is known as “blind dating” that takes place in physical locations around the world and is incorporated into the World Wide Web. However, in this program the participants will only see the person they are chatting with, while the other participants remain anonymous until the completion of the first round comprising of an initial chat. The program will use a dating website profile database accordingly to the users who play the game. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COLLABORATION - A system and method of online collaboration including providing an electronic book accessible by a user. A collaborative forum corresponding to the electronic book may be provided. Access to the collaborative forum may be provided to one or more users of the electronic book. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228877 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA RELAY - Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided by said antenna; storage supporting storing data; and a controller connected to said wireless interface and to said storage, supporting an application service, a message service, and a relay service for relay messages; wherein said application service provides execution and management of one or more application programs accessible by said controller using application data stored in said storage, said message service provides building messages and processing received messages, and said relay service provides building a new relay message indicating a selected recipient to which the wireless device does not have a direct wireless connection, sending a built new relay message, and sending a received relay message that indicates a recipient other than the wireless device. | 09-18-2008 |
20080235331 | SCHEDULING SYNCHRONIZED DEMAND FOR P2P NETWORKS - A method and system are provided to share a file over a P2P network comprising: notifying a plurality of peer devices of a scheduled time during which sharing of a file over the network is to occur; receiving requests from multiple peers from the plurality to participate in sharing of the file during the scheduled time; and distributing different segments of the file to different peers from among the multiple peers. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235332 | Advertising substitution payment system - There is provided a method that includes sending information to a first device, receiving a confirmation that a user of the first device acknowledged receipt of the information, and facilitating a communication between the first device and a second device via a peer-to-peer network in return for the confirmation. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235333 | GROUP ACCESS PRIVATIZATION IN CLUSTERED COMPUTER SYSTEM - An apparatus, clustered computer system, and program product rely on cluster-private group names to perform accesses to groups that are resident in a clustered computer system. Thus, for a cluster-accessible group, all nodes capable of participating in a cluster are configured to map to the same cluster-private group name for that group, so that any external user that has access to the clustered computer system can access the group name and utilize the group name to initiate operations by the group. | 09-25-2008 |
20080244005 | ENHANCED USER INFORMATION FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Techniques involving messaging applications are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a presence determination module and a publication module. The presence determination module may infer one or more presence indicators regarding a user. These inference(s) may be based on sensor data. In addition, these inference(s) may be based on position information, and device activity data. The publication module publishes the one or more presence indicators to a messaging server. These presence indicator(s) may indicate an activity and/or a location context of the user. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244006 | Method and apparatus for a digital leg history - A personalized way to digitally record a person's physical activities over time serves web searching, business advertising, nostalgia, security and object tracing purposes. The chronological digital history of the person's physical presence over a time includes (i) digital network entries from other members who hold their portable wireless short range device near the person's device and transmit a URL or other key data and (ii) digital member entries such a digital photograph of a store sign. The digital network entries and digital member entries are automatically transmitted to a database located on a telecommunications network at a time of entry. Advertisers can transmit to members when members enter premises of advertiser's store. Upon sign-up online, the authentication data uniquely associated with an account is provided and key data they want to transmit is associated with the account. Digital histories can be used to improve web searching and networking opportunities. | 10-02-2008 |
20080256181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION AND ANNOTATION OF PATIENT INFORMATION - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for improved collaboration. Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for electronic medical record collaboration and annotation. Certain embodiments provide an electronic medical record collaboration system. The system includes a workstation having a user interface and access to electronic clinical data. The user interface allows annotation and saving of the electronic clinical data. The system also includes a collaboration manager coordinating collaboration between the workstation and another entity regarding the electronic clinical data. The collaboration is capable of being asynchronous or synchronous collaboration. Certain embodiments provide a method for collaboration with respect to electronic medical data. The method includes accessing electronic medical data; identifying a collaborator with respect to the electronic medical data; and collaborating in at least an annotation of the electronic medical data. The collaboration is capable of being an asynchronous or a synchronous collaboration. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256182 | Emulation of room lock and lobby feature in distributed conferencing system - Architecture for a session lock and lobby feature in a distributed conferencing framework for a conferencing session. Under a lock scenario, once a user enters the session, the session can be locked to prevent other individuals from entering, even if the individuals were invited to the session. Locking can be accomplished manually by a session participant and/or automatically based on criteria. The lobby feature allows a session participant to be aware of users in the lobby and pending access to the session by providing notification and/or identification of the user attempting to gain access to the session. The session leader can selectively allow access to the session. The architecture facilitates lock and lobby features in multiple identical, leaderless, conference servers which together form a distributed conferencing system. The lock and lobby features can employ media session protocols such as session initiation protocol (SIP) and centralized conference control protocol (C3P). | 10-16-2008 |
20080256183 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A FRONT-END, DISTRIBUTED RAID - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a front-end, distributed redundant array of independent drives (“RAID”). A storage request receiver module receives a storage request to store object or file data in a set of autonomous storage devices forming a RAID group. The storage devices independently receive storage requests from a client over a network, and one or more of the storage devices are designated as parity-mirror storage devices for a stripe. The striping association module calculates a stripe pattern for the data. Each stripe includes N data segments, each associated with N storage devices. The parity-mirror association module associates a set of the N data segments with one or more parity-mirror storage devices. The storage request transmitter module transmits storage requests to each storage device. Each storage request is sufficient to store onto the storage device the associated data segments. The storage requests are substantially free of data. | 10-16-2008 |
20080270537 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND REPLY METHOD THEREOF - A communication system and a reply method thereof that enable various types of replies to be attached to a user's article posted on a web page is provided, whereby a user can easily check the user's article having a reply posted on the web page. The method includes posting a user's article of a user page on a web page, connecting to the web page and attaching a reply to the posted user's article, and displaying the user's article having the reply on the user page when a request for displaying the user's article on the user page is received. | 10-30-2008 |
20080270538 | CUSTOMIZABLE, SMART-TAG BASED CONTENT DELIVERY AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING ENTITIES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB - A method for delivering content to users from a web site system over a network is presented. The method includes one or more users connecting to the web site system over the network for the purpose of registering as a sending party to provide content to the web site system along with providing one or more smart-tags associated with the content, the smart-tags providing qualifying information about the content, or registering as a subscribing party to request content from the web site system by providing a subscription including one or more smart-tags. The sending party requests the web site system to deliver content provided by the sending party and the subscribing party requests delivery of the desired content. The subscribing party receives the desired content from the web site system over the network when the subscription at least in part matches one or more smart-tags provided by the sending party. | 10-30-2008 |
20080275951 | INTEGRATED LOGGING FOR REMOTE SCRIPT EXECUTION - An integrated logging system includes a client-side logging component and a server-side logging component. The client-side logging component possesses the capability of logging client-side activity information, such as may relate to the execution of a script or other suitable client-side code that is controlled and executed independently of a remote server associated with the server-side logging component. The client-side logging component may also communicate logged activity information back to the corresponding server-side logging component. Messages including logged client-side activity information are received from the client-side logging component by the server-side logging component, and the logged activity information is integrated into the server-side log(s) of a server-side logging system. Thus, activity information from an independently controlled and operated processing device, which may be used, for example for problem determination, is integrated from sources that are distributed between systems. | 11-06-2008 |
20080275952 | Overlay Network System and Service Providing Method - In an overlay network system in which at least one node is mapped in a hash space by distributed hash table techniques, each node having a nods identifier obtained by hashing identification information of the own node, at least one service concerning all the nodes is provided. Each node includes a storage unit and a controller. The storage unit stores a service name and a service body of the service. The controller searches for a current service provider node using a service key obtained by hashing the service name, checks whether the own node is allowed to take over the service if a distance between the node identifier of the own node and the service key is less than a distance between the node identifier of the current service provider node and the service key, and invokes the service body to provide the service if the takeover is permitted. | 11-06-2008 |
20080281912 | MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY - An approach that manages enterprise systems and applications using three-dimensional visualization technology is described. In one embodiment, a system for streaming visual representations of an enterprise in near-real time. A multitude of geographically distributed enterprise datacenters are each configured to obtain event data from hardware and software elements in the enterprise. A virtual command center is configured to receive the event data, aggregate the event data into a composite dataset representative of the current operation of the enterprise, compare the composite dataset to at least one three-dimensional model representative of the operation of the geographically distributed enterprise, and provide a visualization of the composite data and any difference that may exist. The visualization is a composite of a three-dimensional visual image of the current operation of the geographically distributed enterprise. | 11-13-2008 |
20080281913 | Live video broadcasting on distributed networks - The techniques related to providing a live program over the Internet are described. According to one aspect of the techniques, a data stream representing a live program is preprocessed to produce a plurality of substreams, each of the substreams comprising decimated samples of the data stream. The number of substreams is relatively large so that the bandwidth requirement for delivering one of the substreams is relatively low. With a group of seeding boxes receiving the substreams, a group of boxes in services are designated to receive the substreams from the seeding boxes, each of these boxes including the seeding boxes is able to support multiple outbound streams (e.g., greater than 2) so that there are enough data suppliers to service the ordering boxes or colonize more boxes to become the data suppliers. As a result, a live program can be timely serviced by peer boxes, significantly reducing the computation and bandwidth burdens on a server(s). | 11-13-2008 |
20080281914 | Computer system - There is provided a computer system comprising a plurality of first computers operated by users and a second computer coupled to the plurality of first computers via a network. The second computer receives a group creation request from one of the plurality of first computers; creates a group to which one or more of the users belong based on the received group creation request; specifies, among users having relation to a user who operates the one of the plurality of first computers that transmitted the received group creation request, users not belonging to the created group as leakage destination users; and transmits information received from one of the plurality of first computers operated by one of the users belonging to the created group to first computers operated by the specified leakage destination users. | 11-13-2008 |
20080281915 | Collaboration portal (COPO) a scaleable method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits to communities of users - The present invention, known as The Collaboration Portal (COPO), relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users. It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits for communities of users, and can efficiently and robustly distribute the processing in behalf of those users over a decentralized network of computers. The field of the invention generally encompasses enabling appropriate and desired communication among communities of users and organizations, and providing information, goods, services, a works, opportunities, and connections among users and organizations. | 11-13-2008 |
20080288587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCORING AND RANKING A PLURALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS IN COMPONENTS OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEM - A method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of component links in a social technical system having a plurality of components representing people and objects are provided. In one aspect, a degree of consistency relative to two or more people working on one or more objects and dependencies between the objects is determined to derive scores for the component links. The method and system identifies gaps in the link and determines the impact of filling the gaps. In another aspect, component links may be ranked and scores aggregated to provide system level quantifications. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288588 | Method and system for searching using image based tagging - A system and method are provided for searching networked electronic media. The method includes the operation of mapping a user selected keyword to a category identifier for search result generation in a search engine. A search result can be produced that contains alisting of URLs for the category identifier. Then the search result can be dynamically populated with images through identity mapping of the image to a URL. The search can determine the display images to a URL based on a user's profile, like age, and the URL's popularity with other users sharing a similar user profile. The URLs and an associated image for the search can be obtained through a community of users. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288589 | Method and system for scheduling of messages - Embodiments of the invention provide a scheduling process and apparatus which may include constraints which determine the amount of messaging events available in a particular category (e.g. sports, music, food content) in a particular time period, for example on a particular day (or perhaps even within smaller time periods, such as afternoon/morning slots or even hourly slots.) The amount allocated per category may vary according to the time period—so that, for example, Monday may be “Music Day”, during which the content will be predominantly music-related. By having a variation period-by-period, e.g. day-by-day (or according to other slots) over a weekly (or other) period then the recipient becomes more familiar with, and involved in, receiving the message content. Since the recipient gets to understand the periodic formatting, they will come to expect a particular type of message content at a particular time, or at least during a particular period or timing characteristic. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288590 | ONLINE COACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of coaching through a computer system having at least two client devices, and a communication network operatively and electrically connecting the client devices to the at least one server. A user generates at a client device a sports diagram representing a playing surface with sports plays and transmits the sports diagram to another client device via a server for display. The user can also communicate analysis of the diagram between the two client devices. | 11-20-2008 |
20080294720 | Enhanced Online Collaboration System - Where users of an online collaboration system are viewing a broadcast presentation having segments of non-local content interspersed with segments of localized content, the collaboration opportunities available to the users are enhanced by providing both a primary chat room available for use by all users of the system and two or more additional chat rooms, each available to subsets of users identified as residents of geographic areas covered by the segments of localized content. In another embodiment, a user may control the availability of one of the additional chat rooms to identified members of a subset without regard to whether members are residents of a certain geographic area. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294721 | ARCHITECTURE FOR TELECONFERENCING WITH VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION - A communications system includes a teleconferencing system for hosting teleconferences, and a server system for providing a virtual representation for the teleconferencing system. The virtual representation includes objects whose states can be commanded to transition gradually. The server system provides clients to client devices, and each client causes its client device to display the virtual representation. Each client device is capable of generating a command for gradually transitioning an object to a new state in the virtual representation and sending the command to the server system. The server system commands the clients to transition an object to its new state by a specified time. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294722 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Touch and Play (Tap) - Based Service and System Using the Method and Apparatus - Provided are a method, apparatus and system for providing a touch and play (TAP)-based service. The method includes setting respective device identifiers of a plurality of devices which can be connected to a device using an organism as a transmission channel and setting services to be provided to a user through the interaction between the device and each of the devices corresponding to the device identifiers, respectively; having at least two execution levels so that one of the at least two execution levels can be selected in order to determine whether to execute a service in cooperation with one of the devices and setting one of the at least two execution levels according to an input from a user; receiving a device identifier of another device if the device is connected to one of the devices using the organism as the transmission channel; recognizing services set for the other device and identifying a service that is to be provided to the user through the interaction between the device and the other device; determining whether to execute the identified service according to the set execution level; and automatically recognizing information required to provide the service that is determined to be executed in cooperation with the other device and executing the determined service. When the method, apparatus and the system are used, a user can receive a desired service by simply touching two devices. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301227 | HIERARCHICAL DOCUMENT PUBLISHING - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a hierarchical publication of at least one object. Embodiments of the present invention relate to hierarchy publication for creating an object, wherein the object contains a plurality of object parts. Embodiments of the present invention relate to hierarchy publication by creating an object with a plurality of components and associating each of the plurality of components with information relating to a plurality of intended recipients within a hierarchy. Embodiments of the present invention relate to model linking by providing more than one model, each model containing information related to an object to be published, querying a first model for the object information with a first query requesting a complete solution from the first model, and resolving the first query by the first model creating a second query to the at least one other model, the at least one other model returning an information result of the second query to the first model. Embodiments of the present invention relate to virtual data management by providing more than one model, each model containing information, requesting information from the more than one model, and combining a returned result from each of the more than one models into a virtual data source. Embodiments of the present invention relate to dashboard publishing by creating a dashboard, wherein the dashboard contains at least one object part, associating information pertaining to a plurality of potential recipients within a hierarchy with the plurality of object parts within the dashboard, wherein the hierarchy is associated with publishing guidelines, and publishing the dashboard to the at least one recipient in accordance with the hierarchy publishing guidelines. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301228 | SHARED STATE MANAGER AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION - A shared state manager (SSM) for collaboration includes an updating module for updating a shared state of data based on a request to edit the data made by a client, and a notifying module for, upon the updating the shared state, notifying another client of the updated state. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301229 | CLIENT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided with a client device connected to a network, including: a first message sender configured to send a first request message for requesting assignment of an address to communicate in the network to one or more servers on the network; a waiting unit configured to wait for an address candidate notification message including a candidate of the address to be assigned to arrive from each server for a certain period after the first request message is sent; a message reception unit configured to receive the address candidate notification message from each server within the period after the first request message is sent; and a duplication inspection unit configured to inspect whether or not the candidate of the address included in the address candidate notification message received from each sever is already assigned to an other client device, before the period elapses after the first request message is sent. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301230 | INSTANT MESSAGE (IM) ROUTING TO A VIRTUAL USER CONSISTING OF A GROUP OF POSSIBLE SUB-USERS ASSOCIATED WITH A COMMON IM IDENTITY - Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for instant message routing. The method includes: receiving a communication request from a source client to a destination client; acquiring the context associated with the source client and the destination client; and selecting a sub-user of the destination client for communication using a policy according to the context. When a source client requests communication with a virtual user, the method can route the communication request using a policy according to the context, to a sub-user of the virtual user which once communicated with the source client. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301231 | Method and System for Maintaining and Distributing Wireless Applications - Computer- and network-based methods and systems for maintaining and provisioning wireless applications are provided. Example embodiments provide a Mobile Application System (MAS), which is a collection of interoperating server components that work individually and together in a secure fashion to provide applications and resources to mobile subscriber devices, such as wireless devices. Embodiments of the present invention can also be used to deploy applications and resources for wired subscriber devices. Application, resources, and other content is provisioned and verified by the MAS for authorized access by the subscriber, compatibility with a requesting subscriber device, and the security and billing policies of the carrier and system administrators of the MAS. In this manner, applications, resources, and other content can be downloaded to devices, such as wireless devices, with greater assurance of their ability to successfully execute. In one embodiment, content is provisioned by one or more of the steps of inspecting the content for malicious or banned code, optimizing the content for smaller size and greater speed, instrumentation of code that implements security, billing, and other carrier policies, and packaging of code for the intended subscriber device. Additional security is provided through application filters that are used to prevent applications that contain designated API from being downloaded to a subscriber's device. In one embodiment, the MAS includes a Protocol Manager, Provisioning Manager, Cache, Deployment Manager, Billing Manager, Logging Manager, Administrator, and Heartbeat Monitor, which interoperate to provide the provisioning functions. | 12-04-2008 |
20080313275 | Method and System For Implementing Ring Service of Instant Messaging - The present invention discloses a method and system for implementing ring service of IM. The system comprises at least a ring server, a ring user database and a ring file server to realize ring service. The method comprises: configuring, by an IM client A, a ring relationship between messaging events of the IM client A and rings played by an IM client B; acquiring, by the IM client B, the ring relationship; acquiring, by the IM client B, a ring file corresponding to a messaging event of the IM client A according to the ring relationship, and playing the ring file. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313276 | Air emission avoidance and tracking through the use of online web conferencing - Participants and session leaders (i.e. users) are allowed to join online web conferences, online meetings, or online classes. The methods herein determine, among other variables, the total air emissions saved by being able to forego physical transportation of the users on account of being able to meet by an online web conference. In certain embodiments, the amount of CO | 12-18-2008 |
20080313277 | Systems and Methods to Provide Communication References from Different Sources to Connect People for Real Time Communications - Methods and apparatuses to present communication references obtained from different sources to connect people for real time communications. One embodiment includes: receiving a search request from a user; searching a first data source according to the search request to obtain information about a first entity; assigning to the first entity a first reference to be used to request a connection server to provide a connection between the user and the first entity for real time communications; searching a second data source according to the search request to obtain information about a second entity, including a second reference for requesting a connection for real time communications with the second entity without going through the connection server; and providing to the user a combined, sorted list of entities in response to the search request, including the first reference for the first entity and the second reference for the second entity. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING VIDEOS - A method and apparatus for sharing a multimedia stream between an initiator and one or more viewers. The initiator's platform transcodes the multimedia into a stream, based on parameters, indications and commands received from all viewers including the initiator. Thus, the multimedia stream is presented to all viewers without having to upload the clip to a storage server, thus accounting for immediate synchronized display, enabling all viewers to control the stream by stopping, seeking a position or the like. In streaming the multimedia, the quality of service available at each viewer computing platform is considered, so that the multimedia remains synchronized also if one or more viewers have a slower connection. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313279 | TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE SYSTEM CONTROL BY MEANS OF PEER-TO-PEER TECHNIQUES - The application concerns a method for invoking a communication service that is realized by means of a peer of a peer-to-peer system, the method comprising the step of identifying a peer hosting the communication service and invoking the communication service by means of a distributed directory, where the distributed directory carrying entries that enable a client to invoke the communication service, the method further comprising the step of identifying an alternative peer hosting an alternative communication service in case the identified peer or the communication service is unavailable, where the distributed directory carrying entries that enable a client to invoke the alternative communication service. And the application concerns a computer software product and a telecommunication system for providing communication services corresponding to the method. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313280 | HETEROGENEOUS EVOLUTIONARY SELF-FORMATTING INTERNET PROTOCOLS - A system, method and computer program product for virtual communities that enables the establishment of rules created by members of the society in accordance with the existing rule creation restrictions and, that provides a mechanism for validating and accepting of the rules established inside the society. The system, method and computer program product further provides a mechanism that enables the establishment of rules created by members of the virtual society themselves, that allows for the self-evolution of the virtual societies. | 12-18-2008 |
20080320079 | CUSTOMIZING WEB 2.0 APPLICATION BEHAVIOR BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A CONTENT CREATOR AND A CONTENT REQUESTER - The present invention discloses a solution for developer customization of Web 2.0 applications based on relationships between a content creator and a content requester. In the solution, Web 2.0 content can be received from a content creator. One or more creator established customizations can also be received where the customizations are each a set of one or more users. In the method, a communication can be established with a user who requests the Web 2.0 content. It can be determined that the user is a member of a set specified by the content creator. The customization associated with the set can be applied. Web 2.0 content as modified by the customization can be served to the user. In one embodiment, users can also establish customizations, which are also applied to the served Web 2.0 content. | 12-25-2008 |
20080320080 | LINKING RECOGNIZED EMOTIONS TO NON-VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS - A method of linking recognized emotions to non-visual representations includes receiving at a first location information corresponding to demonstrative behaviors of individuals. The behaviors of the individuals may be analyzed during a dynamic session, in which the information is used to determine emotional states of one or more of the individuals. The information about the emotional state may then be used at the first location to determine an action for improving the dynamic session. | 12-25-2008 |
20090006546 | MULTIPLE NODE REMOTE MESSAGING - A method for passing remote messages in a parallel computer system formed as a network of interconnected compute nodes includes that a first compute node (A) sends a single remote message to a remote second compute node (B) in order to control the remote second compute node (B) to send at least one remote message. The method includes various steps including controlling a DMA engine at first compute node (A) to prepare the single remote message to include a first message descriptor and at least one remote message descriptor for controlling the remote second compute node (B) to send at least one remote message, including putting the first message descriptor into an injection FIFO at the first compute node (A) and sending the single remote message and the at least one remote message descriptor to the second compute node (B). | 01-01-2009 |
20090006547 | ADDING PERSONAL NOTE CAPABILITIES TO TEXT EXCHANGE CLIENTS - The present invention discloses a personal note capability for a text exchange client. A personal note can be a note not transmitted in a dialog between text exchange participants. It can, however, be transmitted in a communication outside the text exchange dialog communication. The personal note can be created and presented within a text exchange window. In one implementation, a user can utilize a special symbol to denote that a personal note follows. For example, a user could enter “ | 01-01-2009 |
20090006548 | DELEGATING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates redirecting an instant messaging session or an instant messaging communication. An interface component can receive a portion of data related to an instant messaging session, wherein the portion of data is associated with an instant messaging communication. A delegation component can automatically route the instant messaging session to a delegate for receipt of the instant messaging communication based upon a rule. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMMUNITY PORTAL FOR CHAT-BASED SUPPORT SERVICES - An approach is disclosed for providing a community portal for chat-based support services. Chat sessions corresponding to customer support service are established among multiple users and one or more agents. A community of the users is created during the chat sessions. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AGENT MANAGED SUPPORT VIA INSTANT MESSAGING - An approach is disclosed for providing a managed chat session. An agent establishes a chat session with a user for customer support. Information from the user is received via the chat session, wherein the information is used to determine customized content to be presented to the user over the chat session for duration of the chat session. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006551 | DYNAMIC AWARENESS OF PEOPLE - A system for sharing collective information is provided. The system includes a profile component that receives information regarding a user's profile. A detection component determines profiles of other users related to the user's profile and a content component relays data associated with the other users in view of the user's profile. | 01-01-2009 |
20090013041 | REAL-TIME ASYNCHRONOUS EVENT AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - A real-time asynchronous event aggregation system, method, and network device are configured to capture real-time asynchronous events, and to pass them as input to one or more aggregation engines to determine a reputation for a target. The aggregation engine(s) may then send out notifications where a reputation category changes for a target, indicating that an action may be taken to inhibit spam messages from the target, highlight a display of content from the target, or the like. As such, the event-driven aggregation engines may be designed to capture real-time asynchronous events, such as reputation reports for a wide variety of activities, including, but not limited to spam and/or not-spam messages, determining a reputation on a posting of comments to a movie, a blog posting, a play list posting, or the like. In one embodiment, a reputation of the sender of the reputation event may also be determined. | 01-08-2009 |
20090013042 | INTERACTIVE CONTRIBUTION WIDGET - A system and a method for facilitating interactions between users such as social interactions across computer networks such as the Internet are disclosed. In one embodiment herein, a plurality of distributed user computers, each user computer capable of accessing a webpage is provided. An interactive contribution widget (ICW) is provided that comprises an ICW server application for providing social interactions, and an ICW player for allowing the users to interact with each other. As per the embodiments of the invention, the ICW player is executed on a small space on the webpage being accessed by the user computer, thereby facilitating the users to interact with each other while staying on the said webpage. | 01-08-2009 |
20090019112 | AUDIO AND VIDEO CONFERENCING USING MULTICASTING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for network-based conferencing are provided. A communication network includes a multicasting conferencing node and a plurality of computer systems. The computer systems have users that are participating in a network-based conference. The multicasting conferencing node is configured to receive a plurality of communication signals over a network from the plurality of computer systems. Each of the plurality of communication signals includes input content (e.g., voice, video, data, etc.) regarding the conference from a corresponding computer system. The multicasting conferencing node is configured to multicast the received input content from the node over the network to at least a portion of the plurality of computer systems. The multicasting conference node may be configured to combine the input content received in the plurality of communication signals prior to multicasting the received input content from the node over the network. Alternatively, each computer system may combine the content after it is received from the multicasting conference node in multicast signals. | 01-15-2009 |
20090019113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING GROUP COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatus supporting group communications in a peer to peer wireless network are described. Methods and apparatus are directed to implementations with closed groups, e.g., where the number of group members are fixed at a given time and known to one or more members of the group. Various embodiments are well suited to decentralized peer to peer wireless networks including a plurality of individual traffic resources, e.g., traffic slots and/or traffic segments, which may be independently scheduled. Approaches for implementing distributed scheduling for traffic air link resources which may carry group traffic signals and/or peer to peer traffic signals are described. Various aspects are directed to the transmitter side including: group traffic transmission request transmissions, reception of request response signaling, transmitter yielding decisions, group rate determination and/or group traffic data signaling. Other aspects are directed to the receiver side including: reception of group traffic transmission request signals, receiver yielding decisions, transmitting group request responses signals, and/or receiving group traffic signaling. | 01-15-2009 |
20090024703 | Communication System, Communication Apparatus, Communication Program, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Stored With The Communication Program - The client apparatus | 01-22-2009 |
20090030980 | UNIVERSAL INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR THE INTERNET - Two or more users with PCs or similar devices to access the Internet may establish a connection between each other for instant messaging, even when the users are associated with different realms. For this purpose, the PCs are provided with an IM manager which oversees the instant messaging sessions. In addition, an IM server is provided associated either with a particular SP (service provider), or alternatively, having its own PS. The IM server is used to keep track of all the active users that have registered for the IM service and their corresponding current IP address. The IM manager includes a database which stores protocols of foreign realms. When a user requests an instant messaging session, his PC establishes the connection to the other user based on the protocol of the other user's realm and the other user's current IP address indicated by the IM database. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030981 | System and method for custom chat invitations - A method is presented for providing a Customer hosted chat invitation to a browsing user. A service provider provides a Customer with a set of interactive invitation input objects, and the Customer creates and stores a set of customized invitation setup data from interacting with the input objects. The service provider runs custom code to generate, from the set of customized invitation setup data, an invitation program code module characterized by a set of programmatic invitation criteria. The invitation program code module is connected to a web page creating program code that resides on a web server operatively associated with the Customer site so that the browsing user's choices can be monitored and stored and, when selected invitation criteria are met by these choices, an invitation event is triggered. System claims to related subject matter are also presented. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030982 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEMANTICALLY MANAGING OFFERS AND REQUESTS OVER A NETWORK - Among other disclosure, a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-DISRUPTIVE CHECK OF A MIRROR - A system and method for verifying the consistency of mirrored data sets between source and destination storage systems is provided. A destination verification module sends version information to the source storage system where the source verification module determines whether the source and destination storage systems are utilizing compatible versions of the verification module. If the destination verification module receives an acceptable version from the source, the destination module then determines a base PCPI to utilize for verification and sends a PCPI identifier of the base PCPI to the source. The source verification module generates and transmits a data stream consisting of comprising of checksum information. The destination verification module compares the received data stream with checksum information retrieved from disk. If there are mismatches, i.e. the received data differs from the data retrieved from disk, the destination verification module logs the data mismatches in a verification log file. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030984 | System and Method for Automatically Segmenting Content from an Instant Messaging Transcript and Applying Commands Contained Within the Content Segments - A system and method for automatically segmenting content from an instant messaging transcript and applying commands contained within the content segments is disclosed. The system includes a segment finding program, a command fording program, and a command list. The segment finding program identifies topic shifts in the IM conversation. The command finding program searches the identified topic segments for commands. Upon finding a command, the command finding program locates an appropriate action within the command list and executes it after obtaining user permission if so specified. The system works in conjunction with an IM program having functions to allow each user to control the segment finding and command finding programs. | 01-29-2009 |
20090030985 | FAMILY-BASED ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING - According to embodiments of the disclosure, social networking families are established in an online social network. Each family has family members, a family profile, and a family policy, where the family profile provides information about the family to members of the social network, and the family policy defines the accessibility of information about the family within the social network. Different families may be associated as “family friends,” such that each member of one family may access the family profile of another family provided that the families are family friends. | 01-29-2009 |
20090037529 | Data sharing in a group of peers with limited resources - A method for cooperation between mobile devices peers representing social relations of the owners of the peers, comprising (a) providing a plurality of peers in a network and cooperating in a manner which utilizes resources of the devices responsive to the social relations. | 02-05-2009 |
20090037530 | Media broadcasting system - A media broadcasting system, comprising an electronic device having a communication module interface executable to cause a display of a media output window for displaying media content for a simulcast event, the media output window configured to display a recipient list thereon to enable selection of at least one recipient to participate in the simulcast event | 02-05-2009 |
20090037531 | Computer-based networking service and method and system for performing the same - Methods and systems for assisting individuals ( | 02-05-2009 |
20090043843 | Management of Community Buddy Lists - One or more buddy lists from a first user's computer is populated on one or more other users' computers to cause a buddy list update of community buddy lists. The buddy lists may be auto-populated in response to a change in job status of the first user. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAME CONFLICT RESOLUTION - A method of name conflict resolution including analyzing a plurality of relationships of a user. A social network of the user may be defined based upon at least a portion of the plurality of relationships, the social network identifying one or more relationship users. A name conflict may be resolved in a collaborative activity based upon, at least in part, the social network. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043845 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING ATOMICITY FOR A UNIT OF WORK - A method for providing atomicity for a unit of work involving a plurality of participants, the method comprising the steps of: sending a prepare request to at least one participant, wherein the request comprises data required for recovery prurposes of the unit of work; and on recovery of the unit of work, recovering the unit of work comprising: obtaining the data from the at least one participant; and using the obtained data to recover and preserve the atomicity of the unit of work. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043846 | Conferencing System, Server, Image Display Method, and Computer Program Product - The conferencing system is composed of computers, a moderator's computer, and a projector connected on a network. The moderator's computer receives image data from the computers, and generates synthesized image data therefrom, which is transmitted to the projector for display of the synthesized image. The moderator's computer has the capability to switch the image being projected by the projector from the synthesized image to an image handled by one of the computers or by the moderator's computer. With such an arrangement, utilizing existing hardware resources it will be possible to display in a single split-screen display the images handled by the terminals connected on the network. Additionally, it will be possible to switch smoothly between on-screen displays, and to reduce the burden on the on-screen display operator in a networked conferencing system. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043847 | Group Communication in a Communication System - In a communication system providing a group communication service, a group document server is configured to detect that a scheduled conference for a group is created or modified in a group information document, and to send to an appropriate application server a group advertisement message which is extended to include a new flag, which indicates whether this group is used for a scheduled conference or not. Upon receiving the message with the scheduled conference flag, the application server is adapted to fetch a respective group document from the group document server and with it also the information about the scheduled conference of the group. The application server then schedules the conference to initiate according to the received information. | 02-12-2009 |
20090049125 | SCHEDULED ONLINE PRESENCE ON INSTANT MESSENGER - The embodiments provide systems and methods which allow users to schedule routine online presence information to let outside world see the users appear to be “online” or “offline” at a particular day and time. An exemplary system of scheduling and displaying an online presence of a user of an instant messaging (IM) application is provided. The system includes an online presence scheduler for entering the time zone of the user and for scheduling an online schedule for the user to appear online. The online schedule includes a start time, an end time, and a routine of the user. The system also includes a presence management server (PMS). PMS determines the online presence of the user based on a login time of the user to the IM application, the online schedule for the user, and an identification of the user. The PMS prepares an online presence information to reflect the determined online presence of the user for display. The time zone and online schedule of the user entered into the online presence scheduler and the identification of the user are stored in the PMS. | 02-19-2009 |
20090049126 | Technical support process for power monitoring networks - A technical support process is provided for multiple electrical power monitoring systems, each of which has multiple types of devices coupled to a common server through a network. A technical support group is provided at one or more locations remote from the power monitoring systems and associated with the manufacturer of at least certain of the devices in the power monitoring systems. The owners of the power monitoring systems and the common servers are provided with access to the remote technical support group so that the owners can request technical support from that group to solve a reported problems with the power monitoring systems. When an owner of one of the power monitoring systems requests technical support from the remote group, that owner is provided with a portable storage medium. The common server for the power monitoring system for which technical support was requested is then virtualized, the resulting virtualized server is loaded onto the portable storage medium, and that storage medium is delivered to the remote technical support group. The remote group uses the virtualized server to analyze the owner's actual server and arrive at a solution to the reported problem. | 02-19-2009 |
20090049127 | System and method for invitation targeting in a web-based social network - A system and method for selecting users of a web-based social network who are likely to respond to an invitation, each of the users having associated profile information is disclosed. The method includes selecting pilot users and a reduced set of keywords from the profile information. The method further includes sending the invitation to the pilot users, receiving responses from the pilot users, and classifying the responses as either positive or negative. A training set of vector pairs is created each vector pair representing a pilot user and including data representing a classified response and training keywords selected from the reduced set of keywords and associated profile information for the pilot user. A function is determined based on the vectors and used to calculate a likelihood that each of one or more users of the web based social network will respond to the invitation. | 02-19-2009 |
20090049128 | Schemes for game chat routing and taunt control - In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an application; detect a participant within the application; detect a distance between multiple participants; monitor the application for a qualifying event; and selectively initiate a communication channel between multiple participants based on the qualifying event and the distance between the multiple participants. | 02-19-2009 |
20090055473 | Message and arrangement for provding different services in a multimedia communication system - In current multimedia communication systems using session initiation protocols such as SIP, a service change (e.g. adding a new media type to an existing multimedia conversation) entails significant delays and processor load in both clients and server. The current invention solves this by separating session signaling and media control signaling in different signaling channels ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090055474 | Line-Plane Broadcasting in a Data Communications Network of a Parallel Computer - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for line-plane broadcasting in a data communications network of a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes connected together through the network, the network optimized for point to point data communications and characterized by at least a first dimension, a second dimension, and a third dimension, that include: initiating, by a broadcasting compute node, a broadcast operation, including sending a message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the first dimension for the network; sending, by each compute node along the axis of the first dimension, the message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the second dimension for the network; and sending, by each compute node along the axis of the second dimension, the message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the third dimension for the network. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055475 | INVITING A CONFERENCING UNAWARE ENDPOINT TO A CONFERENCE - Systems and methods that enable conference unaware clients to participate in the conference. A conferencing component is aware of what protocol to employ, and enables devices and/or end points that employ disparate or heterogeneous protocols to participate in the same conference initiated therebetween. A call flow (e.g., in form of a dial out) can be initiated, wherein the conferencing component invites conference unaware devices to participate in the conference. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055476 | Collections of linked databases and systems and methods for communicating about updates thereto - This technology is generally directed to one or more methods or systems relating to personal communication networks. This technology is further directed to methods and systems for communicating about updates to the profiles associated with members of personal communication networks. Still further, this technology is generally directed to informing members of the personal communication network about accolades and historical search data of other members in the personal communication network, thereby giving the members a broader knowledge base in order to determine how much to trust the other members of the personal communication network and to inform members about additional expertise areas of members of the personal communication network. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055477 | SYSTEM FOR ENABLING COLLABORATION AND PROTECTING SENSITIVE DATA - The inventive system facilitates collaboration between, multiple network users with respect to collaboration subject matter while maintaining the integrity of sensitive data. In one implementation, the system ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090055478 | Communication terminal and communication program thereof - In communication terminals | 02-26-2009 |
20090055479 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A method includes creating in a first computer arrangement a printer file for a digital document containing information data to be transferred, the digital document having been generated in a first application program, wherein said printer file is internally generated in an operating system in response to a print command; creating in said first computer arrangement a transfer file which comprises said printer file and a definition file defining a one-to-one relation between a set of information data items contained in said printer file and a set of labels in said definition file so that each information data item is associated to a label; and sending said transfer file from the first computer arrangement to a second computer arrangement. Additional methods and systems are also presented. | 02-26-2009 |
20090063630 | Rating based on relationship - People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating may find more reliable. The information provided to a person may, in some manner, differentiate between ratings that were provided by members of the person's social network and ratings that were provided by those outside of the persons' social network. | 03-05-2009 |
20090063631 | Message-reply-dependent update decisions - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for receiving a reply to a message transmitted to a first remote system and signaling a decision whether to cause an update to at least a portion of the message at a second remote system at least partly based upon the reply to the message transmitted to the first remote system. | 03-05-2009 |
20090063632 | Layering prospective activity information - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for signaling a decision whether to present first message content at least partly based on one or more prospective activity attribute identifiers and signaling a decision whether to present second message content partly based on whether a user indicates the first message content and partly based on a relationship between the first message content and the second message content. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070419 | Administering Feeds Of Presence Information Of One Or More Presentities - Methods, apparatus, and products for administering feeds of presence information of one or more presentities including creating a feed definition; adding to the feed definition one or more identifications of presentities; receiving a feed request; creating the feed, the feed including presence information for presentities identified in the feed definition; and sending a response to the feed request including the feed. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA SIGNALS - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for listeners, or “virtual fans,” to exist in a monitor mode during a real-time multimedia collaboration via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a system for processing data signals via a communication network comprises a first data signal received from a first client, a second data signal received from a second client, a mixer for mixing the first and second data signals, a first unique data mix, for the first client, generated by the mixer, a second unique data mix, for the second client, generated by the mixer, and a third unique data mix, for a fan room, generated by the mixer. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070421 | Real-time Chat and Conference Contact Information Manager - An extension or accessory to a real-time, online virtual collaboration session, meeting and messaging system, which scans a participant's contact list for partially complete contact records, accesses an administered contact information store such as a corporate personnel contact database, and completes the partially complete records in the participant's contact list. This enables each participant in such an online meeting or conversation to rely upon his or her contact list to contain a consistent level of information regarding each participant in previously conducted meetings and conversations, avoids the entry of inaccurate and deceptive participant information into the contact list, and allows for reliable communication to the members of a participant's contact list. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070422 | Multicast Group Management in Infiniband - A mechanism for managing multicast groups with send-without-receive (SWR) joiners without the use of traps on creation and deletion of groups is provided. Group information is maintained continuously while the SWR member exists. When an SWR join is attempted and the group does not already exist, the group information (MLID) is marked as used and the first switch to which the SWR packets are sent is routed to discard all packets sent to the group. When receiving members join the group, the routing is updated so that the SWR member begins sending to the receiving members. When the last receiving member leaves the group, the first switch is again routed to discard the packets. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070423 | Apparatus and methods for information transfer using a cached server - Apparatus and methods for information transfer using a cache server are disclosed. A user requests a file via a file requesting device, over a network, from a host. The host transfers the file to a cache server over a connection at a first scheduled time. The cache server then transfers the file, over a second network, to a file receiving device at a second scheduled time. | 03-12-2009 |
20090077176 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product Implementing a Chat Application Proxy and a Chat Application Wrapper in a Chat System - Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement a chat proxy component and a chat wrapper component. The chat proxy component controls interactions with a chat application by external users. The chat proxy component receives chat requests from external users and initiates a chat session only if a user is validated as a valid user. User validation may be performed by a chat payment application that validates a user only if payment is received for chat services, or by an external user validation system that validates users as, for example, employees authorized to use the chat application. Once a chat session is established, chat operations are managed on a session-specific basis. The chat proxy component also is configured to perform session reconnection detection when a session is interrupted; to establish a multimedia path separate from the chat application; and to extract and execute embedded commands. The chat wrapper component manages communication between the chat proxy component and the chat application. The chat wrapper component also permits the user-facing chat application to be situated on a remote computer. | 03-19-2009 |
20090077177 | COMPONENTIZED SITE ENGINE SERVICES - A plurality of modules which provide a user with tools for engaging in social networking are created. The plurality of modules are associated with a service. A server hosting the web space receives a selection from the user corresponding to a first module. In response to the selection, the server associates the service with the web space. The first module renders the web space on a client accessing the web space. The server enables a visitor to the web space to access a second module form the plurality of modules associated with the service. The accessed second module will display the web space in a second format on the client of the visitor. | 03-19-2009 |
20090083377 | MEETING COORDINATOR - The present invention is a new system and method for enabling multiple users of computerized schedulers to automatically find a time for a meeting. According to embodiments of the present invention a user of the system sends a request to other participants of the meeting to coordinate the meeting via a centralized platform, such as a network server. Provided that the invitation is accepted by the other participants, the central network server receives from the computerizes scheduler of each of the participants the available time according to their prospective schedules and finds a time when all participants can meet. According to embodiments of the present invention users can define their preferred time for the meeting. Having found a time when all participants can meet the system sends each of the participants a notification concerning the meeting and a request to approve the selected time. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONTROL COLLABORATION PARTICIPATION - A system and method is provided for controlling collaboration participation. The system includes a computing infrastructure configured to monitor endpoint collaboration devices and/or users. The computing infrastructure is also configured to authorize collaboration between one or more of the endpoint collaboration devices and/or users with an initiating device if the computing infrastructure finds a match between stored attributes and information related to the one or more endpoint collaboration devices and/or users. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083379 | Enabling connections for use with a network - An apparatus for enabling connections for use with a network comprising at least one vertex, the apparatus comprising: a receiver, for receiving a first message associated with the first vertex, wherein the first message comprises an indication that the first vertex wishes to join the network; a generator, responsive to receipt of the first message, for generating a second message associated with the at least one vertex, wherein the second message comprising an indication that the at least one vertex is operable to connect to the first vertex; and a probabilistic component for determining a first time value associated with transmission of the second message to the first vertex in accordance with probabilistic data. | 03-26-2009 |
20090089371 | Method and system for workgroup instant message - A method for managing instant message communications, including conducting an instant message (IM) session between a first member of a callable workgroup and an external user participant that calls the callable workgroup; initiating, by the first member of the callable workgroup, a second IM session between the first member and at least one other member of the callable workgroup; and conducting the second IM session between the first member and the at least one other member of the callable workgroup, the at least one other member of the callable workgroup participating in the second IM session capable of monitoring communications of the first IM session between the first member and the external user. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING TOPIC NEIGHBORHOODS IN A NETWORKED SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for creating topic neighborhoods and a visualization for related topic neighborhoods in a networked system are disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a neighborhood generator configured to receive an explicit identification of a topic for association with a neighborhood; create a neighborhood in association with the explicitly identified topic; gather neighborhood information related to the neighborhood from sources related to the topic; and provide access to the neighborhood via a neighborhood link on a webpage. | 04-02-2009 |
20090094328 | System and Methods for Technology Evaluation and Adoption - A method for technology evaluation and adoption includes proposing a new technology and allowing at least one group to use the new technology. The at least one group provides feedback through at least one collaboration tool. The at least one group's use of the new technology is evaluated and at least one value based upon the evaluation is calculated. The new technology may be directed to at least one of new software, programs, services, or business processes. | 04-09-2009 |
20090094329 | SOLUTION FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE RELATED DISCUSSION THREADS IN AN ONLINE COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discloses a server-side collaboration system that includes a set of discussion threads, a server-side software component, and a server-side data store. The discussion threads can be managed by a collaboration session leader. The collaboration session leader can be a user authorized to define the topic, to create the plurality of discussion threads for the topic, and to assign a set of participants to each created discussion thread. The server-side software component can permit remotely located clients to post and view content by discussion thread during a real-time collaboration, which includes a text exchange capability. Client using participants can be restricted to posting content to discussion threads as authorized by the collaboration session leader. The server-side data store can maintain a viewable history of posted content organized by discussion thread. | 04-09-2009 |
20090100134 | System and Method for Customized Sharing of Multimedia Content in a Communications Network - Methods and devices for sharing multimedia content in a communications network are disclosed. In an exemplary method, the initiation of a communications session between a first communications device and a second communications device is detected. In response, a content update, based on multimedia content stored on the first communications device, is formed and sent to the second communications device. In some embodiments, the content update is formed using files stored on the first communications device. In other embodiments, the content update describes one or more files stored on the first communications device, and may comprise pointers to the files, such as URLs, for use by the second communications device in retrieving one or more of the files. | 04-16-2009 |
20090100135 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF SHARING CONTENTS AMONG DEVICES - A method of sharing contents among devices, the method includes a first device and a second device performing a time synchronization, the first device receiving, from a user, a time stamp with respect to contents being replayed by the second device, the first device transmitting the time stamp to the second device, the second device transmitting a contents list corresponding to the time stamp to the first device, the first device requesting the second device for contents selected by the user from among the contents list, and the second device providing the requested contents to the first device. | 04-16-2009 |
20090100136 | INTELLIGENT PRESENCE - A method and apparatus for obtaining contact information for individuals using an electronic device is disclosed. The user creates a user profile and storing the profile in the electronic device and creates a preference list of desired characteristics and storing the list in the electronic device; The electronic device registers with a communication system wherein the user profile and the preference list is sent to the communication system. The electronic device receives contact information for all registered users of the communication system who have at least a predetermined percentages of desired characteristics based on a comparison of their user profile and the preference list. | 04-16-2009 |
20090106362 | Wirelessly-enabled identification of digital media generated at an event - A method in one embodiment includes embedding a unique event tag into media files recorded at an event by a first media recording device, which is operable to wirelessly discover a second media recording device at the event. The first media recording device wirelessly communicates the unique event tag to the second media recording device for embedding into media files recorded at the event by the second media recording device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106363 | INTELLIGENT COLLECTION OF DIAGNOSTIC DATA FOR COMMUNICATION TO DIAGNOSIS SITE - Techniques for intelligently identifying diagnostic data to be communicated from a product or system site (e.g., a customer site) to a diagnosis site (e.g., a vendor site). An appropriate amount of diagnostic data is identified to facilitate efficient and quick diagnosis and error resolution. Techniques are also provided that enable a customer to review the data identified for transmission to the diagnosis site prior to the transmission. | 04-23-2009 |
20090112982 | Automatic management of associations between users - Automatically associating users of a communication system, without using an invitation or affirmative permission. In one embodiment, a first user submits contact information about a second user to a relationship system, which stores the information in the first user's contact list. Similarly, a second user submits contact information about the first user to the relationship system, which stores the information in the second user's contact list. The relationship system detects the cross reference in the two contact lists, and stores a first degree relationship between the two users. One of the users submits a request to the relationship system to enable an operation with any other user that was associated with the submitting user. Associations can also be selectively higher degrees with other users. The submitting user need not know which other users will participate in the operation, and the other users need not know the submitting user's identity. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112983 | FLOOR CONTROL IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 04-30-2009 |
20090112984 | MEETING INVITATION PROCESSING IN A CALENDARING SYSTEM - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for meeting invitation processing in a calendaring system. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a meeting invitation request from a user, wherein the meeting invitation includes a set of attributes and analyzing the set of attributes of the meeting invitation request. The computer implemented method further comprises selecting a process from a set of predefined processes comprising a pending meeting indicator process, a multiple meeting display process, an availability probability process, and a prioritized list process to create a selected process, and selectively modifying the selected process to create a modified process. The computer implemented method then invoking the modified process to process the meeting invitation request, and notifying the user. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112985 | SUPPORTING SERENDIPITOUS GROUP INTERACTION BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES - The disclosed functionality enables non-sessions users of an activity session to be provided awareness of the session. The non-sessions users are made aware of the session and can then choose to join (or not join) the session in an ad hoc manner based on the exposed session information. This functionality encourages serendipitous group interactions (or participations) that might not otherwise occur, does not require that all relevant and/or interested people be identified, and removes the overhead of explicitly inviting everyone who might be interested in the activity and managing responses received from each of the users. Rather than requiring an explicit invitation to join as in conventional applications systems, users can implicitly invite friends to join an activity. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING AND SUBSCRIBING TO CALENDAR EVENTS INFORMATION VIA CATEGORICAL MAPPING METHODOLOGY - A system, method and program product for publishing and subscribing to calendar events publication are disclosed. In one aspect, method and system for providing a publication of calendar events for one or more computer-based devices having a calendaring system capable of operation therein, is disclosed. The method and system comprises defining one or more calendar publication definitions. The definitions comprise an identifier for the publication and a set of criteria for qualifying calendar events from a calendar database for inclusion in and/or exclusion from the publication. The method and system include activating a publication agent for processing each publication definition by applying the qualifying criteria to the calendar database to create a subset of qualified calendar events from the calendar database to be included in the publication. Furthermore, the method and system include aggregating the qualified calendar events into a single identifiable calendar publication making the calendar publication available. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112987 | Method and system for establishing commonality between members in an online community - A method, system and computer program product for establishing commonality between a plurality of members and deriving an opinion of a dignitary on one or more issues in an online community is disclosed. A questioner poses a questionnaire, which includes one or more questions on the issues in the online community. The method includes receiving one or more responses to the questions from the members. The responses are processed to derive the attributes of each of the members. A commonality indicator indicating a commonality between the members is derived based on the attributes of the members. Further, a normalcy indicator between a member and the plurality of members is derived. Further, the opinion of the dignitary is derived based on the responses of the plurality of members. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112988 | METHOD AND INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINALS EQUIPPED WITH A VIRTUAL PRESENCE SERVER ALLOWING AN INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SESSION TO BE MANAGED AUTOMATICALLY - The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging servers (S | 04-30-2009 |
20090112989 | TRUST-BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that analyze aggregated item evaluation behavior of users, to suggest a recommendation for the item. An analysis component forms a collective opinion by taking as input votes of users and trusted relationships established therebetween, to output an evaluation and/or recommendation for the item. Accordingly, within a linked structure of nodes, personalized recommendations to users (e.g., agents) are supplied about an item(s) based upon the opinions/reviews of other users, and in conjunction with the declared trust between the users. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATHERING CONVERSATION INFORMATION - A method and computer program product for receiving a request for conversation information, from a requester, concerning an online user of an instant messaging system. The conversation information concerning the online user is obtained and provided to the requestor. | 05-07-2009 |
20090125587 | Management System, Device for Use in the System, Program Therefor, and Management Method - Assignment function notifying means ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090125588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILTERING RECOMMENDERS IN A MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A system and method of allowing a recipient to control and customize filtering of recommenders in a media item recommendation system. Filtering recommenders allows the recipient to control from which recommenders media item recommendations can be received. Recommenders may be filtered using a tag associated by the recipient with the recommender. The tag may be any attribute. If the recommender is tagged with the attribute matching a current selection criterion established by the recipient, media item recommendations from the recommender may be sent to the recipient. If the recommender is not tagged with the attribute matching the current selection criterion, the recommender is filtered out and the media item recommendation from the recommender may not be sent to the recipient. The recipient may define the current selection criterion by setting a presentation channel. | 05-14-2009 |
20090125589 | RECONNECTION TO AND MIGRATION OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION SESSIONS - The invention generally relates to electronic collaboration sessions and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions. A method for managing a collaboration session includes providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to store data regarding a plurality of clients of a collaboration session, and monitor a connection of each of the plurality of clients to a host system. The computer infrastructure is further operable to (i) migrate the plurality of clients to a new host system after determining that a number of the plurality of clients experiencing connection problems with the first host system exceeds a threshold value and/or (ii) present customized summary data to at least one of the plurality of clients after the at least one of the plurality of clients reconnects to the collaboration session after having been disconnected from the collaboration session. | 05-14-2009 |
20090132650 | Method and system for detecting messages in the presence of noise - Disclosed is a method for transmitting messages between a transmitter and a receiver on a channel on which noise may be present. The messages are constituted by a sequence of data and comprise an initial portion (header) containing data to allow recognition of the message, a central portion (body) containing the valid message to transmit and an end portion (tail) containing information to verify the completeness of the message. The method consists in inserting in the message header a signature obtained from the combination of a first fixed part and of a second validation part; and recognizing a valid message received by verifying whether the fixed part of the message received generates the same validation part. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132651 | Sensitive Information Handling On a Collaboration System - On a document collaboration system, such as a wiki, the content of postings to the collaboration system is monitored for sensitive information. Under some embodiments, when instances of such sensitive information are detected, an e-mail is sent to the user that posted the collaboration page posting. In other embodiments, a message is then sent to a person associated with the entity that indicates that the information placed on the collaboration page is confidential information or is related to an asset of the entity. In further embodiments, individual people are assigned responsibility for monitoring the use of certain instances of sensitive information on the collaboration system. Each user is only notified when the instances they are responsible for appear on a collaboration page. In other embodiments, if a collaboration page includes an instance of sensitive information, access to the collaboration page is changed such that fewer people can access the collaboration page. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132652 | Method and Apparatus for Determining a Group Preference in a Social Network | 05-21-2009 |
20090132653 | FRAMEWORK AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME EMBEDDED COLLABORATION USING BUSINESS PROCESS AND TRANSACTION CONTEXT - Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for facilitating collaboration between participants of a process supported by a software application (e.g., a business process supported by a business application). According to one set of embodiments, a request to initiate a collaboration session for a transaction of the process is submitted through a user interface of the process itself within the software application. The collaboration session is then initiated using process and transaction context information retrieved from the software application. In some embodiments, portions of the process and transaction context information are made available to participants in the collaboration session. In further embodiments, the transaction and process context information is used to automatically match the initiator of the collaboration session with one or more appropriate collaboration participants. In this manner, the operational inefficiencies and delays associated with prior collaboration methods may be minimized or avoided. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132654 | Service retrieval apparatus and service retrieval method - A service retrieval apparatus stores service data items, each including two words as input and output items and expression as condition, receives request data item including word as input item and expression as condition, acquires first word set which is set of words having meanings identical/similar to meaning of word as input item in request data item, retrieves group of service data items in each of which one word of first word set is included as input item, calculates condition similarity between meaning of expression in each one of group and meaning of expression in request data item, calculates priority of each one of group based on similarity between word as input item in each one of group and word as input item in request data item and condition similarity, and transmits list including priority and address of appliance which correspond to each one of group to first appliance. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132655 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AND/OR LIMITING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Devices and methods are provided that spatially restrict online communications to persons from a real world meeting. Such restriction, with optional supervisory control by an authority, protects children from online predators, and can facilitate communication with known friends. An embodiment provides a portable access control (AC) device having a spatially-restricted (SR) communication port that communicates over a short range. The AC device has a unique identifier (UID) that identifies the AC device and the owner of the AC device. The user collects UIDs (using the SR port) from other people having AC devices, and stores the collected UIDs in a friendlist. When communicating by Internet, discrimination software restricts communication from people who do not have UIDs in the friendlist. The discrimination software can operate on a user's computer or on a remote server. Embodiments provide protected email, instant messaging, voice communication, gaming activities, and video links. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138552 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTIES - A communication system having a user input arranged to receive data from a user, an information input arranged to receive information about another user and a rule server. The rule server being arranged to store a rule that initiates communication between the user and the another user when the communication system receives information about the another user. The information relating to trigger information specified by the user. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138553 | Selection of Real Time Collaboration Tools - A computer-implemented method of selecting a real time collaboration application can include associating each of a plurality of real time collaboration applications with a plurality of performance statistics, receiving a request for a real time collaboration session from a personal productivity application, and identifying a data type to be shared through one of the plurality of real time collaboration applications. One of the plurality of real time collaboration applications can be selected according to the data type to be shared and the plurality of performance statistics. The selected real time collaboration application can be output. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138554 | Controlling virtual meetings with a feedback history - Information is transmitted from at least one source entity to target entities over a working session, and is output on each target entity to a corresponding user. A feedback indicator is provided on each target entity. The feedback indicator is indicative of a personal level of interest of the corresponding user for the information at each instant within the session. The feedback indicator is returned from each target entity to a control entity. The feedback indicators are aggregated on the control entity into at least one aggregated indicator, which is indicative of an overall level of interest of the users for the information at each instant within the session. A representation of a history of the session of the at least one aggregated indicator is at least partially output on the control entity to a controller for controlling a virtual meeting according to the history. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138555 | Method and apparatus for maintaining connectivity in a network - A method and system for maintaining connectivity in a network. The network includes a plurality of computational devices. A first computational device includes a main processor and a co-processor. The first computational device receives the at least one data frame from a second computational device and forwards the at least one data frame to a third computational device by using the co-processor without intervention from the main processor by using network protocols corresponding to layer-2 and layer-1 of Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model. | 05-28-2009 |
20090144365 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATION SERVICE IN ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SOFTWARE - Disclosed is a method and system for creating a first collaboration service node for a first software object node and linking the first collaboration service node to a second collaboration service node hierarchically to represent a link structure between the first software object node and a second software object node. A collaboration service provided by the first collaboration service node is determined based on a type of the first software object node and the collaboration service for the first software object node is executed. | 06-04-2009 |
20090144366 | INCORPORATING USER EMOTION IN A CHAT TRANSCRIPT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to chat transcript generation for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state transcription for chat sessions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for emotional state transcription for chat sessions can be provided. The method can include initializing a chat session in an instant messenger, engaging in an audio conversation through the instant messenger, collecting emotion meta-data for the audio conversation and mapping the emotion meta-data to emoticons, and combining a speech recognized form of the audio conversation with the emoticons and text from the chat session into a chat transcript. The method further can include computing a milleau for the chat session from the emotion meta-data and incorporating the milleau for the chat session in the transcript. | 06-04-2009 |
20090144367 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ITS CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus which can share display data. The first information processing apparatus includes a first transmission unit to transmit display data to the second information processing apparatus configured to display the display data, an input unit to input an operational restriction applied to an object expressed on the display data transmitted by the first transmission unit, a creation unit to create instruction information based on the operational restriction input by the input unit, and a second transmission unit to transmit the instruction information created by the creation unit to the second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus includes a reception unit to receive the instruction information transmitted from the second transmission unit, and a restriction unit to apply the operational restriction to an object on the transmitted display data based on the instruction information received by the reception unit. | 06-04-2009 |
20090150488 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE EXTERNAL IDENTITIES OF USERS WITH LOCAL OR NETWORK BASED ADDRESS BOOK - A method and system for managing multiple external identities of users with a local or network based address book having the steps of: creating a set of address book field and value information, the set of address book field and value information being one or more external identities; and forwarding the one or more external identities to a receiving party. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONAL DELIVERY OF MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150490 | METHODS INVOLVING ARCHIVING CHAT SESSIONS - An exemplary method for archiving chat sessions comprising, receiving text from chat sessions designated for archiving, requesting an identifier of a chat session archive file, receiving the identifier, determining whether a chat session archive file having the identifier exists in a memory, opening the chat session archive file having the identifier, responsive to determining that a chat session archive file having the identifier exists in the memory, adding the text from the designated chat sessions to the chat session archive file having the identifier, saving the chat session archive file having the identifier in a memory, creating a new chat session archive file having the identifier responsive to determining that a chat session archive file having the identifier does not exist., inserting the text from the designated chat sessions into the new chat session archive file, and saving the new chat session archive file in the memory. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150491 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus used by a first user, includes a generating unit adapted to generate recommendation information at least including an identifier for uniquely identifying a content recommended on the basis of preference information of the first user, and a sending unit adapted to send the generated recommendation information to another information processing apparatus which is used by a second user who is the same as or different from the first user and adapted to present the content recommended on the basis of the identifier included in the recommendation information. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150492 | Initializing Relationships Between Devices In A Network - A relationship initiation between devices in a network is described. According to one embodiment, persona information is exchanged between devices in a network. Based upon the persona information, a user of a device may initiate a relationship with another device. | 06-11-2009 |
20090157810 | RELEVANCE-BASED EXPIRATION OF DATA - Technologies are described herein for relevance-based expiration of data. An initial expiration time for the data is computed based upon an expiration duration associated with the data. The expiration time for the data is periodically re-computed in order to extend the expiration time. A relevance value for the meeting data is computed and the expiration time is set as a function of the computed relevance value. The relevance value may be computed as a product of a user-settable relevance value for the meeting data and a dynamic relevance point for the meeting data. When the computed expiration time for meeting data has been reached, the meeting data is expired, such as through the deletion of the meeting data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157811 | Collaborative Authoring Modes - A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment may be configured into a public mode of operation, in which content and metadata are synchronized automatically, or into a private mode of operation, in which metadata is synchronized automatically and content is synchronized only at the request of the user. The authoring application may edit documents offline in public or private mode. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157812 | Managing Structured and Unstructured Data within Electronic Communications - This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications. In one implementation, software identifies an electronic communication associated with a user in an enterprise application; creates a link between an unstructured data element associated with the electronic communication and a structured data element associated with the enterprise application, where the link created at least partially based on one or more attributes of the electronic communication and an active process of the enterprise application; and stores the link in a link repository. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157813 | Methods and systems for identifying an avatar-linked population cohort - Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out presenting to at least one member of a population at least one avatar associated with at least one instance of media content; measuring at least one physiologic activity of the at least one member of the population, the at least one physiologic activity proximate to the at least one presented avatar associated with the at least one instance of media content; associating the at least one physiologic activity with at least one mental state; and identifying at least one population cohort based on the at least one mental state. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157814 | Method and apparatus for providing social networking service based on peer-to-peer network - A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based social networking service method for providing a social networking service, includes transmitting a request to a peer group and performing a group-based social networking service; transmitting news or a question to peers in the peer group, and then receiving a response to the question; and storing the received information in a storage medium, and uploading specific information among the stored to a rendezvous peer. The method further includes delivering the uploaded specific information to another rendezvous peer in a network. A P2P based social networking service system includes a P2P middleware unit for providing services of communicating between and grouping the peers; a P2P service application program interface layer for providing a network element function; and a P2P application service layer for calling the network element function, if required, to thereby provide a user with a P2P based network service. | 06-18-2009 |
20090157815 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BLOG SERVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BLOG SERVICE USING THE SAME - A mobile device for providing a blog service and a method and system for providing the blog service. The mobile device that operates as a blog providing server includes: a unit for obtaining raw data; a storage unit storing the raw data and blog information; and a blog editor generating/editing a blog page by using the raw data and the blog information. | 06-18-2009 |
20090164572 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTENT ITEM ANNOTATION - An apparatus for content item annotation comprises a user group processor ( | 06-25-2009 |
20090164573 | METHOD FOR FORMING AD HOC SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TWO DIMENSIONAL COLLABORATION - A method for networking and collaboration, the method includes: monitoring one or more communication systems for conversations of interest; identifying conversations of interest; introducing the user to the one or more conversations of interest; wherein the identification of one or more conversations of interest is made in response to parameters inputted by the user; and wherein the inputted parameters are matched to at least one of: tags and keywords associated with the conversations of interest. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRANSIENT FRIENDS - A system and method for identifying transient friends for a social network of a user are provided. A transient friend processing function obtains locations of a number of users or locations otherwise associated with the number of users. In order to identify transient friends for a first user, the transient friend processing function identifies other users associated with locations within a proximate area of the first user. For each of the identified users, the transient friend processing function compares a user profile of the first user to a user profile of the identified user to determine whether to add the identified user as a transient friend of the first user. If the transient friend processing function determines that the identified friend is to be added as a transient friend of the first user, the identified friend is then added as a transient friend of the first user. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164575 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPLEX NETWORK TELEPRESENCE CONFERENCE - A system and a method for dynamic establishment of telepresence conferences using standard protocol, such as SIP, for communications are provided. The method provides for negotiation of profiles of each location participating at the telepresence conference. The profiles provide information on the connectivity, positioning and configuration of the audiovisual elements, number of participating sites and number of participants at each location. These profiles are derived from the set of sites participating into the telepresence conference and their capabilities which are acquired through a dynamic scheme during the telepresence conference initiation. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164576 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS - A variety of methods, systems, devices and configured storage devices are used in relation to peer-to-peer streaming system with a plurality of processing-circuit-peer nodes sharing streaming data by passing the streaming data from parent nodes to child nodes. According to one such system, computer-based nodes are configured and adapted to detect a departure of a first child peer node from the peer-to-peer streaming system. The first child peer node having been a child peer node of the parent peer node and the first child peer having provided data to one or more additional child peers. Responsive to the detected departure, a second child peer is selected to provide data to the one or more additional child peers. Data is provided to the second child peer to facilitate establishment of a connection between the selected child peer and the one or more additional child peers and the parent peer node. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164577 | Dynamic Generation, Insertion Or Updating Of Electronic Content Based On Determined Location Proximity - A method of providing electronic content to an electronic device by determining that an electronic device meets a proximity threshold with respect to a location. Electronic content is selected, and information is dynamically inserted or updated in the selected content based upon the location. Or, electronic content is dynamically generated based on location. The electronic content is then transmitted to the electronic device. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164578 | CONTROLLING INSTANT MESSAGING SETTINGS BASED ON CALENDAR APPLICATION ENTRIES - A method for adjusting an instant messaging control mechanism can include the steps of determining a control setting for an instant messaging control mechanism based upon a calendar application entry, and responsive to the determining step, automatically adjusting the instant messaging control mechanism to the control setting. In one embodiment, the determining step can be performed by a calendar application to which the calendar application entry corresponds and can be performed responsive to a calendar event. In a further embodiment, the calendar application can establish a time at which the control setting is to be adjusted. The adjusting step can occur at approximately the established time, where the calendar event can occur in advance of the established time. | 06-25-2009 |
20090172095 | Optimizing Conferencing Performance - Optimized conferencing performance may be provided. First, a plurality of data streams respectively received from a plurality of conferencing users may be monitored. Then, for each of the plurality of conferencing users, a plurality of talk frequency conditions respectively corresponding to the plurality of conferencing users may be determined based upon the monitored plurality of data streams. The plurality of talk frequency conditions may comprise, for example, active-talker, infrequent talker, or listener-only. Next, a plurality of data packet size values respectively corresponding to the plurality of conferencing users may be determined based upon the determined plurality of talk frequency conditions. The plurality of data streams may then be mixed to create data. Next, the data may be transmitted to each of the plurality of conferencing users respectively using the determined plurality of data packet size values respectively corresponding to the plurality of conferencing users. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172096 | DETECTING EXCEPTIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE OBJECT ADDRESSING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distribution list management for a collaborative object and provide a method, system and computer program product for detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing in a collaborative computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing in a collaborative computing environment can be provided. The method can include retrieving a distribution list for a collaborative object in a collaborative computing environment, comparing addressees in the distribution list to addressees in a list of previously applied addressees, and providing a notification where an addressee in the distribution list does not appear as an addressee in the list of previously applied addresses. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CALENDARING EVENTS - An indication of a meeting being scheduled between a plurality of attendees is received. A first one of the attendees is designated an owner of the meeting. Ownership privileges for the meeting are associated with at least a second one of the meeting attendees. The ownership privileges associated with at least a second one of the meeting attendees are associated based upon, at least in part, an organizational structure. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172098 | Automatic rating system using background audio cues - Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172099 | FREIGHT BACKBONE MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE - A messaging architecture extends the communication capability of complex systems in existing enterprises. The architecture implements sophisticated messaging capability between typically disparate order management and shipping systems. As a result, the messaging architecture greatly streamlines order processing and shipping, increases productivity, increases system uptime and provides a baseline solution for customers that desire integrated order processing and shipping. | 07-02-2009 |
20090177743 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Cluster Based Conferencing - A method and computer program product for conferencing, the method includes: electing a cluster leader node out of multiple nodes that participate in a conference; monitoring, by the cluster leader node and at least by one other node, a connectivity status of the nodes; recording conference content during at least a certain disconnection period of a certain node; and sending to the certain node, after the certain disconnection period ended, conference information representative of the recorded conference content. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177744 | Identifying and employing social network relationships - Methods and apparatus are described for detecting social relationships across multiple networks and/or communication channels. These social relationships may then be utilized in a wide variety of ways to support and enhance a broad range of user services. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF AUGMENTED MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 07-09-2009 |
20090182809 | ELIMINATING REDUNDANT NOTIFICATIONS TO SIP/SIMPLE SUBSCRIBERS - A system for eliminating redundant notifications to SIP/SIMPLE subscribers, the system including a notification fingerprinter configured to generate a fingerprint from the contents of a SIP/SIMPLE subscriber notification using a predefined fingerprinting method, a fingerprint comparactor configured to compare a fingerprint of a previously-sent notification with a fingerprint of a waiting-to-be-sent notification, and a server configured to send the waiting-to-be-sent notification to the subscriber only if the fingerprints do not match. | 07-16-2009 |
20090182810 | System and Method for Real-Time Media Object-Specific Communications - A system and method to facilitate word-of-mouth advertising and sales support associated with displayed media objects on distributed networks is described. The system provides one or more advocates to a network user accessing advertising of a brand, product, or service. One or more of the advocates may be socially related to the user. User interactions with the advocates are facilitated through a real-time communication network, follow-on commercial activity is tracked, and the value of word-of-mouth advocacy is captured and distributed. | 07-16-2009 |
20090182811 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM, DATA SHARING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS,AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A data sharing system which is capable of preventing duplicated data which does not match original data stored in an original node from being spread across the network. An original node stores original data. A first duplicating node acquires duplicated data of the original data from the original node, and sends the duplicated data to a second duplicating node. The original node receives a request for confirmation of the duplicated data received from the first duplicating node, from the second duplicating node, compares the duplicated data received by the second duplicating node and the original data with each other, in response to the request, and transmits a request for deletion of the duplicated data, to the second duplicating node, depending on a result of the comparison. | 07-16-2009 |
20090187623 | Method For Delivering Businesses Enterprises Advertising Via Instant Messaging - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for advertising a business enterprise via an instant messaging (IM) environment comprising registering at least one business enterprise computing system application with an IM server and registering at least one subscriber with the IM server, wherein a subscriber logs on to the IM server via an IM client application that resides at a computing device. The method further comprises delivering subscriber characteristics comprising at least one of the geographic location of a subscriber's computing device, the subscribers preferences, and subscriber status to the IM server, wherein the IM server utilizes the subscriber characteristics to determine the business enterprises that are relevant to subscriber, and publishing the presence status of the determined business enterprises to the subscriber's computing device, wherein the presence status of a business enterprise is displayed to the subscriber within a contact list displayed at the computing device. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187624 | USER PIVOT NAVIGATION OF SHARED SOCIAL MEDIA - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social media navigation in a social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for user pivot for media sharing in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system for user pivot navigation. The system can include a social network executing in a host server, the social network providing shared media for viewing by communicatively coupled clients. The system also can include user pivot logic coupled to the social network. The logic can include program code enabled to identify a user of the social network associated with shared media selected for display in a media view to a requesting user and to generate a navigation view in a consistent location in a user interface to the social network irrespective of a page view rendered in the user interface, the view providing a link to a profile page for the identified user | 07-23-2009 |
20090187625 | METHOD FOR DISCOVERING AND DISCRIMINATING DEVICES ON LOCAL COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS TO FACILITATE COLLABORATION AMONG USERS - A method for identifying participants of a collaborative network is disclosed. The participants communicate over a larger electronic network wherein not all members may be participating in the collaborative session. The method begins by determining a unique session identifier for only the participants of the collaborative network. Next, a message having the session identifier is sent to all members of the network by an inquiring participant of the collaborative network. Only participants that have the session identifier respond to the inquiring participant. Finally, communication is established between the participants that responded to the message and the inquiring participant. In this regard, a collaborative network is formed including the inquiring participant. | 07-23-2009 |
20090193078 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING A REAL-TIME VIRTUAL INTERACTION - Techniques for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users are provided. The techniques include extracting a dynamically changing context from two or more users, wherein the context comprises at least one of user-provided information and one or more items related to at least one of current activity and past activity of the two or more users, analyzing the context from each user to create a classification for each user, comparing the classification for each user with a classification for each additional user, wherein comparing comprises ordering each user in terms of closeness to each additional user, and using the ordering of each user in terms of closeness to each additional user to facilitate a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more user classifications. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193079 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILITATING A REAL-TIME VIRTUAL INTERACTION - Techniques for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users are provided. The techniques include extracting a dynamically changing context from two or more users, wherein the context comprises at least one of user-provided information and one or more items related to at least one of current activity and past activity of the two or more users, analyzing the context from each user to create a classification for each user, comparing the classification for each user with a classification for each additional user, wherein comparing comprises ordering each user in terms of closeness to each additional user, and using the ordering of each user in terms of closeness to each additional user to facilitate a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more user classifications. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193080 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING ORGANIZATIONAL TASKS USING A WIRELESS NODE NETWORK - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless node network that includes a set of portable devices associated with members of an organization and a set of client nodes. During operation, the client nodes detect the portable devices in the vicinity of the client nodes and send records of detected portable devices to the server. The records are then stored by the server and are subsequently used to automate organizational tasks for the organization. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193081 | Methods, systems, and products for network conferencing - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for conducting a peer to peer conference amongst remote participants. Prior to the conference, a library of digital objects is communicated to an upstream participant communications device and is further communicated from the upstream participant communications device to a downstream participant communications device. During the conference, a synchronization command is communicated from a host communications device to the upstream participant communications device, and then, communicated from the upstream participant communications device to the downstream participant communications device. The synchronization command instructs the upstream participant communications device as well as the connected downstream participant communications device to present an object from the library of digital objects. A synchronization acknowledgment is then communicated from the downstream participant communications device to the upstream communications device, and the upstream participant communications device communicates the synchronization acknowledgement to the host communications device. The synchronization acknowledgment confirms a successful presentation of the object on the upstream participant communications device and on the downstream participant communications device. | 07-30-2009 |
20090198774 | ALERTING USERS TO ITEMS OF CURRENT INTEREST - Disseminating to a participant an indication that an item accessible by the participant via a network is of current interest is disclosed. An indication that the item is of current interest is received in real time. The indication is processed. The participant is informed that the item is of current interest. | 08-06-2009 |
20090204671 | IN-MEETING PRESENCE - Architecture that presents general presence information and in-meeting presence information as advanced state presence information in the roster of a virtual conference meeting or session. For example, one advanced state is showing a user that was invited to the session but that has not joined into the session. The advanced state presence information can also then show what the user is currently doing (e.g., offline, busy, etc.). Moreover, the advanced state presence information can show the communications state (e.g., audio) of the user such as free/busy information, call information, desktop locked (to attend to other activities), and so on. | 08-13-2009 |
20090204672 | CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM FOR PERMISSIONS-BASED LOCATING SERVICES AND LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING - A method in a server coupled to a device through a network for delivering message content to the device, the method comprising: maintaining at the server a message content store, the message content store including message content sorted by geographic position, class, and subclass; receiving at the server from the device a request message for message content, the request message including a geographic position of the device, an extent of a geographic region surrounding the geographic position of the device, a class, and a subclass; determining at the server the message content using the geographic position, the extent, the class, and the subclass; and, sending a response message including the message content from the server to the device, wherein the message content is displayed on a display screen of the device. | 08-13-2009 |
20090204673 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MULTI-PARTY COMMUNICATIONS AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING EVENT STATE - The present invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for performing multi-party communication and a method for publishing event state. The method for performing multi-party communication includes: receiving a multi-party communication requests carrying the group condition of a current multi-party communication; according to the group condition of the current multi-party communication obtained from the request, controlling the current multi-party communication. The method, system and apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present invention may set the group condition of the multi-party communication to regulate participants of the multi-party communication by the group condition. The method for publishing event state provided in the present invention includes: after receiving the event state of the carried resource and the publishing message of authorization information, controlling the subscription authorization of the event state of the resource according to the authorization information. The method can perform subscription regulation for the event state. | 08-13-2009 |
20090210489 | METHODS FOR PEER-CACHING FOR FASTER LOOKUPS IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS - The invention improves query response latency in a peer-to-peer network. The invention augments core neighbors included in a neighbor list of a peer node by selecting auxiliary neighbors for inclusion in the neighbor list of the peer node of a peer-to-peer network. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining query frequency information associated with each of a plurality of peer nodes of the peer-to-peer network, selecting at least one of the peer nodes of the peer-to-peer network as an auxiliary neighbor using the query frequency information, and updating a neighbor list to include the at least one peer node selected as the at least one auxiliary neighbor. The core neighbors stored at a peer node attempt to minimize the worst-case query latency for that peer node. The auxiliary neighbors stored at the peer node attempt to reduce the average query latency for that peer node. The auxiliary neighbors may be used in any peer-to-peer system, such as Pastry, Tapestry, Chord, SkipGraph, and the like. | 08-20-2009 |
20090210490 | TECHNIQUES TO AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURE RESOURCES FOR A MULTIMEDIA CONFRENCE EVENT - Techniques to automatically configure resources for a multimedia conference event are described. A system may comprise a meeting resource and a local meeting console to couple to the meeting resource. The local meeting console may include a meeting resource management module operative to manage the meeting resource for a conference room, and automatically establish a media connection between a remote meeting console and a meeting resource for a multimedia conference event. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-20-2009 |
20090210491 | TECHNIQUES TO AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFY PARTICIPANTS FOR A MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE EVENT - Techniques to automatically identify participants for a multimedia conference event are described. An apparatus may comprise a content-based annotation component operative to receive a meeting invitee list for a multimedia conference event. The content-based annotation component may receive multiple input media streams from multiple meeting consoles. The content-based annotation component may annotate media frames of each input media stream with identifying information for each participant within each input media stream to form a corresponding annotated media stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-20-2009 |
20090210492 | METHOD FOR COMBATTING THE ILLICIT DISTRIBUTION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - The invention relates to a method for hindering or preventing the illegal distribution of protected data in a peer-to-peer network comprising at least one peer operating an exchange programme designed for distribution of data to at least one client according to a selective exchange protocol permitting the peer to operate a selection of clients to which the data is transferred, said selection being carried out as a function of one or more characteristics of the clients. In said method bogus data is sent to the peer such as to influence the selection of clients served by the peer, such that the peer is made to favour the transfer to authorised clients. | 08-20-2009 |
20090216835 | GROUP MUTE - In an example embodiment, a technique that allows members of a group at multiple locations to have private conversations within members of the group while participating in a conference call. Group members are defined and divided into virtual conference rooms. When a group mute is requested, signals originating from members of the group are distributed to locations where group members are present, while all participants of the conference call, including the members of the muted group, receive un-muted media signals. | 08-27-2009 |
20090216836 | Saving a Draft Message in an Instant Messaging Environment - A system, method, and program product is provided that establishes an first instant messaging session between two users. During the first instant messaging session, the first user composes an instant message. Before the first user can send the composed instant message to the second user, a detection is made that the second user has logged off of the instant messaging session. A draft of the instant message is saved at the first user's computer system onto a nonvolatile storage device. At a later time, a second instant messaging session is established between the two users. In response to the second instant messaging being established, the draft of the instant message saved on the first computer system is identified and retrieved from the nonvolatile storage device. The retrieved draft of the instant messaging is then sent from the first computer system to the second computer system. | 08-27-2009 |
20090216837 | SECURE RESERVATIONLESS CONFERENCING - Techniques are disclosed providing secure reservationless conferencing, allowing an organizer to arrange a meeting while off-line from a conferencing server, with the conferencing server still enforcing security for the meeting. | 08-27-2009 |
20090216838 | Event-based contact list methods - Methods are provided for allowing an organizer of an event (such as a school reunion, a wedding, etc.) to create a site for the event on a server (e.g., an Internet server), and for allowing possible participants in the event to add information to the site and to retrieve information from the site. The methods preferably include fade-in and/or fade-out of certain information associated with the event. As an example of fade-in, a user may gradually be given access to more of another participant's contact information only after that other participant has responded to an initial contact from that user. As an example of fade-out, a user's device may gradually display an icon for the event less prominently if the event information is not being used. | 08-27-2009 |
20090222516 | SELF-DESCRIBED RENDERING OF DATA - An exemplary data package for a network-based instant messaging system includes descriptive data about a user of the instant messaging system and data indicating a network location of a gadget to render the descriptive data, the location accessible by one or more other users of the instant messaging system. Various other exemplary methods, systems, device, etc., are also disclosed. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222517 | Methods, systems, and apparatus for using virtual devices with peer-to-peer groups - Using virtual devices with P2P groups involves sending a discovery record from a virtual device to an Internet-based broker. A registration message from the peer-to-peer group is received by the virtual device in response to the discovery record. The registration message is used to join the virtual device with the peer-to-peer group. The user is authorized via the Internet-based broker and the virtual device is joined with the peer-to-peer group based on the user authorization and the registration message. Services are then provided to the peer-to-peer group via the virtual device in accordance with the discovery record. The virtual device may include a wide-area network service that is modeled to act as a physical device of the peer-to-peer group. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK CONFERENCE - The present invention provides at least an electronic system for network conference. The electronic system includes a user right module for storing and maintaining a plurality of user rights associated to each user of the electronic system, and a meeting right module for creating a meeting having a plurality of meeting rights according to associated user rights of a meeting creator. A participant right module is presented for determining a plurality of participant rights according to the plurality of meeting rights of the meeting and the associated user rights of a participant of the meeting. The system includes a plurality of participant client modules for receiving and sending media stream according to the plurality of participant rights of corresponding participant, and a matrix module for processing and distributing media stream to and from the plurality of participant client modules according to the plurality of participant rights. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222519 | COMPUTER-BASED METHODS FOR ARRANGING MEETINGS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - Methods and systems for assisting individuals arrange meetings such as networking meetings with other individuals at a specified time (or within a specified time range) and at a specified place (or within a specified geographic region). More specifically, methods and systems for allowing individuals to post an invitation to for a meeting on an on-line network. | 09-03-2009 |
20090234917 | Optimal operation of hierarchical peer-to-peer networks - A Network capable entity, having an estimator for estimating a superpeer number of required superpeers in a hierarchical peer-to-peer network, the number depending on an actual network situation, and for estimating an existing superpeer number of actually existing superpeers in the hierarchical peer-to-peer network, and a controller for promoting a different networking capable entity to become a superpeer in case the superpeer number is greater than the existing superpeer number. | 09-17-2009 |
20090240770 | Establishing a Remotely Hosted Conference Initiated with One Button Push - A method includes registering with a first remote conference manager operated by a first entity and a request to enable conferencing with a second entity. The method also includes querying the first remote conference manager for at least one conference room hosted by the second entity and updating a directory of conference rooms comprising at least one local conference room to further comprise the at least one remote conference room. The method further includes receiving a request to schedule a conference. Upon determining at least one remote conference room is to be used for the scheduled conference, the method also includes transmitting the request to the first remote conference manager. Upon the second remote conference manager transmitting an acceptance of the conference, the method also includes receiving details from the first remote conference manager for establishing a connection for use with the conference and transmitting the details to the at least one local conference room. | 09-24-2009 |
20090240771 | Method and apparatus for providing feedback regarding digital content within a social network - Maintaining a social network and providing corresponding access to digital content. A social network includes at least one social group having a defined membership. The content items that collectively correspond to content resource devices of the group members are identified, and feedback information for the content items is maintained based upon feedback respectively provided by group members. The feedback includes ratings, amount of usage and recommendations of the content items. Members are then provided with displays wherein the feedback is conveyed in association with the corresponding content items. | 09-24-2009 |
20090248799 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR USER IDENTIFIER UPDATE - A method and communication server for updating a user identifier, wherein the server detects that a user involved in a new communication has changed an old user identifier for a new identifier. The server also triggers a search for pre-defined groups containing the old user identifier and when determining that the user is part of one or more pre-defined groups, instructing an update of the one or more pre-defined groups with the new user identifier. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248800 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERNET HOSTS - In one embodiment, a method for processing, at an enhanced Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy (e-proxy), (1) a SIP INVITE message to a first user at an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack (DS) host, connected to an IPv6 network, from a second user at an IPv4 host, connected to an IPv4 network. The e-proxy receives the SIP INVITE message from the IPv4 network. When the e-proxy determines that Dual Stack Transition Mechanism (DSTM) service is required, the e-proxy obtains a temporary IPv4 address for the DS host, finds a suitable tunnel end-point (TEP), and sends a corresponding, but modified, INVITE message to the DS host. The modified INVITE message body includes invocation of DSTM service, the temporary IPv4 address, the TEP's IPv6 address, and the IPv4 host's IPv4 address. The e-proxy sends a BIND message to the TEP to bind the DS host's IPv6 address to the temporary IPv4 address for proper tunneling. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248801 | Automatic Change Detection and Notification System and Method - A method for automatic change detection and notification comprising the steps of storing at least one subscription corresponding to a notification preference of at least one user; detecting at least one change made to a collaborative editor; determining the change level class of the at least one change; comparing the change level class with the notification preference of the at least one user; and transmitting a notification to the at least one user if the change level class corresponds to the notification preference of the at least one user. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248802 | Systems and Methods for Managing Multimedia Operations in Remote Sessions - Techniques relating to managing multimedia transmissions in terminal services scenarios are described. In an example, a method sends a user-interface component from a server to a remote client. The exemplary method further streams a media component for presentation on the remote client in combination with the user-interface component and the media presentation is tracked but not displayed by the server. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ANALYZING SERVICE PROCESSING STATUS - Apparatus for storing information about collected messages in a message storage mechanism includes a mechanism for detecting a request message and for a process suspended as a suspended process request message, a mechanism for referring to a model storage mechanism to search for a transaction model beginning with a message having the same content as that of the suspended process request message and generating a partial model resulting from exclusion of the messages corresponding to the suspended process request message and a suspension message. Also included are a mechanism for extracting a plurality of messages composing an arrangement of messages similar to that of the partial model, and a mechanism for combining a partial transaction information with at least the suspended process request message, to generate suspended transaction information. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248804 | ACCESS REQUEST TRANSFER SYSTEM, ACCESS REQUEST TRANSFER METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ACCESS REQUEST TRANSFER PROGRAM - A proxy server is communicably connected to another server. An association storage unit stores proxy information and server information. A determination unit determines, when an access request transmitted by the client is received, whether or not the server specified by the access request is actually accessible. A first access request transfer unit, when the server specified by the access request is determined to be actually inaccessible, searches the association storage unit using the server information identifying the server specified by the access request and transfers the access request to the proxy server identified by the proxy information associated with the server information. A second access request transfer unit, when the server specified by the access request is determined to be actually accessible, transfers the access request to the server specified by the access request. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248805 | Systems and Methods for Communicating Audio/Visual Presentation Materials Between a Presenter and Audience Members - Systems and methods for communicating presentation materials from a presenter to audience members utilizing a number of USB port based devices. The presenter's USB device includes application plug-in software that loads to the presenter's computer and operates in conjunction with a standard application software product (such as PowerPoint® or Keynote®). As the application software runs, the presentation data from the presenter's computer is directed through the presenter's USB device (utilizing a radio frequency (RF) transceiver) to broadcast the presentation data to the audience members. The audience members have each been provided a USB device that includes an RF transceiver for receiving the transmissions from the presenter's USB device. The presentation data would then be communicated into the audience members' computer systems to be run in association with the resident application and plug-in software present. Other materials as might typically take the form of printed documents may likewise be distributed to the audience members. Optional plug-in software components, such as audience feedback and/or voting components, may be integrated into the application plug-in software associated with the USB devices. | 10-01-2009 |
20090254614 | SHARING CONTENT USING SELECTION AND PROPOSAL - A system may facilitate “almost automatic” sharing of content by regularly selecting content to be shared, and by publishing the content to certain entities if a person agrees, or does not object, to the sharing. A content item may be selected based on a criterion. A proposal to share the content item then may be displayed to a person. The proposal may specify a time by which the content item will be published if the proposal is not rejected. The person may explicitly accept or reject the proposal, or may passively allow the content to publish by not rejecting the proposal before the specified time. The content may be published so as to be receivable by a set of one or more entities that have been designated to receive shared content items. | 10-08-2009 |
20090254615 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COLLABORATIVE SHARING BY INVITEES TO A MEETING OF THEIR MEETING STATUS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for allowing a particular invitee to a meeting to control the distribution of information about the particular invitee's posture with respect to the meeting that determines a plurality of invitees to the meeting from a meeting invitation, selects invitees to the meeting from the plurality of invitees to the meeting based on criteria in a meeting profile unique to the particular invitee, generates a message to the selected invitees disclosing the status of the particular invitee relative to the meeting, and provides the message to the selected invitees. | 10-08-2009 |
20090254616 | Simultaneous Instant Messaging In Single Window - Providing integrated multi-session instant messaging in a single instant messaging window. A user interface has an instant messaging window for displaying a plurality of conversation panes representative of concurrent instant messaging sessions between a local user and a plurality of remote users. Each conversation pane represents one of the messaging sessions. A plurality of message components correspond to the conversations panes so that each message component corresponds to one conversation pane. Each message component is arranged in the corresponding conversation pane and displays text from an instant message. The conversation display area displays at least two of the conversation panes linearly along the height of the window so that the message components arranged in the at least two conversation panes are simultaneously viewable. | 10-08-2009 |
20090254617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION AND USE OF A COMPUTER NETWORK - The system provides a method and apparatus for navigation and use of a computer network. The system allows multiple users to simultaneously explore a network in groups of two or more. This capability allows one of the users to be a leader of the exploration and the leader can change during the exploration as desired. A user can also save an exploration session and share it with others, so that others can recreate the experience of the first user automatically. The system also allows for the easy creation of circles of network friends where content and information can be easily shared. | 10-08-2009 |
20090259718 | COLLABORATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY IN MEETING WORKFLOW - A computer program product provides collaborative accountability in meeting workflows by including appropriate notification and endorsement of workflow events by an accountability network which includes supervisors in an organizational hierarchy. Workflow events may include invitations to attend meetings, delegations of those invitations, meeting attendance, and action items generated within meetings. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259719 | Data Communication - A computer voting system arranged to receive votes from one or more mobile communications devices through a wireless personal area network in order to select content stored on the system, each mobile device comprising a mobile device name that can be edited by a user to include a user-entered vote, the system comprising: inputs arranged to receive one or more mobile device names; a processor arranged to analyse the or each device name to determine the presence of user-entered votes; storage apparatus arranged to store content; and an output arrangement arranged to output content; wherein the processor is further arranged to determine the content to be output by the output arrangement based on the or each user-entered vote. | 10-15-2009 |
20090265426 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING MEDIA COLLECTIONS BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS OF A SHARING NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally, the user may select one or more of the shared media collections for aggregation with the local media collection of the user. The shared media collections selected by the user, or alternatively all of the shared media collections, are then aggregated with the local media collection of the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265427 | System and method to create and find online communities - A method and system are directed towards defining user Communities based on prospective member's eligibility criteria. Community eligibility profiles of the Communities in a collective set of Communities are applied towards prospective member's (user) profile information. The system allows users to create their own Communities by entering a Community eligibility profile to match other users of the system and notify the prospective members (other users) of the new Community. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265428 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A VIRTUAL SPACE - Social networking in a virtual space over a network is facilitated. Subscriber computing devices each operated by a subscriber are associated with a subscriber identifier. Each computing device is connected to the network. A subscriber profile is created in a profile datastore, wherein the subscriber profile comprises information about the subscriber and wherein the subscriber profile is associated with the subscriber's subscriber identifier. Subscriber identifiers associated with subscribers who are logged in to a website are monitored. The website defines a virtual space and the logged-in subscribers are characterized as present in the virtual space. A web page is served to the computing devices of the present subscribers via the network. The web page of a first subscriber comprises a first subscriber icon associated with the first subscriber and subscriber icons of other present subscribers. A determination is made whether the first subscriber profile matches the subscriber profile of one or more of the other present subscribers according to matching criteria. An attribute is assigned to the icons of the other present subscribers that match the profile of the first subscriber according to matching criteria. Selected profile information is provided to the first subscriber of a selected one of any of the other present matching subscribers. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265429 | COMMUNICATIONS FRAMEWORK USING HAND HELD DEVICES - A hand held communication device, a server and a system and method for a communications framework is disclosed. The hand held communication device includes a client capable of communicating with a server, the client with a user interface, the user interface is capable of displaying at least one receiver and the client is programmed to send at least one message to the at least one receiver based on the at least one receiver's receiving capabilities. The server is adapted to receive at least one message from the communication device. The server includes at least one software entity programmed to accept the at least one message from the communication device. The at least one software entity is programmed to transmit the message to at least one receiver. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271479 | Techniques for Providing Presentation Material in an On-Going Virtual Meeting - A technique for providing presentation material in an on-going virtual meeting includes converting a real-world (RW) presentation into a virtual-world (VW) presentation. A media format of the VW presentation corresponds to a media format utilized by a target VW. The VW presentation is then stored in an RW media repository. The VW presentation is associated with an RW media uniform resource locator (URL). A VW screen control script is used to set a VW media URL associated with a VW screen parcel to the RW media URL. The VW presentation is then provided to participants of the VW meeting by accessing the RW media repository using the VW media URL. | 10-29-2009 |
20090271480 | Electronic document confidentialy and tracking system - Method and apparatus to identify document properties by use of the Internet or other networking system. | 10-29-2009 |
20090271481 | Online Idea Collaboration - A computing device for online idea collaboration includes a processor, and a computer readable storage medium. The processor creates a publishing module programmed to allow authors to publish ideas, the publishing module including an interface that requests various information regarding each of the ideas. The processor creates a ratings module programmed to allow reviewers to rate each of the ideas, the ratings module presenting questions to the reviewers to allow the reviewers to rate each of the ideas. The processor creates a valuation module programmed to calculate a ratings value for each of the ideas, the ratings value being based, at least in part, on data from the ratings module, and the ratings value providing an estimate of each idea's chances for success. | 10-29-2009 |
20090276491 | Management method for remote digital signage - A management method for a remote digital signage provides communication between a web server and the digital signage to make the web server collect a system information from the digital signage. The management method includes the steps of: transmitting a heartbeat every period to the web server by the digital signage; receiving the heartbeat to transmit a reply signal to the digital signage by the web server, wherein the reply signal includes a command; receiving the reply signal to execute the command, and to transmit the system information to the web server by the digital signage; and receiving and storing the system information by the web server. | 11-05-2009 |
20090282102 | PLAYBACK DEVICE - A playback device comprising playback means for playing content and wireless communication means for communicating with another device that is within communication range, further comprising content management means for identifying a content item available from the other device, for making the identified content item available for playback by the playback means for as long as the other device is in communication with the playback device and for retaining a ghost reference to the identified content item after detecting the other device is no longer in communication with the playback device. | 11-12-2009 |
20090282103 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE MEDIA CONTENT FOR A MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE EVENT - Techniques to manage media content for a multimedia conference event are described. An apparatus may comprise a media content manager component operative to generate a visual composition for a multimedia conference event. The media content manager component may comprise a video decoder module operative to decode multiple media streams for a multimedia conference event. The media content manager component may comprise a media stream manager module communicatively coupled to the video decoder module, the media stream manager module operative to determine a total number of decoded media streams is greater than a total number of available display frames in a visual composition. The media content manager component may comprise a media selection module communicatively coupled to the media stream manager module, the media selection module operative to select an active group of decoded media streams from among the total number of decoded media streams for mapping to the available display frames based on speech activity. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-12-2009 |
20090282104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING AVAILABILITY - A method and computer program product for analyzing a plurality of relationships of a user. A social network of the user is defined based upon, at least in part, at least a portion of the plurality of relationships of the user. The social network identifies one or more relationship users. A relationship score is associated with the one or more relationship users. An instant messaging availability status of the user is indicated to the one or more relationship users based upon, at least in part, the relationship score associated with the one or more relationship users. | 11-12-2009 |
20090282105 | P2P DATA DELIVERY SYSTEM, P2P DATA DELIVERY METHOD AND P2P DATA DELIVERY PROGRAM - Since a shared public data delivery module makes a response to a data query to other data delivery modules or other shared public data delivery modules; or to a query from other data delivery modules or other shared public data delivery modules instead of the data delivery module, the data delivery module needs not to directly make response to the data query, and it is hence possible to reduce load imposed on data delivery modules participating in the P2P data delivery system. For example, for a data request issued from a data delivery module, an adjacent shared public data delivery module acquires data substitutionally; it is hence possible to reduce the transfer network amount between the module having issued the data request and other data delivery modules and between the module having issued the data request and other shared public data delivery modules not adjacent thereto. | 11-12-2009 |
20090287774 | Method and Apparatus for Utilizing Social Network Information for Showing Reviews - A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing social network information to show reviews written by others. In one example, the method includes uploading at least one review written by an entity other than a particular user; filtering the at least one review according to criteria specified by the particular user; and integrating into one central location reviews written by others, wherein the reviews include the at least one review. | 11-19-2009 |
20090292769 | Presence IndicativeTerminal Device and Presence Managing System - Provided is a presence display terminal device comprising a registration unit for registering presence targets, an update information receiving unit for receiving update information indicating an update of the presence targets registered, a control unit for displaying a predetermined one of the presence targets registered, in a screen, and an update presence information acquisition unit for deciding it on the basis of the update information whether or not the presence target displayed on the screen is to be updated, thereby to acquire the updated presence information of the presence target decided to have been updated. | 11-26-2009 |
20090292770 | Determination of extent of congruity between observation of authoring user and observation of receiving user - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a result of an observation of an authoring user; acquiring a result of an observation of a receiving user; comparing the result of the observation of the authoring user with the result of the observation of the receiving user; and presenting data indicative of an extent of congruity between the result of the observation of the authoring user and the result of the observation of the receiving user based at least in part on said comparing. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 11-26-2009 |
20090292771 | METHOD FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PARAMETERS FOR THE DELIVERY OF SPONTANEOUS CONTENTS, METHOD FOR THE DELIVERY OF SPONTANEOUS CONTENTS, METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPONTANEOUS CONTENTS, ASSOCIATED TERMINAL AND REMOTE SYSTEMS - The invention concerns a method for the management of a set of parameters for the delivery of spontaneous contents to a user of a terminal comprising the following stages:
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20090292772 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLING THEREOF AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit adapted to store information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, a reception unit adapted to receive from an other information processing apparatus a request to acquire information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses stored by the storage unit, a determination unit adapted to, by comparing an address of the image forming apparatus stored by the storage unit with an address of another information processing apparatus, determine whether the image forming apparatus has the address which another information processing apparatus can access, and a transmission unit adapted to transmit to another information processing apparatus the information of the image forming apparatus having the address which is determined by the determination unit to be accessible from another information processing apparatus. | 11-26-2009 |
20090300112 | Effective Communication in Virtual Worlds - A method, computer program product and computer system for establishing an effective communication between two users in a virtual world, which includes measuring a communication capability for each of the users, and establishing a communication using a default type of communication, if a difference between the communication capabilities of the two users is not above a pre-determined threshold. The method, computer program product and computer system can further establish a communication using an alternate type of communication, if a difference is above the pre-determined threshold. | 12-03-2009 |
20090300113 | Team-Based Task Invitations - A method for managing invitations to one or more events includes identifying an attribute required to perform an event. An invitation may be created so that invitees are selected according to the identified attribute required to perform the event. At least one person associated with a attribute may then be invited to attend the event. An invitation is sent to one or more persons associated with the attribute. | 12-03-2009 |
20090300114 | COMPUTERIZED COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION - A computerized collaboration system includes a core corpus of community-communication modules. Each of the community-communication modules may be propagated to a syndicate of portals that subscribe to that community-communication module. Further, upon receiving an update to a community-communication module from a portal of a syndicate subscribing to the community-communication module, the community-communication module may be modified according to the update and an updated version of the community-communication module may be propagated to all portals of the syndicate of portals subscribing to that community-communication module. | 12-03-2009 |
20090313329 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Communication of Information in Electronic Conferences - Methods, systems and computer program products for document sharing in collaborative electronic meetings. Exemplary embodiments include a method for control of documents in a collaborative interaction, the method including establishing an out-of-band channel between a first participant and a second participant in the collaborative interaction, transferring a copy of a document on the out-of-band channel between the first participant and the second participant, transferring a command issued on the document by the first participant on an in-band channel established between the first participant and the second participant, invoking the command by the second participant on the copy of the document by the second participant and displaying the result of invoking the command to the second participant. | 12-17-2009 |
20090313330 | Content delivery method and communication terminal apparatus - A content delivery method and apparatus that can achieve stable streaming in a system that performs data exchange efficiently by dividing content into blocks and distributing them among a plurality of nodes. A receiving node transmits the playback start time of each block as delivery reservation request information to a corresponding one of delivery nodes. The corresponding delivery node receives the delivery reservation request information from the receiving node, determines delivery start time and delivery end time based at least on the delivery reservation request information and on reservation status and network bandwidth information, and transmits the delivery start time and delivery end time as delivery reservation result information to the receiving node. The receiving node receives the delivery reservation result information from the corresponding delivery node, and receives the block by requesting, in accordance with the delivery reservation result information, delivery of the block from the corresponding delivery node. | 12-17-2009 |
20090319606 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXPOSITIONS AND CONVENTIONS - A convention center is disclosed having generally permanent booths | 12-24-2009 |
20090319607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CALENDAR EVENTS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a presence system having a controller to transmit to a calendar system presence information of a subscriber of the presence system for recording said presence information in a calendar event. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319608 | AUTOMATED TASK CENTERED COLLABORATION - An automated task centered collaboration technique is described that significantly lowers the technological entry barrier for the development and deployment of a broad class of collaborative applications, which are termed Task Centered Collaboration (TCC) applications. TCC applications facilitate the processing of a large number of work items, or tasks, by people working independently or in small, synchronously collaborating groups. The technique also provides a mechanism for the study of computer mediated communication and human-computer interactions for this class of applications. The technique creates an abstraction applicable to the broad class of TCC applications, which enables the factoring out of significant portions of the application into a common infrastructure. It provides a programming model that enables a developer to focus on the User Interface and logic associated with operations on a single task, without being exposed to issues such as security, authentication, binding users to activities, synchronization, concurrency and persisting data. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319609 | User Value Transport Mechanism Across Multiple Virtual World Environments - Mechanisms for transferring a value associated with a representation of a user in a first virtual world environment instance to a second virtual world environment instance are provided. With these mechanisms, a request to transport a first representation of the user from the first virtual world environment instance to the second virtual world environment instance is received. One or more data objects associated with a first representation of the user in the first virtual world environment instance are quantized into at least one quantized value. The at least one quantized value is transported to the second virtual world environment instance and is converted into a second representation of the user in the second virtual world environment instance, the second representation of the user being different from the first representation of the user in the first virtual world environment. The at least one quantized value may not maintain a correspondence between the at least one quantized value and the one or more data objects such that the one or more data objects cannot be automatically generated based on the at least one quantized value. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319610 | Genealogy system for interfacing with social networks - A system for managing genealogy data is provided. The system includes a genealogy application for storing genealogy account identification data for a first genealogy account. A social network interface receives data from the first genealogy account and provides genealogical data to the genealogy application. A relative invitation system generates an invitation to a user to create a second genealogy account for the genealogy application. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319611 | Method and System for Facilitating Exchange of A Data Between Applications Using a Communication Platform - The present invention relates to method and system for facilitating exchange of a data between a first application and a second application using a communication platform. The communication platform is used by a first user of the first application and a second user of the second application to communicate. The method includes authorizing the first application and the second application to send and receive the data using the communication platform. The data is then transferred from the first application to the second application using the communication platform. For transferring the data, the data is received at the communication platform from the first application. It is identified if the first user has authorized the first application to send the data to the second application. Further, it is verified if the second user has authorized the second application to receive the data from the first application. If both the applications are authorized, the data is sent to the second application by the communication platform. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319612 | Information distribution system, terminal apparatus, distribution server and introduction server in the information distribution system, and recording medium on which program thereof is recorded - A plurality of terminal apparatus store segmented content data, which are content data segmented, distributed as a first content file. A plurality of distribution servers store the content data, or segmented content data which are the content data segmented, distributed as a second content file. The terminal acquires a plurality of the first content files from a plurality of other terminal apparatuses via a network. Also, the terminal acquires a first content file which cannot be acquired from the other terminal apparatuses, or a second content file corresponding to the first content file, from the distribution server via the network. A data size of the first content file is smaller than a data size of the second content file. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319613 | Method and Apparatus for Enabling User Services in Communication Network - A method and apparatus for enabling user services in a communication network with a plurality of terminal users. An initiating user terminal ( | 12-24-2009 |
20090327415 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A GROUP AND FOR DETERMINING INFORMATION RELATED TO GROUP ENTRIES - Described are methods and devices for identifying a group that include various methods to determine a group. Also described are devices and methods for attempting communication with a missing member of the group include different manners in which to determine information related to an entry of a group. The described devices and methods may be particularly beneficial at the particular time the certain group members plan to be or are in communication with one another. In this way, in the event that two or more entries of a group planned to be in communication or are in communication in-real time, in accordance with the disclosed devices and methods, the parties may be able to bring one or more other entries of the group into the communication as needed or desired. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327416 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM COLLABORATION - A computer implemented method includes detecting an event in a multi-component information technology system. Multiple parties having an interest in the event are identifies. An interactive collaboration mechanism is created and access to the collaboration mechanism is provided to the identified multiple parties having an interest in the event. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327417 | Using Semantic Networks to Develop a Social Network - A method, apparatus and program product are provided for identifying common interests between users of a communication network. A program of instruction monitors activity over a communication network by users and identifies interests for users based on network activity. The program of instruction creates semantic networks based on use of the communication network and identifies other users with common interests from the semantic networks. Optionally, social networks may be created or modified by adding other users with common interests as identified by semantic networks. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327418 | PARTICIPANT POSITIONING IN MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING - A multimedia conference technique is disclosed that allows physically remote users to participate in an immersive telecollaborative environment by synchronizing multiple data, images and sounds. The multimedia conference implementation provides users with the perception of being in the same room visually as well as acoustically according to an orientation plan which reflects each remote user's position within the multimedia conference environment. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327419 | Management of Organizational Boundaries in Unified Communications Systems - In general, this disclosure describes techniques of controlling communications occurring in a unified communications system. As described herein, a directory is established at a server system that hosts the unified communications system. The directory includes a plurality of hierarchically-organized categories. Each category specifies a set of users. One or more conferences may be associated with each of the categories. All communications occurring in the unified communications system occur within the context of one of the conferences. A user can only communicate within a conference if the conference is associated with the category that specifies a set of users that includes the user. By appropriately structuring the categories in the directory and the sets of users specified by the categories, the techniques of this disclosure may serve to prevent a user from using the unified communications system to communicate with certain other individuals. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327420 | CONTROLLED SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA - A first user of a first communicating object shares personal data in response to a request from a second user. The shared data are associated with a reference of the second user in the first communicating object and are transmitted to the second communicating object in order to be recorded therein in association with a reference of the first user. The first user controls the shared personal data from the first communicating object by transmitting a control instruction to the second communicating object. The instruction contains at least the reference of the first user in order to find the personal data of the first user in association with the reference in the second communicating object, and to treat the personal data according to the transmitted control instruction. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327421 | Cross domain interaction of a Web application - A method and system for cross domain interaction of a Web application are proposed, wherein a Web application belonging to a first domain needs to interact with a service belonging to a second domain. The method comprises: by the Web application, creating an iFrame in a webpage, wherein the iFrame is belonging to the first domain; creating a form in the iFrame; submitting the form to a Web server providing a service belonging to the second domain; and refreshing the iFrame by receiving a response from the Web server, changing the domain, to which the iFrame is belonging, to the second domain, and performing cross domain interaction with the service belonging to the second domain with the information contained in the form. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327422 | COMMUNICATION APPLICATION FOR CONDUCTING CONVERSATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE MEDIA TYPES IN EITHER A REAL-TIME MODE OR A TIME-SHIFTED MODE - A communication application configured to support a conversation among participants over a communication network. The communication application is configured to (i) support one or more media types within the context of the conversation, (ii) interleave the one or more media types in a time-indexed order within the context of the conversation, (iii) enable the participants to render the conversation including the interleaved one or more media types in either a real-time rendering mode or time-shifted rendering mode, and (iv) seamlessly transition the conversation between the two modes so that the conversation may take place substantially live when in the real-time rendering mode or asynchronously when in the time-shifted rendering mode. | 12-31-2009 |
20100005140 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHOD FOR SHARING PRODUCT-RELATED DATA - The electronic device ( | 01-07-2010 |
20100005141 | METHOD TO CONTINUE INSTANT MESSAGING EXCHANGE WHEN EXITING A VIRTUAL WORLD - A method, system and computer program product for associating a virtual instant messaging client, of an avatar, with a standard instant messaging account. When a communication transcript is completed in a virtual instant messaging session, the communication transcript is stored. Wherein the stored communication transcript is an archived virtual world (VW) communication transcript. The archived VW communication transcript is associated with one or more instant messaging clients. A request is received to continue communication, with one or more avatars, when a virtual instant messaging session is completed. When the request is received a graphical user interface (GUI) is automatically displayed. One or more of the following selections are enabled: communicate via the instant messaging session or do not communicate via the instant messaging session. When the selection to communicate, with the one or more avatars, via the instant messaging session is received, the system dynamically initiates an instant messaging session. The GUI is automatically closed when a do not communicate via the instant messaging session selection is received. Access to the archived VW communication transcript is enabled during one or more instant messaging sessions. The content of the archived VW communication transcript is automatically displayed when the archived VW communication transcript is accessed during the instant messaging session. | 01-07-2010 |
20100005142 | REAL-TIME EVENT NOTIFICATION FOR COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, a determination is made that a specified event of a collaborative computing session has occurred. In response to the specified event, a real-time electronic notification is transmitted to a particular set of one or more attendees of the session that the event has occurred, the notification illustratively transmitted via a communication channel other than the session. | 01-07-2010 |
20100005143 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BY MESSAGES AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A method of communication between a sending device and a recipient device, comprising
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20100011059 | Self-Marketing System and Method - A system and method that allows generating, maintaining and presenting one or more self-marketing scores based on references from friends or acquaintances, preferably via a communication network such as the Internet. The respective scores can be generated in a standardized format making the scores comparable across different persons. | 01-14-2010 |
20100011060 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT - Methods and apparatus for transferring data according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a computer system configured to connect to a p2p network. The computer may run a p2p communication program that receives a list of content available for download and determines a list of missing content on the computer by comparing the list of content available for download to a list of content previously acquired. Each of the content available for download comprises only a current version of corresponding content available. | 01-14-2010 |
20100011061 | CENTRALIZED SELECTION OF PEERS AS MEDIA DATA SOURCES IN A DISPERSED PEER NETWORK - A multi-source peer content distribution system transfers content files from multiple, distributed peer computers to any requesting computer. The content distribution network coordinates file transfers through a mediation system including s content catalog and a host broker system. The content catalog contains an identification of each content file, the segmented subunits of each file, and the peer caches to which the subunits have been distributed. The host broker system receives content file requests issued over a network from requesting computers. In response, manifest files identifying the request corresponding content subunits and distributed cache locations are returned. The requesting computers can then retrieve and assemble the corresponding content subunits from the peer computers to obtain the requested content file. | 01-14-2010 |
20100017470 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION USING ICON - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for communication using an icon. A first communication terminal of a first user stores a second user icon profile including an icon(s) representing at least one communication terminal used by a second user and a second communication terminal of the second user stores a first user icon profile including an icon(s) representing at least one communication terminal used by the first user. When the first user a first icon from the at least one icon forming the second user icon profile, the first user can communication with the second communication terminal of the second user represented by the first icon using the first communication terminal. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017471 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DATA - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing improved medical care. A system includes a defibrillator, a gateway device, a routing device, and a wireless modem. The system may further include hardware and/or software components located at a remote facility for receiving data and one or more server devices for decoding data from the remote facility. A method includes acquiring medical data at a first location, converting the medical data from an analog signal to a digital signal, transmitting the digital signal from the first location to a second location over the internet via a cellular network, receiving the digital signal at the second location, and converting the digital signal back to an analog signal for processing. The first location may be an EMS vehicle, and the second location may be a remote facility, such as a dispatch center or local hospital. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017472 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING PRESENCE DATA FROM MULTIPLE PRESENCE INFORMATION PROVIDERS - Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing presence data from multiple presence information providers are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing presence service using presence information from multiple presence information providers. The method includes, at a network node including at least one processor, receiving, from a message source, a first presence-related message that includes information identifying a user, using the information identifying a user to identify, from multiple presence information providers, a presence information provider that maintains presence information associated with the identified user, and relaying the first presence-related message to the identified presence information provider or sending a second presence-related message associated with the first presence-related message to the identified presence information provider. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017473 | Telecommunication Method and System Offering a Plurality of Mutually Consistent Means for Access to a Message Base - A telecommunication method is provided, which includes storing at least one message in a message base and defining a set of communication devices. The method further includes sending each device in the set, a notification of at least one event relating to the message. The method offers a plurality of mutually consistent methods of access to a message base using only targeted transmission of signaling messages of content that is directly linked to messages having content or status that has been modified, thereby considerably limiting transmission of superfluous data needlessly consuming bandwidth. | 01-21-2010 |
20100030854 | VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT MODULE BUNDLE - A method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having base virtual world functionality, includes providing a virtual world layer having virtual world layer functionality beyond the base virtual world functionality, encapsulating the virtual world layer to provide a virtual world module and transmitting the virtual world module to virtual world layer infrastructure to provide a transmitted virtual world module. The transmitted virtual world module is executed to provide user access to the base virtual world functionality and the virtual world layer functionality. | 02-04-2010 |
20100030855 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OVER AN ADAPTIVE SERVICE BUS - An adaptive service bus comprising adaptable logical components for transporting communications. A configuration of each logical component of the adaptive service bus is determined by receipt of a control message that establishes the behavior of that component. Thereafter, communications that are received by the adaptive service bus are processed in accordance with “rules” established by the configurations. The configuration of the adaptive service bus may be changed in real time to accommodate changes in communication types and/or changes in the processing rule for a particular communication type. | 02-04-2010 |
20100036911 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING A GENERIC CONFIGURATION ACROSS A GROUP OF NETWORK DEVICES - Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for sharing a generic configuration across a group of network devices. An example embodiment includes sending a scope challenge to a plurality of network devices; receiving a response to the scope challenge from a plurality of in-scope network devices; sending a configuration change message including a configuration change to the plurality of in-scope network devices; and receiving a commit message from the plurality of in-scope network devices indicating that the configuration change has been committed. | 02-11-2010 |
20100036912 | Social networking website system with automatic registration based on location information - A social networking website system with automatic registration based on a current location information. Individuals are automatically enrolled into social network services based on a current location determined from their mobile devices. In particular, farmers in rural places can be enrolled into social networks in their local districts, and they can interact with others using audio and video messages employing their local languages. Such interaction can be adhoc in nature, employing audio messages, or audio and video messages. In general, automatic memberships to social networks, social groups and to discussion lists are provided to users, based on user's current location. | 02-11-2010 |
20100042684 | ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACES AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING, ACCESSING, AND ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC ASSETS - A graphical user interface manages a user's electronic assets using a common protocol and displays such assets to the user using a common framework and interface. The graphical user interface includes a bar of segmented geometric structures and a set of one or more elongated streamers positioned, respectively, to form an “L-shaped” interface. The segmented geometric structures include individual “cards” that represent one or more electronic assets or groups of electronic assets stored accessible to the user. The user can share one or more of such cards via secure peer-to-peer communication without any need for uploading or attachment. The set of elongated streamers can display links to online content, advertisements targeted to the user, links to locally- or remotely-stored electronic assets, reminders of future events, and notifications of shared content. User activities can be tracked and provided to one or more third parties. | 02-18-2010 |
20100049799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FREQUENCY DIVERSITY IN SECURITY TRANSMITTERS - A system for transmitting and receiving communication messages in a wireless security system is provided. The security system comprises one or more security sensor devices and a receiving device. Each security sensor device is capable of monitoring a status change in an area and is capable of generating and transmitting a communication message at a first frequency and a communication message at a second frequency based on a change in status of the area being monitored. The receiving device capable of receiving the communication messages from the one or more security sensor devices and in response thereto is capable of generating one or more instruction signals based on the communication messages. A security sensor device of the one or more security sensor devices transmits the communication message at least one time at the first frequency and the communication message at least one time at the second frequency. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049800 | Facilitated Help With Program Function From Experienced Users - Instructional information pertinent to a program application is automatically solicited and communicated from a user experienced within an application's function. Recorded interaction with the application by experienced users may be maintained within a database. A request for help may be matched to experienced users in the database based on their recorded usage. The matching process may also account for other factors, such as the physical location or preferred contact method of the experienced users. The experienced user may be selected for contact, and may have an opportunity to accept or decline the offer to help the requesting user. Communication information may be exchanged to facilitate the dispersal of the instructional information. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049801 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INSTANT MESSAGING AND PRESENCE SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for automatically accessing a relevant group when determining that message inform information is transmitted from the relevant group in order to determine that the message is generated from the relevant group without accessing the relevant group are provided. The apparatus includes a group service server and a mobile terminal. The group service server generates message inform information informing of presence of a message which a user, registered in a relevant group, desires to transfer to all users registered in the relevant group when transmitting a group message. When determining reception of the message inform information informing of presence of a message which the user registered in the relevant group desires to transfer to all of the users registered in the relevant group, the mobile terminal accesses the group which has transmitted the message, receives, and stores the relevant group message. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING A READY SOCIAL NETWORK - The invention provides system and method wherein the system collects user activity data including call log information from network equipment, handset and other context specific user activity data including time of call and location information to enable various applications to use the information collected and build social network. In accordance with the method of the invention, the user activity data collected is used to form individual social networks. The networks are formed based on clusters identified by mining the data collected. Furthermore, various applications are provided access to the clustered data to assist in individual social networking. The system of the invention comprises of an application server comprising a centralized data center providing social networking services through a plurality of networks, the networks in-turn connecting a plurality of users through their individual network terminal stations to the application server. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049803 | ANONYMITY-PRESERVING RECIPROCAL VETTING FROM A SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE - A vetting service protects personal information while nonetheless allowing its authorized use to perform background investigations of consenting participants. Raw background search results are filtered, redacted, and otherwise sanitized in compliance with an agreement by the participants, to produce background reports. | 02-25-2010 |
20100057850 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MOBILE COMMUNITY SERVICE - A method and apparatus for a mobile community service are provided. In a method of operating a creator terminal for a mobile community service, the method includes creating a community for a community service by selecting at least one of a plurality of community types provided by a community server, downloading a task for the created at least one community service from the community server, and installing the downloaded task for the community service. Accordingly, a mobile community service can be provided to support various community activities occurring in everyday life on a real-time basis. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057851 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A system for multimedia communications implemented with reconfigurable technology is disclosed. The system includes: a SIP engine implemented in hardware that executes functions defined by Session Initiation Protocol (SIP); a XML engine implemented in hardware that executes functions defined by Extensible Markup Language (XML); and an interface that coordinates functions executed by the SIP engine and the XML engine. A standard set of features are provided for robust communications while permitting the addition of more features to enhance the multimedia communications experience. For example, audio and video communication, instant messaging and presence can be provided by the system while P2P and IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) can be provided through expansion. Reconfigurable technology allows the system to achieve optimal performance in performing various tasks. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057852 | Method of and apparatus for rating songs on internet radio and downloading related content - A method comprising: streaming songs through Internet radio to a portable device; connecting to the portable device through a network; obtaining feedback from a selected group of users of the portable device; providing a license to the songs to the users; and downloading the songs and related content to the portable device. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057853 | METHOD FOR MULTI-TERMINAL SESSION, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICE THEREOF - A method for a multi-terminal session, and a communication system and related devices thereof are disclosed according to the present invention. Accordingly, the user experience is improved. The method of the present invention includes setting up a connection between each terminal of a multi-terminal user and a session transfer server; setting up a connection between the session transfer server and a peer user; conducting a session between each terminal of the multi-terminal user and the peer user via the session transfer server. | 03-04-2010 |
20100064004 | SYNCHRONIZING DOCUMENTS BY DESIGNATING A LOCAL SERVER - A method, system, and computer usable program product for synchronizing documents by designating a local server are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A data network is formed that includes several data processing systems, each data processing system having a separate version of a document. A candidate data processing system is designated from the several data processing systems as a local server. Separate versions of the document are sent from the several data processing systems to the local server. The separate versions of the document are synchronized with a baseline version of the document to form a synchronized version of the document. The synchronized version of the document is returned to the several data processing systems. In addition, the data network may be formed if the data connectivity to an original server has been lost. | 03-11-2010 |
20100064005 | CONTENT ACQUISITION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT ACQUISITION PROCESSING METHOD, AND ITS PROGRAM - A terminal of an advertisement distribution system acquires, from a controller, subscription metadata respectively defined for each of first to fourth service servers regarding whether or not to distribute advertising content to be subscribed, and specifies, from among the first to fourth service servers, one or more servers that distribute the advertising content to be subscribed as a subscribed service distribution device. The terminal recognizes a difference between the advertising content adapted for distribution by the subscribed service distribution device and the already acquired advertising content, and transmits distribution request information to the subscribed service distribution device to acquire necessary advertising content. | 03-11-2010 |
20100064006 | Method and device for managing information of social type and for opportunistic forwarding - The invention concerns a method of communication in a communication network, using a communication device comprising means for exchanging data with at least another communication device, comprising the following steps:
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20100064007 | Automatic Content Retrieval Based on Location-Based Screen Tags - Systems and methods automatically obtain contents and display the contents on location-specific display screens, based on content attributes associated with the screens. Associating content attributes (“tags”) with the screens allows administrators to specify the types of contents desired for display on the screens. For example, an establishment that caters to customers of a particular demographic (such as 21-27 year old singles, families with children, fans of rock-and-roll music, “bikers,” sports fans or ice cream lovers) may associate one or more content attributes (such as “dating,” “Disney,” “Led Zeppelin,” or “Red Sox”) with its display screen. The system then automatically obtains contents based on the attribute(s) and displays the contents on the screen. Patrons with mobile telephones or web-based users may send text messages for display on the screen or play interactive games displayed on the screen, as described in the incorporated patent application. However, even absent such activity, the disclosed systems and methods populate the screen with potentially ever-changing contents, thereby keeping the screen “fresh” and avoiding a situation known as the “ghost town” effect. The system may obtain the contents to be displayed from a variety of sources. For example, Twitter messages (“Tweets”) that contain or are otherwise associated (such as via “hashtags”) with a content attribute of a screen may be displayed. | 03-11-2010 |
20100064008 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SYSTEM, PROXY SERVICE PEER, AND METHOD FOR PEER INTERWORKING BETWEEN OVERLAY NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a P2P network system. The P2P network system includes: multiple local overlay networks, each comprising multiple proxy service peers; a global overlay network composed of the proxy service peers of all local overlay networks. The proxy service peer is adapted to respond to the request of the requesting peer, query the local overlay network or global overlay network, and return the address information of the requested peer or the requested proxy service peer to the requesting peer. The present invention also relates to a proxy service peer applicable to the foregoing network system, and a method of peer interworking between P2P overlay networks based on the foregoing system. The present invention relieves the load of the proxy service peer, avoids blindness of the requesting peer in selecting the proxy service peer, and achieves load balance between proxy service peers. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070577 | SELECTABLE MODE BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an exemplary method, data representative of a user profile associated with a user is maintained, a social networking interaction between the user and at least one other user is facilitated, and the social networking interaction between the user and the at least one other user is controlled based on information contained within the user profile and in accordance with a selectable mode. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070578 | PERSONALIZED MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND RELATED PROCESS - The present invention provides systems and methods for transmitting personal messages to less traditional recipients. Some embodiments provide personalized message transmission systems with a user, a non-traditional recipient, a transmitter, and a server. The server is configured to receive one or more messages from the user, with the server converting the one or more messages to a transmittable format and sending the converted messages to the transmitter. The transmitter transmits the one or more messages to a non-traditional recipient. In another possible embodiment, the personalized message transmission system further comprises a device platform for receiving a signal from the transmitter, with the device platform re-transmitting the signal to the user as a confirmation message. | 03-18-2010 |
20100077028 | ANNOTATION OF COMMUNICATIONS - A calendar event that is addressed to a plurality of recipients is generated. At least one of the plurality of recipients is designated as a first annotation recipient. A first annotation is associated with the calendar event, the first annotation addressed to the first annotation recipient. | 03-25-2010 |
20100077029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT MULTI-PERSON CHAT HISTORY INJECTION - A method, system, and program is provided for automatically searching and injecting a multi-person chat history into a chat session, and allowing users to inject a multi-person chat history into a new chat session. | 03-25-2010 |
20100077030 | METHOD OF REPRESENTING SUBSCRIBE RELATION IN DESIGN PROCESS USING RELATIONS AMONG COMPONENTS - Provided is a method of representing a subscribe relation in a design process using a relation between components. The method includes establishing a resource description framework (RDF) site summary (or really simple syndication; RSS) subscribe relation between multiple design units dependent on each other in a design process using relation between product components, triggering, by the multiple design units, an event occurring in the design process of each component of a final product, to convert update information by the design modification event into an extended RSS subscribe format, and transmitting the extended RSS subscribe format to a corresponding design unit affected by the design modification. | 03-25-2010 |
20100077031 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes: a first receiving unit to receive, from a first other information processing device, equipment information of a second other information processing device that differs from the first other information processing device, via a first communication and first connecting information useful for connecting with the second other information processing device by a second communication that differs from the first communication; a first transmitting unit to transmit second connection information that is useful for connecting with the device itself by the second communication to the first other information processing device, via the first communication; and a second receiving unit to receive content data transmitted from the second other information processing device by the second communication, based on the first connection information and the second connection information. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082745 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FEEDS FOR ENTITIES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH FEED SERVICES - A system is described for providing feeds for entities not associated with feed services. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store an identifier of an entity, an update condition and a feed. The entity may include content, and the update condition may describe an update to the content. The interface may communicate with a device of the user. The processor may receive the identifier of the entity and the update condition of the entity via the interface. The processor may generate a feed for the entity and the processor may add the content to the feed when the content is updated in accordance with the update condition. The processor may then provide the feed to the device of the user via the interface. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB SITE DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE WEB BROWSING - The invention provides a system comprising: a CPU; a memory in communication with the CPU; instructions stored in the memory and executable by the CPU to establish a collaborative web browsing session, the instructions further comprising: instructions enabling at least one peer device to join the collaborative web browsing session at a web site hosted by an automated peer. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082747 | REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE BROWSING - A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which support a collaborative browsing session. A connection request is received at a first device from a second device. The connection request indicates a request for a collaborative browsing session between the first device and the second device. In response to the connection request, a web page is sent to the second device from the first device. The web page includes embedded computer-executable instructions to support the collaborative browsing session. A browser application at the first device is monitored for a change in state. An indicator of the change in state of the browser application is sent to the second device from the first device. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088372 | CONFERENCE NETWORKING SYSTEM INCORPORATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE INFORMATION - A method for facilitating networking among attendees at a conference is provided. The method includes receiving over a wide-area network a user profile from a user who has registered for at least one conference selected from among a plurality of conferences. The user profile includes a username for at least one social networking site. The user profile is stored in a database that includes a plurality of user profiles for a plurality of attendees who have registered for at least one of the plurality of conferences. The user is granted access to the database over the wide-area network, including access to a profile on the social networking site associated with the username. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088373 | Method of Tracking & Targeting Internet Payloads based on Time Spent Actively Viewing - A system for tracking exposure time of a payload rendered on a user computer is provided. The system provides a website rendered on the user computer. Payload is rendered on the user computer in response to a request by data associated with the rendered website. The system tracks whether the payload is visually engaged by a user operating the user computer. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088374 | Supplementary Services in Communication Networks - A method and application server for handling a supplementary services message in a communication network. A subscriber's Home Location Register (HLR) sends an Interrogation marker to the subscriber's Mobile-services Switching Center/Visitor Location Register (MSC/VLR) instructing the MSC/VLR to forward all supplementary services messages from the subscriber to the HLR. When the subscriber's user terminal sends a supplementary services message to the MSC/VLR requesting a supplementary service, the MSC/VLR forwards the message to the subscriber's HLR. The HLR retrieves an address of an IP Multimedia Application Server associated with the subscriber, and sends the supplementary services message to the addressed Application Server for handling the supplementary services request. | 04-08-2010 |
20100088375 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus configured to notify information on processing in a notification method different depending on whether the processing to be executed by a processing unit is one executed in response to a request from a web application accessed by the apparatus. The information processing apparatus registers identification information for the web application accessed by the apparatus, and determines whether a job to be executed by the apparatus is one requested by a web application corresponding to any of registered identification information. When it is determined that the job is one requested by a web application corresponding to any of the registered identification information, the progress of the job is displayed in detail. When it is determined that the job is not one requested by a web application corresponding to any of the registered identification information, the progress of the job is briefly displayed or is not displayed. | 04-08-2010 |
20100094933 | System and Method for Generating Exception Delay Messages when Messages are Delayed - Generating exception delay messages when messages communicated between asynchronous messaging applications are delayed and for forcibly retaining the original message. Specifically, the invention provides methods and systems for generating an exception delay message after a time threshold has expired without deleting the original message. The exception delay message may be sent once when the time threshold first expires or each time that the time threshold expires. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094934 | SOURCE INDICATORS FOR ELEMENTS OF AN AGGREGATE MEDIA COLLECTION IN A MEDIA SHARING SYSTEM - A system and method are disclosed for providing source indicators for one or more elements of an aggregate media collection of a user in a media sharing system. In one embodiment, a local media collection of a user is aggregated with one or more shared media collections hosted by corresponding user devices of other users participating in the media sharing system to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. Via a Graphical User Interface (GUI), for each element of at least a subset of elements of the aggregate media collection, one or more source indicators are presented in association with the element to identify a source or sources of the element in the media sharing system. The elements of the aggregate media collection include at least a subset of media items in the aggregate media collection, playlists including media items from the aggregate media collection, or both. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094935 | COLLECTION DIGEST FOR A MEDIA SHARING SYSTEM - A system and method are disclosed for providing a collection digest summarizing a shared media collection for presentation to a user. In one embodiment, a user device of a user joins a media sharing system including the user device and one or more other users devices, each associated with a sharing user and hosting a shared media collection of the sharing user. The user device obtains a collection digest from at least one of the other user devices that summarizes the shared media collection hosted by the at least one of the other user devices and presents the collection digest to the user. The collection digest may be used to assist the user in determining whether to access the shared media collection. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094936 | Dynamic Layering of an Object - A computing device may associate data with a baseline content object. The data may be associated with a triggering-condition. The triggering condition may also be specified in the data. Upon a determination that the triggering-condition has occurred, the baseline content object may be modified as identified in the data. For example, the data may indicate to impose an image on another at a specific location, e.g., to place sunglasses on a picture of a user, when the user is “away.” Content objects may also include audio, video, and other content types. Triggering conditions may be based at least in part on user status, user preferences, news events, or any other user-based and/or external factor. The baseline content object or the modified version of the baseline content object may be communicated to one or more devices. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094937 | REVERSE SUBSCRIPTIONS - A method and system for retrieving subscription information associated with a content file are provided. The method, according to an example embodiment, includes automatically generating a hash of the content file and retrieving an identifier for the subscription from a peer machine participating in a distributed hash table network. Subscription information is then retrieved using the subscription identifier, either from a specially configured subscription server or from a subscriber machine in the distributed hash table network. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094938 | Method of transmitting data between peerss by selecting a network according to at least one criterion and associated management device and communication equipment - A method is dedicated to data transmission in peer-to-peer mode between peers (P | 04-15-2010 |
20100100591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE CROSS-PLATFORM SOFTWARE SYSTEM - The present invention is a system and method for creating, developing and testing cross-platform software for mobile communications devices. The invention enables mobile device software that must be highly-integrated with the operating system on which it runs to be implemented in a cross-platform manner. Security software for mobile devices is a prime beneficiary of the present invention, as a substantial proportion of its functionality is identical between different platforms yet integrated very specifically into each platform it supports. The cross-platform system includes a core platform-independent component, a platform-specific component, and an abstraction layer component, each of which may communicate with each other using a common defined API. The present invention enables the platform-independent component to be completely re-used between platforms and allows the platform-specific and abstraction components to contain minimal amounts of code on each platform. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100592 | COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL, DEVELOPING AND NETWORK OPERATING METHODS THEREFORE - In a method for developing a communication protocol for transmitting binary instructions between devices in a network, each instruction comprising at least one of a binary transmitter identifier, a binary receiver identifier and a binary operation identifier, a set of alphanumeric identifiers for each transmitter of the network is determined, each alphanumeric identifier having the same number of characters. Then a set of binary transmitter identifiers having a same number of bits is generated by converting each alphanumeric identifier of said set into a binary identifier using a compression function. Finally binary instructions are formed having as transmitter identifiers a binary transmitter identifier from said set. | 04-22-2010 |
20100106778 | Partially replicated, locally searched peer to peer file sharing system - Controlling access to a file includes selecting, by a first network node in a peer to peer file sharing system, a file to make available for sharing with a second network node in the peer to peer file sharing system, the file being stored on the first network node. The first network node sends index information associated with the selected file to the second network node. The second network node subsequently performs a local search of a set of index information associated with a set of files stored in the peer to peer file sharing system to locate the index information for the selected file; and requests a copy of the selected file from the first network node using the index information. | 04-29-2010 |
20100115029 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING DOCUMENTS AMONG MEMBERS OF AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - Sharing documents among members of an online community. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising, associating an electronic document with a machine-readable symbol, the machine-readable symbol comprising data regarding the electronic document, uploading the electronic document to an online community, the uploading by a first member of the online community; and performing, by a second member of the online community, an operation regarding the electronic document. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115030 | PROVIDING OF LINK INFORMATION BETWEEN VARIOUS APPLICATION INFORMATION AND USING THE LINK INFORMATION - The invention provides link information between various application information. One method according to the invention creates a first type of information to be provided through a first information service, creates link information specifying a second type of information associated with the first type of information within a second information service different from the first information service, creates a transfer message of the first information service including the first type of information and the link information, and provides the transfer message for a terminal. The user can then easily check associated information of the second information service if needed while he or she is using the first information service. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115031 | System and Method For Enabling P2P Applications in a Wireless Mobile Network - A system, method, and computer readable article of manufacture for enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) applications in a wireless mobile network. The system includes: a uniform resource identifier (URI) request analyzer module to intercept and analyze a request from a mobile terminal to capture content; and at least one P2P content service agent module to obtain the content locally or over a computer network acting as a P2P peer according to the content request captured by the URI request analyzer module, and to transfer the content to the mobile terminal. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121918 | Method and system for sharing brand information - An interactive, computer network based system presents consumers with multimedia brand information via a browser-based interface called the GraffitiWall™. Consumers can use the GraffitiWall™ to modify and display a sponsor's brand information in any way desired. Consumer modifications are immediately communicated to the other member consumers and the advertiser/sponsor. Consumers can rate the GraffitiWall™, or portions thereof, and email the GraffitiWall™. An archive of GraffitiWalls™ is maintained by the system. Consumers participate in online focus groups, one-to-one interviews and discussions, as well as games and promotions pertaining to the brand. Interaction with consumers through focus groups, one-to-one interviews, discussions, games and promotions allows the hosting company to reinforce brand equities; speak directly to their target audience; test new and updated products and services; and encourage participation to a brand via purchases and signups by rewarding the participant with coupons, samples, gift certificates, and the like. An ongoing dialogue between business and consumer, as well as consumer-to-consumer, nurtures customer participation, loyalty and satisfaction, and builds a community housed within the company's brand. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121919 | System and a method for sharing information interactively among two or more users - An assembly of a plurality of media providers, each media provider having set a media exchange level. Each media exchange level comprising or encompassing one or more types of media to be exchanged. The media providers outputting to the other media providers the set levels, and if two media providers have levels set which have at least one type of media to be exchanged in common, the exchange of such media is started automatically. Media types to exchange may be photos, podcasts, music, voice, videos & movies, streamed TV/video/audio, such as airborne transmissions, graphics & text, e-mails, running application programs, such as an active web browser window, or the like | 05-13-2010 |
20100121920 | Associating Presence Information With A Digital Image - Presence information for an object in a digital image is determined. An identifier associated with at least one object depicted in the image is allowed to be stored as image metadata. The identifier is sufficient to determine presence information from at least one of a presence application and a presence roster list. Presence information for the at least one object is determined based on the identifier from the at least one of a presence application and a presence roster list. An action related to the object is performed using the determined presence information. | 05-13-2010 |
20100125630 | Method and Device to Provide Trusted Recommendations of Websites - In embodiments of the disclosed technology, a plurality of ratings of, for example, websites is received, wherein each rating is associated with a category and a rater, and each rater is associated with at least one group. A selection of a category is received from the user, wherein the user is associated with at least one group. One website location, or a plurality of website locations, is provided in the category to the user, based on at least one rating of the plurality of ratings provided by at least one of the raters, wherein at least one group associated with the rater and at least one group associated with the user are the same group. | 05-20-2010 |
20100125631 | NETWORKING CAPABILITY DETERMINATION MECHANISM - According to one general aspect, a method may include transmitting, from a first network entity to a peer network entity, an offer to perform at least one networking function, wherein the offer includes a set of parameters indicating at least one networking capability that may be employed by the first network entity to perform the networking function. The method may include receiving, from the peer network entity, a set of parameters indicating at least one networking capability that may be employed by the peer network entity to perform the networking function. The method may include determining if at least one networking capability may be employed by both the first network entity and peer network entity to perform the networking function. The method may include selecting at least one networking capability to employ to perform the networking function. The method may include other actions as described herein. | 05-20-2010 |
20100125632 | Matching Social Network Users - Systems and methods are disclosed for matching of individuals to one another using a matching model. The matching model matches social network users based on ratings given by users one to another, as well as, as appropriate and available, explicit attributes indicated by users and other data such as location data and system usage data. | 05-20-2010 |
20100131596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DATA BY USING PEER-TO-PEER PORTAL SERVER - Method and apparatus for receiving data by using a plurality of pieces of information managed by a server that manages information about data that can be received via one or more peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and information about peers respectively connected to each P2P network. | 05-27-2010 |
20100138491 | Customizable Content for Distribution in Social Networks - Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to customizing content based on a social context associated with the viewer of the content. The social context may include information regarding the viewer's friends or contacts in a social network, and information regarding the interaction of such friends or contacts with the customizable content. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION USING A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for multimedia collaboration using a social network system. In one embodiment, a method for using a social network to establish a collaborative multimedia interaction includes receiving a request from a user to establish the collaborative multimedia interaction, where the user has established the social network, and notifying one or more members of the social network of the collaborative multimedia interaction using, in some embodiments, information about the members' current or last known digital presence and a customizable set of notification rules. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138493 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138494 | CONTENT REDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BASED ON PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK AS WELL AS CONTENT MANAGEMENT TERMINAL AND ITS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A content redistribution system based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network includes: a content management terminal that, being a peer of the P2P network, decides for redistribution of contents based on characteristic information included in the contents received via a heterogeneous network; and peer terminals to which are distributed the contents decided for redistribution according to data transmission regulations in a community group on the P2P network. | 06-03-2010 |
20100146047 | COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC BUSINESS TO BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and devices are described for the automated, community-based exchange of procurement documents. In some of embodiments, there may be different sets of rules for each of a number of different communities of trading partners. Each set of rules may be made up of rules data for the automated exchange of procurement documents in respective communities. By way of example, a host trading partner may select the rules for exchange of procurement documents for a community. Invited trading partners may register for the community, and rules for the community may then be distributed to the registered trading partners. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146048 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Social network systems and methods are disclosed. The system includes at least one computer which provides content to a first group of members and a second group of members. A first portion of the content is associated with a first social network and a second portion of the content is associated with a second social network. The first social network is associated with a first entity, and the first group of members. The first portion of the content includes first member-generated content. The second social network is associated with a second entity and the second group of members. The second portion of the content includes second member-generated content. The computer provides to the first group of members: (i) the first member-generated content, and (ii) at least a portion of the second member-generated content. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146049 | Method, A Computer Program And A Computer Network For Real-Time Data Sharing - The invention relates to a method, a computer program and a computer network for real-time data sharing. The computer network ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100146050 | DISTRIBUTED DOCUMENT TRANSFORMATION FOR ELECTRONIC BUSINESS TO BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and devices are described for the automated, electronic exchange of procurement documents using a distributed architecture. A server computer system may manage different sets of transformation rules and plug-ins for various sets of trading partners. These rules and plug-ins may be distributed by the server computer system to trading partners. The rules and plug-ins may be specific to particular communities of trading partners or specific to particular trading partners. A sending trading partner may then generate a procurement document according to these rules, and may locally transform the document using the plug-in to generate a transformed document for transmission to the receiving trading partner. The receiving trading partner may receive the document via a direct connection, and locally transform the received document to a selectable format using the distributed plug-in. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146051 | Managing Differences in User Devices When Sharing Content on Mobile Devices - Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated and controlled by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive and process requests to share content amongst users of devices such as mobile devices and personal computers. Recipients receive share content messages from the content sharing application. The messages may contain links to shared content. The content sharing application is associated with an application program interface made available to content providers so that they can create user-selectable share content links or options displayed on display descriptions associated with the content. The content sharing application performs device capability checks so that selected recipients do not receive share content messages that contain links to content that is not compatible with their devices. In this way, users can select to share both device-dependent and device-independent content, even if the content provider does not always perform device compatibility checks. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146052 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR SETTING UP ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN PERSONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for establishing a communication between a first person ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100146053 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ANSWERING REQUESTS ON PEER-TO-PEER OVERLAY NETWORK - A method, an apparatus, and a system for answering requests in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay network are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: the destination peer receives a request that carries an address of an intermediate peer, processes the request and generates an answer, and sends the answer to the intermediate peer according to the address of the intermediate peer in the request; and the intermediate peer forwards the answer to a peer that sends the request. The technical solution under the present invention solves the problem of Network Address Translation (NAT) in semi-recursive routing mode on a P2P overlay network. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153496 | Method and system for data transmission - A method of transmitting data over a communication network from a first user terminal executing a communication client application to a second user terminal is provided. The communication client application of the first user terminal receives a command to transmit the data to the second user terminal and establishing a first connection between the first user terminal and the second user terminal via a first relay node. The transmission of the data from the first user terminal over the first connection is started, and at least one network parameter related to the transmission of the data is monitored and compared to at least one known value to determine whether to add a further connection. Responsive to determining that the further connection should be added, the further connection is established between the first user terminal and the second user terminal via a further relay node, and a first portion of the data transmitted via the first connection and a second portion of the data transmitted via the further connection. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153497 | SHARING EXPRESSION INFORMATION AMONG CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS - Participants in a conference are associated with communication terminals, each of which including an expression client that is configured to interact with an expression control function. When a first participant desires to share expression information, the first participant may select expression information representing a desired expression via a first expression client provided by the first participant's communication terminal. The first expression client will provide a corresponding expression request to the expression control function, which will process the expression request and provide an expression instruction to one or more of the expression clients of the participants. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161726 | Method, Server and Terminal for Broadcasting a Message to a Plurality of Members of a Community - The invention relates to a method, a server and a terminal for broadcasting a message to a plurality of members of a community. The method comprises the steps of receiving an incoming message, the message comprising a community identifier (ID). The method further comprises identifying community members listed in a contact list of a recipient of the incoming message, with the community ID. The method also comprises the step of forwarding the incoming message to the community members identified in the contact list of the recipient. The messaging server and terminal comprise a receiving module for receiving an incoming message, a processor for identifying community members listed in a contact list of the recipient of the incoming message, with the community ID and a sending module for forwarding the incoming message to the community members identified in the contact list of the recipient. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161727 | System and Method for Accelerating a Wide Area Notification - A method is provided that includes evaluating a message to be communicated to one or more persons and evaluating social network data that is indicative of a social network of the persons. The social network of the persons is used as a basis for communicating the message to one or more persons in the social network. In other embodiments, a selected one of the persons in the social network responds to receiving the message by sending the message to other persons in another social network to which the selected person belongs. In still other embodiments, the social network can be restricted to persons associated with a geographical area and the geographical area can be associated with a location from which the message originates. In yet other embodiments, communicating the message comprises making a telephone call or communicating the message comprises out-of-band signaling. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161728 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AND CONVEYING A ROLE ASSOCIATED WITH USERS IN A COMMUNICATION - A method for identifying and conveying a role of a first user relative to a second user in a communication comprises using a communication server to determine an identity of the first user, determine an identity of the second user, determine a relationship between the first user and the second user, determine an associated role with the first user relative to the relationship between the first user and the second user, and convey the associated role of the first user relative to the relationship to the second user. The communication server receives an indication that a communication between the users is initiated. The communication server and/or a source are configured for tracking one or more of the identities, relationships, and roles of the first and second users. Each user may have a plurality of roles and the identity and roles may by fixed or dynamically assigned. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161729 | SYSTEM, NETWORK AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PLATFORM PUBLISHING AND SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT - A method for synchronizing content delivery to a plurality of delivery devices of a user. A communications network and a system are also provided. The delivery devices include at least one computer connected to internet and at least one mobile device. The method comprises retrieving profile data concerning the plurality of delivery devices of the user; sending an invitation to deliver content to the plurality of delivery devices of the user; receiving at least two responses to the invitation, for each response received: identifying a responding delivery device of the plurality of delivery devices from which the response is received using the profile data; retrieving a platform type of the responding delivery device accepting the invitation; and retrieving and providing a delivery version of the content in a delivery format acceptable for the platform of the responding delivery device. In one embodiment, the method further comprises tracking usage of the content by the user on each the responding delivery device. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169418 | COLLABORATION AGENT - A collaboration agent for facilitating real-time communications on behalf of a user. The collaboration agent includes a conference bridge that anchors calls to the conference bridge. The collaboration agent uses contextual information associated with the user to manage the real-time communications. The collaboration agent can communicate with other collaboration agents associated with other users. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169419 | MESSAGE ARCHITECTURE FOR AN APPLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A message architecture is provided for use in a communications network for an appliance having at least one component and further enabled to communicate information about the at least one component. The message architecture includes first and second identifiers where the first identifier identifies the form of the second identifier and the second identifier identifies at least one component in the appliance. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169420 | COMMUNICATION OF SERVICE INFORMATION BY APPLIANCE COMPONENTS - An appliance has at least two components and an internal communications network. A first component is in communication with the network and the second component is not. But the first component is configured to communicate service information related to the second component over the internal communications network. The service information will include one or more identifiers | 07-01-2010 |
20100169421 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATION OF IM TRACKING - A method and computer program product for processing a tracking request from a first user of an instant messaging system concerning the online status of a second user of the instant messaging system. The online status of the second user is monitored. A tracking notice is provided to the second user. The tracking notice informs the second user that the first user is monitoring the online status of the second user. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169422 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing system and an information processing apparatus and method by which image data can be transmitted readily from a portable terminal apparatus, with which it is not comparatively easy to input a name, to a different apparatus through a network so that the image data may be managed by the different apparatus. A camcorder image station | 07-01-2010 |
20100169423 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a radiographic image capturing system, in which a portable-type radiographic image detecting device provided with a wireless communication section is included, and a correlation established between the FPD and the console can be easily changed. The system further includes a plurality of controlling terminal devices, each of which displays a radiation image; a communication information attaching section to attach communication information to the radiation image data; an access point that is correlated with corresponding one of the controlling terminal devices, and transfers the radiation image data, which is received by the wireless communication section in the wireless communication mode within a predetermined area of a radiographing room, into the network; and a correlation controlling section that correlates the radiographic image detecting device with the corresponding one of the controlling terminal devices so as to establish a correlation establishment between them, based on the communication information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174780 | INTEGRATING PARTICIPANT PROFILE INFORMATION INTO REAL-TIME COLLABORATIONS - An online collaboration system can access data in one or more skills repositories to search for participants with indicated skills and automatically display participants' skill information during online collaborations. Searching for participants by skill allows individuals most likely to add value to a discussion to be identified and invited to an online collaboration. Displaying skill information can facilitate focused interaction leading to a more productive online collaboration. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ENABLE DYNAMIC MODIFICATION OF METADATA IN CONTENT - A method to enable dynamic modification of metadata in a content, the method comprising of constructing the content ( | 07-08-2010 |
20100174782 | MONITORING OF COMPUTER-RELATED RESOURCES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING AND DISBURSING COMPENSATION - A system rewards users who offer to share the memory, storage, or bandwidth of their computing resource to third parties within a distributed network. Users share processing, storage, bandwidth or memory resources with third parties by permitting such third parties to access files stored in the memory of the users' computing devices. Users that offer files for upload are encouraged to register with a central authority, and receive value each time a third party accesses a resource from their computing devices. The value awarded to each such user is tracked by the central authority and is weighted. | 07-08-2010 |
20100179990 | REMOTELY CONFIGURABLE USER DEVICE WITH PHYSICAL USER RESOURCES AND INTERFACE - A user device for interfacing predetermined external services provided by third party service providers to a user at a fixed location includes a processing platform running an operating system, a plurality of physical system resources associated with the remotely configurable user device, physical system resource interfaces for interfacing the operating system with the available physical system resources, a data store for storing ones of multiple configuration information associated with and identifying the external services that are available to a user with the user device and one or more of the available physical system resources required for ones of the external services and a communication resource for interfacing with the operating system to allow communication of the operating system with a central office for downloading of configuration information to remotely enable a selected one or ones of the predetermined external services provided by third party service providers. | 07-15-2010 |
20100185730 | DELTACASTING FOR OVERLAPPING REQUESTS - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) when handling overlapping content requests. Embodiments use various techniques (e.g., dictionary coding techniques) to create fingerprints of content traversing the links of the communications system. These fingerprints are used to identify and exploit opportunities for using multicasting to share forward-link capacity by collapsing multiple overlapping requests for the same content via multiple content session streams into fewer session streams, including one or more shared session streams. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185731 | RETRANSMISSION ADMISSION MECHANISM IN A MANAGED SHARED NETWORK WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE - According to various embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, a node on a network submits to a network controller a request for the admission of a parameterized Quality of Service flow with in a MoCA network. A network controller receives the submission requesting creation of or update to a parameterized quality of service to support a flow with retransmission; sends a message to a first plurality of nodes in the network to request information from the first plurality of nodes regarding whether the retransmission flow can be created or updated; receives responses from the first plurality of nodes, wherein each response comprises information regarding whether its respective node can support the retransmission flow; and determines whether the retransmission flow can be supported by the first plurality of network nodes. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185732 | AUTOMATIC META-DATA SHARING OF EXISTING MEDIA - Automatic meta-data sharing of existing media method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes analyzing a media data of a client device to determine a meta-data identifier associated with the media data and automatically populating a new mark-up language file using an existing media-collection data associated with certain items of the media data. The meta-data identifier may be generated by a client application that is agnostic of a type of media player application compatible with the media data. The new mark-up language file may include an arrangement of the existing media-collection data of the certain items associated with the media data of the client device. A compatibility rating may be determined between the users based on the similar attributes between the arrangement and the other arrangements and enabling each user of the server device to view mark-up language files of the other users. | 07-22-2010 |
20100191807 | Semantic note taking system - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198917 | CROWD FORMATION FOR MOBILE DEVICE USERS - A system and method are provided for forming crowds of users and providing access to corresponding crowd data. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations for users of mobile devices. The central system receives a crowd request from a requesting device. In response, the central system establishes a bounding region for the request and identifies one or more crowds, each including number of users, that are relevant to the bounding region for the request. The central system then generates crowd data for the one or more crowds and returns the crowd data for the one or more crowds to the requesting device. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205250 | Peer-to-peer network - A peer-to-peer network enabled for folder sharing, wherein entire folders can be shared between peers. | 08-12-2010 |
20100205251 | NETWORK-AWARE COMMUNICATIONS - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect a device connecting to a network, determine the identity of the network, and publish a status indication to at least one of a list of active contacts or a list of inactive contacts. The list of active contacts may be selected from an original list of contacts, based on the identity of the network and a personal rule set associated with a user of the device. The list of inactive contacts may be included in the original list and not included in the list of active contacts. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 08-12-2010 |
20100211637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SHARED SERVICES - An approach is provided for shared mobile services. A node joins a community of a plurality of mobile servers for sharing a service. The node provides the service to a service consumer. | 08-19-2010 |
20100217802 | SOCIALIZING WEB SERVICES - A Method for sharing and recording achievements obtained in web services, comprising:
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20100217803 | INTERFACE DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A MEDICAL DEVICE AND A COMPUTER - The present invention relates to an interface device and a method for communication between a medical device and a computer system. In some embodiments, the interface device comprises a conversion device and/or a processor-transceiver and a memory in electrical communication with the conversion device, wherein the memory contains data to instruct the conversion device and/or the processor transceiver how to communicate with the medical device. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING RELIABLE NEIGHBORCAST PROTOCOL - Methods and systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communications where vehicles can communicate one or more of speed, position, direction, acceleration and state in order to coordinate or control their operation are disclosed herein. In some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods for vehicle-to-vehicle communications where vehicles can communicate one or more of speed, position and state in order to coordinate or control their operation. An exemplary method includes creating moving broadcasting groups which groups can move with the flow of traffic, adjust the span of the group and maintain minimum overlap size between adjacent broadcasting groups, combining two or more vehicles within one or more broadcasting groups, within some specified distance into neighborhoods, transmitting information about one or more of speed, position and state of vehicles in the neighborhood to the other vehicles in said neighborhood; receiving information about speed, position and state by vehicles in the neighborhood from the other vehicles in said neighborhood, filtering out duplicate information and information received from vehicles that are not in the same neighborhood, providing that two or more vehicles in the same neighborhood have substantially continuous communication capacity by maintaining the size of overlap between adjacent neighborhoods, avoiding delays in entering the new neighborhood by extending the overlap size, and utilizing one or more guarantees provided by an underlying reliable broadcast communication layer by transferring said guarantees to corresponding one or more neighborhoods. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228823 | Collaborative Session Resource Allocation - A method comprising, receiving a first collaborative session request including a first collaborative session parameter, determining whether the first collaborative session parameter is similar to a second collaborative session parameter associated with a second collaborative session request, processing the first collaborative session request responsive to determining that the first collaborative session parameter is not similar to the second collaborative session parameter, receiving an indicator of a first system asset used in the second collaborative session request responsive to determining that the first collaborative session parameter is similar to the second collaborative session parameter, associating the indicated first system asset with the first collaborative session request. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228824 | DISTRIBUTED SERVER SELECTION FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS - In one embodiment, an attendee device detects interest to join an online collaborative computing session, and determines a list of distributed servers for the online collaborative computing session in a computer network. The attendee device may then measure a round trip time (RTT) to each distributed server from the attendee device, such that the attendee device may select a distributed server for the online collaborative computing session based on the RTT. Accordingly, the attendee device many then join the online collaborative computing session through the selected distributed server (e.g., which may cascade communication for the session from a hosting distributed server). | 09-09-2010 |
20100228825 | SMART MEETING ROOM - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates enhancing the employment of a telepresence session. An automatic telepresence engine that can evaluate data associated with at least one of an attendee, a schedule for an attendee, or a portion of an electronic communication for an attendee. The automatic telepresence engine can identify at least one the following for a telepresence session based upon the evaluated data: a participant to include for the telepresence session, a portion of data related to a presentation within the telepresence session, a portion of data related to a meeting topic within the telepresence session, a device utilized by an attendee to communicate within the telepresence session. The automatic telepresence engine can initiate the telepresence session within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228826 | PROVISIONING MY STATUS INFORMATION TO OTHERS IN MY SOCIAL NETWORK - A device, system, and method are directed towards sending a status of a user in a social network to a recipient. A status of the user is received over a channel. The recipient is selected based on a membership in the social network, a preference of the recipient, or a type of the status. Another channel is selected based on information about a mode of communication between the recipient and the user and/or another member related to the user in the social network. The status may be modified from one type to another type based on the recipient. The status is forwarded to the recipient over the other channel. Forwarding may comprise unicasting, multicasting, and/or delaying sending the status until the other channel is available. A channel may include an application protocol. | 09-09-2010 |
20100235443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROVIDING A LOCKET SERVICE FOR CONTENT SHARING - An approach is provided for sharing rendered content that includes receiving a request for a content locket for a user. The content locket includes data indicating a content playlist associated with the user, and script for generating a message that requests an action related to the content indicated in the content playlist. The content locket is forwarded. In response to receiving the message generated by the script, the action related to the content is performed. The content locket can be embedded in a web page or passed in other messages, such as emails or instant messenger messages. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235444 | DISCUSSION SUPPORT APPARATUS, DISCUSSION SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A discussion support apparatus includes a holding unit, an accepting unit and a generating unit. The holding unit holds pieces of discussion state information each indicating a state of a discussion at a corresponding one of points in time included in a period of time during which discussions are performed. The accepting unit accepts a discussion start operation indicating a start of discussion on a topic for which discussion has been started. The generating unit generates, based on one or more of the pieces of discussion state information indicating states of discussions at points in time before a point in time when the accepting unit accepts a discussion start operation for a certain topic, topic-related information indicating at least one piece of discussion state information which is related to the certain topic and which is specified from among the one or more of the pieces of discussion state information. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235445 | Providing On-Demand Access to Services in a Wide Area Network - An integration services network is described which is operable to facilitate access to a composite service by a plurality of users having associated client machines. Each of the users is associated with one of a plurality of independent enterprises. At least one data store has a directory stored therein which maps an identity for each of the users to a policy framework which defines access information relating to a plurality of services. At least one computing device is operable to set up the composite service by integrating operation of the plurality of services. The plurality of services are associated with and controlled by a plurality of independent service providers. The at least one computing device is further operable to connect with the client machines and each of the services, and to selectively facilitate interaction among the client machines and the services with reference to the directory and the policy framework, thereby enabling each of the users to access the plurality of services as an integrated solution. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241708 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PUSH-TO-STORAGE - Methods and systems for storing a plurality of content fragments in a plurality of storage-and-computing elements according to a plurality of storage element types that are associated with the storage-and-computing elements. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241709 | USER CONTRIBUTION BASED MAPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer implemented user contribution method is provided. The method includes receiving identifying information from a plurality of users and receiving from the plurality of users indications of one or more geographic areas. A quality value of the one or more geographic areas is determined based on the indications of the one or more geographic areas from the plurality of users, and the quality value is transmitted to one or more of the plurality of users. The present invention further provides a user contribution based mapping system. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241710 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING OR DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN CLIENTS BEHIND DIFFERENT NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATORS - A registration server and client software is configured to establish communications between first and second computers, wherein at least one of the first and second computers resides behind a symmetric network address translator. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250672 | PROVIDING EVENT DATA TO A GROUP OF CONTACTS - Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250673 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINED PEER TO PEER AND WIDE AREA NETWORK BASED DISCOVERY - A first wireless communications device includes a wide area network (WAN) interface and a peer to peer interface. The first device discovers the presence of a second wireless communications device via a peer discovery signal, received via its peer to peer interface. The second device has been transmitting, e.g., periodically, certain information, e.g., its location and/or shopping preferences, to a node within the WAN. The detected first signal triggers an application alert in the first device. The first device recovers past information about the second device through a second signal received via its WAN interface. The first device uses information communicated in the first signal, e.g., device identifier information, and information communicated in the second signal, e.g., past location and/or shopping information, to generate a targeted message for the second device. The first device communicates the targeted message via its peer to peer interface in a peer to peer traffic channel. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250674 | CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND CONTENT DELIVERY PROGRAM - In a content delivery method in a P2P network, a node managing a content causes a downstream node to manage a volume of a divided content; this volume is according to a situation of the downstream node (for example, a line speed to which a node is connected). A node managing a content holds, as management information, partial information of the divided content managed by its own node, and location information indicative of a location at which a content itself is presented. Next, when a content transfer request is sent to a node managing a content, the node accesses a content holding node in accordance with the held location information, downloads a volume of a divided content indicated by the partial information, and uploads the volume of the divided content to a node that sends the content transfer request. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PERSONAL NETWORKING-BASED BLOG POST, AND SERVER APPLIED TO THE SAME - Disclosed are a system and method for distributing a blog post based on personal networking, and a server to be applied thereto. The system includes a writer terminal unit, which makes a series of settings for forming a blog post containing contents posted by a writer through the writer's blog registered with an online community service, and then distributes the blog post to at least one or more acquaintances blogs registered to personal networking with the writer, sharer/distributor terminal units, which make setting for posting the blog post on the acquaintances blogs, or distributing the blog post to at least one or more other acquaintances blogs registered to personal networking with sharers/distributors, and a service management server, which differentially provides management authority for the blog post to each of the writer and the sharers/distributors, and integrally manages the blog post distributed to a plurality of blogs, based on a path along which the blog post is distributed. The system and method distributes a blog post containing a writer's specific purpose of posting, such as a help-wanted notice, step by step through blogs registered with an online community service, based on trust relationships, thereby providing a notice platform, which is so efficient that an advertiser who writes a blog post, such as a help-wanted notice, can quickly find a qualified person, based on his/her trust relationships. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250676 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - An advanced identity verification system, method, and computer program product are provided that enable a user to create and individualize a repository of identifying data, and then incorporate that repository into processes that require reliable identification of an individual. Real-world acquaintances of the user can be queried to determine the accuracy of identifying data in the repository. As more and more acquaintances respond concerning a particular item of identifying data, a numeric accuracy index may be provided that permits an inquiring party to determine whether the identifying data may be trusted. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250677 | SUBSCRIBER DEVICE AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT THAT SUPPORTS REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - Real-time communication for resource content comprises selecting by a subscriber device, an event topic based on an event topic list, creating for the selected event topic, a topic path for receiving a notification event related to the selected event topic, and sending path information of the created topic path as part of identification information with the selected event topic to a resource content publishing device. Real-time communication also comprises receiving by the resource content publishing device, the identification information and the selected event topic, and adding the identification information and the selected event topic to an event topic subscription search table. Real-time communication also comprises, if new resource content is available, obtaining, based on the event topic subscription search table, identification information of a subscriber device subscribing to an event topic related to the new resource content and sending a notification event including the new resource content to the subscriber device. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250678 | PEER-TO-PEER AIDED LIVE VIDEO SHARING SYSTEM - Video data from an upload client is received at a hosting node. A request from a download client is received at a bootstrapping node to receive the video data. The download client to receive the video data directly from the hosting node when the hosting node is below a threshold, wherein the threshold is based at least in part on the maximum number of download clients the hosting node can stream to simultaneously. The download client to receive the video data from peers in a peer-to-peer overlay when the hosting node above the threshold. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250679 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A TOKEN FOR AN AUXILIARY STREAM IN A MULTI-POINT DOUBLE-STREAM CONFERENCE - The present invention discloses a method, a system, and a device for controlling a token for an auxiliary stream in a multi-point double-stream conference. In the multi-point double-stream conference, a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) receives a token depriving request message, judges whether to execute the token depriving according to the identifier carried in the token depriving request message, and deprives the token when deciding to execute the token depriving. The solution of the present invention effectively solves the problem that the auxiliary stream token is held by a certain conference terminal for a long time and the sending of an emergent and important auxiliary stream is disturbed and provides for the control of the auxiliary stream token in a multi-point double-stream conference to facilitate the need of a user. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262656 | Systems and methods for computer and voice conference audio transmission during conference call via VoIP device - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support canceling audio streams leaked from a speaker to a microphone so that a clean audio stream of a presenter or viewer speaking at a conference call is transmitted. Here, the audio streams being canceled includes the computer audio stream of an application being run or a material being presented online during a web conference and/or the audio stream received from the rest of the group of participants at the conference call. The computer audio stream is then transmitted in addition to the presenter or viewer audio stream, and separate from any other audio stream captured by the hosting device during the conference call. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262657 | METHOD OF SHARING IMAGE BASED FILES BETWEEN A GROUP OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods and associated mobile devices are disclosed for sharing an image based file between a group of communication devices. The image based file is scaled based on a display capacity of the devices within the group. The group of communication devices including a sending mobile communications device. The method includes: accessing from a memory of the sending mobile communication device a display capacity of each of the devices in the group, determining whether the resolution of the image based file exceeds an image resolution threshold based on the display capacity of the devices in the group, and if so scaling the image based file to within the image resolution threshold, and sending the image based file from the sending mobile communication device to one or more receiving communication devices in the group. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262658 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AN ELECTRONIC RECOMMENDATION - The invention concerns a system for transmitting an electronic recommendation to members of a social network, the system having a user activity monitor ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100268775 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN INDICATION OF DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION AVAILABILITY - An apparatus for providing an indication of device to device communication capability may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions. In response to execution of the instructions by the processor, the apparatus may perform at least receiving an indication with respect to status of an application or a request by the application, determining availability of a device to device connection associated with peer communication, and providing a notification to the application indicative of the availability of the device to device connection to the peer. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268776 | System and Method for Determining Information Reliability - In a system and method for determining the trustworthiness of network content (e.g., information units), the system collects information on the logical relationship between various information units (e.g. various information units may be logically inconsistent, logically identical, or otherwise logically related). The system also collects from a plurality of users, trustworthiness ratings for various information units. Based on these logical relationships and collaborative filtering with the users' preferences, the system generates individualized trust ratings that predict how much a user will trust any given information unit. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268777 | Peer to Peer System for Supporting Time Shift Service - The present invention discloses a Peer to Peer system for supporting time shift service, which includes: a media source system, used for dividing the input live broadcasting stream into media blocks to form media block sequence, grouping every predetermined number of the media blocks into media segment, and sending the media segment to each of several nodes; a media distribution management system, used for managing the state information of the media segments on the several nodes and realizing positioning function of the media segments, and several nodes, each of the several nodes comprises a playing buffer, a storage buffer, and a disk buffer. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268778 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING IDENTITY IN UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENT - There is provided a method of sharing identities in a ubiquitous environment, the method including: allowing an identity sharing apparatus to receive a service message transmitted from a service provider; allowing a relationship module of the identity sharing apparatus to check whether to have a relationship with a service of the service provider that transmits the service message; displaying a portion of the received service message such that a user can select a service, when it is determined that no relationship is established; displaying relationship establishment conditions including the content of the selected service and an identity list to be provided to the service provider; allowing the service provider and the identity sharing apparatus to perform a relationship establishment protocol; and storing relationship establishment information. | 10-21-2010 |
20100274851 | Natural Ordering in a Graphical User Interface - Provided is a method for displaying information such as lists of data, files and icons in a window of a graphical user interface (GUI). Unlike a typical display methodology, which arranges items in a “machine-dependent” sorting order, the disclosed technology provides a “natural” sorting order. The list, or names associated with the files or icons are incorporated into a query and the query is transmitted to a web service. The web service parses the query to determine a natural order appropriate to the material represented by the list, files, or icons rearranges the list, files or icons into the natural order and returns a response to the originator of the query. The operating system or GUI that originated the query receives the response, parses the response and displays the list, files or icons in the corresponding natural order. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274852 | Method and Apparatus for Sharing Context to One or More Users - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes computer program code. Further, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following receive content related to a first contact based at least in part on a configuration of a second contact. Further, the apparatus comprises a user interface configured to display the content. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274853 | MULTIPLE AGGREGATOR SUPPORT - Systems, methods and communication gateways for delivering timely, cost efficient and scalable user alert messages are disclosed. Using electronic communication media, user alert messages are generated by a communication gateway at the request of a requesting entity, such as a credit card issuer. The alert message is associated with a message identifier and then routed to one or more message aggregators based on the content of the alert message initiation request and a routing table. If the first selection of message aggregators is not available or otherwise unable to deliver the user alert message, then the communication gateway can reroute the user alert message to another message aggregator or queue the message for later delivery. The communication gateway can monitor and log the status and ability of the servicing message aggregator in the routing table to better facilitate timely delivery of the user alert messages. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274854 | DIGITAL MEDIA TRANSFER BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - A collection of digital media is stored at a source device and transferred to a target device. A subset of the collection may be transferred based on a priority related to points assigned by a user's rating of particular digital media and on rules based on particular user actions. | 10-28-2010 |
20100281113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MATCHING CONTACTS - An approach is provided for automatically matching contacts between a contact list and a members list of a social networking service. A contact matching platform retrieves one or more entries from a contact list and one or more entries from a members list of a social networking service. The platform then automatically determines matches between the entries from the contact list and the entries from the members list according to predetermined criteria. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281114 | Accelerating Network Communications - There is disclosed a method for accelerating network communications. The method may be implemented on a server computer or other computing device. The method may exist as a software program and may be stored on a storage medium. The method may include receiving a request, forwarding the request to a server, receiving a response from the server, and reviewing the response to determine whether the response includes a native expiration. When the response does not include the native expiration, a calculated expiration for the response may be computed. The calculated expiration may be inserted into the response creating an amended response. The amended response may be forwarded to the client. When the response includes the native expiration, the response may be forwarded to the client. The amended response may be stored and provided to other requesters. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281115 | METHOD OF ENABLING CONFERENCING USING ENCODED FORMS - A method of enabling conferencing using encoded forms is provided in which a computer system receives indicating data from a sensing device used to interact with a first form, determines conference information, and outputs a second form. The first form has first tags and an identity associated with a form description in the computer system. Each first tag encodes data on the identity and the location of that tag on the first form, which is included in the indicating data. The computer system determines the conference information from the indicating data and form description. The second form is output with second tags, the conference information and a hierarchical tree of form versions. The computer system produces the hierarchical tree by associating the second form identity with the form description. Each second tag encodes data on the second form identity and the location of that tag on the second form. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287236 | Collective asynchronous media review - A system and method for sharing annotations corresponding to media content among a plurality of members of a group over a communications network. The system generally includes at least one server coupled to the communications network and configured for receiving at least one annotation from a first group member corresponding to media content from the communications network; adding the at least one annotation to a database; accessing a list of members of the group, each member of the group having a user profile stored in memory; and automatically sending a notification to at least a second member of the group upon receipt of each annotation. The annotation comprises annotation content and a temporal identifier that identifies a segment of the media content to which the annotation corresponds, and the at least one server is configured for sending the annotation to at least the second group member and optionally a media stream including at least the segment of the media content with the annotation. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287237 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECIPIENT CONTROLLED COMMUNICATIONS - A communication system is provided in which users associate handling data identifying how messages are to be processed with contact data. Handling data for the identified contacts in the contact data then dispatched to those contacts. Subsequently when messages are dispatched from the locations identified by the contact data a sender of a message selects handling data to be associated with a message being dispatched. Upon receipt of a message associated with handling data the message is then processed in the manner identified by the handling data. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287238 | MULTIWAY PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA STREAMING - Multiway peer-to-peer media streaming is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises defining a first portion of a peer-to-peer network. The method then recites defining a second portion of the peer-to-peer network. The present method then utilizes the first portion of the peer-to-peer network to generate an aggregated media stream, wherein the aggregated media stream is comprised of a plurality of media streams. The present method then delivers the aggregated media stream from the first portion of the peer-to-peer network to the second portion of the peer-to-peer network. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287239 | Managing Participants in an Online Session - The present invention relates to an application that is configured to be operated in a multi-participant environment on a computer network. The application manages participants in an online session of a multi-user application so that if one of the participants exits the session, the session can continue without interruption. The application initiates an online session of the multi-user application, wherein the online session includes two or more participants comprised of network computers that are communicatively linked to a computer network. If the application detects that a first participant has disconnected from the online session, wherein the first participant is responsible for managing certain managerial functionality associated with the running of the multi-user application, then the application broadcasts a notification to existing participants of the online session over the communication network, thereby notifying the existing participants that the first participant has disconnected from the online session. The initiating application then re-assigns the functionality associated with the first participant to an existing participant of the online session. The participants can be communicating in a peer-to-peer arrangement or can be performing server duties in a client-server arrangement. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287240 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED BLOGGING FEATURES ON A MOBILE PHONE - There is described a method, device and computer program product for updating a blog web-site using a portable mobile communications device equipped with one or more data generating sensors. This includes acquiring sensor data from the sensors and creating a blog entry containing the acquired sensor data. The blog entry is then sent from the portable mobile communications device to a blog Internet web-site over a mobile network. A blog update profile indicates a schedule for updates and which sensor data to include. Sensor blog data can also be appended to manual blog entry data to form a single blog entry. The sensors can be integrated within the portable mobile communications device, or can be accessories that are communicable with the portable mobile communications device. The sensors can include a location determination sensor, an accelerometer, a heart rate monitor, a blood pressure monitor, or a body temperature monitor. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293226 | WEB CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM - Web conference performance monitoring systems enable presenters to monitor their audience's content receiving experience and modify their content's transmission characteristics to resolve technical difficulties. A system for monitoring a Web conference's performance includes a local processor; memory operably connected to the local processor; a monitor operably connected to the local processor; content loaded into memory and operable by the local processor; and an audience screen preview program loaded into the memory and operable by the local processor, wherein the audience screen preview program instructs the local processor to measure network throughput of a network connection between the local processor and a remote processor and display at least a portion of the content on the monitor operably connected to the local processor by simulating the content being transmitted to the monitor operably connected to the local processor over the network connection. | 11-18-2010 |
20100293227 | HEARING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM, AND HEARING SYSTEM NETWORK - The method for operating a hearing system ( | 11-18-2010 |
20100293228 | Device and method for controlling dissemination of data by transfer of sets of instructions between peers having wireless communication capacities - A method is intended for controlling dissemination of data in a peer-to-peer mode between peers having wireless communication capacities. This method consists i) in creating N sets of instructions in a first peer each set being intended to be used for carrying out an action relative to these data and to be deleted after having been used, and ii) when this first peer cannot use locally remaining sets of instructions relative to these data, in transferring at least one of these remaining sets of instructions from this first peer to at least one second peer in order that this remaining set of instructions could possibly be used by this second peer. | 11-18-2010 |
20100299390 | Method and System for Controlling Data Transmission to or From a Mobile Device - Methods of operating mobile or other electronic devices so as to achieve a transmission of data between those devices, and related systems and components, are described. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of operating a first mobile device so as to achieve a transmission of data from the mobile device to an additional electronic device includes tracking a positional variation of an object situated proximate a display screen of the mobile device by determining locations of the object over time using a sensing assembly of the mobile device. The method further includes determining a point or region on the display screen based upon the tracked positional variation of the object, identifying an image portion corresponding to the point or region, where the data is associated with the image portion, and transmitting the data from the mobile device, whereby the data is capable of being received by the additional electronic device. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306316 | METHOD FOR PROVISION OF AN ADDRESS IN A DATA NETWORK - A method for provision of an address of an online computer which is connected to a data network for at least one receiving computer, in particular, a method for the provision of an address, particularly to a temporary IP address. The online computer carries out transmission of a first data set comprising the identification of at least one server structure globally accessible over the data network to the receiving computer, the server structure being selected from a plurality of available server structures. A second data set is transmitted which identifies at least one codeword to the receiving computer. The address of the online computer is stored together with the codeword on the identified server structure. | 12-02-2010 |
20100312831 | CALENDAR EVENT PROMPT SYSTEM AND CALENDAR EVENT NOTIFYING METHOD - The present invention relates to a calendar event notifying method for calendar event prompt system. The calendar prompt system includes a calendar server ( | 12-09-2010 |
20100312832 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MEDIA AND MEDIA CONTROL TRANSFER BETWEEN DEVICES - A method to transfer control is presented. The method includes sending a message requesting transfer of control of a collaborative session, and receiving notification, in response to the sent message, indicative of a transfer result of said requested transfer of control. The method may include, when the transfer result in the received notification indicates success, relinquishing control of the collaborative session. The method may include maintaining control of the collaborative session independent of the transfer result in the received notification. The message requesting transfer of control of a collaborative session may also comprises a request for media transfer. | 12-09-2010 |
20100318606 | ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF CONFERENCE MEDIA AND DATA - A distributed system for distributing conferencing data such as video, audio, and other conference data. The distributed system includes a conference data dispatch system, multiple conference participant computing systems, and a network distribution path through which conference data may be distributed from the conference data dispatch system to the various conference participant computing systems. The conference data is segmented. Each segment is encoded to be suitable to a particular class of participant computing systems. The encoded segments may be cached in an intermediary computing system to thereby avoid a strict unicast model for distributing conference data. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318607 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A digital document is generated based on document content information obtained by reading a paper document, and instruction content information for document generation. Explanatory information of the paper document is generated based on the instruction content information. Feed data as data used to notify an external apparatus of generation of the digital document is generated with reference to the explanatory information. The feed data is transmitted to the external apparatus in response to a request from the external apparatus. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325205 | EVENT RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - An event recommendation service is described. In embodiments, selection data that correlates to media content selected by a user, location data that corresponds to a location of the user, and event data is received. A recommendation for an event that the user is likely to attend and that is proximate the location of the user can be generated by aggregating the selection data, the location data, and the event data. The recommendation can then be communicated to a user device as a calendar entry, an email message, a text message, and/or an html page for display to inform the user of the event. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325206 | PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - To provide collaborative business intelligence in an enterprise, an analytics platform is provided to receive an event associated with the enterprise and to perform analysis in response to the event. A virtual collaboration platform is provided to enable plural users to interact with each other and to use resources of the analytics platform. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325207 | CONDITIONAL COMMUNICATION ACCESS BASED ON USER STATUS - A device, system and method to enable communications over a network that allows a user to establish a status that controls the method or manner of communication to client devices of the user based on various definable conditions, and to track such communications based on the condition-related status of various users to discern behavior or gauge progress towards an objective. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325208 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO FORWARD DOCUMENTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus to forward documents in a communication network are disclosed. An example method to share converged address book (CAB) contact information disclosed herein comprises receiving a contact share request identifying the CAB contact information to be shared with one or more recipients, the CAB contact information maintained as an extensible markup language (XML) resource, preparing an XML document command protocol (XDCP) forward request to be issued to cause the XML resource to be forwarded to share the CAB contact information with the one or more recipients, the XDCP forward request specifying a uniform resource identifier (URI) corresponding to the XML resource maintaining the CAB contact information, the XDCP forward request also specifying a list of the one or more recipients, and making the XDCP forward request to cause the list of recipients to be notified that the XML resource maintaining the CAB contact information has been forwarded and is available. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325209 | Efficient Network Routing To Reduce Bandwidth Usage and Latency - A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) for efficiently routing a multi-person conference to reduce bandwidth usage and latency is described. Computing devices used by the participants to participate in the conference are separated into proximity pools based on direct accessibility. For each proximity pool, a computing device is selected as the key node. Only the key node communicates directly with a server, and redistributes data received from the server to its pool peers. Communications between computing devices within a same pool are routed directed to one another. Proximity pools can be refined to factor in distances among the computing devices. Multiple servers may be used to reduce latency. Proximity pools are assigned to nearby servers. Communications between computing devices in different proximity pools are routed through the server(s) associated with the different proximity pool. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325210 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED CLIENT-SERVER COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another. The communications device may process requests using an HTTP client application, for example. Furthermore, the system may also include an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the application server. The HTTP server and the HTTP client application may format requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each may provide additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authenticating the application server and the HTTP client application to one another. Furthermore, the HTTP client application may request a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and a second URL different from the first URL for responding to work requests from the application server. | 12-23-2010 |
20100332597 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF PRESENCE EVENTS WITHIN A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for reducing the number of presence events in a network are provided. This is accomplished by segregating close buddies (on a buddy or contact list) from not-so-close buddies (on the list) for purposes of better managing the flow of presence information in a network. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010421 | List Passing in a Background File Sharing Network - A mechanism is provided for distributing file fragments in the background of a segmented peer-to-peer network using list passing between peers. Rather than trading actual content, peers may trade file names or file fragment identifiers. Upon receiving a new file name or identifier, a peer may request that file from the network, either in the background or the foreground. For example, once a client begins background file sharing in a swarm, the client may propagate file information for files it possesses to all or a portion of the peers in a swarm. Those clients then have the file information for a file without the user having to locate and specifically request that file. The file list may piggyback on a file fragment that is transferred as a result of a file sharing request. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010422 | System And Method Of Disseminating Electronic Content Utilizing Geographic And Time Granularities - A system and method for disseminating electronic content by defining a plurality of places each having a location and at least one place attribute associated therewith, receiving electronic content from a network, identifying a target geographic extent for the electronic content, identifying a target time extent for the electronic content, identifying at least one of the plurality of places based upon its location being within the target geographic extent, identifying an electronic device located at or proximate to the identified at least one place while within the target time extent, and distributing the electronic content to the identified electronic device over a network. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016178 | Client Side Culling of Dynamic Resources - A resource management module detect and prevents redundant resources in a client side application. The resource management module is initialized on the client side in a browser or similar application. The resource management module then searches for already executing resources or resources that are already in use. The discovered resources are then compiled and stored in a resource directory. When subsequent pages are loaded the resource management module searches the pages for resources that the page utilizes. The resources are added to the directory if not already present in the resource directory. If the resources are already present in the directory, then the web page being reviewed is modified to remove or replace the multiple resource before being passed on to the browser for loading of resources. In this manner the amount of memory and processing resourced utilized by the client computer can be reduced. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022657 | MARKUP LANGUAGE FOR INCORPORATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM INFORMATION BY AN EXTERNAL WEBSITE - A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022658 | SYSTEM FOR NETWORKED DIGITAL PATHOLOGY EXCHANGE - A computer-based method and apparatus to facilitate the exchange of pathology studies for the purpose of providing a primary or secondary pathological diagnosis. A study consists of one or more lower-resolution images, the references to the corresponding higher-resolution images, associated image metadata, study metadata and patient metadata. The studies are exchanged from one organization (hospital, practice, or individual physician) to another organization through a set of interconnected dispatcher services. In a cloud model, a plurality of dispatchers may be connected through a Global Dispatcher, both facilitating the addition of new organizations to the cloud and allowing for the addressing of studies from any organization in the cloud to any organization, group or individual in the cloud. By this means, the originating organization may obtain the desired level of care through the selection of recipient organizations, groups and individuals according to the organization's existing criteria. Efficiency in diagnosis is improved through the addressing of a study to a plurality of qualified recipients, as the first recipient with an appropriate, available resource may review and provide a diagnosis for the study. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022659 | Location-Based Networking Methods and Systems for Performing the Same - Methods and systems for assisting individuals arrange meetings such as networking meetings with other individuals at a specified time (or within a specified time range) and/or at a specified place (or within a specified geographic region). More specifically, methods and systems for allowing individuals to post an invitation for a meeting on an on-line network and for allowing one or more other individuals to accept such invitation. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022660 | REDUCING OR MINIMIZING DELAYS IN PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS SUCH AS PEER-TO-PEER VIDEO STREAMING - A new P2P streaming method and apparatus disseminates video chunks to all peers with the minimum (or at least reduced) delay. After obtaining a new video chunk, a peer keeps transmitting (uploading) that video chunk to other peers until all peers receive it. The approach quickly increases the aggregate bandwidth that can be utilized to transmit a video chunk. For example, the aggregate peer bandwidth used to transmit a video chunk can double every time slot. For a homogeneous P2P streaming system with N peers, a time slot is defined as a unit of the single chunk transmission delay between two peers. Using the P2P streaming method, a video chunk can be disseminated to all peers within 1+log | 01-27-2011 |
20110029608 | SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method for enhanced management of social networks and interaction therein on a mobile device. The system provides the user with a means to manage a plurality of online identifications and relationship databases with relationships automatically synchronizing between systems. The system further provides an automated means to manage social networks based on geospatial, social and temporal proximity, and a means to interact with other users, and to publish content, seamlessly, across online services and mobile devices. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING MATERIAL - A method of transferring a preview version of material from a first entertainment apparatus to a second entertainment apparatus is disclosed. In said first entertainment apparatus, said method comprises the steps of: extracting said preview material from a package containing both a full version of the material and said preview version of the material, said preview version being an illustration of said full version of the material; and uploading at least part of said preview material to said second apparatus over a network. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029610 | Content Sharing in Mobile Devices - Sharing content via a mobile device includes creating a first list of content available for sharing and storing the list in a mobile device, creating a second list of contacts having content sharing permissions and storing the second list in the mobile device, and sharing the first list with a contact in the second list via a wireless network. Sharing the first list with a contact in the second list via a wireless network does not include the use of an intermediary content sharing server. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029611 | APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS - A device and method is provided for signaling an affinity of a peer device. According to one embodiment, the device receives a wireless signal from the peer device and determines the presence of the peer device based on the received signal. The device is able to detect the peer device when the peer device is within the vicinity or a certain proximity of the device. The received signal carries an affinity code of the peer device so that the device can detect the affinity of the peer device by comparing the received affinity code with its preset affinity code. If the two affinity code match, the device generates an the user to the presence of another user and signals that the two users share the same affinity. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029612 | Generating a Consolidated Social Story for a User of a Social Networking System - To generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a social networking system, at least one action of one or more members of the social networking system is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035443 | Aggregated Presence Over User Federated Devices - One embodiment of a system for aggregating and distributing presence information comprises a hosted presence aggregator server. The hosted presence aggregator server receives an update of presence information from a user device and relays the presence information update to another user device, wherein the user devices are part of a federation of user devices controlled by a single user which relay updates in presence status of the single user to one another via the hosted presence aggregator server. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035444 | RELATIONSHIP SECURITY IN ONLINE SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES - A method for evolving a defined online existing relationship between two members, the online existing relationship defined by a plurality of existing relationship features to manage network interaction on a communications network between the two members. The method includes receiving a new online relationship having new relationship features different from existing relationship features and characteristic of the new relationship; aggregating the existing and new relationship features as aggregate relationship features to define an aggregate relationship; storing the aggregate relationship features as relationship data; and accessing the relationship data to determine whether a selected network interaction from one of the members is permitted in view of at least one of the corresponding aggregate relationship features, and facilitating the selected network interaction when permitted; wherein the corresponding aggregate relationship features include at least one of the network interaction type, the network interaction content, or the network interaction format. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035445 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FACILITATING IN-PERSON INTERACTIONS - Social networking systems and methods for facilitating in-person interactions including the steps of storing a user profile for a first user into a database accessible by a networked host computer, the user profile including interest information describing the first user's interests, cross referencing an interest information indicia with the interest information, providing the first user with an indicator that includes the interest information indicia and that is configured to communicate the interest information indicia to nearby users, providing a second user with the interest information of the first user upon the second user accessing the host computer and entering the interest information indicia as a search query. The invention may facilitate in-person interaction, electronic dating, social networking, and other communication. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035446 | System, Method, and Network Elements for Providing Service Information Such as Advice of Charge Information in a Communication Network - The invention provides a method, including detecting, at a network element, a type of a supplementary service requested by a user equipment, sending, by the network element, a message containing the detected type of the requested supplementary service to a charging system, receiving, at the network element, a message including information related to the detected type of the requested supplementary service from the charging system. The present invention further provides a respective system and network elements. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040834 | ARCHIVING CONTENT IN A CALENDARED EVENT - Systems and methods of providing access to meeting content via an interface to meeting scheduling software are described. A meeting organizer schedules a meeting or conference meeting with selected participants. The meeting is held with the available participants and meeting content is automatically maintained as an association to a calendar entry in the meeting scheduling software. After the meeting is completed, available participants may review content and unavailable participants (those that were unable to attend) may view the content of the meeting. Participants may further be able to augment the meeting content and make the augmented content available to all meeting participants via a historical calendar entry. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040835 | Portable Terminal, Message Notification Method, and Method Notification Program - Address information stored as a transmission destination is effectively used. A mobile phone includes a position detection portion (S | 02-17-2011 |
20110047212 | ADJUSTMENT OF A CONTACT LIST - A method for adjusting a contact list is provided. The method includes obtaining a contact list having a list of one or more media types for a contact. Contact data is obtained. The contact data defines an accessibility of the contact to the one or more media types. The method may include determining an accessibility level for reaching the contact using the one or more media types based on the contact data. The accessibility level may be a probability of reaching the contact using the one or more media types. The contact list may be adjusted based on the determined accessibility level. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047213 | Method and process for identifying trusted information of interest - A method and process for identifying trusted information of interest consisting of: (1) optionally, accepting as input from a user (a “requester”) a demand for recommendations; (2) determining a set of users (“participants”) eligible to provide, receive, and evaluate recommendations; (3) accepting as input from participants recommendations and indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations; (4) determining the level of trust that a user has in participants, their recommendations, and their indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations; (5) presenting recommendations and indications of concurrence of opinion on recommendations to a user contemporaneously with a predicted level of trust in recommendations; and (6) repeating steps 1-5. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING FUNCTIONS BETWEEN DEVICES VIA A NETWORK - A method of sharing a function via a network includes selecting a second device having a shared function desired by a first device from among at least one device connected to the network, linking the first device with the second device via the network, transmitting original multimedia content from the first device to the second device via the network, and performing the shared function with respect to the original multimedia content in the second device and transmitting result data of the performing of the shared function to the first device via the network. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047215 | DECENTRALIZED HIERARCHICALLY CLUSTERED PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are described including forwarding data in a transmission queue to a first peer in a same cluster, computing an average transmission queue size to a threshold, sending a signal to a cluster head based on a result of the comparison. A method and apparatus are also described including forwarding data in a transmission queue to a peer associated with an upper level peer, forwarding data in a playback buffer to a peer in a lower level cluster responsive to a first signal in a signal queue associated with the lower level cluster, determining if the playback buffer has exceeded a threshold for a period of time, sending a second signal to a source server based on a result of the determination. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047216 | BUSINESS TO BUSINESS EVENT COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system and product is provided for the implementation of business to business event handling mechanisms for use in coarse grain components allowing communication of event information among providers and interested subscribers across a network. Provision of a flexible method for resolution of business event model dependencies allows a business component to define its own business event model independently and further may also allow changes to that model. This provision may be used to allow a client without an event handling server to place a dependency on another business component for the provision of event handling services. Further, using a web services architecture network implementation for communications, provides the capability of a business event handling system as a web service. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SERVICE DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for managing and optimizing service discovery in a peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless network. Nodes of the P2P network advertise their capabilities to their peers in the form of services. Efficient propagation and management of node's services to other nodes is proposed in the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055327 | System and Method for Service Management - In one aspect, a method for managing a health care plan is disclosed. The method may include accepting input characterizing a service management objective; accepting input representing a message for a client; and affecting the client's behavior with respect to the service management objective by presenting by electronic communication the message to the client according to a schedule. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055328 | SELECTIVE ACCESS OF MULTI-RATE DATA FROM A SERVER AND/OR PEER - Aspects of the disclosed subject matter are directed to facilitating peer-to-peer data exchange in a common domain. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for obtaining content from one or more peers that are connected to the domain. The method includes registering a peer with a super-peer when a connection to the domain is established. Then, the connecting peer obtains data that describes various network conditions and identifies chunks of content available from other peers. In downloading content from other peers, heuristics are applied to select between available chunks that are potentially encoded at different bitrates. The heuristics account for the network conditions between peers and balance the potential need to quickly access content with the desire to obtain high quality content. | 03-03-2011 |
20110060794 | SYNTHESIZING MESSAGING USING CONTEXT PROVIDED BY CONSUMERS - The present invention provides a computer network implementable integration of promoted information with non-promoted content before a consumer interaction with the network, such that when the consumer interacts with the network, a consumer information interacts with this integrated content and delivers a message to the consumer such that the consumer visualizes this message as part of consumer experience without distracting from the network interaction task at hand. The integration is facilitated by semantic analysis and synthesis to naturally position the promoted content as close to the consumer interaction tasks as possible at that instant. This approach displaces the current practise of matching message to media placement while further enabling a promoter to evaluate and respond to feedback data depicting the efficacy of the sponsor message. The network in question is any computer network such as the Internet or intranet. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060795 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITH TIME ZONE INFORMATION, INCLUDING EVENT SCHEDULING PROCESSES - Information management systems with time zone information, including event scheduling processes are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented scheduling method that can include identifying a difference between a participant time zone and a user time zone, reviewing availability information for the participant and/or one or more selected time preference periods for the participant, and selecting a time range for an event. The method can further include reviewing one or more selected time preference periods for the user. Another aspect of the invention is directed toward a computer-implemented method for associating time zone information with a contact in an information management program application that includes selecting a contact, analyzing contact information associated with the contact, and determining a time zone for the contact based on the analysis of the contact information. | 03-10-2011 |
20110066682 | Multi-Modal, Geo-Tempo Communications Systems - Disclosed is a flexible, multi-modal system useful in communications among users, capable of synchronizing real world and augmented reality, wherein the system is deployed in centralized and distributed computational platforms. The system comprises a plurality of input devices designed and configured to generate signals representing speech, gestures, pointing direction, and location of a user, and transmit the same to a multi-modal interface. Some of the signals generated represent a message from the user intended for dissemination to other users. A plurality of agents and one or more databases (defined by matrices which include input commands or information from the input devices, and meanings for some input commands or combinations thereof) are integrated into the system, where at least some of the agents are designed and configured to receive signals from the multi-modal interface, translate the signals into data, compare the same to a database, generate signals representing meanings as defined by the database, and transmit the signals to the multi-modal interface. In some embodiments, at least one agent resides on a computational device located on a user, and at least one other agent resides on a computation device remote from the user. Finally, a plurality of output devices are associated with the system and designed and configured to receive and process signals from the multi-modal interface, some of said signals representing messages to the user to be communicated by means of an output device in visual, auditory, or tactile modes. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066683 | Apparatus and Methods for Creating, Updating, and Using Learning Tools - Apparatus and methods are presented for the automated creation, update, distribution, acquisition, and use of learning tools designed to aid users in memorizing information and learning new concepts. Apparatus comprises learning tools that contain the data to be presented to users as well as information describing how the data is to be presented, a learning tool engine that provides user interaction and learning tool operation, an optional peer-to-peer client that may be combined with a learning tool engine to acquire and distribute learning tools, a swarm that manages learning tools and descriptors and user-to-user communications, and a builder that creates and updates learning tools. Methods comprise creating new learning tools, updating learning tools as new, improved, or corrected materials become available, creating and managing unique identifiers, sharing learning tools with others, and coordinating the activities of multiple simultaneous users of learning tools. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066684 | COMMUNICATING WITH A USER DEVICE - Manipulating images on a display of a communication device. Data captured from a first image receiving device is displayed in a first display region disposed in a first position on a display of the communication device. Data captured from a second image receiving device is displayed in a first display region disposed in a second position on the display of the communication device. Selective swapping of said first position of said first display region with said second position of said second display region, upon receiving a selection for said swapping from a user, is enabled. Selective swapping of the data captured from the first image receiving device with data captured from a third image receiving device, upon receiving a selection for the swapping from the user, is enabled. Terminating a first portion of a communication on the communication device while maintaining a second portion of the communication upon receiving a selection for the terminating from the user, is enabled. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072084 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An information communication system for exchanging a plurality of contents between a plurality of node devices, includes a plurality of internal networks connected to an external network. The internal networks include: the plurality of node devices connecting the same internal network; and a support device, which connects the internal networks, and which supports acquisition of contents by the node devices. An overlay network allows for exchanging of contents between the node devices and the support devices. The node devices include a first acquisition unit that acquires contents by selecting a first device group in preference to a second device group. The first device group includes: a support device and a node device connecting the internal network of an access destination that is a contents acquisition destination. The second device group includes a support device and a node device that do not connect the internal network of the access destination. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072085 | EVENT RECONCILIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method of and system for matching a first and a second different independently-created descriptions of a shared event involving at least two persons is described. The method comprises: receiving each of the first and second descriptions of the shared event respectively from each of a first and a second user's communications device; generating a first set of descriptive variables from the first received description and a second set of descriptive variables from the second received description, the first and second set of variables including the location of the event, the time/date of the event and at least one variable describing the appearance of at least one of the at least two persons; determining a matching value for each variable common to both the first and second sets; using the matching values of the first and second sets to establish the likelihood of whether the first and second descriptions describe the same event; and sending the results of the using step to each of the first user's communication device and the second user's communications device. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072086 | ADAPTIVE RENDERING FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A page to be delivered to a user device is stored as page components. Based on characteristics of the user device, a page profile, an ad-banner profile and a thumbnail profile are selected. The page components are rendered based on the selected profiles. Further customization may be provided from information stored in a registration profile of a sending user and/or a registration profile of a receiving user. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078242 | AUTOMATIC MODERATION OF MEDIA CONTENT BY A FIRST CONTENT PROVIDER BASED ON DETECTED MODERATION BY A SECOND CONTENT PROVIDER - In one embodiment, a method comprises registering content providers, each content provider having a corresponding independent moderation policy configured for selectively providing network access to a media content item supplied by a user; receiving, from a first of the content providers, a first notification that a first media content item has been moderated by the first content provider; and sending a second notification to at least a second of the content providers, the second notification identifying that the first content provider has moderated the first media content item, the second notification enabling the second content provider to moderate the first media content item based on the second notification and according to the corresponding independent moderation policy of the second content provider. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078243 | Leveraging Collaborative Cloud Services to Build and Share Apps - The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques (including predictive text techniques to facilitate the generation of targeted ads) that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. Applications are built by leveraging existing collaborative cloud services that enable the maintenance and sharing of user content. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078244 | Method for Conveniently and Anonymously Obtaining Information Relating to an Internet Advertisement - The present invention is directed to a system in which a Web advertisement provided over the Internet to a user's computer allows the user to receive additional information on the advertised product or service over or through a communication channel specified by the user and preserves the user's anonymity. In one embodiment, the Web advertisement includes a “button” that, if actuated, causes a request for further information to be transmitted over the Internet to an intermediary computer system. The intermediary computer system then processes the request to produce a revised request that is forwarded to an advertiser computer system and is tagged so that the reply from the advertiser computer system can be associated with the user. The reply that the intermediary computer system receives from the advertiser computer system is matched with the user and a revised reply is produced that is communicated to the user or a device associated with the user via the communication channel designated by the user. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078245 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING APPLICATION DATA FROM A SOURCE ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO A DESTINATION ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for transferring at least one piece of application data from a source device to a destination device. According to the invention, the source device including at least one piece of identification data, the piece of identification data identifying an account number and a medium storing at least one piece of application data, the method including a sending step in which the source device sends at least the piece of identification data to a transfer control device; a processing step in which the transfer control device and/or another device connected to the transfer control device processes at least the piece of identification data; according to a processing result, the transfer control device forbids or authorizes to transfer at least one piece of application data to the destination device by transferring, when authorized, to the destination device at least the piece of identification data. The invention also relates to a corresponding system for controlling a transfer of at least one piece of application data. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA POOLS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Systems, methods and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing media pools in a communications network. For example, a media pool application on an electronic device can generate media pools (e.g., static media pools and temporary media pools) in a communications network. In addition, the media pool application can provide one or options for a user to manage the media pools. In some embodiments, the media pool application can provide one or more candidate media pools that a user may join. For example, the one or more candidate media pools can be generated based on metadata associated with media items that are located on one or more electronic devices in the communications network. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082903 | PROJECTOR SELECTION SYSTEM, PROJECTOR SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A projector selection system selects one of projectors from a computer which is connected to the projectors through a network. An identifier is displayed on each of the projectors by identifier assigning means and identifier display means. A preview image, which is a scale-down version of an image displayed on the screen by the projector, is acquired by preview image generating means and preview image transmitting means. The preview image is displayed on a dialog display area on the screen of the computer. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROCESS A REQUEST RECEIVED AT AN APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE - Methods and systems to process a request received at an application program interface are described. The system receives a request from a client machine that includes a job that is associated with data. The request is received at an application program interface. Next, a peer-to-peer network of processing nodes generates a plurality of sub-jobs based on the job. The peer-to-peer network of processing nodes schedules the plurality of sub-jobs for parallel processing based on an availability of resources that are respectively utilized by the sub-jobs and parallel processes the plurality of sub-jobs before generating task results that are respectively associated with the plurality of sub-jobs. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087732 | LINKING VIRTUAL WORLDS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORMS BI-DIRECTIONALLY USING A CENTRAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product link information associated with a virtual world with information associated with a social collaboration platform. A virtual world user identifier and a social collaboration platform user identifier are stored. The virtual world identifier is associated with a set of virtual world contacts for the respective user. The social collaboration platform user identifier is associated with a set of social collaboration contacts for the user. The virtual world user identifier is linked to the social collaboration platform user identifier. An association is determined between at least one of the set of social collaboration contacts and the virtual world identifier set of virtual world contacts and the social collaboration platform user identifier, respectively, for the respective user. An information set associated with at least one of the virtual world user identifier and the social collaboration identifier is updated to include the association. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT DATA COMMUNICATION - A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087734 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED REFERRAL TO RESOURCES AND A RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus are provided for a user to construct a payload comprising content, such as multimedia, or references to content. The payload may be provided with further elements, such as a title or initial comments. The payload may be sent to any immediate contact of the user. Upon receipt by other users, the payload may be forwarded to any of the others' immediate contacts. Additionally, comments can be made by anyone in receipt of the payload for others in receipt of the payload to view. A social networking mechanism is provided, wherein a record is made for each forwarding of a payload and introductions can be made between individuals lying in the same forwarding chain of a payload. Immediate contacts can be collected into groups for ease in addressing. Teams of users can send and forward messages among themselves or to others outside of the team, according to predetermined rules and individuals' standing within the team. Users are provided with a sortable, filterable list of payloads sent to them. A thumbnail of each payload is provided to allow a user the opportunity to quickly assess the nature of the content. Payloads and invitations to join may be sent to people outside the system via email or as an instant message. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087735 | Voting in Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes receiving from respective users feedback data regarding the received messages or authors of the received messages and providing the feedback to the respective authors. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087736 | TECHNIQUES FOR PLANNING A CONFERENCE USING LOCATION DATA - Techniques for scheduling a conference among multiple persons include receiving quorum data and location data. Quorum data indicates a quorum for a particular conference. Location data indicates locations of a plurality of persons who satisfy the quorum. A proposed location for the particular conference is determined based on the location data and the quorum data. These techniques allow location data to include presence data that describes a current location of a person or a state of communication of that person; and therefore allow presence data to be used in determining where to conduct a conference and when. For example, an organizer of a meeting and meeting invitees are notified when the people constituting a quorum cross paths at the same location, or are situated at sites that support remote conferencing. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093536 | GROUP OWNER SELECTION WITH CROSSING REQUESTS - A method of operating an apparatus, and apparatus, and a computer program product in an apparatus are provided in which a first request message is sent to a second apparatus. The first request message is associated with first information. In addition, a second request message is received from the second apparatus. The second request message is associated with second information. In addition, the first information and the second information are compared. Furthermore, whether to send a response to the second apparatus in response to the second request message is determined based on the comparison of the first information and the second information. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093537 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AND COMMUNICATION SESSION INFORMATION SERVER - A method for ascertaining active communication sessions may include receiving a request to ascertain active communication sessions by a communication session information server; transmitting respective challenges to determine whether communication sessions are currently active from the communication session information server to at least two communication session servers; receiving respective challenge responses from the at least two communication session servers, which indicate one or more active communication sessions controlled by the respective communication session server or indicate that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server; and transmitting a first response, which indicates one or more active communication sessions controlled by the at least two communication session servers or indicates that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099227 | COMMUNICATION APPLICATION WITH STEADY-STATE CONFERENCING - In at least some embodiments, a computer system includes a processor and a network interface coupled to the processor. The computer system also includes a system memory coupled to the processor. The system memory stores a communication application having a steady-state conferencing module and a network manager module. The network manager module, when executed, monitors network changes. The steady-state conferencing module, when executed, maintains a steady-state conferencing user interface while network changes detected by the network manager module are handled. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORKING ACROSS WEB BASED AND TELECOMMUNICATION BASED PORTALS - Embodiments of the invention provide a non-web based social networking system enabling users having limited Internet connectivity and/or limited access to high end mobile computing devices a cross networking opportunity with web-based social networking sites. Embodiments of the invention provide for additional communication modalities between social networking users, including but not limited to non-web based communication between the social networking users. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106885 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE PARTY LOGIN INTO A SINGLE SESSION - In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a session by associating at least a first party with the session. The first party is associated with a first device, and is associated with the session through the first device. The method also includes defining an effective user to include the first party, tracking actions taken with respect to the session by the effective user, and attributing the actions taken with respect to the session by the effective user to the first party and to the effective user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106886 | Propagating Firmware Updates In A Peer-To-Peer Network Environment - Propagating firmware updates in a peer-to-peer network including identifying, that one or more nodes in the network have firmware that is uplevel with respect to the downlevel node; broadcasting an update request requesting an update to the firmware; receiving, from a plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node, a plurality of portions of the update, metadata describing each portion of the update received, and metadata describing the firmware installed on each of the plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node; determining, in dependence upon the metadata describing each portion of the update received and the metadata describing the firmware installed on each of the plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node, whether the portions of the update received comprise an entire update; and updating the firmware if the portions of the update received comprise the entire update. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113093 | TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RELAY DEVICE - Relay devices | 05-12-2011 |
20110113094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PEER TO PEER SEARCHING, SHARING, SOCIAL NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATION IN ONE OR MORE NETWORKS - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113095 | System and Method For Value Significance Evaluation of Ontological Subjects of Networks and The Applications Thereof - The present invention discloses methods, systems, and tools for evaluating a number of value significance measures of ontological subjects of compositions or networks. The method breaks a composition into its constituent ontological subjects of different orders and builds a participation matrix indicating the participation of ontological subjects of the composition in other ontological subjects, i.e. the partitions, of the composition. Using the participation information of the OSs into each other, an association strength matrix is built from which the value significance measures of the partitions of the composition are calculated. The methods systematically calculate the value significances of the ontological subjects of different orders of the composition. Various systems for implementing the methods and some exemplary applications and services are disclosed. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113096 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ACTIVITY OF A SPECIFIED USER ON INTERNET-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system and method are provided for monitoring activity on an internet-based social network. Monitoring criteria is pre-established by a client for monitoring activity on a specified user's page of the social network. Activity monitoring access to the specified user's page of the internet-based social network is established via an application programming interface of the social network based on pre-established identification information that identifies the specified user within the internet-based social network. The client is notified when the monitored activity satisfies at least one of the pre-established monitoring criteria. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113097 | DATA OUTPUT DEVICE, DATA PROVIDING DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT SYSTEM, DATA OUTPUT DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND DATA PROVIDING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An operation target device ( | 05-12-2011 |
20110113098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK TRUST ASSESSMENT - A first user's trust level with regard to a second user can be determined by providing questions to the second user, with the questions based on a previously-collected knowledge base including information about the first user. The information about the first user may be partitioned into levels of trust, and the second user's responses to the questions may be evaluated to determine which level of trust the second user is entitled to. The knowledge base may be assembled by prompting the first user for information and/or by scanning or otherwise collecting already-existing data about the first user. The knowledge base and/or trust assessment may be distributed across a network, and in some embodiments the knowledge base or parts thereof is distributed to other users according to the trust level of those users. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119334 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR EFFICIENT PEER-TO-PEER TRANSMISSION - A system, computer readable medium and a method for caching, the method may include: determining to cache at least a certain data file piece of a data file; identifying at least one participating peer; requesting from the at least one participating peer, at least one of (i) a data file piece number of at least one data file piece that belongs to the data file; (ii) at least a segment of at least one data file piece; calculating an evaluated certain file piece size and a file pieces number estimation based on at least one response of at least one participating peer; and caching the certain data file piece in a cache module, in response to the evaluated certain data file piece size. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119335 | RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMATION IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING INFORMATION TRANSFER AMONG A PLURALITY OF PARTIES - A method and system for using a structured analytical process to model, analyze, plan and improve anticipated flows of information across agencies, department, companies etc. and across different disciplines and jurisdictions. The method includes a structured process for improving the flow of information through need-based communication planning. The method identifies the need for information, describes its availability and specifies the restrictions on its dissemination. It then uncovers information sharing opportunities, generates communication plans, discovers preventable communication breakdowns and prioritizes their remediations. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125840 | System and method for assessment of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input - A system includes, but is not limited to: one or more obtaining status modules configured for obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, one or more obtaining input modules configured for obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and one or more determining assessment modules configured for determining assessment information for at least one of the one or more physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related system/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125841 | System and method for comparison of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input - A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more first physical entities and one or more second physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and determining assessment information comparing the one or more first physical entities with the one or more second physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125842 | System and method for comparison of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input - A system includes, but is not limited to: one or more obtaining status modules configured for obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more first physical entities and one or more second physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, one or more obtaining input modules configured for obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and one or more determining assessment modules configured for determining assessment information comparing the one or more first physical entities with the one or more second physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related system/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125843 | COMMON ORGANIZATION ESTIMATION AT REGISTRATION - The registration of an individual for a service while providing protection against unintentional duplication of registration for the same organization. Upon receiving a request to register for a service from an individual over a network, it is automatically estimated as to whether the individual requesting registration belongs to the same organization as a prior registrant for the service. If so, the service notifies the individual requesting registration that they might belong to the same organization as a prior registrant. In one embodiment, it is then left to the individual as to whether they want to continue registering for the service. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125844 | MOBILE ENABLED SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION TO SUPPORT CLOSED, MODERATED GROUP INTERACTIONS FOR PURPOSE OF FACILITATING THERAPEUTIC CARE - A computer readable medium stores a program executable on a computing device, the program comprising data and instructions for providing an interface for users to create and display a user profile and enabling the users to safely and securely transmit and receive communications and other data to and from other individuals in the network for the purposes of communication to enhance the social resources of users under medical care. Moreover, the system provides a means for data from the user's devices and other connected devices to be collected, combined with the communication data and analyzed for medical purposes. Moreover, the program provides for storing at a storage unit a first set of predefined criteria for indicating medical need, and analyzing the data transmitted by a device at a processor in comparison to the first set of predefined criteria to determine if the user exhibits medical need. Accordingly, information may be transmitted to the users, or to other users, including medical care givers, based on the analysis. Such medical care givers may interact with users exhibiting medical need and transmit a variety of educational and training material for purposes of medical treatment. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125845 | Method and Apparatus for Sending Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for sending an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problem that there are few parameters to be relied on when a user authenticates a request seeking to establish a social network relationship with the user, the method disclosed by the present disclosure includes: a social network server that, after obtaining an authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to request to establish a social network relationship, modifies the first client's identification information in the first authentication request message to a third client's identification information to obtain a second authentication request message. The third client has a social network relationship with the first client and also has a direct social network relationship with the second client. The second authentication request message is sent to the second client. As the third client's identification information is used as identification information of a sending party in the second authentication request message that is sent to the second client, there will be more parameters for use when the second client verifies the request to establish the social network relationship. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125846 | BROADCAST NOTIFICATIONS USING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEMS - A notifier sends out notifications to potential viewers or listeners of a broadcast stream via social networking systems or other communication channels. The notifier stores information about a user's preferences and identity on the social networking systems. After the notifier receives a notification request from a broadcaster, the notifier commands broadcaster agents deployed in the social networking systems or in the notifier to send notification messages to users of the social networking systems registered to receive notification. The broadcaster agents function as a proxy that establishes relationships with users of the social networking systems and then sends out the notification messages to the users with established relationships. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125847 | COLLABORATION NETWORKS BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS WITH MEDIA ARCHIVES - Systems and methods allow collaboration based on media archive based systems. Collaboration events are processed within media archive based systems. End user collaborations are improved and the overall content of the original media archive is enhanced. The collaborative content is modified via the addition of user notes and targeted user notes and further collaborations are encouraged via the disclosed event notification system coupled with the user federations and collaboration network of federated users. User notes can comprise one or more media resources, media archive, or other form of computer readable data. Collaboration networks of users are formed to propagate information describing interactions with media archives to users with potential interests in the information. The increase of collaborative content improves the overall body of knowledge on a subject and is therefore provides improved knowledge transfer solutions. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125848 | METHOD OF PERFORMING DATA MEDIATION, AND AN ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, DATA MEDIATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for performing data mediation in a data communication network, the network being capable of conveying data messages representing requests for data services provided by one or more distributed data resources. The requests have a first format for data access, defining a plurality of message parameters, and the data messages are encoded into a second format for transport in the data communication network. The method involves receiving ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110125849 | PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - A method is described for distributing content using a P2P distribution system. The distribution system comprises a P2P network connected to a server system, wherein the server system is configured to divide the content in pieces and to provide the P2P network with piece variants of one or more pieces. The method comprises the steps of: providing a communication session between a client and the server system; the client sending a content request to the server system; the client receiving in response to the content request one more piece variant identifiers and distribution information comprising integrity information of all piece variants provided by the server system. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131274 | NOTIFICATION CONTROL THROUGH BRAIN MONITORING OF END USER CONCENTRATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message notification management through brain monitoring of end user concentration. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message notification management through brain monitoring of end user concentration can include receiving neurofeedback for an end user through an interface for a brain monitoring system, comparing the neurofeedback to a threshold level of brain activity indicating a degree of concentration of the end user, and suppressing message notifications for messages in a messaging system responsive to the neurofeedback exceeding the threshold level of brain activity, but otherwise permitting message notifications for messages in the messaging system. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131275 | POLICY DIRECTED SECURITY-CENTRIC MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TO SECURE CLIENT AND CLOUD HOSTED WEB SERVICE ENABLED PROCESSES - A policy directed, security-centric model driven architecture is described to secure internal web services, such as those implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA), and external web services such as those hosted on a cloud computing platform. A distributed data dictionary hosted across multiple dictionary engines and operating in conjunction with web security services are used to embed security profiles in web services messages and to validate messages that contain such security profiles. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131276 | Method and System for Automatically Storing a Communication Session - The invention relates to a method for recording a communication session initiated by at least one communication terminal ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110131277 | Composite Services Provision Within A Telecommunications Network - The invention refers to a method of correlating a plurality of service instances by a service composition entity, wherein the services are performed by one or a plurality of servers of a telecommunications network. Thereto, the service composition entity performs the steps of invoking a composite service instance corresponding to the service request, and generating a composite service identifier identifying this composite service instance, contacting the one or a plurality of application servers for invoking the plurality of component service instances, wherein the plurality of component service instances are associated to the composite service instance, and sending a first service report comprising an information about the composite service instance to a service supervision system, wherein this information enables the service supervision system to identify reports about the component service instances as being associated to the composite service instance. The invention further proposes a service composition entity for correlating the plurality of service instances, and a service supervision system for monitoring, supervising or controlling the composite service instance. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PEER-TO-PEER BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods can operate to provide efficient data transfer in a peer-to-peer network. A list of peer computers can be accessed and sorted by a data exchange metric. A requester peer is selected by traversing the list from a peer computer with a smallest data exchange metric to a peer computer with a largest data exchange metric to identify a peer computer with a pending data block request, the peer computer with the pending data block request being the requester peer and having an associated data exchange metric. A data block is then transmitted to the requester peer and the data exchange metric associated with the requester peer is updated to provide an updated data exchange metric for the requester peer. The list of peer computers can then be resorted. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137986 | Accessing content hosted on a peer device in a peer-to-peer network using a uniform resource locator (URL) - A system and method allows users to access content that is hosted on a peer device. Additionally, a resource-generating device automatically creates a URL for resources generated on the peer device. The generated resource is accessible from a public network while still on the device via the URL. The system and device further includes an update feed for new and newly-modified resources on the system or device. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137987 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRES - A device receives compliance content from a user device, determines requirements associated with the compliance content, and matches the requirements with compliance questions provided in a compliance library associated with the device. The device also automatically generates a compliance questionnaire based on the compliance questions matching the requirements, and provides the compliance questionnaire to the user device. The compliance questionnaire includes a minimum set of compliance questions needed to determine compliance. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137988 | AUTOMATED SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED UPON MEETING INTRODUCTIONS - A meeting record, including identified participant information associated with each of the group of meeting participants, and a topic for a meeting is generated via a social network computing device. A meeting notification, including a link to the meeting record, is sent to each of the group of meeting participants. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137989 | GENERATING ACTIVITIES BASED UPON SOCIAL DATA - A method described herein includes acts of receiving data from a social networking application, wherein the data is generated by a first individual, and executing an entity extraction algorithm to extract at least one entity from the received data. The method also includes automatically causing a hyperlink to be displayed on a computing device utilized by a second individual, wherein the hyperlink is based at least in part upon the at least one entity, wherein the hyperlink is configured to direct the first individual to a search engine and is further configured to cause the search engine to execute a search that pertains to the at least one entity. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137990 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A data transmission method for transmitting data from a first computer to a second computer includes: obtaining a first image of visual information displayed on the first computer and displaying the first image; determining whether a to-be-copied portion from the first image is selected; storing the selected to-be-copied portion from the first image; obtaining a second image of visual information displayed on the second computer and displaying the second image; determining whether a to-be-updated portion from the second image is selected; and transmitting the selected-to-be-copied portion from the first image and the to-be-updated portion from the second image to the second computer. A related electronic device is also provided. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137991 | Systems and methods for management and collaboration in a private network - A system and method for providing an easily installed, deployed, and administered home networking system includes, in one embodiment, a collaboration group. The collaboration group may be installed and configured to execute in a peer-to-peer model or a client/server model. In one embodiment, the collaboration group provides federation to external network services. In another embodiment, the collaboration group provides access to a private network to previously provisioned devices located outside of the private network. In yet another embodiment, the collaboration group provides data sharing between devices within the collaboration group, such as for shared calendaring and presence. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137992 | SHARING CALENDAR INFORMATION - Sharing calendar information may be provided. Calendar information may be shared with individuals that may or may not be associated with a local exchange server in order to coordinate schedules. A determination is conducted to decide whether a sender is authorized to send calendar information to another by examining registration rights. Next, if the registration rights are valid, input may be received from the sender associated with sending the calendar information to another using one or more entry points. Next, calendar information settings are received from the sender, which are used when sending the calendar information to another. Next, calendar information is published to the Internet based on the calendar information settings established by the sender, and provided to others for viewing. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFERENCE SERVICE USING NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON USER TERMINAL CAPABILITIES - A system and method for providing a conference service using a network service based on user terminal capabilities are provided. In the method, it is determined to perform media conversion required for media transfer corresponding to the capabilities of the user terminal in response to a conference service join request, and a transcoding service location of a network device supporting the media conversion is searched over the Internet. Then, a connection is made to the transcoding service location to perform the media conversion, and the converted media is delivered to the user terminal. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A PURCHASING INFORMATION PLATFORM - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for facilitating sharing of user-submitted purchase information with other users of a social network. A purchasing information platform may secure permission from the user to connect to a user account, passively gather user purchasing information from the user account, provide a user-search facility to allow the user to find another user within the social network, allow the user to create a sharing user by selecting another user to share the user purchasing information with, publish the user purchasing information so that it becomes viewable to the sharing user, and allow the user and the sharing user to create commentary on the published user purchasing information. Related user interfaces, application programming interfaces, applications, and systems are disclosed. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145331 | Method and System for Communication with Vehicles - In a method and a system for communicating between motor vehicles, the method provides for a repeated sending of an initialization message by a first transceiver arranged in a first motor vehicle, wherein the initialization message includes an identification code of the first transceiver and its geographic position. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145332 | PHYSICAL CHASSIS AS A DIFFERENT NUMBER OF LOGICAL CHASSIS - A system includes a first physical chassis comprising a first chassis management unit (“CMU”). The first CMU is configured to communicate with a second CMU in an additional physical chassis. The first CMU is also configured to communicate for the first physical chassis and the additional physical chassis as one logical chassis. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153737 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECOMPOSING A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK AND USING A DECOMPOSED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A capability is provided for decomposing a P2P network into a plurality of sub-networks and, further, for using the decomposed P2P network. A P2P network is decomposed to form a plurality of sub-networks, where each of the sub-networks is a P2P network. A P2P network may be decomposed into sub-networks based on one or more decomposition criteria (e.g., geographic location, community of interest, and the like, as well as various combinations thereof). The decomposition of the P2P network is encoded in a network map. A node may use the network map to join the decomposed P2P network. A node may join one, some, or all of the sub-networks. The sub-networks of a decomposed P2P network may be arranged in any suitable number of hierarchical levels. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153738 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a controller to capture one or more images of a conference room using a video camera, generate an illumination model for a plurality of lights associated with the conference room based on the images, and illuminate at least a portion of the lights based on the illumination model during a video conference call that utilizes the video camera, where the video conference call is implemented using an interactive television network. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153739 | Proximity Sensor Enabled eService Connector System - Systems and components for providing or receiving an eService, such as acoustic, thermal and illumination service. A service switch is provided for selectively transferring the eService from the host or other eService source to the eService consumer. The service switch is activated to transfer an eService in response to detection of a proximity target associated with an eService consumer by a proximity source associated with an eService provider. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153740 | Dynamically Managing a Social Network Group - A method for dynamically managing a social network group performed by a group management system having at least one physical processing apparatus includes receiving, with the group management system, data from a number of source providers over a computer network; identifying a basis for creating a new social network group from the data with the group management system; creating the new social network group with the group management system; and automatically inviting a number of members to join the new social network group with the group management system, each of the members being associated with the basis identified in the data for creating the new social network group. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153741 | System and Method for Cost Effectively Distributing Electronic Content - A system and method for cost effectively distributing electronic content is provided. The system for cost effectively distributing electronic content may comprise an inquiry module that may query one or more broadcast communication networks for network specific information. The system may further comprise an analysis module that may determine a cost of distributing the electronic content to one or more electronic reader devices over one or more broadcast communication networks using at least the network specific information. The system may also comprise a selection module that may select the one or more broadcast communication networks for distributing the electronic content based on the cost. The system may additionally comprise a distribution module that may broadcast the electronic content for distribution to the one or more electronic reader devices over one or more selected broadcast communication networks. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153742 | Method and Apparatus for Conveying Vehicle Driving Information - Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for conveying vehicle driving information. A hazard index indicating a level of driving safety is generated for a plurality of road segments. The generating comprises determining a hazard value for each of the plurality of road segments based on weather conditions data associated with the road segments, road conditions data associated with the road segments, and physical attributes of the road segments, and assigning the hazard value to the associated road segment. Location data associated with a remote device is received. Hazard information associated with one or more of the plurality of road segments and based on the location data and the hazard index is transmitted. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153743 | GROUP COMMUNICATION SESSIONS BETWEEN SESSION PARTICIPANTS COMMUNICATING VIA TWO OR MORE DIFFERENT CONTACT PROTOCOLS WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - In an embodiment, an access terminal (AT) obtains media intended for transmission to a communication group during a group communication session (GCS). The communication group includes a first set of ATs configured to exchange media via a primary communication protocol (PCP) mediated by an application server (AS) and a second set of ATs configured to exchanged media via a secondary communication protocol (SCP). The AT selectively transmits the obtained media in accordance with the PCP and/or the SCP to facilitate both the first and second sets of ATs to receive the media. In an embodiment, the AS sends instructions to a given AT among the first set associated with whether the given AT is responsible for extending support of the GCS to at least one of a second set of ATs via the SCP. In another embodiment, the AS itself selectively transmits media to the communication group via the SCP. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153744 | Context-aware prompts and alerts in a note-sharing system - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. Context aware prompts and alerts are generated and send to users associated with the note. Users associated with the note could respond to the alerts and prompt by adding or further enriching the note with contextual traits. The prompts, alerts and responses could be shared among the group of users associated with the note. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153745 | METHOD TO PROVIDE SYNC NOTIFICATIONS TO CLIENT DEVICES - Providing synchronization notifications to a client device. In response to a server receiving notification that an event of interest has been received, a state of the client device is determined. The state indicates whether or not the client device has any outstanding sync notifications. In an embodiment, the state is determined based on a trackingGUID and a syncGUID. When the state of the client device indicates that the client device has no outstanding sync notifications prior to the receipt the received notification, the trackingGUID is set equal to the syncGUID, which is updated after each successful device synchronization of the client device. A timeout is set equal to a current time plus a predetermined value and the sync notification is sent to the client device. In an alternative embodiment, the sync notification is formatted according to a type of the client device. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161416 | PEER-TO-PEER BASED FEATURE NETWORK - A device receives, from feature peers associated with a network, information associated with the feature peers, receives a customer packet, and determines, based on the feature peer information, which of the feature peers support a feature associated with the customer packet. The device also selects, from the determined feature peers, a set of feature peers for the customer packet to traverse, attaches a feature header to the customer packet to create a modified customer packet, and forwards, based on the feature header, the modified customer packet to one of the feature peers in the selected set of feature peers. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161417 | Device and Method for Disseminating Content Data Between Peers in A P2P Mode, By Using A Bipartite Peer Overlay - A method is intended for disseminating content data in a peer-to-peer mode between peers connected to at least one communication network. This method comprises the steps of: i) making peers exchange neighboring information between them to build a bipartite peer overlay comprising a first group, comprising peers having a complete content to be disseminated, and a second group, comprising peers having not this content or only a part of it and having links therebetween, ii) disseminating the data defining the content (and preferably encoded with erasure correcting codes) from peers of the first group to first peers of the second group according to the bipartite peer overlay, iii) disseminating the data received by the first peers to other peers of the second group according to the bipartite peer overlay, and iv) updating the bipartite peer overlay when a peer of the second group has fully completed the content. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161418 | Collaborative Linking System with Bi-Directed Variable Granularity Search Engine - The present invention is a system and method for shortening response time and reducing resource utilization in an electronic advertising and customer enquiry system, operating in an interactive communications and distributed database environment. The system is designed to enable customers ( | 06-30-2011 |
20110161419 | Method and system for dynamically providing a journal feed and searching, sharing and advertising - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161420 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT PEOPLE TOGETHER - Embodiments of the present invention are generally related to computer-implemented system and method for creating opportunities to connect people together. In one embodiment, a system for creating opportunities to connect people together comprises a first user having a tangible card, the tangible card having a first unique identifier and a second unique identifier; an accessible data portal, hosted on a server and accessible via a global computer network; a second user having a communication device for accessing the data portal through the global computer network; wherein the second user obtains access to a means for communication with the first user, through physical receipt of the tangible card and subsequent data entry of the first unique identifier and second unique identifier on an access screen of the data portal. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161421 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DATA CACHING - A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The system includes one or more peer members and a master member. The master member and the one or more peer members form cache community for data storage. The master member is operable to select one of the one or more peer members to become a new master member. The master member is operable to update a peer list for the cache community by removing itself from the peer list. The master member is operable to send a nominate master message and an updated peer list to a peer member selected by the master member to become the new master member. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161422 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING ANONYMOUS USER INFORMATION - A method and system for sharing online user information in an anonymous manner. The system associates an identifier with anonymized information of the user, and sends the anonymized user information to a receiving party. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167114 | AUTOMATICALLY SYNCHRONIZING NEW CONTACTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - A method and system for automatically synchronizing a connection to a new contact across a plurality of social networking websites. A repository stores a first user's profile that includes the first user's identifiers for multiple social networking websites (SNs) and the first user's master list of contacts. An alert is presented to the first user, where the alert indicates a request from a second user to establish a connection in a first SN between the first user and the second user. The first user approves the request to establish the connection in the first SN. If a search of the repository finds the second user's profile, then (1) connection(s) between the first user and second user are established in other social networking websites in which said first user participates and (2) the second user is added to the first user's master list of contacts. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167115 | TIE STRENGTH PREDICTION AND SOCIAL MEDIA FILTRATION - A computer-implemented method of predicting tie strength between persons within a social media network includes: modeling tie strengths between a user of the social media network and connected persons in the network as a combination of: a plurality of predictive variables, interactions between dimensions of the predictive variables, and network structure of the social media network; altering or filtering a stream of social media content from the connected persons using the tie strength as associated with the respective connected persons according to the modeling; and delivering the altered or filtered stream of social media content to a communications device of the user. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167116 | PEOPLE LISTS - Enabling management of contacts includes passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member, bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts, enabling the member to name the set of contacts, and enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173258 | Collective Acceleration Unit Tree Flow Control and Retransmit - A mechanism is provided for collective acceleration unit tree flow control forms a logical tree (sub-network) among those processors and transfers “collective” packets on this tree. The system supports many collective trees, and each collective acceleration unit (CAU) includes resources to support a subset of the trees. Each CAU has limited buffer space, and the connection between two CAUs is not completely reliable. Therefore, to address the challenge of collective packets traversing on the tree without colliding with each other for buffer space and guaranteeing the end-to-end packet delivery, each CAU in the system effectively flow controls the packets, detects packet loss, and retransmits lost packets. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173259 | COMMUNICATING IN A PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT - Communicating in a peer-to-peer computer environment. A request is received from a user at a peer provider node computer system, wherein the request is signed by a private key. Provided a public key verifies the private key, providing potential peers to the user from the peer provider node computer system such that the user is enabled to utilize the peer-to-peer computer environment for a communication according to user requirements. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173260 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PRESENCE STATE OF A PERSON - A system and method for determining a presence state of a person. A plurality of data feeds is received. A subset of the plurality of data feeds that includes data regarding presence states of a first person is identified. The subset of the plurality of data feeds are analyzed to determine a plurality of presence states of the first person, wherein a respective presence state of the first person is determined from a respective data feed in the subset of the plurality of data feeds. One or more presence states of the plurality of presence states are reported to subscribers via the network. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173261 | USING USER-ATTRIBUTE ONTOLOGIES TO CALCULATE USER-ANONYMITY DEGREES - Computerized methods and systems for using user-attribute ontologies to calculate anonymity levels are provided. A semi-automated mechanism permits selective and optionally progressive exposure of demographic and clinical information to other members of a medical social network group that a member has joined. When a user decides to join a medical social network group (which may be based upon system suggestion or initiated of the user's own accord), he or she selects or creates a profile that has a statistically validated degree of anonymity, ranging from fully anonymous to fully transparent. Based upon a user's elected level of exposure, only certain data is exposed to the rest of the group's membership. Thus, the user is permitted to personally balance the tension between exposing a level of information that may render him or her personally identifiable and exposing enough information to obtain meaningful advice and/or camaraderie. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173262 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING INFORMATION TO AN INVITED PARTICIPANT - In one embodiment, an invited participant accesses a customized web page using an electronic device. Content is displayed on the customized web page to the invited participant. A determination is made whether the invited participant has viewed the content on the customize web page by tracking usage of the customize web page. In response to determining that the invited participant has not viewed the content, a determination is made whether the invited participant has invited a previously-uninvited participant to access the customized web page and view the content. In response to determination that the invited participant has invited a previously-uninvited participant, a determination is made whether the previously-uninvited participant is approved to access the customized web page and view the content. In response to the previously-uninvited participant having been approved, an invitation is issued to the previously-uninvited participant to access the customized web page and view the content. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173263 | Directing An Attendee Of A Collaboration Event To An Endpoint - An event management system is configured to receive information that indicates a presence of an attendee of a collaboration event at a first location that is not specified by a registered event specification corresponding to the collaboration event and provide information to the attendee to direct the attendee to a second location with an endpoint for connecting to the collaboration event. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179114 | User communication analysis systems and methods - Analysis of user communication is described. In one aspect, multiple online social interactions are identified. Multiple topics are extracted from those online social interactions. Based on the extracted topics, the system determines an intent associated with a particular online social interaction. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179115 | Sharing of Documents with Semantic Adaptation Across Mobile Devices - A method for sharing documents includes initiating a sharing session with a first participant and a second participant, wherein the first participant is communicatively connected to the second participant via a server, receiving a control request having an action from the first participant, determining whether the control request includes a share page action, and retrieving components of the page with available component types and sending components associated with preferences of the first participant to the first participant and components associated with preferences of the second participant to the second participant responsive to determining that the control request includes the share page action. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALITY-BASED CONTENT AND ADVERTISEMENTS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a selection and delivery of content. Content produced by a user may be analyzed. A personality related parameter may be generated or determined. A content object may be selected for delivery based on a personality parameter. In some embodiments, a content object may be generated or modified based on a personality parameter. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179117 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER USERS TO AN ONLINE USER - Informing a user of a large scale network dynamically of other network users includes determining dynamically an online context of the user. Other users presently within the online context of the user are identified and trait information is stored that is related essentially only to the user or to the other users in a users store associated with the online context. The user is informed dynamically of the other users based on the stored trait information, such as, for example, an age or other demographic identifier, or information indicative of an expertise, interest, preference, user type and/or other quality of the user or of the other individual. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179118 | Shared Communication Space Invitations - A computer-implemented method of providing invitations to a shared communication space, performed by a server system, includes providing the shared communication space, which includes content associated with a set of characteristics, and identifying a user, in accordance with a set of characteristics associated with the user and the set of characteristics associated with the content in the shared communication space. The method further includes sending to the identified user a invitation to participate in the shared communication space, and upon acceptance of the invitation by the user, enabling access by the user to the shared communication space by the user and enabling the user to exchange information with other participants in the shared communication space via the shared communication space. | 07-21-2011 |
20110185020 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for social networking. In one method, a network builder receives a digital object from the user. The digital object contains information associated with the user. The network builder extracts the information associated with the user from the digital object. The network builder further access the strength of relationships between the user and a plurality of other users, each associated with one or more social networks. The relationships strength is extracted based at least in part on the extracted information. The network builder then adds the user to one or more social networks based on the information associated with the user and the strength of the relationships between the user and the plurality of other users. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE BY AN APPLICATION SERVER - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a multimedia conference by an application server, the method includes: in the multimedia conference, the application server divides the m-line in a received terminal session description protocol (SDP), message into two SDPs according to the type of media, and sends them respectively to an audio-video media server and a data media server, or assembles SDPs returned by the audio-video media server and the data media server into one SDP, and sends it to a terminal. The apparatus includes an application server, and the application server includes an SDP dividing module and an SDP assembling module. This invention simplifies the process of signaling interaction, reduces the consumption of the signaling interaction; better synchronizes the controlling of the conventional audio-video media and the data media, makes the realization of the multimedia client more simple; meanwhile, is compatible with the terminals traditionally not supporting data media. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185022 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM VISUALIZATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, METHOD AND DEVICE - A device carries out a receiving process to receive a message transmitted or received by a server from a communication device connected to the server. The device stores the message in a message storing unit in connection with a time when the receiving process is carried out. The device extracts a message for synchronization from the message storing unit. The device produces log data including identification data to identify the message for synchronization and a time when the message for synchronization is received. The device produces log data including a time when a message other than the message for synchronization is received. The device stores the log data in a log data storing unit. The device transmits the log data stored in the log data storing unit to a log data processing device connected to a network on an opposite side of a firewall connected to the communication device. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191415 | COMMUNICATION SETUP - A method includes monitoring user desire for a user and contact availability for a contact, wherein user desire indicates whether the user desires to communicate with the contact and contact availability indicates whether the contact is available to communicate with the user; determining whether the user desires to communicate with the contact based on user desire and whether the contact is available to communicate with the user based on contact availability; and performing communication setup when the user desires to communicate with the contact and whether the contact is available to communicate with the user. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191416 | Content Author Badges - A method executes at a server to: receive a request from a user at a client computer to establish authorship of content posted online by the user, wherein the content is stored at a host computer; and verify the identity of the user by verifying credentials of the user. After verifying the identity of the user, the method creates an author badge for the content, wherein the author badge includes a badge identifier; transmits the author badge to the client computer or the host computer, for affixing the author badge to the content at the host computer; stores at the server, location information identifying the online location of the content; and stores at the server, the badge identifier and verification information sufficient to verify that the content at the identified online location matches the content for which the author badge was created. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191417 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BRANDS SOCIAL NETWORKS (BSN) PLATFORM - Methods and Systems for Global Online Brands Social Networks (BSN) Platform and Framework are disclosed for managing Users' Profiles, brands group lists, Brand user Friends, User created Brand Networks and related Members, Publications, Applications, Services and Communications and Collaborations among users. Further, it also manages brand owners' brand networks and members, and brand experts to enable and facilitate users for branded products and services related sales or e-commerce, marketing, promotion and support services, alternative products and services brands lists. BSN also provides Social Customers Relationship Management (SCRM) and Multi Brand Customers Services Life Cycle (MCSLC) Framework to facilitate brand owners and customers. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191418 | METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING SEGMENTS OF A VIDEO FILE IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - Method for downloading segments of a video file in a peer to peer network which comprises requesting to create new neighbourhood lists according to a health parameter which indicates availability of video segments among neighbors. Scheduling methods for the upload and download schedulers which work in synergy with the aforementioned features are also disclosed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING FILES TO CLIENTS USING A PEER-TO-PEER FILE TRANSFER MODEL AND A CLIENT-SERVER TRANSFER MODEL - A method and apparatus is provided for delivering a content file to a client over a packet-switched network. The method begins by determining a suitable throughput required to deliver the content file to the client. Next, the throughput available in a peer-to-peer network for delivering the content file to the client is determined. The required throughput is compared to the available throughput. If the available throughput is less than the required throughput, the available throughput is supplemented with additional throughput. The content is then delivered to the client over the packet-switched network using the available throughput of the peer-to-peer network and the additional throughput. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING FILES TO CLIENTS USING A PEER-TO-PEER FILE TRANSFER MODEL AND A CLIENT-SERVER TRANSFER MODEL - A method and apparatus is provided for delivering a content file to a client over a packet-switched network. The method begins by determining a suitable throughput required to deliver the content file to the client. Next, the throughput available in a peer-to-peer network for delivering the content file to the client is determined. The required throughput is compared to the available throughput. If the available throughput is less than the required throughput, the available throughput is supplemented with additional throughput. The content is then delivered to the client over the packet-switched network using the available throughput of the peer-to-peer network and the additional throughput. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191421 | GENERIC INFORMATION ELEMENT - A computer data signal embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium is described. In one embodiment, the computer data signal includes a generic element identifier, a plurality of task-specific data, a variable length identifier and a multi-use data type identifier. The generic element identifier is configurable to identify an information element containing the generic element identifier as a generic information element. The variable length identifier is configurable to indicate a number of the plurality of task-specific data. The multi-use data type identifier is configurable to indicate a type of the plurality of task-specific data. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196922 | PROVIDING AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USING A SEPARATE MESSAGING SITE - A question is received on a first social network site from a first user. The question is sent to a second user of a second social network site who receives the question from the second social network site. The first social network site receives an answer to the question from the second user via the second social network site and provides the answer to the first user. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196923 | SEARCHING DATA IN A SOCIAL NETWORK TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER TO AN INFORMATION REQUEST - An information request is received from a user of a social network. Data for other users in the social network is searched in order to provide an answer to the request. A question based on the information request is sent to one or more of the other users having prior activity on the social network that is related to the information request. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196924 | IDENTIFYING INTERMEDIARIES AND POTENTIAL CONTACTS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - A contact identification system provides a network of members with each member of a network having a relationship with one or more other members of the network. The contact identification system identifies relationship paths between a first member of a first network and a second member of a second network by traversing relationships to identify relationship paths that include a common member that is common to both the first network and the second network. The contact identification system generates an intermediary score for each identified relationship path to indicate whether the identified relationship path includes an intermediary who can effect a successful introduction between the first member and the second member. The contact identification system then identifies as potential intermediaries the common members based on generated intermediary scores. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196925 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PRESENCE SERVICE FOR CONTACT MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATION - Methods and apparatus for providing a presence service for contact management functions such as user address books. The presence service, in an exemplary embodiment, assembles contact entries into abstract groupings and defines event packages specified by the user that enable the user to be notified about presence information dynamically. For example, a subscribed user may receive presence service information for all entries in the users address book that are in close geographical proximity to the subscribed user. In one variant, the storage and calculation of presence information is performed at a centralized location, thereby sparing the user's device from utilizing unnecessary calculation resources and avoiding unnecessary network bandwidth utilization in order to receive presence information of interest. User device-based variants are also disclosed. Business methods utilizing the aforementioned presence service offerings are also provided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196926 | Method of conducting operations for a social network application including notification list generation with offer hyperlinks according to notification rules - In one embodiment, a method of conducting operations for a social network application, comprises: generating a notification list of recent activities of users of the social network application, wherein the notification list includes (1) at least one activity within the social network application of a first user and (2) at least one hyperlink to an offer involving an activity that is directly related to at least one activity of the first user, wherein an account of the first user defines at least one notification rule for controlling visibility of the at least one activity to other users of the social network application; and providing the notification list to a second user, that is a friend of the first user within the social network application, according to the at least one notification rule of the first user. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196927 | Social Networking Application Using Posts to Determine Compatibility - A social networking and compatibility application that analyzes behavioral data from users to determine compatibility between users. The application monitors the data of users during the user's normal daily routine. The data is gathered, screened and analyzed to build a profile of the user based on their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, likes, dislikes, interests, activities, political views, plans and any other personal traits revealed through the individual's posts. Based on an analysis of the user's profile, the social networking application will make connection recommendations and provide them to the individual. The profile building process is continuous and follows the user over time. As new information is received and analyzed, the user profile changes to reflect any new traits detected in the user's data. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC AND INTERACTIVE WEB CONTENT AND MANAGING ATTENDEES DURING WEBCASTING EVENTS - A webcasting system that provides a webcast presenter and webcast attendees with multiple interactive means of connecting and communicating is disclosed. A webcast presenter may create and send webcast slides, which include references to dynamic and interactive content, to webcast attendees. Attendees may view the webcast slides and interact with the dynamic and interactive content provided through the references. Webcast presenters may control an attendee's ability to interact with the interactive content. Additionally, webcast presenters may allow attendees to break away from a main webcast presentation into smaller presentation or group. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196929 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA EXCHANGE WITH A MULTIMEDIA AND ETHERNET ENABLED LAN SUBSYSTEM - Aspects of a method and system for data exchange with a multimedia and Ethernet enabled LAN subsystem are provided. A networking subsystem may receive a protocol data unit via a network link, extract audio and/or video data from the protocol data unit, and communicate the audio and/or video data to an audio and/or video processor via a bus that bypasses the one or both of a northbridge and a southbridge. A networking subsystem may receive audio and/or video data from an audio and/or video processor via a bus that bypasses said one or both of a northbridge and a southbridge, encapsulate the audio and/or video data into a protocol data unit, and transmit the protocol data unit onto a network link. The protocol data unit may be received over said the network link utilizing Ethernet physical layer protocols. The bus may be scaled based on a type, format, and/or rate of data communicated over it. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196930 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR REPORTING BASED ON ATTENTION OF A USER DURING A COLLABORATION SESSION - In one embodiment, a collaboration session is conducted between a plurality of participant devices. The content shared during the collaboration session is recorded. The recorded content indicates content that was shared at various times during the collaboration session. An activity status of at least some participant devices is recorded at various times during the collaboration session. The activity status of the at least some participant devices is correlated with the content that was being shared at each of a plurality of times during the collaboration session. For a selected time of the plurality of times during the collaboration session, the content that was being shared in the collaboration session at the selected time and an indication of the activity status of the at least some participant devices at the selected time is displayed. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202601 | METHOD FOR DATA COMMUNICATION AND DEVICE AS WELL AS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for data communication between a management system and a network element is provided as well as a device and a communication system. The method includes the steps of (i) Setting up a connection between the management system and the network element; (ii) The management system sends a message to the network element utilizing the connection; and (iii) Upon said message of the management system, the network element provides static information to the management system. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202602 | ONLINE PRESENCE MANAGEMENT FOR WEB SITES - Systems and methods to provide online presence management are provided. A presence message is received from a browser associated with a user. One or more channels indicated by the presence message are determined, each channel being associated with an activity of the user. A presence state for each of the one or more channels are then determined, and a presence storage may be updated. Presence information comprising the presence state for the user may be provided to browsers of subscribers who subscribed to the same one or more channels. The presence information may be provided without an explicit request from the browsers. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208813 | Personal status communications manager - A user status may be updated at one of a plurality of network entities associated with a user. Through communication between the network entity on which the update has been made and a central server, an indication of the status update may be transmitted, by the central server, to the other network entities associated with the user. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208814 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A RELEVANT SOCIAL GRAPH - An approach is provided for generating a relevant social graph. A social graph identifying people associated with a user is retrieved. A communication history from a device associated with the user is retrieved. Information regarding a respective occurrence of each identified person in the communication history is determined. A relevant social graph is generated based, at least in part, on the determined occurrence information. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213837 | System and Method for Evaluating and Analyzing Content - A system for evaluating content includes a plurality of client computer systems, each one of the client computer systems configured to perform the steps of playing content on a media player; capturing, while the content is playing, a plurality of ratings from a user, each one of the ratings corresponding to a different play time; and sending the plurality of ratings and the corresponding play times to a media analyzer. The system further includes the media analyzer configured to perform the steps of, from a plurality of users, receiving a plurality of ratings and corresponding play times; grouping the ratings and corresponding play times according to content being rated; and analyzing the grouped ratings. Preferably, the media analyzer can store ratings from different content being played and evaluated simultaneously. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213838 | MANAGING AT LEAST ONE COMPUTER NODE - In a system for managing at least one computer node, a first device is configured to perform out-of-band operations in the at least one computing node. The system also includes a second device configured to perform compute-intensive tasks in the at least one computing node and a third device that is external to the at least one computing node configured to perform administration operations for the first device and the second device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213839 | COLLABORATIVE CONTENT EVALUATION - In an example embodiment, a system for evaluating published content is provided. The system includes at least one processor and a plurality of components including instructions executable by the at least one processor. The components include a reputations component to determine a reputation value for each of a plurality of users of a network-based community. A reporting component is to receive a communication from one of the plurality of users, the communication identifying content accessible within the network-based community as objectionable. An evaluation component is to evaluate the identified content based on the reputation value of the one of the plurality of users to determine an action to take with respect to the identified content. A validation component is to take the action with respect to the identified content based on the evaluation of the identified content. | 09-01-2011 |
20110219068 | Flexible Delegation of Management Function For Self-Managing Resources - Included are method, article of manufacture, and device that serve to identify the status of a network resource along with whether the network resource is a self-managing resource. When autonomic management capabilities are identified, an autonomic management rule for management of the network resource may be generated and sent, over a network, for receipt and use by the identified self-managing resource. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219069 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE ALLOCATION OF DATA INTO A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK AND PEER IMPLEMENTING SUCH METHOD - A method and apparatus to manage allocation of data to peers in a peer-to-peer network, where the peers in the peer-to-peer network use distributed hash tables for addressing the peers, the peers associated with bit addresses, including dividing a virtual scene into a plurality of cells, each cell associated with a bit identifier, neighboring cells of the virtual scene associated with bit identifiers which differ from each other by one bit and allocating data in each cell of the virtual scene to peers whose bit address is closest to the bit identifier of the cells. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219070 | Method and Apparatus for Social Networking - A system and apparatus facilitates social networking between service providers and customers displays provider profiles via a network. A provider window provides tabs that are expandable to provide more details about particular provider profiles without obscuring the screen view. The system enables searching of provider profiles and the search results utilizing predetermined criteria are presented. The search results are output as geometric shapes having various sizes, the sizes being indicative of a valued provider metric. In one embodiment of the invention, the geometric shapes include circles of various sizes and the valued provider metric is the popularity of the provider, wherein the most popular provider is associated with a circle of the largest size. The system also enables real-time communication between, a service provider and a customer via text, audio, video and calendar features. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219071 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING PUBLIC FORUMS - A method for conducting a public forum of a government agency includes, in a public forum processor, receiving a statement from a submitter, the statement related to the public forum of the government agency and processing the submitted statement including assigning the submitted statement to a list of pending statements, evaluating the submitted statement according to civility criteria of the public forum of the government agency, and on the basis of said civility evaluation, assigning the submitted statement to a list of approved statements. The method also includes sending a pending statement in response to a request for the list of pending statements, including the content of the pending statement and information related to said civility evaluation of the pending statement. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219072 | NETWORK MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT FOR PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING - A network membership management protocol manages membership in a peer-to-peer networking environment. To join the peer-to-peer network, a new client is introduces itself to a deputy node assigned by the server to act as a point of contact for the new client. The deputy node forwards subscription requests to other neighboring nodes which probabilistically determine whether to accept the subscription request from the new client or forward the message to other neighboring nodes. In this way, a new client gains connections to a random subset of nodes on the network. The membership management protocol further includes a protocol for reassigning neighboring relationships between nodes when an active node leaves the network. Furthermore, the membership management protocol allows nodes to periodically re-subscribe to the network in order to rebalance the network graph. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219073 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS AND REPUTATION DATA - A method for a computer system includes determining a first social distance for a first user with respect to a second user, determining a second social distance for a third user with respect to the second user, determining a first qualitative rating associated with the first user, determining a second qualitative rating associated with the second user, determining a first trust-metric for the first user in response to the first social distance and the first qualitative rating, determining a second trust-metric for the third user in response to the second social distance and the second qualitative rating, and prioritizing a first listing from the first user over a second listing from the third user for the second user, in response to the first trust-metric and the second trust-metric. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219074 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTERCOMMUNICATING ADDRESS BOOK INFORMATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT NETWORKS - A method for intercommunicating address book information between different networks is provided, which includes the following steps: an interworking request carrying address book information is received, in which the interworking request comes from a network address book system other than a Converged Address Book (CAB) system; the address book information is converted according to an address book format supported by a server of the CAB system; the converted address book information is sent to the CAB system. A device and a system for implementing the method are further provided. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219075 | MULTIPLE URL IDENTITY SYNTAXES AND IDENTITIES - Any arrangement of URLv identity syntax can now be used in a repository, once its second.top domain is known to have an identity syntax. The repository can extract, select, store, organize, prioritize, and consolidate URLvs of differing identity syntaxes. The correlation and association among different contact entities' containing the same individual's identities can yield accurate same individual's identity and URLvs. These increase the competition of the Internet by enabling users to transport their data easily to websites allowing for individuals' data-transport. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225238 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA CHANNEL MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method can include establishing a session involving a first end user, the first end user is included in a virtual talk group, which includes at least one other end user. A media source is provided for the session. The method also includes initiating a request for a second end user to join the session, the second end user is added to the virtual talk group. A mobile device being used by the first end user controls which data from the media source is to be sent to the second user during the session. An internet protocol (IP) address associated with the media source is withheld from communications sent to the second user. In more detailed embodiments, a control channel can be established between the mobile device and a server, the control channel managing data being sent to end users in the virtual talk group. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225239 | GENERATION OF CONTENT CREATION REQUESTS FOR A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An assignment system and method for generating content creation requests or “assignments” that are to be fulfilled by content contributors. The assignment system is part of a content distribution system that aggregates, manages, and distributes/syndicates multimedia content that is generated by content contributors. As part of the acquisition of content, the assignment system may compensate the content contributors for the content that they provide to the system. The assignment system generates assignments that are likely to result in content that will be of interest to content consumers, such as visitors and/or subscribers to websites provided by, associated with, or using the content of the content distributor. In some embodiments, the assignment system may generate assignments based on the popularity of pre-existing content, searches for content, or requests for content. The assignment system also manages the flow of content submissions and verifies that submitted content meets the assignment's requirements. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TRANSACTION OF IPTV - A method and apparatus for controlling a transaction in an entity employing a Moving Picture Experts Group eXtensible Middleware (MXM) transaction are provided. The transaction may include at least one sub-session, and the at least one sub-session may be hierarchically configured. A syntax for controlling hierarchical sub-sessions, a syntax of a transaction control message, and a syntax of a content transfer control message are disclosed. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225241 | SOCIAL WRITING APPLICATION PLATFORM - Methods and systems for tracking and evaluating social writing activities are discussed. In one example embodiment, a method for tracking and evaluating social writing activities includes operations for monitoring content creation, tracking social behaviors, identifying activities of value, and associating the activities of value with a complex activity. The monitoring content creation can include detecting activities within a social software environment. The tracking social behaviors include tracking behaviors related to the content creation activities performed within the social software environment. The identifying activities of value include identifying activities of value associated with the content creation activities. Finally, associating the activities of value with a complex activity can form a composite picture. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225242 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION MODES - Many different users may access, revise and update the same shared object simultaneously through several different transports. Clients may communicate asynchronously by accessing the shared object through a physical server. Clients may also communicate synchronously by accessing the shared object through a peer-to-peer network. A manifest file associated with the shared object identifies the locations where other versions and instances of the shared object are stored. The shared object and the associated manifest file allow a client to transition seamlessly between local access, synchronous and asynchronous communication such that the user is not aware that the mode of communication has changed. A user may change location and any available data sharing transports are automatically identified. Thus, the user may access a shared object and collaborate with other authorized users through different mechanisms. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231488 | RESOURCE BASED VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - This invention disclosed a system and method for resource based virtual communities. Any resources that can be shared or used by multiple people, including Internet resources, software or other resources can be the basis for the community, whose members are users of the resource. Web resources include web sites, web pages news groups or discussion forums. Other types of resources include software products, bulletin boards, games or other products. The community composes of the current resource users such as web page readers, bulletin board posters, game players, software users. Whenever a person accesses or uses the resource, the user is automatically joined as part of the community. At the same time they are using the resource, they can access all services provided by the community, such as talking with other members, collaborating with others, publishing comments, or even adding new community services. A universal virtual community server is disclosed to support all virtual communities based on all resources in the world and all users in the Internet. There are 6 methods disclosed for individual users to connect to this resource based communities. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING, SHARING AND ACCESSING SELECTIVE CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231490 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, NODE DEVICE, METHOD OF COMMUNICATING CONTENTS, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An information communications system for an overlay network includes: a plurality of node devices which are connected to each other through a network and constitute the overlay network, contents being distributed and stored in the plurality of node devices, the plurality of node devices including a contents source transmitting contents to other node devices. The plurality of node devices includes a first node device including: a contents storage unit configured to store the contents; and a limiting unit configured to limit uploading of the contents stored in the contents storage unit, | 09-22-2011 |
20110231491 | IP Address Discovery - A method of facilitating communication between users of a SIP-based network and SIP users external to that network. Each user of the SIP-based network possesses a SIP URI comprising a host name part belonging to the network and a user name part. The external users have access to a peer-to-peer network to resolve SIP URIs into contact IP addresses. The method comprises publishing into said peer-to-peer network a mapping between an identifier of a gateway to said SIP-based network and an IP address of the gateway. The identifier corresponds to or is derivable from said host name part. Upon receipt of a query at the gateway in respect of a URI associated with one of said users of said SIP-based network, the URI is resolved into a contact IP address. The contact IP address is returned to a node from which the query originated. Also provided is apparatus configured to provide a SIP user agent and gateway apparatus for facilitating communication between users of a SIP-based network and SIP users external to that network. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238750 | Method and Apparatus for Determining an Analysis Chronicle - An apparatus, comprising a processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving a first set of information associated with a first information source, performing a first analysis of, at least part of, the first set of information based, at least in part, on an analysis criteria, determining that the first set of information complies with the analysis criteria, determining an analysis chronicle based, at least in part, on the first analysis, determining that the analysis chronicle has changed, and performing at least one operation in response to determining that the analysis chronicle has changed. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AD-HOC PEER-TO-PEER AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing augmented reality client application content to be enabled for one or more nodes. A method may include specifying a bounded area of a mesh network and associating content with the bounded area. The method may additionally include causing, at least in part, a peer-to-peer transmission of the content to one or more nodes within the bounded area over the mesh network. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238752 | VEHICLE BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A social networking hub located in an automobile that provides updates to a social networking site includes an information gathering module that receives and stores information from one or more information sources. The hub also includes an update manager that receives information from the information gathering module and provides some or all of the information to the social networking site through an internet connection. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238753 | System and Method for Providing a Real-Time Digital Impact Virtual Audience - The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for providing a real-time digital impact virtual audience. The method may include receiving a data transmission including a display of at least one virtual audience member. The method also may include receiving an audio transmission associated with a data transmission. The audio and data transmissions may be associated and retransmitted at a location associated with a live event or performance. The system for performing this method may include at least one server to process incoming information, such as data and/or audio, from one or more virtual audience members. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238754 | ORGANIZING SOCIAL ACTIVITY INFORMATION ON A SITE - A system and method for organizing social activity information on a website is disclosed. The system comprises a feed serving module and a presentation module. The feed serving module is configured to receive social activity of at least a first user from at least one third-parity source. The feed serving module aggregates the social activity information to form aggregated social activity information. The presentation module is communicatively coupled to the feed serving module and is configured to receive the aggregated social activity information from the feed serving module. The presentation module generates feed display associated with the aggregated social activity information and sends feed display to a client for display to a second user. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238755 | PROXIMITY-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - Various embodiments facilitate proximity-based social networking. In one embodiment, a Proximity-based Social Networking facilitator system (“PSN”) determines and provides a user with relevant information based on his proximity to other users of his social and other networks. Proximity determinations may be based on various factors, including user location, user affinity, user activities, and the like. In one embodiment, the PSN determines a group of users that are proximately located to one another, and provides users of the group with information about other users without disclosing their actual location on a map. The users of the group receive the information via mobile computing devices, and can use the mobile computing devices to further interact with the other users of the group, such as by arranging meetings, communicating, and/or engaging in transactions. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238756 | Method For Selection of Suitable Peers in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network - The present invention relates to a method for selecting suitable peers CL | 09-29-2011 |
20110238757 | METHOD SILHOUETTE IMAGE REPRESENTATION - This invention relates to a method and a system of silhouette image representation of a subject located at a remote location. Input data relating to the remote location are received, one or more graphical indicator indicating graphically at least one local condition at the remote location is obtained based on the received input data and the one or more graphical indicators are incorporated in the silhouette image. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238758 | Method And Apparatus For Displaying Feeds Content Of Contact And Processing Apparatus And System Thereof - A system for displaying feeds contents of a contact and for processing feeds contents of a contact. The system obtains feeds content data of a contact of a user, mixes and sorts the feeds content data. The system pulls out, when the user requests for obtaining the feeds contents of the contact, complete information of the feeds contents requested by the user, and displaying the complete information. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246572 | CONTROLLING MEDIA CONSUMPTION PRIVACY SETTINGS - Embodiments related to controlling media privacy settings are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a media server system including a configured to receive media consumption data for each media content item of a plurality of media content items consumed by a user. Media consumption data for each media content item includes an item-specific privacy status and a media content item identifier. The server is also configured to receive, from one or more of another user and a media content item recommendations program, a request for access to the media consumption data for a media content item, and to provide one or more of the other user and the media content item recommendations program with access to the media consumption data based on the item-specific privacy status of the media consumption data. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246573 | DISTRIBUTED NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION - Architecture that scales up the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) technique to a distributed NMF (denoted DNMF) to handle large matrices, for example, on a web scale that can include millions and billions of data points. To analyze web-scale data, DNMF is applied through parallelism on distributed computer clusters, for example, with thousands of machines. In order to maximize the parallelism and data locality, matrices are partitioned in the short dimension. The probabilistic DNMF can employ not only Gaussian and Poisson NMF techniques, but also exponential NMF for modeling web dyadic data (e.g., dwell time of a user on browsed web pages). | 10-06-2011 |
20110246574 | Creating Groups of Users in a Social Networking System - A social networking system facilitates a user's creation of a group of other users from among the user's connections in the user's social network. The created groups may be used, for example, to publish information to certain user-defined groups or to define privacy settings or other access rights to the user's content according to such user-defined groups. When a user adds connections to a group, the social networking system determines suggested connections that have not been added to the group, based on a similarity of the suggested connections with one or more of the connections who have been added to the group. These suggested connections are then presented to the user to facilitate the creation of the group. Both positive and negative feedback may be used to generate a useful set of suggestions, which may be updated as the user further defines the group. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246575 | TEXT SUGGESTION FRAMEWORK WITH CLIENT AND SERVER MODEL - A local or remote server is configured to receive requests for text and other suggestions from a plurality of client applications. The local or remote server can format requests for delivery to one or more suggestion sources along with client contexts that specify client delivery, format, or other requests associated with the suggestion request. The local or remote server selects suggestion sources based on the client requests and the client contexts, and can combine suggestions returned from multiple sources as directed by client contexts. Requests associated with different clients can be directed to different suggestion sources, and user or client accepted suggestion histories can be stored for use in providing suggestions. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246576 | NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A networking system comprises a data communication network, an entertainment device operable to communicate over the network and to run a first application, a social networking server operable to supply a second application to a social networking client over the network, the client being operable to run the second application once received from the server. In response to a first predetermined event during operation of the first application, the entertainment device can communicate an alert message to the server identifying a user of the client to receive the second application. The social networking server is arranged to supply the second application to the client in response to the alert message. In response to a second predetermined event during operation of the second application, the client is arranged to communicate an acknowledgement message to the entertainment device. In response, the entertainment device is arranged to modify operation of the first application. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246577 | System, Method and Apparatus for Enhanced Processing of Communication in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A system, method and apparatus for enhanced processing of communications over a peer-to-peer network is provided. More particularly, rules for the processing of calls addressed to a user over a P2P network are stored in a database. Communication requests addressed to the user are forwarded by the recipient user's computer to a remote location remote for processing in accordance with the stored rules. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252090 | Dynamic Designation of a Central Distributor in a Multi-Participant Conference - Some embodiments dynamically designate one of several network nodes as a network hub of a star network, at the start of a network communication session among the several network nodes that is facilitated by a mesh network and the star network. Some embodiments dynamically designate a new network hub when the previously designated network hub leaves the communication session, which continues among the other network nodes. Different embodiments use different techniques to dynamically designate the network hub of the star network. For instance, some embodiments use communications transmitted along the mesh network to dynamically identify the network hub at the start of the network communication session or after the departure of a previously designated network hub. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252091 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXCHANGE CONVERGED ADDRESS BOOK EVENTS AMONG MULTIPLE NETWORK DOMAINS - Methods and apparatus to exchange converged address book events among multiple network domains are disclosed. An example method for a converged address book (CAB) server disclosed herein comprises detecting that a contact corresponding to a second CAB user has been added to an address book of a first CAB user, the address book being managed by the CAB server, and exchanging data between a first domain associated with the first CAB user and a second domain associated with the second CAB user to provide a notification to the second CAB user when the contact corresponding to the second CAB user is added to the address book. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252092 | ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE OPERATIONS METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND CONFERENCE OPERATIONS TERMINAL - An electronic conferencing system is provided with a conference operations terminal to be operated at an electronic conference and a participation terminal to be applied to participation in the electronic conference. The conference operations terminal is provided with a storage portion that stores a conferencing program to be applied to the electronic conference, a recognition count determination unit that determines a recognition count based on participation terminals recognized by a participation terminal recognition unit that recognizes participation terminals, and a conferencing program activation unit that activates the conferencing program, when the recognition count determination unit determines that the recognition count equals a set recognition count that is preset. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252093 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATION - In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files, and/or displays. The client-server infrastructure supports seamless navigation between the supported asynchronous and synchronous activities in the collaboration place. Additionally, the client-server architecture supports data persistence, so that data files associated with the collaboration place can be stored for subsequent access. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258256 | PREDICTING FUTURE OUTCOMES - A model for predicting future outcomes related to individual entities within a class of related entities may be generated based on the determined rates at which the individual entities are referenced within electronic communications. Additionally or alternatively, a quantitative value of a predicted future outcome related to a particular cause may be calculated based on the frequency with which references to the particular cause appear in electronic messages. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264735 | Method, Device and System For Creating a Virtual Local Social Network - There is provided a system and method for creating a local social network, based on a user's location and a user's virtual social profile (e.g. a facebook profile, a myspace profile) on a virtual social network (e.g. facebook, myspace). The method includes the steps of: (1) associating a communication device with a user's virtual profile, (2) detecting a communication device within an interactive region, (3) extracting unique parameters of the communication device, (4) retrieving data associated with the communication device and with the user's virtual profile, and (5) initiating data transfer based on the retrieved data. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264736 | Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264737 | Systems and Methods for Defining User Relationships in a Social Networking Environment - Systems and methods automatically define relationships in a social networking environment. A discussion thread of a social networking environment is monitored for comments. When a comment is received to the discussion thread from a first user of the social networking environment, a relationship of the social networking environment is automatically defined between the first user and a second user associated with the discussion thread based on the receipt of the first comment from the first user. The automatically-defined relationship information is used to format news feeds with updates regarding activities taken in the social networking environment by related users. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264738 | HIERARCHICALLY DISASSEMBLING MESSAGES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for hierarchically disassembling messages. The functionality of disassemblers and framers is decoupled such that framers for different types of messages can be utilized at the same level in a hierarchy without having to also change disassemblers. Virtually any level of disassembly is possible to address any corresponding level of message nesting. Disassembly can be performed on a per message or per session basis. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264739 | METHOD BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF THE UPnP AND STUN FOR NAT TRAVERSAL - The present invention relates to a method based on the combination of UPnP and STUN for NAT traversal. The method of the present invention effectively takes the advantages of UPnP and STUN. In particularly, when UpnP fails to traverse NAT, STUN is applied to perform the NAT traversal for the second time, so that the efficiency of the successful traversal is effectively improved. For the symmetric NAT traversal, a Port-Adding Sample Estimation method based on NAT adding port mapping is provided for port estimation, to avoid the defects resulted from the third-party agent and the blindness of the speculation approach. And, where both of the communication peers in the P2P streaming media system are behind NAT, the method that the part of the ordinary outer peers with the sufficient bandwidth acts as the Auxiliary-Relay peers is provided to release the pressure of the relay server so that the bottle-neck of the communication is broken through. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264740 | MTC DEVICE BANDWIDTH REDUCTION - A machine type device for deployment in a wireless network includes a processing circuit operable to generate an application layer message and a request including information identifying the machine type device as capable of using a particular protocol stack. After radio resources are setup between the machine type device and the base station controller, the processing circuit is further operable to transmit the application layer message and a local wireless network alias to a base station controller, the local wireless network alias indicating the machine type device is capable of using the particular protocol stack. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264741 | MATCHMAKING SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT - A matchmaking system is provided herein to facilitate the development of relationships in a virtual social environment. The amount of development (positive or negative) is measured through the detection and analysis of the villager's actions and activity in the virtual social environment. By performing actions including participating in events, activities, sharing an opinion, and giving gifts to other villagers or NPCs present in the environment, a villager creates relationships between herself and other villagers (regardless if owned by the same or different user) or NPCs which then contributes to the development of her own “life” in the virtual social environment. Through this system, villagers are able to meet again based on multiple factors to further develop life-like relationships. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264742 | METHOD OF CONFERENCING USING FORMS - A method of conferencing is provided in which a computer system receives interaction data generated by a sensing device through interaction with a first conferencing form, the indicating data being generated to include data on an identity of the first form associated with a form description in the computer system and a position of the sensing device relative to the first form. The computer system then determines conference information from the interaction data and form description. The computer system then outputs a second conferencing form having the determined conference information and a hierarchical tree of form versions. The hierarchical tree of form versions is produced by associating an identity of the second form with the form description. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION BASED ON PROXIMITY - A method and system are provided for facilitating interaction between a device and a device environment. The system may include a detection module for automatically detecting proximity of a participant within the device environment. The system may additionally include a user-configurable authorization module for authorizing the device to adjust a device user interface in a pre-determined manner in response to the detection of the participant. The system may also provide for sharing resources among multiple participating devices, wherein each of the multiple participating devices has a device specific set of application resources. The system may additionally include a configurable resource regulation mechanism for making the device specific application resources from the second participating device available to the first participating device. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264744 | CACHE STRUCTURE FOR PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL OBJECTS - A method for the distribution of digital objects in a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. The digital objects are distributed in a plurality of pieces. At least some of a plurality of peers are connected to other ones of the plurality of peers and at least one of the peers is connected to at least one cache. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270921 | PARTICIPANT PROFILING IN A CONFERENCING SYSTEM - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for profiling participants in a virtual conference. One embodiment is a method for profiling participants in a virtual conference. One such method comprises: a server establishing an audio conference between a first participant and a second participant via a communication network; the server presenting a conference user interface to a first computing device associated with the first participant and a second computing device associated with the second participant, the conference user interface displaying a first object identifying the first participant in association with a first audio indicator and a second object identifying the second participant in association with a second audio indicator; the server presenting, in the conference user interface, a participant profile control associated with the first participant for specifying one or more profile parameters associated with the first participant; the second participant, via the second computing device and during the audio conference: selecting the participant profile control associated with the first participant; and specifying the one or more or more profile parameters associated with the first participant; and the server storing the specified parameters from the second participant in association with a participant identifier associated with the first participant. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270922 | MANAGING PARTICIPANTS IN A CONFERENCE VIA A CONFERENCE USER INTERFACE - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for managing participants in an online conference via a graphical user interface. One such method comprises: displaying a conference interface via a graphical user interface on a client device connected to a conferencing system via a communication network; displaying a contact list via the graphical user interface, the contact list comprising a plurality of draggable contact objects; selecting one of the draggable contact objects; moving the selected contact object to the conference interface; determining contact information corresponding to the selected contact object; and the conferencing system establishing a connection with a participant associated with the contact information. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270923 | Sharing Social Networking Content in a Conference User Interface - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for incorporating a social networking feature in a conferencing system. One embodiment is a method comprising: a conferencing server establishing an audio conference between a plurality of computing devices connected via a communication network; the conferencing server presenting to the computing devices a user interface associated with the audio conference, the user interface comprising a social networking component for providing a social networking feature to a participant during the audio conference; a social networking server authenticating the participant as a member of a social networking system; and during the audio conference, the conferencing server enabling the authenticated participant to access the social networking feature via the social networking component in the user interface. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270924 | Peer to Peer Network - An access network ( | 11-03-2011 |
20110270925 | SYSTEM TO SHARE CREDIT INFORMATION - Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media associated with the use of a randomly generated reporting code unique to a party involved in a credit reporting exchange. In embodiments, once used, the reporting code may become unique to both parties (applicant and requestor) as well as the particular transaction between both parties. In embodiments, the reporting code or codes may be exchanged between the applicant and requestor, and once confirmed, credit information may be obtained by, or transmitted from, the requestor. In various embodiments, the reporting code may conceal the applicant's Social Security Number or other unique identifier(s) during the application process. If the applicant is approved for a transaction by the requestor (e.g., credit is issued), the requestor may use a reporting code to report information about the approved applicant. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270926 | Computer-based Methods and Systems for Arranging Meetings Between Users and Methods and Systems for Verifying Background Information of Users - Methods and systems for verifying, authenticating, and/or rating the identity or profile characteristics of users of online social networks and other websites and applications. And improved systems and methods that allow one or more individuals to meet or otherwise network or connect or transact or exchange information, tangibles or intangibles with other individuals and methods and systems for verifying and/or rating the identity or profiles of users of online social networks and other websites or applications. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276628 | SOCIAL ATTENTION MANAGEMENT - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing social attention management. An attention management device (“AMD”) can receive a request associated with one or more users of a social networking service. In response to receiving the request, the AMD collects and/or analyzes interaction data obtained from one or more systems or devices in communication with the AMD. The AMD surfaces or presents the interaction data to a user for consumption during the request review process. In response to receiving input from the user, the AMD can alter communications with one or more contacts. Methods for social attention management also are disclosed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276629 | Formation of Special Interest Groups - Special interest subgroups are formed by a group of participants by establishing a profile for each participant. The profile defines contribution attributes dealing with contributions the profiled participant might make to a subgroup and attribution attributes dealing with benefits the profile participant might receive from participating in the subgroup. For each possible pairing of participants in the group, an overall contribution score and an overall benefit score is calculated for each participant. A mutual benefit score is calculated by combining the benefit scores for both participants in the pair. Participants are assigned to subgroups as a function of participant contribution and mutual benefit scores. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276630 | CONTENT DELIVERY OVER A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A method of distributing a content object (C) using a publication server in a content delivery system, which in addition to the publication server comprises a plurality of interconnected user nodes adapted to cache content object packages and to perform on-demand playback of content objects, includes: receiving a content object; defining a partition of the content object into at least two packages; defining an initial distribution plan (IDP) identifying a collection of user nodes which are to cache the content object and package to be cached by the nodes; and transmitting the initial distribution plan to each node in the collection, enabling the user node to cache the at least one package to be cached. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282940 | CLOUD-BASED WEB WORKERS AND STORAGES - In accordance with one aspect of the invention, web workers and local storages can be extended to a cloud-based environment. This allows web workers to be executed on any of a number of different cloud platforms located in a cloud, leveraging available resources to provide a quicker and more efficient processing environment for the various web workers. The present invention also provides these functionalities in a way that is transparent to not just the user, but also to the web page developer as well, eliminating the need for the web page developer to be aware of the cloud-based environment and design the web page for use therewith. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282941 | SHARING FORM TRAINING RESULT UTILIZING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A mechanism is provided for sharing form data by users of a social network. A first value input for a first label by a first user is received. The first label is associated with a tag in a mapping table. The first value is associated with the tag in a first user table. The first value is recognized as input for a different label than the first label. The different label is associated with the tag in mapping table. A second value is received that is input for a second label by a second user. The second label is associated with the tag in the mapping table. The second value is associated with the tag in a second user table. The second value is recognized as input for a different label than the second label. The different label than the second label is associated with the tag in mapping table. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282942 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ONLINE STATIONERY OR GREETING CARD SERVICE - A system and method are described for managing friends within an online stationery/card service. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: connecting to an external social networking service on behalf of a user; retrieving the user's friend data from the external social networking service, the friend data specifying friends of the user; filtering the friend data to arrive at an inner circle of friends based on user input; associating address data with one or more friends retrieved from the external social networking service; creating a personalized item in response to input from the user; and mailing the personalized item with one or more of the friends in the inner circle of friends. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING VALUE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES - Systems and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of social media pages. Users of social media systems review and publish various kinds of content on social media pages, including various messages, audio clips, video clips, polls, web links, etc. A social media page evaluation system hosted on a physical server or a cloud receives a social media page that is to be evaluated, and provides results of an evaluation process. The evaluation process involves processing of various criteria and parameters that characterize engagements and interactions between users of social media pages. Results of an evaluation process include qualitative and quantitative attributes in connection with evaluating the effectiveness of published content on social media pages. Such results are useful for purposes of enriching content in social media pages, resulting in greater network traffic due to increased engagements and interaction among users of social media pages. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282944 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SHARING ACROSS ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for sharing content over a collection of social networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first social network, a second social network, and at least one sharing table. The at least one sharing table is configured to share a first content from the first social network with the second social network. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282945 | NETWORK AWARE PEER TO PEER - The present invention relates to a method for selecting suitable peers in a peer to peer network for content downloading whereby identities of peers possessing a specified content are received to a coordinating node. The method comprises steps of fetching network parameters associated with the received identities from a public data base and steps of grouping the peers with respect to the network parameters. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289144 | BROADCASTING EVENTS AFFECTING PUBLIC SAFETY - A system includes a marker having a marker range. The marker is configured to receive a message from an operation center, wherein the message identifies an event associated with the marker range. A device is configured to receive the message from the marker in response to the device entering the marker range and determine whether to communicate that message by the device. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289145 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DISTRIBUTED PEER TO TRANSMIT MULTIMEDIA DATA IN WIRELESS PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - Disclosed are a wireless peer to peer network system, a distributed peer discovering method for transmitting multimedia data in a wireless peer to peer network, and a method for responding to a request signal for requesting transmission of multimedia data in the wireless peer to peer network. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a distributed peer discovering method for transmitting multimedia data in a wireless peer to peer network, the method including: transmitting a request signal including information on multimedia data to be requested by a first terminal, to neighboring terminals; when at least one second terminal having the requested multimedia data receives the request signal, determining a backoff duration in accordance with at least one of a signal to interference noise ratio of the request signal, an idle reproduction buffer capacity of the second terminal, and a remaining battery capacity of the second terminal and transmitting a response signal to the first terminal after standing by during the determined backoff duration; and transmitting a message for requesting transmission of the multimedia data to the second terminal transmitting the response signal first received by the first terminal. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295949 | Distributed Computing Using Communities - Distributed computing using communities is described. In an embodiment computations in a distributed computing system are driven and controlled by a document storing a distributed computing graph, a graph layout view of that graph and visualization elements. For example, the document is replicated and synchronized at each of a plurality of entities in the distributed computing system. In examples a community may be drawn as a rectangle or other shape in the graph layout view and represents one or more computing resources in the distributed computing system. For example by placing graphical elements representing currently executing processes into the community on the graph layout view a user is able to ensure that those processes execute using the computing resources of the community. In examples communities may be nested and may have parameters specifying conditions which are to be met by the computing resources they represent. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295950 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING USER INFORMATION TO A TELECOMMUNICATION CLIENT - A method and arrangement for providing information to a client from a client access network regarding a requested set of users, at least some of which are connected to other access networks. In response to a client subscription request, the client access network establishes a network subscription with the other access networks. Information updates regarding users in the set are then continuously received and stored in a database of the client access network, whenever the users change their state. In response to a subsequent request for user information from the client, corresponding stored user information is retrieved from the database and sent in a notification to the client. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295951 | METHOD, LOGIN SERVER, MEETING SERVER AND PC CLIENT FOR HOLDING MEETING WHEN PC CLIENT IS BOUND WITH HARD TERMINAL - The present invention discloses a method for holding a meeting when a PC client is bound with a hard terminal, a login server, a meeting server and a PC client. The method comprises: the PC client obtaining address information of a meeting server from a login server; establishing a signaling channel between the PC client and the meeting server according to the address information; and the PC client sending a meeting control signaling message to the meeting server through the signaling channel to control the meeting. In the present invention, the PC client obtains the address information of the meeting server from the login server when the user logs in, and then directly establishes the signaling channel between the PC client and the meeting server according to the address information, so that the PC client can send the meeting control signaling message to the meeting server through the signaling channel to control the meeting, and the function of holding a meeting when the PC client is bound with a hard terminal can be realized. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295952 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE DISPLAY AND NAVIGATION OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for the display and navigation of a social network or set forth. According to one embodiment a method comprising identifying a first profile in a social network, identifying associated profiles associated with the first profile, ranking the associated profiles, wherein ranking is not based exclusively on a degree of separation, and outputting the associated profiles based at least in part on the ranking is set forth. According to another embodiment a method comprising identifying a user profile, identifying a member profile, determining an association path for the user profile and the member profile, and outputting the association path is set forth. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302244 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR OBSCURING DIAMETER NODE INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for a system for obscuring DIAMETER node information in a communication network. The system includes a DIAMETER agent platform. The DIAMETER agent platform includes a network interface for receiving a message from a first DIAMETER node. The DIAMETER agent platform further includes a DIAMETER information hiding module for modifying, in the first message, DIAMETER information for the first DIAMETER node so as to obscure the identity of the first diameter node. The diameter agent includes a routing module for routing the modified message to a second DIAMETER node. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302245 | REALIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARTICIPATING IN A PREDEFINED GROUP SESSION - The present invention discloses a realization method and system for participating in a predefined group session, and the method comprises: a controller function server receives a group session participation request sent by a terminal, wherein the group session participation request carries a conversation identifier and a contribution identifier; and the controller function server sends the conversation identifier and the contribution identifier to other terminals which participate in a predefined group session subsequently. By means of the present invention, a uniform identifier of a group session is configured for the terminals so that the terminals can participate in a predefined group session correctly, trace an established session accurately or initiate a same session repeatedly according to the uniform identifier, and therefore the present invention fill the gaps in the related technology. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302246 | SHARING OF CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH EVENTS - Techniques are provided that allow users to collaborate in relationship to data views, application displays, applications or events. A user can type in a text view related to a specific view in an application display, and the information is shared with other users that take part in sharing that view. A user that expresses an interest in an event is notified about the event and has the capability to interact, in relation to the event, with other users (e.g. by text). The particular form of interaction (and sharing) can be selectively specified. This interaction is comparable to a dynamic bulletin board where the subject is event driven, and where a user can specify who are allowed to participate. In the case of an event interest(s), users specify their interest (e.g. in other user application events or system events) and the system automatically alerts them to the occurrence of the event. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307550 | SIMULTANEOUS PARTICIPATION IN A PLURALITY OF WEB CONFERENCES - A method for simultaneously participating in a plurality web conferences may include generating, by a computer system, a web conference instance for each web conference being joined. The method may also include polling a corresponding web conferencing server for web conference information by each web conference instance on the computer system. The method may additionally include polling for both audio and video information in response to a chosen web conference instance being an active web conference instance on the computer system. The polling may be performed at a predetermined time interval or polling term. The method may further include setting a polling term for each inactive web conference instance on the computer system that is longer than the predetermined time interval or polling term of the active web conference instance. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307551 | Sharing of User Preferences - Sharing of user preferences is described. In an embodiment a user preference associated with a user is shared with a group of users in order to improve the relevance of results they receive. A database is used to store information detailing a number of groups of users extracted from a social network graph, where the social network graph describes connections between users. On receipt of a user preference associated with a user, a group of users containing the user is selected and the user preference is then shared with everyone in the selected group. In a further embodiment, the groups of users in the database may comprise cohesive groups of users and an extended group associated with each cohesive group. When selecting a group to share preference data with, a cohesive group containing the user is first selected and then the preference data is shared with the corresponding extended group. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307552 | Method and System for Moving a Project in a Complex Event Processing Cluster - System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for moving a project in a complex event processing cluster are provided. In an embodiment, project movement in a complex event processing cluster initiates once project persistence capability exists. A handoff of the project from a source node to a destination node in the complex event processing cluster is coordinated by a manager without losing messages and without relying on a message guarantee delivery protocol. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK USING GENOME INFORMATION - A system and method for forming an online social network using genome information, comprising a web server that creates a database of detailed information of members, including genome information of the member, as inputted from member terminals, and which generates a social network on the world wide web based on the genome information of the members. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307554 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF EFFICIENT DATA COMMUNICATION REFLECTING INTENTION OF SENDER WHO TRANSMITS DATA, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A CPU checks the number of times of transfer of reception data. Then, the CPU determines whether the number of times of transfer is greater than 0 or not. When it is determined that the number of times of transfer is greater than 0, the number of times of transfer is updated. Then, when it is determined that a transfer condition is satisfied, the CPU allows the reception data of which number of times of transfer has been updated to be copied and stored in a transmission BOX. When reception data satisfying the transfer condition (having a value of the number of times of transfer greater than 0) is received, that reception data will be copied and stored in the transmission BOX. Namely, since the reception data is stored in the transmission BOX, the reception data will be transmitted further to another game device. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307555 | Synchronization and Collaboration Within Peer-to-Peer and Client/Server Environments - Tools and techniques are described for synchronization and collaboration within peer-to-peer and client/server environments. These tools may provide methods that include establishing peer-to-peer relationships between two or more client systems. These relationships enable the client systems to create respective local instances of workspaces, shared between the client systems to allow them to collaborate with one another. The client systems may participate in peer-to-peer synchronization flows with one another, with the synchronization flows representing updates made local to the shared workspaces of the client systems. The methods may also establish establishing a client/server relationship between one of the client systems and a server system. Through this client/server relationship, the client and server systems may participate in client/server synchronization flows, with these flows representing updates made to the local shared workspace at the client system. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSFER IN A PEER-TO-PEER HYBRID COMMUNICATION NETWORK - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to transfer data directly to another endpoint. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314097 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IDENTIFYING A COMMUNICANT IN A COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems are described for identifying a communicant in a communication. For a communication between a contactor node, representing a contactor communicant, and a contactee node, representing a contactee communicant, an identifier of one of the contactor communicant and the contactee communicant is received. Based on the received identifier, an alias is located for the contactor communicant when the received identifier identifies the contactee communicant and for the contactee communicant when the received identifier identifies the contactor communicant. Presentation information is sent to present the alias in a representation of the communication presented via an output device. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314098 | RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Managing relationships in a social network service implemented by at least one processor includes: establishing with the at least one processor a quantified interaction goal for at least a first party and a second party corresponding to a period of time; determining with the at least one processor, prior to an expiration of the period of time, that a current quantified accumulated interaction between the first party and the second party is inconsistent with the quantified interaction goal; and automatically performing a remedial action with the at least one processor to facilitate adjusting the quantified accumulated interaction between the first party and the second party to a level consistent with the quantified interaction goal. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314099 | TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM - A transmission terminal communicates contents data with a counterpart transmission terminal through a first session, and transmits management data to a management system through a second session. When a predetermined event that may prevent or interrupt communication with a user at the counterpart terminal is detected, the transmission terminal obtains countermeasure data, and transmits the countermeasure data to the management system through the second session. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314100 | Method For Improving Peer To Peer Network Communication - The present invention relates to a node for deployment on a peer to peer network. The node is programmed for monitoring the network to receive communication messages therefrom and to forward the communication messages, optionally changing the communications radius parameters to an optimal or near optimal value. The node can forward messages from one network to another or from one network to the same network. The invention also provides a method for monitoring communication messages for selected objects by nodes on a peer to peer network. The method includes interposing the node on the network. The node has at least one stored object corresponding to a communication message object stored the node; and monitors the network to detect communication messages matching at least one of the stored objects and decides whether or not to forward or change communication message radius parameters based on some defined programming or configuration. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314101 | MANAGEMENT, ANALYTICAL AND DISTRIBUTION TOOL FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS - A method of distributing content over multiple social media networks and providing analysis based thereon is disclosed herein. Additionally, an apparatus for carrying out the method are disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes: (1) a content publisher configured to automatically distribute content over multiple social media networks according to a delivery schedule; and (2) an action analyzer configured to monitor, on at least one of the social media networks, reaction to the content that has been distributed and generate a stimulus report based on the reaction according to a selectable format. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HUNT GROUPS - A computing device defines one or more hunt groups on a client, wherein the one or more hunt groups are defined based, at least in part, upon information specific to the client. The computing device receives a request for a communication session at the client. The request for the communication session is directed, by the computing device, to one or more members of the one or more hunt groups based, at least in part, upon the one or more defined hunt groups. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320535 | EFFICIENT PAIRING OF NETWORKED DEVICES - A system, apparatus, and method for enabling a communication device to be paired with multiple other communication devices that are connected to a network without the need to conduct a separate pairing operation between the first communication device and each of the other network-connected devices. The data exchanged between a user's communication device and a peer communication device (e.g., one of a group of network-connected communication devices) that is used to authenticate communications between the user device and the peer device (i.e., link key) is stored in a network-accessible data storage and retrieval system. The link key is used by the user device when attempting to establish communications with a different peer device (e.g., another one of the network-connected devices) and is retrieved by the other network-connected peer device and used to enable authenticated communications between the other peer device and the user device. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005272 | RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT APPARATUS, RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a relationship support apparatus capable of preventing a user from inconsistently applying for relationships. An receiving section ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120005273 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, STANDARDS, SOA INFRASTRUCTURE, SEARCH ALGORITHM AND A BUSINESS METHOD TEHREOF FOR AI ENABLED INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTATION (ICC) FRAMEWORK (NEWALTER) OPERATED BY NETALTER OPERATING SYSTEM (NOS) IN TERMS OF NETALTER SERVICE BROWSER (NSB) TO DEVICE ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNET AND ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK ENGROSSING UNIVERSALLY DISTRIBUTED GRID SUPERCOMPUTING AND PEER TO PEER FRAMEWORK - A communication system, method and standards for convergence solution to prevailing communication technologies & concepts includes rich client enabled, service oriented distributed information computation and communication (ICC) framework. The distributed network comprises of plurality of clients at specified level of operation in the framework architecture essentially following TFHL networking standards for secured information management identified as NetAlter framework and said distributed framework (NetAlter) comprising of the Service Browser Application for accessing the ICC framework contents in plurality of ways including peer to peer, offline, online etc. irrespective of operating system in use and location parameter. The business method under proposition thereof is essentially based on the browser software following the clustering logic involved therein comprising the explorer for administrative functions and information management assuring secure, piracy free and faster application for communication which forms computational grid wherein connected member to utilize the frameworks' computational resources to the supercomputing extent. | 01-05-2012 |
20120011200 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA STORAGE IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - One embodiment of the present invention provides a peer-to-peer (P2P) data-storage system. The system includes a P2P network, a file upload module configured to receive a file uploaded by a user, a file processing module configured to disassemble the received file into a plurality of file blocks and select a plurality of peer nodes from the P2P network, and a file distribution module configured to distribute the file blocks to the selected peer nodes. A respective file block is distributed to a respective peer node. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011201 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for transmitting information based on social network is provided in the present invention, in order to solve the problem that information transmission within users of a social network may cost high resources. The method includes: calculating information transmission capacity of an obtained user identity according to user information corresponding to the obtained user identity; storing user identities of which transmission capacities are greater than a predetermined threshold into an initial seed user queue; and transmitting information to be sent to a client of which the user identity is stored in the initial seed user queue. Since information to be sent is targeted transmitted to users in a social network having relative high transmission capacities, the cost of information transmission within the users will be reduced. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011202 | GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT CONNECTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - To enhance information about connections in a social networking service, embodiments of the invention enable users to reference nodes while posting content to a communication channel. To identify connections within content in the social networking service, users of the social networking service are provided an interface to post content items in communication channels of the social networking service. A trigger received in the interface indicates that a user wishes to identify a connection in the posted content item. Selectable links enable the user to mention another node in the social networking service when posting a content item. As users reference nodes in content items, information about the connections with the referenced nodes is gathered and stored in a database that is indexable and searchable in real-time. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016936 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISSEMINATION OF CONTENT DATA BETWEEN PEERS IN A P2P MODE, BY USING A TWO-LEVEL RAMDOMIZED PEER OVERLAY AND A DYNAMIC UNCHOKE MECHANISM - A method is intended for controlling dissemination of content data in a peer-to-peer mode between peers connected to different communication networks. This method comprises the steps of: i) building, for each peer, a first peer set comprising active peers that are primary connected neighbours close to this peer in terms of network cost and a second peer set comprising active peers that are secondary connected neighbours of this peer, chosen at random irrespectively of network cost, and ii) dynamically determining into each peer a capacity of content data it is ready to receive from peers of the second peer set, taking into account its current capacity to receive content data from peers of the first peer set, in order to optimize the peer-to-peer dissemination of the content data. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016937 | System and Method for Customized Experiences in a Shared Online Environment - There is provided a system and method for providing customized experiences to a plurality of client stations in a shared environment. There is provided an accounts database having data relating to a plurality of clients, an online server having a server processor and hosting the shared environment for access by the plurality of client stations, and an online client application for execution by a client processor of a client station. The server processor is configured to retrieve client data from the accounts database relating to a client, determine client preferences of the client based on the client data, create a customized environment from the shared environment according to the client preferences, and send the customized environment to the online client application of a client station associated with the client for rendering the customized environment on a client display. User interactions may be filtered to maintain a shared environment perception. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016938 | USER ALIASES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A technique is disclosed in the context of a communications system whereby parties accessible through the system may be referenced by multiple alternative symbolic names. User profile information for a given party may be maintained in the system to control features and routing behavior in response to session request involving the party. By virtue of a mapping capability, one or more symbolic names may be associated with the same user profile information. A session request involving any of the alternative names for a party will evoke the same user profile. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023166 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A terminal, server, system, and method for providing private tag information by the terminal accessible to the server through a wired/wireless communication network are provided. The method includes recognizing an object, detecting private tag information related to the recognized object, the private tag information including a sharing range, and outputting the detected private tag information. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023167 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR TRANSFERRING A COLLABORATION SESSION - A method for transferring a collaboration session from a handheld device to a multimedia endpoint by encoding session data for the collaboration session and/or instructions into an optically machine-readable representation of data, displaying the data on a display of the handheld device, and optically providing the data to a multimedia endpoint the collaboration session is to be transferred to. The multimedia endpoint may send a message to a server upon detecting the data, causing the server to transfer the collaboration session, based on the session data in the message. Alternatively, the multimedia endpoint establishes a session with another multimedia endpoint based on the instructions and/or session data. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023168 | SHARING OF INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH APPLICATION EVENTS - Techniques are provided that allow users to collaborate in relationship to data views, application displays, applications or events. A user can type in a text view related to a specific view in an application display, and the information is shared with other users that take part in sharing that view. A user that expresses an interest in an event is notified about the event and has the capability to interact, in relation to the event, with other users (e.g. by text). The particular form of interaction (and sharing) can be selectively specified. This interaction is comparable to a dynamic bulletin board where the subject is event driven, and where a user can specify who are allowed to participate. In the case of an event interest(s), users specify their interest (e.g. in other user application events or system events) and the system automatically alerts them to the occurrence of the event. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NEIGHBOR CONNECT SERVICE - Provided are a system and a method for providing a neighbor connect service. The neighbor connect service method sets up a neighbor relationship between internal blogs and external blogs and provides information about a blog set up as the neighbor relationship based on the neighbor connect service. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030285 | Communication Device,Computer Program Product, and Communication Control Method - A communication device includes an opening portion that opens a port that is to be used when peer to peer communication is performed with another communication device, a first transmission portion that adds a port number of the port and additional information to a first request packet and transmits the first request packet to the other communication device, a determination portion that, in a case where a response packet in response to the first request packet is not received and a second request packet is received from the other communication device, determines whether to transmit a positive response packet to the other communication device, based on additional information added to the second request packet, and a second transmission portion that transmits the positive response packet to the other communication device in a case where the determination portion determines that the positive response packet is to be transmitted. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030286 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030287 | Matching Social Network Users - Systems and methods are disclosed for matching of individuals to one another using a matching model. The matching model matches social network users based on ratings given by users one to another, as well as, as appropriate and available, explicit attributes indicated by users and other data such as location data and system usage data. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036187 | DECENTRALIZED DATA CASTING IN AN ITEREST AWARE PEER NETWORK - Systems and methods for data casting in an interest aware peer network are provided. The method comprises determining whether a set of interests associated with a node in a network is updated, wherein the set of interests comprises one or more topics IDs, wherein each topic ID corresponds to a topic of interest associated with said node; distributing the set of interests associated with the node to one or more neighboring nodes by way of a first distribution scheme until N nodes in the network are aware of the updated set of interests for the node; providing each node in the network with a mechanism to determine value of a topic of interest in a set of interests received in association with a node based on a topic ID included in the set of interests for the node. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036188 | Method and Apparatus for Aggregating Document Information - An apparatus, comprising a processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving information from a first external apparatus indicating that the first external apparatus received a document associated with a uniform resource locator, evaluating the received information and the historic document information, aggregating at least part of the received information to the historic document information based at least in part on the evaluation, and providing at least part of the aggregated historic document information to a second external apparatus is disclosed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036189 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, SERVER, AND REGISTRATION METHOD - A server notifies another user that a virtual item of the user has been registered when the virtual item of the user has been registered, receives a registration request for the virtual item of the user from the terminal of the other user, and registers the virtual item of the user in association with the identification information of the other user as a virtual item of the other user when the registration request for the virtual item of the user from the terminal of the other user has been received. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING COMPRESSION HISTORIES BETWEEN MULTIPLE DEVICES - Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve the length and number of compression history matches. Further, by sharing compression histories and compression history indexes across multiple devices, devices can utilize data previously transmitted to other devices to compress network traffic. Any combination of the systems and methods may be used to efficiently find long matches to stored data, synchronize the storage of previously sent data, and share previously sent data among one or more other devices. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036191 | Configuring a Syndicated Feed to Track Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a profile page of a user on an online social network, accessing cached content from a syndicated feed, determining the last time the content from the syndicated feed was updated, and if the last time the content was update was before a particular time, then updated the profile page of the user to include the cached content, else, accessing the syndicated feed and updating the profile page of the user to include updated content. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036192 | NAT Traversal for Media Conferencing - Methods for establishing a direct peer-to-peer (“P2P”) connection between two computers are disclosed. In particular, the methods are designed to work in cases where one or both of the computers are connected to a private network, such private networks being interconnected via a public network, such as the Internet. The connections between the private network and the public network are facilitated by network address translation (“NAT”). | 02-09-2012 |
20120036193 | NAT Traversal for Media Conferencing - Methods for establishing a direct peer-to-peer (“P2P”) connection between two computers are disclosed. In particular, the methods are designed to work in cases where one or both of the computers are connected to a private network, such private networks being interconnected via a public network, such as the Internet. The connections between the private network and the public network are facilitated by network address translation (“NAT”). | 02-09-2012 |
20120042013 | Web Community Pre-Population Method and System - Populating users of a web community into groups. The users may be assigned to, or otherwise associated with, one or more groups in response to an event associated with the user, with another user, with a group, or other type of event. The users may also be removed from a group in response to an event. The population of users into groups can be controlled by a configurable set of rules. These rules can include criteria for associating a user with, or removing a user from, a group in response to an event. The criteria can include criteria based on user information and criteria based on group information. The users may be related to one another in a hierarchical structure. | 02-16-2012 |
20120042014 | CALENDAR INTERFACE FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS - Information from communications is displayed in a calendar format. Text from the communications is used to determine whether a scheduling entry should be created. If so, text from the communication is used to create a proposed calendar or to-do list entry, which can be saved, modified or canceled by the user. Information from a call log can be filtered and displayed in a calendar format. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047207 | Online Location Sharing Through an Internet Service Search Engine - Online location sharing through an internet service search engine includes: receiving in a server a query from a first user, the query identifying a second user; querying multiple internet services with the server over a network for real-time information regarding the second user; and providing a consolidated view of responses received from the plurality of internet services to the first user with the server, the server being authorized by the second user to receive all information relevant to the second user contained in the responses; wherein the consolidated view of responses indicates an online location of the second user. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047208 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PUBLICATION VIA A WEBSITE IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a method of a mobile terminal controlling information publication via a website are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal includes: a wireless communication unit for accessing a social networking service (SNS) website; a user input unit for receiving an input of information to be published at the accessed SNS website; a position location module for obtaining a current position of the mobile terminal; and a controller for: determining whether the obtained current position is located within a specific location area; preventing publication of the input information at the accessed SNS website if it is determined that the obtained current position is located within the specific location area; and allowing publication of the input information if it is determined that the obtained current position is not located within the specific location area. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047209 | Self-Organizing Community System - The invention provides self-organization methodologies and system for internet users to build web-based organizational hierarchical structure that is constituent of units within which direct and sufficient communication can be fulfilled. Each unit is administrated autonomously through the democratic-decision process, and processes information internally. The members of unit can designate or replace its leader anytime through election; the leader elect of a unit will then become a member of its direct upper unit in the structure, representing its unit to participate in the management and election of upper unit and to bring the consolidated results of its unit to the upper unit for further consolidation; recursively, a hierarchical structure is to form from bottom to upper progressively, and to produce different level of end products at different layer. Taking the advantage of self-organization methodologies, the SOC & SOwiki platform and systems are to be designed and implemented to support various applications of SOC & SOwiki structures that are created to satisfy different social needs or business models. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047210 | FEATURE DELIVERY PACKETS FOR PEER-TO-PEER BASED FEATURE NETWORK - A device communicates with feature peers, associated with a network, to obtain information associated with the feature peers, and receives a customer packet. The device also determines, based on the feature peer information, which of the feature peers support a feature associated with the customer packet, and selects, from the determined feature peers, a set of feature peers for the customer packet to traverse. The device further associates, with the customer packet, an additional packet used for delivering the feature associated with the customer packet, and forwards the customer packet and the additional packet to one of the feature peers in the selected set of feature peers. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047211 | System and Method for Content Development - This invention relates to a system and methods for developing content. In general, in one aspect, a method for developing content includes electronically distributing a specification for content to a distributed community of content developers, receiving submissions from each of a subset of the community of content developers in response to the distributed specification, holding a first vote in which a group of voters rank a first number of submissions and identify the order in which they predict the submissions will be ranked by others, selecting the highest scoring submissions in the first vote, holding a second vote to evaluate the submissions that receive the highest score in the first vote; and selecting a winner based on the second vote. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059879 | Method for Achieving P2P Communication on Webpage - The present invention relates to the field of network technology, specifically to a method for achieving P2P communication on webpage. The method includes the steps of: 1) accessing a webpage by a user, calling an interface of a flash to connect with a socket server, connecting with a stratus server to acquire a key and monitoring received messages by the flash; 2) sending a username and the key of a source user to the socket server by the flash and storing the username and the key of the source user by the socket server; 3) acquiring the key of the target user from the socket server and sending a message out via the netconnection and the key of the target user by the flash on the webpage of the source user; 4) displaying the message on the webpage of the target user after the flash of the webpage of the target user receives the message. The method can implement p2p communication on webpage, establish connection among the users directly, reduce the pressure on the bandwidth of the server, thereby enhancing communication efficiency and network utilization. | 03-08-2012 |
20120059880 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Communication Between Participants in a Virtual Environment - A method and apparatus for managing communication between participants in a virtual environment enables the participants to elect to automatically connect with each other via a preferred communication mechanism, manually connect with each other, or choose not to connect with each other. The connection may be point-to-point between two participants or may include multiple participants. Establishment of a connection, or the ability to establish a connection, may be based on the proximity of the participants, or the Avatars representing the participants, in the virtual environment. Once the connection is established, the connection may be managed so that the connection is maintained while the Avatars remain proximate each other and is automatically severed once the Avatars move away from each other. Environmental noise and other audio aspects may be included in the connection to simulate a real-world conversation. | 03-08-2012 |
20120059881 | System and Method for Enabling Characters to be Manifested Within A Plurality of Different Virtual Spaces - A system and method for providing virtual spaces, where a character associated with a user can be manifested within instances of a plurality of the different virtual spaces. Since a single character can be manifested within instances of different virtual spaces, the character can be transferred by the corresponding user between instances of different virtual spaces and controlled by the user to interact with the different virtual spaces. When the user transfers the character between instances of different virtual spaces (and/or different types of virtual spaces), various aspects of the character may persist between the different virtual spaces (and/or the different types of virtual spaces). This may provide an enhanced continuity to the character between the different virtual spaces. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066301 | SOCIAL NETWORKING WITH AUTONOMOUS AGENTS - A system and method that allow non-human autonomous agents to participate in a social internet network. The system defines the autonomous agent by a standard email address, website address, or other such identification, that allows human participants of the social network to contact the non-human autonomous agent to perform some operation through the Internet. In one non-limiting example, the non-human autonomous agent is a vehicle that allows the vehicle owner, or user, to contact the vehicle through the social network to perform some operation, such as unlocking the vehicle doors, and allow authorized participants of the social network to see the vehicle as a participant of the network to gain information therefrom, such as the location of the vehicle. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066302 | CROWD FORMATION BASED ON PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES AND OTHER RULES - The present disclosure relates to forming crowds of users taking into account known physical boundaries. In general, current locations of a number of users are obtained. A crowd of users is then formed based on the current locations of the users while taking into account one or more known physical boundaries such that the crowd does not include spatially proximate users on opposite sides of the one or more known physical boundaries. By utilizing known physical boundaries in a spatial crowd formation process, users that are spatially proximate to one another but are separated by a physical boundary are not included in the same crowd. In this manner, the spatial crowd formation process provides accurate and meaningful crowd formation in environments such as, but not limited to, buildings with multiple rooms, shopping malls, or the like. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066303 | SYNCHRONIZED GROUP LOCATION UPDATES - Systems and methods are disclosed in which a location update for a user is utilized as a location update for the user and one or more additional users that have been location-synchronized to the user. In general, a location update is received for a first user. One or more second users that have been location-synchronized to the first user are then identified. A location reported by the location update for the first user is recorded, or stored, as a current location of the first user and a current location of each of the one or more second users that have been location-synchronized to the first user. A location-based service, such as a social location-based service, may then be provided based on the current locations of the first and one or more second users. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066304 | CONTENT CONFIGURATION FOR DEVICE PLATFORMS - The present technology includes a digital content authoring tool for authoring digital content without the need to understand or access computer code. The present technology further includes creating digital content that is compatible with a diverse population of end user devices without the need for separate versions of the completed content. Instead, the digital authoring tool can manage versions of assets, which individually, can be compatible with different device criteria. Additionally, the present technology contemplates methods of delivering packages of the digital content that are configured to be compatible with the hardware configuration of each requesting device, despite the diverse capabilities of end user devices. Accordingly, the technology described herein provides a simple method for creating and delivering digital content that is configured for presentation on a user's specific device. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066305 | TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A datagram transmitting system includes a server and a client. The client includes a first transmitting module and a detecting module. The server includes a management module and a second transmitting module. The detecting module detects whether network congestion and generates a status signal. If network is congested, the detecting module generates a first status signal. The first transmitting module transmits the status signal to the management module. The management module packages a first predetermined length of data into a datagram responding to the first status signal. The first predetermined signal is at most 65,507 bytes but more than 0 bytes in length. The second transmitting module transmits the datagram to the first transmitting module. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066306 | RELATIONSHIP BASED PRESENCE INDICATING IN VIRTUAL AREA CONTEXTS - A user's presence is established in a particular zone of a virtual area that is assigned to the user. An indication of the user's presence in the particular zone is transmitted to each communicant who has a respective relationship tie with the user that satisfies a governance rule that is associated with the particular zone. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066307 | INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SYSTEM FOR VOICE AND DATA - A teleconferencing system for voice and data provides interconnections among user sites via a central station. User stations at user sites each alternate operation between a data mode connecting a user computer and modem to a user telephone communication path and a voice mode connecting a telephony circuit to the communication path. The teleconferencing system is adapted for conducting a voice conference over standard telephone lines while allowing simultaneous viewing of data objects such as slides, graphs, or text. A host computer connected to the central station serves as a central repository for storage and retrieval of data objects for use in teleconferences. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066308 | DIGITAL PERSONAL ASSISTANCE VIA A BROADBAND ACCESS GATEWAY - A system and method supporting access, coordination, modification, updating, and management of multiple sources of multimedia information resident on a plurality of access device is disclosed. A broadband access gateway may support applications that perform user services involving multiple sources of multimedia information across a network by acting as a focal point for access to multimedia information related to the applications. Using information that identifies such sources, the broadband access gateway may coordinate modification of one or more multimedia information sources based upon the content of other related sources of multimedia information. One such application may include the coordination of calendars for the planning of a meeting involving multiple participants. A representative embodiment of the present invention may identify available meeting dates and times, and the placement of reservations for appropriate travel accommodations using services accessible to the broadband access gateway via a broadband network. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066309 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus ( | 03-15-2012 |
20120072493 | ASSOCIATING CAMERAS WITH USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Images uploaded by users of a social networking system are analyzed to determine signatures of cameras used to capture the images. A camera signature comprises features extracted from images that characterize the camera used for capturing the image, for example, faulty pixel positions in the camera and metadata available in files storing the images. Associations between users and cameras are inferred based on actions relating users with the cameras, for example, users uploading images, users being tagged in images captured with a camera, and the like. Associations between users of the social networking system related via cameras are inferred. These associations are used beneficially for the social networking system, for example, for recommending potential connections to a user, recommending events and groups to users, identifying multiple user accounts created by the same user, detecting fraudulent accounts, and determining affinity between users. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072494 | SOCIAL NETWORKING MANAGEMENT SERVER - A social media management server (MS) provides a single authentication point for a client device to log in to multiple social networking accounts. Through the MS, the client device can pull social networking updates to it or have them pushed to the client device. Also, the MS provides a set of APIs for all enabled client devices to interact with social networking sites/services. The MS updates APIs between itself and the social networking sites/services without changing the APIs between itself and client devices in that only mandatory changes in the MS-to-social networking servers APIs are propagated to the APIs between the MS and client devices to reduce the API update requirements on the client side. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072495 | CONTIGUOUS LOCATION-BASED USER NETWORKS - A system and method are provided for creating location-based user networks. In general, a proximity group including a number of users is identified. Each user in the proximity group is within a proximate area of at least one other user in the proximity group and has an area of interest. The areas of interest of the users in the proximity group are aggregated to provide an aggregate area of interest for the proximity group. Other users within the aggregate area of interest are identified as neighbors of each of the users in the proximity group. Once the neighbors are identified, each of the users in the proximity group may use the neighbors as members, or potential members, for a user network. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072496 | Self-Organizing Community System - The invention provides self-organization methodologies and system for internet users to build web-based organizational hierarchical structure that is constituent of units within which direct and sufficient communication can be fulfilled. Each unit is administrated autonomously through the democratic-decision process, and processes information internally. The members of unit can designate or replace its leader anytime though election; the leader elect of a unit will then become a member of its direct upper unit in the structure, representing its unit to participate in the management and election of upper unit and to bring the consolidated results of its unit to the upper unit for further consolidation; recursively, a hierarchical structure is to form from bottom to upper progressively, and to produce different level of end products at different layer. Taking the advantage of self-organization methodologies, the SOC & SOwiki platform and systems are to be designed and implemented to support various applications of SOC & SOwiki structures that are created to satisfy different social needs or business models. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072497 | SOCIAL INTERACTION APPLICATION - The social application of the first preferred embodiments includes selecting a group of users from a pool of users using an automatic selection algorithm or a combination of an automatic selection algorithm and a user driven process and putting the selected group of users into a game or putting the selected group of users into a group activity. The social application of the preferred embodiments is designed to give people an entertaining and structured way to interact, help people meet other people, give people a fun diversion, or any combination of these. The social application of the preferred embodiments may be a website, another application that uses the internet, or any other suitable form of networked application. The social application of the preferred embodiments may, however, be used for any suitable purpose, in any suitable way and with any suitable method of including users. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRE-RENDERING EXPECTED SYSTEM RESPONSE - A method for pre-rendering a system response. In one embodiment, the method includes a mobile device sending a first page request to a secondary system via a wireless communication link. The secondary system sends a first reply to the mobile device in response to the secondary system receiving the first page request, wherein the first reply comprises first page information and second page information. The mobile device stores the second page information in memory. The mobile device also displays a first page comprising a visual representation of the first page information. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE - Systems and methods for the control and management of multipoint conferences are disclosed herein, where endpoints can selectively and individually manage the streams that will be transmitted to them. Techniques are described that allow a transmitting endpoint to collect information from other receiving endpoints, or aggregated such information from servers, and process them into a single set of operating parameters that it then uses for its operation. Algorithms are described for performing conference-level show, on-demand show, show parameter aggregation and propagation, propagation of notifications. Parameters identified for describing sources in show requests include bit rate, window size, pixel rate, and frames per second. | 03-22-2012 |
20120079017 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PODCAST CONTENT - A podcast parsing application is disclosed which may provide podcast content of interest to a user. The podcast parsing application may generate a compilation of podcast content from a plurality of podcasts. When playing a podcast to a user, the podcast parsing application may identify portions of podcast content and provide only those portions of the podcast determined to be of interest to the user. Information derived from user input, metadata tags, viewing histories, popularity data, search results, audio processing techniques or other information sources may be used by the podcast parsing application to distinguish, identify or otherwise provide podcast content of interest to the user. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079018 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SHARING AWARENESS INFORMATION - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for sharing awareness information are provided. A non-aware electronic device can require awareness information including, for example, information about its environment or information about its status within its environment, in order to perform a particular device operation. When the non-aware device lacks an awareness component for detecting the required type of awareness information, the non-aware device can establish a communications path with an aware device that includes such an appropriate awareness component. The aware device can share the required type of awareness information as captured by its awareness component with the non-aware device. The distance between the non-aware device and the aware device can be less than a threshold distance to ensure that the shared awareness information is relevant to the non-aware device. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING USER INFORMATION - An approach is presented for sharing user information among devices. The identity discovery module determines one or more user identifiers. Further, the identity discovery module determines to generate a first device identifier based, at least in part, on the one or more user identifiers. Then, the identity discovery module determines to present the first device identifier in place of a second identifier as a discoverable identity of a device. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079020 | HIGHLIGHT PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON HOT TOPIC EVENT DETECTION - Provided are a system capable of providing a highlight of a real-time event using message streams of social media and a highlight service providing method using the same. The disclosed highlight providing system includes: a hot event session detection unit detecting a hot event session where a hot event occurs using message streams of social media; a keyword detection unit detecting keywords related with the hot event from the hot event session detected by the hot event session detection unit using a predetermined algorithm; a hot event generating unit generating the hot event using a semantic relation between the keywords detected by the keyword detection unit; and a highlight providing unit providing a highlight of the social media along with a description in a natural language based on the hot event generated by the hot event generating unit. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079021 | Focused Listening and Advertising Guide System and Method - A method for providing an online social network of radio listeners, the method comprising the steps of providing a database of radio stations; providing a flagging function to allow the users to generate flags to indicate one or more radio stations; providing a flag-cast comprising a continuously updated feed of the flags generated by the users; providing a profile database storing user data associated with each of the users; providing a communications interface allowing the users to communicate user information to the social network provider; providing a monitoring module to track user activities on the social network; providing an activity database to store activity data about the users; providing a flag database to store flag data related to the flags generated by the users; and providing a flag-cast component that limits the flags displayed in the flag-cast by identifying selected flags. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079022 | METHOD OF CREATING AND JOINING SOCIAL GROUP, USER DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method, user device, server, and storage medium for creating and joining a social group performed by a user device are provided. The method for creating the social group includes receiving information corresponding to a current location of the user device; receiving at least one social group condition information item; and sending a request to create a social group based on the information corresponding to the current location and the at least one social group condition information item to an external device. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079023 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A GHOST PROFILE FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system and method for generating a ghost profile is disclosed. The ghost profile allows a user to use certain features in a social network without converting to a social network profile. Specifically, the ghost profiles are unsearchable and comments that originate from a ghost profile user are displayed as partial names. The ghost profile is generated when a member of the social network invites a user to join. In one example, the member is automatically added as a friend to the user's ghost profile. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079024 | Method and management agent for event notifications correlation - Methods and apparatus for correlating event notifications between agents in a management network are provided. An agent constructs a network notification in response to receiving an event notification. If the received event notification is associated with a prior notification already received and stored by the agent, a correlation attribute is added to the constructed network notification. If the received notification matches a peer agent notification category that another agent in the management network is interested in receiving, the constructed network notification is sent to the other agent. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079025 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079026 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079027 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ORGANIZING VIRTUAL MEETINGS - A method for organizing a virtual meeting includes steps of creating a meeting file, the meeting file including at least a meeting date, a meeting start time, a meeting duration time, and a meeting code. The meeting file is stored on a memory accessible to the network, and at least one attendee is specified. A step of communicating a meeting invitation to the at least one attendee is also performed, with the invitation including at least the meeting date, meeting start time, meeting code, and a meeting entry portal. Methods and systems of the invention may be embodied in computers and computer program products. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079028 | CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system for improving performance of a content sharing system comprising content sharing clients, whereby storage means and logic means for content chunk disposed by a client is separated into different physical hosts. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079029 | Method And Arrangement For Obtaining A Media Object For A Device In A Local Network - Method and arrangement in a home gateway ( | 03-29-2012 |
20120079030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION LAYER LINK CONTROL - The present invention discloses a method and a system for application layer link control. The method comprises: judging whether the number “a” of links which have been established between an exterior IP and a multimedia messaging service gateway (MMSG) in current granularity is less than a threshold number “A” of links for establishing a connection with the MMSG in the current granularity (S | 03-29-2012 |
20120084355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING OPERABILITY WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for maintaining operability with a cloud computing environment. The apparatus includes a storage module and a local environment module. The storage module may store cloud computing data from a cloud computing environment onto a local storage device. The storage module may communicate with the cloud computing environment through a remote connection. The local environment module may operate a local cloud computing environment from the local storage device while the remote connection to the cloud computing environment is unavailable. The local cloud environment may replicate at least a portion of the cloud computing environment and may be operated from the stored cloud computing data. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA SESSION SHARING AND GROUP SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTI MEDIA STREAMS - A method and apparatus for synchronizing, transforming, modifying, duplicating and retrieving media streams between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that may not be IMS-capable in real-time, via Inter-User Equipment Transfer (IUT) across any internet protocol (IP) based network. This framework allows for both collaborative and non-collaborative media sessions, media session transport and shared media session control under the same subscription or multiple subscriptions. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084357 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT USING COMMUNICATIONS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORM - A collaboration service operation method provides an efficient and flexible method for operating services implemented across multiple systems. In particular, the method includes determining a change in a master record, and determining the nature of the change. Based on the nature of the change, the method further determines services to be implemented according to business rules and also determines to which systems the services will be implemented. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084358 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY FINDING - Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084359 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device in an information communication system in which node devices are connected to an overlay network, and contents are distributed in the node devices, includes: an acquisition unit acquiring domain information from an inquiry device; a retrieval unit retrieving the content corresponding to the indicted domain name; a transmission unit transmitting, to the inquiry device, location information of the node device that saves the content corresponding to the indicated domain name; a storage unit storing the location information; and a first determination unit determining whether the location information is stored in the storage unit or not. If the location information is stored in the storage unit, the transmission unit transmits the location information corresponding to the acquired domain information to the inquiry device. If the location information is not stored in the storage unit, the retrieval unit retrieves the content. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084360 | MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A COMMUNITY PAGE - A system and method for managing membership in real-time using a community page that enables communication between a member and a provider is disclosed herein. The membership management system may include an information transferring unit to transfer access information, used to encourage an access to a community page associated with or created by the provider, to at least one member, and a business information providing unit to provide business information of the provider to members who access the community page, via the community page. The membership management system may transmit information associated with an access to a community page to a member, thereby encouraging the member to access the community page. Therefore, the community page may provide real-time communication between the provider and the member. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084361 | INTER-USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TRANSFER (IUT) FOR COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS THAT INCLUDE MEDIA SESSION INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for inter-user equipment (UE) transfer (IUT) of collaborative session control and session information between WTRUs. A collaborative session control transfer request including ongoing session information is transmitted prior to transfer of session control from one WTRU to another WTRU. Ongoing session information may include information regarding media flows and devices involved in the session. A media control transfer response is transmitted in response to the transfer request. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084362 | INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE SHARING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE INDIVIDUAL SECURITY LEVEL SETTINGS - An interactive experience sharing and evaluation system is implemented through a website in one easy step. Users submit information in the form of journal entries about experiences they have had, which can include photos, videos, a rating, and comments with varying privacy levels. Other users can search through these journal entries according to their security access level and add their own information, rating, comments, etc. Users also can provide personal information and search through and connect with other users and communicate with one another regarding submitted experiences. Users construct a dream-list of desired future experiences and set up ongoing searches for new information submitted regarding the users' interests. Custom information is provided to users on the basis of the contents of their dream-lists, and include advertisements. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084363 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTION BASED ON LICENSE OR OTHER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - Methods and systems for facilitating user interaction are described. One such method includes receiving, from a first user device, identification information associated with a targeted user and retrieving, from a database, contact information associated with the identification information. The method may further include providing the contact information to the first user device to facilitate communication between the first user device and a user device of the targeted user and/or providing a message to the user device of the targeted user. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089676 | LIVE DATA FORM VIEWING AND UPDATING SYSTEM - A live data form system is provided that includes a client that executes a browser that receives one or more user requests to view or update a live data form being stored remotely. The live data form includes a plurality of data blocks having information that defines the live data form. The browser issues a first message with respect to viewing or updating the live data form. A server receives the first message and executes a first routine that analyzes the contents of the first message and formulates one or more query statements associated with a data block to be executed by one or more remote databases. When the one or more remote databases finish performing the one or more query statements, the server issues a second message to the browser that includes the results of the one or more query statements executed by the one or more remote databases via the client to either view or update the live data form. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089677 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NETWORK SERVICES - The present invention provides a system for intermediating between client nodes and pools of server nodes in an NGN network where the server nodes provide network services to client nodes, wherein the client nodes use various communication protocols and at least part of said communication protocols are different from the communication protocol used by the server nodes. The system comprising: a cluster of associated gateway nodes providing an integrated service for the clients nodes, where each gateway provides services of at least one of: translations of request and answers between the client node and a provider server node, load balancing and managing scenario rules. Each gateway comprise: a database of scripts including, scenario rules, routing scripts and associated transformation scripts, an execution processing module for handling events of at least client requests and server answers according to scenario rules. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089678 | Locally Hosting a Social Network Using Social Data Stored on a User's Computer - Systems and methods to host a social network locally on a user's computing device using social data at the user device. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining, on a local computing device of a user, social data regarding social relationships of the user in order to support a social network of the user; and hosting, via the local computing device, the social network. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089679 | SELECTING AND SHARING PERSONAL USER INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A USER EQUIPMENT - A method, user equipment and computer program for of selecting and sharing personal user information associated with the user equipment. The method is performed by the user equipment and comprises the steps of: establishing communication with a responding user equipment; selecting a subset of the personal user information, as a function of a history record of a previous exchange of personal user information between the user equipment and the responding user equipment; and transmitting the subset of the personal user information to the responding user equipment. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089680 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SESSION CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus controls a session with respect to at least one other communication apparatus by using a basic method or a reply of a call control protocol. The communication apparatus includes a message receiving section that receives a message which is transmitted from the other communication apparatus, and the message in which reconnection control information related to an operation after an end of the session is described in the basic method or the reply, and a first controlling section that performs a reconnection control based on the reconnection control information contained in the message. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096084 | SHARED MEDIA EXPERIENCE DISTRIBUTION AND PLAYBACK - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for providing a shared user experience during media playback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a shared user experience during media playback is provided. The method includes selecting for a particular user a media file for playback in a media player executing in memory by a processor of a computer. The method also includes retrieving a shared user experience audio file recorded for a different user during a previous playback of the selected media file. Finally, the method includes playing back for the particular user both the selected media file and the retrieved shared user experience audio file concurrently in the media player. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096085 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING INSTANT MESSAGE DEVICE CONTROL AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a control device having an instant message (IM) device contact associated therewith. The communications system may also include a control gateway having an IM gateway contact associated therewith and may be configured to communicate with a controllable device over a network. The control gateway may be configured to validate the IM device contact. The control device may be configured to communicate with the controllable device through the control gateway after validation and based upon the IM device contact and the IM gateway contact. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING MEDIA PROGRAMS BASED ON CORRELATED USER FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus for recommending a media program of a set of media programs to a user of a set of users is disclosed. The method and apparatus computes a measure w | 04-19-2012 |
20120096087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PUBLICATIONS VIA COLLABORATION - The system and method herein described allows home cooks and professional chefs with basic computer skills create recipes with photo slideshows and videos, collect and organize recipes in electronic cookbooks that can be published and sold as eBooks. The new process incorporates methods for computing calories, nutritional facts and food group servings of recipes, and comparing said nutrients and food group servings to recommended daily allowances. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL COMPATIBILITY - A device, system and method for determining user compatibility. Information may be received recording the usage of media by two or more users at associated user devices. The recorded media usage for the users may be compared. A measure of compatibility may be determined between the two or more users based on the comparison. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096089 | CURBSYD.TM.: A MOBILE AND WEB-BASED COMMUNITY FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME, EXPERT CONSULTATION, AND ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC CLINICAL QUESTIONS, USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND CROWD-SOURCING TECHNOLOGIES - A smart electronic communications network comprised of clinicians and experts designed for the purpose of answering diagnostic and clinical questions and queries posed by subscribers and participants in of the network. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096090 | Method for Processing Messages and Network Device - A method for processing messages comprises: a first device sending a neighbor solicitation message to a second device, and then creating information of the second device based on a neighbor advertisement message replied by the second device; the first device sending a detection request message to the second device based on the created information of the second device, and determining whether a detection reply message sent by the second device is received in a period of time, and if it is not received, then the first device deleting the created information of the second device. Accordingly, a network device is provided comprising a neighbor solicitation message sending module, a neighbor advertisement message receiving module, an information creating module, a detection request message sending module and a detection reply message receiving module. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102103 | RUNNING LEGACY APPLICATIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS WITHOUT REWRITING - Embodiments of the invention enable an application configured to store certain information (e.g., state information) locally to be deployed to a cloud computing environment in which local storage of such information is not permitted. For example, some embodiments create a “package” of resources that the application expects to be available to it during execution, and makes the package available to the application during execution in the cloud computing environment. The package may provide the application with resources it expects to have available during execution, such as the ability to store state information locally. As a result, the application need not be substantially modified to execute in the cloud computing environment. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102104 | MATCHING ITEMS OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT TO ENTITIES - A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for matching items of user-generated content to entities is provided. Items of user-generated content, such as status updates, are gathered. For each of the items, a machine determines a degree to which the item is associated with an entity. In one aspect, items are matched to an entity by matching the content of the items to attributes of the entity. In another aspect, items are matched to an entity by predicting attributes of an author of the items and determining a distance between the predicted attributes of the author and the attributes of the entity. The distance may be a physical distance between locations of the entity and user or a contextual distance between categories for the entity and posts by the author. Items matched to the entity may be displayed on an interface concurrently with information about the entity. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102105 | ONLINE DATE PLANNING SERVERS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - A date planning server facilitates planning of a date between an initiator of the date and a subject of the date. Personal characteristics of the subject are obtained and stored. Various dating activities are obtained and stored. Personal characteristics are evaluated relative to the dating activities, to produce at least one proposed dating activity, which is suggested to the initiator. Related methods and computer program products are also provided. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102106 | DUAL-MODE WIRELESS NETWORKED DEVICE INTERFACE AND AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A wireless networked device interface is disclosed. The wireless networked device interface comprises a central processing unit (CPU), a bus coupled to the CPU, a memory/buffer coupled to the bus, a peripheral bus interface coupled to the bus, an upstream network module coupled to the bus, a downstream network module coupled to the bus and a peripheral device. The device interface includes a nonvolatile memory (NVM) coupled to the bus. The NVM includes a configuration function which through a portable device can associate with one or more portable devices on the downstream wireless network and associate with one or more access points on the upstream wireless network. The wireless networked device as well as the access point can be discovered, selected and auto-configured through the graphic user interface of one of the portable devices on the downstream wireless network. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102107 | "EYE TO EYE" SYSTEM (121): CONTACT APPARATUS OPERATING AS PORTABLE AND MOBILE MEETING SITE - Eye to Eye system (I2I): Interaction system functioning like a portable, mobile social and dating website. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102108 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a communication system and method for supporting multiple communications between users using a plurality of different services. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING A WEB SERVICE ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT SCALABLE ASYNCHRONOUS CLIENTS - An asynchronous transport enables decoupling the delivery of an operation's request and response messages, from the request and response cycle of a single exchange on the transport. The response message need not be delivered as the response to the initial transport request, but can instead be delivered by the web service to a response endpoint or other location selected by the client, using a new connection originating from the service. In accordance with an embodiment, the client communicates with the web service via request messages that include a SOAP header, formatted according to an XML format, and conveyed using the HTTP. The asynchronous transport automatically deploys, for a client, an endpoint reference that will ultimately receive corresponding response messages. This allows the response to ultimately return to the client application in a manner consistent with the JAX-WS specification, without the developer having to change their original client application. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102110 | PRESENTING INFORMATION IN A CONFERENCE - One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102111 | PRESENTING INFORMATION IN A CONFERENCE - One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102112 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF SPAM IN TAGGING SYSTEMS - A method for detection of spam in a tagging system can include assigning negative points to each tag in the tagging system responsive to the tag matching at least one spam filter criteria, assigning trust points to a tagger responsive to the tagger's behavior matching at least one tagger filter criteria, wherein the at least one tagger filter criteria depends upon tags assigned by the tagger that are assigned negative points, and restricting a tagging functionality of the tagging system for a tagger if a first predefined threshold of negative trust points is exceeded. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102113 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR RANKING CONTENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKS SUCH AS TWITTER - A system and process for ranking at least one of the quality and importance of content on a social network is disclosed. The system and process include monitoring one of actions and information of social network users, determining whether the actions or information of the social network users fits a predefined definition of a game between at least two social network users, determining the results of the game between the at least two social network users, applying a sports ranking algorithm to the results between the at least two social network users, and determining a rank of at least one of the quality and importance of content of the social network users based on an outcome of the sports ranking algorithm. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102114 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING RESPONSES ON AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for performing actions in response to information updates provided in an information feed such as a news feed capable of being displayed on a display device. In one implementation, an information update to be displayed in the information feed is received. The information update may be stored in a feed table for inclusion in the information feed. In some implementations, an indication of activation of a response request rule is received. The response request rule may be configured to create a response request related to an identified information update to request information from one or more recipients. The response request may be stored, accessed and presented in association with the identified information update in an information feed. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102115 | Multimedia Aggregation in an Online Social Network - Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102116 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROXY NODE FOR P2P STREAMING MEDIA DATA DISTRIBUTION - A method for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming media data distribution includes: receiving a media resource request message sent by a Client node, and sending a media resource query request corresponding to the message to multiple resource networks; obtaining response messages to the media resource query request; confirming Cache nodes storing the media resource according to the response messages; and requesting the media resource from the Cache nodes. The present invention further provides a system and a Proxy node for streaming media data distribution, thereby expanding an application range of live/on-demand service of a user, and increasing the flexibility of a system for streaming media distribution. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102117 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING THE PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus capable of exchanging information with another apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit for carrying out a communication with the other apparatus; a unit for acquiring information on a state of a communication with the other apparatus carried out by the communication unit; and a unit for determining image information for a user owning the other apparatus based on the information acquired by the communication-state information acquisition unit and determining an array including the image information. The apparatus further includes: a unit for generating a display image including the image information based on the array; and a unit for displaying the display image. | 04-26-2012 |
20120110071 | INFERRING USER PROFILE ATTRIBUTES FROM SOCIAL INFORMATION - User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes). | 05-03-2012 |
20120110072 | Method and System for Assessing Social Media Skills of User - The present disclosure provides a method for assessing social media skills of a user registered on multiple networks. The method includes providing a questionnaire having questions related to one or more networks to the user, and evaluating social media knowledge of the user based on answers provided by the user in the questionnaire. Further, the method includes receiving login details of an account for at least one network of the networks of the user, logging into the at least one network of with the received login details, and evaluating social media presence of the user for the at least one network based on a pre-defined criteria. Moreover, the method includes assessing the social media skills of user for the network based on result of evaluation of the social media knowledge and the social media presence. Further, disclosed is a system for assessing social media skills of a user. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110073 | SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMED MASHUP CREATION - A plurality of mashups created by a plurality of mashup authors indicated as being in a community relevant to a mashup based, at least in part, on social network data are identified in response to indication of a mashup building operation. Frequencies of a plurality of mashup configurations used by the plurality of mashup authors in the plurality of mashups are determined according to data about the plurality of mashups. A set of one or more recommendations that are associated with a set of one or more of the plurality of mashup configurations is generated for the mashup. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - An approach is provided for facilitating the delivery of content to a device through activation of an indicator executable on the device. One or more user devices are determined to receive the content from a content delivery platform using an electronic directory service. An application to provide an indicator representing the content is pushed to the device for initiating a request for the content from the device. In response to the request, a determination is made as to whether to grant the request for delivery of the content to the device. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit that, upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judges whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second terminal apparatus, and a first transmitting unit that, when the common application is present, transmits the message indicating that the first user and the second user make friend registration with the common application to one or a plurality of corresponding application server apparatuses. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110076 | VISIBILITY INSPECTOR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying digital content to an author user, the author user having authored the digital content, receiving user input from the author user, the user input corresponding to the digital content, and, in response to receiving the user input, transmitting first data and second data to the computing device for display to the author user, the first data comprising a number of contacts that are able to access the digital content and the second data indicating one or more relationships between the author user and the contacts. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110077 | System and Method Using A Simplified XML Format for Real-Time Content Publication - A system and method for delivering content in real-time using advanced messaging technology that reduces the risk of content being lost or dropped in transmission. The system and method utilize a custom, simplified XML format to deliver real-time textual, numeric, and metadata content directly to subscribers. The XML tag set specifies all of the information needed to package, process, and distribute real-time content messages and includes an advanced tagging structure that allows granular content customization. Messages are built on the fly using multi-channel data processing techniques. The XML delivery system and method offers an array of real-time market-specific page-based “Alert” services and aggregated newswires with accompanying real-time numeric data feeds. These feeds contain proprietary assessments and other price data across a broad spectrum of global and regional commodity markets, including oil, petrochemicals, metals, electric power, natural gas, coal, and risk. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110078 | APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an application execution control apparatus includes a memory, a wireless communication module, and a controller. The memory is configured to store a relationship between a first application and a first wireless communication device, and a relationship between a second application and a second wireless communication device. The wireless communication module is configured to make a wireless communication with one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device. The controller is configured to select the first application based on the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and to select the second application based on the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110079 | RELATIONSHIP AND SECURITY IN ONLINE SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES - A method is provided for evolving a defined online existing relationship between a first member and a second member, the online existing relationship defined by a plurality of existing relationship features for use in managing network interaction on a communications network between the first member and the second member. The method comprising: receiving a new online relationship having new relationship features such that the new features are different from the existing relationship features, the new relationship features being characteristic of the new relationship; aggregating the existing relationship features and the new relationship features as aggregate relationship features a combination of the existing relationship features and the new relationship features in order to define an aggregate relationship; storing the aggregate relationship features in a storage as relationship data; and accessing the relationship data in order to determine whether a selected network interaction from one of the members is permitted. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110080 | SOCIAL NETWORKING RELEVANCE INDEX - A system and method are provided for organizing a listing of activities on a social networking website, including present each user of the plurality of users an organized representation of activities, the representation of activities sorted by how relevant each activity is to the particular user. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for allowing communicating parties at remote locations to view the same displayed content and to point to desired positions on the displayed image of the content. A user A and a user B viewing themselves and the content on a cross-faded mode may point to desired positions on the content image with their fingertips. Motion vectors of the fingertips are then detected in particular areas extracted from the image in a manner containing the detected positions. The detected motion vectors are translated into a pointer for the user A and a pointer for the user B, the pointers being alpha-blended with the content image. The two pointers extracted from a single image are associated with the users A and B by use of different Cyber Codes attached to the fingertips of each user, for example. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110082 | Semantic Note Taking System - A method and system for collecting information, enriching the collected information and linking the enriched information is provided. The system includes an application server that is accessible by users via their computer device for performing a variety of functions encompassed in a lifestream data function. Lifestreams (or lifestream data) contains notes, recordings and annotation data elements. The goal of the lifestream data functions is to ultimately enrich the individual data elements in each lifestream which then form a network of enriched lifestreams or aspects of enriched lifestreams to provide a user with: (a) a better organization of his/her data, notes, thoughts and intentions, (b) a better search or filter tool to search for data, notes, thoughts and intentions, and/or (c) a better ranking mechanism for ranking or determining relevance of data, notes, thoughts and intentions. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110083 | Inter-Corporate Collaboration Overlay Solution for Professional Social Networks - A service provider includes a broker. The broker receives a request from a business organization requestor for one or more potential collaborators in a determined subject matter area; accesses one or more personal profiles maintained by one or more social network services; selects a subset of individuals described in the accessed profiles as being of potential interest to the requestor; and provides to the requestor information describing the members of the subset of individuals. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110084 | PROFILE INFORMATION BASED ON PARTICIPANT IDENTITY FOR PEER-TO-PEER SESSIONS - A method is employed in association with a communication session over a peer-to-peer network between a first node associated with a first session participant and a second node associated with a second session participant. In the method, identification information identifying the second session participant is received. Profile information descriptive of the second session participant is gathered using the identification information. The communication session is conducted using the profile information descriptive of the second session participant. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117149 | REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT AND PROVIDING POWER SAVINGS IN SESSION INITIATED PROTOCOL CONFERENCING - A method includes determining a first subset of a plurality of links to be set to a first power state and a second subset of the plurality of links to be set to a second power state, different from the first power state, based on estimated data transmission. The method also includes instructing at least one network apparatus to set the first subset of the plurality of links to the first power state and to set the second subset of the plurality of links to the second power state different from the first power state. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117150 | MULTI-HOP MIMO SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are a multi-hop MIMO system and method. The multi-hop MIMO system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a server including a plurality of virtual machines; one remote screen device first connected to the server through at least one virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines, receiving screen data from the server in a unicast scheme, and driven as a multicast server; and a plurality of different remote screen devices connected to the server through the at least one virtual machine, existing on a sub network where the one remote screen device exist, operating as multicast clients, receiving the screen data from the server or the one remote screen device in a multicast scheme, wherein the one remote screen device and the plurality of different remote screen devices simultaneously output the same screen data. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117151 | EXCHANGING DIGITAL CONTENT - A first content selection stored on a portable media device is associated with a first tag. In addition, a second tag that is associated with a second content selection and that indicates that supplemental content related to the second content selection is stored on a peer device is accessed from a peer device. The first tag is compared to the second tag, and, if a commonality shared by the first content selection and the second content selection is identified, an exchange of the supplemental content from the peer device to the portable media device is initiated. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117152 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING DATA - A system and method for providing a data collaboration environment that changes dynamically based on the occurrence of events external to the data collaboration environment is provided. The collaboration environment is defined to include roles, activities and external event specifications. Each role defines data access privileges granted to a user during a session, each activity defines with whom the user can share data, and each external event specification defines an event external to the collaboration environment which must occur before an activity is permitted for a defined role during a session. Data sharing privileges granted to a user change dynamically in response to the occurrence of an external event identified in one of the defined external event specifications. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONFERENCING SERVICES - An approach is provided for supporting multi-media conferencing. Textual information (e.g., text associated with a presentation) is received for display during a conference session to multiple participants. For a particular participant, configuration information corresponding to the participant specifies language assistance for the textual information. Language assistance involves augmenting the textual information according to the configuration information for comprehension of the textual information by the particular participant. In one embodiment, the augmented textual information includes language translation of the textual information. Additionally, the augmented textual information can encompass definitions of terms, including acronyms. The augmented textual information is forwarded for display to the participant during the conference session. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124134 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEDERATING OPEN SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR ANALYSES - Methods and arrangements for constructing and analyzing federated social networks. A first social network with a first plurality of accounts is defined, as well as a second social network with a second plurality of accounts, the second social network being unaffiliated with the second social network. The first and second social networks are federated to determine a union of the first and second social networks and an intersection of the first and second social networks, and second-order connections between one or more of the first plurality of accounts and one or more of the second plurality of accounts are ascertained, the second-order connections including connections outside of the intersection of the first and second social networks and within the union of the first and second social networks. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124135 | DELIVERY IN SESSION INITIATED PROTOCOL (SIP) CONFERENCING - A method includes determining conference data associated with a conference and determining an optimum congestion control technique for a call leg of the conference based on the conference data. The determining the conference data includes obtaining or receiving the conference data from at least one of: a Home Subscriber Service (HSS), a presence server, and a conference object. The conference is a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) conference | 05-17-2012 |
20120124136 | CONTEXT INFORMATION SHARING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT SERVICE BY SHARING CONTEXT INFORMATION BETWEEN ONE OR MORE TERMINALS - Provided are a context information sharing apparatus and method for providing an intelligent service by sharing context information between one or more terminals. The method includes collecting, at one or more terminals, user behavior-based preference information including user log information about each terminal and sensor-based context information, storing, at the one or more terminals, the collected preference information and context information in each terminal as a database, receiving, at a first terminal, a context information collection request for a target user group and identifying the target user group, collecting, at the first terminal, context information about at least one terminal included in the identified target user group, and providing, at the first terminal, preference information about the target user group extracted on the basis of the collected context information about the target user group to a user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124137 | System, Method and Apparatus for Enhanced Processing of Communication In a Peer-To-Peer Network - A system, method and apparatus for enhanced processing of communications over a peer-to-peer network is provided. More particularly, rules for the processing of calls addressed to a user over a P2P network are stored in a database. Communication requests addressed to the user are forwarded by the recipient user's computer to a remote location remote for processing in accordance with the stored rules. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124138 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VALIDATING REAL TIME NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for managing network communications are described. An example resource management system includes a communications manager configured to access information regarding communication protocols used by corresponding broker systems and to provide message translations based on an origin and/or destination of the message to be transmitted. A message processor is coupled to the communications manager and is configured to serialize incoming and/or outgoing broker messages and to facilitate queuing of incoming and outgoing message traffic with broker systems. A communications configurer is configured to track one or more communication attributes of broker systems and changes thereto to ensure communications between the resource management systems are broker systems are conducted in accordance with the communication attributes of the broker systems. A communications rules provider is configured to determine which broker system is to be communicated with in order to fulfill a resource request. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131100 | DATA COLLECTION FROM UTILITY METERS OVER ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE - Communicating data via an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). An infrastructure is disclosed that includes: a plurality of communication modules incorporated into a plurality of associated utility meters; a data aggregator configured for communicating with each of the plurality of communication modules, wherein the data aggregator includes a system for translating meter specific data formats into an aggregated format that includes data quality attributes and a timestamp, and includes a system for synchronizing aggregated data over a back haul; and a head end system having a communication management system that receives and processes synchronization messages from the data aggregator received over the back haul, wherein the head end system includes a metering system for requesting and obtaining meter data from the associated utility meters via the data aggregator, and issuing signals to individual meters and groups of meters. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131101 | Cloud-Processing Management With A Landscape Directory - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus and products, including a method that includes maintaining data in a cloud landscape directory, including data regarding multiple individual landscapes. Each landscape of the multiple individual landscapes identifying at least a set of applications, the set of applications of at least one of the multiple individual landscapes including at least one cloud-based application available for cloud-processing. The at least one cloud-based application is associated with the at least one of the multiple individual landscapes and is available for access and use. The method also includes processing at least one of a plurality of service requests based, at least in part, on the data regarding the multiple individual landscapes maintained in the cloud landscape directory. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131102 | ONE-TO-MANY AND MANY-TO-ONE TRANSFER, STORAGE AND MANIPULATION OF DIGITAL FILES - A method of distributing at least one digital file to a group. The group includes multiple group members and is managed by a managing user. The method includes: generating an album for the managing user, the album including at least one digital file by operation of a processor invoking space on an attached non-volatile memory; receiving, from the managing user, data related to the multiple group members; generating, based on the data related to the multiple group members, a copy of the album for each of the group members, thereby creating a virtual album for each of the group members; and linking the copy of the album created for each of the group members to each group member. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF CONTENT - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for the transmission and reception of content. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method for the transmission and reception of content implemented in a computer server is provided comprising: receiving a submission from a user; receiving an indication of at least one destination of the submission from the user; transmitting the submission to at least one destination, wherein the at least one destination may comprise any device configured to receive data, any computer system configured to receive data, or the like. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY - A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136931 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR PROCESS FIELD DEVICE - A field device for use in an industrial process, includes a process interface element configured to measure or control a process variable. Communication circuitry is configured to communicate with another location. A communication system is configured to provide communications between at least two components in the field device. A signal inverter couples an inverted signal from the communication system to other circuitry to thereby reduce interference received by the other circuitry. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136932 | MIRRORING MESSAGING STATUS - A messaging status associated with a first user is determined. A messaging status associated with a second user is set based upon, at least in part, the determined messaging status associated with the first user. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136933 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING CAPTURED DATA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for acquiring captured data and for transmitting the acquired data to neighboring devices while acquiring the data and after completion of acquisition so as to share the data with other devices in same network. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136934 | DEVICE, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR SHARING DEEP LINKS OVER SOCIAL NETWORK - An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a display and a processor controlling the display to present an Internet-sourced program. Additionally, the processor causes the display to present a “share” selector element selectable by a user to cause a link associated with the program to automatically be sent to a friend device over a social networking site. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136935 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE P2P SERVICE - A mobile P2P system includes a mobile tracker node and a super peer node. The mobile tracker node is located in a dedicated wired network operating in conjunction with an internet network to which a plurality of peer nodes are connected, and manages information of a plurality of mobile peer nodes connected to a wireless access network. A peer list containing information on one or more peer nodes having the content queried by the plurality of mobile peer nodes is transmitted to the mobile peer nodes, the one or more peer nodes including the mobile peer nodes and the peer nodes on the internet network. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL RULES TO PERSONAL CLOUD INFORMATION - A system and method are provided for sharing data of a user with contacts, the method comprising collecting the contacts from the user, collecting data related to the communications between the user and his contacts, and automatically grouping the contacts into different groups based on a level of communications between the user and the user's contacts, defining an access level for each group, with each access level granting access to some part of the user's data based on the access level. Advantageously, this permits a dynamic assignment of authority to access content that does not have to be actively managed by the user. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136937 | AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF CONTENT BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide an automated scheme for identifying high/low value content. Playback data from users in a social network may be periodically submitted by users of the social network. The playback data indicates segments of content, such as audio or video that the user has skipped over or tagged as low value. The playback data may also indicate segments of content that the user has repeated or tagged as high value. The playback data is then analyzed in aggregate and various clips are identified. In addition, the playback data may be compiled and organized among the users for future use. The playback data may be used to indicate segments of high/low interest to peers in the social network or to arbitrary users. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136938 | Method and Apparatus for Call Proceeding in Call Control of Application Server - The invention discloses a method for call proceeding in call control of an application server, comprising: the application server sending an Offer message to a second party after making a media consultation with a first party; the application server receiving an Answer message sent from the second party, and transforming the Answer message into the Offer message and then sending to the first party, wherein, the Offer message carries a confirmation request for a Precondition state of the first party; the application server receiving the Answer message sent from the first party, wherein, the Answer message carries a confirmation response to the Precondition state from the first party; when determining that the Answer message meets a condition for transforming the Answer message, the application server transforming the Answer message into the Offer message and then sending to the second party. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143948 | SOCIAL NETWORKING FEED EXTENSIBILITY BASED ON DATA TYPES - Social networking feed extensibility based on data types is described. An apparatus may comprise a custom feed system that when executed by a processor is operative to customize a social networking feed for a social networking system. The custom feed system may comprise a message reception component operative to receive a message from a client device, a message analysis component operative to determine a message type of the message based on a syntax of the message, and a message display component operative to display the message with a message display style specific to the message type of the message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143949 | ACHIEVING INTEROPERABILITY FOR WEB SERVICES USING A MAP ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention address interoperability issues between incompatible applications by use of a map engine. In one embodiment the map engine enables a mapping between the messages exchanged between two incompatible applications thereby enabling the interacting applications understand messages exchanged between them. In other embodiments, the map engine maps a parameter associated with one application to a parameter associated with another application based on a mapping rule, where the applications differ from each other owing to non-conforming standards used for their implementation or to the two applications having different service description formats or different messaging formats, or to different platforms used for their implementation. In another embodiment of the invention, the map engine extracts the mapping rule from a knowledge base to enable the mapping between the two incompatible applications. The knowledge base stores data based on which the parameters associated with the two applications may be mapped. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143950 | Method and network node for message transfer - The present disclosure provides a method, a system and a network node for message transfer. The method comprises: a sending node sends a message whose message header carries transfer type information and unique identifier information in a way of copy from all output interfaces of the sending node to a destination node ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120143951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS) WITH A MATERIALIZED SHARED SPACE - A platform as a service (PaaS) is provided as part of a data sharing scheme. The PaaS is configured to setup a materialized shared space in a cloud. The materialized shared space includes a set of resources invested by the PaaS to permit data sharing between a tenant application and at least one consumer application. A sharing middleware configured to provide the at least one consumer application with access to the data in the materialized shared space. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT FRAMEWORK - The framework provides a way to create and organize “tasks” or “activities” into “events” with disparate configurations that can be used to model everything from games to relationships to business processes. Each event will have one or more tasks that will require certain steps or actions in order to be completed. Once all required activities or tasks in a given event have been completed, the goals and objectives associated with that event will have been accomplished. It is possible to provide various rewards or incentives as various tasks or combinations of tasks are completed. The framework provides a way to quickly and easily create multiple events, specifically targeted to very narrow needs and circumstances, providing significantly greater flexibility for the use of social networking tools and services in many more environments. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143953 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRASMITTING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS - Disclosed is a method for receiving a multimedia content between peers on a peer-to-peer network, including: establishing a neighbor connection relationship which is a relationship to interactively transmit and receive the multimedia content, with the other peer on the peer-to-peer network; establishing a donator connection relationship to receive the multimedia content from the other peer, based on a donator approval request message transmitted to the other peer; receiving a multimedia content piece related message from the other peer based on the established donator connection relationship; and receiving a required multimedia content piece from the other peer according to a result of parsing the multimedia content piece related message. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143954 | METHOD FOR ADAPTING DATA IN A DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A system for adapting data including at least one sender executing at least one calling application and one receiver executing at least one called application, the senders and receivers being interconnected via a communication network, said calling application generating messages addressed to said called application, said messages being structured according to a first syntax S | 06-07-2012 |
20120143955 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BANDWIDTH ADAPTIVE N-TO-N COMMUNICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - Methods and systems for bandwidth adaptive computing device to computing device communication are described. Bandwidth adaptive communication includes receiving a communication from a first participant, storing the payload data of the communication in a channel memory element associated with the first participant, and transmitting the payload data to a second participant. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143956 | MAINTAINING A MINIMUM LEVEL OF REAL TIME MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE ABSENCE OF ONLINE FRIENDS - The present invention provides a peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations. The P2P network includes a central server interconnecting a number of peer devices. In operation, a proxy function of the central server receives media recommendations from one or more peer devices that are active and online as media presentations identified by the media recommendations are played by the peer devices. The one or more peer devices are included in a group of peer devices associated with a first peer device. The proxy function provides the media recommendations to the first peer device. An augmentation function of the central server monitors a recommendation level of the first peer device. If the recommendation level falls below a minimum recommendation level, the augmentation function augments the media recommendations provided to the first peer device to increase the recommendation level to or above the minimum recommendation level. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150954 | ADAPTIVE COLLABORATIVE DE-DUPLICATION - Example apparatus, methods, and computers support adaptive, collaborative de-duplication. One example method includes controlling a computer to compute a correlation between a processing state associated with collaborative data deduplication performed by the computer and an environmental state associated with a collaborative data deduplication environment with which the computer interacts. With the correlation in hand, the method then includes controlling the computer to adapt how the computer participates in collaborative data deduplication based, at least in part, on the correlation. The adaptations can include changing what processing is performed on the computer and what data is stored on the computer. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150955 | Contact Resolution Using Social Graph Information - In one embodiment, a social networking system imports a user's contacts to a local address book of the user by merging the user's social graph information to the local address book. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150956 | Extended Video Conferencing Features Through Electronic Calendaring - Systems and methods to integrate or interface video conference rooms, video conference infrastructure equipment and electronic calendars are disclosed. Example embodiments include providing: security for meeting information; interfaces for personal electronic calendar applications and video conferencing equipment; and implementations for video conferencing infrastructure components to integrate with meeting scheduling software. Also disclosed are systems and methods for making information automatically available via interfaces to the scheduling software (e.g., via a plug-in or extension to the regular interface software and integration modules executing in video conferencing infrastructure equipment) without a change in how a user interacts with existing meeting scheduling software. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150957 | SYSTEM FOR RANKING MEMES - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for selecting items (e.g., Internet memes) to be presented to a user. In one embodiment, a user connected to a network is identified. For each of a plurality of items (e.g., memes), for each of one or more followers of the user, a probability that the corresponding one of the followers of the user will repost the one of the plurality of items is determined. A number of the plurality of items may be selected based, at least in part, on the probability that has been determined, for each of the plurality of items, for each of the one or more followers of the user, that the corresponding one of the followers of the user will repost the one of the plurality of items. The selected number of the plurality of items may then be presented to the user. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150958 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT INDICES ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine audience engagement indices associated with media presentations are disclosed. An example method involves determining an Internet engagement indice based on a quantity of messages posted on an Internet service and containing a keyword associated with a media presentation. The example method also involves determining a composite engagement indice based on the Internet engagement indice and a survey engagement indice based on a survey of panel members exposed to the media presentation. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150959 | SPAM COUNTERING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In an apparatus for countering IP multimedia spam, a transmitter receives an IP application, and blocks the IP application when the IP application is determined as spam. A spam identifier receives the IP application from the transmitter, and analyzes at least one of a content of the IP application and a protocol of the IP application. A controller controls the spam identifier based on a setting for anti-spam, and determines whether the IP application is spam or not based on the analyzing result for the IP application of the spam identifier and transmits the determining result to the transmitter. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150960 | Social Networking - A system incorporating techniques described in this paper includes a uniform platform across social networks that can include a mechanism to dynamically discover new connections and add to a member's social network; a dynamic, intelligent relationship management for a members social network graph; and analytics on a network to aid in understanding and handling the member's social network. A system implemented in accordance with the techniques can include a uniform social network platform, an analytics engine, a connections view engine, and an entity discovery client engine. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND PROCESSING STALE MESSAGES - A system and method for handling stale messages is presented. A first message is transmitted to a peer entity. The first message includes a first timestamp. A second message is received from the peer entity. The second message is related to the first message and includes a second timestamp. A third message is received from the peer entity. The third message includes a third timestamp. A staleness of the third message is determined using the first timestamp, second timestamp, and third timestamp. When the third message is stale, the third message is at least one of ignored and discarded. When the third message is not stale, the third message may be processed. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150962 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION WORKFLOWS - A method and apparatus for information repository workflows to transfer information between a first domain (e.g., healthcare sites) and a second domain (e.g., medical research facilities). Large quantities of medical information may be directly transferred to an information repository or indirectly transferred to the repository through the use of pointers. The information is cleansed and normalized prior to storage in a production database within the repository. The cleansing process is conducted while ensuring integrity of the production database is maintained and while continuing to receive additional information transfers. Errors encountered during processing are logged and reported. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A NOTIFICATION SERVICE FOR A DEVICE - Methods and apparatuses for establishing a notification service for a computing device. Device requests for current information about a requested topic may be unnecessary if repeated requests are made for current information and the information has not yet changed. In this disclosure, when a requested topic is associated with changing information, a notification service may be configured for the device. The notification service automatically sends updated information to the device when the information changes. The present disclosure describes several ways that requests may be analyzed to determine if a requested topic is associated with changing information. A threshold number of request for a requested topic over a period of time may be used. Alternatively, a requested topic may be configured in a notification service if the requested topic is related to a currently occurring event. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGGING A SCHEDULER - A computer system including instructions recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and readable by at least one processor, the system including a logging module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The logging module is configured to log information associated with a scheduler. The receiving module is configured to receive a request for information associated with the scheduler. The transmission module is configured to transmit information associated with the scheduler. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158839 | WIRELESS NETWORK INTERFACE WITH INFRASTRUCTURE AND DIRECT MODES - An architecture for a computing device to enable the computing device to support peer-to-peer communications using a wireless radio also configured for infrastructure-based communication. The architecture includes a driver for the wireless radio that supports ports for communication in accordance with the peer-to-peer protocol. A port may act as a control port through which action frames that control the formation of a peer-to-peer group may be sent and received. One or more other ports may be used for exchanging data with other devices in the group. Each of these ports may be configured in accordance with its role in the group, such that each port may be configured for operation as a group owner or a client. Additionally, after establishing a group, the control port may be used as a side channel for controlling a device in a group associated with another port. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158840 | NON-GREEDY CONSUMPTION BY EXECUTION BLOCKS IN DATAFLOW NETWORKS - Processing messages in dataflow networks. The method includes, at a first entity, receiving from a second entity a first offer of a first message to process. The method further includes determining to not process the first message. As a result of determining to not process the first message, such an indication is made to the second entity. Further as a result of determining to not process the first message, an indication is stored that the second entity offered a message. The indication includes an indicator correlated to the second entity. Subsequent to indicating to the second entity, using the indication the method includes indicating to the second entity availability to process a message. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158841 | PROXY COMMUNICATIONS OF NON-PERSON ENTITIES - The disclosed architecture enables a person-entity to perform actions (e.g., post a message) as a non-person entity (e.g., group, organization, team, brand, etc.) on a microblogging platform using distribution groups. Existing directory services distribution groups can be utilized as proxies of non-person entity. The owner and co-owners of the distribution group, for example, are the only “spoke persons” that can post as the distribution group. The distribution group is allowed to be designated as a first class user account in the enterprise microblog platform so that users can follow the distribution group post. Additionally, the list of distribution groups (or non-user accounts) to which a user can post a message is automatically presented. Tracking of the real user who posted as a distribution groups is also performed. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158842 | Method and System for Facilitating Interaction with Multiple Content Provider Websites - A method and system for facilitating communication between an electronic device such as a mobile device and a plurality of content provider websites is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a server a first message regarding either uploading of a first portion of information to the content provider websites or, if the first portion is already available at the websites, modifying of the first portion, where the first message is a user instruction that includes a second portion of information identifying the websites. The method additionally includes sending a plurality of second messages, respectively, from the server for receipt by the websites, respectively, where each respective one of the second messages includes one or more of the first portion and a respective third portion of information concerning a respective modification. The method can additionally include one or more additional steps, and the system can include the server or the electronic device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158843 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL UPDATES DISTRIBUTED OFFLINE - Methods and system for delivering updates to recipients in a social network includes receiving event related data in response to triggering of an event at a client. In response to the triggering of the event at the client, recipient data related to a recipient that is authorized to receive the event related data is retrieved. An agent is provided for the recipient. The agent includes logic for formatting and delivering the event related data to the recipient. The recipient's interaction in response to delivery of the event related data is tracked. The logic within the agent is refined based on the interaction of the recipient. The agent with the refined logic is used for subsequent formatting and delivering of event related data to the recipient. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158844 | SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and system for obtaining information from a computer network are disclosed. The computer network includes user networks and a database of user information. The method includes receiving a user information request specifying a category, identifying a first set of users established as trusted information resource contacts (TIRC) of the user for the category, identifying a second set of users established as TIRCs of the first set of users, retrieving information associated with the second set from the electronic database, and providing the retrieved information to the user. The system includes a database and a server for performing the steps of the method. The steps of the method may be embodied in computer executable instructions stored on a non-transient machine readable medium that cause a server to perform the method when executed by the server. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY POSTING USER-LOCATION INFORMATION TO A SOCIAL NETWORK - Methods and systems are disclosed that are capable of automatically interfacing with Internet-based social networks for safely providing friends of a mobile user with location updates. In particular, a system and method are provided for automatically posting user-location information to a social network. A system interface receives user data including a location update activation indicator and location update conditions. A navigation engine obtains information associated with the current location of the mobile user. A social network client module of the system is adapted to determine that the location activation indicator is active and to determine that a location update condition is met. A communications interface automatically posts a location update to the social network if the social network client determines that at least one location update condition is met. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158846 | DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Aspects of the present invention relate to a method of sharing content between communication devices in a communication network. The content sharing may be allowed and/or managed by a network administration module in the communication network. In this regard, the method may comprise the following steps: (1) receiving a first type of classification information related to a content emanating from a first communication device, the first type of classification information classifying the content; (2) determining where the classified content emanating from the first communication device is located; (3) determining whether the classification of the content corresponds to a second type of classification linked with a second communication device; and (4) in the case where the classification of the content corresponds to the second type of classification, then making the content available to the second communication device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158847 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An electronic device ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120158848 | System and Method for Automatically Managing Participation at a Meeting or Conference - A participant managing system which identifies potential invitees to a conference. A storage means maintains storing records of associations of persons at least one or more key words. During the preparation of the conference the system responds to the user's input of key words by identifying persons. The user is not obliged to make any selection of persons, only a selection of subjects by key words. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166530 | TIMING FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A USER BASED ON USER INTERACTION WITH NOTIFICATIONS - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166531 | LOCATION SHARING SESSION - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing location sharing sessions are disclosed. One method includes receiving signaling from a first endpoint for establishing a location sharing session. The method also includes signaling at least one second endpoint for establishing the location sharing session and receiving signaling from the at least one second endpoint accepting the establishment of the location sharing session. The method also includes, in response to receiving the signaling from the at least one second endpoint, establishing the location sharing session between the first and the at least one second endpoint such that the first and at least one second endpoint shares location media directly using the location sharing session. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166532 | Contextually Relevant Affinity Prediction in a Social Networking System - A tunable affinity function serves one or more processes running in a social networking environment, where each process may request a measure of affinity for a particular user. A module that implements the affinity function computes the requested measure of affinity by combining (e.g., adding) a weighted set of predictor functions, where each predictor function predicts whether the user will perform a different action. The weights are provided by the process that requests the measure of affinity, which allows the requesting process to weight the predictor functions differently and thus tune the affinity function for its own purpose. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166533 | PREDICTING REAL-WORLD CONNECTIONS BASED ON INTERACTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system performs account recovery for a user with the help of the user's connections (e.g., friends). The social networking system selects connections of the user based on information indicating likelihood of real-world interactions between the user and the selected connections. Access codes are sent to the selected connections and the user instructed to obtain access codes from the selected connections via a communication that is outside the social networking system, for example, via phone. The user provides the access codes obtained from the selected connections to the social networking system. If the access codes provided by the user match the access codes sent to the selected connections, the user is granted access to the account. Real-world interactions between two users are determined based on sharing of devices between the users or information indicating presence of the users in the same place during same time interval. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for grouping e-conference participants. A system identifies participants for an e-conference and identifies groups based on e-conference participant characteristics. Participant characteristics such as job function, skill set, department, business unit or physical location are used to group participants. Each of the e-conference participants is associated with at least one group and the system visually displays participants in groups through an e-conference user interface. Additionally, the system retrieves a stored list of e-conference participants and groups from a previous e-conference and restores the list of participants and groups for a current e-conference. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166535 | Complimenting a User's Experience in a Social Networking System - A user profile for a user of a social networking system may include experiences, such as work, educational, travel, and interests. The social networking system provides a profile page for a user's user profile that allows users to compliment the user on the experience. If a user wants to compliment another user on an experience not present on that user's user profile, the user can add the experience along with the compliment. Complimenting users on their experiences allows a reputation ranking to be created based on compliments received in a particular domain, which are searchable by user of the social networking system. The compliments may be used by the social networking system to build a domain-based reputation ranking of users of a social networking system. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUERY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR SOCIAL NETWORK - A portable terminal which supports a social network, more particularly, an apparatus and a method for generating a community with agents of the same character in a social network and processing an answer to a query by sharing information between the generated communities. The apparatus includes an agent determiner configured to set an agent for a first network object. The apparatus also includes a community setting part configured to establish a community with an agent for a first network and an agent for a second agent, select a first representative agent of the community, and establish a community with the first representative agent selected and other adjacent representative agents. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166537 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BY USING SMART GRID IN UPNP - A system for performing information exchange by using a Smart Grid (SG) is provided. The system includes a first device and a second device having SG service types; and an SG Control Point (CP) for transmitting an SG capability request message to the first device and the second device, receiving SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, matching function sets of the same type to one another if the function sets of the same type are included in the received SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, and connecting the first device and the second device to one another for the information exchange. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166538 | VIRTUAL SMART HOME SYSTEM, SERVER, HOME GATEWAY BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SMART HOME SERVICE METHOD - A smart home system based on a cloud computing includes: a home gateway connecting a home network device to an external network, the home network device being connected to a home network at each home. The system further includes and a cloud server, connected to the home gateway, for collecting contents information stored in the home network device and resource information of the home network information and performing a unified management of the contents information and the resource information at the each home. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166539 | SHARED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF AUTOMATION SYSTEMS OF A DIFFERENT KIND IN AN AUTOMATION-ORIENTED COMPLEX - A shared communication system is provided for a plurality of standardized control systems and at least one gateway having different kinds of communication protocols in an automation-oriented installation. Each of the different kinds of control systems and the at least one gateway has a respective communication interface based on the same global signal transmission protocol for the purpose of connection to a shared communication network, which sets up information interchange between the different kinds of standardized control systems and the at least one gateway beyond the system boundaries of the control systems. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166540 | TARGETING BASED ON SOCIAL UPDATES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, are described for providing content to a user. A method comprises: receiving an update for publication to an activity stream associated with the user, the activity stream being produced by a social application executing on one or more server computers and being published for consumption by one or more subscribers to the social application that have been designated by the user as being authorized to receive the update; and targeting additional content to the user based on the received user update. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION OVER A PEER TO PEER NETWORK - A method of collecting information concerning peers of a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. The network includes at least one peer running exchange software configured to broadcast data to at least one client according to a selective exchange protocol enabling the peer to apply a selection of the clients to which data are transferred, this selection being made on the basis of one or more characteristics of the clients. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166542 | Automated File Distribution - Automated file distribution is described. A member of a peer-to-peer network receives from a file server, a file to be distributed. The file is then distributed via the peer-to-peer network to other members of the peer-to-peer network. Members of the peer-to-peer network can choose whether or not to receive a file from another member based on a trust level or reputation associated with the member. The trust level may be based, at least in part, on a number of degrees of separation between the members. Furthermore the file is verified, for example, by validating a digital signature associated with the file. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166543 | HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER - To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units | 06-28-2012 |
20120166544 | Content Sharing - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods that allow for the robust, flexible, and efficient sharing of content. In embodiments, content items may be associated with labels, tags, or other identifiers, third parties may be associated with labels, tags, or other identifiers, and sharing with the third party may be based upon comparisons of the labels, tags, or other identifiers associated with the content items and the labels, tags, or other identifiers associated with the third parties. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173620 | CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RESILIENT WIRELESS GROUPS - A method and system are disclosed for providing a temporary peer-to-peer network including a group owner, and one or more deputies able to step into the role of group owner to continue the group session in the event the prior group owner cedes ownership. Each device in the group may include a layered communications protocol having a group maintenance layer between the network layer and the physical layer. The group maintenance layer may be responsible for dictating when and under what conditions a deputy device becomes the group owner so that group membership and activities may move forward without loss of continuity. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173621 | MANAGING DELIVERY OF ELECTRONIC MEETING CONTENT - A first portion of electronic meeting content is transmitted to a first client computing device. The first portion of the electronic meeting content configured to provide a first content resolution that is less than a full content resolution. A second portion of the electronic meeting content is transmitted to the first client computing device. The second portion of the electronic meeting content configured to provide a second content resolution that is greater than the first content resolution. The second portion of the electronic meeting content combined with the first portion of the electronic meeting content provides progressive refinement of electronic meeting content transmitted to the first client computing device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173622 | SOCIAL SCREEN CASTING - A system for allowing the sharing of content available on the screen of a first user's mobile device with a second user, collectively comprises: i) A Screen Casting Engine, suitable to capture the screen of a first mobile device operating as a streamer device, and to send it to other mobile devices or computers over wireless network; ii) Stream Management Circuitry provided in said streamer device, which is suitable to direct the captured screens to multiple targets; iii) Key and touch injection engine, which is suitable to capture key events from a player mobile device or PC, and to send them back to the streamer; and, optionally iv) Social feedback software which allows two phone users to interact—one holding the streamer phone, and the other viewing his display by running a player. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173623 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED SYSTEM ACCESS CONTROL FOR PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided in which an information block is generated to include an expression encoded based on at least one of a peer discovery resource identifier or an area identifier. The information block is sent for broadcasting. An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided in which an information block is received that includes an expression encoded based on at least one of a peer discovery resource identifier or an area identifier. The information block is decoded based on said at least one of the peer discovery resource identifier or the area identifier to obtain the expression. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173624 | INTEREST-BASED MEETING SUMMARIZATION - A method, computer program product, and system for summarization are described. A method may comprise associating one or more first summary tags with one or more portions of a meeting, based upon, at least in part, a first interest level corresponding to a first user associated with the meeting. The method may further comprise associating one or more second summary tags with the one or more portions of the meeting, based upon, at least in part, a second interest level corresponding to a second user associated with the meeting. The method may also comprise generating a first summary of the one or more portions of the meeting, based upon, at least in part, the one or more first summary tags, and may additionally comprise generating a second summary of the one or more portions of the meeting, based upon, at least in part, the one or more second summary tags. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION ABOUT CONTENT ITEMS SUCH AS MOVIES - Systems and methods are provided for sharing movie information online. In one implementation, the user of an online movie service can share information about the contents of a library or other such rights locker, e.g., under Ultraviolet™ and DECE. Users may also share likes and dislikes. The movie service may make suggestions based on the contents of the user's library and the contents of other user's libraries, such as those of the user's designated friends. A user can become a follower or fan of another user and receive recommendations based on the target user's profile or specific recommendations made by the target. The user can receive a credit on their account or on a related account when another user makes a purchase that is attributable to that user, e.g., from a recommendation. A user may be designated as an influencer when followed by a sufficient number of other users. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173626 | FOLLOWING CONTENT PROVIDERS IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT - In general, a method for providing content to a user includes providing a content item to a user responsive to a received request. The content item is displayed to the user in a slot associated with a third party content site. The content item includes a first annotation providing information for or about re-publishing the content item. A request is received from the user to follow a content provider associated with the content item. The user is designated as being interested in updated content from the content provider. Designating the user includes presenting information about the user to one or more of the content provider or a social application that includes a content provider presence so as to allow for updates associated with the content provider to be followed by the user. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173627 | METHOD OF PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES - The present invention relates to a method of providing communication between a first device and a second device, wherein the second device has a server component, the method comprising: establishing initial communication between the devices, wherein at least one of the devices receives from the other device data including at least one of a) a description or identification of the other device and b) a description or identification of a service; and providing instructions to the second device based at least on the received data, wherein the instructions and the server component allow the second device to respond to a subsequent request from the first device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173629 | MULTIMEDIA NETWORK SYSTEM WITH CONTENT IMPORTATION, CONTENT EXPORTATION, AND INTEGRATED CONTENT MANAGEMENT - This system provides wired and/or wireless access throughout a multimedia network built on a distributed architecture which can be transparent to the user. This multimedia network includes content which is imported or generated within the network. The system allows for the content provider to determine the license status of content and update the license status of content which was previously provided by that provider. The external content can be accessed in real time or downloaded and stored within the system for later access at the convenience of the user. The usage of some content is controlled by the use of encryption and other protection methods. The system allows for storage of live video by storing the digitized video and allowing the user to control how, when and where the content is viewed. The system makes available multiple multimedia services to all users in the network or connected via the internet. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179750 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING PERSONNEL FOR AN EVENT - The present invention provides a method and system for coordinating personnel for an event. The method and system, operative across one or more computing platforms includes electronically receiving, at a central processing device, event data relating to an event, the event data including a request for at least one member to participate in the event. The method and system further includes determining a first set of members relating to the event and providing electronic communication to at least one of the members of the first set of members regarding the event, including a request for participation in the event. Thereby, the method and system includes electronically managing, at the central processing device, the event data including managing member requests for the event. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179751 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENTIMENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS OF DISCUSSION TOPICS IN SOCIAL MEDIA - An online discussion recommendation system ranks and presents to users of a social media site discussions of interest preferably calculated through interest-matching. The discussion has many online posts. The system and method determine which post to present to the user as a sample snippet from such discussion using sentiment analysis. The sentiment of the snippet may be most polarized, sentiment matching the user's current mood, typical user sentiment, or others. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179752 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSUMER-GENERATED MEDIA REPUTATION MANAGEMENT - A computing system configured to gather social media content includes a memory; a content collection and ingestion system, stored in the memory and configured, when executed on a computer processor, to communicate with one or more computing systems to direct a search of a content source using a received collection request and to ingest the results of the directed search into a data store; and a content management system, stored in the memory and configured, when executed on a computer processor, to display the ingested results on a display. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE LENDING OF DIGITAL CONTENT USING CONTACTS LISTS - A system and method for lending digital content in which a user employs her contacts list to lend and borrow the digital content. The lender initiates the lending process using her local device by generating a lending offer. The lending offer contains an identification of the lender, an identification of the contact and an identification of the digital content to be lent. The lending offer is communicated from the lender's local device through a communication channel to a server which generates a lending offer email and/or a lending notification. The lending offer email and notification are sent to the potential lendee. The potential lendee can click on a URL contained in the email or respond to the lending offer notification to accept the loan. The server processes this acceptance by the lendee and transfers the loaned copy of the digital content to the lendee. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE APPLICATION AND/OR APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE DISCOVERY - A system and method for discovering one or more associated sensors | 07-12-2012 |
20120179755 | Deliberative Polling Incorporating Ratings By A Random Sample - System and method facilitating group discussion of a body of information, wherein the general population of the group can comment on the information, and wherein a sample of the population rates the comments of the general population. This can reduce the disproportional effects of a highly mobilized faction on a deliberative process. According to some aspects, a second rating can be provided by members of the general population. This can be used to communicate or quantify the effects of disproportionate mobilization. Optionally, comments can be moderated to reduce the information burden on the deliberation due to excessive low-quality commenting. Expert comments can also be incorporated to better inform the general population on a topic, facilitating a more efficient process. The system and method may be implemented as an interactive web forum or debate. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179756 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLATFORM AGNOSTIC ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE - A method and system for capturing, authenticating and transmitting a person's script signature during an electronic transaction between at least two parties over the Internet is conducted by a third party service provider that observes, facilitates, authenticates the transaction between the two parties. A first party provides electronic data to the second party for review. The second party wishing to provide a script signature as an acknowledgement and or agreement to the provided data receives an electronic envelope from the service provider. The second party inputs via cursor movement, a touch screen, or digitizing pad an electronic image of his physical script signature. The script signature image is captured electronically and transmitted to the service provider for further processing. Thus the entire transaction is consummated electronically. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179757 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION OF AUDIO WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention is directed to system and process for communication and promotion of media within a social network or mobile device A media library is created by upload a plurality of media segments and associating the media segments with search data such as mood, genre, and keywords. The media library is retrievable stored on a media server, which is in communication with an application server and a plurality of clients. A client is used to search and select a media segment, which is basis of a digital media package. The digital media package is delivered to the social media space of a selected recipient. The members of the recipient's social network interact with the digital media package. The social media package interaction is captured and stored. The system processes the search and selection criteria along with the social media interaction to form a feedback loop to improve future searches and thus improve the promotion of the media. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAVERSING A NAT DEVICE FOR PEER-TO-PEER HYBRID COMMUNICATIONS - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to traverse a NAT device using a stateless reflector. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185533 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MEDIA OBJECTS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method of managing, or organizing, media objects generated by a plurality of portable electronic devices by defining a project and associating media objects created or stored on the plurality of devices to the project. As media objects are created, the object's metadata can be examined to determine if the media objects satisfy the project criteria, and a project tag can be associated with the media object. A media project can be created for a single type of media object, e.g. photographs, or can encompass multiple media object types, such as digital photographs, video clips, and multimedia objects, in a single media project. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185534 | DETERMINING MEETING ATTENDEE READINESS - Status information associated with at least one application associated with a meeting invitee is detected. An estimated arrival time of the meeting invitee to a meeting is determined based upon, at least in part, the status information. The estimated arrival time is provided to at least another invitee of the meeting. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185535 | RECURSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS FOR CASUAL COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING - A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185536 | Method For Optimally Utilizing A Peer To Peer Network - In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for splitting a load of monitoring a peer to peer network. The method has a first node in the peer to peer network receiving information reported by a second node in the peer to peer network, including information concerning which nodes are connected to the second node. The method further has the first node connecting to nodes different from the nodes that are connected to the second node using the received information. The method still further has the first node reporting information, including information concerning which nodes are connected to the first node, such that the second node also has access to the reported information, thereby splitting the load of monitoring the peer to peer network among the first and second nodes. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185537 | SYNCHRONIZING MACHINES IN GROUPS - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to support synchronizing machines in groups. In some embodiments, synchronization is implemented by receiving an indication to activate a selected machine of a group of sync-aware machines connected to a subnet of a network, where each member of the group has information identifying all members of the group. Further activities include transmitting an activation message from the selected machine to the remainder of the group to notify the remainder that the selected machine is active, capturing a record of activities conducted at the selected machine while the selected machine is active, and transmitting information, based on the record, to the remainder of the group from the selected machine to synchronize results of the activities with the remainder after the selected machine becomes inactive. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185538 | APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SOCIAL INTERACTION OVER AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK - In one embodiment, a system includes a server that hosts webpages facilitating user interaction between multiple endpoints. The system monitors for a user input requesting initiation of a happy hour, and when the input is detected, modifies the webpages to alert users of the happy hour. The users are notified of which user initiated the happy hour, and are also notified that interaction incentives accumulate at an increased rate during the happy hour. The system also tracks user scorings that accumulate based on the user interaction, and enables certain website features based on these user scorings. The system also tracks ratings for user-uploaded objects and identifies top rated objects for displaying on webpages viewable by other users. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185539 | Compatibility Scoring of Users - The compatibility score of members of a social network is based on the compatibility of their expressed interests. The compatibility score between any two interests is calculated as the log of the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express both interests divided by the product of: (i) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the first of the two interests and (ii) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the second of the two interests. The compatibility score between two individuals is calculated as the sum of the compatibility scores between each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the first of the two individuals and each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the second of the two individuals. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185540 | Method and Arrangement for Supporting Analysis of Social Networks in a Communication Network - A method and apparatus for supporting social network analysis of terminal users in a communication network. Users being located relatively close to each other when making calls are more likely to be socially “connected” than users having mutually more remote locations. A partitioning unit ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120191776 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING A CONTEXT BASED ON CONTENT INTERACTION - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for recommending a context to a user of a social network service, based on detecting an interaction with some item of web content. With some embodiments, after detecting an interaction with a web document, a topic to which the web document is related is determined. A context, such as an online or offline forum, known to be associated with the topic is then identified. Finally, the identified context is presented to the user as a recommendation for a content source that is likely to be of interest to the user. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191777 | CONTACT RELEVANCE BASED ON CONTEXT - A method of determining a communications contact relevance for a user includes: analyzing stored contact information of a plurality of contacts with which the user can at least one of receive information from or transmit information to; analyzing context information relevant to likelihoods of imminent communication by the user with the contacts, the context information including information different from ones of the contacts with which the user most recently communicated, the context information further including present user context information and at least one of present context or historical context associated with each of the contacts, respectively; and determining the likelihoods of imminent communication between the user and the contacts based on the context information. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191778 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR SUPPORTING PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) live streaming service over a Content Distribution Network (CDN). The method includes the steps of (A) a peer present on a network searching for an adjacent surrogate, that is, a superpeer in a bin where peers are grouped, (B) the peer sending a content request message to the surrogate, (C) the surrogate finding a corresponding peer list and then sending the peer list to the peer in response to the content request message, or, if the surrogate cannot find a peer list corresponding to the content request message and makes a request to a surrogate overlay, the surrogate overlay sending information about a surrogate having corresponding content to the peer, and (D) the peer requesting content from the surrogate having sent the peer list or from a surrogate included in the information about a surrogate, and receiving the corresponding content. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191779 | Bulletin Board Data Mapping and Presentation - The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying information from a BBS. The system provides a method of sorting and presenting messages from a BBS in a way so that the relationship in message threads can be easily observed and related messages can be identified. The system provides a way to view messages and map message threads in two and three dimensions so that the content of messages can be easily reviewed and the relationship between messages can be seen and followed. The system allows a user to enter into a message thread at any point and to then produce a visualization of the related threads and messages associated with each individual message. The system provides interfaces for either a linear or threaded BBS or even a hybrid BBS that is some combination of linear and threaded. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191780 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a wireless communication device including a wireless communication unit, a communication control unit configured to control a process of detecting a nearby wireless communication device by the wireless communication unit, a connection process to the nearby wireless communication device detected in the detection process, and communication of content data with the nearby wireless communication device connected in the connection process, and a storage unit that stores content data. The communication control unit, on the basis of information received from the nearby wireless communication device in the detection process, determines if one of the content data in the storage unit or content data in the nearby wireless communication device has been updated relative to the other, and controls the connection process performed when the update is determined. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191781 | COLLABORATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A participant computing device in a collaboration system, the participant computing device comprising a processing structure; and a memory including computer program code, wherein the memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processing structure, to cause the processing structure to share user defined content displayed on a desktop associated with the participant computing device with other participant computing devices. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191782 | Online Location Sharing Through an Internet Service Search Engine - Online location sharing through an internet service search engine includes: receiving in a server a query from a first user, the query identifying a second user; querying multiple internet services with the server over a network for real-time information regarding the second user; and providing a consolidated view of responses received from the plurality of internet services to the first user with the server, the server being authorized by the second user to receive all information relevant to the second user contained in the responses; wherein the consolidated view of responses indicates an online location of the second user. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191783 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT SHARING AND PROPAGATION - A method, a device and a system for content sharing and propagation are provided. A gateway receives a service access request sent by a terminal, obtains content corresponding to the service access request from a network server, determines content required to be shared in the content corresponding to the service access request according to a sharing rule, feeds back a sharing prompt to the terminal, receives a sharing request sent by the terminal, and sends the content required to be shared according to the sharing request. A network side determines the content to be shared according to the sharing rule, and feeds back a sharing prompt, for example, provides a sharing link, so that the user can to share the content with friends conveniently and instantly when the user browses Internet content. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197986 | USER-CUSTOMIZABLE SOCIAL GROUPING TECHNIQUES - Methods and systems are providing that include joining a user to a social group based at least in part on social grouping settings. Social grouping setting information may be obtained from a portable electronic device user, specifying one or more settings for use in determining whether to join the user to a social group. Available social groups may be detected, based at least in part on a detected location of the user. Based at least in part on at least one of the settings, it may be determined whether to join the user to a particular available social group. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197987 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING DEVICES - The present specification provides a method, device and system to allow a plurality of devices and recommendation engines to participate in generating a media playlist. Playlist recommendations can be augmented with related yet novel content that is not contemplated by the recommendation engines. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST, FOR USE OVER AN AD-HOC MESH NETWORK, BASED ON CONTEXT INFORMATION - An approach is provided for methods and apparatus for efficiently and effectively determining communities of interest for a user, for use over an ad-hoc mesh network, based on context information associated with user devices. Context information of a device is accessed. The context information is processed to determine one or more themes associated with the context information. One or more communities of interest relating to the one or more themes are determined, the one or more communities of interest having respective community identifiers corresponding therewith. The device is associated with at least one of the communities of interest relating to the one or more themes, based at least in part on the corresponding community identifiers, for accessing awareness information related to one or more of the communities of interest associated with the device. Further, the availability of at least one of the communities of interest associated with the device can be identified via the ad-hoc mesh network, based at least in part on the corresponding community identifiers, and awareness information can be accessed, based at least in part on the availability of the at least one of the communities of interest associated with the device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A REAL-TIME DIGITAL IMPACT VIRTUAL AUDIENCE - The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for providing a real-time digital impact virtual audience. The system and method may include enabling communication between virtual audience members using their respective remote audience devices while the virtual audience members are viewing the same live event. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197990 | PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING - A Pub-Sub messaging method and system is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of Pub-Sub messages; judging whether the plurality of Pub-Sub messages are similar; aggregating similar Pub-Sub messages to generate an aggregated Pub-Sub message; and transmitting the aggregated Pub-Sub message. Correspondingly, a message de-aggregating method comprises: receiving an aggregated Pub-Sub message, wherein the aggregated Pub-Sub message is generated by aggregating a plurality of similar Pub-Sub messages; de-aggregating the aggregated Pub-Sub message to recover the plurality of Pub-Sub messages; and transmitting the plurality of Pub-Sub messages. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTUITIVE INTERACTION OVER A NETWORK - Intuitive interaction may be performed over a network. The interaction may include collection of feedback from participants, wherein the feedback is active, passive, or a combination of both. The feedback from the participants may be aggregated and the aggregated feedback can be provided to at least one participant or a non-participant. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197992 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A MEDIA RICH, LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR, INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION, STORYTELLING ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS THEREFOR - A customizable communication, storytelling and learning environment with a storyline or flow path with one or more plots and/or subplots and story branch or transition points and one or more endings for individuals and groups that is delivered with various media, over various media channels, at various times and intervals by use of a triggered communications server and method and producer development kit therefor. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197993 | SKILL RANKING SYSTEM - In an example disclosed is a method of ranking social networking service member skills by retrieving from non-volatile storage a plurality of member profiles created by a plurality of members of a social networking service, running a text classification algorithm to determine which of the plurality of members possesses a skill that matches any of a plurality of provided skills and associated skill attributes; and for at least one skill of the plurality of provided skills, identifying the plurality of members that possess the skill and ranking the plurality of members relative to one another using a ranking algorithm, the ranking algorithm being based in part upon weighted interactions among the plurality of members that possess the given skill, the weighted interactions comprising endorsements between a first member who possesses the given skill and a second member who possesses the given skill. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197994 | TRANSACTIONAL CACHE VERSIONING AND STORAGE IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA GRID - A set of techniques are described for transactional cache versioning and data storage in a distributed data grid environment. A transaction coordinator maintains a commit version for each transaction. This version is updated over the course of the transaction. In addition, each cluster member maintains a local current version that is updated as messages are received from the client. When a client serving as a transaction coordinator sends a message, the transaction coordinator includes an associated transaction's current version value with the message. On receiving a message, the receiving member process sets its current version to be the maximum of its own value and the received value. The receiving member process includes its current version in the return message to the sender. On receiving the return messages, the client sets the transaction's commit version to be greater than the maximum of its own value and the received value. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197995 | SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social media content management system coupled to a social media network includes database files and execution instructions to assemble, manage and transmit social media content. The database files store a feed content file, a social content management file, and management tables including a schedule file and an export content file. Execution instructions include a feed channel content system for receiving and storing feed content items in the feed content file. A selection subsystem is used for selecting and storing export content as social media posts in the social content management file. A scheduling subsystem enables a user to create and store schedules, to select a schedule and to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form the export content file. An export system transmits the stored content as social media content posts to the social media network according to the selected schedule. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITED SHARING OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A method and system for limited sharing of digital content is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving a first data stream from a user appliance over a network, the first data stream including user-authentication and content; and receiving a second data stream from a control computer, the second data stream including user-determined content sharing instructions. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197997 | Interest Management for a Virtual Environment of a Peer-to-Peer Network - The present invention relates to the provision of interest management in peer-to-peer networks that provide a virtual environment for multiple users. One example of such an environment is an online gaming environment. The invention includes a switching algorithm (FIG. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203831 | Sponsored Stories Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203832 | SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is embodied in methods and system for obtaining information about a category of interest from a computer network, the computer network including a plurality of user networks with each user network including a plurality of users. The method includes receiving an information request from a user, the information request specifying a category, identifying a first set of one or more users within a user network of the user, identifying a second set of one or more users within a user network of one or more users of the first set, and retrieving information associated with the one or more trusted information resource contacts of the identified second set from the electronic database corresponding to the information request, and providing the retrieved information to the user. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203833 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATED PLANNING OF A MEETING BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO PARTICIPANTS - A method automatically plans a meeting between at least two participants taking into account electronically stored calendar data relating to the participants. After the participants have been input and after at least one period of time and/or one duration and/or one item of location information for the meeting has/have been input, at least one proposed appointment is automatically determined, taking into account at least one item of arrival information relating to at least one participant in the meeting and the calendar data. The proposed appointment is displayed to at least one participant, in particular at least the person scheduling the meeting. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203834 | Method and System for Specifying and Developing Application Systems with Dynamic Behavior - System for specifying dynamic application system behavior, procedures and methods about its operations, and methods about how to develop such a behavior model are provided in the present invention. A Dynamic System (DS) and its operations are provided to model complex and dynamic system behavior in general. To specify behavior of an application system in a distributed environment, an external DS is used to model the external behavior, a Proactive System is used to model the reactive behavior and an internal DS is used to model the internal active behavior of such an application system. A graphical notation of DS and its components are also provided. Finally, systematic methods to derive reactive behavior from external behavior and vise versa are described. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203835 | DISTRIBUTED ROUTING TABLE INTERFACE - Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203836 | METHOD OF USING SERVER, SERVER RESERVATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In a content supply system, in order to use a streaming server to perform a live distribution, a user PC used makes a reservation for a time zone, etc. to a server reservation control center. When the user PC sends desired reservation information to the server reservation control center via the Internet, if the reservation is accepted, a reservation ID only used for authentication of the reservation is created and sent from the server reservation control center to the user PC via the Internet. When a distribution request is sent from the user to the streaming server, authentication processing using this reservation ID is performed. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203837 | MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN A NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN THE NETWORK - The present invention relates to a main electronic device for communicating within a network comprising an interface for enabling communication within the network and a controller for sending polling messages via the network to logical addresses via said interface in order to request information from at least one further electronic device. The present invention further relates to a method for operating a main electronic device for communicating within a network. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203838 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATING MEDIA CONTENT FOR DISPLAY TO A USER OF A SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203839 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A SOCIAL MEDIA UNIVERSE - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for managing social media universes. In one embodiment, media content and community members that have been associated with a new concept for creating a new universe are searched on a plurality of media content servers. For each found new concept, an association is retained between the new universe for the new concept and any found media content and community members. When a requesting user requests to view the new universe, a representation of the media content and the community members that are associated with the new universe is displayed for the requesting user. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203840 | DATA-PROVIDING APPARATUS, DATA-PROVIDING METHOD AND PROGRAM-SORTING MEDIUM - In the present invention, image data is edited in response to a demand transmitted from a data-processing apparatus through a network. A moving-picture server ( | 08-09-2012 |
20120203841 | METHOD OF ASSOCIATING OR RE-ASSOCIATING DEVICES IN A CONTROL NETWORK - This invention relates to a method of associating or re-associating devices in a control network including control zones to respective zone controllers (ZCs) controlling the control zones. In a first step, an associating or re-associating timer (ZC_REASSC_TIMER) window is initialized at the (ZCs) defining the time during which said associating or re-associating of the devices takes place. In a second step, during the (ZC_REASSC_TIMER) window zone specific information (ZN_SPEC) message sage is transmitted, the (ZN_SPEC) message including information about the devices expected to be in the zones controlled by the (ZCs). In a third step, it is compared whether the zone specific information contained in the (ZN_SPEC) received by the devices includes device specific information that match with local device specific information associated to the devices. In case the comparing results in that a pre-defined matching criteria is fulfilled an association or re-association request message (RA_REQ) is sent from the devices to the zone controllers (ZCs) where the pre-defined matching criteria was met. The (RA_REQ) message including device description parameters and indicates a request from the devices to join the control zones controlled by said (ZCs). Finally, it is determined whether the association or re-association of the respective devices is to be confirmed by means of comparing, by the respective (ZCs) receiving the (RA_REQ) message, the device description parameters included in the (RA_REQ) message match with zone specific information included in the (ZN_SPEC). | 08-09-2012 |
20120209906 | MULTI-PLATFORM COLLABORATION APPLIANCE - The invention contains a private self-aware network. The network will use multi-point Bluetooth technology or Wi-Fi or a direct connection (though not limited to any of these technologies) to provide this capability. By enabling the invention to detect other invention connections, accessories, and users, it can perform many of the network functions common in today's marketplace. A few examples include instant send or sharing of files to or with anybody linked through the invention or to a specific device. A chat window can be created to talk to specific people or to groups of people on the invention network. Registration information for conference discussion sessions can provide files to update customer databases or CRM type systems. Classroom attendance and assignments can be passed between the teacher and student. These are just a few examples of what can be done using this new network feature but the invention is not limited to just these. Due to a limited number of electrical wall sockets, a daisy chain option can be incorporated into the invention as well. The user has the option for directly connecting the power input of all the inventions in the room together rather than plugging in each one individually. There are four basic settings: Business (coffee shop), Active Conference, Active Classroom, and Professional Client. These offer standard settings usually expected in that kind of environment. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209907 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL CONTENT BASED ON ANOTHER USER - A content aggregation and distribution service, which can execute in a cloud computing environment, provides content based on a broadcast user's topics of interest to a subscriber user based on the context of the subscriber. An example of a broadcast user is a celebrity. Content is automatically gathered about the broadcast user's designated topics of interest from online resources, and filtered and distributed based on a context of the subscriber. Some examples of online resources are websites, social networking sites, and purchase transaction systems. An example of broadcast content is a recommendation which may have been entered directly to the service or posted by the celebrity in his or her social networking account. Both the broadcast user and the subscriber can control respectively the distribution and reception of content with subscription settings. For examples, the settings may set limitations with respect to topics, contexts, and subscriber profile data. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209908 | DYNAMICALLY SERVING CONTENT TO SOCIAL NETWORK MEMBERS - From outside a social network having a platform policy, causing a third-party program within the social network to query a social graph of a social network member. The results of the query are accessed without violating the platform policy. Based on the results, content is identified to serve to the social network member. The third-party program within the social network is caused to make the content available to the social network member. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209909 | CLOUD ACCESS SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A method for displaying data objects based on social networks is executed by a cloud access system. The method comprises receiving view preference settings from a user of the cloud access system. The view preferences settings comprise group names and time periods. The method further comprises querying a friend list according to the group and polling data objects shared by the user and the friends according to the time period. Each of the shared data objects is renamed to its uploaded time, re-sorted according to the timeline and stored in memory. The polling cycle is determined according to degrees of activities of the user and the friends on social networking sites. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK TO ENABLE MOBILE DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS IN A PRIVACY ENHANCED NETWORK - This disclosure relates to systems and methods of operating a mobile communications device (MCD) associated with a user utilizing social relationships defined on a social network. In one embodiment, the MCD detects other MCDs that are in proximity with the MCD. A determination may then be made that indicates which of the users associated with the other MCDs have a defined affinity with the user of the MCD on the social network. As a result of the determination, the MCD may then communicate over wireless local area networking links with the other MCDs. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209912 | Observation-Based User Profiling and Profile Matching - Observation-based user profiling and profile matching are provided. The network behavior of users of a computer-implemented social network are observed and used for user profiling. By observing network behavior instead of necessarily relying on user self-reported data, accurate and objective user profiles can be formed; user profiling is accomplished based on the observed network behaviors with or without the knowledge of the user being profiled. The observed network behaviors can include the customization of a visual graphic, a media preference, a communication preference, or a selection of words from a word list. The user profiles can be with respect to a domain and two or more users can be matched based on their profiles with respect to the same domain. User ratings and profile updating based on the ratings are also provided. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209913 | INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE IDENTITY AUTHORIZATION IN CONFERENCES - Disclosed herein are embodiments for validating a user joining a conferencing session. According to various embodiments, a first identifier is received. A user is identified from a plurality of users based at least in part on the first identifier. A second identifier is received that corresponds to the first identifier and the user and the user is validated based on both the first identifier and the second identifier. The user may then join the conferencing session, with the user's identity being revealed to others attending the conferencing session. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209914 | DISPLAYING AGGREGATED NEW CONTENT BY SELECTED OTHER USER BASED ON THEIR AUTHORIZATION LEVEL - Enabling a content publisher and a receiving user to control access to content updates based on user relationships. The content publisher and the receiving user may assign a relationship degree, relationship category, and/or relationship rating to each other and to other users. The content publisher and/or receiving user also specify a required relationship that is needed to access or accept a content update. The content publisher and receiving user may further specify acceptable types of content updates, such as blog entries, product reviews, photos, and the like that are accessible or acceptable. Upon logon or other event, a summary of content updates is provided to each receiving user that meets each content publisher's required relationship, and the content updates are delivered according to a selected delivery method from those content publishers that meet the relationship requirements of the receiving users. Delivery includes email, instant message, RSS feeds, and the like. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - An apparatus for transmitting data which includes a management unit that manages network-topology information of clients participating in the P2P service, and an interface unit that provides to a first client a peer list including information of a client having the minimum network distance to the first client, based on the network topology information, when receiving a request for content from the first client. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209916 | NETWORK SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING COMMUNICATION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A network system includes a first communication device, a second communication device and a server. The communication device includes a storage unit storing first device information indicating a function of the communication device, and a communication unit for receiving second device information indicating a function of another communication device from the other communication device, transmitting the first and second device information to the server, and receiving first control information used by the first device from the server. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209917 | MANAGEMENT OF TAGS RELATING TO SHARED MULTIMEDIA OBJECTS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - To manage at least one user tag (EtU) which is associated with a multimedia object (ObM) held by a user and stored in memory on an application server (SA), the user tag being liable to be accessed by at least one other user through a telecommunications network (RT), the application server (SA) semantically analysing the user tag (EtU) to determine a structured set (VoS) of confidentiality tags (EtC). When another user accesses the user tag (EtU), the application server determines the social category of the other user in relation to the user and selects a confidentiality tag (EtC) from the structured set (VoS) relating to the user tag (EtU) based on the determined social category. The selected confidentiality tag (EtC) is sent to the other user. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215843 | Virtual Communication Techniques - Techniques for facilitating communication are provided. The techniques include using a machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users of a communicator device and a compatible communicator device, wherein using the machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users comprises initiating a machine-to-machine communication with a compatible communicator device if the device is within the geographic proximity, wherein the machine-to-machine communication incorporates one or more related items from a user profile of each device automatically extracted by the device initiating the machine-to-machine communication, and conducting the machine-to-machine communication in a manner in which the communication can be monitored by the one or more human users. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215844 | CONNECTING USERS OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for establishing connections between users of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising a plurality of network devices, the network devices comprising a plurality of user devices and a plurality of network infrastructure devices, comprising: providing a system for establishing said connections; wherein the system performs on one or more of the network devices a semantic analysis and similarity calculation operation on a data item associated with a user so as to ascertain whether the data item has more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity with other data items associated with other users, and in a case that more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity is ascertained between the data item and a said other data item, between the user and the user associated with that said other data item, indicating awareness and a possible channel for communication. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESERVING PRIVACY FOR APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - An approach is provided for preserving privacy for appointment scheduling. A scheduling platform receives a request to schedule an appointment among one or more users. The scheduling platform determines availability information for the one or more users from one or more respective devices, wherein the availability information is encrypted using homomorphic encryption. The scheduling platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the availability information using, at least in part, one or more homomorphic functions to determine one or more recommended time slots for the appointment. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215846 | DISPLAY OF CONTENT INTERACTION DATA IN A BROWSER - A browser obtains content items from a content server, where the content items may include web pages, any individual content within a web page, items fetched via a web services-based API of the content server, and/or items in a feed. Additionally, an interaction module of the browser obtains information about interactions with the content items by those with some relationship to a user of the browser, such as the user's friends on a social networking site. Based on the obtained information, the browser provides an illustration of the information in visual association with the content item. For example, the browser may directly highlight or otherwise visually emphasize the content item itself, or it may provide an indicator for the browser or web page as a whole, or it may display some or all of the information. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215847 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIARY-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for providing Social Network Service (SNS) on the Internet and a system using the same. The present invention is characterized by creating a user tag list constructed with tags that are acquired by a user terminal; forming a social network between the user and other users, based on tags of the user tag list; and creating a diary based on the user tag list and social network associated with tags of the user tag list. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215848 | DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND COMMUNICATING VIA A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for querying the collective social network on behalf of a limited group of users is described. The method consists of a system that schedules and executes searches according to a set of search objectives specified by the users. The system searches each member's social network for a connection that matches any search objective. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSUMING VIRTUAL MEDIA - Provided is a method of consuming virtual media. The method allows a user to identify virtual media that the user wants to consume in the presence of at least one other user. The method recognizes co-presence of the user and the at least one other user and recommends the identified virtual media for consumption by the user and the at least one other user. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215850 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THE SELECTION OF COMMUNICATION PEERS IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK - A method for supporting the selection of communication peers in an overlay network, wherein a multitude of communication peers participate in the overlay network by providing certain pieces of information, and wherein at least one peer-to-peer server—tracker—is provided that maintains a database of the participating communication peers and the information possessed by them, wherein the tracker, upon receiving a query regarding a specific piece of information from a communication peer—requesting client—, answers the query by providing the requesting client a list that includes a subset of all communication peers possessing the requested piece of information, includes providing a network entity located such that it receives messages directed from the requesting client to the tracker, wherein the network entity stamps topological location information of the requesting client into any of the messages directed from the requesting client to the tracker. Furthermore, a corresponding system is disclosed. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221635 | Knowledge Base Broadcasting - A method is provided for a mobile device to display information associated with a digital diary. The method comprises the mobile device initiating a search of a plurality of digital diaries for at least one digital diary containing information that indicates that an owner of the at least one digital diary currently is or previously has been present in the current location of the mobile device, and the mobile device displaying information associated with the at least one digital diary. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SHARED DATA STORE FOR PEER DISCOVERY - After acquiring a network address, a computing device accesses a shared data store and writes the network address to the shared data store. The computing device additionally reads a plurality of network addresses from the shared data store, wherein the plurality of network addresses are for a plurality of nodes that are members of a peer-to-peer system. The computing device then joins the peer-to-peer system based on communicating with the plurality of nodes using the plurality of network addresses. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - State change means changes a state of an information processing apparatus between an unused state and a used state. First communication means automatically performs communication with another portable information processing apparatus. Second communication means automatically performs communication via an access point. Communication control means performs control such that the communication by the first communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the unused state and the communication by the second communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the used state. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED COMMUNICATION THREAD ANALYSIS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for forming communication threads. A system configured to practice the method receives a first log of first communications in a first modality and receives a second log of second communications in a second modality. Then, the system analyzes the first log and the second log to determine relationships between the first communications and the second communications. The system identifies, based on the relationships, sets of communications having a relationship strength above a threshold, and can form communication threads based on the sets of communications. The system can form communication threads by adding a meta-data tag to a communication unit. Example modalities include short message service (SMS), text, instant messages, phone calls, video calls, emails, events, social networking, and voicemail. The system can further rank the importance of communications threads based on user actions, to yield an importance value. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221639 | STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT FOR A USER DEVICE GROUP - Systems and methods for the storage and distribution of content for user device groups are presented. In one example, a device group including a plurality of user devices is defined based on logical relationships among the plurality of user devices. A group data structure corresponding to the device group is stored in a data storage device, the group data structure including a parent data structure. An item of content is received from a first user device of the device group and stored in the data storage device as a child data structure of the parent data structure. The item of content is transmitted to other user devices of the device group based on the item of content being stored in the group data structure. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221640 | PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - According to a peer-to-peer protocol, a peer-to-peer network includes multiple clubs and multiple peers that receive content distributed by a source of the network. Each of the plurality of peers is part of at least two of the clubs. As content is generated, the source divides the content into multiple data blocks and assigns each data block to a club. Each data block is transmitted to peers that belong to the club assigned to the data block. When a peer in a club receives a data block assigned to that club, the peer distributes the data block to other peers in the club. Additionally, the peer transmits the data block to peers in other clubs. Also, the peer receives data blocks assigned to other clubs from peers that are not members of the club. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221641 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL INTERACTIONS - A system for managing digital interactions comprising an identity module for creating an identity, wherein the identity includes a unique identifier associated with a first party and a plurality of proposed terms for a relationship with a second party; and a relationship module, in communication with the identity module, for receiving and evaluating the plurality of proposed terms, including accepting or rejecting the plurality of proposed terms and, if accepted, for allowing the first party to communicate with the second party in accordance with the plurality of proposed terms. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221642 | HIGH AVAILABILITY CONFERENCING - A method, system, and architecture for providing a conference system that effectively achieves high availability conferencing is provided. The conference system architecture provides a conference system that comprises a set of stateless conference servers and a shared conference store to provide highly available conferencing to its users. The conference servers serve (host) conferences (meetings) that allow users to conduct distributed conferences. Each conference server generally performs conference provisioning operations and conference control operations. The shared conference store provides for the storage of conference state information, thus allowing the conference servers in the conference server pool to be stateless by maintaining conference state information on the shared conference store. A stateless conference server may also locally maintain, for example, in cache memory, some of the conference state information that is maintained on the shared conference store. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221643 | TELEVISION AGGREGATOR - An aggregation system, process, article, and necessary intermediates, illustratively the system includes: a device capable of both networking and executing software programs, the device programmed from memory so that the aggregation apparatus: connects to a plurality of servers via the Internet, and authenticates itself with each of the plurality of servers, and retrieves information from each of the plurality of servers, and parses the information from each of the plurality of servers so as to produce an aggregation of parsed information, and renders the aggregation as output. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221644 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE MEETING ROOM - A method of establishing a multimedia conference meeting includes assigning unique user identifiers to corresponding users and corresponding persistent virtual private meeting rooms dedicated to the corresponding users. Conference sessions are established using the persistent virtual private meeting rooms in response to activation acts by the users. Resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions are dynamically allocated using distributed conference bridge computers. Resources presented during the conference sessions in the persistent virtual private meeting rooms remain available in the persistent virtual private meeting rooms after the conference sessions end. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221645 | AUTOMATIC MEDIA ASSET UPDATE OVER AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - An electronic program guide is displayed where the program guide indicates the various media being consumed by a plurality of users. Such users can be linked together via a relationship from a social networking website. In addition, the grid can display broadcast channel listings. The grid optionally provides the feature of adding and removing corresponding user and channel listings. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221646 | CACHING OF DIGITAL CONTENTS IN P2P NETWORKS - A method for enabling sharing of content files among nodes of a P2P network is provided. The P2P network comprises sub-networks each including a respective plurality of nodes capable of storing content files. Each sub-network has an associated corresponding hash table for indexing the content files stored in the nodes of the sub-network. The hash table is distributed among at least some of the nodes of the sub-network. The method comprises, for each content file stored in at least one node of a sub-network, storing in the hash table associated with the sub-network a criticality index providing an indication of the degree of sharing of the content file among the nodes of the sub-network. The method causes a node to cache at least one content file for sharing with other nodes of the sub-network based on the criticality index of the at least one content file. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221647 | SHARING OF DIGITAL CONTENTS IN P2P NETWORKS EXPLOITING LOCALIZATION DATA - A method for enabling sharing of content files among nodes of a P2P network is provided. The P2P network comprises sub-networks each including a respective plurality of nodes capable of storing content files. Each sub-network has an associated corresponding hash table for indexing content files stored in the nodes. The hash table is distributed among at least some of the nodes of the sub-network. For each content file stored in at least one node, the hash table comprises a corresponding node list of the sub-network nodes which store the content file. The method comprises associating each node of the sub-network listed in the node list corresponding to a content file with localization data indicating the localization of the node within the sub-network. The localization data defines a corresponding preferential list of the nodes storing the content file for downloading the content file by a requesting node. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226748 | Identify Experts and Influencers in a Social Network - On embodiment accesses a set of information comprising one or more elements of information relating to a subject matter, wherein the one or more elements of information have been shared among one or more users of a social-networking system; for each element of information, determines a rate of sharing of the element of information among the one or more users and identifies one or more first users who cause the rate of sharing of the element of information to increase; and identifies one or more influencers associated with the subject matter from the one or more first users identified for each element of information. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226749 | CROSS SOCIAL NETWORK DATA AGGREGATION - Disclosed in some examples is a method of aggregating social networking data by receiving first authentication information for a first social networking service, the first authentication information being associated with a user and being received from a first social networking application, receiving second authentication information for a second social networking service, the second authentication information being associated with the user and being received from a second social networking application, requesting first information regarding the user from the first social networking service using the first authentication information, receiving the first information regarding the user from the first social networking service and storing the received first information, requesting second information regarding the user from the second social networking service using the second authentication information; and receiving the second information regarding the user from the second social networking service and storing the received second information. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226750 | ONLINE PEER REVIEW OF INTERNET DATA - A process is provided to enable users of online search engine services to get information enabling those users to discriminate between sites produced by those search engines as a result of a search inquiry, so that the user will have the benefit of trusted peer review before selecting which link or links to visit. The process includes the steps of: receiving an application by a user to be a validator; reviewing the received application; approving the user as a validator; providing an interface for the validator to review a result of a first query in the validator's field of expertise; receiving, from the validator, an indication of an accuracy and an indication of a neutrality of the result of the first query; and presenting the indication of the quality of the result, in response to a second query. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226751 | Geographically Based Location, Alert, and Retrieval System for Lost Animals - A system and method for reuniting lost animals with their owners. More particularly, the invention relates to an optionally pre-registered, geographically based, location and retrieval system for lost animals, and a method for reuniting lost animals with their owners. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for sharing media using a social network in a communication system are provided. A method of a transmit terminal for sharing media using a social network includes transmitting to a media server, identification information relating to at least one counterpart terminal, generating media comprising location information associated with the media, and registering the generated media to the media server. A method of a receive terminal for sharing media using a social network includes transmitting to a media server, identification information relating to at least one counterpart terminal, transmitting location information of the receive terminal to the media server, and receiving from the media server, media corresponding to the location information among media registered by the at least one counterpart terminal. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226753 | Method and System for Intelligent Creation of Agenda Events - Methods and systems for intelligently creating agenda events are disclosed. A method includes receiving a message, analyzing the received message, determining whether the received message is an agenda-type message based on a data format of the received message, and if it is determined as an agenda-type message, creating a first new agenda event. The method further includes determining message type based on a semantic analysis of the received message, and if it is determined as an agenda-type message, creating a second new agenda event. The method and the system for intelligently creating of agenda events create agenda events automatically, based on the characteristics of the received messages, thereby improving the efficiency of the agenda. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ORDER STATUS INFORMATION USING AN UPDATE STATUS FLAG - A method and system for providing status of a data item after receiving status information pertaining to the data item. It is determined whether the received status information is new relative to further status information pertaining to the data item. The status record is updated to include the received status information if the received status information is new. The updated message indicating the received status information is then composed and transmitted over a network. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226755 | Reducing Messaging in a Client-Server System - A detection that a client-server system, which is operating in a first state mode, has switched from a first use case to a second use case for accessing a property of an object associated with a server. The first state mode during the first use case reduces messaging in the client-server system as compared to using a second state mode. A determination is performed as to whether using the second state mode during the second use case would reduce messaging in the system as compared to using the first state mode. The client-server system is transitioned to the second state mode, if operating in the second state mode would reduce messaging in the client-server system as compared to operating in the first state mode for the second use case. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226756 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STANDBY HANDLING IN A STREAMING MEDIA RECEIVER - It is presented a method executed in a streaming media receiver, the streaming media receiver comprising native software and web software for executing a web application. The method comprising the steps of: receiving, in an active web application running in the web software, a message indicating that the streaming media receiver is to be put in a passive standby mode; sending, from the active web application, a message to the native software indicating when the active web application is to be reinstated; setting, from the native software, a timer with the time of when the web application is to be reinstated; setting the streaming media receiver in a passive standby mode; receiving, in the native software, a signal that the timer has expired; setting the streaming media receiver in an active standby mode; and sending, from the native software, a message to the web application that the timer has expired. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233250 | AUTO-UPDATABLE DOCUMENT PARTS WITHIN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Techniques are described for managing relationships between entities in a content management system. Embodiments of the invention identify a relationship between a first entity and a second entity in the content management system. Embodiments monitor the first entity in the content management system to detect an occurrence of a triggering event specified in one or more management rules. One or more actions specified by the one or more management rules are then performed on the second entity in the content management system, responsive to the detected occurrence of the triggering event. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233251 | Virtual Multi-Cluster Clouds - An improved scalable object storage system allows multiple clusters to work together. Users working with a first cluster, or with a multi-cluster gateway, can ask for services and have the request or data transparently proxied to a second cluster. This gives transparent cross-cluster replication, as well as multi-cluster compute or storage farms based upon spot availability or various provisioning policies. Vendors providing a cloud storage “frontend” can provide multiple backends simultaneously. In one embodiment, a multi-cluster gateway can have a two, three, or higher-level ring that transparently matches an incoming request with the correct cluster. In the ring, a request is first mapped to an abstract “partition” based on a consistent hash function, and then one or more constrained mappings map the partition number to an actual resource. In another embodiment, the multi-cluster gateway is a dumb gateway, and the rings are located only at the cluster level. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233252 | HANDLING RECEIPTS IN CROSS COMPONENT MESSAGE PROCESSING - By automatically obtaining the entirety of a received message to be included, an outgoing message that includes the received message can be processed in a manner that securely and accurately represents the intended outgoing message. Alternatively, a server can assemble a composite message from a new message and an original message and, in cooperation with a wireless messaging device, sign the composite message. In both the above contexts, handling message receipts when message processing ahead of message transmission involved more than one component may be facilitated by storing appropriate expected receipt content during the message processing, either on the device or the server. Validation of the receipt can then be accomplished through use of the stored expected receipt content in a manner that retains the benefits of message processing ahead of message transmission that involves more than one component. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING AND SERVICING USERS BY ORIENTATION - The present disclosure relates to a social networking service based on user orientation, particularly user political beliefs. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233254 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system which includes: a comment server that delivers to user terminals comments that are input in response to contents which are played by the user terminals, and comment input times that show the point in time when a comment was input with the contents playing start time used as a reference; and user terminals that are connected to this server, the user terminals play received contents, and also sort the plurality of comments which are delivered to it from the comment server to each one of a plurality of time segments based on the comment input time corresponding to each comment, and also output in synchronization with the contents a predetermined number of comments for each time segment. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233255 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing system capable of reflecting the relationship between users, which has been established by exchanging data between information processing terminals, to an information processing device. A first information processing terminal receives identification data which identifies a user who operates a second information processing terminal from the second information processing terminal. The first information processing terminal transmits, to an information processing device, identification data which identifies a user who operates the first information processing terminal and the identification data which identifies the user who operates the second information processing terminal in association with each other. The information processing device associates, based on the received identification data, the user who operates the first information processing terminal and the user who operates the second information processing terminal. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233256 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING SOCIAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING A SOCIAL GRAPH, TO IDENTIFY AND PRESENT CONTENT OF INTEREST - Techniques for leveraging social information, including a social graph, to identify content likely to be of interest to a user are described. With some embodiments, a content enhancement server receives a request for web-based content that is to be presented with a web page that is being presented at a client computing device. The server will then identify some web-based content that is relevant to a topic or subject matter of the web page, and also popular as determined by analyzing some social information, including in some instances information relating to asocial graph of the viewing user, that is associated with the web-based content. Finally, some items of web-based content are selected, based on a combination of the content's relevance and popularity as indicated by the analysis of the social information. The selected web content is then communicated to the client computing device for presentation with the web page. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233257 | SOCIAL ANALYSIS IN MULTI-PARTICIPANT MEETINGS - Methods and systems for social analysis in multi-participant meetings provide for receiving a data stream of a multi-participant meeting, wherein multiple topics are discussed. The data stream is analyzed to detect topics and to define topical sub-activities that are performed by at least a portion of the participants. Contributions to a topic by two of the participants in the topical sub-activities are identified and evaluated. A connection weight between the two participants is calculated based on the evaluation of their respective contributions. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233258 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING AND APPLYING DATA RELATED TO CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233259 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET-BASED HUMAN NETWORK BROKERING - Matches between search queries and potential targets of such search queries are automatically brokered by (i) comparing search criteria specified in the search queries with profile criteria describing the potential targets, and (ii) reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between the search criteria and the profile criteria, provided that access controls associated with the profile criteria of the targets permit such reporting in light of access levels assigned to the search inquiries. Initiators, using client applications at various remote locations, may formulate the search queries and the brokering may be performed at one or more server locations communicatively coupled (e.g., via the Internet) thereto. The profile criteria may include portions of rich descriptive profiles of the potential targets. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233260 | Post-to-Profile Control - Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233261 | OPTIMIZED PREFETCHING FOR WIDE AREA NETWORKS - A data prefetching technique uses predefined prefetching criteria and prefetching models to identify and retrieve prefetched data. A prefetching model that defines data to be prefetched via a network may be stored. It may be determined whether prefetching initiation criteria have been satisfied. Data for prefetching may be identified based on the prefetching model when the prefetching initiation criteria have been satisfied. The identified data may be prefetched, via the network, based on the prefetching model. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233262 | MESSAGE SIGNATURE METHOD AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses a message signature method, which includes: selecting a signature template that includes a signature variable for a message to be sent; parsing the signature variable in the signature template to obtain a current value of the signature variable, and filling the current value of the signature variable in the signature template to obtain a signed message; and sending the signed message. Meanwhile, the present invention further discloses a message signature device. With the present invention, signature content that changes dynamically can be obtained, which makes the message signature more interesting and personalized, easy to be implemented, and highly practicable. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233263 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FOR OPEN OVERLAY FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ONLINE SERVICES - Methods and systems to manage users of a social network. The method includes receiving, at a server, a request to contact a user from another user of a social network based on a selected one of a plurality of associated identity resources of the user known by other users. The method also includes restricting views of other users for the identity of the user to the selected one of the plurality of associated identity resources. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239741 | INDUCEMENT SERVER, USER INDUCEMENT SYSTEM AND USER INDUCEMENT METHOD - A server includes a microprocessor and provides an event, which is of a user participation type, as a first service. The server includes a receiving unit that receives, from a first user terminal connected to the server through a network, action information that identifies an action that corresponds to the event and that is requested by the first user via the first user terminal, and user identification information that distinguishes the first user, an event control unit that performs the action which is identified by the action information, and a notification unit that transmits a notification, to a second server which provides a second service and is connected to the server through the network, the notification including the user identification of the first user, address information that identifies an address of the event, and action information indicating that the action has been performed. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239742 | MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING ASSEMBLY AND EFFICIENT DATA EXCHANGE THEREFOR - The present mobile social networking assembly establishes new connections between users within the network of proximity created by the assembly and while the users mutually match the each others' data. The assembly implements a broadcast-based efficient/fast data exchange using minimal power via Dynamic Human Mobile Broadcast Networking without infrastructure demands. Implemented within a mobile telephone or as a stand-alone unit ( | 09-20-2012 |
20120239743 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING SENSOR DATA INTO ANTHROPOMORPHIC STATUS AND CONTROL FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS - An apparatus and method, having one or more sensors and actuators, which monitor and control living organisms or machinery, a communication link from the sensor and actuators to an Internet access node, a data base and application software which converts sensor data, into anthropomorphic content which can be delivered to social networking platforms, such that the data and control functions can be presented to a human as a virtual living entity. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239744 | HYBRID NETWORKING SIMPLE-CONNECT SETUP USING PROXY DEVICE - A simple connect setup function for hybrid networks is provided that allows a user to add devices optionally having a number of different network interfaces (e.g., that facilitate communications using different network technologies or protocols) to a hybrid network in a single, simplified operation that alleviates the need for the user to individually connect and/or configure a multitude of different network interfaces. The simple connect setup function also alleviates the need for the user to know on which devices the simple connect setup function must be activated for successful simple connect setup. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239745 | Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Recommendations for Content From The Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239746 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Responding to Media Conference Deficiencies - A method for responding to media conference deficiencies, the method includes: monitoring, by at least one receiver, a quality of media conference signals being received by at least one receiver during the media conference; sending, in response to the monitoring, to at least an end user transmitter that transmitted the media conference signals, a quality indication representative of a quality of the received media conference signals; recording inadequately received media conference signals that were inadequately received by a certain end user receiver and participating in an activity related to a transmission, to the certain end user receiver, of the inadequately received media conference signals or of a representation of the inadequately received media conference signals. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239747 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF USER-RECEIVED COMMUNICATIONS FOR A REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS EVENT - A real time communication session can be defined in which more than two participants communicate with each other using at least two different types of bidirectional communication. In one embodiment, the different types of bidirectional communication can include audio and video. During communication session, demoting one of the participants can be demoted so that the demoted participant is still a participant of communication session but communicates using at least one less than the two different types. Responsive to the demoting, one of the participants can be promoted so that the promoted participant is permitted to participate in the communication session using at least two different types of bidirectional communication. The promoting would not be permitted due to a system constraint on the real time communication session in absence of the demoting. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239748 | INVITING TEMPORARY PARTICIPANTS TO A VIRTUAL MEETING OR OTHER COMMUNICATION SESSION FOR A FIXED DURATION - A session invitation can be received from a first communicator for a first communication session. The session invitation can be for a temporary participant to join a sub-session of the first communication session for a sub-session duration specified by the first communicator. The sub-session duration can be less than a duration of the first communication session. The session information can be conveyed to the temporary participant within a session invitation so that the sub-session duration is able to be presented to the temporary participant. Thus, the temporary participant is able to accept or deny the session invitation with full knowledge of the sub-session duration. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239749 | READ-AHEAD PROCESSING IN NETWORKED CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - Read messages are grouped by a plurality of unique sequence identifications (IDs), where each of the sequence IDs corresponds to a specific read sequence, consisting of all read and read-ahead requests related to a specific storage segment that is being read sequentially by a thread of execution in a client application. The storage system uses the sequence id value in order to identify and filter read-ahead messages that are obsolete when received by the storage system, as the client application has already moved to read a different storage segment. Basically, a message is discarded when its sequence id value is less recent than the most recent value already seen by the storage system. The sequence IDs are used by the storage system to determine corresponding read-ahead data to be loaded into a read-ahead cache. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239750 | Sponsored-Stories-Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sponsor specifications designating story characteristics; monitoring an organic activity stream for entries matching the story characteristics; and, in response to identifying an entry as matching the story characteristics, providing for display the entry in a predetermined area of a web page. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239751 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REPUTATION SCORING - Methods and systems for assigning reputation to communications entities include collecting communications data from distributed agents, aggregating the communications data, analyzing the communications data and identifying relationships between communications entities based upon the communications data. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239752 | MANAGEMENT OF USER PROFILES IN A CLOUD BASED MANAGED UTILITY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of managing the profiles of users in a cloud based managed utility computing environment. New architectures and components are required for the delivery, management and control of a user's profile in a managed utility computing environment that works over the Internet (referred to in the title as the cloud). A user profile is built where the user can receive information of interest in a cloud-based managed utility computing environment. The profile stores the characteristics and interests of the users and this can be used to the benefit of the user and also the service provider. Applications and advertisements are provided to appropriate users. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246228 | SHARING CHANNELS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for sharing content. A user can acquire content, such as locally and/or remotely, that they wish to share with one or more recipients. The user provides or establishes one or more endpoints (e.g., email alias, cell-phone/text messaging address, etc.) for one or more recipients with which to share content using a sharing channel. A universal resource identifier (URI), comprising a link to the content to be shared is generated. Upon receiving an indication of sharing (e.g., drag-n-drop of content into the channel), at least one of the selected content and the URI are automatically sent to the one or more endpoints for the respective one or more recipients via the sharing channel. The user can thus share a plurality content with multiple recipients at multiple different endpoints in a single act. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246229 | Notifying Participants that a Conference is Starting - A conferencing service enables users to schedule telecommunication conferences. At the time when the host of a previously scheduled conference joins the conference, one or more participants of the conference do not have active communication sessions with the conferencing service. In response to the host joining the conference, the conferencing service notifies such participants that the conference is starting. Because the conferencing service notifies these participants that the conference is starting, it may be unnecessary for these participants to wait on hold for the host to join the conference. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246230 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - The present invention generally relates to online social networking Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for providing a content evaluation and social networking platform that allows users to interact through the use of various roles, develop reputations through a personal and peer based rating system and exchange goods and services through use of an online currency that may be traded and exchanged in various real world currencies. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING BY RECIPROCITY USING HIDDEN SELECTIONS - The system and method described herein enables people to meet other people faster, easier, and less expensive than any other system and method available by a simple two way matching method that creates matches only when two users want to meet each other, and eliminates the fear of rejection. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246232 | Sponsored-Stories-Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a bid to display in a predetermined area of a web page an organic-activity-stream entry matching particular story characteristics. The bid includes a bid amount and one or more targeting criteria. The method includes, n response to identifying an organic-activity-stream entry as matching the story characteristics, providing for display the organic-activity-stream entry in a predetermined area of a web page based at least in part on the bid amount and targeting criteria. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246233 | PUBLISHING USER SUBMISSIONS - According to the present invention, there is provided a method to facilitate propagating a plurality of transaction listings to a network-based transaction facility. An input interface is presented at a seller application to receive from a user, a plurality of transaction listings, each transaction listing including an associated start time. Also, a data file is composed at the seller application to include the plurality of transaction listings. Moreover, the data file is propagated, using the seller application, from the client computer to the network-based transaction facility. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246234 | METHODS FOR MANAGING CONFERENCES - Described is a method for administering an online conference. The method includes receiving an electronic communication from a conference participant. A group is determined to be associated with the conference participant. An action is performed on the conference participant based on the group association. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246235 | ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION SHARING PROVIDING SYSTEM, ACCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ACCESS INFORMATION PROXY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An attribute information providing device | 09-27-2012 |
20120246236 | NETWORK SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATIONS SERVER - A network system includes a server and a plurality of terminals. The server stores contents and a status showing the state of the terminal for each room. The server stores the status received from the terminal and associated with the room, and transmits the contents and the status associated with the designated room to the terminal. Each of the plurality of terminals transmits the status to the server, transmits designation of the room input through an input device to the server, and causes a display to show the contents and the status received from the server. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254303 | Mediated Lending of Digital Items - Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254304 | Lending Digital Items to Identified Recipients - Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254305 | FACILITATING MEETING INVITATION EXTENSION - Enabling meeting extensions using an electronic meeting scheduling system may include enabling a second user invited to a meeting by a first user via an electronic meeting scheduling system to invite one or more third users to the meeting; and applying one or more meeting attributes set by the second user to said one or more third users. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254306 | SCREEN SHARING METHOD, SCREEN SHARING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of sharing a screen, performed by a computer, has drawing on a screen an image on predetermined information stored in an information storage unit and recording, in a range storage unit, range information indicating a range of the image on the screen, replacing the range indicated by the range information stored in the range storage unit with a predetermined image in the image on the screen to be transferred to a sharing destination of the screen, and transferring the image on the screen having the range replaced with the predetermined image to an apparatus of the sharing destination of the screen. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TIME MACHINE SERVICE BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Disclosed are a method for providing a time machine service based on an SNS (social network service), including: extracting keywords based on SNS information input by SNS users and collecting rich contents relating to the SNS information based on the keywords; dividing points of past, present, and future, based on a predetermined present time period and classifying the rich contents into any one of past information, present information, and future information, based on the division result; and providing the classified rich contents to the SNS users. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254308 | Apparatus and Method for Augmenting Digital Educational Content with Social Learning Tools - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to display electronic content, associate a subset of the electronic content with a comment from a user and submit the subset of the electronic content and the comment to a forum accessible by a plurality of users. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254309 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND LOG COLLECTION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for instructing changes relating to log data collection via a network associated with a plurality of terminals. One exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising a communication unit, at least one memory to store processor-executable instructions, and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the communication unit and the at least one memory. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions by the processing unit, the processing unit determines that a parameter setting for log data collection should be changed for a first terminal of the plurality of terminals. In response to receiving a signal from the first terminal at the communication unit, the processing unit controls the communication unit to transmit instruction data to the first terminal to change the parameter setting for log data collection. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254310 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDED CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a device that generates a first feature based on information of a first type included in first content selected by a target user in past, generates a second feature based on information of a second type included in second content selected by the target user after selecting the first contest, generates a relational feature showing a relationship between the first content and the second content, based on the first feature and the second feature, and searches for content to be recommended to the target user by using the information of the first type included in content newly selected by the target user and the relational feature. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254311 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING CPM MESSAGE AND SERVER THEREOF - A method that includes receiving a message generated by a source terminal of a requestor; if there are one or more target terminals capable of receiving the message, among plural target terminals of a recipient, transmitting the message to the one or more target terminals, respectively; and transmitting a response message to the source terminal. Also is a method that includes: receiving, from a server, a message generated by a target terminal of a requestor; transmitting, from the mobile terminal to the server, a response message in response to the received message; generating, by the mobile terminal, a reply message in response to the message received from target terminal; transmitting the generated replay message to the server; and synchronizing with the server to receive another message, the another message having been generated by another terminal owned by a same user and intended to be transmitted to the target terminal. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254312 | Methods and Systems for Incentivizing, Exchanging, and Tracking Expressions of Gratitude Within a Network - A method includes receiving, by a first computing device, from a second computing device associated with a first user, a first expression of gratitude for at least one of a good and a service provided by a second user. The method includes receiving, by the first computing device, from the second computing device, a second expression of gratitude for a second at least one of a good and a service provided by a third user. The method includes providing, by the first computing device, to a third computing device associated with a fourth user, the first expression of gratitude and the second expression of gratitude for display to the fourth user. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254313 | Multiple Destinations for Mainframe Event Monitoring - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing mainframe events. In the methods, systems, and devices of the present disclosure, at least one mainframe event is received at a mainframe event server module communicatively coupled with a mainframe. The received at least one mainframe event may be converted to an open format. A destination Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) application may be selected for the received at least one mainframe event based on a set of rules, and a format associated with the selected destination SIEM application may be identified. The at least one mainframe event may then be transmitted in the identified format from the mainframe event server module to the selected destination SIEM application. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254314 | Controlling the Presence Information of Activity Participants - Techniques for relaying presence information of one or more entities, wherein the one or more entities are participants in a scheduled activity, are provided. A status of the scheduled activity is obtained from a first entity via an application loaded on a device of the first entity. The presence information of the first entity and/or a second entity is updated in accordance with the status of the scheduled activity. The updated presence information of the first entity and/or the second entity is published. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAXIMIZING CONTENT SPREAD IN SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, a system and a computer program product for maximizing content spread in a social network are provided. Samples of edges are generated from an initial candidate set of edges. Each edge of the samples of edges has a probability value for content flow. Further, a subset of edges is determined from the samples of edges based on gain corresponding to each edge. Also, each node of the subset of edges is having at least one of less than ‘K’ or equal to ‘K’ incoming edges. Further, the probability of each edge, of the subset of edges, may be incremented. Furthermore, a final set of edges may be determined by ensuring ‘K’ incoming edges. The ‘K’ incoming edges may be ensured by removing one or more incoming edges when a number of the incoming edges for a node of the final set is greater than ‘K’ incoming edge. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259916 | AUTOMATED ENCODING OF FIELD OPERATORS - In one example a method includes: selecting, by a computing device, a message description that indicates a pre-defined operator is associated with a message data field; receiving, by the computing device, information associated with the message data field; responsive to determining that the information indicates the message data field does not include data, determining, by the computing device, whether to include, in a second message that is associated with the message description, a data value for the message data field of the second message based on the pre-defined operator that is associated with the message data field, wherein the data value is stored by the computing device and is associated with the message data field. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN PARTIES - A system providing automated delivery of contact information between users of two respective devices. The request for predetermined contact information is recognized at the device of one of the parties and in response, the requested contact information is sent automatically to the second user. The device of the second user stores the contact information and uses to send specific information to the first user. The memory holding the contact information and/or the address books can be local storage devices or cloud based. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259918 | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION - Techniques are provided for enabling communications between a business process and an external entity, by a) receiving notification data from a business process of a computer-based business process management system, b) applying a set of rules to any of the notification data to select an external entity to whom a communication will be sent, select a communications channel from among a plurality of communications channels associated with the external entity, and generate the communication from any of the notification data in a manner that conforms to the selected communications channel, and c) sending the communication to the external entity via the selected communications channel. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259919 | Using Polling Results as Discrete Metrics for Content Quality Prediction Model - A social networking system presents content items to users, who then provide feedback regarding pairs of content items. The feedback includes a selection of a content item of the pair of content items that was preferred by the user over the other content item. The social networking system uses this information to train a predictive model that scores content items based on quality. The content items may be advertisements. The social networking system uses the pair-wise comparisons of the advertisements to determine feedback coefficients in an advertising quality score prediction model using regression analysis of the pair-wise comparisons for each predictive factor in the model. In this way, the pair-wise comparisons are used to train the prediction model to understand which advertisements are more enjoyable than others. A feedback coefficient for each predictive factor may be computed based on the preferences received from the group of users. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259920 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO TRANSMISSION CAPACITY - In a peer-to-peer communication network between terminals, classes are assigned respectively to said terminals, a class indicating the transmission capacity of the terminal. The transmission capacity of a terminal corresponds to at least one transmission characteristic associated with the terminal and depends at least on a type of underlying physical network to which the terminal belongs. At a first terminal, a request is received to transmit digital content to a second terminal, the request indicating the class assigned to the second terminal. Then a decision is made whether or not to transmit a least a portion of the digital content to the second terminal, on the basis of said indicated class. Finally, the decision is transmitted to the second terminal. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259921 | Method and System for Providing Personalized Network Based Marketing Dialogues - Systems and methods for personalizing marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may associate a variable to each event in a script. A variable may be associated with each event. A first instruction in the script may be operable to send a first communication to a user from a server via the network. A second instruction may be operable to according to the script based on the stored set of user information and the variable associated with the first event | 10-11-2012 |
20120259922 | Method and System for Scalable Content Storage and Delivery - A peer-to-peer communication system in which a peer communicating with a tracker node on a local torrent can locate and download files that are not currently available from other peers communicating on the local torrent. To enable this, the tracker node maintains collaboration information for a list of files. The collaboration information includes, for each file, a list of locations at which a full copy of the file may be located. The list of locations may include active peers, dormant peers and remote tracker nodes. The collaboration information may be obtained from each peer when it joins a local torrent. Upon joining the torrent, the peer may provide the local tracker node with a list of files that it is willing to serve. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259923 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A FIRST PARTICIPANT AND A SECOND PARTICIPANT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network, In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant and a second participant in a social network is provided, in exchange for the payment, | 10-11-2012 |
20120265806 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONCEPT-BASED HASH TAGS - Methods for automatically recommending hash tags for use with comments generated by the comment authors comprise analyzing existing comments to determine reach and influence of authors of the existing comment, and hash tags and keywords that are included in the existing comments. The methods further comprise using the comment and linked content of links included in the existing comment to determine concept information associated with the existing comments, where the concept information is determined using a server computing system configured with an Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) application, and where the concept information, the reach and influence information, the keywords and the hash tags are stored in a hash tag database. The methods further comprise analyzing new comments as they are being generated by authors of the new comments where the new comments and any linked content associated with the new comments are analyzed by the server computing system configured with the IDOL application to determine related concept information, and recommending possible hash tags to the authors of the new comments using the concept information of the new comments and the information stored in the hash tag database. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265807 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In an embodiment, a communication device may be provided. The communication device may include a first communication interface configured to receive a first data portion from a corresponding communication device. The communication device may further include a second communication interface configured to receive data from a further communication device. The further communication device may receive a second data portion from the corresponding communication device. The first data portion and the second data portion may be useful data for a user of the communication device. The communication device may further include a synchronizer configured to synchronize the first data portion with the second data portion based on the data received from the other communication device via the second communication interface. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265808 | CONTEXTUAL COLLABORATION - An activity stream is created in a first medium. The activity stream is a mechanism where participants can collaborate on a subject. Participants are added to the activity stream. A participant in the activity stream initiates a communication in a second medium. The status of the communication is determined. If the status of the communication is active, the status of the communication is indicated in the activity stream. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265809 | TRANSFERRING INFORMATION FROM AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE (ATM) TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE DURING A USER INTERACTION SESSION - Embodiments of the invention provide for wirelessly communicating information from an ATM to a customer's mobile communication device during or proximate in time with the customer's ATM interaction session. More specifically, the information is accessible to the customer through communication of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is wirelessly communicated from the ATM to the customer's mobile communication device. In specific embodiments, the URL may be associated with customer-specific information that is determined, on-the fly during the ATM interaction session, based on customer inputs during the session and/or customer profile data, including transaction history data. In other specific embodiments, the URL may be associated with financial institution contact information, such that the customer may obtain answers to questions related to the ATM interaction session or any other financial institution-related matter using their mobile communication device. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265810 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK-BASED COLLABORATION - A method and system for establishing a network-based collaboration is described. The method involves the provision of a server-terminal as a data source for the collaboration session, a plurality of client-terminals to allow a user access for participating in the collaboration session and one or more application gateways, the application gateways being configured to relay data between network components during the collaboration session. Both the server-terminal and the client-terminals are allocated an application gateway to which it transmits/and receives data during the collaboration session, the allocation of the application gateways being determined by the location of the server-terminal and client terminals within the network. Also described is a method of data path optimisation for the application gateways employed within the network-based collaboration. A particular application of the present invention is found within the field of Wide Area Network (WAN)-based collaborations. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265811 | System and Method for Developing Evolving Online Profiles - A system and a method for generating an emotional profile of the user and deriving inference from the analytics of generated emotional profile is provided. The method involves sharing media content or online event in a connected environment; capturing user's reaction to the said content or event; generating an emotional profile of the user to rate the media content or event; and sharing the emotional profile within the connected environment. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265812 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM USER MESSAGES TO COMMUNICATE RAPIDLY WITH CONTACTS - A device (D) is designed to process communication data from at least one user, This device (D) consists of i) the means of analysis (MA) tasked with analysing incoming and/or outgoing communications data from at least one user communication terminal (T) in order to determine selected information about said communications and the other users, called “contacts”, involved in at least one of these communications, and ii) the processing means (MT) tasked with assigning a weight to each communication involving the user according to the information determined for said communication and at least one selected rule, and then creating a contact data file in which each contact is assigned an overall weight equal to the sum of the weights assigned to each communication involving him or her and the user. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREFERENCE GENERATION - The system provides a method and apparatus for preference generation that allows, for example, geographic boundaries to be easily implemented by a user. The system permits a user and other participants to manually and/or automatically constrain options to specific user and participant defined criteria, including geographic, categorical, economical, temporal, and other preference metrics. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265814 | Software Application for Managing Personal Matters and Personal Interactions through a Personal Network - A software application is systems and methods to manage personal matters and personal interactions through a personal network. The personal network includes users, which exclusively share information and activities with each other. The personal network is driven by a personal network engine, which has a plurality of modules that provide different functions for both the users and the software application. Each of the users can manage the events/items in their lives with the software application. The software application can track metrics and performance data for the event/items and can provide coaching suggestions for those event/items, which are based on the metrics and performance data. The software application also allows the users to organize their events/items into classes and their classes into categories. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265815 | DISTRIBUTED CONFERENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEM - A distributed conference system is presented herein for providing information to a conference presenter and a group of conference attendees. The distributed conference system includes a main console used by the conference presenter and one or more distributed consoles used by conference attendees. The main console provides a touch screen or other user interface and contains functions that the conference presenter can use to control each of the distributed consoles as well as providing standard room control functions. In addition, the distributed consoles may provide access to additional information for conference attendees and the conference presenter, such as television or other video feeds and a web browser through which they can access the Internet. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265816 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING POTENTIAL FUTURE INTERESTS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO PROFILE(S) OF USER(S) OF COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT(S) - A device (D) is intended for determining potential interests of users (U | 10-18-2012 |
20120265817 | METHOD FOR MANAGING E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS IN AN EMAIL IN AN EMAIL APPLICATION - The invention proposes a method for managing email attachments in an email application, said method used, on opening an attachment using an editing application defined based on the nature of said attachment, to edit a copy of said attachment and to save the modifications made to said copy as a modified version of said attachment, said method also allowing a logical link to be created between the modified version and the email, said logical link being used to attach said modified version to said email as a modified attachment. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265818 | Device-to-Device Communication - There is provided an improved solution for performing beacon broadcasting in a device-to-device communication network. The solution includes selecting, by a node capable of entering a device-to-device communication network, a channel for broadcasting wherein the selection is based on at least one of the following: the characteristics of the node and the state of the node; and causing a broadcast of information related to at least part of the properties of the node on the selected channel. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265819 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING AND ACTING UPON USER INTENTIONS EXPRESSED IN ON-LINE CONVERSATIONS AND SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTS - Intentions of a user as expressed in an on-line conversation or other user generated content (UGC) are identified and subsequently acted upon, for example by bringing relevant or related content to the attention of the user and/or making others aware of the conversation. The intention signals derived from the UGC may be used to fashion or update a user profile or inform a broader view of the individual associated with the UGC. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265820 | Web Feed Presence - Web feed presence techniques are described herein. In an implementation, a method includes obtaining a web feed describing content of the user and presence data of the user. The web feed is output with the presence data concurrently. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265821 | DETERMINING OPERATIONAL STATUS OF A MOBILE DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXECUTING SERVER-SIDE APPLICATIONS - To determine the operational status of a wireless communication device capable of executing server-side applications, a message is sent to the device requesting operational status of the device. The message may be may be triggered by a system administrator at a middleware server. The wireless communication device may receive the message, compose a response message indicative of the operational status of the device, and send the response message back to the middleware server. The messages may be extensible markup language (XML) messages. Composition of the response message may entail verifying that a textual operational status description forming part of the response message omits illegal XML characters, e.g., by passing the description through an XML formatter for removal of any illegal XML characters. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING MOBILE INTERNET SERVICE - This disclosure discloses a system and a method for sharing mobile internet service. The system comprises: a mobile client node configured to send a message for requesting a shared service; and a mobile agent peer-to-peer network including multiple mobile agent peer-to-peer nodes which are configured to receive the message from the mobile client node and provide for the mobile client node the shared service requested by the message. This disclosure uses the mobile agent peer-to-peer node to receive from the mobile client node the message for requesting the shared service and provide the shared service according to message, to solve the problem that transmission and sharing of large files among mobile terminals can not be implemented in the related art, and thus to implement the sharing of resources among mobile terminals. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271882 | SOCIAL MEDIA SHUFFLE SYSTEM AND APPLICATION - A system and application are provided that enable social media shuffle functionality. Social media shuffle functionality allows users of the social media system to enjoy a variety of media that is not stored in their profile by allowing them access to all media stored in a media catalog or otherwise available to a friend. A social media shuffle operation is provided whereby a user can easily enjoy a wide variety of media with minimal user effort. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271883 | GEO-LOCATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for matching a first user in a first geographic location with a second user in a second geographic location, and enabling the first user to find the second user in the second geographic location. The first geographic location can be the same as the second geographic location. The first user and second user can be matched based on user-specific matching criteria, including a first user profile of the first user and a second user profile of the second user. The first user can communicate with the second user. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271884 | User Preference Surveys - A method and system for providing recommendations or targeted content to a user of a user apparatus comprising: presenting a user preference survey | 10-25-2012 |
20120271885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRANSIENT FRIENDS - A system and method for identifying transient friends for a social network of a user are provided. A transient friend processing function obtains locations of a number of users or locations otherwise associated with the number of users. In order to identify transient friends for a first user, the transient friend processing function identifies other users associated with locations within a proximate area of the first user. For each of the identified users, the transient friend processing function compares a user profile of the first user to a user profile of the identified user to determine whether to add the identified user as a transient friend of the first user. If the transient friend processing function determines that the identified friend is to be added as a transient friend of the first user, the identified friend is then added as a transient friend of the first user. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271886 | DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY - Systems and methods for implementing a distributed shared memory (DSM) in a computer cluster in which an unreliable underlying message passing technology is used, such that the DSM efficiently maintains coherency and reliability. DSM agents residing on different nodes of the cluster process access permission requests of local and remote users on specified data segments via handling procedures, which provide for recovering of lost ownership of a data segment while ensuring exclusive ownership of a data segment among the DSM agents detecting and resolving a no-owner messaging deadlock, pruning of obsolete messages, and recovery of the latest contents of a data segment whose ownership has been lost. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271887 | DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY - Systems and methods for implementing a distributed shared memory (DSM) in a computer cluster in which an unreliable underlying message passing technology is used, such that the DSM efficiently maintains coherency and reliability. DSM agents residing on different nodes of the cluster process access permission requests of local and remote users on specified data segments via handling procedures, which provide for recovering of lost ownership of a data segment while ensuring exclusive ownership of a data segment among the DSM agents detecting and resolving a no-owner messaging deadlock, pruning of obsolete messages, and recovery of the latest contents of a data segment whose ownership has been lost. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271888 | AUTOMATED TAPE DRIVE SHARING IN A HETEROGENEOUS SERVER AND APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - An approach for automatically sharing a tape drive in a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a first computer and second computer is presented. The first computer receives a message that includes a shared tape drive identifier, a source port identifier of the second computer, and a reservation status change for the tape drive. Based on the tape drive identifier, the first computer determines that the tape drive is connected to the first computer. The source port identifier is determined to not identify any host bus adapter installed in the first computer. In response to the first computer determining that the reservation status change indicates a reservation or a release of the tape drive for the second computer, the first computer sets the tape drive offline or online, respectively, in an application executing in the first computer. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271889 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING A BOOKMARK WITH OTHER USERS IN A HOME NETWORK - A method and apparatus for sharing a bookmark, which is created by a user, with other users. In a method for sharing a bookmark in a home network, information of a bookmark for sharing in a home network device of a bookmark creator is created. The bookmark or the information of the bookmark is stored in an Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) terminal in the home network of the bookmark creator. The bookmark or the information of the bookmark is then transmitted from the IPTV terminal to an IPTV service provider. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278385 | Managing Connection Pools for User Devices - In one embodiment, a first computing device, maintains a set of connections for the first computing device; intercepts a request from a software application executing on the first computing device to establish a connection with a second computing device; selects from the set of connections an available connection; and assigns the available connection to the software application for connecting to the second computing device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278386 | ASSET SHARING WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE USING A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A method and system for sharing an asset in a peer-to-peer network. Meta data and a source node identification are received. The meta data specifies properties and content of the asset to be shared by the source node. The received source node identification and the meta data are locally stored as a couple in a catalog. Subsequently, content specifying the asset and a request to search for and retrieve the asset based on the content is received. The locally stored catalog is loaded and searched to detect the couple that includes the source node identification and meta data, where the received content matches the meta data. The source node is identified based on the detected couple. A request is sent to the source node to retrieve and share the asset, and in response, the asset is received. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278387 | Automated Event Tagging - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system that automatically determines an event and tags the event to photos uploaded from multiple users based on social and spatio-temporal proximity. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT - A system and method are disclosed. One or more processors prioritize at least some tasks and actions associated with a user. A to-do list is provided that includes the prioritized task. First electronic data event information representing a sending or receiving of data associated with at least one of the tasks is received and at least one of the tasks and at least some of the actions are reprioritized. The to-do list is modified based at least on the reprioritizing, and is provided to the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELEGATING GROUP OWNERSHIP IN A WI-FI PEER TO PEER NETWORK - A method for exiting, by a peer owner, a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) peer-to-peer network including the peer owner and a plurality of client devices, and the Wi-Fi peer-to-peer network are provided. The method includes delegating ownership of the peer-to-peer network from the peer owner to a new owner from among said the plurality of client devices; and exiting the network after delegating the ownership to the new owner. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278390 | SAVING DEVICE FOR IMAGE SHARING, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SHARING METHOD - The saving device for image sharing saves images offered by a sharer of the images for image sharing and accessibly shares in an album form among at least one share. The device includes a sharee layout storing means configured to store first layout information of a sharee's album, a shared area determining means configured to determine a shared area to be shared in the sharee's album from a sharer's album, and a layout changing means configured to automatically change a layout of the shared area based on the first layout information of the at least one sharee. An image sharing system includes the device, and an image sharing method uses the device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278391 | SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL YEARBOOK WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING - An application for a system for providing a customized digital yearbook includes a server, a personal computer connected to the server and a user device for presenting content on a display. Yearbook software creates yearbook user accounts for users of the system and, after the yearbook software creates each yearbook user account, the yearbook software communicates with social network software and the social network software creates a corresponding social network user account. The yearbook software receives yearbook data from the personal computer through the network and stores the yearbook data in the database and the yearbook software extracts approved yearbook data, that data being a subset of the yearbook data that is approved for distribution. The social networking software provides features such as maintaining buddy lists, posting text, messages, images and/or video, messaging between buddies, and displaying of the postings of yourself and others. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278392 | DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY - Systems and methods for implementing a distributed shared memory (DSM) in a computer cluster in which an unreliable underlying message passing technology is used, such that the DSM efficiently maintains coherency and reliability. DSM agents residing on different nodes of the cluster process access permission requests of local and remote users on specified data segments via handling procedures, which provide for recovering of lost ownership of a data segment while ensuring exclusive ownership of a data segment among the DSM agents detecting and resolving a no-owner messaging deadlock, pruning of obsolete messages, and recovery of the latest contents of a data segment whose ownership has been lost. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING MEDIA COLLECTIONS BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS OF A SHARING NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally, the user may select one or more of the shared media collections for aggregation with the local media collection of the user. The shared media collections selected by the user, or alternatively all of the shared media collections, are then aggregated with the local media collection of the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278394 | Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284330 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONFIGURING A DATA BROADCAST SERVICE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of broadcasting a message to one or more servers operating in one or more domains. One example method of operation may include creating a message to be broadcasted via user input provided by a user of a computer interface. The method may also include serializing the message to a predetermined format and transmitting the message to an application programming interface (API). The method may also provide scheduling a broadcast of the message based on the user input, and transmitting the message to the at least one server responsive to the scheduled broadcast. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284331 | Processing Notifications - A method of processing notifications is provided herein. A plurality of notifications is generated for a plurality of subscribers to a plurality of topics. The plurality of notifications is generated based on a plurality of events comprising the plurality of topics. The plurality of notifications is sent for the plurality of subscribers. Sending the notifications is performed concurrently with generating a second plurality of notifications for a second plurality of subscribers to a second plurality of topics. The second plurality of notifications is generated based on a second plurality of events comprising the second plurality of topics. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMATTING A PRESENTATION IN WEBPAGE BASED ON NEURO-RESPONSE DATA - Example methods, systems and tangible machine readable instructions to format a presentation in a social network are disclosed. An example method includes collecting first neuro-response data from the user while the user is engaged with a social network. The example method also includes formatting the presentation based on the first neuro-response data and social network information identifying a characteristic of the social network of the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284333 | COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF LOCATION DATA FROM LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE DEVICES ON A NETWORK - A method according to an embodiment of the invention can include using a computer in a) receiving data from first devices associated with users of a social networking service, where the data represent respective geographic locations of the users; b) storing location information representative of respective geographic locations of the users; c) storing information representing an event and a geographic location of the event; and d) transmitting information to at least one second device, the transmitted information including a result of retrieving the stored location information of users whose geographic locations match the geographic location of the event, together with the geographic location of the at least one event, and a quantity of the users whose geographic locations match the geographic location of the at least one event. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284334 | Method of Producing and Distributing Copyrighted Content - The present disclosure teaches methods for producing and distributing content through a network in a way that is practicable and economical for both the owners of the content and the delivery service providers. The present disclosure teaches methods of using content to drive multiple revenue streams from a website that distributes such content. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284335 | Methods and Systems For Associating Users Through Network Societies - A method is provided for associating a first user using a first device and a second user using a second device. The method may include receiving an invitation request from the first user; verifying, by a verification server, the invitation request; sending an invitation to the second user after verifying the invitation request; and receiving an acknowledgement from the second user to acknowledge an association between the first user and the second user. The invitation request may be identified as directed to the second user and may include at least a device token associated with at least one of the first and second devices and an identification associated with at least one of the second device and the second user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284336 | RELEVANT RELATIONSHIPS BASED NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a relevant relationships based networking environment for establishing member networks focusing on different aspects, of a members life based on generally vetted connections with other members. A member initiates the formation of one or more aspect of life related networks, such as social, business or a particular interests aspect related networks, by inviting other members to connect through primary relationship connections and the other members accepting the invitations. Based on the primary relationship connections the networking environment automatically adds secondary relationship connection members to the aspect related network. Primary relationship connections require prior agreement by both members to the connection, such connections provide for both communication and information sharing. Secondary relationship connections are established automatically by the networking environment based on how one member may be logically connected in a defined manner to another member through existing primary relationship connections in a particular aspect related network. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284337 | Invitation to Bind to a Device - A server device sends a list of account holders together with an invitation to bind to the server. A client device can decide to present the invitation to a user for decision only if the client device finds a match between the list and the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284338 | PROVISIONING MY STATUS INFORMATION TO OTHERS IN MY SOCIAL NETWORK - A device, system, and method are directed towards sending a status of a user in a social network to a recipient. In one embodiment, a status of the user is received over a channel. The channel may include an application protocol. The recipient is selected based on a membership in the social network, a preference of the recipient, or a media format of the status. Another channel is selected based on information about a mode of communication between the recipient and the user and/or another member related to the user in the social network. The status may be modified based on social network information, preferences of a recipient, receiving device information, channel information, or the like. The status is forwarded to the recipient over the other channel. Forwarding may comprise unicasting, multicasting, and/or delaying sending the status until the other channel is available. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284339 | Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems - Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284340 | SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus ( | 11-08-2012 |
20120290648 | Dynamic Playlist for Mobile Computing Device - A method of managing electronic media items includes accessing first geographic information that indicates a first geographic location of a first device; accessing second geographic information that indicates a second geographic location of a second device; determining whether the first device and the second device are within a defined geographic proximity based on the first geographic location and the second geographic location; if the determination indicates that the first device and the second device are within the defined geographic proximity, generating at least one playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; and sending the playlist to the first device such that the first user is able to select one or more of the media items on the playlist to be output by the first device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290649 | METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING A SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION USING MOTIFS - The present disclosure relates generally to methods for characterizing communication networks, and more particularly to methods of characterizing the propagation of information throughout communications in such networks. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290650 | System and Method for Peer to Peer Communications in Cellular Communications Systems - A system and method for peer-to-peer communications in cellular communications systems are provided. A method for communications device operations includes receiving a peer list at a communications device, where the peer list includes a list of reachable communications devices and device-to-device (D2D) capability information of the reachable communications devices, selecting a peer from the peer list, sending a content request comprising an indication of a content to a communications controller serving the communications device, and receiving the content from the peer over a channel established by the communications controller. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290651 | NODAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of operating a nodal data processing system comprising a plurality of nodes connected by communications links, the nodes being arranged in a hierarchical structure having higher and lower levels, wherein data communicated between the nodes is divided into time series data and fact data, time series data is communicated from a node to a node at a higher level in the hierarchy, and fact data is communicated from a node to a node at a lower level in the hierarchy. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290652 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORT SHARING - An arrangement, of functionally connected electronic devices includes: a data input entity, configured to obtain user in-formation relative to a plurality of users, data indicative of trust between multiple users and data indicative of a number of ride requests and ride offers by the users, a trust network knowledgebase entity configured to establish and manage a number of trust networks on the basis of the obtained data. The knowledgebase entity groups a plurality of users into a number of trust networks, a scheduling entity configured, on the basis of the obtained data, to determine a potential transport sharing scenario for a plurality of users belonging to the same trust network. The scheduling entity is configured to find potential matches between the ride requests and ride offers to determine the scenario, and a data output entity configured to indicate the scenario to multiple users of the plurality. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290653 | DYNAMIC PLAYLIST FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of managing electronic media items includes accessing first geographic information that indicates a first geographic location of a first device; accessing second geographic information that indicates a second geographic location of a second device; determining whether the first device and the second device are within a defined geographic proximity based on the first geographic location and the second geographic location; if the determination indicates that the first device and the second device are within the defined geographic proximity, generating at least one playlist of media items based on a set of media preferences shared between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; and sending the playlist to the first device such that the first user is able to select one or more of the media items on the playlist to be output by the first device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290654 | Rewarding Users for Sharing Digital Content - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium of rewarding a user for sharing digital content are described. The method facilitates an effective way of sharing commercial digital content via a network, such as the Internet, while the users who share the content are provided with a real or virtual reward. The method may comprise receiving, from a user, a request to share digital content, retrieving the digital content to be shared, with the digital content being associated with a user, transmitting the digital content to one or more destinations for sharing, and providing a reward to the user. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290655 | REDIRECTING MESSAGES IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for redirecting messages in a publish/subscribe messaging system in which redirection messages are received as messages for publication on a topic. Upon receiving a subsequent message for publication, the subsequent message will be redirected to a target message topic if the source message topic of the subsequent message matches a previously-recorded instruction to redirect messages from the source message topic to the target message topic. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290656 | REDIRECTING MESSAGES IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for redirecting messages in a publish/subscribe messaging system in which redirection messages are received as messages for publication on a topic. Upon receiving a subsequent message for publication, the subsequent message will be redirected to a target message topic if the source message topic of the subsequent message matches a previously-recorded instruction to redirect messages from the source message topic to the target message topic. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290657 | Transferring Application State Across Devices - A first client device or system performs a method that includes retaining in memory registration information for a respective application indicating the respective application is registered for sharing application state with other client devices or systems. The method further includes storing an application state of a respective application, and detecting a transfer triggering condition. The transfer triggering condition includes presence of a second client device or system within a predefined proximity of the first client device or system, and the predefined proximity is a predefined proximity for near field communication. Furthermore, upon detecting the triggering condition, the first client device or system determines, in accordance with the stored registration information, that the respective application is registered for application state sharing, and transmits the application state of the respective application to the second client device or system. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290658 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHODS OF CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A first communication apparatus generates export data, which includes an address book indicating data transmission destinations and indication information indicating that it is necessary to communicate with a server in order to transmit data to an address contained in the address book, and transmits the export data to a second communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus receives the export data transmitted from the first communication apparatus and sets an address book and indication information of the second communication apparatus in accordance with the export data. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290659 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A matching network system including communication devices, servers and software which enables the provisioning of services and execution of transactions based on a plurality of private and public personality profiles and behavior models of the users, of the communication devices, of the products/services and of the servers; in combination with the software resident at the communication device level and or the local/network server level. Matching and searching processes based on a plurality of personality profiles wherein the information, communication and transactions are enabled to be matched with the user, the communication device and or the servers. The communication device is a stationary device or a mobile device, such as a portable computing device, wireless telephone, cellular telephone, personal digital assistant, or a multifunction communication, computing and control device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290660 | SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE PROFILES - A social media and social networking system accessible on the Internet, mobile devices, smartphones, cell phones, and tablet computers. Users in the social media and social networking system may be enabled to have one, two, or multiple customized profiles, thereby allowing for multiple identities on the Internet and the system. The social media and social networking system may be configured to display full, partial, or customized profile information based on the individual or groups viewing the social data. The social media system may provide access to multiple groups or sub social networks based on match between profile data such as an email address domain name and an access control list. The social media and social networking system may personalize websites and search result content based on a user's profile. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A CALL BRIDGE BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An improved system and method are disclosed for conference bridging. In one example, the method enables a device engaged in a conference call as a participant to bridge the conference call and to transfer the bridge to another device engaged in the conference call as a participant. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296965 | DETECTING POTENTIALLY ABUSIVE ACTION IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for detecting a potentially abusive action for an online social network of a user. A network expansion profile and/or communications profile may be determined for the online social network of the user, by tracking user actions while building and/or maintaining the online social network. A reputation profile, such as a rating, for the online social network can be determined by combining information from the network expansion profile for the online social network and/or the communication profile for the online social network. Based upon the determined reputation profile, an action of the online social network, such as sending a communication, may be identified as potentially abusive and thus be treated as such (e.g., be accompanied by a warning to intended recipients that the communication may be from a spammer). | 11-22-2012 |
20120296966 | HIERARCHICALLY RELATED MOBILE USER GROUPS - An application server supports mobile users in a wireless communication system. The application server includes a rule manager and a group controller. The rule manager obtains predefined rules that govern dynamic formation of logical mobile user groups which are hierarchically related to one another through parent-child relationships. In this regard, the predefined rules particularly establish conditions for child group formation and criteria for child group membership. The group controller dynamically forms child groups in accordance with these predefined rules. Specifically, the group controller dynamically forms any given child group from a member of a corresponding parent group to also include one or more other mobile users meeting criteria for membership in that child group, responsive to determining that conditions for forming the child group have been fulfilled. Advantageous uses of such groups include tracing the propagation of an electronic sales promotion or an infectious disease, or even social networking. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296967 | Bridging Social Silos for Knowledge Discovery and Sharing - Techniques are provided herein for obtaining network usage information about a plurality of users, analyzing the network usage information to detect a plurality of subjects and determine a set of relationship scores describing the strength of the relationship between users and subjects, and analyzing the sets of relationship scores to detect a plurality of virtual communities formed among the users. The virtual communities are used to detect subjects to recommend to members of the virtual communities, such as topics or content items that other users of the community have found of interest. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296968 | System and Method for Group Communications in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine Networks - An inventive system and method for group communication among devices in M2M networks comprises associating one or more of the devices with a gateway having a unique identifier, initiating registration of the devices at an M2M network using the unique identifier of the gateway, providing from the network a temporary identifier to the gateway and associating, in the network, the temporary identifier with the gateway, attaching the devices to the network using the temporary identifier, and communicating information between the network and the device through the gateway. In one aspect, the devices can be classified into sub-groups and each sub-group has a sub-group head that can be attached to the gateway so that the devices can communicate with the network through the sub-group head instead of the gateway. Each sub-group can be associated with a unique temporary identifier, in addition to the temporary identifier associated with the gateway. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296969 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OBJECTIVELY RATING MEMBERS OF AN ONLINE GROUP - A method and apparatus for objectively rating users of a collaborative writing system forms an online group having a plurality of members, and assigns one or more roles to each of the members within the group. One or more members of the group produce at least one digital writing within the online group. The method then monitors online activity of each member in the group with regard to 1) other users of the system and 2) the digital writing(s) produced by the one or more members, and calculates, for each member, a numerical influencer score for each assigned role as a function of the monitored online activity. The influencer score indicates the influence of the member in each assigned role within the group. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296970 | FILE MANAGING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO AN ONLINE STORAGE SERVICE - A file managing apparatus that caches a file to be uploaded to an online storage; and controls withholding uploading the file to the online storage until a predetermined withholding time elapses since the file has been cached, even if the file is updated. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296971 | SOCIAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A method includes, in a server residing in a network of interconnected computers, populating a repository with content, each one of the content categorized by at least one community designation, one topic designation, one tag and/or one company designation, receiving registration information for users, the registration information including a username and at least one community designation, one topic designation, one tag and/or one company designation, receiving content from a first user, the content including at least one community designation, one topic designation, one tag and/or one company designation, storing the received content in the repository, and notifying a subset of users of the received content, the community designation, topic designation, tag and/or company designation of each of the subset of users matching the community designation, topic designation, tag and/or company designation of received content. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL INTERACTIONS - Systems and methods for virtual interactions are described. One or more users can view or listen to media, react to the media and share such media experience virtually with others. The media experience can take place synchronously, asynchronously or both. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296973 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING EVENTS AND MATCHING USERS VIA BLENDED PROFILES - Certain embodiments teach a method and system for pairing users, whom do not know each other for an event, on a social networking platform. The social dining system matches people with common interests and organizes an offline event, such as a meal at a restaurant, based on user profiles, availability, and other attributes. For example, the social dining system can schedule a group meal for a user, and five to seven other people that share an interest with the user. In cases where a user prefers to be attend events with at least one known user, a single profile for the user and the known user is created as a mutual or a blended profile. The system then creates an event by matching the mutual profile with other members using a blending algorithm. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296974 | SOCIAL NETWORK FOR MEDIA TOPICS OF INFORMATION RELATING TO THE SCIENCE OF POSITIVISM - Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296975 | SELECTION OF A COMMUNICATION MODE - The present invention pertains to a method for selecting a communication mode between a first and a second user of at least one communication network comprising the following steps:
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20120296976 | Delivering Messages in a Communication System - Message delivery systems and methods for delivering messages to a computing system are described. The system uses a message ID structure and a message ID database to allow a user to check whether he or she is recipient of a new message without having to contact the message server that holds messages to be delivered. The resource load related to users checking for messages is therefore left to a separate computing system, allowing the message server to dedicate its resources to the receiving and delivering of messages. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296977 | CENTRALLY MANAGING AND MONITORING OF CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES - An apparatus, system, method and program providing a multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) application or cloud computing service that manages and monitors the use of other SaaS applications or cloud computing services via a common connection and database framework. An Internet-based interface is provided as a single portal for monitoring and managing the use of SaaS applications or cloud computing services. Objects and the state of these objects including all associated attributes related to the SaaS applications or cloud computing services are stored in databases associated with the Internet-based interface. The Internet-based interface also provides a social networking infrastructure and an application exchange infrastructure that allows sharing of information related to the SaaS applications or cloud computing services. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296978 | CONTENT MANAGING APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGING METHOD, CONTENT MANAGING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content managing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains (i) a first content item held by a first user, (ii) a metadata item that indicates attribute information for classifying the first content item, and (iii) information on a sharing state, between the first user and a second user who is a user other than the first user, of a second content item having a metadata item identical to the metadata item held by the first content item; a degree of interest calculating unit which calculates a degree of interest that is an index indicating an interest of the second user on the metadata item; and a managing unit which manages the first content item based on the degree of interest of the second user. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303701 | TRANSMITTING INTERNET PROTOCOL OVER SCSI IN A HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTER - A system may include information handling system devices connected together to form a computing cluster utilizing a SCSI interface. Each one of the information handling system devices may include an operating system kernel having a SCSI networking module for encapsulating Internet Protocol (IP) packets for transmitting between the information handling system devices. The system may also include SCSI hardware for connecting the information handling system devices together. The SCSI hardware may be configured to transmit the encapsulated IP packets between the information handling system devices. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303702 | Social Data Recording - In particular embodiments, a method comprising, by one or more computing devices, analyzing one or more elements of a displayed structured document to identify one or more objects from a plurality of objects within the displayed structured document, responsive to detected user interaction by a user with a first object of the one or more identified objects, generating data indicating an edge relationship from the first object and the user, and transmitting the data indicating the edge relationship to a social networking system. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303703 | Social Data Overlay - In particular embodiments, a method comprising, by one or more computing devices, identifying, at a client device, one or more objects or references to the one or more objects embedded in a structured document displayed to a first user, accessing a social graph to determine if one or more second users having an association with the first user have accessed any of the one or more identified objects, and modifying, for at least one of the one or more identified objects, the structured document displayed to the first user to indicate that the at least one or more identified objects has been accessed by one or more second users. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303704 | CROSS LANGUAGE OBJECT SHARING - Methods, system, and computer storage media are provided for enabling cross-language object sharing by providing shareable typename information agreed upon by clients that wish to share object with each other. A first client creates an object by communicating a create request, which includes typename information associated with the object. The object is created and the typename information, along with data and properties associated with the object, is stored. A second client requests to open that object. The data, properties, and typename information stored in associated with the object is communicated to the second client so that the second client is able to create a correct instance of the object. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303705 | CONTENTS SIMULTANEOUS PLAYBACK TERMINAL, THE SAME SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a contents simultaneous playback terminal, the same system and method thereof. The contents simultaneous playback terminal, system and method is capable of allowing both terminals to share and simultaneously replay contents in a one-to-one correspondence by identifying terminals through terminal information broadcast in a single wireless access point network environment and setting a sharing environment for simultaneous playback of the contents of both terminals, without requiring a complicated separate sharing procedure. In addition, the contents simultaneous playback terminal, system and method is capable of, when both terminals connected in a one-to-one correspondence share contents, streaming the contents from one terminal to the other terminal and receiving in the other terminal the streamed contents for simultaneous playback of the contents, thereby extinguishing the contents after the playback. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303706 | Social Media Communication Network and Methods of Use - A social media interaction application tool and related methods include a communication component, a dialog component, at least one social media link component, a tile display component, and an interaction component, wherein the social media interaction tool is stored on and executed from a portable media storage device, a hand held device, tablet computer, laptop computer, desk top computer or a combination thereof. In some contemplated embodiments, social media interaction application tools are embedded on or included in a media file or collection of media files that are stored or located on a portable media storage device, a hand held device, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a desk top computer, a network server, an internet server, the cloud or a combination thereof. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303707 | COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY SHARING OPERATIONS OF THE COMPUTER WITH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method of remotely sharing operations of a computer with an electronic device, the method monitors when a clipboard operation is performed on the computer, and sends information as to the nature of the clipboard operation and content of the clipboard operation to the electronic device. If the electronic device supports the required operation, the electronic device executes a relevant action based on the clipboard operation required and the content. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303708 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNITY SERVICE IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A community service of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for managing a user's reaction conveniently by generating a community based on contents compared to a community generated based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The apparatus includes a contents information analyzer, an input unit, and a controller. The contents information analyzer analyzes information regarding contents to provide the same to a contents server when registering a user reaction to the contents that are being reproduced. The input unit receives a user's reaction to the contents. The controller processes to transmit the received user's reaction to a community server. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303709 | CONFERENCE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conference assistance system including one or more of a display terminal that displays data of a document; a display input device that displays added data input by a user; a positional information obtaining device that obtains positional information of the display terminal and the display input device; and a data processing apparatus that calculates the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device based on the positional information of the display terminal and the display input device, specifies the display terminal to which the added data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device, and delivers the added data to the specified display terminal to have the display terminal display the added data, the display terminal, the display input device, which are capable of communicating via a network. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303710 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND EMPLOYING A SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPH - Methods and systems for generating and employing a social media graph are disclosed. For example, a method can include receiving first data indicating consumption of media by a first user from at least one user device associated with the first user. Second data including metadata identifying the media consumed by the first user may be retrieved based on the first data. The second data may be processed to generate a social media profile for the first user, the social media profile identifying the media consumed by the first user. In some examples, the social media profile may be used to provide media recommendations to another user, to provide at least some of the media associated with the social media profile to another user, or to facilitate other tasks. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303711 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STREAMING MUSIC SERVICE - An apparatus and a method for sharing contents provided based on a social network between members of the social network. A content providing method includes, when a first terminal in a social network requests to use content, transmitting the corresponding content to the first terminal. The method also includes transmitting content use information associated with the first terminal to at least one adjacent terminal in the social network, via the social network. The method further includes, when a second terminal of the at least one adjacent terminal requests to use the same content as the first terminal, transmitting the same content to the second terminal. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303712 | AGGREGATION SYSTEM - An aggregation system including a computer, and networking hardware connecting the computer to a network. The computer is programmed so that the aggregation system presents an interface which is respectively presented to one or more users and which receives input from said one or more users, parses the input to produce an aggregation, enables executing user-defined rules which include a capacity to initiate an alert process so that a communication corresponding to the aggregation is sent to a recipient, and renders the aggregation as output. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303713 | PLAYLIST-BASED DETECTION OF SIMILAR DIGITAL WORKS AND WORK CREATORS - A computer-implemented service recommends digital works (and/or creators of works) to a user based on works currently or previously played or downloaded by the user on a player device or based on playlists stored on the player device. The works may be, for example, music files, video files, electronic books, or other digital content for playing by users. A user may thus obtain personalized recommendations that are based on works obtained from sources (web sites, physical CDs, etc.) that are independent of the recommendations system. In one embodiment, the service identifies pairs of works (and/or work creators) that are similar to each other by virtue of the relatively high frequency with which they co-occur on playlists or within play histories of users. The resulting mappings are used to provide recommendations to users. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303714 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A PERSONALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK MAP IN AN APPLICATION SERVER WHICH PROVIDES PERSONALIZED CONTENT, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - The present invention relates to an application server for providing personalized content, which performs the steps of: detecting traffic for a first user of the application server to access content associated with a second user of the application server; determining an interest value of the first user in the second user based on the amount, type, or time of the detected traffic; and generating, for each user, a social network table including the interest value of the first user in the second user, so as to be applicable to various pieces of application content using interest values assigned among most personalized content users. | 11-29-2012 |
20120311029 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for initiating a communication across a telecommunications network, the communication being between members of a social network, comprising means for retrieving data associated with a first subscriber from a social network server, the first subscriber being a member of the social network, the data including contact information for members of the social network associated with the subscriber, means for storing the contact information on a network server, means for providing the contact information to the subscriber, means for receiving selection of contacts with whom the subscriber wishes to initiate a communication, means for receiving selection of the type of communication with which the subscriber wishes to initiate communication with the selected contacts, and means for initiating a communication with the selected contacts across a telecommunication network. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311030 | Inferring User Interests Using Social Network Correlation and Attribute Correlation - Methods and apparatus are provided for inferring user interests from both direct and indirect social neighbors. User interests are inferred from social neighbors by exploiting the correlation among multiple attributes of a user, in addition to the social correlation of an attribute among a group of users. Attributes of a user are inferred by obtaining an inferred set of attributes comprised of one or more attributes of social neighbors of the user. Thereafter, the inferred set is modified using a user attribute correlation model describing a probability that the attributes in the inferred set co-occur on the user and one or more of the social neighbors. An inference quality of the obtained attributes can optionally be obtained based on social network properties of the social neighbors. Interactions with the user and/or the social neighbors can be employed to solicit feedback to improve the one or more inferred attributes. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311031 | AUTOMATED SENSOR DRIVEN FRIENDING - A method of finding a new social network service friend for a player belonging to a social network service and having a friend group including one or more player-accepted friends includes recognizing the player, automatically identifying an observer within a threshold proximity to the player, and adding the observer to the friend group of the player in the social network service if the observer satisfies a friending criteria of the player. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311032 | EMOTION-BASED USER IDENTIFICATION FOR ONLINE EXPERIENCES - Emotional response data of a particular user, when the particular user is interacting with each of multiple other users, is collected. Using the emotional response data, an emotion of the particular user when interacting with each of multiple other users is determined. Based on the determined emotions, one or more of the multiple other users are identified to share an online experience with the particular user. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311033 | UBERFEED - In one embodiment, a computing device may collect a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user; rank the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user; construct an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and send the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311034 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR FILTERING BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA - Systems, computer-implemented methods, and media for providing a graph of assets by one or more computing devices include building an asset graph from a data set of assets, the asset graph including plural assets, at least one connection connecting each asset to one or more other asset in the graph, and metadata associated with each connection storing details relating to the connection; identifying an asset in the asset graph that corresponds to an asset in a third party social media platform's asset graph; requesting information relating to connections to the identified asset; receiving the requested information relating to connections to the identified asset; and building out the asset graph according to the received information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311035 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING MATCHING SERVICE - Described herein are technologies pertaining to protecting user privacy in connection with attribute-based matching services. A user registers with a platform that includes a plurality of non-collaborating partitions, where registration includes transmitting a message to the platform that indicates that the user has one or more attributes corresponding thereto. Through selective encryption and a communications protocol amongst the partitions, none of the partitions are able to ascertain that the user has the attributes. Acting in conjunction, however, the plurality of partitions perform rich attribute | 12-06-2012 |
20120311036 | FRIEND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are described for providing friend recommendations. In one embodiment, a new user's address book is traversed to identify email addresses of existing users of the online service. Existing users of the online service having email addresses identified in the new user's address book are recommended to be friends of the new user on the online service. Additionally, embodiments of the invention traverse various social graphs of current users to identify users with common contacts or friends to the new user. Those users sharing common contacts or friends may also be recommended as friends of the new user. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311037 | Method and System for Collective Socializing Using A Mobile Social Network - A method for collective socializing using a mobile social network, which includes obtaining collective socializing data on at least one location, and transmitting the collective socializing data upon request of at least one user. In addition, the step of obtaining collective socializing data on at least one locations further includes storing the collective socializing data on the at least one location on a system server, obtaining additional collective socializing data from a plurality of users on the at least one location; and combining the additional collective socializing data with the collective socializing data on the system server for transmittal to the at least one user upon request. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311038 | Proximity Session Mobility Extension - A system and method for seamless exchange and interaction of multimedia content between communication devices are disclosed. The method can include the discovery and identification of devices within proximity of a sending device. The found devices can be authenticated through unique identifiers established during registration. The sender can seamlessly establish a connection with the found devices using the connection requirements. The sending device can share or serve as a remote control to redirect, navigate or draw content, with a simple action or a gesture command, to the found device. The shared multimedia content, can either reside on the sender's mobile device or on a remote server within a connected network. Contextual telephony integration such as pulling in personal contacts from a device to a conference call can be provided. White boarding techniques facilitated among multiple users within a conference and a WiFi® end point or access point are described. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311039 | CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND CONTENT SHARING METHOD - A content sharing system shares contents following a free will of a user through belonging to a plurality of groups. A group stores identification information on each of one or more groups to which respective users belong while being associated with identification information on the user. A file stores a download history of the content via user terminals by respective users while being associated with the identification information on the users. A group determination unit determines a group to which the user accessing via the user terminal. A file determination unit determines whether a content already primarily downloaded by another user belonging to the group determined by the group determination unit exists on the basis of the download history. If the content already primarily downloaded by the another user exists, secondary download to the user terminal accessing the above-mentioned content is permitted. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311040 | REAL-TIME BROWSING MONITORING - A computerized apparatus and computer program product. The apparatus comprising a processor that is arranged to obtain browsing information from a plurality of software agents operated by computerized clients of users, wherein the computerized clients are utilized for browsing the one or more web locations, wherein the browsing information indicating the one or more web locations browsed to by the users; and to calculate, based on the browsing information, a number of users that are browsing substantially each one or more web locations at substantially the same time. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311041 | Information Processing Device, Server, and Information Processing System. - An acquisition unit acquires presence information of an information processing device of another via server. When the acquisition unit acquires pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more information processing devices, a status image generation unit generates a status image indicating a status of the user identified by the user account, by referring to the latest presence information. In order to represent the status of the user, the status image generation unit includes a name of an application being run by the user in the status image. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311042 | DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A distribution method is performed in a distribution system including a distribution source device for distributing data and a plurality of distribution destination devices. The distribution method includes searching, by the distribution source device, for the distribution destination devices by expanding a search range by plural stages; executing in each stage, by the distribution source device, an allowance process of allowing distribution of the data to the distribution destination devices found by searching in each stage; detecting in a predetermined range, by the distribution destination device, another distribution destination device that has acquired the data before the distribution destination device performing the detecting; and executing, by the distribution destination device, an acquiring process of acquiring the data from the other distribution destination device, according to allowance of distribution. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311043 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT PLAYBACK - It is provided a method for synchronizing content playback at the presentation level wherein, a first content is presented on a first device and a second content that is the same as or correlated with the first content is presented on a second device. The method comprises steps of receiving status messages from the first device and the second device, wherein the status messages comprise information about playback positions of the first content and the second content currently being playbacked at the presentation level of the first device and the second device; and in response to differences between playback positions of the first content and the second content comprised in the status messages being above a threshold value, performing adjustment to maintain difference of playback positions of the first content and the second content at the presentation level of the first device and the second device below the threshold value. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311044 | System and Method for Supporting Collaborative Activity - A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored data relates to the collaborative activity including user-defined data created by interaction of a user and the model, and context data related to the user, where the user-defined data and the context data, as metadata, are stored in the storage component; and a user interface, provided by the processor, that presents the user-defined data, the context data, and the model in a form readable by the user, the interface permitting the user to define a set of arbitrary domains, relate the user-defined data to the domains, and view relationships between the user-defined data and the context data, and the domains. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317194 | CONTEXT AWARENESS PROXIMITY-BASED ESTABLISHMENT OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONNECTION - A mechanism for context awareness proximity-based establishment of wireless communication connections can be implemented in Bluetooth-compatible devices for simplifying procedures for device discovery, connection, service discovery, and content exchange. In response to determining to execute a context task associated with an application associated with a first communication device, the first communication device can determine whether a second communication device is within a threshold detection distance from the first communication device. If the second communication device is within the threshold detection distance from the first communication device, the first communication device can establish a communication link with the second communication device based, at least in part, on one or more connection parameters associated with the second communication device. The first communication device can determine whether to execute the context task based, at least in part, on a service list associated with the second communication device and the context task. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317195 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT AWARE ACCESS IN GLOBAL SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A method and system for managing communication between a plurality of team members are provided. The method includes, at a first agent associated with a team member, receiving inputs from a team member about an event associated with one or more team members. The method further includes sending an event request to agents of one or more team members and receiving responses from them. Based on the responses, the first agent either cancels the event, schedules the event, or reschedules the event. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY BASED ON USER CHARACTERISTICS - A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network includes an attention manager, an identity manager, and an introduction manager. The attention manager generates data indicative of the current interests of the user. The identity manager manages data indicative of the interests of the user. The introduction manager provides a proactive contact, content, or commerce data recommendation for the dynamic introduction of contact, content, or commerce data to the user, and may also provide bilaterally secure introductions with other users. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317197 | PEER TO PEER (P2P) OPERATION BY INTEGRATING WITH CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS (CDN) - A method and apparatus for use in a network storage control peer (NSCP) supporting peer to peer (P2P) operation are disclosed. The method includes receiving information from a tracker, wherein the information includes swarm stats, selecting and joining a swarm based on the received information, receiving a first stat report from the tracker, wherein the stat report includes additional swarm stats, determining whether to upload information to an ingestion gateway based on the received first stat report, transmitting an upload request message to the ingestion gateway, receiving an upload response from the ingestion gateway, and transmitting a second stat report to the tracker; wherein the second stat report includes a uniform resource identifier (URI) for the uploaded information. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317198 | METHOD FOR RELEVANT CONTENT DISCOVERY - A method including: retrieving information, associated with an account identifier, from a social network; generating a user profile from the retrieved information, wherein the user profile includes user interests; retrieving content from the social network; extracting content parameters from each piece of retrieved content, the content parameters including a content location and a content time; evaluating relevance of the content by a degree of similarity between the user profile and the content; in response to receiving a device location and a filtering time, filtering the content by the device location and the filtering time; and sending the filtered content to a user device. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317199 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PEER TO PEER BETWEEN TERMINALS - A method and apparatus for a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connection between terminals are provided. The method of a group owner terminal that establishes the P2P connection between terminals includes determining a terminal to be operated as a next owner terminal among terminals included in a group connected via the P2P connection, and transmitting information about general member terminals included in the group to the next owner terminal. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317200 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL GRAPH DATA ANALYTICS TO DETERMINE CONNECTIVITY WITHIN A COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for social graph data analytics to determine the connectivity between nodes within a community are provided. A user may assign user connectivity values to other members of the community, or connectivity values may be automatically harvested or assigned from third parties or based on the frequency of interactions between members of the community. Connectivity values may represent such factors as alignment, reputation, status, and/or influence within a social graph of a network community, or the degree of trust. The paths connecting a first node to a second node may be retrieved, and social graph data analytics may be performed on the retrieved paths. These analytics may be outputted to third-party processes, services, and ratings agencies for use in initiating automatic transactions, making automated network-based or real-world decisions, determining or verifying the identity of a node within the community, scoring or ranking nodes, or making credit-granting decisions. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317201 | Method of Distributing Contact and Calendar Records - A method of distributing contact and calendar information in a multi-component environment includes maintaining a plurality of contact or calendar records and the records contain a plurality of fields and directives. The records are designated and distributed to at least one component based on the directives. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317202 | GPS Pathfinder Cell Phone And Method - A device and system for use before and after a disaster which incorporate a “Whole Community” response. The system can be readily customized for use in other markets and scenarios and is easily adapted into uses by emergency management. The device incorporates a GPS radio and/or cell phones with very simplified, pre-programmed instructions which are uploaded automatically in the device's memory via wireless technology prior to the unit's first use. Radios on the units can enable the searchers to audibly communicate with each other without cell towers. The system can be employed by cleanup teams, insurance adjusters, and any number of pre or post response teams focused on mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery operations. The system can also export data gathered in the field as well as integrate this data with other, pre-existing software via software APIs contained within the system and cell phone software. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317203 | Method and System for Business Peer Group Networking - A business social network is provided employing a relational database associating members by their job and industry and individual research areas of interest determined topic deemed of interest by member input into provided graphical interfaced questions. Answers to posed questions regarding interest level and expertise level of respective members of each cluster are employed for grouping of members for webcasts, member searches for like-minded members, and for sending topic related polls to members most likely to answer based on their expertise and level interest in the topic. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323997 | Context Aware Interaction - A network-connected server for meeting initiation has software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a function allowing a user to schedule a meeting and to configure availability conditions, a function for informing scheduled participants of the scheduled meeting, a function for receiving indications of availability for the scheduled meeting from communication appliances associated with scheduled participants, and a function for connecting the communication appliances to communicate when the configured availability conditions are met. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323998 | Social Networking System Data Exchange - An online publisher provides content items such as advertisements to users. To enable publishers to provide content items to users who meet targeting criteria of the content items, an exchange server aggregates data about the users. The exchange server receives user data from two or more sources, including a social networking system and one or more other service providers. To protect the user's privacy, the social networking system and the service providers may provide the user data to the exchange server without identifying the user. The exchange server tracks each unique user of the social networking system and the service providers using a common identifier, enabling the exchange server to aggregate the users' data. The exchange server then applies the aggregated user data to select content items for the users, either directly or via a publisher. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323999 | ROBUST FILTERS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - Networking systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide robust filtering to enable users to customize their networking environments. A networking system can comprise a plurality of interfaces, a request unit, a management unit, and a filter unit. Each interface can include a plurality of displayable objects, each of which can represent some user of the networking system. The request unit can receive from a client a request for one of the interfaces. The management unit can manage filters, where each active filter hides one or more users from one or more other users. When an interface is requested by a client associated with a first user, the filter unit can apply the active filters to the requested interface to exclude displayable objects that represent users hidden from the first user by one or more active filters. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW CONTROL IN A MESSAGING SUBSYSTEM BASED ON MESSAGE-IN/OUT RATES - Systems and methods are provided, for use in a messaging subsystem, which supports flow control of messages between producers and consumers. A system can include at least one producer that is operable to send messages in a batch to one or more consumers via at least one destination; and one or more consumers that are operable to process messages received from the at least one producer via the at least one destination. The system can also include a message broker which includes the at least one destination and which manages communications between the at least one producer and the one or more consumers. The message broker includes a flow controller that is operable to monitor a producing rate and a consuming rate, and dynamically adjust a batch size of the batch at the at least one producer based on the producing rate and the consuming rate to communicate the messages more efficiently. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324001 | RELATIONSHIP BASED PRESENCE INDICATING IN VIRTUAL AREA CONTEXTS - Other communicants in a network communications environment who have relationship ties with a user that satisfy a particular relationship predicate and who are present in a zone of a respective other virtual area that is assigned to the other communicant are determined. Indications of presence of the determined other communicants in the zones of the other virtual areas is transmitted to the user. Each virtual area is associated with a respective communicant who is present in the virtual area and has a relationship tie with the user that satisfies a relationship predicate. Responsive to user input referencing a selected virtual area, a request to establish a presence for the user in the selected virtual area is transmitted. Responsive to user input referencing a particular communicant, a request to establish a network communications link between the respective network nodes operated by the user and the particular communicant is transmitted. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324002 | Media Sharing - A method for a server to provide a media sharing service includes creating an event tag for sharing media with members of an event and receiving, from a first user on a first client device, a request to tag one or more media files with the event tag. The method further includes, in response to the request to tag the one or more media files, tagging the one or more media files with the event tag, receiving a request to access the event from a second user on a second client device, and, in response to the request to access the event, transmitting event information with copies of the one or more media files to the second client device. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324003 | SEARCHING RECENT CONTENT PUBLICATION ACTIVITY - Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324004 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORK USER DATA - One embodiment of a method for analyzing the social network data of one or more users can retrieving from a server data indicative of a user interest profile; determining an initial interest set from the user interest profile using a social graph function; determining a user network influence score including both an influence score for a user and one or more user connections; and generating a final user interest profile in response to an iterative combination of the initial interest set and the user network influence score such that in response to a query, the final user interest profile is returned. Preferably, the preferred method returns the final user interest profile from a central computer to a second computer associated with a third party initiating the query. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324005 | DYNAMIC AVATAR PROVISIONING - Various systems and methods incorporating techniques described in this paper relate to online social networks and other online social services. Some systems and methods enable a user to create and associate two or more avatars with their online user profile on social-based web resource (e.g., social networking web site), and provide/provision the avatars for use with the online user profiles according to those associations. Some systems and methods facilitate and manage dynamic grouping of users. Some systems and methods permit dynamic grouping of user and user connections on a social-based web resource, and can determine the nature of those connections. Some systems and methods implement a mechanism for a user to be automatically notified of upcoming conferences or conventions in advance of their registrations deadlines. Some systems and methods permit a targeted group of people within a certain group to be reached by a single message. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324006 | MULTI-TOUCH FOR CLOUD COMPUTING - Systems and methods are presented in this document for connecting multiple users in remote locations to simultaneously collaborate through multi-touch devices. Any number of multi-touch devices will be capable of being connected through an Internet connection to a web server (also referred to as “cloud computing”). The user interface displays of the multi-touch devices will update each of the displays in real-time through the Internet connection to the web servers. This system will enable users to host sessions, such as conference meetings, with participants in various remote locations. At each location participants will be able to utilize the physical and interactive capabilities of a multi-touch device. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RELATIVE RANKING OF A NETWORK RESOURCE - The relative ranking of a network resource on a network in a distributed environment is determined. A networked system is configured to recognize and collect data representative of an activity regarding a network resource on a network site. The data is processed into a distributed statistical ranking to show real time resource rankings relative to at least a predefined subset of the network site. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING USER INTERACTION WITH CONTENT - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provides the ability to track user interaction with content. An interaction with content by a user is recognized. Data related to the interaction is communicated, in a first engagement message, to a publishing service application. The data includes an identity of the user, an identity of the content interacted with, an engagement type, and an identity of the previous user who directly influenced the interaction. The publishing service determines a likelihood that the interaction will cause other users to further interact with the content. Upon a positive determination that the interaction will cause other users to further interact with the content, the determination is communicated to a viral influence application for further processing. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324009 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTACTS THROUGH INTERWORKING BETWEEN MESSAGING SERVICE AND SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A method and an apparatus for providing a contact through interworking with a Social Network Service (SNS) are provided. The method includes receiving, by a client using the other service through SNS interworking, a contact provided in the SNS, determining whether the other party's client having subscribed to the same service as that of the client is present in the received contact, and informing a user of the determination results. Based on the determination results, the client may determine subscription/non-subscription of the other party's client to the service, and may send an invite request for the service if the other party's client has not subscribed to the same service as that of the client. By doing so, the number of targets, subscription/non-subscription of which to a specific service can be determined, may be extended. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324010 | Social Networking System and Method - A social networking system for a sporting competition comprising a server ( | 12-20-2012 |
20120324011 | KIOSK-BASED AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - Systems and methods identify a current location of a user based on a known location of an electronic device including kiosk, beacon, or location-aware camera when the user interacts with the electronic device. The systems and methods automatically create a user status data file based on the known location. The user status data file contains data identifying that the user is currently at the known location and other data captured about the event or venue at that location. The systems and methods automatically upload the user status data file to a personal storage account which can then be used to post to a social networking web site associated with the user as an activity post associated with the user. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324012 | Multimedia Aggregation in an Online Social Network - Particular embodiments receive a search request and identify matching users associated with group information corresponding to the search request. Examples of group information include group ID, name, description of the group, and members of the group. Profile information is retrieved for each of the one or more matching users. Information to display a web page may be sent in response to the search request. The information to display the web page comprises the profile information and the group information for at least one of the one or more matching users. The web page may also include content associated with matching users (e.g., multimedia content, social networking content). Particular content may be designated as featured content based on the popularity of the content. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324013 | METHOD OF SHARING IMAGE BASED FILES BETWEEN A GROUP OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods and associated mobile devices are disclosed for sharing an image based file between a group of communication devices. The image based file is scaled based on a display capacity of the devices within the group. The group of communication devices including a sending mobile communications device. The method includes: accessing from a memory of the sending mobile communication device a display capacity of each of the devices in the group, determining whether the resolution of the image based file exceeds an image resolution threshold based on the display capacity of the devices in the group, and if so scaling the image based file to within the image resolution threshold, and sending the image based file from the sending mobile communication device to one or more receiving communication devices in the group. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324014 | FEDERATING OPEN SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR ANALYSES - Methods and arrangements for constructing and analyzing federated social networks. A first social network with a first plurality of accounts is defined, as well as a second social network with a second plurality of accounts, the second social network being unaffiliated with the second social network. The first and second social networks are federated to determine a union of the first and second social networks and an intersection of the first and second social networks, and second-order connections between one or more of the first plurality of accounts and one or more of the second plurality of accounts are ascertained, the second-order connections including connections outside of the intersection of the first and second social networks and within the union of the first and second social networks. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324015 | MAKING USER GENERATED AUDIO CONTENT ON THE SPOKEN WEB NAVIGABLE BY COMMUNITY TAGGING - Methods and arrangements for creating and building subcategories in a user-based voice application. User posts are appended to a category in a voice application and subdivision of the category is prompted upon satisfaction of a first condition. The category is designated as a parent category, and at least one subcategory nomination are solicited from users. User input is solicited on appending at least one nominated subcategory to the parent category, and a nominated subcategory is appended to the parent category upon satisfaction of a second condition. User input is solicited to reassign a user post from the parent category to at least one subcategory. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324016 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INSERTING CONTENT INTO CONVERSATIONS IN ON-LINE AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS - Content is inserted into conversations hosted on a takeoff site using creatives that provide lures and links to other material that users engaged in the conversation might find helpful and relevant. Such insertions are made in a contextually meaningful fashion through the use of a matching and decision process that determines best candidate creatives and an appropriate time and place for their insertion into the conversation. | 12-20-2012 |
20120331049 | INFERRING TOPICS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL CONTEXT - A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES VIA CLOUD-BASED ANALYTICS - An approach is provided for providing services via cloud based analytics. An analytics platform determines one or more data propagation policies associated with propagating user information from at least one device to one or more cloud components. The analytics platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more data propagation policies to cause, at least in part, a propagation of the user information to the one or more cloud components, wherein the propagation causes, at least in part, the user information to be available to one or more applications, one or more services, or a combination thereof. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AND MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - In one embodiment, a system for designing and managing one or more social media campaigns is described. The system comprises at least one client capable of providing a user, access to a plurality of social media channels, a server communicatively coupled to the at least one client through a network, the server configured to extract user information from the at least one client, a demand side configured to be accessed by a marketer, a supply side configured to be accessed by the plurality of social media channels and a social media exchange platform configured to enable exchange of data between the demand side and the supply side. Method for designing and managing the social media campaigns is also disclosed. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331052 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PEER TO PEER SERVICE BASED SOCIAL NETWORK, DATA RELAYING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of knowledge packets to channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment is disclosed. One or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital device are provided. Multiple developers develop advanced communication and knowledge management applications. Subscribers exploit network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via search macros and UKID structures. Service providers provide information services in preidentified taxonomical classes. Channel nodes communicate with the unknown via domain specific supernodes, each facilitating social networking and relationships development, leading to a human grid which is searchable via a Universal Desktop Search by a black box search module. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331053 | CREATING AND MANAGING GRANULAR RELATIONSHIPS ON AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - This disclosure provides implementations of methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for creating and managing granular relationships on an online social network. In some implementations, a request to generate an information feed is associated with configuration information, which identifies a source of information updates. Each of the information updates can be of a certain type. The configuration information identifies one or more of these types. An information update can be selected from the identified information source. The selected information update has one or more of the types associated therewith. The requested information feed is generated to include the selected information update and displayed on a display device. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING UNIVERSAL INTERACTION BETWEEN DEVICES THROUGH INTRINSIC APPLICATIONS - A system and method for enabling universal interaction between a plurality of devices through intrinsic applications (IAs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a specific IA, having a specific configuration and software environment that support applications that run on a first device of the plurality of devices, is obtained by the first device from a plurality of IAs of a second device of the plurality of devices, from a central server connected via a network or a local storage of the second device. The plurality of IAs is configured to have different specific configurations and software environments that run on the plurality of devices. The software environments of the first device and second device are same or different. Further, the obtained specific IA is installed by the first device. Furthermore, the installed specific IA is executed on the first device to enable interaction between the first device and second device. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331055 | MATCHING USERS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS - Matching users with similar interests is disclosed, including: obtaining, from an external source, items of interest as indicated by a plurality of users; storing information about the plurality of users and their respective items of interest; and identifying, for a first user of the plurality of users, a set of similar users who have overlapping interests as the first user, wherein the overlapping interests are determined based at least in part on items of interest to the first user and items of interest to the plurality of users. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331056 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CONTENTS USING GROUPS - A contents sharing server includes an identifier generation unit configured to assign at least one user identifier for each user, a group matching unit configured to match at least one user identifier with at least one of a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups having at least one contents identifier for identifying at least one content to be shared within each of the plurality of groups, a request reception unit configured to receive a request including a contents identifier and at least one user identifier, an identifier determination unit configured to search at least one group matched with the at least one user identifier, and determine whether the searched group has the contents identifier and a contents access authority assignment unit configured to assign authority for accessing contents corresponding to the contents identifier. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331057 | PORTAL FOR SHARING DATA OVER A NETWORK - A computer-implemented method performed within a portal server system is disclosed. A unique identifier and additional information associated with a party is received from the party. The unique identifier and additional information are stored within a storage device accessible by the portal server system. The unique identifier is received from a user accessing the portal server system. Access to the additional information is provided to the user based upon the unique identifier. The unique identifier consists of a telephone number associated with the party. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331058 | System and Method for Creating Content for an Event Using a Social Network - A system and method for creating content such as artificial reality (AR) messages at an event, particularly among members on a social network, thereby enhancing and expanding the event experience. Typically, a participant shares an event with spectators, such as friends or a subset of friends in the participant's social network. The AR message may include geo-referenced artificial reality words, products or symbols and appear in a perspective view of the event to the participant or spectators. In addition to creating an active gallery for an event, messages, audio and video can be exchanged among participants and spectators, and virtual goods, money, bets, applause, other feedback, and donations exchanged. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331059 | WIRELESS SHARING OF DEVICE RESOURCES ALLOWING DEVICE STORAGE NEEDS TO BE WIRELESSLY OFFLOADED TO OTHER DEVICES - Systems and methods for wireless sharing of device resources allowing device storage needs to be wirelessly offloaded to other devices are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, includes, storage sharing among devices by offloading storage needs of a first device to a second device among two devices coupled in a wireless network, where, in offloading the storage needs, data for use at the first device is transmitted over the wireless network to be stored at the second device. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331060 | Sharing of Documents with Semantic Adaptation Across Mobile Devices - A method for sharing documents includes initiating a sharing session with a first participant and a second participant, wherein the first participant is communicatively connected to the second participant via a server, receiving a control request having an action from the first participant, determining whether the control request includes a share page action, and retrieving components of the page with available component types and sending components associated with preferences of the first participant to the first participant and components associated with preferences of the second participant to the second participant responsive to determining that the control request includes the share page action. | 12-27-2012 |
20130007121 | PREDICTIVE COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for managing collaborations. Requests are received by a computer for collaboration on a topic. A set of experts is identified by the computer having expertise in the topic for the collaboration and having activity prior to the collaboration relating to the topic to predict a likelihood of participation by the respective expert in the collaboration. The set of experts are identified from searching a number of collections of information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007122 | Accessing Third-Party Communication Service via a Social Networking System - A user interface in a social networking system enables users to connect to and interact with each other using a third-party communication service, such as a VoIP or video chat service. A user initiates an interaction with another user in the social networking system, which passes the users' information to the third-party communication service provider to allow it to provide the requested service. The social networking system may pass an encrypted identifier for the users so that the third-party communication service does not have access to the real identities of the social networking system's users. A user of the social networking system may use this process to video conference with users of the third-party communication service, rather than just other users of the social networking system, and vice versa. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007123 | REDACTING CONTENT IN ONLINE MEETINGS - A method, computer program product, and system for redacting content in online meetings is described. A method may comprise receiving, via one or more computing devices, a selected portion of content to redact in a first online meeting. The method may further comprise determining, via the one or more computing devices, if a participant of the first online meeting is in an un-trusted location. The method may additionally comprise, in response to determining that the participant of the first online meeting is in the un-trusted location, redacting, via the one or more computing devices, the selected portion of content from content available to the participant in the first online meeting. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SEMANTIC OPERATION ON A DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed is a system and method for performing a semantic operation on a social network. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving a social network user context associated with a user of the social network; generating, through a semantic operation, an interest network based on the user context information; and filtering, ranking or augmenting, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a retrieval of information related to the social network based on the interest network; wherein the interest network comprises concepts represented by a data structure associated with the concepts in the interest network. In another embodiment, the method further comprises representing the interest network as an interest graph. In yet another embodiment, the semantic operation is a synthesis operation or retrieval operation performed on a knowledge representation. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007125 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN THE SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for improving information exchange in a social network environment. Actions (e.g., copying) being performed on an electronic object (e.g., e-mail) are detected. Furthermore, the entry of the electronic object in a social networking website is detected thereby identifying an association between this electronic object and this social networking website. Rule patterns are identified based on these detected actions and these associations. Indications of these associations are stored in terms of concept nodes in a hierarchical tree using the identified rule patterns. Social networking feeds of interest are then searched using the hierarchical tree as well as a current electronic object of a user (e.g., status message on a social networking feed, e-mail). The user would then be provided an opportunity to repost an information nugget from the current electronic object in one or more of these social networking feeds of interest. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007126 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for updating and visualizing information stored in a database system over a network. In various implementations, first social connection data associated with a subject and an object is retrieved from a user account. In some instances, the user account is associated with a social networking system. In various implementations, second social connection data associated with the subject and the object is retrieved from shared contact data. In some instances, one or more social connections between the subject and the object are identified based on the retrieved first social connection data and the retrieved second social connection data. In some implementations, a graphical representation of the identified one or more social connections is generated, where the graphical representation is capable of being displayed at a user interface of a display device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007127 | DETERMINATION OF A SPAMMER THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION - A method of determining a spammer includes acquiring, by a processor, short message events associated with a user and dividing them into a plurality of sessions in terms of time; building a social network of the user in each of the sessions, and calculating at least one type of social network characteristic in each of the sessions, respectively; and determining whether the user is a spammer or not according to the social network characteristic. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007128 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REALISTIC REMOTE EXPLORATION SERVICE BASED ON OPEN SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Discloses is an apparatus and method for providing a remote exploration service based on an open social network service (SNS). The apparatus for providing a remote exploration service may recommend an explorer terminal to a user terminal based on recommendation information of the user terminal, and transmit direction of movement data to the explorer terminal so that a remote exploration may be conducted along an exploration route designated by the user terminal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007129 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION COSTING BASED ON CLIENT HARDWARE - Various methods for application costing based on the hardware of a client device are provided. One example method may comprise receiving a message comprising an indication of one or more hardware requirements associated with a service. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise determine one or more hardware attributes related to the one or more hardware requirements. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise evaluating whether the one or more hardware attributes satisfy the one or more hardware requirements. Similar and related example methods, example apparatuses, and example computer program products are also provided. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUBSCRIBING PRESENCE INFORMATION, RESOURCE LIST SERVER, AND PRESENCE SERVER - A method and a system for subscribing presence information, a resource list server, and a presence server are disclosed. The method for subscribing presence information includes: determining a presentity list of a first user, where the presentity list of the first user includes a second user; determining an existing subscription session that includes information of the second user, and sending a watcher list of the second user to a presence server; and receiving presence information returned by the presence server, where the presence information is presented by the second user to watchers in the watcher list of the second user. The resource list server converts the watcher's presentity list for different presentities into the presentity's watcher list for different watchers, and the presence information can be returned to different watchers through only one subscription session, which reduces subscription sessions and saves system resources. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007131 | ELASTIC AND SCALABLE PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SERVICE - A system and method are disclosed for an elastic and scalable publish/subscribe scheme. Subscription information is received at a dispatcher node. A plurality of matching nodes is selected in an overlay network to store the subscription information on a computer readable storage medium. Upon receiving an event at a dispatching node, at least one of the matching nodes with the stored subscription information is selected to process the event. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007132 | HOT WITHIN MY COMMUNITIES - Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying network resources or other topics that are of interest to members of multiple online communities to which a user belongs. Online communities include blogs, websites, games, e-commerce systems, messaging systems, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed to determine statistical metrics about community activity, such as which articles, links, services, or other network resources are popular in the online community. At least some of the tracking or analysis can be performed by clients that access the online communities, by a server of each online community, and/or by a central tracking system. The results for each community may be further analyzed relative to each other. The results are provided for all communities with which a given user is associated. For example, a list of the most popular links in the user's selected online communities. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007133 | Dynamically Updating Media Content For Display To A User Of A Social Networking Environment Based on User Interaction - A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007134 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for social networking in a dynamic environment. In one embodiment, a method for social networking in a network includes broadcasting a first set of one or more keywords representing one or more interests of a first user in the network, receiving a response from a second user in the network indicating interest in at least one of the interests of the first user, and connecting to a server in the network, where the server hosts a group for supporting communications between at least the first network user and the second network user. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A PRINCIPAL INFLUENCER IN A SOCIAL NETWORK BY IMPROVING RANKING OF TARGETS - A method and system for identifying a principal influencer in a social network by improving ranking of targets. The method includes determining a user connection graph for a plurality of users registered on the social network and classifying the users into one or more connection levels based on the user connection graph. A list of reviewers associated with each target of a plurality of targets in the social network is built. A reviewer connection graph is determined for the list of reviewers associated with each target. Based on the reviewer connection graph, one or more top reviewers are ranked for each target. The principal influencer is then identified from the list of reviewers associated with each target. The system includes electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and processor. The processor includes a user connection unit, a reviewer unit, and a ranking engine. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013679 | Collaborative Media Sharing - Devices and methods are provided for the collaborative management of digital media. A plurality of users respectively use their mobile devices to provide a corresponding plurality of digital media data to a media server node, which then displays it within a display. Instructions in the form of control data are then received from the mobile devices, which are then used to perform collaborative management of the displayed digital media data. Various collaborative sequencing and editing operations are performed by the users to create a composite digital media file, which is then transferred to one or more of the user's mobile devices. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP INFLUENCE INFORMATION USING TEXTUAL CONTENT FROM INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS - A non-transitory computer storage medium stores a method that determines interpersonal relationship influence information between participants in an interaction channel that includes inputting an interaction text response of communication by a participant made in an interaction channel. A type of influence relation of the interaction text response is determined on at least one other participant in the interaction channel based on relational descriptors. An influence score value for the interaction text response is determined, where the influence score value indicates how strongly the interaction text response influences the at least one other participant in the interaction channel. A pair-wise indication of a direction of influence of at least two participants in the interaction channel is determined. Interpersonal relationship influence information is output for the interaction text response for a participant pair in the interaction channel. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013681 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF CONTENT - Embodiments generally relate to aggregating mentions. In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a plurality of mentions from a social networking service, where each mention is associated with one or more users of the social networking service. The method also includes aggregating the mentions, and displaying the mentions based on one or more formats. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013682 | Clustering a User's Connections in a Social Networking System - A user's connections in a social networking system are grouped into a number of clusters based on a measure of the connections' relationships, or affinity, to each other. The affinities among the connections are based on the connections' own relationships and indicate a likelihood that the connections are in the same social circles. The clusters are formed based on the affinities among the user's connections, where the clusters tend to have connections that have relatively high affinities with the other connections the same cluster as compared to the connections who are not in the same cluster. An iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm may be used to collapse the connections into clusters based on affinities between pairs of the connections. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013683 | AUTO-CREATING GROUPS FOR SHARING PHOTOS - Methods and systems for aggregating and sharing digital content associated with social events via a network are provided. In one example embodiment, a system for aggregating and sharing digital content associated with social events via a network facilitates the aggregation and sharing of digital content, such as photos and videos. The aggregation may be performed with respect to the digital content received from different sources associated with the same social event. The digital content may also be subjected to an image recognition process to identify one or more individuals appearing in the photos or videos. The shared content may also be filtered to display only those photos or videos with specific individuals. In addition, users may be allowed to set privacy rules with respect to the photos and videos within which they appear. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013684 | TRUSTED SOURCES WITH PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR AN ORGANIZATION - A system and method for developing trust in an organization supported tracking system by ensuring that resources in a resource library are collected from trusted sources, and encouraging and tracking participation in organization supported activities designed to achieve a long term goal of the organization. Resources may be submitted by organization members and ranked according to multiple factors including the trustworthiness of the source, the relevance of the resource to the long term goal, or the response of the organization members to the resource. Participation may be encouraged through friendly competition, awards granted for participation, and publication of member accomplishments. Tracking may be facilitated by allowing members to create initiatives and actions related to the long term goal which members may follow and join and then tracking and verifying member participation in those initiatives and actions. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013685 | Social Networking Environment with Representation of a Composite Emotional Condition for a User and/or Group of Users - A social networking method, implemented over a computer network and using a computer process, generates a digital output that is representative of a composite emotional condition for a first user based on data representative of the first user's emotional condition and data representative of such another user's emotional condition. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013686 | People Lists - Enabling management of contacts includes passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member, bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts, enabling the member to name the set of contacts, and enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013687 | Information Sharing Method and Mobile Device Thereof - An information sharing method for a mobile device is disclosed. The information sharing method includes registering an event in the mobile device; determining whether a software activity occurs during the event; marking information of a specific software activity with a tag corresponding to the event if the specific software activity occurs during the event; and sharing the information of the specific software activity with the tag. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013688 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGE AND AN EVENT BASED VIDEO SERVICES CONTROL PLANE - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes establishing a connection between a client and a messaging fabric of a conductor element associated with a video system; defining a service having a set of features using a set of interfaces associated with an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP); assigning a plurality of XML namespaces for the set of features of the service; assigning an identifier to the service; and registering the service in a service directory in order to create a mapping between the XML namespaces and the identifier. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013689 | Method of conducting operations for a social network application including activity list generation - In one embodiment, a method of conducting operations for a social network application comprises: operating at least one social network application server for interacting with users of the social network application; maintaining user accounts for users of the social network application, the user accounts including data defining relationships between users of the social network application; logging activities of users, the logged activities including real-world activities other than direct use of the social network application; generating a notification list of recent activities of users of the social network application, wherein the notification list includes (1) at least one real-world activity of a first user of the social network application and (2) at least one hyperlink to offer for an activity that is directly related to the at least one real-world activity of the first user. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013690 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013691 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS - Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013692 | SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DEVICE COLLABORATION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A device collaboration system includes a server | 01-10-2013 |
20130013693 | Automatically Providing A Communication Based On Location Information For A User Of A Social Networking System - Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PEER SELECTION IN A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for providing peer selection in a network are disclosed. For example, the method requests peer information from an application server supporting a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) service, and receives the peer information comprising a plurality of peer endpoint devices. The method then selects a peer endpoint device from the plurality of peer endpoint devices based on at least one preference. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013695 | Engagement Interface Advertising In A Social Network - A social network advertises to its members with engagement interfaces. An engagement interface comprises a call to action and a link to perform the action within the social network from within the engagement interface. Responsive to a user selection of the link to perform the action, the engagement interface modifies one or more objects within the social network associated with the call to action according to the selection of the link to perform the action. The engagement interface may be refreshed on the user's screen to indicate to the user that the action has been performed. An engagement interface may also be presented to a user from the social network or from an external system apart from the social network. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013696 | Devices and Systems for Outputting Contextual Information About an Event For Which an Alarm is Set on an Electronic Device - The present invention can permit an electronic device to output contextual information about an event when an alarm stored within the electronic device goes off. In one embodiment, an electronic device can permit a user to select an alarm template from a plurality of alarm templates and associate the selected alarm template with an alarm. When the alarm goes off at a later date, the electronic device can output the contextual information of the user-selected alarm template, thereby providing the user with contextual information relevant to the event for which the alarm was created. In another embodiment of the present invention, a receiving electronic device can automatically match alarm templates with alarms transferred from a transmitting electronic device. The present invention also can permit a user to create an alarm template, and customize alarm templates pre-populated by the manufacturer of an electronic device. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013697 | GROUP GENERATION DEVICE - A generation section | 01-10-2013 |
20130018947 | Performing Collective Operations In A Distributed Processing SystemAANM Archer; Charles J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Archer; Charles J. Rochester MN USAANM Carey; James E.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Carey; James E. Rochester MN USAANM Markland; Matthew W.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Markland; Matthew W. Rochester MN USAANM Sanders; Philip J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Sanders; Philip J. Rochester MN US - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for performing collective operations on a hybrid distributed processing system are provided. The hybrid distributed processing system includes a plurality of compute nodes where each compute node has a plurality of tasks, each task is assigned a unique rank, and each compute node is coupled for data communications by at least one data communications network implementing at least two different networking topologies. At least one of the two networking topologies is a tiered tree topology having a root task and at least two child tasks and the at least two child tasks are peers of one another in the same tier. Embodiments include for each task, sending at least a portion of data corresponding to the task to all child tasks of the task through the tree topology; and sending at least a portion of the data corresponding to the task to all peers of the task at the same tier in the tree topology through the second topology. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USE IN PROVIDING NETWORK SERVICES INTERCHANGEAANM Douillet; LudovicAACI EscondidoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Douillet; Ludovic Escondido CA USAANM Mihalov; BryanAACI EscondidoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Mihalov; Bryan Escondido CA USAANM Sadja; AranAACI San DiegoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Sadja; Aran San Diego CA US - Systems and methods are provided in establishing interchanges between consumer electronic (CE) devices and networking services. Some of these embodiments establish an intermediate application programming interface (API) between a plurality of remote CE devices and one or more social networking APIs each corresponding to a social networking service; translate, through an interchange service, communications between the intermediate API and the one or more social networking APIs; identify modifications to a first social networking API; implement a first update to the interchange service such that translations provided by the updated interchange service between the intermediate API and the first social networking API are consistent with the modifications to the first social networking API; and avoid updating at each of the plurality of CE devices relative to the modifications to the first social networking API. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018949 | DYNAMIC NEWS MEDIA SELECTION FOR SOCIAL NETWORK DISTRIBUTIONAANM Pradeep; AnanthaAACI PiedmontAAST CAAACO USAAGP Pradeep; Anantha Piedmont CA US - Attributes associated with an entity such as a brand, product, or service are identified from analysis of the entity itself as well as from information from an entity owner such as a company or firm. Attributes and news articles are transmitted over a network. News articles exhibiting characteristics promoting identified attributes are selected and conveyed back over the network. The news articles are then posted on social network walls and profiles of pages of interested individuals. Entities may identify interested individuals as those who have joined, followed, liked, or subscribed to a particular entity page. Interested individuals may also be identified through their profile characteristic information. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018950 | CONNECTING A DEVICE TO A MEETINGAANM Narayanan; Giridhar KalpathyAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Narayanan; Giridhar Kalpathy Bellevue WA USAANM Gomber; PujaAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Gomber; Puja Bellevue WA USAANM Rao; DeepakAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Rao; Deepak Bellevue WA USAANM Elias; AnnikaAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Elias; Annika Redmond WA USAANM Anantharaman; SundarAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Anantharaman; Sundar Redmond WA USAANM Choudhary; NishantAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Choudhary; Nishant Bellevue WA US - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for joining a device to a meeting. A device can send a request to join the meeting, such as by selecting a meeting request link in an invitation received at the device. A join meeting service may receive the request, authenticate the request, and return a code package and meeting related document. The code package can be used at the device, and/or at the join meeting service, to identify one or more meeting clients (e.g., applications) on the device. A supported meeting client that may be used to join the device to the meeting can be selected from the one or more meeting identified clients, if at least one meeting client is identified, and launched to join the device to the online meeting. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018951 | SCHEDULING A MEETING IN REAL TIMEAANM Piccinini; SandroAACI RomeAACO ITAAGP Piccinini; Sandro Rome ITAANM Pichetti; LuigiAACI RomeAACO ITAAGP Pichetti; Luigi Rome ITAANM Secchi; MarcoAACI RomeAACO ITAAGP Secchi; Marco Rome ITAANM Sidoti; StefanoAACI RomeAACO ITAAGP Sidoti; Stefano Rome IT - A method, data processing system, and computer program product for sending a notification of a meeting. An identification is made when a number of users in a plurality of users requesting the notification of the meeting is within a threshold distance. Whether the number of users is greater than or equal to a threshold number of the plurality of users needed to have the meeting is determined in response to the identification that the number of users in the plurality of users is within the threshold distance. The notification of the meeting is sent to the number of the users in response to determining that the number of users is greater than or equal to the threshold number. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLANNING A MEETING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method for planning a meeting in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a meeting configuration file including information identifying a meeting, a plurality of meeting collaborators, and/or a plurality of meeting participants. When the meeting configuration file is received, the server is configured to generate a virtual planning space associated with the meeting and located in a cloud computing environment, to transmit a message to the plurality of meeting collaborators that includes an invitation to collaborate in the meeting via the virtual planning space, and to receive an indication to load planning content that includes at least one data object. In response to receiving the indication, the server associates the planning content with the virtual planning space so that the planning content is accessible by the meeting collaborators via the virtual planning space in the cloud computing environment. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018953 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A MEETING IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method for presenting a meeting in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method embodiment includes providing by a server a virtual planning space in a cloud computing environment, wherein the virtual planning space is associated with a meeting and is associated with planning content comprising data objects loaded by a plurality of meeting collaborators. The method also includes receiving by the server an indication to launch the meeting, and in response, generating a virtual meeting room associated with the meeting and an identifier for the virtual meeting room. Thereafter, the server is configured to transmit a message to a plurality of meeting participants that includes an invitation to attend the meeting and the identifier for the virtual meeting room, and to present meeting content comprising at least one data object of the planning content to the meeting participants via the virtual meeting room. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018954 | SITUATION-AWARE USER SENTIMENT SOCIAL INTEREST MODELS - A method for constructing user models from user usage and context data is provided where a personal interest graph for a user is constructing from interests of the user derived from usage data and situational data derived from one or more sensors of the electronic device. The nodes in the interest graph also contain information about a degree of user interest in the corresponding interest and a sentiment of the user at the time when the usage data suggests that the user expressed interest in the interest graph. The personal interest graph can be modified by annotating one or more nodes of the personal interest graph with influence information. Later, a current sentiment for the user can be determined by analyzing input from one more sensors on the electronic device, and a particular node can be located in the personal interest graph based on the information in the nodes. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018955 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION FEED AS A PLATFORM - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for presenting feed items in an information feed. In various implementations, at least one feed parameter is determined, where the at least one feed parameter identifies a characteristic of at least one feed item to be included in the information feed. In some implementations, at least one feed search strategy is determined based on the determined at least one feed parameter, where the at least one feed search strategy identifies a feed query to be issued to a database system storing the feed items. In various implementations, the at least one feed item is identified based on the determined at least one feed parameter and the at least one feed search strategy. In various implementations, a first result object is generated, where the first result object includes the identified at least one feed item. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018956 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE TIMELINES OF NETWORK FEEDS - Systems and methods are provided for managing multiple timelines of network feeds. A system accesses network feeds associated with at least one social network. The system identifies a first set of network feeds based on an associated first name, first keyword, first calendar date, and/or first geographic location. The system identifies a second set of network feeds based on an associated second name, second keyword, second calendar date, and/or second geographic location. The system outputs, to a display device, a first chronological representation of the first set of network feeds based on calendar dates associated with the first set of network feeds and a second chronological representation of the second set of network feeds based on calendar dates associated with the second set of network feeds. The system can supplement the chronological representations of network feeds with additional network feeds associated with other network users. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018957 | System and Method for Facilitating Management of Structured Sentiment Content - The present invention provides a structured sentiment expression and management system and method. The present invention can receive sentiment content from at least two contributing users, wherein the received content is structured according to a specific human emotion, gesture or feeling and a level of intensity of the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. The present invention further displays the received content in a pre-defined and user-selected sentiment category related to the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018958 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC COLLABORATIVE INTERFACE FOR PRIVATE NETWORK GROUPS - Systems and methods are provided for a public collaborative interface for private computer networks. A system receives a domain name that enables users associated with the domain name to subscribe to a private network group, wherein the domain name differs from a domain name for the private network group. The system outputs a network feed from a user of the private network group to a display device associated with a user associated with the domain name in response to a determination that the user associated with the domain name is subscribed to the private network group. The system outputs a network feed from the user associated with the domain name to display devices associated with users of the private network group in response to a determination that the user associated with the domain name is subscribed to the private network group. The received domain name can be an email address. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISSEMINATION OF DATA WITHIN A NETWORKED COMMUNITY - A computer-implemented method for analyzing and disseminating data within a networked community is described. It is determined whether to gather data from a variety of data sources. Members of the networked community may also contribute data. The data is gathered and provided to an administrator of the networked community. Upon being analyzed, the data is disseminated to the members of the networked community. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018960 | Group Interaction around Common Online Content - An on-line system that allows a group of people to interact around common content, in which the system includes: a computer network; a server system coupled to the computer network; and multiple user devices, each of which is coupled to the computer network and each of which is associated with a respective member of the group, in which the server system stores identification information for each member of the group, and in which, in response to receiving a lead to content initiated by a member of the group, the server system is configured to send a reference to the content to the respective user devices of the other members of the group. In response to receiving the reference to the content, at least some of the user devices automatically access and load the content via the network. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018961 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT A USER'S MEDIA COLLECTIONS FROM MULTIPLE LOGIN POINTS - Collecting information about a user's media collections at a central location from multiple login points and/or multiple devices owned by the user is disclosed herein. The user establishes a user account at a central server. A client application may be downloaded to the user's device for establishing a connection to the central server. Subsequently, each time the user logs in to the central server, the central server receives a unique machine identifier for the connected and currently in-use user device. The central server receives information about the user's media collection from the user device and stores that media collection by its MID under the user's individual account. The central server obtains and stores information about all the user's media collections owned by user devices connected and in-use and previously connected to the central server rather than only having knowledge of the media collection stored on the currently in-use user device. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024506 | SUGGESTING INVITATIONS TO JOIN A NETWORK - A method for suggesting invitations to a network. The method includes accessing information corresponding to a plurality of individuals, wherein a first user of the network is associated with the plurality of individuals. The method also includes determining whether any of the plurality of individuals merit an invitation to join said network with the first user. The determining is based on the information corresponding to a plurality of individuals. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024507 | Analyzing Content Demand Using Social Signals - Software at an online contributor website receives a list of websites having online publications. The software gathers counts of user signals for each online publication on each of the websites on the list. And the software determines content descriptors for each of the online publications. The software then counts the online publications at each website associated with each of the content descriptors and counts the user signals at each website associated with each content descriptor. The software displays the content descriptors for each website in a graphic in a graphical user interface, where the size of each content descriptor in the graphic reflects the count of online publications associated with the content descriptor and where the color of each content descriptor in the graphic reflects the count of user signals associated with the content descriptor. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024508 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RECOMMENDING INTERACTION BETWEEN DEVICES IN A LOCAL ENVIRONMENT - Various methods are provided for recommending interaction between devices in a local environment. One example method may include locating at least one device within a local environment in response to an interaction with content. The at least one device that is located within a local environment is configured to provide functionality related to the interaction with the content. The method may include identifying a selected device from the located at least one device based on a user profile recommendation and the interaction with the content. The method may further include causing at least one of the content and an executable to be transferred to the identified selected device. Similar and related example apparatuses and example computer program products are also provided. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING A SERIES OF SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS - A system and method for coordinating a series of social encounters, including a computer-implemented method using a central machine having a processor, a memory, and a coordination application stored in the memory and executing in the processor, and the central machine being in communication with one or more computing devices. The method includes receiving identifying information corresponding to one or more users and correlated with respective computing devices, generating a first seating arrangement in the memory, and transmitting a first seating assignment to each of the computing devices. The method further includes receiving a first set of ratings of one or more users, processing the first set of ratings to generate a second seating arrangement, and transmitting a second seating assignment to each of the computing devices. The method optionally can further include receiving a second set of ratings, and based on the ratings, computing one or more matches. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024510 | Content Popularity Extraction In Distributed Hash Table Based Peer-To-Peer Networks - Provided is a method for content popularity extraction from a distributed hash table (DHT). The method includes receiving, by a first node, a request message from a second node of a peer-to-peer network. Accessing, by the first node, information associated with the request message, the information indicating a content item and a content demand. And determining, by the first node, a content popularity of a plurality of content items based on the information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024511 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTATION OF FEED ITEMS IN AN INFORMATION FEED TO BE DISPLAYED ON A DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for presenting feed items in an information feed to be displayed on a display device. In some implementations, a first feed item including first data is received, and a second feed item including second data is received. In some instances, presentation information is generated indicating that the second feed item is capable of being displayed on the display device in a spatial relationship with the first feed item, where the spatial relationship is independent of a linear presentation of the feed items in the information feed. In some instances, generated presentation information includes a first presentation and a second presentation, where the first presentation indicates that the second feed item is capable of being displayed on the display device in a spatial relationship with the first feed item, and the second presentation is different from the first presentation. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024512 | Feature-extended apparatus, system and method for social networking and secure resource sharing - A feature-extended apparatus, system and method for social networking and secure resource sharing is disclosed. The present invention provides advanced capabilities for social networking and secure resource sharing, implemented by one or more subsystems. Subsystems exist for provisioning effective social interactions; generating inferred social value metrics; searching and browsing a multitude of subjects by various criteria, including but not limited to subject-provided data and inferred social value metrics; provisioning of the security and access control of plurality of passive data items with respect to a plurality of active subjects; security-enabled contingent multicasting of state changes regarding a plurality of passive data items; collecting participants' input for the purposes of interacting with the present apparatus and respectively with other participants; presentation and display of the quantities described hereinabove to a person or a computer system. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024513 | METHOD OF VIRALLY EXPANDING SOCIAL NETWORKS - Membership in a social network is virally expanded by suggesting to a user to invite contacts from the user's address book and, in addition, eligible contacts from other address books. Eligible contacts from other address books include those contacts that have e-mail addresses with the same e-mail domain as the user's e-mail address. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024514 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING ONLINE CONNECTIVITY AMONG BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS WHILE PRESERVING AN INDIVIDUAL'S ANONYMITY - A method of establishing a digital relationship between an individual and a provider includes providing the individual with the ability to establish a digital account on a server that will include a repository of digital content created by one or more providers that has been requested by the individual. The provider can also establish a digital account on the server that will store content of the provider to be accessed by the individual and permit the provider to establish a unique URL for embedding in web content on the world wide web or through the use of quick release codes and bar codes. An anonymous-viewing association is created between the individual and one or more providers based on the individual's clicking on a provider's unique URL contained in the web content or through the use of quick release codes and bar codes. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024515 | SELF-ADAPTING DIRECT PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATION AND MESSAGING SYSTEM - A system and method for communication and messaging among self-adapting peer nodes is disclosed, where each node maintains a list of authorized peer nodes. The nodes exchange requests directly with other nodes over networks, providing information identifying the requesting node and the type of request. The receiving node authenticates the requesting node, authenticates the type of request, and determines method of response to the request. If the request is authenticated and the type of request is valid, the receiving node also validates the incoming request and originating node and adapts its peer node database, applying any required changes. The types of requests exchanged between nodes include: status and location change, message, audio, voice, video, text, and data. The types of responses include: authorized, unauthorized, or ignore. The nodes may periodically send and receive requests for status, messages, and data updates from an optional central server. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024516 | SOCIAL CIRCLE BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - Systems and methods of the present invention relate to the implementation of a novel social network. In one particular implementation, the invention includes transmitting contact data for displaying graphical representations of contacts for display to a first user, the contacts being contacts of the first user within a private circle in a computer-implemented social networking service; generating a first inner social circle corresponding to the first user, the first inner social circle comprising a first subset of contacts of the first user within the social networking service and defining a first distribution for digital content within that first inner social circle; and creating a sub-account by the first user, the sub-account corresponding to a second user, the sub-account being managed by the first and second users; wherein the second user becomes a member of the first inner social circle. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024517 | Apparatus, system and method for interfacing social networking application and provider - An apparatus, system and method for interfacing social networking application and provider is disclosed. The present invention provides capabilities for social networking, implemented by one or more subsystems. Subsystems exist for generating inferred social value metrics; collecting participants' input for the purposes of interacting with the present apparatus and respectively with other participants; data storage and layout; presentation and display of the quantities described hereinabove to a person or a computer system. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER AND VOICE CONFERENCE AUDIO TRANSMISSION DURING CONFERENCE CALL VIA VOIP DEVICE - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support canceling audio streams leaked from a speaker to a microphone so that a clean audio stream of a presenter or viewer speaking at a conference call is transmitted. Here, the audio streams being canceled includes the computer audio stream of an application being run or a material being presented online during a web conference and/or the audio stream received from the rest of the group of participants at the conference call. The computer audio stream is then transmitted in addition to the presenter or viewer audio stream, and separate from any other audio stream captured by the hosting device during the conference call. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024519 | SHARABLE CURATED SCRAPBOOK PAGES THROUGH SOURCE ATTRIBUTION OF EMBEDDED CONTENT - A method, an apparatus and/or a system of source attribution of embedded content is disclosed. A sharable scrapbook page system includes a tracking module configured to generate an identification meta-data to be associated with an original content of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server of a public wide area network such that the original content is attributable to the first publisher through the identification meta-data associated thereto with the original content when the original content having the associated identification meta-data is republished on a scrapbook page along with other republished data assets in a curated form on the scrapbook page by a subsequent publisher. The system further includes a processor including a memory which is configured to determine that a subsequent publishing of the original content is an embedded portion of another work of authorship. The system also includes a notification module that notifies the first publisher upon subsequent publication of the original content by a subsequent publisher. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031169 | CONDITIONAL LOCATION-BASED REMINDERS - Architecture that enables conditional location-based notifications. One or multiple factors (filter criteria) can be considered, and triggering of a notification can be based on some or all of the factors. Those factors can be static (e.g., time based) or dynamic (e.g., a previous user location) and extend the ability to filter unnecessary notifications, and thus, increase user satisfaction. The filter criteria can include checking user back balance, and calendar as prerequisites to sending a notification. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031170 | DISTRIBUTED CONTENT CACHING - A content server farm in a host network may be configured to receive a message indicating that content is to be downloaded to a content consumer device in the host network different from a partner network. A first copy of the content is stored at an originating content provider device in the partner network. A path for downloading the first copy of the content from the originating content provider device in the partner network to the content consumer device in the host network includes peering points that connect the host network to the partner network. The content server farm may determine whether a second copy of the content is cached at the content server farm in the host network, acquire the content when the second copy of the content is not cached at the content server farm in the host network, cache the content as the second copy at one or more locations in the content server farm in the host network, and generate indices that correspond to the second copy of the content and the locations at which the second copy of the content is stored. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031171 | SOCIAL NETWORK GRAPH INFERENCE AND AGGREGATION WITH PORTABILITY, PROTECTED SHARED CONTENT, AND APPLICATION PROGRAMS SPANNING MULTIPLE SOCIAL NETWORKS - An application program spans a plurality of digital social networks. The application program includes an inferred digital social network. Consent is obtained from a plurality of users of the digital social networks to participation in the inferred digital social network. Information is automatically obtained from the digital social networks for the users, through a plurality of respective communication channels, which can be application program interfaces or covert or subliminal channels. The information includes link information between each of the users and other individuals in the digital social networks. The information is aggregated for the users to form the inferred digital social network, corresponding to a graph having nodes representing the users and the other individuals and having links between the nodes representing social relationships. Each of the users is enabled to send and receive message information with other users, to view profile information of other users, and to view social contact information of other users, through the inferred digital social network. In response to inputs from the users, the application program provides state information to the digital social networks spanned by the application program that the digital social networks cause to be communicated to users of the digital social networks. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031172 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING FEED INFORMATION TO ONE OR MORE RECIPIENTS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for communicating feed information to one or more recipients. In some implementations, an instruction to communicate an information update to one or more identified first recipients is received. In some instances, an additional recipient indicator is identified and an identification of one or more second recipients based on the additional recipient indicator is generated. In some instances, the one or more second recipients are provided access to the information update. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031173 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD, RECOMMENDATION ENGINE, NETWORK SYSTEM - An information recommendation method, a recommendation engine, and a network system are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: acquiring a friend list of a user from a data source with a social relationship; acquiring a behavior record of a friend in the friend list of the user from a user behavior database; generating recommendation information matched with current behavior of the user, according to the behavior record of the friend in the friend list of the user and information of the current behavior of the user; and sending the recommendation information to an application website. Through the embodiments of the present invention, when information is recommended to a user, the recommendation information can be generated based on the social relationship and according to the behavior record of the friend of the user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031174 | DATA SHARE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESS APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A data process apparatus for sharing shared data among plural data process apparatuses participating in an event. The data process apparatus includes a participation notification reception unit configured to receive a participation notification from each of the plural data process apparatus including first and second data process apparatuses in the event, a notifying unit configured to notify the second data process apparatus to the first data process apparatus as a data obtain target from which the shared data is to be obtained. The second data process apparatus is a data process apparatus from which the participation notification has already been received by the participation notification reception unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031175 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING CONSUMER DATA BY FACILITATING THE COMMUNICATION OF FEEDBACK IN A GROUP SETTING - A method of generating consumer data by facilitating the communication of feedback in a group setting over a global data communications network is shown. After creating or joining a group, members of the group may send or receive polls, consisting of photos, videos, group texts and event messages to other group members and/or the poll creators' social networks. Other group members and social network friends are notified instantly or almost instantly and respond back promptly. The results are organized and presented in an engaging visual manner and the consumer data collected from such interactions are stored in a database. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031176 | IDENTIFICATION OF ROGUE SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS - Identification of rogue social media assets is provided. In some embodiments, identification of rogue social media assets includes identifying a plurality of social media assets; comparing the plurality of social media assets with known social media assets to identify previously unknown social media assets; and displaying the identified previously unknown social media assets. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC MEDIA SELECTION - The present application is directed to methods and systems for providing social interaction within a customized media streaming service. In one aspect, the present application is directed to methods and systems for automated playlist generation based on social metadata. These systems allow for an internet media delivery service to learn about a listener's preferences, and changes in those preferences over time, without the listener being required to tell the service directly, but rather through social networking profiles and relationships to one or more similar or related users. This allows the service to immediately, without any input from the listener, play programming that is likely to be enjoyed by the listener. It also allows the service to learn about changes in a listener's preferences over time without requiring the user to actively express the preferences. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031178 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Message - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing message, including: receiving a request to perform a predetermined operation by a first user on a first message, the first message published by a second user and was previously obtained by the first user before the request to perform the predetermined operation, the request comprising information associated with the predetermined operation on the first message; determining status information of the first message based on a first index of the first message; sending the first message to the first user based on the status information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031179 | SOCIAL-NETWORK METHOD FOR ANTICIPATING EPIDEMICS AND TRENDS - In order to anticipate an epidemic or adoption of a trend, individuals are randomly selected from a population and friends of the selected individuals are determined. These friends are then designated as sensors and monitored to predict or anticipate the adoption of a trend or the spread of a contagious outbreak. In one embodiment, online searches performed by these friends are monitored for the use of selected search queries to predict or anticipate the adoption of a trend or the spread of a contagious outbreak. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031180 | VIRTUAL IDENTITIES - A template is described that can be applied to user attribute data in order to generate a pseudonym/virtual identity for the user. The pseudonym includes a subset of the user's overall user attributes. The invention also enables a user to determine whether a particular pseudonym meets the requirements of a template by checking the pseudonym against a template provided, for example, by a service provider. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031181 | Using Social Network Information And Transaction Information - Among other things, a user can determine, from aggregated transaction data, private information about a transaction of another party. The other party is associated, in a shared social network database, as a contact with the user. The activity of the other party is related to an activity or contemplated activity of the user. The private information is from a source that is controlled independently of the shared social network database and the aggregated transaction data. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036164 | Tagging Users of a Social Networking System in Content Outside of Social Networking System Domain - Users of a social networking system can tag other users in content items that are provided outside of the social networking system, such as pictures that are viewable on a website that is external to the social networking system. To enable a user to tag another user in a content item, an external system provides a user interface that enables the user to tag another user, optionally define a portion of the content item in which the tagged user appears, and provide an identity of the tagged user. The external system communicates with the social networking system to provide the tagging information to the social networking system. The tagging information is received by the social networking system, which imports the content item and displays the content item with the tagging information to other users in the social networking system. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036165 | Displaying Social Opportunities by Location on a Map - A social networking system provides relevant content objects at the request of social networking system users. Relevance scores are determined for content objects by matching user location, user interests, and other social information to the content, location, and timing associated with content objects. A ranked list of content objects can be provided to the user, where the content objects are relevant to them based on their interests, location, and other social information. The system provides a user interface that displays a map containing pins, where each pin represents a content object in actionable proximity to a user. The content objects selected to be presented as pins to the user are those content objects with sufficiently high relevance scores. Multiple pins for a nearby area can be clustered. The user can switch between zoom levels for the map, thereby showing pins at varying distances from the user's current location. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING GROUP STATUS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for sharing group status within a social network are provided. A representative system includes a mobile device operative to: designate a set of mobile devices, each of the mobile devices being operative to communicate with others of the mobile devices and being associated with a respective member of a group of members of a social network; automatically generate group status information corresponding to a current status of the group of members; and provide the group status information to the social network. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036167 | AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION OF CLIPBOARDS - A computer-implemented method and computer program for automatically synchronizing clipboards of multiple devices. The computer-implemented method includes: pairing at least two devices via a Bluetooth connection; providing a information on a sharing clipboard of a first device; automatically broadcasting, in response to the providing, the information from the sharing clipboard of the first device to a sharing clipboard of a second device; and pasting the information on the sharing clipboard of the second device. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036168 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT WITH SHARED VIDEO ON DEMAND - A system and methodology for creating, compiling, managing and distributing works of multimedia within a virtual space (environment) or virtual meeting space. The system consists of a server and client architecture. Within this architecture, the server or controller plays a “master” role, puffing, storing, and delivering media content from a plurality of client sources. The master server or controller manipulates the storage and delivery of these streams through an intelligent database and programming architecture. These streams are encoded to a specific format and delivered through a server to single or multiple recipients as a vital component of a complete virtual meeting experience. The result is a complete and organized virtual meeting room experience from attendee invitation though follow-up and record meeting dispersal. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036169 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING RATE OF CHANGE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGITAL OBJECT - A system of tracking rate of change of social network activity associated with a digital object includes a change measurement module in communication with at least one social network database and a ranking module in communication with the change measurement module. The change measurement module measures a change in the level of social network activity associated with the digital object based on a first object value and a second object value. The first object value is based on a measurement of activity associated with the digital object in at least one social network at a first time, and the second object value is based on a measurement of activity at a second time. The ranking module ranks the digital object relative to at least one other digital object based on a score derived from a rate of change in social network activity. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036170 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a user list providing unit configured to receive device identification information from a current device connected via a network and to send, to the current device, a user list including one or more user identifiers that are stored in a storage unit in association with the received device identification information; and a program list providing unit configured to receive a user identifier that is selected at the current device from the user identifiers in the user list and to send, to the current device, a program list including sets of program information stored in the storage unit in association with the received user identifier. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036171 | SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AGGREGATION AND SEARCH MECHANISM - A machine-implemented method can include importing social media content from multiple social media sites, applying filters to the imported content, creating a virtual shoebox based on the filtered content, and generating a virtual scrapbook based on the virtual shoebox. A system can include a social media content import mechanism, a filter mechanism, a virtual shoebox creation mechanism, and a virtual scrapbook generation mechanism. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036172 | SHARING FORM TRAINING RESULT UTILIZING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A mechanism is provided for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for web sites. The computer listens to web browsing activities of a user, and receives feedback from the user when web browsing by monitoring user actions. monitoring user actions includes monitoring the user searching a peer-to-peer environment and search results obtained, and in response to the user selecting a first link for the search results in the peer-to-peer environment, determining a score for the first link based on the user selecting a second link for the search results. The score for the first link is provided to the users of the social network. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS BASED ON CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPATION - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for automatically initiating online social interactions based on participation in a conference call. Audio of the conference call is analyzed for data, such as timestamps indicating when people spoke, the volume of speech, words per minute, and emotional context. This analysis determines relationships between participants, and initiates online social interactions compatible with those relationships. This initialization can take the form of a prompt, or can be performed without interruption to the participants. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041948 | Zero-Click Photo Upload - A social networking system allows a first user to capture multimedia objects with a computing device having a wireless data connection, and automatically add the multimedia object to a queue for upload of a file corresponding to the multimedia object of varying quality depending on the detected wireless connection type. Queue management attempts to guarantee the eventual upload of a high quality multimedia file and reduces redundant data uploads. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041949 | SOCIAL GRAPHS USING SHARED PERSONAL DATA - Social graphs using shared personal data are described, including techniques for capturing data from a social data source, determining one or more connections associated with an item using the data, and creating a social graph using the one or more connections, the social graph comprising the one or more connections associated with the item. Embodiments of the invention also include techniques for updating social graphs. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041950 | Reference Object Information System - A method and apparatus for sharing identification of a computer embedded object between a plurality of users connecting to a computer network or participating in a social networking service is provided. The method and apparatus comprises receiving information relating to a computer embedded object of a first user of the plurality of users. The method and apparatus also includes sending the information of the computer embedded object to a second user for display. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041951 | HOME APPLIANCE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A method of operating a home appliance according to an aspect of the invention may include checking a message included in at least one of an Internet service server and an Internet service page while the home appliance uses an account thereof set beforehand, authenticating the message whereby it is checked whether an account in which the message is written has a predetermined relationship with the account of the home appliance, and executing a control command to control the home appliance according to the message, the control command analyzed based on the message. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEVANT BUSINESS NETWORKING BASED IN CONTROLLED RELEVANCY GROUPS, RESPONSILIBITES AND MEASURED PERFORMANCE - A business networking system and method for groups of people within a variety of business types to organize themselves into specific and relevant categories in order to maximize the exchange of relevant information and further development of relevant business contacts. The method and system offer tools for registering members and sub-dividing those registered members into smaller relevant groups. The method matches members of similar backgrounds and business experiences and provides communications, messaging and meetings for relevant. The system provides tools to encourage reciprocal relevant communications, both online and in the real world, between members. All activity is tracked and grouped into a plurality of statistics that are then ranked and shared with members. The statistics are used by the TBS system as a scorecard or as punishment in the form of expulsion from the categorized group. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041953 | Conference Calls and Meetings Via Electronic Messaging Interface - Initiating a conference call includes receiving a conference call request message from an initiating user specifying a plurality of other users and determining an availability of the other users to receive conference call invitations. A conference call is initiated between the initiating user and one or more of the other users that are determined to be available. The availability of one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is monitored and interaction with a conference call invitation by one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is enabled upon their monitored availability changing from unavailable to available. The interaction with the conference call invitation by the other users is conditioned on whether the conference call is still in progress. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041954 | Method of Sharing One or More Media in a Session Between Terminals - In a first embodiment, a specific UE is enabled to copy all or a portion of one or more or media in an ongoing session with a remote end to another UE, so that the media can be shared by many UEs. In a second embodiment, when a specific UE shares all or a portion of media in an ongoing session with another UE, the shared media may be controlled. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046821 | Advanced Machine-To-Machine Communications - There are provided measures for advanced machine-to-machine communications. Such measures may exemplarily includes conducting machine-to-machine packet transmission of a machine device residing in a connected mode by using a bearer connection with a security context, causing transition of the machine device from the connected mode to an intermediate mode, in which the machine device is neither in connected mode nor in idle mode, after completion of the machine-to-machine packet transmission, and keeping the security context of the connection for the intermediate mode, and causing transition of the machine device from the intermediate mode to the connected mode after elapse of an inactivity period of the machine-to-machine packet transmission, and conducting machine-to-machine packet transmission of the machine device residing in the connected mode by reactivating the bearer connection with the kept security context. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL ACTIONABLE CONVERSATION - A social activity stream application for managing virtual actionable conversations allows participants in a conversation to request actions to be performed in various external systems. A request to perform an action in an external system is received from a conversation participant, and sent to the external system, in which the requested action may then be performed. In this manner, conversation participants may use a single application to monitor and request actions in multiple external systems. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046823 | Computer-Vision Content Detection for Connecting Objects in Media to Users - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to detecting objects in user-uploaded multimedia such as photos and videos, determining the location at which the media was captured, inferring a set of users of a social network who were physically present at the time and place of capture, and pushing remarketing content to the set of inferred users for the detected objects, or alternatively, the competitors of the detected concepts. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046824 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EXTENDED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Present invention provides a method and system for providing an extended social network service (SNS), the method and system enabling a user logged in an SNS to receive information in the form of newsfeed not only from users who have a friend relationship with the logged-in user in the SNS but also from users who have an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user through the friend relationship. Present invention also provide a method and system for providing an extended SNS, the method and system adding information about a friend relationship-based connection path between a user logged in an SNS and each user who has an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user to content shared between them, so that the reliability of the shared content can be determined. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046825 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTERACTION BETWEEN A BROADCAST AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AUDIENCE INTERACTION WITH RADIO PROGRAMMING - A software system is provided which links a broadcast station operating system or playback system via the internet to an external data source, such as a separate audience participation system for providing audience interaction with broadcast programming, and specifically radio programming to allow the automation system of the broadcast system operating system to play externally chosen; such as by audience participation, selections automatically and in real time. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046826 | Devices, Systems, and Methods for Aggregating, Controlling, Enhancing, Archiving, and Analyzing Social Media for Events - Devices, systems, and methods for controlling, enhancing, archiving, and analyzing social media related to an event are disclosed. In some instances, the method includes: aggregating, using a computing device, posts made to at least one social media platform by a plurality of posters to identify a plurality of posts related to an event; filtering the identified plurality of posts related to the event to identify a plurality of relevant posts; and broadcasting the plurality of relevant posts for display on at least one display. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046827 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS, SYSTEM, NEWLY-ARRIVED DOCUMENT NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When notifying of a newly-arrived document, it is determined whether a newly-arrived document confirmation is not received from a client apparatus even after a set newly-arrived document confirmation time has elapsed, and whether the newly-arrived document confirmation is received from the client apparatus when the set newly-arrived document confirmation time has elapsed. If it is determined that the newly-arrived document confirmation is not received from the client apparatus even after the set newly-arrived document confirmation time has elapsed, a mobile terminal apparatus is notified of a document which newly arrives after a time at which the client apparatus confirmed the newly-arrived document. If it is determined that the newly-arrived document confirmation is received from the client apparatus when the set newly-arrived document confirmation time has elapsed, the client apparatus is notified of the newly-arrived document. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046828 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING GROUP CHATS AMONG TEAM MEMBERS - A computer system for hosting electronic group chat is provided. The computer system includes a memory device for storing data and a processor coupled in communication with the memory device. The processor is programmed to electronically host a plurality of chat rooms, associate a first chat room of the plurality of chat rooms with a first element inputted into the computer system, and transmit chat communications between a plurality of users of the chat rooms. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046829 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GEO-COLLABORATION - Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are disclosed. With respect to sharing a geographical location, the geographical location is retrieved to the first computer. The geographical location is added to the map being rendered at the first computer and is sent to a second computer. A map including the geographical location is rendered at the second computer. With respect to co-navigating, a map is displayed from a map perspective at the first computer. The map perspective is sent to the second computer. A map from the same map perspective being displayed at the first computer is rendered at the second computer. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054686 | Content enhancement utility - The invention relates to a new methodology for modifying the appearance of an existing work without modifying the source code of the existing work even by a viewer or listener who did not create the existing work. This capability enables viewers to annotate or communicate information about existing works in ways that were not possible before. For example a webpage from a restaurant (an existing work) could be annotated with notes describing which entre was my favorite and then this new view of the restaurant's webpage could be shared with a friend; my friend would then see the webpage including notes identifying my favorite entre on their client device. This capability provides an entirely new dimension to collaboration and training across computer networks and across the internet. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054687 | ONLINE COMMUNITIES - A method for creating a virtual hub for a community of users with common interests to interact in over a network, comprises determining multiple topical interests from a set of input sources queried over the network, computing a measure representing a prominence for respective ones of the multiple topical interests, providing a topical interest with a prominence value which exceeds a predetermined threshold for prominence, determining multiple interested parties for the topical interest using a measure of interest for users with respect to the topical interest, and instantiating a hub on the network for the topical interest for the multiple interested parties. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054688 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT SYNDICATION SERVICE - A method for providing content syndication to subscribers. The method includes receiving one or more content items from a plurality of information sources. One or more tags are assigned to the one or more content items, the one or more tags indicating a taxonomy of the one or more content items. One or more keywords associated with the one or more content items and a media type of the one or more content items are identified. The one or more content items are indexed with the one or more tags, the one or more keywords, and the media type. The method further includes retrieving the one or more content items based on the one or more tags, the one or more keywords, and the media type. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054689 | REDEEMABLE CONTENT SPECIFIC TO GROUPS - Information regarding a user may be indicative of membership in a group. Such information may be maintained for every user associated with a particular system or title. In instances, redeemable content may be offered exclusively to a group. Requests for such content may therefore be received and evaluated to determine whether the requesting user is a member of the particular group. The determination includes an evaluation of information associated with the requesting user. In some instances, the information associated with the requesting user is a user identifier that is indicative of the group membership, and the user identifier may be included in the request. If the user is indeed determined to be a member of the group, access to the redeemable content is granted. Alternatively, if the user is not determined to be a member of the group, access to the redeemable content is denied. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054690 | Systems and Methods for Managing Personal Information - A method for managing a user's personal information, comprises the steps of, managing one or more electronic user profiles; selecting one of the user profiles; joining a virtual room having one or more members; using the selected profile to communicate with the members of the virtual room; and communicating with one or more of the members. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054691 | FLEXIBLE RULE BASED MULTI-PROTOCOL PEER-TO-PEER CACHING - Flexible rule based multi-protocol peer-to-peer caching in a wireless environment. A request is received from a requestor for a file from one of a plurality of peer-to-peer networks. The peer-to-peer network the request is directed to is determined in response to receiving the request. Using a generic rule structure, the file that is requested from the peer-to-peer network is identified. The generic rule structure is compatible with all of the plurality of peer-to-peer networks. If the file is stored in a cache it is retrieved from the cache and is transmitted to the requestor. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054692 | Organizing and Tracking Belongings Using Social Graph Information - A system and machine-implemented method is provided for creating a new association of a belonging with a user within a social graph of belongings including receiving an input of a belonging from a first user of one or more users, generating a belonging profile associated with the belonging, associating the belonging profile with the first user within a social graph of belongings, generating a post and transmitting the post to be displayed to one or more contacts of the first user on a remote social networking site. Furthermore, a system and machine-implemented method is provided for retrieving and modifying a post including receiving a request to modify the post associated with a belonging, the post being displayed at a remote social networking site, retrieving the post from the remote social networking site, detecting one or more modifications of the at least one post and generating a modified post. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054693 | Systems and Methods for Automated Recommendations for Social Media - A system for automated recommendations for social media activities, said system comprises: page data extraction module adapted to extract pre-defined page data parameters in relation to pre-defined reference parameters; reference module adapted to provide reference parameters in relation to each of said pre-defined page data; comparing and correlation module adapted to compare and correlate each of said extracted page data parameters with each of said corresponding reference parameters to obtain a corresponding comparative and correlative score for each of said parameters; and recommendation module adapted to recommend action points based on each of said comparative and correlative scores for each of said parameters. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054694 | TERMINAL, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PRESENCE INFORMATION - An IMS includes a terminal and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server, and may perform a method for transmitting and receiving presence information via the IMS core unit, a registering unit, a presence information transmitting unit, a friend list unit and a presence information control unit. The IMS core unit processes an IMS protocol. The registering unit registers terminal information to the IMS server. The presence information transmitting unit transmits presence information to the IMS server. The friend list unit manages a friend list of the various terminals. The presence information control unit designates at least one friend in the friend list and requests presence information of the designated friend. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054695 | Social network reporting system and method for ingestible material preparation system and method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control at least in part of transmission to one or more computer based social network services associated with the computer based social network service identification of the information collection regarding the at least partial preparation of the one or more ingestible products and ingestion intelligence including information related to ingestion by the particular individual living being of at least one of the one or more ingestible products, the ingestion by the particular individual living being within a second vicinity of the electronically outputting of the electronically outputted one or more selection menus. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY AUTHORIZING VOIP INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN ANONYMOUS PEERS OF VOIP NETWORKS - A peering authority or settlement clearinghouse can be used to control access, collect session accounting information, and provide financial settlement of interconnect or session fees among anonymous Internet Protocol (IP) peers or networks. The addition of peering policy criteria, such as price and quality of service, to peer to peer route discovery mechanisms enable a trusted intermediary, such as the settlement clearinghouse, to authorize acceptable interconnection or peering sessions between anonymous IP peers. Any financial settlement transactions which result from the peering sessions may be subsequently executed by the settlement clearinghouse. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION IN A CLOUD NETWORK - A content sharing system using near field communication (NFC) in a cloud network, includes: a server to store contents; a first device having an authority to use the contents and generating first data including a list of shared contents among the contents and digital rights management (DRM) condition; and a second device to generate second data including a key value for identifying the second device and to transmit the second data to the first device when the NFC is activated for sharing the shared contents, wherein, in order to share the shared contents, the first device generates third data including the first data and second data. The contents may be encoded according to a device's performance criteria, and the sharing of the shared contents may be restricted according to location or distance. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for providing a recommendation to a user, including retrieving, connection content associated with social network connections of the user; calculating, for each of the social network connections, an influence score for each of a plurality of locations; receiving a request location from a user device associated with the user; extracting a recommendation from relevant connection content, the relevant connection content being content associated with the request location and generated by at least one of the social network connections having the highest influence scores for the request location, the recommendation comprising a venue referenced within the relevant connection content; and sending the recommendation to the user device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054699 | FILTERING SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTENT - A method for filtering social media content based on interest categories. Users of a social network can be associated with one or more interest categories. Posts or updates made in the social network by friends of a first user are associated with one or more interest categories. A social feed can be filtered based on the interested categories or the first user of the social feed and/or the interests associated with the posts or updates made by the first user's friends. In some cases, the filtered social media content is ordered based on expertise of the first user's friends in the particular interest categories of those users' posts. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054700 | MESSAGE-BASED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROL AND CONTENT SHARING BETWEEN USERS AND DEVICES - A system and method that allows a user viewing an offer to send the offer to another of the user's network enabled devices is presented. The system and method also allows the user to send the viewed offer to one or more other persons known by the user. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060848 | Computational systems and methods for linking users of devices - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting device-identifier data corresponding to at least one communication device; accepting network-participation identifier data associated with a verified real-world user associated with the at least one communication device; and assigning a unique identifier at least partly based on the device-identifier data and the network-participation identifier data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060849 | INJECTING CONTENT IN COLLABORATION SESSIONS - A method, computer program product, and system for injecting content in collaboration sessions is described. A method may comprise receiving, via one or more computing devices, a request from a third party to inject content into a collaboration session between two or more users. The method may further comprise monitoring, via the one or more computing devices, one or more communication platforms to detect a qualifying event associated with the request from the third party to inject the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users. The method may additionally comprise, in response, at least in part, to detecting the qualifying event associated with the request from the third party to inject the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users, injecting, via the one or more computing devices, the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060850 | Computational systems and methods for regulating information flow during interactions - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one indication of an interaction involving at least one member of a network; creating a persona corresponding to the at least one member of a network, wherein the persona is at least partly based on the indication of an interaction; and presenting the persona for use in the interaction involving the at least one member of the network. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060851 | Computational systems and methods for regulating information flow during interactions - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one indication of an interaction involving at least one member of a network; creating a persona corresponding to the at least one member of a network, wherein the persona is at least partly based on the indication of an interaction; and presenting the persona for use in the interaction involving the at least one member of the network. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060852 | Computational systems and methods for regulating information flow during interactions - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one request for personal information from a party to a transaction; evaluating the transaction; selecting a persona at least partly based on an evaluation of the transaction, wherein the persona is linked to a unique identifier that is at least partly based on a user's device-identifier data and the user's network-participation data; and presenting the persona in response to the request for personal information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AND MANAGING GROUPS IN ADDRESS BOOK - A method and apparatus for organizing groups in an address book by referencing groups in other address books to organize the groups in the address book. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060854 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus and method that provides for automatically suggesting and delivering content based on a relationship between a user and a person to whom the content is to be delivered. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060855 | Publishing Assets of Dynamic Nature in UPnP Networks - System and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices on the local network, queries specific remote servers over the Internet, and retrieves data feeds from remote sources. The queried and retrieved data that is not in a format and file type that can be rendered by the renderer is loaded into a template and turned into a format and file type acceptable by the renderer. The queried and retrieved data in the proper format and file type is organized in a custom format and made available for rendering to the renderer. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060856 | SOCIAL PROXY AND PROTOCOL GATEWAY - A social proxy and protocol gateway for interfacing with a carrier network, a social listening device, a social network or proprietary social feedback apparatus, and a contact center and contact center database is disclosed. A data link is connected to a carrier network to receive, author tags, attributes, and routing information requests and other routing data. Additional data links are connected to a contact center database and a social network listening device or proprietary social feedback apparatus to obtain information used in determining routing and tagging instructions. A user interface is connected to the social proxy and protocol gateway to accept configurable conditions for determining routing instructions. A text conversion function and speech conversion function is disclosed for providing media conversion for the requirements of each target enterprise contact center. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060857 | CONTENT SHARING - Content can be shared between devices by transmitting an encoded signal that indicates, to each capable device within range, instructions for accessing the content. For example, a first device can emit an encoded audio signal that can be received by any capable device within audio range of the device. Any device receiving the signal can decode the information included in the signal and obtain a location to access the content from that information. Using such an approach, a first user can quickly and easily share content with several users at the same time without any of the receiving users having to determine or navigate to the content being shared. Further, using signals, such as audio signals, provides the ability for most existing devices to easily share content without significant hardware modification or additional expense. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060858 | Additional Systems and Methods for Curating Content - Additional systems and methods for curating content. In one embodiment, a method for providing user access to online content can be provided. The method can include providing a user access to aggregated content from one or more third party webpages, wherein the aggregated content is stored in at least one data storage device, receiving a user selection of a portion of the aggregated content, and posting a link to the user selected portion of aggregated content on a webpage associated with the user, wherein the link is to a second webpage associated with the user. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060859 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION UPDATES OF A FEED OF AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for selective display of information updates of a feed of an online social network. In some implementations, a computing device is configured to apply one or more parameters to one or more attributes of the information updates. One or more of the information updates can be identified as having an attribute satisfying the one or more parameters. Data can be provided to a display device configured to display the feed in a user interface, where the data includes an indication to omit or include the identified one or more information updates. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060860 | SOCIAL MEDIA FACT CHECKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066961 | AUTOMATED CROWDSOURCING TASK GENERATION - An embodiment of the invention automatically generates for a crowdsourcing procedure to achieve a goal. A first template pertaining to the prespecified goal is constructed, and provides a specified context and set of rules, and is associated with one or more data repositories. The first template is used to generate first level tasks, wherein a given first level task is completed by selecting a single object from a repository of objects, and then performing an operation requiring information from the single object. The first template is used further to generate second level tasks, a given second level task being completed by selecting a plurality of objects from the same or from different repositories, and then performing a single operation requiring information supplied by respective objects. The given second level task is submitted to the crowdsourcing procedure for execution. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that creates an online social network platform that models a person's real life. This social network may reproduce the way users communicate and share information in their real “offline” life. Just as users create offline social circles of people they know, with each circle having varying limited knowledge of a person's personal information, the system allows users to create personal social circles online. Additionally, just as users most often belong to real life public circles through association as in work, school or residency, the system will foster and maintain such communication online. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066963 | Dynamically Created Shared Spaces - In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically create a shared space for posting requests to the social networking system from multiple users based on social, spatial and temporal proximity, and create a news feed corresponding to the shared space. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066964 | Composited Posting Interface for Social Networking System - In one embodiment, in response to a user's request to upload a photo to a social networking system, a client process accesses information in the user's current location and friends who may be with the user, present the information to the user in a composited posting user interface. After the user confirms a particular current location and a first and second friends who are currently with the user, the client process tags the particular current location and the first and second friends to the photo, and submit to the social networking system a primary posting request in photo upload, and a secondary posting request to check in the user, the first friend and the second friend to the particular current location. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RESOURCE CHANGES IN MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) SYSTEMS - Systems and methods provide for bundling subscriptions associated with a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) device or M2M application into a single hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) session. A method includes subscribing, by a gateway (GW), to an M2M device on behalf of a plurality of subscribers using a single Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) session. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066966 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEER DISCOVERY INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN A WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK - A method of operating a wireless device is provided in which the wireless device determines to use one grouping of peer discovery resources of a plurality of groupings of peer discovery resources based on one of a path loss or a distance to a base station. The plurality of groupings include a first grouping of resources having a first plurality of identical subsets of resources and a second grouping of resources having a second plurality of identical subsets of resources. Each of the first plurality of identical subsets of resources extends over at least one of a different time period or a different number of subcarriers than each of the second plurality of identical subsets of resources. The wireless device transmits a peer discovery signal on one subset of the identical subsets of said one grouping of peer discovery resources. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING AND INTERACTING WITH COMMON CONNECTIONS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating sharing and accessing social networking information between two users. A user can establish a profile for sharing with others, which contains pre-authorization to access and share certain social network information. The profile can be linked by a machine-readable code, such as a QR code, that encodes a network address, such as a URL, to the profile containing access to the pre-authorized social networking information. The user shares information quickly with another user by sharing the QR code. Another user scans the QR code with a smartphone or other camera enabled device, which navigates to the profile. After the other user logs into social networks on the device, the profile scans and/or compares both users' social networking profiles for commonalities, such as shared interests and connections. Then, the users can quickly determine common connections almost immediately. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066968 | Extendable information management mechanism for collaborative online assessment, problem solving, and related activities - Online, computer-based systems and mechanisms that facilitate social (and/or community) and content networks are known. Existing online social media and/or social network mechanisms, however, are not generally designed, and/or maximizing their strengths, to solve humanity's problems, such as care and management of Earth's natural resources and human behaviors, in areas such as economics, health, and politics. The embodiment of the inventive concept generally relates to a system and method for managing online information and flow of such information among and between stakeholders (individuals and groups) and other content sources, in a computer-based environment. A goal of the embodiment of the inventive concept is to direct, create, and/or facilitate use of a knowledge sharing and collaborative platform, in the form of a website, websites, and/or online mechanisms, for individual and collective engagement in concerted and participatory assessment, problem solving, and related activities and processes. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066969 | PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - According to a peer-to-peer protocol, a peer-to-peer network includes multiple clubs and multiple peers that receive content distributed by a source of the network. Each of the plurality of peers is part of at least two of the clubs. As content is generated, the source divides the content into multiple data blocks and assigns each data block to a club. Each data block is transmitted to peers that belong to the club assigned to the data block. When a peer in a club receives a data block assigned to that club, the peer distributes the data block to other peers in the club. Additionally, the peer transmits the data block to peers in other clubs. Also, the peer receives data blocks assigned to other clubs from peers that are not members of the club. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING AUTHORSHIP OF DOCUMENTS - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents is presented. A first document hosted on a first website of a first domain is accessed, the first document being linked to a second document through at least one link, and a respective link including a first predefined authorship attribute asserting authorship of a respective document including the respective link by a respective entity associated with a respective target document of the respective link. Authorship of the first document by an entity associated with the second document is conditionally confirmed when the second document includes a second link to the first website of the first domain, the second link including a second predefined authorship attribute indicating that the entity associated with the second document is an author of or contributor to content at the first website of the first domain. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING AUTHORSHIP OF DOCUMENTS - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents is presented. A document hosted on a website of a domain is accessed, where the document includes an authorship identifier asserting authorship of the document by an entity. Authorship of the document by the entity is conditionally confirmed when a profile for the entity is associated with the authorship identifier and when the profile for the entity indicates that the entity has confirmed that the authorship identifier is included in documents authored by the entity that are hosted on the first website of the first domain. Responsive to confirming authorship of the document by the entity, application of a confirmed authorship process to the document is permitted. Responsive to failing to confirm authorship of the document by the entity, application of the confirmed authorship process to the document is barred. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066972 | Recommendation and Matching Method and Systems - The present invention includes methods and systems for matching people. Current methods of and systems for matching people fail to use the best source for gathering information about a person: others who know that person. The present invention uses crowd-sourced tagging to determine attributes of the population of potential recommendations. The invention can also determine a user's preferences either implicitly, by leveraging the user's ratings of others and the crowd-sourced tags to determine the most important attributes to the user, or explicitly, by allowing a user to specify the most important attributes of people. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066973 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION USING THIRD PARTY PROFILES - A method includes identifying one or more features of a short term profile of a user that are not included in a long term profile of the user, using the one or more features to identify one or more third party profiles having features that substantially match the one or more features of the user's short term profile, accessing the identified one or more third party profiles, and providing one or more content items included in the third party profile to the user, the one or more content items having associated features that match the one or more features of the short term profile. An alternative method includes accessing one or more third party profiles that are not a profile of the user, and using the accessed third party profile to identify a plurality of content items for recommendation based on a feature set of the third party profile. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073619 | System and method for collaborative 3D visualization and real-time interaction on a computer network. - A system and method that provides groups of users a capability for collaborative 3D visualization and real time interaction on computer networks. Users establish a trust relationship a-priori with other users of their choice and setup sessions for collaborative visualization of “3D Models”. Various 3D capable computing devices such as desktop and laptop computers, smartphones and tablets are supported. Changes made by a specific user on his “3D Model” get replicated on peer users' computer environment thereby simulating an experience of being physically co-located for the purpose of visualization and interaction. Changes to the “3D Model” for appearance, geometric transformations, lighting, addition/deletion of sub-objects are supported for collaborative usage. Indexing and querying of “3D models” are supported collaboratively. The power of digital certificates is leveraged to provide digital signing capability on changes made to“3D models” or related metadata. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC TRADING BASED UPON INFLUENCE - The present invention provides methods and systems for electronic trading that includes providing a server and at least one user terminal that is coupled to the server. A first user having a first user profile and a plurality of second users having a plurality of second user profiles. The server accesses a social media platform of the first user with the at least one user terminal and calculates influence of the first user and provides a quantity of trading currency for use by the first user. The influence of the second user profiles are calculated and assigned a quantity of trading currency to the second user profiles based upon the calculated influence. The first user is able to buy shares of the second user profiles. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073621 | ENFORCING COMMUNICATION POLICY RULES ON SHARED DOCUMENTS - A system is provided for automatically enforcing communication policy rules for document sharing between a communication server and a publishing server. The system may enable a policy agent to examine a communication containing a document attachment before the communication may be delivered to a recipient. The policy agent may evaluate the communication against communication policy rules, and if the policy agent determines that the communication policy rules are not violated, then a document upload agent may transfer the attached document to the publishing server. The system may then deliver the communication message to the recipient. If the policy agent determines that the communication policy rules are violated, then the system may prevent the document upload agent from transferring the attached document to the publishing server and may continue to deliver the communication to the recipient without the document attachment. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073622 | CONTENT SHARING VIA SOCIAL NETWORKING - Example systems and methods of content sharing via social networking are presented. In one example, availability of a first user device to provide media content over a communication network is detected. A second user device is identified via an association of the first user device with the second user device that is specified in a social network. An acceptance by the second user device to receive the media content from the first user device is determined. In response to the acceptance, transmission of the media content provided by the first user device over the communication network to the second user device is initiated. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073623 | LIVE CONTENT SHARING WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Example systems and methods of content sharing within a social networking environment are presented. In one example, a first user device that is available to provide live media content is detected. A second user related to a first user of the first user device is identified within a social network. A notification of the availability of the first user device is transmitted to a second user device being operated by the second user. The notification is presented within a social networking website of the social network. In response to the notification, a request to receive the live media content is received from the second user device. In response to the request, transmission of the live media content provided by the first user device to the second user device is initiated, the live media content being presented within the social networking website. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073624 | CONTENT SHARING USING NOTIFICATION WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Example systems and methods of content sharing using notification within a social networking environment are presented. In one example, an indication is received from a first user device associated with a first user, the indication indicating that the first user device is available for supplying media content over a communication network. Social network information regarding the first user is retrieved. A second user of a second user device is identified based on an association between the first user and the second user according to the social network information. The second user device is notified of the availability of the first user device for the supplying of the media content. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, EVENT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - The event control module acquires user information including any of a user attribution, user position information, and a user association state, determines whether or not the user attribution, the user position information, and the user association state satisfy an event generation condition, and allows or instructs the generation of an event when the event generation condition is determined to be satisfied. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073626 | INTEGRATED OPERATION METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE FUNCTION AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE SAME - Provided are a Social Network Service (SNS) function integration operation method and a system supporting the same. The SNS function integration operation system, includes a plurality of SNS servers providing a plurality of SNS information; and a portable terminal for subscribing to the plurality of SNS servers in order to receive the plurality of SNS information and provide a plurality of SNS functions corresponding to the plurality of SNS information, and providing at least one of an SNS integration operation user interface that integrates a list of the plurality of SNS functions and the plurality of SNS information, and for providing an SNS information screen corresponding to a detailed view of SNS information selected from the plurality of SNS information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073627 | HOST-BASED INTELLIGENT RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073628 | Method And System For Creation And Verification Of Anonymous Digital Credentials - A method for providing an online reputation is disclosed. An online credential service assigns a unique client identifier to each user and a unique forum identifier to each forum that users participate. A user participating in one or more online forums registers for establishing a reputation profile at the online credential service. A unique verification code associated with each forum is generated for the user to include in the user's profile at the corresponding forum. A user's reputation is determined based on whether a verification code is included in the user's profile at the form. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073629 | System and Method for Friend Recommendation in Social Network Service Network - A system for friend recommendation in a Social Network service (SNS) network includes a server and clients. The server includes: an aggregation container database used for aggregating user information stored in the server in the SNS network; an obtaining module used for selecting user information from the aggregation container database as temporary friend information; a push module used for pushing the temporary friend information once obtained by the obtaining module, to the client directly. The client includes a data display unit used for displaying after the client receives the temporary friend information. With the application of the system, initiative aggregation of the user information in the server can be performed to generate the aggregation container database, and then the temporary friend information can be pushed to the client actively, thus the temporary friend information can be obtained without the initiative search of the user who user the client. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073630 | Device, System And Method For Changing Multi-User Relationship Chain - A push information managing module configured to receive a listening notification signaling, obtain a UIN of a new listener contained in the listening notification signaling, and send the UIN of the new listener to a relationship chain managing module. The relationship chain managing module receives the UIN of the new listener, adds the UIN of the new listener into a listener list, and notifies the relationship chain prompting module that the new listener listens to the user. A relationship chain prompting module receives the notification from the relationship chain managing module, and after determining that the notification indicates that the relationship chain changes, creates an indication identification to prompt the user that the new listener listens to the user. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073631 | METHOD FOR RELEVANT CONTENT DISCOVERY - A method including: retrieving information, associated with an account identifier, from a social network; generating a user profile from the retrieved information, wherein the user profile includes user interests; retrieving content from the social network; extracting content parameters from each piece of retrieved content, the content parameters including a content location and a content time; evaluating relevance of the content by a degree of similarity between the user profile and the content; in response to receiving a device location and a filtering time, filtering the content by the device location and the filtering time; and sending the filtered content to a user device. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080519 | Multi-modality communication participation - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for multi-modality communication participation. By way of example but not limitation, for a given communication, a remote user may interact with a remote communication device via a remote communication modality, and a local user may interact with a local communication device via a local communication modality. Described embodiments include, but are not limited to, conversion of communication data that corresponds to a remote communication modality to communication data that corresponds to a local communication modality, or vice versa. By way of further example but not limitation, for a given communication, a local user may interact with a local communication device via a user input interface in accordance with one communication modality and may interact with the local communication device via a user output interface in accordance with another communication modality. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080520 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVISIONING RESOURCE CREDENTIALS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA - An approach for automating the provisioning of access credentials related to one or more shared resources to one or more user devices. An access rights platform determines one or more resources associated with at least one user, at least one device associated with the at least one user, or a combination thereof. The platform also processes social networking information associated with the at least one user, the at least one device, or a combination thereof to determine one or more social networking groups to which the one or more resources are associated. One or more access rights to the one or more resources for one or more other devices based, at least in part, on membership in the respective one or more social networking groups is then determined. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080521 | RESOLVING CONTACTS IN CONFLICT THROUGH SUGGESTION - A communication application resolves contacts in conflict through a suggestive user interface. The communication application retrieves a contact that includes conflicting information with an existing contact from an external resource through a data service. External resources include social networks, e-mail servers, local address providers, etc. The user application employs a sliding scale algorithm to recognize the contact that includes the conflicting information according to a variety of categories including source of the contact, level of interaction and number of matching identifiers between the user and the contact. Subsequently, the communication application presents a suggestion to link the contact that includes the conflicting information with the existing contact to the user in a linking user interface. Upon a user acceptance of the suggestion, the communication application links the contact that includes the conflicting information to the existing contact. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080522 | BROKER-BASED MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE DEVICES - An authorized blocker application is installed on a user device to monitor application usage and enforce usage restrictions. A network device receives, from the user device, information identifying a list of applications installed on the user device and receives from a customer terminal, configuration settings including usage restrictions for at least one application from the list of applications. The network device receives, from the user device, application usage data for the at least one application from the list of applications and compares the configuration settings received from the customer terminal and the application usage data received from the user device. When the application usage data includes times exceeding the configurations settings, the network device sends, to the user device, a blocking instruction to prevent use of the at least one application. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080523 | INSTANTANEOUS RECOMMENDATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - As a user of a social networking system views a page that includes information provided by the system, certain types of social interactions are monitored. If an interaction monitored for is detected, at least one recommendation unit is identified to present to user on the page. The recommendation unit is identified based on a description of the interaction. The recommendation unit suggests that the user perform a social interaction in the social networking system. The recommendation unit is transmitted to a device of the user and is presented to the user on the page without having to reload the entire page. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080524 | INSTANTANEOUS RECOMMENDATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - When a social interaction by a user in a social networking system is detected, a description of the interaction is created. A service level auction is performed to select one or more service modules to provide recommendation units from a plurality of service modules. Each of the plurality of service modules is configured to provide recommendation units that suggest that the user engage in a social interaction in the social networking system. The description of the interaction is provided to each service module selected and recommendation units are requested. A plurality of recommendation units are received from the selected service modules. A unit level auction is performed to select one of more recommendation units to present to the user from the plurality of recommendation units. The selected recommendation units are transmitted to a device of the user for presentation. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING APPLICATION STATE BETWEEN DEVICES BASED ON GESTURAL INPUT - Systems and methods are provided for transferring state between devices. In one implementation, a gestural input is detected, and a state of a source application is transferred from a first device to a second device in response to the gestural input. The second device may then generate an instance of a target application that corresponds to a representation of the state of the source application received from the first device. In an additional implementation, a state of the target application is transferred from the second device to the first device. The first device then updates a state of the source application to correspond to a representation of the state of the target application received from the second device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080526 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING TARGET CONTENT TO MEMBERS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for delivering targeted content to a social network having a plurality of users is provided. The method includes and the system provides for generating a multi-layer user profile for each of the users based on the individual user's activity and/or provided information. Each layer of the multi-layer user profile defines an interest and/or characteristic of the user. Grouping the users into one or more user profile groups based on the profiles such that each member of the user profile group has at least one layer in common. Retrieving and presenting content that is associate with the at least one common layer of a particular user group to all members of that particular user group. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080527 | Online Dating Pool Sorting via Standardized Profile - A method for sorting online dating subscribers into separate pools using a set of standardized personality or trait profiles. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080528 | HOST-BASED INTELLIGENT RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080529 | ORGANIZING ENTRIES IN PARTICIPANT LISTS BASED ON COMMUNICATIONS STRENGTHS - Organizing a participant list includes maintaining a participant list of users of an electronic communications system to be used by a first user of the electronic communications system. Communications strengths between the first user and each of the users included in the participant list are determined. The users included in the participant list are organized based on the corresponding communications strengths. Communications strengths may be determined for users included in a group within a participant list, and the users within the group may be organized within the group based on communications strength. An additional group in the participant list in which some or all of the users included in the participant list are organized based on communications strength may be provided. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080530 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE COLLABORATION - A distribution management system can facilitate synchronous and asynchronous communications, take advantage of electronic scheduling tools, support a facilitator paradigm, and store meeting communications for later retrieval. The system can create a collaborative environment for members of a team in communication with a computer network. An interactive thrum can be provided in the collaborative environment in a manner offering varying degrees of structure for collecting information from the members of the team. The information can then be used to arrive at a collaboratively derived decision. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080531 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLIPPING AND SHARING CONTENT AT A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A apparatus and method for clipping and sharing content at a portable terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a selection of specific content, analyzing related information of the selected content, and classifying the selected content, and storing the classified content according to the classification. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A POSTMORTEM SOCIAL FAREWELL - A system and method for providing a postmortem social farewell having a computer implemented method of providing a postmortem social farewell from a social network user having a social network account, the method including establishing a postmortem account for the social network user, the postmortem account including postmortem subscriber information, login data for the social network account, and social farewell content; and comparing the postmortem subscriber information to death information on a trusted death index. When the postmortem subscriber information matches the death information, the method continues with accessing the social network account using the login data; and posting the social farewell content on the social network account. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080533 | Distribution of Market Data - Systems and methods are provided for communicating and processing market data. The market data may comprise quotes, orders, trades and/or statistics. A messaging structure allows for adding, re-ordering and/or expanding data, within the printable character set of any language. One or more delimiters are defined and used to delimit data elements within the message structure. The data is interpreted based on templates which may be disseminated prior to the sending of messages and used as an abstraction so that the meaning of data need not be conveyed in the message. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080534 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content processing device calculates a content topicality degree representing a degree of topicality of a content which serves as a topic between sharing users, based on subject information relating to a subjects in the content, sharing user information and social information; extracts a sharing user who does not appear in the subject of the content as an unappearing sharing user; calculates a content appropriateness degree representing a degree of appropriateness of the content to be shared between the sharing users in such a manner that the value for the content appropriateness degree decreases, as the degree of intimacy between the extracted unappearing sharing user and the subject increases; calculates a content evaluation value based on the content topicality degree and the content appropriateness degree; determines a priority based on the calculated content evaluation value; and controls output of the content according to the determined priority. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SERVICES - The present disclosure includes a system and method for collaborative information services. A computing system includes a plurality of collaborative information participants [ | 03-28-2013 |
20130080536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED DATA DISCOVERY SERVICE - The present disclosure includes a system and method for an automated data discovery system [ | 03-28-2013 |
20130086159 | MEDIA CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK RELATIONSHIP - A system includes a plurality of media content processing devices, a content server, and a recommendation server. Each media content processing device is configured to receive media content from a content provider. The content server is configured to provide the media content to each of the media content processing devices. The recommendation server is configured to collect viewing data from each of the media content processing device. The recommendation server is further configured to provide each media content processing device with a viewing recommendation based at least in part on the viewing data collected from one or more of the other media content processing devices and a social network relationship between at least two of the media content processing devices. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086160 | SOCIAL AND CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A method performed by a processing system includes receiving a recommendation from a source user in response to performing an action corresponding to an action context of the recommendation, determining whether the source user appears in social network information of a target user, and distinguishing a presentation of the recommendation to the target user in response to the source user appearing in the social network information of the target user. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086161 | METHOD FOR CREATING MANIPULATING EXCHANGING AND DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION MESSAGES OF ORGANIZED DATA STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a system for creating, manipulating, g and distributing information message of organized data structure. The system is comprised of: an application installed on a terminal, said application includes: an information module for receiving and transmitting update information messages and an organizing data module enabling organizing information data into structured table format, the organizing include searching, sorting, filtering manipulating and editing the information data, a message distribution module for defining a query which represents the organized information in the structure format based on a user operations and associating the query with and information message having predefined format and transmit the information messages according to user distribution list, a web server application including: a table data management module enabling online creating, manipulating filtering, sorting and searching of information data tables and a data exchange module for managing distribution information messages between information sources and target mobile users. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERSYSTEM DEVICE EXCHANGE - A device exchange transports messages between autonomous devices in a medical environment. The autonomous devices perform various tasks in the medical environment, such as surgical device control, drug infusion, video recordation, and user interfaces, for example. Each autonomous device has a device specification, published and stored by the device exchange and available to other autonomous devices. The device specification indicates, for each autonomous device, an identifier, a set of outputs and a set of inputs, or commands. Devices interoperate by messages including the device identifier and an output or command without translation or transformation mechanisms such as scripts, protocol translations, drivers or interface modules because each message is based on the published device specification available to all the devices connected to the exchange. Interconnected medical devices therefore interoperate without the need for reconfiguration because each device has internal logic for understanding the messages it sends and receives via the exchange. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086163 | Healthcare Information System Interface Supporting Social Media and Related Applications - A system automatically securely shares patient information via social media networks. The system comprises at least one repository of information including, a patient profile including, patient name, data identifying information items shareable via at least one social media network and patient contact information and communication information supporting compatible communication with at least one social media network. A configuration processor enables the profile to be established for the patient in response to user data entry. A communication processor automatically, uses the communication information in generating at least one message for sharing at least one of the shareable information items and communicates the at least one generated message to a social media network. The at least one message is compatible with a social media network. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086164 | Automobile social networking - A technique to identify vehicles proximal in distance to a user's vehicle travelling on a road, transmit wirelessly to the vehicles an inquiry to attempt to communicate with one of the vehicles and when a response is received in the affirmative from an intended target vehicle, adding the intended target vehicle to a social networking group. The user then establishes a wireless communication link between the user's vehicle and the responding target vehicle to conduct vehicle-to-vehicle wireless communication between the user and an occupant in the responding target vehicle. Subsequently, other vehicles may be added to the social networking group to provide a platform for conducting conversations and information exchange among the social networking group. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086165 | MEETING SYSTEM THAT INTERCONNECTS GROUP AND PERSONAL DEVICES ACROSS A NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086166 | MEETING SYSTEM THAT INTERCONNECTS GROUP AND PERSONAL DEVICES ACROSS A NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTITY EXPRESSION IN DIGITAL MEDIA - An approach is provided for identity expression in digital media. A user identity platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of contextual data associated with a user, one or more devices associated with the user, or a combination thereof to determine one more or user personality characteristics. The user identity platform then causes, at least in part, a generation of one or more identity tokens based, at least in part, on the one or more user personality characteristics. In one embodiment, the one or more identity tokens represent the user in one or more services, one or more applications, or a combination thereof. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086168 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DLNA NETWORK INFORMATION - A system and method for sharing Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network information is provided. The system includes a first mobile terminal that collects information about a DLNA network having a radio radius in which the first mobile terminal is located, and transmits the information about the DLNA network to a web server. The web server manages the information about the DLNA network received from the first mobile terminal, and shares the information about the DLNA network with a second mobile terminal, which is located outside of the radio radius of the DLNA network, via an Internet connection. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086169 | PROVIDING USER METRICS FOR AN UNKNOWN DIMENSION TO AN EXTERNAL SYSTEM - A social networking system may provide user metrics for unknown dimensions to an external system using received hash codes from user devices performing actions on the external system. Embodiments of the invention receive hash codes generated by external systems that are embedded in redirect Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that are executed by user devices. The social networking system may match the received hash codes to identifying information about users, e.g., user identifiers. The user profile information may be reported to external systems based on hash codes in an aggregated format without disclosing identifying information about users. In one embodiment, a hash code may include identifying information of an administrator of an external system to enable the administrator to merge information about users of the social networking system with other unknown dimensions of information about the users that is known by the external system. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086170 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY CONTENT TASTEMAKERS - According to exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a method for presenting content information to a user. The method includes identifying by a processor content associated with an influential content consumer. The method also includes providing the content information of the content associated with the influential content consumer for display to the user. A system for presenting content information to a user is provided. The system includes a social network database and an available content index comprising data concerning available content. The system also includes a recommendation engine adapted to access the social network database and identify an influential content consumer. The recommendation engine is further adapted to apply content data associated with the influential content consumer to the available content index to provide the content information to the user. A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program is provided. The program when executed causes a computer to perform a method for presenting content information. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TRENDING INFORMATION RELATED TO INDIVIDUAL PASSIONS - The present invention generally relates to providing trending information related to individual passions. Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for providing a way for one or more users to view and analyze likes and dislikes of individuals over a variable span of time and make predictions or recommendations based on said likes and dislikes. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING PEOPLE VIA A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for finding at least one person are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a subscriber to find at least one person having at least one characteristic predefined by the subscriber, receives a location of the subscriber and finds, via a processor, the at least one person having the at least one characteristic predefined by the subscriber near the location of the subscriber. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091204 | System and method of integrating various platforms and methods of using the same - The present invention relates generally to systems and methods of integrating various platforms and streams, including social platforms and streams as well as networking, customer management, targeted marketing, and enterprise operations relating to the systems and methods. The present invention also includes methods of using the above integration, networking, publishing aggregation, marketing and enterprise solutions. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091205 | Multi-User and Multi-Device Collaboration - Multi-user, multi-computing device collaborative work experience is provided. One or more computing devices, including wired and wireless personal computers, laptop computers, servers, handheld mobile computing devices, for example, mobile telephones, tablet type computers, slate type computers and the like, may be linked together to allow users of such devices to engage in a collaborative work session. Information for each user engaged in the collaborative work session may be displayed on the one or more devices along with any content such as agenda items, documents, data, images, and the like. User participation may be tracked, and information on user participation, work session communications and content may be stored for subsequent use. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091206 | DISPLAYING SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORM UPDATE DATA - Illustrated is a system and method to retrieve a list that includes at least one contact, from a social network platform. The system and method to build a contact object for the at least one contact, the contact object including an avatar representing the at least one contact. Additionally, the system and method to retrieve update data for the at least one contact object over a period of time. Further, the system and method to display the avatar and the update data associated with the at least one contact object. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091207 | ADVANCED CONTENT HOSTING - A content hosting environment enables content that is to be uploaded to a social network to be distributed and transcoded in an automated and adaptive manner to facilitate or improve content hosting. Content items may be distributed to different locations, such as social devices in a social network, a cloud computing system, or the like, based upon real or projected demand for the content item, user selections, content item properties, or the like. Instances of content items can be transcoded to different formats based upon real or projected demand for the content item, user selections, content item properties, or the like. Distributions and transcodings of instances of content items can be changed due to changed demand, elapse of a period of time, or the like. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091208 | SOCIAL NETWORK DEVICE MEMBERSHIPS AND APPLICATIONS - A social device including capabilities for participating in a social network group via a social infrastructure. Various functions and resources of the social device are accessible by members of the social network group. Likewise, the social device may be configured to access services and other resources of the social network group. The social device may participate in the social network group through an autonomous, automated or member-triggered process. In one embodiment, the social device functions as a social gateway to communicatively couple a child node and a social network group. The social gateway may comprise a set top box or mobile communication device, and the child node may be a human user that interacts with the social gateway through a user interface. In a further embodiment, the social gateway may concurrently operate as a child device that communicates with a social network group through another social device. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091209 | AD HOC SOCIAL NETWORKING - An Ad Hoc social networking environment enables information and device access management between social networking groups and social networking members with or without access restrictions and anonymity. Contact and access information can be exchanged and updated on the fly without requiring users to notify other contacts or contacting devices and can support underlying contact information changes, enable extemporaneous termination or modification of contact access, enable temporary access, and the like. Ad Hoc social networking can utilize unique identifiers, proxy elements, or the like to support various levels of membership anonymity and Ad Hoc social networking. Proxy elements enable SNET tear down or dissolution by retracting the proxy service from a member. Storing social group contact information in shared databases can enable sharing and updating of contact information without the need to inform affected contacts. Some social networks can include various specialized devices and related services. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091210 | Social Device Anonymity Via Full, Content Only, and Functionality Access Views - A method and apparatus for providing access to and visibility of resources in a social network. In one embodiment, access rights and related access views are manually or automatically defined for information and resources associated with a human or device member of a social network circle. Selection of an access view for a social resource may be based, for example, on profile data and other characteristics of a particular device, user or group providing or seeking access to such resource. Likewise, various levels of access rights, including content and capabilities access views, may be assigned to a specific social resource or grouping of resources. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091211 | SOCIAL NETWORKING GROUPING HIERARCHY - A social networking environment enables interaction between social networking (SNET) groups. Some interactions between SNET groups can include docking various SNET groups based upon interactions between a member and some part of a social network. Various hierarchies of social networking infrastructure can enable hierarchical interactions between social devices, SNET groups, and other elements associated with various social networking infrastructures. Capabilities provided by various elements in various SNET infrastructures can be docked to create combined SNET groups, and capabilities provided by an SNET group can be accessed via interaction with a representative view of the capabilities. Various interactions can be managed based upon inputs, trigger events, authorizations, and the like provided by various processing systems, devices, members, or the like. Various interactions can enable members associated with an SNET infrastructure to access capabilities provided by an SNET group via a docked SNET group. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091212 | SOCIAL NETWORK DEVICE COMMUNICATION RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A method for providing data communications in a social network circle having an associated membership that includes nodes or social devices with allocable communication resources. The method includes determining various communication pathways capable of supporting data communications with a node of a social network circle, at least one of the communication pathways utilizing a communication resource of another node or nodes of the social network circle. Selection of communication pathways may be based on an evaluation of cost metrics associated with particular data communications. Such cost metrics may include, for example, content consumption costs, user service subscription levels, communication channel state information, proximity of communication resources, number of hops in a communication pathway, quality of service requirements, power consumption data and the like. In various embodiments, parallel and bonded communication pathways may be utilized for shared or proxied delivery of data such as media content. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091213 | MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL DEVICE INTERACTION WITH SOCIAL NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE - A social networking system enables interaction between various devices, infrastructures, and the like based upon monitoring, analysis, processing, and the like of information received from devices. Some or all of an infrastructure can monitor information output from one or more socially controllable devices. Upon receiving a trigger or determining a trigger event processing of received data, some or all of the infrastructure, supporting processing systems, and the like can take one or more various responsive actions, including contacting a user associated with the social devices, contacting a third party that is not a member of the social network group, contacting a service that is a member of the group, and controlling or enabling others to control aspects of devices docked with the user's group. A user can manage various levels of authorized interaction between associated devices and a docked social group. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091214 | MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORK - A social networking system enables sharing of content between various members, devices, infrastructures, and the like based upon membership in a social network (SNET group). Content can be protected by limiting access to the content to members of an SNET group, members associated with various devices docked to the SNET group, and the like. Joint access of content by various members of an SNET group can be managed to ensure synchronized access of content and interactions between SNET accessing group members. Instances of a content item can be distributed to multiple destination devices associated with an SNET group, where various instances are transcoded to accommodate varying capabilities and characteristics of various communication pathways and the destination devices and ensure synchronized access of the content item by the multiple destination devices. Interactions between members of an SNET group can be managed to leverage links to other SNET groups. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091215 | GENERATING A MEDIA CONTENT AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION - Systems and methods for bookmarking media content for future availability are described. The method includes receiving a receiving a request for media content and user account data for a plurality of unique online content sources. The method also includes requesting content availability data from the plurality of unique online content sources and using received content availability data to generate a notification. Pricing information, the media format, and notification preferences may be used to further configure the searches and notifications. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091216 | Social Device Service and Support Via Automatic Group Association - A social networking system offers a variety of device service and support functions via automated social network (SNET) group associations. Such functions can include, for example, device registration and warranty services, update and upgrade services, maintenance and testing services, resource utilization reporting services, cloning services, usage tutorials and user group interactions, targeted advertising, etc. In various embodiments, support services may be offered upon automated docking of a social device with a SNET group, such as a manufacturer's SNET group. Selection of available services may be automated based on device profile data. Alternatively, services may be manually selected through a user interface provided by a member device or support service. In other embodiments, all or portions of a first device may be cloned on a second device, either on a persistent or temporary basis. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091217 | Computer Implemented Methods And Apparatus For Informing A User Of Social Network Data When The Data Is Relevant To The User - Disclosed are examples of apparatus, methods, and computer readable storage media for informing one or more users of social network data such as group data when the data is relevant to the user(s). For example, when one or more keywords are identified as being associated with both a group of an online social network and the user, a communication with information identifying the group data can be generated and provided to a display device accessible by the user. In another example, social network data is associated with an entity of the online social network, and the entity is not being followed by the user. Social network data identified as related to one or more keywords can be provided to a display device in a suitable presentation accessible by the user. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SERVICES TO NETWORK USERS WITHOUT INSTALLATION OF CLIENT SOFTWARE - System and method for reviewing at a service integration unit data returned to a user from the network and adding content to the returned data, wherein the added content is selected according to parameters of the user. The content may include promotional programs, software downloads, software services, advertisements, targeted commercial content, network service provider related services, search bar, links that appear in a source page called for by the user and suspected as malicious and cloud services. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091219 | Green Hosting Methodologies - A networking system supports dynamic management of resources (such as media content) hosted by a networking infrastructure based on energy consumption associated with usage of the resources. Resources can be managed to optimize energy usage by the infrastructure, including distributing instances of the resources across various hosting locations to optimize energy usage associated with interaction with the resources by network members. Resources can be managed based at least in part on data associated with network elements, including configuration information and determined capabilities associated with supporting certain usage patterns associated with one or more of network members and resources. Distribution can include transferring and transcoding content based on usage patterns associated with one or more of network members and resources and managing representative views of resources based on a global configuration of a member's account. Usage patterns can be detected, identified, and anticipated based on tracking network usage by network members. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091220 | NETWORK OF COLLABORATIVE ONLINE SHOWS - The present invention generally relates to networked communication systems. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods configured to provide an audience centric instant micro forum for sharing media and communications regarding a particular event and/or product. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091221 | COEXISTENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - Real time bridging mechanisms and a proprietary or industry standard interface used to extend social network (SNET) operations between two or more SNETs. In one embodiment, a user may join one social network, a second user may join a different social network, and the two may coexist on an interface used by one of the social networks. Some or all of the functionality of a given SNET may be mapped. With robust coexistence, a member of one SNET may invite and fully interact with a member of another SNET (wherein members may be a human, device, software or service) as if they were members of the same SNET. In further embodiments, a user or social device might have established social information (postings, personal information, etc.) and profiling information (social information and content, docked device information, social network linkage, etc.) that may be reused or cloned across a SNET group. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091222 | MODEL-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF INFORMATION PROPAGATION TIME BEHAVIOR IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The current application is directed to methods and systems that accumulate data with respect to the time behavior of posts related to one or more pages of an individual or organization within a social network and generate one or more models that characterize the time behavior of posts within the social network. These models, or heuristics based on these models, can be used to estimate characteristics and parameters of the time behaviors of individual posts prior to posting or at various times following posting of the posts to social-network pages. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097233 | USING DEVICES TO LINK SOCIAL NETWORK PROFILES - A token authorizing linking to a first social network profile can be received from a first device at a second device. User input can be received at the second device to authorize linking the first social network profile with a second social network profile. In response to the user input, a social network service can be requested to link the first social network profile to the second social network profile on the social network. Also, a token request associated with a first social network profile can be received at a social network service. In response, a first token can be returned. A second token associated with a second profile can also be received. In response, it can be determined whether the second token is a valid match for the first token, and if so, then the first profile can be linked to the second profile on the social network. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097234 | COLLABORATIVE DESIGN USING DUPLICATED WORKSPACES - A computer-implemented method includes storing data in a memory area such that the data is organized into a plurality of workspaces including a first workspace, creating a second workspace within the memory area, and copying at least a portion of the data of the first workspace into the second workspace. The method also includes enabling a user of one of a plurality of client computers to edit one of the first workspace and the second workspace, comparing the first workspace and the second workspace, and synchronizing the first workspace and the second workspace based on the comparison. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097235 | ONLINE OR OFFLINE VIRTUAL HONOR SYSTEM - Provided are novel methods and systems for selecting members of virtual governments of online communities and establishing various honor systems in the online communities. Proposed techniques may be used to stimulate certain activities of online community members and discourage other activities. A self-governance system may be established within an online community through active participation of its members. In certain embodiments, activities are associated with reward points, and members can accumulate these points based on completing one or more of these activities. Members with the most accumulated points are appointed to the virtual government of their communities and/or rewarded for their efforts. Some examples of activities include participating in social network forums, conducting product reviews, and purchasing and/or selling products. Activities may be categorized in order to identify category winners as well as overall winners. Furthermore, an online community may create various clusters for conducting such elections and contests. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097236 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR POWER EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF SOCIAL NETWORK UPDATES TO A RECEIVER DEVICE IN A BROADCAST NETWORK - Systems and methods for delivering social network updates from popular entities to receiver devices via broadcast or multicast networks obtain updates from highly popular entities. Updates may be assembled by a server crawling social network sites. To enable selective reception, the obtained updates may be broadcast/multicast according to a schedule that is communicated to receiver devices in advance, such as a catalog file. Receiver devices receive the catalog file and use the included information to selectively receive updates that are relevant to a user of the receiver device. Updates received from broadcasts or multicasts are cached in memory of the receiver device. When a user requests access a particular social network entity on the receiver device, that request may be satisfied by accessing a social network updates cached on the receiver device. Broadcasting and/or multicasting highly popular social network updates may relieve burdens on unicast networks. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097237 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED LABELING OF SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - First data relating to a first user and second data relating to a second user are retrieved from a plurality of sources. A social connection is identified, by a computing device, between the first user and the second user using the first data and the second data. A label that describes the social connection is identified, by the computing device, using the first data and the second data. A first profile relating to the first user and a second profile relating to the second user is updated by the computing device to reflect the social connection and the label for the social connection. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097238 | Platform-Specific Notification Delivery Channel - In one embodiment, a social networking system the social networking system filters content objects based upon the compatibility between the application and the detected device platform. In particular embodiments, content objects are only displayed on a particular platform if there exists an optimized version of the application generating the content object for the particular platform. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097239 | ENABLING CONTENT INTERACTION AT A CONNECTED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A content item may be identified at a first electronic device with selection for the content item to be “opened” at a second electronic device. The first electronic device may instruct that the content item be displayed or otherwise made available for further interaction at the second electronic device. A web protocol session may be established between the first electronic device and the second electronic device to allow for an instruction message from the first electronic device to the second electronic device. Upon receiving a user interface command at the first electronic device, the user interface command indicating that the content item should be displayed at the second electronic device, the instruction message is sent to the second electronic device, via the web protocol session. As a result, the content item is caused to be displayed at the second electronic device. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVER-SIDE MESSAGE HANDLING IN A LOW-POWER WIDE AREA NETWORK - A network device may be operable to manage a network connection of customer premise equipment (CPE). While the CPE is operating in a normal mode of operation, the network device may communicate with the CPE utilizing one or more messages of a first type. While the CPE is operating in a low-power mode of operation, the network device may communicate with the CPE utilizing one or more messages of a second type. The network device may be operable to determine a particular program identifier to be utilized for messages the first type of message, and transmit such message(s) to the CPE. The message(s) transmitted while the CPE is in a low-power mode may comprise MPEG-TS packets having the particular program identifier. The message(s) transmitted while the CPE is not in the low-power mode may comprises MPEG-TS packets not having the particular program identifier. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097241 | SOCIAL NETWORK REPORTS - Technology is disclosed for generating social networking reports. In various embodiments, the technology receives an identity of a user wherein the identity is associated with a first online social network and does not include a password; collects first information about the user from the first online social network; generates a first report based on the collected first information; and transmits the generated first report. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097242 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC AND CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF CONTENT FOR MULTIPLE WEBPAGES AT SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic and centralized management of content for multiple webpages at social networking sites. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a request, at a first computing device, to generate a webpage within a social networking site, generating the webpage at the social networking site, and sharing webpage contents of one or more existing webpages at one or more social networking sites with the newly-generated webpage at the social networking site. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097243 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CURRENT STATE INFORMATION OF CERTAIN OFF-LINE OBJECT THROUGH NETWORK AND WEB SERVER USED THEREIN - Provided are a method of providing current state information of a certain off-line object through a network and a web server used therein. A web server receives a current state information request message with respect to the certain off-line object from an information provider, transmits the current state information request message to at least one information provider terminal by the web server, receives current state information of the certain off-line object from the information provider terminal, and transmits the current state information of the certain off-line object received from the information provider terminal to the information requester terminal by the web server. Users may receive concrete information of a current state with respect to a desired specific off-line object in real-time. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097244 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS BRIDGING ARCHITECTURE - A method, system, and apparatus for bridging communications between unified communications (UC) clients. Included herein is a UC client driver module with a set of UC client drivers configured to translate UC client specific human interface device (HID) commands to a common format. Also included is a UC audio assistant module configured to receive the HID commands in the common format and translate the HID commands from the common format into a device specific format. A device specific driver module with a set of device specific drivers is configured to pass the HID commands in the device specific format to an output device. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097245 | METHOD TO KNOW THE REACTION OF A GROUP RESPECT TO A SET OF ELEMENTS AND VARIOUS APPLICATIONS OF THIS MODEL - The present invention provides systems and methods that provide knowledge about a reaction (e.g. interest) of a group (normally of people) with respect to a set of elements, wherein each group member can react in a different manner. Assuming that the group is accessible by electronic means (e.g. Internet) this system may be based on a group response algorithm to estimate group reaction minimizing workload of group members and minimizing the time needed. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097246 | MULTILOCAL IMPLICIT SOCIAL NETWORKING - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for multilocal implicit social networking is provided, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a first geolocation of a first user; accessing a representation of a multilocal service, wherein the representation includes a plurality of locations, including locations different than the first geolocation, that are related to the multilocal service; and when it is determined that the first geolocation matches one of the plurality of locations in the representation of the multilocal service, adding a social networking link between the user and the multilocal service. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097247 | Automatically Locating Users in Proximity to a User of a Social Networking System - Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103756 | IDENTIFICATION TO A RECIPIENT OF AN E-MAIL OF ANOTHER USER WHO HAS ACCESSED THE E-MAIL - A method of utilizing electronic communication activity information. The method can include receiving from each of a plurality of electronic communication clients activity information relating to activities of a respective electronic communication recipient accessing information associated with the electronic communication. Based on the received activity information, via a processor, each of the electronic communication recipients can be rated to generate at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication. The recommendation can be communicated to another electronic communication recipient. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103757 | Generation of Activity Stream from Server-Side and Client-Side Data - In particular embodiments, the newsfeed is rendered to a particular user using the locally stored copy of the resource, instead of pulling it back from the server-side. Thus, a user may see his or her content even before it is completely uploaded to the social networking system. In particular embodiments, the user may interact with the content, for example, by adding comments, captions, “likes”, etc. to the content even before it has been completely uploaded to the social networking system. In this manner, the user is provided an increased feeling of responsiveness that is independent of the current wireless link condition. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103758 | FILTERING AND RANKING RECOMMENDED USERS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system may recommend a set of users to a viewing user for establishing new connections on the social networking system. Through a user interface, the viewing user may select filters based on characteristics and dimensions of user profile information. The recommended set of users may be ranked according to the selected filters by the number of mutual connections. Pre-populated filters may be selected and suggested based on information about the viewing user. Multiple filters may be selected by the viewing user, and filters may be based on any identifiable object in the social networking system, in one embodiment. The candidate recommended users may also be ranked based on predictions that the viewing user will initiate a request to connect with the candidate recommended users. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA SHARING SCHEMES TO PROVISION DEVICE SERVICES - An approach is presented for providing data sharing schemes to provision device services. A user determines a data sharing scheme for activation at one or more devices. As a result, the context hub contained within the device processes and/or facilitates a processing of the data sharing scheme to determine applications, services, or a combination that are at least substantially compliant with the selected data sharing scheme. The context hub then causes, at least in part, a presentation to the user of the applications, the services, or a combination. Thereafter, the context hub determines one or more contexts associated with the one or more devices and processes and/or facilitates a processing of the contexts to cause, at least in part, a recommendation of at least another data sharing scheme as well as any relevant and compliant applications, services, or a combination to activate at the one or more devices. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103760 | LOCATION-SENSITIVE VIRTUAL IDENTITY SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed herein are different embodiments of a location-sensitive virtual identity system, apparatus, method and computer-readable medium. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT ATTENDANCE NOTIFICATION - Systems and methods for event attendance notification are provided. A representative systems includes a mobile device operative to: receive member information corresponding to members of a social network; receive event information corresponding to a first event, designated to occur at a first location, wherein at least a first of the members is scheduled to attend the first event; and responsive to determining that the current location of the first of the members corresponds to the event information, enable attendance information to be sent to others of the members of the social network indicating that the first of the members is at the first event. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103762 | Resume Robotically Builds the Network - A method implemented in a server computer that receives a resume for a resume owner, and parses the resume. The method creates a parsed resume that includes an identity of the resume owner, a network identifier for each entity in the resume, and a relationship between the identity of the resume owner and each network identifier. The method identifies one of the network identifiers in the parsed resume that is a shared network identifier. If a known relationship exists between another resume owner and the shared network identifier, the method creates a social network for the shared network identifier with the resume owner and the other resume owner as members. If a social network exists for the shared network identifier with other resume owners as members, the method adds the resume owner as one of the members of the social network. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103763 | NETWORK CONFERENCE METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention, relating to the field of network communications, discloses a network conference method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a local proxy server, a conference request for creating a conference from a user equipment, and requesting information of registered floor servers on a conference center server from the conference center server; detecting floor servers in the floor server information according to the floor server information, using a floor server complying with a first preset standard as a destination floor server, and sending the conference request to the destination floor server; and establishing a media channel between the local proxy server and the destination floor server, and a media channel between the local proxy server and the user equipment to enable the user equipment to carry out a network conference with the floor server by using the established media channels. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103764 | NETWORK SERVER ARRANGEMENT FOR PROCESSING NON-PARAMETRIC, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR OR TECHNICAL OBSERVATIONS MEASURED PERVASIVELY, AND RELATED METHOD FOR THE SAME - This invention generally discusses wireless devices, servers and communications networks. In particular the invention pertains to performing observations in one or more mobile terminals and processing and distributing the related data in a server side system through layered data processing activities, and conversion of non-parametric data into parameterized form through the utilization of statistical filtering and semantic data structures. It is further explained how such multi-layer, parametrized data can be utilized for predictive purposes, and how feedback loops can be built with the physical world to improve future predictions. The invention is applicable in various applications, for example in systems where precise digital profiles of users need to be built on a continuous basis, and such profiles need to be dynamically linked to one or several actions triggered by emerging characteristics in the data. The multi-layer approaches makes it possible to structure output statistics into continuous and standardized, periodic datasets, even though input data is highly unorganized, non-chronological, and sporadic. Similarly, the invention describes how the multi-layer data storage structure and chosen statistical operations make it possible to build virtually an infinite number of further aggregations and averages based on the output data streams. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110920 | NETWORK-ASSISTED PEER-TO-PEER SECURE COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | 05-02-2013 |
20130110921 | Methods and apparatus for creating, combining, distributing and reproducing program content for groups of participating users | 05-02-2013 |
20130110922 | ENTERPRISE SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WITH SINGLE SIGN-ON | 05-02-2013 |
20130110923 | MECHANISM FOR PROVIDING UNIFIED ACCESS TO DECENTRALIZED USER ASSISTANCE REPOSITORIES | 05-02-2013 |
20130110924 | WIDE AREA VENTILATION MANAGEMENT | 05-02-2013 |
20130110925 | SHARING NOTES IN ONLINE MEETINGS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110926 | Method for Controlling Rack System | 05-02-2013 |
20130110927 | DISPLAYING CONTENT ITEMS RELATED TO A SOCIAL NETWORK GROUP ON A MAP | 05-02-2013 |
20130110928 | Systems and methods for sentiment detection, measurement, and normalization over social networks | 05-02-2013 |
20130110929 | Integrated Social Network and Stream Playback | 05-02-2013 |
20130110930 | SOCIAL DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | 05-02-2013 |
20130110931 | Scalable Peer To Peer Streaming For Real-Time Data | 05-02-2013 |
20130110932 | AUTOMATED ACTION BUILDING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA CHANGES IN A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) | 05-02-2013 |
20130110933 | USER DEFINABLE ON-LINE CO-USER LISTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110934 | INFORMATION INTEGRATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD, LOCAL APPARATUS AND SERVER APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110935 | DATA PUSH SERVICE METHOD AND SYSTEM USING DATA PULL MODEL | 05-02-2013 |
20130110936 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130117363 | Establishing Social Network Service Relationships - This present disclosure discloses techniques for establishing social network service (SNS) relationship. According to the techniques, online payment information of the first user and/or the second user are obtained from the database of the online transaction platform. Using this online payment information, it is determined whether the first user and the second user know each other. If they do, a message to establish an SNS relationship establishment is sent to the first user. The message contains personal information of the second user and allows the first user to decide whether to establish the relationship. The techniques therefore improve security and success rates in establishing SNS relationships. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117364 | SOCIAL SHARING AND INFLUENCE GRAPH SYSTEM AND METHOD - Sharing of content by users via the network is facilitated. Sharing suggestions are made to a user, the sharing suggestions including making a suggestion of one or more users with whom the user might wish to share content. A user's influence on other users and the user can be prompted to share content with other users based on the identified influence. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117365 | EVENT-BASED MEDIA GROUPING, PLAYBACK, AND SHARING - Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives to the media data. Furthermore, this representation of media can recompose itself dynamically as more media is added to the collection. While a collection may use a single user's content, sometimes media that is desirable to include in the collection is captured by friends and/or others at the same event. In certain embodiments, media content related to the event can be automatically collected and shared among selected groups. Further, in some embodiments, new media can be automatically incorporated into a media collection associated with the event, and the playback experience dynamically updated. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117366 | SAVING DEVICE FOR IMAGE SHARING, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SHARING METHOD - The saving device for image sharing saves images offered by a sharer of the images for image sharing and accessibly shares in an album form among at least one share. The device includes a sharee layout storing means configured to store first layout information of a sharee's album, a shared area determining means configured to determine a shared area to be shared in the sharee's album from a sharer's album, and a layout changing means configured to automatically change a layout of the shared area based on the first layout information of the at least one sharee. An image sharing system includes the device, and an image sharing method uses the device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117367 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING RECOMMENDATION PROGRAM - There are included: a user mode presuming part | 05-09-2013 |
20130117368 | ONLINE LEARNING COLLABORATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for associating cohorts in a social networking environment are provided. At least two users of a social network can be associated in a cohort based at least in part on a determined relationship between the at least two users. This relationship can be different from relationships defined by the users. An analysis of one or more parameters of the at least two users in the cohort can be performed based at least in part on the cohort, wherein the one or more parameters are unrelated to association of the at least two users in the cohort. The parameters can be used to longitudinally measure parameters of the at least two users that may have been impacted by association in the cohort. At least a portion of the analysis can be communicated. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117369 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER USERS TO AN ONLINE USER - Informing a user of a large scale network dynamically of other network users includes determining dynamically an online context of the user. Other users presently within the online context of the user are identified and trait information is stored that is related essentially only to the user or to the other users in a users store associated with the online context. The user is informed dynamically of the other users based on the stored trait information, such as, for example, an age or other demographic identifier, or information indicative of an expertise, interest, preference, user type and/or other quality of the user or of the other individual. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117370 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ADAPTIVE SEARCH ENGINE ON THE CLIENT COMPUTER USING DOMAIN SOCIAL NETWORK DATA AS THE SEARCH TOPIC SOURCES - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117371 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SCHEDULED MESSAGES CLASSIFIED BY TRANSMISSION MODE - An apparatus for transmitting a scheduled message classified by a transmission mode. The scheduled message is sent to a receiver via an optimized transmission mode that is automatically selected from among various transmission modes including an email, a text or multimedia message, a messenger service, a social networking service, and the like, so that it is possible to achieve effective message transmission. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117372 | System and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system - A system and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system, that operates to obtain aggregated user online presence information through its own client software, through interception of client-server communications between an external instant messaging client and server, and through other available interfaces to user account information on such external instant messaging systems. The system operates to gather user online presence information in part by intercepting communications between an instant messaging client and the Internet. The aggregate presence data, as well as other information describing the availability of a user, is used to intelligently route real-time communications, such as instant messages and phone calls. The disclosed system further implements a technique for waiting for changes in a user's availability status, and for performing actions on a user's behalf in response to such changes in availability status. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117373 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A disclosed transmission management system includes a receiver unit to receive alteration information for altering a communication status of a first transmission terminal from the first transmission terminal that communicates with a second transmission terminal to exchange content data, a terminal management unit to manage first status information indicating the communication status of the first transmission terminal, an acquisition unit to acquire the first status information from the terminal management unit in a case where the receiver unit receives the alteration information for altering the communication status of the first transmission terminal, and an alteration unit to alter the first status information managed by the terminal management unit, based on the alteration information for altering the communication status of the first transmission terminal received by the receiver unit and the first status information acquired by the acquisition unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124623 | Attention tracking in an online conference - Attention tracking information is received. A function is applied to the attention tracking information to generate a value and a graphical representation of the value is displayed over a time period. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124624 | ENABLING PREFERENCE PORTABILITY FOR USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users using the metapages generated for the concepts. Aggregated social information may be presented to users viewing a page associated with a metapage. Information presented on external websites may be used to link pages across multiple domains with a metapage generated on the social networking system. Information on other external websites associated with the metapage may be presented as links on the pages associated with the metapage. Feedback from users may be used to include or exclude pages from being associated with a generated metapage. A best page for a concept embodied in multiple pages may be determined using a hierarchy of rules. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124625 | DETERMINING A COMMUNITY PAGE FOR A CONCEPT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social networking system using the metapages generated for the concepts. Aggregated social information may be presented to users of the social networking system viewing a page associated with a metapage. Information presented on external websites may be used to link pages across multiple domains with a metapage generated on the social networking system, presenting the information on other external websites associated with the metapage as links on the pages associated with the metapage. Feedback from users may be used to include or exclude pages from being associated with a generated metapage. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124626 | SEARCHING TOPICS BY HIGHEST RANKED PAGE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social networking system using the metapages generated for the concepts. Aggregated social information may be presented to users of the social networking system viewing a page associated with a metapage. Information presented on external websites may be used to link pages across multiple domains with a metapage generated on the social networking system. A best page may be determined for a concept embodied in multiple pages on the social networking system using a hierarchy of rules. A best page may also be determined for a user based on information about the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124627 | PROVIDING UNIVERSAL SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR CONCEPTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social networking system using the metapages generated for the concepts. Aggregated social information may be presented to users of the social networking system viewing a page associated with a metapage. Information presented on external websites may be used to link pages across multiple domains with a metapage generated on the social networking system. Social context information may be provided on a page associated with a metapage for a viewing user that shows expressions of interest by other users on the page and other pages associated with the metapage. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ADVERTISING WITH USER CONTROL AND PRIVACY - Methods for providing targeted content are disclosed. For example, the method registers a user profile with a social network and provides a user identifier associated with the user profile to a user device. The method then receives a request from a third party with the user identifier. The method determines whether the third party is authorized to receive the user profile and provides the user profile to the third party if the third party is authorized. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124629 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER USERS TO AN ONLINE USER - Informing a user of a large scale network dynamically of other network users includes determining dynamically an online context of the user. Other users presently within the online context of the user are identified and trait information is stored that is related essentially only to the user or to the other users in a users store associated with the online context. The user is informed dynamically of the other users based on the stored trait information, such as, for example, an age or other demographic identifier, or information indicative of an expertise, interest, preference, user type and/or other quality of the user or of the other individual. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124630 | DEVICE AND/OR USER IDENTIFICATION - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, a computer program product and a method is provided for device and/or user identification. The example embodiment comprises receiving, at an apparatus, a wireless signal comprising at least one of an address or an indication identifying a wireless 5 communication device initiating the wireless signal, transmitting a query to a remote network entity, the query including at least one of the received address or indication identifying the wireless communication device and an indication associated with identity of the apparatus, and receiving a response to the query including information relating to identity of the wireless communication device if an association exists between the 10 apparatus and the wireless communication device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124631 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS DRIVEN BY BEHAVIOR PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS - An apparatus and system are described for enhancing digital communications using behavior profiles of participants, including: a collaboration engine having a behavioral profile knowledge base, the collaboration engine being an internet cloud computing arrangement, in which the behavioral profile knowledge base includes behavioral profiles of at least two participants; a communication arrangement having a collaboration module for communicating with the collaboration engine; and at least two communication terminal arrangements for providing a communication session between the at least two participants. A related method is also described. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124632 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A terminal device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire time information and position information, and a generation unit configured to generate an action identification based on acquired pieces of the time information and acquired pieces of the position information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124633 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL SERVICES - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124634 | DYNAMIC PLAYBOOK: EXPERIMENTATION PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to employ with the content may be randomly determined/selected such that each of the outcomes of the test is selected a substantially similar number of times. The content may be modified and/or provided to the channel based on contextual recommendations that correspond to the determined outcome. Actions associated with a plurality of content may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine metrics for each outcome of a test. A comparison of the metrics for each outcome may be utilized to determine a preferred outcome for the test. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124635 | Notification Systems and Methods that Consider Traffic Flow Predicament Data - Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. One representative method, among others, comprises the following steps: monitoring travel data associated with a mobile thing (MT); scheduling a notification communication; analyzing traffic flow predicament data associated with a travel plan of the MT; and rescheduling the notification communication, based upon the traffic flow predicament data. A representative system, among others, comprises a computer or other automated system that is programmed to perform the foregoing steps. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124636 | DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING A FEED OF STORIES ABOUT A USER OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132473 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANONYMISING USER DATA BY AGGREGATION - In one aspect of a method of anonymising user data by aggregation, at least one server-side device receives an anonymous aggregation command from a user client device. The anonymous aggregation command includes a specification of a set of users and an action to be taken. A list of users who meet the specification in the anonymous aggregation command is generated. The list of users who meet the specification is validated as meeting at least one criterion for anonymous aggregation. The action in the anonymous aggregation command is triggered to be taken in respect of the validated list of users who meet the specification. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132474 | FOR DEFERRING INVITATIONAL CONTENT - The present discloser relates to deferring invitational content. A content delivery system is configured to deliver invitational content to user terminals and can also provide a means to defer the invitational content until a condition has been met by providing a user interface element configured to terminate the content. The deferred content can be entered into a deferral queue. Conditions can be a set time or based on capabilities of the user terminal. The conditions can be set by the system or a user. The user can specify parameters through use of user interface elements. Deferral can be handled by the user terminal or a server. In addition content management systems can be configured to manage campaigns including tracking costs and impressions. When content is deferred, the initial impression is not fully counted; however, redelivery can be counted as an enhanced impression with a higher value. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE ON A WEB CONTENT PAGE BY CATEGORIZING CONTACTS AND RELEVANT POSTS - A method and system for enhancing user experience on a web content page. The method includes extracting a list of contacts of a user from one or more networking websites based on a relationship level. The method also includes analyzing a plurality of posts generated by the list of contacts. The method further includes categorizing each contact in the list of contacts and the plurality of posts under one or more web content topics. Moreover, the method includes displaying, to the user, one or more contacts along with a set of posts relevant to a web content topic on the web content page. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132476 | Defining Future Plans in Connection with Objects in a Social Networking System - A social networking system that provides a system allowing users of the social networking system to define future plans, whereby users of the social networking system who view the plan are permitted to add themselves to the plan independent of whether they were explicitly specified as attendees of the plan. The social networking system is capable of auto-filling some missing plan details through inference. The social networking system is also capable of merging similar plans together. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132477 | Location Aware Shared Spaces - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system maintains a data store of shared space, wherein each shared space comprises one or more content objects, a location, and one or more privacy settings. The geo-social networking system allows a user read-access to a shared space based on privacy settings associated with the shared space. The geo-social networking system allows a user write-access to a shared space if the user is at the location associated with the shared space. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132478 | Establishing Communication Among Parties Based on Location - Disclosed are various embodiments for transmitting a location of a first client device to a server device. A communication request is transmitted from the first client device that requests a conference with a second client device. A conference is established with the second client device using a communications link. The communications link facilitates the conference being established over a network between the first and second client devices. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132479 | RATING BASED ON RELATIONSHIP - People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating may find more reliable. The information provided to a person may, in some manner, differentiate between ratings that were provided by members of the person's social network and ratings that were provided by those outside of the persons' social network. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132480 | Event Data Processing Apparatus - An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132481 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE USING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - A method, an apparatus, and a system for providing a social network service capable of automatically extracting and analyzing social activities of a user to automatically generate a social network applicable to the user are provided. The method for providing a social network service through the user's social activities by automatically recognizing a user's social activities to includes: a profile generating step of generating a user profile based on a user activity profile obtained by collecting and classifying the user's social activities and a user information profile; and a network generating step of generating a social network by analyzing a user interest level based on the user profile. Thus, a multi-aspect social network fitting a time and space can be configured based on collected and analyzed user activities to thus provide social network services. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132482 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132483 | Fake Check-In Entries Posted on Behalf of Social Network Users - An approach is provided in a fake check-in event is received at a software application corresponding to a user of the software application. Fake check-ins are initiated on behalf of the user in response to the fake check-in event. The software application posts a set of fake check-in entries on behalf of the user while the user is away. The posted fake check-ins are visible by other users of the software application and are used to obfuscate others that the user is out-of-town. In one embodiment, check-in entries that are received from the user after fake check-ins have been initiated are cached. In this embodiment, a local check-in event is received when the user is within the user's geographical local area and the cached check-in entries are posted so that they are now visible by the other users of the software application. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138733 | UNIVERSAL COLLABORATION ADAPTER FOR WEB EDITORS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for a universal collaboration adapter for web editors are described herein. In one aspect, the method executed by one or more computers in a network of computers includes analyzing a document object model (DOM) representing a document in a tree structure and identifying an event or manipulation associated with the DOM. Typically, the DOM manipulations correspond to the document manipulations. An operation corresponding to the identified event is selected. The operation is sent to a generic collaboration engine for transmission to a server. The server transmits the operation to various participants for collaborative editing. The identification of the DOM manipulations (instead of editor-specific manipulations) provides a universal collaboration adapter for various editors. Further, recording or identifying local DOM manipulations and replaying remote DOM manipulations enable transforming a single-user web editor into the multi-user or collaborative web editor. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138734 | Interactive training method and system for developing peak user performance - The present invention provides a computerized interactive training method and system for receiving a user data including physical user data, medical history data and athletic goal data for the user. The method and system further includes determining a baseline data set for the user and generating a training routine for the user based on the baseline data set and the user data, including selecting a plurality of exercises for the user directed towards the athletic goal data. The method and system further includes determining a network of related users electronically networked via a networking interface, transmitting the training routine to the user and notifying the related users of the training routine. The method and system provides for receiving training feedback data from the user, including exercise-specific information and sharing the training feedback data with fellow community users. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138735 | Moderating Content in an Online Forum - Users of social networking system are provided with user interface elements permitting the user to post comments on pages within the social networking system. Pages may be provided for any non-user entity, including for example, pages for businesses, products, concepts, etc. Embodiments provided herein permit page moderators to ban certain content from being displayed on a page. For example, the social networking system may receive a list of proscribed content and block comments containing the proscribed content by reducing the distribution of those comments to other viewing users. However, the social networking system may display the blocked content to the commenting user such that the commenting user is not made aware that his or her comment was blocked, thereby providing fewer incentives to the commenting user to spam the page or attempt to circumvent the social networking system filters. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138736 | MULTIMEDIA FILE SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A multimedia file sharing method and a system thereof are provided herein, which applies the virtual file technology to achieve near real time multimedia sharing and transparent receiving functions. In the method, an interface software system is established through a network to speed up playing of multimedia files by different multimedia players. The interface software provides a speeding up and near real time multimedia playing effect for sharing multimedia through the network, by which for different transmissions of multimedia files or for playing multimedia files with different formats, the multimedia player is not necessary to modify or add the software of the players to meet the streaming protocols or container. In addition, the interface software is capable of providing the effect of playing the multimedia files by the players with satisfied quality and near real time performance. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138737 | Managing a Message Subscription in a Publish/Subscribe Messaging System - A method and computer program product is disclosed for managing a message broker and subscriber application programs in a publish/subscribe messaging system so as to maintain the state of the subscriber application program on the broker subscriber application program. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING CONTACT INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to communication technologies, and particularly, to a method, apparatus and system for maintaining contact information. The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for maintaining contact information, including: acquiring address book information of a user and authorization settings of the address book information of the user and saving the acquired in an address book server, receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device, and establishing, according to confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for a subscribed-for user and subscriber device and updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user in the address book server. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DATA BETWEEN USERS IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is a method and system for sharing data between selective users in a collaborative environment. In one example, the method includes receiving a visibility selection from a user for one or more connections of the user. The one or more connections are selectively displayed as a connection of the user, to one or more target users viewing a connection list of the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138740 | ACTIVE SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - Procedures for identifying clients in an audio event are described. In an example, a media server may order clients providing audio based on the input level. An identifier may be associated with the client for identifying the client providing input within the event. The ordered clients may be included in a list which may be inserted into a packet header carrying the audio content. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138741 | LOCATION RANKING USING SOCIAL GRAPH INFORMATION - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to check in a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, ranks the places in the list of places near the user's current location by a distance between each place and the user's current location, as well as activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place, and returns the ranked list to the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138742 | OUTPATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for outpatient monitoring. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring and consultations of patients' state associated with automated interpretation of vital signs signals. In other examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients' state associated with analysis of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals with reduced bit data or channel data. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients' state associated with ongoing automated analysis and transmission of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals and automatically generated signals' interpretation results and manually marked patient symptoms. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138743 | Interest Profiles for Audio and/or Video Streams - A method includes determining, at a processor, a difference between a first user interest profile of a first user and a second user interest profile of a second user. The difference is associated with a portion of a first streaming media item. The method further includes transmitting, to a device associated with a third user interest profile of a third user, a first indication associated with the first streaming media item based on the difference. The first user, the second user, and the third user are distinct users | 05-30-2013 |
20130144943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING DISPARATE NETWORKED SERVICES - A system and method for connecting a plurality of disparate social networks or social media systems and providing for transfer of user generated content. The system comprises a broadcaster operatively coupled to a plurality of service managers. Each of the service managers is associated with or operatively coupled to a social media system or social network. The service managers are configured to receive and transmit data from the associated social media system or social network. The broadcaster is configured to receive data from any one of the service managers and re-route or replicate the data to any one of the other service managers. According to another aspect, the service managers are configured to generate a proxy user for data replicated on one or more social media systems where the originating user for the data does not have credentials. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144944 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL EVENT OPPORTUNITY NOTIFICATION - Methods and apparatus for arranging event opportunities are disclosed. For example, the method detects the event opportunity that matches user profiles of at least two users who are unassociated with one another, verifies a safety parameter for one of the at least two users, wherein the safety parameter is defined by the one of the at least two users, and if the safety parameter is satisfied, sending an invitation to the event opportunity to each of the at least two users. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144945 | ESTABLISHING BUSINESS NETWORKS USING A SHARED PLATFORM - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing business networks based on shared usage of a common platform. One process includes receiving a set of registry data associated with a collaboration system from a first network participant executing a first application based on a first application platform. A request from a second network participant executing a second application on a compatible platform to the first application platform to access the set of registry data from the first network participant is received. Access is provided to the second network participant of a subset of data shared by the first network participant for collaboration. In some instances, providing access to the second network participant can include identifying a user associated with the second network participant to provide data access with the first network participant and assigning corresponding access authorizations to development entity instances associated with the identified user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144946 | INTELLIGENT CONNECTION MANAGER - Methods, devices, and storage media may provide for receiving a request from a subscriber device for a connection service pertaining to a machine-to-machine communication; determining whether the request is a valid request for the connection service; selecting a connection to a target device of the machine-to-machine communication in response to determining that the request is valid; executing a command included in the request to be directed to the target device; receiving a response from the target device; and transmitting the response to the subscriber device of the machine-to-machine communication. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144947 | Using Text Summaries of Images to Conduct Bandwidth Sensitive Status Updates - Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144948 | Pages: Hub Structure for Related Pages - Pages are created in a social network for a topic of interest and are organized and connected to each other based on related topics or categories. Relationships between parent pages and child pages are created based on the same or related topic of interest. Pages in the same category can also be connected. Information is shared among related pages in the social network. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144949 | Crowd-Sourced Resource Selection in a Social Network - A resource selection server that performs crowd-sourced resource selection over a social networking service, absent a central ratings database. A device subscribed to a social networking service implementing the inventive resource selection server, may register as a resource offering a particular skill. Additionally, any device subscribed to a relevant social networking service may transmit a skill request to the inventive resource selection server, to request a best-fit resource be returned for a particular skill of interest. The resource selection server queries a subscriber account database to identify resources on a social networking service, registered to offer a requested skill. The resource selection server additionally prompts subscriber devices within ‘n’ degrees of separation of a requesting device, to submit real-time trust ratings for resources complying with a particular skill request. The resource selection server analyzes ratings submitted by selected subscriber devices to return a best-fit resource for a particular skill request. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144950 | Seamless collaboration and communication - The embodiments herein relate to user interaction and, more particularly, to enabling collaboration and communication in a seamless manner between multiple users. Once the user select the content to be collaborated using a user device, the system provides the user a list of available collaboration modes for the user to start collaboration. Further the user selects atleast one user to start collaboration with. Further the system selects atleast one best communication mode for each user to communicate. The system uses parameters such as augmented ubiquity, to identify best communication mode for each user. Further the system starts collaboration and communication session. The system may automatically begin the collaboration session at a preset time. The system facilitates collaboration and communication together in a seamless manner. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144951 | Communication management system with extensible command language to consolidate and control multiple diverse communication mechanisms - A computer-implemented communication management system allows its Users to consolidate a plurality of communication mechanisms and provides a single point of control to manage the reception, routing, processing, and retransmission of messages. The system includes an extensible command language that enables various user intentions, including complex routing, group creation, and group management, to be specified as single commands. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PRIVATE MODERATOR CODES FOR CONFERENCE CALLS - A method, mobile device, and conferencing system are provided for automatically establishing a conference event having a plurality of invitees. In one implementation, a method is provided for determining whether an invitee of a conference event is a moderator of the conference event. The method also automatically establishes the conference event using a moderator code responsive to determining that the invitee is the moderator of the conference event. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144953 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is a computer system provided with: a plurality of execution servers that execute a plurality of jobs; and a scheduling server that is connected to the execution servers. The execution servers hold a plurality of data that are processed by the jobs, and the scheduling server generates a plurality of first sets that each contain a plurality of data processed by the plurality of jobs that are continuously executed, extracts, from the plurality of first sets, second sets containing data held by one of the execution servers and data held by another execution server, and determines data contained in the extracted second sets to be data to be transferred to a newly added execution server. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINED MEETING RECORDING - Systems and methods for generating a recording of a meeting including receiving a respective recording of a meeting from each of a plurality of client devices. A preferred quality recording associated with each of a plurality of meeting portions is identified. The preferred quality recording associated with each of the plurality of meeting portions may be autonomically combined into a single recording representative of the meeting. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151602 | PERSONA ENGINE - In one embodiment at least one user profile of a user may be obtained. Information may be provided to the user by one or more personalization engines based, at least in part, upon the at least one user profile. Each of the one or more personalization engines may be configured to operate according to a different one of a plurality of personas. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151603 | PERSISTENT CUSTOMIZED SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT - One or more persistent customized social media environments are created allowing users to share content or an activity. The content or activity may comprise a shared media experience or shared participatory experience. Each user accessing the environment utilizes a device alone or in conjunction with other devices to complete a sharing experience. A persistent customized social media environment definition establishes a user environment which provides social networking services as well as content sharing and allows users who are connected to the persistent customized social media environment definition to experience instant messages, while those users who connect to the persistent customized social media environment at a later time will receive messages once they enter the environment. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151604 | User Affiliations Spanning Multiple Virtual Spaces - Affiliations between users may be facilitated across multiple virtual spaces accessible via virtual environments. Affiliations may be established within individual ones of two or more virtual spaces. A given affiliation within a given virtual space may include a discrete group of users with a relationship having a functional significance within the given virtual space. The affiliations may include a first affiliation within a first virtual space between a group of users including a first user and a second user. A recommendation may be provided for potential affiliations to users in the two or more virtual spaces such that responsive to the first user having an account in a second virtual space, and responsive to the second user creating an account in the second virtual space, the first user may be recommended to the second user for a potential affiliation in the second virtual space based on the first affiliation. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151605 | Call-Termination-Triggered Social Interface - Methods and systems directed to a call-termination triggered social interface that leverages information associated with an incoming phone number for display to a user of a mobile device post-call and permits the user to conveniently issue commands to the mobile device or social networking system to take specific actions for the number or entity associated with the number on the social network. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151606 | Metanodes for Open Graph Protocols - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices identify concept nodes of a same concept in a social graph, and create a meta node connecting to the concept nodes by respective edges. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151607 | NOTIFICATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WITH A NETWORKING SYSTEM - When a social interaction involving a non-user page is detected, a determination is made as to whether to notify an administrator of the page regarding the detected interaction. The determination is made based on a notification policy that describes a variable pattern for communicating with the administrator regarding social interactions. If a determination is made to notify the administrator, a communication is transmitted to the administrator describing the detected interaction. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151608 | Mobile Ad Hoc Networking - In one embodiment, a method comprising by one or more computing devices, transmitting, from a first mobile device, a first message that includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social-networking system, receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second messages that includes a second user identifier corresponding to a second mobile device within a direct radio connectivity of the first mobile device, wherein the second user identifier corresponds to a respective user account of a second user in the social-networking system, and storing, at the first mobile device, information received in the second message for access by one or more applications hosted on the first mobile device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151609 | Content Report Management in a Social Networking System - User reports concerning inappropriate content are received by a social networking system and are put into a content report management process that routes the reports into other handling processes based upon the reporting user's identification of the report type. Reports concerning content that is related to the reporting user are routed into a social resolution process that resolves the complaint through self-help and social resolution. Other reports are handled by a content review process that resolves complaints through automated methods as well as manual review by human agents. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151610 | Bookmarking Social Networking System Content - A social networking system allows users to bookmark content within the social networking system to view at a later time and/or to share with other users. The content that may be bookmarked may include advertisements, user posted content, user comments on posted content, or any other content viewable within the social networking system, as well as links to content outside of the social networking system. A user may save the content by selecting a bookmark link corresponding to the content. The bookmarked content may be viewed later, such as in a bookmarked content dashboard, and it may also be used to provide additional content to the user that is related to the bookmarked content. Additionally, the user's bookmarking activity may be published to the user's connections in the social networking system to enable others to find and view the content that the user deems worthy of bookmarking. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151611 | DISPLAYING NEWS TICKER CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays raw stories about a user's friends' actions in a news ticker as those actions occur. The social networking system is monitored for actions associated with users connected with the target user. The social networking system may be continually monitored such that actions are identified in real-time as they are performed. The news ticker is updated such that stories including the identified actions and the associated connected users are displayed within a news ticker interface. The news ticker interface may be a dedicated portion of the social networking system interface, for example in a column next to a newsfeed. The news ticker interface may be updated in real time as actions associated with connected users are performed. The target user may select a displayed story in the news ticker, and additional information related to the selected story may be displayed, for instance in a separate interface. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151612 | Metadata Prediction of Objects in a Social Networking System Using Crowd Sourcing - A social networking system leverages user's social information to evaluate content submitted for inclusion in objects. If the evaluated submission is accepted, the submission is added to the content of an object. Accepted submissions are also used to predict associations between metadata and objects. Metadata is used to predict which objects will match user searches for information. The social networking system also provides a user interface configured to prompt users to submit information to objects. When a user completes a submission to an object, the user is provided with other options for groups of objects to contribute to. The objects offered are chosen to increase the likelihood that the user will choose to provide submissions to one of the provided objects. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151613 | Providing Recommendations on a Social Networking System Page - A social networking system provides tips to users about non-user entities within the social networking system. Tips include short questions, comments, reviews and non-user entities include businesses, products, bands, songs etc. Tips are provided by users of the social networking system, wherein the tips are displayed to other users of if the other users meet privacy criteria associated with the tips. Additionally, tips are ranked based on the likelihood that a user will view or read the tip. Tips with the greatest likelihood are ranked higher than those with a lower likelihood. Selected tips with a high likelihood to be viewed are displayed to a viewing user on the topic page or within the user's news feed story. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINED MEETING RECORDING - Systems and methods for generating a recording of a meeting including receiving a respective recording of a meeting from each of a plurality of client devices. A preferred quality recording associated with each of a plurality of meeting portions is identified. The preferred quality recording associated with each of the plurality of meeting portions may be autonomically combined into a single recording representative of the meeting. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151615 | SHARING PERSONALLY OWNED MEDIA WITH PEERS VIA SOCIAL GRAPHS - Configurations for providing a personal media catalog or catalog including different types of media that is owned by a user to enable renting or lending to the user's contact within the user's social graph. The personal media catalog can be provided within a given online social network that can be viewed by the user's contacts. The personal media catalog can be included in the user's profile or in a separate page within the online social network. Additionally, the personal media catalog can be presented in a format facilitates browsing of one or more items in the personal media catalog (e.g., cover flow, gallery, slideshow, etc.). The personal media catalog can one or more different types of media that are available to be rented or lent to the user's contacts, including different types of packaged media (e.g., books, compact discs, digital video discs, magazines, records, tapes, etc.) or electronic/downloadable media. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151616 | System and Method for Target Profiling Using Social Network Analysis - A profile or dossier of a user is constructed based partly on data culled from a data network that reveals indirect, network-mediated relationships with other individuals and groups. The profile is assembled from information, such as properties of a target individual to build an initial social circle of the target individual. References to the target individual can be derived from the direct and indirect associations in order to compile a dossier on the target individual from the references to the target individual. The initial social circle may be expanded by building respective new social circles having new associations by crawling a plurality of web sites, and deriving additional references to the target individual from the new associations in the new social circles. According to a further aspect of the method, compiling a dossier includes extracting metadata from the references. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151617 | BEHAVIORAL FINGERPRINTING VIA SOCIAL NETWORK VERIFICATION - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for behavioral fingerprinting via social network verification. For certain example embodiments, one or more devices may (i) detect at least one attempt to perform at least one task via at least one user device; and (ii) initiate transmission of at least one verification inquiry to one or more social network connections based at least partly on the at least one attempt to perform the at least one task via the at least one user device. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING, CONTROL AND CONFIGURATION OF SECURITY AND LIFESTYLE DEVICES - A social networking site that communicates with a plurality of human users can also communicate with a plurality of non-human users. Information from one of the non-human users can be automatically received at the site and evaluated. Commands can be automatically transmitted to another of the non-human users in response to the evaluation. A human readable indicator can be posted at a page of the site. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151619 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION USING A DYNAMIC LINKED LIBRARY OF MULTIPLE FORMATS AND MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS WITH RESTRICTION ON PROTOCOL - A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing functionality. Moreover, by supporting multiple data formats and/or multiple communication protocols, a computer code device increases the likelihood that a supported format and/or protocol will be either receivable or understandable by a receiver. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYS IN PEER-TO-PEER CONFERENCING SYSTEMS - A peer-to-peer conferencing system provides participants in a conferencing session information regarding the display capabilities of other participants so that the local displays of all the participants can appropriately notify their respective participants of differences in the display capability of a presenter during the conferencing session. The conferencing system further ensures that notifications are received at each of the participants so that each participant is able to synchronize its local display with the pace of a conferencing session. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151621 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE MEETING ROOM - Conference sessions are established after assigning a unique user identifier to each of multiple individual users, allocating a dedicated persistent virtual private session room to each of the multiple individual users, and assigning each of the multiple individual users' unique user identifier to the corresponding persistent virtual private session room. Conference sessions are established using the persistent virtual private session rooms in response to activation acts by the multiple individual users. Resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions are dynamically allocated, using distributed conference bridge computers, based on the users logging in to the conference sessions. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159402 | SOCIAL ASPECTS FOR DATA COLLABORATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for enabling users to enhance datasets available at a data service. A data service maintains and publishes datasets provided by content providers. Users may be enabled to annotate datasets maintained by the data service, and to extend the datasets. A suggestion of a dataset may be provided to users based on information received from a community of users. Users may be enabled to generate assets, such as reports and applications, based on one or more datasets of the data service. Furthermore, users may be enabled to share annotated datasets and/or extended datasets in websites, applications, and devices. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159403 | Sponsored Stories Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING A TASK BASED ON CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - An approach for initiating a computing task based on generation of a statement or question formed using context information related to a user is described herein. A request generation platform determines an input from a device specifying at least one term. Context information associated with the device, a user of the device, one or more other devices, one or more other users, or a combination thereof is then determined. The request generation platform further causes, at least in part, a generation of at least one question, at least one statement, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the at least one term and the context information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159405 | RESTORING DELETED ITEMS WITH CONTEXT - Deleted property information relating to deleting an item, such as an electronic message, is used for restoring the deleted item. The deleted property information is stored in response to deleting the item. The stored deleted property information identifies a location of where the item was deleted from and may include other information. The location information may be a specific location such as a folder (e.g. inbox, sent, folder | 06-20-2013 |
20130159406 | Location Aware Commenting Widget for Creation and Consumption of Relevant Comments - Methods and computer readable medium for allowing a user to participate in an online conversation for a head content includes receiving a response from a user for the head content. The response from the user is geo-tagged with a location of the user. A counter indicative of number of responses received for the head content at the location is updated for the head content to include the response from the user. The responses received for the head content from the plurality of users is filtered to generate a subset of the responses related to the location of the user. The subset of responses and an interactive tag cloud for the head content is presented to the user. The subset of responses is presented in a ranked order. The tag cloud identifies one or more locations that have received greatest number of responses from the plurality of users. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC OFFLOADING BETWEEN DEVICES - Various methods for enabling D2D connections to exchange P2P data so as to reduce traffic on a network. One example method may comprise constructing a local topology of one or more mobile terminals. The method of this embodiment may also include determining that a mobile terminal of the one or more mobile terminals has initiated a peer to peer session. The method of this embodiment may also include determining, based on the local topology, one or more mobile terminals to act as one or more seeder devices for the peer to peer session. The method of this embodiment may also include causing the local topology to be transmitted to the mobile terminal that has initiated the peer to peer session. In some example embodiments, the mobile terminal is configured to use the local topology to initiate a device to device connection for the peer to peer session. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159408 | ACTION-ORIENTED USER EXPERIENCE BASED ON PREDICTION OF USER RESPONSE ACTIONS TO RECEIVED DATA - A system is provided for automatically notifying a user of predicted action. The system may be configured to monitor and observe a user's interactions with incoming data, identify patterns of actions the user may take in response to the incoming data and generate a notification associated with the action. A trainer component and a classifier component determine the probability a user may take a particular action and to make predictions of likely user actions based on the observations of the user. A notifier may communicate with the classifier to generate a particular user notification associated with a user action response generated by the classifier. The notifier component utilizes a logic device to compare the received user prediction from the classifier with a plurality of user notifications stored in a database. The notifier component sends the user notification to one or more user devices associated with a user. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159409 | FLEXIBLE ADDRESS PROVISIONING ACROSS SUBNETS AND VRFs - A method and device to manage addresses in a network includes receiving a request for a network address from a client computer at a proxy computer, relaying the request to an address server, receiving an address offer message from the address server at the proxy computer, storing an server identifier of the address server from the offer message, replacing the server identifier of the address server in the offer message with an address identifier of the proxy computer to produce an altered offer message, and sending the altered offer message to the client computer. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159410 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIERARCHICAL MESSAGE TRANSMISSION BETWEEN DEVICES IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Provided are a system and method for hierarchical message transmission between devices in a network environment including heterogeneous networks. The system is for hierarchical message transmission between devices in a heterogeneous network environment in which a plurality of sub-networks including at least one device and having different characteristics are configured in the form of a hierarchical tree with respect to a super-network. Aggregators for collecting and transferring device information on the devices to another network, the super-network, or the sub-networks are prepared in the super-network and sub-networks. Each of the devices includes an application service interface, a plurality of network adapters, a network manager, an address mapping and storage unit, and a message manager. Accordingly, devices can effectively communicate with each other, and in a network environment including heterogeneous networks, communication between the devices and management of the devices can be provided simply and comprehensively. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159411 | DATA SHARING AND CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a personal data cooperative system for use by an organization or group that will develop a technology framework to support the storage, identity, authentication, aggregation, exchange, and monetization of personal data including data dividends based on advertising revenues that benefit a user's membership base, and address privacy and portability issues. The present disclosure further relates to a media content delivery system that provides secure and seamless media and entertainment experiences on connected customer devices with encrypted API integration for media servers, storage and commerce. The proliferation of devices and media sources are connected in the system as disclosed to provide customers an efficient yet entertaining user experience through access to content and commerce. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159412 | LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS' ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT - A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159413 | BEHAVIORAL FINGERPRINTING WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for behavioral fingerprinting with social networking. For certain example embodiments, one or more devices may: (i) communicate for at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat; or (ii) administer at least an aspect of at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159414 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING - Method, system, and programs for information sharing are provided. A first request from a user to access a first piece of information is received. As a response to the first request, a first representation of the first piece of information is retrieved. The first piece of information is made accessible to the user. A second request is received from the user to generate a second piece of information based on the first piece of information. The second piece of information is generated based on an input received from the user. A second representation is created for the second piece of information. The second representation and the first representation are marked as associated with each other so that whenever the first piece of information is accessed in the future, the second piece of information is made available. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159415 | CONGESTION CONTROL SYSTEM, CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION UNIT - A congestion control system is provided with a plurality of reaction points, each of which is configured to transmit a packet to a transmission destination; and a congestion point configured to receive the packets transmitted from the plurality of reaction points. When detecting congestion in itself, the congestion point samples each of the received packets based on a predetermined algorithm, and transmits a feedback message to the reaction point as a transmission source of the sampled packet. Each of the plurality of reaction points controls a target rate based on a reception situation of the feedback message, and sets the target rate to an initial value at an initialization timing which does not depend on the feedback message. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159416 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DOCUMENT SERVER SYSTEM - Conference information and a conference material related to the conference information are uploaded to a document distribution server from an information terminal in advance. A conference participant photographs, with a display terminal of the conference participant, a conference agenda created by the document distribution server on the basis of the uploaded conference information and conference material and transmits a photographed image to the document distribution server. Consequently, the conference material is automatically transmitted from the document distribution server to the display terminal of the conference participant. Therefore, it is possible to smoothly cope with an increase or a decrease in participants. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159417 | METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF EVENTS ON A DEVICE RUNNING MULTIPLE USER IDENTITIES - The present method and system implements a method for presenting notifications on an electronic device partitioned into two or more distinct instances, each instance being aware of separate sets of events associated to applications running in that instance. The method includes collecting for each instance the notifications corresponding to the separate sets of events, rendering in the active instance the active instance notifications using a first display mode, while rendering the other instance notifications using a second display mode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159418 | SENSOR DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON INTEGRATION OF TERMINAL AND CLOUD - A cloud-based sensor data acquisition system includes one or more sensors configured to acquire sensor data; a first terminal configured to transmit sensor data request information to a cloud server through an access point (AP); and one or more second terminals each configured to acquire sensor data from one or more sensors on a corresponding dissemination tree received from the cloud server; and transmit the acquired sensor data to the first terminal through the AP. The cloud server is configured to, in response to receiving the sensor data request information from the first terminal, build a corresponding dissemination tree for each of one or more second terminals within a sensing range; and transmit the corresponding dissemination tree to each of the one or more second terminals within the sensing range. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ENHANCED COLLABORATION THROUGH TELEPORTATION - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method enhanced collaboration through teleportation. In one or more embodiments, there is provided a system for moderating an enhanced collaboration environment for at least a set of participants, comprising a server for facilitating a 2-D federated collaboration environment for the at least one set of participants; a server for facilitating a 3-D virtual collaboration environment for the at least one set of participants; and a gateway server for facilitating teleportation of at least two participants of the at least one set of participants from the 2-D federated collaboration environment to form a teleported collaboration group in the 3-D virtual collaboration environment. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESTRICTED NOTIFICATION DELIVERY - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159421 | Method and Apparatus for Supporting Time Shift Playback in Adaptive HTTP Streaming Transmission Solution - A method and an apparatus for supporting time shift playback in an adaptive HTTP streaming transmission solution are disclosed. The method includes: sending a live MPD request message to a media server; receiving a response message that includes MPD for a current time period, where the MPD further includes media presentation information for another time period; determining that a moment of a media segment to be requested currently exceeds a time range corresponding to the MPD; acquiring the corresponding MPD according to the media presentation information corresponding to the media segment, and requesting, according to the acquired corresponding MPD, the media segment. In this manner, a client supports time shift playback of a larger time range, and at the same time, the size of the MPD is capable of remaining in an acceptable range. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159422 | One-Way Public Relationships - Techniques are described to establish one-way public relationships. In an implementation, a service manager module is usable to configure a webpage for output to a client over a network to provide to a user of the client an indication of others users that are part of a social network of the user and have establishes one-way public relationships, respectively, with another user corresponding to an object of a social networking service available from a service provider. In addition, a relation module is configured to establish a one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object without establishing a mutual friend relationship between the user and the other user. In an implementation, the one-way public relationship is established in response to user selection of a control that is presented on the webpage that is output at the client in conjunction with the object. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159423 | DISTRIBUTED FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE FOR A HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A healthcare communication system includes a first plurality of computer devices operable as a nurse call system. The first plurality of computer devices has core nurse call functionality. The system also includes a second plurality of computer devices communicatively coupled to the first plurality of computer devices. The first plurality of computer devices are interconnected logically and/or physically in a tiered architecture arrangement to provide fault isolation among the tiers so that faults occurring in computer devices of one tier don't affect the operability of computer devices in other tiers and so that faults occurring in any of the second plurality of computer devices don't affect the core nurse call functionality of the first plurality of computer devices. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166638 | TRANSACTION SERVICES DATA SYSTEM - A device may include a transaction web server. The transaction server may be configured to receive a hypertext markup language HTTP message that includes information sent from a transaction device, determine whether the message is a request to authorize a transaction or a request to settle a transaction, route a first portion of the HTTP message to a customer device to obtain an authorization from the customer device when the HTTP message is a request to authorize the transaction, and route a second portion of the HTTP message to the customer device to settle the transaction when the HTTP message is a request to settle a transaction. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166639 | Tagging Posted Content in a Social Networking System with Media Information - A social networking system allows a user to insert media information into content posted by the user, where the media information identifies a media item that the user is consuming while composing the posted content. When a user of a social networking system composes content via a composer interface, the user may select an option on the composer interface to record audio using a microphone on the user's device. A media item is identified from the recorded audio and information about the identified media item is added to the user's posted content. The system may also update information about the identified media item and the composing user. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166640 | REAL-TIME MARKUP OF MAPS WITH USER-GENERATED CONTENT - User-generated content that is associated with a geographic location is uploaded to existing networked services or directly to a digital map updating service. Distinct digital map updating services can be assigned to defined geographic areas, such that they are only notified of, or poll for, new user-generated content within their defined geographic areas. Utilizing the geographic location associated with such user-generated content, the digital map updating service identifies one or more digital map “tiles”, which are updated to include new user-generated content and capable applications on client devices can be notified directly of such new user-generated content if they are accessing the relevant tiles. Additionally, data mining can be performed and deductions of events from data mining can be indicated in the digital map in the same manner. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166641 | POWER OUTAGE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SMART GRID USING FINITE STATE MACHINES - A power outage detection system. The system includes a device configured to increment a reboot counter when the device is powered up, and to transmit a first message when the device loses power and a second message when the device is powered up, and a back office system. The first message includes the value of the reboot counter and a timestamp, and the second message includes the value of the reboot counter. The back office system includes a finite state machine configured to receive the first and second messages. The finite state machine determines if the received first message is valid using the value of the reboot counter and the timestamp, and determines if the received second message is valid using the value of the reboot counter. The finite state machine then outputs an accurate indication of the state of the device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166642 | COMMUNICATION FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES - Systems and methods for communication between an implantable medical device and an external device. Data blocks are generated and transmitted between the implantable device and the external device. The data blocks include a first flag indicating whether the data block is a first data block in a message and when the data block is a subsequent data block in a multiple data block message. When the first flag indicates that the data block is a first data block in a message, the data block also contains a device ID, a command token, and message content. When the first flag indicates that the data block is a subsequent data block in a multiple data block message, the data block contains additional message content that is appended to message content from a previously received data block. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166643 | Systems and Methods for Online Ad Hoc Matching - The invention is generally directed to systems and methods for operation of a match service, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable online ad hoc matching between two or more subscribers. If a first subscriber to a match service identifies a second subscriber, in a preferred embodiment, the first subscriber can obtain the second subscriber's electronic match profile data and initiate an ad hoc compatibility analysis to assess compatibility. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166644 | System and Method for Resource Management in Multiple Communications Point Operation - A method for operating a communications point includes receiving a first message from a candidate communications point in a communications points set associated with a user equipment (UE), where the first message includes a resource report advising of an available portion of an upper layer communications resource that can be committed by the candidate communications point in a collaboration with a first communications point to communicate with the UE. The method also includes sending a second message to the candidate communications point, the second message including a resource reservation request to reserve a subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource. The method further includes receiving a third message from the candidate communications point, the third message including a resource reservation response indicating whether the subset of the available portion of the upper layer communications resource has been reserved as requested. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166645 | Flexible Content-Consumer and Content-Producer Rendezvous - A scheduling and multimedia delivery system for announcing, subscribing to and delivering live audio, video, audio/video, text or combination reports helps reporters and performers build an audience of viewers interested in participating in an interactive presentation. Viewers can also find archived copies of previous reports. Systems offering the data processing facilities to support such services are also described and claimed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES BASED ON CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION - An approach is provided for providing social network services based on connectivity information. A social network management platform provides processing and/or facilitating a processing of connectivity information associated with one or more devices to determine one or more social networks among the one or more devices. The social network management platform also determines to cause, to recommend, or a combination thereof a creation, a modification, an initiation, or a combination thereof of the one or more social networks | 06-27-2013 |
20130166647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB DATA SHARING - A system capable of sharing web data includes a number of clients communicable with each other. The clients communicate with network servers. The client includes a content accessing module, a storage module, a page loading module, and a browser module. The content accessing module accesses web pages on the network servers in response to a user's requests from the client and stores the accessed web pages in the storage module. The stored accessed web pages are accessible by the client and the remaining clients. The page loading module loads web pages from storage modules of the remaining clients. The browser module displays the web pages loaded by the page loading module. A related method is also provided. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - A system and method for measuring the efficiency of social media campaigns. The system collects searchable activity data of members of a social network and processes this data locally to extract interaction data happening on the profile page of the social media campaign on the social network. The interaction data is then weighed in accordance with its type. The system may also determine an effort score representing a monetary value of the profile page based on the volume of contribution by the owners of the social media campaign. The efficiency score may then be determined based on a relationship between the number of interactions, the weight associated with each interaction, and the effort score. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166649 | SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL-BASED FILTERING AND CONTRIBUTED PLAYLIST GENERATION - A non-transitory computer readable medium, a system and a method for generating a playlist, the method includes: receiving or detecting social network contextual information indicative of a sharing of a certain media entity between certain social network members; and updating, by a playlist generator, a playlist of media entities to be provided to an entertainment application user in response to the detecting of the social network contextual information. The entertainment application user is virtually linked to at least one of the certain social network members. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166650 | Efficient Frame Forwarding in Large Scale Real-Time Screen Content Sharing Meetings - Techniques are provided to improve user experience at endpoint devices that are participating in a multipoint screen content sharing session. A server in a multipoint communication system receives video frames from a sending endpoint device in the communication session that involves one or more other endpoint devices that are to receive video frames from the sending endpoint device. The video frames include key reference frames that use either intra-frame prediction or inter-frame prediction based only on other key reference frames. The server stores the key reference frames. When a new receiving endpoint device joins the communication session, the server sends all the stored key reference frames to the new receiving endpoint device. All video frames received from the sending endpoint device are forwarded to existing ordinary receiving endpoint devices. Key reference frames and some, but not all, non-key reference video frames are forwarded to existing low-capacity receiving endpoint devices. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166651 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA UPON REQUEST VIA SOCIAL NETWORKS - An approach is provided for determining requests for media and responding in substantially real-time utilizing a single user interface. The social network client determines one or more requests from one or more requesting users to capture media related to at least one social networking status of one or more sharing users. The social network client then causes, at least in part, an indication of the one or more requests to the one or more sharing users related to the at least one social networking status. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166652 | SENDING SNIPPETS OF MEDIA CONTENT TO A COMPUTING DEVICE - Techniques include: providing media content to a computing device; waiting a period of time; determining that the media content has not been used; sending a snippet to the computing device, where the snippet corresponds to a portion of the media content that is executable on the computing device; and repeating waiting, determining and sending until the media content has been used or a limiting factor has been met. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166653 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING THIRD PARTY CONTENT TO USERS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system of providing Internet content to a user utilizing social networks is disclosed. The method comprises providing Internet usage data for a plurality of users, determining which users belong to the same social network, and providing at least one of the users access to Internet usage data for those other users who are in the same social network. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166654 | Method and Arrangement in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A method and arrangment for enrolling a joining peer ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130173700 | EFFICIENT SHARING OF ARTIFACTS BETWEEN COLLABORATION APPLICATIONS - A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173701 | IMAGE, AUDIO, AND METADATA INPUTS FOR NAME SUGGESTION - A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that implements a domain name registration suggestion tool that receives one or more inputs, extracts information from the inputs into a submission string, submits the submission string to a domain name suggestion tool, and receives domain name suggestions based on the submission string. Inputs types may include images, audio clips, and metadata. The inputs sources may be processed to extract information related to the image source to build the submission string. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173702 | SUPPORTING WPS SESSIONS USING TCP-BASED CONNECTIONS - Techniques are disclosed for a client application on a computing device to perform a configuration process with a wireless access point. The access point exposes an isolated, unsecured Access Point which provides access to the DHCP services and services by which a client application can run the WPS registration process over a TCP (or higher layer protocol) connection. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173703 | EFFICIENT SHARING OF ARTIFACTS BETWEEN COLLABORATION APPLICATIONS - A method can include evaluating each of a plurality of collaborative systems, using a processor, for suitability hosting an artifact according to at least one attribute of the artifact. A first collaborative system can be selected from the plurality of collaborative systems according to the evaluation. The artifact can be stored in the first collaborative system. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173704 | Method, Device and System for Creating a Virtual Local Social Network - There is provided a system and method for creating a local social network, based on a user's location and a user's virtual social profile (e.g. a facebook profile, a myspace profile) on a virtual social network (e.g. facebook, myspace). The method includes the steps of: (1) associating a communication device with a user's virtual profile, (2) detecting a communication device within an interactive region, (3) extracting unique parameters of the communication device, (4) retrieving data associated with the communication device and with the user's virtual profile, and (5) initiating data transfer based on the retrieved data. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173705 | CONTEXT DATA IN UPNP SERVICE INFORMATION - A system, device, and method provide for the selection of a device to perform a service using context information for the device. The context information may be included in a request from a control point device to the device or may be included in a response from the device to the control point device. The context information provides additional information relative to the services provided by the device or relative to the device itself. For example, if the device is a camera, the camera may include for each photograph taken by the camera a date the photograph is taken, a time the photograph is taken, a location at which the photograph is taken, a subject matter of the photograph, a temperature at the photograph location, a photographer, etc in the context information. Additionally, the camera may include the current geographic location of the camera in the context information. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173706 | METHOD FOR ROUTING IN A CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173707 | INFORMATION SOURCE SELECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION SOURCE SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information source selection system and an information source selection method for allowing a user to easily select an information source to which information is added at a frequency that matches the user's access frequency are provided. The method includes acquiring information on information addition frequency, which indicates frequency at which information is added per predetermined time period, for each of a plurality of recommendation candidate information sources contained in a plurality of information sources provided on a communication network, acquiring access frequency information that indicates frequency at which a user accesses one of the plurality of information sources provided on the communication network, and selecting, from the plurality of the recommendation candidate information sources, one or more recommendation candidate information sources that match the user based on the information on information addition frequency of each of the recommendation candidate information sources and the access frequency information of the user. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173708 | FATIGUE CONTROL-BASED MESSAGE FLOAT-OUT METHOD, SYSTEM AND INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method of controlling float-out messages, a system for controlling float-out messages, an instant messaging client for controlling float-out messages, and a computer program product for controlling float-out messages. A method of controlling float-out messages is provided. The method includes in the event that there is a float-out message that is ready to be sent to a recipient, determining a current status of the recipient of the float-out message, in the event that the current status of the recipient is online, determining whether the float-out message should be sent to the recipient, including determining whether an identifier value of the recipient has reached a threshold value, the identifier value being used to indicate whether the recipient is deemed to be currently in a state of fatigue or a level of fatigue the recipient is deemed to be in, in the event that the identifier value has not reached the threshold value, pushing the float-out message to the recipient to be made available for float out by the recipient, and updating the identifier value. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173709 | CLOUD-BASED CONTENT MIXING INTO ONE STREAM - A network-based system of providing a combined single data stream to at least one user device or user group device, the system including a computing cloud receiving different data from a plurality of data sources and generating from said data a single data stream to be provided to at least one remote user or user group; at least one user device or user group device having access to the computing cloud for receiving said combined single data stream to be outputted for the at least one remote user or user group. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173710 | SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SERVICE IN DIGITAL RECEIVER THEREOF - Disclosed are a service system and a method of providing a service in a digital receiver. The service providing method includes selecting content including an identifier with respect to an SNS or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content from a service guide, and outputting the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen. The SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open API from the server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173711 | PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO SHARING APPLICATION - A product and a process enable a user of a computing device to produce, share, send, and/or view portfolios containing images, text, audio, and/or video. Portfolios may also be shared or pushed out to prospective clients, friends, interested parties, or customers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173712 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION IN A COMPUTER OR COMMUNICATION NETWORK, AND PHYSICAL ENTITIES THEREFOR - A method is carried out by a controller ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130179500 | Home Hub - In one embodiment, transmitting, from a first computing device, a private-home-network-discovery message that comprises a first identifier corresponding to a private-home-networking system, receiving, at the first computing device, one or more content-response messages from a second computing device that collectively comprise a second identifier corresponding to the second computing device, a third identifier corresponding to the private-home-networking system, and information corresponding to content stored on the second computing device, and storing, at the first computing device, the second and third identifiers and the information received in the one or more content response messages for access by one or more applications hosted on the first computing device, one of the applications being associated with administering the private-home-networking system. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179501 | Calendaring Tool With Optimized Management Capabilities - A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer-readable storage device for arranging a meeting in a networked environment having nodes assigned to respective individual users. Upon receiving a set of meeting requirements including at least a meeting time and a set of invitees from a user at one of the nodes, invitations for a meeting at the meeting time are sent to at least a subset of the invitees based on one or more of the meeting requirements. The meeting is confirmed at the meeting time responsive to receiving acceptances from a predetermined subset of the invitees, such as a set of invitees identified as being critical invitees or a number of invitees constituting a quorum, and is rescheduled or cancelled responsive to a failure to receive acceptances from the predetermined subset of the invitees. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179502 | Creating and Sharing Interest Lists in a Social Networking System - A social networking service allows a user of the service to create an interest list associated with a topic of interest, where the interest list includes members that may post content via the social networking service. Members of the interest list may post content associated with the topic. Other users of the social network service may subscribe to the list, and these subscribers may then receive a feed that contains the content posted by the members of the interest list. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179503 | EVENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING AN OUTGOING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE WITH AN INCOMING RESPONSE - An event notification system is linked to a plurality of event generation devices and to an event notification network. The system receives event messages from the event generation devices and determines what information should be included in an event notification message that the system transmits to one or more recipient devices. Each event notification message includes coded event message information and a coded unique message identity. A response message receive by the system from a recipient device includes the coded event message information which is used by the system to validate the response. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179504 | Generating Sponsored Story Units Including Related Posts and Input Elements - A viewing user is provided with sponsored story units when accessing content associated with a social networking system. The sponsored story units include a sponsored story describing an interaction and one or more related posts. The sponsored story may describe an action of another user connected to the viewing user who has interacted with a social networking object. The one or more related posts may include content associated with the social networking object involved in the interaction described by the sponsored story. The sponsored story unit can optionally include an input element with which the viewing user can interact. The information received from the viewing user via the input element can be used to generate additional sponsored story units to the viewing user's friends. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179505 | MANAGING MESSAGE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - Various systems, processes, and products may be used to manage the transmission and reception of messages. In particular implementations, a system, process, and product for managing message transmission and reception may include the ability to receive a plurality of messages to be transmitted over a communication network, wherein some of the messages have a higher priority and some of the messages have a lower priority, and enqueue descriptors for the messages in a direct memory access queue. The system, process, and product may also include the ability to determine whether an overrun of the queue has occurred, analyze the queue if an overrun has occurred to determine if lower priority messages are associated with any of the descriptors in the queue, and replace, if descriptors for lower priority messages are in the queue, the descriptors for the lower priority messages with descriptors for higher priority messages. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179506 | Communicating Media Data - Communicating media data over a communication system in which a first communication instance for a user of the communication system is implemented at a first user terminal, and a second communication instance for the user of the communication system is implemented at a second user terminal. The user is simultaneously logged into the communication system via: (i) the first communication instance at the first user terminal, and (ii) the second communication instance at the second user terminal A media communication session is established between the first and second communication instances, wherein the media communication session is authenticated on the basis of the same user being simultaneously logged into the communication system via both the first and second communication instances. Media data is communicated in the media communication session from the first communication instance at the first user terminal to the second communication instance at the second user terminal | 07-11-2013 |
20130179507 | Communicating Media Data - Method and communication system for communicating media data, wherein a call is implemented over the communication system between a first user terminal associated with a first user and a second user terminal associated with a second user. Whilst the call is implemented, a separate media sharing session is established over the communication system between the first and second user terminals, wherein the media sharing session is authenticated on the basis of the call being implemented between the first and second user terminals when the media sharing session is established. Media data is communicated in the media sharing session, under the control of the first user, from the first user terminal to the second user terminal, the communicated media data being for output to the second user at the second user terminal in the media sharing session. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179508 | DATA SEND/RECEPTION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a data send/reception device includes a storage unit configured to store a profile. It further includes a PROFILE control unit configured to control send of a profile to other data send/reception device and reception of a profile from the other data send/reception device by mutually sending and receiving the profiles to exchange the profiles. It further includes a wireless control unit configured to control wireless communication with the other data send/reception device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179509 | Identifying guests in web meetings - A technique that identifies registered or guest users in web meetings. Registered and guest users are provided different forms of a meeting invite URL. A guest user receives a unique URL for the meeting that is generated with a nonce value associated with the user's contact information. The nonce value does not expose the contact information. To join the web meeting, each registered user follows a common web meeting link and authenticates. Information obtained during authentication is used to identify the registered user, whose identity is then displayed. Each guest user follows his or her unique URL to join the meeting. The web meeting service receives the nonce in the unique URL and maps it to the guest user's contact details. The service displays the guest user's contact details as the guest user's identity. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179510 | SOCIAL NETWORKING ADVOCACY SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online advocacy platform provides one or more of a crowd-sourced vote-counting mechanism for legislative issues, support on target selection, tactic prioritization, fundraising, supporter recruitment, campaign marketing, and content creation and aggregation. In some embodiments, the platform further provides one or more of group purchase of advocacy services and a social networking address book. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, computer-implemented methods for advocacy efforts using social networks may comprise providing an online site hosting information associated with an advocacy effort to influence a decision of a decision maker, providing, using a strategy calculator module, a plurality of advocacy actions available to influence the decision maker, receiving input selecting an advocacy action from an online user interface of the online site, and performing, using a fulfillment module, the selected advocacy action using one or more electronic actions to influence the decision maker. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING USER IMPACT ON THEIR CONTENT POOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus for determining a user's impact in an online social network based on responses by other users to posts made by the user are provided. Responses by other users to one or more posts by the user are received. A response score is determined for each of the one or more responses. A post score is determined for each post by the user, based at least in part on the response score for that post. A cumulative score is determined based at least in part on the post score. An impact score is determined based at least in part on the cumulative score of the user and a total number of friends that the user has within the online social network. The impact score represents that user's impact or influence within his or her online social network, regardless of the particular size of that network. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179512 | User Status Displaying Method, and Server - A method for displaying user status is provided. The method includes: obtaining original information of a user from an information source which is an application, by calling an application programming interface (API) of the information source, wherein the original information comprises an identifier of the user in the information source, contents posted by the user in the original source; parsing the original information of the user, and obtaining user status information of the user; obtaining a virtual image of the user which matches the user status information from a virtual image database according to the user status information; and notifying a virtual image displaying terminal to display the virtual image of the user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179513 | BEHAVIOR INFORMATION COLLECTION DEVICE AND BEHAVIOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A user is enabled to control the analysis accuracy of preference information obtained by analyzing behavior information collected by a service provider. A temporary identifier of a user, a group identifier of the user, and behavior information of the user are stored in a behavior information storage unit, a group identifier is assigned to a group of temporary identifiers corresponding to behavior information for which preference information matches regarding the temporary identifier and the behavior information stored in the behavior information storage unit, the group identifier and the preference information are stored in a group information storage unit in association with each other, and, for each group identifier stored in the behavior information storage unit, a group list including a plurality of temporary identifiers corresponding to the group identifier, a plurality of group identifiers assigned to the plurality of temporary identifiers, and a plurality of pieces of preference information corresponding to the plurality of group identifiers is transmitted. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185354 | Social Networking Data Augmented Gaming Kiosk - In particular embodiments, a gaming kiosk may be granted federated access to social networking information of a user, initiated upon activation of a physical access token. A user may initiate a workflow, by activating a physical token, that establishes a federated access session between a gaming kiosk and a social networking system to allow the gaming kiosk to augment the user's experience with social networking information and to publish gaming information to the social networking system. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185355 | Recommendations Based On Geolocation - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing data indicating the geolocation of the mobile computing device of a user of a social-networking system, identifying one or more nodes of the social graph associated with a location within a pre-determined threshold distance of the user's location, determining one or more recommendations for the user based at least in part on the nodes, and providing the recommendations to the mobile computing device of the user. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185356 | CONFERENCE SUPPORTING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a conference supporting system includes: a material-data managing section configured to manage conference material data; a material-data distributing section configured to distribute material data of the material-data managing section according to a distribution request; information terminal sections configured to receive the material data through communication with the material-data distributing section and transmit rendering data generated by participants; and an additional-data managing section configured to manage, as additional data, the rendering data transmitted from the information terminal sections, distribute, to another information terminal section, rendering data transmitted from a specific information terminal section, and determine the distribution of the rendering data according to an instruction to continuously display or not to continuously display the rendering data. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185357 | Method for Advertising and Marketing Goods and Services Using an Online Lifestyle Shopping Center - A social networking system electronically assimilates a database of social networking system (SNS) member profiles and associated brand websites on a server connected by a data communications network to a plurality of remote computers. The system utilizes a respective psychographic profile to establish a lifestyle center website on the social networking system server, and the lifestyle center website includes a first set of digital content data related to the psychographic profile. The lifestyle center website displays an anchor tenant website hosted on the SNS server and having a second set of digital content data related to the psychographic profile. The system further identifies social networking system member profiles that match the identified psychographic profile for the lifestyle center website. The system allows SNS members and brand owners to connect within the social networking system for a more efficient online shopping experience. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185358 | PROMOTING INTEROPERABILITY OF PRESENCE-BASED SYSTEMS THROUGH THE USE OF UBIQUITOUS ONLINE IDENTITIES - A client system is configured to submit a request to a first instant messaging system for access to the first instant messaging service The request includes an online identity that is currently being used to access a second instant messaging service associated with the second instant messaging system. The second instant messaging system is configured to send a message to the first instant messaging system that indicates the online identity is currently being used to access a second instant messaging service associated with the second instant messaging system. The first instant messaging system maintains a profile that is updated to indicate that the online identity is currently being used to access the first instant messaging service and, in response to the message, the profile is also updated to indicate that the online identity is currently begin used to access the second instant messaging service. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT-BASED GROUPING - An approach is provided for determining context-based groups based on context information. An input from a device specifying one or more criteria to determine a context-based group from among a plurality of other devices is received. The context information associated with the plurality of other devices is determined. The context-based group is determined based, at least in part, on the context information and the criteria. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191451 | Presence-based Synchronization - Presence-based synchronization manages updates among concurrent collaborators based on the presence information of each collaborator within a shared document of a collaboration environment. A collaborator's edits to a page of a shared document can be synchronized more frequently when other collaborators are accessing the same page. In contrast, the collaborator's edits to a page of a shared document can be synchronized less frequently when no other collaborators are accessing that page. Further, the manner of the collaborator's presence within the shared document may influence the synchronization rate—collaborating users within an online meeting may synchronize more frequently than a single user who is not actively collaborating with other users. In one implementation, other maintenance activities within the shared document (e.g., garbage collection) may be influenced by the presence information of collaborators within the collaboration environment. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191452 | E-MEETING SUMMARIES - A method, computer program product, and system for determining a custom summary of a web conference is described. A first input associated with a first portion of a web conference is received. A first content associated with the web conference is selected based upon, at least in part, the first input. A custom summary of the web conference is determined based upon, at least in part, the selected first content and a relation associated with a socially-connected group. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191453 | DYNAMIC QUORUM FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - Managing a distributed system. Embodiments may allow for a quorum to dynamically change the quorum vote. One example is illustrated in a method. The method includes determining a change to a voter's level of participation in a cluster. A quorum of voters changes the voter's voting privileges, based on the change in the voter's level of participation. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191454 | COLLABORATIVE EVENT PLAYLIST SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary collaborative event playlist systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary system includes a moderator device located at an event premises, connected to a local area network at the event premises, and hosting a collaborative event playlist for playback at an event at the event premises. The system further includes a participant device located at the event premises, connected to the local area network at the event premises, and configured to communicate with the moderator device by way of the local area network to participate in populating the collaborative event playlist with a song to which the participant device has access rights. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRAND MANAGEMENT USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system for brand management using social networks comprising an application server, social network crawler software modules, third party service integration software modules, an analytics server, a report generator, a search engine, a behavioral analysis engine, a recommendation engine, and a database. A user registers and provides data pertaining to a brand. Upon retrieving content from a plurality of social networks pertaining to the brand, the analytics server module analyzes the content to a content value specific to the brand among members of the social networks. The behavioral analysis engine obtains content elements generated by a first member a social network and analyzes the first member's behavior to compute an audience value of the first member. The report generator prepares reports specific to the brand, the reports comprising at least indicia of content value, indicia of audience value, and recommendations for improving member engagement with the brand. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191456 | PEER TO PEER BROWSER CONTENT CACHING - Facilitating browser access to cached content available from a peer to peer network by receiving a request for content from a content server, receiving from the content server content metadata indicating that the requested content is available from at least one alternative user computing device via a peer to peer network, instantiating on the user computing device a browser helper application which facilitates access to the peer to peer network, and receiving from the content server a lookup table comprising a list of alternative user computing devices from which the requested content is available. The lookup table can be parsed to select an alternative user computing device from which the content, or portions thereof, is requested. The received content can the be stored for later use or presented to the user via the browser. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191457 | Automatic Determining of File Transfer Mode - A mechanism is provided for automatic determining of file transfer mode. A locale or an operating system of a client in a file transfer is determined. At least part of a transfer file is downloaded in a first text format to obtain first resulting bytes. The first resulting bytes are analyzed to determine whether the first resulting bytes match a character set of the locale or the operating system of the client above a first predetermined threshold. A determination is made as to whether the first text format should be used for downloading the transfer file based on whether the first resulting bytes match the character set of the locale or the operating system of the client above the first predetermined threshold. Responsive to the first resulting bytes matching above the first predetermined threshold, the transfer file is downloaded in the identified first text format. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191458 | INTEGRATED DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA OBJECTS BASED ON SOCIAL, TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PARAMETERS - In an embodiment, a client device receives a query that specifies social, temporal and spatial parameters relative to a set of users (e.g., a source user or source user group). The client device determines degrees to which the specified parameters are related to a group of target users in social, temporal and spatial dimensions. The client device also determines an expected availability of one or more target users for interaction (e.g., interaction via particular types of communication session types, such as voice, video, text, etc.). The client device performs a processing function on at least one data object associated with the group of target users based on (i) whether the determined degrees of relation satisfy the specified parameters of the query, and (ii) the expected availability of the one or more target users in the group of target users. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198274 | Social Hotspot - In one embodiment, a method includes broadcasting, from a first mobile device, a message having an identity of the first mobile device and conditions for connecting to a network through the first mobile device and receiving, at the first mobile device, a request from one or more second mobile devices that includes second user identifiers corresponding to respective second users of the one or more second mobile devices. The second user identifiers correspond to respective user accounts of one or more second users in a social-networking system. The method also includes determining, at the first mobile device, whether the one or more second mobile devices are authorized to access the network through the first mobile device and, if the one or more second devices are authorized to access the network, then configuring the first mobile device to provide the second mobile device network access. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198275 | AGGREGATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION SERVICES FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - The aggregation of content elements generated on one or more social networking service sites is disclosed. There is a content request associated with a first user and identifying an independently established account on those sites for various content elements linked thereto. The requested content elements are received, and stored in connection with first aggregation account as social objects additionally defined by a plurality of attributes. A set of data representative of the selection of the social objects and its attributes are generated for rendering on a remote computer system. The selection of the social objects is defined by one or more predetermined conditions. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DEVICES - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to enable the provision of a mechanism by which a device participating in a collaborative application may synchronize with other participating devices. A method may include providing for operation of a collaboration application, receiving a signal from a sensor, establishing a reference time in response to receiving the signal from the sensor, and synchronizing the collaboration application using the reference time. The sensor may include an accelerometer and the signal may include a sampling of information from the sensor. The sampling may be conducted during a pre-defined time interval or possibly until a bump is detected. Establishing the reference time may include detecting a maximum value of the signal and/or detecting the signal exceeding a pre-defined threshold. Establishing the reference time may not require wireless communication. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198277 | EXPERIENCE SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - User commentary concerning a user experience is received and a user experience data card is generated for the user experience based, at least in part, upon the user commentary. The user experience data card is stored, wherein the stored user experience data card corresponds to a first view of the user experience data card and receiving a request for an experience data card from a second user. The user experience data card is provided to the second user at least in part based on the request received from the second user and receiving feedback from the second user concerning the user experience data card. A second view of the user experience data card is generated based, at least in part, upon the feedback from the second user, wherein the second view of the user experience data card is distinct form the first view of the experience data card. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198278 | Targeted Delivery of Content - A targeted delivery of content and related metadata is made to users of various types of electronic devices that are adapted to render or play the content. Images of each user are captured at various times while various items of the content are being played. According to one embodiment the images are processed via one or more facial recognition algorithms so that the identity of each of the users, including their names, is determined. This data is stored in a central server thereby establishing a database of profiles of these users. The profiles are comprised of tracking information of content played by each of the users on a per-content basis. The central server either uses this tracking information directly or transmits it to another server or another business entity, such as for example another content provider, for use by the other business entity. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198279 | Targeted Delivery of Content - A targeted delivery of content and related metadata is made to users of various types of electronic devices that are adapted to render or play the content. Images of each user are captured at various times while various items of the content are being played. According to one embodiment the images are processed via one or more facial recognition algorithms so that the identity of each of the users, including their names, is determined. This data is stored in a central server thereby establishing a database of profiles of these users. The profiles are comprised of tracking information of content played by each of the users on a per-content basis. The central server either uses this tracking information directly or transmits it to another server or another business entity, such as for example another content provider, for use by the other business entity. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198280 | Targeted Delivery of Content - A targeted delivery of content and related metadata is made to users of various types of electronic devices that are adapted to render or play the content. Images of each user are captured at various times while various items of the content are being played. According to one embodiment the images are processed via one or more facial recognition algorithms so that the identity of each of the users, including their names, is determined. This data is stored in a central server thereby establishing a database of profiles of these users. The profiles are comprised of tracking information of content played by each of the users on a per-content basis. The central server either uses this tracking information directly or transmits it to another server or another business entity, such as for example another content provider, for use by the other business entity. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198281 | System for Creating Anonymous Social Gatherings - A system for creating an anonymous social gathering of 3 or more persons. The system has a server digital device and a client digital device both operatively connected to a distributed network and thus to each other. The client device is configured to display an electronic mapping received from the server digital device through the distributed network and the electronic mapping displays at least one selectable geolocation indicator. Each geolocation indicator represents an indicated location of a gathering of at least two anonymous portable digital devices. The electronic mapping is configured to display indicator identification information on the user device for the momentarily selected indicator. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198282 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MAGAZINE INFORMATION - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for providing social magazine information. The method is configured such that an apparatus operating in conjunction with at least one user terminal provides social magazine information to a corresponding user terminal. In the method, a social magazine is dynamically reconstructed according to a context of a user of each user terminal. Customized information corresponding to the user terminal is provided based on the reconstructed social magazine. A community is formed among user terminals which share the reconstructed social magazine, and social magazine information is shared through the formed community. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198283 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROL POINT FOR DEVICE DISCOVERY - An operating method of a control point includes setting a Maximum time for waits (MX) value for device discovery. The method also includes transmitting a message that includes the set MX value to at least one device connected with the control point. The method further includes receiving a response message in response to a Method for Search Request (M-SEARCH) message from the at least one device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198284 | OFFLINE vCARD - In accordance with an example embodiment a method and system for updating web-based sources associated with a user based on the monitored non-internet based activities in the offline real world are disclosed. The method and system includes summarizing a plurality of attributes of a user, selecting a subset of attributes from the plurality of attributes, generating an offline-verifiable identity certificate (OVIC) based on the selected subset of attributes, issuing the offline-verifiable identity certificate to the user, monitoring the non-internet based activities of the user, and updating the subset of web-based sources associated with the user. The plurality of attributes is collected from web-based sources. The subset of the attributes is embedded in the issued OVIC and the non-internet based activities are associated with the issued OVIC. The web-based sources are updated based on the monitored non-internet based activities. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198285 | Contextual Information from Contexts - Method and system for storing contextual information for a plurality of parties. The contextual information comprises a context owner and relationship information associating the context owner to other parties. Upon receipt of a request for access to a requested context, granting access when a relationship information from the requested context associates the requesting party with the context owner of the requested context. Corresponding relationship information from the requested context associated to a first party is accessible to the requesting party when there exists a context owned by the first party in which the relationship information associates the first party with the requesting party and the first party with the context owner of the requested context and there exists a context owned by the requesting party in which relationship information associates the requesting party with the first party and the requesting party with the context owner of the requested context. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198286 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A FIRST PARTICIPANT AND A SECOND PARTICIPANT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network. In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant and a second participant in a social network is provided, in exchange for the payment. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198287 | DETERMINING POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS - A computer-implemented method for obtaining information corresponding to a first user. The computer-implemented method includes, obtaining information corresponding to a first user, accessing a database comprising information corresponding to a plurality of individuals, based on the information corresponding to a plurality of individuals. The method further includes determining whether a potential relationship exists between a first user and at least one of the plurality of individuals. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198288 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Programs for Suspending and Resuming an Online Conference - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for joining an online conference already in progress. One such method comprises: a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants accessing the conferencing system via a communication network; the conferencing system presenting to the participants via a graphical user interface the audio conference and a conference interface displaying a participant object identifying each of the participants; synchronously recording the audio conference with content presented in the conference interface; storing the synchronized audio conference and the content; during the audio conference, receiving from a new participant a request to join the audio conference already in progress; and in response to the request to join the audio conference, playing back the synchronized audio conference and the content presented in the conference interface to the new participant beginning from a recording start location. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198289 | SERVER APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING A RESPONSE OF A QUESTIONNAIRE, QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE COLLECTION METHOD, QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE COLLECTION PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH A QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE COLLECTION PROGRAM - A server apparatus and the like for accurately collecting responses of questionnaires from respondents who submit responses to the questionnaires with regard to a target including a plurality of scenes and in which the scene changes over an elapsed time. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204933 | MULTICAST MESSAGE FILTERING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - Various systems, processes, and products may be used to filter multicast messages in virtual environments. In particular implementations, a system, process, and product for filtering multicast messages in virtual environments may include the ability to determine whether a multicast message has been received, examine a local filtering store for a match for the destination address of the multicast message, and send the message to a number of virtual machines if a match for the address is found. The system, process, and product may also include the ability to analyze a filtering store of at least one of the virtual machines for a match for the address if a match is not found in the local filtering store and send the message to a number of the virtual machines if a match for the address is found in a filtering store of one of the virtual machines. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204934 | EFFICIENTLY RECEIVING MESSAGES ACROSS A LARGE NUMBER OF MESSAGING ENTITIES - A messaging service is described that facilitates the efficient receipt of messages by a client from across a large number of messaging entities hosted by different messaging hosts within a distributed messaging system. A gateway in the distributed messaging system forwards a request for an available message or set of related messages from the client to each of the messaging hosts. Each messaging host provides a response to a request if a messaging entity hosted thereby includes at least one available message or set of related messages. The messaging host manages the order in which responses from different messaging entities are provided to ensure fairness. The gateway forwards a selected one of the responses to the consumer, while caching the other responses to service future requests from the consumer. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204935 | DYNAMIC SHARING OF A WEBSERVICE - An apparatus comprises a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to identify at least one visitor terminal accessing a web service and to initiate an assistance session. The apparatus further generates a visitor-specific copy of said web service and shares said visitor-specific copy between said at least one visitor terminal and an operator terminal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204936 | Peer-To-Peer Communication of Non-Common Data - In individualized data communication of a data entity ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130204937 | PLATFORM FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND METHOD USING SAME - A method to create a member account in a social network, comprising downloading an application programming interface from a social network server, creating a profile, creating a plurality of Identities associated with the profile, creating a different association for each Identity with one or more of a plurality of social network members and users such that all contact with a first social network member is made using exclusively a first Identity and such that all contact with a second social network member is made using exclusively a second Identity, wherein the first Identity differs from the second Identity, and uploading the profile, the plurality of Identities, and the associations of Identities, to the social network server. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT USE OF CONTENT USING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION - Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for sharing information about the use of content. The apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit establishes communication between at least one content terminal and a first user terminal over an M2M network. The second communication unit exchanges data with a predetermined server. The storage unit receives information about the use of content being consumed in the content terminal from the content terminal via the first communication unit, and stores it. The control unit sends the received information about the use of content to a predetermined server via the second communication unit, thereby allowing the information about the use of content to be stored in the server. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204939 | CLIENT DEVICE - An information processing apparatus that stores a table associating first identification information corresponding to the information processing apparatus, second identification information corresponding to another information processing apparatus, and an image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; captures image data; determines whether the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; and controls a wireless interface to transmit, to the another information processing apparatus, a request for pairing with the another information processing apparatus when the determining determines that the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL CONTENT - A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of the one or more attributes for the information associated with the entity. At least the portion of the plurality of posts is ordered on a display based upon, at least in part, the relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - Nodes at first, second, and third locations have the same first-axis coordinates, while nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations have the same second-axis coordinates. First transmission transmits data elements from the node at the first location to nodes at the second and fourth locations, as well as to the node at either the third location or the fifth location. Second transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the second locations to nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations. Third transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the third locations to nodes at the first, second, and fourth locations. These three transmissions are performed with each node location selected as the base point on a diagonal line. The nodes execute a data processing operation by using the data elements assigned thereto and the data elements received as a result of the first to third transmissions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204942 | ONLINE DISTRIBUTED INTERACTION - An interaction environment for presentation of content to a population of users includes either or both of a plurality of cohort interaction environments and one or more content-linked interaction environments. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204943 | ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORKING MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable social networking module operable to enable on board processing modules of different privately owned vehicles to wirelessly connect to exchange vehicle-related information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR, AND MONITORING ASSESSMENT OF, ORIGINAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE ORIGINAL CONTENT THEREOF - System and method may use assessment information obtained by assessing original content items or creators of the original content items in accordance with a hierarchical talent assessment process, to return search results responsive to a search for talented original content creators. The assessments of the creators and the content items by talent assessors may be monitored to increase the objectivity of the search results returned responsive to a search for talented original content creators. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212170 | QUANTIFY AND MEASURE MICRO-BLOGGING FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING (ERP) - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for presenting a quantitative view of a set of information made up a number of messages. For example, these messages can comprise emails, Short Message Service (SMS) messages, Multimedia Message Service (MMS) messages, Instant Messages, and/or any of a variety of other types of messages related to an application, process, resource, etc. of a system. Embodiments of the present invention provide for categorizing each of the messages, quantifying each category based on the messages therein, applying a weight to each of the quantified categories, plotting the weighted and quantified categories on a matrix, and presenting the matrix as a summary of the weighted and quantified categories. For example, the matrix may be presented in a dashboard, portal, or other element of a user interface of an application to which the messages are related. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE ROUTING OF REMOTE CLIENT CONTACT(S) - Methods and apparatus perform a method for electronically routing an authenticated client to a pre-determined destination. The method may include authenticating the identity of the client. In response to the authentication of the identity of the client, the method may retrieve contact information associated with the client. The contact information may include identification information for an employee listed on a list of employees pre-approved by the client. The method may further include determining the current availability of the employee for participation in a video conference. If the employee is available, the method may initiate a video conference between the client and a destination associated with the employee. If the employee is not available, the method may retrieve identification information for a second an employee listed on a list of employees pre-approved by the client. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212172 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SOCIAL NETWORK CONVERSATIONS - A method, computer program product, and computer system for providing, using a processor of a computer, at least a portion of text that includes a link for use by a website. A plurality of posts associated with an online social network is monitored using the processor of the computer to determine whether the link is present in at least one post of the plurality of posts. A first user of the online social network that has the link included in the at least one post is identified using the processor of the computer, where the at least one post of the first user identifies a second user of the online social network. Information associated with the first user is recorded in a data store using the processor of the computer in response to identifying that the first user has the link posted in the at least one post. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212173 | SUGGESTING RELATIONSHIP MODIFICATIONS TO USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system includes a tool that assists users in removing friends and/or classifying friends as mere acquaintances. The tool predicts friends that a user is likely to remove or reclassify based on a set of features that has been found to predict this using machine learning algorithms. The set of features in the predictive model may include selected attributes about the users (e.g., declared/profile information, user history, and/or social information). For each user of the social networking system, the user's relationships with other users on the social networking system are ranked based on statistical correlations derived from the predictive model. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212174 | POPULATING ONLINE FORUMS - In general, in one aspect, a forum for user interaction is provided. A clone of the forum is created, thereby allowing any number of users to be in the same forum while limiting the number of users in each instance of the forum. It is determined whether a relationship exists between a user entering the forum and one or more other users entering the forum or with one or more other users already in the forum. If a relationship exists, the user entering the forum is placed in a clone of the forum based on the relationship. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212175 | Automated Customer Incident Report Management in a Social Networking System - A social networking system is configured to generate node graphs to handle specific types of customer incident reports. The node graphs comprise data structures that include nodes connected in acyclic graphs. Each node includes a node handler and optionally a user interface widget. Activating a node graph causes a subset of the nodes in the node graph to execute their node handlers. The executing node handlers generate a customer incident resolution that may include information gathering, manual review, and communications to users and third-party systems. Generation of the customer incident resolution through the node graphs allows the social networking system to handle customer incidents consistently, efficiently, and in a scalable manner. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212176 | USER PRESENCE DETECTION AND EVENT DISCOVERY - In one example, a method includes receiving a first group of indications associated with a first group of modalities and a second group of indications associated with a second group of modalities. The method also includes determining a confidence value for at least one modality of the first or second groups of modalities based at least in part on an indication associated with the at least one modality. The confidence value may indicate a likelihood that a first user associated with the first remote computing device is within a physical presence of a second user associated with the second remote computing device. The method may also include, performing an operation to indicate that the first user associated with the first remote computing device is within a physical presence of the second user associated with the second remote computing device. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212177 | Method and System for Generating a Social Commerce and Marketing Site - A platform for enabling a user to generate a customized site within the social network environment. The platform may provide a user with a series of tools and/or APIs that allow a user to generate, modify, analyze, or promote a customized site within the social network environment. For example, a user may use the platform to generate a social commerce site located within the social network environment, such that social network users may make and complete purchases without leaving the social network environment. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212178 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ONLINE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method of recommending and prioritizing multimedia content targeted to a user is provided. The method includes (i) obtaining a first set that includes one or more multimedia content based on a first set of parameters, (ii) obtaining a second set that includes one or more multimedia content based on a second set of parameters, (iii) computing (a) one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the first set, and (b) one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the second set, and (iv) prioritizing a subset of multimedia content targeted to the user based on at least one of (a) the one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the first set, and (b) the one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the second set. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212179 | WEB-TELCO CONVERGENCE COMPRISING DOWNLOADING SCRIPT COMMANDS TO USER TERMINALS - The present invention relates to methods, apparatus and systems for enabling an improved Web-Telco Convergence, in particular for telecommunication session oriented service. A Web-Telco Convergence Function may identify user interface relevant information in telecommunication protocol messages relating to a telecommunication session oriented service for a user and transmits the identified user interface relevant information to a Virtual Terminal Function. The Virtual Terminal Function may obtain web assets based on the user interface relevant information and generate a user interface description. An address of the location of the user interface description may be transmitted to the Web-Telco Convergence Function which may transmit the address to a user device. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212180 | VALIDATING ACHIEVEMENTS OF USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212181 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMENT-PROMPTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information-processing device ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130218959 | Social Distribution of Emergency Status - A social networking system distributes information related to emergency events. The social networking system provides an interface for users to view information about the users' connections related to the emergency event. The interface allows users to filter the users' connections to search for connections affected by the emergency event. The interface also includes a status indicator for the users and provides a method for providing input to the connections' status. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A STRUCTURED TOPIC DRIFT FOR A DISPLAYED SET OF USER COMMENTS ON AN ARTICLE - A method and system for providing a structured topic drift for a displayed set of user comments on an article. The method includes determining an ordered sequence of topical recommendations based on one or more properties of the displayed set of user comments and user characteristics using a sequential recommendation model. The method also includes sampling one or more user comments for each of the topical recommendations. Further, the method includes appending, one by one, the one or more user comments for each of the topical recommendations to bottom of the displayed set of user comments. Moreover, the method includes updating the sequential recommendation model based on a user response to the one or more user comments for each of the topical recommendations. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER OF A CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE - A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring digital content from a computing cloud to a computing device and generating recommendations for the user of the computing device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218962 | SPONSORED-STORIES-UNIT CREATION FROM ORGANIC ACTIVITY STREAM - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sponsor specifications designating story characteristics; monitoring an organic activity stream for entries matching the story characteristics; and, in response to identifying an entry as matching the story characteristics, providing for display the entry in a predetermined area of a web page. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218963 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores invisible information set so as to be invisible to a user of the information processing apparatus, and a transmitting unit that transmits the invisible information to another information processing apparatus by including the invisible information in notification information which is to be notified to a user of the other information processing apparatus. In addition, the information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, from the other information processing apparatus, invisible information set so as to be invisible to the user of the other information processing apparatus, and a display processing unit that causes the invisible information received by the receiving unit to be displayed on a display device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218964 | COLLABORATIVE WEB BROWSING SYSTEM - The present invention is directed towards to computerized social networks and e-commerce and facilitating ad-hoc screen sharing and co-browsing between users of a social network. The collaborative browsing method comprises a server computer having a Shopping With A Friend (SWAF) server engine coupled to a database, a SWAF client engine coupled to the SWAF server engine and a plurality of client computers each having a web browser program that runs the SWAF client engine. The web browser program does not include a collaboration plug-in. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218965 | Systems And Methods For Determining User Attribute Values By Mining User Network Data And Information - Systems and methods for determining one or more attributes and their associated values for a user, by mining the user's social network profiles. The systems and methods determine if the value of an attribute of interest for a user is specified on one or more social networking websites. If so, the systems and methods set the attribute value for the user to the specified attribute value. If not, the systems and methods retrieve, from the social networking websites, attribute values for the attribute of interest for friends of the user to form a group of possible attribute values for the user. The method, selects a value from the group of possible attribute values, and then sets the selected value as the attribute value for the user. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218966 | COLLABORATIVE WEB BROWSING SYSTEM HAVING DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL ELEMENT INTERACTION DETECTION - The present invention is directed towards to computerized social networks and e-commerce and facilitating ad-hoc screen sharing and co-browsing between users of a social network. The collaborative web browsing system has document object model element interaction detection. The collaborative browsing method comprises a server computer having a Shopping With A Friend (SWAF) server engine coupled to a database, a SWAF client engine coupled to the SWAF server engine and a plurality of client computers each having a web browser program that runs the SWAF client engine. The web browser program does not include a collaboration plug-in. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218967 | SYSTEM FOR SUGGESTING ACTIVITIES BASED ON CONTACTS - The subject technology suggests one or more activities based on one or more contacts of a user. In some configurations, a user selects one or more contacts. The subject technology then performs a query determining one or more activities based on the selected contacts that at least a subset of the users have indicated a desire to do a respective activity. For instance, each of the determined activities include a parameter indicating such a desire (e.g., a “want to do” parameter). The activities determined from the query are ranked based on one or more different criteria. In one example, the activities are ranked according to a number of selected contacts associated with a corresponding activity. Additionally, a group message can be provided for each selected contact associated with a respective activity in order to facilitate communication between the user and contacts. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPERIENCE-SHARING WITHIN A COMPUTER NETWORK - A system and method for providing a communication between users of a computer network are provided, the method including the steps of storing, in a database, received geo-location information, object information, brand information or other information, from a user; providing to the user a subset of previously stored digital media templates from the database for user selection; combining a user-selected digital media template with a user-selected media data object file received from the user; and tagging the geo-location information, object information, brand information or other information, to the combined user-selected digital media template and user-selected media data object file for communicating between users of the computer network. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218969 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING USER INTERESTS WITH ZONES AND MAPS - A user of a network system may be provided with geographical area information and may define geographical zones associated with his personal interests. This may allow a network server to provide said user with updated information relating to this particular geographical zone and the specified user interests. Described embodiments facilitate communication and contact among the members of a social network. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218970 | Method And System For Populating A Content Repository For An Internet Radio Service Based On A Recommendation Network - A computer-implemented method, system and computer readable medium storing software are provided for operating a media service based on a media recommendation network comprising a plurality of devices. Aspects of the method and system include receiving a recommendation of a media item from one of the plurality of devices for a media item that is intended for a recipient; determining if the media item is present in the content repository; requesting, in response to determining that the media item is not present in the content repository, upload of the media item; and storing, in response to the media item being uploaded, the media item in the content repository. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218971 | CLOUD PLATFORM NOTIFICATION - Providing updates for event notifications comprises identifying a first event. The first event is associated with one or more knowledge sources. Updates related to the first event based on the one or more knowledge sources are obtained. Related updates having an impact on the first event are determined. An electronic device is notified with the related updates having an impact on the first event. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218972 | LINKING USERS IN A NETWORK WITH COMPATIBLE DESIRED SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - A technique for linking users in a network based upon compatible desired social activities. In a specific implementation the technique includes receiving a first set of desired social activities from a first user in a network towards a second user in a network and a second set of desired social activity from the second user towards the first user. The desired social activities can be compared to determine whether or not they are compatible. The first user and the second user can be linked if their desired social activities towards each other are compatible. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, companies, schools, and individuals. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATIVE CONTEXT RECOGNITION - Techniques for collaborative context recognition include determining a plurality of groups of user types. Each different group is associated with a corresponding different range of values for an attribute of a user. First data is received, which indicates context data for a device and a value of the attribute for a user of the device. A particular group of user types to which the user belongs is determined based on the value of the attribute for the user. A context label based on the context data and the particular group is determined to be sent. Some techniques include determining a value of an attribute and context data based on context measurements. First data that indicates the context data and the value of the attribute is determined to be sent. A context label based on the context data and the value of the attribute is received. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218975 | MESSAGING POLICY FOR A COMMUNICATION NODE - There is provided a method in a node of a communication network. The method comprises establishing communication with a device, selecting a message according to a node profile, sending the selected message to the device; and updating the node profile according to the behavior of the device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218976 | PROVIDING A NEWSFEED BASED ON USER AFFINITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated with the social network environment is then determined based on the one or more activities and the relationship. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218977 | DEVICE FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A social network service providing apparatus is provided, which includes a subscription processing unit which registers an identifier and a keyword of a user by using the identifier of the user; a network search unit which searches for a network having identification information identical to a keyword registered in the storage unit; a network recommendation unit which transmits, to a terminal of the user, a signal requesting subscription to a network corresponding to the keyword; and a network subscription unit which receives a subscription response signal corresponding to the signal requesting subscription to the network from the terminal of the user and subscribes the user to the network. Accordingly, the apparatus enables users to expand human relationships online by various methods such that when a user is newly subscribed, network subscription is recommended to the user or a suggestion to form a new network is requested based on the keyword. | 08-22-2013 |
20130227006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A PARTY TO JOIN AN ESTABLISHED COMMUNICATION SESSION - A method for enabling a user to discover and join an established communication session is provided. The method includes receiving at a social networking service provider an identifier for a first user based on a request to establish a communication session between the first user and a second user. A third user that is approved to join the communication session is identified. The third user is notified of the communication session. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING ENTERPRISE ADOPTION OF A WEB-BASED COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT - System and method for promoting enterprise adoption of a web-based collaboration environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for detecting eligibility of a user having an account in the web-based collaboration environment, for the user to invite additional users to join the web-based collaboration environment, providing the user with a mechanism to invite the additional users to join the web-based collaboration environment to create accounts with enhanced features, and/or sending, to those of the additional users who qualify, an invitation to create new accounts in the web-based collaboration environment, those of the additional users who qualify are affiliated with the enterprise of the user having the account. The new accounts that are created include the enhanced features. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227008 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON PREDEFINED GRANDMASTER - In one embodiment, a method includes storing a grandmaster candidate list at a precision time protocol device, receiving a message identifying a synchronization hierarchy for use in clock synchronization at the precision time protocol device, the synchronization hierarchy having a grandmaster, determining if the grandmaster identified in the message is on the grandmaster candidate list, and performing synchronization in accordance with the synchronization hierarchy at the precision time protocol device if the grandmaster identified in the message is on the grandmaster candidate list. An apparatus is also disclosed. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227009 | ARBITRATION OF DISK OWNERSHIP IN A STORAGE POOL - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing persistent reservation techniques for establishing ownership of one or more physical disks. These persistent reservation techniques can be employed to determine ownership of physical disks in a storage pool as well as in any other storage configuration. Using the persistent reservation techniques of the present invention, when a network partition occurs, a defender of a physical disk does not remove a challenger's registration key until the defender receives notification that the challenger is no longer in the defender's partition. In this way, pending I/O from applications executing on the challenger will not fail due to the challenger's key being removed until the proper ownership of the physical disk can be resolved. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-BROWSER WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS - Various methods are described for expanding the display of a web application across multiple devices. One example method may comprise receiving an indication of content associated with a main frame of a web application. The method may further comprise displaying of the content associated with the main frame. Furthermore, the method may comprise searching for one or more external devices. Each of the one or more external devices may comprise a display for rendering content associated with a respective expanded frame of the web application. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise establishing a connection with the one or more external devices. Furthermore, the method may comprise providing for transmission to each of the one or more external devices of an indication of the content associated with the respective expanded frame. Similar and related example methods, example apparatuses, and example computer program products are also provided. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227011 | Interest-Based Social Recommendations for Event Ticket Network Systems - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a graph structure comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, determining a similarity score for each node with respect to a first node, ranking each of the nodes based on their respective similarity score, selecting a set of nodes based on the ranking of each node, and identifying one or more event associated with the selected set of nodes. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227012 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR INTEGRATING A COMPOSITE MIME MESSAGE - The present invention provides a method and system for integrating a composite message such as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) message. A metadata template associated with a metadata XML object is extracted from a content management system, whereby a key of the metadata XML object is passed with the request for communicating the composite message. One or more content assemblers are configured to retrieve one or more static content from one or more content management systems and one or more document management systems, in an iterative manner, based on the metadata template. A child content assembler is further configured to extract the dynamic content required for merging with the retrieved static content, to generate one or more message parts. A message generator is configured to concatenate the one or more message parts in a sequence for generating the composite message. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RELATED TO MEDIA CONTENT - A method of providing supplemental information synchronized with a piece of media content being played and related to a current state of the piece of media content being played is provided. The supplemental information may be transmitted to an electronic device in synchronization with the playing of the piece of media content on an audio/visual display interface. The method includes receiving identifying information from the electronic device and/or the audio/visual display interface, storing the identifying information in an active device table, receiving a viewing initiation notification, and transmitting the supplemental information to the electronic device in response to the viewing initiation notification. The electronic device may also transmit a request to begin playing the piece of media content. Transmission of the supplemental information may be paused, stopped, or resumed in synchronization with the piece of media content being played. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227014 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for sharing data between multiple devices includes transmitting a request for sharing data, receiving a layout file corresponding to the shared data, extracting at least one of a layout configuration and an object included in the layout file, receiving resources corresponding to at least one of the layout configuration and the object, applying the received resources to at least one of the layout configuration and the object, and configuring a user interface using the applied layout configuration and the object. A data sharing device includes a layout file analyzer to receive a layout file and to extract a layout configuration and an object, a resource processor to receive resources corresponding to at least one of the layout configuration and the object, and an output unit to apply the resources to at least one of the layout configuration and the object. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227015 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER, AND TERMINAL - A communication system having a repeating device to relay contents data to multiple terminals in a conference, and a file sharing device to provide a file to the terminals, includes a section to generate location information of a shared folder accessed commonly by the terminals, which is indicated to the multiple terminals, and a table of participating terminals. The file sharing device includes a shared folder, a file sharing table, and a first file synchronizing section to send file information of a file sent by a terminal, to other terminals in the same conference, if the file sent from the terminal is stored in the shared folder. Each of the terminals includes a folder mounting section to mount the shared folder on the requesting terminal, and a second file synchronizing section to send a file to be shared to the shared folder. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227016 | DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF UNWANTED CONTENT ON CLOUD-HOSTED SERVICES - The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed at the sign-up stage by identifying suspicious or abusive users and preventing them from signing up in the first place. This approach may utilize a relatively small initial data set based on the recognition that while abusers' profiles are mutable and difficult to characterize stably abusers will deliberately shift their usage patterns to evade detection—a site's legitimate users tend to have similar and stable characteristics; that is, such characteristics are “cohesive” across cloud-hosted service (e.g., social media) sites and their users. The information gleaned from analysis of this small data set can be applied to a much larger, unsorted data set to obtain profiling criteria based on a large population for statistical reliability. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227017 | LOCATION ASSOCIATED VIRTUAL INTERACTION, VIRTUAL NETWORKING AND VIRTUAL DATA MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for social and data communication that uses physical locations are disclosed. Tagging the data and/or communications to real locations provides that the data is given relevance/context by the tagged location and the data can be searched for/identified by other users using the physical location. By providing/updating the data in real-time, occurrences/interactions in the real world may be mirrored and or enhanced in the virtual world as they occur. Use of location tagging of the data provides for dissemination and/or identification of data by persons who are not “friends” or followers” of the party posting/uploading the data. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227018 | Methods and Systems for Identification in a Social Network Using a Mobile Telephone Number - Systems and methods for social networking, in which a user of a social networking system may interact with other users, comprises using a processor to associate a telephone number, such as a cell phone number, with the user and to use the telephone number as an identifier of the user in the social networking system. A prospective contact may be identified with the telephone number of the prospective contact. The user may integrate access to multiple social networking systems by selecting one or more of the multiple networking systems as desired networking systems for the user's interaction with a contact. A contact may choose which of the multiple systems to select for interacting with the user. Further, contacts may be grouped in the networking system, and the user may present customized user profiles to contacts based on the groupings. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227019 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INVITING USERS TO ONLINE SESSIONS - An apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for establishing peer-to-peer (“P2P”) communication channels. In particular, in one embodiment, an invitation service performs a series of transactions to enable P2P communication between two or more mobile data processing devices. Prior to attempting to establish a P2P network communication channel, the invitation service may first collect network information for each of the mobile devices and use the network information to determine if a direct P2P network communication channel is feasible. If a direct connection is feasible, then the invitation service provides for direct P2P communication, pushing the necessary network information to each of the mobile devices. If, however, a direct connection is infeasible or if a direct connection is attempted and fails, then the invitation service may identify network information associated with a relay service. The network information may then be used by any pair of mobile devices to establish a connection through the relay service. In addition, in one embodiment, the invitation service can perform its functions without maintaining any per-connection state information for any of the mobile devices. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227020 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING A CONTEXT BASED ON CONTENT INTERACTION - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for recommending a context to a user of a social network service, based on detecting an interaction with some item of web content. With some embodiments, after detecting an interaction with a web document, a topic to which the web document is related is determined. A context, such as an online or offline forum, known to be associated with the topic is then identified. Finally, the identified context is presented to the user as a recommendation for a content source that is likely to be of interest to the user. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227021 | Media processing system communicating activity information to support user interaction during media broadcasts - A system and method for communicating activity information to support user interaction during media broadcasts in a media exchange network. In one aspect, a first user may associate a second user with particular media characteristics. The second user may be notified when the first user consumes media having pre-defined characteristics matching those associated with the second user. The second user may keep records of the consumption of media with particular media characteristics, and may provide services or incentives to the first user. A system may comprise a first and a second set top box, each having storage with an associated network address. A user of the second set top box may have at least one associated media characteristic, and the second user may be sent a notification when the first user requests media with pre-defined characteristics matching the media characteristic associated with the second user. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227022 | PEER DISCOVERY AND SECURE COMMUNICATION IN FAILOVER SCHEMES - A system discovers peer nodes in a failover system, establishes a secure channel between at least two of the peer nodes, and exchanges state information over the secure channel. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227023 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING USERS INTEREST BASED ON MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS - A method and system for profiling interests of users based on multimedia content analysis and creating users' profiles respective thereof is provided. The method comprises receiving a tracking information gathered with respect to an interaction of a user with at least one multimedia element displayed on a user node; determining a user impression respective of at least one multimedia content element using the received tracking information; generating at least one signature for the at least one multimedia element; determining at least a concept of the at least one multimedia element using the at least one generated signature, wherein an interest of the user is determined respective of the concept; creating a user profile to include at least the user interest; and storing the user profile in a data warehouse. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION OVER SHARED STORAGE - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods disclosed herein enable synergy among a group of users by providing a real-time, secure collaboration environment that allows for cooperative interaction and decision making and provide the ability for users to simultaneously view, revise, and review a document or multimedia file that resides in a shared data storage location. Real-time, low latency, rich collaboration between producers and consumers provides organization efficiency, and this collaboration provides real-time, low latency transmission of data. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227025 | E-MEETING SUMMARIES - A method, computer program product, and system for determining a custom summary of a web conference is described. A first input associated with a first portion of a web conference is received. A first content associated with the web conference is selected based upon, at least in part, the first input. A custom summary of the web conference is determined based upon, at least in part, the selected first content and a relation associated with a socially-connected group. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE AND FOR SETTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USERS - Provided is a system for providing social network service (SNS) and a method for setting relationship between users of mobile terminals. The system may include a reception unit to receive location information on a user terminal allowing the location information to be shared in response to a friend request from the user terminal, a user terminal identification unit to identify at least one other user terminal present within a preset distance based on the location information on the user terminal and allows location information to be shared, a user information transmission unit to identify and send user information on the other user terminal to the user terminal, and a relationship setting unit to set a relationship between users of the user terminal and the other user terminal when the user information on the other user terminal is selected in the user terminal. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232198 | System and Method for Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Media Exposure Data - Systems and methods for operating an anonymous peer-to-peer (“P2P”) privacy panel for audience measurement is disclosed. A plurality of processing devices are configured to record and process research data pursuant to a research operation. Each of the users associated with each processing devices provide user data to a central site, where the user data includes demographic information, previous media exposure data, and other data. In accordance with user data, a customized P2P network is created where media exposure data including audio codes, signatures and data objects is obfuscated and communicate among portable devices in the network. By utilizing a P2P network, together with obfuscation techniques, panelist privacy is greatly increased. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232199 | SHARING AN APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AMONG SOCIAL NETWORKS - A machine may generate and store a correlation among multiple identifiers of the user that enable access to an application through multiple systems. For example, the user may have a first identifier for using a first social network system, and a second identifier for using a second social network system, and the machine may generate and store a correlation between the first identifier and the second identifier. The machine may identify the user based on the first identifier and access a database that stores the correlation. The machine may then access a configuration of the application based on the correlation and configure the application in accordance with the configuration. The machine may generate a visual representation of the configured application, provide the visual representation to a device of a further user, receive an indication of an opinion of the further user on the visual representation, and present the indication. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232200 | USER AND CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND DISCOVERY APPLICATION - A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to display a recommendation. A first user profile for a first user and a second profile are obtained. The first user profile is compared to the second profile to find similar properties. A recommendation is determined based on the similar properties. The recommendation is displayed to the first user. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232201 | Contiguous Location-Based User Networks - Contiguous location based user networks are disclosed herein. A method includes receiving an identification of an area of interest associated with a user of, and transmitting the identification of the area of interest to a server. The method includes determining a location of the user device and transmitting the location to the server. The method includes receiving information identifying a proximity group comprising the user and a plurality of other users. The proximity group includes least one other user being within a proximate area of the location of the user device and having an area of interest corresponding to the area of interest of the user. The proximate area corresponds to a second geographic region smaller than the area of interest. The proximity group further comprising at least one additional other user identified as a neighbor of each of the user and the at least one other user. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232202 | FORWARDING TRAFFIC FLOW IN INTELLIGENT RESILIENT FRAMEWORK SYSTEM - A method and member device for forwarding service messages in an Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) system and an IRF system. In the method, each member device in the IRF system is allocated to at least two virtual devices, and at least one stack link for each virtual device is configured in order to connect interface boards among different member devices. When it is determined according to a forwarding entry of an interface board in a first member device receiving a service message that the service message is to be transmitted to a second member device, the service message is forwarded via the at least one stack link configured for the virtual device of that interface board. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING SYNCHRONIZED MEDIA IN A DIGITAL CONTENT ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for presenting synchronized media in a digital content environment is presented. In particular, the central synchronous management system is communicatively disposed relative to the content environment and structured to identify target media or user-generated media. Specifically, the target media is analyzed for patterns of occurrences, keywords, geo-location information, etc. to be used as searching criteria. Synchronous media is then located from within the content environment and external to the content environment, combined with the initial communication or target media and displayed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238697 | SOCIAL NETWORK CREATION AND INTERACTION - A computing device may establish a connection with a user device and retrieve address book information corresponding to the user device. The address book information may include contact information corresponding to one or more individuals. The computing device may identify social network users corresponding to the address book information. Each social network user may include a subscriber to a particular network service. The computing device may create a social network based on the social network users identified. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238698 | System and Method for Adaptively Routing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Communications - Methods and systems for connecting communication devices in a network are provided. A first and a second communication devices are connected to a proxy in the network. The proxy being configured for routing signals between the first and second communication devices. Respective network protection types of the first and second communication devices are determined, and used to determine whether a peer-to-peer connection can be made between the first and second communication devices. If the peer-to-peer connection can be made, the first and second communication devices are enabled to communicate with each other via the peer-to-peer connection. If the peer-to-peer connection cannot be made, the proxy is enabled to continue routing signals between the first and second communication devices. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238699 | SOCIAL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - The invention, Social Notification System (SNS), is a method and system for notifying users that changes have occurred to various content or events, including, changes to Web content, new product launches, updated user profiles, non-Web events (beginning of a social gathering), or other changes or events have occurred. Web surfers will select content or events from a publisher's site by clicking on a button, hypertext link, widget icon, or by selecting by other means provided by the publisher, whereby the end user will receive notifications regarding such chosen content or events. The buttons or widgets may be provided by a SNS script or may be provided by the publisher of the content or event. The content chosen will be tracked by the SNS, so that the end user can be notified, by the SNS, of changes or events. These notifications will be sent out in various intervals and methods. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238700 | Dynamic Duty-Cycling of Processor of Mobile Device Based on Operating Condition of Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method includes recording a first location of a mobile device; determining, by one or more processors of a geographic-positioning component of the mobile device, on a periodic basis, a current location of the mobile device; determining, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, whether the current location is outside a geographic region defined at least in part by the first location; and if the current location is outside the geographic region, then transmitting, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, a message to one or more other processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the other processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238701 | Calendar Matching-up Social Network System And Method For Performing The Same - A calendar matching-up social network system and a method for performing the same are introduced, which do not only periodically gather and join at least one calendared data under various different computerized architectures into a web-based calendar provided from a specified community site for respective member but also actively intermediate and collect registering data of all of the members who have the same or similar specific information as contained in the gathered web-based calendars. Then, the system provides an intermediated message to the web-based calendar of the specified community site with respect to the respective member registering data with the same or similar specific information. This will facilitates establishment of a social relationship among those members having the same or similar specific information to share the specific information via the specified community site. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238702 | WIRELESS DISPLAY WITH MULTISCREEN SERVICE - Techniques of this disclosure are generally directed to a method of transmitting content of a first wireless computing device to a second wireless computing device. A first wireless computing device may initiate a WI-FI display (WFD) connection, transmit data from the first wireless computing device via the WFD connection to the second wireless computing device, execute a media sharing application that enables the first wireless computing device to share a media item of a playlist with a wireless client computing device, transmit information that describes the media item of the playlist to the wireless client computing device, wherein transmitting the information that describes the media item causes the second wireless computing device to determine if the wireless client computing device is capable of outputting the media item, and transmit the media item to the wireless client computing device. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238703 | MASTER VIEW CONTROLLER FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COMPANION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238704 | DYNAMIC CONTROLS FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238705 | WEB METHODS FOR A CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238706 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY FOLLOWING ENTITIES IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for causing an entity to automatically follow other entities in an online social network. Location information of an entity can be received, and an automatic follow rule applicable to the entity can be determined. The automatic follow rule may cause the entity to follow other entities when one or more conditions including a designated spatial proximity of the entity to the other entities is satisfied. When it is determined that one or more conditions is satisfied, data associated with the entity can be updated to indicate that the first entity follows the other entities. In some implementations, when the entity is associated with a temporal follow status and a trigger event specified by the automatic follow rule is satisfied, data associated with the entity can be updated to indicate that the entity does not follow the other entities. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238707 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To more effectively motivate a user to transmit information, an information processing system includes an information receiver that receives real-time information transmitted by a user terminal, a distributor that distributes the received real-time information to other predetermined user terminals, an analyzer that analyzes responses, from the other user terminals, to the distributed real-time information, an evaluator that evaluates the real-time information according to an analysis result, and an incentive provider that provides an incentive corresponding to the evaluation of the real-time information to a user who has transmitted the real-time information. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CALENDAR AND SPEED DATING FEATURES FOR MATCHING USERS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request at a communication broker for a communication session to involve a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the communication broker includes a processor and a memory element. The method may also include evaluating first calendar information for a first end user associated with the first endpoint and second calendar information for a second end user associated with the second endpoint. The method may also include reconciling the first calendar information with the second calendar information to provide a time slot for the communication session. Additionally, the method may include mapping first end user data to a first identity associated with the first end user, where the second endpoint is shown the first identity, and where the first end user data associated with the first endpoint is hidden from being shown to the second endpoint. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238709 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 09-12-2013 |
20130238710 | System Apparatus Circuit Method and Associated Computer Executable Code for Generating and Providing Content Recommendations to a Group of Users - Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits, methods and computer executable code sets for generating and providing content recommendations to match the tastes and preferences of a group of users. a Recommendation Engine is used for generating two or more individual content recommendation sets for each of the members in the user group. A Recommendation Aggregation Module is used for adding and combining the individual content recommendation sets into an aggregated recommendation set. a Recommendation Selection Module is used for selecting at least a subset of the content items in the aggregated recommendation set for inclusion in a content recommendation result set. A Profile Engine is used for building individual group users profiles from which a merged group profile is constructed, or for building a single joint group profile based on inputs from multiple group users. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246517 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTAINMENT OF NETWORKED APPLICATION CLIENT SOFTWARE BY EXPLICIT HUMAN INPUT - Method and system for containing networked application client software in order to perform specified transactions only given explicit consent of a legitimate user. In one embodiment, a confirmation interceptor intercepts a service request message, queries the user of the request for a confirmation, and then either passes the service request message onto server application software or drops the request, depending on the user's confirmation response. In soliciting and processing the confirmation response, query is formulated so that the required response cannot be automatically generated by software that attempts to automate and simulate the user's actions. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SUGGESTING CONTACTS THROUGH THE DISPLAY OF PUBLIC POSTS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - A system and method for displaying public posts within a social networking service. In one aspect, a method includes determining a plurality of suggested contacts associated with a user of the social networking service, with each suggested contact of the plurality of suggested contacts being associated with a plurality of public posts. For each suggested contact associated with the plurality of public posts, the method includes ranking the plurality of public posts for the suggested contact and selecting one or more public posts from the plurality of public posts for the suggested contact based on the ranking. The method further includes providing for the display of the selected one or more public posts along with a corresponding confirmation interface component allowing acceptance of the suggested contact as a contact of the user. Machine-readable media are also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246519 | GROUP OPERATIONS IN MACHINE-TO-MACHINE NETWORKS USING A SHARED IDENTIFIER - In a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) network, efficient subscription of a M2M network application to a potentially very large number of device applications executing on remote devices is facilitated by the use of a shared “link-subscription identifier.” Each related device application (e.g., utility meter reading applications) includes a shared link-subscription identifier in its registration to a M2M network gateway or a M2M services capability (SC). The gateways maintain a binding between link-subscription identifiers in the device applications associated with them. To subscribe to all related device applications, a network application includes the link-description identifier in a subscription request to the M2M SC. The M2M SC, in turn, includes the link-subscription identifier in subscription requests it forwards to gateways and directly-connected remote devices. If the link-subscription identifier is one that is maintained locally by a gateway, the gateway forwards the subscription request to all remote devices executing associated device applications. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246520 | Recognizing Social Media Posts, Comments, or other Texts as Business Recommendations or Referrals - An approach is provided that receives social network feeds at a network interface. Each of the feeds is a freeform comment. The feeds are analyzed in order to identify keywords that are included in any of the social network feeds. A keyword found in a social network feed indicates the presence of contact data in the social network feed. When a keyword is found, contact data is extracted from the selected social network feed and the extracted data is stored in a contact-oriented application. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246521 | SELECTIVELY PROVIDING CONTENT ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - News feed stories are ranked so that new stories appear above previously viewed stories for users of a social networking system. Top news stories are selected by the social networking system based on a ranking algorithm that incorporates an analysis of affinities for interests, users, and entities in the social networking system based on user interactions. Other new stories are provided after the top new stories in a chronological order. For each user of the social networking system, a view state is recorded that includes the order of news feed stories provided to users. Based on the view state and received user input, the social networking system may determine whether to provide new news feed stories to a viewing user. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246522 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORDERING AND VOTING ON SHARED MEDIA PLAYLISTS - Methods and systems for managing ordering of media items for play is provided. The method includes establishing a session between two or more connected devices, and receiving a request from one of the connected device to create a shared media playlist. The shared media playlist accepting addition of a plurality of media items from at least one of the connected devices. Then, collecting vote input from one or more of the connected devices. The vote input is applied to selected ones of the plurality of media items in the shared media playlist. The method processes the collected vote input to set a score for at least one of the plurality of media items. The method orders the plurality of media items in the shared media playlist, such that playing of the plurality of media items during the session follow the ordering. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246523 | BROWSER BASED RECOVERY DISCOVERY - Services that support recovery of a data center require collecting information concerning the service customer's physical and virual infrastructure. Here an automatic discovery tool executes within the context of a secure browser program. Once a user is authenticated, a JavaScript or HTML program seamlessly retrieves configuration data (such as by invoking WMI scripts) forwards that data (such as via an XML file) to the replication service provider so that they may then correctly provision recovery systems. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246524 | Sending Event-Triggered Messages and Gifts to Network Users - Provided is a method for sending event-triggered messages and gifts to network users, the message being generated by a triggering event. In one embodiment, meaningful events that are associated with a social network connection of a user are used as the triggering events. The method may comprise monitoring one or more events associated with one or more user connections in one or more social networks, identifying the events, generating the one or more connection-related actionable items, presenting the one or more connection-related actionable items to the user, receiving a user request to execute the one or more connection related items, and executing the one or more connection-related actionable items. Additionally, the user may be able to purchase one or more gifts and attach the one or more gift cards to messages sent to the one or more connections. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246525 | INSTANT TRANSITION FROM A PUBLIC CONVERSATION THREAD TO A PRIVATE CHAT OR INSTANT MESSAGE ENVIRONMENT - A system and related operating methods for transitioning an electronically displayed public mode of written conversation to an electronically displayed private mode of written conversation are presented here. The system operates by identifying a displayed public thread that conveys a conversation among a plurality of users, and by receiving an instruction to transition at least some content of the displayed public thread to a private setting. In response to receiving the instruction, the system initiates a private communication application, and then continues the conversation among at least some of the plurality of users in a private environment, using the private communication application. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246526 | Consensus and preference event scheduling - The invention described here utilizes the Internet and other communication and social media conduits to create a meeting or an event, with the specific details decided by consensus. This scheduling system streamlines, simplifies, broadens, and automates the process. The organizer initially creates a proposed event with a single or multiple date options. The organizer then adds candidate participants via social media accounts, for example: Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn; or other participant identifiers such as: email addresses, cellphone numbers, etc. Each created event can be altered until the specified end-date, the final date by which all participants may feedback their choices and preferences for this event. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246527 | System and Method for Managing Data Using Tree Structures - A distributed tree protocol is provided for managing computing devices that form a peer-to-peer overlay network, and for modifying data that is synchronized between the devices. A method for modifying the data includes representing data in a tree structure. The tree structure includes at least one tree node identified by a tree node ID, the tree node ID including a numerical value representing a path from a root node to the at least one node. The root node and the tree structure are identified by a root node ID. The device can send or receive a peer-to-peer message with an other computing device. The message includes a format value specifying a format of the numerical value, the root node ID, an operation value specifying modification of the data, and at least one tree node ID associated with the modification of the data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246528 | SERVICE REQUEST APPARATUS, SERVICE REQUEST METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A service request apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor coupled to the storage unit, wherein the processor executes a process including: storing in the storage unit source session information and destination session information in association with a user identifier, the source session information indicating information on a session used by a service source that is requested by the user for provision of a service, and the destination session information indicating information on a session used by a service destination; determining whether the user identifier of the user who requests the service source for provision of the service is stored in the storage unit; and requesting, when the user identifier is stored, the service source for provision of the service in cooperation with the service destination connected using the destination session information associated with the source session information, the service source being connected using the source session information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246529 | PRESENTING INFORMATION IN A CONFERENCE - One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLAYLISTS FOR SOCIAL TELEVISION - A system and method for managing a common media session shared by a plurality of media consumers. A primary media consumer may be enabled to set up a media session which secondary media consumers may follow. The media session may involve the streaming of selected media content directly or indirectly from at least one media provider. A communication mechanism may be provided to allow participating media consumers to communicate with each other during the media session. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246531 | System And Method For Maintaining Associations Within A Social Network For A User - A system and method for maintaining associations within a social network for a user are provided. A device proximate a user device is identified. It is determined whether the identified device is associated with an entity having a pre-established association with a user of the user device within the social network. The user is associated with the entity within the social network if the identified device is not associated with an entity having a pre-established association with the user. The user-entity association is maintained within the social network based upon whether the entity and the user device remain proximate. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254275 | DYNAMIC MESSAGE RETRIEVAL - Methods and systems for dynamically changing a message retrieval scheme during runtime include accessing messaging business rules from a memory by a message retrieval component at runtime, wherein the messaging business rules define a primary retrieval scheme and a secondary retrieval scheme, and wherein a value provided for each of the primary retrieval scheme and the secondary retrieval scheme are selected from a combination of different message retrieval types including: First In First Out (FIFO), Last In First Out (LIFO), and random. The message retrieval component subdivides the message queue into sub-queues based on at least one of a message quantity limit and a message received time limit specified in the business rules. Each of the sub-queues is then accessed using the value of the secondary retrieval scheme; and messages from each of the sub-queues are retrieved using the value of the primary retrieval scheme. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254276 | ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT RECORDS AND AGGREGATES MOOD IN COLOR - A system, method, and computer program for mood mapping with color within a social network is provided. Data about the mood and subsequent data of a plurality of social network members is received. A member of the plurality of social network members is permitted to establish a relationship with any other member of the plurality of social network members with whom a relationship is desired. Mood data and subsequent data are then shared between social network members with a relationship. A member's status is updated with their current mood represented in color as represented: GREEN (happy), ORANGE (excited), PINK (tender), YELLOW (scared), RED (angry), BLUE (sad), GREY (transition). Mood data represented in color from the plurality of social network members is aggregated and displayed in real-time on a world map and summarized via a device containing circles that proportionally displays aggregated color mood data. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254277 | Methods And Networks For Device To Device Communication - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling communications between first and second user equipments (UEs) by a base station in a network. The method includes obtaining an indication, the indication indicating if the first and second UEs are within a communication range of each other and controlling a direct communication link between the first and second UEs if the first and second UEs are within a communication range of each other. The controlling includes allocating at least a first portion of an uplink channel of the network to the direct communication link. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254278 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATCHING USERS TO GROUPS FOR ONLINE COMMUNITIES AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS - A method includes detecting a first user seeking to join a group, detecting one or more groups recruiting members, retrieving user parameters corresponding to the first user, and retrieving group parameters corresponding to each of the one or more groups. The group parameters may comprise group characteristic data and group requirements. For each group of the one or more groups, the group parameters corresponding to the group are compared against the user parameters corresponding to the first user. A score is determined for each of the one or more groups based on the comparing. One or more selected groups of the one or more groups is recommended to the first user at least in part based on the score. One or more computer programs may be adapted to execute the above steps, and a processor may be configured to perform the above steps. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES - Method for scheduling and implementing an electronic meeting conducted among remotely-located users communicating with an agenda server, including: accepting a meeting agenda that includes a plurality of topics, a quorum, an identification of resources used by each topic, an identification of data used by each topic, and an identification of data produced by each topic; partitioning the meeting agenda into at least a first and second group of topics; searching for data dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; searching for resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; if data dependencies or resource dependencies are found between the first and second groups of topics, then repartitioning the meeting agenda until the data dependencies and resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics are reduced below a predetermined dependency threshold; and concurrently scheduling and executing the first and second groups of topics. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254280 | IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Techniques for identifying influential users of a social networking service are provided. Influential users may be identified via an algorithm in which an influence score is assigned to each user based at least in part on other members of the community users having taken an affirmative step with respect to the user's communications. Iterative processing may be performed, with each user's influence score being determined by contributions from other users, and each contribution being determined by the contributor's influence score as of a prior iteration. A map-reduce framework may be employed, with data representing the community being partitioned into a plurality of discrete shards, a map process corresponding to each shard calculating an influence score for users represented in the shard, and reduce processes ranking users according to influence score across all shards. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254281 | COLLABORATIVE MEDIA GATHERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems, devices and methods are described including determining a goal for collaborative media gathering, automatically generating a plurality of tasks specifying the capture of media associated with the goal, storing the tasks, and providing the tasks to a plurality of users. The goal may be automatically determined in response to real-time social media analysis. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254282 | PROPAGATING USER EXPERIENCE STATE INFORMATION - Techniques for propagating user experience state information are described. A user experience can include various types of content that a user may consume, such as video content, images, audio content, text documents, and so on. Further, a “composition” can be created using various combinations of user experiences, such as still images inset to video content, a navigable map presented with images of geographical locations associated with the map, and so on. In implementations, techniques enable user experiences included as part of a composition to interact such that behaviors associated with one user experience can affect another user experience, and vice-versa. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254283 | Targeting Stories Based On Influencer Scores - A story describing an activity performed by an interacting user is distributed to viewing users according to the influencer scores for the viewing users. Each influencer score can be calculated based at least in part on the influence of a viewing user on those users connected to the viewing user, and on the influencer scores for the users connected to the viewing user. Based on the determined influencer scores, at least one of the viewing users can be provided with the story describing the activity performed by the interacting user. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254284 | EMBEDDING AN AUTOGRAPH IN AN ELECTRONIC BOOK - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for embedding an autograph into digital media, particularly an electronic book. A system is described that includes an author's device running a signing application and at least one reader's device storing a copy of the electronic book. Depending on the proximity of the reader's device to the author's device, the author's device automatically performs different autographing tasks. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM WITH TEMPLATES FOR ROLE-BASED VIEW OF SUBSCRIPTIONS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for notifying one or more users of information having a plurality of attributes. A plurality of subscribable objects are provided to one or more users, where each subscribable object comprises one or more attributes as required attributes and zero or more of the attributes as optional attributes. Subscription requests are received from one or more of the users based on at least one of the subscribable objects. The subscribable objects are based, for example, on a set of predefined templates. The predefined templates identify each of the plurality of attributes as a required attribute or an optional attribute. Each of the attributes is presented to a user using a display format selected based on a cardinality of the corresponding attribute. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254286 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS - In some embodiments, a method includes adding at least one virtual token to an account associated with a user of a token server, upon initial association of the user with the token server. The token server can be configured to transfer virtual tokens to and from accounts associated with a plurality of users. The token server can be accessible by one or more electronic devices in communication with the token server via a network. At least one virtual token can be transferred from an account associated with a first user of the token server to an account associated with a second user of the token server based upon a request received from the first user of the token server via an electronic device. The transferred virtual token can be associated, for example, with a popularity rating of the user receiving the virtual token. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254287 | Online Social Interaction, Education, and Health Care by Analysing Affect and Cognitive Features - A method of establishing a collaborative platform comprising performing a collaborative interactive session for a plurality of members, and analysing affect and cognitive features of some or all of the plurality of members is disclosed herein. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING PARENTAL APPROVAL - An improved system and method enable website operators and online service providers to verify parental approval for access by underage users, e.g., for compliance with COPPA. The system and method herein also enable parents to monitor what sites their children have approval to visit; enable parents to withdraw approval at any time for any site(s) previously approved using the system and method described herein; and enable website operators/online service providers to admit or prevent children from logging in or accessing online services or content based on real time parental approval data. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254289 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL REFERRALS - Methods and systems for providing referrals within a social network are provided. In some embodiments, a request for a referral may be received from a first user. Referrals may include, for example, referrals for businesses or service providers. A plurality of users may be identified, where the plurality of users are linked to the first user (e.g., directly or indirectly) in a social network. The request may be transmitted to the plurality of users, and at least one referral may be received from at least one of the plurality of users. The received at least one referral may be provided to the first user. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254290 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO A USER - Method, system, and programs for providing content to a user. In one example, the user is associated with a first user group. At least some information of the user corresponds to a first topic associated with the first user group. A second user group is then determined based on the first topic associated with the first user group. A second topic associated with the second user group is different from the first topic associated with the first user group. Content related to the second topic associated with the second user group is provided to the user. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254291 | METHOD FOR SHARING HOME SCREEN - A method for sharing a home screen is provided. The method includes determining whether a sharing condition for a shared home screen is satisfied, by an N-screen device supporting an N-screen service; if the sharing condition is satisfied, transmitting, by the N-screen device, a shared home screen set to be shared in the N-screen device, to another N-screen device supporting the N-screen service; and receiving and displaying the transmitted shared home screen, by the other N-screen device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254292 | STORY CONTENT GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer-assisted system and method for the creation, organization, consumption and distribution of bodies of user-generated content. The system and method includes joining individual contributions, made both synchronously and asynchronously, by multiple user contributors in real-time to form the content. The system and method implements a non-destructive approach, with each individual contribution made by every contributor being maintained as a complete, distinct entry, and retaining its original presence in the work without being subject to modification, deletion, obsolescence or replacement. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254293 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AN ON-LINE EVENT LANDER - Systems and methods are provided for a user to create an event lander page for a recipient for delivery on-line. The system includes a graphical interface for the user to include text, photo, audio, video, and gift card and to select a future date until when the full content of the page is blocked from viewing by the recipient. The recipient will receive a notification when the page is created, but the recipient can only wait in anticipation because only limited information on the page is viewable before the future date. The notification may be posted on a recipient's social network homepage and thus generate wide publicity among the recipient's friends on the social network. The system may allow the recipient's friends to add their own greetings to the same event lander page. In one application, the event lander page may be used for on-line social greeting and gifting. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254294 | Method and Arrangement For Ranking Users - A method and arrangement for providing information on a social rank of a first user (A) within a plurality of users ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130254295 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE APPARATUS AND SERVICE METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a social network service apparatus and a service method thereof. The social network service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a cyber space providing unit which provides each member with a dedicated secret cyber space on a network, wherein the cyber space includes at least one of a web page and a WAP page; a friend information storage unit which stores information on registered friends of each member; a friend designation unit which designates, as a communication target, at least one of the friends stored in the friend information storage unit by each member, or designates at least one of friends as a person having a data sharing authority in correspondence to the data uploaded in the cyber space; and a data sharing information transmitting unit which determines whether the friend designated by the friend designation unit has accessed the network, and, if the designated friend has accessed, pushes sharing information on the data for which the designated friend has a sharing authority from among the data uploaded in the cyber space, to the terminal of said designated friend in a predetermined cycle. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262573 | DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS INTEGRATED WITH COMMUNITY NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - A method, a system and a computer program product for enabling an individual to efficiently create dynamic communication networks to communicate with members that have particular interests and experience, according to a network contact profile. A dynamic network creation (DNC) utility executes on a data processing system and enables an individual to spontaneously create a dynamic network defined by one or more of: (a) location of members; (b) particular affiliation of members; (c) experience of members; (d) authenticated credentials; and (e) other characteristics. The DNC utility enables the user to create a network contact profile or import existing profile information from a particular social networking application to the DNC system application. The DNC system allows individuals to create a network that may comprise members identified by various network affiliations. Thus, the DNC utility enables cross platform communication. The DNC system uses a target communication mechanism to enable a user to initiate a communication with a particular individual or a group of individuals. The DNC employs dynamic and intelligent GPS/LPS to provide directions between individuals in an established network. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262574 | Inline User Addressing in Chat Sessions - A computer-implemented method is executed on a server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving chat content from participants in a chat session. The method also includes detecting, within the chat content, an embedded request to invite a specified user to join the chat session. The method further includes sending an invitation to the specified user in response to detecting the embedded request. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262575 | EXTRACTING MEDIA CONTENT FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed for extracting media content from social networking services and presenting the extracted content to an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) user in a personalized and easy-to-consume manner. One or more feeds from social networking services that contain data pertaining to the user's social graph are monitored by a service in the IPTV domain for media content that meets preset criteria and preferences of the user. A social networking dashboard application is hosted in the IPTV environment and includes a user interface arranged with tools to enable the user to set preferences and specify tags that control various aspects of the media content extraction. The service can also monitor the social networking feeds in a real-time manner that enables creation of a knowledge base that is usable to present media content “trends” to the IPTV user. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262576 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT NOTIFICATION FRAMEWORK IN A MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) CONTEXT - Systems and methods provide for managing subscriptions to changes in resources in a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) system at a communications node. A method for such includes receiving, at an interface, a first subscription request from a first user to an application event; determining, by a processor, if other devices are subscribed to the application event; reading, by the communications node, the first subscription request including data, semantics and syntax; storing, in a memory, binding information for the first user and the application event; and transmitting, by the interface, if, based on said step of determining, no other devices are subscribed to the application event a second subscription message toward an M2M application server (AS). | 10-03-2013 |
20130262577 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262578 | CONTENT SHARING METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE METHOD - A method of sharing content performed by a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes providing a list of social groups that share group activity information of a group member by executing a phone book, receiving a selection of at least one social group from the list of social groups, transmitting at least one piece of content selected by a first user of the mobile terminal to a device of a group member included in the selected at least one social group, and adding the transmitted at least one piece of content to a group share space corresponding to the selected at least one social group. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262579 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING AUDIO DATA WITH IMAGE FILE DATA - Methods and apparatus for associating audio file data with image file data according to various aspects of the present invention comprise a social object creation module that is configured to combine multiple files type into a single social media object that may be shared by users. The social object creation module may be installed on a computing device to enable the computing device to create the social object by combining a digital image with an audio file into a single object or data package that may be communicated to another computing device over a communication network. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262580 | SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL SYSTEM, SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a social infrastructure control system includes upper layer system and lower layer system. Lower layer system includes sensor, uploader and controller. Sensor detects event concerning social infrastructure and outputs event information. Uploader uploads event information to upper layer system via communication line. Controller controls social infrastructure based on control data transmitted from upper layer system or event information. Upper layer system includes processor and transmitter. Processor generates control data used to control social infrastructure based on event information. Transmitter transmits control data to controller via communication line. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262581 | Session Collaboration - A method of collaborating session management during remote control management with a mobile device which allows a Customer Service Representative to be able to share, transfer, and monitor their remote control sessions amongst other Customer Service Representatives without having to end the existing session. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262582 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A social network service system includes a server wherein a terminal of a member is connectable to the server. The server includes a memory configured to store a home screen includes top image data for each member, a selector configured to select a type of an image processing, and a processor configured to process, at a predetermined timing, the top image data of a member in accordance with the type of the image processing which is selected by the selector. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAMESPACE RESOLUTION IN PEER TO PEER NETWORKS - A system and method is provided for using information provided by a user or created by a server to create secondary registrations in multiple peer to peer communication networks in such a manner as to enable the user to gain visibility and communication access to subscribers on any of the various and multiple networks through a single login to a preferred network. Moreover, the user may gain the requisite access to subscribers on the multiplicity of networks by accessing them from any preferred network. Thus any one of several networks may be used to gain preferred access for communication ease and simplicity. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262584 | System and Method for Displaying Information About Pairs of Matched Users - A system and method allows two users to utilize a shared profile of information about the two users and their relationship with one another. Information from the couples profile and its operation may be used to search or match users of a coupled profile with other users after the relationship between the two users of the couples profile has been indicated to have ended. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF VIDEO STREAMS RELEVANT TO SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to present a media content stream to a social network user. Media content relevant to a user of a social network is compiled in response to user action or user information. The media content is then presented as a video stream to the user. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262586 | Method and System for Filtering Device Events by Social Graph - A method is provided for selectively displaying device events based on a user's social graph using a programmed computing device. Device events are aggregated from a plurality of applications on the device. The user's social graph is obtained and stored from a social network. The social graph has nodes that identify participants and in which the user is a participant. The device events are then parsed to identify participant references. At least one participant reference in a device event is matched to a relevant participant on the user's social graph. An interface is provided through which the participant can be displayed with the at least one device event matched to the participant. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262587 | AGILE NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR SECURE VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS WITH ASSURED SYSTEM AVAILABILITY - A system and method for video conferencing over a secure communication link is disclosed. In various implementations, the system is configured connect to a communication network, store a plurality of network addresses of devices of registered users, each device of a registered user having an application program for conducting video conferencing between, the client device and the target device, and establish a secure communication link between the client device and the target device. The secure communication link is established in response to a query (a) generated by the client device and (b) including an identifier associated with a network address of the target device, the establishment of the secure communication link being based on a determination that the target device can accept a secure communication link connection with the client device. Video conferencing is conducted over the secure communication link connection between the client device and the target device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262588 | Tag Suggestions for Images on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image portraying at least a first person, accessing a social graph, determining a social-graph affinity for a first set of users, determining a facial-recognition scores for the first set of users based on the social-graph affinity for each user and a facial-representation associated with each user, where the facial-representation for each user is compared with the image, and generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the facial-recognition scores. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268588 | Location-Aware Virtual Service Provisioning in a Hybrid Cloud Environment - A sense of location is provided for distributed virtual switch components into the service provisioning scheme to reduce latency observed in conducting policy evaluations across a network in a hybrid cloud environment. A management application in a first virtual network subscribes to virtual network services provided by a second virtual network. A first message is sent to the second virtual network, the first message comprising information configured to start a virtual switch in the second virtual network that switches network traffic for one or more virtual machines in the second virtual network that are configured to extend services provided by the first virtual network into the second virtual network. A second message is sent to the second virtual network, the second message comprising information configured to start a virtual service node in the second virtual network that provides network traffic services for the one or more virtual machines. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268589 | SECURE SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for facilitating and securing the exchange of digital information between individuals within the social network of a person or group of people who are subject to security or law enforcement limitations or otherwise reside within a controlled or correctional facility. All submitted information requires administrative approval, either by a human administrator or an automated process, before it can be viewed by other members of the social network. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING INFORMATION LOSS IN AN AGGREGATED INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM - A provided information handling system includes a plurality of aggregation devices configured to distribute information in a virtual link trunk and a plurality of nodes coupled to the aggregation devices. When an aggregation device receives a reboot command, that aggregation device is configured to transmit a first message to the nodes indicating that the aggregation device is rebooting, and receive a first acknowledgement message from the nodes indicating that they will not send any information to the rebooting aggregation device. The aggregation device is then configured to reboot, receive a second message from the nodes indicating the nodes are ready to receive information from the rebooted aggregation device, transmit a second acknowledgement message to the nodes indicating that the rebooted aggregation device has rebooted and is capable of receiving information, and receive information from one of the nodes for transmission to another node. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268591 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING ENGAGEMENT WITH A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques to increase engagement with a social networking system. In one embodiment, activities are prioritized based on relatedness to a user. References associated with at least a portion of the prioritized activities are created. The references are categorized into a plurality of types. The reference types may include notifications, friend identifications, and top stories. The references are embedded in digest communications for the user. Descriptive information about the activities are omitted from the digest communications. Digest communications for the user are provided during a time period when the user is not engaged with the social networking system. Notifications for a user are ceased when a level of engagement of the user with the social networking system is less than a threshold value. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268592 | CONTENT-AWARE PERSISTENT USER ROOM - The disclosure relates to a method for providing a persistent virtual room by an online service, wherein said virtual room represents activities hosted by the online service. The method comprises the steps of automatically creating the virtual room in response to an activity being initiated by a user of the online service, said creating including linking the activity to the virtual room and associating the user with the virtual room as a member of the virtual room, associating at least one further user with the virtual room as a member of the virtual room in response to the at least one further user joining at least one activity represented by the virtual room, removing a member from the virtual room in response to the member leaving an activity represented by the virtual room, and persistently maintaining the virtual room during a predetermined period of time after the number of members of the virtual room has decreased below a threshold. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268593 | DETERMINING MUSIC IN SOCIAL EVENTS VIA AUTOMATIC CROWDSOURCING - A method for providing music to a group of users is provided. The method initiates with detecting a plurality of devices in proximity to each other, each of the devices having an associated user. For each user, a music library of the user is accessed to retrieve a listing of songs contained in the music library and data associated with each of the songs. The retrieved listings of songs and the associated data are analyzed to determine songs which are likely to be preferred by all of the users. A group playlist of songs is generated based on the songs which are likely to be preferred by all of the users. The songs of the group playlist are then streamed to one of the plurality of devices. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268594 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION AND TIME FRAME RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES - A system and method for providing social network services on the basis of users locations and the related time frame. The aforesaid system and method store within users profiles personal information comprising location, the related time frame, and the visibility zone or visibility place defined by the users. When a user inputs one or more locations and the related time frame into the system, the system in return provides the user with information about other users assigned to the same or a nearby location and the same or similar time frame. However, the system displays only those other users who included the previously mentioned user's location within their visibility zone or visibility place settings. The users can interact with visible users by sharing information, including, but not limited to, messages, pictures, music, movies, books and news. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268595 | DETECTING COMMUNITIES IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Methods of identifying user communities in a telecommunication network include extracting fields from communication records that contain data regarding communications of users of the telecommunication network, generating a plurality of nodes corresponding to users of the telecommunication network based on the extracted fields, determining similarities between pairs of nodes using a similarity metric that measures relationships between the users of the telecommunication network, and grouping the plurality of nodes into non-overlapping communities based on the determined similarities. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING TARGETED CONTENT - A method and system for presenting targeted content to users over the internet is provided. The method includes enabling a user to sign into a website. An identifier is generated for the user, if the user is signing into the website for the first time. Information corresponding to the user is mined and the information is linked to the user. Further, verification is made to determine whether the generated identifier matches with existing identifiers. If the generated identifier matches with an existing identifier, then existing information corresponding to the matched identifier is linked to the user. Targeted content is presented to the user by processing at least the information linked to the user. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268597 | Relevance-Based Aggregated Social Feeds - Relevant items are selected from personalized items included in a variety of social networking system feeds based on a relevance threshold. Content included in the received items is observed to facilitate grouping the items. Items satisfying a grouping criteria, are grouped based on the content of the items. Items are then scored based on relevance factors, such as whether an item is included in the group or an indication of interest level associated with items in a group. Scored items meeting a relevance threshold are selected for display in an aggregated social feed in a content region of a page. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268598 | Dropped Call Notification System and Method - A virtual meeting place system with dropped call notification is disclosed. The online virtual meeting place monitors a “heart-beat” signal from a client, designates the client in temporary state in response to a lack of the signal during an interval, notifies participants that the client is in the temporal state, designates the client as disconnected in response to a lack of the signal during a second time interval and notifies the participants that the client is disconnected. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275504 | COMMUNITY OF INTEREST NETWORKS - Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a community of interest network (CoIN) may include a publisher configured to provide content to a user across a network, the publisher configured to identify a CoIN parameter based on user network activity. A communications services provider may be configured to provide communications services to the user across the network based on the identified community of interest network. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275505 | Systems and Methods for Event Networking and Media Sharing - The present invention relates generally to photography and imaging, telecommunications, social media, and event networking in a variety of fields including sports and other community events, personal events, and other occasions in which the sharing of information and media is desirable. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of various communications protocols and platforms in order to distribute information through a network to enable users to interact and communicate with like-minded users, as well as to enable the creation and purchasing of items and customized products. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275506 | LYRIC POSTING, LIVE TRACK SHARING, AND ZIP CODE NOTIFICATION OF MUSIC EVENTS - Providing a user status, the user status comprising a portion of a published work. A method includes receiving user input; determining a relationship of the user input to one or more published works; displaying to the user different portions of the one or more published works; receiving user input selecting at least one of the different portions of the one or more published works; and posting the selected portions to a user's status accessible to one or more other users. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275507 | Method for Managed Social Networking Services - A method for managing closeness of a connection in SNS is provided and includes: calculating an intimacy distance of a connection based on times of activities or amount of interactions between a user and the other end of the connection, tuning the intimacy distance by other factors the user chooses; controlling the closeness of a connection and in disclosure according to the intimacy distance calculated. With the embodiments of the present invention, a user can control the closeness of a connection and control data disclosure based on the closeness with individual people regardless of their groups or circles. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DERIVING A NAME FOR ASSOCIATION WITH A DEVICE - Electronic devices without device names are provided with an application for retrieving a data point from the device from which a name can be deduced. A match for the data point is searched for in the contacts list in the device, and when found, the name corresponding to the contact entry, in which the data point has been found, is used to derive the device name. The derived device name (or information from which the device name may be derived) may be transmitted to a remote server which may be used for managing multiple such devices. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA OBJECTS IN A CLOUD BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems are provided for synchronizing and sharing data objects in a cloud based social networking environment of the type including a collaboration cloud. The method includes defining a sharing configuration within the collaboration cloud to include a second computing device; running a dedicated client synchronization application on a first computing device; creating a sync folder on the first computing device using the client synchronization application; updating a data object using the first computing device; adding the updated data object to the sync folder; automatically synchronizing the updated data object with the collaboration cloud; and propagating, using the collaboration cloud, the updated data object to the second computing device. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275510 | MANAGING WEB SERVICES DATA AND PRESENCE DATA - Interfacing a wireless device with web services, including social networking web services, is described. For example, a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprises a web service proxy having an API to allow other modules to interface with the web service proxy; a plurality of web services adapters interfaced with the web services proxy through the API, each one of the web services adapters configured to communicate with a particular web service using the specific communication formats for the web service; where the web services adapters and the web services proxy convert between the communication formats employed to communicate with each of the web services and a wireless communication format, the wireless communication format being a different format than the communication formats for each of the web services, thereby enabling bi-directional communication between the wireless device and the plurality of web services. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE AND/OR CONTENT-BASED NODAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS - In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on their attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues. Each interrelationship or link may be positive or negative and may accumulate with other links (or anti-links) to provide nodal links the strength of which are based on commonality of attributes among the linked nodes and/or common preferences that one node, such as a reviewer, expresses for other nodes, such as venues. The links may be first order (based on a direct relationship between, for instance, a reviewer and a venue) or higher order (based on, for instance, the fact that two venue are both liked by a given reviewer). The recommendation engine in certain embodiments determines recommended venues based on user attributes and venue preferences by aggregating the link matrices and determining the venues which are most strongly coupled to the user. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275512 | LIFE EXPERIENCES CERTIFICATION PROCESS - A process of information certification is provided. The process includes receiving a request from a user, such as an individual, group, or entity, and dividing the categories into two parts. Checking and certification is performed by a Host where possible on existing categories of subject matter. Additional categories are generated for new information to be checked and certified. Certifications are provided for all categories which can be and have been checked. The certification process is continued in the future—either automatically and/or upon request—to include any new information provided by the user or found in regular searches. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275513 | WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORK FACILITATING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AMONG PLURALITY OF USERS - A wireless ad-hoc network for facilitating social interactions among a plurality of users includes a plurality of electronic devices associated with the plurality of users. An electronic device includes a transceiver module for establishing a direct communication link with the second electronic device and for generating an identification code associated with the second electronic device. A contacts module for maintaining a profile of a second user associated with the second electronic device and for mapping between the profile and corresponding identification code in response to establishing the direct communication link The electronic device also includes a social interaction module for searching the second electronic device based on the mapping and for enabling a social interaction with the second electronic device over the direct communication link, and a user interface module for rendering output information to and for receiving input information from a user of the electronic device. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275514 | SERVER DEVICE, BEHAVIOR PROMOTION AND SUPPRESSION SYSTEM, BEHAVIOR PROMOTION AND SUPPRESSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A behavior information acquirer ( | 10-17-2013 |
20130282803 | ENGAGING SESSION ELEMENTS IN CONFERENCE SESSIONS - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating conference sessions. In particular, implementations disclosed herein pertain to engaging session elements using both a primary identifier and a secondary identifier included in a request to join a user to a session. A primary session element may be engaged using the primary identifier while a secondary session element may be engaged using the secondary identifier. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282804 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-DEVICE TIME ALIGNMENT AND INSERTION OF MEDIA - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory, computer program code, and processor configured to cause the apparatus to receive at least a first media content from a first device configured to capture media content and a second media content from a second device configured to capture media content. The apparatus may be configured to align the continuous media content from the first media content to the continuous media content from the second media content. The apparatus may be configured to measure the time intervals between the non-continuous media content and the continuous media content. The apparatus may be configured to align the non-continuous media content with respect to the continuous media content, based at least in part by the measured time intervals. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282805 | FORMING NETWORKS OF USERS ASSOCIATED WITH A CENTRAL ENTITY - Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and systems for forming networks of users associated with a central entity. When a central entity receives multiple requests from multiple users to register for an event associated with the entity, the entity forms a user network that did not exist until then. The entity receives data describing the users using which the entity generates user interfaces showing all users in the network, and presents the user interfaces on users' computer systems. When a subset of the users check-in with the entity, the entity displays information about one of the users in the subset to another, and allows the users to communicate with each other. When the event associated with the entity ends, the entity terminates the network. In this manner, the central entity forms temporary user networks that expire when an event scheduled at the central entity occurs. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282806 | PERSONALIZING AN APPLICATION WITH CONTENT FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A third-party application running on a client device sends a request for a user's profile information to a local social networking application running on the client device. The local social networking application sends to the request to the social networking system, receives the requested information from the social networking systems, and provides the requested information to the third-party application. The third-party application uses at least a portion of the requested information to personalize its content for the user. In this way, the third-party application has a simple mechanism for incorporating personalized content for the user based on social information, without requiring the third-party application itself to maintain or even have access to the user's social information. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282807 | PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNICATION - Aspects of the disclosure relate to a protocol for communication of information. The protocol can be a non-standard universal serial bus (USB) protocol and can guarantee bandwidth and latency for information communication between a USB host and a single USB device. In one aspect, the non-standard USB protocol can employ a repeating message sequence that is fixed, or static, and preconfigured, the sequence comprising alternating transmission of messages between a first device (e.g., a host device) and a second device (e.g., a peripheral device). | 10-24-2013 |
20130282808 | System and Method for Generating Contextual User-Profile Images - Methods and systems for generating contextual user-profile image on a webpage include capturing textual content provided by a user at the webpage. The textual content is parsed to identify keywords related to context. The keywords are contextually analyzed to identify one or more mood indicators. Current mood of the user is identified based on the one or more mood indicators. One or more modifiers for applying to the user-profile image are determined. The user-profile image is updated to incorporate the modifiers so as to reflect the current mood of the user. The updated user-profile image is returned to the webpage for rendering, in response to the textual content received from the user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282809 | MEDIA ECHOING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING DEVICE AND METHOD - A methods and apparatus for echoing media via a mobile device are disclosed herein. According to an embodiment, the method can include displaying automatically to a user, on the mobile device, a list of one or more respective identifiers of one or more other users experiencing respective media within a selectable geographic area. The user is then allowed to select whether to play one or more of the respective media on the mobile device, and can connect with the one or more other users via a social networking site. As a result, the user can network with previously unknown people, based on a common taste in music or other media, for example, as well as a geographic location. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282810 | EVALUATING CLAIMS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282811 | PROVIDING A CLAIMS-BASED PROFILE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282812 | ADAPTIVE AUDIENCES FOR CLAIMS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282813 | COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF CONTACTS ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS - A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system. Reputation scores may be determined for users based on evaluations of their historical assertions. Claims may be evaluated for truthfulness using a probabilistic prediction model using heuristics analysis, regression analysis, and machine learning methods. A claims-based profile of users may be provided to viewers based on the contexts in which the claims were made. Viewers may view claims made about users, such as the users' biographical information, contact information, expertise, and interests. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282814 | PROVIDING AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USING A SEPARATE MESSAGING SITE - A question is received on a first social network site from a first user. The question is sent to a second user of a second social network site who receives the question from the second social network site. The first social network site receives an answer to the question from the second user via the second social network site and provides the answer to the first user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282815 | HANDHELD DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SHARED DATA - A handheld device transmits a shared data to another handheld device. The handheld device sets the shared data according to a selection of a user, sends an authentication signal to the another handheld device, and detects a motion track of the handheld device. The handheld device further receives another motion track of the another handheld device from the another handheld device, compares the received motion track with the detected motion track, determines whether the another handheld device is authenticated according to a result of the comparison. The handheld device further transmits the shared data to the another handheld device when the another handheld device is authenticated. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282816 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS - A communication control system includes a first computer and a second computer, wherein the first computer includes a communication interface device and a first processor configured to control the communication interface device to transmit first data and first feature information indicating a feature of the first data to the second computer, and the second computer includes a memory that has a storage area allocated to store second data received from the first computer, and a second processor configured to determine whether the first feature information received from the first computer matches second feature information, indicating a feature of and calculated based on the second data stored in the storage area, and control the memory to release the storage area when the second feature information does not match the received first feature information. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282817 | Targeting Media Based on Viewer Attributes and Elements - The present disclosure generally relates to a method comprising receiving, by a computer device comprising a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, at least one profile describing a viewer type likely to be interested in a first content, receiving, by the computer device, a plurality of elements, and determining, by the computer device, at least one element of the plurality of elements likely to be of interest to a potential viewer associated with the at least one profile by mapping the at least one profile to the plurality of elements. Another embodiment comprises a computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable software program code for carrying out such a method. Another embodiment comprises a system comprising a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising processor-executable computer program code for carrying out such a method. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282818 | APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS - A device and method is provided for signaling an affinity of a peer device. According to one embodiment, the device receives a wireless signal from the peer device and determines the presence of the peer device based on the received signal. The device is able to detect the peer device when the peer device is within the vicinity or a certain proximity of the device. The received signal carries an affinity code of the peer device so that the device can detect the affinity of the peer device by comparing the received affinity code with its preset affinity code. If the two affinity code match, the device generates an the user to the presence of another user and signals that the two users share the same affinity. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282819 | Social-mobile-local (SML) networking with intelligent semantic processing - A social-mobile-local (SML) system and environment includes user mobile devices, a distributed communications network over which the devices communicate, a means of sensing proximity between pairs of mobile devices, and one or more SML databases and programs resident on the user mobile devices, on remote computers, or both. Challenges addressed include prevention of “alert flooding,” privacy protection, credential verification, entering detailed data on mobile devices, power-saving, and improved quality in both the choice and the content of notifications. Solutions include the aggregation of online information about a user to create an aggregate profile, enabling the user to create multiple personas by selecting what information from the profile or from other sources to reveal to other users under which circumstances, enabling the user to broadcast “wants” and preview what is available in the vicinity, linguistic analysis detecting nuanced correspondences between terms entered for wants and filtering out purely incidental word-matches, and adaptive algorithms to make the best use of battery power and other resources in dynamic surroundings. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282820 | Method and System for an Optimized Multimedia Communications System - A method for optimizing a multiparty multimedia conferencing communication session over communications networks is provided. A host multimedia stream is received from a host multimedia client. A first element indicative of presence of a multimedia conferencing session is transmitted to participating multimedia clients by the host multimedia client. Subsequently, individual multimedia streams are received from participating multimedia clients. The host multimedia stream is processed and transmitted to the participating clients. A second element indicative of presence of the multimedia conferencing session is transmitted by the participating clients to the host multimedia client and to each other. The individual multimedia streams are processed separately and transmitted to the host multimedia client and to the participating multimedia clients. The processed individual multimedia streams and host multimedia stream are received and displayed based on at least one of a predefined layout pattern and a layout pattern dynamically modified during the multiparty conferencing session. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282821 | ASSOCIATING CAMERAS WITH USERS AND OBJECTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Images uploaded by users of a social networking system are analyzed to determine signatures of cameras used to capture the images. A camera signature comprises features extracted from images that characterize the camera used for capturing the image, for example, faulty pixel positions in the camera and metadata available in files storing the images. Associations between users and cameras are inferred based on actions relating users with the cameras, for example, users uploading images, users being tagged in images captured with a camera, and the like. Associations between users of the social networking system related via cameras are inferred. These associations are used beneficially for the social networking system, for example, for recommending potential connections to a user, recommending events and groups to users, identifying multiple user accounts created by the same user, detecting fraudulent accounts, and determining affinity between users. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282822 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A FIRST PARTICIPANT AND A SECOND PARTICIPANT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network. In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant and a second participant in a social network is provided, in exchange for the payment. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282823 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A FIRST PARTICIPANT AND A SECOND PARTICIPANT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network. In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant and a second participant in a social network is provided, in exchange for the payment. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282824 | System and Method for Managing Information Flow Between Members of an Online Social Network - An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282825 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - Embodiments disclosed herein provide secure communication among enterprise users utilizing social networking sites. A server computer may encrypt a post intended for a social networking site and forward the encrypted data or may save the post locally and send a placeholder to the social networking site. The server may receive a message from the social networking site containing the encrypted data or placeholder and determine that a recipient is authorized to view the original post. The server may then decrypt the data or retrieve the original post for servicing the request. In this way, authorized users of an enterprise can utilize social networking sites, which are independently owned and operated, to communicate with each other in a secure manner. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION USING A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for multimedia collaboration using a social network system. In one embodiment, a method for using a social network to establish a collaborative multimedia interaction includes receiving a request from a user to establish the collaborative multimedia interaction, where the user has established the social network, and notifying one or more members of the social network of the collaborative multimedia interaction using, in some embodiments, information about the members' current or last known digital presence and a customizable set of notification rules. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282827 | Automatic Multimedia Upload For Publishing Data And Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282828 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS AND REPUTATION DATA - A method for a computer system includes determining a first social distance for a first user with respect to a second user, determining a second social distance for a third user with respect to the second user, determining a first qualitative rating associated with the first user, determining a second qualitative rating associated with the second user, determining a first trust-metric for the first user in response to the first social distance and the first qualitative rating, determining a second trust-metric for the third user in response to the second social distance and the second qualitative rating, and prioritizing a first listing from the first user over a second listing from the third user for the second user, in response to the first trust-metric and the second trust-metric. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282829 | MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a Media Asset management System for managing at least one media asset maintained by a media asset repository. This system comprises a media asset repository for maintaining at least one media asset and further a user terminal that is adapted to access the media asset repository where the repository is coupled to the user terminal over a communications link. The media asset management system further comprises a media asset feedback detection Part that is adapted to detect feedback of a user at said user terminal on the media asset at managing the media asset by the user terminal and a feedback interpreting part that is adapted to determine an annotation to the media asset managed based on an interpretation/analysis of the feedback on the media asset. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290414 | AUTOMATICALLY CREATING GROUPS OF USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system facilitates a user's creation of a group of other users from among the user's connections in the user's social network. The created groups may be used, for example, to publish information to certain user-defined groups or to define privacy settings or other access rights to the user's content according to such user-defined groups. When a user adds connections to a group, the social networking system determines a characteristic associated with the group and identifies whether the characteristic is specified in user profiles of the added connections. If the user profiles lack the characteristic, the social networking system suggests to the connections to update their user profiles with the characteristic. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290415 | SOCIAL CONNECTIONS MIGRATION - In general, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for migrating social networking connections in a social network from one profile to another profile. A first incoming connection from a third profile in a social network to a first profile in the social network may be determined. A first outgoing connection to a fourth profile in the social network from the first profile in the social network may be determined. A second incoming connection from the third profile to a second profile may be created based at least in part on the first incoming connection. A second outgoing connection to the fourth profile from the second profile may be created based at least in part on the first outgoing connection. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290416 | Method for Securely Distributing Meeting Data from Interactive Whiteboard Projector - Distributing meeting data from an interactive whiteboard projector to at least one computer of a meeting member, comprises: in the interactive whiteboard projector, using a processor to save meeting data, generate a password, display a screen with a URL of the projector and the password and use a web server to transfer the meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESS DATA MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION - A system and method for process data management and organization is provided. An embodiment includes an apparatus for updating a process. The apparatus includes a storage device capable of storing a prospect database. The apparatus is operable to receive a prospect record from the stored prospect database. Once the prospect record is obtained, the apparatus can determine a process stage associated with the prospect record, and identify an available action associated with the stage which can be received from the storage device. The apparatus is operable to trigger the performance of the determined action and receive resulting data. Accordingly, the stage associated with the prospect record can be updated by the apparatus. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290418 | Client Assisted Multicasting for Audio and Video Streams - A method, a system and computer readable storage media facilitate receiving a data stream from a host media server that is outside of a network, designating a multicasting source within the network to receive the data stream from the host media server, and multicasting the data stream from the multicasting source to a plurality of client devices within the network. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290419 | ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTENT AWARENESS AND CONTROL AMONG PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Apparatus and methods for collaboratively presenting content that is distributed among a plurality of communication devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a control service at a player device to enable communicatively coupled controller devices to control playback of media on the player device, and creating a single play queue at the player device that includes identifiers of media content selected by the controller devices. A stream of particular media content from one of the multiple source devices is received when the particular media content is identified at a top of the single play queue, the particular media content is rendered at the player device, and the rendered media content is presented to users associated with the controller devices. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290420 | DETERMINING REPUTATIONS OF USERS BASED ON ENDORSEMENTS - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290421 | VISUALIZATION OF COMPLEX DATA SETS AND SIMULTANEOUS SYNCHRONIZATION OF SUCH DATA SETS - Visualization of relatively complex data sets and the simultaneous synchronization of such data sets across both a network and to different areas having different capabilities is disclosed, especially in connection with session structure, synchronization, synchronized control of imagery, and restoring synchronization to a predefined tour. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290422 | CONFERENCE SUPPORT SYSTEM, CONFERENCE SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND HANDOUT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A conference support apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives position data from a position data transmission apparatus, an entire region determination unit that determines an entire region based on the position data, a transmission unit that transmits data of the entire region to a first terminal, a second reception unit that receives division data from the first terminal, a division unit that divides the entire region into a plurality of divisional regions, a third reception unit that receives terminal position data from a second terminal, a region determination unit that determines a target divisional region to which the second terminal belongs from the plurality of divisional regions based on the terminal position data, and a distribution unit that distributes handout data associated to the target divisional region to the second terminal. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER GROUPING - A method and apparatus for user grouping on a network. The method includes: acquiring comments posted by a user on the network; extracting a set of triples from the comments, the set of triples including at least one triple comprising the user's concerned aspect, the user's sentiment on the aspect, and reasons for the sentiment; creating a characteristic representation of the comments based on the set of triples; and categorizing the user into a specific user group based on the characteristic representation. The apparatus corresponds to the method. Embodiments of the present invention can also process the obtained grouping information to obtain and display relevant information associated with user groups. With the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present invention, user grouping can be better implemented. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290424 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING OPTIMAL SERVICE USING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF USER - Provided is a method of providing an optimal service to a user using personal information of the user, the method including: decentralizing and thereby setting personal information of the user that is included in a user description; extracting the personal information of the user from the user description; receiving a service request of the user and the extracted personal information of the user; selecting service information from a service description including the service information that is supported for the user, based on the personal information of the user in response to the service request of the user; and providing a service corresponding to the service information to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290425 | METHOD FOR A CONNECTOR PROVIDING TRANSACTIONAL INTEROPERABILITY TO MULTIPLE MESSAGING PROVIDERS TO MULTIPLE APPLICATION SERVERS USING THE SAME IMPLEMENTATION - A system includes a resource adapter module in the form of executable code by a processor, the resource adapter module to, interact with an application running on an application server by receiving calls from applications, and provide communication between the application and any JMS provider by relaying the calls to the JMS provider. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290426 | Social Media and Data Sharing Controls - Social media and data sharing controls may be provided. Upon receiving a request to transmit an element of data to a recipient, a determination may be made as to whether the recipient is appropriate to receive the element of data. In response to determining that the recipient is appropriate to receive the element of data, the element of data may be transmitted. In response to determining that the recipient is not appropriate to receive the element of data, at least one remedial action may be performed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290427 | Wearable device with unique user ID and telemetry system in communication with one or more social networks - A system for using telemetry data is in communication with a wearable device that communicates with a social network. One or more sensors are coupled to a wearable device that has a unique user ID configured to acquire at least one of a user's activities, behaviors and habit information A telemetry system is in communication with the one or more sensors. The telemetry system includes a database of the user ID's. The telemetry system analyzes the telemetry data based on at least one of, user's activities, behaviors and habit information, and creates personalized information about the user. ID circuitry is included at the wearable device. The ID circuitry has an ID storage and a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from the ID storage. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290428 | Systems and Methods for Distributed Conferencing - Distributed conferencing systems and methods provide local meeting contents to remote participants. In accordance with various example embodiments, a plurality of authorized source units generate media content responsive to and representative of respective content for a meeting. In response to the generated media content, one or more data streams are developed at each authorized source, each stream being a separately-decodable real-time representation of at least a portion of the media content generated at the respective authorized source. The separate data streams are transmitted by each authorized source to a common multicast IP group address for retrieval/access by remote participants. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING - A communication system ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130290430 | AGGREGATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER INFORMATION FOR DISPLAY VIA STORIES - To generate stories for presentation to social networking system users, one or more story generation engines receives a set of actions of social networking system users. Various story generation engines output stories of different types that collect particular types of actions and arrange the actions in a specified format for presentation. The story generators may avoid selecting the same actions for different stories. Stories generated by the various story generators may be ranked and the ranking used to select stories for presentation to one or more social networking system users. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290431 | Indicating Recent Content Publication Activity By A User - Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290432 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING DISPOSITION WITH RESPECT TO DOCUMENT SHARE - Provided is an apparatus and method for setting disposition with respect to document information share. To this end, once a transmission-side server forwards a document forward request message including a document disposition rule with respect to a document to a reception-side server, the reception-side server checks a preference with respect to the document forward request message by using a preset user preference to notify a document change, and stores document data together with a disposition rule regarding the document data, such that efficient management and disclosure of private information forwarded to a user become possible and thus a CAB service can be easily and rapidly provided according to user's selection. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290433 | OPEN TYPE POI SERVICE SYSTEM USING SNS METHOD AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an open type POI service system using an SNS method and a method thereof. The open type POI system includes an SNS media studio server which opens a POI to a user and registers an interest location designated by a user as an open type POI. Therefore, the SNS media studio server includes a database which stores an open type POI related to a user, and supplies the open type POI to another user who is related to the user by connection of the open type POI and SNS. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297685 | MECHANISM FOR COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A SERVER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM AND A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A mechanism for an interface between a server orchestration system and a messaging system is disclosed. In one embodiment a message being broadcast from a server orchestration system to a plurality of nodes that comprise a node layer of a platform as a service (PaaS) application hosting infrastructure is intercepted and introspected to extract an identifier of the first node of a plurality of nodes. Then, a targeted message compatible with a messaging system is generated, the targeted message including the identifier of the first node. The targeted message is then sent to the messaging system to be routed to the first node. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297686 | PLAYLIST GENERATION - A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring, with a computing device, a social media stream for the occurrence of a media sharing post. The media sharing post is processed, with the computing device, to extract file identification information. A playlist entry based, at least in part, upon the extracted file identification information is generated with the computing device. A media sharing playlist is populated, with the computing device, to include the playlist entry. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297687 | INTEGRATING COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES WITH PERSONALIZED CONTENT SELECTIONS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - Communications services are integrated with personalized selections of content and with social networks. A computer of an interactive system determines that an initiating communications party is associated with a personal content account external to the communications service provider. Personalized selections of content are provided from the personal content account to the initiating communications party during the communications session. The computer of the interactive system may also determine an agent to assign to the communication session in accordance with feedback received from communications parties based on previous communications between the communications parties and agents of the communications service provider. The agent to assign to the communications session first can be assigned in accordance with the feedback received from the communications parties based on previous communications between the communications parties and agents of the communications service provider. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297688 | MOBILE-BASED REALTIME LOCATION-SENSITIVE SOCIAL EVENT ENGINE - Performing an on-line recommendation includes: analyzing real-time data from various sources; determining, from the analysis, events in which a user may be interested; extracting the determined events; storing the extracted events in a data store; and performing a recommendation function. The recommendation function includes: ranking the extracted events to determine the events in which the user is most likely to be interested; and performing location-based filtering, retaining those extracted events that are within a geo-location range proximate to the user, thus generating optimal events. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297689 | Activity Stream Tuning Using Multichannel Communication Analysis - A social graph is constructed to be representative of a social network by including nodes and edges representing activities in the social network. Activities in communication transactions of a communication network are identified and activity stream tuning parameters are determined for a user of the social network from the identified relationships. Activity stream data is presented to the user in accordance with the tuning parameters. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BINDING DEVICES INTO ONE OR MORE GROUPS - An approach is provided for binding devices into a group for one or more collaborative applications. A device binding application determined a request, from at least one host device, to bind one or more other devices for initiating at least one collaborative application. The device binding application determines an order for binding the one or more other devices to the at least one host device. The device binding application causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more binding instructions to the at least one host device, the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the order. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297691 | DETERMINING ACCESS TO COMMENTS - The subject technology discloses configurations for providing comments restricted to a set of users for web content on a web page. In one implementation, a widget is provided that enables a content provider or a user to provide comments restricted to the set of users in a manner that does not disrupt an existing implementation or presentation of publicly viewable web content that already provides public comments from visitors of the web site. In particular, the widget may be provided as a plugin or extension in the user's web browser, or be integrated in the web page by the content provider. The scope of the comments restricted to the set of users are defined by one or more access control lists, which allow the comments restricted to the set of users to be only viewable by a specified set of users (and not viewable by other users). | 11-07-2013 |
20130297692 | SOCIAL FAMILY NETWORKING PLATFORM - Embodiments provide a database that includes family models. Each family model includes family data that is aggregated data of members of a family. The family data includes for each family member data of at least one of name, age, gender, education, interests, and memberships. Each family model comprises information that defines relationships between other families based on the family data. A platform includes a processor networked to the database and a social application executing on the processor. The platform, in response to a request to create the family model, collects the family data and generates the family model to include the family data. The platform enables the families to manage and interact using a collection of group types. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297693 | ONLINE MOBILE AND NETWORKING PLATFORM WITH USER PROFILE AND GROUP FEATURES - There is provided a method for selectively providing profile information to various group members of various groups while utilizing a user name identifier for each group that is independent of another user name identifier. According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a method for dynamically updating profile information of a first user with a native contact manager associated with communications applications of various group members. According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a method for with group members without the group members being notified of the other group members having also received an electronic communication. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297694 | Systems and methods for interactive presentation and analysis of social media content collection over social networks - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a comprehensive platform that enables a user to interactively measure, display, and analyze various characteristics of the social content items collected over a social media network in real time. The top content items, such as posts, links, photos, and videos that contains a set of query terms and are currently trending (mentioned frequently) or trending over a period of time are identified via various measurements and presented to a user. The user is then enabled to selectively and interactively view and analyze the content items presented based on the various metrics that unique to social media content items, such as the mentions (e.g., retweets) of the content items, the authors of the content items, and the spreading of the content items. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297695 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN INTEGRATED INCUBATION ENVIRONMENT - A method includes providing a first party and a second party access to an integrated incubation environment (e.g., a multi-tenant system) residing on a server; storing, on the server, information relating to a collaborative project, wherein a first portion of the information is received from the first party, and a second portion of the information is received from the second party; and presenting the information to the first party and the second party over a network using at least one social network component. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297696 | System and Method for Monitoring and Selectively Sharing an Image in an Image Library - Systems and methods for sharing an image in a communication session are disclosed. In some aspects, a software application is run on a first computing device, while a communication application is run on the first computing device. The first computing device is associated with a presenter in a communication session implemented via the communication application. That one or more images were added to an image library of the first computing device since a time when the communication application started running on the first computing device is determined, using the communication application. The communication application facilitates transmission of at least one of the one or more images to one or more second computing devices. The one or more second computing devices are associated with one or more audience members in the communication session. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297697 | OBJECT DRIVEN NEWSFEED - Object driven newsfeeds supporting interest-based social networks aid in the formation of relationships based on similar domains of user interest. A space efficient graphical user interface (GUI) enables access to an object driven newsfeed of contextual and relevant information to aid a consumer/user in making buying decisions in an e-commerce environment. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297698 | Method and Apparatus for Utilizing Context and Profile Information in Content Searching and Recommendation - An approach is provided for utilizing context and profile information in content searching and recommending while in an offline mode. A searching/recommending module on a first device determines a content item, an information item, or a combination thereof available on another device. The searching/recommending module on the first device or the other device determines a profile associated with the other device. The searching/recommending module on the first device or the other device makes a comparison of the profile associated with the other device with a profile associated with the first device. The first device causes a request for a content item, an information item, or a combination thereof available on the other device based, at least in part, on the comparison. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297699 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-DEMAND COMMUNITIES - In an embodiment, communities are generated on demand. In this specification a community is a group of webpages in which users share ideas with one another by posting ideas and sending messages for one another to read. An on-demand community is a community that may be created via tools specialized for creating communities, with just a few keys strokes and/or mouse clicks and by adding information (e.g., about the members and/or the topic or set of topics that the community is focused upon), such that a community maybe established within a short amount of time, such as a few minutes or a few hours. Optionally, the communities may be initially populated with ideas related to a particular topic or set of topics. Optionally, each member may be provided with tools for establishing one or more profile page and/or one or more friend pages. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297700 | ENTERPRISE MANAGED SYSTEMS WITH COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION SUPPORT - Described herein is an enterprise system including an enterprise social platform associated with an application store platform, which is accessible by a computing device in a secure manner. The enterprise social platform stores information indicating user roles within the enterprise and provides at least one social networking feature to a group of users that are associated based on the roles, where the social networking feature is associated with an enterprise application store. An application catalog system of the enterprise application store platform includes sets of enterprise applications that are available for selection by enterprise users, and the application catalog system provides access to selected enterprise applications. An application store storage system includes a plurality of files associated with each one of the plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of files includes enterprise customized application templates, enterprise application usage information, application evaluation information, application recommendations, or an application support forum. An application store management system presents selected ones of the files to a user within the enterprise social platform based on the user's membership in the group of users. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297701 | 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. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297702 | SPONSORED-STORIES-UNIT CREATION FROM ORGANIC ACTIVITY STREAM - A method includes receiving sponsor specifications designating story characteristics, monitoring an organic activity stream for entries matching the story characteristics, and, in response to identifying an entry as matching the story characteristics, providing for display the entry in a predetermined area of a web page. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297703 | PEER NODE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PEER NODE SELECTION - A peer node configured to exchange data with other peer nodes through a peer-to-peer protocol includes a categorization and selection module. The selection module is configured to receive peer node identifiers extracted from messages received from the other peer nodes, to categorize the peer node identifiers according to one or more criteria in one of at least two categories, and to select a peer node identifier as a peer node identifier to be used for communication through the peer-to-peer protocol, if the peer node identifier was categorized in a first category of the at least two categories. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304815 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN A FIRST DEVICE AND A SECOND DEVICE - According to an aspect of this disclosure, a method for transferring data from a first device to a second device is described, the method comprising: writing data into a data-sharing application of an operating system of the first device; requesting a data-sharing application to select a physical layer data transmission technology; the data-sharing application selecting a physical layer data transmission technology; connecting a data-sharing of an operating system of the second device via the selected physical layer data transmission technology; and transferring the data from the data-sharing application of the first device to the data-sharing application of the second device. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304816 | DATABASE REPLICATION USING COLLABORATIVE DATA TRANSFERS - Techniques are described herein for propagating continuously generated data from a seed to a plurality of peers without requiring the seed to send the new data to all peers, and without establishing static sender/receiver relationships between the peers. The data generated by the seed is divided into a number of “windows”, where each window is divided into a number of “pieces”. The seed sends the data piece-by-piece to different peers. The peer to which the seed sends any given piece may be selected at random. The peers exchange pieces until all pieces of a window are obtained by each peer. When a peer receives all pieces of a window, the pieces are applied at the peer, and the process repeats for the next window. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304817 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH CONTENT SHARING MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a content delivery system includes: detecting a person's presence for identifying a portable device; determining an audience type based on the person's presence for determining a content type presentable on a public device; and distributing a display content based on the audience type for displaying on the portable device, the public device, or a combination thereof. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304818 | Systems and methods for discovery of related terms for social media content collection over social networks - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to discover one or more terms related to one or more query terms submitted by a user for search over a social media network, wherein the related terms discovered are trending and co-occurring with the submitted query terms over the social media network during a specific period of time. The terms related to the submitted keywords can be discovered based on based on various measurements that measure the trending characteristics of the terms in the social media content items collected over a period of time. Once the terms related to the submitted keywords have been discovered, they can be utilized to search or perform aggregated metrics and analytics on the social network together with the user-submitted query terms for content items containing all or most of the query terms and/or the related terms, wherein such content items obtained are presented as the search result to the user or subject to aggregate metrics and analytics presented to the user. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304819 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DETECTION OF MOST RELEVANT INSIGHTS FOR LARGE VOLUME QUERY-BASED SOCIAL DATA STREAM - The present invention relates to novel methods and implementing systems that afford a user the ability to automatically analyze all mentions and metrics/analytics of any query-based social data stream, and detect mentions or analytics that can be classified as important for a user of that stream. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304820 | NETWORK SYSTEM WITH INTERACTION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A network system includes: a user interface configured to display a common program; a control unit coupled to the user interface, configured to match a captured video to related content of the common program; and a communication unit coupled to the control unit, configured to share the captured video in a collaborative space. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304821 | PROVIDING A WITNESS SERVICE - Described are embodiments directed at providing a witness service that sends notifications with a resource state to clients. Embodiments provide a protocol that includes various messages for registering and receiving notifications regarding the state of a resource. The protocol may include a message for requesting node information from a first node in a cluster. The node information identifies nodes in the cluster that provide a witness service, which monitors a resource. The protocol includes a message that is used to register with the witness service for notifications regarding a state, or state change, of a network or cluster resource. The protocol also includes messages for sending notifications with state information of the resource. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304822 | Systems and Method for Displaying and Categorizing News Feed Posts - Categorizing, colorizing, saving and visually filtering the content and appearance, of a live news feed, within a business or social network. The method involves categorizing information, photos, video and the like, prior to posting it within the live news feed. Each category is associated with a visual indicator so that postings of different categories become distinctive. The live news feed can be viewed in its entirety, by user type, by subject category or a combination of categories. The viewing user may choose categories for limiting information which appears in the live news feed by subject or user type, but may also have the option of viewing all content, which can be visually filtered by color. Users may save information from the central live news feed to their personal pages by choosing from the variety of categories that are also used to filter the live news feed content viewable to them. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304823 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention is capable of decreasing network load and serialization/de-serialization processing load even when large volumes of queries are forwarded. An information processing device: calculates a next key indicating the value closest to the value shown by a given key, from among keys indicating values contained in the range specified in the aforementioned query; specifies a one key from stored keys which indicate a certain value on the basis of the magnitude relation between the values indicated by the next key and said stored keys; specifies a forwarding destination node identifier on the basis of the value of the one key; calculates a forwarding destination final key indicating the bounds of the range of the next keys on the basis of the value indicated by the one key; and forwards to the device identified by the forwarding destination node identifier the query and the forwarding destination final key. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304824 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD INVOLVING THE CREATION OF VIRTUAL SPACES - A communication system involving the creation of virtual spaces comprises: (a) at least one mobile device ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130311554 | WIRELESS MACHINE TO MACHINE (M2M) COMMUNICATION - In a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, a data message from an M2M device is received over a mobile communication network at a server. The received data message includes a Mobile Station Identifier (MSID) number of the M2M device; GPS coordinates of the M2M device determined by the M2M device; and utility usage information. A utility account is identified based on the MSID. The distance between a pre-programmed location of the M2M device and the GPS coordinates received from the M2M device is calculated. The utility usage information is stored in the memory of the server upon determining that the distance is within a predetermined threshold. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311555 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING LONG-TAIL CONTENT - A method for distributing long-tail content, including the steps of: a) loading, a first user, into a local PoP to which said first user is remotely connected an amount of long-tail content to be distributed and shared; and b) geo replicating, at selected times, the amount of long-tail content to a at least one remote PoP, to which at least a second user is remotely connected, by pushing said amount of content to be distributed and shared to the at least one remote PoP. The method including selecting, before performing steps a) and b), the at least second user, based on the probability that the amount of long-tail content generated by the first user will be requested by the at least second user, the probability being estimated by historical preference information generated between the first user and the at least second user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311556 | System and Method for Generating Theme Based Dynamic Groups - Methods, system and computer readable medium for generating a dynamic group includes defining a theme for the group. A group is initiated for the defined theme and plurality of users are invited to join the group. The activities of the plurality of users that have joined the group are monitored over time, wherein the activities are directed toward enriching information associated with the defined theme or one or more sub-themes of the defined theme. User dynamics of the group are adjusted dynamically based on the monitored activities of the users. The adjusted user dynamics define a strength value of the theme for the group of users. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING FILE AND FOLDER INFORMATION TO A USER - A system for displaying the listings of files and/or folders in one of a plurality of different views (e.g., gallery view or list view). In particular embodiments, the system determines which of the views to display in the listings in based on: (1) the types of files to be displayed; (2) a specified preference of a content sharer; and/or (3) a specified preference of a content recipient. Various embodiments are particularly useful for displaying lists of files that a content sharer shares with a content recipient via a URL within the context of a synched file sharing system. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311558 | PROFILE-BASED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a sensor network system including at least one sensor node and at least one actuator node, a group is formed based on attribute of each node. Sensing data is shared among the nodes in the group, and each node performs autonomous processing to process an event by comparing the sensing data with a preset event threshold value. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN APPROVAL WORKFLOW IN A SOCIAL NETWORK FEED - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for generating an approval workflow in an online social network. An approval workflow for an approval request may be initiated in response to an event. One or more relevant information feeds of one or more entities may be identified. In some embodiments, such entities may have the authority to approve, deny, or otherwise take action on the approval request. The approval workflow may be presented as a feed item for inclusion into the relevant information feeds of the one or more entities for approval. An input is received from at least one of the one or more entities regarding the feed item. Once the input is received, a custom object is updated with custom object data, and the custom object data is then displayed in the feed item. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311560 | SOCIAL DISCOVERY FEED FOR FACILITATING SOCIAL EXPLORATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods of generating a common social timeline to facilitate social discovery in a social networking environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving data items associated with users of the social network, identifying a first set of data items associated with a first user, and processing the first set of data items to select a first set of characteristics. The method further comprises comparing the first set of characteristics with other sets of characteristics describing other users to select a subset of the other users having one or more characteristics that are the same or similar to one or more of the first set of characteristics. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311561 | AUTHORING, ARCHIVING, AND DELIVERING INTERACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEOS - A social media video system provides for the authoring, archiving, and/or delivering of interactive social media videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. A social media video may be associated with a style profile that provides visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing, to a social media video viewer. The social media video system maintains social media videos in a template format, and may defer the rendering of a social media video until it is selected for viewing. The maintaining of social media videos in template format allows for efficient transmission and editing of social media videos. A social media video that is created and shared by one user may be modified and be shared again. In this way, users can collaborate to create, critique, and iterate social media videos. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311562 | Method and system for searching, sensing, discovering, screening, enabling awareness, alerting, sharing, sending, receiving, buying, selling, and otherwise transmitting stories, content, interests, data, goods and services among known and unknown devices in a communication network. - Systems, method and apparatus are provided for searching, sensing, discovering, screening, enabling awareness, alerting, sharing, sending, receiving, buying, selling, and otherwise transmitting stories, content, interests, data, goods and services among known and unknown devices in a communication network. Humans have a core desire to communicate and share with those around them—both nearby and around the globe—to enhance their individual, social and shared experiences. Social networks and related technologies have provided their subscribers with new technologies to share their stories with their friends and certain third-parties, but are limited in two crucial respects: they require prior membership, subscription or enrollment; and, in order to execute communications with friends and certain third parties, social networks require use of both (a) a user's existing contact information, and (b) the social network's platform. By using improved methods for searching, detecting, sensing, and discovering attributes, characteristics, parameters and other data between devices among known and unknown devices, then people, businesses and organizations will be able to sense, learn and act on the interests, attributes, stories, content and products of others, enabling enhanced forms of communications and new methods of business. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311563 | Determining Characteristics of Participants in a Social Network - Implementations disclosed herein relate to determining the influence and/or passivity of participants in a social network. In one implementation, a processor | 11-21-2013 |
20130311564 | SENDER DEVICE AND METHOD OF SHARING SCREENSHOTS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A sender device of sharing screenshots comprises a detection module, a control module and a wireless network interface. The detection module detects in the background whether a user is executing a screenshot activity and outputs a corresponding trigger signal. The control module electrically connects with the detection module and retrieves a latest-taken screenshot according to the trigger signal output by the detection module. The wireless network interface electrically connects the control module for establishing a wireless network link with a receiver device and transmitting the screenshot to the receiver device. The abovementioned sender device is able to simplify the operation to share screenshots. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311565 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING AND TRACKING THE PROPAGATION OF DIGITAL ASSETS - Systems and methods for sharing and tracking the propagation of digital assets are disclosed. Distributors, or senders, in a distribution system can offer digital assets to recipients, resulting in a share-based relationship with each recipient. Recipients can then offer the digital asset to further recipients to become a distributor themselves, and see their own user impact on the distribution of the digital asset as well as the entire distribution web as a whole. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING RULE-BASED INTERACTION OF PORTABLE CLIENT DEVICES AT A LIVE EVENT - A system creates an enhanced experience at a concert or other event. A central server provides commands through which information is sent or gathered or both between portable interactive devices of audience members and a central server. A shared experience such as a common display sent to all users is created. A system “app” is installed in the portable interactive device. Rules are implemented in a processor to enable a game to be played by audience members in which a processor enables interaction of users with the server and in which the processor processes user inputs according to rules of the game. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311567 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING GEOGRAPHIC SOCIAL NETWORKS IN VIRTUAL SPACE - A system and related method are disclosed for location-sensitive social networking. A server has access to a map and a list of points of interest with location data by which they may be located on the map. The server establishes a virtual area around a point of interest based on a certain distance or time from the point of interest, a physical or legal parameter, or some combination of those techniques. Users whose devices are located within the virtual area are published to users of the system, and identified distinctly for social networking and communication. Users may also form groups. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311568 | SUGGESTING CONNECTIONS TO A USER BASED ON AN EXPECTED VALUE OF THE SUGGESTION TO THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To suggest new connections to a user of a social networking system, the system generates a set of candidate users to whom the user has not already formed a connection. The system determines the likelihood that the user will connect to each candidate user if suggested to do so, and it also computes the value to the social networking system if the user does connect to the candidate user. Then, the system computes an expected value score for each candidate user based on the corresponding likelihood and the value. The candidate users are ranked and the suggestions are provided to the user based on the candidate users' expected value scores. The social networking system can suggest other actions to a user in addition to forming a new connection with other users. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311569 | CORRELATING USER INTERACTIONS WITH INTERFACES - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for tracking user interactions with interfaces and determining social data. One example method includes receiving from an entity an indication of interfaces that are used to interact with users, registering the user interfaces, tracking user interaction with the interfaces, and using the tracking information to determine all actions associated with a given user that are to be attributed to the entity. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311570 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING P2P CONNECTIONS AND THE CORRESPONDING DEVICES USING THE SAME - A communication system for establishing a P2P connection is disclosed, wherein the communication system comprises: a networked device or service device having an identification; a linking server for providing connecting information to enable a terminal device or client device to establish a P2P connections between the service device and the client device, wherein the identification of service device is registered in the linking server, wherein the client device communicates with the link server to establish a P2P connection to the service device according to the connecting information provided by the linking server, wherein the client device has not been registered into the linking server when the P2P is established. In addition, A UID (Unique Identification) can be embedded in a processor, wherein the UID can be stored in a non-volatile memory device inside the processor and the UID will be programmed and tested after the processor is fabricated, so that it can be readily used for establishing A P2P connection. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311571 | METHOD FOR DESIGNATING OF HOSTING CONTROL FOR A CONFERENCE CALL - A conference calling system and method for designating of hosting control from a server device. In a conference call session, one of the client devices may be designated as a host device, wherein that host device is permitted to implement hosting functions. In some instances, the required host device may not be available for the scheduled conference call, but may be available prior to the conference call. The host device may provide hosting control commands to the server device prior to the conference call. Such hosting control commands may include such commands as delegating of hosting control functions in relation to the designated host device. This may allow the presently designated host device to end communications with the server device prior to starting a conference call, while having the server device implement the specific hosting control commands. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311572 | CREATING AND SHARING INTEREST LISTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking service allows a user of the service to create an interest list associated with a topic of interest, where the interest list includes members that may post content via the social networking service. Members of the interest list may post content associated with the topic. Other users of the social network service may subscribe to the list, and these subscribers may then receive a feed that contains the content posted by the members of the interest list. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311573 | Progressively asking for increasing amounts of user and network data - In accordance with some implementations, a method for requesting user data is disclosed. The method is performed on a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The server system establishes a user profile for a user. The user profile includes one or more information items associated with the user. The server system receives a request from the user to access additional services. In response to receiving the user request, the server system requests additional information from the user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318159 | System and Method for Sharing Data Across Multiple Electronic Devices - Methods, computer readable media, and electronic devices are provided that enable data files to be transferred from a source device to one or more destination devices to share the data files. The method includes initiating a transfer of at least one data file to a destination device after detecting initiation of a file sharing session, the at least one data file being associated with the source device; after transferring at least a portion of the at least one data file, sending a first command to the destination device or receiving a second command from the destination device, the first command or the second command indicating an interaction with the at least one data file; and executing the interaction. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318160 | Device and Method for Sharing Data and Applications in Peer-to-Peer Computing Environment - The current invention provides a simple yet efficient Data Service Middleware or DSM computing device and method that provides access to remote, heterogeneous and autonomous peer-to-peer (P2P) data sources, thereby allows users to share and exchange files. The current invention allows non-expert users to share and integrate their data and can meet the growing need of sharing existing widespread data-sources. In the current invention data sources are exported and deployed as services and as such, data sources easily discovered and uniformly accessible using standard SOAP requests and are integrated through service composition. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318161 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes obtaining user information related to users of information terminals in a place, and obtaining, by a processor, change information related to a change in the user information. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318162 | PERSON-TO-PERSON MATCHING SYSTEM - An improved system for matching individuals seeking personal relationships includes: (a) a plurality of personality categories into which an individual may be categorized, (b) a plurality of psychology-based, personality traits, (c) a plurality of preferences on various subjects that an individual may have, (d) a plurality of images for consideration by an individual, each of the images configured such that an individual who would chose to be associated with an image can be assessed to possess one of the plurality of personality traits and preferences, (e) a user interface for presenting the plurality of images and allowing an individual to identify with which of these the individual elects to be associated, and (f) an algorithm configured to utilize these elected associations to categorize this individual into one of the personality categories and to ascribe to the individual a specific set of preferences in various subject areas. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318163 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR DOWNLOAD STATUS NOTIFICATION - Methods, systems, and computer products for download notification including identifying content for download, requesting a download of the content to a device and requesting a notification related to the status of the download. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318164 | PICTURE CONVERSION SNS SYSTEM AND METHOD, APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL - A membership social network system includes a processor configured to select a picture type among a plurality of picture types, and to, according to parameters, change a tone of original image data, which is uploaded from a member terminal to a server, to a tone of a selected picture type, a browse controller configured to make a tone-changed image data, which is created by the processor, browsable on the member terminal, and a grouping module configured to group a member who uploads the original image data and a member who creates the tone-changed image data. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATIVE WORK COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and tangible computer-readable storage mediums for tracking collaboration are presented. More particularly, embodiments relate to providing, using a processor, an environment for collaboration between users; and tracking, using the processor, information regarding the collaboration; such that the tracked information includes rights information regarding rights of the collaborating users. Some further embodiments include storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, the rights information. Some further embodiments include determining compensation for at least one user based on the rights information. Some further embodiments include: storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, initial content; and storing, in the storage medium, additional content, such that the additional content builds on the initial content. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318166 | IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS IN STATEFUL TRANSACTIONS - A system for the identification of patterns in stateful transactions may include a message interceptor, a message pattern processor, a message handler, and a memory. The message interceptor may be operative to intercept messages transmitted by a first device over a network to a recipient. The message interceptor may be operative to intercept the messages before the messages are received by the recipient. The message pattern processor may be operative to add the message to a message pattern and store the message pattern in a memory. The message pattern processor may compare the message pattern to a plurality of exemplary message patterns and identify when the message pattern matches at least one of the exemplary message patterns. The message handler may be operative to determine an action to take with respect to the message based on the at least one matching exemplary message pattern identified by the message pattern processor. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EXCHANGE OF PROFILE INFORMATION - An approach for providing an exchange of profile information by using anonymous identifiers is described. An information exchange platform may select one of a plurality of device identifiers specific to corresponding one or more devices. The information exchange platform may also cause, at least in part, a transmission of the selected device identifier to another device separate from the one or more devices. Further, the plurality of device identifiers may be associated with one or more user profiles. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318168 | VEHICLE-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS - A machine-controlled method can include a first vehicle network node of a user monitoring for a second vehicle network node, detecting the presence of a second vehicle network node within a specified distance from the first vehicle network node, and determining whether the second vehicle network node is associated with a friend of the user. Responsive to a determination that the second vehicle network node is associated with the friend of the user, the first vehicle network node can provide a notification to the user. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325940 | Geomessaging Server and Client for Relaying Event Notifications via a VANET - Embodiments include a geomessaging server and a geomessaging client for use in a cooperative intelligent transportation system. The server sends an event notification message, via an infrastructure-based wireless communication network, to a geomessaging client associated with a vehicle that is located within a targeted one of multiple defined geographical areas. This message indicates the occurrence of an event pertinent to travel conditions in the targeted area. The server also generates a message relay request that solicits the geomessaging client to relay the message to any other vehicles within the vehicle's vicinity via a vehicular ad-hoc wireless communication network. The sever then sends the generated request to the client via the infrastructure-based network. In at least some embodiments, the geomessaging client relays the message accordingly responsive to receiving the request. This way, the other vehicles will advantageously receive the event notification message even if they are not connected to the server. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325941 | ROUTING DECISION CONTEXT OBJECTS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving a first Diameter message at the DRA from a first origin device; determining a first message type associated with the first Diameter message; identifying a first set of rules of a plurality of sets of rules as being associated with the first message type; evaluating a first rule of the first set of rules; and transmitting a message based on the evaluation of the first rule. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325942 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS - A device includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a hit time for each of a plurality of content items based on at least one of users' history of access to the content items on content distribution clusters in a content distribution network, the users' past ratings of the content items, and social network information associated with the users. The hit time of a content item indicates a number of times that the content item is likely to be accessed by the users. The processor is further configured to compute caching priorities of the content items based on a caching policy of the device and the determined hit times, and initiate a redistribution, over a network, of the plurality of content items over the content distribution clusters of the content distribution network based on the caching priorities. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE REPORTING OF SOCIAL INCIDENTS, INTERESTS, AND/OR SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided for a user to generate content that reports social incidents, interests, and/or services. Specifically, a method is provided including subscribing with a server to send and receive information or data regarding a social incident, interest, and/or service of interest to a beneficiary. The method further includes defining a template for a report on the server to capture the information or data. The method further includes viewing and/or retrieving the report submitted by a user (via a client) of the general public that perceived the social incident, interest, and/or service of interest to the beneficiary. The defining the template comprises defining at least one information component that the beneficiary may be interested in receiving from the user regarding the social incident, interest, and/or service, and associating the defined template to the beneficiary. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325944 | CLIENT-SIDE SHARING OF EVENT INFORMATION - Client-side sharing of event information. Via a service hub executed on a client device, an event generated by a first web application accessed by the client device can be received and communicated to a second web application accessed by the client device or communicated to a native application executed on the client device. The event is not routed through a server. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325945 | COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION BASED ON PROFILE UPDATE - A notification machine may receive an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users as being socially connected to the user by a social network. The update may reference a community (e.g., an employer or a club) of the user. The user profile may be modified by including a reference to the community within the user profile. The notification machine may identify a further user who is included in the community (e.g., employed by the employer, or part of the club). The further user may be socially unconnected to the user by the social network. The notification machine may then generate and provide a notification that the further user is employed by the employer. This notification may contain suggestions that the user initiate communication with the further user, become socially connected with the further user, or both. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325946 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING - Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for optimizing social networks. In the systems and methods, account data associated with a user account is received and the account data is stored in a storage device. Pluralities of networking opportunities are identified based on the account data. Furthermore, based on the account data triggers may be detected indicating a user's interest in one or more social networking opportunities. The system then offers the user, based at least partially on the detected trigger, the one or more social networking opportunities. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325947 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME INFORMATION REGARDING OBJECTS IN A NETWORK - A method of providing real-time information regarding objects in a social network includes receiving updated information regarding the social network, and determining, by a processor, an effect of the updated information on a set of existing social network information. The method also includes incrementally updating, by a processor, the set of existing social network information, and providing the updated set of social network information. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325948 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INCREASING ENGAGEMENT OF LOW ENGAGEMENT USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques to increase engagement with a social networking system. In one embodiment, an engagement level of a user with a social networking system is monitored. A low engagement user type associated with the user is identified from a plurality of low engagement user types. It is determined whether the engagement level of the user is less than a threshold. If so, a communication is provided for the user based on the low engagement user type associated with the user. The communication may be a notification or a digest communication. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325949 | System and Method for Sharing Items Between Electronic Devices - A system and method are provided for operating a first electronic device for sharing items with a second electronic device. The method comprises determining that the second electronic device requires a software capability to process a first item to be shared by the first electronic device; providing information to the second device for obtaining the software capability; and sending the first item to the second device after the software capability has been acquired by the second electronic device. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325950 | ADAPTIVE AND DYNAMIC REPLICATION MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD COMPUTING - A system for communicating information among a plurality of nodes of a network. The system comprises a plurality of disseminating modules installed in a plurality of nodes of a network which hosts a plurality of replicas of data having a plurality of objects, each the disseminating module has access to a dataset defining a plurality of write request dissemination topologies. Each disseminating module is defined to receive a write request from a client, to select dynamically one of the write request dissemination topologies according to at least one parameter of the client, and to disseminate the write request according to the selected write request dissemination topology. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325951 | INTELLIGENT PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE PROXIMATE AUDIBLE ALERTS - A computing device can receive an incoming message. The incoming message can be one directed to a set of different client machines at approximately the same time. The computing device can perform a mitigation action that alters a presentation characteristic of the audible alert for the incoming message. The mitigation action ensures that the computing device and at least a subset of the other client devices within a predefined audio range of the computing device do not audibly present alerts for the incoming message in an unsynchronized manner. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325952 | SHARING INFORMATION - A server is configured to receive a portion of content from a first user device, where the portion of content is less than an entirety of content that is playing on the first user device; receive information identifying a second user device with which to share the portion of content; store the portion of content; send a request to the second user device to share the portion of content that is playing on the first user device; receive an acceptance of the request from the second user device; determine whether the portion of content is compatible for playing on the second user device; and send, based on the determination that the portion of content is compatible for playing on the second user device, the portion of content, playing on the first user device, to the second user device, to cause the second user device to play the portion of content. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325953 | Community Profiling for Social Media - Embodiments of the invention relate to modeling communities associated with groups of data items. Tools are provided to iteratively assign data items to communities and to update topic and participant distribution in the assigned communities. As the distributions are updated, the characteristics of the communities are updated. Each activity area is defined from the perspective of a single user. Participants in a community are connected to a user, but not necessarily to each other. The combination of formations of communities and the statistical aspect of evaluating characteristics of the communities provides a multi-facetted organization of connections between data items and associated participants. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325954 | Syncronization Of Media Interactions Using Context - Embodiments of the present invention provide secondary content that is synchronized to progress within a primary media content. The secondary content, may be a comment, an emote, a poll, a contextual advertisement, a special feature, or other communication synchronized to a particular point in the media. Examples of media include movies, games, television shows, sporting events, video conferences, online chat sessions, and others. Some events are synchronized using time sequencing to a particular spot within a time-based media content. The events may be published through social media outlets. The progress point associated with the event may be directly accessed by selecting a link within the event. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325955 | ON-LINE COMMUNITY NETWORK OF SETS - Method and system to provide users with access to authoritative sets of various collectable items and to permit users create and manage their own sets based on the respective authoritative sets are described. An authoritative set may be a collection of images representing collectable items. Access to an authoritative set may be provided via a web site that facilitates a community space where users can compare their collected sets to the authoritative set and determine what products may be missing for their user's set. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325956 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An exemplary information-processing system includes: an execution unit configured to execute an application program; a prompting unit configured to prompt a user to post to a service for sharing posted information, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied a predetermined number of times in the application program executed by the execution unit; and a posting unit configured to post posted information corresponding to the predetermined condition to the service in accordance with a user input with respect to the prompting unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325957 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - An exemplary information-processing system includes: an executing unit that executes an application program; and a posted information sharing unit that receives and stores posted information and/or provides the posted information to users, wherein the posted information sharing unit includes: a posted information generating unit that generates the posted information; and a posted information storing unit that stores a plurality items of the posted information, each item of the posted information being stored along with identification information of an application program corresponding to the posted information, the executing unit includes a requesting unit that identifies identification information of an application program being executed and requests the posted information sharing unit to output the posted information, the posted information sharing unit further includes a posted information outputting unit that extracts at least one item of the posted information corresponding to the identified identification information. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325958 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first receiving unit that receives handwritten data input via an input device as posted information, the handwritten data showing an handwritten image; and a posting unit that posts the posted information received by the first receiving unit to a service that is provided to one or more communities. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325959 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325960 | CLIENT-SIDE SHARING OF EVENT INFORMATION - Client-side sharing of event information. Via a service hub executed on a client device, an event generated by a first web application accessed by the client device can be received and communicated to a second web application accessed by the client device or communicated to a native application executed on the client device. The event is not routed through a server. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325961 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HANDLING USER REQUESTS - Devices, systems and methods of handling user requests. For example, a method includes: receiving an electronic representation of a submitted request; calculating request-related information, submitter-related information, and/or recipient-related information; based on the request-related information and the submitter-related information, determining one or more recipients for the request; distributing the request to said one or more recipients; and storing the request and one or more responses received from said one or more recipients. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATING IN A WORK ENVIRONMENT - The disclosed embodiments relate to a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for improving collaborative communications that can be implemented using either centralized or decentralized modes, or combinations thereof. An exemplary method comprises receiving information corresponding to a user of a collaboration platform, the collaboration platform being associated with a plurality of collaboration channels; determining at least one of the collaboration channels to be most relevant for the user based on the received information; and routing the user to the at least one collaboration channel determined to be the most relevant for the user. The disclosed embodiment further utilizes discussions as a way of communicating to solve problems and incidents. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a playback processing unit for playing back media-recorded content recorded on an information recording medium, a feature extraction unit for extracting a feature amount of the media-recorded content, and an information processing unit for obtaining a comment which is set to similar content having a feature amount analogous to the feature amount of the media-recorded content extracted by the feature extraction unit and for performing control in a manner that the obtained comment is superimposed on a playback image of the media-recorded content. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325964 | Location-Based Social Networking System - A system for receiving and distributing social media content associates content with a particular geographic location. Users who view the social media content can have more confidence in its authenticity because the system only allows content to be uploaded when in proximity to the associated geographic location. Channels categorize the content into different subject-matter. A user can watch a channel and the geo-specific content updates as a user changes location. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325965 | RELAYING MESSAGES IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - A message is received at a communication interface device coupled to a first media type. A second layer (e.g., a dynamic link layer (DLL)) on the communication interface device communicates with an abstraction layer (AL) regarding relaying of the message. The AL determines whether another communication interface device should relay the message via a second media type. When the AL determines that another communication interface device cannot or should not relay the message, the communication interface device relays the message using relaying functionality provided by the second layer (e.g., the DLL). When the AL determines that another communication interface device should relay the message, the AL forwards the message to the other the communication interface device for relaying via the second media type. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325966 | PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS BETWEEN FRIENDS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325967 | TRANSFERRING APPLICATION STATE ACROSS DEVICES - A first client device or system performs a method that includes retaining in memory registration information for a respective application indicating the respective application is registered for sharing application state with other client devices or systems. The method further includes storing an application state of a respective application, and detecting a transfer triggering condition. The transfer triggering condition includes presence of a second client device or system within a predefined proximity of the first client device or system, and the predefined proximity is a predefined proximity for near field communication. Furthermore, upon detecting the triggering condition, the first client device or system determines, in accordance with the stored registration information, that the respective application is registered for application state sharing, and transmits the application state of the respective application to the second client device or system. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325968 | GENERATING A CONSOLIDATED SOCIAL STORY IN A FEED OF STORIES FOR A USER OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a social networking system, at least one action of one or more members of the social networking system is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPILING MEDIA INFORMATION BASED ON PRIVACY AND RELIABILITY METRICS - Methods and systems for creating a user profile clearinghouse server, which combines information available from multiple sources and filters the information based on both privacy settings and reliability to create a profile of a user's media content interests. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332522 | FAST CHANNEL FOR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - A push-based communication channel can be established and dedicated to time-sensitive tasks in the system management space for client management. Managed clients can establish and maintain communication with a server including system management software over the channel. Subsequently, the server can send messages regarding time-sensitive/urgent tasks over the channel. In response to a message, a client can execute an action as a function of the message. In accordance with one embodiment, the client contacts the server over a pull-based communication channel to acquire a task for execution. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332523 | PROVIDING A MULTI-COLUMN NEWSFEED OF CONTENT ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - News feed stories are ranked so that some stories appear above other stories for users of a social networking system. These “top” news stories are selected based on a ranking algorithm that incorporates an analysis of affinities for interests, users, and entities in the social networking system based on user interactions as well as story layout dimensions. The top news stories are presented in a multiple-column format, such as a grid format. Top news stories may be presented higher or in a more prominent placement among one or more columns in the story layout as compared to other news stories. The ranking of the top new news stories may change after a top news story is viewed. The multiple-column newsfeed enables a more visually pleasant placement of targeted advertisements on the social networking system. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332524 | DATA SERVICE ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A data service residing on a client of a mobile computing device is disclosed for enabling network communications between a plurality of mobile applications on the device and a network for a process number. The data service communicates with a data service plug-in on the server side associated with the process number, in order to handle requests from the business applications that access the network through the data service. The data service is configured to accept commands from the plurality of mobile applications using a text-based mark-up language and handles typical communication needs of business applications, such as sending and receiving data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332525 | ATTENDEE SUGGESTION FOR EVENTS BASED ON PROFILE INFORMATION ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - A system and machine-implemented method for suggesting a user for an event within a social networking site is provided. The method includes receiving a social suggestion indication from a first user of the social networking site and determining, using the one or more computing devices, an event associated with the first user. The method also includes accessing a data structure storing a plurality of user models comprising social information of users, and comparing, using the one or more computing devices, the event with the plurality of user models, to determine a second user model from the plurality of user models, based on a predetermined criteria. The method further includes identifying a second user associated with the second user model, and generating a user suggestion identifying the second user. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332526 | CREATING AND SHARING IMAGE STREAMS - Some embodiments provide tools that allow a user to share content on one device with multiple other users using different devices. The content sharing tools allow the user to (1) create a shared stream that represents a set of shared content and (2) invite one or more recipients to subscribe to the shared stream. When a recipient subscribes to the shared stream, the set of content is streamed across one or more of his or her devices. In some embodiments, a control server facilitates the sharing of content by managing control data associated with different shared streams. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332527 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING A GROUP EVENT - An approach is provided for organizing a group event. An input from a device specifying a group event is received. A location associated with the group event is determined. One or more other devices within a proximity of the location are determined. A notification of the group event to the one or more other devices is generated. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332528 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN TWO VEHICLES - A system and process for communicating between at least two different objects, such as vehicles is disclosed. The system can include a portable communication device, as well as a central communication server. This system can also include a plurality of databases which are disposed on or in communication with the servers. The databases can include a plurality of tables with the tables being used to monitor the activities and track the habits of the objects. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332529 | Method And System For Communicating Between Devices - A network communication method is provided, said network comprising first and second nodes. The method comprises: transmitting a message from the first node to the second node, wherein the message comprises a data content portion and an identifying portion, wherein said identifying portion includes a first unique identifier corresponding to a time source which controls a time value at the first node; receiving the transmitted message at the second node; comparing the first unique identifier to a second unique identifier, wherein said second unique identifier corresponds to a time source which controls a time value at the second node; and if the result of said comparison is positive, accepting the message for processing at the second node. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332530 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a condition determining unit that changes, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition, a state from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled, and a restricting unit that restricts the change of the state from the first state to the second state, on the basis of restriction information that is acquired from the first terminal apparatus and is used to restrict the change of the state from the first state to the second state. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332531 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEETING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus communicating with a device associated with a participant of an event, includes: a unit configured to detect the device upon the participant entering the event; a unit configured to update a presence information in response to the detection; a unit configured to update a conferring information upon the event being held; and a unit configured to control access to event materials from the device according to a value of the presence information and the conferring information. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332532 | Systems and Methods of Classifying Content Items - A method of classifying content items utilizes user-generated playlists. A content item is included in respective playlists from a plurality of respective distinct users. The method receives respective user-generated information corresponding to the content item from each of the respective distinct users. For some users, the respective user-generated information is the respective playlist title. For other users, the user-generated information is the text of social network posting that identifies a respective playlist. In each case, the respective user-generated information specifies a first content item attribute that characterizes the content item. Accordingly, the method assigns the first content item attribute to the content item. Subsequently, a request is received from a first user for a content item having the first content item attribute. In response, the method selects the content item according to the first content item attribute and delivers the first content item to the first user. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332533 | Content Distribution with Mutual Anonymity - A method for transferring content includes requesting the content from a serving peer and sending the content to a requesting peer. Requesting the content includes sending a request to a tracker, receiving a request token, a path identifier, and a first peer identifier from the tracker, and sending a request message to a second peer. The first peer identifier includes an identity of a first peer, and the request message includes the request token, the path identifier, and the first peer identifier. Sending the content includes receiving the request token and the path identifier from a third peer, sending a return message to a fourth peer, and transferring the content from the serving peer to the requesting peer through a transfer path. The return message includes the path identifier and a second peer identifier. The second peer identifier includes an identity of a fifth peer. The transfer path includes at least the second, fourth, and fifth peers. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a server apparatus, comprising: a control block comprising at least one processor; at least one data reception unit operable to receive a request to share a picture; at least one storage facility, storing programmed instructions for execution by the control block, the programmed instructions defining an image analysis engine operable to determine that the picture comprises an image of a person; and at least one data transmission unit operable to issue a request to the person, or someone associated with the person, to consent to sharing the image. Other embodiments provide a method, performed by at least one computer. The method comprises: (A) receiving a request to share a picture; (B) determining that the picture comprises an image of a person; and (C) requesting that the person, or someone associated with the person, consent to sharing the image. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339430 | Fears Online Interface 18 - The Fears Online Interface 18 (OI 18) is the industries' first audio recording interface with online and wireless Internet capabilities. May be used for connecting your studio online with multiple OI 18's to record, collaborate, rehearse, and exchange recording session audio from their location into your professional DAW. The body is a 2space rack unit with 8 analog in/outputs, and 10 digital totaling 18inputs/18outputs. The OI 18 has a unique LCD screen per analog channel on front of the hardware, which displays the musician's name, state, instrument, and signal-bridge. Software 1.0 is a plug-in & standalone, providing the ability to organize your online cliental through an instant messenger type database, visibly interact, and drag and drop their recording screen name, into the desired recording input I/O, for an immediate collaborate session as the interface dials online and connect to the corresponding location. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339431 | Replay of Content in Web Conferencing Environments - A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate engaging in a web conference session between computing devices over a network, where the web conference session includes audio and video content communicated from at least one computing device to at least one other computing device during the web conference session. A first computing device engages in the web conference session at a first time that is after a start time of the web conference session and while the web conference session is ongoing, and the first computing device displays a time shifted portion of the web conference session prior to the first time and while the web conference session is ongoing. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339432 | MONITORING CONNECTION REQUESTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Monitoring connection requests in social networks includes identifying a connection request to connect a contact's profile to a user's profile in the social network, comparing information about the contact's profile to a preference in the user's profile, and determining whether to allow the connection request to be sent to the user's profile based on the preference. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339433 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT RATING USING REACTION SENSING - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving segment ratings and semantic labels associated with media content from a group of first communication devices, analyzing the segment ratings and the semantic labels to identify universal segments among the plurality of segments that satisfy a threshold based on common segment ratings and common semantic labels; and providing universal reactions and an identification of the universal segments to a second communication device for generation of a content rating for the media content based on the universal segments and reaction data collected by sensors of the second communication device, where the universal reactions are representative of the common segment ratings and the common semantic labels for the universal segments. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339434 | Automatically Generating Music Marketplace Editorial Content - Example apparatus and methods concern automatically creating editorial content for albums that are to be recommended in a computerized music marketplace. An album may be selected for recommendation after analyzing consumption data (e.g., sales, downloads, samples), and popularity data (e.g., chart rankings, critical reviews). The popularity data may also include data mined from sources including search engines and social media sites. An overall recommendation score may be a weighted function of consumption data and popularity data. A customized recommendation score may be a weighted function of the overall recommendation score influenced by regional considerations, demographic considerations, and other considerations. The editorial content may include art and text and may be customized based on regional considerations, demographic considerations, and based on other art or text that will appear at the same time as the editorial content. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339435 | PHOTO ALBUM CREATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT - A method of creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment comprises retrieving a number of digital images from the social networking environment, retrieving data associated with the digital images, and creating a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises information about the subject matter of the digital images. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339436 | DELAYED OR SUSPENDED ALERTS WITH MULTIPLE DEVICES IN PROXIMITY - A method and a plurality of communication devices configured to control notification of reception of a same message by at least one of the plurality of communication devices. The method includes determining that a plurality of communication devices are in proximity with each other, determining that a same message was received by the plurality of communication devices, and determining at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices on which to inhibit producing a notification that indicates the message was received. The at least one communication device delays a pre-determined amount of time while monitoring for reception of a signal that indicates the message was read, and based on determination that the delay of the pre-determined amount of time has expired and that the communication device has failed to receive the signal, the communication device produces the notification. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339437 | PHOTO ALBUM CREATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT - A method of creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment comprises retrieving a number of digital images from the social networking environment, retrieving data associated with the digital images, and creating a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises information about the subject matter of the digital images. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUP BASED ACCESS CONTROL OF MACHINE TO MACHINE DEVICES - Methods and devices for communicating in a communication system are described herein. In one aspect, methods and devices for group based access control of machine to machine devices for wireless communication are described. One method includes forming a machine-to-machine (M2M) group identifier based on a M2M service category. The method further includes associating the M2M group identifier with at least one wireless device. The method further includes transmitting data intended for receipt by the M2M group, the data including the M2M group identifier. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339439 | METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, SERVER, AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING INFORMATION SHARING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a user equipment, and a server for sharing information, and an apparatus. The method for implementing information sharing includes: receiving shared information of another user equipment and location information corresponding to the shared information, where the location information indicates a location for the shared information to be displayed on a desktop of another user equipment; and displaying the shared information according to the location information. In the embodiments of the present invention, information or a desktop can be shared in real time between two or more user equipments, so that a user of a user equipment is capable of tracing the status of a user of another user equipment and acquiring information on the shared desktop in real time. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339440 | CREATING, SHARING AND DISCOVERING DIGITAL MEMORIES - An application may allow users to create digital memories, share memories with others, and discover memories of which they were a part. Digital memories may include or relate to pictures, videos, text, or audio captured through a mobile device at a specific location in the real world, in various embodiments. Memories may therefore be associated with other individuals present at that specific physical location at the same time. The application may thus relate to the intersections of people with places and other people, and may differ from other social networking applications in which interactions do not relate to people who are physically present at the same time. In various embodiments, media data and geolocation data may therefore be collected and used in association with the creation of digital memories. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339441 | NETWORK SYSTEM WITH SHARING MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A network system includes: an initiation module configured to set up an event; a location identification module, coupled to the initiation module, configured to identify a participation location to the event; and a group module, coupled to the location identification module, configured to forming a device group at the participation location. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A system and method for sharing information, comprising: creating at least one problem-oriented record utilizing at least one modifier to describe at least one attribute of at least one problem; and utilizing the at least one problem-oriented record to share information. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339443 | Interactive Organization of Comments on an Online Social Platform - An interactive organization architecture and application platform and methods for use with social reading systems and networks are disclosed for permitting users to interact while viewing the pages of electronic content, for example, a book. Users may highlight text and attach a comment, link, poll, or quiz to the text of the electronic content. As other readers peruse through the electronic content, they are either presented with the notes as they read or are presented with aggregated notes in their feed, which may be determined as relevant based on predetermined criteria. Users may share content with others in multiple private and public discussion threads. The social reading platform system and methods also include other features that facilitate discovery, collaborative reading, assignment of tasks, review of tasks by teachers and peers etc. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339444 | ELECTRONIC DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXCHANGING ELECTRONIC DATA - Electronic data exchange system includes a transmitting portable electronic device and a server. The transmitting portable electronic device has an application program. A user of the transmitting portable electronic device utilizes the application program to generate an electronic data transmission control command. The server includes a data base. The data base stores an electronic data album of the user. When the server transmits electronic data of the user to at least one receiving portable electronic device, and transmits electronic data of at least one user of the at least one receiving portable electronic device to the transmitting portable electronic device according to the electronic data transmission control command, the server updates the electronic data album according to the electronic data of the at least one user. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339445 | Receiving and Correlation of User Choices to Facilitate Recommendations for Peer-to-Peer Connections - Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed which facilitate collecting information about users, including responses to poll prompts, and analyzing such information in order to determine correlations and inter-relationships of information and information areas. In an aspect, information from many users is collected across a variety of user interaction channels and computing device platforms. Such information is analyzed in order to generate profiles of like-minded individuals. Such profiles may be useful for recommending peer-to-peer connection between individuals, marketing products and services to individuals with similar attributes and traits, and examining changes in individual preferences over time or in response to external factors. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339446 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PRODUCT FOR CAPTURING MEMORIES - The present disclosure relates to a allowing individuals to create and share digital memories, which may include, e.g., picture, video, text, audio, and drawings captured through a mobile device. Those memories may in some embodiments be associated with other individuals located at the same location and time. This disclosure further relates to a mobile application that allows users to create digital memories, share memories with others, and discover memories of which they were a part. The mobile application, systems and interactions are herein referred to generally as “Timeline.” Timeline may be viewed as focused on users in the physical world rather than online world. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339447 | Secure Digital Remediation Systems and Methods for Managing an Online Reputation - Secure digital remediation methods and systems are provided for managing a reputation. A method for managing a reputation includes receiving a complaint from a victim regarding an unfavorable item published by one or more third parties, extracting information from the unfavorable item, and providing a communication to the one or more third parties of the complaint including the information, the communication requesting a response from the one or more third parties. The method also includes scoring the unfavorable item on a severity scale based on the information, responses to queries and/or a ruleset to produce a severity score, the ruleset including instructions for responding to the complaint based on the severity score. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339448 | SUBSCRIBER DEVICE AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT THAT SUPPORTS REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - Subscription management for resource content is disclosed. A subscriber device selects an event topic based on an event topic list. The subscriber device creates a topic path for the selected event topic to receiving a notification event related to the selected event topic. The subscriber device sends path information of the created topic path as part of identification information of the subscriber device, along with the selected event topic, to a resource content publishing device, and the topic path indicates a document. The subscriber device receives the notification event sent by the resource content publishing device to the subscriber device according to the identification information of the subscriber device, wherein at least one field of the document indicates the receipt of the notification event. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339449 | Method and System for Tagging Content - Systems and methods for tagging digital content are provided. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving and storing personal data of a first user of an internet-based social network. The personal data of the first user can include one or more digital images or other digital content that the first user is willing to share with other users of the social network. Accordingly, a request from a second user of the internet-based social network can be received to view some of the digital content of the first user. A viewer image can be used to tag the digital content of the first user allowing the owner of the digital content to quick determine the viewers. The viewer image can be a personal profile picture, an image, an icon, an avatar (two-dimensional or three-dimensional), or other on-screen representation that includes a visual indicator of the second user. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339450 | Location-based People Matching System and Method - A location-based matching system and method matches users of a computer-implemented system in accordance with inferences of mutual interest between the users, whereby the inferences of mutual interest are based on mutual computer-implemented relationships and user location information. Inferences of mutual interest may also be in accordance with a physical object. The inferences of mutual interest may be with respect to interests by users in being physically proximal to each other or being physically proximal to a location associated with one of the users. Information associated with user matches may be delivered to a matched user in the form of a computer-implemented map. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339451 | Method and Apparatus for Prioritizing Media within an Electronic Conference According to Utilization Settings at Respective Conference Participants - In one aspect, the teachings herein address the changing network capacity requirements that arise in electronic conferencing systems not hosted in a fully dedicated network using a clever prioritization scheme that is determined in view of which source streams ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130346493 | MULTIPLE SERVICE CLASSES IN A SHARED CLOUD - In various exemplary embodiments, a system, article of manufacture, and method for providing, a cloud computing infrastructure on a system infrastructure comprising, a first virtual computing environment associated with a first class of service, the first class of service defining, in one embodiment, a first set of obligations, restrictions, and/or capabilities; providing, in the same cloud, a second virtual computing environment associated with a second class of service, the second class of service defining a second set of obligations, restrictions, and/or capabilities different from those of the first class of service; and executing the first virtual computing environment according to the first class of service and the second virtual computing environment according to the second class of service, the first virtual computing environment having a different access to the hardware platform than the second virtual environment based on the respective class of service. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346494 | CLOUD-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING MEDIA AMONG CLOSELY LOCATED DEVICES - A method for sharing data between a local device and a target device includes scanning for a fallback peer-to-peer (P2P) network by the local device. When the scanning finds the fallback P2P network, the local device joins the P2P network in order to connect to a target device. The local device can also create a fallback P2P network when the scanning does not find said fallback P2P network. The local device searches for a target device, using a Bluetooth generic attribute (GATT) personal device profile (PDP) protocol; and is capable of sharing a data file between the local and target devices upon receiving an indication that the target device had connected to said fallback P2P network. In response to a triggering event, the local and target devices connect to the P2P network to thereby support file sharing. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346495 | MEDIATION AND PRESENTATION OF COMMUNICATIONS - A computer receives a plurality of records each relevant to a relationship between a first person and a second person. The computer determines a communication score of a communication from the first person to the second person, wherein the score is based on at least one of the plurality of records. The computer compares the communication score to an established mediation threshold. Responsive to determining that the communication score violates the established mediation threshold, the computer passes the communication to a user device of the second person. Further, the computer prioritizes the plurality of records according to a set of priorities, and presents the plurality of records to the first person or to the second person. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREDICTING COMMUNITY MEMBER RESPONSIVENESS - Disclosed herein is a mechanism, which may be in a community-driven system, to assist a user, or member of the community, to articulate a request, such as a question, that is likely to receive a response, e.g., an answer to a question posed, from the user community. A machine learning approach may be used to generate a model, which model may be trained using previously-posted requests, e.g., questions, and response, e.g., answers. The generated model may be used to make a prediction, e.g., to predict a potential number of answers for a given question, which prediction may also have an accompanying confidence score. A prediction generated by the model may be presented to the user as the user is providing the input, e.g., typing a question. Such prediction may be generated for a partial question, e.g., as the question is being typed, as well as a completed question. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346497 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SHARING ACADEMIC USER PROFILES AND RANKING ACADEMIC USERS - A system for sharing academic articles and credential information for a plurality of academic users is described herein. Embodiments of the system, computer program product and computer-implemented method perform a process for gathering data related to the academic user and a process for determining a reputation ranking for the academic user by executing the steps of: creating a user profile for the academic user from attribute information gathered from a user profile prompt, enabling the user profile from the academic user to be viewed by academic and non-academic users and selected for ranking by other academic users, enabling the other academic users to provide a rank selection for the user profile for the academic user according to at least one of research quality, credentials, research articles, and user activity, and determining a reputation ranking for the user profile from the rank selection of the other academic users. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOSTING AND SHARING A LIVE EVENT - A computer-implemented method and computing system for generating, using one or more computing devices, an event page corresponding to a particular event, the event page associated with a social network. The method further configured to allow access to the event page to one or more members of the social network and to determine a subset of the one or more members of the social network. The method further configured to provide the subset of the one or more members of the social network with permission to edit the event page and receive real-time updates to the event page from the subset of the one or more members of the social network. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346499 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING FRAME AGGREGATION WITH SCREEN SHARING - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing frame aggregation with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a stream of delta frames from a publishing client as part of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; establishing a FIFO buffer for each of the respective one or more viewing clients on 1:1 basis; queuing a copy of the stream of delta frames into each of the FIFO buffers corresponding to the one or more viewing clients, wherein the stream of delta frames are transmitted from the respective FIFO buffers to the corresponding one or more client viewers; monitoring each of the respective FIFO buffers for each of the one or more viewing clients to determine if two or more delta frames are concurrently queued in any single one of the respective FIFO buffers at any given time; aggregating the two or more delta frames into a single aggregated delta frame; re-queuing the aggregated delta frame; and transmitting the aggregated delta frame to the respective viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346500 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ACCEPTING LATE JOINERS WITH SCREEN SHARING - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for accepting late joiners with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a key frame from a publishing client sharing its screen, the key frame defining the screen of the publishing client in its entirety at the beginning of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; transmitting the key frame to the one or more viewing clients; iteratively processing each of a plurality of delta frames from the publishing client specifying changes to the screen of the publishing client, wherein the iterative processing includes: (i) receiving each delta frame, (ii) updating an aggregated current key frame with the delta frame received, and (iii) sending the delta frame to the one or more viewing clients. Such means further include: accepting a late joiner viewing client for the screen sharing session; sending the aggregated current key frame to the late joiner viewing client; and sending subsequently received delta frames to the one or more viewing clients and to the late joiner viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346501 | System and Method for Calculating Global Reputation - As social networks become more powerful and sophisticated, each member of a social network may belong to different communities. The computing reputation for users in a single community is not adequate anymore. As a result, a method of calculating global reputation for each member is desirable. Various considerations are described to address challenges related to global reputation for a user who participates in activities among multiple communities. Considerations on accessibility of a community, quality vs. quantity of submissions, posting ideas vs. comments, weighting of each community, and volatility of the reputation value are discussed in the present invention. Finally, a formula for calculating a global reputation value of the user is proposed by combining all the considerations. A system that implements the global reputation computation is described. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346502 | Markup Language for Incorporating Social Networking System Information by an External Website - A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346503 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for social networking in a dynamic environment. In one embodiment, a method for social networking in a network includes broadcasting a first set of one or more keywords representing one or more interests of a first user in the network, receiving a response from a second user in the network indicating interest in at least one of the interests of the first user, and connecting to a server in the network, where the server hosts a group for supporting communications between at least the first network user and the second network user. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346504 | GROUP COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION - A group communication method is provided, including: receiving, from a network application, a group access request that requests access to a group, where the group access request includes a group identifier of the group; obtaining group member information of all group members in the group according to the group identifier; according to the group member information, determining members of a first group that are connected to a service function entity through a same gateway in the group; and sending, to the gateway, a first group member access request that requests access to the members of the first group. In addition, a service function entity for group communication and a gateway for group communication are provided. The present invention is capable of reducing signaling overhead during group communication and thereby improving group communication efficiency. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346505 | SOCIAL MEDIA IN PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for the use of social media in patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a method includes maintaining or accessing, by a computer processor, a database including data relating to patent applications and detecting the grant or publication of a patent application in the database. The method further includes creating, in response to the detection, in a social media network, a fan page including data relating to the granted or published patent application. The owner of the granted or published patent is identified in the social media network and invited to be a fan of the fan page. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140006489 | Determining and Providing Feedback About Communications From An Application On A Social Networking Platform | 01-02-2014 |
20140006490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING CONTEXT INFORMATION WITH CONTENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140006491 | ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006492 | Consistent Interface for Entitlement Product | 01-02-2014 |
20140006493 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECOMMENDING ACTIONS BASED ON SOCIAL CAPITAL OF USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
20140006494 | System and Method for Establishing a Distributed Social Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140006495 | AUTHORIZING ACCESS TO A WEB CONFERENCE FOR A SPECIFIED DURATION OF TIME | 01-02-2014 |
20140006496 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF A DEVICE FOR CONTENT SHARING OPERATIONS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT CREATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006498 | Data De-Duplication in Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services Environment | 01-02-2014 |
20140006499 | ONLINE COMMUNITY BASED PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA STREAMING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006500 | INTERACTIVE BROADCASTING BETWEEN DEVICES | 01-02-2014 |
20140006501 | SPONSORED STORIES APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) | 01-02-2014 |
20140006502 | System and Method for Clustering of Mobile Devices and Applications | 01-02-2014 |
20140006503 | SOCIAL NETWORKING FEED DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140006504 | Apparatuses and Methods for Assessing User Interest Scores as Altered by Friends Influence | 01-02-2014 |
20140006505 | Social Network Data Analysis to Generate Incentives for Online Gaming | 01-02-2014 |
20140006506 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND PROCESSING SENSOR DATA FROM AN ELECTRICAL OUTLET | 01-02-2014 |
20140006507 | Dynamic Security Question Compromise Checking Based on Incoming Social Network Postings | 01-02-2014 |
20140006508 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME SUBSCRIBER PROFILING | 01-02-2014 |
20140006509 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR MATCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICE USERS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006510 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSFERRING A DATA PAYLOAD UTILIZING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING A FILE IN P2P SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140006512 | Methods for Exchanging User Profile, Profile Mediator Device, Agents, Computer Programs and Computer Program Products | 01-02-2014 |
20140006513 | ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING APPARATUS, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING METHOD, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING PROGRAM, AND ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140006514 | DISTRIBUTION OF XML DOCUMENTS/MESSAGES TO XML APPLIANCES/ROUTERS | 01-02-2014 |
20140012903 | COLLABORATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A participant computing device in a collaboration system, the participant computing device comprising a processing structure; and a memory including computer program code, wherein the memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processing structure, to cause the processing structure to share user defined content displayed on a desktop associated with the participant computing device with other participant computing devices. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012904 | PROVIDING BYTE ENABLES FOR PEER-TO-PEER DATA TRANSFER WITHIN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Non-contiguous or tiled payload data are efficiently transferred between peers over a fabric. Specifically, a client transfers a byte enable message to a peer device via a mailbox mechanism, where the byte enable message specifies which bytes of the payload data being transferred via the data packet are to be written to the frame buffer on the peer device and which bytes are not to be written. The client transfers the non-contiguous or tiled payload payload data to the peer device. Upon receiving the payload data, the peer device writes bytes from the payload data into the target frame buffer for only those bytes enabled via the byte enable message. One advantage of the present invention is that non-contiguous or tiled data are transferred over a fabric with improved efficiency. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING OF MEDIA SESSIONS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - To facilitate the sharing of media sessions by users within a social network. In an embodiment, a social networking system provides, for a second user of a social networking system, a reference about a first media session for a first user of the social networking system. The social networking system receives a request to participate in the first media session from the second user. The social networking system facilitates provision of a second media session for the second user that is synchronized with the first media session. The first media session may include media from at least one of an audio application, a video application, and a gaming application. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012906 | PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURE FOR WEB TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - Techniques are provided for a peer-to-peer web traffic management. A first mapping between identifiers and peers in a network is established. Upon receiving a first request associated with a first identifier and classifiers, based, at least in part, on the first identifier, a first peer retrieves a first global counter snapshot and a first local increment counter, and uses them to determine whether the first peer can service the first request. If the determination is positive, then the first peer services the first request, and updates the first local increment counter. If the first local increment counter exceeded a threshold value, then the first local increment counter is transmitted to a second peer, and then reset to zero. In response to the first peer receiving a first global counter associated with the first global counter snapshot, the first global counter snapshot is updated with the first global counter. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012907 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR REMOTELY RE-AMPING A DIGITIZED SOUND TRACK - A re-amping management and file distribution (RMFD) system remotely re-amps a digitized sound track recorded by a user on a user computing device having a data communication port for communicating the digitized sound track to the RMFD server. The system receives the digitized sound track, presents re-amping options to the user, receives at least one re-amping selection command from the user computing device, and transmits the digitized sound track to a studio server for re-amping of the digitized sound track. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012908 | VERIFICATION-BASED ACCESS TO FEATURES IN A BUSINESS CONTEXT-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - Access to features in a business context-based social network is provided based on verification of a provided association between a user's social network account and a verified social network account of an organizational entity. The association represents a relationship between the user and the organizational entity outside of the business context-based social network. Based on verification of the account of the organizational entity and on the provided association, access is enabled for the account of the user to one or more features offered by a social network account of another organizational entity in the business context-based social network. The access provided for the account of the user to the one or more features is authorized based on the provided association between the verified account of the organizational entity and the account of the user. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012909 | Ranking Location Query Results Based on Social Networking - A location query engine in a social networking system provides users with a subset of candidate locations based on location query received from a user. The social networking system identifies candidate locations from stored location data that has one or more attributes matching at least one attribute of the location query. The candidate locations are ranked based on social data determined from a user profile associated with the user, and the subset of candidate locations is selected from the ranking and provided to the user. Examples of social data used for ranking the candidate locations include locations associated with other users connected to the user, locations associated with objects connected to the user and locations previously associated with the user. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012910 | VIDEO COMMENT FEED - The disclosed subject matter provides a method and system for displaying comments associated to a time reference of a video. A comment feed is displayed in conjunction with a video (or other content). A user may input a comment while playing the video and the comment may appear at a reference point in the video (e.g., the point when the user submitted the comment). Upon a subsequent viewing of the video (or other content) by the user or another user, the comment may appear at the reference time. The comment feed may be updated (and/or filtered) in real-time; thus, the comment will be visible to other users playing the same the video. A determination may be made as to the availability of a slot for a submitted comment and, if no slot is available at the submitted reference, the next most proximate slot to the submitted reference may be used. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012911 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social network system includes one or more participant terminals operable to act as a client on a social network and a computer operable to act as a server on the social network and to communicate with each of the participant terminals over the social network. The computer includes: a memory configured to store a set of instructions; and a processor configured to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions cause the processor to: receive one or more search terms; search one or more databases for each search term; and generate a search result showing at least some instances where the one or more search terms have been used in the social network. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012912 | Controlled Resources Based on Good Behavior - Computing system resources are controlled based on the behavioral attributes associated with users of the computing system. These behavioral attributes are monitored in real time and through a historical log, and behavioral attributes that fall outside pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters are detected. Access by the computing system user to computing system resources contained in a preferred and habitually accessed computing system resource set associated with the computing system user are adjusted in response to the detection of the behavioral attribute outside the pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012913 | Peer-Peer Device Activation and Setup - Setting up a user equipment (UE) device via a peer-to-peer wireless link. A peer device may be discovered using a peer-to-peer wireless communication protocol. A peer-to-peer wireless link may be established with the peer device using the peer-to-peer wireless communication protocol. Device setup information for the UE may be requested from the peer device via the peer-to-peer wireless link. The device setup information may be received from the peer device via the peer-to-peer wireless link. The UE may be configured using the device setup information. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012914 | ORGANIZATION OF INPUTS FOR ONLINE SERVICE - Technologies are generally described for organizing inputs for an online service. It is determined that there are no updated inputs generated on a personalized page hosted on a server corresponding to the online service for a predetermined time period. The inputs may be associated with an acknowledged contact regarding the online service. Inputs previously generated on the personalized page hosted on the server are reorganized in accordance with one of multiple arrangements. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING USERS - A method and apparatus for associating users. The method includes receiving association items from a plurality of users; determining, from the received associated items, a set of association items conforming to a predetermined rule using a processor, wherein the set of association items is determined based on account identifiers that are not locally registered account identifiers; and establishing an association relation based on the set of association items. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012916 | Adaptive Communication Anonymization - A method, system, and computer program product identifies anonymized parties in a transmitted communication. A sender replaces one or more communication party identifiers in control data within a communication with one or more anonymized identifiers before transmitting the communication to one or more recipients of the communication. A recipient receiving the communication searches a local lookup table by an anonymized identifier for a corresponding non-anonymized identifier which identifies a party of the communication. In response to identifying a corresponding non-anonymized identifier, the recipient then replaces the anonymized identifier with the corresponding communication party identifier and presents the recipient with the non-anonymized identifiers within the communication. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012917 | SHARING USER INFORMATION WITH PROXIMATE DEVICES - Embodiments of techniques and systems for sharing user information between proximate devices are described. In embodiments, a first device may identify a physically-proximate device that may receive user information. Upon receiving an indication that a user of the first device may desire to share user information with a user of the second device, a determination may be made as to whether the two users have matching interests. In embodiments, the interest match determination may be made by a separate interest match evaluator. Upon determination of an interest match, the first device may then send a request to share user information to the second device. If a user of the second device approves the request, user information for the user of the first device may be shared with the user of the second device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AN EPHEMERAL SOCIAL NETWORK - An approach is provided for creating a connection between users of a social network. The approach involves determining location information associated with a user and other location information associated with one or more other users. The approach also includes processing the location information and the other location information to cause, at least in part, identification of one or more encounters, one or more encounter patterns, or a combination thereof with respect to the user and the one or more other users. The approach further includes determining to generate at least one recommendation to create at least one social network, at least one social networking relationship, or a combination thereof between the user and at least one of the one or more other users based, at least in part, on the one or more encounters, the one or more encounter patterns, one or more meetings and/or events, or a combination thereof. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012919 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK REGARDING DIGITAL CONTENT WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Maintaining a social network and providing corresponding access to digital content. A social network includes at least one social group having a defined membership. The content items that collectively correspond to content resource devices of the group members are identified, and feedback information for the content items is maintained based upon feedback respectively provided by group members. The feedback includes ratings, amount of usage and recommendations of the content items. Members, are then provided with displays wherein the feedback is conveyed in association with the corresponding content items. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012920 | Device, System and Method for Recording Personal Encounter History - Provided are exemplary embodiments including a method for creating and using a personal encounter history using a communication device. The method involves the communication device receiving the transmission of a pseudo identifier from a proximal communication device where the pseudo identifier is associated with the user of the proximal communication device. Once received, the method continues with the wireless communication device requesting and receiving the actual identification of the user of the proximal communication device that is correlated with the pseudo identifier. The communication device includes a transceiver capable of communicating wirelessly with a mobile telecommunications network, a memory device and a processor. To ensure privacy, the processor is capable of receiving a pseudo identifier from a proximate communication device and then requesting an actual identification correlated with the pseudo identifier of the proximate communication device. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012921 | FILE SHARING METHOD AND TERMINAL - A file sharing method executed by a first terminal, and including selecting from among multiple terminals including the first terminal and based on a remaining battery level of the terminals and a processing time of a shared process, a second terminal to execute the shared process for sharing multiple files among the terminals; and assigning the shared process to the second terminal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019532 | Determining a Location and Area of a Place - In one embodiment, a method includes calculating a first mean of check-in locations associated with a place; selecting a subset of the check-in locations based on distances between the first mean and the check-in locations; and determining a central location and at least a portion of a perimeter of the place based on the subset of the check-in locations. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019533 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF A USER PROFILE - Systems and methods for dynamic user profile presentation in a large-scale network are provided. Individuals may request to retrieve user profiles of other users in the network. Commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are identified. The commonalities may include non-public information associated with the owner of the user profile. Connection strength associated with each commonality is determined and the commonalities are prioritized according to the connection strength. The commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are presented to the requesting individual based on the prioritization. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019534 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING INTERNET CO-BROWSING - Systems and methods for enabling co-browsing are provided herein. A device, such as a web server, may execute a browser application that initiates co-browsing capabilities between a host computing device and one or more guest computing devices. Activatable code is injected and/or otherwise embedded in one or more web pages. Subsequently, using the activatable code, web browser information on the host computing device is obtained and processed for display on the one or more guest computing devices. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019535 | SOCIAL GROUP-BASED WISH LISTS - A social networking group definition that identifies each social group of a social network user within a social networking service is obtained by a processor for each different social networking service used by the user. An associated subset of items of a wish list of the user is identified for at least one identified social group of the obtained social networking group definitions using the social networking group definition. A partition of the wish list, including the identified subset of items of the wish list and the associated identified social group of the user, is defined for each identified subset of items of the wish list. Each partition of the wish list is accessible only by social connections of the user defined by the respective social group within the social networking group definition. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019536 | REALTIME COLLABORATION SYSTEM TO EVALUATE JOIN CONDITIONS OF POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS - A real-time collaboration system receives a join condition of a potential participant of a real-time collaboration session. The join condition requires that a selected individual has connected to the real-time collaboration session and that the selected individual is prepared for participation in media sharing during the real-time collaboration session, or that selected information has been expressed during the real-time collaboration session, or that the potential participant has finished a task that overlaps in time with the real-time collaboration session, or that a selected number of individuals necessary to establish a quorum have connected to the real-time collaboration session, or that a selected individual has disconnected from the real-time collaboration session. If the real-time collaboration system determines that the join condition has been satisfied, then the real-time collaboration system notifies the potential participant to join the real-time collaboration session. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019537 | Configurable Community Platform - Technologies are described herein for providing a configurable community platform. A community reputation settings page may be provided. The community reputation settings page may include first functionality and second functionality. The first functionality may be configured to receive a first administrator customization of a rating system for a community page. The second functionality may be configured to receive a second administrator customization of an achievement point system for the community page. The first administrator customization of the rating system and the second administrator customization of the achievement system may be received via the community reputation settings page. The community page may be configured in accordance with the first administrator customization and the second administrator customization. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019538 | CLOUD-CONNECTED, INTERACTIVE APPLICATION SHARED THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORK - The current patent application is directed to a class of highly functional, cloud-connected, interactive applications that are well suited for distribution and execution in social-networking contexts. When executed within the contexts of browser applications running on processor-controlled electronic devices, the class of application programs to which the current patent application is directed provides for importing images and other information from a social-networking service, developing digitally encoded and electronically stored content based on the imported images and other information, and distributing the digitally encoded and electronically stored content within a social-networking environment. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019539 | DETERMINATION OF INFLUENCE SCORES - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for determining an influence score for a user of one or more social-networking services. The methods comprise acquiring a set of one or more criteria, the criteria having been specified by a first party, acquiring a dataset comprising information that relates to the user's interactions with one or more of the social networks provided by one or more of the social-networking services, selecting from the dataset data that are in accordance with the one or more criteria, and determining some function of the selected data, thereby providing the influence score for the second party. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019540 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VARIOUS SERVICES BASED ON SOCIAL INFORMATION OF MESSENGER PLATFORM USERS - Provided is a method and system for providing various services based on social information of messenger platform users. The method for providing the various services may include: providing a main service using a real profile including social information of users using a main service; and providing a channel for a plurality of inter-operative services through the main service. The at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services may be provided to a user selecting the at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services and at least one other user with whom the user establishes a relationship using the real profile in the at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING CONTENT USING WEBREF ENTITIES - Systems and methods for providing content via a computer network using reference entities that can increase accuracy and minimize ambiguity of information used in online content selection are provided. A data processing system obtains a classification of a plurality of entities. Responsive to receiving a request for content for a user of a web page, the data processing system identifies an entity of the web page. The entity can include metadata about the classification. The data processing system matches the entity with content in a content repository to select content eligible for display on the web page. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019542 | Social Networking System and Behavioral Web - A mobile client that interfaces with one or more sets of entities listed including a social network. Machine learning technologies at a server analyze the content using statistical inference and data analytic techniques to splice in relevant advertising units in signal streams throughout the hierarchical stack. Processing can be completed on the wireless device or transitioned to the cloud. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019543 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SYSTEM WITH MANAGEABILITY - A peer-to-peer network system provides at least one peer with information for configuration of a peer-to-peer network to optimize the configuration of the peer-to-peer network by using at least one of information about a status of the at least one peer, information about a status of an underlying network and information about a user in respect of services. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019544 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO CONTINUE RELATIONSHIPS IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for determining whether to continue relationships in an online social network. For example, a server can maintain data entries in one or more database tables. A given data entry can include: an identification of an entity, an identification of a user having a social networking relationship with the entity, and an affinity score indicating an amount of interaction by the user with the entity. For each entry, a ratio of the affinity score to a measure of an amount of content associated with the entity and published in a feed accessible by the user can be determined. Depending on the implementation, such ratios can be compared with a threshold and/or ranked to identify candidates for discontinuing social networking relationships. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019545 | Social Graph Expanding Method, Program and System - A social graph expanding method, program, and system to expand a social network even when the social network is inadequate and there is no incentive for users to proactively contribute. The system determines the proximity to the target state when new edges are added to a social network and the distance between nodes is reduced by the new edge. To achieve this purpose, the system displays GUI cards to users of a client system connected to a web server, which prompts users to enter information and introduce new edges. The system uses an algorithm including the following priority criteria: an edge (card) related to a person closer to one's node has a higher priority; a larger sum of distances shrunk by the introduction of the edge has a higher priority; and a card with lower operating costs has a higher priority. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019546 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A USER PROFILE TO PROVIDE PERSONALIZED RESULTS - The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for providing personalization services to a user by creating a user profile from a user selected multimedia data. The method comprises capturing a multimedia data through a user mobile device, initializing a client application pre-installed in the device, uploading the captured multimedia data to a central server through the client application, processing the multimedia data by a profiling module in the central server, extracting one or more user preferences from the multimedia data and creating a profile for the user based on the extracted user preferences. The profiling module extracts one or more keywords from the multimedia data inputted by the user to define the one or more personalization parameters. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL PLATFORM FOR SHARING INFORMATION - The various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for providing a virtual platform for sharing information. The method for providing virtual platform comprises of deploying a hotspot system at a hotspot access point, identifying one or more users at the hotspot access point, determining identification information associated with a user device, establishing a connection between the user device and the hotspot system and providing a virtual platform for sharing information on successful identification of the user device. The hotspot tracks the user activities, identifies user specific attributes based on the user activities, generates one or more communities for the user based on the user specific attributes, sends notifications to the one or more users of similar attributes to join the community and creates a virtual platform for providing interactive information sharing. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TRACKING AND DETERMINING PUBLIC SENTIMENT RELATING TO SOCIAL MEDIA - A method for determining influential broadcast messages in which a processing device identifies a plurality of re-posts of a post, wherein each re-post comprises a time stamp, determines whether the time stamp of the re-post is within a first time interval or a second time interval, increments a first count associated with the first time interval when the time stamp is within the first time interval or a second count associated with the second time interval when the time stamp is within the second time interval, and determines a public sentiment attribute associated with the post in view of a comparison between the first count and the second count. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019549 | Control System for Conferencing Applications in Named-Data Networks - A conference control server comprising a plurality of first ports configured to couple to a plurality of first control links, wherein the first control links connect the conference control server to a plurality of other conference control servers in a server cluster, a plurality of second ports configured to couple to a plurality of second control links, wherein the second control links connect the conference control server to a plurality of conference participating clients, and a processor coupled to the first ports and the second ports, wherein the processor is configured to register with a conference control system, wherein the conference control server is ready to serve a conference once registered, provide conference control and management functions to the conference participating clients and the other conference control servers, join the server cluster at any time, leave the server cluster without restrictions, and serve the conference participating clients. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ANALYZING USER ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - A server-based system is provided for analyzing and valuating social media campaign performance. The system collects online traffic data from member users of a social media channel, and tracks engagement activity with respect to a social media campaign operating on the channel according to parameters defined with respect to specific activities including: user interactions with media content of the campaign; user transactions as non-commercial data exchanges or commercial purchases conducted via the campaign; and user sharing of the campaign with other member users of the social media channel. The system establishes baseline performance thresholds and aggregates the tracked engagement activity with respect to the defined parameters. A graphical user interface is generated to display client feedback related to a comparison of the aggregated engagement activity with the established baseline performance thresholds for each of the defined parameters. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019551 | Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Content From The Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019552 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided for providing location-based communication services, such as location-based chat sessions and location based-data feeds. Access to a chat session or data feed may be provided to a user of a mobile device when the current location of the mobile device is determined to be within a predetermined geographic region. In one implementation, the chat session or data feed relates to content provided by members of a group or social network. In other implementations, the content related to chat session or data feed is provided by members of the general public. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019553 | EXCHANGING DIGITAL CONTENT - A first content selection stored on a portable media device is associated with a first tag. In addition, a second tag that is associated with a second content selection and that indicates that supplemental content related to the second content selection is stored on a peer device is accessed from a peer device. The first tag is compared to the second tag, and, if a commonality shared by the first content selection and the second content selection is identified, an exchange of the supplemental content from the peer device to the portable media device is initiated. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019554 | Crowd Formation Based On Physical Boundaries And Other Rules - The present disclosure relates to forming crowds of users taking into account known physical boundaries. In general, current locations of a number of users are obtained. A crowd of users is then formed based on the current locations of the users while taking into account one or more known physical boundaries such that the crowd does not include spatially proximate users on opposite sides of the one or more known physical boundaries. By utilizing known physical boundaries in a spatial crowd formation process, users that are spatially proximate to one another but are separated by a physical boundary are not included in the same crowd. In this manner, the spatial crowd formation process provides accurate and meaningful crowd formation in environments such as, but not limited to, buildings with multiple rooms, shopping malls, or the like. Crowd data representing users in the formed crowd is generated. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT ENABLE PLAYER MATCHING FOR MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES - The field of the invention relates to multi-user online gaming systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable a spectator's experience for online active games. In a preferred embodiment, an online multiuser game system includes a user matching system configured to match users for a game session, wherein the user matching system is enabled to match a first user with another user based at least in part on behavior data in the first user's profile. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025733 | Social Network Architecture - A social networking architecture comprises a plurality of nodes (persons) connected to one another by bonds reflecting common interests, the bonds having a strength, a time dimension, a geographic dimension, and an availability (e.g. ad hoc) dimension. Network members are allowed to define flexible interests (e.g. hobbies, professional skills/credentials), with the network revealing a strength of common interest between individual nodes. The temporal and geographic dimensions of the interest allow the network to connect available members having similar interest(s) in a specific location at a given time. An interface engine may allow the social network architecture to leverage relationships from pre-existing social networks and channels of communication. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025734 | Dynamic Community Generation Based Upon Determined Trends Within a Social Software Environment - Techniques are provided for automatic identification of a trending topic within a social software enterprise platform. The trending topic comprises a topic that includes content relating to a threshold amount of activities associated with participants of the platform. A trending topic community within the platform is automatically generated in response to the trending topic meeting a threshold criteria, and participants identified as being associated with the trending topic are automatically invited to join as members of the trending topic community. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025735 | IDENTIFYING CONSUMER SEGMENTS USING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Content posted to a brand page is associated with one or more tags defined by an entity associated with the brand page. Tags associated with content with which the user interacts are identified. As users of a social networking system interact with the content, the tags allow identification of user interests based on interaction with content items. Interactions with the tagged content allow the entity to use the tags to infer content in which different users have an interest. Because the tags are defined by the entity, distribution lists of users interested in content, such as content associated with business segments, may be created by the entity. The entity may also correlate user interests to aspects of user profiles, thereby developing an understanding of its consumers. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLUSTER LINK AGGREGATION CONTROL IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a request message from a first network element using an out-of-band control link. The request message includes a request to bundle a first port associated with the first network element into a channel group associated with a cluster. The cluster includes a plurality of clustered network elements. The method further includes determining a status of the first port with respect to the channel group, and sending a reply message to the first network element using the out-of-band control link. The reply message indicates the determined status of the first port of the first network element. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025737 | CONTENT SUGGESTION FOR POSTING ON COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Technologies are presented for providing a suggestion list presenting options for posting information related to viewed content on a communication network. In some examples, a user may desire to contribute to posted content by adding comments and other relevant information. A system may identify one or more key terms included in the viewed content, and may compare the key terms with content, such as files, emails, websites, images and media content, on computing devices and web browser histories associated with the user to identify information that may be related to the viewed content. If the system identifies information related to the key terms of the viewed content, the system may present the identified information associated with key terms to the user, and may enable selection from a posting suggestion list for automatically posting. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA TO MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - System and method for communicating data to multiple communication devices are provided. The method comprises receiving a call notification and a peer notification by a first communication device from a server, sending a peer notification to a second communication device by the first communication device, acknowledging the call notification by the second communication device, establishing a data channel between the second communication device and the server and receiving the data from the server. In another embodiment, the method comprises acknowledging the call notification received from the server by the first communication device, establishing a data channel between the first communication device and the server and receiving the data from the server. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025739 | CENTRALLY COORDINATED PEER ASSIGNMENT - Delivering information over a distribution network using a distribution manager is disclosed. A first source peer is designated at the distribution manager to function as a first content source for a first destination peer. A second source peer is designated at the distribution manager to function as a second content source for a second destination peer. The designation at the distribution manager of the second source peer to function as a second content source for the second destination peer is dependent on an anticipated effect of the designation at the distribution manager of the first content source for the first destination peer. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025740 | COLLABORATION ACTIVITY INITIATION - Systems, devices, and methods are described for initiating collaboration activities among multiple terminal devices. A central server computer system may receive a trigger event for a collaboration activity at a central server computer system; identify a set of participants in the collaboration activity; identify a current device associated with each of the identified participants; and apply a set of rules to the received trigger event and the identified participants to preemptively establish a bridge for the collaboration activity between each of the identified devices prior to a start of the collaboration activity. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025741 | EVALUATION OF REMOTE USER ATTRIBUTES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A computer host is configured to perform a method for defining user attributes with associated verification values for social networking accounts. The attributes concern the user's personal characteristics or attributes. The host publishes the attribute information to other clients together with interactive objects for soliciting corroboration of the attribute information. The host receives feedback information from other account holders, such as survey response data, concerning the veracity of the attribute information. The host processes the evaluation information and the feedback information to provide a veracity score of each attribute reported for each account holder, or for collections of attributes, by weighing the evaluation information and feedback information by a computed reliability factor for each source from which processed information is obtained. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025742 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR USE IN A WEB SERVICE - A method and apparatus for realizing a web service. The apparatus having binary web service interface to communicate with nodes operationally connected to the apparatus using a binary web service, the nodes having one or more resources, the binary web service interface receives from a node a registration message including information on the address of the node, a flag indicating that at least part of the resources of the node are defined in a template, and a node type identification; a second interface for retrieving template information on the basis of the node type identification and a resource component for storing information on nodes, node addresses, node resources and template information. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025743 | Apparatus and Method for Collaborative Content Browsing - Methods utilizing social networks and their content browsing history and other attributes are utilized for selecting and sorting content when servicing content requests. Dynamically-formed virtual profiles of a user may also be used for collaborative content browsing. It thus combines the “traditional” keyword and relevancy with the preferences from each user's social network browsing history for content selection and sorting. Mathematical set and its properties to are used to describe some of the applications and implementations. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025744 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHARING CONTENT - Provided are a method and device for setting control authority and providing additional information when content is shared. A device control method for controlling a user device having a display includes displaying content on the display of the user device by using a screen sharing service for sharing the displayed content with an external device; transmitting control authority setup information indicating that the user device has control authority of the screen sharing service, to the external device; and transmitting a control command associated with the screen sharing service to the external device according to the control authority. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025745 | Intergrated Learning Application - The instant invention is an apparatus and method to improve the learning experience by integrating feedback from multiple people through existing social media. The invention enables users, from within an application external to a social networking site, to automatically or manually post comments in social media related to the learning metrics of their own or other users that they have access to. These posts or comments are identifiable as associated with the external app and associated with user who posted and to the owner of the learning metric. The message can either be completely authored by the user, automatically or semi-automatically generated by the external app. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025746 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER INFORMATION - A method of operating a server that manages first user information using a first terminal and second user information using a second terminal is provided. The method of operating the server according to the present disclosure includes receiving a request for additional information that requests provision of additional information which is not stored in the first terminal among the second user information, transmitting an inquiry concerning, whether to provide the additional information from the first user, receiving a response to the inquiry corresponding to the inquiry, and determining whether to transmit the additional information stored in the server to the first terminal, based on the response to the inquiry. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025747 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA EXCHANGE - A wearable electronic device for proximity-based social and professional networking which features electronics and software for the passive automated local wireless exchange of personal and/or business information with other electronic devices is disclosed. In some embodiments, an electronic device includes a controller having an operations unit; a communication unit configured to receive and/or transmit data from a first external source; and a memory unit configured to communicate with the controller and receive and/or transmit data from the controller. The operations unit may be configured to determine if received data from the first external source meets a set threshold and wherein the operations unit may be configured to instruct communication unit to accept data that meets or exceeds said threshold. The communication unit may receive and transmit data from the first external source provided the external source is within a predetermined proximity. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025748 | User device group formation - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032655 | SAVING STATE OF A COLLABORATIVE SESSION IN AN EDITABLE FORMAT - In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input from a participant of a collaborative session among two or more devices, wherein the input is to cause a capture of at least part of data that is part of the state of the collaborative session at a point in time. The method also includes saving a state of the collaborative session at the point in time, wherein the state is saved into an editable format. The saving includes capturing the at least part of the data that is part of the collaborative session. The saving also includes storing the data in the editable format into a machine-readable medium. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032656 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND PROVIDING APPLICATION USAGE ANALYTICS - Methods and systems for collecting and analyzing application usage are disclosed. A usage analytics module is integrated within an application. The application is deployed to a device. Usage analytics are received, at a server, in response to usage of the application at the device. The usage analytics are provided to the developer, wherein the usage analytics includes at least one of: information identifying a user of the application or information linking the usage analytics to an existing user identity. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032657 | System and Method for Measuring the Positive or Negative Impact of Digital and Social Media Content on Intent and Behavior - A system and method for measuring the positive or negative impact of digital and social media on perceptions, intent and behavior are provided utilizing a computer mediated perceptual, intent and behavioral analysis engine. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032658 | OPTIMIZING VIDEO CLARITY - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for optimizing video clarity. According to various embodiments, a plurality of requests from client devices to access a media content item for playback at the client devices may be received at a server. Each of the client devices may have associated therewith device characteristic information that describes one or more characteristics of the client device. A device characteristic that describes a portion of the client devices may be identified. The portion of the client devices may meet a threshold value for creating a media content encoding item. A media content source item corresponding to the requested media content item may be transcoded to create a media content encoding item. The media content encoding item may be encoded to match the identified device characteristic. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032659 | FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN USERS OF MULTIPLE SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system and method facilitates communications between users of multiple social networks by combining social graphs from the social networks. During operation, a user requests the system to search for particular parameters. The system determines a set of matching user profiles and provides profile information and connection options for each of the matching user profiles. The profile information provided to the user varies depending on the degree of connection to the profile and the type of connection. Similarly, the system varies the connection options provided based on the degree of connection and the network membership of the profile. Available connection options may include sending a direct message, requesting an introduction, saving the profile for later viewing, and sending a limited message. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032660 | Content Distribution Methods for a Ring Network and Related Systems and Computer Program Products - Methods for distributing content in an entertainment system are provided. The entertainment system includes a plurality of clients connected in a bi-directional loop configuration. Each of the plurality of clients has at least one associated video display unit. The method includes deriving a content distribution plan for distributing content files to the plurality of clients based on a theoretical symmetric system where each of the plurality of clients in the symmetric system is configured to store at least a fraction of each of the content files; and applying the derived content distribution plan for distributing content files to an actual entertainment system wherein each of the content files are stored in full in at least one of the plurality of clients of the system to provide an actual content distribution plan for the actual entertainment system. Related entertainment systems and content distribution modules are also provided. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032661 | SECURE MESSAGING FACILITY SYSTEM - A secure message facility transfers authentication data between various applications, operating systems, and authentication devices and software in the form of messages. These messages comprise a data structure with a standard header with fields that describe the class, length, and type of message, and routing information. This header information is used to route the message to the appropriate handler. The messages are transferred between applications via the messaging facility DLL and the messaging facility Service. The messaging facility DLL is intended to be loaded by an application. The messaging facility DLL forms the messages, directs them to the appropriate messaging facility service (local or remote) and interprets the responses. The messages sent between the messaging facility DLL and messaging facility Service are extremely flexible and can be used to send any type of data or content of messages. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032662 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - An exemplary information-processing device includes: an execution unit configured to execute a process relating to an application program selected from among a plurality of application programs; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display information indicated by at least one item of data obtained via a network from the storage unit that stores a plurality of items of data during loading of the application program or data used in the application program. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032663 | AUTOMATIC CONTENT FORWARDING TO COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Technologies are provided for identifying context associated with received content and automatically forwarding the content to an associated communication network for posting. In some examples, a user may create content for posting to one or more communication networks and send the content over a network for posting to a first communication network. Upon receipt of the content for posting, the first communication network may identify a context of the received content and may associate the context with a second communication network based on a set of content forwarding rules. The first communication network may automatically forward the received content to the associated second communication network for posting at the second communication network. Additionally, a third party entity may be configured to monitor content received at a first communication network, identify a context of the received content, and automatically forward the received content to the associated second communication network for posting. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INFORMATION-CENTRIC APPLICATION - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing an information-centric application. The information-centric application enables a user to have access and delivery of information and services customizable according to the user's role and definition, preferences, and usage patterns. A user may receive information from one or more data sources, and the information is determined to be relevant based upon at least one of the user's role and definition, the user's preferences, and behaviors. An associated service is linked with the relevant information based upon at least one of the user's role and definition, the user's preferences, and behaviors. The relevant information and the associated service are presented in a feed item for inclusion into a user's news feed for display in a user interface. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032665 | ACTIVITY-BASED CONTENT SELECTION - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a computer-implemented model adapted to process past online behavior of a user identifier of a networked computing device and determine an online activity type associated with the user identifier based on the past online behavior of the user identifier. The method also includes receiving data representing past online behavior of the user identifier of the networked computing device. The method also includes processing the model and the data representing past online behavior of the user identifier of the network computing device to determine an online activity type associated with the user identifier. The method also includes and providing information about the online activity type to a content selection server to facilitate selection of content to be presented to the user identifier. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032666 | Method and System for Instant Photo Upload with Contextual Data - A method is provided for publishing photographs taken on a mobile device. Sensor data is obtained from at least one sensor in communication with the mobile device with respect to a context of the mobile device or the user. When a photograph is taken by the user, the photograph is automatically uploaded to a predefined profile of the user on a social network. Aspects of the sensor data are also published on the profile as contextual information. The photograph and contextual information are implicitly published and shared in a fully-formed fashion. A programmed mobile device is also provided for carrying out the method. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOWING A USER TO ENLIST COLLABORATORS IN MAKING A DECISION - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the computing system, performs the step receiving from a user a decision. The decision includes a deadline by which collaborators must respond. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium also includes instructions that, when executed by the computing system, performs the steps allowing the user to choose collaborators and sending the decision to the collaborators. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further includes instructions that, when executed by the computing system, performs the steps receiving results from the collaborators and presenting results from the collaborators to the user. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032668 | INTERACTIVE COMPUTER USER INTERFACE FOR VISUALIZING AND INTERACTING WITH A SOCIAL NETWORK WITHIN A HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION - A computer-implemented method and system are disclosed for providing an interactive computer user interface for visualizing a social network within a hierarchical system such as a hierarchical organization. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032669 | ONE-BUTTON FORMATION OF A PROXIMITY BASED INSTANT TEMPORARY SOCIAL NETWORK ON MOBILE DEVICES - A method and apparatus for creating and managing proximity based instant temporary social networks with group communication is provided. With the press of a single button, an instant social network is established with users within a specific proximity based on latitude and longitude location and audio fingerprint detection as determined by the users mobile device. Once the group has formed, group communications are offered as a means to facilitate keeping the group together while achieving a goal, such as a group destination. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032670 | ACCESS CONTROL IN COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS - In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from a user to add one or more users or user groups to a communication session, determining if one or more access rights restrictions are associated with the session, the one or more access rights restrictions defining one or more users or one or more types of users authorized to join the session, determining if the one or more users or user groups are authorized to join the session according to the access rights restrictions when it is determined that one or more access rights restrictions are associated with the session and adding the one or more users or user groups to the session when it is determined that the one or more users or user groups are authorized to join the session. Other aspects can be embodied in corresponding systems and apparatus, including computer program products. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER-SELECTED EVENT REMINDERS - An electronic calendar includes such features as recurring reminders, dividing unpredictable work loads into equal pieces, template free parsing, a reminders scheduling algorithm to reduce spikes, dynamic delivery and recovery algorithms, methods for splitting the work load between controllers and workers and for monitoring progress, all within the context of a calendar architecture for a large enterprise. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032672 | RESTRICTING A SCOPE OF A POST IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Systems and methods for restricting a scope of a post are provided. In some aspects, a post for a first set of users is received from a first user. An indication of the post is provided to at least a portion of the first set of users. A request to further share the post with a third user is received from a second user within the first set of users. A maximum scope for the post is determined. If the third user is within the maximum scope for the post is determined. The indication of the post is not provided to the third user if the third user is not determined to be within the maximum scope for the post. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032673 | User device group formation - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032674 | CONTENT SHARING VIA SOCIAL NETWORKING - Example systems and methods of content sharing via social networking are presented. In one example, availability of a first user device to provide media content over a communication network is detected. A second user device is identified via an association of the first user device with the second user device that is specified in a social network. An acceptance by the second user device to receive the media content from the first user device is determined. In response to the acceptance, transmission of the media content provided by the first user device over the communication network to the second user device is initiated. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032675 | Method and system for pushing associated users in social networking service network - The present invention provides a method for pushing an associated user in a Social Networking Service (SNS) network and an SNS network system. The method comprises: respectively collecting a plurality of pieces of user data created by each SNS user in an SNS network; extracting, from the plurality of pieces of user data created by each SNS user, at least one label and attribute belonging to the SNS user; generating a user list consisting of a plurality of SNS users having the same label and the same attribute; and pushing, in a bidirectional manner, user lists having the same label and associated attributes. In the present invention, based on user data created by a user, the SNS system automatically searches for associated users thereof, thereby implementing mutual pushing of the associated users, so that communication between SNS users becomes more efficient and convenient. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032676 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERY OF MUSIC WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, apparatus, and method to assist in the discovery of music or other content by members of a social network. The present invention permits network members to network together and share information about their music collections and listening habits with a processing platform and with each other. The processing platform processes music library content and playback related data to produce similarity and compatibility measures between artists (that is, an artist-to-artist measure) and between network members (that is, a network member-to-network member measure). By combining the content and playback related data with filtering mechanisms, recommendation techniques (which may be based on the calculated measures), and set membership concepts, the present invention provides network members of the network with tools to discover artists and/or songs that are likely to be of interest to them. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040360 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING, HOSTING AND MANAGING A SCREEN SHARING SESSION INVOLVING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Techniques for establishing a screen sharing session are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a web conferencing application executing at a mobile computing device enables a user to specify the identity of a remote computer. The identity of the remote computer is communicated to a web conferencing service, directing the server operating the web conferencing service to establish a remote desktop connection with the remote computer. Once established, the web conferencing service receives from the remote computer a stream of information representing a user interface of the remote computer, and then broadcasts the user interface to all computing devices participating in the web conferencing session, while enabling the mobile computing device to manipulate the user interface of the remote computer. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040361 | SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT DISPLAY ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - An apparatus and method for synchronized content display across a plurality of devices are disclosed herein. Content specified at a first device is deployed to the rest of the plurality of devices that are of diverse device types to each other. The first device instructs the other devices to render the content at each of the respective devices according to the respective device's content viewer and configuration. The first device also instructs the other devices to achieve a certain setting or state pertaining to true rendering of the content depending on the type of content to be rendered. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040362 | Systems and methods of online communication and commerce based on publish/subscribe pattern - Systems and methods of handling online communication and commerce via a publish/subscribe pattern are described. Publishers and subscribers can post event messages to broadcast or subscribe to subjects of interest. Each event message must contain four required dimensions, namely WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE. The system will match publishers' and subscribers' events by evaluating all four dimensions for matching conditions. When there are matches, the system will notify users (publishers and/or subscribers). If users respond to events notification, then the system will handle communication and/or commercial transactions. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040363 | System and Method for Content Storage and Retrieval - A method includes storing content graph information regarding individual items of content accessed by one or more users of a system, storing path graph information comprising the order in which each of the one or more users accessed individual items of content, and selecting individual items of content to be presented to a subsequent user of the system and an order in which such individual items of content are presented to the subsequent user based on the stored content graph information and the stored path graph information. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040364 | DISTRIBUTING COMMUNICATION OF A DATA STREAM AMONG MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for distributing communication of a data stream among multiple devices are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include receiving a request from a first one of a plurality of devices to establish a shared connection to distribute communication of a first data stream among the plurality of devices. Such example methods also include establishing, in response to the request, respective data connections with the plurality of devices based on device capability information obtained from a system providing service for the plurality of devices. Such example methods further include splitting the first data stream into a plurality of partial data streams to be communicated to the plurality of devices via the respective data connections, the partial data streams, when aggregated, forming the first data stream. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040365 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE MATCHING USING NON-SELF-IDENTIFIED DATA - An electronic process for presenting interpersonal relationship analysis includes: receiving recorded responses of a plurality of users to selected stimuli, such recorded responses comprising indications of traits and preferences that are not explicitly identified in the recorded response; generating match profile data at least partially from the response; and presenting potential matches to a first user based on a compatibility score generated from correlating match profile data of the plurality of users with the match profile data of the first user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040366 | Dynamic New User Experience (NUX) - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a mobile device of a user configuration data of the mobile device. The configuration data identifies one or more characteristics of the mobile device. The method also includes determining a group of users of the social-networking system based at least in part on the configuration data. Each user in the group of users uses a mobile device having similar configuration data as the mobile device of the user. The method also includes providing user-assistance information associated with the group of users to the user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040367 | PUBLISHING AGGREGATED DATA TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system enables a third party application to request user data based on action types and aggregations of a user's data corresponding to an action type with respect to multiple objects. Users of the social networking system may provide privacy or accessibility of their information based on the action type associated with the information (e.g., a user may allow a particular application to access all actions of a certain type, regardless of the source of those actions). The third party application may use this accessed information to generate personalized content for a user based on aggregations of the user's data and then publish the personalized content back to the social networking system. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTION - Methods and systems are provided for enabling users to identify other users of interest. An initial ordering of potential users of interests may be based on one or more criteria. The ordering may be modified in response to one or more events. A profile feed of potential matching users may be provided to a user wherein the ordering of the feed may be based on the modified ordering. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040369 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Cue When a Participant Joins a Conference - A method for providing a cue when a nonparticipant joins a conference includes identifying received data indicating that a particular nonparticipant has joined the conference, searching a cue store for information associated with the particular nonparticipant, and publishing a cue responsive to the information associated with the nonparticipant. A conferencing system includes client devices with respective display devices, a conference host computer coupled to the client devices via one or more networks, the conference host computer operating a web server, and a cue store coupled to the host computer. The cue store includes at least one cue element identified by a nonparticipant privileged to join the conference, the cue element including information designated for publication by the web server to one or more client devices connected to the conference. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040370 | CONTENT FEED FOR FACILITATING TOPIC DISCOVERY IN SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - The disclosed techniques provide systems and methods for generating content feeds with topic discovery capabilities. More specifically, various procedures are described for generating content feeds by selecting at least one of two of a first quantity of content items, a second quantity of content items, and a third quantity of content items. The first quantity of content items is selected based on a dynamically generated user interest profile associated with a particular user. The user interest profile can include a subset of first interest categories in which a specific user of a social networking system has indicated an interest. The second quantity of content items is selected based on a interest categories in which other users of the social networking system, having one or more characteristics that are the same or similar to the specific user, have indicated an interest. The third quantity of content items is selected randomly. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040371 | Systems and methods for identifying geographic locations of social media content collected over social networks - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to identify geographic locations of all social media content items retrieved form a social network in real time, wherein the geographic locations are physical locations from which the social media content items are originated or authored. If the latitude/longitude (geographic) coordinates of the content item are available, the geographic location of the social media content item can be identified using such geographic coordinates. For content items which geographic coordinates are not available, historical archive of content items with high-confidence of geographic locations are utilized to train a location classifier to predict geographic locations of such content items with high accuracy. Finally, the identified locations of the content items are confirmed to be accurate and are presented to a user together with the content items. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040372 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a user extraction unit extracting, from second users whose information is set to be viewed by a first user in a service where it is possible to view information sent by other users, a presentation target user to present information to the first user, based on at least one of a first evaluation with respect to each second user by the first user, a second evaluation with respect to each second user within a range of the first user and the second users, and a third evaluation with respect to each second user within a predetermined range of users in the service, a first information extraction unit extracting information presented to the first user, from information sent from the presentation target user, and a presentation control unit controlling presentation of information to the first user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a collection section that collects log data of a plurality of users from a plurality of services, a publishing level setting section that is possible to set a publishing level of the collected log data to each service for each user, and a providing control section that controls provision of the collected log data to the plurality of services based on the publishing level that is set. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040374 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT DATA IN A SOCIAL NETWORK FEED ACCORDING TO A LOCATION OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for providing relevant data in a social network feed. In some implementations, a physical location of a computing device associated with a user is indicated. An entity is identified as having a physical location in proximity to the computing device. Relevant feed content associated with the identified entity is determined in accordance with one or more relevance parameters. Data is provided to the computing device to update a presentation of a social network feed to include or to graphically identify the determined feed content. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040375 | DISTRIBUTED SUBSCRIPTION BASED NOTIFICATION SERVICE FOR INTEGRATED PETRO-TECHNICAL APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus, and program product implement a distributed subscription-based notification service for an integrated petro-technical application environment to facilitate the reporting of updates to oilfield data from a shared repository by a plurality of users. Users are permitted to generate custom notification subscriptions in a petro-technical application, such that oilfield data in the shared repository that meets subscription criteria associated with the notification subscriptions and that has been updated may be identified and used to generate a notification in the petro-technical application, thereby enabling individual users to customize their respective notifications based upon the particular types of data that are relevant to those users' workflows and responsibilities. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for updating personal information in a communication system supporting a Converged Address Book (CAB) service are provided. The method and apparatus includes subscribing to external personal profile information from a non-CAB system, and updating personal information in accordance with a user preference-based synchronization method using the external personal profile information. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040377 | DYNAMIC INFORMATION STREAMS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORM - The techniques, methods and systems described herein facilitate the automated discovery and presentation of content created, published or otherwise made public by “experts” and key influencers on particular topics. As such, users that may be interested in particular topics but may not know who to connect with in order to receive the most pertinent information can receive highly-relevant information. Embodiments of the invention use topics of interest identified by the user and/or automatically identifies topics based on previous postings, communication, contacts, etc. Individuals, companies, organizations and other entities that have been recognized as highly influential in those topics are identified and, without explicit actions by the user, adds content generated by the influential entities to the user's content data feed. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040378 | System and Method for Managing an Online Social Network - An online social network is managed using one server for database management tasks and another server, preferably in a distributed configuration, for CPU-intensive computational tasks, such as finding a shortest path between two members or a degree of separation between two members. The additional server has a memory device containing relationship information between members of the online social network and carries out the CPU-intensive computational tasks using this memory device. With this configuration, the number of database lookups is decreased and processing speed is thereby increased. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040379 | MANAGING INFORMATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK VIA A SOCIAL TIMELINE - A system, method, and computer program for generating a social timeline is provided. A plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network is received, each data item having an associated time. The data items are ordered according to the at least one relationship. A social timeline is generated according to the ordered data items. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PUSH SERVICE FOR REDUCING NETWORK LOADS - Disclosed are a system for providing a push service including: a client device to receive a push message provided by a service providing device and provide a push service; and a push service device configured to transmit the push message provided by the service providing device to the client device, wherein at least one of the client device and the push service device is configured to attempt a reconnection mutually according to a predetermined reference, when a connection between the client device and the push service device is terminated. | 02-06-2014 |
20140047019 | Communication Alerts Management - A method is described for managing communication alerts on multiple remote devices that are associated with a common user and in contemporaneous communication with a server on a communication network. The method can include designating on the server one of the plurality of remote devices as being in an active state, and sending a communication from the server to the remote devices. Only the remote device designated as in the active state displays an alert announcing the incoming communication. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047020 | Handling Notifications - In particular embodiments, one or more notifications are presented on a screen of a personal computing device while the personal computing device is in a locked state. Entry of one or more user responses may be detected on the personal computing device while still in the locked state. Each user response may be associated with at least one notification. An authorization event associated with the personal computing device may be detected, thereby unlocking the personal computing device. The one or more user responses on the personal computing device may then be presented to the user for confirmation. Once user confirmation is received, confirmed user responses may then be published. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047021 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - Certain aspects of a system and/or method for processing information may include a server computing device. The server computing device may aggregate data associated with a user received from one or more data sources. The data may depend on a pre-defined distance range from a location of the user. At least one tag value may be associated with each element of the aggregated received data. The associated at least one tag value may uniquely identify each element of the aggregated received data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047022 | MANAGING A SHARING OF MEDIA CONTENT AMONG CIENT COMPUTERS - Technology is provided to manage sharing of media content among client computers. In one example, an application server provides at least a portion of the media content to the client computers. The application server receives a requested session event. A session event is an annotation, a comment, or a navigation request. The application server generates a formatted session event by formatting the requested session event at least according at least one option. An option defines how the application server is to modify a session event for display at the client computers. The application server provides the formatted session event to the client computers for display on user interfaces at the client computers. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047023 | Generating Guest Suggestions for Events in a Social Networking System - Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. The social networking system suggests users to invite to an event based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. An inviting user receives the suggested users and selects suggested users to invite to the event or invitations may be automatically sent to the suggested users by the social networking system. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047024 | TRANSPORTATION SHARING BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES AND STATEMENTS - In embodiments, a shared-transportation social interaction system (“STSI”) may facilitate a first user in sharing transportation to one or more locations based on the activities and/or statements of a second user. The STSI may follow one or more blogs of the second user, as well as location information, such as made available by the second user's GPS or social-networking check-ins. The STSI may also allow the first user to follow the second user and to be notified when the second user is at a location of interest. Upon determining the second user to be at a location of interest, the STSI may determine if the first user is available and may then send a notification to the first user. The STSI may then facilitate the first user in sharing transportation to the location. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047025 | Event Management/Production for an Online Event - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for managing and/or producing an online event. One embodiment is a computer program embodied in a computer readable medium and executable by a processor for providing an online event. One such computer program comprises: logic configured to establish an audio conference between one or more speakers and a plurality of listen-only viewers; logic configured to present the audio conference to the plurality of listen-only viewers via a viewer user interface; and logic configured to present an event production user interface to an event producer, the event production user interface configured to enable the event producer to selectively control the viewer user interface presented to the listen-only viewers during the online event. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047026 | OFFENDER MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM - A correctional facility communication system for sending an external message to an offender of a correctional facility is disclosed. The correctional facility communication system includes a messaging system and a correctional facility system coupled together with a wide area network. The messaging system is at a first location and the correctional facility system is at a second location, different from the first location. The messaging system authenticates a sender of the external message, receives the external message in electronic form at the first location, checks the external message against criteria specified by the correctional facility, determine a second location of the offender and a corresponding printer, and sends the external message to the second location for automatic printing with the corresponding printer. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047027 | CONTEXT BASED VIRTUAL AREA CREATION - Examples of systems and methods for context based virtual area creation are described. Some examples provide a quick and easy way for users to wrap virtual areas around contexts of interest. Examples of such contexts may be defined in terms of one or more of content, people, and real-world location. The virtual areas support realtime communications between communicants (e.g., one or more of text chat, voice, video, application sharing, and file sharing) and provide a persistent historical repository for interactions in the virtual area. Summaries of activities and other events in virtual areas typically are published in realtime so that other communicants can readily obtain a quick summary of the activities occurring in a particular context and decide whether or not to join or otherwise participate in those activities. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047028 | MULTI-APPLICATION WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - Techniques are described for managing interactions between workflows being performed by different applications, such as to enable a combination of multiple workflows in multiple applications of different types to aggregate varying capabilities available from the different types of applications. In some situations, an integrated workflow is created by separating portions of its functionality into multiple constituent workflows that is each performed by a different application and that initiate one or more inter-workflow interactions between the constituent workflows as they are performed (e.g., for one of the constituent workflows to, while it is being performed, invoke another constituent workflow in order to begin its performance). As one non-limiting example, the multiple applications of different types may include a least an enterprise business application program that provides various core business functions, and a desktop collaborative application program that provides various user activity management capabilities. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047029 | SHARING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATON - Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services based on such social network information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047030 | Method and Apparatus for Sending Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for sending an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problem that there are few parameters to be relied on when a user authenticates a request seeking to establish a social network relationship with the user, the method disclosed by the present disclosure includes: a social network server that, after obtaining an authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to request to establish a social network relationship, modifies the first client's identification information in the first authentication request message to a third client's identification information to obtain a second authentication request message. The third client has a social network relationship with the first client and also has a direct social network relationship with the second client. The second authentication request message is sent to the second client. As the third client's identification information is used as identification information of a sending party in the second authentication request message that is sent to the second client, there will be more parameters for use when the second client verifies the request to establish the social network relationship. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047031 | Multi-Network Architecture for Media Data Exchange - Some embodiments use several different types of networks to relay several different types of media content among several different computing devices. The media content of some embodiments is data that a computing device can process in order to provide a presentation of the media content to a user of the device. Examples of types of such media content include audio data, video data, text data, picture data, game data, and/or other media data. In some embodiments, two different networks relay media content of two different types among multiple computing devices. Specifically, in some embodiments, a first network routes among the computing devices one type of media data content (e.g., game data), while a second network routes among the computing devices another type of media data content (e.g., audio and/or video data of game participants). The two networks differ in some embodiments based on their topology. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047032 | USER INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, USER INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TERMINAL UNIT, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047033 | VIDEO TAG SHARING - A tag sharing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, an audio/video data file and tag data describing different subject matter of audio/video data of the audio/video data file. The computer processor associates portions of the tag data with audio/video subsets of the audio/video data and in response the computer processor generates a modified audio/video data file including independent audio/video tags. Each audio/video tag of the independent audio/video tags includes an audio/video subset of the audio/video subsets independently stored with an associated portion of the portions of the tag data. The computer processor receives rule data comprising rules associated with allowing users of a social networking system to view each audio/video subset. The computer processor stores the modified audio/video data file and the rule data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PUBLIC WARNING - Various methods for providing a secure public warning related to a disaster are provided. One example method may comprise providing for transmission of a registration message. The registration message may comprise an indication of an identity and an indication of a location. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise receiving a warning message. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise authenticating the warning message. Additionally, the method of this example may further comprise providing an alert after authenticating the warning message. Similar and related example methods, example apparatuses, and example computer program products are also provided. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052780 | Sponsored Stories Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052781 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING AND SHARING TESTIMONIALS - A testimonial system that gathers, stores, and/or shares testimonials, comprising: an electronic testimonial-collection form that a client can fill out and submit to yield a completed testimonial; a database for storing the completed testimonial; and at least one means for the client, a service provider, the testimonial system, or combinations thereof to share the completed testimonial. In addition, a method for gathering, storing, and/or sharing testimonials, comprising the steps of: providing a testimonial-collection form; receiving a completed testimonial; storing the completed testimonials; and sharing the completed testimonial on at least one website. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052782 | Social Feed Filtering - Various social feed filtering procedures are described with respect to a social community platform that includes a web service, a feed module, and a feed filtering engine. Social feed members can establish a relevance ranking for each feed item in a group of candidate feed items. The relevance ranking is based on one or more defined social feed criteria. Feed items determined not to be relevant to the social feed criteria can be filtered from the group of candidate feed items, to enable generation of a custom-filtered social feed. Thereafter, the social feed can be presented at a device interface of a computing device. The social feed criteria used to identify the relevance of various feed items may be associated with any of a social community relationship, a social feed topic, member context information, related member interests, or the like. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052783 | WIRELESS BRIDGE FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT NETWORK - One or more load control devices and/or user interfaces that are part of a first network operating via a first protocol may communicate and/or control one or more load control devices and/or user interfaces that are part of a second network operating via a second protocol. For example, a wireless bridge may be provided. The wireless bridge may include a gateway. The gateway may be used to bridge the two networks that communicate using the different protocols such that the devices of the different networks may communicate with each other. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052784 | ONLINE FASHION COMMUNITY SYSTEM AND METHOD - In an online fashion community system ( | 02-20-2014 |
20140052785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052787 | METHOD FOR OVERLAYING TIMELINES FOR EVENT-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A first timeline of sequenced experiences and a second timeline of sequenced experiences are provided. The first timeline includes first sequenced experience data associated with first time data. The second timeline includes second sequenced experience data associated with second time data. The first sequenced experience data and first time data and the second sequenced experience data and second time data are stored separately within a memory store. A portion of the second timeline is overlaid onto the first timeline, the overlaid portion comprising more than one sequenced experience separated by at least an experience within the first timeline to provide a display timeline, the display timeline for being displayed and including experiences from the first timeline and from the second timeline. Then, the display timeline is displayed on a display in sequence with the sequenced experiences of the first timeline and the sequenced experiences of the second timeline. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052788 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC MEETING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A disclosed information processing apparatus connected with terminals through a network includes a list generating unit receiving a request to acquire a list listing a place registering a material to be shared, and generating the list listing the place allowing presence, a list sending unit sending the list to the terminal sending the request, and a data generating unit receiving a presence request to be present at the place selected from the list, and generating material data for displaying the material registered in the selected place on the terminals, and a data sending unit sending the material data to the terminal sending the presence request, wherein the list generating unit determines the place to be opened or resumed as the place allowing presence, and the data generating unit generates the material data for displaying a hand written memo written in the place and the material registered in the place. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052789 | Searching Data in a Social Network to Provide an Answer to an Information Request - An information request is received from a user of a social network. Data for other users in the social network is searched in order to provide an answer to the request. A question based on the information request is sent to one or more of the other users having prior activity on the social network that is related to the information request. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052790 | Methods and Systems for Processing Social Interactive Data and Sharing of Tracked Activity Associated with Locations - A method includes determining a location of a first monitoring device used while performing an activity. The first monitoring device is worn by a first user. The method includes determining a location of a second monitoring device used while performing an activity. The second monitoring device is worn by a second user. The method further includes determining whether the locations of the first and second monitoring devices are within a range and whether the activities are similar. The method includes sending a prompt to the first monitoring device upon determining that the activities are similar and the locations are within the range. The prompt includes a request for permission from a first user account to allow a second user account to access information from the first user account regarding the activity performed using the first monitoring device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059124 | Social Action by Quick Response (QR) Code - In one embodiment, a client device of a first user associated with a first node in a social graph of a social-networking system accesses a tag that encodes information regarding a second node in the social graph; determines based on the tag a social action to take one the social graph with respect to the first and second nodes; and transmits to the social-networking system a message configured to effect the social action on the social graph. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059125 | Constructing a Contact Sharing History - Technology for constructing a contact sharing history is disclosed. One method comprises receiving, at a computing device of a second user, a communication contact information element of a first user. The contact information is linked to a personal identification key associated with the first user. A link to a personal identification key associated with the second user is added to the communication contact information element to form the contact sharing history. The contact sharing history can then be used to identify how the second user obtained the first user's communication contact information element. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059126 | CONTEXT AWARE SOCIAL CALLBACK - A server executing a context aware social callback application and method are provided. Posts with action tags made on social media sites or pages that identify a monitoring entity or associated offering are identified. Such posts are analyzed to determine whether they are associated with an identifiable user, and whether they invite interaction. If the identified content is from an identifiable person and if it invites interaction, the application automatically generates a response that is sent to the identified user with a request to engage in further communications. The system can also send the post and/or related information to an agent or other contact center resource for handling. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059127 | BROKER DESIGNATION AND SELECTION IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Approaches for designating and/or selecting broker systems in a publication-subscription (pub-sub) messaging environment are provided. In one approach, a subscriber system may be designated as a broker system based on a capability of the subscriber system to function as a broker system for its peers. In another approach, a broker system may be selected from among a plurality of broker systems based upon a cache directory that identifies the content/messages that each broker system may have cached. If a particular broker system has previously cached content that is at least similar to an intended message, that particular broker system may be selected for distributing the intended message to a set of subscriber systems. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059128 | Method for Contents Recommendation - A method for music recommendation is provided using collaborative filtering methods while still managing to produce novel yet relevant items and by utilizing the long-tailed distribution of listening behavior of users, in which their playlists are biased towards a few songs while the rest of the songs, those in the long tail, have relatively low play counts. Also a link analysis method is applied to users with links between them to create an increasingly fine-grained approach in calculating weights for the recommended items. Results show that the method manages to include novel recommendations that are still relevant, and shows the potential for a new way of generating novel recommendations. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059129 | USER-SPECIFIED USER APPLICATION DATA SHARING - An indication initiated by a user within a first local user application that specifies user-selected data sharable by the first local user application is received at an operating system of a first computing device used by the user. A determination is made as to whether any other user applications share data compatibility with at least one portion of the specified user-selected data. In response to determining that at least one other user application shares the data compatibility with the at least one portion of the specified user-selected data, a data share indication to the at least one other user application is configured. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING CONNECTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for updating connections in social networks is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing information collected respective of a user, wherein the collected information relates to communication of the user with other connections through at least one application installed on a device of the user; determining connections that are of interest to the user based on the analysis information, wherein each of the determined connections is assigned with at least a communicative value; creating a user profile to include the determined connections and their respective communicative value; and updating, based on the created user profile, a connection list of the user in at least one social network to which the user is subscribed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059131 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGULATING MEDIATED ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION - The invention refers to a method and system for regulating mediated anonymous communication to be applied to the communication between network users. According to this method the users ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140059132 | METHOD FOR EVENT SOCIAL INTERACTION USING A NETWORK - An event is associated with a first individual. A second individual is associated with the first individual and with the event. Proximate the time of the event, the presence of the second individual at a venue for participating in the event is sensed with an electronic sensor in communication with the Internet. Then, a notification message is transmitted to the electronic communication device of the first individual notifying the individual of the presence at the venue of the second individual at the event venue. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059133 | ICEBREAKER ACTIVITIES USING AN INTELLIGENT BEVERAGE CONTAINER - Systems, devices, and methods are provided for conducting a social interaction. A first user account may be associated with a first beverage container. A second beverage container may be detected as being proximate to the first beverage container. A second user account associated with the second beverage container may be accessed to identify a commonality between the first and second user accounts. The commonality may be objective and/or subjective information or data about the users of the first and second beverage containers. Information indicative of the commonality may be displayed on an electronic display of at least one of the beverage containers. The electronic display may be flexible such that it conforms to a curvature of the beverage container. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059134 | MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING STATISTICAL GRAPH RELATED TO AUXILIARY MULTIMEDIA DATA - A multimedia delivery system includes a target data provider device for transmitting a target multimedia data; an auxiliary data provider device for transmitting an auxiliary multimedia data related to the target multimedia data, and for generating a related data distribution information; a first multimedia playback device for receiving the target multimedia data and the data distribution information, generating a statistical graph according to the data distribution information, playing the target multimedia data, and synchronously displaying at least a portion of the statistical graph; and a second multimedia playback device for receiving the auxiliary multimedia data and synchronously displaying related auxiliary multimedia data while the first multimedia playback device plays the target multimedia data. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059135 | CONTROLLING MESSAGE PUBLICATION FOR A USER - To control publication of messages within a social networking server (SRS) from a communication terminal (TC), a server (SC) capable of communicating with the social networking server (SRS) intercepts a message (Mes) containing text data (DonT), the message being provided by a user registered on the social networking server (SRS) and intended to be published by the social networking server (SRS). The server (SC) extracts keywords associated with the text data (DonT) based on a semantic analysis of the text data, and blocks publication of the message (Mes) if at least one extracted keyword is included in a set of keywords (EnsMC) associated with another user registered on the social networking server (SRS), said user being included on a list (LC) initially defined by said other user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059136 | System and Method for Enabling Identification of Network Users Having Similar Interests and Facilitating Communication Between Them - A system and method is provided for enabling identification of network users having similar interests and for facilitating communication between them. An Internet-based (or “on-line”) application is provided that: 1) facilitates the identification of users having similar interests using web-browsing behavior; 2) determines the virtual distance between web sites; and 3) utilizes profiling techniques and user-supplied descriptive information to facilitate direct communication between users who need not have had prior contact, and without requiring the participation of the visited'web sites. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059137 | MOBILE SOCIAL INTERACTION - A question associated with a first user may be obtained. A search link may be determined based on content of the first question A response may be obtained. Updates to a content graph may be initiated, including an addition of a question node and a first link indicating asking of the question by the first user, and an addition of a response node and a second link indicating an answer relationship between the question and the response, and a third link indicating answering of the question from a second user, the second user associated with the first user via a friend link indicating a friend connection relationship between nodes associated with the first user and the second user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059138 | SUPPLY ITEM MESSAGING - One example discloses a peripheral supply component. The peripheral supply component includes a supply item ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140067929 | UPLOADING ONE OR MORE FILES FROM A SHARED FILE LINK - A system and method of sharing files between a user of a first client device and a user of a second client device, where the first and second client devices are operatively coupled to at least one file access server via a network. The method comprises the steps of generating a file-sharing link to a file set based on a request received from a first user. A file set viewing window is opened when a second user activates the file-sharing link. The at least one file sharing access server receives a request to upload one or more files by the second user via the file sharing link, and the at least one file access server receives the uploaded one or more files and stores the files to a location designated by the link. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VERIFICATION IN ACCOUNT REGISTRATION - Techniques to confirm account registration. In one embodiment, an MSISDN associated with a mobile device is received. It is determined whether to confirm registration of an account with a social networking system based at least in part on the MSISDN. Receipt of the MSISDN may include receipt of an HTTP request. The HTTP request may include an HTTP header with the MSISDN and a phone number associated with the mobile device. The MSISDN and the phone number may be compared. Registration may be confirmed based on a match between the MSISDN and the phone number. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067931 | Soft Matching User Identifiers - Particular embodiments may receive one or more data items associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The one or more data items being related to an entity. One or more data stores may store a social graph of the social-networking system. The social graph may comprise a plurality of nodes and plurality of edges between nodes. The nodes may comprise user nodes corresponding to users of the social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts. Particular embodiments may identify one or more nodes of the social graph that likely match the entity and associate at least one of the data items to at least one of the identified nodes. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067932 | Cross-Linking from Composite Images to the Full-Size Version - Methods and systems that provide for cross-linking from composite images that include receiving, over a computer network, a source image and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A composite image is generated from the source image, wherein the composite image includes a cropped image of the first object. Then a first user is notified that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image and also includes a copy of the composite image. Additionally, the user can select the first object in the composite image and be linked to the source image that contains the selected first object where the first object is highlighted. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067933 | METHOD FOR GENERATING SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY STREAMS - A method for notifying users of an online social network of an activity performed within a web site that is external to the online social network by an individual who is a registered user of the online social network and the web site. The method comprises the steps of receiving a notification package from the external web site, the notification package including a notification message that describes the activity performed, parsing the notification package to extract a list of recipients, each of whom is to receive the notification message, and issuing the notification message to each of the recipients. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067934 | System and method to provide a social network layer over the World-Wide Web and other networks - A method and system for a new form of computer-implemented social network. Existing social networks limit users interactions to the context provided by social networking clients, and also limit discussions of content to short clips with links back to the original website. The presented method and system enable users to interact with each other within the context of a third-party web page. Users can mark up a third-party web page to leave each other notes, chat, or highlight text, all without requiring any modification to the server-side source code of the third-party web page. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067935 | MOVIE FINDING - A method for provisioning of media is disclosed and may include detecting a plurality of users located at a common location. A personal profile for each of the plurality of users may be accessed. The personal profile for each of the plurality of users may include at least one personal media preference related to consumption of media items. Each of the plurality of available media items may be weighted for each of the plurality of users based on the at least one personal media preference. One of the plurality of available media items may be selected for consumption by the plurality of users at the common location, based on the weighting of each of the plurality of available media items. The plurality of users may be detected at the common location by receiving a near field communication (NFC) signal from a user device for each of the plurality of users. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION AIDS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing multimodal interaction aids in multimedia events. The system presents a multimedia event to a participant which has limited access to the multimedia event, wherein the limited access prevents the participant from experiencing every mode of the multimedia event. The system also generates a cue associated with the multimedia event, wherein the cue is structured according to the limited access of the participant. The system then transmits the cue to a device associated with the participant. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067937 | Real-World View of Location-Associated Social Data - Particular embodiments maintain social-networking information associated with a user, wherein the user is represented by a user node in a social graph. One or more nodes of the social graph may be associated with respective locations. A request for social information related to a location may be received from a computing device. The request may comprise a location of the computing device, an orientation of the computing device, and an identifier for the user. A relevance score may be determined for one or more proximate nodes based on the request, the social-networking information associated with the user, and the location information for the respective proximate node. Each proximate node may be associated with at least one location within a threshold distance from the location of the computing device. Particular embodiments may provide social-networking information associated with at least one of the proximate nodes for display in conjunction with an image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATING CROWDSOURCED LOCATION DATA - Methods and apparatuses are provided for validating crowdsourced location data. A validation platform causes, at least in part, a determination of location data reported by at least one user, at least one device associated with the at least one user, or a combination thereof. The validation platform processes, and/or facilitates a processing of personal detail information associated with the at least one user, the at least one device, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a validation of the location data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067939 | GENERATING EXCITEMENT LEVELS FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES - A live performance is monitored by analyzing an input data stream comprising real-time updates related to the live performance. Different sets of excitement levels, excitement curves, alerts and teasers are generated based on the analysis and reported to a plurality of subscribers using any of a variety of mobile communication and/or computing devices. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067940 | SUBSCRIPTION GROUPS IN PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and system for publishing subscriptions in a publish-subscribe system in accordance with subscription groups. Embodiments may include (i) determining a consumption characteristic by which each of a plurality of subscribers in a publish-subscribe system consumes a subscription published by a publisher; (ii) identifying the subscribers whose consumption characteristics satisfy a specified similarity criterion; (iii) defining a plurality of subscription groups, each of which includes subscriptions of those of the subscribers whose consumption characteristics satisfy the specified similarity criterion; and (iv) transmitting the subscriptions to the subscribers in accordance with the subscription groups. Embodiments may also include moving a subscription of the subscriber, from a first subscription group having subscriptions of those of the subscribers whose consumption characteristics correspond to a first specified similarity criterion, to a second subscription group having subscriptions of those of the subscribers whose consumption characteristics correspond to a second specified similarity criterion. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067941 | MULTIPLE FORM ENUMERATED ATTRIBUTES - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, via a user interface of the DRA, a request to define a rule; retrieving metadata associated with a context object; determining that a component specified by the metadata is an enumerated type component; presenting, via the user interface, a first displayed component for the enumerated type component, wherein the first displayed component is associated with a numeric value; presenting, via the user interface, a second displayed component for the enumerated type component, wherein the second displayed component is associated with an alphanumeric value; and receiving, via the user interface, a rule definition, wherein receiving the rule definition comprises receiving a selection of at least one of the first displayed component and the second displayed component. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067942 | DETERMINING RECOMMENDED RECIPIENTS OF A COMMUNICATION - Embodiments of the invention include a method for determining recommended recipients of a communication. The method may include determining one or more attributes for one or more members of a first group. The method may also include receiving a first list of one or more recipients to receive a communication from a sender, wherein the recipients and the sender have a relationship based on the attributes. The method may also include determining a second list of one or more recipients to receive the communication, wherein the recipients of the second list are determined by whether the attributes of the first list recipients, the sender, and the first group members comply with a set of communication rules. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067943 | RECOMMENDING GROUPS TO CREATE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067944 | GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ANSWERED QUESTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067945 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments a social networking system captures data associated with video content provided to a first user of a social-networking system, identifies, using the captured data, the video content provided to the first user, and updates a graph of the social-networking system to associate the first user with the identified video content. The graph of the social-networking system has a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes of the graph include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067946 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, a social networking system queries a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with video content provided to one or more users of the social-networking system and accesses privacy settings associated with each of the one or more users. The privacy settings indicate whether a particular user has authorized the social-networking system to share social content associated with the particular user with one or more third parties. The social networking system provides the social content associated with video content provided to the one or more users to a particular third party if the privacy settings of the one or more users indicate that the one or more users have authorized the social-networking system to share the social content with one or more third parties. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067947 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system identify a user viewing video content on a first display device, identify the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determine a second display device associated with the identified user. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine an action related to the video content being viewed by the user on the first display device and provide one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display a call-to-action associated with the determined action. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067948 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system query a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with particular media content. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine a time associated with each of the social content, determine, using the determined time of each of the social content, a particular point within the particular media content that the social content was generated, and present a content visualization graph for display on a display device. The content visualization graph is a visual indication of the particular points within the particular media content that the social content was generated. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS - This invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining fame. In particular, this invention relates to method and apparatus for determining fame based on data extracted from the Internet. More particularly, but not exclusively, the data extracted is based on information available on social networks on the Internet. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067950 | SOCIAL MEDIA VIEWING SYSTEM - Methods, systems and computer program products are described that facilitate enhanced interactions via social media that can be enabled, at least in-part, by using various content identification techniques. Enhanced viewing of a content can be accomplished by monitoring activities of a user related to the user's accessing of a particular content and analyzing information acquired from the monitoring in conjunction with stored data related to additional users. Next, a subset of the additional users that are associated with the user or with the particular content are identified, and enhanced viewing of the particular content is enabled amongst the user and the identified subset of the additional users. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXTUAL ACTIVITY STREAMS - A method and system for generating contextual activity streams are provided. The method comprises receiving unstructured data collected by an agent operable on a client node from a plurality of data sources, wherein the collected unstructured data is of a user of the client node; analyzing the collected unstructured data to identify at least one tag in the collected unstructured data; determining a context of the collected unstructured data based in part on the at least one identified tag; creating a contextual activity stream; inserting contextual data items gathered from a plurality of social networks into the created contextual activity stream, wherein the contextual data items are data items shared by connections of the user and have a substantially similar context to the determined context; and causing a display of contextual data items in the contextual activity stream over the client node. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067952 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATION SERVICE, AND SOCIALITY MANAGEMENT SERVER - Disclosed herein are a server and method for providing collaboration service, and a sociality management server. The server includes a service provision unit and a space construction unit. The service provision unit sets up collaboration service corresponding to the results of combining functions of at least two collaboration terminals based on sociality values corresponding to the at least two collaboration terminals. The space construction unit constructs a service provision device space via which the collaboration service is to be provided. The service provision unit provides the collaboration service to the at least two collaboration terminals via the service provision device space. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067953 | PERSONALIZATION BASED UPON SOCIAL VALUE IN ONLINE MEDIA - Embodiments are directed towards personalizing content to be provided to a user. A recommendation score may be determined for a piece of content for a user. The recommendation score may be based on a combination of an intrinsic value and/or a social value of the content to the user. The social value may be calculated based on a combination of an individual social value for each of the user's friends, which may be determined based on the combination of a social weight, an interest probability, and a recommendation score for the friend. Online personalization of content for a user may provide the user with the tools to be a valuable, appreciated member of the user's social network. By employing embodiments, as described herein, content may be determined and provided to a user, which may help the user gain the attention of their social circles. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067954 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067955 | INSTANT MEDIA SHARING TO DEFINED GROUPS BASED ON LOCATION - Disclosed are instant media sharing platforms, systems, and software comprising: mobile modules configured to determine geolocation, capture media, and transmit captured media to a server application, each captured media associated with a capture time and a capture geolocation; a database of geolocation information, the geolocation information associated with each user of the mobile application; and server modules configured to identify recipient users for each transmitted media, a recipient user present within a radius about a capture geolocation during a time interval about a capture time; and provide a media stream to each user of the mobile application, the media stream comprising transmitted media for which a user is identified as a recipient user, the media stream provided via the mobile application. Also disclosed are networks formed by and methods of using the same. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067956 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - An information display device includes: a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a posting relevant location associated with posted information on a posting site; and an image display unit configured to display a posting relevant image that is an image associated with the posted information on the posting site and that includes an image indicating a type of the posting site. The image display unit is configured to display the posting relevant image at a location based on a remoteness and direction of the posting relevant location with respect to a current location within a predetermined display area about a location on a display screen, corresponding to the current location. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067957 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that communicates with a terminal device using a first communication manner, the information processing apparatus includes a processor that: generates a response including first information being described in a first format in response to a request from the terminal device; converts the first information being included in the response and being described in the first format into second information described in a second format conforming to the first communication manner; and transmits the response including the second information to the terminal device in the first communication manner. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067958 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AFFILIATING USERS OF AN INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM - A system and method for supplementing a profile. Content identifying information from a first user of a first mobile device is received at a server. The content identifying information identifies content that was served to a second user of a second mobile device, but not a first mobile device. The first and second users are registered with the server and the first user is associated with a first user profile stored on the server. The first user profile is evaluated against the content identified by the content identifying information. Profile elements are identified that, if added to the first user profile, would cause the content to be delivered to the first user. The first user profile is supplemented with the identified profile elements. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067959 | Method and System for Determining and Sharing a User's Web Presence - A method and system for determining and sharing a user's web presence have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises providing web presence information associated with a first user from a first computer having a first software module. The web presence information is received at a second computer. The web presence information is used to dynamically inform a second user communicating with the second computer of a website that the first user is viewing. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067960 | System and Method for Determining a Presence State of a Person - A computer system is coupled to a plurality of subscribers via a network. The computer system obtains first presence information that corresponds to a first calendar of a user and obtains second presence information that corresponds to a second calendar of the user that is different from the first calendar. The computer system determines one or more presence states of the user including determining, based on presence information for the user that includes the first presence information and the second presence information, a first presence state of the user. The computer system provides the respective presence state of the user, selected from the one or more presence states of the user, to the subscribers via the network. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074920 | Determining User Personality Characteristics From Social Networking System Communications and Characteristics - A social networking system obtains linguistic data from a user's text communications on the social networking system. For example, occurrences of words in various types of communications by the user in the social networking system are determined. The linguistic data and non-linguistic data associated with the user are used in a trained model to predict one or more personality characteristics for the user. The inferred personality characteristics are stored in connection with the user's profile, and may be used for targeting, ranking, selecting versions of products, and various other purposes. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074921 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING CUSTOMIZED POLICY-BASED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A mechanism is described for facilitating customized policy-based notifications at computing systems according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments of the invention includes managing, at a computing device, data including at least one of power-aware data and context-aware data, dynamically customizing, at the computing device, notification policies based on the managed data, and generating, at the computing device, policy-based notifications based on the customized notification policies, and transmitting the policy-based notifications to facilitate communication of the policy-based notifications. The policy-based notifications may include at least one of a power-aware notification and a context-aware notification. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074922 | REAL-TIME NOTIFICATION OF INCREASED COMMUNICATION IN A SELECTED AREA OF INTEREST(S) ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing real-time notification of increased communication in a selected area of interest(s) on a social networking system. A plurality of resource objects are maintained on a social networking system. A resource display interface is provided on a communications device of a user. The social networking system continuously monitors resource object associations. The social networking system identifies changes in resource object associations and mean traffic data for a particular resource object. The resource display interface is updated to display additional changes in resource object associations. The social networking system determines whether mean traffic data on the social networking system for a particular resource object exceeds a threshold established by user filter data. A real-time signal is transmitted indicating that changes in activity on the social networking system for a particular resource object exceeds the threshold established by user filter data. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074923 | SELECTIVE CONTENT DISCLOSURE IN AN AD-HOC NETWORK BASED ON SOCIAL COHESION - In a device that is a member of an ad-hoc group in a network, a method includes determining an encounter history of the device with other devices in the ad-hoc group and filtering content intended to be shared by the device with the ad-hoc group based on the encounter history. A device includes a network interface to communicate with other devices in an ad-hoc group of a network and a disclosure assessment agent to determine a disclosure factor for disclosure of content to the ad-hoc group based on an encounter history of the device with other devices in the ad-hoc group. The device further includes a disclosure filter agent to filter content intended to be shared with the ad-hoc group based on the disclosure factor. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074924 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING A MULTI-USER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH CENTRALIZED PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORKED MEDIA SOURCES - An apparatus for multi-user media collaboration includes a processor and memory storing executable computer program code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including generating a playlist including indications of media content responsive to requests from communication devices to include an item of media content in the playlist. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze an initial or subsequent item in the playlist to determine a communication device storing, or authorized to access, the item and to receive the item of media content from the communication device responsive to requesting the communication device to play the item. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to provide data of the item being streamed to enable users of communication devices, that are physically co-located, to listen to audio or view visible data corresponding to the item. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074925 | Social Network Mapping - Methods and systems are disclosed that may retrieve and filter a call history log or related data, select users based on the results of filtering, and provide proposed contacts to a communication service. The filtering may comprise a variety of criteria and the criteria may be assigned different weights. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074926 | User Selected Affiliation with Brands in a Social Networking System - A social networking system allows users that are people to partner with users that are non-person entities. A partnership allows the entity participating in the partnership to personalize an associated page with content from the person participating in the partnership and similarly allows the person to include certain content from the entity, made available because of the partnership, in the person's user profile. The entity may provide additional benefits, such as enrollment in a rewards program or access to new products, to a user participating in a partnership. The partnership is bidirectional, and is separate from other unidirectional connection mechanisms provided by the social networking system such as indications of affinity (e.g., “likes”), friendships, and subscriptions. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074927 | CACHING CONTENT BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK RELATIONS - Various embodiments provide for use of social networking postings to predict (e.g., where and when) caching of content (e.g., social network related content) would be beneficial (e.g., to speed access). In one example, the caching may be performed by one or more Internet Service Providers (ISPs), one or more content providers and/or one or more content distributors. In one specific example, one or more Internet Service Providers (ISPs), one or more content providers and/or one or more content distributors may be local ISPs. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074928 | SEMI-SUPERVISED IDENTITY AGGREGATION OF PROFILES USING STATISTICAL METHODS - User profiles can be analyzed to identify profiles matching to the same identity. For example, profiles from different social network systems are analyzed to determine if the profiles are associated with the same user of the social network systems. Multiple heuristics may be calculated using different algorithms. The calculated heuristics may then be combined to generate a match score that indicates whether two profiles match. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074929 | PROTECTION AGAINST THE DETECTION OF ALERT SIGNALS - A method of communicating between at least one event detector sensor and a collector of event detection data transmitted by the sensor in the form of an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by at least one spreading code. The method comprises the steps implemented by the sensor of, upon detection of an event, generation of data of event detection, of reception of a synchronization message emitted by the collector, the synchronization message comprising a seed for a pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code and of pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code on the basis of the seed. The method furthermore comprises a step of emitting an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by the at least one spreading code generated randomly, the event signalling message comprising the event detection data. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074930 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONFERENCE SYSTEM - An information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a request to acquire a content to be shared among a plurality of client terminals attending a conference, from at least one of the plurality of client terminals; a determining unit configured to use first information to determine whether the content is allowed to be provided in response to the request from the at least one of the plurality of client terminals, the first information being used for attending the conference during the conference and used for acquiring the content at times other than during the conference when the content is allowed to be provided; and a providing unit configured to provide the content to the at least one of the plurality of client terminals which is a source of the request, when a result of the determination is that the content is allowed to be provided. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074931 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUGGESTING APPLICATIONS - A method for suggesting applications applied by a terminal compatible with its operating system, is disclosed. One aspect of the method includes receiving a link for accessing the downloading of the application and restoring a message suggesting to the user the downloading; The method further includes determining at least one data structure including identifiers; selecting at least one identifier; generating from the identifier a domain name including an indication of the operating system; and sending the domain name to a server capable of providing a corresponding link for accessing the domain name. Lastly, the access link is received in response to said sending step. A system and device for implementing the method are also disclosed. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074932 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TERMINAL - Disclosed is a communication system including terminals which participate in a conference and a file sharing apparatus that provides a file to the terminals, the communication system including an attribute storage unit that stores attributes of the terminals; a shared folder location information notification unit that transmits location information of a shared folder; and a shared folder storage unit that stores the location information of the shared folder and identification information of the terminals being associated with conference identification information. The file sharing apparatus includes the shared folder; and a file synchronization unit that transmits the file to the terminals. Each of the terminals includes a folder mount unit that mounts the shared folder on the terminal; and another file synchronization unit that transmits another file to the shared folder, the other file being stored in a storage area created by the mounting. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074933 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR EDITING INFORMATION IN SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure discloses a method of editing information in a social network service (“SNS”) application, and a terminal for the same. The method can comprise: sending from a command terminal to an execution terminal a multimedia information obtaining command while the command terminal is executing an editing operation in an editing area of an SNS application; obtaining multimedia information by the execution terminal in accordance with the multimedia information obtaining command; sending the obtained multimedia information to the command terminal; and inserting the multimedia information by the command terminal into the editing area of the SNS application. The present disclosure accomplishes information editing via inter-terminal interaction, simplifies the process of information editing operation, increases the convenience of information editing, and enhances the SNS application's user loyalty. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074934 | ANALYZING SOCIAL PROXIMITY OF USERS OF A DIGITAL MAGAZINE SERVER - Connections between an online system user and one or more social networking system users maintained by various social networking systems are analyzed to determine social proximity between the online system user and social networking system users connected to the online system user via a social networking system. Social networking system users connected to the online system user via each of a plurality of social networking systems are identified. Based on a number of social networking system users connected to both the online system user and to a social networking system user connected to the online system user, a social proximity score indicating relative social “closeness” of the digital magazine server user and the social networking system user connected to the digital magazine server user is generated. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074935 | PERSONAL ALERT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A personal alert system and method are provided. The personal alert system may generate, for example, residence alerts, school alerts, finance alerts and/or public persona alerts. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074936 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND TERMINAL FOR SNS SYSTEM APPLICATION PROMPT - A method, device, and terminal for social network service (“SNS”) system application prompt are described. The method may include: obtaining location information associated with a current geographical location of a terminal; generating prompt information corresponding to the location information; and outputting the prompt information, wherein the prompt information prompts a user to start an SNS system application. The method increases SNS system applications' user loyalty and rate of utilization. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074937 | Automated Aging of Contacts and Classifying Relationships - One or more interactions between a first user and a second user of a social networking system are identified. Each respective interaction of the one or more interactions is scored based on a group score and a time penalty. The group score is based on the number of users in the respective interaction and the time penalty is based on a time between a current time and a time of a last interaction between the first user and the second user. A relationship ranking that measures the first user's affinity towards the second user is determined, where the relationship ranking comprises one or more interaction scores. An indicator representing the relationship ranking is sent to a client for display. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074938 | PROVIDING EXCESS RESOURCES AS A SERVICE - An integrated content production environment includes a connected services framework providing connectivity to a set of applications that produce content for the media industry. Users in their roles use the integrated environment to perform setting up, ingesting, logging, selecting, editing, reviewing, playout, distributing, and archiving activities. Notifications are dynamically triggered to users when their action is requested. The notifications may be instant messages, e-mails, voice mails, etc. Throughout the production of content, actions by both users the applications are tracked and stored in a log file for processing. The action data in the log file may include payload data from messages. When one or more applications or when one or more users of the environment have excess capacity, that capacity can be leveraged. External users can purchase or bid on the excess capacity and can then access the environment through available web services. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074939 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ADDING FRIENDS - Disclosed are a method, a device and a storage medium for adding friends. The method comprises: storing the personal information about user terminals, which contain regional information; storing the friend-making conditions set by the user terminals, which at least contain a condition of regional information; according to the friend-making request from a user terminal, selecting a predetermined number of users and recommending them to the user terminal which sends the friend-making request, the personal information of the recommended users all satisfying the friend-making condition set by the user terminal which sends the friend-making request; and adding a friend according to the choice on the user terminal. The present invention obtains the regional information about the user terminals by means of location-based services, and according to the friend-making conditions set by the user terminals to select users satisfying the friend-making condition for the user terminal, so that the user can search and add a friend by setting regional information and the like and have a better user experience. | 03-13-2014 |
20140082067 | Sharing Asserted Media - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for sharing asserted media. An assertion application can be executed by a device to generate asserted media. The assertion application can receive a request or other input for specifying information to be included in the asserted media. The assertion application also can be executed to obtain media captured with a media capture device and to obtain the information to be included in the asserted media. The assertion application also can associate the information with the media content to generate the asserted media and share the asserted media with one or more recipients. An assertion service remote from the user device can be configured to generate the asserted media and/or to share the asserted media with the recipients. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082068 | MAILBOX DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - A mailbox data storage mechanism for a remote device in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning environment. The mechanism, as a part of a gateway device and acting as a citizen of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning environment, may collect system information regularly and maintain a copy of the latest data locally which can be a response to external access requests in time at any moment. The mechanism may limit the latency for external access and improve user experience. The mechanism may help satisfy multiple interfaces. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082069 | AUTOMATED COORDINATION OF RIDE SHARING BETWEEN MEMBERS OF SOCIAL GROUP - Ride-sharing transportation arrangements can be electronically coordinated between members of a social group. The coordination can involve allowing members to electronically request or offer rides, gathering information pertinent to the ride share (e.g., a current or home location or a suspected destination location based on invitation response), generating proposed ride-sharing transportation routes, and sequentially presenting the proposed routes to members in order to arrive at an agreeable arrangement without unduly bothering involved members. Ride-sharing can thus be promoted due to the ease of the coordination, ride-sharers' familiarity and comfort with each other, and potentially, due to ride-sharers' overlap in destination locations. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082070 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM WITH SOCIAL OBJECTS - A social network system provides a social network that receives from an application a business object and an associated system of record and generates a social object that corresponds to the business object and that comprises the system of record. The social network assigns one or more members to the social object and associates a wall to the social object. The wall displays changes to the system of record, as well as other activity related to the social object. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082071 | SANDBOXING INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS TO SPECIFIC USER FOLDERS IN A CLOUD-BASED SERVICE - An example system and method comprises receiving a request from the third-party application, wherein the request includes a user identifier; allocating an area that is specific for the third-party application and for the user; and granting access of the area to the third-party application. In one embodiments, the method further comprises providing to the third-party application a token which allows the third-party application to access a given area. Additional embodiments provided herein enable a third-party application to use a user identifier (e.g., an email address or other identifiers) of its user to access area specific of a cloud-based environment/platform/services (e.g., collaboration, file sharing, and/or storage services) without necessarily triggering user account authentication, thereby avoiding the process of requiring access codes from the user which can adversely impact user experience as well as compromise security and/or user's privacy. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082072 | DYNAMIC EXPERT SOLICITATION, COLLABORATION AND REPUTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A dynamic expert solicitation, collaboration and reputation management system monitors and matches tasks with experts qualified to perform the tasks. The system receives a request for assistance associated with a task from a user. The request for assistance includes task information such as a due date, at least one skill associated with the task, and badges assigned to the task. The system publishes the request for assistance to at least one community of practice web page from among a plurality of community of practice web pages, and obtains a response to the request for assistance from another user. Upon completion of the task, they system allocates the badges to a profile of the second user, and publishes completion of the task to an activity feed of the community of practice web site. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING UNIQUE PROFILES ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - A social networking system enables users to join multiple user groups and create separate profiles for each group they join on the site. Each profile has a default set of user fields and a set of customized, administrator-created fields. Members of a group may create a profile when joining a particular group and may create the profile using a custom profile template generated for each group. Thus, if the same user joins a second group, they can create a new profile for the second group based on a profile template that is unique to the second group. The system may use information from the first profile to auto-populate the second profile if the second profile includes one or more of the same fields as the first profile. However, users may be able to edit the auto-populated information in the second profile to make it more specific to the second group. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082074 | PROCESS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING CONTACT DATA - A method of sharing user data via a global communications network including creating a profile of user data stored on a web server via a software application functioning over the global communications network, accessing the software application with a mobile device, selecting the profile to be shared with another user of the software application, and executing a share function of the software application to share the profile with the another user. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082075 | METHOD FOR MANAGING CONVERGED ADDRESS BOOK CAPABILITY - This invention refers to a method for managing a converged address book capability of a user with an address book and subscribed to converged address book service characterised by defining a service tuple in a presence document stored in a presence server; setting a value of converged address book capability in the service tuple indicating whether converged address book service is supported by the user; publishing the converged address book capability of the user and a user identifier on a converged address book server; receiving updates from the presence server of converged address capabilities of the contacts of the users; and updating a network address book, stored in a converged address book XML document management server, with converged address capabilities of served users. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082076 | SIMULTANEOUS DATA PRESENTATION MECHANISM - This invention relates to a method for broadcasting the same information from one server ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140082077 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, COMMON TERMINAL AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There are provided an information sharing system, a common terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information sharing program. An information sharing system includes: a common terminal; and one or more personal terminals each configured to transmit an object to the common terminal and perform a remote operation on an object displayed on a common screen. The common terminal includes a receiving section configured to receive an object transmitted from one of the personal terminals, a display section including the common screen and being configured to display the object on the common screen, and a control section configured to determine, upon receiving an instruction to perform a remote operation on an object displayed on the common screen, whether the instruction satisfies a predetermined condition or not, and prohibit performing the remote operation in response to a determination that the instruction does not satisfy the predetermined condition. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GHOSTING AND PROVIDING PROXIES IN A NETWORK FEED - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for maintaining anonymity in an online social network. In some implementations, a user can be designated a ghost user with respect to an entity in the online social network. One or more invisibility levels can be determined for the ghost user. Data indicating content to display in accordance with one or more invisibility levels can be generated and provided to a display device configured to display a presentation of the social network feed associated with the entity in a user interface associated with a second user. Also disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for designating a proxy in an online social network. In some implementations, a first user can be designated as a proxy user of a second user in an online social network with respect to one or more entities within the online social network. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082079 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE COLLABORATIVE RECORDING, UPLOADING AND SHARING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - A method and system for providing multimedia content to a user is described. The multimedia content may include a plurality of multimedia items. The method includes receiving the multimedia items, and determining whether the overlap(s) exist between the multimedia items. This determination is made using discrete Fourier transform(s) (DFTs) of audio data for each multimedia item. The method also includes storing the multimedia items in a file store. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082080 | ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE AND SYSTEM - An online social networking interaction method and related device and system comprise: an initiation terminal sending a command carrying an event location and a target terminal identification entered by a user on a social networking platform to a service device; the service device sending a message carrying the event location to a target terminal based on the target terminal identification after receiving the command; the target terminal detecting whether the target terminal is present at the event location after receiving the message carrying the event location, and sending a notification that the target terminal is present at the event location to the service device if the target terminal is present; the service device sending the notification that the target terminal is present at the event location to the initiation terminal; and the target terminal detecting whether the target terminal is not present at the event location, and prompting the user to perform one or more social networking interaction operations if the target terminal is not present. The present disclosure can remind users to perform social networking interaction operations after social networking events, so that information about the social networking events can be shared with friends. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082081 | METHOD, RELATED DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR INTER-TERMINAL INTERACTIONS - The present disclosure discloses an inter-terminal interaction method, and related device and system, the method comprising: receiving by a second terminal a media resource insertion command entered by a user on a social networking platform; inserting the user's social networking platform account information into the command by the second terminal; sending the command from the second terminal to a service device; searching by the service device terminal identification information associated with the account information; generating prompt information by the service device; sending from the service device to a first terminal the prompt information based on the terminal identification information associated with the account information; presenting by the first terminal media resources based on the prompt information; sending from the first terminal to the service device media resources selected by the user from the presented media resources; receiving by the service device from the first terminal the media resources; sending from the service device to the second terminal the media resources; inserting the media resources into the social networking platform by the second terminal. The present disclosure can reduce manual participation by users and increase the efficiency of inter-terminal interactions. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082082 | Mutual Expressions of Interest-based People Matching System and Method - A mutual expressions of interest people matching system and method recommends people to other people in accordance with inferences of mutual interests from usage behaviors. A person who receives a recommendation can express an interest to a recommended person, and the expression of interest can be an explicit indication of interest in establishing a computer-implemented relationship or the establishing of a directional distinct relationship between the recommended person and the recommendation receiver. The recommended person can in response express an interest to the recommendation receiver by establishing a computer-implemented relationship between the parties. The relationship between the parties may be a subscription-based relationship and explanations for the recommendations may be provided to recommendation receivers. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082083 | NETWORK SYSTEM OF PROJECTOR - A network system of a projector is provided in which a network connection is established between a plurality of information terminal apparatus and the projector, and an image data file owned by an information terminal apparatus can be commonly used. A network system of a projector is arranged by an information terminal apparatus and a projector connectable to the information terminal apparatus via a network. The information terminal apparatus is arranged by a personal computer which supplies image data to the projector, and personal computers which are connected to this personal computer by a wireless manner. When the network connection is established between the personal computer and the projector, and when the network connection between the personal computer and the personal computers is established, the image data is commonly used among these personal computers. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082084 | APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SOCIAL INTERACTION OVER AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK - In one embodiment, a system includes a server that hosts webpages facilitating user interaction between multiple endpoints. The system monitors for a user input requesting initiation of a happy hour, and when the input is detected, modifies the webpages to alert users of the happy hour. The users are notified of which user initiated the happy hour, and are also notified that interaction incentives accumulate at an increased rate during the happy hour. The system also tracks user scorings that accumulate based on the user interaction, and enables certain website features based on these user scorings. The system also tracks ratings for user-uploaded objects and identifies top rated objects for displaying on webpages viewable by other users. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082085 | CONSISTENT MESSAGING WITH REPLICATION - A messaging entity configured in a memory of first node of a plurality communicatively coupled nodes is disclosed. The nodes are included in a distributed computing system. The messaging entity is configured to operate as a secondary messaging entity in a messaging server for the plurality communicatively coupled nodes. The messaging entity is communicatively couple to a primary messaging entity configured in a memory of a second node of the plurality of nodes. The primary messaging entity is configured to store a message; store a copy of the message. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082086 | IDENTIFYING SOCIAL PROFILES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related social profiles in a social network are disclosed. One method identifying a plurality of social profiles within the social network, wherein the plurality of social profiles each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the social network allows uploading and sharing of social profiles of users, and wherein each social profile includes a representation of a user. The method further includes generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of social profiles, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of social profiles based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of social profiles for access if the first file is selected. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEQUENCED ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION SESSIONS OVER A NETWORK - A method for facilitating a sequenced, anonymous communications session in a communications environment is provided in one example that includes receiving, from a first endpoint, an anonymous, sequenced request for a communication session involving a second endpoint. The communication session is sequenced to occur at designated periods provided by the end user(s) and/or an administrator, while maintaining end user(s) anonymity. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING USER RELATIONSHIP IN SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATION - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for establishing a user relationship in a social networking application to improve the information security. The method includes: receiving a user addition request; determining whether the user addition request is initiated from a predefined trustworthy relationship scenario, and if not, performing verification on a user initiating the request; and establishing a user relationship according to a verification result. The apparatus includes: a request acquisition module, configured to receive the user addition request; a scenario determining module, configured to determine whether there is a predefined trustworthy relationship scenario associated with the request, and if not, inform a verification module; the verification module, configured to perform verification on a user initiating the request, and inform a relationship establishing module of a verification result; and the relationship establishing module, configured to establish the user relationship. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082089 | SOCIAL NETWORKING PERMISSIONS - Enabling access to user-specific content includes maintaining data indicating a social network that indicates a first user and a second user that are connected by one or more relationships through zero or more intermediary users. At least one of the relationships that connect the first and second users is categorized. A request for access to content maintained by the second user is received from the first user. One or more of the relationships that connect the first user to the second user are identified using the data indicating the social network. A category of at least one of the identified relationships is identified. A type of access to the content to be provided to the first user is identified based on the identified to category. The first user is enabled to access the content in accordance with the identified type of access. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089399 | DETERMINING AND COMMUNICATING USER'S EMOTIONAL STATE - According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a system and associated method and functions to determine an emotional state of a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system includes a data acquisition unit, an emotion determination unit, and an emotion reporting unit. The data acquisition unit is configured to detect user information including physiological and non-physiological data associated with the user. The emotion determination unit is operatively connected to the data acquisition unit, and is configured to process the user information to determine an emotional state of the user. The emotion reporting unit is configured to communicate the emotional state based on a predetermined reporting preference to an application of a communication device, e.g., a social-networking application to share the emotional state of the user such that other members of the social network associated with the user are notified of the user's emotional state. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089400 | INFERRING TARGET CLUSTERS BASED ON SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - A seed cluster comprising a group of users who share a particular attribute and/or affiliation is determined by a social networking system. For each user of the seed cluster, other users and/or entities connected to the user in the social networking system are retrieved. For each retrieved other user or entity, the social networking system may determine whether the other user or entity exhibits the attribute or affiliation based on a random walk algorithm. A resulting targeting cluster of users and/or entities may be used for targeting advertisements targeting to members. A social networking system may also infer an affiliation for a user based on the user's interaction with a page, application, or entity where other users who interacted with the same page, application, or entity have the same affiliation. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAMERA PHOTO ANALYTICS - A system and method for generating one or more statistics related to a photo. The system and method include collecting information describing circumstances of an event resulting in creation of a first photo taken by a camera; associating the information with the first photo, where the information includes attributes of an image included in the first photo and the camera; analyzing the information with respect to social networking information stored in one or more databases; and identifying one or more other photos related to the first photo based on results of the analysis. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089402 | Calculating Unique Social Networking System Users Performing An Action On A Social Networking System Object - A social networking system generates one or more metrics describing user interactions with objects to describe the popularity of the objects among users. Data describing actions performed by social networking system users on objects stored by the social networking system to identify an action, the user performing the action and the object on which the action was performed. Stored actions performed on a selected object are retrieved and a subset of the actions is generated by sampling the stored actions at a sampling rate. A number of unique users included in the subset is determined and used along with the sampling rate to determine the number of unique users included in the retrieved actions, which is used to derive a metric describing user interaction with the selected object. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089403 | System and Method for Qualifying and Targeting Communications using Social Relationships - A system to filter and target media takes advantage of users' desire to converse and share with friends to provide both more-accurate selection of media to present to the friends, and increased influence of the selected messages because of the selection process. The system can be used to help social relationships. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089404 | SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining a status of a Self-Service Terminal (SST) in a financial network. The method includes the steps of, from an SST comprising a node of a financial network, providing an instant message identifying a status of the terminal to a help desk terminal comprising a further node of the financial network. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089405 | Approval Based Economy - There is provided a method and system for an approval based economy. The method comprises, receiving input corresponding to media content associated with a user, determining a number of approval units corresponding to the input, retrieving a user account associated with the user, and saving the approval units in the user account. The user account may include past approval units and an approval total. The approval total may account for the approval units and the past approval units, the approval units and the past approval units of active users and available media content only, or a maximum lifetime total of active users and available media content only. The approval based economy may provide new media content to users based on their respective approval total in their user account. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089406 | DATA NETWORK NOTIFICATION BAR PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089407 | LOCAL SOCIAL MOBILE NETWORK WITH ADVERTISING - Systems, methods, and media for providing information exchange sessions are provided. A registration request is received from a first individual for registering for the information exchange session. The information exchange session is associated with a geographic location and has a predetermined timeframe. A virtual bulletin board of the first individual is activated during the predetermined timeframe. The virtual bulletin board of the first individual is deactivated at an end of the predetermined timeframe. The virtual bulletin board of the first individual is accessible during the predetermined timeframe and after activation via a network by at least one second individual that has registered for the information exchange session for exchanging information with the first individual. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND SERVER - The present invention discloses an information processing method, apparatus, terminal, and server. The method includes: detecting a predefined user operation on a web bookmark application installed in a web browser at a first terminal; in response to the user operation, obtaining address and link information of a current webpage in the web browser and sending the address and link information to a remote server; receiving an information transmission notification message from the remote server after the remote server forwards the address and link information and a plurality of thumbnail images associated with the webpage to a second mobile terminal; in response to the information transmission notification message, generating an information sharing prompt message identifying a total number of webpages the first terminal has shared with the second mobile terminal; and sending the information sharing prompt message to the second mobile terminal for display. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089409 | RATING SYSTEM FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK OR DATING SERVICE - A rating system for a social network or dating service comprising at least one social network or dating service on a server; and a computer which displays a widget interface of said at least one social network or dating service; wherein a first user uses said widget interface to search and display a second user's profile page on said widget interface, wherein said first user enters in a rating of said second user and said rating is stored on said server of said at least one social network or dating service and displayed on said second user's profile page. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089410 | Social Networking System and Method for Machines and Devices - A device shares its information, such as specifications, performance details, programs and applications, usage details and service details, over a network to other devices. The network is established using social media connections of the user or similarity of device and its parts or its usage. Within the device social media network, a user views information and details of devices belonging to others within the network. The user can make decisions based on the information available to him within the social network either through known people or through recommendations. A socializing device may also take pre authorized actions to achieve usage or performance objectives. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089411 | Personalizing an Online Service Based on Data Collected for a User of a Computing Device - An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the computing device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089412 | Method and System for Connecting People in a Social Network - A system and method for connecting people in a social network using information from a user's digital address book. A social network member can unilaterally friend any contact in her address book. Optionally, a member can only friend a contact and be friended by a contact if she is in that contact's address book. An central server keeps track of friended members of the social network and contacts. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089413 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - The invention relates to social networking with a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device is provided a synchronization index, wherein the synchronization index is associated to multimedia and indicates respective times within the multimedia corresponding to a word or range of words. The mobile computing device software comprises executable program code configured to facilitate annotation of the synchronization index responsive to user input received by the mobile computing device and communicates this annotation to a second computing device via a network | 03-27-2014 |
20140089414 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VOICE MAILS IN A UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to a method a system for managing one or more voice mails in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a notification indicating receipt of one or more voice mails to one or more Telephony Control Points (TelCPs) through a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) home network and providing one or more voice mails to the one or more TelCPs. The method further includes providing a list of one or more voice mails to the one or more TelCPs. The method also includes deleting one or more voice mails from a telephony server (TS). Furthermore, the method includes composing one or more voice mail containing emotional symbols and depositing the one or more voice mails in a voice mail server. Moreover, the method includes recalling one or more voice mails deposited in the voice mail server. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095595 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR STAGING ACCOUNT SETUP - A device, method and system for staging account setup are provided. An account identifier indicative of an account is transmitted from a device to a server. An indication that the account is of a given type is received at the device from the server. At a display of the device, staged prompts for information associated with the account are provided, the staged prompts depending on the indication, each staged prompt provided at successive screens of the display, wherein different staged prompts for different account types are provided in a same application. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LONG-LIVED CONTEXTUAL INTERACTIONS - System and method to preserve a long-lived interaction, the method including: participating, by use of a communication medium, in a present communication session with a remote party; associating, by use of a processor, a present identification tag with the present communication session; associating, by use if a processor, contextual information with the present identification tag, wherein the contextual information provides context of the present communication session; and storing, by use if a processor coupled to a memory, a record of the present identification tag and contextual information beyond conclusion of the present communication session, wherein the stored present identification tag and stored contextual information form the long-lived interaction. The method may further include searching a memory for previous identification tags of previous communication sessions with the remote party; and selecting, from a search result, a previous identification tag for use as the present communication tag. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095597 | EVENT DETERMINATION AND INVITATION GENERATION - An invitation is created on a social network. To create the invitation, a computer receives, from a social networking program operating on a first computer system by an event program operating on a second computer system, data from a social networking post. The computer identifies, by the event program, information from the data associated with a first member of a social network. The computer determines whether the information includes information about a future event that the first member intends to participate in. The computer generates an invitation to a second member of the social network for the future event based on the information about the future event. The computer transmits the invitation for the social networking post for sending by the social networking program to a user device of the second member of the social network. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095598 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND INTERFACES FOR EVALUATING AN ONLINE ENTITY PRESENCE - A method for evaluating an online entity presence includes receiving a set of social media information for at least one entity and calculating a social media measurement where the social media measurement is associated with the set of social media information. The method further includes receiving a set of online profile information for the at least one entity, the set of online profile information being associated with one or more non-social media online profiles, and calculating an online profile measurement wherein the online profile measurement is associated with the set of online profile information. The method further includes calculating a reach value, the reach value being associated with the social media measurement and the online profile measurement and providing a reach score to a user where the reach score associated with the reach value. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095599 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DYNAMIC PERSONALIZED EVENTS FEED - A device and method for generating a dynamic personalized events feed that is personalized for a user is provided. The device may include one or more processors configured to determine events that match filtering information, generate the dynamic personalized events feed based on the determined events, and update the generated dynamic personalized events feed based on the determined events. The device may also include a network interface component coupled to a network, the network interface component configured to receive the filtering information, and transmit the generated dynamic personalized events feed to a user device. The device may further include a memory, the memory storing event information and user information for determining events that match the filtering information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095600 | MULTIPLE-DEVICE SCREEN CAPTURE - Various embodiments are generally directed to cooperation among networked devices to perform a multiple-device screen capture in which multiple devices capture what is visually presented on their displays substantially simultaneously. A method comprises transmitting timing information via a network to a first participating device and a second participating device to trigger the first participating device to capture a first image of what is visually presented on a display of the first participating device and the second participating device to capture a second image of what is visually presented on a display of the second participating device substantially simultaneously; and transmitting collection device information via the network to the first and second participating devices specifying a collection device to receive the first and second images. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095601 | DEVICE OPERABILITY ENHANCEMENT WITH ALTERNATIVE DEVICE UTILIZATION - An approach is disclosed for enhancing mobile-device operation by resource sharing and/or pooling. The approach can be implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to trigger a first device to share content or request functionality of any of a plurality of other devices. The programming instructions can further be operable to discover a candidate device that is capable of receiving the content or a request to provide the functionality. The programming instructions can further be operable to determine that the candidate device can receive the content or provide the functionality based on predetermined criteria. The programming instructions can further be operable to establish a connection with the candidate device. The programming instructions can further be operable to send the content from the first device to the candidate device or receive functionality from the candidate device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPOSITE PRESENCE SUBSCRIPTIONS - The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems that include generating an availability request, where the availability request inquires about an availability of each contact in a set of multiple contacts; submitting a composite presence subscribe request to a presence server based on the availability request, where the composite presence subscribe request identifies each contact in the set of multiple contacts; generating, from the presence server, a composite presence report indicating the availability of each contact; and notifying of the availability of each contact. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095603 | ONE STOP FOR MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON SOMEBODY'S PERSONALITY FROM QUALIFIED ASSOCIATIONS - A method, system, and apparatus for presenting information on a user in a social network is disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes the user creating an account on the social network with initial identification information, connecting the user to a qualified third party user, wherein connecting the user account includes presenting the initial identification information to the qualified third party user, populating the user account with information provided by the qualified third party user, locking the user account such that the user cannot edit the information provided by the qualified third party user, and storing the user account in a storage device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095604 | MANAGING AN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE SESSION - An electronic conference session is managed. The electronic conference session is hosted on a processing system for a plurality of users to participate in the conference session via a plurality of client devices. Performance of the processing system is monitored. Responsive to identifying a first indication that the performance of the processing system immanently will degrade below specified criteria, at least one process for hosting the electronic conference session is offloaded from the processing system to at least one of the client devices. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING LOCALIZATION OF PEER-TO-PEER TRAFFIC FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for increasing localization of P2P traffic for content distribution includes distributing named content from hosting peers to requesting peers in conjunction with tracking nodes using fingerprint chunk messages that carry fingerprint names and data chunks. The named content is divisible into data chunks identified by fingerprint names such that a content fingerprint list for named content identifies the fingerprint name for each data chunk. Fingerprint names are based on content data in the data chunk such that data chunks with the same content data are represented by the same fingerprint name and data chunks with different content data are represented by different fingerprint names. When a data chunk is available from multiple hosting peers, selection of a hosting peer is based on comparing localization characteristics for the requesting peer to localization characteristics for the multiple hosting peers with preference to the hosting peer that localizes P2P traffic. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095606 | Mobile Device-Related Measures of Affinity - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a measure of affinity for a particular action associated with a user of the social-networking system; and determining results for each predictor function based at least in part upon a number of actions previously preformed by the user with respect to the mobile-computing device. Each predictor function calculating a likelihood the user performs one or more actions; The method also includes computing a measure of affinity associated with the user based on the results for the predictor functions; and providing the computed measure of affinity. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION BASED NETWORKING SESSIONS - In accordance with one example embodiment of the present invention a method comprises at least partially controlling the functionalities of a session area wherein said session area can be either in an active status or in a passive status according to at least one predetermined time window, said session area defining the boundaries for a location based group session event for members of one or more predetermined groups belonging to one or more social networks. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095608 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING ONLINE CONTENT TO A SECOND INDEXED CONTENT - A method includes receiving content-association input, including identification of accessed first content and an index position of a second content, and associating the accessed first content with the second content at the index position. Users accessing the second content are provided information related to the first content in response to the access of the second content. The information provided may be a link to the first content, a description of the first content, a portion of the first content, or the entire first content. Another method includes providing a user interface within an application window while the application window displays a first content and providing a second window in response to selection input via the user interface. The second window displays an indexed second content. Input may be received via the second window to create an association of the first content with the second content at an index position. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095609 | ONE STOP FOR MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON A RELATIONSHIP FROM QUALIFIED ASSOCIATIONS - A method, system, and apparatus for presenting information on a relationship in a social network is disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes a user creating a relationship profile of at least two users on the social network, wherein the user is a qualified association of each of the at least two users, connecting a qualified third party user to the relationship profile, wherein the qualified third party user is a qualified association of at least one of the at least two users, populating the relationship profile with information provided by the qualified third party user, locking the relationship profile such that the at least two users cannot edit the information provided by the qualified third party user, and storing the relationship profile in a storage device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095610 | IMPULSE LIKE - A method, system, and apparatus for presenting information in a social network is disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes displaying an element in a user profile to a third party user, providing an option to the third party user to indicate the third party user's level of satisfaction with the element, wherein the option includes a first option to indicate a first level of satisfaction, wherein the first option is associated with a first option counter, and a second option to indicate a second level of satisfaction, wherein the second option is associated with a second option counter, upon the third party user selecting at least one of the options, incrementing at least one of the option counters, and updating the display of the element to indicate the incrementing of at least one of the option counters. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095611 | PERSONALIZATION THROUGH DYNAMIC SOCIAL CHANNELS - Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing a plurality of channels for providing content to users. New channels may be automatically generated based on sub-interest groups of existing channels, which may generate a hierarchy of channels, where new content may be posted and/or provided to the new channel, and/or a parent channel. The new channel may be proposed to a user, that accesses content on a channel, to invite the user to subscribe to the new channel. The proposed channel may be determined based on a weight of channels associated with the accessed content. Similarly, a proposed channel may be provided to a publisher for new content based on the weight of channels associated with the new content. Channels may be discontinued if a value of the channel falls below a predetermined threshold. Channels with overlapping characteristics may be merged together if the overlapping channels satisfy merging criteria. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN REAL-TIME NETWORK PARTICIPANTS - The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095613 | THIRD VECTOR - A method, system, and apparatus for presenting information on a user in a social network is disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes a viewer viewing a user profile, wherein the user profile is populated with information provided by a reviewer, associating a request counter with the reviewer, the viewer initiating a request to the reviewer for additional information about the user, upon initiating the request, incrementing the request counter, and storing the request counter in a storage device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095614 | IDENTITY CROWD-SOURCED CURATION - A method includes gathering a plurality of instances of online activity associated with a user, analyzing the plurality of instances of online activity to determine a characteristic that is likely to correspond to a profile attribute of the user and generating a profile enrichment suggestion for the user based on the determined characteristic. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095615 | Communication Terminal, Remote Conference System and Control Program for Communication Terminal - A communication terminal is configured to execute detecting a first quality value indicating a quality of connection with a first conference server which communicates media data relating to a remote conference with the communication terminal, determining whether the quality of connection is lower than a predetermined quality based on the first quality value, when it is determined that the quality of connection is lower than the predetermined quality, outputting a conference state storing instruction to store a state of an ongoing remote conference, disconnecting a network connection with the first conference server after conference state information indicating the state of the ongoing remote conference is stored, reconnecting the network connection with the first conference server after the network connection is disconnected, and when the network connection is reconnected with the first conference server, resuming the ongoing remote conference based on the stored conference state information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SAMPLING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - A representative sample of an online social network is formed by performing a deterministic process that coalesces to indicate success. A random value is selected for seeding the process. Based on the random value, the process is executed and once the process coalesces, a proper sampling of the online social network results. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095617 | ADJUSTING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON LOCATION PROXIMITY - Technology is disclosed for transmitting notification updates to computing devices (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology includes a proxy server that facilitates transmission of notifications to the computing devices based on a location proximity and/or access pattern of the computing devices. In one such embodiment, if a particular computing device of the user is not within a predefined location proximity of a primary computing device of the user, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device. In another example, based on the access pattern of the particular computing device, if the proxy server determines that the user is not likely to use the particular computing device, e.g. until a certain point of time, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of the transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device until around that certain point of time. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095618 | Social Interaction Device - An electronic device, worn like a button, supports and enhances social face-to-face interaction. The electronic button stores information associated with a person's professional and/or personal interests and preferences. This information is continuously broadcast and, when received by another button, analyzed to determine if the receiving and transmitting button possess any commonalities. If a commonality is found, colored light(s) illuminate to let the individuals within the immediate vicinity know a common interest exist. In one version different colored lights can represent different interests. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095619 | System for synchronizing nodes on a network - A system of computers on a wide area network establishes connections between nodes on the basis of their multidimensional similarity at a particular point in time in a certain setting, such as a social learning network, and sends information of value to those nodes. Dimensions in the definition of similarity include a plurality of attributes in time and community space. Examples of such dimensions and attributes may include a position in a learning community's project cycle, titles of readings and projects, the genre or subject matter under consideration, age, grade, or level of the participants, and language. The network's nodes are represented as a tensor field and are searched efficiently and adaptively through a variety of multidimensional data structures and mechanisms. The system includes a master clock that can transform a participant's time coordinates on the network, such as a social learning network, into Universal Time, and the synchronizer coordinates the position of each participant. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095620 | SEARCHING SOCIAL CONNECTIONS OF A USER - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for providing personal connection alerts. The user desires to have a personal connection with a target person. An indicator for a target is provided by the user. The indicator is often the name of the target, but can also be a picture of the target, or other information. A record for the target is created based on the received indicator. The target record is stored. A variety of additional information regarding the target may be obtained from external or internal sources and also stored in the target record. Then the target record is periodically compared with the user's social sphere of influence, which comprises the user's primary and secondary connections. The comparison includes at least comparing the target with the user's secondary connections. When the target record matches at least one of the user's secondary connections, an alert is provided. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095621 | Digital File Distribution in a Social Network System - Systems and methods for obtaining a digital file similar to one used by a device associated with a member of a social network are provided. Digital file information about the digital file is stored on a web-based social network database. The digital file may be located on the same server as the web-based social network database or a third party server such as a mobile phone carrier. A user of the web-based social network database requesting the digital file may require a different format of the digital file than that used by the device of the member. If a different format is requested by the user, a server finds or converts the digital file to be compatible for use by a device specified by the user. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING STATUS INFORMATION OF A DATA ITEM - A method and system for providing status of a data item after receiving status information pertaining to the data item. It is determined whether the received status information is new relative to further status information pertaining to the data item. The status record is updated to include the received status information if the received status information is new. The updated message indicating the received status information is then composed and transmitted over a network. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101242 | EXPORT PERMISSIONS IN A CLAIMS-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social graph, which records the actions of users in a social networking system platform, may be modeled at least in part as a collection of claims that may be exported to other systems, such as third party publishers, based on permissions granted by users and entities. The social networking system may also act as a publisher, enabling web applications and mobile applications to publish claims to a variety of audiences based on the permissions granted by users and entities, or agents of the social networking system. Permissions may be granted based on agreed-upon terms of service between agents, agents and publishers, agents and the social networking system platform, and publishers and the social networking system. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING COMMON INTEREST BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - Techniques for identifying mutual interests between users of a social networking system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a social networking system, a content object with which a first user of the social networking system has interacted. The social networking associates a keyword phrase with the first user. The keyword phrase has been previously associated with the content object. The social networking system further determines a mutual interest for the first user and a second user of the social networking system by identifying a match between the keyword phrase associated with the first user with a keyword phrase associated with the second user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101244 | Processing Content Spoilers - The disclosure includes a system and method for processing content spoilers. The system includes a controller, a progress module, a determination module, a warning module and a presentation module. The controller receives activity data describing an activity performed by a first user and content data published by a second user. The progress module determines a first progress stage for a subject associated with the activity based at least in part on the activity data. The determination module determines whether the content data includes a spoiler for the first user based at least in part on the first progress stage. Responsive to the determination that the content data includes the spoiler, the warning module obscures the content data published by the second user from the first user and generates a spoiler warning. The presentation module provides the spoiler warning to the first user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101245 | DEVICE-AGNOSTIC CLOUD AND DEVICE-BASED USER TO USER COMMUNICATION TIMELINE/MOSAIC - A device may receive a request to update a data structure with first communication information from multiple applications. The first communication information may identify communications made, by a particular user, using the applications, and the applications may be associated with different modes of communication. The device may request the first communication information from devices storing the first communication information, may receive the first communication information, and may store the first communication information in the data structure. The device may receive criteria identifying requested communications, and may search the data structure to determine second communication information. The second communication information may identify the requested communications that satisfy the criteria. The device may provide the second communication information to a user device associated with the particular user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101246 | LOCATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a first computing device, location information of a second computing device and one or more computing devices. The location information is received in response to an action performed with at least one of the first computing device and the one or more computing devices. At the first computing device, the one or more computing devices that are within a pre-defined distance from the second computing device are identified based upon, at least in part, the location information. At least a portion of automatically-suggested user information associated with the one or more computing devices within the pre-defined distance from the second computing device is sent from the first computing device to the second computing device. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101247 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for determining and presenting user sentiment about data in an online social network. Indications of user sentiment about data in the online social network can be received from one or more first users. The indications can be analyzed and validated to determine an assessment of user sentiment about the social network data. In some implementations, a notification reporting the assessed user sentiment can be generated and provided to a display device associated with a second user. The notification can be configured to be displayed in a presentation on the display device with reference to an identification of the social network data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101248 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY FEED FOR EVENTS TO FACILITATE GATHERING AND COMMUNICATING OF EVENT INFORMATION - System platform, software and hardware equipment and components, and methodologies are provided for gathering, organizing, distributing and synchronizing information about events, event attendees or group activities associated with events. Event management system and methods include mobile software application platform for event participants to receive push content, and generate and share real time activity feed(s) on various social media and/or dialogue platforms via a server that transmits push information (notifications, ads, alerts, updates) to event participant's mobile application, receives activity feed information from mobile application, and selectively transmits activity feed information to social media and/or dialog platforms. Events include conferences, tradeshows, seminars, or any activities involving one or more participants. Event participants include attendees, exhibitors, speakers, sponsors, organizers, or any other groups or individuals associated with event. Social media and/or dialogue platforms include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, text messaging, or any other communication media supporting data transfer or sharing between users. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101249 | Systems and Methods for Managing and Presenting Information - Systems and methods for managing and presenting information may receive listing information, create a website based on the listing information, create a social network post based on the listing information and/or the website, and submit the social network post to the social network. Systems and methods for managing and presenting information therefore may integrate the website with the social network post by facilitating the presentation of related information on the website and the social network post. Systems and methods for managing and presenting information may optimize the website and/or social network post to improve the probability that the website and/or social network post will be viewed, such as affecting the visibility of website and/or social network post in search engine results. The listing information may correspond to any good or service listed for a transaction, for example, a real estate listing. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK FEEDS - Systems and methods are provided for location-based social network feeds. A system identifies a geolocation of a display device. The system identifies a first network feed and a second network feed associated with a user profile associated with the display device. The system identifies a first geolocation associated with the first network feed. The system identifies a second geolocation associated with the second network feed. The system calculates a first proximity between the first geolocation and the geolocation of the display device. The system calculates a second proximity between the second geolocation and the geolocation of the display device. The system outputs, to the display device, the first network feed based on the first proximity and the second network feed based on the second proximity. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101251 | CORPORATE USER DISCOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION OF RECOMMENDED COLLABORATORS IN A CLOUD PLATFORM - Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for user discovery (e.g., corporate user discovery) and/or identification of recommended or suggested collaborators in a collaboration platform which may be a cloud-based platform. The disclosed technology enables a user to discover a network of users that they could be collaborating with but are not. This feature, can for example, identify the relevant users or the suggested users and depict the users in the user interface. The identification and selection of the suggested users/potential collaborators can be based on some criteria (e.g., email domain, when the account was created, etc.). These criteria can be set by system default, adjusted by individual users and/or configured/set by admins if a user belongs to a corporate account/enterprise account. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101252 | Mobile Message Sharing through Employment of Social Media Platform - A mobile messaging server of an apparatus in an example interacts with a social media platform to cause the social media platform to share, with a social network of friends of a user, a mobile message that is received by the user and comprises one or more of images, bar codes, videos, and/or simple plain text. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101253 | Dynamic Screen Sharing for Optimal Performance - Illustrative embodiments disclose sharing an area of a computer system screen. A first computer system configures a sharing session for sharing a region of the screen with a second computer system. The first computer system assesses information on performance of the sharing session, determining from the information a minimum size of the region based on the assessment, and then selects the region to share based on the assessment and a designation by a user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101254 | APPLICATION-LAYER TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION SERVICE MAP UPDATES - Using the ALTO Service, networking applications can request through the ALTO protocol information about the underlying network topology from the ISP or Content Provider. The ALTO Service provides information such as preferences of network resources with the goal of modifying network resource consumption patterns while maintaining or improving application performance. This document describes, in one example, an ALTO server that implements enhancements to the ALTO service to enable initiating incremental updates of network and cost maps to ALTO clients upon receiving status information from a content delivery network (CDN) node. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101255 | SOCIAL NETWORK GRAPH BASED SENSOR DATA ANALYTICS - The present invention relates to a system and method of effective physical data aggregation and its logical analytics by way of utilizing socially interacting and networking platforms to create meaningful association and relevancy between the captured physical data. The physical data associated by social networking platforms results in creation of reduced data set for analytics and requires low processing requirements for application usage. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108522 | Method and System for Computer Implemented Social Networking and Searching - A computer-implemented dating service employs a selectively programmed searching processor that includes a hierarchical calendar availability protocol as key search criteria in ascertaining responsive qualified candidates. System implementation is preferably cell phone and/or web portal based communications with selection processing and data storage accomplished remotely. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108523 | CONNECTION SHARING ACROSS ENTITIES IN A DISTRIBUTED MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method of creating a link of a connection to a messaging system includes receiving a protocol command message directed to a message entity of the messaging system. The protocol command message is communicated over the connection. The method includes determining that the protocol command message includes a link identifier that is unrecognized by the messaging system and in response to receiving the protocol command message and determining that the protocol command message includes the link identifier that is unrecognized by the messaging system, creating the link for the connection, the link corresponding to the link identifier. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108524 | Systems and Methods of Communication Using a Message Header that Includes Header Flags - A method includes determining, at a first computing device, whether data to be communicated to a second computing device includes media data or protocol data. The method also includes, in response to determining that the data includes media data, generating a message header and a message body based on the media data. The message header includes a header flags portion and a header fields portion, and the header flags portion includes at least one flag having a value that indicates a length of a corresponding field of a plurality of fields of the header fields portion. The method further includes encapsulating the message header and the message body into a message and inserting the message into a media stream to be transmitted from the first computing device to the second computing device in accordance with a media communication protocol. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108525 | OPTIMIZING SOCIAL INFORMATION SIGNALING - A method and apparatus for optimizing social information signaling in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method receives an indication that social information associated with a first endpoint device has changed, determines whether the social information is to be forwarded to a second endpoint device in a list of the first endpoint device based upon a behavior parameter, wherein the behavior parameter comprises a strength of relationship, and forwards the social information to the second endpoint device if the behavior parameter is above a pre-defined level. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108526 | SOCIAL GATHERING-BASED GROUP SHARING - Implementations include receiving a first image that displays context of an event, the first image being received during the event, receiving a first identifier associated with a first attendee, the first identifier being associated with a user profile in a computer-implemented social networking service and being determined based on processing of the first image to detect a presence of the first attendee in the first image, determining, based on the first identifier, that the first attendee is a contact of a user within the social networking service, populating an event social circle to include the first attendee, the event social circle being associated with the user and defining a distribution for digital content generated by the user within the social networking service, receiving digital content generated by a computing device of the user, and distributing the digital content based on the event social circle. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108527 | SOCIAL GENETICS NETWORK FOR PROVIDING PERSONAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES - Creation of a social genetics network that provides personal and business services includes: receiving non-genetic data and genetic data about a user and storing the non-genetic data and genetic data in a database; analyzing the genetic data and the non-genetic data to i) assign traits to the user based at least in part on phenotypic and/or genotypic relationships found in the genetic data and the non-genetic data, and ii) determine trait connections between the user and other users in the network based on a similarity of the traits that are common to the user and the other users; and generating and displaying on an electronic device a social genetics profile that includes at least a portion of the non-genetic data, at least a portion of the traits assigned to the user, and at least a portion of the trait connections of the user to the other users. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108528 | Social Context in Augmented Reality - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first information about a proximity of a first user, the first information comprising one or more images or one or more sounds of at least a portion of the proximity, the first information having been obtained from the proximity by a client computing device of the first user automatically and with one or more sensors of the client computing device; identifying a second user within the proximity of the first user based at least in part on the first information; retrieving second information about the second user from a graph of a social-networking system, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the second user; and sending the second information about the second user to the first user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108529 | Person Filtering in Augmented Reality - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first information about a proximity of a first user, the first information comprising one or more images or one or more sounds of at least a portion of the proximity; identifying one or more second users within the proximity of the first user based at least in part on the first information; retrieving second information about each second user from a graph of a social-networking system, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user, at least one node in the graph corresponding to each second user; categorizing the second users into one or more groups based on the second information about each second user; and sending the second information about each second user in a specific group to the first user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108530 | Person of Interest in Augmented Reality - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first information about a proximity of a first user, the first information comprising one or more images or one or more sounds of at least a portion of the proximity; identifying one or more second users within the proximity of the first user based at least in part on the first information; selecting a specific second user of particular interest to the first user based on behavior of the first user; retrieving second information about the specific second user from a graph of a social-networking system, the graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the specific second user; and sending the second information about the specific second user to the first user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108531 | Trackable Sharing of On-line Video Content - The sharing of video content published online is tracked enabling the generation of a share tracking report. A first client shares video content using a first identifier that associates the first client to the video content and sharing statistics are updated. A second client accesses the video content via the first identifier and is associated with a second identifier that can used to share the video content by the second client. The second identifier is also associated with the first identifier to create a chain of discovery. A subsequent client accesses the video content via the second identifier and the sharing statistics associated with the second identifier are updated, thus continuing to add to the chain of discovery. A report is generated comprising sharing information, which includes one or more of a chain of discovery and at least one sharing statistic. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING GUARANTEED MULTI-POINT DELIVERY IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA GRID - A system and method can support guaranteed multi-point message delivery in a distributed data grid. A messaging facility in the distributed data grid can receive an incoming message that is adaptive to be delivered to a plurality of nodes in the distributed data grid. The messaging facility can deliver the incoming message to the plurality of nodes according to an order in a list. Furthermore, a node in the plurality of nodes operates to skip a next node in the list to deliver the incoming message, when the next node is dead or unavailable. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108533 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING OUT-OF-ORDER MESSAGE PROCESSING IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA GRID - A system and method can support out-of-order message processing in a distributed data grid. A cluster node in the distributed data grid can receive a plurality of messages at a cluster node in the distributed data grid. The distributed data grid allows each message in the plurality of messages to determine whether it needs to be handled in a particular order on a first thread. The cluster node can dispatch one or more of said messages that do not need to be handled in the particular order on the first thread to one or more different threads. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108534 | Systems and Methods of Communication using a Message Header that Includes Header Flags - A method includes determining, at a first computing device, whether data to be communicated to a second computing device includes media data or protocol data. The method also includes, in response to determining that the data includes media data, generating a message header and a message body based on the media data. The message header includes a header flags portion and a header fields portion, and the header flags portion includes at least one flag having a value that indicates a length of a corresponding field of a plurality of fields of the header fields portion. The method further includes encapsulating the message header and the message body into a message and inserting the message into a media stream to be transmitted from the first computing device to the second computing device in accordance with a media communication protocol. The media stream is a bidirectional media stream. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CUSTOMIZED SINGULAR ACTIVITY STREAM - A method and system for generating and displaying a customized activity stream are provided. The method includes receiving a query from a client node; receiving at least one user-related parameter and at least one client node-related parameters; receiving unstructured data collected from a plurality of data sources; generating a plurality of contextual activity streams respective of the received unstructured data and the received query; generating a customized singular activity stream respective of the at least one user-related parameter and the at least one client node-related parameter, wherein the customized singular activity stream include a plurality of data items from one or more of the plurality of contextual activity streams; and causing a display of the customized singular activity stream over the client node. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108536 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATION OPERATIONS - In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location and communicating app related information of users participating in the social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108537 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATION OPERATIONS - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, by a social networking system, location information for a device associated with a first user of the social networking system; associating the location information with the first user in a user profile associated with the first user of the social networking system; sending, from the social networking system, to a second user a communication generated based at least in part on the location information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108538 | Coordinating a Computing Activity Across Applications and Devices Having Multiple Operation Modes in an Orchestration Framework for Connected Devices - Aspects described herein allow multiple devices to function as a coherent whole, allowing each device to take on distinct functions that are complementary to one another. Aspects described herein also allow the devices function as a coherent whole when interconnected devices and their respective applications are configured to operate in various operation modes, when management policies are employed to control the operation of the interconnected devices and their respective applications, when transferring content between the interconnected devices and storing the content at those devices, when obtaining access credentials for the interconnected devices that enable the devices to access enterprise resources, when a policy agent applies management policies to control operation of and interaction between the interconnected devices, and when the interconnected devices are used to access an enterprise application store. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108539 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATION OPERATIONS - In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108540 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATION OPERATIONS - In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108541 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A terminal apparatus includes: a transmission section configured to transmit a subject image obtained by shooting a predetermined subject or an image feature quantity thereof to another information processing apparatus; from the other information processing apparatus configured to recognize the subject of the subject image on the basis of the image feature quantity, to determine review information stored in the other information processing apparatus by a social networking service to be corresponding to the subject image, and to transmit the review information, a reception section configured to receive the review information; and a display section configured to display the received review information together with the subject image. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108542 | Method and system for providing a multiuser web session - A method for providing a multiuser web session, preferably a collaborative web browsing session like a cobrowsing session, includes the steps of
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20140108543 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INFORMATION FOR USER PARTICIPATION - A computer implemented method and system of managing information for user participation is provided. The system and method includes assembling data indicative of information created by users participating in a designated task or conversation into a collection, generating a collection identifier for the collection and connecting the collection to a further collection if the information created by the users is related to information assembled within the further collection. An edge connection in association with the collection identifier is generated and a further collection identifier generated for the further collection. The collection and the further collection are then outputted for the users to participate in the task or the conversation based on the collection identifier for the collection and the edge connection. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DISPLAY CONTENT ON AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY SURFACE - A method comprises detecting the location of a portable computing device within a collaboration system based on wireless communications between the portable computing device and a plurality of collaboration sites within the collaboration system; and displaying a map on the portable computing device that identifies the location of the portable computing device within the collaboration system and that specifies a path to a target collaboration site. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108545 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108546 | ANNOUNCING NEW USERS OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM TO EXISTING USERS - Announcing new users of an electronic communications system includes receiving an indication of a new user of an electronic communications system. The new user has an identifier for the electronic communications system. Existing users of the electronic communications system that are known to the new user are identified. The identified existing users are sent a message notifying the identified existing users of the identifier of the new user. The identified existing users may be enabled to add the identifier of the new user to participant lists used by the identified existing users. The new user may be enabled to add identifiers of the identified existing users to a participant list of the electronic communications system used by the new user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108547 | AUTOMATED BLOGGING, SKILLS PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND SYNDICATION SYSTEM - An automated blogging, skills portfolio management system and syndication system that is capable of facilitating easy blog message posting by a multitude of people witnessing a sports event or some other public event, wherein players, spectators and others can provide comments and observation regarding that particular event while the event is going on. In fact, the present invention makes it possible for the players, spectators and others to provide comments and observations in the form of audio recording, that provide the context to any digital photos and videos they provide. The blogs can be automatically syndicated, newsletters are automatically distributed, based on messages posted, recommendations provided, etc. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108548 | Fake Check-In Entries Posted on Behalf of Social Network Users - An approach is provided in a fake check-in event is received at a software application corresponding to a user of the software application. Fake check-ins are initiated on behalf of the user in response to the fake check-in event. The software application posts a set of fake check-in entries on behalf of the user while the user is away. The posted fake check-ins are visible by other users of the software application and are used to obfuscate others that the user is out-of-town. In one embodiment, check-in entries that are received from the user after fake check-ins have been initiated are cached. In this embodiment, a local check-in event is received when the user is within the user's geographical local area and the cached check-in entries are posted so that they are now visible by the other users of the software application. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108549 | PROVIDING LOCALIZED INDIVIDUALLY CUSTOMIZED UPDATES FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK SITE TO A DESKTOP APPLICATION - A method of providing updates from a social network to a desktop application is provided. An update is created in an application and if the application has permission, it creates an entry in a recent activity queue. The queue is then subject to analysis to reduce the number of entries in the queue. Subscribers that have permission to receive updates from the publisher and the publishing application then receive updates from the publisher. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108550 | INSTANTANEOUS RECOMMENDATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - As a user of a social networking system views a page that includes information provided by the system, certain types of social interactions are monitored. If an interaction monitored for is detected, at least one recommendation unit is identified to present to user on the page. The recommendation unit is identified based on a description of the interaction. The recommendation unit suggests that the user perform a social interaction in the social networking system. The recommendation unit is transmitted to a device of the user and is presented to the user on the page without having to reload the entire page. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KEEPING A RECORD OF OBJECTIVE PURSUITS - An objective pursuit ledger is provided. The ledger includes a system for managing participation in an objective pursuit. The system comprises a first local computer operated by an individual. A platform is provided in the first local computer for including an objective pursuit. The platform is capable of allowing the individual to include the objective pursuit of the individual's choice. The system also includes a central server in communication with the first local computer. The central server is capable of creating a database for the objective pursuit. The objective pursuit ledger keeps a record of the objective pursuits of the individual. The objective pursuit ledger serves as a ready reckoner of the objective pursuits of the individual. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108552 | Automatic Multimedia Upload For Publishing Data And Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A RELEVANT SOCIAL GRAPH - An approach is provided for generating a relevant social graph. A social graph identifying people associated with a user is retrieved. A communication history from a device associated with the user is retrieved. Information regarding a respective occurrence of each identified person in the communication history is determined. A relevant social graph is generated based, at least in part, on the determined occurrence information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108554 | RECURSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS FOR CASUAL COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING - A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING NETWORK FUNCTIONS BASED ON USER DATA - Techniques for identifying network functions include determining first data that indicates a concept represented in content provided by a device. A function provided by a network service is determined based on the first data. In some embodiments, techniques include forming a data structure that associates each function of a plurality of functions provided by a plurality of network services with at least one identifier for a concept. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108556 | HOLIDAY EXPRESSION AND MAPPING IN A GEOSPATIALLY CONSTRAINED SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods of verifying a user of a geospatial social network has a primary residence in a particular location associated with a claimed neighborhood using a processor and a memory. The user verified in the geospatial social network as having the primary residence at the particular location is permitted to place a holiday pushpin on a geospatial representation of a property boundary associated with the user. The method generates a holiday map in which various homes associated with users of the geospatial social network who have placed holiday pushpins on their property boundaries are published to other verified users in the claimed neighborhood. The method restricts the visibility of the holiday map to users who have verified their address in the claimed neighborhood and denies access to the holiday map to users who have verified their addresses in neighborhoods different than the claimed neighborhood. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115052 | GENERATING MEANINGFUL NAMES FOR CONTENT USING CONTEXTUAL AND IDENTIFYING INFORMATION - A system can configure a peripheral device to name data using a structured name that is derived from certain contextual information. During operation, the system can detect a presence of the peripheral device, and can send a data request to the peripheral device. The data request can indicate what type of data is to be collected by the peripheral device, as well as contextual information from the local device. The system then receives a content item from the peripheral device, such that the content item includes a structured name derived from the contextual information. The system can store the content item based on the structured name. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115053 | METHOD OF FINDING MEMBERS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK - The invention relates to a method of finding members of the social media network having common interests and may find use in such social media as common interests, location, profession, age, rank, player skill, etc. The novelty of the method is that for the users the level of mutual interest is evaluated on a scale of 1 to 10, and the users are not exposed to each other and are not aware of the existence of each other until their interests coincide to a predetermined degree and they both agree to be exposed. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115054 | IDENTIFYING SHARED CONTENT STORED BY A SERVICE - Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing an updated list of public content items to a search engine. A system is configured to determine whether a sharing property of a content item stored by a first service has been altered, wherein the sharing property indicates whether the content item is available to a different set of users, update a list of content items if the sharing property has been altered, and provide the updated list of content items to a second service. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115055 | Co-relating Visual Content with Geo-location Data - The present disclosure comprises systems and methods for determining and co-relating geo-location information or data with visual content, for example one or more photographs in a stream of visual media, when a user captures the visual content to share it with others, either for personal or business purposes (for example, with friends to accompany a review or rating of a particular business, or the like). The systems and methods upon determining that visual content is captured, determine the location of the mobile device used to capture the visual content, map the location using geo-location-mapping resources, and co-relate the location data with the visual content before transmitting the visual content as directed by the user. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115056 | BOOK THINNING - A system is configured to generate renditions of an electronic book. Different renditions of the electronic book contain the same collection of assets with at least one asset being a different quality. When the electronic book is requested by a client device, links to different renditions of the electronic book are provided. The client device can select a link and a rendition of the electronic book can be delivered to the client device. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115057 | Reservation System and Method - A reservation system for travel, accommodation, venue ticketing and other purposes may be accessed on-line, for example via a social networking website. A user enters their social networking identification into the reservation system, which is stored for future use. When a subsequent user makes a reservation, they also enter their social networking ID and the system retrieves a list of associated parties from the social networking website, which may be a friends or contacts list, and searches for reservations made by any of those parties which have an overlapping criterion, such as date and destination. It then sends the subsequent user the social networking ID of the overlapping party. The overlap may be used to identify parties who will be at the same destination at the same time as the subsequent user, and/or are travelling on the same flight or journey. The list of associated parties may also be used to identify parties who are listing as living at the destination to which the subsequent user is travelling and those parties social networking IDs may be sent to the subsequent user. On check-in, the system may use the list of associated parties to notify the party checking-in that one of their friends or contacts has also check-in. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115058 | WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK (WWAN) ASSISTED PROXIMITY WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) CONNECTION AND OFFLOADING - A system and method for wireless wide area network (WWAN) assisted proximity wireless local area network (WLAN) peer-to-peer (P2P) connection and offloading is disclosed. The method includes the operation of identifying a first wireless device and a second wireless device between which a WLAN P2P connection is desired. Each wireless device can have a WWAN radio and a WLAN radio. WLAN information can be sent for at least one of the first and second wireless devices via the WWAN to a P2P configuration server. A WLAN P2P configuration can be received from the P2P configuration server at the first and second wireless devices via the WWAN for WLAN P2P communication between the first and second wireless devices. A WLAN P2P connection can be set up between the first and second wireless devices using the WLAN P2P configuration. The first and the second wireless devices can communicate using the WLAN P2P connection. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115059 | BRIDGING PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES - Examples of systems and methods for bridging virtual and physical spaces are described. In some of these examples, a particular communicant's real world state drives changes in one or more of the communications connections, virtual state, and communications interface of the particular communicant or another communicant. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115060 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INTERACTIVE SERVICE - A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes sending a discovery message to a second screen application running in a second device, wherein the discovery message advertises second screen support services that the first device can provide, receiving a request for descriptions of the second screen support services from the second screen application, sending a response with the descriptions to the second screen application, providing a HTTP proxy server using a HTTP proxy server service allowing the second device to access files that are received by the first device in a broadcast stream, wherein the HTTP proxy server service is one of the second screen support services, receiving the files from the broadcast stream and delivering the files to the second device via the HTTP proxy server. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115061 | SOCIAL DISCOVERY OF USER ACTIVITY FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may enable user activity information to be automatically generated and shared with other users of a social network. In one example, a method of automatically publishing, to one or more social network services, information about user activities regarding media content items includes receiving user activity information regarding a media content item, wherein a user is a member of one or more social network services, and the user activity information is generated in response to one or more activities taken by the user with respect to the media content item. The method may also include receiving an indication of one or more users of the one or more social network services to whom the user activity information is to be made accessible, and automatically publishing the user activity information to the one or more social network services. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115062 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MEDIA DATA BASED ON OTT - A method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting media data based on OTT are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by an OTT server, a media data request initiated by a user terminal, where the OTT server is connected to at least one cache server; determining, by the OTT server, a cache server from the at least one cache server according to a location and/or a capability of the at least one cache server; sending, by the OTT server, a notification message, which carries session information, to the user terminal and the determined cache server, so that the determined cache server receives a media data request, which carries session information, from the user terminal, and sends corresponding media data to the user terminal. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115063 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Asset Sharing Among Hierarchically Interconnected Objects - In some embodiments, a parent object may share its assets with its descendent(s) in a hierarchical asset sharing model. The hierarchical asset sharing model may specify a plurality of asset sharing modes. In a first mode, an asset of the parent is imposed on a child. The child is able to utilize the asset, but unable to modify or delete the asset. In a second mode, the child is able to utilize the asset and a copy of the asset is generated when the child attempts to modify the asset. The child can modify the copy of the asset, which is stored as an asset only of the child. The original asset is no longer shared becomes an asset only of the parent. In a third mode, both the parent and the child can utilize and modify the asset. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122584 | SOFT POSTING TO SOCIAL ACTIVITY STREAMS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a soft post authored by a user, the soft post including a content item and having a distribution associated therewith, the distribution including a selected group of users that are socially connected to the user, determining an interest level with respect to a content item of the soft post based on content items submitted by one or more users of the selected group of users, the interest level reflecting a likelihood that users of the selected group of users would be interested in the viewing the soft post, comparing the interest level to an interest level threshold associated with the soft post, and selectively providing user access to the content item of the soft post based on the comparing. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122585 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTACT IMPORTING USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Techniques to allow a social networking system to import contact information from an external system. In one embodiment, a QR code is provided to a non-mobile computing device to allow a log in to an external system by a user using a mobile computing device. Information from the external system is received after authentication of the user with the external system. The information includes address book information of the user. The address book information includes contact information maintained by the external system. Invitations are provided to a selection of the new contacts to join the social network of the user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122586 | DETERMINATION OF LATENT INTERACTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method including processing social network data to establish a tensor model of the social network data, the tensor model having at least an order of four. The tensor model is decomposed into a plurality of principal factors. A summary tensor is synthesized from a subset of the plurality of principal factors. The summary tensor represents a plurality of relationships among a plurality of entities in the tensor model. A synthesis of relationships is formed and stored. At least one parameter is identified using one of the summary tensor and a single principal factor in the subset. The at least one parameter is selected from the group consisting of: a correlation among the plurality of entities, a similarity between two of the plurality of entities, and a time-based trend of changes in the synthesis of relationships. The at least one parameter is communicated. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATING NOTIFICATIONS - System and methods of gating notifications for content objects of an electronic learning platform are described herein. The notification may be conditioned on whether the content object is available to a user receiving the notification, or the state of the content object, for example. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122588 | Automatic Notification of Audience Boredom during Meetings and Conferences - During a conference, a multipoint control unit (MCU) designates speaker and audience endpoints. The MCU receives votes from peripheral devices at the audience endpoints. The votes are aggregated and compared against a threshold by the MCU, and the MCU sends a notification or indication to the speaker endpoints if the threshold is exceeded. The votes have a lifespan over which they are valid. The votes may be weighted when there are targeted and non-targeted audience participants. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122589 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING CONTROL OF MEDIA PLAYBACK BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system and method for transferring control of media playback between electronic devices. Playback of media content is initiating at a source device and peer-to-peer device pairing is established with a destination device. Media content from the source device is streamed to the destination device and a determination of whether to transfer media playback control to the destination device is made based on characteristics of the media content. The control of media playback may be transferred to the destination device based on the destination device having a local copy of the streaming media content, a playlist with similar characteristics to the streaming media content, a local media content having similar characteristics to the streaming media content, or a local playlist similar to the playlist from the source device. The peer-to-peer device pairing is terminated when media playback control is transferred, thereby preserving battery and processing power to the source device. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122590 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SELECTING A PLAYHEAD IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYBACK - Methods and systems for generating media item recommendations are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include using at least a processor and memory for receiving candidate media items associated with one or more computing devices that either has recently played or is currently playing a media item currently being played by another computing device. The method may also include determining recommendation scores for the candidate media items based on occurrence counts of the media items within a predetermined time period. Further, the method may include generating a media item recommendation for the other computing device based on the recommendation scores. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122591 | CONTENT SHARING WITH LIMITED CLOUD STORAGE - Apparatus and methods for sharing electronically rendered information between a plurality of devices over a data communications network with limited used of network data storage is described. Content may be shared automatically between members of a share group, without interactive content-sharing operations being executed by users. The embodiments include content tagging, commenting, searching, and syncing of content. Action metadata messages, that are not viewed by a user of a device, may be sent separately from content portions to notify share-group members of content to be shared. Sharing of content can be accomplished via peer-to-peer links as well as intermediary links, which may execute concurrently. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122592 | IDENTIFYING CONTENT ITEMS FOR INCLUSION IN A SHARED COLLECTION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing pooled collections of content items, such as photos, in a content management system. An example system can first receive, from a first user device, images uploaded to a first account at a synchronized online content management system, and cluster at least some of the images as a collection. The system can receive, from the first user, a request to share the collection with a second user having a second account at the content management system, and generate, in response to the request, a pooled collection at the content management system from the collection. The system can transmit an invitation to the second user to join the pooled collection, and, upon acceptance, link the pooled collection to the second user account so that the first user and the second user have access to images in the persistent pooled collection and have permission to contribute content to the pooled collection. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122593 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATING A SHARED RADIO STATION - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing enhanced user interfaces and functionalities for internet radio applications are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device linked to a first user account may receive a request to share an internet radio station with a second user account, and the internet radio station may be defined based on one or more parameters associated with the first user account. Subsequently, based on modification of the one or more parameters, the internet radio station may be dynamically updated for the second user account. In some instances, the one or more parameters associated with the first user account may include information specifying one or more seed songs. In some additional instances, these parameters further may include one or more liked songs, one or more disliked songs, and one or more skipped songs. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING USER SATISFACTION WITH SERVICES PROVIDED IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A processing platform comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to identify particular metrics that influence user satisfaction with communication services provided by a communication network, and to generate at least one model that relates the identified metrics to user satisfaction scores. The processing platform may be further configured to generate at least one user satisfaction score for a plurality of users of the communication services given specified values of the identified metrics for only a subset of those users. For example, separate user satisfaction scores may be generated for respective ones of the users. Additionally or alternatively, a single per-segment user satisfaction score may be generated for each of one or more segments of multiple users. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122595 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE CONTENT INFRASTRUCTURE - The system of the present invention provides an E-learning platform that enables one or more student users to access teaching content that is in part user defined, from a variety of network-connected devices. In one aspect of the invention, the teaching content is user defined in that it is in part A) teacher generated or teacher assembled, and in part (B) student generated or student directed, as further explained below. A system, method and computer program is provided for creating content and dynamically updating content is provided based on meta data extracted from semantic analysis of content and of electronic social interactions among users and between users and content. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING N-SCREEN SERVICE BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING - An apparatus and method for providing an N-screen service based on cloud computing. The existing SONF incurs load and costs when discovering, generating and maintaining services. Meanwhile, the apparatus and method provided herein enable to reduce the costs by using cloud computing capabilities, and also to provide more various services, thereby enhancing a user's service satisfaction. By using the apparatus and method, it is possible to serve an alternative to an N-screen service platform architecture, and by further adopting service capabilities of ITU-T and future network features, it is possible to improve service performances and satisfaction. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122597 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ORGANIZING VIRTUAL MEETINGS - A method for organizing a virtual meeting includes steps of creating a meeting file, the meeting file including at least a meeting date, a meeting start time, a meeting duration time, and a meeting code. The meeting file is stored on a memory accessible to the network, and at least one attendee is specified. A step of communicating a meeting invitation to the at least one attendee is also performed, with the invitation including at least the meeting date, meeting start time, meeting code, and a meeting entry portal. Methods and systems of the invention may be embodied in computers and computer program products. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122598 | PEER-TO-PEER BASED MESSAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD FOR NETWORK SYSTEM AND NETWORK SYSTEM THEREOF - A peer-to-peer based message transmitting method for a network system includes a plurality of clients and a management device. The method includes receiving a first message by the management device; adding information to the first message which is related to a plurality of target clients corresponding to the first message by the management device, in order to generate a second message; and transmitting the second message to the plurality of target clients by the management device. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122599 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The present invention includes connecting the host terminal and the mobile terminal to each other by wireless, transmitting an attendance request signal including an information on a conference start time to the mobile terminal from the host terminal, and transmitting saved virtual conference materials to the mobile terminal from the host terminal before the conference start time. Accordingly, virtual conference materials can be shared between mobile terminals participating in a virtual conference in advance of a conference time. And, in sharing virtual conference materials between mobile terminals participating in a virtual conference, if the virtual conference materials are modified or memos are inputted, the synchronized virtual conference materials can be shared. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122600 | CONFERENCE SERVER IN A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CONFERENCE SERVICE IN RTCWEB - Disclosed is a conference server included in a system for providing a conference service in RTCWeb, where the system includes a first terminal that operates as a moderator of the conference service and a second terminal that operates as a participant of the conference service. The conference server includes a focus that performs communication between the first terminal and the second terminal; the first terminal includes a conference control server/client that controls a generating of the conference, an adding/removing of the second terminal to/from the conference service, and a changing of a moderator, and manages information of the second terminal; and the second terminal includes a conference control client that acquires information of the conference service and controls a participation/departure in/from the conference service. The focus of the conference server communicates with the conference control server/client of the first terminal to resolve a request of the second terminal. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122601 | API TRANSLATOR FOR PROVIDING A UNIFORM INTERFACE FOR USERS USING A VARIETY OF MEDIA PLAYERS - Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for delivering and displaying reconfigured media inputs with uniform and standardized user interfaces and functionality across different video players. One embodiment is directed to a method of interfacing with a plurality of video players comprising receiving a first media input associated with a first video player from a first content delivery network of a plurality of content delivery networks. The method further comprises receiving a reconfigured media input from a reconfigured media provider computer and loading the first video player on the user computer. A master platform may then generate a request for a time indicator, translate the request for the time indicator using first translation instructions associated with the first video player, send the translated request for the time indicator to the first video player, receive the time indicator, and perform one or more actions based on the received time indicator. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122602 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING A MEETING BETWEEN TWO OR MORE MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A computer-implemented method for facilitating a meeting between members of a social network, the method including the steps of receiving from a first member of the social network a selection of a future location of the first member from a first database; receiving from the first member a date and time when the first member will be at the future location; and broadcasting the future location together with the date and time when the first member will be at the future location to at least one member who is connected to the first member via the social network. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ESTABLISHING AND MEASURING TRUST RELATIONSHIPS IN A COMMUNITY OF ONLINE USERS - Systems and methods for establishing and measuring trust relationships in a community of online users. In the systems and methods, indications of the trustworthiness of members of an online community, and/or other resources within or outside of the online community, can be obtained that are dependent not only upon the perceived trustworthiness of the respective online community members and/or other resources themselves, but also the perceived trustworthiness of others within the online community who have deemed those respective online community members and/or other resources as being trustworthy. Such indications of the trustworthiness of online community members and/or other resources are measurements that can be strengthened as the trustworthiness of others within the online community with whom trust relationships have been established increases. In this way, the usefulness of such indications of the trustworthiness of online community members and/or other resources can be enhanced. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122604 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA - To provide a technique to estimate a location relating to a user who has not filled in information about the location in a profile field in social media such as a microblog. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTACT GROUP MEMBER SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs for identifying, using historical interactions associated with a first user, contact groups, where the first user is associated with each contact group, are provided. A score, with respect to a second user, is calculated for each contact group based on an amount of interaction between the second user and the respective contact group, thereby deriving a plurality of scores. A first contact group is determined. The first contact group has a first score in the plurality of scores that satisfies a predetermined threshold. A contact group suggestion is generated, responsive to the determining, that comprises an invitation to add the second user to the first contact group. The first user is notified of the contact group suggestion. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which may accurately deliver information which is assigned to a part of content by a user. In a content reproducing screen, segment information assigned to designate a segment having a duration of time of a part of the content by the user is displayed in accordance with a position of the segment in the content. Further, information indicating a segment designated for the reproduced content by the user and the segment assignment information which is assigned to the designated segment are acquired. The present technology is applied, for example, to a system which performs a content delivery service. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122607 | Method and Radio Base Station in a Cellular Communications Network for Device-to-Device Communications - A method in a radio base station for establishing user equipment candidates for a wireless direct device to device connection is provided. The radio base station is comprised in a wireless communication network. The radio base station detects ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140122608 | RESOURCE SHARING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a resource sharing method and device, and a storage medium. The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention is applied to use a relationship chain to perform authentication control. When a resource download link is generated, corresponding relationship chain information is added into the link, and the resource download link is recorded and sent by a sharing server. When a user needs to perform downloading according to the received resource download link, authentication is performed on the user according to the relationship chain information. Only users who have the friendly relationship corresponding to the relationship chain are permitted to download specific contents, thereby introducing a controlled resource sharing mechanism in the existing download platform system, controlling contents to be legally and orderly spread, and at the same time enabling the resource spreading process to be traced. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122609 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a service providing system which provides communication among a plurality of users, an acquaintance is registered as a communication target user without using text-based information about the acquaintance. A user information storage unit ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140122610 | Processing Method for Multiple Services and Browser - Embodiments of the present invention provide a processing method for multiple services and a browser. One method includes: receiving, by a browser, Intent data transmitted by an Intent client, and receiving Intent service identifiers of more than one Intent service processing the Intent data; successively making, by the browser, according to an execution sequence of the Intent services which is determined by the received Intent service identifiers, all the Intent services corresponding to the received Intent service identifiers process the Intent data transmitted by the browser, and transmitting, to a next Intent service, Intent data returned by a current Intent service until a last Intent service ends processing; and returning, by the browser, a processing result of the last Intent service to the Intent client. The embodiments of the present invention can enable a user to continuously use multiple Intent services at one time. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING LOCATION BASED SERVICE - A method for providing a social network service using location information is provided. The method includes receiving at least one content, when the content includes at least one location information, extracting the at least one location information from the content, and providing the social network service using the extracted at least one location information. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129625 | Adjusting Content Delivery Based On User Submissions - Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for adjusting content delivery based on user submissions. The method includes analyzing user submissions comprising photographs, the analyzing comprising: for each of the user submissions: identifying a time the user submission occurred; identifying objects represented in the photograph; determining a subject matter of the user submission based at least in part on the objects; determining a geographic location associated with the subject matter of the user submission; determining clusters of the user submissions, each user submission in a particular cluster being similar to each other user submission in the particular cluster based on the times the user submissions occurred, the subject matters of the user submissions, and the geographic locations associated with the user submissions; and adjusting content delivery to members of a network based on the determination of one or more of the clusters. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING ELECTRONIC GROUPS - Methods, computer readable media, and electronic devices are provided for forming an electronic group by determining that a plurality of electronic devices satisfy at least one proximity criterion; determining a plurality of candidate members for the electronic group according to contact list information for at least one of the plurality of electronic devices; and forming the electronic group from the plurality of candidate members. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129627 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING IMAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques to share images in a social networking system. In an embodiment, an image is received from a first user, the image is associated with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system, and the image is associated with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without the social networking system receiving a request from the second user to download the image. The image may be received from a mobile device. The image may be captured by a camera of a mobile device. The image may be automatically uploaded from a mobile device. A request may be received from the second user to include the image in the second archive associated with the second user. Associating the image with the second archive of the second user may comprise including a link to the image in the second archive. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129628 | SECURE LOCATION IDENTIFICATION SERVICE - A first server may: receive, from a second server, a request for location information associated with a first user device having a first identifier and a second identifier, or a request for information to identify one or more second user devices located in a particular geographic area; determine the second identifier based on information stored by the first server mapping the second identifier to the first identifier; provide, to the third server, the second identifier to request the location information associated with the second identifier; receive the location information associated with the second identifier; and provide, to the second server, the location information associated with the user device based on receiving the location information. The first server may provide information regarding the geographic area to the third server to receive the information identifying the one or more user devices in the geographic area. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129629 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SHARING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Device, system, and method of sharing social network information. A method of sharing social information includes: obtaining from a social network social information of passengers associated with a flight; and presenting the social information to a prospective passenger of said flight. The obtaining includes obtaining from the social network in bulk social information of at least two passengers associated with a flight, by sending a query which includes an identifier of said flight, and which excludes any identifier of any passenger on said flight. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT - A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of operating commands for controlling a first presentation of media content by a first media processor device at a first display device to generate a first viewing experience and transmitting the playback file to a second media processor device via a first network, where a second presentation of the media content by the second media processor device at a second display device according to the plurality of operating commands of the playback file recreates the first viewing experience at the second display device and where the first and second media processor devices are members of the first network based upon common membership in a social media network by a first subscriber associated with the first media processor device and a second subscriber associated with the second media processor device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129631 | SKILLS ENDORSEMENTS - Disclosed in some examples is a method comprising determining a first set of high ranking skills, the first set containing skills possessed by a member of the social networking service based upon the member's user profile; determining a second set of high ranking skills, the second set containing skills for a second member of the social networking service based on the second member's user profile; determining a third set of high ranking skills, the third set being the intersection between the first and second set of high ranking skills; and suggesting one or more of the skills in the third set of high ranking skills to the member for endorsement of the second member with respect to that skill. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129632 | Apparatus and Method for Social Account Access Control - A computer implemented method includes monitoring changes to an account accessible by a group of subscribers that form a social network. The changes to the account are compared to a normative base line to identify deviations from the normative base line. An alert is sent in response to deviations from the normative base line. The normative base line is defined by metadata gathered through an application program interface associated with the account, account entity data and a set of predefined rules. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129633 | INTERACTION SYSTEM AND INVESTIGATION METHOD - An interaction system includes a primary interaction device, for receiving a digital stream content and action information and combining the action information, content information of the digital stream content corresponding to the action information and device information to generate combination information. The interaction system also includes a secondary interaction device, for receiving interaction information of an interactive network service and performing an action of the interactive network service to generate the action information; and a server module, which includes a data base; a playing server, for generating the digital stream content; and a data managing server, for receiving the combination information to transfer the action information to the interactive network service, and storing the combination information and the interaction information in the data base. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129634 | SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS - There is provided a social media-based content recommendation apparatus including: an information collection unit configured to search one or more social media sites on the basis of received social media profile information to collect social medial information about content and deliver the social media information, an information analysis unit configured to extract one or more representative words according to an appearance frequency on the basis of the delivered social media information, determine whether a meaning of each of the extracted representative words is positive or negative, and generate and deliver content analysis information including the determination result; and a content recommendation unit configured to select recommendable content on the basis of the delivered content analysis information and deliver information about the selected recommendable content. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129635 | LOW LATENCY CLUSTER COMPUTING - An embodiment includes a low-latency mechanism for performing a checkpoint on a distributed application. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention includes processing a first application on a compute node, which is included in a cluster, to produce first computed data and then storing the first computed data in volatile memory included locally in the compute node; halting the processing of the first application, based on an initiated checkpoint, and storing first state data corresponding to the halted first application in the volatile memory; storing the first state information and the first computed data in non-volatile memory included locally in the compute node; and resuming processing of the halted first application and then continuing the processing the first application to produce second computed data while simultaneously pulling the first state information and the first computed data from the non-volatile memory to an input/output (IO) node. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING SOCIAL NETWORK ELEMENTS - A visualizing apparatus of social network elements collects social network relationship information, community information, and content information of a user, generates relationship data between the user, the contents, and the community using the collected information, and visualizes an association relationship between the user, the contents, and the community using the relationship data between the user, the contents, and the community. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129637 | Methods and System for Sharing Gadgets Between Users - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates sharing gadgets. The system allows a sender to specify a gadget to share with a recipient and how a set of configuration parameters are to be shared with the recipient. The system further receives an identifier for the recipient. The system also communicates the gadget to the recipient, thereby allowing the recipient to use the gadget in accordance with the configuration parameters. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129638 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a detection unit, and a social network processing unit. The communication unit is configured to connect to a network. The detection unit is configured to detect an operation performed by a user in a real world. The social network processing unit is configured to perform a predetermined process on a social network service based on the detection results obtained from the detection unit via the communication unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129639 | COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Systems, configurations, and methods of managing collaboration of content are disclosed. A content collaboration system can be configured to manage collaborating subject matter within one or more activity streams. A user can create a new collaboration object associated with particular content using the content collaboration system. The content collaboration system is configured to format data related to the collaboration object according to the different activity stream formats and to insert the formatted data into the one or more activity streams. Other users are allowed to collaborate around the particular content on the different activity streams. The content collaboration system is configured to update the collaboration object according to the collaboration on the different activity streams. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129640 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER- READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content processing device accumulates, at every predetermined time period, social information that defines the relationship and the degree of intimacy between users calculated based on lifelog information between the users; determines a time period when a content was generated, out of the predetermined time periods, from meta-information of the content; determines an evaluation time period from the determined time period; calculates a degree of intimacy between shared users during the evaluation time period; determines the priority of the evaluation time period according to the magnitude of the degree of intimacy; and controls output of the content generated during the evaluation time period according to the determined priority. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129641 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A disclosed transmission management system includes a receiver unit to receive alteration information for altering a communication status of a first transmission terminal from the first transmission terminal that communicates with a second transmission terminal to exchange content data, a terminal management unit to manage first status information indicating the communication status of the first transmission terminal, an acquisition unit to acquire the first status information from the terminal management unit in a case where the receiver unit receives the alteration information for altering the communication status of the first transmission terminal, and an alteration unit to alter the first status information managed by the terminal management unit, based on the alteration information for altering the communication status of the first transmission terminal received by the receiver unit and the first status information acquired by the acquisition unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136612 | PROVIDING SOCIAL CONTEXT TO CALENDAR EVENTS - A mobile communication device includes an application program interface and a computer processor configured with a calendar application and calendar database. The computer processor and/or application programming interface are configured to identify an event in the calendar database that is associated with a first person, and transmit a request to a social network server and/or a business network server. The request includes an identification of the first person and a user of the mobile communication device. The computer processor and/or application programming interface is further configured to receive from the social network server and/or the business network server information relating to the first person and the user of the mobile communication device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136613 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING A MEMBER PROFILE WITH A DOCUMENT READING HISTORY - Disclosed in some examples is a method of providing a bookmarking service on a social networking service, the method including receiving, over a network, an indication that a member of the social networking service interacted with an item of content; associating the item of content with a skill using a computer processor; and storing an indication in a storage device that the member interacted with the item of content and the skill associated with the item of content. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136614 | UNDO CAPABILITY FOR REMOTELY SUBMITTED USER-AUTHORED CONTENT - A user can author content, and submit such content to be posted within a social networking context, from an external service such that the user can undo the posting of such content without such content ever having been posted in the social networking context. Additionally, once such user-authored content is posted in the social networking context, the user is provided with a single action that can remove all relevant manifestations of such content. The submission of user-authored content, to a social networking service, from an external service is delayed while, simultaneously, such external service presents the user with an interface indicating that such user-authored content has already been submitted to the social networking service and posted thereon. Should the user select to undo the posting of such content prior to the expiration of the delay, the submission can simply never be performed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136615 | ADDRESS BOOK FOR BUSINESSES - A computer device may include logic configured to receive an indication from a user device that a user, associated with the user device, has added a business to an address book associated with the user device and include the business in the address book associated with the user device. The logic may further be configured to receive an update from a business device associated with the business; identify that the business is included in the address book associated with the user device; and send the update to the user device in response to receiving the update and based on identifying that the business is included in the address book associated with the user device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136616 | INTEGRATED PERSONALIZED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The integrated personalized content recommendation and management system aggregates content across multiple third-party websites and applications to be presented to said user based to generate personalized content recommendations. The system utilizes a unique profile associated with a particular user to generate the personalized content recommendations, and additionally, the system may seamlessly propagate the user's profile across multiple third-party websites and applications, and build social instructions based on the user's profile. The integrated personalization content recommendation and management system and method may provide an online recommendation and social networking service that delivers to users personalized content, social and/or product recommendations derived from participating electronic mediums (e.g. web sites, applications and mobile devices). The personalized content or product inventory may be derived from participating consumer or commercial web sites and web and mobile based applications | 05-15-2014 |
20140136617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ONE-WAY ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION - In an embodiment, a method of a one-way anonymous communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a first user via a first user interface to communicate one-way anonymously with a second user, and using a processor, relaying a one-way anonymous message from the first user to be received by the second user via a second user interface, wherein the one-way anonymous message discloses a second user identification to the first user while withholding a first user identification from the second user. In the embodiment, the first user and the second user are each members of the same online social network, and the first user and the second user have a contact request connection, and the contact request connection was formed by acceptance of a contact request between the first user's contact group and the second user's contact group. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136618 | METHOD, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIA FOR SEARCHING TARGET CLIENTS - A method for searching target clients, applied to a mobile device coupled to a network, is provided. A target position and a target time are generated by a positioning unit and a time generating unit of the mobile device, respectively. A target clients search message is generated according to keywords input into the mobile device, the target position and the target time and then transmitted to a server coupled to the network through the network. Then a search result transmitted by the server through the network is received. The search result comprises at least one of a target clients amount, a target clients density and a target clients occurrence probability, which are retrieved from at least one social networks data and corresponding to the keywords, the target location and the target time. A map combined with the search result is displayed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT TRIGGERED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - System and computer-based method for automatically distributing information upon the occurrence of predefined events is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a tool that provides an intuitive interface that allows users to easily create content to be stored and delivered to a recipient upon the occurrence of a predefined event related to the location of the recipient. Location data may be retrieved from the recipient's mobile device, or social media websites. The system provides a valuable location-based information delivery system that allows for shared experience capability across time. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136620 | PROTOCOL CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A protocol conversion apparatus includes: a message filter unit for acquiring a unique type identifier by comparing an input message based on a first protocol to a message mask stored in a mask storage unit, and acquiring a message parameter by filtering the input message through the message mask; and a message generation unit for extracting a message template corresponding to the unique type identifier from a template storage unit, and generating an output message based on a second protocol by synthesizing the message parameter and the message template. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136621 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF GENRE-SPECIFIC RELEVANCE OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention relates to an operating method of operating a recommender system, a filtering apparatus ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140136622 | Automatic Wireless Device Data Maintenance - A computer-implemented method includes downloading data elements from a wireless device. The method includes determining whether a user account exists in storage and determining whether the user account currently has stored data elements of the same type as the downloaded data elements associated therewith. The method further includes comparing the downloaded data elements to the stored data elements. This method also includes storing any downloaded data elements not currently existing in the data elements associated with the user account and not in conflict with data elements associated with the user account. The method further includes resolving conflicts between downloaded data elements and currently existing data elements, to establish which of the conflicting elements is representative of a proper version of the element. Finally, the method includes storing the proper version of the element resulting from each conflict resolution. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136623 | REMOTE ACCESS TO A CUSTOMER HOME NETWORK - A wireless application server may receive, from a wireless device, information identifying an application residing on a network device in a home network. The wireless application server may further cause a connection to be established to the application and transfer traffic between the application and the wireless device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136624 | SMART LISTS IN A GEO-SPATIAL SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system of forming smart lists in a geo-spatial social network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of organizing a community network includes obtaining member data associated with a first member of the community network, determining a first location associated with the first member based on the member data, storing the member data in a member repository, determining a first number of connections associated with the first member, and obtaining a first region of influence for the first member based on the first location and the first number of connections. The method may further include displaying the first region of influence on a geo-spatial map. The method may also include bounding the first region of influence based on a connectedness of the first member in the first region of influence. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136625 | Displaying News Ticker Content in a Social Networking System - A social networking system displays raw stories about a user's friends' actions in a news ticker as those actions occur. The social networking system is monitored for actions associated with users connected with the target user. The social networking system may be continually monitored such that actions are identified in real-time as they are performed. The news ticker is updated such that stories including the identified actions and the associated connected users are displayed within a news ticker interface. The news ticker interface may be a dedicated portion of the social networking system interface, for example in a column next to a newsfeed. The news ticker interface may be updated in real time as actions associated with connected users are performed. The target user may select a displayed story in the news ticker, and additional information related to the selected story may be displayed, for instance in a separate interface. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143322 | CENTRAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network device is configured to send information identifying a frequency at which an application, downloaded on a user device, is to send geographic location information to the network device. The network device is configured further to receive personal information associated with a plurality of social networking applications from the application on the user device. The network device is configured further to receive the geographic location information from the application; and send the personal information and the geographic location information to a plurality of social networking servers associated with a plurality of social networking applications. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143323 | USER CHARACTERISTICS-BASED SPONSORED COMPANY POSTINGS - A system may include a network interface, a user interface, and a recommendation engine. The user interface may be configured to receive a company characteristic of a company profile of a company posted to the social network and a company bid from an entity related to company to the social network. The recommendation engine may be configured to determine an aggregate company score for the user based on a relevance of the company characteristic to a user characteristic and the company bid. The network interface may be configured to transmit a message related to the company to the user based, at least in part, on the aggregate company score. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143324 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS IN A NEWSFEED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143325 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143326 | Authenticating a Persona in a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the person is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143327 | Authenticating a Persona in a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the person is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT TRIGGERED UPDATES BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES - A context-based method, a server implementing a group management function, and a mobile device predicate content delivery between mobile devices based on context. The context can include sensed events at one mobile device such as, without limitation, motion, prone positions, stress, injury, and the like. The context triggered update systems and methods can operate between two mobile devices where a determination of the context on a first mobile device formulates an update to a second mobile device with the update presented to the second mobile device based on the context. That is, the context from the first mobile device is used to formulate an update and an optimal delivery method to the second mobile device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143329 | DISCOVERING SIGNATURE OF ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and computer program products may rank one user's connections in an electronic social network. The computer system may include a processor and a memory. The computer system may additionally include a program comprising a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to identify one user's connections with other users in an electronic social network, and analyze a plurality of data sources for electronic communications between the one user and the other users. The program may additionally include a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to calculate for each of the other users the probability that the one user will communicate with that other user based on the analyzed plurality of data sources, and rank the one user's connections with the other users based on the calculated probabilities. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143330 | Integrated Long Term Evolution Social Media Messaging - A network device may detect a social media communication associated with a mobile device. The network device may analyze the communication along with a user profile associated with the mobile device to create an enhanced user profile. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for providing domain name suggestions based on user preferences and terms extracted from one or more information sources. Terms may be continuously extracted from information sources and used to generate domain name suggestions. Generated domain name suggestions may then be delivered to customers. The systems and methods may utilize customer preferences in providing the domain name suggestions, such as preferences as to information sources or topics of interest. The systems and methods may be self-learning, taking historical domain name registration information into account to improve the domain name suggestions. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143332 | DISCOVERING SIGNATURE OF ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods may rank one user's connections in an electronic social network. The method may include identifying, by electronic apparatus, one user's connections with other users in an electronic social network. The method may additionally include analyzing, by electronic apparatus, a plurality of data sources for electronic communications between the one user and the other users. The method may further include calculating, by electronic apparatus, for each of the other users the probability that the one user will communicate with that other user based on the analyzed plurality of data sources. The method may additionally include ranking, by electronic apparatus, the one user's connections with the other users based on the calculated probabilities. In some embodiments, the method may include removing from a graph, by electronic apparatus, one or more of the one user's connections with the other users based on the ranked one user's connections. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SOCIAL DISCOVERY PLATFORM - The present solution provides a new social media platform, referred to as a social discovery application, to discover and share with like minded people, such as people in a user's natural communities. The social discovery application allows a user to express their interests and to find people that have the same interests and think like them. For example, the social discovery application may help a user find people most like them at their school, new job, or a new city. The social discovery application includes lots of fun and easy to play games where users express themselves, their interests, and their preferences. The social discovery application then compares their choices to other users' choices in a fun and visual way, and connects users with new potential friends. The social discovery application provides a user a rank order list of people most like them. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143334 | CONDITIONAL DISCLOSURE OF A RESPONSE TO CONTENT POSTED IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Technologies are generally described for a social networking service (SNS). In some examples, a method performed under control of a server may include receiving a user input associated with the user responding to content posted in an online forum, determining whether a threshold condition set by the user is satisfied for the user's response to be disclosed with regard to a particular piece of content posted in the online forum, and disclosing the user's response to the particular piece of content posted in the online forum when the threshold condition is determined to be satisfied. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143335 | MEDIA CLOUD COPYLESS MESSAGE PASSING - In one embodiment, the method includes adding a unique content identifier to the message to provide unique identification for the message, generating a receiver list having components that are allowed to use the message, and forwarding a buffer pointer to each component of the receiver list for enabling further handling of the message. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143336 | INTERNET ENABLED UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - A Device-Based Control System (DBCS) enables a device-agnostic and source-agnostic entertainment experience through use of an internet-enabled device (IED). The IED includes a media management application for navigating through media or entertainment content, controlling media devices according to a type of media content selected by the user, and sharing media experiences via social networks. The IED includes smartphones, tablet computers, and other internet-enabled processor-based devices. The DBCS leverages the internet access of the IED to enable search and discovery of all available media content. A content recommendation system (CRS) coupled to the media management application learns media preferences from user behavior, generates from numerous disparate media sources media choices corresponding to the media preferences, and presents the media choices on the IED. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED SHORT LINKS AND MONITORING ACTIVITY - A computerized method and system to generate individualized shortened URLs and track user activity is disclosed. A method includes generating an individualized shortened URLs for each of a plurality of recipients, sending communications to each of the plurality of recipients, wherein each of the communications includes the individualized shortened URL, receiving a request from at least one of the plurality of recipients for the individualized shortened URL, and referring the request to a destination URL. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143338 | AUDIO SHARING - One aspect of the disclosure relates to obtaining at least some audio information, at least partially at a shared audio device. The aspect of the disclosure also relates to temporally coordinating transmitting at the shared audio device the at least some audio information and at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information that can be received by at least one other shared audio device such that corresponding segments of the at least some audio information can be received at the at least one other shared audio device substantially temporally corresponding to when corresponding segments of the at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information can be received at the at least one other shared audio device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143339 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE SHARING - Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and systems for resource sharing. In an exemplary method, sharing metadata can be generated based on information of a resource publisher and information of at least one sharing file by a publisher client terminal. The sharing metadata can be sent to a sharing server for the sharing server to generate a sharing link. The sharing link can be published by the sharing server. The sharing metadata can be obtained from the sharing server based on the sharing link corresponding to a requested resource by a downloading client terminal. The at least one sharing file instructed by the obtained sharing metadata can be downloaded by the downloading client terminal. One or multiple files can thus be shared via a single sharing link. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143340 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PAUSING AND RESUMING A MEETING SESSION - Presented are systems and methods for presenting, creating, and pausing a meeting session. The systems and methods create meeting-session data based at least in pan on one or more applications running on one or more devices connected to a meeting session. The systems and methods store muting-session data in a database. The systems and methods pause a meeting session such that the one or more devices are disconnected from the meeting session. The systems and methods resume a meeting session by configuring devices to run at least one of the one or more applications using the meeting-session data and joining configured devices to the resumed meeting session. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A USER OF PEOPLE, PLACES OR THINGS HAVING ATTRIBUTES MATCHING A USER'S STATED PREFERENCE - A location-based and preference-based system and method for matching media content about persons, places and things with the expressed preferences of mobile users to notify users about and provide users with access to media content about persons, places and things that match the user's expressed preferences. The system thus provides information such as stories or articles that match the user's interests and relate to their location. The system may assign ranks to all of the media content that meets that user's preferences wherein, in one embodiment, it will automatically play them in the assigned order. Comparison of the user's preferences with the various profiles of the media content allows the user only to be informed of the media content for those persons, places or things that the user is likely to be interested in. The system and method thus provides for a mobile real-time point of interest exchange network. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143342 | VISIBILITY INSPECTOR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying digital content to an author user, the author user having authored the digital content, receiving user input from the author user, the user input corresponding to the digital content, and, in response to receiving the user input, transmitting first data and second data to the computing device for display to the author user, the first data comprising a number of contacts that are able to access the digital content and the second data indicating one or more relationships between the author user and the contacts. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143343 | BIFURCATED CONFERENCING FUNCTIONS - A source conference function is provided for each source device, and a destination conference function is provided for each destination device. Any given user terminal may act as both a destination device when receiving media content and a source device when sending media content to facilitate bidirectional conferencing. The source device generates media content, which is sent to the associated source conference function. In general, the source conference function identifies destination conference functions to which the media content should be delivered, and delivers the media content to the identified destination conference functions. Any given destination conference function receives the media content from this and other source conference functions. The media content received from all or select of the source conference functions may be processed by the destination conference function as desired, and then mixed together to form destination media content, which is delivered to the destination device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149498 | METHOD AND ARCHITECTURE FOR LOCAL CONTENT SHARING USING DYNAMIC LOCATION MAPPING - A user in a telecommunications network is able to share self-generated content to a list of friends dynamically created according to a location of each friend. The user checks with the network operator to determine whether friends from a list available to a Local Content Service (LCS) are nearby. The LCS utilizes a Location Management Server, Mapping Server and Media Server to manage the list of friends. Registered friends are determined to be in a predetermined radius of the user and the list of friends in the radius is provided to the user. The user selects the friends from the list and uploads the self-generated content to the LCS where a URI is assigned to the content and the URI is forwarded to the selected friends. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149499 | REMOTE REQUEST FULFILLMENT AND DELIVERY - Systems and methods are described for described for providing remote request fulfillment and delivery. A computerized method of sharing and distributing data among computing devices includes receiving at a server a request from a first computing device, wherein the request targets a second computing device and contains information about a data object, retrieving, using the server, at least a portion of the data object from a source of the data object, determining, using the server, attributes of the second computing device, adapting at least a portion of the data object according to the attributes of the second computing device, and notifying the second computing device of an availability of the data object. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149500 | Identifying Unexpected Relationships in a Social Networking System - A social networking system identifies relationships between friends of a target user that are likely to be unexpected to the target user. To identify an unexpected relationship among a user's friends, the social networking system determines a measure of unexpectedness for pairs of connections of the target user and selects pairs of connections for presentation to the user based on the measure of unexpectedness. The measure of unexpectedness of a relationship between a pair of friends is inversely related to a number of connections between each of the pair of friends and the target user. Information describing the pair of unexpected friends may be presented to a target user along with content relating the two friends, such as photos in which both friends are tagged, events attended by the unexpected friends together, or places both unexpected friends checked-in at the same time. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149501 | Efficient Navigation Through Social Networking Content - A social networking system presents an interface to a user for easily navigating through content items. The interface includes a content region and a navigation region. The content region displays content items while the navigation region displays navigation units. Each navigation unit represents one or more content items of the content region and is displayed at a location in the navigation region based on a time associated with a content item represented by the navigation unit and based on a value of a metric. Selecting a navigation unit modifies the content region to display the one or more content items associated with the selected navigation unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149502 | THIRD-PARTY COMMUNICATIONS TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS USING USER DESCRIPTORS - Based on information used by the external system to identify a target user, the external system generates a target user hash identifier that is communicated to the social networking system along with a message. Using information from user profiles maintained by the social networking system, the social networking system generates hash identifiers for its users and compares the target user hash identifier to the generated hash identifiers hash identifiers for social networking system users are generated. The social networking system sends the message to a user associated with a hash identifier generated from user profile information that matches the target user hash identifier. Hence, an external application may communicate with social networking system users without accessing access information about the users maintained by the social networking system. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149503 | DETERMINING INFLUENCE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149504 | DETERMINING OBJECT RELEVANCE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - An influence metric describing the influence of a social networking system object on social networking system users is determined based on affinities between the users and the object. For example, affinities between the associated users and the object are combined to determine the influence metric. Content may be selected for presentation to users based in part on influence metrics of the content. Additionally, influence metrics of objects associated with a user may be combined to determine the relevance of objects associated with the user, which may also be used to select content for presentation to the user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AND SHARING A FILE PRESENTED DURING A MEETING - Systems and method for sharing a file presented during a meeting are described. In some aspects, an operating system of a first client computing device of a presenter in an online meeting is monitored during the online meeting. The first client computing device of the presenter is engaged in screen sharing with a second client computing device of at least one other participant in the online meeting. That one or more files accessible via the operating system are being presented in the online meeting is determined based on the monitoring. The one or more files are provided to a set of users in response to determining that the one or more files are being presented in the online meeting. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149506 | AUTOMATIC POPULATION OF A NETWORK ACCESSIBLE CONTENT COLLECTION - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for automatically posting content to a network accessible content collection are described. User activity over a communication network from a client device is tracked and a triggering event is detected. In response to detecting the triggering event, a content item is automatically posted to a network accessible collection of content items viewable by additional users. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON GEO-LOCATION - Described herein are a system and method for delivering content to a mobile computing device, where the content is selected for presentation to a member of a social network service based on the current geo-location of the member (device) and one or more associations and/or relationships between entities represented in a social graph of the social network service. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to notify a member of a social network service of his or her proximity to another entity that is represented in the social graph of the social network service. In some embodiments, in response to determining that a member is in geographical proximity of a company that has a presence in the social graph of the social network service, a job recommendation/matching engine may cause information to be presented relating to a job listing posted to a job listing service by an authorized representative of the company. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149508 | Managing Web Services Data and Presence Data - Interfacing a wireless device with web services, including social networking web services, is described. For example, a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprises a web service proxy having an API to allow other modules to interface with the web service proxy; a plurality of web services adapters interfaced with the web services proxy through the API, each one of the web services adapters configured to communicate with a particular web service using the specific communication formats for the web service; where the web services adapters and the web services proxy convert between the communication formats employed to communicate with each of the web services and a wireless communication format, the wireless communication format being a different format than the communication formats for each of the web services, thereby enabling bi-directional communication between the wireless device and the plurality of web services. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERCEIVING OUTCAST IN GROUP - Provided is a system and method for perceiving an outcast in a group. The system may include: a plurality of member terminals held, respectively, by a plurality of members conducting an outdoor activity and configured to transmit waves with a radio frequency; and a leader terminal held by a leader of the outdoor activity and configured to receive the waves transmitted from the plurality of member terminals, to sense intensities of the waves, to obtain distances between the plurality of member terminals from the sensed intensities of the waves, to calculate a group distance based on the obtained distances between the member terminals, to sort the plurality of member terminals into at least one subgroup, and to determine an outcast member terminal excluded from the at least one subgroup. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149510 | SOCIAL SHARING SYSTEM - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing recommendations based on social network sharing activity. Sharing activity relating to the sharing of the content item on a social network by a first user is accessed. Consumption information related to the consumption of the content item. A correlation between the sharing activity and the consumption information is determined. A recommendation is then generated based on the correlation. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149511 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL PRESENCE INFORMATION IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - This invention refers to a method for providing presence information in telecommunication systems. It comprises the steps of: classifying the plurality of presence information statuses, generated by a plurality of telecommunication services associated to a user A, in groups depending on the telecommunication service; publishing simultaneously the plurality of presence information statuses of user A on a presence server; and notifying a set of presence information statuses from the plurality of the presence information statuses of user A, to a client of the presence server which is a watcher of user A. Finally the set of presence information statuses, notified by the presence server to the watcher, may be displayed on means adapted for displaying content according to their corresponding relevance, priority and expiration time. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PEER-TO-PEER DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION FROM A COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION SESSION - Methods and systems are provided herein for initiating real-time, peer-to-peer communication from a collaborative session. Real-time, peer-to-peer communication includes sharing content such as media content over a peer-to-peer connection such as peer-to-peer conferencing, for example. More particularly, from within the collaborative session where a plurality of clients collaboratively interact with a remotely-accessed application, for example, the systems and methods enable discovery of the clients actively participating in the collaborative session (e.g., peer nodes) and enable establishment of peer-to-peer connection(s) between pairs of the clients. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING A PROFILE TO A SPARSELY DEFINED REQUEST - A method and system that can include providing a request matching service within a community, receiving a request to match a task request with a first profile of the community, calculating a set of multi-layered composite similarity scores, selecting at least one matched task request according to composite scores, and outputting at least one matched task request of the first profile. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149514 | Indentifying and Providing Physical Social Actions to a Social Networking System - Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156743 | Tagging Content Within a Networking Environment Based Upon Recipients Receiving the Content - A networking environment accessible by a plurality of computing devices is established to facilitate communications between participants associated with the computing devices, where content is generated and shared by participants via the networking environment. An item of content is shared with a group of recipients associated with computing devices via the networking environment, where the shared item of content includes one or more tags associated with the content, and each tag includes an initial weight value associated with the tag. A relevance factor associated with the group is determined, where the relevance factor is based upon information obtained from profiles of recipients from the group, and the initial weight value of each tag associated with the shared item of content is adjusted based at least in part upon the collective relevance factor associated with the group. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156744 | UPDATING FEATURES BASED ON USER ACTIONS IN ONLINE SYSTEMS - Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156745 | DISTRIBUTING USER INFORMATION ACROSS REPLICATED SERVERS - Online systems store information describing a large number of users in order to process requests accessing the user information. The user information is distributed across multiple servers. The distribution is performed so that the information is available even if one or more servers fail. The user information is distributed across a first set of servers and a second copy of the user information is distributed across a second set of servers. The user information from each server of the first set is uniformly distributed across multiple servers from the second set, for example, using random distribution, round robin strategy, or any other strategy that uniformly distributes the information across a given set of processors. Requests previously directed to a failed server are redistributed across multiple servers thereby load balancing the processing of these requests. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156746 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SOCIAL FACILITATOR SERVICE - Systems and methods for providing social event recommendations to a user are provided. In particular, a user may be presented with recommendations for social events based on the user's interests, geographic location, or any other suitable constraints. A social event recommendation engine may additionally suggest friends, from the user's social network, that the user may wish to invite along to a recommended social event. The user may also be presented advertisements with the social event recommendations. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156747 | OBTAINING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER ACTIONS FROM VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS ENCODING ACTION CHARACTERISTICS - A user of a social networking system performs an action with a device associated with a terminal, and based on the action, the terminal displays a visual representation of machine-readable code (e.g., a QR code) that encodes information about the action or a link to a source for obtaining such information. The user captures the machine-readable code with a mobile device, and an application on the device obtains the information describing the action from the machine-readable, associates the information with the user's identifier and communicates the information and user identifier to the social networking system. Using the information describing the action, the social networking system may then publish an action, add to the user's user profile, and/or perform other tasks based on the received information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156748 | COMPUTERIZED COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA MODERATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Computerized community-based social media moderation systems and methods. A method includes selecting, using instructions executed by a processor, a plurality of juror computing devices, outputting the social media post to the plurality of juror computing devices for review of the social media post in light of the standard of the online community, and receiving inputs regarding the social media post from the plurality of juror computing devices. If the inputs regarding the social media post from the plurality of juror computing devices meet a predetermined condition, the outputting of the social media post to the plurality of social media user computing devices belonging to the online community is disabled. The selecting of the plurality of juror computing devices is performed according to a randomizing operation. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156749 | SELECTION OF REGION-SPECIFIC BRAND PAGES BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS - A social networking system generates a region-specific brand page for presentation to a requesting a brand paged based on location information associated with the user. The region-specific brand page includes data about the brand and aggregated data about users' actions associated with the brand in the social networking system and is presented in a format determined in part by the location information associated with the user. Additionally, the region-specific brand page may include data describing interactions with the brand by users connected to the user viewing the brand page, even if the connected users are associated with location information associated with a different geographic region than the user. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156750 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Verifying Online Dating Profiles - A system and method for verifying online dating profiles is provided. A profile is retrieved for a user on an online dating site. A social network page is identified for the user. Information about the user is accessed from the social network page, wherein the information includes one or more fields of metadata. The metadata from at least one of the fields on the social network page is compared with metadata from a corresponding field of the online dating site. A determination is made as to whether the metadata of the social network page matches the metadata of the online dating site. A certification status of the metadata is assigned to at least one of the fields on the online dating site. A certified status is assigned to the metadata when a match occurs. An uncertified status is assigned to the metadata when no match occurs. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156751 | BACKWARD-RECURSIVE PATH COMPUTATION USING RSVP-TE - One or more nodes, in a network, are configured to transmit a message, for computing diverse paths through the network from a first domain to a second domain using a Resource Reservation Protocol—Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) signaling protocol; generate at least one data structure that identifies multiple diverse entry points to the second domain; transmit the at least one data structure toward the first domain; complete the at least one data structure to form at least one completed data structure; use a first data structure, of the at least one completed data structure, to compute a primary path from the first domain to the second domain; and use a second data structure, of the at least one completed data structure, to compute a secondary path from the first domain to the second domain. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156752 | SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR INTERACTING WITH LIVE EVENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF AND CREATING CUSTOM CONTENT STREAMS - A computer-implemented method of providing an interactive experience to an attendee at a live event, the method comprising: displaying, via a display on a mobile device, a plurality of interaction elements, wherein a first subset of the interaction elements is designed for use prior to a live event, a second subset of the interaction elements is designed for use during the live event and a third subset of the interaction elements is designed for use after the live event. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156753 | NOVEL META-SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for matching individuals as member entities via a social network, using a computerized network having processing means for processing the unique data of the member entities in the social network, and outputting a matrix value for each of the member entities. The processing means is adapted for matching each of the matrix values for each of the member entities with another member entity with the value of closest fit or other criteria to form a pair of matching member entities, each of the pair of matching member entities comprising the Individual Seeker and the Individual Object. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156754 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SOCIAL NETWORK TO PERFORM NETWORK TRANSACTION - The present invention provides an information processing system of using a social network to perform network transactions, characterized in that the system comprises: a product information database for storing product information; a personal consumption space configured to publish and reside a user's subscription information; an information issuing module configured to publish the subscription information in the personal consumption space; a subscription information managing module configured to add, substitute, update and delete the subscription information; a social network building module configured to combine multiple personal consumption spaces into a social network. The present invention further provides an information processing method of using a social network to perform network transactions. The information processing system and method of using a social network to perform network transactions according to the present invention may provide convenience for information sharing and information communication between users performing network transactions. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156755 | Method and system in communication devices for Pre selected partner search - A portable wireless hard- and software driven communication device is equipped with a software application for building and storing in memory of the communication device a customized encoded data string from inputted user-specific profile data. The portable communication device automatically transmits the customized encoded data string to portable communication devices equipped with the software application in a wireless communication network. A communication device automatically receives transmitted customized encoded data strings and stores same in memory of the communication device. A message is provided at an output of the portable communication device based on searching and matching of received and stored customized encoded data. The software application provides for direct personal contact between users having matching profile data. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156756 | Virtual Meeting Video Sharing - A method is provided in one particular example that includes identifying an attempt by a first communications device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player. The first communications device can be sharing at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first communications device with one or more other remote communications devices participating in the virtual meeting session. The method can also include identifying a copy of the video data, and launching one or more media players to present at least a portion of the copy of the video data on the one or more other remote communications devices. The one or more media players are launched to correspond to a location of the first media player on the shared portion of the desktop. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156757 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADDING NEW MEMBER TO GROUP THROUGH BARCODE SCANNING - The current invention discloses methods and devices for adding a new member to a group, e.g. a chat group associated with a chat program. The new member may be added through a barcode-scanning process or an existing-member-invitation process. After the new member is added to the chat group, a server may send notification messages to mobile devices associated with the existing members of the group. The contents of the notification messages may vary based on the processes by which the new member is added, the number of existing members, and the direct-contact relationships the new member has with the existing members. The current invention provides simplified methods and devices for adding the new member, avoiding cumbersome operations and protecting member privacy at the same time. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156758 | RELIABLE RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments of the invention provide means to the users of the system to provide ratings and corresponding feedback for enhancing the genuineness in the ratings. The system includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory includes one or more instructions executable by the processor to enable the users of the system to rate each other based on at least one of sharing, exchanging, and selling one of activity, service or product. The system may provide a mechanism to encourage genuineness in ratings provided by the users. Furthermore, the instructions facilitate the rating receivers to provide feedbacks corresponding to the received ratings. The feedback includes accepting or objecting to a particular rating. Moreover, the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to enable the system to determine genuineness of an objection raised by a rating receiver. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156759 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Obtaining Social Communities - Social communities are recommended based on media affinity. When content is scheduled for recording, a media identifier is used to identify a social community expressing an affinity for the same media identifier. The social community may be any individual(s), clubs, and/or organizations that have expressed any affinity to terms or subject matter, such as the media identifier. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164500 | Transmission Of Notifications For Retrieving An Application On A Mobile Client Device - An online system transmits a notification including a reference to an application to a client device associated with a user. Upon receiving an interaction with the reference to the application, the online system may transmit instructions for retrieving the application to an additional client device associated with the user. For example, if the client device used to interact with the reference has a device type different than a device type associated with the application, the online system selects an additional client device having a device type matching the device type associated with the application to receive the instruction for retrieving the application. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164501 | TRACKING PARTICIPATION IN A SHARED MEDIA SESSION - A method for tracking user participation in a shared media session. A shared media session is connected to, where the shared media session includes a plurality of participants. A first identity is determined for a first participant with a first confidence level. The first participant is identified as the first identity if the first confidence level is above a first threshold. An amount of participation is tracked for the first identity. The amount of participation by the first identity is displayed on an electronic calendar for the shared media session to the plurality of participants. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON INFLUENCE - A method for prioritizing processing of interactions at a contact center, the method including: identifying an interaction to be prioritized for processing; identifying a person associated with the interaction; identifying an influence level of the person associated with the interaction; and prioritizing the interaction for processing based on the influence level of the person associated with the interaction. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164503 | DISPLAYING NEWS TICKER CONTENT BASED ON DIVERSITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays stories describing actions to a user in a news ticker. The stories may be selected so that a variety of types of stories, stories associated with a variety of users, or stories associated with a variety of actions are presented via the news ticker. Additionally, stories having a common characteristic, such as being associated with a common user, may be aggregated and a description of the aggregated stories is presented in the news ticker. For example, stories aggregated based on acting user may identify the user common to the stories and a description of the aggregated stories may be displayed. Further, the value to the social networking system of displaying different types of content may be used to modify how different types of content are displayed in the news ticker. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATIONS - The various implementations of the present invention are provided as a computer system configured to allow for customizable communication options in a multi-user, multi-organizational environment. Computer-based system focuses on providing significant customization of the communications methodology, delivery, and relevance by focusing on security, integration of multiple community information applications (CIA), user preferences, and flexibility. A feed consumer of the communication feed can access a user interface, on a computer or a mobile computing device, to specify which communications are most relevant to the feed consumer according to the feed consumer's needs and desires. Additional embodiments provide for automated or enhanced communication using variables such as place, time, feed consumer affiliation, etc. to prioritize and adapt communication streams or feeds for a specific person or organization. While useful for many environments, the most preferred embodiments of the present invention are adapted for use in an educational environment. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164505 | EMERGENCY ALERT MESSAGES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA - Social media may be utilized to facilitate distribution of emergency alert messages. An emergency alert server may receive an indication of emergency and generate an emergency alert message based on the indication. The emergency alert message may then be distributed via social media and/or other mediums. An indication of trustworthiness may be incorporated in the emergency alert message. The indication of trustworthiness may be validated by validation system. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164506 | MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE HAVING PORTIONS OF NETWORKED MEDIA CONTENT - A multimedia message is generated according to media content portions identified by a message input including words or phrases. The media content portions are extracted from among media content based on a set of predetermined criteria, such as a matching of audio content of the media content. The message input can include home video content, audio content, image content, and other media content. A social networking component can publish shared media content portions to a social network or data store and enable access to the shared media content portions. A multimedia message is generated having one or more of the shared media content portions that correspond to words or phrases received in the message inputs. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164507 | MEDIA CONTENT PORTIONS RECOMMENDED - Media content portions are generated based on received message inputs having words or phrases. The media content portions are recommended based on predetermined criteria, classification criteria, and/or user preferences. The media content portions are identified and extracted among media content based on predetermined criteria that can include a match of audio content with the words or phrases of the received message inputs. The media content portions correspond to the words or phrases of the message inputs and can further be recommended to a user based on additional criteria. The media content portions that are recommended can be included in multimedia message, which can be further communicated. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN VIRTUAL AGENTS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for use with at least one first virtual agent executing on a first device. In some embodiments, the at least one first virtual agent is programmed to: share information with at least one second virtual agent executing on at least one second device different from the first device, wherein the at least one first virtual agent is associated with a first user and the at least one second virtual agent is associate with a second user; and use the information shared between the at least one first virtual agent and the at least one second virtual agent to make a joint recommendation for the first and second users. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INPUT TO VIRTUAL AGENT - Systems, methods, and apparatus for use in connection with at least one virtual agent. In some embodiments, at least one processor is programmed to use a record of a multiparty conversation to provide input to the at least one virtual agent. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164510 | RESCHEDULING UNFINISHED MEETING AGENDA TOPICS - Rescheduling unfinished meeting agenda topics includes detecting an unfinished meeting agenda topic at a conclusion of a meeting and rescheduling with a meeting management engine the unfinished meeting agenda topic to be addressed in a later meeting. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164511 | Eliciting Event-Driven Feedback - Particular embodiments detect events associated with information about activities that a user has engaged in. The activities may be associated with a location or location-agnostic. Based on the received information, the social-networking system sends the user a request for follow-up information after an appropriate time delay. The time delay may vary based on the user activity and the context of the event that triggered the request. After the follow-up information is received, such information is stored in the social-networking system and may be used to determine recommendations, sponsored stories, advertisements, etc. to send to friends of the user. The information may also be used for ranking or filtering recommendations. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164512 | USING ATTRIBUTES ON A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR DECISION -MAKING SUPPORT - A first member of a social network service provides a set of desired attributes and a designation of the type of a candidate having the desired attributes that is desired as a recommendation. The attributes of the profiles of other members of the social networks are searched for entities having the set of desired attributes. At least one of the entities having the desired attributes that result from the search is presented to the first member as the recommendation of a candidate. The first member may provide a second set of desired attributes and a designation of the type of at least one second candidate having the second set of desired attributes. The attributes of the profiles of the other members of the social network may be searched for second entities having the second set of desired attributes. The first member is presented with at least one of the second entities as the recommendation of a second candidate. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164513 | MOBILE DEVICE APPLICATION FOR DELIVERING NOTIFICATIONS FOR VIEWERS' ACCESS TO PRESENTATIONS - Techniques are disclosed for delivering and receiving notifications regarding information about viewers' access to such presentations over a communications network (e.g., the Internet). An example method comprises tracking, by a presentation server, access of a link to a presentation by a viewer, wherein the presentation is stored on the presentation server and associated with a presenter; and sending a first push notification to a mobile device of the presenter based on data resulting from the tracking. Among other benefits, some embodiments disclosed herein provide both the convenience of allowing the viewer to view the presentation at his or her own time and similar high responsiveness the live presentation can bring. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164514 | AUTOMATED DELIVERY OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A system adapted to provide multimedia content to a set of users is described. The system includes: a storage adapted to store at least one multimedia content item, each multimedia content item associated with a publisher-user; a set of destination devices, each destination device associated with a subscriber-user, each subscriber-user being associated with the publisher-user; and a server adapted to provide each multimedia content item to the set of destination devices. A method adapted to allow a creator to generate and distribute at least one multimedia content item to a set of subscribers is also described. In addition, a server application adapted to provide at least one multimedia content item to a set of destination devices is described. Furthermore, a server application adapted to allow a creator to compose a multimedia content item is described. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE, HIGH-SPEED TRANSFER OF VERY LARGE FILES - A method for parallelized transfer of an electronic file over a network. The method includes sending a first portion of the electronic file from a first sending node and receiving, at the first sending node, information relating to a second portion of the electronic file sent by a second sending node. The method further includes sending a third portion of the electronic file from the first sending node, wherein the third portion is different from the second portion. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE, HIGH-SPEED TRANSFER OF VERY LARGE FILES - A method for parallelized transfer of an electronic file over a network. The method includes sending a first portion of the electronic file from a first sending node and receiving, at the first sending node, information relating to a second portion of the electronic file sent by a second sending node. The method further includes sending a third portion of the electronic file from the first sending node, wherein the third portion is different from the second portion. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164517 | Peer-to-Peer Social Network - A social network includes a relay server and two or more mobile Internet devices (“MIDs”) coupled to the relay server. Each of the MIDs includes a relay agent for interfacing with the relay server, a web server, an application for operating the web server, and a memory for storing social networking information comprising a contacts list, one or more access groups, one or more albums, and one or more associations between the one or more access groups and the one or more albums to specify which contacts can view which albums. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164518 | Telecommunication Service Employing an Electronic Information Repository Storing Social Network User Information, Developer Information, and Mobile Network Operator Information - A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to devices) of the participating parties. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164519 | INTEGRATION OF DEVICES THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A system and method for providing a social networking service to a plurality of devices. A social networking server for facilitating social information exchange among the plurality of devices through a socially aware network. A social profiles manager is coupled to the social networking server that creates and manages individual centric profiles of the plurality of devices. The individual centric profiles of the plurality of devices are social representation of individual devices within the socially aware network. The plurality of devices are identifiable by other participants and the social networking server through their social profiles. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164520 | Multi-Screen Application Enabling and Distribution Service - A method implemented by an application (app) store system for providing apps to one or more users through a network, the method comprising managing, by the app store system, a multi-screen application (MSA) package that comprises a set of related apps, wherein one or more relationships among the set of related apps are pre-defined, receiving, by the app store system, a request from a first user device via the network to download at least part of the MSA package; and causing, by the app store system, the set of related apps to be downloaded to a plurality of user devices including the first user device according to the one or more relationships among the set of related apps in response to the request. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164521 | Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a social-networking system, a query for content that has been changed, added to, or updated on the social-networking system by a first user of the social-networking system, wherein the query is received from a third-party system that is separate from and external to the social-networking system; determining, by the social-networking system, whether content associated with the first user has been changed, added to, or updated on the social-networking system; and sending information to the third-party system responsive to the query. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC ROUTING IN A PEER-TO-PEER ENVIRONMENT - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables two endpoints to dynamically select one of multiple possible routes for inbound and outbound messages. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172965 | UNIFIED SOCIAL GRAPH - A unified social graph for representing online content items of an online service is disclosed, such as online and social media and representations of users and groups of users. The social graph comprises a plurality of nodes, each representing one online content item, a plurality of edges, each connecting two nodes of the plurality of nodes and each indicating a relationship between two online content items represented by the two nodes, and a unified interface configured to allow access to the plurality of nodes and, for a node representing an online content item, to allow pushing data related to the online content via the node to connected nodes, and to allow pulling data related to further online content via the node from connected nodes representing the further online content. Furthermore, a system hosting an online service and a method for distributing data related to online content are disclosed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172966 | SHARED SCHEDULING FOR CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEMS - One or more servers may receive, from a first server, a first list of timeslots; receive, from a second server, a second list of timeslots; store the first list of timeslots and the second list of timeslots to form a shared list of timeslots; receive an update to the shared list of timeslots by the first server or by the second server; store the update to the shared list of timeslots; receive a first schedule from the first server; and receive a second schedule from the second server. The first server may generate the first schedule and the second server may generate the second schedule based on information stored by the shared list of timeslots. The one or more servers may provide a particular content file to a user device in accordance with information associated with the first schedule or the second schedule. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172967 | Online Meeting System and Method - An online system and method are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing meeting information to a server and/or a participant device prior to the online meeting and streaming audio content to participants during the meeting. The system and method allow online meeting participants to connect to and view meeting information using less network bandwidth during the meeting, compared to traditional online meeting systems and methods. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172968 | PEER-TO-PEER DOWNLOAD THROUGHPUT - Certain embodiments relate to use of aggressive peering requests, which enable a peer computing device to obtain desired digital content more quickly than typically possible in a P2P network. In certain embodiments, an aggressive peering request comprises a request that another peer computing device, to which the aggressive peering request is sent, dedicates substantially all of, or a disproportionately large amount of, its P2P resources to servicing a specific peer computing device. Other embodiments relate to identifying, based on accessed information, peer computing devices that are predicted to be available as an uninterrupted seed, and thus, can be used to increase download throughput in a P2P network. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172969 | DIGITAL METHOD OF RECRUITMENT - A technique for identifying a group of potential candidates to join an organization is described. During this analysis technique, an identifier is received from an individual. This identifier may be used to associate the individual with a pre-existing profile that includes information. For example, the identifier may include a link to the pre-existing profile. Alternatively, a profile with the information may be generated for the individual based on the identifier and an information source. Using the information, an affinity metric of the individual with the organization is calculated, such as a number of employees of the organization who know the individual or who attended a same educational institution as the individual. Moreover, the affinity metric is used to determine whether to include the individual in the group of potential candidates to join the organization. In this way, the analysis technique may facilitate more-efficient recruiting efforts. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172970 | REQUEST PROCESSING IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery framework (CDF) includes a plurality of devices, each device configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services. The plurality of CD services comprise one or more CD service networks, and each particular CD service network has a dynamic network topology. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172971 | CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data relating to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A mitigation operation that modifies transfer of a digital content item between peer computers of the peer-to-peer network is performed according to one or more health metrics of the peer-to-peer network. The one or more health metrics are derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172972 | CONTENT SOURCE SELECTION IN A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data related to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A content-acquisition request querying for a recommended content source to provide a first digital content item is received from a first peer computer of the peer-to-peer network via the computer network. A response to the content-acquisition request is sent to the first peer computer via the computer network. The response identifies a second peer computer of the peer-to-peer network that has the first digital content item as the recommended content source. The second peer computer is selected according to a peer selection metric derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172973 | Mobile Push Notification - In one embodiment, a method includes sending to a mobile client computing device a first notification through a real-time push service, the first notification including content and being associated with a stateful object; the method also includes, in response to a state change of the stateful object, sending to the mobile client computing device a second notification through the real-time push service, the second notification including an update to the content based on the state change of the stateful object. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND SENDING AUDIO, VIDEO, STILL PICTURES, AND TEXT FROM A SPECIFIED LOCATION - A method for requesting and viewing real time data comprising: selecting a desired location by a requesting user; sending a request to requested users in said desired location for said real time data; accepting said request by at least one of said requested users; recording said real time data by said at least one requested users; sending said real time data to a host server; and displaying said real time data of said desired location. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172975 | Method and System to Create Social Capital - The present invention enables an objective deterministic calculation of social capital as it relates to a member of a social network being granted the ability to create a group of members, bind the grouped members to a software application's task comprised of a predetermined and measurable beginning, end, and goal, and measure the ability of the grouped members to complete the task. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZABLE COMMUNICATION GROUP FUNCTIONS - A method and system for providing personalized communication group functions is provided. The method and system use a communication group platform that receives and acts on configuration requests and direction requests to provide customized communication service. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172977 | SUPPRESSING CONTENT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method of suppressing content of a social network, the method comprising monitoring for a number of gestures of rejection of content on the social network from a number of users, generating suppression data based on the gestures of rejection, receiving input from a first user among the number of users indicating that the suppression data is to be leveraged, and suppressing content based on the suppression data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172978 | Nearest Peer Download Request Policy in a Live Streaming P2P Network - The present invention relates to a method of and a device for, arranging peers in a P2P network comprising a streaming source and network peers arranged at distribution levels in the P2P network. The method comprises receiving a request from a peer entering the network to receive data content, and determining a distribution level in the P2P network at which the entering peer is to be arranged with respect to the streaming source. Further, the method comprises providing the entering peer with a plurality of peers selected from the network peers from which the requested data content can be downloaded with an expected probability depending on the determined distribution level, and further indicating the distribution level of each of the plurality of peers, wherein the entering peer is enabled to download, with the expected probability, the requested data content from a selected one of said plurality of peers being arranged at a distribution level closest to that determined for the entering peer. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172979 | Multiple Requests for Content Download in a Live Streaming P2P Network - The present invention relates to a method of and device for, arranging peers in a P2P network comprising a streaming source and network peers arranged at distribution levels in the P2P network. The method comprises receiving a request from a peer entering the network to receive data content and determining a distribution level in the P2P network at which the entering peer is to be arranged with respect to the streaming source. The method further comprises providing the entering peer with a plurality of peers selected from the network peers from which the requested data content can be downloaded with an expected probability depending on the determined distribution level, wherein the entering peer is enabled to download, with the expected probability, the requested data content from a selected one of said plurality of peers, and in case the requested data content cannot be downloaded from said selected peer, the entering peer is enabled to download the requested data content from another selected peer of the plurality of peers with another expected probability. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172980 | DEFERRED SOCIAL NETWORK CHECK-IN - A system and method is disclosed for sharing previously visited locations in a social network. A mobile computing device (for example, a smartphone) may be configured to receive and transmit a token to a server, the token including event information related to an event at a previously visited location. One or more candidate places of interest are then determined based on the event information, and provided for display to a user of the mobile computing device. The user selects one or more selected places of interest from the candidate places of interest, and the server provides, for display to one or more other users in a social network, a representation of the user and the selected places of interest. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172981 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION METHOD IN CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - There is provided a peer-to-peer communication method in a content centric network environment. In embodiments, the peer-to-peer communication method in a content centric network (hereinafter referred to as a “CCN”) environment includes, receiving, by a CCN router, a join message including a desired service name of a user node from the user node, transmitting, by the CCN router, the join message to a rendezvous point mapped to the service name and forming a share tree, receiving, by the CCN router, a content request message including a name of content that is provided through the service from the user node, and transmitting, by the CCN router, the content request message through an interface connected to the share tree. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172982 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SHARING - Embodiments of the present invention provide method, server and system for data sharing, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the system to perform the method for data sharing. The method includes establishing, according to a first webpage request of a first terminal, a long connection of communications with the first terminal; establishing, according to a second webpage request of a second terminal, long connection of communications with the second terminal, where the first and second webpage requests carry respectively first and second webpage identities; determining, according to the first and second webpage identities, whether the first and second terminals are shared terminals; and if the first and second terminals are the shared terminals, sharing data of the first terminal to the second terminal, and sharing data of the second terminal to the first terminal. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172983 | SYSTEM, METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT EASILY SEEN BY TERMINAL DEVICE HAVING SMALL DISPLAY PART - A content distributing system includes first and second terminal devices and a content processing server device. In the content processing server device, a selecting unit selects content information for the first terminal device, a content processing unit generates simple content information optimized for the second terminal device based on the selected content information and a distributing unit transmits the generated simple content information with the content information to the first terminal device. In the first terminal device, a receiving unit receives the content information from the content processing server device, a determining unit determines whether the simple content information is in the received content information and a transfer unit transfers the determined simple content information to the second terminal device. In the second terminal device, a receiving unit receives the simple content information transferred from the first terminal device and an output unit outputs the received simple content information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE DISTRIBUTION AND TRACKING OF INFORMATION VIA MULTIPLE SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system for secure distribution and tracking of information and content of a third party via multiple social networks is described. The invention takes information and content marked to be promoted by a third party using an online application, and distributes and promotes the information to the social networks of everyone who is signed up as an ‘ambassador’ for that third party. When published, the information and content includes a personalized link associated with each ambassador to social network combination. Via the nature of social networks, this information is additionally redistributed into the users who are associated with those ambassadors in their social networks. As those users follow the personalized links back to the promoted information and content, the source ambassador to social network combination gets recorded and statistics about that user's viewing of the information and content are recorded. The online application records relevant statistics that the third party requires, and this information is then compiled into real time reports that detail the path that the promoted information and content traveled to drive users to the promoted information and content, as well as any resultant actions such as pages viewed, purchases made or items downloaded. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181192 | Ranking Test Framework for Search Results on an Online Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving a set of scored results from a user that include results generated by a search algorithm in response to a query from the user and a score for each result, where each result corresponds to a node of the social graph, calculating a gain for each result based on the score of the result, and modifying the search algorithm based on the calculated gain. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181193 | Detecting Mobile Device Attributes - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a user, where the request includes an http-header, accessing information describing the user, determining the attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the information describing the user, and transmitting the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, where the webpage has been customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181194 | ADVOCACY RETENTION SCORING FOR ONLINE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - For an online community advocacy management platform, an advocacy retention score is established to foster elite advocates by providing incentives for engaging in brand-generated communications such as the creation of comments, and creating peer-to-peer and reputation-based relationships specific to the context of that brand community. Various techniques are presented to define levels and badges (milestones) to allow users to maintain an advocate reputation based on participation and community response. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181195 | POPULATING GHOST IDENTITIES FOR ONLINE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - For an online community advocacy management platform, the techniques herein create “ghost profiles” of users not registered with the app/plug-in, but that are participating in the social media forum (an identification phase). In this manner, all participants may build their advocacy score regardless of the app/plug-in, which may be useful for the user if later deciding to participate officially, or else for the brand to continue to be able to monitor anonymous (yet uniquely identified) activity on an individual basis, and to identify, quantify, and foster the most valuable and influential advocates within the existing community. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181196 | CONTRIBUTION FILTERING FOR ONLINE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - For an online community advocacy management platform, the techniques herein intelligently provide mechanisms and user interfaces for filtering (triaging) the view of comments and content based on advocate levels, trend rates, consumer participation, hot topics, recent activity, etc. by gauging the likelihood of user-generated actions to cause future influence based on their algorithmic similarities to historically influential actions, and weighted based on an aggregate, compounding history of individuals throughout time. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181197 | Tagging Posts Within A Media Stream - The present disclosure comprises systems and methods for tagging a post to a specific scene in a media stream. The systems and methods receive a post from a user to a specific scene in a media stream, tag the post to the specific scene in the media stream, generate a post indication/message indicating a post is tagged to the specific scene, receive a response to the post indication/message, surface the post, determine whether to display the media from beginning or from the tagged scene, locate the scene to which the post is tagged, display the media from the tagged scene, generate a spoiler alert, display spoiler alert, receive a response to the spoiler alert, and remove the alert. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods for adding digital content associated with a first user account within a content management system to a second user account within the content management system. In various embodiments, the system may be configured to allow a user to add digital content to an account within a content management system associated with the user when the user receives a shared link to access digital content associated with an account within the content management system belonging to another user. The system may be configured to add the digital content to the user account by associating the digital content with the user's account. In various embodiments, the system may be configured to add the digital content to the user's account by creating an entry in a server-side file journal associated with the user's account, where the entry includes one or more file reference strings associated with the digital content. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181199 | Playback Queue Control Transition - Embodiments provided herein involve connected states between a mobile device and one or more zones in a network media system and different interactions between the mobile device and the network media system involving the connected states. The connected states may be established between the mobile device and the one or more zones such that further actions taken on media items identified in the playlist on the mobile device may also be taken on corresponding media items in a playback queue associated with the one or more zones. The interface on the mobile device may display various graphical representations to indicate the different interactions involving the connected states, including when a connected state is established, when a connected state is lost, and when a reconnected state is reestablished. The interface may further provide selectable icons to allow a user to navigate among the different media playback options involving the connected states. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181200 | ONE GROUP PAGING SCHEME FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION - A group paging method is disclosed for efficient machine-to-machine communication in a wireless network. The group paging method enables M2M-capable base stations to group M2M-capable mobile stations according to their traffic properties, assign them a group paging ID, and thereafter page the M2M device, whether the mobile station is asleep or not, by way of a paging channel. The group paging method mitigates traffic congestion on the wireless network. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181201 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCAL WIRELESS NETWORK GROUP - An apparatus and a method for managing a local wireless network includes receiving, by a first group owner, capability information of a first client and a second client, selecting at least one of the first client and the second client as a second group owner based on the capability information, and replacing the first group owner with the second group owner as a group owner of the local wireless network if the first group owner is determined to be unavailable. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181202 | Group Coordinator Device Selection - Embodiments described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a group of media devices of a networked media playback system. One of the media devices in the networked media playback system may be a group coordinator device configured to provide media content and playback timing information to other media devices in the group for synchronized playback of media content. Selection of the group coordinator device may involve performing an evaluation of one or more parameters associated with each of the one or more media devices in the media playback system, determining that a particular media device is the most suitable group coordinator devices, and causing the particular media device to become the group coordinator device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181203 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DISPATCHING REQUESTS - Methods and apparatuses for performing domain resolution prior to dispatching a request. A request from an Application Server (AS) is received. The AS and a network node are present in a first network domain. At least one target network domain is determined based on at least one domain indicator in the request. The domain indicator being associated with at least a part of the request, wherein the target network domain is one of: the first network domain and a second network domain. Then, the at least part of the request is dispatched, to at least one subscriber server present in the determined target network domain(s). | 06-26-2014 |
20140181204 | INTEREST GRAPH-POWERED SEARCH - A method, which identifies information of interest within an organization, determines use data that characterizes relationships among information items within the organization, where the information items include user data and collections of information items. The method generates interest data indicating affinities among the information items based on the determined use data. After receiving a query for data regarding the information items, the method responds to the query by providing one or more results based on the generated interest data. More details are provided herein. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181205 | PROMOTING SHARING IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - Implementations generally relate to promoting sharing in a social network system. In some implementations, a method includes receiving one or more media items in a social network, where the one or more media items are associated with a location. The method also includes detecting a post, where content in the post references the location. The method also includes providing a suggestion to a user to share the one or more media items in the post. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181206 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A WEB SITE USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WEB SITE - A technique for generating a web site in accordance with received data entry by: determining at least one characteristic of at least one web site dimension of the web site based on the data entry; generating a multi-dimensional description of the web site based on the determined characteristics; retrieving web site data according to the generated multi-dimensional description of the web site; and generating the web site based upon the generated multi-dimensional description of the web site and the retrieved web site data. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181207 | POPULATING ONLINE FORUMS - In general, in one aspect, a forum for user interaction is provided. A clone of the forum is created, thereby allowing any number of users to be in the same forum while limiting the number of users in each instance of the forum. It is determined whether a relationship exists between a user entering the forum and one or more other users entering the forum or with one or more other users already in the forum. If a relationship exists, the user entering the forum is placed in a clone of the forum based on the relationship. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181208 | LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT - A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181209 | PREFERRED CONTACT CHANNEL FOR USER COMMUNICATIONS - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to look up a contact's communication channel information in the user's address book. The social networking system provides to the user the contact's communication channels in an ordered sequence based on the user's social graph and communication information. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181210 | Platform System - In a networkable platform system for collecting and processing information in a network comprising a plurality of real access-authorized contributors, new processing procedures and a new analysis of information are made possible by the feature to the effect that the information on the platform is formed by a plurality of dual units, wherein each dual unit comprises a public discussion and a predefinable processing criterion assigned to said public discussion. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181211 | Social Network Media Sharing with Client Library - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing media content sharing. The concepts and technologies disclosed herein can be employed to share media content with a social network, even for content subject to access control mechanisms and/or copyright laws. According to various embodiments disclosed herein, media content can be shared with a social network, or the like. An application running at or in conjunction with a computer can obtain information relating to media content displayed at or accessible to the computer, format the data, and transmit the data to a social networking site or other location in a format appropriate for the site. Contents and technologies for viewing the shared content also are disclosed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181212 | DELIVERY OF TWO-WAY INTERACTIVE CONTENT - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method includes a receiving a request for content from a user device. The method also includes selecting a content item for delivery responsive to the request. The method also includes providing a two-way communication interface for a user to communicate with a third party content provider associated with the content item along with the selected content item. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188988 | ACCESS CONTROLLED PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - A professional social network system comprises selecting between a first area and a second area, displaying a registration component to register a member account, accepting input through an attestation component, validating the identity component provided through the attestation component and registering a member through a registration component. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188989 | EXCHANGING CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - A system and method are provided that deliver content information to devices according to gestures input into a user device. The method includes detecting the presence and the location of a plurality of target devices that are in proximity to a user device. An extended gesture associated with the source device may be detected and a direction associated with the extended gesture may be determined by a processor. Based on the direction of the extended gesture, a destination device may be selected from the plurality of target devices. The source device and the destination device may be identified, and the delivery of content information to the destination device may be performed. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING USER GROUP NETWORK SESSIONS USING LOCATION PARAMETERS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY - An approach is provided for causing a formation of at least one user group network session by a first device. Then, the network management platform causes a determination of a request from at least one second device for an access to the at least one user group network session. Subsequently, the network management platform causes determination of location information between the first device and the at least one second device based, at least in part, on physical proximity, a near field communication, a wireless network, or a combination thereof. Ultimately, the network management platform causes a granting of the access to the at least one second device to the user group network session based, at least in part, on the location information. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING THIRD PARTY PROFILE DATA SHARING - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for authorizing third-party profile data sharing. The system receives a request to a request to share profile data held by a first person with a second person, wherein the profile data is of a third person. The system then generates a common context value based on an association between at least two of the first person, the second person, and the third person, wherein the common context value indicates how strongly the third person is connected to the first person and/or the second person. When the common context value is above a threshold, the system permits the first person to share the profile data of the third person with the second person. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188992 | FACILITATING SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTION ACROSS A TIME AXIS - In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication of a request from a user to generate a time-based social networking session at a social networking service, determining an instance of time associated with the request, the instance of time being distinct from the current time, identifying social network state information corresponding to the instance of time, the social network state information including social graph information regarding the state one of a social graph at the given instance of time and generating a social networking session according to the social network state information, the social networking session providing the user with a social networking experience according to the state of the social network of the user at the instance of time. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA - A method and user terminal are provided that analyze social media by assembling a cluster of multiple social media contents, wherein each social media content of the multiple social media contents has one or more associated attributes, determining weights in association with the social media contents included in the cluster, and determining a reliability level of the cluster based on the determined weights. In various embodiments, determining weights may include determining a weight associated with each of one or more attributes shared by two or more of the multiple social media contents of the cluster and/or determining a social media content weight for each of two or more social media contents sharing an attribute. In still other embodiments, the method and user terminal may re-determine the reliability level in response to adding new social media content to the cluster. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188994 | Social Neighborhood Determination - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining, by a social neighborhood server, a social neighborhood of a user. In operation, user information is received that is related to social network connections to other users within the user's social network. Using this information, information is presented to the user related to social network connections attributable to the user based on the received user information, which may include user network connections of the user. Then, the user is invited to assign information related to user influence that the user attributes to individual social network connections presented to the user. In other implementations, social network entities, whether they be for example users or commercial interests, may be presented to a user that are not within the user's social network. The information related to the user influence is then received, and an influence metric is assigned to the individual social network connections according to the user's input. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188995 | Predictive Caching in a Distributed Communication System - A method for managing information stored to a local cache comprises obtaining social network information and/or collaboration history information for a user and using the social network information and/or the collaboration history information to identify potential targets of communication for the user. The local cache is updated based at least in part on the identified potential targets of communication. Also disclosed is an apparatus for managing information stored to a local cache. The apparatus comprises an analytics engine component and an updating component. The analytics engine component is configured to determine metrics for potential targets of communication using social networking information and/or collaboration history information, and the updating component is configured to remove information corresponding to at least one of the potential targets from the local cache using the metrics. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188996 | RAW FABRIC INTERFACE FOR SERVER SYSTEM WITH VIRTUALIZED INTERFACES - A server system allows system's nodes to access a fabric interconnect of the server system directly, rather than via an interface that virtualizes the fabric interconnect as a network or storage interface. The server system also employs controllers to provide an interface to the fabric interconnect via a standard protocol, such as a network protocol or a storage protocol. The server system thus facilitates efficient and flexible transfer of data between the server system's nodes. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188997 | Creating and Sharing Inline Media Commentary Within a Network - The present disclosure includes systems and methods for creating and sharing inline commentary relating to media within an online community, for example, a social network. The inline commentary can be one or more types of media, for example, text, audio, image, video, URL link, etc. In some implementations, the systems and methods either receive media that is live or pre-recorded, permit viewing by users and receive selective added commentary by users inline. The systems and methods are configured to send one or more notifications regarding the commentary. In some implementations, the systems and methods are configured to receive responses by other users to the initial commentary provided by a particular user. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188998 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE LIFECYCLE MESSAGES TO A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices for providing vehicle lifecycle messages are disclosed herein. A system for providing vehicle lifecycle messages includes an identification module, a linking module, and a lifecycle messaging module. The identification module receives vehicle identification information from a mobile computing device. The vehicle identification information uniquely identifies a vehicle. The linking module links the mobile computing device to a vehicle service account based on the vehicle identification information. The lifecycle messaging module provides lifecycle messages to the mobile computing device. The lifecycle messages based on a lifecycle stage of the vehicle. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188999 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A VEHICLE SERVICE CENTER AND A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices for providing a vehicle status to a mobile computing device are disclosed herein. A system for providing vehicle status to a mobile computing device includes a contact module, a status determination module, and a communication module. The contact module determines contact information associated with a vehicle scheduled for service at a vehicle service center. The contact information corresponds to a mobile computing device. The status determination module determines a status of the vehicle. The communication module communicates the status of the vehicle to the mobile computing device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189000 | SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ASSESSMENT - A system for identifying influential users of a social network platform. The system may compute a score for each of multiple users. Such a score may be topic-based, leading to a more accurate identification of influential users. Such a topic-based score may indicate authority and/or impact of a user with respect to a topic. The impact may be computed based on authority combined with other factors, such as power of the user. The authority score may be simply computed, in whole or in part, directly from a tweet log without, for example creating a retweet graph. As a result, the scores may be computed, using MapReduce primitives or other constructs that allow the computations to be distributed across multiple parallel processors. Such scores may be used to select users based on impact as part of social trend analysis, marketing or other functions. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189001 | Boundary-less M2M Service Layer - A system may include a boundary-less machine-to-machine (“M2M”) service layer, which may reside between an application layer and a core network layer. The boundary-less M2M service layer may allow M2M applications to interact with multiple applications (e.g., multiple M2M applications, multiple non-M2M applications, or a mix of both). The boundary-less M2M service layer may also allow M2M devices and applications to interact over various types of networks, such as wireless and wireline networks. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING AND SEARCHING SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA - A system for continuously monitoring and searching social networking media allowing at least one client to access the system through a respective connection link and for connecting to at least one social networking media through a connection link. The system further comprises a connecting module comprising at least one connecting unit to connect to the at least one social network media for receiving continuously for a time selected by the activity data shared in real time and/or posted by users of the social network media; and a processing module comprising a processing unit, configured to process continuously for the time selected by the client the received activity data based on at least one pre-determined monitoring criterion selected by the client from a number of predetermined criteria, and a notification unit configured to send a notification to the client when the received activity data meet the selected monitoring criteria. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189003 | Networked Transmission of Reciprocal Identity Related Data Messages - Computer-implemented systems and methods for networks that transmit credit, non-credit or identity related alert messages or other identity related messages relating to a secondary person, minor, or other person to a primary person's device. According to certain embodiments, two or more consenting adults, such as, for example, spouses, can have identity related messages relating to their credit status, and in some cases minors' credit status, transmitted to the device of the other person or persons as well as their own device. Each individual's device is able to communicate with the system in order to control what identity related messages the system transmits to their devices, as well as to devices of the other adult. The system automatically terminates transmitting messages if a fraud event occurs. Each individual's device is also able to terminate transmission of such messages to devices of the other adult. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189004 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR INITIATING, FORMING AND JOINING MEMBERSHIPS IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method of deploying a membership of nodes in a distributed computing system may comprise selecting nodes to be part of a membership of nodes; creating a membership task identifying a membership creator node as the node that is creating the membership and comprising a membership target identifying at least one node of the distributed computing system that is to become a member of the membership; and creating a beacon configured to send a create membership message to each identified node, the create membership message comprising at least an identity of the membership task and an identification of the membership. Upon receiving a response from a node in the membership target, the node from which the response was received may be removed from the beacon. The membership may be deployed when a response has been received from each of the nodes identified in the membership target. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189005 | GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ADDING LIAISON AGENTS TO A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A communication session is established between users of communication devices. A representation of the users is displayed as part of the communication session. A liaison agent is dynamically added as a party of the communication session. The liaison agent is an application that works on behalf of one or more user during the communication. In response to dynamically adding the liaison agent as a party of the communication system, the displayed representation of the communication session is updated to indicate that the liaison agent has been added to the communication session. The liaison agent can provide a variety of services to a user, such as tracking work product, handling incoming calls, bridging communication sessions, providing web cam services, doing surveys, gathering a roll of a communication session, playing messages, notifying other users of events in the communication session, and/or the like. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189006 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING FLOW OF CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK AND PEER TO PEER NETWORK - A method and a system for controlling a flow of a content delivery network (CDN) and a peer to peer (P2P) network are provided. The method includes the following steps. Data is transmitted via the CDN and the P2P network. A sharing rate is obtained from the P2P network by a P2P network tracker module. A first service cost rate is calculated according to the sharing rate by a logical controlling module. The CDN is controlled to accept or reject one or more new requests from the P2P network according to the first service cost rate by the logical controlling module. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189007 | Themes Indicative of Participants in Persistent Communication - An auditory theme represents at least one participant in a networked group interaction, and reflects an attribute of that participant. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189008 | MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A media system and a method of controlling the media system are disclosed. The media server includes: a media unit configured to control a content sharing with a client; and an operation manager unit configured to switch an operation mode to a standby mode when a preset time passes after a content sharing of the client and the media server is stopped. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189009 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A computer is disclosed that performs a verification process. The computer analyzes quality characteristics of communication for each of predetermined quality analysis subjects from actual capture data. The computer generates send data based on the actual capture data and an exchanging message which is acquired when a reproduced operation is verified based on the actual capture data. The computer sends the send data to a verification subject apparatus at sending timing based on the quality characteristics. The computer receives response data from the verification subject apparatus. The computer verifies an operation of the verification subject apparatus. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189010 | SCRAPBOOKING - A scrapbooking social network that enables a digital scrapbook to be crowd-designed by a posting device and social network user devices with which that posting device has a pre-defined relationship. A social network user device assigns a closeness rating to a plurality of user devices within that social network user devices' scrapbooking social network. The social network user device also assigns a share level to each scrapbook entry posted thereby. A social network share level assigned to a scrapbook post is based on actual content sensitivity, and permits each shared scrapbook post to be viewed/edited by other social network user devices based on their assigned closeness rating. Social network user devices with a closeness rating equal to or higher than a share level setting assigned to scrapbook entry can view/edit that scrapbook entry. Social network user devices can contribute simultaneously, or at least separately, to a scrapbook entry. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189011 | REMOTE CONTEXTUAL COLLABORATION - A method for remote collaboration includes receiving posting content from a first employee of a company. The posting content includes a multitude of key terms. The method further includes generating a first employee posting using the posting content, extracting the multitude of key terms from the posting content, matching one of the plurality of key terms to a key term label, storing the key term label in the first employee posting, and selecting a company channel corresponding to the key terms label. The method further includes identifying a subscriber of the company channel, where the subscriber is a second employee of the company, and presenting the first employee posting content to the subscriber. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189012 | Communication System, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Communicaton Program and Communication Device - A communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device connecting to a LAN. Using a first proxy setting for a specific proxy server, the first communication device communicates with a conference server via a proxy server to establish a session. If the session has not been established, the first communication device determines whether LAN information identifying the LAN is included in history information stored in the first communication device. If the LAN information is includes in the history information, the first communication device transmits setting request data to the second communication device identified by device information associated with the LAN information. If the second processor receives the setting request data, the second processor transmits the second proxy setting to the first communication device. The first communication device communicates with the conference server to establish a session using the received second proxy setting. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189013 | GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES AND NEIGBHORHOOD LEADS IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and system of determining neighborhood leads and forming government structures in an online geo-spatial social community are disclosed. A method of organizing a community network includes obtaining a region on a geo-spatial map, obtaining a first subset of members of the community network associated with the region, determining a second subset of the members with a highest number of points from the first subset, creating a representative body (e.g., based on an activity level of each of the first subset) from the second subset, and enabling the representative body to manage a portion of the community network associated with the region. A lead member user may be appointed or designated from the representative body from the second subset of the plurality of members with the highest number of points from the first subset based on an acceptance of the lead member (having additional access privileges). | 07-03-2014 |
20140189014 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Media Content Items - Systems and methods for recommending media content items are provided. In some implementations, a method includes, identifying a first set of media items selected by a first plurality of users; causing a second set of media items to be displayed to a second user not included in the first plurality of users in accordance with the first set of media items. The first set of media items and the second set of media items are associated with a same media item category. In some implementations, the method optionally includes, identifying the second set of media items without regard to media content item selection history associated with the second user. In some implementations, the first and second sets of media items are news items. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189015 | PUSHING NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON LOCATION PROXIMITY - Technology is disclosed for pushing notifications to computing devices based on location proximity (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology includes a proxy server that facilitates transmission of notifications to the computing devices based on a location proximity and/or access pattern of the computing devices. The proxy server transmits the notifications to the devices based on their location proximity with a primary device of the user, e.g., a device which the user uses more often than others. For example, if a particular device is not within a predefined location proximity of the primary device, the proxy server delays the transmission of notifications to the particular device until the particular device is in the predefined location proximity. In another example, a transmission frequency of the notifications is continuously adjusted based on the location proximity, e.g., the transmission frequency is increased as the proximity increases, and is decreased as the proximity decreases. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195605 | Creating a Customized News Collection Based on Social Networking Information - A system and machine-implemented method for generating a customized news collection based on social groups, the method comprising receiving an indication of one or more social groups associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more social groups is associated with the user's account in a social networking service, determining, one or more contacts associated with each of the identified one or more social groups at a social networking service, selecting a set of news items including one or more news items associated with the one or more identified contacts and generating a news collection including a number of the one or more news items of the set of news items for provision to a user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195606 | IDENTIFYING VALUABLE USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for determining a value of a user of a social network are disclosed. For example, the method measures user influence information of the user on the social network. The method then calculates the value of the user based upon the user influence information. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195607 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES, SERVERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A SERVER - A communication device may be provided. The communication device may include: a requester to request information indicating communication devices that provide pre-determined data; a receiver to receive the information indicating communication devices that provide the pre-determined data; a determiner to determine a download target based on the information indicating communication devices that provide the pre-determined data; and a transmitter to transmit information indicating the determined download target for a peer-to-peer communication of the pre-determined data from the download target. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195608 | MOBILE INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND PROCESSING METHOD - At a mobile information processing terminal, a close-range communication unit performs close-range communications with another mobile information processing terminal, a reception unit receives through the close-range communication unit a user identifier for uniquely identifying a user of an application for a social networking service (SNS) on the other mobile information processing terminal, a determination unit is configured to determine whether there is a match between the social networking service on the other mobile information processing terminal and an SNS used on the mobile information processing terminal, and when the determination unit determines that there is a match, the transmission unit transmits the received user identifier to a server of the SNS so as to register a user identified by the user identifier as a friend. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195609 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH GROUP EDITING AND ACCESS - A process of managing a digital photo involves capturing the photo using a digital camera; communicating the photo to a server system; the server system identifying faces of people in the photo; the server system matching the faces to the communication addresses of portable devices of the people; and the server system communicating the photo to the portable devices. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING AND DESIGNING COMMENT - A method for determining and organizing multimedia content of a network page, related to reactions of at least one user to at least one common content object or context. The method includes receiving plurality of comments originated by different users relating one or more common multimedia object, wherein the user is required to define characteristics of their comment from multiple choice of definition types, enabling users to react to the comment by selecting one type of reaction from multiple choice of reaction types, wherein the each reaction type define different characteristics of the comment, analyzing comment characteristics as defined by the originator user and/or by reaction type; and selecting and organizing of comments and/or content objects which are related to the comments and/or and the relevant reactions according to the analysis. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195611 | METHODS AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS FOR GEOSCIENCES AND PETRO-TECHNICAL COLLABORATION - Computing systems and methods for geosciences collaboration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for geosciences collaboration includes obtaining a first set of geosciences information from a first computer system of the plurality of computer systems; distributing the first set of geosciences information from the first computer system to at least a second computer system; receiving a user input from the second computer system of the plurality of computer systems, the user input entered manually by a user; providing the user input to the first computer system; in response to providing the user input to the first computer system, receiving a revised set of geosciences information from the first computer system; and repeating the receiving a user input, the providing the user input, and the receiving the revised set of geosciences information until the revised set of geosciences information is determined to satisfy accuracy criteria. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195612 | QUEUE-BASED ADAPTIVE CHUNK SCHEDULING FOR PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - A method and apparatus are described for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving a message from a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all peers in the peer-to-peer network. Also described are a method and apparatus for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving one of a message and content from one of a content source server and a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, storing the received content, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all other peers in the peer-to-peer network. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195613 | Offline Names Addressing Online Community Web Pages - Avoidance criteria are obtained and used to help prevent offline encounters between members of an online community by limiting online communications between members who share some aspect of offline life, thereby reducing the risk of offline encounters that could otherwise arise from online interaction. For each member of the online community, a system provider obtains one or more avoidance criteria ratified by the member and associates them with the member. Avoidance criteria include aspects of the member's offline life, such as geographic regions in which the member resides or plans to travel, organizations in which the member is active, and other interests and activities of the member. Respective avoidance criteria of different members are compared to determine whether the members share at least one avoidance criterion. Online communication between members who share an avoidance criterion is automatically limited. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195614 | Third Party Delivery of Preferred Perishable Content - A user can specify particular news, weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195615 | SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SERVING CLIENT NODES BASED ON P2P CONNECTIONS - An infrastructure for serving client nodes is disclosed, wherein the infrastructure comprises: a first plurality of service nodes; a second plurality of client nodes; and at least one linking server for providing connecting information to enable the nodes to establish connections between each other, wherein each service node provides service to at least one of the second plurality of client nodes through P2P connections respectively, and a first service node of the first plurality of service nodes acts as a client node to receive service from a second service node of the first plurality of service nodes. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195616 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING PLAYED CONTENT OF APPLICATION - A method, a device and a system for sharing content being played by an application are provided. To share the content, the application may generate content position information of the content being currently played. An application platform system may generate a position information address according to the content position information, and further may form a sharing address by combining the position information address with an access address of the shared content. The sharing address may be published through a sharing channel. If and when a receiver clicks the sharing address, an application platform system of the receiver may extract the content position information therefrom. The content position information may be sent to an application of the local application platform system for parsing. The local application program may play, according to the parsed content position information, the shared content provided by the access address. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195617 | Retained Data Handling at Differentiated Response Times - The present invention relates to a method for handling response times in a communication system comprising at least one data retention system ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140201269 | PERSONALIZING A SOCIAL NETWORKING PROFILE PAGE - A computer network comprising a number of user devices and a preferences control module, in which the preferences control module receives user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receives data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and distinguishes a number of artifacts on the owner's social networking profile from other artifacts on the profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile. A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201270 | DISTRIBUTED COMMENT MODERATION - A distributed comment moderation service is arranged to help mediate the moderation of blog comments using a (for example) centralized moderation queue. The centralized moderation queue can be used to automatically (including semi-automatically) outsource blog comment moderation to third party resource providers. The distributed comment moderation service is optionally arranged to provide an indication of an assessment of the quality of the third party resource providers. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201271 | USER GENERATED RATING BY MACHINE CLASSIFICATION OF ENTITY - Methods and systems for improving user generated ratings by machine classification of an entity are disclosed. Customer rating systems can be analyzed and the corresponding entity interaction on social media networks can be observed. A humanness rating (H value) can be assigned to an entity. The humanness rating can be determined from a multivariate function. The function's variables can be measurements of the entity's behavior on one or more social networks. The variables can be intrinsic to the entity. The variables can be based on account activity information. The variables can be based on social network information. The multivariate function can be implemented as a Bayesian classifier. The multivariate function can be implemented as a neural net. A calculated H value can be used to weigh ratings by an entity. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201272 | ADJUSTING THE DISPLAY OF SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES TO VARYING DEGREES OF RICHNESS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND IMPORTANCE OF THE UPDATE - A method, system and computer program product for adjusting a display of social media updates to varying degrees of richness. A level of importance for each social media update is identified and assigned to the update. The importance of the social media update can be defined by various aspects, such as topics or people of interest to the user. Furthermore, a current condition of a user's environment (e.g., current workload of the user) is determined. The social media updates are then displayed in a social networking feed with a particular degree of richness at a particular location based on the level of importance of the social media updates, the current condition of the user's environment, and/or the user's interactions with existing updates currently displayed. In this manner, the amount of time required by the user to determine which updates are important to the user is reduced. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201273 | TRANSMISSION FILTERING PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE - A processor for filtering message traffic between communication systems may include an input buffer storing an input message and an output buffer. The processor may also include a memory interface communicatively coupled to a filter rule table that includes message filter rules for verifying input messages received by the input buffer and build output message rules for constructing output messages based on the input messages received by the input buffer. The processor may additionally include a message filter state machine circuit communicatively coupled to the input buffer that applies the message filter rules to the input message from the input buffer and determines whether the input message conforms to each of the message filter rules. The processor may further include a build output message state machine circuit that constructs an output message based on the input message and causes the output message to be stored in the output buffer. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201274 | CYBER OR REAL COMMUNITY SCHEDULER SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING METHOD IN CYBER OR REAL COMMUNITY - Disclosed are a cyber or real community scheduler system and a scheduling method in a cyber or real community which can automatically implement meeting scheduling in a cyber or real community. A cyber or real community scheduler system includes a member information management server for distinguishing a plurality of cyber or real communities established in an SNS site from one another and managing and storing information on members of the cyber or real communities and an SNS server for providing SNS to the members of each of the cyber or real communities based on the information on the members of the cyber or real communities. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A CONVERSATION FOR A MEETING SESSION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method is provided and includes receiving conversation precondition information associated with a meeting session in a network environment, determining, after a beginning of the meeting session, conversation precondition status information of at least one collaboration criteria indicated by the conversation precondition information, and causing a meeting client program to provide a representation of the conversation precondition status information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201276 | ACCUMULATION OF REAL-TIME CROWD SOURCED DATA FOR INFERRING METADATA ABOUT ENTITIES - Various technologies pertaining to crowd sourcing data about an entity, such as a business, are described. Additionally, technologies pertaining to inferring metadata about the entity based upon crowd sourced data are described. A sensor in a mobile computing device is activated responsive to a user of the mobile computing device checking in at an entity. Metadata, such as occupancy at the entity, noise at the entity, and the like is inferred using the data captured by the sensor. A search result for the entity includes the metadata. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201277 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONTEXTUAL COLLABORATIVE UPDATES FOR RECURRING MEETINGS - A method of informing a first entity of an activity of a second entity. The activity of the second entity during a period between a first time and a second time is tracked, the period between the first time and the second time being between a time of a first meeting and a time of a second meeting. The activity includes a change made by the second entity that is associated with a task, and the tracking is performed by a processor of a computer system. The first entity is informed of the activity of the second entity based on the tracking. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for computing device communications. According to an example implementation of the disclosed technology, a method is provided that can include determining a status and capability of at least one selected computing device, and sending a generated message to the at least one selected computing device. The at least one selected computing device is configured to retrieve content from a source identified by a uniform resource identifier in the message, and the at least one selected computing device is further configured to present the retrieved content. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACT MERGE MANAGEMENT - In various example embodiments, a system and method for contact merge management is provided. In example embodiments, a contact management system detects that a first contact list of a first user has a first contact including a first value and a second contact including a second value. The contact management system identifies that at least one further user is associated with a further contact list that has a third contact including the first value and the second value. Based on the identifying of the third contact including the first value and the second value, the contact management system causes an automatic merge of the first contact and the second contact in the first contact list into a single contact. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201280 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESUMING GROUP OWNER RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS CONNECTIONS - Systems and methods are described herein for managing the group owner assignments for a peer-to-peer wireless network. The peer-to-peer wireless network may include a group owner that acts as access point for the remaining group members. The group owner generates a succession plan to transfer the group owner role to one of the group members if the group owner departs the peer-to-peer wireless network, either voluntarily or involuntarily. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201281 | Social Network for Mobile Nodes - A social network may be established between mobile nodes using a wireless connection. Establishing the social network may be based on an estimated time duration of the wireless connection. In one or more embodiments, establishing the social network may also be based on a similarity of interests among of users of the nodes. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201282 | Network-based quick connect meeting service - A network-accessible service enables participating end users to collaborate with one another over a network. End users have computing devices that include hardware and software to enable the device to access a network. The service provides a publicly-available site or a local software application from which a first participating user initiates a “meeting,” e.g., by selecting a “share” button. In response, the site or software application provides an HTTP link that includes a “meeting” code, which may be a one-time unique code. The first participating user then shares the link with whomever he or she desires to collaborate. Upon receiving the link, a second participating user joins the meeting “on-the-fly” by simply selecting the link or navigating to the site and entering the “meeting” code. The service connects the second participating user to the meeting immediately and without requiring any registration, software download, or the like. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201283 | PERSONALIZING A SOCIAL NETWORKING PROFILE PAGE - A method of personalizing a social networking profile page within a computer network, the method comprising receiving user preferences from an owner of a social network profile, receiving data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile, and differentiating artifacts available on the owner's social networking profile based on the user preferences and data describing a viewer of the owner's social networking profile. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201284 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND SERVER - There is provided a technique to assist operation in a social network system. An information processing device includes a motion data acquirer that acquires motion data of a user, a motion data comparator that compares the motion data acquired by the motion data acquirer with comparative motion data, and an operation executor that executes predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result of the motion data comparator. An information processing method includes acquiring motion data of a user, comparing the acquired motion data with comparative motion data, and executing predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201285 | CONTENT SHARING METHOD BASED ON SCHEDULE ORGANIZER APPLICATION - A schedule organizer application-based content sharing method and apparatus are provided for sharing content generated in an environment fulfilling conditions of a schedule registered with the schedule organizer application among a group of sharers. The method includes configuring sharers for sharing a schedule and information on the schedule, detecting content generated in an environment fulfilling conditions of the schedule, and transmitting the content to the sharers. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201286 | ATTACHING SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION TO OBJECTS AND CONTENT USING MARKERS - An information attachment system is described herein that attaches supplemental information to objects or digital content so that any party interested in those objects or content will go to the same place to find the supplemental information shared by others. Most objects have numerous interested parties that will interact with the object. Manufacturers and authors often place markers on objects and content for their own purposes. However, other interested parties also have information related to the object or content that they want to share. The system allows interested parties, often other than the original content author or manufacturer of the object, to associate information with the object by leveraging markers placed on the object by the manufacturer or original content author. In this way, the original marker serves as a kind of meeting place for all of the interested parties to share information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201287 | Method, Apparatus and System for Social Networking - A method, apparatus and system for social networking is provided. In an embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of mobile devices that can directly connect to each other via a peer-to-peer connection. The devices can additionally connect to a server. The server maintains a profile schema which can be used to generate profiles for users for each of the mobile devices. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201288 | INTERACTION USING CONTENT - A method, computer-readable medium and system for interacting using content are disclosed. A web response may be executed on a first computer system and/or another computer system associated with the first computer system responsive to the initiation of a call over a voice channel between the first computer system and a second computer system. The web response may include automatically downloading content over a data channel so that it can be automatically presented at the first computer system and/or another computer system associated with the first computer system. The content may include video, audio, information from a social networking website, a blog, other content, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, more and/or different types of content can be used to communicate with callers by causing content to be presented in conjunction with communication over a voice channel. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207860 | CATEGORIZING STORIES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM NEWS FEED - A social networking system generates stories based on actions taken by entities of the social networking system. The system applies a set of rules to the stories to categorize each story and displays the news feed as multiple sections, each displaying a category of generated stories. A story may be categorized according to its content and/or the user associated with the story. In addition to stories about a user's direct connections, stories may be generated by the user's soft connections. Supplemental content may be generated based on a section of the newsfeed currently being accessed and displayed in a related content unit adjacent to a news feed section. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207861 | ACCESS CONTROL POLICIES ASSOCIATED WITH FREEFORM METADATA - Approaches are described for security and access control for computing resources. Various embodiments utilize metadata, e.g., tags that can be applied to one or more computing resources (e.g., virtual machines, host computing devices, applications, databases, etc.) to control access to these and/or other computing resources. In various embodiments, the tags and access control policies described herein can be utilized in a multitenant shared resource environment. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207862 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATING IN A NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING SYSTEM USING LOCATION INFORMATION - A collaboration system for sharing data in a non-destructive testing (NDT) system may include a first computing device that may receive data that has been acquired using one or more NDT inspection devices. The first computing device may then establish a communication connection between itself and some other computing device such that the communication connection may enable the first computing device to share data with the other computing device. After establishing the communication connection, the first computing device may determine location information that corresponds to the data. Using the location information, the first computing device may then determine one or more assets that correspond to the data. The first computing device may then identify information associated with the assets and display the information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207863 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A WEB-BASED APPLICATION AND A DESKTOP APPLICATION - New functionality to be added to a web-based application and a desktop application is expressed as declarative and/or procedural code that a conventional rendering engine of the web-based application and the desktop application can use to directly update the state of the applications. Users need not update client-side components—such as the desktop application and/or any plug-ins used by the browser hosting the web-based application—to take advantage of new types of functionality. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207864 | Method for Maintaining a Parental Control Online Profile for a Child - A method for maintaining a parental control online profile for a child is executed through a user account and a social network system, wherein the social network system includes a plurality of user accounts. The user account can access at least one child profile, and the at least one child profile is completed a plurality of photographs which creates a timeline for the at least one child profile. The user account is able select and execute a plurality of additional features for the at least one child profile, where each of the plurality of additional features associates with different output. Even though the parents control the at least one child profile, once the child reaches a predetermine age, the child is able to fully control his or her own child profile. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207865 | DYNAMICALLY AGGREGATING AND CONFIGURING ACCESS TO SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTACTS - Embodiments dynamically aggregate and configure access to social networking contacts. A server system receives information from one or more users enrolled into the server system. The information includes a list of social networking accounts of which each of the users is a member, and a visibility status associated with each of social networking accounts. The server system provides a first list of social networking accounts having a first visibility status of a first user of the server system to a second user of the server system when the second user has a second list of social networking accounts that corresponds to the first list of social networking accounts that is set to the same visibility status as the first visibility status of the first list of social networking accounts. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207866 | CONTENT SURFACING BASED ON GEO-SOCIAL FACTORS - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, calculates a novelty score for the location representing the user's degree of familiarity, and surfaces content within a geographic and temporal radius based on the novelty score for display to the user. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207867 | Multi-User and Multi-Device Collaboration - Multi-user, multi-computing device collaborative work experience is provided. One or more computing devices, including wired and wireless personal computers, laptop computers, servers, handheld mobile computing devices, for example, mobile telephones, tablet type computers, slate type computers and the like, may be linked together to allow users of such devices to engage in a collaborative work session. Information for each user engaged in the collaborative work session may be displayed on the one or more devices along with any content such as agenda items, documents, data, images, and the like. User participation may be tracked, and information on user participation, work session communications and content may be stored for subsequent use. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207868 | PEER-TO-PEER EXCHANGE OF DATA RESOURCES IN A CONTROL SYSTEM - System(s) and method(s) are provided for peer-to-peer exchange of data in a control system. Decentralized storage and multi-access paths provide complete sets of data without dependence on a specific or pre-defined data source or access paths. Data is characterized as data resources with disparate granularity. The control system includes a plurality of layers that act as logic units communicatively coupled through access network(s). Server(s) resides in a service layer, whereas client(s) associated with respective visualization terminal(s) are part of a visualization layer. Peer-to-peer distribution of data resource(s) can be based on available access network(s) resources and optimization of response time(s) in the control system. When client requests a data resource, all the locations of the data resource and the quickest source to retrieve it are automatically determined. The client stores copy of data resource. Peer-to-peer distribution of data resource(s) can be implemented within the service layer or the visualization layer. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207869 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING AN APPLICATION IDENTIFIED BY A SENSOR - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to facilitate the receipt and parsing of the data provided by a sensor with little, if any, user involvement. In the context of a method, a message, such as a measurement report, is received that includes or is associated with data provided by a sensor. The message includes an application identifier. The method also includes launching an application identified by the application identifier and then parsing the data provided by the sensor with the application. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214929 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Disclosed is a method and system for sharing content between a plurality of electronic devices including identifying an event and detecting one or more electronic devices based on the identified event. Electronic content is obtained from one or more of the electronic devices related to the event and provided to one or more output devices based on a comparison. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214930 | CHANGING SETTINGS - A computing system is able to modify one or more settings controlling the operation of an interactive application system. The interactive application system is configured with a plurality of accounts to enable, at least, attribution and authorization by the interactive application system of interactions with the interactive application system. One or more settings control the operation of the interactive application system with regards to the interactions and the accounts. The computing system is configured to receive a plurality of inputs in relation to a first setting of the one or more settings, the inputs being associated with different ones of the plurality of the accounts. The computing system then correlates the plurality of inputs and modifies the first setting in dependence on the correlated inputs. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214931 | INTEGRATING SOCIAL-NETWORKING INFORMATION - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message associated with a user at an information exchange system. At least one correspondent associated with the user may be determined, based on the message. A social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent may be assessed with respect to a social-networking system. The information exchange system may provide an interface for display to the user, the interface comprising information associated with the message. If the social connection is confirmed, the interface may include social-networking information associated with the at least one correspondent. Otherwise, the interface may provide functionality to create a social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent with respect to the social-networking system. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214932 | PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB PORTAL AND A METHOD OF REGISTERING THEREIN - The present invention discloses a professional social networking web portal exclusively for professionals, which confirms registration upon verifying the professional identification information of a member. The social networking web portal includes profiles of registered members including verified professional identification information, a database containing profile information and the professional identification information of all the verified members, a search application that allows a first verified member to discover desired verified members and relevant information based on predetermined search criteria, and a communication platform that allows the first verified member to communicate with the other verified members. Such communications may be exclusively secured within a predefined professional group or shared to other predefined professional groups or all professional groups based on user preference. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214933 | Method and Apparatus for Vehicular Social Networking - A system includes a processor configured to communicate with a remote server to receive a list of friends who are currently driving their respective vehicles. The processor is also configured to display the list of friends in a selectable manner. The processor is further configured to receive selection of one or more friends from the list and send data to the remote server to be shared with the one or more selected friends. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214934 | Composition Engine as a Service - A method includes: providing a composition engine as a service configured to receive requests from multiple service consumers using any of multiple service consumer protocols; receiving a first request in the composition engine as a service conforming to a service consumer protocol from a service consumer operated by a customer; generating a second request to each of one or more provider systems, the second request conforming to a provider system protocol, the composition engine as a service configured to generate requests conforming to any of multiple provider system protocols; receiving, by the composition engine as a service, information from the provider system, and adapting the received information to conform to the service consumer protocol; and exposing, by the composition engine as a service, a web service that makes the adapted information available to the service consumer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214935 | Managing Content Across Different Device Types - A method, system or computer usable program product for automatically navigating content on different devices using markers including identifying a set of device types for receiving content stored in memory, utilizing a processor to provide markers to the content, the markers being selective by device type, and displaying on a display a portion of the content on each device type according to the provided markers. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214936 | IDENTIFYING SUBGRAPHS IN TRANSFORMED SOCIAL NETWORK GRAPHS - A graph of a social network is received. The graph may include a node for each user account and an edge between nodes that represent social networking relationships such as messages between the user accounts or a friend relationship. The graph is transformed into a transformed graph where nodes have direct edges depending on a local test among its neighbors in the original graph. Small subsets of the transformed graph are categorized. The categories are used to identify subgraphs in the transformed graph. Each subgraph is grown by adding an edge from the transformed graph to the subgraph depending on local tests among nodes associated with the edge that have at least one edge that is already in the subgraph. The categorized subgraphs are used to provide targeted advertising, suggest new connections, identify different personalities and interests of users, or to provide other services. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214937 | Activity Graphs - The description relates to activity graphs. One example can obtain details from multiple activity cards. The example can identify relationships between at least some of the details of the multiple activity cards. The example can also generate an activity graph that reflects at least some of the relationships between individual activity cards. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214938 | IDENTIFYING PARTICIPANTS FOR COLLABORATION IN A THREAT EXCHANGE COMMUNITY - Identifying participants for collaboration in a threat exchange community can include receiving security data from a plurality of participants at a threat exchange server within the threat exchange community; and in response to receiving from a first participant from the plurality of participants security data associated with a security occurrence, identifying at the threat exchange server the first participant and a second participant from the plurality of participants for collaboration based on characteristics of the first participant and the second participant. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214939 | NETWORK DISCOVERY USING UNICAST COMMUNICATIONS - A first printer acquires a first network address from an external server using unicast (non-broadcast) transmissions. Then, second printers and an external computerized device also acquire the first network address from the external server, similarly using unicast transmissions. The second printers contact (e.g., say “hello” to) the first printer using a peer-to-peer network. The external computerized device contacts (again using unicast transmissions) the first printer using the first network address to cause the first printer to transmit a list of the second printers that have contacted the first printer to the external computerized device. The external computerized device then contacts (again using unicast transmissions) the second printers using the list of contacted printers (which includes network address information of the second printers) to allow the external computerized device to configure the second printers | 07-31-2014 |
20140214940 | NETWORKED DEVICES MATCHING CAPABILITIES WITH TASKS - Devices in a local network can cooperatively share functionality by advertising their available services and current service needs with an agent being executed in the network. The network can be automatically configured by device discovery or manually configured by a user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214941 | CONTACT PRIORITIZATION AND ASSIGNMENT USING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A prioritizing entity prioritizes external contacts using a social network and determines people at the external contact who may influence execution of a given matter. The prioritizing entity also prioritizes internal resources with respect to the prioritized external contacts based on social proximity to people at the external contact, also by using the social network. The prioritizing entity assigns a prioritized internal resource to a prioritized external. Prioritizing external contacts includes ranking the external contacts based on an estimate of the amounts individual external contacts could spend on a given matter. Prioritizing internal resources includes determining explicit connections and inferred connections with people at the external contact, using the social network. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214942 | BUILDING A SEMANTICS GRAPH FOR AN ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Building a semantics graph for an enterprise communication network can include extracting a first signifier and a second signifier from the enterprise communication network, determining a semantic proximity of the first signifier and the second signifier using an engine executing computer readable instructions, and building the semantics graph, wherein the first signifier and the second signifier are represented as nodes connected by an edge representing the semantic proximity of the first signifier and the second signifier. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214943 | NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITY AND PROFILE TRIGGERS - An embodiment searches a social network for at least one trigger event, detects one or more trigger events, and communicates the detected one or more trigger events as an alert. Searching the social network comprises searching member profiles and searching member activities. Detected one or more trigger events are centralized into a sortable list and prioritized based on business entities and the importance of the trigger events to persons related to the business entities. The centralized sortable list is fed into a customer relations management system which presents the alerts on a user interface. A plurality of types of triggers includes people updates, company updates, product purchases, and product usage. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214944 | INCORPORATION OF CONTENT FROM AN EXTERNAL FOLLOWED USER WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A following user follows a followed user on a third-party application. The followed user may additionally approve the inclusion of content posted by the followed user on the third-party application within an account of any following users on the social networking system. Subsequent postings by the followed user on the third-party application cause the third-party application to notify the social networking system of the posting. The social networking system in turn incorporates the posting of the followed user on the third-party application into a user interface that it displays to the following user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214945 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM A SOCIAL GRAPH - A method, system and article of manufacture for determining a global hierarchy of an entity by computing subjective coherence strength between nodes of first members of a social network service, computing objective entanglement strength between nodes of second members of the social network service, using subjective coherence strength and objective entanglement strength, compute the pairwise latent relationship probabilities between different ones of the nodes of the social network service, and using the pairwise relationship probabilities, compute the global hierarchy relationship. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214946 | BATCH CONNECT - Disclosed in some examples is a method including determining a set of recommended connections for a member of a social networking service based upon a recommendation criteria; presenting the set of recommended connections to the member; receiving from the member a selection of a set of target members; and for each particular member in the set of target members: determining a second set of recommended connections for the particular target member, the second set of recommended connections based upon the recommendation criteria and based upon the set of target members; and sending a notification to the particular member, the notification including the second set of recommended connections. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214947 | PRESENTING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Systems and methods for generating and presenting visual representations associated with profiles of members of social networks are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods access member profile information associated with a member of a social network render a visual representation of the accessed member profile information that includes a first visual representation layer associated with a first category of the member profile information and a second visual representation layer associated with a second category of the member profile information, and presents via a user interface the rendered visual representation of the accessed member profile information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214948 | ELASTIC LOGICAL GROUPS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214949 | FORMING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION GROUP BASED ON PRIOR COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, logical relationship information between a first user and other users are recorded. Communications between the first users and other users are monitored, and content is received from the first user, the content having associated metadata. A first group to add the first user to is determined based on the logical relationship information, the communications, the content, and the metadata. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214950 | ADDING USER TO LOGICAL GROUP BASED ON CONTENT - Systems and methods for the transmission of content are provided. A user group is defined and a group data structure corresponding to the user group is stored. An item of content is received and stored as a child data structure of a parent data structure of the group data structure. In response to this storage, the item of content is automatically transmitted to all other users of the user group | 07-31-2014 |
20140214951 | DETERMINING LOGICAL GROUPS BASED ON BOTH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE ACTIVITIES OF USER - Systems and methods for adding a first user to a first group of users are presented. First, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Then potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on the logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module, the scores based at least partially on both passive and active interactions between the first user and other users, the first group of users containing a plurality of users, including one or more users who are not logically connected to the first user. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214952 | COASTING MODULE TO REMOVE USER FROM LOGICAL GROUP - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message received at a user device from a server system, the message indicating that a user of the user device has been added to a logical group of users. Then content may be transmitted from the user device to the server system for distribution to the logical group of users. Then, in response to determination that the user device has been out of communication with the server system for a predetermined period of time a determination is made, utilizing a coasting module on the user device, that the user should be removed from the logical group of users based on a factor other than a length of time the user device has been out of communication with the server system. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214953 | USER DEVICE GROUP FORMATION - Systems and methods for adding a first user to a first group of users are presented. First, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Then potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on the logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module, the scores based at least partially on a loneliness score for the first user. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214954 | ADDING USER TO LOGICAL GROUP BASED ON SCORING OF GROUPS - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214955 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHODS FOR FACILITATINGONE-WAY ORDERING OF MESSAGES - Methods, apparatus and systems for facilitating one-way ordering of otherwise independent message classes. A one-way message ordering mechanism facilitates one-way ordering of messages of different message classes sent between interconnects employing independent pathways for the message classes. In one aspect, messages of a second message class may not pass messages of a first message class. Moreover, when messages of the first and second classes are received in sequence, the ordering mechanism ensures that messages of the first class are forwarded to, and received at, a next hop prior to forwarding messages of the second class. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SESSIONS OF DIFFERENT WEBSITES - A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product manages sessions of different websites. Respective session identifiers of a plurality of websites are recorded, where each of the respective session identifiers of the plurality of websites identifies a session established in response to a page open operation for a respective website, and where pages of the plurality of websites are integrated into one page on one website. An operation request for a page of a first website of the plurality of websites is received. In response to receiving the operation request, a session synchronization request message that requests that a session of the first website be synchronized with sessions of the plurality of websites is generated and transmitted from the first website to other websites from the plurality of websites. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214957 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DATA TRANSMISSION PROGRAM PERFORMED BY COMPUTER - A data processing device is provided with a job accepting portion to accept a job to transmit data to a transmission destination defined in relation to a transmission-destination user, a candidate deciding portion to decide on one or more cloud services in which an operating user who inputted the job has an account to be a candidate service, a service deciding portion to decide on a candidate service which is accessible by the transmission-destination user among one or more candidate services decided, to be an accessible service, and a data transmission portion to store the data in the decided accessible service as well as to transmit access information for accessing the data stored in the accessible service to the transmission destination for the transmission-destination user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214958 | HYBRID UNICAST/MULTICAST DNS-BASED SERVICE DISCOVERY - This document describes a “hybrid proxy,” which is a network node that enables hosts outside of a link to discover services that are available on the link, by answering service discovery queries from hosts outside of the link. A hybrid proxy may use “zero configuration” networking technologies such as Multicast Domain Name System (mDNS), Domain Name System-Service Discovery (DNS-SD), and/or Domain Name System Long-Lived Queries (DNS-LLQ). As one example, a hybrid proxy may receive a unicast DNS-SD query, transmit a corresponding mDNS query on its link to obtain information responsive to the query, and then transmit a unicast DNS-SD response to the querying host. As another example, a hybrid proxy may receive a unicast DNS-LLQ query, transmit an initial DNS-LLQ answer to the querying host, transmit an mDNS query on its link to obtain additional information, and then transmit subsequent DNS-LLQ update messages to the querying host. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214959 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for managing relationships on a social networking environment. In particular, establishing an augmented relationship connection between a first user account and a second user account in response to the setting of a first user augmented relationship indicator and the setting of a second user augmented relationship indicator. Existence of the augmented relationship connection enables additional functionality for interaction between the first user account and the second user account within the social networking environment. However, the setting of the augmented relationship indicator by the first user to indicate the second user is not discoverable by the second user prior to the second user independently setting their own augmented relationship indicator to indicate the first user, and vice versa. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214960 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TARGETING QUERY MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL GRAPH - Techniques for communicating a query message to a target audience within a social graph are described. Consistent with some embodiments, content to be published as a query message is received. The content may be published on behalf of a first member of a social graph maintained by a social network system. Further, a selection of a skill attribute capable of being listed with one or more members of the social network service is also received. A second member of the social graph is identified based on the second member listing the selected skill attribute. Responsive to identifying the second member, the content from the query message is then published in a personalized content stream accessible to the second member. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214961 | Methods and systems for continuous compilation of non-interactive video with supplemental renderings of interactive content to produce real-time, personalized video for individuals and/or groups in a shared experience - The invention is a method for real-time compilation of linear non-interactive media content (multicast/unicast video and/or audio) along with supplemental interactive-content to create new linear media content. The invention includes the systems and processes to support the creation and/or integration of the supplemental interactive-content via interactive-devices controlled by consuming participants of the compilation, and where the compilation is presented as a single linear media with or without further interaction, and each consumer of the compilation is capable of receiving and/or influencing uniquely personalized supplemental content to be utilized in the compilation. The invention combines computer servers, computer networks, human and computer processes, registration and management computer-interfaces, and multi-modality-media compilation servers. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214962 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE MEETING ROOM - A different unique identification is assigned to each of a plurality of users for establishing conference sessions. A different dedicated virtual private session room is allocated to each of the plurality of users for use in multiple conference sessions. The different unique identification is assigned to the different dedicated virtual private session room for each user. Conferencing resources of a network over which conference sessions are provided are dynamically allocated to the conference sessions to obtain expected levels of service for the conference sessions, based on the users logging in to the conference sessions. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214963 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SHARING IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide method, server and system for data sharing in a social networking service (SNS), and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the system to perform the method for data sharing the SNS. The method includes upon detecting that an account is logged into through a first terminal, establishing a connection of communications to the first terminal; if the account is currently logged into from multiple points, associating an address identifier of the first terminal with an address identifier of at least one second terminal logging into the account, so as to obtain mapping relationship information; and according to the mapping relationship information, forwarding received data of the first terminal to the at least one second terminal, and forwarding received data of the at least one second terminal to the first terminal. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-AWARE PARTICIPANT MANAGEMENT - System and method to manage an electronic conference hosted by a conference server coupled to a processor and a memory, the method including: receiving, by a communication interface of the conference server, a request from a user to participate in an electronic conference; determining, by the processor, resources needed by the user and resources needed by the electronic conference; determining resource contentions among resources needed by the user and resources needed by the electronic conference; collecting contextual information related to at least one of the user and resources needed by the electronic conference; and resolving, by the processor, contentions among resources needed by the user and resources needed by the electronic conference. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222908 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A LOCATION-BASED ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method of managing an online social network having a plurality of neighborhoods. The system may receive a location from a user, and select, based on the location, a neighborhood from the plurality of neighborhoods. The system may further assign the user to the selected neighborhood and grant the user access to communications by users assigned to the selected neighborhood. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222909 | Methods and systems for pairing rivals in a social network. - A method, system and computer program for operating a social network. The method may include generating and recording social rival relationships. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222910 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DESTINATION MANAGEMENT MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a content delivery system includes: detecting a user's behavior; calculating an adjustment weight based on the user's behavior; selecting a content destination based on the adjustment weight for sharing a content to the content destination; and generating a destination group based on the content destination for displaying on a device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222911 | IDENTIFYING INTERACTIONS BY SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS WITH IDENTIFIED ACTIONS PERFORMED OUTSIDE OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Third-party systems outside of a social networking system allow a user of the third-party systems that is also a user of the social networking system to perform an action on the third-party system that are communicated to the social-networking system. Additional actions on the third-party system may be associated with the action. These additional actions are communicated to the social networking system, which identifies the action from the third-party system and associates the additional actions with the identified action. The social networking system may notify the user that performed the action of the additional actions. Also, the social networking system may notify additional social networking system users of the action and of additional actions on the third-party system associated with the action. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222912 | Varying User Interface Based on Location or Speed - In one embodiment, a mobile computing device may determine a current location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may, in response to determining the current location and without manual user input, modify a user interface of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the current location. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222913 | FACILITATING GENERATION OF USER CONTENT FOR AGGREGATED STORY UNITS - A social networking system aggregates two or more stories having at least one common characteristic to create an aggregated story unit. Each story describes an action performed on an object over the social networking system or external to the social networking system. The aggregated story unit includes one or more input elements allowing a viewing user to interact with the aggregate story unit as a whole or with individual stories in the aggregated story unit. The input elements included in the aggregated story unit may be based on the types of the actions or of the objects described by stories in the aggregated story unit and on one or more input policies. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222914 | SYNCHRONIZING USER RELATIONSHIP ACROSS COMPUTER SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTING WORKSPACES - Computer-implemented methods, computer software, and computer systems for synchronizing user relationship across computer systems implementing workspaces. A computer system that provides features accessible by users by executing a workspace is accessed. Features provided to the users by remaining computer systems depends on the relationships between the users. A triggering event that represents a change to the computer workspace—for example, addition or removal or a user in the workspace, addition or removal of content in the workspace—is detected. Features provided to a first user by the remaining computer systems is affected by the change. Changes in relationships between the first user and the remaining users responsive to the change are determined, and provided to one or more of the remaining computer systems as respective messages that include the changes in the relationships. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222915 | SNS CONTENTS INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR A PLURALITY OF SNS CHANNELS - Provided is a terminal. A terminal includes: a memory storing media contents uploadable into a plurality of SNS channels; and a control unit updating arbitrary media contents stored in the memory into the plurality of SNS channels, categorizing each media contents and information on each SNS channel into which corresponding media contents are uploaded and integrally managing the categorized media contents and information, writing a comment on an SNS channel into which each corresponding media contents are uploaded by each media contents on a designated menu screen, and displaying a response to corresponding media contents. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222916 | COLLABORATION SYSTEM INCLUDING A SPATIAL EVENT MAP - A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222917 | Sharable Reference to Shared Content in a Cloud Storage - Clickable links are created and shared between collaborators sharing files to quickly refer to a specific file or folder, without having to transfer or bundle the actual file or folder. The links created are location agnostic; they can be used by any of the members regardless of where the shared files are located on their own device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTS' CONNECTION AND COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - A method implemented by a server in communication with a client for supporting an online communication platform for parents of children enrolled at a school. The method includes receiving a class search request from the client describing class search criteria. The server sends a set of virtual classes associated with the selected virtual school that match the class search criteria. The server receives a selection of a virtual class from the client where the virtual class responds to a real-world class offered during an academic term. The server adds a user as a member of the virtual class. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222919 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER CAX EDITING CONFLICT MANAGEMENT - A multi-user CAx editing system may comprise a plurality of editing clients and a collaborative editing server. The server and editing clients may be collectively configured to: a) assign a feature to a first user, detect an attempt to edit the feature by a second user, and reassign the feature to the second user if the first user indicates that the feature may be reassigned, and/or b) detect an editing conflict between a first and second user for a feature and send a reversion request for the feature to one or more clients and/or c) initiate changes for a feature within a remote instance of the electronic model edited by another user and initiate reversion of the changes for the feature within a local instance of the electronic model in response to determining that the changes to the feature within the remote instance of the electronic model generated an error. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222920 | System and Method For Managing Online Messages Using Trust Values - A computer-implemented method for managing text inputted by a user in an online communication program comprises: communicating with a user computing device or online communication program server to receive text inputted by the user; assigning a trust value to the inputted text, wherein the assigned trust value is one of least three trust values on a continuum of trust values comprising a first trust value associated with acceptable behaviour, a second trust value associated with unacceptable behaviour, and a third trust value associated with indeterminate behaviour; determining available responses to the inputted text based on the assigned trust value and rules specified in a user trust matrix; and sending a response selected from the determined available responses to the user computing device or online communication program server. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222921 | THIRD-PARTY SESSION MODIFICATION - The present invention relates to a method, system, client device, conference server device and computer program product of controlling media composition in a multi-party conversation involving a central control point ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140222922 | CONTENT CONTROL DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTENT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A content control device is provided with a receiving content accumulation unit which accumulates contents received from a terminal device connected via a network, an operation history information managing unit which manages operation history information indicative of a history on operations with respect to a first content accumulated in the receiving content accumulation unit, and a content control unit which generates control information for controlling a second content based on the operation history information, the second content corresponding to the first content and accumulated in the terminal device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222923 | BIFURCATED CONFERENCING FUNCTIONS - A source conference function is provided for each source device, and a destination conference function is provided for each destination device. Any given user terminal may act as both a destination device when receiving media content and a source device when sending media content to facilitate bidirectional conferencing. The source device generates media content, which is sent to the associated source conference function. In general, the source conference function identifies destination conference functions to which the media content should be delivered, and delivers the media content to the identified destination conference functions. Any given destination conference function receives the media content from this and other source conference functions. The media content received from all or select of the source conference functions may be processed by the destination conference function as desired, and then mixed together to form destination media content, which is delivered to the destination device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDITING A CONVERSATION IN A HOSTED CONVERSATION SYSTEM - A method, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing programs for execution by the one or more processors, identifies a conversation including a plurality of participants. A sequence of edits to a content unit in a plurality of content units of the conversation is obtained from a first participant in the plurality of participants to produce a revised content unit. While a second participant of the plurality of participants is providing or editing a portion of the content unit, or viewing the portion of the content unit, the following conditions are imposed. When the second participant is a team member, the conversation is updated for the second participant with the revised content unit by providing the revised content unit to the second participant. When the second participant is a non-team member, updating the conversation for the second participant with the revised content unit is delayed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222925 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR ADDING A FRIEND IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The current application describes adding a friend in a social network. A friend adding request corresponding to a first user identification is obtained. Further, a second user identification is obtained according to the friend adding request. The invention then obtains a group that includes the first user identification and the second user identification. A verification request is generated according to information corresponding to the first user identification and sent to a terminal corresponding to the second user identification. After a friend adding confirmation request corresponding to the second user identification is obtained, the second user identification is added to a friend list corresponding to the first user identification. The current application also describes a device and a storage medium for adding a friend in a social network. The invention of the current application improves the operation convenience of adding a friend. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222926 | COMPUTERIZED MATCHING AND INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed are systems and methods relating to an automated or semi-automated arrangement of modules that helps gather, process, display, and coordinate meetings among matches based on a set of predetermined and crowd-sourced traits, values, interests, preferences and activities. Such systems of integrated modules in certain embodiments may be used to rank matches in a variety of applications and situations where participants are identified through tailored criteria that organizers, participants and sponsors determine to be most valuable. Embodiments of the present invention may offer advantages and improvements over prior computer and traditional networking and matching systems because they may provide interactive modules that automatically or semi-automatically combine human expertise with automated data management based on the expertise of an event organizer's event-management strategies with real-time and automated data management. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222927 | METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND CONTENT MODEL FOR THE CREATION, MANAGEMENT, STORAGE, AND PRESENTATION OF DYNAMIC OBJECTS - The invention includes structures and schema for organizing and inter-relating objects, data, or files, including relational, network, hierarchical, and entity-relationship models, among others, that are dynamic, that is changing with time. This includes manipulating structures by conversion, compression, compaction, and compilation, for various purposes. Also included is generating structures for storing, organizing, and managing dynamic objects for retrieval and presentation. A discussion group for collaborative participants is also provided. A time-based dynamic object within a plurality of stored dynamic objects is stored. Each dynamic objects comprises a plurality of predefined attribute fields. Requested dynamic objects are assembled in real time so that the requested dynamic objects are displayed on the basis of the start-time attribute field of each requested dynamic object. A different threaded discussion associated with the each displayed requested dynamic object is provided with each displayed requested dynamic object based on the displayed requested dynamic object's start time. | 08-07-2014 |
20140237037 | System And Method For Modeling And Applying A People Network Representation - A system and method for applying a people network representation to aid contact between a member of an organization and a target individual selects a contact path between the member and the target supported by analysis of the level of interaction between members of the organization based on network communications of the organization. Level of interaction is analyzed using network communications that take into account the recentness and frequency of interactions, such as email, ICQ, or phone interaction. To contact a targeted individual, for instance such as to obtain expertise in a desired area, the model of the people network allows determination of a contact path between the member and the target which improves the likelihood of obtaining the target's expertise. A contact path from a member may include a suggestion to contact the target through one or more intervening organization members. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237038 | Method and Apparatus for Determining an Activity Description - A method comprising receiving a sensor dependent information associated with an activity of a user, determining an activity description based, at least in part, on the sensor dependent information and a description terminology information, and causing communication of the activity description is disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237039 | INTELLIGENTLY DETECTING THE LEADER OF A CO-BROWSING SESSION - Managing a co-browsing session of multiple users where there are multiple roles that each user may have, and each respective user has a role. Software manages a computer system to: (i) monitor the co-browsing session to detect a condition; and (ii) responsive to detection of the condition, change the role(s) of at least one user. The change of role(s) is made automatically and without human intervention. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237040 | SOCIAL NETWORK PRUNING - A social networking service is provided, the social networking service having a user with a social connection to a first contact within a social network of the user and a social connection to a second contact with the social network of the user, wherein the first contact has a separate social connection to the second contact within a social network of the first contact. A computer system determines that the first contact has lowered a strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the first contact. Based, at least in part, on the lowering of the strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the first contact, the computer system recommends, to the user, to lower a strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the user. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237041 | AUTOMATIC FUTURE MEETING SCHEDULER BASED UPON LOCATIONS OF MEETING PARTICIPANTS - In a network that supports communications between client devices and at least one meeting server, a meeting request that includes one or more meeting constraints to be satisfied is monitored prior to scheduling or initiating a meeting between a plurality of meeting participants associated with respective client devices. At least one meeting constraint includes a location constraint that identifies a location for a client device associated with a meeting participant prior to scheduling or initiating the meeting. In response to each meeting constraint being satisfied, including the at least one location constraint, the meeting is automatically scheduled or initiated for the participants via the meeting server. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237042 | ENHANCED NOTIFICATION FOR RELEVANT COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for providing a severity of a notification for a communication. A computing device determines a topic and associated information of a current activity, operating on the computing device. The computing device receives a communication and determines the topic and associated information of the communication. The computing device determines a level of relevance between the topic and associated information of the received communication and the topic and associated information of the current activity. The computing device determines whether the level of relevance exceeds a predefined threshold, and in response to determining that the level of relevance exceeds the predefined threshold, the computing device provides a notification, wherein the severity of the notification for the communication is proportional to the level of relevance. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237043 | DYNAMIC STUNT CARDS USING USER DEVICE DISPLAYS - A server device may receive one or more event instruction schedules. Each of the one or more event instruction schedules may identify one or more events and corresponding instructions. The server may receive location information identifying a location of a user device; identify a particular schedule of the one or more event instruction schedules based on the location; identify an occurrence of an event of the one or more events identified by the particular schedule; identify a particular corresponding instruction for the event; and direct the user device to execute the corresponding instruction based on the occurrence of the of the one or more events. The server device may cause the user device to execute the corresponding instruction to function as a component in a combined display or in a combined sound outputting system having multiple user devices in addition to the user device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237044 | ARCHITECTED DATA TRANSFER - Techniques for architected data transfer are described. A controller maintains a network information database representing overarching knowledge of the network, such as the underlying communication infrastructure, resource consumption limits, and segment locations. The controller uses the information stored in the network information database to direct transmitters to transfer data segments to receivers in a manner that ensures relatively predictable resource consumption. In one approach, the controller receives a request to transfer data to a receiver. The controller, based on the information contained in the network information database, computes an optimal set of transmitters to participate in the transfer. The controller sends each transmitter in the optimal set an instruction assigning that transmitter to transfer one or more segments of the data to the receiver. Each transmitter, upon receiving the instructions, sends their respectively assigned data segments to the receiver. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237045 | EMBEDDING GLOBAL BARRIER AND COLLECTIVE IN A TORUS NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for embedding a global barrier and global interrupt network in a parallel computer system organized as a torus network. The computer system includes a multitude of nodes. In one embodiment, the method comprises taking inputs from a set of receivers of the nodes, dividing the inputs from the receivers into a plurality of classes, combining the inputs of each of the classes to obtain a result, and sending said result to a set of senders of the nodes. Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for embedding a collective network in a parallel computer system organized as a torus network. In one embodiment, the method comprises adding to a torus network a central collective logic to route messages among at least a group of nodes in a tree structure. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237046 | SOCIAL NETWORK PRUNING - A social networking service is provided, the social networking service having a user with a social connection to a first contact within a social network of the user and a social connection to a second contact with the social network of the user, wherein the first contact has a separate social connection to the second contact within a social network of the first contact. A computer system determines that the first contact has lowered a strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the first contact. Based, at least in part, on the lowering of the strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the first contact, the computer system recommends, to the user, to lower a strength of the social connection to the second contact within the social network of the user. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237047 | AUTOMATED COMMAND AND DISCOVERY PROCESS FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - The embodiments disclose a method for automatically communicating a command, received from a command server, to a set of nodes from a plurality of nodes on a network, executing the command on each node in the set of nodes and sending a response message from each node in the set of nodes to the command server indicating a type of executed action, wherein the set of nodes form a plurality of response messages. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237048 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING DATA - A method and an electronic device for sending and receiving data are provided. The method of the electronic device for sending and receiving data includes detecting a communication event of other electronic device, if detecting the communication event, sending information of an application running on the electronic device, to the other electronic device, receiving information of an application running on the other electronic device, from the other electronic device, determining an application execution screen by comparing the application information of the electronic device with the application information received from the other electronic device, and displaying the determined application execution screen. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237049 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A CONSISTENT PROFILE TO OVERLAPPING USER SESSIONS - Just in time delivery of a consistent user profile to overlapping user sessions, where a first user session issues a request for a first file of a user profile to a server agent. Upon receiving the request, the server agent retrieves the first file from a base user profile, and just in time delivers the retrieved first file to the first user session. The user, via a second user session executing simultaneously with the first user session, issues a request to the server agent for the first file and a second file of the user profile. Upon receiving the request, the server agent identifies a modified version of the first file in a provisional user profile, retrieves the modified first file from the provisional user profile and the second file from the base user profile, and just in time delivers both files to the second user session. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237050 | METHOD FOR HIDING ACTIVITY GROUP MEMBER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, SERVER AND TERMINAL - A method at a server system includes: grouping multiple users into an activity group, where each user has a unique identifier across different activity groups; generating, for each user of the activity group, a dynamic identifier within the activity group and a mapping between the dynamic identifier and the user's corresponding unique identifier, where the dynamic identifier may identify different users within different activity groups; receiving an operation instruction from a first user of the activity group, the operation instruction including a first unique identifier associated with the first user; identifying a first dynamic identifier associated with the first user within the activity group based on the first unique identifier associated with the first user; associating with the operation instruction the first dynamic identifier associated with the first user within the activity group; and sending the operation instruction and the first dynamic identifier to the users of the activity group. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237051 | NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR RELAY IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method and system of neighbor to neighbor relay in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing a community network, using a process and a memory, includes obtaining member data associated with a member of the community network from a member repository, and determining a location of a member based on the member data from a geo-spatial repository. A plurality of profiles are obtained corresponding to a plurality of neighbors of the member based on the member data, stored in the member repository, and the location. A member introduction algorithm is used to obtain a subset of members corresponding to a number of neighbors of a member based on member data and location. The member introduction algorithm is used to facilitate the introduction between the member and at least one of the subset of the plurality of members using the neighbor to neighbor relay. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237052 | Dynamically-Created Shared Spaces - In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically create a shared space for posting requests to the social networking system from multiple users based on social, spatial and temporal proximity, and create a news feed corresponding to the shared space. | 08-21-2014 |
20140237053 | USER-GENERATED COMMUNITY PUBLICATION IN AN ONLINE NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL NETWORK - A method of user-generated community publication in an online neighborhood social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprising generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a verified physical location and a privacy setting of the users; automatically generating a community publication based on the article submitted by a community journalist at a periodically occurring interval, wherein the community journalist is a resident of a private neighborhood constrained only to neighbors living in the private neighborhood through the online neighborhood social network; and publishing the community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to an electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available in the private neighborhood of the online neighborhood social network. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244736 | File Sharing in a Social Network - Technical features described herein can be used to construct various embodiments of a file share server implemented over a computer network to serve a social network of users. In one approach, files are uploaded to the file share server by members of a social network based on time and location of creation and related to a particular real world event, either at a physical location or online. Members of a social network then access the file share server, search for the real world event, and retrieve files as desired from the file share server. Secondary files may be created by users that describe other files such as visual files, and may be annotations of the visual files, or aural descriptions of the files to which they relate. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244737 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for providing trivia during a communication session. A method may include determining at least one trivia candidate for a communication session between at least two users. The at least one trivia candidate comprises factual information relevant to a context of the communication session. The method may further include causing the at least one trivia candidate to be proposed to at least one of the users. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244738 | Device, System and Method for Generating Data - A device is described. The device comprising: a first processor and a first display coupled to the first processor, the first processor being configured to generate first display data, pertaining to elements of a first active application currently being executed on the device, for display on the first display, and generate link data pertaining to a subset of the elements of the first active application; wherein the first processor is configured to output the generated link data to a second display. A system and method are also described. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244739 | Device, System and Method for Generating Application Data - A device is described. The device comprises: a display configured to display first application data; a processor configured to communicate with a further device. The processor is further configured to: detect an event associated with the further device and generate, in response to the detected event, first application data pertaining to a display of second application data associated with applications executable on the further device; and output the first application data to the display. A system and method are also described. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244740 | Method for Synchronizing, Monitoring and Capturing of System Host Activities Occurring at Locally Installed Applications - The present invention enables the host (presenter) to monitor and identify the current slide of the host presentation that is being displayed on a local user machine. The host is able to receive queries such as instant messages from local user's viewing the presentation and identify a particular presentation slide with contents that formed the basis for the question. The present invention generates a transcript of the local user activities that occurred during the presentation. This transcript helps the host presenter understand the contents of the activities and the basis for queries made to the host presenter. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244741 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Context-Based APP Searching And APP Use Insights - A computer-implemented system and method for context-based APP searching and APP use insights are disclosed. User data is received from a plurality of mobile devices, each associated with at least one user. The user data includes context discriminators for each user and sensor data regarding the usage of applications on the users' mobile device. The data is stored and analyzed by an engine that identifies a list of names of applications used by each user on the user's mobile device. The engine provides to at least one user insights into applications used by other users by identifying the other users in a similar context to the at least one user based on their discriminators, and providing to the at least one user the names of one or more of the applications on the lists of applications used by the other users in the similar context. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244742 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS USING LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention is directed to system and method for providing recommendation to users using location information. In various embodiments, the present invention provides system that integrates information from user profiles and user-generated content, which can be obtained from a number of social networks, and merchants, to generate recommendations using location information in conjunction with the context of user profiles from various data sources and/or social networks. In certain embodiments, user generated-contents, user profiles and relationships thereof are collected, integrated, analyzed, and stored to allow them to be useful and usable in making recommendations. There are other embodiments as well. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244743 | ADJUSTING INDIVIDUALS IN A GROUP CORRESPONDING TO RELEVANCY - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for managing group members. A computer identifies a collaboration activity that corresponds to a defined group, wherein the defined group includes one or more individuals, and the collaboration activity is comprised of the defined group and one or more additional individuals. The computer determines participation and contribution information that correspond to the one or more individuals of the defined group and the one or more additional individuals included in the identified collaboration activity. The computer determines relevant individuals from the identified collaboration activity by utilizing determined participation and contribution information. In response to determining the relevant individuals, the computer determines an updated group wherein the updated group includes determined relevant individuals. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244744 | EXCHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO DETERMINE A COMMON INTEREST - A user agent of a user selects another user having a user agent. The user agents exchange personal information about the user and personal information about the other user. The user agent determines whether a common interest exists between the two users based on the exchange of personal information. The other user is added to a social networking webpage of the user when the user agent determines that a common interest exists. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244745 | Social Context for Applications - In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more applications on one or more first client computing devices of a first user of a social-networking system; determining one or more second users of the social-networking system that are connected to the first user within the social-networking system; determining one or more applications on one or more second client computing devices of the second users; comparing the applications on the first client computing devices with the applications on the second client computing devices; determining one or more application recommendations for the first user based at least in part on the comparison; and sending the application recommendations to the first user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244746 | Systems and Methods for Message Routing Using Link State Information - Systems and methods for link state-based message routing in messaging systems. An example method, performed by a message broker, may comprise: receiving a topology update message from a second message broker; updating, in view of the topology update message, a data structure storing messaging bus topology information; receiving a message including an identifier of a destination message broker; determining, using the data structure storing messaging bus topology information, an identifier of a peer message broker corresponding to the destination message broker; and forwarding the message to the peer message broker over a messaging bus. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244747 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, devices, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes monitoring a plurality of messages from a plurality of mobile devices, each of at least some of the plurality of messages including at least one identifier of at least one content data record, from a plurality of content data records, stored at least on a sending device sending the respective message, and data representative of number of times the at least one content data record was used on the respective sending device. The method also includes determining popularity metrics for one or more content data records from the plurality of content data records based on the data included in each of the at least some of the plurality of messages representative of the number of times the respective at least one content data record was used on the respective sending device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244748 | Methods And Systems For Providing Supplemental Data - Methods and systems for providing supplemental data are disclosed. An exemplary method can comprise determining content currently being consumed by a user, determining one or more user preferences for display of supplemental data, retrieving supplemental data according to the one or more user preferences, and providing the supplemental data to the user concurrently with the content currently being consumed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244749 | PERSONAL DATA CHANNEL - An example method for sharing a personal data channel in accordance with the present disclosure includes collecting a selection of personal data associated with a user, synthesizing a personal data channel using the selected personal data, and delivering the personal data channel to at least one multimedia device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244750 | INTELLIGENT, MOBILE, LOCATION-AWARE NEWS READER APPLICATION FOR COMMUTERS - A method of generating alerts pertaining to a commute by the user and selecting content items to be presented to the user in conjunction with the alerts is disclosed. A pattern in a commuting by a user is detected. A content item is selected based on a correspondence between the content item and other users and a similarity between the user and the other users. An alert is generated pertaining to a milestone in the pattern of the commuting by the user. The content item and the alert are transmitted for presentation in combination to the user during the commuting by the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244751 | Aggregating Likes to a Main Page - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph of a social-networking system, and determining, from the social graph, that a user “likes” a first page associated with a particular version of a media content. The social graph includes a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The method further includes determining that one or more other versions of the media content exist, determining that a main page is associated with the particular version and the one or more other versions of the media content, and aggregating the user's “like” of the first page to the main page. Each of the one or more other versions of the media content has one or more associated pages. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244752 | Linking Multiple Entities Associated with Media Content - In one embodiment, a method includes determining that media content being viewed by a user comprises a plurality of entities, accessing information indicative of the plurality of entities, and querying a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with each of the plurality of entities and one or more other users of the social-networking system. The social graph includes user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The method further includes providing at least a portion of the queried social content from the social graph for display along with the information on a display device of the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244753 | Time-Delayed Publishing - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication that a user of the social-networking system watched at least a portion of a program, determining that the user intended to watch the program, and generating a story in response to the determination. The story is published to the social-networking system a predetermined amount of time after receiving the indication. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244754 | DATA MANAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADDING DATA TO PLURAL TERMINAL DEVICES AND DATA MANAGING PROGRAM - A data managing device manages data created in a plurality of terminal devices connected through a network. The data managing device includes a drawing storage unit configured to store added drawing data when the drawing data is added by a first terminal device, and a controller configured to control the drawing storage unit and communicate with the plurality of terminal devices so that the added drawing data is displayed on at least one of the plurality of terminal devices other than the first terminal device if the first terminal device had presenter authority when the drawing data is added. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244755 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A communication management system, a communication method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a communication control program, each of which is capable of determining whether to start a communication session with a third communication terminal that requests to participate in a communication session being carried by at least a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, based on session identification information and location information that are received from the third communication terminal. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244756 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A communication management system, a communication method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a communication control program, each of which is capable of determining whether to start a communication session with a third communication terminal that requests to participate in a communication session being carried by at least a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, based on session identification information and location information that are received from the third communication terminal. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244757 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE ONLINE PRESENTATION AND COMMERCE OF GOODS - The invention is generally directed to systems and methods for online product presentation, and more particularly to systems and methods for the interactive live/real-time online presentation and commerce of small products. One preferred embodiment is an online computing system that enables the interactive live/real-time presentation of small products of value with intricate detail such as jewelry or precious stones on client computing devices communicatively coupled to a wide area network, such as the Internet. The system includes a conferencing system having a video conferencing session communicatively coupled to the wide area network; a computer connected to a web cam, wherein the computer communicatively couples the web cam to the video conferencing session through the wide area network, and further wherein the web cam has a lens directed at the product; and a light box substantially surrounding said product. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244758 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AND COMMUNICATION SESSION INFORMATION SERVER - In a method for determining active communication sessions, a request to determine active communication sessions is received. Queries as to whether communication sessions are currently active are sent to at least two communication session servers. The respective query answers that indicate one or more active communication sessions being controlled by the respective communication server are received. A first answer that indicates one or more active communication sessions being controlled by the at least two respective communication servers is sent. A communication session information server executes the method. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244759 | Systems and Methods for the Assessment of Social Media Performance - Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing social media data, assessing various aspects of social media performance, comparing the social media performance of a plurality of entities within a peer group, and displaying useful information to users in a comprehensive and/or intuitive fashion. The social media performance assessment information pertaining to an entity and the entity's peers may also be quantified in the form of one or more scores based on empirical data gathered from one or more social media platforms. Peer groups may be customized or dynamically defined such that the performance assessment information may be used to accurately benchmark entities against their competition or develop best practices within an industry or organization. The performance assessment information described herein may further take into consideration the effect that the social media performance of one entity may have on another. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244760 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR GENERATING CONTACT RELATIONSHIP DATA IN NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for generating contact relationship data in a network communication system are disclosed. The method includes: selecting target users from contacts of an introducer according to a selecting instruction; sending an introducing request to each of user accounts of the target users; monitoring response instructions from the user accounts of the target users, and generating contact relationship data between the user accounts of the target users after detecting that all the user accounts of the target users return response instructions for accepting the introducing request. The apparatus comprises: a target user selecting module, a request sending module, a response monitoring module, and a contact relationship data generating module. Using the present invention, the convenience and success rate of generating contact relationship data is improved. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244761 | CROSS SOCIAL NETWORK DATA AGGREGATION - Disclosed in one example is a system for providing social networking data including a data store configured to store a user profile associated with a first user and may include a user identification, a first and second social networking user identifier for a first and second social networking service, a first and second connection between a second and third user on the first and second social networking services respectively. The system includes a response module to respond to a request for information from a social networking application with at least a portion of the profile associated with the first user if it is present in the data store. If the profile is not present in the data store, the response module may create a new profile associated with the first user and add it to the data store. The system also includes a synchronization module that may periodically request updated information from the first or second social networking services for the first user and to use the updated information to update the profile associated with the first user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250173 | Selectively porting meeting objects - Customizing an electronic meeting broadcast is described in which the meeting canvas is customized to the capabilities of the device of the participating user. The meeting server manages the electronic meeting including each of the participants' connections into the electronic collaboration space. As a part of the connection mechanism, the meeting server or a proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server has information on the capabilities of individual devices accessing the electronic meeting. Based on these capabilities and/or selections made by the meeting participant, the meeting server or proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server selectively identifies zero or more meeting objects from a collection of meeting objects supporting the meeting canvas of an electronic meeting and transmits only those meeting objects to the participant's device. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250174 | INFORMATION PROVISION THROUGH TEMPORARY SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for providing location-based information via a temporary social network includes detecting each of a plurality of first user devices within a predetermined proximity of a physical location and, in response, connecting each of the plurality of first user devices to a social network that is associated with the physical location using a communications network. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of first user devices will be connected to the social network for a predetermined amount of time or for as long as they are in the predetermined proximity. While in the social network, location-based information about the physical location is received over the communications network from each of the plurality of first user devices connected to the social network. At least some of that location-based information about the physical location may then be over the communications network to a second user device. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250175 | Prompted Sharing of Photos - In one embodiment, a method includes automatically and without manual input determining one or more first users of a social-networking system associated with one or more images based at least in part on social-graph information associated with or analysis of one or more of the images. The images having been captured by a second user of the social-networking system. The method also includes automatically and without user input sending a notification to a computing device of the second user that prompts the second user to provide access to the images to one or more of the first users. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250176 | AUXILIARY CONTENT SUGGESTIONS RELATING TO USER GENERATED CONTENT - In one aspect, a method includes providing a post generated by a first user for display to one or more other users of the site, receiving an indication of a request from a second user of one or more other users to suggest auxiliary content relating to at least one of one or more items represented in the post, providing a suggestion mechanism to the second user on the page displaying the post to allow the second user to provide auxiliary content relating to the at least one of the one or more items, receiving a suggestion from the second user including the auxiliary content, providing the auxiliary content for display to the first user and providing the first user with a mechanism for viewing the auxiliary content. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250177 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON PROXY-BASED PREFERENCE INDICATIONS - In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication of a user request to view content at a social networking site, identifying one or more genres associated with the user, where each genre acts as proxy for a grouping of content that is of interest to the user, determining one or more entities mapped to the one or more genres, identifying a plurality of posts associated with the one or more entities and providing one or more of the plurality of posts for display to the user in response to receiving the indication. Other aspects can be embodied in corresponding systems and apparatus, including computer program products. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250178 | CONTENT BASED DISCOVERY OF SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for identifying social connections. In some implementations, the occurrence of a first reference to a first person and a second reference to a second person is identified in unstructured data. A relationship metric is calculated between the first reference and the second reference, wherein the relationship metric is based at least in part on the co-occurrence of the first reference and the second reference. The existence of a potential connection between the first reference and the second reference is determined based at least in part on the relationship metric. A recommendation is provided to at least one of the first person and the second person to acknowledge the potential connection as an actual connection. Input is received from at least one of the first person and the second person confirming the potential connection as an actual connection. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250179 | COLONY APPLICATION - In a method for collaborating, a first computing device determines capabilities needed for an application to function. The first computing device enables one or more other computing devices to connect to the application. The first computing device determines capabilities of a second computing device, wherein the second computing device is connected to the application. The first computing device determines the capabilities needed for the application to function are met. The first computing device configures a user interface of the second device. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250180 | Ranking Videos for a User - In one embodiment, a method includes determining by a computing device a set of videos that a user may watch. For each video, a coefficient value is determined for each of one or more coefficient factors. At least one of the coefficient factors has a value that would be coincident with the user watching the video. A video coefficient for each video is calculated based on the coefficient values of its coefficient factors, and the videos are ranked based on their video coefficients. The rankings are then provided for presentation to the user. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250181 | Method using wearable device with unique user ID and telemetry system in communication with one or more social networks - A method is provided for using telemetry data, and a wearable device that communicates with a social network. One or more sensors, coupled to the wearable device that has a unique user ID, are used to acquire at least one of a user's activities, behaviors and habit information. The wearable device has ID circuitry and a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from an ID storage. The wearable device communicates with a social network. A telemetry system communicates with the one or more sensors. The telemetry system includes a database of user ID's. Telemetry data is analyzed based on at least one of, user's activities, behaviors and habit information. Personalized information is created about the user. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND ANALYZING USER MIGRATION IN PUBLIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - An event selection system for computing user migration pattern across social network pages is provided. The event selection system includes a monitor module to monitor predetermined activities of social media users on preconfigured resources. The event selection system further includes a profile module to build a social media user profile based on the monitored activities of the social media users. The event selection system further includes a computing module to compute user migration patterns based on the social media user profiles. The event selection system further includes a display module to display the user migration patterns on a system user terminal. The event selection system further includes a reporting module configured to produce a report based on the monitored social media user activities. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250183 | HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND HOME APPLIANCE INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - A management apparatus which collects, from a home appliance, home appliance information which is information related to the home appliance and provides a user with to-be-provided information which is information obtained from the collected home appliance information, includes: a managing unit which manages the home appliance information; and a home appliance information holding unit which holds, in association with each other, (i) the home appliance information and (ii) share information which is for sharing the home appliance information and is associated with the user. The managing unit refers to data held by the home appliance information holding unit when a request for to-be-provided information is issued by the user, obtains the home appliance information held in association with share information identical to the share information associated with the user, and provides the user with to-be-provided information obtained from the obtained information. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250184 | Content Management System using Sources of Experience Data and Modules for Quantification and Visualization - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250185 | System and Method for Displaying Data Feeds from Multiple Online Social Networks - Multiple different social networks are aggregated and placed together on a timeline. The timeline is arranged such that at any given time the user can see what information from each of the social networks was provided. The timeline is arranged in a two-dimensional grid, with the horizontal grid showing time, and the vertical grid showing the type, where the type can be video, text, wall posts, and photos. The user can select which of their friends information to appear on the timeline and can also select which of multiple different social network type sites provide content to the timeline. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250186 | FACILITATED THIRD-PARTY COMMUNICATION - In various embodiments, systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for facilitation of communication between recipients and third-parties. A recipient, such, for example, a physician may request and then be facilitated in engaging in communication with a selected third party, such as a medical specialist. The third party may be selected based on the physician's request or on other information gained prior to or at the time of request, such as in response to a questionnaire. A context for the communication may be maintained during the communication and stored thereafter. During subsequent communication, the stored communication may be used to restore the previous context of the previous communication. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TRUSTED SERVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing trusted service management services. According to one embodiment, a system can include at least one service provider gateway operable to receive and transmit messages with multiple service providers; at least one mobile network operator gateway operable to receive and transmit messages with multiple mobile network operators; at least one provisioning gateway operable to transmit mobile device application data with multiple mobile devices and to receive messages from the plurality of mobile devices. The system can further include a processor operable to execute computer-executable instructions to: facilitate service provider communications by providing a common service provider interface for the service providers; facilitate mobile network operator communications by providing a common mobile network operator interface for the mobile network operators; facilitate provisioning multiple mobile device applications with the mobile devices; and facilitate communications with the mobile devices. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250188 | DIGITAL IMAGE COMMUNICATION - A system for enhancing group communication includes a computer server for receiving a first digital from a remote client. The server analyzes the first image to determine one or more first image attributes and communicates the image to one or more recipients. Communication information including image attributes, email addresses, and names of the recipients is stored. When a second image is received the server analyzes it to determine its attributes and forms second image communication information relevant to the second image. The second communication information includes data from the first image communication information, its image attributes, and one or more separate second image recipients. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250189 | TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH NETWORKING MODULE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA USING THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving data includes receiving, via a communication unit of a terminal, at least one of displayable data and soundable data from an external device, wherein the external device includes at least one of a touch-sensitive unit, a first displaying unit and a first speaker, wherein the communication unit connects to the Internet and includes at least one of a cabled communication unit and a wireless communication unit, and wherein the displayable data is displayed on the first displaying unit of the external device, and the soundable data is outputted through the first speaker of the external device, and outputting signals associated with the received at least one of displayable data and soundable data to a connectable output unit, wherein the connectable output unit includes at least one of a second speaker and a second displaying unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250190 | TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH NETWORKING MODULE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA USING THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving data includes receiving, via a communication unit of a terminal, at least one of displayable data and soundable data from an external device, wherein the external device includes at least one of a touch-sensitive unit, a first displaying unit and a first speaker, wherein the communication unit connects to the Internet and includes at least one of a cabled communication unit and a wireless communication unit, and wherein the displayable data is displayed on the first displaying unit of the external device, and the soundable data is outputted through the first speaker of the external device, and outputting signals associated with the received at least one of displayable data and soundable data to a connectable output unit, wherein the connectable output unit includes at least one of a second speaker and a second displaying unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250191 | NETWORK MANAGER SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Embodiments of a location sharing network manager process are described. The process is executed on a server computer coupled to a plurality of mobile communication devices over a wireless network. Each mobile device is a location-aware mobile communication device. The process determines the geographic location of a mobile communication device operated by a user within an area, displays a map representation of the area around the mobile communication device on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device, and superimposes on the map the respective locations of one or more other trusted users of mobile communication devices coupled to the mobile communication device over the network. A comprehensive network manager process provides management functions to allow communication with mobile phone users outside of the service network and allows for efficient communication with groups of users within the service network. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258392 | System and associated methodology for detecting same-room presence using ultrasound as an out-of-band channel - A telecommunications device includes an electronic memory to store at least a network address and a random number code, and a sound unit to transmit the network address and the random number code via ultrasonic sound waves. The telecommunications device also includes a network interface to communicate via a data network using the network address and a processor to establish a communication session with another device over the data network based upon receipt of a response from the other device via the data network, the response including at least the random number code. The telecommunications device does not establish the communication session with the other device if the random number code is missing from the response or if the random number code in the response does not match the random number code transmitted in the ultrasonic sound waves. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258393 | GUIDING A DESIRED OUTCOME FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY HOSTED CONFERENCE - Arrangements described herein relate to guiding a desired outcome for an electronically hosted conference. During the electronically hosted conference, participant activity related to the electronically hosted conference can be monitored for each of a plurality of participants participating in the electronically hosted conference. Based on the participant activity, a sentiment of each of the plurality of participants with regard to a subject of the electronically hosted conference can be determined. A list of the participants can be presented to a user. The list of the participants can be sequentially ordered, based on the sentiment of each of the plurality of participants, indicating an order in which to poll the participants to achieve the desired outcome for a decision requested of the participants in the electronically hosted conference. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258394 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEVERAGING OVERLAPPING GROUP AREAS - An approach is provided for determining a group of users based on the overlapping area of two or more existing groups and providing services and/or content to the group based on the services and content of the existing groups. An interaction platform determines shapes of groups based, at least in part, on location information associated with one or more member devices of the groups. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more representations of the shapes in a location-based user interface. The interaction platform determines one or more applications, one or more content items, or a combination thereof being used at the one or more member devices. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more other representations of the one or more applications, the one or more content items, or a combination thereof in the location-based user interface. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258395 | PEER-TO-PEER PRE-ASSOCIATION DISCOVERY OPERATIONS - A method for discovering P2P service capabilities of peer devices in a Wi-Fi network is disclosed. A client device scans one or more channels of the P2P network to discover peer devices, and receives one or more data frames from a set of peer devices. Each of the data frames includes management information to enable the client device to establish a connection with a corresponding peer device. Each data frame further includes a first set of service information, which includes data indicating whether the corresponding peer device is configured to provide a P2P service. The client device then selectively establishes a P2P connection with a peer device from the set based, at least in part, on the first set of service information. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258396 | System, process, or method for creation, propagation and use of dynamic fractional proxy in collaborative societal decision making within social networks - The present invention relates to voting systems, and more particularly to social network based voting systems. Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and processes, computing devices, computer-implemented methods, computer programs stored on a computer-readable medium, and network communications used for the creation and use of dynamic fractional proxy in social network. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258397 | AGGREGATING PHYSICAL NETWORK INTERFACES FOR PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTIONS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates communication with a first electronic device from a second electronic device. During operation, the system establishes a peer-to-peer connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device on a first physical network interface. Next, the system uses the peer-to-peer connection to obtain, on the second electronic device, a first set of network-interface capabilities for the first electronic device. Finally, the system switches the peer-to-peer connection to a second physical network interface based on at least one of the first set of network-interface capabilities and one or more characteristics associated with the peer-to-peer connection. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258398 | System and Method for Automatic Context Detection, Sharing, and Storage in Real-Time Communication Systems - A method embodiment includes creating, by a processor, a number of contexts for a first user, creating a list of potential contexts based on the number of contexts when the first user and a second user engage in a real-time communication, displaying the list of potential contexts to the first user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258399 | SHARING TOPICS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING - A method for separating the sharing of topics in social networking. The method includes receiving digital content, for example a web page, from a social network provider using a computer. The method receives data from the social network provider, for example, groups and lists. The method analyzes the topics displayed in the digital content to determine a category for the digital content, for example, work-related or entertainment. The digital content is assigned a category based on a match of the plurality of topics displayed in the digital content. The digital content for the shared topic is then selectively shared with the participants of the groups. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258400 | CONTENT ITEM AUDIENCE SELECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an audience for content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a content item provider, a request to distribute content items to users that have been deemed interested in a particular entity. First users that have expressed an interest in the particular entity are identified. Expansion entities for the particular entity are identified in a knowledge graph. At least one of the expansion entities can be connected to the particular entity by a relationship path. Second users are identified. The second users are deemed interested in the particular entity based on the second users having expressed an interest in an expansion entity. The content items are provided to at least a portion of the first users and at least a portion of the second users. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258401 | Contact Aggregation in a Social Network - In particular embodiments, a computing device receives from each of one or more contact-information sources a set of contact information associated with a user of a social-networking system. The set of contact information includes one or more instances of contact information in one or more categories of contact information. The computing device automatically selects, in each of the categories of contact information, one of the instances of contact information from the sets of contact information as a default for the category of contact information for a second user of the social-networking system. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258402 | SYSTEM FOR REPETITIVELY EXECUTING RULES-BASED CONFIGURABLE BUSINESS APPLICATION OPERATIONS - A method, system, and computer program product for repetitively executing rules-based configurable business application operations. The method commences by initiating a recording session to record user steps taken within an interactive session, then during the interactive session, retrieving a post from a social media site using and access interface of the social media site. The recording session is saved in a persistent storage for subsequent initiation of a batch processor to replay at least a portion of the saved recording session. The method further comprises selecting one or more rules based on the sentiment of the post, and taking one or more actions in response to the rule. Operations for interactive processing or for batch processing include extracting an author of the post, extracting a sentiment of the post, extracting a category of the post, and performing further actions based on aspects of the post. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258403 | SERVICE TRACKING DISPLAY GRID SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods providing real time services to users of associated kiosk device terminals in the form of service tracking and display functionality. Embodiments of the invention allow a user to become associated with a group of other users via user kiosk devices that allow data and information to be readily shared in real time in accordance with each user's requirements. A computer-based service hosting platform provides a constellation engine that associates user kiosk devices with services provided in the form of software-based service nodes and allows the service nodes and the user kiosk devices to communicate directly over a transport layer implemented, at least in part, using full-duplex communication channels over a single transmission control protocol (TCP) connection. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258404 | SYSTEM FOR SHARING EVENT AND DATA BETWEEN PERSONAL DEVICES - A personal information server in a system for event and data sharing includes: a server data manager configured to receive an event triggered at a personal device being used, from among the personal devices, and data information related to the event; and a server database manager configured to store the event and data information received at the server data manager, where the server data manager transmits the event and data information stored at the server database manager to a personal device that does not have the event and data information from among the registered personal devices, and a data sharing application installed in each of the registered personal devices transmits the event and data information triggered at the personal device. The disclosed system provides the advantage of enabling data sharing among a user's personal devices and thus allowing more intelligent services based on dynamic data sharing between personal devices. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258405 | Interactive Digital Content Sharing Among Users - Systems and techniques for sharing content associated with a common characteristic are described. A describe technique includes establishing communication among mobile devices sharing a common characteristic, each mobile device associated with a respective user, receiving from a first mobile device sharing the common characteristic (i) a video segment captured by the first mobile device, and (ii) a request to make the captured video segment available for viewing by other mobile devices with which communication has been established; receiving from a second mobile device sharing the common characteristic a request to view the captured video segment received from the first mobile device; and transmitting to the second mobile device the captured video segment received from the first mobile device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258406 | PRESENTING INFORMATION IN A CONFERENCE - One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258407 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - Systems and methods for selective content sharing with a communication target apparatus are provided. In various aspects, communication with a communication target apparatus may be established, and content indicated by content data may be reproduced, where the reproduced content may represent audio or audio and image content. A determination may be made whether or not to share the reproduced content indicated by the content data with the communication target apparatus and a process to share or not share the reproduced content indicated by the content data with the communication target apparatus may be selectively performed. When the reproduced content is determined not to be shared with the communication target apparatus, a generated speech audio signal may be shared with the communication target apparatus while the reproduced content indicated by the content data may not shared with the communication target apparatus. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258408 | Systems and Methods for Assessing an Asset's Contributions to the Social Media Performance of a Peer Group - Described herein are systems and methods for assessing an asset's contributions to the social media performance of a peer group and comparing those contributions against those of other peer group members. In particular, the performance of one or more social media profiles associated with a peer group comprising the asset may be assessed. Share assessments may be made as to a share or a portion of the social media performance of the peer group that may be attributable to the asset. Similar assessments may be made with respect to other entities belonging to the peer group. The peer group members, including the asset, may then be ranked in accordance with their contributions to the peer group's social media performance. Peer groups may be customized or dynamically defined by a user such that the share assessments may be used to accurately benchmark assets against their peers and/or develop best practices. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258409 | METHOD, SERVER AND BROWSER FOR PUSHING MESSAGE ACTIVELY - Described are a method, server and browser for pushing a message actively, the method includes: establishing by the server a long connection with the browser; receiving the identification ID reported by the browser through the established long connection; sending the corresponding Push message to the browser in real time according to the identification ID. The present method raises the user's value through the Push Tips message, and presents favorite and useful content to the user at suitable time and site, which provides a personalized service, or it activates the user and increases liveness of the user by pushing content of the upgraded application to user of the webpage application, and it implements receiving/processing/presenting the Push message sent actively by the backstage server at the browser, without the client refreshing and sending a request continuously, which increases timeliness and efficiency of acquiring information by the user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258410 | AUDIENCE MANAGEMENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system manages the accessibility of content items provided by users and directed to various audiences in the social networking system. An author provides the social networking system with a content item, a content item tag indicating an association between the content item and a tagged user, and a definition of a first audience who may view the content item. The social networking system then allows the tagged user to provide a definition of a second audience who may view the content item, where the second audience may contains users who are not in the first audience defined by the original author. The social networking system then determines whether a viewing user may view the posted content item (and tag) based on whether the viewing user is in at least one of the first audience and the second audience. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258411 | PROCESS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A SHARED EXPERIENCE WITH MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A system, method and computer readable media are disclosed for presenting a simultaneous multimedia experience to a plurality of computing devices, each at different locations. The method involves coordinating a simultaneous presentation of multimedia content to a plurality of computing devices, receiving a control signal from a computer of one of the plurality of computing devices to control the presentation of multimedia content, and broadcasting the control assigned to each of the plurality of computing devices such that a control event substantially simultaneously occurs in the presentation of a multimedia content at each of the plurality of computing devices. Where commercial breaks and length of presentation differences occur in various time zones or geographically disparate areas, the method may include utilizing synchronization points, adding new content in time gaps at a computing device and/or modifying the length of the presentation to maintain synchronization among the computing devices in a group. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SERVICE MIGRATION BETWEEN USER DEVICES - A method for service migration between user devices includes: receiving a migration from request MFR transmitted by a service migration protocol application SMPA entity of a first device; transmitting a service migration protocol SMP resolution request SRR to a service migration protocol server SMPS entity; receiving a response message transmitted by the SMPS entity; transmitting a migration to request MTR to an SMPA entity of the second device; transmitting a service acquired from the service source device to the second device, after the second device initiates the service application and switches the first SID to the second SID, so as to migrate the service of the first device to the second device. The present invention enables each user to perform seamless migration between different devices of the user in different situations without interrupting the service reception, or even receive the service with a preference device of the user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA PRODUCED IN A CONFERENCE - A method for providing data produced in a conference, in which voice signals from participants in the conference are mixed in a conference bridge, comprises provision of a time base that runs concurrently over the duration of the conference and setup of automatic identification of each participant when this participant speaks in the conference. The method also comprises capture of conversation contribution by each speaking participant to a conversation by the participants which is conducted during the conference as speaking time associated with each speaking participant at the conference, association of a time stamp with the speaking time, and production of statistical data by virtue of statistical evaluation of the speaking times of the participants. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258414 | SERVER DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing system is provided. The information processing system includes at least one control unit to designate a user-access position within sequential content at which a user accesses the sequential content, and to associate the user with other users who each access the sequential content at a position that is the same, or close to, the user-access position. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280524 | Social Network Based Filtering of User Generated Content - Data characterizing a user and a plurality of authors is received at a server and each author having authored user-generated content. The plurality of authors is filtered, using the server, based on data characterizing one or more relationships between the user and each author. Data characterizing the filtered plurality of authors is provided using the server. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280525 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES - Disclosed is an improved method, system, and computer program product for analyzing social media content. Correlation analysis is used to analyze the social media data snippets. The correlation analysis is performed by reviewing other items of data that are outside of the message content itself. The present approach can advantageously be used to analyze and understand the content of social media message even where only very small quantities of data are provided within each message posting. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280526 | Method of Social Networking Using a Defined Geo-Fence and Check-In Feature - A method and system for creating and operating a localized social network is disclosed. The potential members of the network are users having mobile devices. Each of the mobile devices has a geographic referencing system. An area is defined by a geo-fence having geographic reference coordinates. It is determined that at least one mobile device is within the area. The mobile device in proximity of the area is contacted with a request to join a social network. The social network includes users having mobile devices, each of whom having checked into the localized social network. A check in to join the social network is received from the at least one mobile device. The user associated with the at least one mobile device is then added to the social network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280527 | AUTOMATED PERSONAL ASSISTANT SYSTEM - An automated personal assistant system (APAS) that can provide automated personal assistance to a user of an electronic device, such as a smartphone or a vehicle head unit. In one example of the APAS, a user may receive a route to a requested destination that may include at least one point of interest along the route to the requested destination based on responses to questions presented to the user. The point of interest may be an individual point of interest or a joint point of interest, for example. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280528 | STATE MACHINE CONFIGURATOR - A state machine configurator for creating controller-executable state machines is provided. The state machine configurator provides a development environment that allows a user to define a customized state machine for control of a particular industrial process. Once the states and state transitions are defined, the configurator compiles the state machine configuration information to generate a state machine instruction that can be imported into an industrial control program to facilitate control of the industrial process in accordance with the defined state machine. The state machine configurator supports creation of role-specific state machines and embedded state machines. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280529 | CONTEXT EMOTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and devices for determining contexts and determining associated emotion profiles using information received from multiple emotion sensor enabled electronic devices, are disclosed. Contexts can be defined by a description of spatial and/or temporal components. Such contexts can be arbitrarily defined using semantically meaningful and absolute descriptions of times and locations. Emotion sensor data is associated with or includes context data that describes the circumstances under which the data was determined. The emotion sensor data can include emotion sensor readings that are implicit indications of an emotion for the context. The sensor data can also include user reported data with explicit descriptors of an emotion for the context. The emotion sensor data can be filtered by context data according a selected context. The filtered sensor data can then be analyzed to determine an emotion profile for the context that can be output to one or more users or entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280530 | Live Faces - In one embodiment, a method includes providing for presentation on a graphical user interface an identification of a user; and providing presence information of the user with the identification of the user. The presence information indicates a temporal, spatial, modal, or social accessibility or availability of user. The presence information includes real-time video of the user captured and is provided as presence information automatically and without user input of the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280531 | OBJECT RANKING AND RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a first user action, by a user within a network service, with respect to a first object displayed or referenced on the network service. Demographic information for the user is received and a counter for a category representing the first user action, the first object, and the demographic information is identified and incremented. The demographic information may include a history of a second user action with respect to a second object. Counters with the highest values for a category represent the highest ranked objects in the category. Upon receipt of a request for a number of objects for the category, objects that correspond to counters with the highest values for the category are selected and transmitted as a ranked list of recommended objects for display by a user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY AUGMENTED NETWORKING - Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for digitally augmented networking. Some such embodiments include a server that performs various data processing operations related therefor. In some embodiments, the server operates to receive, via a network, data identifying a first user and a location of the first user. The server may then identifying other users within a proximity of the location of the first user and compare a profile of the first user with profiles of the identified other users to identify profile matches between the first user and identified other users. Next the server may generate and send introduction communications to each of the first user and at least one of the matched other users to introduce the first user and the at least one matched other user. Some embodiments further include client applications, web browser-based, and mobile device apps that operate in concert herewith. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280533 | Image Filtering Based on Social Context - In particular embodiments, a computing device determines a social context of each of one or more images to provide for display to a user. The computing device determines a relevance of each of the social contexts to the user. The computing device provides for display to the user one or more of the images based at least in part on the relevance of the social context of each image to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280534 | DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTENT - A method, computer program product, and system for performing a dynamic social content selection. According to an embodiment, a method may include determining, via one or more computing devices, a plurality of status indicators available to be associated with social content associated with a first user. The method may also include defining one or more rules for the plurality of status indicators based on, at least in part, a recipient characteristic. The method may further include selecting one of the plurality of status indicators to associate with the content for a second user based on the one or more rules. The method may further include providing the content and the selected one of the plurality of status indicators to the second user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING DATA SHARING BETWEEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS - A method and system for enabling data sharing between software systems is provided. At least one data-sharing session is managed for each of a plurality of users with a server computer system. Each of the data-sharing sessions has a set of software systems associated with the user participating therein. The server computer system maintains requests for the software systems to be notified of updates to values of sets of requested data items. The set of software systems share data item values in the data-sharing session. The server computer system stores the shared data item values, and resolves the shared data item values to the requested data items using semantic descriptions provided for the shared data item values and the requested data items. Available updates to the shared data item values resolving to the sets of requested data items are provided to the software systems. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280536 | METHOD AND PROCESS FOR COLLABORATIVELY BUILT CONTENT FILTERING - A method and system for collaborative content filtering on a communications network includes monitoring social networking communications of a plurality of users on a communications network using a program. The method and system further include selecting a filter parameter by a user. The content of the social networking communications is filtered based on the filter parameter including parsing input from the users, using the program. The filtered content is identified to at least one user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280537 | BUNDLED EVENT MEMORIES - A method for bundling event memories in a social networking system. The method includes identifying a first plurality of user-submitted content items posted to the social networking system that are related to an event involving a plurality of users. The social networking system aggregates the first plurality of user-submitted content items into a bundled event memory, and transmits the bundled event memory to at least some of a plurality of user devices to be presented to at least some of the plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users utilize the plurality of user devices to communicate with the social networking system. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING DEVICES WITHIN A SECURITY SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus for choosing mobile telephones within a security social network is provided herein. Choosing mobile telephones may take place on a server side or a mobile telephone side. Even though mobile telephones lie within a particular area of interest, no image will be obtained/provided from the mobile telephone when a predetermined condition is met. This will greatly reduce an amount of images provided by mobile telephones along with reducing the possibility of an unwanted image being obtained. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280539 | Dynamically Managing Social Networking Groups - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically managing social networking groups according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. A particular embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices within a specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices within the specified physical area, creating a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area. Another embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices exiting a specified physical area, each user device associated with a user belonging to a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices exiting the specified physical area, destroying the social networking group after a duration following the detection of the predetermined number of users of the social networking group exiting the specified physical area. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CROWDSOURCED IDEA GENERATING EVENTS - System and method of performing a crowdsourced online idea generation and peer review process for main topic of interest for a client, often involving large numbers of expert participants and a panel of expert moderators. Qualified participants are drawn from a database of system members, and moderators are often qualified client employees or consultants. A server, capable of hosting various threaded discussions on various related topics, is first initialized with various related topics, seed ideas and comments. Participants are then given access for a predetermined time, and contribute new ideas, peer review other participant's ideas, and vote ideas up and down. Moderators review progress, and vote to highlight ideas and comments, close ideas, and delete off-topic contributions. Various voting analysis algorithms draw attention to promising ideas. Participants are rewarded on a daily basis for contributing ideas, comments, and votes. The system produces new ideas that are peer reviewed and prioritized. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280541 | Proximity-Based Device Selection for Communication Delivery - Techniques and devices for selection of an online communication device based on user proximity and for transmission of a communication to the selected online communication device are described herein. The techniques include either receiving device data from one or more online communication devices and determining proximity of the devices to a user based on the device data or receiving proximity information indicative of the proximity of the user to the one or more online communication devices. Based on the determined proximity or proximity information, one of the one or more online communication devices is selected, and a communication is transmitted to the selected online communication device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280542 | SOCIAL COMPETITION ENGINE - A method in a social networking system enables social competition between its users. The method includes receiving, from a user device of a user, a challenge creation request message, which includes a challenge indication describing a competition that a set of users may participate in, a challenge stakes indication describing at least one of an award for a winner of the competition and a consequence for losers of the competition, and a set of user identifiers for the set of users. The social networking system notifies the set of users about the competition, receives challenge acceptance messages from some of the users, receives a challenge completion message indicating the winner of the competition, and receives evidence indicating a fulfillment of the challenge stakes. The social networking system transmits information about the competition to a set of one or more user devices of a second set of users. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PROXIMAL USERS BY DEMOGRAPHIC & PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for a social networking service that can connect users in a similar industry or business based on the location of a user's electronic devices. The method can include receiving profile and location information from a first electronic device, determining based on an association method relevant and proximally located electronic devices, and transmitting the determined proximal electronic devices to first electronic device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280544 | Dynamically Managing Social Networking Groups - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically managing social networking groups according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. A particular embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices within a specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices within the specified physical area, creating a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area. Another embodiment includes detecting a predetermined number of user devices exiting a specified physical area, each user device associated with a user belonging to a social networking group corresponding to the specified physical area; and in response to detecting the predetermined number of user devices exiting the specified physical area, destroying the social networking group after a duration following the detection of the predetermined number of users of the social networking group exiting the specified physical area. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280545 | Consistent Interface for Lead Business Object - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a lead business object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280546 | Method and System for Presenting Event Notifications In a Social Media Environment - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for providing notification of events. Specifically, embodiments disclosed herein describe a method and system for generating dynamic messages based on events and transmitting the dynamic messages to various users over a social networking platform. Embodiments include receiving product data and comparing the product data to a set of predefined trigger parameters. If it is determined that the product data satisfies one or more of the trigger parameters, a dynamic message is generated. In certain embodiments, the content of the dynamic message is based, at least in part, on the product data. The generated dynamic message is then automatically transmitted to a set of recipients over the social networking platform. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280547 | Virtual Machine Mobility Using OpenFlow - A method for migrating virtual machines (VMs) that includes creating a temporary storage area. The temporary storage area is created by a controller in a network that is in a first state. The configuration data for a VM is stored in the temporary storage area. The network is provisioned from the first state to a second state. The provisioning is by the controller and based on network locations of a source server and a target server. A message is transmitted to the target server. The message includes a request to migrate the VM from the source server to the target server, and an address of the temporary storage area. It is determined that the migration has completed and the temporary storage area is removed based on the determining that the migrant has completed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERY OF USER UNKNOWN INTERESTS - A method and system for exploring a list of user interests beyond the currently known user interests by defining a distance metrics in the interest space is disclosed. The new method and system target for exploration, items of interests which are close in proximity to the current set of user interests, thereby greatly improving the chance that one of the exploration items will be liked by the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280549 | Method and System for Efficient Matching of User Profiles with Audience Segments - Embodiments of the present teachings disclose method, system, and programs that monetize personalized user behavioral profiles by remapping the users to audience segments related to advertisement. In the method, the users can be targeted with advertisements that are personalized and hence are more likely to lead to conversions | 09-18-2014 |
20140280550 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING USER ENGAGEMENT FROM STREAM DEPTH - Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement. In one example, a type of user activities with respect to a plurality pieces of content in a content stream is detected. A first depth measure with respect to the content stream is obtained based on the detected type of user activities. A function is generated based on the first depth measure and a second depth measure with respect to the content stream. A user engagement score is calculated for each of the plurality pieces of content in the content stream based on the function. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280551 | PAIRING USERS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITIES - Systems and methods that integrate social media applications having social media communities of like-minded users with other applications, such as enterprise applications, are described herein. A user may join one or more of the social media communities based on a variety of factors, including applications the user uses or plans to use, user type (e.g., end-user, administrator, etc.), the user's level of expertise, and/or the type of activities that the user plans to perform in one or more applications. A user's actions within or using one or more applications may be monitored. In response to detecting performance of a monitored action, a description of the user's action may be published to other users in the social media community, the user may be paired with one or more social media communities, and/or recommendations for resources related to the detected action may be provided to the user. Recommendations may also be provided based on posts made by the user in the social media community. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280552 | METHOD TO TRANSMIT REAL-TIME IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION TO AN INTERNET SERVICE - A system includes an in-vehicle system containing vehicle data, a mobile device, and an interface configured to connect the mobile device to the in-vehicle system. The mobile device is configured to access the vehicle data through the interface and post the vehicle data to a user network. The mobile device is able to be mounted within the vehicle by a docking mechanism. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY OF USER RELATIONSHIPS CORRESPONDING TO NETWORK-ENABLED COMMUNICATIONS - A computer-implemented method of displaying indications of relationships of device users is provided. The method includes determining relationship strength between a first user and at least one other user wherein the relationship strength is determined based on a frequency of communication between the first user and the at least one other user. A first indication corresponding to the first user is displayed on a display of a device, and at least one other indication corresponding to the at least one other user is displayed on the display, wherein the at least one other indication is shown distanced from the first indication based on the determined relationship strength. A system for performing the method is further provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280554 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY AND ADAPTIVE CRAWLING OF CONTENT FROM THE INTERNET - A method for updating content. The method includes determining at least one indicator with respect to the content, wherein the at least one indicator is at least one of a user engagement indicator, a content popularity indicator, a content quality indicator, and a content update frequency indicator. The method further includes updating the content based on the at least one indicator, wherein the at least one indicator is dynamically updated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280555 | SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR SURFERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating surfing experience by capturing pictures or videos of one or more surfers; uploading the pictures or videos to a remote host computer; creating at least one collage from the pictures or videos, wherein items in the collage are variably sized based on one or more predetermined factors; and sharing the collage with at least another user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280556 | REAL-TIME FAN ENGAGEMENT - A method for improving engagement between users of a social network and entity pages within the social network is described. Historical and real-time user interaction data may be logged and aggregated in order to identify engagement opportunities where notification to fan page owners, posting of a new post, or promotion of a post may increase engagement of users with entities via pages on a social network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280557 | HIGH RELIABILITY ALERT DELIVERY USING WEB-BASED INTERFACES - A system and method for improving reliability of alert delivery using web-based interfaces are provided. A web-based rendering of an alert is created based at least in part on a detected event, and a tracking mechanism can be inserted into the web-based rendering of the alert. The web-based rendering of the alert is delivered to a device at a monitoring station. Whether the web-based rendering of the alert is rendered by the device is detected based at least in part on determining whether a request relating to the tracking mechanism is received. If not, another rendering of the alert can be delivered to another device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280558 | Generating and Using Social Brains - A method includes determining a plurality of social interactions associated with a plurality of people, grouping the determined social interactions into a plurality of groups, generating a social object matrix using the plurality of groups, and producing a singular value representation of the social object matrix by performing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) on the social object matrix. The social object matrix includes a plurality of vectors, and each social interaction is a particular person interacting with a particular social object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280559 | INMATE NETWORK PRIMING - A method for network priming for an inmate of a controlled facility includes receiving authentication credentials for the inmate to access a third party social network, importing social network contacts from the third party social network, filtering the social network contacts for prohibited contacts, presenting the inmate with the social network contacts, receiving, from the inmate, a selection of social network contacts to obtain selected social network contacts, and populating a secure social network list of the inmate with the selected social network contacts. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280560 | Capturing User Information In An Online System Based On Real-World Actions - A social networking system receives information identifying a location associated with a user and associates the location with the user. When the user provides location information to the social networking system, an entity associated with the location may request information items from the user. In one embodiment, the information items are requested through one or more questions presented to the user via the social networking system. The questions may also include a value proposition for the user, such as an offer or other incentive provided by the entity to the user in exchange for the user providing the information items to the entity. The information items may be stored by the social networking system and used to generate an object describing interactions between the user and the entity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTED EVENT BASED DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION AND SHARING - A system and method for distributed collection, organization and sharing over the web of digital images captured and displayed by camera equipped computing devices. In one aspect, digital images are collected by a single camera device and are organized into one or more albums and sub-albums. Albums are related to an occasion. Sub-albums relate to moments within an occasion. A user can invite friends to contribute photos and are provided the ability to upload images to an album server. Before being uploaded, photos are tagged and stored in a database. In another aspect, digital images are collected from multiple camera devices capturing digital images of multiple moments occurring within a single occasion. The method then organizes those images so that images correlating to each moment are grouped together. In both instances, the method further provides for pre-loaded or user-generated moments to aid in capturing of the digital images. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280562 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH DEVICES HAVING A PLURALITY OF UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS - A communication system comprises a server configured to associate a plurality of communication devices with each other in a user group. Each communication device of the plurality of communication devices is associated with a group-wide individual unique identifier that is unique as to other members of the same group; a network-wide individual unique identifier that is unique as to other communication devices of the network; and a group unique identifier that is shared with the plurality of communication devices of the user group. A method comprises receiving a call request including a group-wide individual unique identifier, and sending an outgoing call to the individual communication device. The group-wide individual unique identifier is unique to an individual communication device within a user group of communication devices that is smaller than a number of communication devices configured for communication on a network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280563 | Method and Device for Peer Arrangement in Multiple Substream Upload P2P Overlay Networks - The present invention relates to a method of, and device for, arranging a P2P network comprising a streaming source and network peers arranged at distribution levels in the P2P network, in which P2P network the streaming source is arranged to divide data content to be streamed into a plurality of content sub-streams together forming the data content and to distribute the plurality of content sub-streams to the network peers. The method comprises instructing a network peer requesting to download data content to download a single content sub-stream from a respective one of selected network peers being arranged at a distribution level closer to the streaming source than the requesting network peer until a number of content sub-streams have been downloaded by the requesting network peer from which the requested data content can be formed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280564 | Displaying Social Media Content - In one aspect, in general, a method includes, at a social media playback system, receiving social media content from at least one social media service, the social media content comprising elements of social media, receiving schedule data pertaining to a media program from a media provider, identifying, at least in part based on the schedule data, social media content relevant to the media program, and storing data associating the identified social media content and the media program, the data indicating timing information associated with respective elements of social media content, at least some of the timing information expressed as an offset relative to a time associated with the media program. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280565 | ENABLING PHOTOSET RECOMMENDATIONS - In a social networking system, photographs and photographic sets are recommended to a user based upon information gathered from the user's social networking profile, as well as information gathered from the social networking profile of the user's friends, and the general pattern of usage by the user of various elements of the social network. In one embodiment, information entered into the social networking profile of the user is used to recommend additional photos and sets of photos. In one embodiment, user preferences indicated by the user via elements of the social network are considered in recommending photos or photo sets. In one embodiment, the general usage pattern of the social network is considered when recommending additional photos and sets of photos to the user. In one embodiment, profile information, usage information, or the indicated preferences of the user's friends are used to recommend additional photos and photo sets. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280566 | SOCIAL NETWORKING GROUPS AS A PLATFORM FOR THIRD PARTY INTEGRATION - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a user to access content for a group of users of a social networking system, and send the content to the user including an interface to a third party system. The interface is to enable the user to retrieve information related to a third party service from the third party system to share with the group. The user sends the information related to the third party service to share with the group to the social networking system. The social networking system sends the shared information related to the third party service to a group member based on the group member requesting access to the content. In one embodiment, the third party service stores a file or folder on a third party server and the shared information includes a link to the shared file or folder. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280567 | SHARING OF MEDIA CONTENT - A media sharing system stores share settings that identify one or more users with whom a sharing user wishes to share media segments created in the future. As a media item is being presented to the sharing user via a user device, the sharing user may request to share a segment of the media item. The media sharing system creates a segment of the media item. The media sharing system determines to share the segment with the identified users based on the stored share settings. The media sharing system shares the created segment with the identified users. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280568 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRUST ANALYSIS FOR MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A computer-implemented method of providing a trust analysis comprising forming, using a social network server computer, a social network comprising a plurality of members, each of said members registering with said social network server computer and providing a member profile, each of said member profiles comprising information associated with said member; performing with the social network server computer a member trust factor analysis to generate a member trust factor for each of the plurality of members; performing with the social network server computer a network trust factor analysis of the member trust factors to generate a network trust factor for the social network; and for each of the plurality of members, generating with the social network server computer an adjusted member trust factor by adjusting the member trust factor by the network trust factor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOFEEDS, ORIENTATION-BASED GEOFEEDS, AND GEOFEEDS BASED ON AMBIENT CONDITIONS BASED ON CONTENT PROVIDED BY SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT PROVIDERS - A system and method for generating a geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters including altitude parameters, ambient condition parameters, and orientation parameters is provided. A geofeed includes a collection of content, aggregated from various content providers, that is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. The generated content may include, for example, video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks, and/or other content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The content providers may include, for example, social media platforms, online knowledge databases, individual content creators, and/or other providers that can distribute content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The system may filter content into the geofeed and/or out of the geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters and/or display the geofeed comprising the filtered content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280570 | DETECTING, CLASSIFYING, AND ENFORCING POLICIES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING ACTIVITY - Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing policies on social networking activity. The technology can store a content policy, classify content posted to a social network, determine that the classification corresponds to the content policy, and apply an action specified by the content policy to the posted content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280571 | PROCESSING OF USER-SPECIFIC SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TIME-SHIFTED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing social media posts. The methods may include a filtering module receiving a stream of social media posts. The filtering module may acquire one or more filtering criteria. The filtering module may, using the acquired filtering criteria, filter the received stream to extract, from the stream, those social media posts that relate to the certain multimedia content. The filtering module may then, without providing the extracted social media posts for playback, at a current time, on a client device, store (e.g., within a database) the extracted social media posts for future provision to the client device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280572 | ACTION PROCESSING IN INFORMATION EXCHANGE SERVICES - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating information exchange services. In at least one implementation, an information exchange service processes communications indicative of a plurality of actions taken with respect to a plurality of derivative versions of a service item associated with a source version of the service item to determine which action of the plurality of actions controls. The information exchange service identifies a modification to apply to data associated with the source version of the service item to reflect the action determined to control and initiates communications indicative of the modification with which to update data associated with each of the plurality of derivative versions of the service item. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280573 | COMPONENT LOADING BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating information exchange services. In at least one implementation, a request originated from an execution environment is received at an application source. The request is a request to load an application in the execution environment from the source. A user associated with the request is identified and a script is generated based on loading preferences associated with the user. The script is then communicated to the execution environment so that the application can be loaded in accordance with the preferences. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280574 | COMPONENT LOADING BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing information management applications. In an implementation, an application embodied in program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media comprises components and a control component. The components communicate requests to invoke others of the components. The control component handles the requests by at least determining whether or not any component identified by the requests has already been downloaded or is yet to be downloaded. The control component invokes the component when already downloaded and retrieves the component when not yet downloaded. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280575 | DETERMINING ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO USERS - A system is configured to receive profile data for a user. The profile data may include user attributes. The profile data may include information regarding time intervals during which the user is available. The system is configured to receive a set of activity identifiers that identify activities in which the user can participate. Each of the activities may be associated with activity attributes. The activity attributes may identify one or more points in time at which the activity will occur. The system is configured to determine a correlation score for each activity of the activities. The correlation score for the activity may be determined from a correlation between the activity attributes associated with the activity and the profile data for the user. The system is configured to notify the user about one or more of the activities based on the correlation scores for the one or more activities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280576 | DETERMINING ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS - A system is configured to receive individual identifiers that identify a set of individuals; obtain respective profile data for each of the set of individuals; and determine a set of activity identifiers that identify activities in which the set of individuals can participate. Each of the activities may be associated with one or more activity attributes. The system is configured to determine a correlation score for each activity of the activities. The correlation score, for the activity, may be determined from a correlation between the one or more activity attributes associated with the activity and the respective profile data for the set of individuals. The system is configured to provide information identifying one or more of the activities based on the correlation scores determined for the one or more activities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280577 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH AN APPLICATION IN A PUBLISHER - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with an application using a publisher in an online social network. A user interface includes a publisher and an information feed. A user may request to expose an application using the publisher. The application may be hosted natively in an on-demand service environment or hosted on a third-party platform. Content from the application is exposed in the publisher via an application programming interface (API). A user may interact with the application via the API through the publisher, and the information feed is updated via the API according to the user interaction with the application. A feed item may be presented for inclusion in the information feed based on the update. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280578 | Notification Handling System and Method - A notification handling system determines a notification type for a notification received at a first device of a group of associated devices. The system determines at least a second device from the group that has a capability related to the notification type such that the second device can respond to the notification and accordingly routes the notification to the second device. The notification handling system also augments the notification with additional information for the second device based on the capability of the second device. The augmented information is obtained by extracting data from the notification and augmenting the notification based on the extracted data. The notification handling system may also send or receive a global notification dismissal that dismisses the notification from all associated devices that may have received the notification. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280579 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STATUS UPDATES - A method and system for status updates are provided. The method for providing a status update includes: determining contextual data related to a user; retrieving suggested status updates related to the contextual data; presenting the suggest status updates to the user; receiving a selected status update from the user; and posting a status update based on the selected status update. The system for providing a status update includes: a context module configured to determine contextual data related to a user; a selection module configured to select suggested status updates related to the contextual data; a display module configured to display the suggested status updates to a user and receive a selected status update from the user; and a processing component configured to receive the selected status update and post the selected status update to a social media application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280580 | PROPAGATION OF APPLICATION CONTEXT BETWEEN A MOBILE DEVICE AND A VEHICLE INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method, device, and a vehicle information system are provided for persisting application context from the mobile device to the vehicle information system. An operating context is determined for at least one application executing on the mobile device. A user interface view for display by the vehicle information system is generated and provided to the vehicle information system. The user interface view comprises at least one application user interface element associated with the at least one application, and the application user interface element comprises an application entry point defined by the operating context for the at least one application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280581 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION FOR RESOURCE SHARING - Embodiments of techniques and systems associated with device-to-device (D2D) resource sharing are described. In some embodiments, a D2D communication channel between a first device and a second device is established and a sharing request is received at the first device, from the second device, including a credential identifying the second device. Data representative of a first resource locally available to the first device, but not locally available to the second device, is provided to the second device by the first device. Use of the first resource may be controlled in accordance with an instruction transmitted to the first device from the second device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280582 | RELATIONSHIP TRACKING AND MAINTENANCE - Disclosed are for aggregating communication data. Data pertaining to a plurality of users is received. A probability that a particular user of the plurality of users will likely have a future encounter with a first other user of the plurality of users based on the received data is determined. An identity of the first other user is provided. Communication content exchanged between the first other user and the particular user is also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280583 | MULTI-TENANCY SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE SOCIAL BUSINESS COMPUTING - Mechanisms are provided for enabling collaboration across tenants in a multi-tenant environment using single sign-on (SSO) authentication/authorization. Various examples provide for creating a user account and provisioning a subscription to a user (e.g., to enable single sign-on authentication/authorization). The user is allowed to access services (e.g., collaborative services) in a multi-tenant environment by utilizing a subscription authorization of the user without prompting the user to authenticate by logging-in again (that is, without prompting the user to log-in again after the user has already logged-in and been authenticated for a given session). Other examples provide for mapping webspaces through URL hosts where each organization (that is, tenant) has its own set of namespace(s). | 09-18-2014 |
20140280584 | Digital communication and monitoring system and method designed for school communities - A method related to addressing possible damage caused by inappropriate internet conduct, including writings, pictures, videos, or any other web-delivered content, and/or inappropriate behavior and/or conduct, is provided. The method includes providing a reporting interface enabling a reporting user to generate a complaint report regarding an unfavorable item published by one or more third parties. The method further includes receiving the complaint report and alerting an administrator regarding the complaint report. Additionally, the method includes providing an administrator interface enabling the administrator to view the complaint report, submit the complaint report to an authority, and assign a complaint report status to the complaint report. A resource center is provided for administrators and users and includes content curated for the recipient. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280585 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SERVICE INFORMATION IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION GROUPS - Methods and apparatus for transmitting service information in a neighborhood of peer-to-peer communication groups are disclosed. A peer-to-peer client device connects to a peer-to-peer communication group via a peer-to-peer group owner. The peer-to-peer client generates a service notification including a category and a sub-category and transmits the service notification to the first peer-to-peer group owner. The first peer-to-peer group owner then forwards the service notification (a) to a first group member that is associated with the category and the sub-category, and (b) to a second group member that is identified as a first bridge and is associated with the category. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280586 | Method and Devices to Reduce Presence Server Traffic - This is a new method to reduce traffic to a presence server as well as modified client and server devices which send and receive messages to support that new method. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING USER RECEIVING DEVICES WITH USER PROFILES - A system and method for operating with profiles includes a head end associating a first account profile having first profile settings and a first identifier and a second account profile having second profile settings and a second identifier with a user account. A first user receiving device operates with the first profile settings. The head end communicates second profile settings to the first user receiving device and the first user receiving device operates with the second profile settings. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280588 | PROVISION OF PREDEFINED COMMUNICATIONS - Provision of predefined communications is provided. A communication is received from a first user and stored as a predefined communication. The predefined communication is associated with an account associated with the first user, and subsequent to the receiving and the associating, the account is activated for provision of the predefined communication to a second user predefined by the first user. The predefined communication is automatically provided to the second user based on a determination that a triggering event for providing the predefined communication has been satisfied. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280589 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MUSIC COLLABORATION - Disclosed is a system and method for providing at least one music collaboration software module to a first user and a second user. The at least one music collaboration software module provided to the first user is configured to work in conjunction with a first recording software module, and the at least one music collaboration software module provided to the second user is configured to work in conjunction with a second recording software module. The music collaboration software module is configured to enable the first user to collaborate in real time with the second user over the network. In one embodiment, the first recording software module is different from the second recording software module. In another embodiment, the music collaboration software enables streaming of music between the first computing device and the second computing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280590 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING, MANAGING AND PRESENTING A SOCIAL CONTACTS LIST - First information identifying a person different from the user, and a request to generate a contact page associated with the person, are received from a user, by a first server operated by a first entity. Second information that enables access to a social networking website operated by a second entity different from the first entity is received from the user. A social networking web page maintained at the social networking website is accessed, based on the second information. Third information relating to the person is obtained from the social networking web page. The contact page is generated based on the third information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280591 | METHOD OF ALERTING A USER OF IMPORTANT EVENTS AND A SYSTEM THEREOF - Embodiments of the present invention relate to event notifications on an end-user device of events that are important to a user of the device. The user is typically subscribed to a service that pulls events from a plurality of sources indicated by the user. The sources include a native address book on the device, a social network(s), a professional network(s), and/or another remote location(s) on the Internet. Around the occurrence of an event, the service allows for automatically generating an electronic wish and for purchasing a gift to be presented to one or more recipients associated with the event. The service can transmit the content in various forms and can include a monetizing scheme. The service is able to intelligently determine which events are important to the user such to alert the user of only those relevant events, and to intelligently select an appropriate channel for transmitting the content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280592 | USER IDENTIFICATION ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA - Users may be identified across websites, such as social media websites. Prior user information data and candidate user information data may be received. An algorithm may identify a first plurality of behavioral patterns in the prior user information data and a second plurality of behavioral patterns in the candidate user information datum. The algorithm may determine whether the candidate user information datum and the prior user information data correspond to the same user based, at least in part, on the first and second pluralities of behavioral patterns. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS USING A MULTI-LEVEL NETWORK - A system and a method for data collection and analysis that uses a multi-level network are provided. The system comprises a first client device and a central network. The first client device and the central network form the multi-level network. The first client device is configured to receive a first data and perform a first data fusing process based on the first data. The first data fusing process generates a second data. The central network is in communication with the first client device. The central network receives the second data from the first client device. The central network is configured to perform a second data fusing process based on the second data to generate a third data. The third data is communicated to the first client device so that the first client device can perform a third data fusing process based on the third data to generate a fourth data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280594 | Automatic, Interest-Based Notifications - A system which hosts an electronic forum comprises memory in which is stored profiles of users of the electronic forum, memory in which is stored posts of the electronic forum, and notification generation circuitry. The notification generation circuitry is operable to, automatically in response to creation of a post to the electronic forum, inspect the post for an occurrence of a particular tag. The notification generation circuit is operable to determine, automatically in response to a detection that the post contains an occurrence of the particular tag, which of the users are both subscribed to the particular tag and have permission to view the post; and send, automatically in response to a determination that a first one or more of the users are both subscribed to the particular tag and have permission to view the post, a notification of the post to the first one or more of the users. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280595 | Cloud Based Elastic Load Allocation for Multi-media Conferencing - Disclosed herein is a technique for providing cloud based scaleable videoconferencing infrastructure in a variety of ways. A combination of hardware based conferencing and software emulation of hardware conferencing equipment is disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods include load balancing algorithms and a software control architecture to allow for flexible and elastic scaling of each component individually or as a group. The disclosed systems and methods are also agnostic to the underlying hardware infrastructure utilized for any given conference. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280596 | REAL-TIME COLLABORATION FOR BINARY DATA FILES - A document collaboration system allows applications to collaborate on a binary data file even if the binary data file is not in a collaborative document format. In response to a request from an application to access a binary data file, the document collaboration system gives the application access to a document model corresponding to the binary data file and the application. If the document model does not already exist, it may be created by generating an empty document model, transmitting the binary data file to the application, and allowing the application to fill in the empty document model based on the binary data file. The document model may be provided to and modified by its related application through an application programming interface (API), and changes to the document model may be applied to the binary data file. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VISUALLY BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280598 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VALIDATING REAL TIME NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for managing network communications are described. An example resource management system includes a communications manager configured to access information regarding communication protocols used by corresponding broker systems and to provide message translations based on an origin and/or destination of the message to be transmitted. A message processor is coupled to the communications manager and is configured to serialize incoming and/or outgoing broker messages and to facilitate queuing of incoming and outgoing message traffic with broker systems. A communications configurer is configured to track one or more communication attributes of broker systems and changes thereto to ensure communications between the resource management systems are broker systems are conducted in accordance with the communication attributes of the broker systems. A communications rules provider is configured to determine which broker system is to be communicated with in order to fulfill a resource request. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280599 | CAMERA DATA MANAGEMENT AND USER INTERFACE APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - In certain embodiments, a camera image stored locally by a device is published by the device, over a network, to a content distribution subsystem configured to automatically distribute the camera image to one or more predefined destinations in accordance with a distribution service. The content distribution subsystem automatically distributes the published camera image to the one or more predefined destinations in accordance with the distribution service. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280600 | MEETING ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM BETWEEN MEMBERS OF WEBSITE AND APPLICATION - The invention relates to a meeting arrangement system between members of a website and an application, and more particularly, to a meeting arrangement system between members of a website and an application capable of arranging the meeting between the members through the online site by using the interne website or the application program. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289325 | ORDERED-ELEMENT NAMING FOR NAME-BASED PACKET FORWARDING - A name-based content-forwarding system generates an ordered-element name for a content item, and can process an interest to identify and perform an action that satisfies the interest. To generate the ordered-element name, the system generates one or more fixed-length elements for a content item, such that each fixed-length element of the ordered-element name is mapped to the content item or to a context associated with the content item. The system then generates the ordered-element name to include the one or more fixed-length elements so that the name elements are ordered from a highest matching priority to a lowest matching priority. The system can also generate a packet that includes the ordered-element name for the content item, and sends the packet to a target location that corresponds to the ordered-element name. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONFERENCE CALLS - A conference handling system for an enterprise is provided. The conference handling system includes a status determining module for determining a status of a conference bridge. The conference handling system further includes a conferee routing module for routing a conferee into a session comprising an active session and a waiting session, based on the status of the conference bridge, the conferee routing module further determining a contextual status of the active session. The conference handling system further includes a conferee serving module for providing services to the conferee into the waiting session based on the contextual status of the active session. The conference handling system further includes a conferee inviting module for adding additional conferees with a specific profile in the waiting session and the active session based on absence of a conferee having a similar profile. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ONLINE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT BASED TRANSLATION OF ENTITY METHODS - The technology disclosed relates to adapting online social feed items according to the posting formats of each of the multiple destination online social environments to which they are posted, regardless of the source online social environments from which they originate. In particular, it relates to creating separate instances of a feed item such that each of the instances includes tag formats, social handles or identifiers that are compatible to the online social environments in which they are embedded. These separate instances of a feed item can all be embedded in a first online social environment while preserving their tag formats corresponding to other online social environments. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289328 | OCCASION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - An example embodiment includes an occasion-based social network. The occasion-based social network is configured to enable access to photos generated at an occasion by multiple individuals who attend the occasion. The occasion-based social network does not require prior relationships between the multiple individuals or an authority that invites the multiple individuals to a group associated with the occasion. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289329 | PROVIDING EVENT DATA TO A GROUP OF CONTACTS - Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289330 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND ENGINE FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289331 | MECHANISM FOR SHARING STATES OF APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES ACROSS DIFFERENT USER PROFILES - At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of sharing application states across different user profiles. The method can include: receiving a request from a first computing device associated with a first user profile to load an application state of a target application, wherein the application state is owned by a second user profile; verifying permission for the first user profile to load the application state owned by the second user profile; configuring a sharing instance of the application state of the target application by accessing application data of the application state associated with the second user profile in a storage service; and sending the sharing instance to be loaded onto the first computing device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289332 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREFETCHING AGGREGATE SOCIAL MEDIA METRICS USING A TIME SERIES CACHE - Methods and systems are provided for retrieving aggregate social media content metrics from a back end data store using a time series cache. The method involves populating the data store with social media content received from a plurality of social media content sources, periodically prefetching respective time series data packets from the data store, storing the prefetched time series data packets in a time series cache, retrieving, from the time series cache, a sequence of the prefetched time series data packets responsive to a user query, and presenting indicia of the sequence of the prefetched time series data packets to the user. Each time series data packet represents an aggregate of data which satisfies a topic profile for a predetermined window of time. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289333 | MECHANISM FOR SHARING STATES OF APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES ACROSS DIFFERENT USER PROFILES - At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method of sharing application states across different user profiles. The method can include: receiving a request from a first computing device associated with a first user profile to load an application state of a target application, wherein the application state is owned by a second user profile; verifying permission for the first user profile to load the application state owned by the second user profile; configuring a sharing instance of the application state of the target application by accessing application data of the application state associated with the second user profile in a storage service; and sending the sharing instance to be loaded onto the first computing device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289334 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION - A method for recommending multimedia information includes obtaining an instant user-multimedia connection set; determining relevance indexes between the users and the multimedia information according to the obtained instant user-multimedia connection set; recommending the multimedia information to the users related to the multimedia information according to the determined relevance index. The invention improves an accuracy of multimedia information recommendation. The invention further provides a system for recommending multimedia information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONFIGURING A DATA BROADCAST SERVICE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of broadcasting a message to one or more servers operating in one or more domains. One example method of operation may include creating a message to be broadcasted via user input provided by a user of a computer interface. The method may also include serializing the message to a predetermined format and transmitting the message to an application programming interface (API). The method may also provide scheduling a broadcast of the message based on the user input, and transmitting the message to the at least one server responsive to the scheduled broadcast. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289336 | Migrating Social Connections from a First Profile to a Second Profile - In general, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for migrating social networking connections in a social network from one profile to another profile. A first incoming connection from a third profile in a social network to a first profile in the social network may be determined. A first outgoing connection to a fourth profile in the social network from the first profile in the social network may be determined. A second incoming connection from the third profile to a second profile may be created based at least in part on the first incoming connection. A second outgoing connection to the fourth profile from the second profile may be created based at least in part on the first outgoing connection. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289337 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION VIA MULTIPLE FORMS OF DELIVERY SERVICES - Systems and methods of managing content and content requests are described. A data store of profiles of potential content contributors is provided. A request from a first source for content comprising content criteria is received, the content criteria comprising content contributor characteristics and content subject matter. Based on the content contributor characteristics and the profiles, at least a first potential content contributor is identified. At least a portion of the content request content criteria is transmitted to the first potential content contributor. If recorded content is received from the first content contributor, the first source is provided with access to the received recorded content. At least partly in response to acceptance by the first source of the received recorded content, the first source is enabled to publish the accepted received recorded content. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297737 | PROFILING SOCIAL TRENDSETTERS - A method and a system for profiling social trendsetters on a communications network includes monitoring social networking communications on a communications network using a program executable by a computer. The program monitors social networking communications for a topic of conversation in messages by a plurality of users. The messages are analyzed for relation to the topic of conversation and for topic information based on a specified criteria. The program determines a role for each of the plurality of users based on the topic information, and indicates the roles for each of the users, respectively, and may indicate the roles and associated people pertaining to particular topics. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297738 | DOMESTIC APPLIANCE AND GAMING SYSTEM INTERFACE - A domestic appliance for recommending a recipe to a user, the domestic appliance comprising: a network connection to receive at least one user energy expenditure parameter; at least one processor programmed to: determine an energy expenditure of the user based on the at least one user energy expenditure parameter; determine a caloric intake recommendation based on the energy expenditure of the user; and determine a recipe recommendation based on the caloric intake recommendation; and at least one audio transducer and/or at least one display configured to communicate the recipe recommendation to the user, said at least one audio transducer being configured to audibly communicate the recipe recommendation, and said at least one display being configured to display the recipe recommendation. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297739 | Media Previews Based on Social Context - In one embodiment, a method includes querying a social graph of a social-networking system for social content associated with one or more users of the social-networking system and accessing a selection by a user of one or more entities on which displayed media content is to be based. The method further includes determining, using the social content, recommended media content according to the selected one or more entities and providing the recommended media content for display on a display device. The social graph includes multiple nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297740 | Scoring User Characteristics - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices access a social graph including nodes and edges between nodes; the nodes include user nodes corresponding to users of a social-networking system and concept nodes corresponding to concepts of the social-networking system; the computing devices identify first user nodes in the social graph corresponding to users having a particular user characteristic; the computing devices assign a characteristic score to each first user node; for a second user node without an assigned characteristic score, the computing devices also select neighboring user nodes connecting to the second user node based on affinity, and estimate a characteristic score for the second user node by aggregating iteratively characteristic scores while traversing the social graph from at least one first user node to the second user node through paths that each includes at least one selected neighboring node. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297741 | FOLLOWING CONTENT POSTING ENTITIES - A method, system, and/or computer program product enables a user to selectively follow content postings from a content posting entity. A set of desired content posting entity traits describes traits of an ideal content posting entity that the content follower desires to follow. The set of desired content posting entity traits is compared to traits of a first candidate content posting entity. In response to the traits of the first candidate content posting entity matching the desired content posting entity traits, and in response to the first candidate content posting entity posting from a preselected location, the first candidate content posting entity is selected for future content postings to be sent to the content follower. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297742 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA STORAGE - A determination is made of users that form a group within a social network in which the users communicate with each other over a network with electronic devices in a client-server architecture. The users in the group within the social network form a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage group within a P2P storage network. In the P2P storage network, users are peers that act as a client and a server for each other. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING TASKS AMONG A PLURALITY OF USERS - An approach is provided for efficiently coordinating one or more tasks among a plurality of users. A service provider may determine one or more contextual criteria for at least one task associated with at least one user. The service provider may further cause a selection of one or more contacts associated with the at least one user based on the one or more contextual criteria. Additionally, the service provider may cause a presentation of the at least one task to the one or more contacts. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297744 | REAL-TIME SUPPLEMENT OF SEGMENTED DATA FOR USER TARGETING - The present disclosure describes a method that includes retrieving segmented data relating to a selected factor concerning a user, retrieving real-time data relating to the selected factor, and providing a communication to the user if both the segmented data and the real-time data meet one or more preselected conditions. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297745 | PROCESSING OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SELECTED TIME-SHIFTED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing social media posts. The methods may include certain multimedia content being identified as multimedia content for which social media posts relating to a broadcast of that multimedia content are to be stored. Using this identifying information, one or more filtering criteria may be provided for use by a filtering module. The filtering module may receive (e.g., from a social networking service) a stream of social media posts, filter the received stream to extract social media posts that relate to the broadcast of the certain multimedia content, and stores the extracted social media posts. Alternatively, a storage module may store the stream of social media posts, and a filtering module may filter the stored social media posts to identify social media posts that relate to the broadcast of the certain multimedia content. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297746 | RECOMMENDING RESOURCES TO MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for presenting recommendations for resources to be used by members in learning about and/or acquiring a skill are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods receive information associated with a skill from a member of a social network, identify members of the social network that are associated with the skill, receive information from the identified members of the social network that identifies one or more resources associated with the skill, and generate a list of recommended resources that is based on the information received from the identified members of the social network. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297747 | METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO ONE ANOTHER COMMUNICATING OBJECTS IN WHICH USER PROFILES ARE STORED, AND COMMUNICATING OBJECT CORRESPONDING THERETO - A method for connecting to users using at least two communicating objects comprises the step of creating a user account, associating the user account to profile accounts, such as professional and/or social network accounts and/or an account memorized in a customer data base. The user accounts and the associated profile accounts of all the users are incorporated into a general data base. The detecting communication objects detects detectable communicating objects and exchanges fields of the user accounts and/or associated profile accounts, the detection keys and the search keys with each other. Common keys between the search keys of the detecting communicating object and the detection keys of a detected communicating object are identified, the user is notified, and the two communicating objects are connected to each other. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297748 | PERFORMING ACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH POSITIVE FEEDBACK EVENTS - Systems and methods for providing behavior feedback to members of a social network service are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods access information associated with positive feedback events for a member of a social network service, identify activities associated with the positive feedback events that were performed by the member of the social network service, and perform an action based on the identified one or more activities performed by the member of the social network service. For example, the systems and methods may display and/or update a dashboard that tracks and provides information associated with a member's status and interactions inside and outside of the social network service, may provide recommendations to other members that identify activities determined to generate positive feedback events for the members, and so on. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A device, system, and method may include an electronic data storage configured to store social network data related to use of the social network by users. A processor, coupled to the electronic data storage, may be configured to determine a recommended action that a member of the social network may take to increase a likelihood of at least one of the uses of the social network to access a social network content item related to the member and determine an estimated statistical change in a rate at which the users may access the social network content item if the recommended action were implemented by the member based, at least in part, on the social network data stored in the electronic data storage | 10-02-2014 |
20140297750 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system appropriately filtering post contents posted by users is provided. An information providing system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes one or more processors executing a given program. The program includes a selecting module selecting one or more particular post contents from among a plurality of post contents posted by one or more users in association with a particular webpage on the basis of rating information for the post contents, a feed information generating module generating particular feed information including the particular post content or contents, and a feed information delivery module delivering the particular feed information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297751 | SHARING APPLICATION OBJECTS AMONG MULTIPLE TENANTS - The present invention discloses a method and system for sharing application objects among multiple tenants, wherein the method comprises: identifying objects that can be shared by multiple tenants; merging the objects that can be shared by the multiple tenants; and updating references of the tenants to the shared objects prior to the merging so as to cause the references to point at a merged shared object. The method of the present invention enables the tenants to share application data more efficiently. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297752 | Device For Participating In A Network For Sharing Media Consumption Activity - A device and server for participating in a network for sharing media consumption activity is disclosed. For example, the device receives information identifying a media item as a result of playing the media item on a second user device associated with a friend of the plurality of friends and the friend of a plurality of friends. The device presents information identifying the media item selected for play on the second user device and the friend associated with the second user device and identifying a plurality of other media items and a subset of the plurality of friends. The device obtains a selection of a second media item for play, the second media item, and initiates play of the media item. The device provides, as a result of playing the second media item, information identifying the second media item and the user for sharing with the plurality of friends of the user. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297753 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING NETWORK EVENT PROTOCOL MESSAGES - A method for transferring network event protocol messages includes: attaching message length information to SYSLOG (network event protocol) messages; the receiver of the SYSLOG messages parses the SYSLOG messages from the received transport payload according to the message length information. By means of the method in this invention, SYSLOG messages can be rapidly parsed from the received transport payload by the receiver of the SYSLOG messages. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297754 | TARGETING QUESTIONS TO USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Users of a social networking system post questions for other users to answer. Questions are automatically tagged based on keywords extracted from text within the posted questions as well as user-selected tags. Users also browse questions asked by other users on the social networking system using an interface that displays questions by topics and sub-topics. Answers may be voted on and sorted by social information related to the browsing user. Affinities for tags are recorded based on users' interactions with the question and answer service. Affinities for tags may also be used to target questions to other users and sort answers. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304333 | MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE APPLICATION CATALOG WITH INTEGRATED DISCOVERY, MANAGEMENT, AND APPLICATION DESIGNER - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing extensibility, e.g., on a network of multi-function devices are provided. The system includes an application catalog, in communication with an application database of a catalog server and configured to load applications therefrom. The system also includes a device manager configured to discover one or more devices on a network and to allow selection of one or more selected devices from among the one or more devices. The system further includes a data transfer system in communication with the one or more devices and to cause an application to be transmitted from the application catalog to the one or more selected devices, such that the one or more selected devices receive the application without communicating directly with the application database. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304334 | VIRTUAL MULTI-CLUSTER CLOUDS - An improved scalable object storage system includes methods and systems allowing multiple clusters to work together. Users working with a first cluster, or with a multi-cluster gateway, can ask for services and have the request or data transparently proxied to a second cluster. This gives transparent cross-cluster replication, as well as multi-cluster compute or storage farms based upon spot availability or various provisioning policies. Vendors providing a cloud storage “frontend” can provide multiple backends simultaneously. In one embodiment, a multi-cluster gateway can have a two, three, or higher-level ring that transparently matches an incoming request with the correct cluster. In the ring, a request is first mapped to an abstract “partition” based on a consistent hash function, and then one or more constrained mappings map the partition number to an actual resource. In another embodiment, the multi-cluster gateway is a dumb gateway, and the rings are located only at the cluster level. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND CONTROLLERS THEREFOR - Methods and systems for providing an interactive experience to two or more participants located at one or more interactive nodes. The described systems include a coordination node and a plurality of interactive nodes. The interactive nodes may be a public node, a private node or an individual node. At each node, participants in interactive experiences are able to view a main or shared display and a personal or private display. The describe methods allow participants to use a plurality of participant devices at various interactive nodes to participate in coordinated interactive experiences. Each participant is able to view a main display that may be shared with other participants and a personal display that may be at least partially specific to the participant. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304336 | Automated Configuration of New Racks and Other Computing Assets in a Data Center - A configuration tool is used to configure new server racks and computing assets in a data center. When new server racks are placed in a data center, the configuration tool scans the racks to identify any unconfigured server racks and then determines their virtual locations. The tool queries a mapping between the physical and virtual rack locations in the data center to determine the physical location for each rack based on its virtual location. Using the acquired physical and virtual locations for each unconfigured rack, the configuration tool can configure the unconfigured racks. For example, the configuration tool may identify the assets contained in the rack and associate the rack's physical location with those assets. In addition, the configuration tool can determine the rack's VLAN and use that information to configure the TOR switch associated with the rack. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304337 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUSHING APPLICATIONS TO A WEB SITE VISITOR DURING CO-BROWSING - A method for pushing applications to a website visitor during co-browsing is presented. A co-browsing session between an operator of the website and the website visitor is initiated. An application is selected to be pushed to the website visitor. The application is configured and pushed to the website visitor. The application is co-browsed with the website visitor. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310345 | COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING WITH SCRATCHPAD FUNCTIONALITY - Real-time co-authoring and support for the collaborative process is enabled by making it easy to initiate a collaborative document, to invite the proper people into the process, to collect existing artifacts, thoughts, and research, and then to divide and track the work to completion across a collaborating group. Monitored changes, comments, and similar input by the collaborating authors may be presented on demand or automatically to each author based on changes and/or comments that affect a particular author, that author's portion of collaborated content, type of changes/comments, or similar criteria Real-time or sequential communication such as email, text messaging, and video chat, ay be enabled to further optimize the collaboration process. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310346 | DATA ANALYTICS AND SECURITY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for securing a social network account assigned to a member is provided. The method may include determining at least one social network account assigned to the member, the member being in electronic communication with the at least one social network account via a communication network, using a software program on a computer having a processor for executing the software program. The method may also include determining a pattern of communications between the member and the at least one social network account and generating a profile for the at least one social network account assigned to the member based on the pattern of communications. The method may further include monitoring an electronic communication with the at least one social network account by the member based on comparing the generated profile with the electronic communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310347 | PRESENTATION DELAY FEEDBACK IN A WEB CONFERENCING SESSION - Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods and systems for providing presentation delay feedback to a presenter in a web conferencing session. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a presenter client, a request to initiate a web conferencing session. The method further includes establishing the web conferencing session between the presenter client and at least one viewing client. During the web conferencing session, the method includes determining delays in presenting a view of the web conferencing session at each of the at least one viewing clients and providing an indication of the delays to a user at the presenter client. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310348 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING COMMUNICATION AND SHARING OF CONTENT AMONG A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - An approach is provided for communication and sharing of content among user devices. The approach includes a method for determining a request for a sharing of at least one content item between at least one device and one or more other devices, wherein the request is determined by at least one content sharing component. The method also comprises causing, at least in part, an initiation of at least one communication component to cause, at least in part, an establishment of a communication session between the at least one device and the one or more other devices. The method further comprises causing, at least in part, a transfer of one or more tokens to the at least one device for facilitating the sharing of the at least one content item, wherein the transfer of the one or more tokens is over the communication session, and wherein the sharing is performed over at least one other communication session. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG DEVICES AND USERS - An example approach is provided for establishing relationships among devices and users. A token sharing platform causes, at least in part, a selection of at least one token at a first device associated with a first user based, at least in part, on initiating a request to establish and/or modify a record indicating a relationship between the first user and at least one second user. By way of example, the at least one token represents the at least one second user at the first device. The token sharing platform then causes, at least in part, a transmission of the at least one token to at least one second device, wherein the at least one second device is associated with the at least one second user and the at least one token represents the first user at the at least one second device. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310350 | PROVISIONING A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING DEVICES - Example techniques and systems may transmit provisioning information to respective computing devices for self-provisioning of each of the respective computing devices. In one example, a technique may include receiving, by a first computing device, account information for a plurality of users and sensing, with the first computing device, a second computing device in wireless communication range of the first computing device. Responsive to sensing the second computing device, the method may also include transmitting, by the first computing device and via wireless device-to-device communication, provisioning information from the first computing device to the second computing device. The provisioning information may include instructions for the second computing device to self-provision with a user account associated with one or more of the plurality of users. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310351 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS - A system and method for social networking based on family relationships are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: enabling a particular user to create, by use of a network connectable data processor, a family data structure that defines the family relationships between the particular user and his or her family members, the family data structure representing a core family group of the particular user; automatically sharing content among the family members in the core family group by use of the family data structure, the sharing of content including specifying as combination of attributes associated with the content and generating a shared content subset from the specified combination of attributes; and enabling, the particular user to create, by use of the network-connectable data processor, an invitation to invite another user to join the core family group based on a family relationship, the invitation identifying the other user by family role, label, or relationship, the invitation automatically including a photo from as shared core family group photo album. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310352 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE MEETINGS USING POLICY DRIVEN RULES - In one embodiment, a method includes supporting a participation of a first endpoint in a first session and identifying a first time when a second session is to begin, where the first endpoint is expected to participate in the second session. The method also includes determining whether the first endpoint is still participating in the first session at approximately the first time, identifying a first condition when it is determined that the first endpoint is still participating in the first session at approximately the first time, and determining when the first condition is met while supporting the participation of the first endpoint in the first session. Finally, the method includes causing the first endpoint to switch to participating in the second session when it is determined that the first condition is met. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310353 | CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM PLAYLISTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS BASED ON USER HISTORY - A method for generating content sharing platform playlists and subscriptions based on user history is disclosed. The method includes identifying one or more entities of a content sharing platform to which a user is not subscribed, providing a user interface (UI) associated with the user, the UI displaying the identified one or more entities as recommended suggestions to the user, receiving, by the user via the UI, an indication of a selection of an entity of the identified one or more entities, generating a subscription to the selected entity for the user on the content sharing platform, using content items associated with the subscribed entity to originate a playlist for the user, and providing the playlist on the UI associated with the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310354 | DATA TRANSFER - A data transfer method and system includes at least one switch device ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140310355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET-BASED HUMAN NETWORK BROKERING - Matches between search queries and potential targets of such search queries are automatically brokered by (i) comparing search criteria specified in the search queries with profile criteria describing the potential targets, and (ii) reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between the search criteria and the profile criteria, provided that access controls associated with the profile criteria of the targets permit such reporting in light of access levels assigned to the search inquiries. Initiators, using client applications at various remote locations, may formulate the search queries and the brokering may be performed at one or more server locations communicatively coupled (e.g., via the Internet) thereto. The profile criteria may include portions of rich descriptive profiles of the potential targets. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317182 | SOCIAL BADGING FOR ELECTRONIFICATION OF PAPER - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for social badging. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: receive information associated with a user's interaction with an entity; determine or receive a rating based on the interaction, wherein the rating indicates an environmental impact of the interaction; and broadcast the rating on a social network. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317183 | REDUCING REAL TIME MEDIA TRAFFIC IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method for reducing real time media traffic in a network environment is provided and includes examining a plurality of first requests in a first protocol to identify participants in a media session; examining a plurality of second requests in a second protocol to determine media characteristics associated with the participants; and grouping the participants into different groups based, at least in part, on the media characteristics, wherein at least some of the participants associated with substantially identical media characteristics are grouped together. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317184 | Pre-Fetching Newsfeed Stories from a Social Networking System for Presentation to a User - A social networking system presents a viewing user with a newsfeed of stories describing actions performed by other social networking system users. In particular, the social networking system provides a pre-fetched set of newsfeed stories to a user device of the viewing user and a presentation order for the stories. The social networking system does not “lock” the set of newsfeed stories or the presentation order. The user device locally stores the pre-fetched ranked set of newsfeed stories upon receipt. When the viewing user later requests presentation of newsfeed stories, the user device retrieves the set of newsfeed stories and presents, to the viewing user, stories from the set according to the presentation order. A request is also sent to the social networking system to “lock” the presented newsfeed stories and the order in which the newsfeed stories were presented. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317185 | Systems and Methods for a Contextual Social Network - Disclosed are systems and methods to implement a contextual social network. A contextual social network adds a relationship based at least in part on a context of the relationship. For example, a child may be a student at a school and in turn a student in a particular kindergarten class at that school. As of the next school year the child can maintain the relationship with the school but replace the relationship with the kindergarten class to a relationship with a first grade class. When the child goes to a different school the original school relationship can be replaced with a new one. While the child is in a particular school or class at school the parents of the child have an indirect relationship (e.g., through their child) with the same school and class. The indirect relationship can automatically change as the relationship of the child to the school changes. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317186 | Organization of Captured Media Items - The present invention relates to mechanisms for sharing media items connected to an event between user accounts. An event for media items is created where the event is associated with a context. The created event is associated with a user account. The created event is shared with at least one further user account. The user account and the at least one further user account are associated with a specified subset of user accounts from at least one group of user accounts. Captured media items are connected to the created event. The captured media items are associated with the user account or the at least one further user account. The user account and the at least one further user are provided access to the connected media items. The connected media items are thereby enabled to be shared amongst the user account and the at least one further user account. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317187 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGING SERVER, DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a document management service that accepts a request for sharing a document from a user of client terminal so as to determine whether or not the document to which the sharing request was made has been successfully registered in a document management server as a sharing target among users. If the document has failed to be registered, the document management service posts the document to a microblog service. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317188 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING THEME AND LOCATION BASED PARTICIPATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for associating themes of member groups of a social networking system are associated with geographic data related to group members. Network members may self identify a locale to be associated with their online identity. A non-member of the group may search for group themes and be enabled to view indications of group member locations prior to requesting group membership. Member locales may be indicated within a rendered map image. Groups include selected members of the social network and each group preferably is associated with one or more themes, e.g., ideas, concepts, images, and topics. One or more members may have a specified status within a group wherein status assignments limit and/or empower relevant members of the group with privileges, authorities and/or obligations. Resources may be associated with a group, wherein a resource may be recommended by a group member, a sponsor, and/or the social networking system. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317189 | SOCIAL NETWORK DATING SERVICE - The invention relates to an online dating system in which users of the system maintain profiles listing friends, and in which only other users within a specified degree of relationship within a given user's social network can view the user profile of that given user. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317190 | SESSION MANAGER ANTI-LOOPING - Session Manager anti-looping creates a model that is an effective barrier to looping, efficiently identifying a loop condition by maintaining temporary individual call counters for header sets within temporal parameters and terminating the loop condition upon detection. The system provides an administrator with adjustable parameters for loop detection count and loop detection interval, thereby allowing protection against loop conditions, both inadvertent and intentional. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VIRAL ENABLEMENT OF FEATURES BY PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTION - The technology disclosed relates to identifying and notifying a user of nearby attendees at a mega attendance event who are in user's social graph by comparing the user's social graph to a list of event attendees. The identified attendees can be stratified into social graph tags that annotate, categorize and prioritize other users in the user's social graph. The technology disclosed also relates to identifying and notifying the user of nearby attendees of sessions at the event who meet introduction preferences of the user by finding matches between introduction preference attributes specified by the user and attributes of the attendees provided by the list of event attendees. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317192 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LATENT TRIGGERS FOR CELEBRATING PAST AND RECURRING EVENTS - An apparatus, system and method of providing a latent celebration of memorable events, or a recurring celebration of an event in a timely manner, which allows for a determination of a latency or recurring period, whereupon remembrances, such as photos, may be shared amongst the celebrants. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING CONVERSATIONAL AGENT TO COLLECT INFORMATION AND TRIGGER ACTIONS - A system for collecting information and triggering actions, in one example embodiment, comprises receiving conversational information from a communication session involving a user. The conversational information includes posting information. The conversational information is parsed to obtain the posting information. The posting information parsed from the conversational information is posted to a networked environment. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317194 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTENT - A method and system for sharing photographic content, the method comprising generating social media content for a photograph feed associated with a photograph that is shared on a social network, the photograph located at a first location and including scannable code, receiving activity information associated with the photograph from one or more client devices, the activity information including scanning of the scannable code and geographical data of the one or more client devices, and determining movements of the photograph from the first location based on the geographical data. The method further comprises updating the social media content with geographical locations and distances traveled from the first location based on the activity information and the determined movements. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING TRIGGER MESSAGE TO MTC UE, AND MTC UE - The disclosure discloses a method for sending trigger message to a Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE), including that: an MTC server sends the trigger message to an MTC InterWorking Function (MTC-IWF); the MTC-IWF packages the trigger message as a short message, and sends the short message to a serving node of the MTC UE via an interface T | 10-23-2014 |
20140317196 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR THE SUPERVISION OF TRANSACTIONS IN A PEER-TO-PEER OVERLAY NETWORK - The present invention relates to the supervision of transactions in peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks. A P2P overlay network often consists of peers interconnected via different access technologies having significant different round-trip time (RTT) delays. Current time supervisions of retransmissions and transactions in P2P networks have fixed values. This has the disadvantages that if the timer values are too short, unnecessary retransmissions are performed although a response would be on its way. If the timer values are too long it results in unnecessarily long messaging delays. These disadvantages have been overcome by a method and a peer for adapting the timer values to the conditions in the P2P overlay network. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324962 | Device, System and Method for Utilising Display Objects - A method of generating a display object is provided, the method comprising operating a first processor comprised within a first device to: execute an application; generate an display object associated with the application; output the active display object on the first device; transmit the display object to a second device for output by the second device; and receive user input to the application via the display object output on the second device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324963 | Variable Search Query Vertical Access - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a user of an online social network a search query input comprising a character string having a number of characters; accessing one or more verticals that each store objects associated with the online social network, where if the number of characters is less than or equal to a threshold number, then accessing a first set of verticals, and if the number of characters is greater than the threshold number, then accessing the first set of verticals and a second set of verticals; searching each accessed vertical to identify one or more objects associated with the vertical that substantially match the character string; and sending to the user references to the identified objects. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324964 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING A LOCATION - Disclosed in some examples is a method including receiving a plurality of transaction records, each of the transaction records including data about a particular transaction engaged in by a member of a social networking service and including a geographic location and a timestamp of the particular transaction; scoring each of the plurality of transaction records based upon the recency of the transaction; clustering the plurality of transaction records into a plurality of clusters, each cluster including transaction records which contain similar geographic locations; creating an aggregate score for each particular one of the plurality of clusters based upon a sum total of the scores calculated for each transaction record clustered into the particular cluster; and creating a probability distribution based upon the scores for the plurality of clusters, the probability distribution indicating a probability that the member was in each of the plurality of locations represented by the clusters. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324965 | RECOMMENDING MEDIA ITEMS BASED ON PURCHASE HISTORY - A media item recommendation can be based on application purchase data. Application purchase data of a population of users can be used to create application preference clusters that represent unique application preference profiles. Media preference data of the same population of users can be used to create media preference clusters that represent unique media preference profiles. A preference relationship between an application preference cluster and a media preference cluster can be identified based on the number of members of the media preference cluster that are also members of the application preference cluster. Upon receiving a recommendation request from a user, the user's application preference profile can be determined based on the user's application purchase data. A media item can then be recommended based on a media preference cluster that has a preference relationship with an application preference cluster that represents the application preference profile of the user. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324966 | OBTAINING HYPERLOCAL CONTENT FROM SOCIAL MEDIA - Hyperlocal information may be marshaled from social network postings, and may be analyzed to create content about a hyperlocality. In one example, tweets on the Twitter service are examined to determine the hyperlocality with which the tweets are associated. The tweets are then analyzed to identify trending terms, and events are identified based on the trending terms. Additionally, patterns of posting and re-posting are analyzed to identify prominent members in the hyperlocality. A user interface, such as a web page, may be created for the hyperlocality, where the user interface may identify events, topics, people, places, and postings associated with the hyperlocality. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SHARING USER-GENERATED INFORMATION - Systems and methods for creating and sharing user-generated content that can be tagged to a website or page are provided herein. The systems and methods allow a user to create content and to share it with others via a variety of methods. The content can be shared in context with an underlying webpage or site. Computer readable medium containing executable code for creating and sharing user-generated information are also disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324968 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATIVE WORK COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and tangible computer-readable storage mediums for tracking collaboration are presented. More particularly, embodiments relate to providing, using a processor, an environment for collaboration between users; and tracking, using the processor, information regarding the collaboration; such that the tracked information includes rights information regarding rights of the collaborating users. Some further embodiments include storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, the rights information. Some further embodiments include determining compensation for at least one user based on the rights information. Some further embodiments include: storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, initial content; and storing, in the storage medium, additional content, such that the additional content builds on the initial content. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324969 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LISTENING FOR INCOMING CALLS ON MULTIPLE PORT/SOCKET COMBINATIONS - In a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a network interface, a method for listening on multiple conferencing interfaces having the steps of loading a set of transport components into the memory; initializing each transport components of the set of transport components to listen on a particular conferencing interface using the network interface, each transport component of the set of transport components listening to a different conferencing interface; receiving an incoming call signal on the network interface having an incoming conferencing interface; processing the incoming call signal to detect the incoming conferencing interface; and launching an application based on the incoming conferencing interface. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENTLY NETWORKED COMMUNITIES - A method, system and computer program product for providing intelligently networked communities, including at least one of identifying and selecting suitable potential opportunities for a user; pushing know-how to a user for actualizing an opportunity, including setting targets to achieve a goal; connecting and teaming up a user with other users that complement capabilities and capacities of the user in pursuit of a goal; and generating a goal map for a user to help the user to make decisions and adjust a course when encountering problems along a journey to a goal. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324971 | DATA SHARING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING SOCIAL RELATION - Provided is a data sharing apparatus and method for sharing data between a terminal possessed by a user and another terminal using social relations. The data sharing apparatus includes a social relation information acquisition unit that accesses a social network service (SNS) server for providing an SNS to acquire social relation information of a user, a social relation information storage unit that stores the acquired social relation information, and a data sharing control unit that controls data sharing between a user terminal possessed by the user and a target terminal based on the stored social relation information. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324972 | Method, Server, User Terminal, and System For Pushing Notification Message - A method, server, user terminal, and system are disclosed for sending notification messages in the Internet communication filed. In the method: when detecting it needs to send a message to a target terminal, an application server detects a state of the signaling channel. When the signaling channel is in connected state, the application server sends a notification message to the target terminal through this signaling channel. When the signaling channel is in a disconnected state, the application server generates a notification request to a corresponding account of the target terminal and sends the notification request to the notification server so that the notification server pushes a notification message to the target terminal according to the notification request. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324973 | COORDINATED RESOURCE SHARING IN MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION USING A NETWORK-BASED GROUP MANAGEMENT AND FLOOR CONTROL MECHANISM - In the network-based group management and floor control mechanism disclosed herein, a server may receive a request to occupy a shared IoT resource from a member device in an IoT device group and transmit a message granting the member IoT device permission to occupy the shared IoT resource based on one or more policies. For example, the granted permission may comprise a floor that blocks other IoT devices from accessing the shared IoT resource while the member IoT device holds the floor. Furthermore, the server may revoke the permission if the member IoT device fails to transmit a keep-alive message before a timeout period expires, a high-priority IoT device pre-empts the floor, and/or based on the policies. Alternatively, the server may make the shared IoT resource available if the member IoT device sends a message that voluntarily releases the floor. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE SCHEDULING IN DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A distributed scheduling method in a Device-to-Device (D2D) communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a peer device, first resource information including a link identifier and start position information of resources to be allocated, receiving, from the peer device, second resource information in which at least one of the resource start position information and a resource allocation amount is adjusted based on the first resource information, and determining the resource start position based on the first resource information and second resource information. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324975 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In response to receiving terminal identification information that identifies a request communication terminal, a communication management system obtains application information indicating one or more applications that are allowed for use by the request communication terminal, using the received terminal identification information of the request communication terminal, and transmits the application information of the request communication terminal to the request communication terminal through the communications network. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A method includes monitoring media content at media content locations to identify media content items. The media content locations are identified in social network data stored by a set-top box device. The method includes receiving, at the set-top box device, a command to present image cells to a display device. The command is responsive to an alert sent from the set-top box device. The method also includes presenting the image cells at the display device. At least one of the image cells includes an image corresponding to an identified media content item. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324977 | ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE - An enterprise-based social networking application. Events for individuals may be collected from various enterprise-based information systems automatically using adaptors that are specially tailored for particular types of information systems. Such events may then be used to populate event feeds regarding individuals in that enterprise. A filtering model for formulating event feeds identifies events by individual, event type, and event time. The filter also identifies which individuals are in which group of a participant, and identifies which groups correspond to which event types. Incoming events may then be filtered into the event feeds depending on the group to which the individual belongs. Filtering an event from an events pool to formulate an event feed is also provided. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324978 | Broadcast Notifications Using Social Networking Systems - A notifier sends out notifications to potential viewers or listeners of a broadcast stream via social networking systems or other communication channels. The notifier stores information about a user's preferences and identity on the social networking systems. After the notifier receives a notification request from a broadcaster, the notifier commands broadcaster agents deployed in the social networking systems or in the notifier to send notification messages to users of the social networking systems registered to receive notification. The broadcaster agents function as a proxy that establishes relationships with users of the social networking systems and then sends out the notification messages to the users with established relationships. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324979 | Web Real-Time Communication Call Transferring Method and Apparatus - A web real-time communication WebRTC call transferring method and apparatus. The method includes receiving a first identifier used for identifying a to-be-transferred call, where the to-be-transferred call is a WebRTC call having been established between a source terminal and a remote terminal, sending, according to the first identifier, a first request message used for requesting page information corresponding to the to-be-transferred call to a WebRTC server, and establishing, according to identification information of the remote terminal in the page information sent by the WebRTC server, a call connection used for bearing the to-be-transferred call with the remote terminal. By means of the embodiments of the present invention, the WebRTC call between the source terminal and the remote terminal may be transferred to between the destination terminal and the remote terminal, thereby implementing transferring of a WebRTC call between terminals. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324980 | SHARING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services based on such social network information. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324981 | UPLOADING AND STREAMING OF VIDEO AND OTHER RICH CONTENT - Methods and systems are used to share data as authorized by a provider for review by a recipient. Rich content, such as video, still images and audio, may be captured and automatically uploaded to a network-accessible location. The uploaded rich content may then be shared with a recipient (e.g., a recipient designated by the provider, etc.). As the recipient reviews the uploaded rich content, the amount of the rich content played by the recipient can be tracked, and the provider may be notified of whether or not the recipient has accessed the shared information and/or the extent to which the shared information was reviewed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330900 | ENCOUNTER-DRIVEN PERSONAL CONTACT SPACE - Managing contact information includes a first user identifying at least one other user in response to the first user encountering the other user, the first user obtaining contact information from the other user, where the contact information is transmitted to a mobile device of the first user, automatically supplementing the contact information from the other user with additional information about at least one of: additional information about the other user provided from outside the mobile device, a record of encounters between the first user and the other user, and a record of other people present at encounters between the first user and the other user, and storing, in a personal contact space of the first user, the contact information from the other user and the additional information, where the personal contact space is provided by storage of the mobile device. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330901 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHARING DIGITAL OBJECT OVER MESH NETWORK - A method for sharing a digital object over a mesh network is provided in the present invention. The mesh network includes a group owner and a plurality of target devices, and the method is executed by the group owner. The method includes the following steps. First, a table including metadata information is constructed, wherein the metadata information includes an original source of the digital object in the mesh network. Next, the table is distributed to each of the target devices, wherein each of the target devices may downloads the digital object according to the metadata information. The table is updated according to a change of a status of the target devices. Then, the updated table is distributed to each of the target devices. An electronic device is further provided in the present invention so as to embody the aforementioned method. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330902 | MULTI-STATUS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a plurality of groups for a user of an electronic communication platform, wherein at least one member of the electronic communication platform belongs to each of the plurality of groups. A first user status for the user of the electronic communication platform may be identified. The first user status may be associated with a first group of the plurality of groups. A second user status may be identified for the user of the electronic communication platform. The second user status may be associated with a second group chosen from the plurality of groups. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330903 | EVENT GREETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a event notification concerning a specific member of a social network to one or more social network friends of the specific member. A first event message is received in response to the event notification from a first social network friend of the specific member. In response to the first event message, a communal space within the social network accessible by the specific member and the one or more social network friends is generated. The first event message from the first social network friend is posted within the communal space. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330904 | GEOLOCATION RESCHEDULING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining an initial meeting location for a meeting previously-scheduled to be attended by a plurality of attendees at a defined meeting time. A current attendee location is determined for each of the plurality of attendees proximate the defined meeting time, thus defining a plurality of attendee locations. The initial meeting location and one or more of the plurality of attendee locations are compared to determine if the initial meeting location could be changed. If the initial meeting location could be changed, at least one alternative meeting location is suggested. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330905 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING UP ACTIVE NETWORKING OF SMART DEVICES FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED SERVICE - Disclosed herein is a method for setting up active networking of smart devices for providing a converged service. In the method of setting up active networking of smart devices for providing a converged service, each of a plurality of smart objects broadcasts location information thereof. A smart object neighboring a largest number of smart objects is selected as a smart zone manager from among the plurality of smart objects. The selected smart zone manager broadcasts smart zone information to neighbor smart objects, and then forms a smart zone. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NETWORK PROCESSING/CREATION INVOLVING ENGAGEMENT TOOLS, POLLING, MESSAGING, FEEDBACK AND/OR OTHER FEATURES - Aspects of the present innovations relate to systems and methods of a data processing involving network processing, engagement tools, social polling, messaging, custom image creation and/or feedback, among other features. In one illustrative implementation, a network may provide custom engagement tools targeting a specific audience. Further, engagement tools directly focusing on the network and its feedback may be provided, for example, to provide aspects over other social networks where users are grouped into general categories without specific features. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330907 | INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE SHARING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE INDIVIDUAL SECURITY LEVEL SETTINGS - An interactive experience sharing and evaluation system is implemented through a website in one easy step. Users submit information in the form of journal entries about experiences they have had, which can include photos, videos, a rating, and comments with varying privacy levels. Other users can search through these journal entries according to their security access level and add their own information, rating, comments, etc. Users also can provide personal information and search through and connect with other users and communicate with one another regarding submitted experiences. Users construct a dream-list of desired future experiences and set up ongoing searches for new information submitted regarding the users' interests. Custom information is provided to users on the basis of the contents of their dream-lists, and include advertisements. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330908 | Cloud Based Recipe Distribution in an Enterprise Management System - A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable distribution of the content items to at least a selected asset among a plurality of food preparation assets via a network. The content items may include at least visible content descriptive of a food item preparable using the selected asset and invisible content including non-human readable instructions for enabling the selected asset to prepare the food item. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337419 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM A SOCIAL GRAPH - A method, system and article of manufacture for determining a global hierarchy of an entity by computing subjective coherence strength between nodes of first members of a social network service, computing objective entanglement strength between nodes of second members of the social network service, using subjective coherence strength and objective entanglement strength, compute the pairwise latent relationship probabilities between different ones of the nodes of the social network service, and using the pairwise relationship probabilities, compute the global hierarchy relationship. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337420 | System and Method for Recording Music Which Allows Asynchronous Collaboration over the Internet - A system for recording music is disclosed. The system for recording music comprises an audio plug-in, wherein the plug-in is configured to be incorporated to a computer having a digital audio workstation, wherein the plug-in allows for asynchronous collaboration of a plurality of audio files recorded by a plurality of collaborators, wherein the audio files are transmitted and received among the plurality of collaborators via the Internet. A method for recording music is additionally disclosed. The method for recording music comprises the following steps: (a) uploading a plug-in to a computer having a digital audio workstation, wherein the plug-in allows for asynchronous collaboration of a plurality of audio files recorded by a plurality of collaborators, wherein the audio files are transmitted and received among the plurality of collaborators via the Internet; (b) recording a first audio file on digital audio workstation; (c) submitting the audio file to at least one collaborator via the Internet; (d) receiving a second audio file via the Internet; and (e) incorporating the second audio file into the digital audio workstation. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337421 | QUERY-DRIVEN VIRTUAL SOCIAL NETWORK GROUP - Embodiments relate to implementing a query-driven virtual social media network group. An aspect includes providing, through a social media network, a search function option incorporated into a user interface that is configured for access by a user of the social media network. Another aspect includes receiving, at the social media network, a query from the user through the search function option of the user interface and searching a database of user profiles and content history for information that satisfies the query. The user profiles and the content history include content received from users as members of the social media network. A further aspect includes creating a virtual social media network group from results of the searching and providing access to a view of the virtual social media network group via the user interface for the user. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337422 | ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING METHODS - Electronic conferences for a large number of attendees may be facilitated by a preliminary greeting employing live greeters. Such preconferences allow a conference to begin contemporaneously for all attendees while providing early arrivals with introductory information, thus filling what would otherwise be a vacuous wait. Preferred embodiments for these conferences use outbound initiation: initiating contact with potential attendees. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337423 | LIVE GREETERS FOR ELECTRONIC PRESENTATIONS - Live greeters are employed for proceedings prior to electronic presentations. Using multiple live greeters affords handling a large number of attendees who respond at different times to outbound initiation. Greeters are rotated so as to optimize responsiveness to attendees. Preconferencing with live greeters allows an electronic presentation to begin contemporaneously for all attendees while providing early arrivals with introductory information, thus filling what would otherwise be a vacuous wait. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337424 | Authorizing Push Notifications for Websites - In some implementations, a website can be certified by a push notification service operator to send push notifications to user devices. A web browser on the user's device can communicate with the website to advertise the user device's ability to receive push notifications. The website can provide to the web browser a certificate indicating that the website is authorized to utilize the push notification service. If the certificate is valid and has not been revoked, the browser can prompt the user to allow push notifications from the website. If the user authorizes push notifications, a device token can be provided to the website that allows the website to send push notifications to the user device through the push notification service. In some implementations, the web browser can be configured to provide websites access to APIs for accessing information stored on a user device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337425 | MODIFYING A SOCIAL GRAPH BASED ON LANGUAGE PREFERENCE - Social networking applications may provide an enhanced user experience by considering information regarding the language preference of a user as well as other signals. According to the implementations disclosed herein, one or more signals may be utilized to determine the language in which content may be displayed to a user of a social networking application or website. A first language preference for a user may be determined based on at least one signal. A second language preference may be determined for a social graph component of the social networking application based on at least one signal. The first language preference may be compared to the second language preference and a weighted value may be assigned to the social graph component. The social graph component of the social networking application may be presented based upon the weighted value assigned to the social graph component. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337426 | USE OF HANDHELD DEVICES (PHONES/TABLETS) AS SPEAKERS TO MAKE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO CONFIGURATION OVER WI-FI - An approach is provided for managing multichannel playback of audio data over a wireless network. In one example, a host device determines one or more client devices that are eligible to receive a transmission of the audio data over a wireless network from the host device for playback of the audio data. The host device displays the one or more client devices that are eligible. The host device receives a selection of at least one of the client devices. The host device establishes a connection to each of the selected client devices for the host device to transmit at least one channel of the audio data to each of the selected client devices over the wireless network. The host device displays a map of positions of the connected client devices. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337427 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING ELECTRONIC CONTENTS - A system according to an embodiment recommends, to users, electronic contents which can be enjoyed together with other users. The system includes: a service provision control unit for controlling provision of services; an information storage unit for storing information; a selection unit for selecting, from a plurality of games, recommended games to be recommended to a user and selecting, from a plurality of users, one or more introduction users to be introduced to the user as users using the recommended games; a screen setting unit for setting the screen data of a content recommendation screen; a sending unit for sending the screen data of the content recommendation screen to the terminal device; and a reward providing unit for providing a reward to the user or the introduction users. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337428 | FACILITATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - Embodiments relate to facilitating social interactions. An aspect includes determining that a first communications device is in communicative contact with a second communications device, identifying at least one artifact relating to a user of the first communications device, and searching at least one database for information about a user of the second communications device that is in common with the user of the first communications device with respect to the artifact. Also, results of the searching are provided as a topic of conversation to the first communications device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337429 | INDUSTRIAL DATA ANALYTICS IN A CLOUD PLATFORM - Cloud-aware industrial devices feed robust sets of data to a cloud-based data analyzer that executes as a service in a cloud platform. In addition to industrial data generated or collected by the industrial devices, the devices can provide device profile information to the cloud-based analyzer that identifies the device and relevant configuration information. The industrial devices can also provide customer data identifying an owner of the industrial devices, contact information for the owner, active service contracts, etc. The cloud-based data analyzer leverages this information to perform a variety of custom analytics on the data and generate reports or notifications catered to the particular industrial assets' optimal performance and business goals of the owner's industrial enterprise, as well as perform real-time decision making and control. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337430 | METHOD FOR CONTENT TRANSMISSION USING SOCIAL INFORMATION - A method for efficiently transmitting contents on a network is provided. The content transmission method using social information, includes: requesting content registration and social information of a user; allocating, by a social information management node, a multicast address to be used in content transmission based on the content registration information and social information received from a social service provider; transmitting the allocated multicast address to a first access control node to which a first user terminal is connected so as to set the first access control node as a multicast source, in response to a request of the first access control node; and transmitting a response message to a second access control node for setting a multicast transmission path for content transmission between the first access control node and the second access control node when there is a sharing request of the second access control node. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337431 | Method and Apparatus To Enable Converged Infrastructure True Elastic Function - Method and Apparatus to enable converged infrastructure true elastic function are disclosed by analysis of capacity of workload and application components across public and private data centers and clouds; assessment of available infrastructure components across the data centers and clouds; comparison of capacity with availability; real time roll out and orchestration of application components across data centers public or private within allowed threshold bringing about true elastic behavior; and rapid configurations of all needed infrastructure components. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337432 | NETWORK-ASSISTED PEER DISCOVERY - Techniques for performing network-assisted peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are described. In one design, a device registers with a network entity (e.g., a directory agent) so that the presence of the device and possibly other information about the device can be made known to the network entity. The network entity collects similar information from other devices. The device sends a request to the network entity, e.g., during or after registration. The request includes information used to match the device with other devices, e.g., information about service(s) provided by the device and/or service(s) requested by the device. The directory agent matches requests received from all devices, determines a match between the device and at least one other device, and sends a notification to perform peer discovery. The device performs peer discovery in response to receiving the notification from the network entity. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337433 | Media Streams from Containers Processed by Hosted Code - Described is a technology by which code, such as an untrusted web application hosted in a browser, provides content through an interface for playback by an application environment, such as an application environment running in a browser plug-in. Content may be in the form of elementary video, audio and/or script streams. The content is in a container that is unpackaged by the application code, whereby the content may be packaged in any format that the application understands, and/or or come from any source from which the application can download the container. An application environment component such as a platform-level media element receives information from an application that informs the application environment that the application is to provide media stream data for playback. The application environment requests media stream data (e.g., samples) from the application, receives them as processed by the application, and provides the requested media stream data for playback. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337434 | TIMING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH INTEGRATED EVENT PARTICIPANT TRACKING MANAGEMENT SERVICES - An automated system and method for managing a tracking and an automated real-time remote reporting thereof of a participant's participation in an event having a participant event management system (PEMS) that receives a request for tracking of the participant, a participant proximity detector detects the proximity of the participant to a detection point, a location detection system receiving and transmitting participant location data, the timing system receives the preorder request from the PEMS, determines a time of passing of the detection point of the participant, receives the location data and associates the participant event number with the participant identifier number, and transmits the location data forming at least a part of the participant tracking data to an output interface. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337435 | Device and Method for the Dynamic Load Management of Cloud Services - The invention substantially relates to a device and a method for the dynamic load management of cloud services. At least one cloud service can be used by a service client, and the service client has a load management adapter which exchanges messages comprising reservation feedback with a service load manager, said service load manager exchanging additional messages in the form of an execution plan with the cloud service. In this manner, a minimum number of physical IT resources is achieved to the greatest degree possible while simultaneously complying with the service-level agreements agreed upon beforehand, and denial-of-service false alarms due to high peak loads are prevented. The invention can be advantageously used for optimizing a routing plan. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337436 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT FEED ITEMS TO DISPLAY IN A FEED OF AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for identifying relevant feed items to display in a feed of an enterprise social networking system. A plurality of data items from one or more of a plurality of data sources may be identified as relevant to a user by satisfying one or more relevancy parameters comprising: a data source providing the data item being one of an inner circle of data sources, content of the data item being identifiable using an interest graph associated with the user, the data item comprising a mention of the user, and the data item being designated as relevant to a group or an organization with which the user is associated. A highlights feed can include the identified data items as feed items. The feed items can be arranged according to a determined characteristic of each data item. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344348 | Annotation-Based Voting for E-Readers and Social Networking Enabled Browsers - Techniques for annotation-based voting for online content are provided. In one aspect, a method for voting for online content is provided which includes associating content selected by a voter from a first content set with a user profile of the voter; identifying the selected content in a second content set upon the second content set being accessed by one or more users socially connected to the voter; and visually accenting the selected content in the second content set. The method may include retrieving profile information for the voter; and associating the profile information for the voter with the selected content in the second content set. The method may further include displaying the profile information for the voter along with the selected content in the second content set. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344349 | ORCHESTRATION OF ELECTRONIC MEETINGS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for orchestrating presentations within an electronic meeting. In an implementation, a method may include receiving one or more social scoring inputs associated with a plurality of presentations included within an electronic meeting. The method may also include defining a social score for a first presentation of the plurality of presentations based on, at least in part, the one or more social scoring inputs. The method may further include establishing at least one attribute of the first presentation for the electronic meeting based on the social score for the first presentation. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344350 | Image Session Invitation and Management Techniques - Image session invitation and management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an invitation to join an image sharing session as a potential member is broadcast, e.g., over a local wireless area network by a computing device. An indication of acceptance is received from the potential member at the computing device, the indication including an identity of the potential member. A communication is formed by the computing device for communication via a network to a service provider that is configured to manage the image sharing session. The communication includes the identity of the potential member and an identity of the image sharing session. The communication is also configured to cause the service provider to add the potential member to the image sharing session to share images with other members of the image sharing session or receive images that are shared by the other members of the image sharing session. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344351 | DISPLAYING USER'S DESIRED CONTENT BASED ON PRIORITY DURING LOADING PROCESS - There are provided a method, a system and a computer program product for customizing a loading message to be displayed during a loading process. The system receives, from a client device used by a user, an event message that indicates a start of the loading process. The system receives, from the client device, one or more content sources. The system selects a content source among the one or more content sources. The system displays content from the selected content source to the user during the loading process. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344352 | ACTIVITY INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE DATA STORAGE VIEW THAT SHOWS RECENT AND RELEVANT CONTENT TO THE USER - In one embodiment, an internet-accessible resource service may emphasize a recently accessed data object stored in an internet-accessible data storage | 11-20-2014 |
20140344353 | Relevant Commentary for Media Content - Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide and/or receive relevant commentary for media content. Additionally, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received in response to rendering a section of the media content. In addition, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on one or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and/or a preference for a state of a social network. Moreover, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on a topic related to the section of the media content. The relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary. In addition, an ambiguous section of the media content may be clarified, and/or an interactive commentary session may be simulated. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344354 | System and Method for Online Competitions - A system and method for creating a competition on a website where a user can submit media material such as a photo, video or audio recording and other users can vote on the material. As negative votes arrive at the server, the user-submitted media material or an image representing it is caused to degrade. On type of degradation is to represent the material as a window pane that begins to crack as negative votes arrive. The cracking can get worse going from minor to moderate to major to heavy. Finally, with enough negative votes, the image can be destroyed. As positive votes arrive, degradation can be repaired and enhanced features added to, or associated with, images. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING ACCESS OF PRE-READ MATERIALS FOR A MEETING - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for monitoring access of a pre-read material for a meeting are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request to monitor access of the pre-read material for the meeting, creates a document that records an access history of the pre-read material by each one of one or more invited attendees in accordance with one or more parameters specified in the request, updates the document each time the pre-read material is accessed by one of the one or more invited attendees and provides the document to a meeting requestor. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344356 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - The social networking service provides a method that offers communication services in which members can communicate and contribute anonymously without knowledge of the originator's identity. Since the social networking service does not accept specific identification from member users, the identification of other target services, such as e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, phone numbers, and the like, will be used. The service functions as an extension to the external services for providing anonymous collaborative contributions. The social networking service accepts identification from another service and a password, and then attempts to verify the identification by sending verification code to a user identification service. The user becomes a service member once he/she confirms the recipient of the verification code to the service. A service membership is created for users who join the service. Group memberships are created, and predetermined group policies are enforced, while anonymous posting and blogging are allowed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344357 | COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing communication traffic relaying in a multiparty communication session. In an implementation, a method may include receiving a request from a first computing device to join a multiparty communication session. The method may also include associating the first computing device with a second computing device for the multiparty communication session, the second computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via a multipoint control unit. The method may further include relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the multipoint control unit to the first computing device by the second computing device. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344358 | FILTERING OF CONTENT TO DISPLAY USING AN OPPORTUNITY ENGINE THAT IDENTIFIES OTHER USERS ABILITY TO INTERACT IN REAL TIME - This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate identifying topic(s) from incoming data items from a plurality of data sources, identifying other data items that relate to the topic(s), identifying users that have an interest in the topic(s), identifying availability of the users, rating the topic(s), and presenting a filtered set of topics based upon the identifications and ratings. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344359 | RELEVANT COMMENTARY FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide and/or receive relevant commentary for media content. Additionally, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received in response to rendering a section of the media content. In addition, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on one or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and/or a preference for a state of a social network. Moreover, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on a topic related to the section of the media content. The relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary. In addition, an ambiguous section of the media content may be clarified, and/or an interactive commentary session may be simulated. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344360 | ORCHESTRATION OF ELECTRONIC MEETINGS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for orchestrating presentations within an electronic meeting. In an implementation, a method may include receiving one or more social scoring inputs associated with a plurality of presentations included within an electronic meeting. The method may also include defining a social score for a first presentation of the plurality of presentations based on, at least in part, the one or more social scoring inputs. The method may further include establishing at least one attribute of the first presentation for the electronic meeting based on the social score for the first presentation. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344361 | COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing communication traffic relaying in a multiparty communication session. In an implementation, a method may include receiving a request from a first computing device to join a multiparty communication session. The method may also include associating the first computing device with a second computing device for the multiparty communication session, the second computing device participating in the multiparty communication session via a multipoint control unit. The method may further include relaying communication traffic for the multiparty communication session from the multipoint control unit to the first computing device by the second computing device. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344362 | RESTRICTION OF POSTING INFORMATION TO SHARING PROCESSORS - Methods and systems effective to restrict posting of information to a sharing processor are generally described. A device may receive a request to post captured information to a sharing processor. The device may receive a restriction request and determine that the restriction request is applicable to the information. In response to determining that the restriction request is applicable to the information, the device may output a privacy message through a user interface of the device. The privacy message may provide an indication that the restriction request is applicable to the information. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344363 | ORDER FEED MESSAGE STREAM INTEGRITY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for improving order feed message stream integrity. Certain embodiments provide a method including sending, by a computing device, a first data message; sending a first stop message; clearing a message stream state; and sending a second data message. The first data message includes data related to an order for a tradeable object, a first sequence number with a value of a predefined initial sequence number, and a first phase number. The second data message includes data related to an order, a second sequence number with a value of the predefined initial sequence number, and a second phase number, wherein the second phase number is different than the first phase number. The message stream state is associated with the order. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344364 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHARING COURSE SYLLABUS OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for an electronic device to share a course syllabus, contents of the course syllabus are obtained from an input device of the electronic device. The method generates the course syllabus according to the inputted contents, and sets different sharing authorities of the course syllabus corresponding to different operators. Each sharing authority includes an access authority for accessing contents of the course syllabus. The course syllabus is uploaded to a server connected to the electronic device. When an operator accesses the course syllabus stored in the server, an operation requirement is sent from the electronic device to the server. When the course syllabus is found by the server according to the operation requirement, the method receives contents of the course syllabus sent from the server according to an access authority of the operator. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344365 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344366 | AUTOMATIC UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES IN A REALTIME CONFERENCE - The architecture facilitates the association of resources (e.g., hardware software) with a meeting location such as a conference room or conference space. Additionally, the room and resources can be associated with a realtime conference or meeting at the meeting location. Still further, the resources can be automatically joined to the meeting being held in the room, for both the organizer of the meeting and the remote participants of the meeting. The resources are network addressable and register to a communications infrastructure for online availability. The architecture automatically joins the conference room resources to any conference or call that is being held in the locale (e.g., room) of the conference, and which the user has joined using a realtime conferencing application. The resources distributed across multiple meeting locations can be utilized for a single session, as well. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING USER GENERATED SLIDE OBJECTS OVER A NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to an address match in connection with a request for a target structured document, identifying one or more slide objects associated with the target structured document, the one or more slide objects defining a set of anchor point definitions in the target structured document; identifying one or more anchor points corresponding to the one or more slide objects in a document object model (DOM) representation of the target structured document based on the set of anchor point definitions; accessing content corresponding to the one or more slide objects; and rendering the target structured document and the content of the one or more slide objects proximal to the identified anchor points. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING MEDIA REPLICATION IN A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING A COMMUNICATION MEDIUM FOR A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION - In a method for requesting media replication in a collaborative communication session, a message is sent which specifies that a communication medium for a collaborative communication session, which is currently being transmitted to at least one terminal, should additionally be transmitted to at least one other terminal, with the at least one other terminal being indicated in the message as the recipient of the communication medium. In a method for assigning a communication medium for a collaborative communication session, a corresponding message is received, and the communication medium is assigned to the at least one other terminal as the recipient of the communication medium. The methods are carried out by appropriately designed apparatuses. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351327 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MEETING RESOURCES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - In one example embodiment, a method is provided and includes monitoring a display status associated with a client device that is participating in a meeting being conducted over a network (wired, wireless, etc.). The method also includes reporting the display status to a server associated with the meeting. For example, the server could be responsible for controlling at least a portion of meeting resources for the client device (or the client device itself could include software to perform these management functions). The method also includes receiving reduced meeting resources based, at least in part, on the display status. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARATIVE GEOFENCING - The present disclosure describes systems and methods for time-based geolocation queries, with designated planned arrival and/or departure times or event start/end times. The number of queries can be drastically reduced to reduce battery, bandwidth, and processing requirements; or the rate of queries can be increased within a specified time frame, providing much higher resolution of geolocation information. Geolocation information may be monitored via notifications from portable devices to identify demographics of users within identified regions and subregions, allowing real-time, dynamic comparison of demographic information between locations, such as restaurants, clubs, or events. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351329 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REPORTING AN EVENT FROM FILES RECEIVED ON A COMPUTER SERVER - The invention relates to a method for automatically reporting an event based on files received on a computer server, the aforementioned method comprising:
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20140351330 | SERVICE PROFILE MAINTENANCE - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for dynamically maintaining a service profile. That is, a user may be associated with a variety of services, such as an email service, a social network service, a photo sharing service, etc. An operating system may dynamically provide support for services by maintaining service profiles. For example, a service provider application may specify a service definition defining a service not yet supported (e.g., a social network app may describe functionality and/or information about a new social network service). A service profile may be generated for the service based upon the service definition. The service profile may be exposed to system components and/or applications that may utilize the service profile to access information and/or functionality provided by service (e.g., a camera system component may allow a user to upload a photo to the new social network service utilizing the service profile). | 11-27-2014 |
20140351331 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A method for providing a social network service includes: (a) setting an access threshold value for a content belonging to a content owner and a weight value for one or more communities of which the content owner is a member; (b) extracting a community of which a content requester is a member from among the communities of which the content owner is a member, when a request for the content is received from the content requester, and calculating an activity value of the content requester for the extracted community; (c) calculating a reputation value for the content requester by using one or more of a number of the extracted communities, a weight value set for the extracted communities, and the calculated activity value; and (d) providing the content requester with authorization to access the content according to a comparison result between the reputation value and the access threshold value. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ON-LINE SERVICES - A system and method for providing on-line services, comprising: a server for receiving information from a plurality of sources of data via a network, the plurality of sources of data comprising a plurality of attributes; a storage device for storing the information received from the plurality of sources of data; and a processor for tracking the plurality of sources of data. The processor determines attribute levels for each of the plurality of attributes and transmits updated information to the plurality of sources of data to increase the determined attribute levels. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351333 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL CONNECTIONS AND OFF-LINE ACTIVITY BY APPLYING LIFE CYCLE CONCEPT OF CREATURE - Provided are method and system of providing a social network service (SNS) in which life cycle concepts of creatures are a motif. Particularly, user's personal connection information and relationships between users are separately expressed as a structure of a creature made in a graphic, and a non-disclosure information portion for private use and a disclosure information portion for public use are clearly divided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351334 | System for Dynamic Service Collaboration through Identification and Context of Plurality of Heterogeneous Devices - The present disclosure provides a system and method to provide a mechanism to perform faster collaboration among the services by retrieving the context information from the central device using service identifier as key element. The system is adapted to create a unique device identifier by associating device MAC address, context information and operation/service identifier while performing the device registration. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351335 | METHOD FOR SHARING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BETWEEN TWO USERS - A method for sharing multimedia content between at least a first user and a second user using first and second telecommunications terminals, respectively, the content being associated with the second user and being stored in a database hosted by a service platform accessible via a telecommunications network. The method includes: a network-based content-sharing server validating a request to share multimedia content transmitted by the first terminal by authenticating an identifier of the second terminal, which was obtained from a response to the request received from the second terminal; in the content-sharing server, if the sharing request is validated, activating a sharing session and opening a sharing memory space for enabling the sharing of content data between the first and second terminal, and transmitting session activation information to the first terminal; and displaying, in each of the first and second terminals, a sharing window for displaying the data of the sharing space during the sharing session. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT LIST THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Provided are a system and method for providing a content list through a social network service (SNS). A server for providing a content list to a device using an SNS, the server includes: a content receiver that receives content from a first device; a content list generator that generates a content list according to categories by using metadata included in the received content; and a content list provider that provides a content list of a category selected by a second device to the second device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND ANALYZING PERSONAL CONTEXT OF A USER - A method and system for identifying personal context of a user having a portable mobile communication device at a particular location for deriving social interaction information of the user, wherein the user within a predefined range is identified using personal context of the user at the particular location and the identified personal context of the user is assigned with the confidence value. Further the current location information of the user within the particular location is obtained by fusing assigned confidence value. Further the proximity of the user in the current location is estimated by finding the accurate straight line distance between users. Further the two users having similar current location information at the particular location are grouped together with the predefined density criteria. Finally the social interaction information of the user is derived by multimodal sensor data fusion at the fusion engine and represented using a human network graph. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351338 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A MANAGEMENT SERVER AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A management server is provided with an accepting unit for accepting identification information identifying an application, a specifying unit adapted for specifying a part or all of candidate users satisfying all of conditions out of one or more users with whom a request user's friendship is built in one or more utilized applications that the request user has utilized, a first condition in which the candidate user utilizes the application identified by the identification information, a second condition in which the request user's friendship with the candidate user has not been built in the identified application, a third condition in which a friend upper limit is not encountered, and a display controlling unit adapted for displaying the part or all of the candidate users specified by the specifying unit in the terminal device of the request user in order to select one or more users from the part or all of the candidate users. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351339 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A MANAGEMENT SERVER AND TERMINAL DEVICE - If a management server receives an invitation request, the management server acquires a requester's reference identification information corresponding to a requester's user identification information, a receiver's reference identification information corresponding to a receiver's user identification information, and an identification information, by referring to a user information table. The management server generates a record in which a status information is set to “pending”, and records the record in an invitation table. Assuming that the game to which a user A wants to invite another user B is a game b, the other user B who builds a friendship with the user A in a game c, the user A manages one terminal device, and the other user B manages another terminal device. In this case, the management server sends an invitation mail indicating that there is an invitation from the user A in the game b to the other terminal device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351340 | IDENTIFYING CONTENT ITEMS FOR INCLUSION IN A SHARED COLLECTION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing pooled collections of content items, such as photos, in a content management system. An example system can first receive, from a first user device, images uploaded to a first account at a synchronized online content management system, and cluster at least some of the images as a collection. The system can receive, from the first user, a request to share the collection with a second user having a second account at the content management system, and generate, in response to the request, a pooled collection at the content management system from the collection. The system can transmit an invitation to the second user to join the pooled collection, and, upon acceptance, link the pooled collection to the second user account so that the first user and the second user have access to images in the persistent pooled collection and have permission to contribute content to the pooled collection. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351341 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods for adding digital content associated with a first user account within a content management system to a second user account within the content management system. In various embodiments, the system may be configured to allow a user to add digital content to an account within a content management system associated with the user when the user receives a shared link to access digital content associated with an account within the content management system belonging to another user. The system may be configured to add the digital content to the user account by associating the digital content with the user's account. In various embodiments, the system may be configured to add the digital content to the user's account by creating an entry in a server-side file journal associated with the user's account, where the entry includes one or more file reference strings associated with the digital content. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351342 | Sending Notifications About Other Users with whom a User is Likely to Interact - To provide more contextually and temporally relevant information to its users, a social networking system may surface relevant information about a target user with whom an recipient user is likely to interact. The social networking system predicts whether the recipient user is likely to be in contact with a target user, either currently or in the near future. If contact is predicted, the system determines information about the target user that that the recipient user may find of interest for their interaction. To determine what information may be of interest, the system determines a relevance score for information items about that target user. The system can then use the relevance scores to decide whether and which information items to surface to the recipient user, e.g., in the form of notifications. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351343 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS - Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351344 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING APPLICATION INFORMATION - A method, a system, and an apparatus are provided for sharing application information. The method receives match request sent by a mobile terminal X upon receipt of a share instruction of a user. According to the match request, the method determines whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among other mobile terminals that send match request, and if a mobile terminal is found, sends a success message. When a server receives identifiers of applications to be shared sent from any one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals, the method determines whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server, if the other mobile terminal is online, obtains relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier respectively, and sends the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal. | 11-27-2014 |
20140359008 | CONTEXT-AWARE SOCIAL MEDIA DISASTER RESPONSE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Social media websites contain posts which may benefit persons affected by an emergency situation or natural disaster. Discovering trustworthy posters of useful information is disclosed such that messages indicating relevant information, and an associated trust value, may be provided to interested parties. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359009 | PRIORITIZED CONTENT RETRIEVAL FROM SOCIAL NETWORK SERVERS - Various techniques for prioritized content retrieval from social network servers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information of a user's profile related to a social network service provided by a social network server and generating a priority rating for the user based on the received information. The priority rating represents a likelihood of consumption of the publish content by the user. The method further includes retrieving the published content by the user from the social network server in accordance with the generated priority rating. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359010 | UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY PLANNING - Program on a server computer generates a list having at least a string of plain text defined based on rules, wherein the rules also define a news feed of an electronic media source. The program code subscribes to the news feed. The program code computes a number of times the string of plain text is identified within the news feed, and a score for the string of plain text. Based on the score, the program code generates an electronic notification that alerts of an anticipated change in computer hardware capacity requirements for a build, support, and maintenance of a networked computer system. The program code estimates the requirements. Based on the score, the program code generates a request to adjust allocation of the computer hardware within the networked computer system to satisfy the requirements estimated. The program code sends the request generated to a client computer for viewing. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUP PARTICIPATION IN A DIGITAL MEDIA PRESENTATION - System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation are provided that are capable of selecting digital media items for inclusion in the presentation from multiple participant's accounts thereby creating a group presentation in which digital media items of each participant are included in the presentation. Selections of digital media items for inclusion in the presentation can be made directly at the direction of the participations or inferentially according to a selection algorithm. Selections can be made during the presentation thereby allowing a participant to join the presentation after it has started and contribute digital media items to the presentation while it is running. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359012 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION SHARING SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SUPPORT METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including managing information about a user group performing information sharing with a virtual information sharing tool for every information sharing tool; acquiring information about a group of users who are adjacent to each other; determining the information sharing tool corresponding to the group of users who are adjacent to each other on the basis of a relevance of each information sharing tool to the group of users who are adjacent to each other, which is calculated in accordance with a similarity between the user group corresponding to the information sharing tool and the group of users who are adjacent to each other; and presenting the information sharing tool determined to have high relevance, among the information sharing tools, as a candidate corresponding to the group of users who are adjacent to each other. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359013 | INCOMING AND OUTGOING PRIVACY SETTINGS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs for defining a first group of contacts, the first group of contacts having been specified by a first user of a social networking service and including contacts of the first user within the social networking service, each contact in the first group of contacts being associated with a first sub-group of contacts within the first group of contacts, the first group of contacts being associated with a distribution scheme for digital content provided by the first user within the social networking service, and associating, based on first input provided by the first user, one or more contacts of the first sub-group of contacts with a second sub-group of contacts within the first group of contacts, the second sub-group of contacts including contacts for which at least some digital content distributed to the first user is filtered from display to the first user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359014 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for managing curation of the content of a network-based shared folder may comprise: creating, via a user computing device having Internet access, an originating curator created folder; selecting, via the user computing device, originating curator selected content and incorporating the originating curator selected content into the originating curator created folder; designating, via the user computing device, at least one other to act as curator of the content kept in the originating curator created folder to the same extent as the originating curator, for the content kept in the originating curator created folder at the time of the designation of the at least one other curator and up until the at least one other curator is deleted as a curator for the folder. The method and apparatus may allow the deleted curator access to the content at the time the deleted curator is deleted. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359015 | PHOTO AND VIDEO SHARING - In one embodiment, a set of tags associated with a media item may be ascertained. One or more of a plurality of individuals may be identified based, at least in part, upon the set of tags associated with the media item and a plurality of sets of sharing preferences, each one of the plurality of sets of sharing preferences being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of individuals and indicating tags for which media items are to be automatically shared with the corresponding one of the plurality of individuals. Information pertaining to the media item may be shared with the identified individuals. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359016 | TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK PROCESS IDENTITY ENABLEMENT - Techniques for network process identity enablement are provided. Inter-server communications within a network are intercepted so that unique identity-based information is gathered and recorded before a sending process is permitted to release a communication over the network to a receiving process. Moreover, the receiving process cannot process the communication being sent until identifying information is gathered again and independently validated against the prior recorded information. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359017 | Dynamic Fusion Management - A system and method for managing a network of nodes that share sensor data is presented. In one embodiment, the system and method clusters groups of nodes into subnets. Nodes in a common subnet share sensor data with other nodes in the subnet at one rate, while nodes that are not in a common subnet share sensor data at a second substantially reduced rate. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359018 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL DEVICES VIA A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform includes receiving a servicer registration request from the support service provider, the servicer registration request specifying a type of peripheral devices to be serviced; establishing a public social network identity for the support service provider; receiving an owner registration request for a first peripheral device; upon a determination that the first peripheral device is of the type of peripheral devices, establishing a social network relationship between the support service provider and the first user; and providing respective communication messages targeting the first peripheral device and respective communication messages originated from the first peripheral device as respective instant messages in a conversation interface of a chat session between the first user and the support service provider. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365565 | SPONSORED STORIES APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) - To provide a sponsored story unit, the social networking system receives a story request from an advertiser. The story request specifies properties of content used to generate the sponsored story. When the social networking system stores an object or an action performed on an object, properties associated with, and describing, the object or the action are also stored. For example, properties of an object include an object type, an object identifier, metadata describing the object or other suitable information. The social networking system identifies actions or objects associated with users connected to a viewing user having one or more properties included in a story request. A sponsored story is generated from the identified actions or objects and presented to a viewing user. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365566 | MANAGING INFORMATION ABOUT USER STATES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - When a social networking system receives content describing a user via a client device associated with the user, the social networking system determines a state describing a characteristic of the user from the content. One or more options for generating a content item associated with the determined state are provided to the client device for presentation to the user, and the options may be based in part on the determined state. Based on the state and selection of one or more of the options, a content item is generated and provided to one or more client devices for presentation to social networking system users. By interacting with the content item, users may view additional information about the state or perform actions associated with the state. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365567 | Multi-User Peer-to-Peer Collaboration System and Method - In accordance with the present disclosure, multi-user peer-to-peer collaboration systems and methods are described herein. An example method may include establishing peer-to-peer communications channels with end-user devices. Display signals may be received from each of the end-user devices over the peer-to-peer communications channels. Each end-user device may transmit a separate display of a separate peer-to-peer communications channel. A composite data stream may be generated from the display signals. The composite data stream may comprise a subset of the display signals. The method may further include outputting the composite data stream to a display device. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESKTOP CONTENT SHARING - An example method is provided and includes determining, during a desktop sharing session of a meeting session, a content identity of a content item that is being shared, storing information indicative of the content identity in desktop sharing historical information, determining that the meeting session has ended, determining a post-meeting representation of the desktop sharing historical information, and causing display of the post meeting representation of the desktop sharing historical information. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365569 | MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Modifying a notification on one client device can trigger the generation and transmission of a silent notification to another client device that is associated with the same user account. The silent notification can include instructions to query for and modify a similar notification, if present, on the other client device. Silent notifications that are undeliverable can be stored in offline storage and delivery can be reattempted at a later point in time. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365570 | CONTEXT-ENRICHED MICROBLOG POSTING WITH A SMART DEVICE - In one aspect, a method includes generating, with at least one processor of a smart device, a microblog post. The microblog post is automatically generated by the smart device. The smart device includes a sensor. The microblog post includes a message component. A meaning of the message component is determined. A step includes automatically measuring an environment attribute of the smart device with the sensor. The sensor data is related to a meaning of the message component. A context-data tag is automatically generated. The context-data tag includes an alphanumeric textual description of the sensor data. The message component and the context data tag are associated in the microblog post. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365571 | Automatically Determining Veracity of Documents Posted in a Public Forum - An approach is provided to determine the veracity of an online posting. In the approach, when a posting is received at a web site, a topic for the posting is automatically identified. The approach further identifies actions and corresponding action originators that have been taken to the posting, with the actions being events such as commenting, liking, disliking, re-sharing, posting the online posting. Veracity information is collected about the action originators. A veracity weighting for the action originators is assigned based on the collected veracity information. The actions are analyzed using the veracity weighting to form a weighted veracity summary which is provided to a viewer of the online posting | 12-11-2014 |
20140365572 | System and Method for Media-Centric and Monetizable Social Networking - A method and system connects brands, users and communities via socially shared content elements that take the form of, for example, words, pictures/images, videos and/or audio objects. The method creates a social media engagement and distribution capability of dynamic, interactive impressions linking users to users and users to brands around shared “day in the life” moments. The spectrum of reach and range of content types combined with user daily lives creates a ubiquitous new web medium of social content. The user experience created by this method and system creates a sustainable stickiness for members, capturing, creating, sharing and responding to each other interactively in any communication format, at any time, in any place and for any reason. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365573 | ENVIRONMENT AND METHODS FOR FOSTERING ACTION SPORT COMPETITION - An online platform for fostering action sports competition allows individual athletes to upload media documenting their action sport performance. The online platform may enable the user to participate in an online competition against other users of the same sport. Other platform users may promote or demote a particular competitor within the competition. The user feedback may be used to rank the competitors. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCIDENT REPORTING AND NOTIFICATION - A non-transitory is described being operably coupled to a processor and storing processor executable instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive first information indicative of a school incident report by a reporter. The first information of the school incident report indicating at least a type of incident which violates one or more school policies and a location of the incident. The processor then selects one or more recipients from a group of notification recipients based on the first information. The processor then generates a notification indicative of the type of incident and the location of the incident. The processor then transmits a signal via a communications network indicative of the notification. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365575 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - A system for managing compositions of software components or applications is disclosed. In particular, systems in which the software components or applications communicate with one another using message-oriented middleware are considered. Each component processing a data feed item adds an annotation to the data feed item, so that the cumulative annotation which is seen in the processed feed for an application provides a history of the processing carried out on the input data feed(s). Each software component or application in the processing system is arranged to store a log of each message it inputs, the process(es) it carries out on that message, and the output message generated. The software component or application further includes a reference to a log interface (e.g. a Uniform Resource Locator) in the entry it makes to the message annotation. A downstream node is then able to use that interface reference to extract ( | 12-11-2014 |
20140365576 | IDENTIFYING A PUSH COMMUNICATION PATTERN - A method for identifying a push communication pattern includes creating clusters from a communication entity's response buffers. Clusters that meet a first criterion are detected. The communication entity is identified as having a push communication pattern upon a determination that the detected clusters meet a second criterion. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365577 | Determining User Personality Characteristics From Social Networking System Communications And Characteristics - A social networking system obtains linguistic data from a user's text communications on the social networking system. For example, occurrences of words in various types of communications by the user in the social networking system are determined. The linguistic data and non-linguistic data associated with the user are used in a trained model to predict one or more personality characteristics for the user. The inferred personality characteristics are stored in connection with the user's profile, and may be used for targeting, ranking, selecting versions of products, and various other purposes. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372522 | System Event Notification - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for distributing notifications to a user. The method can include receiving data encapsulating notifications from a device connected to a network that provide information relating to the device's status. The device can provide a health related treatment. The method can associate each notification with one or more notification categories relating to a function performed by the device or a location of the device. A table of users having one or more subscriptions to these notification categories can be accessed. The subscriptions can be automatically assigned to users based on the users' role. A user can be identified from the table to distribute the one or more notifications to. The user can have a subscription that matches a notification category of the received notifications, and data comprising the notifications can be distributed to the user. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372523 | SEED GROUP SELECTION IN A PROBABILISTIC NETWORK TO INCREASE CONTENT DISSEMINATION - Determined seed groups herein improve content dissemination across a communication network connecting a plurality of users. Probabilities of each user in the plurality influencing remaining users in the plurality to observe the content are identified to select a first influential user from the plurality. The seed group size is established and a user of the plurality with a probability proximate to the probability of the first influential user is identified. Based on the seed group size, the probabilities of the remaining users in the plurality are unified with the probability of the first influential user to determine new probabilities of the remaining users, and another user of the plurality with a probability proximate to the probability of the first influential user is identified. The method then provides for selecting the users identified as having probabilities proximate to the probability of the first influential user to establish the seed group. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372524 | Proximity Operations for Electronic File Views - The sharing of a file view between a computing device and another computing device in proximity is provided. A communication session may be established with the other computing device, utilizing short range wireless communication, upon the other computing device being physically proximate to the computing device. During the communication session, access may be granted for sharing the file view with the other computing device. The file view may include a file currently being displayed on the computing device. Finally, the file view may be communicated to the other computing device during the communication session for display. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372525 | SMART NOTIFICATIONS USING A CALENDAR - Notifications are delivered to a user based in part on a user's current context. The notifications may be based on personal information (e.g. calendar events, tasks, alerts, and the like) as well as a context of a user. The notifications may be delivered using different types of notifications. The type of notification selected may be based on the current context of the user. Notifications may also be sent to other users (e.g. that are part of a trusted group) in response to a change in state of the event (e.g. the task completed). Instead of a user receiving notifications at preset times, notifications are delivered to the user using their current context. A group member may also create a message to another member requesting an action. When a response is made, the requesting group member receives a notification and the other group members may also receive notifications. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING SOCIAL PRODUCTIVITY USING THRESHOLDING - Systems and methods provide a social productivity platform to create or modify documents and other data content objects using collaborative efforts, possibly where the efforts are received through a social networking service. The systems and methods can, for example, create, review and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any device, using any cloud storage provider. When teams of users collaboratively work on a document or other file, systems and methods connect each the team users to the document or file, and maintain a history buffer of comments, changes, or other events. The systems and methods enable a user to create, review, edit, or otherwise access content and capture information regarding changes implemented during individual or group-based editing to the content. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372527 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING SOCIAL PRODUCTIVITY USING A HISTORY BUFFER - Systems and methods provide a social productivity platform to create or modify documents and other data content objects using collaborative efforts, possibly where the efforts are received through a social networking service. The systems and methods can, for example, create, review and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any device, using any cloud storage provider. When teams of users collaboratively work on a document or other file, systems and methods connect each the team users to the document or file, and maintain a history buffer of comments, changes, or other events. The systems and methods enable a user to create, review, edit, or otherwise access content and capture information regarding changes implemented during individual or group-based editing to the content. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372528 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes first and second terminals which are in communication with each other via one or more computers on a network, so that a process of the second terminal is executed by the first terminal via the network. Further, the second terminal includes: an access proxy unit acquiring a request from the first terminal via the one or more computers on the network, constructing a process sequence corresponding to the acquired request, and outputting a process result corresponding to the constructed process sequence, and an execution unit executing a process corresponding to the constructed process sequence. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372529 | PROVIDING AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USING A SEPARATE MESSAGING SITE - A question is received on a first social network site from a first user. The question is sent to a second user of a second social network site who receives the question from the second social network site. The first social network site receives an answer to the question from the second user via the second social network site and provides the answer to the first user. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO UTILIZE BIO SMART SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for managing a group of users in a bio-smart application. The method and system include fetching a plurality of pre-defined set of one or more biomarkers associated with each of one or more users dynamically through an associated communication device of each of one or more users at a pre-defined time intervals, enabling sharing of the pre-defined set of the one or more biomarkers by each of the one or more users through the associated communication device on a bio-smart social networking platform, facilitating chalking of a plurality of rules and one or more-predefined conditions within sets of the one or more users on the bio-smart social networking platform pertaining to the one or more bio-markers and licensing interaction between at least one or more sets of the one or more users and within the one or more users. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372531 | IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-USER COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE - A method includes, in response to an action by a first user of a communications system, the action comprising selecting one or more other existing users associated with the first user from a personal list to include the one or more other existing users in an optional communications service to which the first user has subscribed, determining whether any of the one or more other existing users are already a subscriber to the optional communications service, creating a subscription to the optional communications service for at least one of the one or more other existing users that lacks a subscription, and transmitting configuration information to the at least one of the one or more other existing users. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372532 | Incorporating a Mobile Device into a Peer-to-Peer Network - A service includes registering a plurality of peer devices at a registration server and registering a peer server at the registration server. A first peer device of the plurality of peer devices communicates with a second peer device of the plurality of peer devices via the peer server. The peer server performs peer operations in a peer-to-peer network on behalf of the first peer device, and the peer server identifies itself to other devices as the first peer device. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372533 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CLOUD AGNOSTIC MULTI-TIER APPLICATION MODELING AND DEPLOYMENT - Embodiments disclosed facilitate obtaining a cloud agnostic representation of a multi-tier application. Cloud specific implementations of the cloud agnostic representation may be deployed on a plurality of clouds. In some embodiments, dependency information for each component service in a multi-tier application is obtained, wherein the dependency information for a component service indicates prerequisites for starting the component service; and a cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application is derived, wherein the cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application comprises metadata for obtaining each of the component services for a plurality of clouds, and a sequence for starting each of the component services, the sequence based, in part, on the dependency information. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372534 | USING STATUS INQUIRY AND STATUS RESPONSE MESSAGES TO EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION - A status inquiry message is received at a first machine, wherein the status inquiry message is directed to one of the first machine or a service operating on the first machine. A status response message is generated at the first machine, the status response message indicating that at least one of the first machine or the service is operational. Management information is attached to the status response message, the management information including operating statistics of at least one of the first machine, the service, or an additional service that operates on the first machine. The status response message is transmitted to the second machine. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372535 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING ENGAGEMENT WITH A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques to increase engagement with a social networking system. In one embodiment, activities are prioritized based on relatedness to a user. References associated with at least a portion of the prioritized activities are created. The references are categorized into a plurality of types. The reference types may include notifications, friend identifications, and top stories. The references are embedded in digest communications for the user. Descriptive information about the activities are omitted from the digest communications. Digest communications for the user are provided during a time period when the user is not engaged with the social networking system. Notifications for a user are ceased when a level of engagement of the user with the social networking system is less than a threshold value. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379795 | SMART NOTIFICATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - A method and system are disclosed for creating and modifying calendar events in a social networking site environment. On receiving a user request to modify a data entry describing a previously scheduled event or on detecting a change to a data entry describing a previously scheduled event, a synchronous communication session is initiated among the event participants. Subsequent to initiating a synchronous communication session, the data entry describing the previously scheduled event is modified based at least in part on at least one of the user request of the synchronous communication. On receiving a user request to add a new data entry describing a new event, a synchronous communication session is initiated for all event participants. Subsequent to the initiation of the synchronous communication session, the data entry for the new event is added based on at least one of the user request of the synchronous communication. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379796 | MANAGING PAST ACTIVITIES BASED ON RELATIONSHIP CHANGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Various embodiments provide for dynamically and automatically managing activities of two parties (e.g., friends, business associates, family members) based on a change in relationship (e.g., no longer friends, break-up, divorce, no longer working together) between the two parties in a network (e.g., a social network implemented using a social networking website). In one specific example, mechanisms are provided for dynamically and automatically adjusting privacy control (e.g. removing, hiding, scraping, deleting, obscuring) of past activity data (e.g. social network wall posts, social network wall re-posts, pictures, forum posts, blog posts, blog comments, documents, files, videos, tags etc.) of the two parties upon detecting a change in relationship between the two parties in the social network. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379797 | SCHEMES FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS NETWORK - Technologies are generally described for providing a wireless local area network. In some examples, a method performed under control of a first device may include connecting to an access point that is configured to provide a wireless local area network, transmitting, to a second device, a request of connecting to the first device, receiving, from the second device, a response of connecting to the first device, configuring an ad-hoc network group including the first device and the second device based, at least in part, on a network load of the first device and a network load of the second device, and providing a wireless local area network to the second device included in the ad-hoc network group. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379798 | DETECTING CO-PRESENCE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD - Implementations generally relate to increasing engagement among users in a social network system. In some implementations, a method includes determining at least one social activity associated with an initiator user in a social network system. The method also includes enabling a token to be sent from an initiator device to one or more nearby devices, wherein the initiator device is associated with the initiator user, and wherein the one or more nearby devices are associated with one or more nearby users. The method also includes sending one or more invitations to one or more of the nearby users in association with the token. The method also includes performing one or more predetermined actions in association with the one or more nearby users based on one or more responses to the invitations. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379799 | AUGMENTING CONTENT OBTAINED FROM DIFFERENT CONTENT SOURCES - An online service stores and augments aggregated content that is obtained from different content sources. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendars, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The online service augments the aggregated content to include additional content. The online service may augment the aggregated content differently based on the type of the content being augmented. For example, electronic messages may be augmented differently as compared to when augmenting calendar events or contact cards. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated and augmented for a user. For example, a user may view the messages from a particular user regardless of the message provider providing the content to the user. Similarly, a user may perform a general search across each of the different content sources to locate items matching a search query. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379800 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING DIGITAL INFORMATION BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY BY LOADING APPLICATION COMPONENTS ONTO EMBEDDED DEVICES - A method for sharing first and second digital information between an embedded device and a mobile device is provided. The method may include, at the mobile device, obtaining a mobile device component of a new application; at the embedded device, obtaining an embedded device component of the new application; at the mobile device component, transmitting the first digital information to the embedded device component; and at the embedded device component, transmitting the second digital information to the mobile device component. Some embodiments further may include, at the mobile device, obtaining the embedded device component of the new application, and the embedded device may receive the embedded device component from the mobile device. Alternatively, the embedded device may download the embedded device component from the Internet. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379801 | USER EXPERIENCE ON A SHARED COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods, devices, and systems for utilizing dashboard software that enables retrieval of user account information from various services enjoyed by users of a shared computing device. The dashboard software may be linked to services associated with applications installed on the device. User account credentials (e.g., usernames and passwords) may be stored and used by the dashboard software to retrieve user account information (e.g., messages, notifications, etc.) related to the applications installed on the device. Information may be retrieved directly from applications servers or iteratively via the applications on the device. Dashboard front-ends may be rendered to indicate the retrieved user account information for all users to view on the shared computing device. The dashboard software may also be configured to cause the device to launch applications using stored user account credentials. In an embodiment, a second device may also utilize the dashboard software to obtain account information. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379802 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - An example information-processing system includes: at least one processor configured to: display posting information relevant to an application on a display, which information is shared by plural users; and execute, in response to a predetermined input operation performed by a user while the posting information is displayed on the display, the application based on additional information indicative of an execution condition of the application. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379803 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A MOBILE SOCIAL APPLICATION - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for a social network that allows users to interact with each other based on their location and two users independently expressing interest in each other. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379804 | CONTEXT MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments are described herein for context information management at the medium access control layer. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of peers which communicate via peer-to-peer communications. In the system, context information may be exchanged at the MAC layer. Examples of context information include, without limitation, location information, mobility information, device capability, user information, an application category, multi-hop information, a channel condition, application information, association identifiers, and device information. Each of the plurality of peers may include a context manager that resides on each peer device. For example, a first context manager that resides on a first peer of the plurality of peers may exchange context information with a second context manager that resides on a second peer of the plurality of peers. In another example embodiment, the first peer, and in particular the first context manager that resides on the first peer, can retrieve the context information from a layer that is different than the MAC layer. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379805 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CROSS-PLATFORM SYNCHRONIZATION OF CONTACTS IN A MULTI-PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - A method for cross-platform synchronization of contacts in a multi-platform environment is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a contact to be associated with an account in a social platform; acquiring an account of a friend associated with the contact in the social platform, and binding a phone number of the contact with the associated account of the friend in the social platform; and uploading the phone number and the account in the social platform bound together to a server. When it needs to view social information of a contact, the above method can simplify user operation, reduce time spent for operation in the mobile terminal and increase the battery life of the mobile terminal. Furthermore, a device for cross-platform synchronization of contacts in a multi-platform environment is also disclosed. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379806 | DATA MATCHING METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is a data matching method and device. The method includes: marking each micro-blog user in a first category of micro-blog users according to characteristic information and category of the micro-blog user; obtaining characteristic information and category of a second micro-blog user; and selecting a micro-blog user matching the characteristic information and category of the second micro-blog user from the first category of micro-blog users and recommending the selected micro-blog user to the second micro-blog user. By the method and device, a message source interesting the user may be recommended. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379807 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - A system for managing compositions of software components or applications is disclosed. In particular, systems in which the software components or applications communicate with one another using message-oriented middleware are considered. Each component processing a data feed item adds an annotation to the data feed item, so that the cumulative annotation which is seen in the processed feed for an application provides a history of the processing carried out on the input data feed(s). Each software component or application in the processing system is arranged to store a log of each message it inputs, the process(es) it carries out on that message, and the output message generated. The software component or application further includes a reference to a log interface (e.g. a Uniform Resource Locator) in the entry it makes to the message annotation. A downstream node is then able to use that interface reference to extract ( | 12-25-2014 |
20140379808 | DOWNLOAD RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for recommending a download resource includes: obtaining a download record of a target user, obtaining a target user group associated with the target user according to the download record; obtaining download records of the target user group and download records of a global user group; processing the downloading records of the target user group and the download records of the global user group to generate, for a download resource in the download records of the target user group, a differentiation degree between the download resource in the download records of the target user group and the download resource in the download records of the global user group; and sorting download resources in the download records of the target user group according to the differentiation degree, and recommending the top-ranking predetermined number of download resources to the target user. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379809 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social network system includes one or more participant terminals operable to act as a client on a social network and a computer operable to act as a server on the social network and to communicate with each of the participant terminals over the social network. The computer includes: a memory configured to store a set of instructions; and a processor configured to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions cause the processor to display categories into which content may be categorized, and to accept categorization of a user's own postings and of postings of other participants of the system. Displayed categories and icons for implementing categorization may appear on the initial page of the user. The number of items categorized in each category may be displayed to generate a profile summarizing the interests of the user having the user page. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379810 | SAVING DEVICE FOR IMAGE SHARING, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SHARING METHOD - The saving device for image sharing includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the images offered by a sharer of the images, a sharee information storing unit configured to store sharee information with respect to at least one sharee, a subject assessing unit configured to assess whether or not a person subject is included in the acquired images, an image associating unit configured to associate the images assessed as not including a person subject with the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information, and a shared image determining unit configured to determine the images to be shared with the sharee or sharees from among the associated images and the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information. The image sharing system and an image sharing method use such a device. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012591 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Controlled Networked Communication - A system for communication over a network is provided. The system has a module in communication with an application and the network, wherein the module is configured to create an event using an application, wherein the event comprises a first media upload by a first authorized user, receive permission from the first authorized user to transmit the event, store, on a server, the first media upload, transmit the first upload media to a second user in an authorized group of users upon request by the second user, wherein the transmission is permitted only for a first predetermined amount time, receive, at the server, a second media upload from the second authorized user in response to the first media upload and store, on a server, the second media upload until the first authorized party is ready to view the second media upload, wherein the server is configured to store the second media upload for a second predetermined amount of time. A method for communication over a network is also provided. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012592 | PERFORMING AN ACTION ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON A CONTENT IDENTIFIER EMBEDDED IN PROVIDED CONTENT - A content source provides metadata associated with content, such as an audio signal or video data, to a social networking system. The metadata identifies characteristics of the content or specifies an action for the social networking system to perform. A content identifier associated with the metadata is generated by the social networking system, and an association between the content identifier and the metadata is stored. The content identifier is provided to the content source, which encodes the content identifier into the content (e.g., as a watermark). When a client device receives the content encoded with the content identifier, the content identifier is extracted and communicated to the social networking system in connection with a user account associated with the client device. Based on the content identifier, the social networking system retrieves the corresponding metadata and performs an action in connection with the user account based on the metadata. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING CONTENT IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery method and system based on popularity-driven pre-provisioning of content in a content delivery network (CDN). In one method, a network element may obtain trend data relative to a particular content to be distributed by the CDN. The network element may also obtain demographic data of subscribers serviced by the CDN. An expected popularity distribution of the particular content is forecasted based on a metric derived from at least one of the trend data and the demographic data. A push policy for pushing and/or pre-provisioning of the content to one or more nodes of the CDN is effectuated at the network element based on the expected popularity distribution of the content relative to the geographical region serviced by the CDN. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012594 | METHOD FOR FORMING A NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for forming a network with a first mobile computer ( | 01-08-2015 |
20150012595 | Information Processing Device, Server, and Information Processing System. - An acquisition unit acquires presence information of an information processing device of another via server. When the acquisition unit acquires pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more information processing devices, a status image generation unit generates a status image indicating a status of the user identified by the user account, by referring to the latest presence information. In order to represent the status of the user, the status image generation unit includes a name of an application being run by the user in the status image. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012596 | DYNAMIC PLACE VISIBILITY IN GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to search for a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, select a sub-set from the list of places based on visibility and activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place in the list, and returns the sub-set to the user. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019639 | Network-aware Product Rollout in Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each node corresponding to a user of an online social network, identifying a plurality of clusters in the social graph using graph clustering, providing a treatment to a first set of users based on the clusters, and determining a treatment effect treatment for the users in the first set based on a network exposure to the treatment for each user. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019640 | Large Scale Page Recommendations on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges, accessing user-concept scores for a first set of users nodes of the plurality for nodes, respectively, generating a recommendation-algorithm for estimating recommended user-concept scores for all user-concept pairs in the first set of user nodes and the plurality of concept nodes, and calculating recommended user-concept scores for a second set of user nodes of the plurality of nodes. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019641 | Automatically Creating Companionship Based on Selectable Objects in a Social Environment - The embodiments herein provide a method and system for automatically creating a companionship between a user and at least one item source using a server. The method includes rendering a virtual environment selected by a user, wherein the virtual environment is configured to simulate a virtual appearance of a real-world entity. Further, the method includes receiving at least one item selected by the user from a plurality of items, wherein the at least one item is associated with at least one item source. Further, the method includes displaying the selected items in the virtual environment, wherein the selected items is integrated in the virtual environment. Furthermore, the method includes automatically creating a companionship between the user and the at least one item source based on the selected items. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019642 | CALENDAR-EVENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A calendar-event recommendation system that generates and displays event recommendations tailored to a user. The system may recommend events based on a user's current location. The system may recommend events based on a user's social network, such as if the user's friends attend an event, or an event organized by or affiliated with a person, place, or organization the user has interest in. The system may recommend events based on receiving an invitation from others, or if the user's contacts are in the event's guest list. The system may recommend events based on the user's past behavior, such as attending similar events. The system may recommend events based on a user's subscription to categories of certain types of events. After recommending an event, the system may automatically add the event to the user's calendar, add the user's name to a guest list, and share the event with the user's contacts. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019643 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PRODUCT FOR CAPTURING MEMORIES - The present disclosure relates to a allowing individuals to create and share digital memories, which may include, e.g., picture, video, text, audio, and drawings captured through a mobile device. Those memories may in some embodiments be associated with other individuals located at the same location and time. This disclosure further relates to a mobile application that allows users to create digital memories, share memories with others, and discover memories of which they were a part. The mobile application, systems and interactions are herein referred to generally as “Timeline.” Timeline may be viewed as focused on users in the physical world rather than online world. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019644 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A DISPLAY OF SOCIALMESSAGES ON A SECOND SCREEN WHICH IS SYNCHED TO CONTENT ON A FIRST SCREEN - This disclosure offers an approach that curates social messages that are then offered to the user with timing appropriate to a second-screen application that may not be entirely focused on the social messaging aspect. This is valuable when it is desirable for second-screen applications that want to integrate social messaging with other aspects of the media experience like bonus content, trivia and advertising. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019645 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION MESSAGE ALERTING - An application message alerting method is provided for a terminal. The method includes receiving a third-party application added by a user in a specified browser page, recording a location information of the third-party application in the browser page, and sending a query on the third-party application to a browser server to cause the browser server to obtain update information of the third-party application corresponding to the query from a third-party application server. The method also includes receiving the update information of the third-party application sent by the browser server, and updating a third-party application message alert based on the update information and the location information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019646 | System and Method for Enabling a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Connection - A system and method are provided that enable a registrar or other server or proxy device to be used to provide a path between a pair of endpoint devices for exchanging addressing information, in order to establish a direct P2P connection. Once that connection is established, the connection may be used for any P2P data communications, e.g. SIP establishment of a VoIP call, instant messaging, online gaming, file transfer, multimedia streaming, etc. In this way, each endpoint device possesses a list of candidate addresses to establish a direct P2P connection, which may then be used for any type of communication. By relying on a registrar or other server to enable the candidate lists to be exchanged, control can still be maintained if necessary, since the candidate lists can be modified, e.g. to enable a transparent interception, to impose or remove security restrictions, etc. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019647 | SMART POSTING WITH DATA ANALYTICS - Provided are techniques for smart posting with data analytics. A message is received before the message is posted to a social media service. The message is analyzed using data analytics to obtain analysis results. The obtained analysis results are compared to similar analysis results stored for at least one pre-existing message. For one or more correlations between the message and at least one pre-existing message, one or more contributing terms that have semantic meaning within a context of the social media service are determined. Based on the one or more contributing terms, one or more suggestions for improving the message are generated. The message is modified based on the one or more suggestions. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOFEEDS, ORIENTATION-BASED GEOFEEDS, AND GEOFEEDS BASED ON AMBIENT CONDITIONS BASED ON CONTENT PROVIDED BY SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT PROVIDERS - A system and method for generating a geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters including altitude parameters, ambient condition parameters, and orientation parameters is provided. A geofeed includes a collection of content, aggregated from various content providers, that is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. The generated content may include, for example, video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks, and/or other content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The content providers may include, for example, social media platforms, online knowledge databases, individual content creators, and/or other providers that can distribute content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The system may filter content into the geofeed and/or out of the geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters and/or display the geofeed comprising the filtered content. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019649 | Peer to Peer (P2P) Operation by Integrating with Content Delivery Networks (CDN) - A method and apparatus for use in a network storage control peer (NSCP) supporting peer to peer (P2P) operation are disclosed. The method includes receiving a content map request message and transmitting a content map response message including an indication that a CDN-stored content piece is available from the NSCP; and, receiving a content fetch request message for the content piece and transmitting a response message including a redirection command and the CDN URI for the content piece. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019650 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026254 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE LIVE INTERACTION OFFERING AND HOSTING - A system and method are presented for predictive live interaction offering and hosting. A mechanism may be provided for controlling outstanding offerings, or invitations, of communications with users through points of service. Offerings may include a live chat or a telephone callback request. In one embodiment, offerings may be optimized by analyzing factors such as agent history to predict when and how many agents will be available. Calculations may be continuously performed as invitations are accepted, declined, timed out, etc., to make certain more offers than can be handled are not extended. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026255 | DETERMINATION OF GENERAL AND TOPICAL NEWS AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF NEWS CONTENT - Methods for categorizing news are presented. One method groups articles into clusters that share a common topic. A first category is identified for each article that indicates if the article is news or not. Further, the method includes an operation for determining use data for each article that has information about people that have accessed or referenced the article. Additionally, the method includes an operation for combining the use data and the first category for all the articles in each cluster to determine the geographical scope of interest for the cluster. The use data and the first category are combined for all the articles in each cluster to determine a second category for each article that indicates if the article is general news, topical news, or not news. The articles are presented to the user based on the geographical scope of interest, the second category, and the attributes of the user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026256 | ALERT NOTIFICATION SYNCHRONIZATION ACROSS DATA PROCESSING DEVICES - A method includes executing an instance of a process on each of a data processing device and one or more other data processing device(s), and setting up a Personal Area Network (PAN) associated with a user through registering the one or more other data processing device(s) with the data processing device based on an identifier thereof utilizing a first communication link of the PAN to enable data communication therebetween. The method also includes transmitting, through the execution of the instance of the process, a notification of an alert of an incoming communication to the one or more other data processing device(s) from the one or more other data processing device(s) to the data processing device through a second communication link of the PAN following the setting up of the PAN to enable the user be apprised of the alert through the data processing device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026257 | MUSIC BOX - Embodiments are provided for a media player. In some embodiments, locally stored media player data is obtained from a first device on at least one of a device setting, a media player setting, and a media player state of a media player module of a web application, the data is stored in a data store of a content management system for a first account, and based on the media player data, locally stored data is selectively synchronized on a second device associated with the first account to provide a continued experience with media on the second device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026258 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PARTICIPANT DISCOVERY MESSAGE PERIOD - Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for determining a participant discovery message period, which can adjust the period of domain participant discovery messages in consideration of variability in network and the importance of participants. The apparatus includes a network stability ratio calculation unit for calculating a network stability ratio based on a domain leave rate of participants. A participant discovery message period calculation unit calculates a participant discovery message period depending on a variation in network status based on the network stability ratio. A priority analysis unit analyzes preset priorities of participants. A participant discovery message period determination unit determines a participant discovery message period based on both the participant discovery message period depending on the variation in network status and the participant priorities. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026259 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COPING SERVICE BASED ON CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION - A method for providing a coping service based on context-aware information includes: recognizing a context through interworking with the devices provided in the space, and generating context-aware information; and searching for a service ID corresponding to the context-aware information from an awareness information and service mapping table in which awareness information occurrence time, occurrence place codes and service IDs are stored according to multiple awareness information IDs. Further, the method includes searching for workflow information corresponding to the searched service ID from a service workflow table in which workflow information according to service IDs is stored; and providing a service corresponding to the context awareness in accordance with the searched workflow. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026260 | Community Knowledge Management System - A web-based Community Knowledge System (CKS), including member community features, content management system features and custom features for specific lines of business or industries. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026261 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - [Object] To allow a plurality of users having a predetermined relationship to use their devices mutually or allow the devices to cooperate with each other without complicated setting. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARED SESSION APPEARANCE IN A HYBRID PEER-TO-PEER ENVIRONMENT - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables the joining and/or recording of an ongoing peer-to-peer communication session in real time. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026263 | Content Storing Device Query - A method, apparatus, and correspondingly configured computer program, in which a querying device inputs a user an identification of desired content and sends a query request for the desired content to surrounding memory devices. The query request is adapted to cause compatible receiving memory devices to perform a search based on the request. The memory devices are configured to listen to query requests and responsively perform searches based on the queries. Any memory device that finds content according to the query request responds to the query device which, after sending the query request, monitors for the compatible receiving memory devices for information that the queried content is found. Responsive to receiving the information from a given memory device, the querying device establishes a connection with the given memory device and obtains the content. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026264 | Capturing Structured Data About Previous Events from Users of a Social Networking System - The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032809 | Conference Session Handoff Between Devices - In an online conference between a plurality of client devices hosted by at least one server, a first client device receives at least two of an audio session including audio content associated with the online conference, a video session including video content associated with the online conference, and a content session including content associated with the online conference other than audio and video content. A handoff operation is facilitated between the first client device and a second client device such that the second client device receives at least one of the audio session, the video session and the content session from the online conference while the first client device continues to receive at least every other session from the online conference. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032810 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION USING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - Embodiments of the present invention enable users to allocate resources on their client devices according to relationships with other users. Resources include content such as games or movies. In one embodiment, a content provider directs a requesting device to a peer device that has access to the requested content. When users are in a social relationship, the users' devices are said to be socially affiliated. A user's social network is a collection of the user's electronic relationships with other people. Embodiments of the present invention allow users to establish sharing preferences for one or more client devices. In general, a sharing preference gives an individual preferential access to a user's computing resources on the one or more client devices. The access is preferential when compared to access given to nonsocially affiliated computing devices. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032811 | INTEGRATION APPARATUS AND INTEGRATION METHOD THEREOF FOR INTEGRATING CALENDAR SYSTEM AND CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM - An integration apparatus and an integration method, an integration program thereof for integrating a calendar system and a cloud storage system are provided. The integration apparatus includes a network interface, a storage medium and a processor. The network interface is connected to a network. The storage medium stores an integration program. The processor is electrically connected to the network interface and the storage medium, and it is configured to run the integration program to execute the integration method to integrate the calendar and cloud storage systems together. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032812 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR TRANSITIONING MEDIA PLAYBACK BETWEEN MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for transitioning media playback between multiple electronic devices are provided. A first electronic subsystem may be configured to playback first media with a first playback value of a first playback characteristic, determine a first relationship value of a first relationship characteristic between the first electronic subsystem and the second electronic subsystem, and transmit a first control instruction that is based on the determined first relationship value and the first playback value. The second electronic subsystem may be configured to receive the transmitted first control instruction and playback second media with a second playback value of the first playback characteristic, where the second playback value may be based on the received first control instruction. This may enable a consistent experience for a user proximate to the first subsystem as the playback of media is transitioned from the first subsystem to the second subsystem. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032813 | TECHNIQUES TO LOCATE AND DISPLAY CONTENT SHARED WITH A USER - Techniques to locate and display content shared with a member of an online community are described. In an embodiment, a technique may include receiving a request from a client device for all content items in an online community that are shared with a first member of the online community. All of the content items in the online community that are shared with the first member are identified and the identified content items are provided to the requesting client device. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032814 | SELECTING AND SERVING CONTENT TO USERS FROM SEVERAL SOURCES - Systems and methods for evaluating and retrieving content from several sources and intelligently selecting and serving the content to an end user may include an initial seeding process to determine initial preferences for the end user for generating a customized sequence of content to be presented to the user. As the end user consumes the content, the end user can provide response feedback indicative of the end user's preference for and/or relevance of the presented content. As content is presented to the end user, the feedback may be used to select and serve subsequent content to present to the end user by updating the customized sequence of content. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032815 | MESSAGE FORWARDING IN DATA CENTER NETWORK - A data center network comprises CORE devices which are stacked to form a stack system and an ACCESS device. Information of connection between each CORE device in the stack system and its peer ACCESS devices is recorded. Upon determining a change in the information of connection between any CORE device and its peer ACCESS devices, said CORE device is labeled with a low-forwarding-capability identifier. When transmitting a message, the ACCESS device selects a CORE device other than the CORE device labeled with a low-forwarding-capability identifier to perform the message forwarding. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032816 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an information extracting unit configured to extract first information related to an account of a first user in a social network service (SNS) from among data acquired by a non-contact technique, a request generating unit configured to generate a command to request setting of a connection between the first user and a second user in the SNS by use of the first information, the second user using the information processing apparatus, and a request executing unit configured to transmit the command to an application programming interface (API) corresponding to the SNS. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032817 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SOFTWARE DEFINED CONTINUITY (SDC) AND APPLICATION DEFINED CONTINUITY (ADC) FOR ACHIEVING BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND APPLICATION CONTINUITY ON MASSIVELY SCALABLE ENTITIES LIKE ENTIRE DATACENTERS, ENTIRE CLOUDS ETC. IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - A system and method using software defined continuity (SDC) and application defined continuity (ADC) for achieving Business Continuity and Application Continuity comprising one or more resources of multiple end users or service providers logically connected to one or more cloud infrastructures wherein the said collection of resources forms a Continuity Grid or a part of Continuity Grid or sub Grid for which continuity is needed and wherein the said Continuity Grid or part of continuity grid or sub Grid are paired with the Continuity Peer Grids located in the same or different cloud infrastructures to satisfy continuity requirements of the said Continuity Grid or part of Continuity Grid or sub Grid. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032818 | INTEGRATED EVENT SYSTEM - One embodiment is directed to a system for assisting an operator to view events, comprising: a first centralized computing system; and a mobile computing device operatively coupled to the first centralized computing system and configured such that a mobile location may be determined based at least in part upon wireless communications between the mobile computing device and one or more remote transceivers positioned in known locations; wherein the first centralized computing system is configured to operate an event management webservice, and is operatively coupled to a second centralized computing system containing social networking data; and wherein the mobile computing device may be operated to view a selection of event data received from the first centralized computing system that has been selected based at least in part upon the mobile location and the social networking data. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032819 | Provisioning A Relation Between Users In A Network Subsystem - In one example, a method is provided for provisioning a user relation in a network subsystem of a telecommunication network. The method involves accessing data records indicative of network communications between users of the network subsystem; accessing user profiles on a user profile server; analyzing the data records to detect a user relation between a first user and a second user based on the data records showing network communication involving a first user identifier from a first user profile and a second user identifier from a second user profile; and provisioning the user relation by creating an entry in a database of the network subsystem. The entry includes references to the first user profile and the second user profile on the user profile serve. By creating the entry for the user relation in the database, the user relation is made explicit within the network subsystem. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032820 | USING A DIGITAL IMAGE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for using a digital image in a social networking system may use digital image to identify a physical entity. Information about the identified physical entity may be provided to an electronic display for review by a user. The user may perform a social networking action with the identified physical entity or a website associated with the physical entity. Social networking actions may include rating or commenting about the physical entity or the associated website via a social networking system. Social networking actions may also include sharing information about the physical entity or associated website with another user via the social networking system. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032821 | ACTIVITY ANALYSIS FOR MONITORING AND UPDATING A PERSONAL PROFILE - Provided are techniques for activity analysis for monitoring and updating a personal profile. User activities are monitored to create a user activity log. The user activity log and a user profile are analyzed using one or more profile entity to activity mappings to identify one or more suggestions for updating the user profile. The one or more suggestions are provided to update the user profile. In response to acceptance of at least one of the suggestions, the user profile is updated. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE EVENT-SHARE SERVICE - A method, a system and a computer readable medium for supporting collaborative media sharing among users at an event are disclosed. For example, the method creates an event-share group relating to an event, and provides an event tag to a plurality of members of the event-share group, where the event tag uniquely identifies the event-share group or the event. The method receives a captured media from at least one of the plurality of members, wherein the event tag is attached to the captured media and provides the captured media to the plurality of members. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039685 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRIGGERING USER NOTIFICATIONS OF MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - Systems and methods for triggering user notifications of media content items. An example method may comprise: identifying a user of a content sharing platform; determining that a plurality of media content items has a value of a user interest metric exceeding a defined threshold value, wherein the plurality of media content items is represented by a list of media content items compiled based on a pre-defined criterion, and wherein the user interest metric reflects interest of the user to the plurality of media content items; selecting, among the plurality of media content items, a media content item that has not been accessed by the user; and notifying the user of the media content item. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039686 | Mobile Web Adaptation Techniques - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for mobile web adaptation techniques. A method includes determining a user preference value for each of multiple items of web content to be loaded onto a mobile device of the user; determining a content provider preference value for each of the multiple items of web content to be loaded onto at least the mobile device of the user; for each of the multiple items of web content to be loaded onto the mobile device of the user, combining (i) the corresponding user preference and (ii) the corresponding content provider preference value, thereby generating a combined value; and loading the multiple items of web content to the mobile device of the user in order of highest combined value to lowest combined value. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039687 | ACQUIRING AND CORRELATING WEB REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS (WEBRTC) INTERACTIVE FLOW CHARACTERISTICS, AND RELATED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA - Embodiments include acquiring and correlating Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) interactive flow characteristics, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media. In one embodiment, a method for acquiring and correlating characteristics of WebRTC interactive flows comprises receiving, by an acquisition agent of a WebRTC client executing on a computing device, a peer connection initiation dialogue for establishing a WebRTC interactive flow. The method further comprises determining, by the acquisition agent, one or more characteristics of the WebRTC interactive flow based on the peer connection initiation dialogue. The method additionally comprises receiving, by a correlation agent, the one or more characteristics of the WebRTC interactive flow from the acquisition agent, and storing the one or more characteristics of the WebRTC interactive flow. The method also comprises correlating, by the correlation agent, one or more stored characteristics, and generating, by the correlation agent, one or more interaction records based on the correlating. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039688 | Self-Adaptive Sample Period for Content Sharing in Communication Sessions - According to one embodiment, a technique is presented to dynamically adjust a sample period used at a presenter device for a screen content capture sharing function during a communication session. In another embodiment, a technique is provided to control how frames of screen capture content, e.g., in a desktop sharing function, are sent to attendee devices during an online conference session. According to a still another embodiment, a technique is provided to enable on-demand designation of frames as key-frames during a desktop sharing function of an online conference session. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039689 | SOCIAL QUEUE - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a user device to add a user identifier to a queue and, in response, transmit a current position for the user identifier in the queue. The first user identifier is promoted to an improved position in the queue in response to receiving an indication of performance of an action associated with the first user identifier. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039690 | Inferring Social Groups Through Patterns of Communication - Software authenticates the user of a social networking service which maintains one or more lists of contacts associated with the user that can be used by the user to selectively share content. The software ascertains a proposed group of contacts from at least one of the lists. The user and members of the proposed group are related by a plurality of communications and the communications are associated with one or more attributes including at least one of geographic locations associated with the communication, time of communication, or medium of communication. The software presents the proposed group of contacts to the user, with a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts. The software creates the new list of contacts from the proposed group, if the user indicates acceptance of the recommendation. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039691 | System and Methods for Dynamic Floor Control in Group Communications - Dynamic floor control in group communications may include allocating floor time to participants according to a floor control function. To determine the amount of floor time to allocate to each participant, an embodiment floor control function may factor in parameters including the number of active participants in the group communication, the overall likeability of each participant, and the popularity ranking for each participant. In an embodiment, parameters such as overall likeability may be based on votes received from other participants. Parameters may be updated during the group communication to adjust participants' floor time. If a participant is granted the floor or speaks, a countdown timer may be started that decrements the participant's remaining floor time until the participant releases the floor or runs out of floor time. Once the countdown timer expires, the participant may be denied the floor and/or may no longer speak in the group communication. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039692 | SHARING CONTENT WITHIN AN EVOLVING CONTENT-SHARING ZONE - A user selects a content item that he wishes to send. He then performs a “sending” gesture and specifies an initial “content-sharing zone.” In order to be eligible to receive the selected content item, a receiving device must be located within the content-sharing zone. However, the content-sharing zone can evolve over time. It can grow in size, change shape, or move (e.g., it can remain centered on the sending user as he moves). A potential recipient makes a “receiving” gesture, and, if the location of the receiving device is located within the evolving content-sharing zone, as currently defined, then the content item is sent from the sending device to the receiving device (either directly or via a content server). A maximum size or duration of the evolving content-sharing zone can be specified. Other restrictions can be stated so that, for example, only intended recipients can receive the content item. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039693 | CONTENT AND POSTED-INFORMATION LINK METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL - An information processing terminal is connected to an external server via the information sharing system (WEB) so as to implement Twitter, social networking services, and text posting services. The information processing terminal is used to receive a desired content (e.g. a television broadcast content), to browse the posted information posted on the WEB from the external server, to select at least one classified information (e.g. hash tags) used to classify the posted information from among a plurality of classified information, to obtain at least one classified information with reference to the external server, and to simultaneously display at least one classified information linked with the desired content. The information processing terminal simultaneously displays a content display screen used to display the desired content and a posting service display screen used to display a plurality of posted information browsed from the external server. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039694 | SYNCHRONIZED WEB-BROWSING - A computer apparatus, and computer-based method for sharing of clickstreams and demographic information between users browsing the Internet, including a graphical user interface and database for clickstream data capture and storage that is combined across multiple users. Also described is synchronized web browsing in real time across multiple Internet browsing devices, and the use of WebSockets to communicate URL's/URI's loaded by a leader to all participants, thereby permitting the participants to the same URL/URI at the same time. The technology is implemented via a web browser extension, or as an app on a mobile device. Also described are ways for users to add free-form content, including but not limited to text, to individual URL's, and for managing access to such content by the individuals themselves or by other individuals whereby the content creator can select who can view the content when the URL/URI is viewed through an Internet browsing device. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039695 | CREATING GROUPS OF USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system facilitates a user's creation of a group of other users from among the user's connections in the user's social network. The created groups may be used, for example, to publish information to certain user-defined groups or to define privacy settings or other access rights to the user's content according to such user-defined groups. When a user adds connections to a group, the social networking system determines suggested connections that have not been added to the group, based on a similarity of the suggested connections with one or more of the connections who have been added to the group. These suggested connections are then presented to the user to facilitate the creation of the group. Both positive and negative feedback may be used to generate a useful set of suggestions, which may be updated as the user further defines the group. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039696 | PASSIVELY POPULATING A PARTICIPANT LIST WITH KNOWN CONTACTS - Passively populating a list of participants of an electronic communications system includes maintaining a participant list of users of an electronic communications system to be used by a user of the electronic communications system. Existing users of the electronic communications system that are known to the user are identified, and communications strengths between the user and each of the identified existing users are determined. The identified existing users with the highest communications strengths are designated for addition to the participant list. An existing group or a newly created group within the participant list to which each of the designated users should be added may be identified. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046526 | Magnetic Induction Network Device - A network device has a housing, a magnetic induction charger, a wireless data link and a processor. The housing has one or more sides. The induction charger is housed by the housing and is arranged to wirelessly charge a rechargeable battery of a portable electronic device. The electronic device is adjacent to or in contact with the housing. The wireless data link communicates with the portable electronic device. The processor communicates with the magnetic induction charger and the wireless data link. In addition, the processor recognizes the portable electronic device and associates a profile with the portable electronic device. The processor delivers content to an associated media device based on the profile. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046527 | MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE SPACE - Managing a collaborative space includes providing a collaborative space in which a number of users collaborate from respective client devices, monitoring content of the collaborative space to determine a context of collaboration in the collaborative space, and changing an operation of at least one functionality of the collaborative space based on the determined context of collaboration in the collaborative space. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046528 | OBJECTIVE VALUE MODELS FOR ENTITY RECOMMENDATION - A method for making entity recommendations to users of a social networking system (SNS) by maximizing a predicted benefit to the SNS through objective value models. The method includes generating a plurality of candidate entities eligible for recommendation, and determining a weight for each candidate entity based upon an output score generated by an objective value model. The objective value model utilizes objectively measurable input values describing the candidate entities and generates larger output scores for those candidate entities that would create larger predicted increases in an objectively measurable amount of benefit for the SNS created by a potential connection being created between the user and the respective candidate entity. One or more entities are selected based upon the determined weights, and an entity recommendation user interface is presented to the user that includes one or more recommendation modules identifying the selected one or more entities. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046529 | MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE SPACE - Managing a collaborative space includes providing a collaborative space in which a number of users collaborate from respective client devices, monitoring content of the collaborative space to determine a context of collaboration in the collaborative space, and changing an operation of at least one functionality of the collaborative space based on the determined context of collaboration in the collaborative space. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SMART POSTS IN FEEDS - Methods and systems are provided for reducing noise in a social media feed of the type including successive posts each having a substantially homogeneous format. The method may involve: identifying a plurality of related updates to a record; configuring a single smart post to include underlying content from each of the plurality of related updates, and a visual cue distinct from the substantially homogeneous format; and displaying the smart post in the feed. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046531 | MESSAGING SYSTEM, TOPIC MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MESSAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a specific message flow is formed among a plurality of processes, process insertion and removal are facilitated. A topic management device includes a correspondence table storage unit which stores correspondence data which associates an abstract topic which is a topic described in a program with a real topic which is a topic for controlling message transmission and reception for each process to be executed by a processing device, and a topic management service control unit which transmits the correspondence data to the processing device. The processing device includes a topic lookup unit which receives the correspondence data from the topic management device, and a message processing unit which transmits and receives a message using the real topic corresponding to the abstract topic described in the program of a process to be executed based on the correspondence data received in the topic lookup unit. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046532 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING AUTOMATED METADATA AUGMENTATION IN A HIERARCHICAL LEVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) CLOUD COMPUTING AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM - A method for supporting automated metadata augmentation in a hierarchical level architecture for machine-to-machine (M2M) cloud computing, wherein metadata is employed to provide descriptive information about entities, wherein said entities are generated at a lower level of said architecture, in particular at the bottom level of said architecture, wherein said entities are propagated from said lower level, in particular via one or more levels, upwards to an upper level of said architecture, in particular to the application level of said architecture, and wherein metadata is added to said entities on one or more of the levels of said architecture, is characterized in that feedback information based on one or more of said entities is generated at said upper level of said architecture, and wherein said feedback information is propagated downwards in said architecture. Furthermore, a corresponding system is disclosed. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046533 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM - A delegate unit for a conference system comprises a user interface, a web browser arranged for accessing and displaying on the user interface web-based multimedia content, a web server arranged for delivering the multimedia content to the web browser, and storage means for storing the multimedia content. The web browser and the web server are adapted for communicating with each other. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND PROCESSING SENSOR DATA IN AN INTERFACING-DEVICE NETWORK - An interfacing device is configured to process one or more rules, based on sensor data, to perform a predetermined action. During operation, the device can establish a network connection with a device controller, and receives a device configuration that includes a rule for the interfacing device. The rule can include an action description for performing an action, and can include a condition that takes sensor data as input and indicates criteria for performing the action. The device can store the rule in a rule repository, and determines data generated by processing the rule's action description. When the device receives a data-subscription request for the data generated by processing the rule's action description, the device determines a remote interfacing device which issued the data-subscription request, and stores the data-subscription request, for the data generated by the rule's action description, in association with the remote interfacing device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046535 | Method and Computer Program Product for Operating a Relationship Mapping Site - Methods and computer program products for facilitating the operation of Internet-based (i.e., online) social networking sites are disclosed. Such methods and computer program products allow people to discover, explore and maintain relationship paths (i.e., links) with any other person in the world by utilizing the fact that every person has one or more “relationship paths” to everyone else through varying degrees of separation. The power of the Internet, via online social networking sites, is leveraged to build a comprehensive database revealing how each person is connected to everyone by designating certain users of the site as “hubs,” “gateways” and/or “connectors. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046536 | Selectively Porting Meeting Objects - Customizing an electronic meeting broadcast is described in which the meeting canvas is customized to the capabilities of the device of the participating user. The meeting server manages the electronic meeting including each of the participants' connections into the electronic collaboration space. As a part of the connection mechanism, the meeting server or a proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server has information on the capabilities of individual devices accessing the electronic meeting. Based on these capabilities and/or selections made by the meeting participant, the meeting server or proxy/gateway connected to the meeting server selectively identifies zero or more meeting objects from a collection of meeting objects supporting the meeting canvas of an electronic meeting and transmits only those meeting objects to the participant's device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046537 | RETRIEVING VIDEO ANNOTATION METADATA USING A P2P NETWORK AND COPYRIGHT FREE INDEXES - Video programs (media) are analyzed, often using computerized image feature analysis methods. Annotator index descriptors or signatures that are indexes to specific video scenes and items of interest are determined, and these in turn serve as an index to annotator metadata (often third party metadata) associated with these video scenes. The annotator index descriptors and signatures, typically chosen to be free from copyright restrictions, are in turn linked to annotator metadata, and then made available for download on a P2P network. Media viewers can then use processor equipped video devices to select video scenes and areas of interest, determine the corresponding user index, and send this user index over the P2P network to search for index linked annotator metadata. This metadata is then sent back to the user video device over the P2P network. Thus video programs can be enriched with additional content without transmitting any copyrighted video data. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046538 | System And Method For Algorithmic Selection Of A Consensus From A Plurality Of Ideas - A system and method for algorithmic selection of a consensus from a collection of ideas is disclosed. A group of ideas is provided to a group of participants for voting. Voting may occur in a single round or in several successive rounds, optionally until a consensus idea is chosen. Typically, the votes that are cast use discrete levels, such as “approve”, “disapprove”, “positive”, “neutral” or “negative”. For ideas that receive the same votes, a differentiator may be the time spent casting the vote. A relatively long evaluation time may signal some internal conflict in the mind of the participant, when compared with a relatively short evaluation time, which may signal no such conflict. The evaluation time may be combined with the rating of the participant to form a weighted rating. Consequently, a short evaluation time of a positive rating may yield a more positive weighted rating, while a short evaluation time of a negative rating may yield a more negative weighted rating. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046539 | TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NON-MEMBER CONNECTIONS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide a relevance engine for determining a relevance of an individual (either a non-member or another member) to another individual (either a non-member or another member). This relevance engine may use signals in the form of data that the social networking service may learn about the individuals to determine how relevant the individuals are to each other. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046540 | MANAGING UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCES VIA CATEGORIES - A conference management system is described for administering large numbers of conferences in an organization. The conference management system receives a hierarchical set of categories from a system administrator and configuration settings for each category. When a user requests to create a new conference, the conference management system creates the conference and assigns the new conference to a category. The conference takes on the settings of the category to which it belongs, which eliminates individual configuration of each conference. Administrators can also delegate authority to manage conferences to others in the organization. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING AN APPLIANCE - A method and system for operating an appliance are provided. An exemplary method includes providing a module with a meta-resource and associating the meta-resource of the module with a resource of the appliance. The exemplary method also includes utilizing the meta-resource of the module to operate the resource of the appliance. The meta-resource can supplement or enhance functionality of the appliance. An exemplary system includes an appliance having a resource and a module having a meta-resource. The meta-resource of the module is configured for utilizing the resource of the appliance in order to supplement functionality of the appliance. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052198 | DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHODS IN COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING SPECIALIZED AND INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE - The present invention relates generally to a dynamic social network system (SNS network), specializing in the consolidation of all specialized fields of expertise into a single database network and rendering the maximized ability to collect and disseminate specialized and interdisciplinary fields of knowledge from academic events. The present invention acts as a platform in which public and private institutions could utilize in advertising their academic events to the people interested in or concerned with the topic/content but unaware of certain academic events. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052199 | UPDATING TIME-RELATED INFORMATION IN POST TO MAKE IT MORE RELEVANT FOR THE REQUESTER ON SUBSEQUENT RETRIEVAL OF POST - A method, system and computer program product for updating the time-related information in a post to make it more relevant for the requester on a subsequent retrieval of the post. A post with a reference to an event or activity (e.g., “leaving for Florida in 3 days”) is identified using natural language processing. Upon receiving a request from a requester to retrieve the post prior to the expiration of the event/activity, the post is updated by substituting a time countdown in the post with an up-to-date time countdown or with a current status of the referenced event/activity. If, however, the request is received after the expiration of the event/activity, then the post is removed or updated with an indication that the referenced event/activity has expired. In this manner, the requester will be receiving more accurate and relevant time-related information concerning the event or activity referenced in the post. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052200 | Acquiring Regions of Remote Shared Content with High Resolution - Presented herein are techniques to enable a meeting participant/attendee at a first endpoint device in an online/web-based meeting/conference to acquire shared content with high resolution. The first endpoint device receives an initial image of content shared by a second endpoint in the online/web-based meeting/conference. At the first endpoint, the initial image of the shared content is displayed. A user selection of a selected region of the initial image is received at the first endpoint, and a second image of the shared content corresponding to the selected region is received at the first endpoint, wherein the second image has a higher resolution than the initial image. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052201 | UPDATING TIME-RELATED INFORMATION IN POST TO MAKE IT MORE RELEVANT FOR THE REQUESTER ON SUBSEQUENT RETRIEVAL OF POST - A method, system and computer program product for updating the time-related information in a post to make it more relevant for the requester on a subsequent retrieval of the post. A post with a reference to an event or activity (e.g., “leaving for Florida in 3 days”) is identified using natural language processing. Upon receiving a request from a requester to retrieve the post prior to the expiration of the event/activity, the post is updated by substituting a time countdown in the post with an up-to-date time countdown or with a current status of the referenced event/activity. If, however, the request is received after the expiration of the event/activity, then the post is removed or updated with an indication that the referenced event/activity has expired. In this manner, the requester will be receiving more accurate and relevant time-related information concerning the event or activity referenced in the post. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058414 | DIAMETER INTEROPERABILITY FACILITATION - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: obtaining a Diameter message to be transmitted to a client device, wherein the Diameter message includes a first Diameter identity; determining, based on a configuration of the Diameter device, that an alternate identity is to be presented to the client device; replacing the first Diameter identity with a second Diameter identity that is different from the first Diameter identity, based on the determination that an alternate identity is to be presented to the client device; and transmitting the Diameter message to the client device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058415 | PRESENTER DEVICE AS WEB PROXY FOR COLLABORATIVE SHARING OF WEB CONTENT HAVING PRESENTER CONTEXT - In one embodiment, a method comprises a presenter device controlling a web-based collaboration session with session participants via a collaboration server; receiving by the presenter device a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response from a web server, the HTTP response dynamically generated by the web server according to a presenter context associated with a presenter using the presenter device; the presenter device delegating the presenter context based on sending the HTTP response to the collaboration server for presentation of the HTTP response to the at least one session participant, enabling the at least one session participant to independently control viewing of at least a portion of the HTTP response according to the presenter context. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058416 | DETERMINING A COMMUNITY EMOTIONAL RESPONSE - Systems and methods for determining a community emotional response are disclosed. In some implementations, a plurality of user feedback items for an online content are received. The user feedback items describe reactions of users to the online content. A user's emotional response associated with each of the plurality of user feedback items is determined. The emotional responses are aggregated to determine a community emotional response to the online content. A signal is transmitted for displaying, on a display unit and in association with the online content, of a visual indication of the community emotional response to the online content. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PRESENTING PERSONALIZED PERSONAS IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - The technology disclosed relates to providing personalized experience to viewers of online social profiles. In particular, it relates to creating person-specific personas of a user's online social profiles to be viewed by respective persons in the user's online social networks based on shared interests. The person-specific personas prominently display content selected from a user's profile that is determined to be of interest to the particular persons viewing the profiles. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058418 | PROVIDING DATA RESOURCE SERVICES WITHIN ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS FOR RESOURCE LEVEL SHARING AMONG MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS, AND RELATED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA - Providing data resource services within enterprise systems for resource level sharing among multiple applications, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing a data resource service within an enterprise system is provided. The method includes receiving a user data request from a web application having application logic located outside of an enterprise system to access user data stored in memory within the enterprise system. The method further includes accessing the user data stored in the memory within the enterprise system in response to the user data request from the web application. The method also includes providing access to the user data stored in the memory within the enterprise system to the web application in response to the user data request. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058419 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION DISCLOSURE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data storage unit ( | 02-26-2015 |
20150058420 | METHOD FOR BROADCASTING A PIECE OF CONTENT IN AN IT NETWORK - A method for broadcasting a piece of content in an IT network including a content server having the content to be broadcast, and a plurality of clients seeking to retrieve the content, method in which the content is served in client/server mode to at least one client in a format allowing the subsequent broadcasting of same in P2P mode. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058421 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION - The present invention facilitates communication between users of a computer system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and methods by which users may submit a variety of information relevant to an event or other subject and the information is selectable to be automatically and efficiently integrated and displayed to provide one or more sets of aggregated information that may be useful to a wider group of users. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL APPEND - Some embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing social information of members of one or more social networks includes receiving a request for a social handle of a person via a social handle application programming interface (API), the request including contact information about the person, performing a search for the social handle of the person using the contact information, normalizing the social handle if it is not already normalized to generate a normalized social handle, storing the normalized social handle as being associated with the contact information, and providing the normalized social handle in a response to the request. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058423 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INCREASING ENGAGEMENT OF LOW ENGAGEMENT USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques to increase engagement with a social networking system. In one embodiment, an engagement level of a user with a social networking system is monitored. A low engagement user type associated with the user is identified from a plurality of low engagement user types. It is determined whether the engagement level of the user is less than a threshold. If so, a communication is provided for the user based on the low engagement user type associated with the user. The communication may be a notification or a digest communication. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058424 | PREFERRED CONTACT CHANNEL FOR USER COMMUNICATIONS - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to look up a contact's communication channel information in the user's address book. The social networking system provides to the user the contact's communication channels in an ordered sequence based on the user's social graph and communication information. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067043 | ACCELERATING COLLABORATION IN TASK ASSIGNMENT BY USING SOCIALLY ENHANCED MODEL - Communication logs may be analyzed to detect interactions between members, and a social network of members built based on the analysis. A plurality of communities of members is determined in the social network, and social positions of at least some of the members in each of the community are detected. The communities and their member social positions are utilized in dynamically forming a team of members to handle a task assignment. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067044 | EFFICIENTLY ACCESSING WEB CONFERENCES FROM A MOBILE DEVICE - A technique for joining a web conference on a mobile device includes running a program on the mobile device that displays a list of web conference invitations for web conferences scheduled to be held at or near the current time, receiving a user selection of one of the listed web conference invitations, and initiating a web conference for the selected web conference invitation using a web conference client installed on the mobile device. The technique enables mobile users to join web conferences quickly and with few manual operations. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067045 | VIRTUAL MACHINE SCREEN SHARING AND ACCESSING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA - Techniques for sharing and accessing VM screen via social media are described. In one example embodiment, a first user is allowed to log into the social media application via a browser in a client device at a first location. The first user is then allowed to select a feed type to share the VM screen in the client device at the first location. VM screen share information is then received from the first user via the client device at the first location. The VM screen is then shared upon receiving the VM screen share information from the first user via the client device at the first location. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067046 | SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION CONSUMPTION GAP RESOLUTION - Social network content consumption activities of social network users related to content published by at least one social network are monitored. The monitored social network content consumption activities of each of at least two of the social network users are compared. A determination is made, based upon the comparison, that a difference in consumption of the published content exists between the at least two of the social network users. A notification is generated to any of the at least two of the social network users determined, based upon the difference in consumption, to have consumed less of the published content than at least one other social network user. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067047 | PROVIDING A MEETING RULES TEMPLATE FOR A MEETING SERVICE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a rules template associated with an online interactive activity by a network element. The rules template includes at least one rule for defining a manner in which a process of the online interactive activity is to be conducted. The method further includes parsing the rules template to determine the at least one rule, and controlling the process of the online interactive activity in accordance with the determined at least one rule. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067048 | TECHNIQUES FOR SUGGESTING CONTENT TO PROMOTE VIA A FEED - Techniques for suggesting content to promote via a stream are described. According to various embodiments, social activity information associated with a plurality of candidate content items posted on an online social network service may be accessed. The social activity information may describe social activity signals associated with each of the candidate content items. A specific content item may then be identified from among the plurality of candidate content items, based on the social activity signals associated with the specific content item. Thereafter an organization may be prompted to promote the specific content item on the online social network service. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067049 | REDISCOVERY OF PAST DATA - According to one embodiment, a user's past content (e.g., pictures, movies, audio recordings) may be retrieved and pushed to the user's mobile device in a real-time and in a contextually-relevant manner. The pushed content may also include contextually-relevant content of others with whom the user has established a relationship to share such content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A MULTI-SCREEN ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is a social network service device. The social network service device includes a message processing unit which receives, from a common smart device, an identifier of a user group which uses the common smart device, and information of a personal smart device which is connected to the common smart device for a multi-screen service, and a social network establishment unit which establishes a social network between common smart devices by modeling a relation between the user group and a user who uses the personal smart device, and a relation between the common smart device and the personal smart device, using the information of the personal smart device, based on the identifier of the user group. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067051 | BATCHING-BASED CONTENT ROUTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING BATCHING-BASED CONTENT ROUTING METHOD - The method includes, receiving a content request message from a user terminal, comparing a batching window value and a timer value in session information when there is session information corresponding to received content, and transmitting a content response message including an address of a stored surrogate server to the user terminal when the timer value is less than the batching window value. In addition, the method includes, receiving a request message for requesting the same content from another user terminal, and transmitting the content response message including address information of the same surrogate server to another user terminal when the timer value is less than the batching window value. Therefore, since more channels can be assigned to one surrogate server, it is possible to decrease data transmission costs of the surrogate server. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067052 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE USER MODERATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS - Approaches for facilitating selective user moderation of social media channels are disclosed. In certain implementations, one or more posts from a user for submission to a channel directed to a topic may be received. An event relating to the topic may be identified. A predetermined time period associated with the event may be identified. At least some access privileges of the user for the channel may be disabled for at least a portion of the predetermined time period based on a determination that the one or more posts are indicative of one or more undesired characteristics. In some implementations, the predetermined time period may include a first time period before the event begins, a second time period during which the event occurs, a third time period after which the event ends, or other time period associated with the event. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067053 | MANAGING MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A method for managing message distribution in a networked computing environment. The method includes determining, for a particular topic, at least a first subscriber messaging engine and a second subscriber messaging engine to receive a topic message. The method includes determining that the first subscriber messaging engine is to act as a cache for the second subscriber messaging engine. The method includes sending the topic message to the first subscriber messaging engine. The method then includes sending a reference message to the second subscriber messaging engine, the reference message being able to be used to retrieve the topic message from the first subscriber messaging engine. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067054 | METHOD FOR SHARING MEDIA DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring a media contents sharing list which includes media contents retained by the electronic device and media contents retained by at least one other electronic device communicating with the electronic device, and transmitting the first media contents to the at least one other electronic device based on playback of first media contents retained by the electronic device within the media contents sharing list, and receiving the second media contents from the at least one other electronic device and outputting the received second media contents based on playback of second media contents retained by the at least one other electronic device within the media contents sharing list. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - In one exemplary aspect, a method of an anonymous online social network includes the step of providing an anonymous online social networking service. A user is enabled to create a user's anonymous profile on the anonymous online social networking service. The user's anonymous profile comprises a unique social number identifier. A user information is received by a server of the anonymous online social network. The user information includes an anonymous user interest and an anonymous attribute. A search functionality is provided wherein another user searches for the user's anonymous profile utilizing the anonymous user interest and the anonymous attribute. The unique social number identifier can be a user profile identified by a unique sequence of numbers such that the user's profile does not include personal identifying information about the user. The anonymous online social networking service can include a computing platform to build social networks and social relations among a set of users. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067056 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus connected via a network to a display apparatus and one or more operations terminals. The information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to transmit to the display apparatus and the operations terminals image data in which at least one object is disposed and display the transmitted image data on the display apparatus and the operations terminals, an information manager configured to manage information of the objects, and a display update unit configured to update a display of the objects disposed in the image data by receiving operations with respect to the objects from the operations terminals and updating the objects based on the received operations. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMLINING MICROBLOGS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF MEDIA CHANNELS - A system and method for streamlining microblogging across a plurality of media channels are provided. The method includes receiving content to be published and a plurality of target media channels; obtaining requirements data comprising at least one requirement respective of each of the plurality of target media channels; for each of the plurality of target media channels determining if the content successfully meets the at least one requirement of the target media channel; generating a set of characterization attributes to optimize the content reach through the target media channel compiling a microblog and metadata respective of the set of characterization attributes for the target media channel; and sending the metadata and the microblog to the target media channel. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A COLLECTIVE POST - Methods, systems, and computer program code for producing a collective post are disclosed. A system for producing a collective post may include a processing device and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to receive at least one input from each of a plurality of users, direct a storage device to store data corresponding to the at least one input, receive an instruction from at least one of the plurality of users, and publish the collective post to the collaborative networking platform as a collective post entry. The at least one input may correspond to one or more interactions between each user and a collective desktop. The instruction may include a command to compile the data into the collective post. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067059 | Scalable Content Distribution for Sparse Publish-Subscribe Systems Using the Object Management Group Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Protocol - Publisher-side content based filtering methods and systems are provided to select which subscribers shall receive each data-message sent by a publisher using an Object Management Group (OMG) Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) protocol. Methods and systems are provided for writer-side content based filtering and data distribution from a publisher to a plurality of subscribers using an Object Management Group (OMG) Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) protocol. Methods and systems are provided for performing scalable content-based filtering and distribution from a publisher to a plurality of subscribers using the Object Management Group (OMG) Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) protocol. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CO-BROWSING IN A B2C ARCHITECTURE THROUGH CO-BROWSING FUNCTIONALITY EMBEDDED IN CONTENT OF A CONTENT PROVIDER AS INITIATED BY A GUEST TO A CO-BROWSE SESSION - A method includes establishing a first communication session between a first web browser associated with a user and a content provider over a network to deliver content including embedded co-browsing functionality. A second communication session is established between a second device and a co-browse communication server to initiate a co-browse session having a session identifier, wherein the second device is a guest. A user identifier and the session identifier is delivered from the second device to the content provider. The co-browsing functionality is exposed with an icon, such that when the icon is activated at the first device, the first web browser is joined into the co-browse session. The co-browse session is established between the first web browser as a host and a second web browser, such that content at the first web browser is delivered to the second web browser via the co-browse communication server through the co-browse session. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND CHARACTERIZING SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTIVENESS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for providing engagements to allow users to interact with reconfigured media inputs being provided through a social media presentation system. User responses, actions, and other related information to the engagements may be collected, analyzed, and actions may be taken based on the analysis. One embodiment may be directed to a method of providing an event scorecard by receiving a user interaction from a user computer, determining an engagement associated with the user interaction, and identifying a type of user interaction and a user identifier. The method continues by storing information associated with the user interaction including the user identifier, the type of user interaction, and a product identifier. The method further includes determining social engagement levels based on stored user interactions, generating event scorecard ratings based on the social engagement levels, and displaying an event scorecard including the scorecard ratings. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067062 | MESSAGE PUSH NOTIFICATION CLIENT IMPROVEMENTS FOR MULTI-USER DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses that generate a subtopic identifier identifying a client application within a client device that can support multiple users are described. The client application may be associated with a server application hosted in one or more application servers. Notification services may be registered with the application servers from the client application to forward identifiers associated with the client application for one of the multiple users to the server application to enable the server application to push notification messages to the client device selectively for the client application for that user. When receiving a notification message from the application server, the notification message may be examined to forward the notification message directly to the client application for that user without invoking other applications in the client device if the notification message carries a subtopic identifier of the client application. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067063 | System and Method for Comparison of Physical Entity Attribute Effects on Physical Environments Through In Part Social Networking Service Input - A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more first physical entities and one or more second physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and determining assessment information comparing the one or more first physical entities with the one or more second physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067064 | Social Network for Travelers with Event Codes - A method of correlating events between multiple people is disclosed including generating a statistically unique event code. The statistically unique event code uniquely identifies the event and is associated with the event. The statistically unique event code is unique for at least a period of time up until the event happens. The statistically unique event code is provided when a person joins the event (e.g. printed on a ticket, transmitted in a data record, etc.). In a social network in which the person is a member, the statistically unique event code is associated with the person. A buddy list of the person is searched for other members of the social network for an overlap in which the person and one of the buddies of the person will be co-located (e.g., matching statistically unique event codes or at a location near the event, etc.). | 03-05-2015 |
20150074189 | Gathering Participants for Meetings - Participants for an in-progress meeting are gathered, preferably by broadcast of instant messaging notifications thereto. Information for people who are invited to a scheduled meeting but are not participating when the meeting begins, as well as for one or more additional people who are mentioned by the current participants of the meeting as desired new invitees to the in-progress meeting, is placed on a participant list. A disambiguation process may be used in cases where it is not clear who was intended in the discussion of a new invitee. Responses to the notifications are collected and used to populate a consolidated joining status window, where this joining status window depicts the joining status of persons on the participant list. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074190 | DIGITAL NETWORKING IN A WELDING SYSTEM - A method for handling a data packet includes a network device receiving the data packet. The method also includes the network device separating first network layer data of the data packet from message data of the data packet. The message data of the data packet includes a source address represented by less than four bytes, a destination address represented by less than four bytes, and a format identifier. The method includes determining whether the destination address of the message data matches an address of the network device or whether the message data indicates a broadcast message. The method also includes the network device processing the format identifier if the destination address of the message data matches the address of the network device or if the message data indicates the broadcast message. The method includes the network device providing the message data to the network device and/or other network devices. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074191 | UNIFIED END USER NOTIFICATION PLATFORM - A unified end-user notification platform delivers event alerts to different types of clients including mobile devices and HTTP clients. Users can subscribe to a plurality of notification channels and select from the associated various delivery options via a single user interface. The events are received by the unified notification platform which matches the received events with the user subscription data to identify subscribers and their respective delivery options. Corresponding event alerts are generated and delivered based on the user or subscriber specified options. Multiple event alerts corresponding to public and private data notification channels are provided to a user device via a single connection. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074192 | ORGANIZING A SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION SESSION ACCORDING TO CONTEXT - Organizing a synchronous communication session can include determining, using a processor of a data processing system, a context responsive to detecting a trigger event. The context specifies a foreground application executing within the data processing system. Candidate participants can be determined from the context. A user interface is displayed separate from the foreground application. The user interface lists the candidate participants. Further, responsive to a user input received within the user interface, an invite to the candidate participants is sent. The invite specifies access information for the synchronous communication session. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074193 | CREATING A WEB PROXY INSIDE A BROWSER - Systems and methods may provide for receiving a first request from a remote device for access to content on a second remote device, and invoking a proxy server embedded in an HTML5-compliant browser on a local device. Additionally, the first remote device may be provided with access to the content on the second remote device via the proxy server. Moreover, input may be received from a user interface of the local device, wherein a second request may be transmitted to the first remote device for access to content on a third remote device. In one example, the first remote device is unauthorized with respect to the content on the second remote device, and the local device is unauthorized with respect to the content on the third remote device. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074194 | DISCUSSION-TOPIC, SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEMS - Apparatus and methods for social media networking using devices configured to communicate in a data communications network where exchanged information is organized according to discussion topics. Users may exchange content with selected members of discussion-topic groups. Initiating comments and replies may be posted to a discussion topic for review by participants. Sub-discussion topics may be defined for discussion topics. A user may further flexibly define active tag and associated arguments for the active tags as a relational or linking structure for a discussion topic. Conventional email messages may be converted and ported into the discussion-topic system. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074195 | INCREASING POWER SAVINGS THROUGH INTELLIGENT SYNCHRONIZING OF DATA - The disclosure relates to wireless communication performed by various user devices. A user device determines whether or not it is an active user device, transmits a notification to the one or more user devices indicating that it is not the active user device, and receives, from the active user device, updated application data for one or more applications installed on both the user device and the active user device, wherein a same user is logged in to the one or more applications on both the user device and the active user device. The active user device transmits a notification to the one or more user devices indicating that it is the active user device, receives, from a remote server, updated application data for the one or more applications, and transmits the updated application data to the one or more user devices. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074196 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing terminal is disclosed, including a generation part and a transmission part. The generation part generates image data indicating a first image where address information of predetermined data is embedded in a second image being displayed at a display device. The transmission part transmits the image data generated by the generation part to have a destination for sharing the second image be a share of the image data. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074197 | REAL-TIME DATA INPUT RELEVANCE RANKING AND RESULTING DATA OUTPUT - Techniques are presented for ranking and presenting information to a user. In one example, a portable computing device may collect a first set of data from one or more sensors, rank a second set of data (e.g., advertisements, news, etc.) by correlating the first set of data with a third set of data of interest to a user, and present the ranked information to the user. In another example, the portable computing device may transmit the collected information to a server for processing, and receive the ranked information from the server. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074198 | SOCIAL NETWORK GROUPING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for social network grouping are provided. The method includes: acquiring friend relation data of a first user, the friend relation data comprising one or more friend nodes; determining a weight of each of the friend nodes based on the friend relation data acquired; forming a first friend circle with a first friend node having a greatest weight among the friend nodes; traversing the friend nodes to find an optimum friend of the first friend circle; adding the optimum friend into the first friend circle; and repeating the traversing and adding until all optimum friends of the first friend circle are added into the first friend circle. The method determines the weight of each friend node based on the friend relation data and performs grouping by the weights, which is able to conduct a smart grouping with high speed, low throughput, and high efficiency. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074199 | DOCUMENT SHARING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a document sharing method, system, and device. In the embodiments of the present invention, a document is partitioned by the compere client into at least one page for caching. The method includes: receiving a page notification message, where the page notification message includes an identifier value of the page, and the identifier value is digest information of the page obtained by the compere client by using a digest algorithm; judging, according to the identifier value, whether the page corresponding to the identifier value is already saved; and downloading the page corresponding to the identifier value when the page corresponding to the identifier value is not saved, or not downloading the page when the page corresponding to the identifier value is already saved, which can effectively save bandwidth. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074200 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITY IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system is described for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a plurality of data items. Each data item may be related to at least one other data item. The processor may receive a request to alert the user when an action is performed on a selected data item. The processor may also receive a relation threshold identifying at least one other data item related to the selected data item. The processor may detect the action being performed on the data item identified by the relation threshold. The processor may transform data describing the action into an alert. The alert may include the data describing the action, the data item, and a description of the relationship between the data items. The processor may provide the alert to the user via the device. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081783 | MEDIA SHARING TECHNIQUES - Improved techniques for media item sharing are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a classification module to assign a media item to a content category, a correlation module to determine context information for the media item, and an estimation module to determine a set of relevance values for a set of contacts based at least in part on a sharing history and to generate a set of suggested recipients for the media item based at least in part on the set of relevance values and the set of contacts. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081784 | INTEROPERABLE SOCIAL SERVICES - In a method for utilizing multiple social computing services of a user, a processor accesses a first networking service of a user and a second networking service of the user, wherein the first networking service includes a first group of contacts connected with the user and the second networking service includes a second group of contacts connected with the user. A processor retrieves the first group from the first networking service and the second group from the second networking service. A processor creates a set of contacts, wherein the set of contacts includes each contact of the first group of contacts with a corresponding link to information about that contact, and each contact of the second group of contacts with a corresponding link to information about that contact, and wherein a contact of the set of contacts has an associated relationship, established externally from either networking service, with the user. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081785 | DISTRIBUTED EVENTS IN AN ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - A method disclosed may include storing event data in a physical access control system originating from a first device of a plurality of security devices in a first data area of a memory. The method may include storing event data originating from devices other than the first device in a second data area. The method may include removing the event data from the first data area to prevent the first data area from occupying more than a first memory space and removing the event data from the second data area to prevent the second data area from occupying more than a second memory space. The method may include distributing the event data from the first data area to the other devices through a network interface. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081786 | EVENT NOTIFICATION - A technique for user notification involves receiving an event notification related to an event associated with user notification by a user; providing the event notification from a stored array to a process executed by a processor; using the event notification as a first title used for the process; providing a second title from the stored array to the process; and using the second title to identify the process to the user. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING IMAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for tagging images in a social network is provided. The method may include enabling a capture of an image associated with an online group discussion. The method may further include allowing an automatic tagging of the image associated with the online group discussion, the image including a visual representation of a first participant of the online group discussion. The method may also include providing the first participant with an option to indicate whether to approve distribution of the tagged image. The method may also include receiving an indication from the first participant whether to approve the distribution of the tagged image. When the indication from the first participant whether to approve the distribution of the tagged image indicates approval of the distribution, the method may further include distributing the tagged image, based at least in part on the indication of approval of distribution of the tagged image. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081788 | SERVER APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an example system, information about a browse action which is a predetermined operation performed, for a content posted by a user, by another user browsing the content, is stored. Next, the display manner for the content is determined based on the browse action information about the content. At this time, the display manner is determined so that the display manner becomes different from a display manner for a content in a normal state. Then, browse source data for displaying the content in the determined display manner is generated. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081789 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A transmission terminal includes: a memory to store, for each one of a plurality of candidate counterpart terminals that the transmission terminal is capable of communicating, address information indicating at least a location of the candidate counterpart terminal on a network; a user interface to receive a user input of address information of a counterpart terminal, and a communication start request that requests to start communication with the counterpart terminal; a processing circuitry to store the address information of the counterpart terminal received at the user interface in the memory, to register the counterpart terminal as a candidate counterpart terminal for the terminal; and a transmitter to send a request to start communication with the counterpart terminal using the address information of the counterpart terminal that is received at the user interface. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081790 | System and Method for Analyzing and Transmitting Social Communication Data - There is provided a system and method for transmitting social communication data across at least one social communication channel. The method is performed by a computing device for communicating social data, comprising: receiving a composed social data object; integrating at least one tracker object within the social data object; transmitting the social data object comprising said tracker object to at least one destination target; obtaining a response from said tracker object indicating target feedback, wherein the target feedback indicates at least one of: subsequent transmission of the social data object to additional destination targets and feedback parameters from at least one of: said at least one destination target and said additional destination targets. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081791 | PRIVATE PHOTO SHARING SYSTEM, METHOD AND NETWORK - The present invention is a photograph sharing process and/or system that allows professional photographers, who photograph weddings or other events where large numbers of photographs containing varying subject, to send photographs in which a subject or individual appears directly to that particular individual. Thus, the photographs are shared only with intended recipients and may be viewed essentially simultaneously or in close proximity to the photographed event | 03-19-2015 |
20150081792 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING CONTACT INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to communication technologies, and particularly, to a method, apparatus and system for maintaining contact information. The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for maintaining contact information, including: acquiring address book information of a user and authorization settings of the address book information of the user and saving the acquired in an address book server, receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device, and establishing, according to confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for a subscribed-for user and subscriber device and updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user in the address book server. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081793 | IDENTIFY EXPERTS AND INFLUENCERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - On embodiment accesses a set of information comprising one or more elements of information relating to a subject matter, wherein the one or more elements of information have been shared among one or more users of a social-networking system; for each element of information, determines a rate of sharing of the element of information among the one or more users and identifies one or more first users who cause the rate of sharing of the element of information to increase; and identifies one or more influencers associated with the subject matter from the one or more first users identified for each element of information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081794 | Publish/Subscribe Mashups For Social Networks - Described herein is a mashing technology that facilitates mashup creation over a plurality of publish/subscribe social network data stream. These mashing techniques that are tailored to managing content from disparate social networks. As described herein, these techniques include creating and using a set of operations that facilitate the creation of “mashups” over multiple publish/subscribe social network data streams. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081795 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, APPLICATION SYSTEM, AND IDENTIFICATION-INFORMATION ASSOCIATING METHOD - A management server issues a game link identifier associated with friend network identification information corresponding to an inviting game and sends the game link identifier to a terminal apparatus corresponding to the friend network identification information. In the terminal apparatus, the game link identifier is passed from the inviting game to an invited game, and the program of the invited game sends the passed game link identifier and identification information of an inviting user, corresponding to the invited game, to the management server. The management server searches already issued game link identifiers, and, when a game link identifier that matches the received game link identifier is found, associates friend network identification information corresponding to the invited game associated with the received game link identifier, with the friend network identification information corresponding to the inviting game associated with the issued game link identifier. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081796 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MEDIA STREAM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus and a system for transmitting a media stream. The method is executed by an access terminal, includes: establishing a real-time collaboration channel between the access terminal and a network computer; sending through a first VDI channel to the network computer an operation instruction input by a user; receiving a real-time collaboration message that is sent through the real-time collaboration channel by the network computer; performing, through the network computer, media negotiation with a communication device, so as to determine a media attribute parameter that is used to transmit a media stream between the access terminal and the communication device; and transmitting, by the access terminal, a media stream mutually with the communication device according to the media attribute parameter determined through the media negotiation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088988 | Social Queue on Television - Content such as a television program can be shared by pushing a content identifier to a queue through a social network. A share request from a sender can designate a recipient for the content. An implementation can determine if the sender and the recipient have permission to share the content. If permitted, an identifier associated with the content can be pushed to a viewing queue of the recipient. A user can subscribe to follow a viewing queue, which can provide to the user access to the queue's listing of content, as well as the content itself. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TEMPORARY SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system for generating temporary social networks on a communications network includes creating a temporary social network for a plurality of users based on one or more criteria using a program. The program is executable by a processor of a computer. The temporary social network is accessible using a communications network. Contacts are searched in a user contact list based on the criteria. The contacts are joined to the temporary social network. The temporary social network is removed according to a policy. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088990 | Cache Refreshing for Online Social Newsfeeds - Software for an online social service receives a request for a newsfeed from a user. The newsfeed depends at least in part on a memory-cached list of social friends of the user and on a memory-cached list of events associated with each social friend. The software refreshes a memory-cached copy of the list of social friends from a corresponding list in a persistent data store, based upon a determination of a utility associated with the user. And the software refreshes a memory-cached copy of a list of events associated with a social friend from a corresponding list of events in a persistent data store, based upon a determination of a utility associated with the social friend. Then the software causes the newsfeed to be displayed to the user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088991 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a control apparatus that collects data included in each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses or the control apparatus determines a first number of first information processing apparatuses that compress the data or a second number of second information processing apparatuses that do not compress the data, the first information processing apparatuses and the second information processing apparatuses being included in the plurality of information processing apparatuses, based on a parameter involved in decompression processing by the control apparatus. The first number of first information processing apparatuses compress the data and transmit compressed data to the control apparatus, and the second number of second information processing apparatuses transmit non-compressed data to the control apparatus without compressing the data. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088992 | CONTROLLING PEER SOJOURN TIME IN FILE SHARING SYSTEMS - A method for controlling the average time a peer spends in a swarm of peers in a file sharing system includes first establishing an autonomous mode of operation in the swarm of peers. In the autonomous mode, peers communicate only with other peers in their swarm in order to gain access to pieces of a desired file. If the swarm size meets a threshold size, then the file sharing system switches to a universal mode. In a universal mode, peers from one swarm are permitted to exchange desired file pieces with other peers in other swarms. If the desired file pieces held by peers within a swarm meets a threshold number, then the file sharing system transitions back to the autonomous mode of operation. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING PUBLISHED CONTENT ON THE INTERNET - Disclosed is a method for processing content published on-line so as to identify each item in a unique manner. In some implementations, an RSS feed is received from a publisher and unique identifier is identified for each item in the feed. Each item then has third party content or advertisements associated with the item based on the unique identifier. The feed is then stored and, when appropriate, updated. The augmented feed, which contains the third party content and the items in the feed, is provided to user devices. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088994 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, SERVER, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SERVER - A method of operating an image display apparatus includes receiving image contents, performing a social network service (SNS) according to the image contents, receiving a reference time set according to information corresponding to an image contents reproduction time of a plurality of image display apparatuses interworking with the SNS, and displaying the image contents according to the reference time. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CONTENTS USING INFORMATION OF GROUP CHANGE IN CONTENT ORIENTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Provided are a method and apparatus for sharing content, using information regarding a group change in a content oriented network environment. In a case where a group to which a target user equipment belongs is changed from a first group to a second group, the target user equipment may transmit, to a first group member management device, the information regarding the group change. The first group member management device may update information about a group to which the target user equipment currently belongs, based on the information regarding the group change. In response to a receiving of a content request from a requesting user equipment, the first group member management device may transfer the content request to the target user equipment. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION OF COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN REAL-TIME NETWORK PARTICIPANTS - The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095414 | Event Scene Identification in Group Event - There are provided measures for enabling event scene identification in a group event, in particular in a content storing and sharing service with a central storage. Such measures could exemplarily comprise tracking a rate of submissions for a group event from one or more agent devices of participants in the group event to a central storage, the submission from an agent device including content data relating to an event scene in the group event, detecting a time period of the event scene in the group event on the basis of the tracked rate of submissions for the group event, and detecting the location of the event scene in the group event on the basis of meta data for the content data of the submissions, said meta data relating at least to a location of the event scene in the group event. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SAMPLING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - A representative sample of an online social network is formed by performing a deterministic process that coalesces to indicate success. A random value is selected for seeding the process. Based on the random value, the process is executed and once the process coalesces, a proper sampling of the online social network results. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095416 | TECHNIQUES FOR EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITH DEVICE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION FOR DEVICES IN PROXIMITY - Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for generating multimedia content based on received information, determining whether one or more devices are within a defined distance of the apparatus based on information received from the one or more devices and embedding device identification information for the one or more devices determined to be within the defined distance of the apparatus in the multimedia content. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095417 | Generating a Multi-Dimensional Social Network Identifier - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for generating a multi-dimensional social network identifier are provided herein. A method includes capturing one or more items of web information pertaining to past activity associated with a given individual; determining one or more user metrics associated with the given individual based on the one or more items of web information; quantifying a measure of similarity of the one or more user metrics associated with the given individual and the one or more user metrics associated with one or more additional individuals; and generating an identifier for the given individual based on the measure of similarity, and wherein said identifier differs from identification information attributable to the given individual on a social network. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095418 | FACILITATING CONTENT MANAGEMENT BASED ON PROFILES OF MEMBERS IN AN ENVIRONMENT - Concurrent provisioning of preferences for members of an environment is facilitated. A method identifies a characteristic of an environment, wherein the characteristic is based on profile information associated with entities in the environment. The method also determines control information associated with providing preferences associated with the characteristic. In another case, an apparatus stores first profile information for a first entity, wherein the first profile information is configured to be evaluated, along with second profile information associated with a second entity, by a receiving device in an environment. In another case, an apparatus retrieves, from a device in an environment, profile information associated with entities in the environment. The apparatus can determine support care based on the profile information. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME SHARING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT BETWEEN WIRELESS DEVICES - The disclosure relates to sharing real-time multimedia content. The method may include identifying an application for sharing by a first device, discovering one or more second devices by the first device, independent of a technology or a platform of the devices, applying communication protocols and creating an association between the first device and the one or more second devices, and determining multimedia capabilities of the one or more second devices. Furthermore, such an example method may include selecting at least a portion of the screen of a first device for sharing based at least on the determined multimedia capabilities of the second devices, computing application associated performance parameters based at least on a type of content and transmitting the selected portion of the screen of the first device to the one or more second devices over the wireless connection. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY SECURE MEDIA STREAMS TO CONFERENCE WATCHERS IN SIP MESSAGING - System and method to send security status notifications within a SIP conference. A SIP conference server receives a from a SIP conference client a request for a SIP NOTIFY message, creates a SIP NOTIFY message including information about security status of a conference resource, and sends the SIP NOTIFY message to all SIP conference subscribers. Subscribers parse the NOTIFY message to find and save security status about individual links or the entire conference. The NOTIFY message may be sent in response to a SUBSCRIBE message or other client request. The security status may include a binary indicator and/or a security protocol. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095421 | MOBILE DEVICE SHARING FACILITATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FEATURING A RECIPIENT-SELECTIVE DEFAULT ADDRESS DETERMINATION - Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095422 | SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A server is provided with: a group management section that manages an account of a group for information sharing and a user belonging to the group; a group account generating section that generates, when there is no group account corresponding to a destination of a message received from a user terminal, a group account corresponding thereto; a user registration section that registers a transmitter of the message as a user belonging to a group corresponding to the destination of the message; and a sharing section that causes data transmitted from a terminal of the user belonging to the group to be shared by users belonging to a specified group. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095423 | COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR DISTRIBUTING COMPUTATIONAL LOAD - A method for distributing load among interconnected computing devices, each computing device having a designated position in each dimension of an array of designated positions, the method comprising, individually, at one or more computing devices per position in a series of positions in one dimension of n-dimensions, in which one dimension and one direction is assigned as a load transfer direction, executing a process including: obtaining an indication of current capacity for additional load at each member of a group of computing devices from among the computing devices; transferring load from the executing computing device to a member of the group at which it is indicated that there is capacity for additional load; where membership of the group is restricted to a computing device on the load transfer direction side of the executing computing device in the one dimension. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095424 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - An information acquisition method whereby a management computer provided with a processor, a memory, and an interface acquires information of a plurality of computers via a network, the method including: a first step in which the management computer sets, in acquisition group information, a group of computers for acquiring information among the plurality of computers; a second step in which the management computer determines a sequence in which information is acquired for each group, then determines the sequence of computers for acquiring information in the group; a third step in which the management computer outputs an instruction for acquiring information of computers in the determined sequence; and a fourth step in which an information acquisition execution unit acquires the information of the computers of each group in the determined sequence on the basis of the instruction to acquire the information. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING AND EXCHANGE OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A method and system for the sharing of information between individuals, including, for example, information regarding digital content utilized by users of the system. In one embodiment, a system includes, for example, a first device, a second device, and a network. The first device is configured to record digital content utilized by a first user on the first device. The second device is configured to record digital content utilized by a second user on the second device. The network is configured for two-way communications between the first device and the second device, the communications including records that indicate at least a portion of the digital content utilized by the other of the first user and the second user | 04-02-2015 |
20150095426 | SERVER, TERMINAL MANAGEMENT METHOD, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a terminal managing unit, wherein the transmitting unit transmits, to the subject terminal, information for causing the subject terminal to display thereon a first use condition and information for causing the subject terminal to display thereon an acceptance object for accepting a first input indicating a user's consent to the first use condition, and in a case where the receiving unit receives, from the subject terminal, information indicating acceptance of the first input, the terminal managing unit performs a first registration of the subject terminal. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095427 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER OF A CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE - A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring digital content from a computing cloud to a computing device and generating recommendations for the user of the computing device. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095428 | DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS INTEGRATED WITH COMMUNITY NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer program product that enables an individual to efficiently create dynamic communication networks (DCN) to communicate with members that have particular interests and experience, according to a network contact profile. A utility enables spontaneous creation of a dynamic network defined by: (a) location of members; (b) particular affiliation of members; (c) experience of members; (d) authenticated credentials; and/or (e) other characteristics. The utility enables creation of a network contact profile or imports existing profile information from a particular social networking application to the system. The system allows individuals to create a network that may comprise members identified by various network affiliations, enabling cross platform communication. The system uses a target communication mechanism to enable a user to initiate a communication with a particular individual or a group of individuals. The system employs dynamic and intelligent GPS/LPS to provide directions between individuals in an established network. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100632 | VOICE-DRIVEN SOCIAL MEDIA - A method for facilitating social media interactions is disclosed. The method comprises: allowing a user to record an audio clip as a primary step; and allowing the user to post said audio clip to a voice portal; and organizing the audio clips posted by the user on a profile page associated with the user on the voice portal so that each audio clip forms a center for social interaction subsequent social media interactions. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100633 | MODULAR IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT ARCHITECTURE WITH UPGRADEABLE MULTIMEDIA MODULE - Systems and methods for providing a modular in-vehicle infotainment architecture with an upgradeable multimedia module are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving data signals at a multimedia module via a vehicle subsystem connection from one or more vehicle subsystems of a vehicle; processing the data signals on the multimedia module, by use of a data processor, to produce modified data signals, at least a portion of the modified data signals including data signals associated with an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system in the vehicle; transferring the modified data signals from the multimedia module to a mobile device via a mobile device interface; and causing the mobile device to render an information display on a user interface on the mobile device, the information display including information indicative of the modified data signals. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100634 | REAL-TIME TRANSPORT PROTOCOL (RTP) SOURCE TRANSLATOR - A translation device includes a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive packets from a first party designated for a second party, the received packets including parameters associated with the first party. The processor is configured to translate the parameters of the received packets to form translated packets such that the parameters of the translated packets are associated with the device. The transmitter is configured to transmit the translated packets to the second party. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100635 | FILE TRANSFERS FOR VIRTUAL CONFERENCES - In an example embodiment, a virtual conference is established with a server and a plurality of endpoint devices. One endpoint device, acting as a sender, may transfer a file to N other endpoint devices, acting as receivers. The sender divides the file in at least N segments and delivers one segment to each receiver. Receivers then request the next desired segment from one or more devices containing that segment. If | 04-09-2015 |
20150100636 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTENTS AND USER'S INTERACTIONS AMONG MULTIPLE DEVICES - A method for transmitting contents and user's interactions among multiple devices is provided. The method includes determining a group of object devices including a portion of the plurality of object devices, transmitting the data to the object devices of the determined group, receiving confirmation information from the object device which completes receiving of the data, among the object devices of the determined group, determining a clone device based on the received confirmation information. The transmitted clone information is used to transmit the data from the determined clone device to at least one object device which is not included in the object devices of the determined group among the plurality of object devices. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100637 | IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE PEER DEVICES IN A PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods for facilitating peer-to-peer communication are disclosed. A payor and a payee may establish a communication request with intent to execute a transaction in a P2P payment. The payee and the payor may transmit a first request and a second request respectively to an intermediary server to establish the communication. Based on the first request and the second request, the intermediary server sends one or more identification elements to the payee and payor. The payee and payor are identified at intermediary server as parties for P2P payment after an augmented reality (AR) experience and a resultant synchronized action that sends first trigger request and second trigger request from the respective devices. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100638 | ON-LINE CLOUD PLATFORM FOR LIFE LEGACY BUILDING - The present invention is a cloud-based, personal productivity and life enhancement tool comprising a central server connected to the internet for containing at least one personal productivity and life enhancement modules, wherein the central server is connected to a searchable information database store for privately keeping user information generated from the at least one personal productivity and life enhancement modules, and at least one user interface for accessing the personal productivity and life enhancement modules and searchable information database store. The preferred personal productivity and life enhancement modules comprise a daily life log module, an illumination module, a vision module, an achievement module, and a revelation module. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100639 | METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING A COMMUNICATIONS SESSION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS - The invention relates to a method of initializing a communications session between a plurality of terminals. According to the invention, the initialization method is adapted, as a function of capacity data for at least one terminal, to determine a set of at least one stream transmission channel to be set up between entities of a group of entities comprising said terminals, each channel being for setting up between a first entity and a second entity of the group either directly, or indirectly via at least one third entity of said group, and to transmit at least one entity identifier to at least one first entity of the group in order to set up at least one channel of the set. The invention also relates to a method of accessing a communications session, the method being adapted to receive at least one identifier of at least one entity with which at least one channel is to be set up and to set up at least one channel with at least one entity for which said at least one identifier has been received. The invention also relates to a server (S) and to a terminal (TA) respectively for performing the initialization method and the method of accessing a communications session. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100640 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR PIPELINE PROCESSING - Methods, servers and systems for communicating signaling information in a telecommunications signaling network implement methods that include receiving a first message encoding signaling information from a source component and processing the message using a fixed pipeline having a plurality of modules, each module having at least one procedure for performing a specific set of tasks. Application level routing operations may be performed to identify a suitable destination component. Information contained in the first message may be used to generate a second message encoding signaling information, which is sent to the identified destination component. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100641 | Communications Method, Apparatus and System for Mobile Devices - The invention discloses a communication method, apparatus and system for mobile devices, which pertains to the field of communication. The method comprises: obtaining additional instruction information that corresponds to a first user operation during communication by sensing the first user operation; the first user operation comprises at least one of a voice-activated operation or a one-step operation on a first mobile device; and transmitting the additional instruction information to a second mobile device, so that the second mobile device recognizes the additional instruction information to further notify a second user of the second mobile device of the first user operation. The apparatus comprises an acquisition module and a transmitting module. The system includes a first mobile device and a second mobile device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100642 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STREAMING SERVICE IN A DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A client device for receiving digital media data and a method thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting, to at least one neighboring client device, a join request message for receiving the digital media data; receiving, from at least one neighboring client device, a partnership request message for granting transmission of the digital media data; transmitting, to the at least one neighboring client device transmitting the partnership request message, a data request message for requesting transmission of the digital media data; and receiving, from the at least one neighboring client device transmitting the partnership request message, the digital media data, wherein the digital media data is based on a transport format predefined between the client device and the at least one neighboring client device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100643 | User Activity Tracking System - In one embodiment, sensor signals corresponding to motions of a client computing device are received. The sensor signals are associated with activity periods, each activity period also being associated with a geographic location of the client computing device. For each activity period, one or more activity types are determined for the client computing device based on the sensor signals for the activity period and one or more signal parameters. A reference of the activity type and activity period is sent to the client computing device, and an indication is received regarding whether that reference is correct. The signal parameters may be adjusted based on the received indication. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106443 | AUTOMATED MOBILE POSITIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system, and apparatus for sharing locations and/or activities of a user participating in a social networking service. User information about a destination is received and automatically associated with the destination. The user information is automatically shared in the social networking service upon further user arrivals at the destination prior to receiving any additional user information. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106444 | GENERATING PLAYLISTS FOR A CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM BASED ON USER ACTIONS - A user of a content sharing platform is identified a playlist is generated for the user. The playlist is generated based on one or more of the user's social interactions with other entities and the user's actions associated with other media items. The playlist may be modified or deleted if the user does not access the playlist or does not consume media items from the playlist within a threshold period of time. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106445 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A PUSH NOTIFICATION USING A DISPLAY DEVICE, AND THE DISPLAY DEVICE - In a method for displaying a notification, a display device receives a push notification associated with an application program through a communication network, and a visual media signal from an external computing device. The display device subsequently generates a to-be-displayed message based on the push notification, and a visual media based on the visual media signal. Then, the display device displays at least one of the visual media and the to-be-displayed message on a display screen of the display device. In cases that the display device is connected to the external computing device, the display device displays the visual media and the to-be-displayed message simultaneously on the display screen. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106446 | SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WITH GAMIFICATION OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT - Social media platforms with gamification of user-generated content, wherein users upload content that other users rate, and a winner is declared based on the ratings. In one embodiment, each user can post only once per day. In one embodiment, a random user is invited each day to create a post for display on the main landing page or “Spotlight” page to the entire community, while the remaining posts are in the “Backstage” area. In some embodiments, users are rewarded with cash or other prizes or rewards as an incentive for posting quality content. In one embodiment, the user who accumulates the most “likes” at the end of each calendar month is deemed the winner for that month. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106447 | Modular system and method for communicating information between different protocols on a control network - In a BACnet Internetwork, a modular concept is implemented to permit interchangeable protocol conversion between a host protocol like logic-level BACnet MS/TP and another protocol or function by providing pluggable communications modules that avoid tedious software configuration. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106448 | AUTOMATED MOBILE POSITIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system automatically determines a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The location activities can be presented to the community using pictograms selected to represent user activities. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106449 | AUTOMATED MOBILE POSITIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system automatically determines a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The location activities can be presented to the community using pictograms selected to represent user activities. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106450 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106451 | INTERNET RADIO AND BROADCAST METHOD PERSONALIZED BY DJ - Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis. | 04-16-2015 |
20150113056 | IDENTIFYING TARGET CUSTOMERS TO STEM THE FLOW OF NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN - A system and method for stemming flow of information from a negative campaign are described. A status for each node of a set of preselected nodes in a social network graph is identified. The status indicates whether a node has been infected with information from a negative campaign. A source and a flow of the negative campaign are identified based on the status of the nodes from the set of preselected nodes and a topology of the social network graph. A susceptibility score is computed for one or more nodes of the social network. The susceptibility score is computed using a measure of vulnerability of nodes that have not received the information based on the flow of the negative campaign, and a measure of reachability of nodes from the source. Nodes susceptible to adopting and spreading the information from the negative campaign are identified based on the susceptibility score. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS REAL TIME PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT - Disclosed herein is a system and method of real time data input, aggregation, correlation, interpretation, and dissemination that allows for anonymous participant input while interpreting and disseminating the data in real time to a client based on encrypted characteristics of the participants that makes the data relevant immediately upon its dissemination. The results are disseminated through a communication network with the client. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113058 | DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF A SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT - A system is configured to receive, from a first client device, a request to join a social media environment in which a second client device is participating; provide, to the first client device, information regarding media content associated with the social media environment and a number of playback positions from which to begin playback of the media content; receive, from the first client device, information selecting a playback position for the media content; provide, to the first client device, the media content via the social media environment beginning at the selected playback position; monitor interactions with the social media environment by the first client device and the second client device; detect a change of state for the social media environment; and provide, to the second client device, information associated with the change of state for the social media environment. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113059 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS USING SOCIAL LINKS - Mechanisms are described for identifying objects based on a social context of the object. In other words, objects, such as devices, systems, and physical objects that are configured to communicate data on a network, that are accessible to a user may be identified via the user's social links. In particular, a social link associated with a user of a device may be accessed, and an object may be identified using the social link, where the object is connected to a network. Presentation of an indication of the object, such as a marker, an identifier, a hyperlink, etc., may be provided for using the display of the user's device. In this way, a user may be able to see, and in some cases use or manipulate, objects that are owned by parties with whom the user has a social connection and to which the party has granted the user certain permissions. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113060 | NODE PROPERTIES IN A SOCIAL-NETWORKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, one or more server computing devices receive, from a client computing device, a request for first information associated with a first node of a graph. The one or more server computing devices determine whether the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes. A cluster of nodes includes one or more concept nodes of the graph that are related to each other. When the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes, the one or more server computing devices access the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, obtain second information from one or more of the nodes in the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, and provide the second information for rendering by the client computing device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113061 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONNECTION METHOD - A user causes a portable device (information processing device) to approach one PC (communication apparatus), and the PC transfers to the portable device by means of NFC unique connection information, such as a password, required for communication connection. Also, the user causes the portable device which has obtained the connection information to approach another PC. The portable device transfers connection information unique to the one PC to another PC by means of NFC. Another PC uses the obtained connection information to execute communication connection with the one PC. Thus, connection information required for communication connection is transferred among a plurality of PCs so as to easily execute communication connection among the plurality of PCs. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113062 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes initiating communication at an electronic device, providing first information associated with the communication, and providing second information associated with the communication, the second information being provided in a mode that is different from a mode in which the first information is provided. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113063 | DETERMINING USER PERCEIVED DELAYS IN VOICE CONFERENCING SYSTEMS AND VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEMS - The determination of user perceived delay in audio and video conferencing systems/services is described. Example embodiments consistent with the present invention measure delays in audio and/or video conferencing systems and services, by treating such systems and services as black boxes, thereby providing end-to-end delays as they would be perceived by users. For example, the user perceived round-trip delay in a video conference system/service may include time delays from each of video capture, video encoding, video transmission, video decoding and video rendering. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113064 | Network Information Push Method and System Thereof, and Computer Storage Medium - Network information push is described. The described techniques include: obtaining friend information of a user according to user identity of the user, and determining whether any friends of the user have interactions with a corresponding network service; and if yes, pushing to the user information about the network service and information about the interactions occurred between the user's friends and the network service. With the method and system of the present disclosure, information about the network services and information about the interactions occurred between the user's friends and the network service are pushed initiatively to the user without the need to collect information by the user, which is more convenient and efficient. Further, since the interaction information is obtained according to the friend information of the user, it may have higher correlation with the user, and thus improve the accuracy of information push. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113065 | Contiguous Location-Based User Networks - Contiguous location based user networks are disclosed herein. A method includes receiving an identification of an area of interest associated with a user of, and transmitting the identification of the area of interest to a server. The method includes determining a location of the user device and transmitting the location to the server. The method includes receiving information identifying a proximity group comprising the user and a plurality of other users. The proximity group includes least one other user being within a proximate area of the location of the user device and having an area of interest corresponding to the area of interest of the user. The proximate area corresponds to a second geographic region smaller than the area of interest. The proximity group further comprising at least one additional other user identified as a neighbor of each of the user and the at least one other user. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113066 | STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM - A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113067 | METHOD OF FACILITATING CONTACT BETWEEN MUTUALLY INTERESTED PEOPLE - An improved method of facilitating contact between mutually interested people takes advantage of existing contact lists such as those on social networking sites, instant messaging programs, or cell phones. A program is integrated into one or more of those technologies, allowing the user to characterize each contact on the basis of the user's level of interest in that contact as a date. The program keeps these rankings secret until two users indicate an interest in each other that surpasses a certain threshold. The users are then notified of the mutual interest. Ads and dating advice are sent along with the notification. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120825 | SEQUENTIAL SEGREGATED SYNCHRONIZED TRANSCRIPTION AND TEXTUAL INTERACTION SPATIAL ORIENTATION WITH TALK-OVER - Disclosed is a system and method for sequential segregated synchronized transcript for a multi-party conference. Multiple transcriptions, or their textual streams, are utilized to build segregated, time oriented user interfaces. Horizontally overlapping segments may reflect talk-over of two or more conference participants talking at the same time. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120826 | NODE CONTROL IN A DISTRIBUTED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for improved node control in a distributed peer-to-peer network. The invention provides a framework component which automatically converts and conditions incoming data from other nodes, regardless of their type. The data is converted from a network compatible format to an application compatible format based upon stored data type definitions. The data is further conditioned based on stored data property rules. Thus, once the data reaches the application, it is already properly formatted. The application component which runs on the device hardware is greatly simplified through the use of this framework component. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120827 | Systems and computer program products and methods and media for operating a scalable, private practice tele-consultation service - A scalable social network consultation communication system for teleconsultation private practice includes a social network, a social network processing system, video conferencing equipment coupled to the social network to allow a consultation requestor to communicate with a predetermined advisor, a store and forward infrastructure to receive a consultation request from a consultation requestor, wherein the consultation requestor selects and passes a consultation request to a predetermined advisor on the social network, and wherein the advisor resolves and returns the consultation resolution of the consultation request to the consultation requestor. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120828 | RECALLING ACTIVITIES DURING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for quality of experience for media transmissions. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a communication session including a plurality of participants. The method may also include identifying an application activity by a first participant of the communication session. The application activity may be generally contemporaneous with the communication session. The method may also include associating a relevance level with the application activity and the communication session. The method may also include identifying a location associated with the application activity. The method may further include storing an association between the communication session, the application activity, the relevance, and the location. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120829 | CONTEXT BASED COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT - Methods and computer-readable media for providing a recommendation and for rerouting calls are disclosed. For example, a method detects updated status information regarding a contact of a user and determines whether the updated status information signifies an event of interest. When the updated information is determined to signify an event of interest, the method provides to a device of the user a recommendation that the user should communicate with the contact. The recommendation includes an indication of the event of interest. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120830 | Distributed Audio Mixing and Forwarding - A scalable media conferencing system minimizes delay while maintaining a consistent session across all of the distributed media servers handling the conference session. Each of the media servers sends a list of the local top streams and their importance. A global list of top streams is created and disseminated to all of the media servers. Each of the media servers then forwards any local stream that is on the list of global top streams to all of the other media servers. Once a media server receives all of the streams on the list of global top streams, it locally mixes the streams together and outputs the mixed stream to the endpoints that are locally connected to that media server. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120831 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a receiver, an association unit, and a controller. The receiver receives an instruction to associate one first device from among multiple first devices that display a board as well as stickies pasted onto that board with a second device that creates a sticky. The association unit associates the first device and the second device according to an instruction received by the receiver. The controller controls transmission of information related to a board and stickies pasted onto that board in the first device associated by the association unit to the second device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120832 | HOLD ANNOUNCEMENT CONFIGURATION - A method and apparatus for managing a HOLD announcement in a communication network. At an Application Server, AS, a message is received from a user terminal, the message comprises of an indicator, specifying whether the AS should provide a HOLD announcement in the event of a change in direction of a media stream between the user terminal and a further node during a session. The AS stores the indicator in a memory. Upon determination that a change in direction of the media stream has occurred, the AS determines, from the indicator, whether or not to provide the HOLD announcement to the further node. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120833 | OPTIMIZATION OF PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DELIVERY SERVICE - A method and apparatus are described for providing a dynamic cache function in a network or cloud. A content cache server (CCS) and a lightweight CCS with a dynamic cache function may be deployed in the network or cloud. A tracker may be used to place dynamic cache peers in a peer list, and transmit the peer list to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The peer list may include a single peer that is a dynamic cache peer allocated by the tracker to the WTRU, or at least two dynamic cache peers, with one additional “weight” parameter for each dynamic cache peer. The WTRU may connect to the dynamic cache peer with the largest “weight” parameter, and connect to a different dynamic cache peer in the peer list on a condition that the WTRU gets disconnected or gets bad service from the dynamic cache peer with the largest “weight” parameter. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120834 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME COLLABORATION ON A CANVAS - A method and a system for managing collaborative authoring on a canvas are provided. The method includes receiving a request to collaborate on a canvas from a user, determining whether one or more viewports from a plurality of viewports are overlapping or are in vicinity to a viewport associated with the user by a client device and automatically sending a request to a collaboration server to lock at least one object in the viewport if the one or more viewports are overlapping or are in vicinity to the viewport. The method further includes denying a request from a second user to collaborate on the at least one object in the canvas. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120835 | OFFLINE PROMPTS OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK MENTIONS - A system, method and apparatus for creating scripts to provide offline prompts in a social networking application operating on a client device are provided. History data for a user of the social networking application is received at a server. A script is created by the server based on the history data for the at least one user. The script, when executed by a client device remote from the server and operated by the user, provides a prioritized list of user identifiers on the social networking application. The script is sent by the server to the client device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120836 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MIND MAP-TYPE ONLINE COMMUNITY SERVICE - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus for providing a mind map-type online community service, capable of maintaining the “theme-wise” direction of conversations by forming nodes in a shape with a protrusion in response to content being created by a user. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120837 | Method for Presenting Schedule Reminder Information, Terminal Device, and Cloud Server - A method, a terminal device, and a cloud server are provided for presenting schedule reminder information. The method includes after a second terminal logs in to the cloud server by using a first group account, acquiring schedule information stored in the cloud server, where the schedule information is information that is created by a first user who registers a first personal account, and is transmitted to the cloud server by a first terminal that logs in, by using the first personal account, to the cloud server; when reminder time of the schedule information arrives, acquiring second biometric characteristic information of a second user who is using the second terminal; and when it is determined that the second biometric characteristic information is the same as first biometric characteristic information of the first user, presenting reminder information of the schedule information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120838 | Method for Pairing a Computer with a Video Conference Device - A method includes generating a random identification token on a computer that identifies the computer; modulating the identification token to an audio signal on the computer; causing, with the computer, a speaker to emit the audio signal receiving, at video conference device, the audio signal with a microphone associated with the video conference device; demodulating the audio signal to the identification token in the video conference device; sending at least the identification token and a unique identifier of the video conference device to the computer; and establishing a communication session through a communication network, that both the computer and video conference device are communicatively connected to, from the computer to the video conference device enabling control of, and data transfer to, the video conference device from the computer. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127727 | Media Plug-In for Third-Party System - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to display a media plug-in on a third-party website hosted by a third-party system, determining media content associated with the request to display the media plug-in, and determining whether the third-party website is being viewed by a user that is currently logged in to the social-networking system. The method further includes determining one or more user-selectable objects based at least on the determined media content and the determination of whether the user is currently logged in to the social-networking system and providing the determined one or more user-selectable objects for display in the media plug-in on the third-party website. The third-party system is separate from the social-networking system. The user-selectable objects, once selected, cause an action related to the determined media content. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127728 | Lifestyle-Based Social Groups - Techniques for lifestyle-based social groups are described. A user device can learn movement patterns of the user device. Based on the movement pattern, and a user activity history, a computer system can determine a lifestyle of a user, or a meaning of a location. The system can create a social group based on the lifestyle and the meaning of location. The system can designate the lifestyle or meaning as a theme of the social group. The social group can be an ad hoc social network. For example, the social group can be created without an explicit user request, can be anonymous, and can be lifestyle and location based. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127729 | INTER-SITE INTEGRATION PLATFORM FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - A method, system, and computer program product for data mining and analytics from social networking sites. One method commences upon receiving a social event from a first social networking site, classifying the social event to determine a social site action, and modifying at least some aspect of the social event to create a modified social event based at least in part on the classification. The modified social event is broadcasted to additional social networking sites. An incoming social event may be subjected to security processing before classification, and social networking sites to receive a broadcasted message may be determined based at least in part on the classification. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127730 | System and Method for Vehicle Alerts, Notifications and Messaging Communications - A method, system, a computer program product, and mobile device application product that uses vehicle license plate information (license plate State, Number, and/or other information) and user location information (IP address, Mobile GPS, etc.) to send real-time alerts, notifications, or messages to individual users, organizations, external systems, and/or any other entity and/or third party systems. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127731 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - The system according to an embodiment of the present invention may more appropriately provide recommendation information of contents based on use status of the contents by a plurality of users. The system includes a service provision control unit for controlling provision of services, an information storage unit for storing information, a recommended content selection unit for selecting recommended games based on closeness information between the users and use degree information by the users for each game, a recommended content information sending unit for sending content recommendation information including information specifying recommended games, a recommended user selection unit for selecting recommended users based on the use degree information, a recommended user information sending unit for user recommendation information including information specifying the recommended users, and a relationship request information sending unit for sending relationship request information in response to a request for setting a friend with the recommended users. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127732 | Shared Presenting Method and System - The present invention provides a shared presenting method and system, in said shared presenting method: an initiator sets up a shared presentation room and sends invitation information of said shared presentation room via a network; a receiver that receives said invitation information joins in said shared presentation room through establishing a network connection; said initiator sends a presenting file and a playing control instruction for said presenting file to said receiver that has joined in said shared presentation room; said receiver receives said presenting file and said playing control instruction, and locally executes a playing control operation to said presenting file in accordance with said playing control instruction. Said mobile device comprises said shared presenting system. The shared presenting method and system provided by the present invention can present a presentation file among a plurality of mobile devices simultaneously. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127733 | CONTEXT-AWARE PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems are disclosed for determining context information for one or more peers to be used in a peer discovery and/or peer association process(es) and/or to otherwise facilitate P2P proximity communications. For example, a method for determining peer context information may include receiving a context-aware identifier (CAID). The CAID may include one or more items of context information associated with the peer in addition to an indication of an identity of the peer. A first portion of the CAID may be decoded to determine a first item of context information associated with the peer. The first portion of the CAID may be decodable without having to process a payload portion of the message. It may be determined whether to continue processing one or more of the CAID or the message based on the first item of context information. The CAID may be used in discovery and/or association procedure(s). | 05-07-2015 |
20150127734 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE - There is provided an information processing device including a score calculation unit that calculates, for one or more events for which a plan is set by one or more of users in a user group composed of the plurality of users capable of sharing information by satisfying a predetermined condition and for which the information is capable of being shared in the user group, a score on a predetermined calculation basis using event information which is information related to the events. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127735 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127736 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED RULES PROCESSING - The invention provides in some aspects a distributed rules processing system that includes a first and second digital data processors that are coupled to one another by one or more networks. A rules base and a transactional data base are each coupled to one of the digital data processors; both may be coupled to the same digital data processor or otherwise. One or more coordination modules (e.g., “proxies”), each of which is associated with a respective one of the digital data processors, makes available to a selected one of those digital data processors from the other of those digital data processors (i) one or more selected rules from the rules base, and/or (ii) one or more data from the transactional database on which those rules are to be executed. The selected digital data processor executes one or more of the selected rules as a rules engine, executes one or more of the selected rules using a rules engine, and/or processes one or more data from the transactional database with rules executing on a rules engine. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127737 | SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING BASED ON PHYSIOLOGIC INFORMATION - A method comprising receiving physiologic information at a social-networking system from a body-associated personal communicator is disclosed. A social-networking system configured to receive physiological information from a body-associated personal communicator and a body-associated personal communicator configured to receive physiologic information and communicate the physiologic information to a social-networking system also are disclosed. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127738 | BIO-LANGUAGE BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method comprising defining a bio-language, establishing a bio-language based metric for an event, and transmitting a bio-language based communication based at least in part on the metric is disclosed. A system and a body-associated personal communicator configured to define a bio-language, establish a bio-language based metric for an event, and transmit a bio-language based communication based at least in part on the metric, also are disclosed. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127739 | TARGETED ELECTRONIC AND NETWORKED CONTENT DELIVERY - Disclosed are various embodiments for a content module to identify targeted content to a user based on the user's prior interactions with a content providing entity over multiple forms of communication. Information about the user's interaction over the multiple forms of communication, such as, for example, duration of interaction and frequency of interaction, is received by the content module. The content module executes a set of content identification rules to identify the targeted content using the received information about the user's prior interactions. The identified targeted content is provided to the user's device for display on a user interface. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127740 | Systems and Methods of Social Networking - A method, device, system or article of manufacture is provided for social networking. In one embodiment, a method comprises hosting, by a master server, a plurality of client devices for a conference event, wherein each of the plurality of client devices is associated with a member of a community, wherein the master server is associated with a first computer program running on a first computer hardware system; identifying that a capacity of the master server is not sufficient to host the conference event; initiating, in response to identifying that the capacity of the master server is not sufficient for hosting the conference event, a secondary server, wherein the secondary server is associated with a second computer program running on a second computer hardware system; and assigning a portion of the plurality of client devices to the secondary server. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127741 | Promoting Communicant Interactions In A Network Communications Environment - In a network communication environment in which communicants operating from respective client network nodes connect to different server applications, communicants who are related to a target communicant are ascertained, statuses of the related communicants with respect to the different server applications are determined, and indications of the related communicants and the determined statuses of the related communicants are transmitted to the target communicant. Graphical representations of the related communicants and graphical indications of the statuses of the related communicants with respect to connections to the different server applications may be displayed on a display. A contact list including a respective graphical representation of each of one or more of the communicants also may be displayed in association with visual cues representing the ascertained types of current interaction activities respectively engaged in by the one or more communicants. A single universal user identifier may be used to identify each communicant. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127742 | BROKER DESIGNATION AND SELECTION IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Approaches for designating and/or selecting broker systems in a publication-subscription (pub-sub) messaging environment are provided. In one approach, a subscriber system may be designated as a broker system based on a capability of the subscriber system to function as a broker system for its peers. In another approach, a broker system may be selected from among a plurality of broker systems based upon a cache directory that identifies the content/messages that each broker system may have cached. If a particular broker system has previously cached content that is at least similar to an intended message, that particular broker system may be selected for distributing the intended message to a set of subscriber systems. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127743 | PROCESSING DATA AND OPERATING A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Processing data in a communications system comprising a plurality of servers is provided. First data received from a communications device is directed to a given server in the plurality of servers. A server identifier identifying the given server is transmitted to the communications device. Subsequent data is received from the communications device. The subsequent data comprises the server identifier and a further parameter. The given server is selected on the basis of at least the server identifier and some of the subsequent data received from the communications device is directed to the given server. In the event of a need to redirect subsequent data to a server other than the given server, a different server is selected on the basis of at least the further parameter and further of the subsequent data received from the communications device is directed to the selected different server. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127744 | Implicit Geolocation of Social Networking Users - In one embodiment, one or more computing systems receive a request for a location prediction for a user from a service. The computing systems access one or more real-time location signals and one or more aggregated location signals. The aggregated location signals may comprise one or more previous location signals. The computing systems may then generate one or more location predictions from the one or more real-time location signals and the one or more aggregated location signals, and calculate a single location prediction for the user from the one or more location predictions. The computing systems may then send, in response to the request, the single location prediction for the user to the requesting service. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127745 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK IMAGE DISTRIBUTION HIERARCHY - In one embodiment, network devices such as IP phones may be upgraded with a set of files. A master network device in the set of network devices is identified. The master network device retrieves or receives one or more files in the set of files. The master network device then distributes the file(s) to one or more network devices in the set of network devices, thereby enabling the file(s) to be distributed in a hierarchical manner to remaining network devices in the set of network devices. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134737 | ENHANCED COLLABORATION SERVICES - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein in which a collaboration service registers users as participants in a collaboration session. As session content is received from at least one instance of various instances of a collaboration application engaged by the users, the collaboration service shares the session content with at least one other instance of the collaboration application. In addition, the collaboration service shares session information descriptive of at least a portion of the session content with at least one social network application associated with at least one user registered as one of the participants. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIEWING MULTIPLE PHYSICAL LOCATIONS CUSTOMER WAIT TIMES AT ONE INSTANCE FROM A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPLICATION VIA A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - This is directed to a methods and system for integrating waiting list and appointment check in services in a single application available on a portable electronic device for the purpose of local patrons being able to view multiple wait times of physical locations. Using the single application, a user can create waiting list (lines) and control their management without the need for a separate non-portable computer controlling the device's information and transmitting it back to a portable electronic device. This allows information to be controlled from the portable electronic device directly and with other PED's and no central computer controllers or web portal needed. The services solved by this method and system can include, creating waiting list (lines), deleting waiting list (lines), shifting waiters, deleting waiters, changing wait times, and adjusting distance a person must be before they can be added to a line. This method also allows the user and waiting list creator to adjust the data real-time from a portable electronic device as their circumstances change. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of media content instances, where each media content instance of the plurality of media content instances comprises origination information, identifying a common event from the origination information of each media content instance of the plurality of media content instances, determining a plurality of viewing perspectives of the plurality of media content instances responsive to identifying the common event, and sending an alert to a social network to enable access to a viewing perspective of the plurality of viewing perspectives. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134740 | DREAM ORIENTED SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - A method and system for sharing dream narratives. The system comprises a computer network comprising a plurality of user interfaces, and each user interface has a display and an input module for inputting dream narratives from a plurality of users. A computer processor connected to the computer network, and the computer processor comprises instructions to create user profiles for each of the plurality of users; receive dream narratives over the computer network and record the dream narratives in association with a respective user profile; analyze the dream narratives to develop dream profiles by identifying keywords and phrases; compare the dream profiles to identify commonalities between the dream profiles; and connect user profiles having at least one commonality in their respective dream narratives. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134741 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE ONLINE PRESENTATION AND COMMERCE OF GOODS - The invention is generally directed to systems and methods for online product presentation, and more particularly to systems and methods for the interactive live/real-time online presentation and commerce of small products. One preferred embodiment is an online computing system that enables the interactive live/real-time presentation of small products of value with intricate detail such as jewelry or precious stones on client computing devices communicatively coupled to a wide area network, such as the Internet. The system includes a conferencing system having a video conferencing session communicatively coupled to the wide area network; a computer connected to a web cam, wherein the computer communicatively couples the web cam to the video conferencing session through the wide area network, and further wherein the web cam has a lens directed at the product; and a light box substantially surrounding said product. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134742 | TECHNOLOGY OF SUPPORTING MEETING - A server included in a meeting support system plays back a content correlated with a meeting, and synchronously distributes a playback result to a plurality of terminal devices. The server stores a time the meeting is held, the content played back in the meeting, and a user who participates in the meeting in a memory as a meeting history in each meeting. The server transfers information about the meeting that an assigned user participates in and the content played back in the meeting in order to present the information in the terminal device in accordance with user assignment received from the terminal device. The information is registered in the meeting history. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING COMMUNICATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method and an apparatus for connecting communication through an electronic device are provided. The method includes identifying situation information related to the electronic device, based on the situation information, communicating with a first external device, based on communication with the first external device, acquiring connection information on the first external device, and providing the connection information to a second external device communicating with the electronic device such that the first external device and the second external device subsequently directly communicate with each other using the connection information. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134744 | DATA SHARE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESS APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A data process apparatus for sharing shared data among plural data process apparatuses participating in an event. The data process apparatus includes a participation notification reception unit configured to receive a participation notification from each of the plural data process apparatus including first and second data process apparatuses in the event, a notifying unit configured to notify the second data process apparatus to the first data process apparatus as a data obtain target from which the shared data is to be obtained. The second data process apparatus is a data process apparatus from which the participation notification has already been received by the participation notification reception unit. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134745 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING MEMBER PROFILES SIMILAR TO A SOURCE MEMBER PROFILE - Techniques for identifying and presenting member profiles similar to a source member profile are described. With some embodiments, a general recommendation engine is used to extract features from member profiles, and then store the extracted features, including any computed, derived or retrieved profile features, in an enhanced member profile. In real-time, the general recommendation engine processes client requests to identify member profiles similar to a source member profile by comparing select profile features stored in the enhanced member profile with corresponding profile features of the source member profile, where the comparison results in several similarity sub-scores that are then combined in accordance with directives set forth in a configuration file. Finally, the member profiles with the highest similarity scores corresponding with the user-selected member profile are selected, and in some instances, presented to a user. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142884 | Image Sharing for Online Collaborations - Image sharing techniques for online collaborations are described in which images for sharing in a communication session may be processed to form image packages that are optimized for collaboration. An image package may be formed for a selected image that includes multiple versions of the image at different resolutions. In addition, the versions of the image at different resolutions may be divided into tiles that represent portions of the image at a corresponding resolution. As viewers navigate a viewing pane to pan and zoom within an image, the images at different resolutions and the tiles are selectively provided to enable fast rendering of different selected portions of the images. The image may be manipulated via a shared viewing pane that is accessible to multiple clients in a communication session for collaborative viewing of the image. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142885 | SHARING MEMORY AMONG MOBILE DEVICES - A method, system, and/or computer program product enables the sharing of memory among mobile devices. Copies of a same hard key holder are installed in all mobile devices from a user-defined group of mobile devices. The hard key holder controls memory sharing between a master mobile device and a slave mobile device. A memory appropriation request is sent from the master mobile device to the slave mobile device. In response to the slave mobile device receiving the memory appropriation request, an unused sector of the memory in the first slave mobile device is reserved for use by the master mobile device. Upon storing of data sent from the master mobile device, a message is sent from the slave mobile device to the master mobile device describing how much room is still available for the master mobile device to use. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING COLLABORATORS ON A SHARED MOBILE DEVICE - A method, computer program product, and system is provided for identifying collaborators on a shared mobile device. In an implementation, a method may include receiving, by a shared mobile device, an identifier input including one or more biometric identifiers associated with a user. The method may also include receiving, by the shared mobile device, a collaborative content input from the user, the collaborative content input being associated with at least a portion of collaborative content. The method may further include comparing the one or more biometric identifiers associated with the user with biometric identifiers of a plurality of users of the shared mobile device. The method may further include, when the identifier input including the one or more biometric identifiers associated with the user matches a biometric identifier of an identified user of the plurality of users of the shared mobile device, associating the identified user with the collaborative content input. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142887 | DEVICE, METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR UPDATING MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK USER STATE - A device and method for updating mobile Social Network Service (SNS) user presence status, wherein, a SNS client module in a mobile user terminal sends a registration request to a subscription publishing module to apply for subscribing a profile state change notification; the subscription publishing module records ID of the SNS client module in a notification list for registration, a user switches profiles in a profile interface module; the profile interface module sends an event notification to a background module; the background module reads the content of the new profile entry and notifies the subscription publishing module of the content of the new state; the subscription publishing module queries the notification list and notifies the respective SNS clients one by one of the update; the SNS clients publish the content of the new state in the respective SNS systems. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142888 | DETERMINING INFORMATION INTER-RELATIONSHIPS FROM DISTRIBUTED GROUP DISCUSSIONS - Techniques are described for analyzing user-supplied information and/or predicting future aspects of additional information that will be supplied by users. The analyzed information may include distributed group discussions involving numerous users, occurring via user comments and other content items supplied to social networking site(s) and/or other sources. Analysis of user-supplied information may, for example, include determining particular topics and/or categories of interest during one or more time periods and quantifying corresponding amounts of user interest; determining trends for, relevant terms and attributes for, and inter-relationships between the topics and categories; predicting future amounts of user interest in the topics and categories; tracking user interactions with information about the topics and/or categories; and taking further actions based on the analyzed and/or predicted information. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142889 | COOKING INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - On the basis of stored recognition result information and current recipe information, there is generated presentation information that includes information indicating a second user who is executing in real-time the same cooking step of the same recipe as a cooking step of a recipe that a first user is actively executing. The generated presentation information is displayed on a display of a terminal device used by the first user via a network. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142890 | UNBALANCED MAPPING BETWEEN DESKTOP AND MOBILE PAGES - A collaboration service is disclosed that hosts various collaboration sites. Each of the sites includes desktop pages and mobile pages. A routing service redirects mobile requests for the desktop pages to the mobile pages in accordance with a desktop-to-mobile mapping that defines an unbalanced correspondence between the desktop pages and the mobile pages. The routing service also redirects desktop requests for the mobile pages to the desktop pages in accordance with a mobile-to-desktop mapping that defines a balanced correspondence between them desktop pages and the mobile pages. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142891 | Anticipatory Environment for Collaboration and Data Sharing - A collaborative environment adapts to and anticipates users' needs based on presence of participants, proximity, context, in order to facilitate interaction among participants. An aspect of the collaborative environment includes multifactor user recognition. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING BROWSER CONTENTS - Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for sharing browser contents. In an exemplary method, an electronic device can receive contents for sharing selected by a user and a sharing platform selected by the user. The electronic device can jump to a unified verification interface for the user to log in to the sharing platform through the unified verification interface. Further, the electronic device can submit the contents to the sharing platform for sharing. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142893 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION TO INCREASE DOWNLOAD THROUGHPUT - Certain embodiments relate to use of aggressive peering requests, which enable a peer computing device to obtain desired digital content more quickly than typically possible in a P2P network. In certain embodiments, an aggressive peering request comprises a request that another peer computing device, to which the aggressive peering request is sent, dedicates substantially all of, or a disproportionately large amount of, its P2P resources to servicing a specific peer computing device. Other embodiments relate to identifying, based on accessed information, peer computing devices that are predicted to be available as an uninterrupted seed, and thus, can be used to increase download throughput in a P2P network. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149539 | Trending Data Demographics - Trending data demographics are described. In one or more implementations, content posted on online content sources is analyzed to determine topics associated with the posted content. Analysis is then performed to ascertain which of those topics in the posted content are trending. A determination as to which of the topics are trending may be based on a number of times the posted content involves a topic. For the topics that are trending, demographic data of the users that posted about those topics is collected. In some cases, demographic data may be assigned to users that posted about the topics that are trending. Based on the collected and assigned demographic data, a prediction is made to predict segments of users that are likely to find the trending topics interesting. Targeted content may then be provided to the segments of users that are likely to find the trending topics interesting. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149540 | Manipulating Audio and/or Speech in a Virtual Collaboration Session - Systems and methods for manipulating audio and/or speech in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, a method may include capturing speech originated by a given one of a plurality of participants during a virtual collaboration session, and capturing a discrete collaboration event originated by the given participant during the virtual collaboration session. The method may also include synchronizing the speech with the event and storing the synchronized speech and event. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149541 | Leveraging Social Media to Assist in Troubleshooting - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for leveraging social media to assist in troubleshooting are provided herein. A method includes extracting user-generated information pertaining to multiple failure scenarios from at least one social media data source; determining one or more causality relationships between a set of log entries associated with the multiple failure scenarios and the extracted user-generated information; identifying a similarity between the one or more determined causality relationships and information contained within a user query; and providing guidance to the user regarding resolving and/or obviating a failure associated with the user query based on said identified similarity. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149542 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PROVISIONING A PERSONALIZED GEO-FENCE - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for provisioning a personalized geo-fence are described. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include obtaining social network activity of a user from one or more social networks. The social network activity is analyzed to identify a concept for which the user has conveyed an affinity. A real-world location corresponding to the concept is identified and a personalized geo-fence is created for the user around the real-world location. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149543 | METHOD FOR CONTENTS SHARING SERVICE AND SERVER APPLIED TO THE SAME - Disclosed are a contents sharing service method and a server applied to the same. In regard to a voice call connection made between an originating terminal and a terminating terminal, the terminating terminal sets contents which the terminating terminal desires to share with the originating terminal and the originating terminal identifies the set contents to be shared. Accordingly, Social Network Service (SNS) contents registered in connection with a plurality of SNSs, which a subscriber of the terminating terminal has joined, can be easily shared with a subscriber of the originating terminal as the contents to be shared. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149544 | CHANNEL-BASED MANAGEMENT OF CALENDAR DATA - Techniques for providing calendar data to devices associated with subscriptions to an electronic channel may be provided. Data from an electronic calendar associated with a channel is accessed. The channel is associated with a plurality of content items that are transmitted to each of a set of subscriber computing devices for display while the subscriber computing device is in a display state. The set of subscriber computing devices is identified. Each subscriber computing device in the set of subscriber computing devices is associated with a subscription to the channel. Calendar information is transmitted to each of the set of subscriber computing devices. The calendar information identifies an availability in the calendar. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149545 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING OF LOCATION INFORMATION USING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - An apparatus and a method for sharing of location information using a social network service are provided. The apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with a server for sharing of location information. A storage is configured to map and store at least one first account to a vehicle unique number, and map and store at least one second account of social network service to the first account. A controller is configured to confirm and display, when a login is completed using the first account, a point of interest (POI), and a current location of the vehicle through the server, and to share the current location and information through the social network service corresponding to the second account mapped to the first account. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149546 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER TO PEER SOCIAL NETWORKING - System enables users to surf the web and engage in social networking interaction through a downloadable peer-to-peer client that stores all user's private information locally on the user's computer. System establishes communication between the computers of multiple users participating in social interaction without having to store users' personal information on central servers. All user data, including, without limitation, pictures, ideas, personal information and communications with friends is maintained locally on the user's own computer and the social communication takes place between two or more users' computers. This provides the users with greater control over the dissemination of their personal information. In addition, the system randomly selects peer-to-peer social networking clients that are online at any given time and enable such clients to randomly and automatically connect with one another. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149547 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The information processing system includes a mobile terminal device and an information processing device capable of bidirectionally transmit and receive information through short distance communication. The mobile terminal device includes a detection part detecting a physical quantity related to the posture or movement of the device itself, and a transmission part transmitting the detection information obtained by the detection performed at the detection part to the information processing device. The information processing device includes a reception part receiving detection information and a specifying part specifying transmission information to be transmitted to the mobile terminal device or reception information to be received from the mobile terminal device in accordance with the detection information received at the reception part. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149548 | SYSTEM FOR SHARING NETWORK MULIMEDIA DATA - The present disclosure relates to a system for sharing network multimedia data, including, in accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a first display portion which displays a first information about a surrounding area, and a second display portion which displays a first image provided by a surrounding device in the surrounding area, and having the surrounding device connected to a same ad hoc network, over which the first image is received. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149549 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes an application that is included in an information processing terminal; and an information processing device for executing a function in response to a request from the application, wherein the information processing device is connected to the information processing system. The information processing system includes a request transmitter for transmitting a request including first identification information and second identification information, wherein the first identification information is for identifying information that is used for executing the function, and the second identification information is for identifying a plurality of different functions that is to be executed by using the information that is identified by the first identification information; and a processor for executing the functions that are identified based on the second identification information included in the received request by using the information that is identified based on the first identification information. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149550 | NETWORK DEVICE AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - In a network system without a server, a network device and a system that can share information in all devices efficiently and surely are provided. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149551 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - A plurality of devices are connected to a network and are controlled by a plurality of controllers, information is efficiently shared so that the control using the controllers is made to be easy. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING A SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN A SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - A method of a server and an apparatus for establishing a social relationship between participants in a communication system providing an Immersive Social Centre (ISC) service are provided. The method includes generating information about a contacts group for at least two participants of a social service chat or session and a social relationship of the participants; providing the generated information to at least one of the participants; and sending a social relationship setting request to at least one other participant of the at least two participants excluding the at least one of the participants notified of the generated information. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149553 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - In a first aspect of the present invention, provided are an information processing apparatus including a behavior-history acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior histories of first users identified by first-user identification information, a transmission-history acquisition unit configured to acquire information transmission histories of second users identified by second-user identification information, and a determination unit configured to determine identity between the first users and the second users on the basis of behavior details included in the behavior histories and transmission details included in the transmission histories; a method for processing information with the information processing apparatus; and a program using the information processing apparatus. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149554 | AUTOMATIC CAPTURE OF DETAILED ANALYSIS INFORMATION BASED ON REMOTE SERVER ANALYSIS - A system monitors a network or web application provided by one or more distributed applications and provides data for each and every method instance in an efficient low-cost manner. Agents may monitor the performance of the distributed application by the web services and report monitoring data as runtime data to the remote server, for example a controller. The controller may analyze the data to identify one or more performance issues or “hot spot” methods based on current or past performance, functionality, content, or business relevancy. Instructions and/or configuration information may be transmitted by the controller to the agents that correspond to a particular business transaction portion associated with a hot spot. The portions are then monitored to collect data associated with the hot spot and the hot spot data is reported back to the controller. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149555 | PEER-TO-PEER TRADING PLATFORM - A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent item information on at least one peer-to-peer node of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the persistent information being related to an item being offered by a first user of the first peer-to-peer client application. | 05-28-2015 |
20150295770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING APPLICATION-TO-APPLICATION COMMUNICATION IN AN ENTERPRISE COMPUTER SYSTEM - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method useful in enterprise deployment, for enabling application-to-application communication in an enterprise computer system, for example a middleware machine. The system can include a plurality of application hosts and managed servers which receive requests at an external load balancer, via an Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB) network, together with a plurality of web hosts and traffic directors. Each traffic director instance can be associated with a virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address that is accessible via a high-speed internal InfiniBand (IB) network. Hosted applications within the enterprise computer system can communicate with each other, over the IB network, using a VIP address. Such application-to-application wiring avoids the need to communicate internal application requests via the external load balancer. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295879 | Life Experience Memorialization Enhancement Via Coordinated Coupling - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for life experience memorialization enhancement via coordinated coupling. For certain example embodiments, at least one machine may include: (a) at least one first component including at least a first set of voltages corresponding to at least one representation of at least one end user; (b) at least one second component including at least a second set of voltages corresponding to at least one coupling indicium applicable to media guidance enhancement; or (c) at least one third component including at least a third set of voltages, the third set of voltages corresponding to at least some media guidance with the third set of voltages determined at least partially based on a first set of voltages and on a second set of voltages. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295955 | MULTIMEDIA CONVERSATION HISTORY - A method performed by a computing system includes maintaining a record of a terminated conversation, the conversation comprising a plurality of participants and a plurality of media types, wherein the media types used during the conversation changed during the conversation. The method further includes receiving a request from a client system associated with a participant of the terminated conversation, the request being to reestablish the terminated conversation. The method further includes, in response to the request, initiating reestablishment of the terminated conversation by attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation, wherein attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation includes a default setting of initiating communication sessions between a cumulative total of each of the participants using a cumulative total of each media type associated with the terminated conversation. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295959 | AUGMENTED REALITY TAG CLIPPER - A computing device, comprising a virtual content cupping module which, with a processor, cups an amount of virtual content from virtual content received by the computing device. An augmented reality tag clipper system, comprising a computing device comprising a processor and a data storage device, an image server communicatively coupled to the computing device, and a repository server communicatively coupled to the computing device and image server, in which the computing device comprises a virtual content clipping module which receives virtual content associated with an object in a digital image, receives instructions to clip the virtual content, and causes the clipped virtual content to be sent to the repository server. A method of clipping virtual content comprising, with a processor, receiving virtual content from an image server on a computing device clipping an amount of virtual content from the virtual content, and sending clipped virtual content to a repository server. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295960 | Collaborative Multimedia Conversation Manager - A method performed by a conversation manager on a server in a communications network includes receiving a request from a first client device to establish a multimedia conversation with a second client device. The method further includes, establishing a communication session between the first client device and the second client device, the communication session comprising at least two different communication protocols for at least two different types of communication media. The method further includes receiving a request from the first client device or the second client device to add a third client device to the conversation, in response to the request. The method further includes establishing a communication session between the first client device or the second client device with the third client device, wherein the conversation manager is configured to add additional media types to the communication session in response to a request from one of the client devices. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295961 | DATA SHARING METHOD AND CLIENT TERMINAL DEVICE - Data sharing methods and client terminal devices may be provided by examples of the present disclosure. A data sharing instruction may be received by a first client terminal device. First data in a browser of the first client terminal device may be obtained by the first client terminal device. Graphic coding may be performed by the first client terminal device on the first data to generate second data. The second data may be published by the first client terminal device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295962 | METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING INFORMATION - According to an example, a first terminal device uploads sharing information to a server, the server sends identification information related to the sharing information to the first terminal device according to the sharing information, and the first terminal device transforms the identification information into a sound signal, and plays the sound signal. a second terminal device receives the sound signal, parses the sound signal to obtain the identification information, and sends a download request comprising the identifier information to the server. The server sends the sharing information to the second terminal device according to the download request. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295964 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONDUCTING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE ENHANCED MEETING - Methods for conducting an electronic device enhanced meeting using an electronic computing device are presented including: causing the electronic computing device to create the electronic device enhanced meeting; selecting meeting attributes for the electronic device enhanced meeting; selecting participants for the electronic device enhanced meeting; selecting participant attributes for the electronic device enhanced meeting; and conducting the electronic device enhanced meeting. In some embodiments, selecting meeting attributes for the electronic device enhanced meeting further includes: selecting a meeting type; and setting default meeting attributes, where the default meeting attributes are selected from the group consisting of: agenda attributes, speaker attributes, meeting security attributes, listing attributes, invite attributes, motion rights attributes, voting rights attributes, and chat attributes. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295965 | METHODS AND NODES FOR ENABLING A PEER-TO-PEER TELECONFERENCE - Methods and nodes for enabling a teleconference involving multiple peer nodes in a P2P network ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150296004 | SELECTIVELY EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN P2P-CAPABLE CLIENT DEVICES VIA A SERVER - In an embodiment, a first client device establishes a P2P connection with a second client device. While the P2P connection is still established, the first client device receives a request to send data to the second client device via the P2P connection, and then sends the data to a server along with an indication of a temporary identifier of the second client device without notifying an operator of the first client device that the data is being sent to the server. In another embodiment, the server receives the data, maps the temporary identifier to a unique network address of the second client device and generates a record of the data transmission between the respective client devices. In another embodiment, the server maintains an association for the temporary identifier after the first and second client devices are disconnected from their P2P connection to permit supplemental communication. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296009 | Method and M2M gateway for managing data of terminal peripheral - Disclosed is a method for managing data of a terminal peripheral, the method includes: a Machine to Machine/Man (M2M) gateway collects, stores, processes and forwards data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy; wherein the strategy is issued by an M2M application or an M2M service platform or is configured locally at the M2M gateway; the strategy includes at least a data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forward strategy. Further disclosed is an M2M gateway for managing data of a terminal peripheral, configured to collect, store, process and forward data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy. By means of embodiments of the disclosure, managerial functions of the M2M gateway are perfected, thereby performing efficient management of data of the terminal peripheral. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296031 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication terminal including an information acquisition unit that acquires, from another communication terminal, first information that includes connection information for connecting to a communication service and identification information of a user of the other communication terminal, and an information generation unit that, on the basis of the first information acquired by the information acquisition unit, generates second information that includes the connection information and identification information of a user of the current terminal. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296044 | METHOD AND CLOUD SERVER FOR PERSONAL PROFILE MATCHING USING EXERCISE INFORMATION - In a method for personal profile matching, a cloud server receives a plurality of personal data sets each including a user profile of a user and an entry of exercise information. The exercise information includes an exercise duration and a location. The cloud server further performs a matching analysis between a requiring user and at least one of the remaining ones of the users, which serves as a to-be-matched user, with reference to a correspondence between the exercise information of the requiring user and the exercise information of the to-be-matched user. Afterward, the cloud server determines whether the to-be-matched user is a matched user using result of the matching analysis. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296045 | PROFILE PAGE WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER - A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format. | 10-15-2015 |
20150304121 | Binding Nearby Device to Online Conference Session - A meeting server receives a request to join an online conference session from a first device at a first location. The first device is associated with a user account. The meeting server then determines at least one second location corresponding to at least one second device also associated with the user account. Responsive to a determination that the second location is within a predetermined distance of the first location, the meeting server transmits a command to mute the second device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304168 | FORMATION OF GUILDS IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - In a cloud computing environment, a server application hosted by a server may form a plurality of guilds by clustering multiple network terminals of similar performance together. The server application may then allocate computing resources to the guilds accordingly. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USERS FEEDBACK REGARDING THEIR READING HABITS - Content items are provided to users and their interactions with the provided content items are recorded in respective user profiles. The users' interactions thus recorded over time are analyzed to determine if the users have a balanced information intake. A reading habit score is determined for a user based various criteria. The user's reading habit score is analyzed to determine if the user's habits indicate a balance in the user's content consumption. If the user's reading habit score indicates an imbalance in the user's content consumption, suggestions are provided to the user for achieving a more balanced reading habit and thereby improving the user's reading habit score. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304371 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM - A communications terminal (a first communications terminal) that creates a holding list that lists information about remaining data, after the removal from data held by said communications terminal of at least one item of data which is not desired to be shared with another communications terminal (a second communications terminal), and sends said list to the second communications terminal by using a communications message. The second communications terminal determines what data, among the data in the holding list received from the first communications terminal, is not held by the second communications terminal, and sends a request for the determined data to the first communications terminal by using a communications message. The first communications terminal sends the data requested by the second communications terminal to the second communications terminal, by using a communications message. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304372 | Systems for Providing Services in a Voice Conferencing Environment - A system according to the invention is highly scalable and includes at least one server cluster comprising a plurality of voice conferencing servers. The at least one cluster further includes one or more performance management systems for handling various tasks such as licensing tasks, real-time and historical performance monitoring, cascading, availability, failover, load balancing, and/or performance optimization. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND SHARING DATA FROM USER DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for managing and sharing data that is uploaded from a user device to a web-based storage system. The user may specify one or more sharing settings for the data including other users with whom to share the data. The recipients or other users can specify data feed settings to manage the shared data. Data that is uploaded from the user devices is automatically shared based on the sharing settings for the user and device as well as data feed settings for a recipient. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304391 | METHOD OF FILE SHARING - A method of file sharing based on a file server is intended to share specific data and enable data constraints for automatic deletion of specific shared data which has been downloaded by a downloader device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus comprises: a processing data retention unit that retains structural information representing structure of a message, collation information for collation against text information contained in the message, and processing information representing a content(s) of processing for the text information; and a message processing unit that construes a received message in accordance with the structural information, and transforms, in case text information contained in the received message coincides with the collation information, the text information contained in the received message in accordance with the processing information, and outputs a message containing the transformed text information. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304397 | DISTRIBUTED TEST SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - The present invention is related to a method of connecting a first device comprising a processor and an application and a second device comprising a processor and an application, a distributed architecture system for facilitating modular communication between a plurality of applications, a plurality of devices, and a plurality of applications and devices, and a computer readable medium storing a program for causing a processor to connect a plurality of applications, a plurality of devices, and a plurality of applications and devices. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304413 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE, SNS PROVIDING SERVER, AND CONTENTS PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal is provided. The user terminal includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server, an application driver configured to drive an SNS providing application to perform communication with another user, and a controller configured to, when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, control to transmit information regarding reproduction of contents which are reproduced through a content play application so as to share information regarding reproduction of the contents with the other user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304434 | MANAGING SYSTEM AND MANAGING METHOD - Of a plurality of tenants that form a hierarchical structure, a first tenant that manages management information to be transferred between tenants and a second tenant to serve as a transfer destination are designated. Second management information, of the management information managed by the first tenant, that is shared with another tenant is specified in accordance with a sharing relationship for the second management information. Of the management information managed by the first tenant, third management information except for the specified second management information is transferred to the second tenant. The sharing relationship for the specified second management information is changed to a sharing relationship in which the second management information is shared between the second tenant and a tenant in a level above or below the second tenant in accordance with a new hierarchical structure formed after the transfer. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304436 | Nearby Friend Notifications on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a computing system may access a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising a first node corresponding to the first user, the first user being associated with an online social network, and a number of second nodes corresponding to a number of second users associated with the online social network. The computing system may receive an indication of a first location of a mobile-client system of the first user. The computing system may identify one or more second users based on one or more notification rules, where each second user is associated with a mobile-client system having a second location within a threshold distance of the first location. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304437 | Location-Based Content Promotion on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a computing system may access a social graph of an online social network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, where each of the edges between two of the nodes represent a single degree of separation between them, and the nodes comprise a first node corresponding to a first user of the online social network, and a plurality of second nodes corresponding to a plurality of second users associated with the online social network. The computing system may calculate a content score for each of one or more content items shared by the second users on the online social network, where each content score is based at least in part on a proximity coefficient between the first user and the content item. The computing system may send one or more of the scored content items for display to the first user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310676 | DYNAMIC UPLOADING PROTOCOL - A dynamic uploading protocol comprises an input interface configured to receive a manifest comprising a plurality of events which may be uploaded; wherein the manifest additionally comprises sensor information relating to each of the plurality of events. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises a processor configured to determine whether to upload additional information about each event, wherein determining whether to upload additional information about each event is based at least in part on the sensor information and contextual information. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises an output interface configured to request the additional information. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312119 | SYSTEM FOR THE NETWORK MONITORING OF 3D PRINTING AND METHOD THEREOF - Monitoring a 3D printer comprises a network information module, a photographic device, a status report module, and a fixed format instruction receiver module. The photographic device is capable of periodically shooting a print status of the 3D printer. The status report module is capable of periodically reporting the print status or instantly reporting a print error of the 3D printer. The fixed format instruction receiver module is capable of receiving a remote fixed format instruction to operate the 3D printer. Thus, the system may not require an operator to monitor the 3D printer for long. Even on the remote end, the system can monitor a print status of a printed object and may execute a corresponding treatment when a print error of the 3D printer has occurred. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312188 | DISTRIBUTED POLICY ENFORCEMENT FOR ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS - An active compliance engine used to control/restrict communication or collaboration is provided. The active compliance engines may include a content inspection module that inspects the content of a message for inappropriate language or information. Content could be an instant message, content of an attached file, speech from a voice session, sign language from a video session, or content shared through desktop sharing. The active compliance engines may include a content tagging module that tags inspected content. Ethical wall rules are used in the inspection of participants to a communication to see whether they are allowed to communicate or collaborate with each other. A communication management module manages communications or event based on an inspection. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312191 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE TIMELINES OF NETWORK FEEDS - Systems and methods are provided for managing timelines of network feeds. A system accesses network feeds associated with at least one social network. The system identifies a set of network feeds based on an associated name, keyword, calendar date, and/or geographic location. The system outputs, to a display device, a chronological representation of the set of network feeds based on calendar dates associated with the set of network feeds. The system can supplement the chronological representations of network feeds with additional network feeds associated with other network users. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312201 | ORGANIZING SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES BASED ON TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method for organizing messages may include detecting, by a processor, receipt of each new message of an activity stream comprising a group of messages and determining, by the processor, a tense associated with each new message. The method may also include associating, by the processor, the tense with each new message. At least the tense may be used for organizing the group of messages of the activity stream. The method may additionally include adding, by the processor, each new message and the associated tense of the message to the activity stream. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312287 | Compacting Content in a Desktop Sharing Session - Techniques to enable an attendee device in an online conference session to view display content different from display content displayed on a host device. In one embodiment a method is provided in which display content that is to be shared with at least one attendee device in an online conference session is captured from a host device. An area containing blank space in the display content is identified. The display content is compacted by removing the area containing the blank space from the display content to obtain compacted content. The compacted content is composed to obtain a composed image configured to be shared with the attendee device, and the composed image is thereafter shared with the attendee device. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312288 | CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - A content information access control unit ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150312289 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTANTLY SHARING VIDEO CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, and systems for instantly posting images or video clips to social media websites during recording of video content are provided. A video capture device is provided for recording video content. A social media integration application is associated with the video capture device. The selection of a still image or video clip during recording of video content is enabled via a one-touch process. The selected still image or video clip is then processed by the social media integration application such that the still image or video clip is at least one of directly forwarded to and posted on one or more pre-selected social media websites via a network or forwarded to and posted on the one or more pre-selected social media websites via a web browser interface. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312292 | Sponsored Stories Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312293 | PROVIDING SOCIAL CONTEXT TO CALENDAR EVENTS - A daily connection facility is available to the user either through a webpage or by e-mail in the form of a synopsis of connection identifiers between the user and their contacts. The web-based version presents connection information in the form of an agenda view, an engage view, and a reminder view. Each view type is selectable by corresponding tab on the webpage. The daily connected e-mail presents an agenda of meetings and events by location, title, and time. The daily connected e-mail also presents interesting profile and connection information about the attendees such as their communications in blogs and postings, recent communications with user, including messages and meetings, as well as contact information and a list of other contacts in common. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MEDIA AND MEDIA CONTROL TRANSFER BETWEEN DEVICES - A method to transfer control is presented. The method includes receiving a request to transfer control of a collaborative session from a first user equipment (UE). The method includes sending a request for the transfer of control of the collaborative session in response to the received request to a second UE, and receiving, in response to the sent request to the second UE, an indication of acceptance of the transfer of control of the collaborative session. The method includes sending a notification of status to the first UE of the control of the collaborative session in response to receiving, from the second UE, the indication of acceptance. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312328 | SOCIAL SHARING OF CONTACTS INFORMATION - Sharing contact information among one or more communities or individuals in a social media environment, in one aspect, may comprise creating contact information associated with contact as social media content based on input from a first user. At least a portion of the contact information may be shared with a plurality of second users via a social media like application. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312351 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DEVICE TRIGGER IN IOT - An object of the invention is providing a method, device and system for Device Trigger in IoT. The network device obtains device trigger request(s) corresponding to one or more target devices, and determines, based on the device trigger request in conjunction with subscribed data corresponding to the target device, a device trigger response corresponding to the device trigger request. Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a proxy mechanism used in IoT/MTC, i.e., with the network device as a proxy for the target device, a device trigger request corresponding to the target device is processed to reduce unnecessary trigger request to the target device, and reduce resource/energy (such as CPU, memory, network connection, etc. . . . ) consumption for the IoT/MTC devices and network; furthermore, the present invention would further reduce the response time of device trigger and improve the quality of services in IoT. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312360 | DETERMINING ANONYMOUSLY IDENTIFIED USERS IN MESSAGE CONTENT - A computer detects an entry of content by a first user in a collaboration application and determines the entry of content contains an identification of a second user, the identification indicating the entry of content and the identification are to be visible only to the first user and the second user. Responsive to determining the entry of content contains the identification of a second user, the computer copies the entry of content. The computer then sends the copied entry of content to the second user in the collaboration application. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING PUBLISHED CONTENT AMONG USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312381 | METHOD FOR PROXYING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORK AND AN INTERNET DOMAIN - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to proxy communication between different types of networks, such as different types of networks that communicate in accordance with different protocols or different messaging patterns. In the context of a method, communication is supported with a content-centric network having one or more clients that are configured to communicate with publish and subscribe messages. The method also supports communication with one or more nodes configured to communicate in an Internet domain, such as by supporting communication with a CoAP network or a HTTP network. The method also proxies communicating between one or more clients of the content-centric network utilizing the publish and subscribe messages and one or more nodes in the Internet domain using an Internet domain message. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319121 | COMMUNICATING A MESSAGE TO USERS IN A GEOGRAPHIC AREA - In a method for communicating a message to users in a geographic area, a request for emotion data for users of an emotion tracking application within the geographic area is received, the request defining the geographic area and received at a user interface of a client device, the emotion tracking application for receiving the emotion data of the users and for transmitting the emotion data of the users to a remote emotion data server, wherein the emotion data is an indication of a mood of the user at a time of entry of the emotion data. The request for the emotion data for users of the emotion tracking application within the geographic area is transmitted to the remote emotion data server. The emotion data for users of the emotion tracking application within the geographic area is received from the remote emotion data server. A map including the emotion data for users of the emotion tracking application within the geographic area is rendered at the user interface of the client device. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319199 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD IN THE SYSTEM AND DISPLAY PROGRAM - When retrieving information relating to another user of a different SNS, the CVR of an SNS can be effectively increased by displaying a social graph. According to the invention, by means of a social graph display program (API), user identifying information corresponding to user-to-user relationship information meeting predetermined conditions can be extracted by searching a database of information related to the other users of application programs A-C, in accordance with identifying information of a user A who has made a friend request. Thus the application program A displays, as candidates for the friend request, users corresponding to user identifying information returned from the social graph display program (API). | 11-05-2015 |
20150319201 | SELECTIVELY PROVIDING CONTENT ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - News feed stories are ranked so that new stories appear above previously viewed stories for users of a social networking system. Top news stories are selected by the social networking system based on a ranking algorithm that incorporates an analysis of affinities for interests, users, and entities in the social networking system based on user interactions. Other new stories are provided after the top new stories in a chronological order. For each user of the social networking system, a view state is recorded that includes the order of news feed stories provided to users. Based on the view state and received user input, the social networking system may determine whether to provide new news feed stories to a viewing user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319206 | SHARING A MEDIA STATION - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for sharing a media station. A user can share a media station with one or more other users. The sharing user can transmit a share request to share the media station with receiving users. A share link configured to provide access to the shared media station can then be sent to each receiving user. In some embodiments, the shared media station can be tailored or customized for the receiving user. For example, the shared media station can be tailored based on user preference data for the receiving user. To customize the shared media station, a new version of the shared media station can be generated based on one or more media station seeds that define the media station, as well as the user preference data. The newly generated version of the media station can then be provided to the receiving user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319217 | Sharing Visual Media - This document describes techniques that allow a user to quickly and easily share visual media. In some cases the techniques share visual media with an interested person automatically and without needing interaction from the user, such as to select the person or the manner in which to share an image. Further, the interested person need not be in the visual media, instead, the interested person can simply be someone that has a previously established interest in a person or object that is within the visual media. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319220 | NETWORK TOOL SYNCHRONIZATION - In one implementation, a system for network tool synchronization includes a methodology engine to receive a data methodology of an enterprise architecture tool from the enterprise architecture tool. In addition, the system includes a functionality engine to analyze deployment diagrams of an orchestration tool to determine a functionality of the orchestration tool. In addition, the system includes an architecture engine to select information from the enterprise architecture tool based on the functionality of the orchestration tool. In addition, the system includes an information engine to export the selected information to the orchestration tool. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319231 | MINIMIZING ON-DIE MEMORY IN PULL MODE SWITCHES - Method and apparatus for minimizing on-die memory in pull-mode switches. A disaggregated edge switch (DSW) includes a local communication interface including a plurality of outer ports configured to be coupled to a plurality of local hosts or servers via respective outer links, and a network interface configured to couple to at least one remote apparatus via a respective inner port and link. Data is transferred between the local hosts/servers using pull-mode transfers under which a receiver port “pulls” data from a local source port. The use of pull-mode data transfers between the local host/servers is managed by a scheduler so as to minimize the amount of buffers space for these local data transfers. Techniques are also disclosed for extending pull-mode data transfers using the Ethernet protocol over Ethernet links. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING MULTIPLE PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - An apparatus and methods are provided for coordinating multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. A device operates a first P2P communications protocol to participate in a first P2P network. The device also operates a second P2P communications protocol to participate in a second P2P network. The device can modify at least one of the first P2P network's parameters and at least one of the second P2P network's parameters to minimize conflicts between operations of the P2P networks. To enable it to modify these parameters, the device may configure or reconfigure its operating parameters to cause it to take on a supervisory role (e.g., master, group owner). | 11-05-2015 |
20150319248 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NODES ASSOCIATED WITH A VEHICLE - Devices and nodes associated with a vehicle may communicate using a higher-level, common messaging protocol over an ad-hoc network to publish and subscribe to services, even though different nodes may utilize different types of links and channels. The network includes a rules node that is fixedly connected to the vehicle and that stores a set of rules. Given a possible publisher, subscriber, and/or a service, a node action is allowed or denied based on the set of rules. The rules may be generated or updated based on priorities, security levels, and/or characteristics of publishers, subscribers, their respective users, and/or services; a current dynamic condition; and/or user input. The rules node and at least one other node may be transported by the vehicle, and both transported nodes and nodes external to the vehicle may use the common messaging protocol to join the ad-hoc network, discover other nodes, authenticate, and publish/consume services. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319256 | IMPLICIT RELATIONSHIP DISCOVERY BASED ON NETWORK ACTIVITY PROFILE SIMILARITIES - An extent of relatedness between entities that might exhibit no express relationship is determined based on network communications with shared endpoints. Communications occurring in a network are monitored. For each particular endpoint in the network, a set of other endpoints with which that particular endpoint has communicated is determined based on the monitored communications. For each pair of endpoints in the network, the intersection of the sets determined for those endpoints is determined to be the set of shared endpoints for that pair. The endpoints in the set of shared endpoints can be inversely weighted based on their overall popularity among all of the network's endpoints. The weights of the shared endpoints in the pair's set of shared endpoints can then be multiplied together to produce a relatedness score for that pair of endpoints. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319257 | Interest-Based System - Various embodiments described herein relate to automatically associating and disassociating interests to a user. In some embodiments, an event associated with an entity indicated as interesting to a user is recognized. A linked entity that is related to the event is identified. The linked entity is automatically associated with the user. Content related to the entity indicated as interesting and content related to the linked entity are provided at about the occurrence of the event. The linked entity is automatically disassociated with the user upon the occurrence of the event. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319264 | CREATING A DYNAMIC AGGREGATE GROUP PROFILE OF USERS IN AN ONLINE COLLABORATION SESSION FOR PROVIDING TAILORED CONTENT DELIVERY - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for suggesting content to a group. The system identifies a group of users in a social network. The system receives inputs associated with the social network group. The system aggregates the received inputs. The system analyzes the aggregated inputs. The system searches, based on the aggregation and the analysis, one or more tailored content to be delivered to the group in Internet, one or more database and one or more data warehouse. The system delivers the tailored content to the group in the social network. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326621 | ON-DEMAND ROBOT ACQUISITION OF COMMUNICATION FEATURES - Methods, devices, and systems are provided that determine required communications features to be used in a communication session and provide participants of the communication session with an identification of the required communications features. When a communication device used by the participant does not include one of the required communications features, the user is provided access to those features, based on compatibility. When a communication device is found to be compatible, the communication device accesses the features by running communications applications having the required communications features. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326624 | LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A social community management method includes: setting a group including a plurality of mobile devices, based on a location; determining common interest information shared by users of the plurality of mobile devices included in the group; creating a social community for communication of the users based on the determined common interest information; and transmitting information on the created social community to the plurality of mobile devices. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326626 | SOCIAL NETWORKING GROUPING HIERARCHY - A social networking environment enables interaction between social networking (SNET) groups. Some interactions between SNET groups can include docking various SNET groups based upon interactions between a member and some part of a social network. Various hierarchies of social networking infrastructure can enable hierarchical interactions between social devices, SNET groups, and other elements associated with various social networking infrastructures. Capabilities provided by various elements in various SNET infrastructures can be docked to create combined SNET groups, and capabilities provided by an SNET group can be accessed via interaction with a representative view of the capabilities. Various interactions can be managed based upon inputs, trigger events, authorizations, and the like provided by various processing systems, devices, members, or the like. Various interactions can enable members associated with an SNET infrastructure to access capabilities provided by an SNET group via a docked SNET group. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326642 | CONTENT-BASED DESKTOP SHARING - To share content of a desktop of a local computing device, the local computing device may be configured to extract contents of each visible window of the desktop and may further, compress and encode the contents. The compressed and encoded contents may then be transmitted to a remote computing device for reconstructing windows corresponding to the visible windows on the local computing device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326651 | Associating User Interactions Across Multiple Applications On A Client Device - An online system transmits third-party content originating from a third-party system to a client device. The third-party content includes a pointer to a third-party application associated with the third-party system. When the client device receives an interaction with the third-party content from a user of the client device, the client device executes the third-party application and generates an attribution identifier from which the user's identity cannot be determined. The attribution identifier is transmitted to the online system. Subsequently, the client device determines information describing interactions by the user with the third-party application that is transmitted to the third-party system along with the attribution identifier. The third-party system transmits the attribution identifier and the information describing interaction with the third-party application to the online system, which matches the attribution identifiers to associate the interaction with the third-party content with the interactions with the third-party application. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326652 | System and method of transferring dynamic data in real time through wireless, server-less communication between a immobile computing device and a mobile computing device - A system and a method is configured for transferring dynamic data in real time through wireless, server-less communication between a immobile computing device and a mobile computing device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326653 | PROCESSOR TOPOLOGY SWITCHES - A first processor has a processor port for peer-to-peer processor communications. A switch provides for switching communications from a path between said first processor and a second processor to a path between said first processor and a third processor (and vice-versa). | 11-12-2015 |
20150326654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL IN AUDIO/VIDEO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing a user input back channel (UIBC) in an audio/video (AV) source device and an AV sink device communicating according to a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) display (WFD) standard is provided. The method includes: setting up an AV control session and an AV data session between the AV source devices according to the WFD standards; enabling the UIBC from the AV sink device to the AV source device by using the AV control session; and transmitting a user input from the AV sink device to the AV source device through the UIBC. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326663 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INVITATIONS FOR MULTI-DEVICE PARTICIPATION IN AN APPLICATION PROGRAM - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and system for managing invitations to participate in an application program. The method includes acquiring, at an application service device, application program information associated with an application program executed by the application service device, determining, based at least in part on the application program information, whether the application program supports participation by another application service device, and in the event that the application program supports participation by another application service device, sending invitation information associated with the application program to a client device that is connected to the application service device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326670 | Switching Connection Between Network Devices - An example method includes connecting, by wireless device, to a first network device, wherein the first network device provides a connection to a playback network; adding the connection via the first network device to a list of available network connections; sending, to a second network device via the first network device, command(s) to control playback by the second network device; identifying additional available connection(s) to the playback network within range of the wireless device, wherein the additional available connection(s) include a connection via the second network device; determining that the connection to the second network device is preferred over the connection via the first network device based on characteristic(s); based on the determination that the connection via the second network device is preferred, connecting to the playback network via the second network device; and sending, to the second network device, additional command(s) to control playback by the second network device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326679 | USER SEGMENTATION TO PROVIDE MOTIVATION TO PERFORM A RESOURCE SAVING TIP - A computer-implemented method includes steps for identifying a plurality of similar users that are similar to a target user, and providing a notification to the target user, the notification comprising a suggested action for the target user. In certain aspects, a method of the subject technology can further include steps for providing comparison information to the target user, wherein the comparison information includes participation information regarding participation for the plurality of similar users, with respect to the suggested action. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING AMONG MUTUALLY-INTERESTED USERS - The present invention provides computer-implemented systems and methods directed to facilitating communication between users in close proximity who have indicated a mutual interest in one another. The exemplary method generally comprises the following steps: affiliating a first and a second user with an interactive network. The system then receives and stores user selected profiles and associates those profiles with each user. Users can browse these profiles and select profiles in which they are interested. If the system receives data indicating that two users have mutually selected each other's profiles, the system pairs these users. The system receives geo positioning data from each mobile device and utilizes this data to determine if users are in close proximity. If the system determines that users are in close proximity, then the system determines if the users have mutually selected the other's profile as a profile of interest, e.g., matched users. | 11-12-2015 |
20150333922 | SELECTIVE TELECONFERENCE OR VIDEOCONFERENCE REPLAY FOR FUTURE PARTICIPANTS IN A GIVEN SESSION - A method to provide an audio message or a visual message to at least one participant within a plurality of participants upon joining a live teleconference or a live videoconference is provided. The method may include determining a critical piece of information that needs to be shared with the plurality of participants joining the live teleconference or the live videoconference, wherein the critical piece of information is associated with the live teleconference or the live videoconference. The method may further include recording the critical piece of information as the audio message or the visual message in real-time during the live teleconference or the live videoconference. The method may further include replaying the audio message or the visual message to the at least one participant upon the at least one participant joining the live teleconference or the live videoconference. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334074 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD IN INTERNET SERVICE - A server, an electronic device, and a notification method in an Internet service are provided. The server includes a communication unit, a social notification message generator configured to generate a social notification message, and a controller configured to compare, if recognizing first contents that are new contents from a first user, previously received contents with the first contents, to control, if second contents including at least a part of information of the first contents exist among information of the previously received contents, the social notification message generator to generate a notification message indicating that the first contents related with the second contents are uploaded, and to control the communication unit to send the generated notification message to at least one user who uploads one of the first contents and the second contents. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334076 | LOCATION ORGANIZATION AND SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is provided for organizing and sharing a location. The system may include an interface, a spot module, a photo module, a path module, and a comment module. The system may operate using a computerized device with a processor and memory. The system can further include an achievement module for associating achievements and related rewards with the location and an activity accomplished by a member of a community of members at that location. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334137 | IDENTIFYING REVIEWS FROM CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A LOCATION - Provided are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying reviews from comments associated with a location. User-submitted comments to various services are evaluated to identify the comment as a review. If the comment is not identified as a review, no further action is taken. If the comment is identified as a review, the user is prompted for permission to publish the comment as a review of the location. If the user provides permission, the comment is stored as a review of the location. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334140 | AMBIENT COMMUNICATION SESSION - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for initiating a communication session when a user indicates she or he is available to participate in the communication session. In one example, a method includes receiving, by a first communication device, an indication that a user is available to participate in a communication session that enables communication between different communication devices. Responsive to receiving the at least one signal, the communication session may be initiated in an inactive mode at the first communication device. The first communication device may receive a request from a second communication device to participate in the communication session. Responsive to receiving the request, the communication session may be switched from the inactive mode to an active mode. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334145 | Populating a Content Stream - A method performed by a client device, including: receiving, using the client device, a request to populate a content stream of a social networking service with content related to a media program; identifying, using the client device, in response to the request, the media program; transmitting, using the client device, to a server device configured to implement the social networking service, a request for the content, wherein the request identifies the media program; receiving, using the client device, from the server device, the content; and populating the content stream with the content. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334168 | Soliciting and Creating Collaborative Content Items - A method for soliciting and creating collaborative content items is disclosed. The method includes identifying contacts of a target user, the contacts each having an affinity score with the target user that exceeds an affinity score threshold value, soliciting, from each of the identified contacts, a content item curated by the identified contact to convey a personalized message to the target user corresponding to an event unique to the target user, receiving the content items from at least a subset of the identified contacts, and providing a collaborative content product comprising the received content items to the target user. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334169 | HARDWARE ID BASED USER PROFILE IDENTIFICATION AND SHARING - A server device may receive, via a local wireless connection with a user device, a hardware identifier associated with the user device; transmit the hardware identifier to a profile server; receive, from the profile server, a user profile associated with the user of the user device; generate a message based on the user profile; and provide the message to the user device. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334178 | Method and Apparatus for Data Transmission Oriented on the Object, Communication Media, Agents, and State of Communication Systems - A method and apparatus for Data Transmission Oriented on the Object, Communication Media, Agents, and State of Communication Systems (TOMAS) is disclosed. TOMAS addresses an issue of efficiency of conventional data communication systems. The superior efficiency of TOMAS is achieved by: 1) matching the requirements of agents with capabilities of the communication systems and the communication media using the features of data objects; 2) monitoring of time-varying characteristics of all components, such as a charge of batteries and a status of all hardware, firmware and software components; 3) using an information about time-invariant characteristics of the systems, such as devices screen sizes, employed operational systems (OS), etc.; 4) using a flexible system architecture; and 5) using a fast signal processing algorithm described in [1] at the stage of data object analysis-synthesis and the codestream multiplexing-demultiplexing. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334181 | Connection Mechanism for Energy-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Networks - A communications system comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively connected via a communications network, each node comprising a processing circuit and network interface circuitry connected to the processing circuit, each node being configured to connect to the communications network and to communicate with other nodes of the communications system, the communications system comprising at least one cluster of nodes, wherein one of the nodes of the cluster is operable to perform a cluster head role connecting the cluster to the communications network, and wherein the cluster is operable to implement a mechanism for transferring the cluster head role from one node of the cluster to another node of the cluster. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334188 | NETWORK SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A network system includes a plurality of terminals including at least a first terminal and a second terminal, one or more devices including at least a first device, and a server adapted to refer to group information. The server refers to the group information and determines whether to accept a request for the first device from the second terminal, when in a state of accepting a request for the first device from the first terminal. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334189 | METHOD FOR MATCHING MULTIPLE DEVICES, AND DEVICE AND SERVER SYSTEM FOR ENABLING MATCHING - The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, provided is a matching method comprising the steps of: determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a biological state of a user, and independently determining, from a perspective of a second device, characteristic information associated with or generated according to the biological state of the user; and matching the first device and the second device on the basis of the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the first device and the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the second device. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334198 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SET OF SERVICES OF A FIRST SUBSET OF A SOCIAL NETWORK TO A USER OF A SECOND SUBSET OF SAID SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method (M) for providing by means of a system a set of services (S) of a first subset (Sub | 11-19-2015 |
20150334200 | Systems and Methods for Automated Giving Platform - An automated giving platform is described that allows users to post social giving activities to a newsfeed. The posts can include a variety of information, such as a picture, description, and one or more tags that can categorize the type of social giving activity being posted. Points can be awarded to the social giving activities that users post to the newsfeed of the social giving platform. In addition, users can form social circles and points that are earned by individual users of a social circle can also be awarded to the social circle. Awarded points and activities posted by users, including their associated circles, can be managed by the platform in order to provide analytics related to how much social giving is being performed by users and social circles. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341402 | SYSTEMS AND MEHTODS FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY THROUGH DEVICE COMMUNICATION - A wave device is disclosed. The wave device may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a unique identifier associated with a community and generate a communication including the unique identifier associated with the community and enabling a second wave device to join the community. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the communication to the second wave device based on geographic proximity to the second wave device, and share information with the second wave device based on the second wave device joining the community. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341430 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTION BETWEEN TERMINALS - The present disclosure provides a method for interaction between terminals, implemented by a first terminal. The method includes: acquiring to-be-sent data; sending the to-be-sent data to a second terminal; displaying a display interface; monitoring whether first operation information from the second terminal is received, the first operation information including a processing operation received by the second terminal after the second terminal outputs the to-be-sent data and performed by a user of the second terminal on the to-be-sent data; and updating the display interface according to the first operation information once the first operation information sent by the second terminal is received. The present disclosure further provides an apparatus and a system for interaction between terminals. According to the present disclosure, data can be exchanged between terminals in real time, thereby improving interactivity between users of the terminals. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341432 | GROUPING METHOD, CLIENT, SERVER, AND SYSTEM - Disclosed are a grouping method, client, server, and system, which belong to the field of the Internet communications. The method includes: receiving a group initiation request sent by a first client in a current channel, the group initiation request carrying an identifier of the first client; sending group state information to all clients in the current channel; receiving a group joining request sent by a second client in the current channel, the group joining request including an identifier of second client and a position that the second client is to join; sending group state information to all clients again; after every position has a corresponding identifier of a joined client, moving joined clients corresponding to all positions into the same sub-channel to accomplish grouping. This disclosure realizes that as long as the first client initiates a group, the second client can join the group freely to accomplish a grouping operation. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341433 | PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURE FOR WEB TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - Techniques are provided for a peer-to-peer web traffic management. A first mapping between identifiers and peers in a network is established. Upon receiving a first request associated with a first identifier and classifiers, based, at least in part, on the first identifier, a first peer retrieves a first global counter snapshot and a first local increment counter, and uses them to determine whether the first peer can service the first request. If the determination is positive, then the first peer services the first request, and updates the first local increment counter. If the first local increment counter exceeded a threshold value, then the first local increment counter is transmitted to a second peer, and then reset to zero. In response to the first peer receiving a first global counter associated with the first global counter snapshot, the first global counter snapshot is updated with the first global counter. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341434 | MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - A method for sharing a content item from an originator with one or more first-order recipients may include receiving a first grouping of one or more first-order recipients that is selected to receive the content item from the originator. The method may also include receiving one or more distribution objectives from the originator. The method may also include selecting a first share time for the content item. The method may also include predicting a first predicted grouping of second-order recipients derived from the first grouping of first-order recipients for the content item at the first share time. The method may also include determining whether the distribution objectives are met for the content item. The method may also include sharing the content item at the first share time in response to the distribution objectives being met for the content item. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341452 | Social Networking Apparatus And Methods - Embodiments introduced describe social networks with auto enrollment and password-free access. Users are automatically enrolled in social networks based on their experience, such as past shopping or dining activities. Network links are presented to users on a platform, where multiple networks or websites are accessible directly, i.e., ID and password are not required for network or website access. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341453 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341454 | Backend Pipeline for Story Generation - A system and method for generating activity summaries for users. User activity information is received by a user activity information receiver module. Once enough data is received and processed, the data is analyzes and segmented to determine and create an activity summary or story. Content is selected. The selection of the content includes selection of content items, such as multimedia items, e.g. pictures and videos. Secondary information, such as user activity information or location information is analyzed. A story is generated based on the selected content, including the selected content. The story is represented by a display of the selected media and other information associated with the media. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341464 | REAL-TIME INTERACTION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for achieving real-time interaction is described herein. According to an implementation, the method includes determining a context feature associated with a request received from a requesting terminal ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150341740 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER - A system for device communication is disclosed. The system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to transmit a first unique identifier to a wave device, and receive a second unique identifier from the wave device. Further, the first unique identifier may exclusively identify a person, and the second unique identifier may exclusively identify a first wave receiver associated with a person, an entity, a place, or an object. In addition, at least the first unique identifier may be transmitted to the wave device based on an indication of a proximity between the first person and the first wave receiver. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347446 | POLICIES FOR OBJECTS COLLABORATIONS - A computerized method for managing collaboration in a computerized system, comprising repeatedly applying any one of rules defined in the computerized system pertaining to objects of the computerized system, wherein the any one of the rules comprises an at least one condition concerning collaborativity of an object to which the any one of the rules pertains and the at least one condition is based on metadata of the object, by evaluating any one of conditions in the any one of the rules, thereby determining collaborativity of any one of the objects to which the any one of the rules pertains, and an apparatus for performing the same. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350122 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING A MESSAGING SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Present invention refers to a method for improving a messaging service in a communications network. The method comprises the steps of: a group of users of the messaging service establishing a message conversation; including a unique message identifier to each message of the message conversation; a first user of the group of users, using a communication device, creating a first message to be sent to the group of users as a reply to a previously received message from the message conversation; and encoding the unique message identifier, referring to the previously received message, into the message of the first user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350262 | CAUSATION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF A LOCATION SHARING GROUP - A method comprising determining at least one separate apparatus property of a separate apparatus, determining that the separate apparatus property satisfies a location sharing group inclusion criteria, causing establishment of a location sharing group that includes the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the determination that the separate apparatus property satisfies the location sharing group inclusion criteria, and causing communication of location information with the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the location sharing group is disclosed. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350265 | REGION BASED IMAGE SHARING - Some embodiments provide a region-based method for sharing photos between devices. The method establishes an image-sharing event for a particular region, which in some embodiments is defined in terms of one or more geographic attributes (e.g., a latitude, a longitude, and one or more shape attributes that define a shape about the intersection of the latitude and the longitude). The method then allows devices that enter the particular region to join the image-sharing event, so that (1) the devices can capture and add photos for the event, and (2) they can view and save photos captured by other devices that joined the event. To facilitate the sharing of the photos, the method of some embodiments makes the photos that are captured for the event available for viewing for a period of time after the event has ended. This extra time provides the event participants more time to view and save photos captured for the event. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350266 | REGION BASED IMAGE SHARING - Some embodiments provide a region-based method for sharing photos between devices. The method establishes an image-sharing event for a particular region, which in some embodiments is defined in terms of one or more geographic attributes (e.g., a latitude, a longitude, and one or more shape attributes that define a shape about the intersection of the latitude and the longitude). The method then allows devices that enter the particular region to join the image-sharing event, so that (1) the devices can capture and add photos for the event, and (2) they can view and save photos captured by other devices that joined the event. To facilitate the sharing of the photos, the method of some embodiments makes the photos that are captured for the event available for viewing for a period of time after the event has ended. This extra time provides the event participants more time to view and save photos captured for the event. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350267 | ENHANCED DISCOVERY FOR AD-HOC MEETINGS - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing ad-hoc online meetings. In an implementation, a service client receives an initial handoff of an online session from an initial service client that was ongoing between the initial service client and at least one other service client. The service client detects when proximate to an in-room service client. When proximate to the in-room service client, the service client initiate a subsequent handoff of the online session to the in-room service client. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350268 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DATA COPY METHOD BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An electronic device and a method for data copy between electronic devices are provided, and the method includes following steps. Data is added to a clipboard of an electronic device. It is determined whether the electronic device is connected to a network associated to a network unit, so as to determine to use the network unit or a wireless transmission unit to transmit the data. If the electronic device is not connected to the network, the data is directly transmitted to another electronic device by the wireless transmission unit, such that the data is added to another clipboard of another electronic device. If the electronic device is connected to the network, the data is indirectly transmitted to the another electronic device by the network unit via a sever in the network, such that the data is added to the another clipboard of the another electronic device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350281 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CREATING A SHARED MUSIC STATION - A method includes establishing a shared network comprising a plurality of user devices, each of the plurality of user devices containing one or more stored song files, requesting, through the shared network, a first song file from a first device among the plurality of user devices, receiving, through the shared network, the first song file from the first device, initiating playback of the first song file on a music rendering device, requesting, through the shared network, a second song file from a second device among the plurality of devices, receiving, through the shared network, the second song file from the second device, and initiating playback of the second song file on the music rendering device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350349 | LOCATION SUGGESTION BASED UPON SOCIAL NETWORKING POST CONTENT - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive input associated with a social networking system user account. The input includes content to be published to the social networking system. In response to the received input, one or more location suggestions are identified based upon the content. The one or more identified location suggestions are transmitted to a user device associated with the user account. Selection of a location suggestion is received. The content and selected location is published as a post within the social networking system. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350350 | MEMBER TIME ZONE INFERENCE - Techniques for inferring a time zone of a user (e.g., a member of an online social network service) are described. According to various embodiments, it is determined that a particular member of an online social networks service is currently located in a particular country. Responsive to determining that a single time zone is associated with the particular country, it is determined that the particular member is currently located in the single time zone. Responsive to determining that multiple time zones are associated with the particular country, an IP address associated with a user login request is accessed, a geographic location associated with the IP address is identified, and a specific one of the multiple time zones that corresponds to the geographic location is identified. It is determined that the particular member is currently located in the specific time zone. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350351 | Location-Based Ephemerality of Shared Content - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to share with a first user a content item associated with a second user. A content location for the content item may be determined. A geo-fenced area for the content item may be determined, the geo-fenced area including the content location. The content item may be shared with the first user as requested. If the second user moves to a location outside the geo-fenced area, determination is made of whether the sharing of the content item should be terminated. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350358 | Tracking positive feedback on real-time streaming live media content - In an example embodiment, availability of a first user mobile device to broadcast real-time streaming live media content generated by the first user mobile device is detected. A second user mobile device is identified. Then an acceptance by the second user mobile device to receive the real-time streaming live media content from the first user mobile device is detected. In response to the acceptance, transmission of the real-time streaming live media content provided by the first user mobile device to the second user mobile device is initiated. An indication of positive feedback is received from the second user mobile device regarding the real-time streaming live media content. The positive feedback from the second user mobile device and other user mobile devices is tracked, and an indication of tracked positive feedback regarding the real-time streaming live media content is provided to a third user mobile device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350376 | DELIVERY TIME OPTIMIZATION - Techniques for optimizing a delivery time for the delivery of messages are described. According to various embodiments, members of an online social network service that are currently located in a particular geographic location (e.g., a particular time zone) are identified. Thereafter, messages (e.g., e-mails) are transmitted to the members at multiple local times (e.g., multiple times of the day). It is then determined that one or more of the messages that were transmitted at a particular local time have received a highest value for a response metric among the messages, the response metric indicating responses by the members to the messages. The particular local time is then classified as an optimum local message delivery time for the particular geographic location. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350852 | Location Aware Content Using Presence Information Data Formation with Location object (PIDF-LO) - The format of the Presence Information Data Format-Location Object (PIDF-LO) as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is extended or modified to accommodate, within the standard PIDF-LO format, an association of geospacial location to XML content on the Internet. A geospacial location is associated with Extensible Markup Language (XML) content on the Internet. The XML content is identified by a universal resource locator (URL), and associated with geospatial location information (either a specific location, zone, or direction). The URL is inserted into a section of a Presence Information Data Format-Location Object (PIDF-LO) compliant document as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In this way, geospacial location information is associated with Internet based XML content using a standard PIDF-LO format. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358171 | Dynamic Configuration of a Conference System with Distributed Media Agents - A conference controller receives access requests to access a conference session from respective callers. Responsive to the requests, the controller sends a conference identifier (ID) and respective agent discovery information to each of the callers. Each caller discovers an appropriate respective media agent based on the respective agent discovery information and sends a join request including the conference ID to that media agent. In turn, the media agents send requests for configuration information to the controller. Responsive to the requests from the media agents, the controller provides configuration information to the media agents that the media agents use to form a media connection with each other for the conference session through which the callers exchange media packets. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358368 | NETWORK OPTIMIZATION OF PEER-TO-PEER TELECONFERENCING | 12-10-2015 |
20150358386 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL-TIME, SHARABLE BROWSING EXPERIENCE ON A HOST DEVICE - The present invention describes a method and apparatus for the implementation of a real-time, sharable web browsing experience on a host device, utilizing the transfer of URL and form data information. The present invention further describes a method for establishing a synchronized browsing session, comprising sending a request to establish the synchronized browsing session to a synchronization server, receiving a confirmation message from the synchronization server including a session identifier associated with the established synchronized browsing session, and sending an invitation to an invitee to join the synchronized browsing session, wherein the invitation includes the session identifier. The present invention further describes a method for implementing a synchronized browsing session, comprising recording a shared web browsing interaction, and transmitting information related to the shared web browsing interaction to a synchronization server. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SHARE VISUAL CONTENT ACROSS A PLURALITY OF MOBILE DEVICES TO GENERATE INTEREST, SUPPORT AND FUNDING FOR PHILANTHROPIC AND FOR SOCIAL CAUSES - Method and system for sharing visual content across a plurality of mobile or computing devices to generate interest, support and/or funding for philanthropic or social causes is disclosed. The method enables the generation of interest, support and/or funding for philanthropic or social causes from a mobile application. The user downloads the application, captures one or more photos relating to a social cause. The user shares the content with his contacts and invites them to vote or donate. The person with the most number of votes, likes, other indication of interests, forwards or the most relevant social cause is displayed on the front page of the application. The votes, likes, other indication of interests, forwards that populate are considered the most relevant and the staff or program picks are possibly the ones that obtain the most votes, likes, other indication of interests, forwards. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358408 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL SCHEME THEREOF - In the present invention, in order to provide an effective synchronization process control method between sites in a multi-site file system sharing through a data center, a synchronization process target file group is split into sub trees of an appropriate size, in accordance with a conflict frequency of an update file between sites, and a throughput between site-data center. Then, the split sub tree is synchronized from the one having high conflict frequency. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363408 | METHOD FOR UPLOADING MULTIMEDIA DATA, METHOD FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA DATA AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYING SYSTEM - The invention provides a method for uploading multimedia data for a user terminal. In the method, a multimedia data is generated and a trimmed multimedia data is edited from the multimedia data. A control signal is received. When the control signal indicates broadcasting a premiere information of the multimedia data, at least an internet user correlative to an user of the user terminal is informed about the premiere information and, at the same time, the trimmed multimedia data is shared to the at least internet user. When a communication status of the user terminal is capable of transmitting the multimedia data or when the control signal indicates directly uploading the multimedia data, the multimedia data is uploaded to a server. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365302 | DYNAMIC COLLABORATION SERVICE PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN APPLICATION SERVICE AT THE SAME PLATFORM - Exemplary embodiments relate to an apparatus and a method for providing a dynamic collaboration service. A dynamic collaboration service platform according to one embodiment may include a collaboration managing module configured to collect and manage a plurality of unit services required for collaboration to analyze application service specification related to an application service and provide the application service based on the analyzed result; a service operating module configured to install and operate the collected plurality of unit services; and an execution engine configured to provide a virtual machine for executing the plurality of unit services. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365347 | MULTI-USER GROUP SOCIAL NETWORK - Managing a social network comprises creating a unique first group code, creating a first personal wall including a link to the first group code, and creating a first group wall for the first group code. The first user receives an inquiry to join the first group code from a second user. The first group code is exchanged between the first user and the second user. The first group wall is converted from a locked to an unlocked state with respect to the second user. A second personal wall is created for the second user, the second personal wall including a link to the first group code. The first user is restricted from viewing the second personal wall, and vice versa. The first user can share, and the second user can see, a subset of data from the first personal wall with the first group wall, and vice versa. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365373 | System for Social Media Tag Extraction - A system for extracting and monitoring media tags within video content includes at least one server in communication with a plurality of content sources, the server receiving video content from the content sources, a recorder saving the video content, a detector receiving at least one frame of the video content, the detector detecting one or more unknown text within the frame and creating one or more images, each image associated with one of the one or more unknown text, the detector generating metadata associated with the one or more unknown text appearing in the frame, and an optical character recognition engine scanning the one or more images and converting the one or more images into one or more known text. The server further determines that the one or more known text is a media tag. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365447 | DETERMINING STORIES OF INTEREST BASED ON QUALITY OF UNCONNECTED CONTENT - A system identifies unconnected content items of high quality and provides the unconnected content items for display to a user. The method comprises receiving several content items posted on pages of a social networking system. The system then determines a subset of those content items (e.g., high quality content items). A topic is then extracted from each of the subset of content items. The topic is mapped to one or more related pages of the social networking system that represent an expanded set of pages associated with the content item. For each of the related pages, a user is identified who is connected to the related page. Finally, the content item (e.g., a high quality content item) is provided to the user for display in the user's newsfeed. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365448 | FACILITATING CONVERSATIONS WITH AUTOMATED LOCATION MAPPING - Individuals may utilize devices to engage in conversations about topics respectively associated with a location (e.g., restaurants where the individuals may meet for dinner). Often, the individual momentarily withdraws from the conversation in order to issue commands to the device to retrieve and present such information, and may miss parts of the conversation while interacting with the device. Additionally, the individual often explores such topics individually on a device and conveys such information to the other individuals through messages, which is inefficient and error-prone. Presented herein are techniques enabling devices to facilitate conversations by monitoring the conversation for references, by one individual to another (rather than as a command to the device), to a topic associated with a location. In the absence of a command from an individual, the device may automatically present a map alongside a conversation interface showing the location(s) of the topic(s) referenced in the conversation. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365471 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - Message transmission device, which performs processing concerning the transmission of messages to the terminal, executes notification processing for the transmission of a trigger packet to the terminal, said trigger packet indicating that an unsent message exists. Preparatory processing for transmission of the message to the terminal is executed. The order in which the notification processing and the preparatory processing is executed is determined in such a manner that the preparatory processing has been completed before a message acquisition request, which is a response for the trigger packet, is received from the terminal. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365475 | Resource Allocation Method and Device for Direct Communication Between User Devices - A resource allocation method and a device for direct communication between user devices are provided. The method includes determining, by a third device, a first resource, where the first resource includes some or all of a second resource, the second resource is determined by the third device before the first resource is determined, and the first resource and the second resource are both used for communication between a first user device and a second user device, and sending, by the third device, resource signaling to the first user device and/or the second user device, where the resource signaling carries information about the first resource. When a resource for direct communication changes, a normal direct communication service of user devices is ensured. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365485 | GROUP DETAILS OF GROUP SERVICES - A group detail indicator is provided that relates to group communication in a communication system. The group detail indicator provides information on at least an identity of a group and a type of the group. The group detail indicator also is attached to one of a request to initiate a group communication session and an instant messaging request. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365487 | COMPUTER-VISION CONTENT DETECTION FOR SPONSORED STORIES - In one embodiment, a system may receive sponsor specifications from a sponsor designating one or more concepts, monitor a plurality of activity streams for upload by users of matching multimedia objects, determine a geographic location associated with each matching multimedia object, receive a request from the sponsor associated with a specific geographic area, and send to a client device associated with the sponsor in response to the request information identifying the geographic locations associated with the respective matching multimedia objects that are within the specific geographic area. | 12-17-2015 |
20150372894 | DIRECT-LINK QUALITY MONITORING METHOD, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a direct-link quality monitoring method, communications device, and system, where the method includes: determining, by a local device after establishing a neighbor relationship with a peer device, whether a quantity of neighbors of the local device is the same as a quantity of neighbors of the peer device; if the quantity of neighbors of the local device is different from the quantity of neighbors of the peer device, electing a device, either the local device or the peer device, with a larger quantity of neighbors as a measurement control point MCP of a direct link between the local device and the peer device; and executing a corresponding monitoring operation according to whether the local device is the MCP of the direct link, so as to monitor quality of the direct link together with the peer device. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF SENTIENCE USING AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - A method and system for automatically verifying that a user is still sentient and alive by implementing a user-specified protocol of timed electronic communications is disclosed. In use, a user is previously assigned or themselves sets up a protocol of electronic communications to be sent at specified timed intervals. These sent timed electronic communications may be in the form of a “ping” or some sort of telecommunication alert that requires a user response. More specifically, for each “ping” or alert, the user must respond within a specified period of time. If the user responds, the protocol is terminated and starts over at the beginning. If the user does not respond within the specified time, the protocol proceeds to the next communication. If the protocol completes without any response from the user, a user designated person or guardian is alerted. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373057 | ENHANCING MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS DURING WEB REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS (WebRTC) INTERACTIVE SESSIONS BY USING SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) ENDPOINTS, AND RELATED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA - Enhancing media characteristics during Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) interactive sessions by using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises intercepting, by a media redirection agent of a WebRTC client executing on a computing device, a WebRTC initiation token. The method further comprises generating a SIP endpoint WebRTC token based on the WebRTC initiation token, and sending the SIP endpoint WebRTC token to a remote endpoint. The method also comprises establishing a WebRTC interactive session between the remote endpoint and a SIP endpoint based on the SIP endpoint WebRTC token. By leveraging the audio and/or video functionality of the SIP endpoint, the media characteristics of the WebRTC interactive session may be enhanced, resulting in an enhanced user experience. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373064 | ENABLING DIGITAL ASSET REUSE THROUGH DYNAMICALLY CURATED SHARED PERSONAL COLLECTIONS WITH EMINENCE PROPAGATION - A method and associated systems for enabling digital asset reuse. Users are each associated with a collection of digital assets and each user and each asset is assigned an eminence value. When a first user initially accesses an asset, the asset is copied to the first user's collection, thus indicating the first user's favorable view of the asset. When a second user accesses the first user's copy, the asset is copied to the second user's collection, and the eminence of the first user and of the asset are increased. If a third user accesses the second user's copy, the asset is copied to the third user's collection and eminence values of the first and second users and of the asset increase. The second user may locate an asset in the first user's collection through means that include the second user's decision to “follow” the first user. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373067 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373068 | COLLABORATION PLATFORM - One or more embodiments of the invention provide a collaboration platform that permits multiple users to collaborate on multiple copies of a model simultaneously. The collaboration application provides a full set of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) tools for a client to manipulate a model and transmit the results of such manipulations to a server. Both the clients and the server maintain a history of the manipulations results. Once object changes are received by the server from one or more clients, the server distributes the object changes to the remaining clients. Thereafter, the clients modify their local version of the model in accordance with the object changes received from the server. The history maintained by the clients or the server may then be used to undo or redo any of the object changes, or to rebuild a model space in the event of a network failure. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373085 | METHOD OF PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MOBILE ELECTRODE DEVICES USING THE SAME - The disclosure is directed to a method of providing location information for a mobile electronic device and a mobile electronic device using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the mobile electronic device would receive a first signal that indicates capturing a multimedia file. In response to receiving the first signal, the mobile electronic device would transmit to an external device a second signal in response to receiving the first signal. In response to transmitting the second signal, the mobile electronic device may receive from the external device a first location information or an ephemeris. The mobile electronic device may then determine the first location information either based on the first location information as received or based on the ephemeris. Also, the mobile electronic device may associate the multimedia file with the first location information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373091 | Creation and Consumption of Transient User Profiles - Transient user profiles are generated and broadcast to nearby recipient devices. In some implementations, a transient user profile is generated from a master user profile that includes user information. The master user profile can be stored in encrypted form on the user's mobile device or on a network-based computer system where it can be accessed upon authentication. The master user profile can include information provided by the user or retrieved from other network-based computer systems. The master user profile can include information that is labeled with security tags that indicate the class of users that may receive the user information. From the master user profile, a transient user profile can be generated in response to a sharing event and broadcast to other nearby recipient devices. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373142 | FACILITATING MULTIPLE INTERACTION MODES WITHIN A SOCIAL DISCOVERY SERVICE - Systems and methods for managing the interactions between users or members of a social discovery service, enabling users or members to control their social discovery environments, is described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a member type assigned to a member of a social discovery service, the member type based on an interaction interest (e.g., the member is female and looking to meet males, or vice versa) provided by the member, and provides an interaction mode of the social discovery service to the member based on the accessed member type. | 12-24-2015 |
20150381440 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING A CALL OVER NETWORK - Systems and methods for visualization of a call over network (CON) are provided. In some embodiments, the visualization of a call over network may be effectuated by three functionalities: a readiness dialog box that enables the facilitation of the call, the inclusion of visualization and participant features within the call, and a visualized summary after the call. The readiness dialog box is presented to the callers prior to the onset of the call. It presents the other participant's and their status. It also enables the caller to send messages (both preconfigured and customized) to the other participants. Once sufficient participants have joined, the call may start. Once the call starts, it may be visualized by displaying on a single or multi channels, which caller is speaking, and any additional indications they may be providing. The caller may likewise be provided a set of participant features that allow the user to interact with the call. After the call concludes, a visualized summary of the call can then be generated. The summary includes any of the recording, transcriptions, scenario information, speaker information and the duration each speaker was talking, etc. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381553 | Social Processing Member Offering Fixed and Intelligent Services - A social networking system offers a variety of fixed and intelligent services and social device resources participating as members in a social network (SNET) group. Such members may include, for example, social billing and payment services, digital assistants and artificial intelligence functions, robotic control and training services, media content storage and playback services, data backup services, services that support distributed processes such as distributed research projects, networking elements such as network attached storage (NAS), firewalls, proxies, etc. In various embodiments, such services and resources may become available upon being selectively docked or otherwise associated (e.g., through docking of a supporting device) with a SNET group by a human member or third party via a docked user device. Selection of available services may be supported through a visual menu provided by a member device or support service. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381554 | Social Context for Applications - In one embodiment, a method includes identifying one or more first users of the social-networking system that are connected to a second user within the social-networking system; inferring one or more applications of interest to the second user based at least in part on information associated with one or more applications installed on one or more client systems of the first users; generating one or more recommendations corresponding to one or more of the applications of interest to the second user; ranking the recommendations based on social-graph information of the second user relative to the one or more first users; and sending one or more of the ranked recommendations to one or more client devices of the second user. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381566 | Peer-to-peer connection establishment using TURN - A relay service enables two peers attempting to communicate with one another to each connect to a publicly-accessible relay server, which servers are associated with an overlay network and are selected by a directory service. After end-to-end connectivity is established, preferably the hosts communicate with each other by relaying data packets via the overlay network relay servers. Communications (both connection control messages and data being relayed) between a host and a relay server occurs at an application layer using a modified version of the TURN protocol. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381667 | Incident Data Collection for Public Protection Agencies - An approach is provided in which a public protection system sends a data collection request to user devices located within a geographical proximity of an incident in progress that instructs the user devices to capture real-time data corresponding to the incident in progress. The public protection system receives the real-time data from the user devices and determines that a set of the real-time data includes evidence data corresponding to the incident in progress. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381668 | SOCIAL NETWORK CONSTRUCTION - Technologies are generally described for constructing an ad-hoc social network. In some examples, a method performed under control of an end device may include calculating a social relevance on a social graph between the end device and another end device, based on a social graph bit array of the end device and a social graph bit array of the other end device; determining that the calculated social relevance is greater than a predetermined threshold value; and constructing an ad-hoc social network that connects the end device with the other end device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381669 | NOTIFICATION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR REPLYING TO RECEIVED INFORMATION AND NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a notification control apparatus comprises an interface and a control section. The interface receives first information sent from a terminal held by a user. The control section calculates, based on the information received by the interface, a distance from the notification control apparatus to the terminal held by the user, and carries out a control to send reply information to the terminal held by the user if the distance is within a given range, and not to send reply information if the distance is out of the given range. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381671 | VIRTUAL FILE SHARING METHOD - A virtual file sharing method is disclosed. The method comprises following steps. A device joins a group. A virtual sharing pool corresponding to the group is created. Another device joins the group. The other device shares the virtual sharing pool of the group. The device chooses a file to share to the group. File information corresponding to the shared file is shown in the virtual sharing pool. The other device selects file information from the virtual sharing pool to access the file from the device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381672 | METHOD OF MANAGING AND SHARING FILE IN HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide a method of managing and sharing file in a home network system including an information sharing server and a plurality of network devices within a local area network. When one of the network devices enters into the local area network and is connected with the information sharing server, the network device transmits a file updating message to the information sharing server, and the information sharing server stores the content carried in the file updating message to a file sharing information table and then transmits the file sharing information table to each of the network devices within the local area network periodically or according to a request of each of the network devices, to enable each network device to directly connect with other network device according to the file sharing information table, so as to acquire the shared file stored in the other network device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING DATA - The present invention comprises a novel method and apparatus for displaying and managing relationships between data elements of a database, including, without limitation, relationships between data elements representing or associated with members of a social network in a social network database. In one or more embodiments, attributes or values of data elements of a database are interpreted as unique locations in a multidimensional environment. Data elements are graphically displayed from the perspective of a point within the multidimensional environment. Attributes and relationships between data elements are displayed by visual characteristics of the displayed data elements (e.g. location, color, shape, animation) and by graphical elements connecting related displayed elements (e.g. similar colors, shapes, or connecting lines or areas). | 12-31-2015 |
20150381750 | UBERFEED - In one embodiment, a method includes collecting, by one or more computing devices, multiple information items of multiple types relevant to a user, where the information items are collected from a social-networking system, and the user is a member of the social-networking system. The method further includes determining a relevance value for each of the information items and classifying each information item as being deterministic or non-deterministic based at least in part on the relevance value. The method also includes sending one or more push notifications to one or more client devices associated with the user, the push notifications including one or more of the information items classified as non-deterministic sent in an order of their respective relevance values. The method also includes storing the information items classified as deterministic for later retrieval by the user. | 12-31-2015 |
20160006772 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An example information-processing device includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a captured image of a first user captured by an image capture unit; a determining unit that determines a character image corresponding to the acquired captured image; and a display control unit that controls display of an image locally and remotely at a corresponding communicating information-processing device used by a second user, either as a captured image or a as a character image. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006776 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED CONFERENCE SESSION INTERACTION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for enhancing presenter and participant interaction in a presentation. A system configured to practice the method can receive, from a viewer of an electronic presentation, a submission of a question and a selection of a communication mode for the question. The system can identify a portion of the presentation to which the question is directed, and update the portion of the electronic presentation to incorporate the question based on the communication mode. The electronic presentation can be a slide show, such as a PowerPoint™ presentation. The system can optionally notify a presenter in the electronic presentation that the portion has been updated. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006801 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM - Provided is a data sharing system in which data are shared between a plurality of communication terminals capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving a communication message to and from each other. Each communication terminal determines whether or not the own communication terminal is a specified terminal. Each communication terminal, in case of it is determined that the own communication terminal is a specified terminal, transmits a holding list that lists information about data that the own communication terminal holds, to another communication terminal through use of a communication message. Each communication terminal, when receiving a holding list from another communication terminal, transmits and receives communication messages to and from the other communication terminal that is a source of the holding list that does not match the holding list of the own communication terminal so as to share data with each other. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006815 | INFORMATION MODELING FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET OF THINGS - A method and apparatus for communication between multiple entities in an Internet of Things (IoT) are described herein. The method comprises receiving a first information wherein the first information comprises a first instance of a category of information, wherein the first instance comprises a field which relates to a second instance of a category of information, and wherein the first instance and second instance are each selected from the group consisting of an IoT content category; an IoT context category; an IoT policy category; an IoT decision category; an IoT event category; an IoT discovery category; and an IoT descriptor category. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006822 | SERVICE DISCOVERY WITHIN MULTI-LINK NETWORKS - Facilitating service discovery and other operations across multiple local links is contemplated. The service discovery may be beneficial for use within local area networks (LANs) or other suitable multi-link or multi-segment networks where one or more of the links operates service discovery according to link-local messaging/addressing constraints. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006824 | CONNECTION ANNOTATION - A method, computer program product, and system for connection annotation is described. A method may comprise receiving a first indication that a first user attended an event and a second indication that a second user attended the event. The method may further comprise determining whether a first user account associated with the first user and a second user account associated with the second user are connected via an electronic service. The method may also comprise facilitating connection of the first user account and the second user account via the electronic service. The method may additionally comprise generating an annotation corresponding to the connection between the first user account and the second user account based upon, at least in part, the first indication that the first user attended the event and the second indication that the second user attended the event. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006826 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING PUBLISHED CONTENT ON THE INTERNET - Disclosed is a method for processing content published on-line so as to identify each item in a unique manner. In some implementations, an RSS feed is received from a publisher and a unique identifier is identified for each item in the feed. Each item then has third party content or advertisements associated with the item based on the unique identifier. The feed is then stored and, when appropriate, updated. The augmented feed, which contains the third party content and the items in the feed, is provided to user devices. | 01-07-2016 |
20160014168 | METHODS FOR SHARING APPLICATIONS BETWEEN APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS USING THE SAME | 01-14-2016 |
20160014170 | BALANCE MANAGEMENT OF SCALABILITY AND SERVER LOADABILITY FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) AUDIO CONFERENCE BASED UPON MONITORED RESOURCE CONSUMPTION | 01-14-2016 |
20160014222 | EVENT SCHEDULING | 01-14-2016 |
20160014227 | PERSONALIZING AN APPLICATION WITH CONTENT FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM | 01-14-2016 |
20160020990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEEPING INTEREST ALIVE IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK - One embodiment provides a system that facilitates a content requesting device to handle a potential timeout event. During operation, the system receives, by a content producing device, a packet that corresponds to a first Interest message from a content requesting device, where the first Interest includes a name. Responsive to determining that additional time is required to generate a matching Content Object for the first Interest, the system generates a notification message which indicates a time period after which a second Interest is to be sent out by the content requesting device. The name for the second Interest can be the same as the name for the first Interest or a new name as indicated in the notification message. The system transmits the notification message to the content requesting device, thereby facilitating the content requesting device to handle a potential timeout event. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021152 | DEVICE-DRIVEN SOCIAL NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a network-enabled device, the network-enabled device being associated with a first user of a social-networking system. The information indicates that the physical presence of an item has been detected by one or more sensors of the network-enabled device. The method further includes identifying the item based on the received information and providing information about the identified item to one or more second users of the social-networking system. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021154 | System And Method For Displaying Information - Methods, software, products and systems of a communications system which provides simultaneous electronic and non-electronic communications from a user to one or more recipients. Methods, software, products and systems of a transportation communications system which provides simultaneous electronic and non-electronic communications from a user to one or more recipients. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021159 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF EXPOSITION DATA AND GENERATION OF CUSTOMIZED COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS - Features are disclosed for aggregating data from numerous data sources related to events (such as expositions, trade shows, conventions and meetings) and integrating such data into a comprehensive data store. The data can be analyzed, searched and filtered to provide targeted communications and customized reports regarding various aspects of an exposition or other event. The targeted communications and customized reports may be based on data from multiple (e.g., two or more) discrete data sources. Examples of the targeted communications include text messages, emails, invitations, previews, and follow-up messages designed to facilitate in-person meetings between event participants (e.g., attendees and exhibitors at expositions). Examples of the customized reports include hotel utilization reports to determine the economic impact of an exposition on a host city, commissions due to third-party vendors, and the like. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021172 | REPUTATION-BASED STRATEGY FOR FORWARDING AND RESPONDING TO INTERESTS OVER A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK - A CCN network node use reputation values for one or more interfaces to determine how to forward an Interest. During operation, the network node can receive an Interest or Content Object via a network interface, determines one or more candidate outbound faces for forwarding the Interest by performing a longest-prefix-matching lookup in a forwarding information base (FIB) using the Interest's name or name prefix as input. A respective FIB entry maps a name prefix to a forwarding rule that includes a corresponding outbound face for the name prefix. The node can determine a reputation value for each of the candidate outbound faces based on reputation information stored in association with the Interest's name or name prefix, and selects a candidate outbound face with a reputation value exceeding a first predetermined threshold. The node can then forward the received Interest via the selected outbound face. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021173 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A BIG DATA ENVIRONMENT - A method and system to automatically analyze, diagnose and repair the state of a network utilizing big data and machine learning techniques. Data from disparate sources related to a first network element is received by a processing layer. Contextual information from a measurements megastore related to the first network element and other network elements is retrieved. The data from the disparate sources and the contextual information is analyzed by an intelligence layer comprising big data and machine learning techniques. Upon determining, by the intelligence layer, that a predetermined condition is met or a predetermined threshold is exceeded, a notification is provided to the first network element. Over time, the intelligence layer adapts to learn based on growing amounts of historical data. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021179 | Automated Group Recommendation - A system for automatically generating group recommendation comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive information about a first user; construct a recommended group of other users using the information about the first user; provide the recommended group of other users as suggestion to the first user; and responsive to input from the first user, create a new group in a service, and performing an action on the new group in the service. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products for the automatic generation and suggestion of groups. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021181 | DATA FUSION AND EXCHANGE HUB - ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized method for facilitate and orchestrate the exchange and integration of data assets and data consumers, with or without computer appliances, automated framework comprised of technical devices for enabling integration of one or more of data assets including data streamer, structured data repository, unstructured data repository, 3rd party application, ontology, sensor, service provider, text, image, video, voice, and data consumers including human user, web portal, email, repository of data, reporting warehouse, 3rd party application, workflow, analytics process, model, ontology index, problem solver, decision system, mobile device, sensor, wearable computer. The automated framework can be one of asynchronous messaging-based, asynchronous near real-time, synchronous real-time; computer memory is used for storing applications for distribution to data consumers. The framework provides encryption, authentication, rights and roles controlling data assets, or data consumers. A user can interact with the framework to perform monitoring, management or analysis functions. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021183 | COLLABORATIVE CAX UPDATES - A method, executed by at least one processor, may include storing, within a set of memory locations within a storage medium, data for a feature of an engineering object in a first client format and a collaborative server format that is different than the first client format, the first client format corresponding to a first CAx application operable by a first user, the collaborative server format corresponding to a collaborative server. The method may also include updating the data for the feature in both the first client format and the collaborative server format in response to receiving an update to the feature from, or detecting an update to the feature by, the first CAx application or the collaborative server. A corresponding system and computer readable medium are also disclosed herein. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021194 | DYNAMIC DETECTION OF INACTIVE VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CLIENTS - The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for dynamic detection of inactive virtual private network clients. Specifically, a network device receives periodic messages from a first device at a first interval, and determines a timeout value for the first device based at least on the first interval, at which the periodic messages are received from the first device. Subsequent to determining the timeout value, the network device detects that a message has not been received from the first device for a period of time corresponding to the timeout value for the first device. The network device then terminates at least one connection with the first device responsive to determining that no message has been received from the first device for the period of time corresponding to the timeout value for the first device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021202 | Tracking Content Use Via Social Media - Provided are methods and systems related to communications between a social media service or provider (e.g., Twitter®, Facebook®) or other resource (e.g., web page) and one or more content providers. In an aspect, provided are methods, comprising receiving user information and a user agnostic identifier, providing an access element configured to provide access to content from a content provider based on the user information and the user agnostic identifier, receiving, from the content provider, a notification indicative of a user interaction with the content based on a user accessing the content, and tracking user behavior based on at least one of the user information, the user agnostic identifier, the access element, and the notification. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021213 | MISSED FEED UNIT FOR CONTENT FEEDS - A social networking system provides a content feed to a client device associated with the user of a social networking system, the content feed including a plurality of content items. The social networking system identifies one or more missed content items, of the plurality of content items, that were part of the content feed and were not displayed by the client device. The social networking system generates a subsequent content feed that includes one or more content items that have not been previously provided to the client device and a missed feed unit that is associated with the one or more missed content items. In one embodiment, the missed feed unit, when selected, redirects the user to a new page that presents a different content feed including the identified missed content items. The social networking system provides the subsequent content feed to the client device for presentation to the user. | 01-21-2016 |
20160028681 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ENTERPRISE COMPLIANCE ISSUES - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code that causes a processor to receive, at a compliance device, a message from a source communication device addressed to a destination communication device. The code causes the processor to analyze at a context engine, the content of the message to determine a first risk level associated with a preference of an organization. The code further causes the processor to analyze at a regulatory engine, the content of the message to determine a second risk level associated with a regulatory standard of a specific industry and to define a composite risk level based on the first risk level and the second risk level. The code further causes the processor to send a notification to an administrator if the composite risk level satisfies a criterion, and to send the message to the destination communication device irrespective of the composite risk level. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028780 | Managed Device-to-Device Communication in Business Computing Systems - Systems and methods for managed device-to-device communication in business computing systems are disclosed. An event stream processor is extended with a communication adapter to handle messages from devices using disparate communication protocols (e.g., versions of MQTT). The messages from the devices can be received through a gateway that converts the disparate communication protocols into a common communication protocol (e.g., WebSocket). Specific communication protocols associated with each device, as well as publisher-subscriber relationships among the devices, are established and maintained in communication adapter of the ESP. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028785 | MESSAGE RATE MIXING FOR BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - Disclosed are systems and methods for controlling an amount and rate of security related information (e.g., content encryption or rights management information) being transmitted in a content stream to a user device. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a method and related apparatuses for reducing bandwidth usage required when sending transitional security related information during a transition point of different content in a content stream. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028789 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for allowing at least part of display content of a second terminal apparatus included in multiple terminal apparatuses to be displayed on at least a portion of a display screen of a first terminal apparatus included in the multiple terminal apparatuses in such a manner that the first terminal apparatus is in a synchronous state. The process includes acquiring first operation content indicating content of an operation performed by a first user on the first terminal apparatus; and modifying, in a case where the first operation content indicates content of an operation of modifying display content displayed on the first terminal apparatus in synchronization with the second terminal apparatus and indicates content of a predetermined operation, the display content displayed on the first terminal apparatus to display content corresponding to the first operation content. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028793 | EXTENDING SHARING OPTIONS OF LOCAL COMPUTING RESOURCES - A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028803 | Networking in a Social Network - A method and apparatus for facilitating networking in a social network. A computer system identifies a group of features in an image for a person in the social network. The computer system also identifies a characteristic for networking from the group of features. Further, the computer system identifies a set of people in the social network having the characteristic. The computer system also performs an action enabling networking in the social network with respect to the person and the set of people in the social network having the characteristic. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028840 | METHOD AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS FOR PUSH NOTIFICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system, and article of manufacture of a native notification center app that receive all types of push notifications. The push notification payload contains the URL to be launched when touched on the display of a mobile device and the custom data to be passed to the web application on launch. The push message sent to the notification center app and when the app is opened, which lists all the push notifications. When the user touches a notification, the URL in that notification can be launched in the browser and the custom data can be made available to the web application as parameters. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028846 | RESIDENTIAL CACHE APPLIANCE UTILIZING A SOCIAL NETWORK - Embodiments are disclosed for managing a distributed data center. The managing can include receiving content interaction history associated with a first social networking account of a social networking system at a content distribution system; maintaining a cache map of available cache appliances to implement a distributed cache store; selecting a content item to push to a residential cache appliance based on the content interaction history, wherein pushing the content item includes updating the cache map to associate a network address of the residential cache appliance with an identifier of the content item; and providing a content distribution service configured to redirect a content streaming request for the content item to the residential cache appliance when the content item is determined to be available in the distributed cache store according to the cache map. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT ROUTING AND CORRELATION - A collaboration environment provides a generic event distributing framework that can distribute both synchronous and asynchronous events. The distributed events may be pre-defined or dynamically defined. Further, the framework can support multiple data formats for the event payload. The collaboration environment relies on two separate APIs to separate event producers from event consumers. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036661 | REVISING CONNECTION STRENGTHS IN A SOCIAL GRAPH - During a feedback technique, a system that provides a social network requests feedback regarding an initial connection strength associated with an edge between two nodes in the social graph, which are associated with an entity and a counterparty, respectively. Note that the social graph represents interactions among users of the social network. Based on the feedback, the system determines a directional asymmetry between revised connection strengths received from the entity and the counterparty. Then, the system performs a remedial action based on the determined directional asymmetry, such as adjusting the connection strength of the edge. In addition, the remedial action may include: feedback about an accuracy of the initial connection strength, estimating a power distance between the entity and the counterparty, and/or encouraging interaction between the entity and the counterparty. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036741 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEM INVOLVING ADAPTIVE CONTENT - An electronic messaging system is provided to generate and send electronic messages that contain adaptive content to customize the electronic messages for each recipient. The system operates to receive an adaptive content asset and a content rule, select a set of adaptive content elements from the adaptive content asset based upon the content rule, and send a content locator to an author computing device to permit the author computing device to include the content locator in the electronic message and send the electronic message to a recipient computing device. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036872 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION - A peer collaboration method comprising: receiving commands from certain users to create project correspondence environment (PCE) objects each containing PCE metadata and PCE team members and related entities; generating, for each of the PCE objects, child PCE objects associated with respective related entities, associating each entity with the respective child PCE object as a PCE child member, and inheriting respective PCE metadata from the PCE object, each one of the child PCE objects additionally containing child PCE team members; documenting correspondence held between any of the child PCE team members within each respective child PCE object; providing each of the child PCE team members with an access to the documented correspondence within the child PCE object; documenting correspondence held between any of the PCE team members with each of the entities; and providing each of the PCE team members with an access to the documented correspondence in the PCE object. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF DIGITALLY EMULATED SHADOW RESOURCES - Various aspects and embodiments facilitate management of digitally emulated physical resources. Users can access a management system to create pairings between digitally emulated resources and physical resources. The paired resources can be consistently managed through the system, such that any user from any source can access and dynamically reserve physical and digital resources. In further embodiments, the system can create pairings between the digital emulation and physical resources based on merge operations performed on multiple digital emulations of resources, copy and pasting for other digital emulation of resources, and digital altering of existing resources. The system enables efficient management, control, and implements security for digital and physical resources using, for example, a “digital room.” Security rules and enforcement can be specified within the digital rooms based on access rights, content displays, and can be specific to each resource controlled by the digital room. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036896 | TECHNIQUES TO AGGREGATE AND BROADCAST LIVE EVENT DATA IN REAL-TIME - A system to aggregate and broadcast live event data in real-time includes an aggregator host server having one or more processor circuits; and an aggregator component executing on a processor circuit to: receive a plurality of data payloads, from topic entries associated with a plurality of subscribed topics associated with a live event, from a message queue server; aggregate the plurality of data payloads into a new aggregated topic entry; and publish the new aggregated topic entry to an aggregated topic at the message queue server, when the aggregator component has a publisher role. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036900 | SHARING DIGITAL MEDIA ASSETS FOR PRESENTATION WITHIN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CONTENT BETWEEN DEVICES IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - A method and apparatus share content between devices in peer-to-peer networks. A first connection between a first peer device and a second peer device can be established in a first peer-to-peer network. A second connection between the second peer device and a third peer device can be established in a second peer-to-peer network. A content request can be received at the second peer device from the first peer device, where the content request is a request for requested content. The second peer device can determine that it does not have the requested content. The second peer device can store the content request when it does not have the requested content. The second peer device can forward the content request to the third peer device if the second peer device does not have the requested content. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036904 | PEER NEGOTIATION OF AREA SERVICE PREFERENCES - Methods and systems may provide for joining an overlay network of a plurality of peer devices and identifying a local preference for an area service available to the plurality of peer devices. Additionally, the local preference may be used to negotiate a common preference for the area service with the plurality of peer devices. In one example, the common preference is a best fit value for the plurality of peer devices on the overlay network. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036910 | TECHNIQUES TO BROADCAST LIVE EVENT DATA IN REAL-TIME - An apparatus to broadcast live event data in real-time includes one or more processor circuits; and a subscription component operatively executing on a processor circuit to receive a topic entry from a message queue server, and to push the topic entry to a subscribed client device substantially simultaneously with the message queue server receiving the topic entry from a live data source. The apparatus may also include a communication component operatively coupled to a processor circuit to open a connection with the client device, and receive a request for a topic from the client device. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036939 | Selecting Content for Simultaneous Viewing by Multiple Users - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for providing content to a group of users. A method includes: determining that a plurality of users are in proximity to each other and a likelihood that the users are viewing content on a single device; receiving a request for content from the single device; identifying a profile associated with each of the plurality of users, the profile for use in identifying relevant content for delivery to a respective user; creating a group profile based on the identified profiles; and selecting one or more content items for delivery responsive to the request based at least in part on the group profile. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037317 | APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS - A device and method is provided for signaling an affinity of a peer device. According to one embodiment, the device receives a wireless signal from the peer device and determines the presence of the peer device based on the received signal. The device is able to detect the peer device when the peer device is within the vicinity or a certain proximity of the device. The received signal carries an affinity code of the peer device so that the device can detect the affinity of the peer device by comparing the received affinity code with its preset affinity code. If the two affinity code match, the device notifies the user of the presence of another user and signals that the two users share the same affinity. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044070 | AUTOMATIC INITIATION OF A COLLABORATIVE SESSION - A method includes a conference facilitation server to determine whether a conference initiator has defined a set of conference parameters, storing the set of conference parameters in a database. The server communicates a conference invitation to each of the proposed participants using contact identifiers and designates the proposed participants as a confirmed participants when the proposed participants send conference acknowledgements to the conference server, responsive to the conference invitation to participate in a collaborative session. The server automatically initiates a first attempt to establish communications with each of the confirmed participants at the conference time on the conference date through a conference medium using contact identifiers. If the first attempt to establish communication fails then the server automatically initiates an additional attempt to establish communications with a particular confirmed participant with whom the first attempt has failed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044071 | SHARING A WEB BROWSER SESSION BETWEEN DEVICES IN A SOCIAL GROUP - A content sharing platform for sharing a web browser session between users in a social group is disclosed. The content sharing platform enables users of mobile devices to share a reference to the social group between users in the social group. A web sharing session is initiated by running a bookmarklet on a web page accessed by a primary user in the social group. Content from the web page and an action of the primary user on the web page are encoded into an image. The encoded image is associated with the reference to the social group and presented on a web page to one or more secondary users in the social group. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044072 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus ( | 02-11-2016 |
20160044090 | TRIGGERING A COMMUNICATIVE ACTION BASED ON A CLIENT-DETERMINED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROXIMATE CLIENT DEVICES - In an aspect, a client device detects a set of proximate client devices. The client device classifies, for each respective proximate client device in the set of proximate client devices, a relationship relative to an operator of the client device based on a local evaluation of one or more interactions between the client device and at least one proximate client device from the set of proximate client devices in response to the detecting. The client device determines whether to automatically trigger a communicative action with one or more proximate client devices from the set of proximate client devices based on the classifying. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044119 | Socially Augmented Browsing of a Website - A computer system enables users of an Internet application (such as a web site or a mobile application) to specify that they wish to be members of one or more groups. The computer system provides the user with information about activities performed by other users who are members of the same group as the user. For example, the computer system may inform a user of the web pages currently being viewed and/or recently viewed by other users who are members of the same group(s) as the user. Examples of other information that the computer system may inform the user about include amount of time spent by other users in the same group on particular web pages, content shared by those users, and products purchased by those users. Groups may be created by the users themselves and/or by the administrators of the Internet application. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044120 | Eliciting Event-Driven Feedback in a Social Network - Particular embodiments detect events associated with information about activities that a user has engaged in. The activities may be associated with a location or location-agnostic. Based on the received information, the social-networking system sends the user a request for follow-up information after an appropriate time delay. The time delay may vary based on the user activity and the context of the event that triggered the request. After the follow-up information is received, such information is stored in the social-networking system and may be used to determine recommendations, sponsored stories, advertisements, etc. to send to friends of the user. The information may also be used for ranking or filtering recommendations. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044121 | Eliciting Event-Driven Feedback in a Social Network - Particular embodiments detect events associated with information about activities that a user has engaged in. The activities may be associated with a location or location-agnostic. Based on the received information, the social-networking system sends the user a request for follow-up information after an appropriate time delay. The time delay may vary based on the user activity and the context of the event that triggered the request. After the follow-up information is received, such information is stored in the social-networking system and may be used to determine recommendations, sponsored stories, advertisements, etc. to send to friends of the user. The information may also be used for ranking or filtering recommendations. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044481 | Telecommunication Service Employing an Electronic Information Repository Storing Social Network User Information, Developer Information, and Mobile Network Operator Information - A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to devices) of the participating parties. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050167 | MATCHING CONVERSIONS FROM APPLICATIONS TO SELECTED CONTENT ITEMS - Matching conversions from within applications on a client device to interactions with content items presented with resources may include receiving first data associated with an interaction with a content item displayed with a resource. The first data includes an application identifier for an application associated with the content item and an account identifier. The matching may also include receiving second data from the client device associated with a conversion using the application. The second data includes the application identifier and a device identifier for the client device. The matching may further include receiving third data from the client device that includes the account identifier and the device identifier. The conversion can be determined as associated with the interaction with the content item displayed with the resource based on matching the second data with the first data based on the third data. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050261 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGING GRID FOR BIG DATA INGESTION AND/OR ASSOCIATED METHODS - Certain example embodiments relate to an intelligent messaging grid for Big Data ingestion and/or associated methods. Each node in a network of nodes is dynamically configurable to send and/or receive messages using one of brokered and brokerless communication models. At least some of the nodes have a complex event processing (CEP) engine deployed thereto, the CEP engines being configured to operate on messages received by the respective nodes and being classified as one of at least two different types of CEP engines. For each message received by a given node that is to be forwarded to a further node along one of multiple possible paths, the given node is configured to route the message to be forwarded to an intermediate node in one of the possible paths. The intermediate node is selected by the CEP engine of the given node based on metadata associated with the message to be forwarded. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050262 | SCALABLE FAULT RESILIENT COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN DISTRIBUTED CLUSTERS - Embodiments are directed to communicating between computing nodes in a cluster of nodes. In one scenario, a computer system receives a data packet from a worker node including the worker node's current workload identifiers and health status, where the data packet includes an associated version number. The computer system determines that the version number in the received data packet is different than a previously received data packet and evaluates the worker node's current workload configuration to determine whether workload changes are to be made on the worker node. Then, upon determining that workload changes are to be made on the worker node, the computer system selects a subset of workload changes to apply to the worker node, generates an indication of the selected subset of workload changes to the worker node and sends the generated indication of workload changes to the worker node. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050266 | SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-implemented social networking service, generating a first social circle of the user, the first social circle comprising a first subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a first distribution for digital content, generating a second social circle of the user, the second social circle comprising a second subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a second distribution for digital content, and, in response to user input, providing the first social circle and the second social circle for selection by the user to define a distribution of digital content, the distribution comprising at least one of the first distribution and the second distribution. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050268 | CONTENTS SHARING METHOD BETWEEN MOBILE TERMINAL AND LOCAL SERVER - Provided is a contents sharing method between a mobile terminal and a local server. The contents sharing method between a client terminal storing metadata and a server terminal storing the metadata, the method comprising requesting the server terminal for a contents share service; and receiving information on contents corresponding to matching metadata as a result of comparing the metadata stored in the client terminal and the metadata stored in the server terminal, thereby sharing contents desired by the user without the user's intervention. Also, the user can communicate desired contents information with people in a bus, subway, library, etc., which forms a social network, and produces a contents flow between mobile terminals, thereby creating a new business model such as contents resale, promotion, etc. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050272 | ZERO-KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING ENGINE - Methods, systems, and apparatus are described providing social networking engines. Specifically, the present specification relates to a method for implementing software containers implementing social network engines that may be configured to act in a zero-knowledge environment. In such implementations, all information pertaining to the social network engine associated with a user that is stored in the container is solely that of a user unless explicitly shared by the user. In some implementations, the containers may be configured to participate in a publish-and-subscribe network in order to share information. In addition, the containers may be provisioned with controls so that global operators may comply with local privacy rules. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050289 | AUTOMATIC SHARING OF DIGITAL CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining that an event is occurring, in response to determining that the event is occurring, setting a sharing mode of a computing device to an automatic sharing mode, determining that first digital content has been generated, and in response to the automatic sharing mode and determining that the first digital content has been generated: automatically transmitting, to one or more servers, a first digital content file associated with the first digital content and instructions for distributing the first digital content using the one or more social networking services. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING UNIQUE PROFILES ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - A social networking system enables users to join multiple user groups and create separate profiles for each group they join on the site. Each profile has a default set of user fields and a set of customized, administrator-created fields. Members of a group may create a profile when joining a particular group and may create the profile using a custom profile template generated for each group. Thus, if the same user joins a second group, they can create a new profile for the second group based on a profile template that is unique to the second group. The system may use information from the first profile to auto-populate the second profile if the second profile includes one or more of the same fields as the first profile. However, users may be able to edit the auto-populated information in the second profile to make it more specific to the second group. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050392 | METHOD FOR LIVE VIDEO CHAT - A method is described for bridging a live video chat between two terminals, and then terminating the live video chat after a short period of time has elapsed since the live video chat, in order to reduce the pressure and fear of the parties in the live video chat. Certain attributes for the users of the terminals are calculated. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057183 | METHOD FOR ROUTING IN A CENTRAL CONFERENCING ROUTING SERVER - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. A collaboration conferencing routing server may provide configurability in routing a collaboration conference to a conference bridge based on any number of criteria and information about the requester and the communications network on which the conference occurs. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057188 | GENERATING AND UPDATING EVENT-BASED PLAYBACK EXPERIENCES - Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives to the media data. Furthermore, this representation of media can recompose itself dynamically as more media is added to the collection. While a collection may use a single user's content, sometimes media that is desirable to include in the collection is captured by friends and/or others at the same event. In certain embodiments, media content related to the event can be automatically collected and shared among selected groups. Further, in some embodiments, new media can be automatically incorporated into a media collection associated with the event, and the playback experience dynamically updated. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057199 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING A MEDIA FILE IN MULTIPLE PORTIONS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive an initial request to upload a media file. A first portion size for the media file can be determined based on information included in the initial request. A first data start position and a first data end position for the media file can be transmitted based on the first portion size. A first portion of the media file can be received. In some instances, the first portion can be acquired from the media file based on the first data start position and the first data end position. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057216 | Social Networking and Network Connectivity - Social networking is used to enhance content delivery to mobile devices. Sometimes a mobile device lacks network connectivity, such as when the mobile device is off or offline. Content cannot be sent to the mobile device when lacking network connectivity. A social network, however, may be retrieved for interim storage of the content. When the mobile device lacks network connectivity, the content may be routed to a member device of the social network. The member device stores the content until the mobile device resumes network connectivity. The member device may then send or forward the content to the mobile device. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057218 | METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING MEDIA BASED ON PROXIMITY DETECTION - Augmenting media based on proximity detection involves detecting proximate devices of participants of an event via a wireless proximity device. User media associated with the participants is obtaining based on the proximity detection and further based on contact data associated with the participants. Event media that records an aspect of the event is obtained the event media is combined with the user media to form augmented media, wherein the augmented media simulates the participant's presence in the event media. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057239 | MANAGING CODESET CONVERTER USAGE OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for managing codeset converter usage between various computational devices associated with a plurality of users in communication over a network is provided. The method may include receiving, by a computer over the network, a user-defined codeset converter from a user associated with the plurality of users. A category for the user is then determined from among a plurality of predetermined categories. One or more other users associated with the plurality of users are determined, whereby the one or more other users include a substantially identical category to that of the determined category of the user. The received user-defined codeset converter is then distributed to the one or more other users having the substantially identical category via the network, whereby the distributed user-defined codeset converter provides a customized codeset mapping table for the user and the one or more other users based on the determined category. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057241 | Finding And Consuming Web Subscriptions In A Web Browser - A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057246 | A method and a system for generating dynamic recommendations in a distributed networking system - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and a system for generating dynamic recommendations in a distributed networking system. The present disclosure provides real time and contextual dynamic recommendations of information and transaction opportunities for needs identified using dynamic profiles of users. The dynamic recommendations are sorted by relevance using several key factors like connection strength, skill-fit-score, group affinity, Item-affinity, rater scores, location proximity etc. In an embodiment, the present disclosure relates to generating a health profile of a user in the distributed networking system. The method discloses predicting the possibility of a health disorder affecting a user based on health profiles of other users connected over the network. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057250 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, ACCESS SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information terminal includes an acquisition unit that acquires specific posted information from a server which collects posted information that is posted from information terminals; a control unit that controls the posted information based on time series information; and a detection unit that detects a predetermined setting operation. When the detection unit detects the setting operation, the control unit executes a sharing process based on information about another information terminal obtained from the server, where the sharing process acquires at least part of data provided by said other information terminal based on the time series information. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062723 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING FRAME AGGREGATION WITH SCREEN SHARING - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing frame aggregation with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a stream of delta frames from a publishing client as part of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; establishing a FIFO buffer for each of the respective one or more viewing clients on 1:1 basis; queuing a copy of the stream of delta frames into each of the FIFO buffers corresponding to the one or more viewing clients, wherein the stream of delta frames are transmitted from the respective FIFO buffers to the corresponding one or more client viewers; monitoring each of the respective FIFO buffers for each of the one or more viewing clients to determine if two or more delta frames are concurrently queued in any single one of the respective FIFO buffers at any given time; aggregating the two or more delta frames into a single aggregated delta frame; re-queuing the aggregated delta frame; and transmitting the aggregated delta frame to the respective viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065627 | CONFIGURABLE METADATA-BASED AUTOMATION AND CONTENT CLASSIFICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION PLATFORMS - Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified metadata rules to metadata events. More specifically, the scalable architecture described herein uses metadata to drive automations and/or polices in a cloud-based environment. In one embodiment, the architecture integrates a metadata service with an event-based automation engine to automatically trigger polices and/or automations based on metadata and/or changes in metadata changes. The metadata service can include customizable and/or pre-build metadata templates which can be used to automatically apply a metadata framework (e.g., particular fields) to files based on, for example, the upload or placement of a particular file in a particular folder. The architecture also provides for advanced metadata searching and data classification. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065628 | CALCULATING AN ENTITY'S LOCATION SIZE VIA SOCIAL GRAPH - Techniques for determining a location of an entity are described. A determination module using member profile data may determine the location of the entity. Member profile data can include information about a member's employer and the employer's location. The module accesses member profiles from a social network. Additionally, the module may create a subgroup of entity-related member profiles from the accessed member profiles. The entity-related member profiles can be associated with a specific entity. Furthermore, the module may determine a suggested location for the specific entity based on location information derived from the related member profiles. Moreover, the module may calculate a connection density for the specific entity based on connections associated with the entity-related member profiles. Subsequently, the module may determine that the suggested location is a physical location when the calculated connection density is above a pre-determined threshold value. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065630 | ANTICIPATORY CONTEXTUAL NOTIFICATIONS - A system and method for anticipatory contextual notifications are provided. In example embodiments, a context indication corresponding to a user that is a member of a social network service is received. The context indication is indicative of a real-time context of the user. The context indication is analyzed to determine that the context indication is a significant context indication. An entity associated with the significant context indication and that is a member of the social network service is identified. Member data associated with the identified entity and the user is accessed. Notification context is generated based, at least in part, on an analysis of the significant context indication and the member data. Presentation, to the user, of a notification that includes the notification context is caused. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065658 | EVENT AND STAFF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are described for responding to an event, the method comprising receiving, by a server over a network, a notice indicating the occurrence of the event at a facility, classifying, by the server, the event based at least in part on the notice, generating, by the server, at least one message corresponding to each of at least one device, wherein each of the at least one message is generated based, at least in part, on at least one role associated with the each of the at least one device, and transmitting, by the server over the network, the at least one message to the each of the at least one device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065669 | LOCATION-ORIENTED TEAM INTERCOMMUNICATION - A system and method for intercommunication among the members of a team employing user devices, organized around maps of the locations of the team members presented on the display screens of the user devices. Team members manage intercommunications among themselves by selections made according to the displayed maps and icons thereon. The maps provide a flexible framework around which to structure various modalities of intercommunication including chat, voice, audio-video camera streaming, or a data stream from a sensor, which are graphically indicated on the maps. Organizing and managing according to icons of team members on the maps provides flexible intercommunication without excessive constraint, facilitating intuitive and easy operation. When posting of geographical location of a team member is not desired, a ghost mode permits a team member to freely interact with the group without divulging location. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065681 | PROVIDING CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON USER AFFINITY IN A SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated with the social network environment is then determined based on the one or more activities and the relationship. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065682 | Information Receiving Method, Terminal And Storage Medium - The disclosure discloses an information receiving method, applied for a terminal to receive information pushed by a server, the method including: the terminal listening to a notification message transmitted from the server; the terminal establishing a connection with the server based upon the notification message listened; and the terminal receiving information transmitted from the server over the connection, and upon reception of the information transmitted from the server, the terminal disconnecting the connection immediately or after a preset period of time. The disclosure further discloses a terminal and a storage medium. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070786 | OPTIMIZED SOCIAL NETWORKING SUMMARIZING METHOD AND SYSTEM UTILIZING FACT CHECKING - An optimized fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The optimized fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information in an optimized manner and/or provides a status of the information. In some embodiments, the optimized fact checking system generates, aggregates, and/or summarizes content. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072670 | VIRTUAL SERIAL CABLE - Techniques and systems for providing a virtual serial cable are provided. For example, computing device, a method, and a computer-program product may be provided. A computing device may include one or more data processors and a receiver for receiving a serial communication from a first serially-connected device located in a first location, wherein the first serially-connected device is assigned a first universally unique identifier, and wherein the serial communication includes a second universally unique identifier assigned to a second serially-connected device located in a second location. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may contain instructions which when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain the second universally unique identifier, determine that the second universally unique identifier is assigned to the second serially-connected device, and create a virtual serial connection between the first serially-connected device and the second serially-connected device, wherein the virtual serial connection is established with the second serially-connected device based on the second universally unique identifier being assigned to the second serially-connected device. The computing device may include a transmitter for transmitting the serial communication to the second serially-connected device located in the second location, wherein the serial communication causes the second serially-connected device to perform an operation. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072753 | SUPPRESSING CONTENT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method of suppressing content of a social network, the method comprising monitoring for a number of gestures of rejection of content on the social network from a number of users, generating suppression data based on the gestures of rejection, receiving input from a first user among the number of users indicating that the suppression data is to be leveraged, and suppressing content based on the suppression data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ONLINE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT BASED TRANSLATION OF ENTITY MENTIONS - The technology disclosed relates to adapting online social feed items according to the posting formats of each of the multiple destination online social environments to which they are posted, regardless of the source online social environments from which they originate. In particular, it relates to creating separate instances of a feed item such that each of the instances includes tag formats, social handles or identifiers that are compatible to the online social environments in which they are embedded. These separate instances of a feed item can all be embedded in a first online social environment while preserving their tag formats corresponding to other online social environments. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072853 | Discovery and Control of Remote Media Sessions - Example apparatus and methods concern a first device (e.g., smart phone, tablet, laptop) that may discover and control remote media sessions (e.g., movie, game, book, podcast) running on remote devices (e.g., smart television, game console). The first device may run a local shell process that interacts with a shell process or other process on a remote device. The local shell process may acquire information about exposed remote media sessions. The local shell process may present a user interface on the first device. The user interface may provide user interface elements (e.g., buttons) for controlling a remote media session. The user interface and user interface elements are native to the first device. The user interface may allow navigating (e.g., flipping) between multiple remote media sessions that are discovered. The local shell process may also discover media sessions local to the first device and include those sessions in the user interface. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072857 | ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES IN CONTENT SHARING - A first computing system controls a presentation on a presentation device. The first computing system receives a request to join a presentation, from a second computing system. The first computing system extracts content from the presentation and makes it available to the second computing system in a form in which accessibility settings can be applied to the content, without affecting the visual appearance of the content being presented on the presentation device. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072859 | METHODS FOR SHARING APPLICATIONS AND APPARATUSES USING THE SAME - An embodiment of the invention introduces a method for sharing applications, executed by a processing unit of a sharing apparatus, which contains at least the following steps. Application-sharing information is sent to a control node, wherein the application-sharing information regarding an application to be shared and a control-filtering policy of the application, thereby enabling the control node to search sharing apparatuses capable of providing services for a requesting apparatus and determine whether to transfer a control signal to the sharing apparatus according to the application-sharing information. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072860 | EXCHANGING DIGITAL CONTENT - A first content selection stored on a portable media device is associated with a first tag. In addition, a second tag that is associated with a second content selection and that indicates that supplemental content related to the second content selection is stored on a peer device is accessed from a peer device. The first tag is compared to the second tag, and, if a commonality shared by the first content selection and the second content selection is identified, an exchange of the supplemental content from the peer device to the portable media device is initiated. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072876 | GENERATING DIGITAL MEDIA - Implementations generally relate to generating digital media. In some implementations, a method includes receiving one or more non-digital media items from a user. The method further includes generating one or more digital media items from the one or more non-digital media items. The method further includes storing the one or more digital media items in a storage location associated with the user. The method also includes enabling the user to share the one or more digital media items from the storage location. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING MEDIA REPLICATION IN A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING A COMMUNICATION MEDIUM FOR A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION - In a method for requesting media replication in a collaborative communication session, a message is sent which specifies that a communication medium for a collaborative communication session, which is currently being transmitted to at least one terminal, should additionally be transmitted to at least one other terminal, with the at least one other terminal being indicated in the message as the recipient of the communication medium. In a method for assigning a communication medium for a collaborative communication session, a corresponding message is received, and the communication medium is assigned to the at least one other terminal as the recipient of the communication medium. The methods are carried out by appropriately designed apparatuses. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING CONTENT SITE VISITOR PROFILES - Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more visitor stitching processes. Visitor stitching can include, among other things, one or more processes by which multiple visitors that may appear distinctly independent may be merged into a new single united visitor profile due to the leveraging of one or more unique persistent identifiers. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072908 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROXY-BASED MULTI-THREADED MESSAGE PASSING COMMUNICATION - Technologies for proxy-based multithreaded message passing include a number of computing nodes in communication over a network. Each computing node establishes a number of message passing interface (MPI) endpoints associated with threads executed within a host processes. The threads generate MPI operations that are forwarded to a number of proxy processes. Each proxy process performs the MPI operation using an instance of a system MPI library. The threads may communicate with the proxy processes using a shared-memory communication method. Each thread may be assigned to a particular proxy process. Each proxy process may be assigned dedicated networking resources. MPI operations may include sending or receiving a message, collective operations, and one-sided operations. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080164 | Method and Conference Server for Initializing Scheduled Conferences - Conference participants are selected via a network element in a network, the geographical area locations, for example, buildings of an enterprise, of the conference participants are determined and depending on the determined locations a geographical conference area, for example a conference room is determined for each conference participant. The conference area together with the conference information is communicated to the conference participants. The availability of the conference participants can be checked for the communication. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080295 | System and Method for Voice Networking - A system and method for voice based social networking is disclosed. The system receives a voice message (and frequently an image) and ultimately delivers it to one or multiple users, placing it within an ongoing context of conversations. The voice and image may be recorded by various devices and the data transmitted in a variety of formats. An alternative implementation places some system functionality in a mobile device such as a smartphone or wearable device, with the remaining functionality resident in system servers attached to the internet. The system can apply rules to select and limit the voice data flowing to each user; rules prioritize the messages using context information such as user interest and user state. An image is fused to the voice message to form a comment. Additional image or voice annotation (or both) identifying the sender may be attached to the comment. Fused image(s) and voice annotation allow the user to quickly deduce the context of the comment. The system provides the means to deliver a seamless flow of a conversation without requiring user interaction to hear individual comments. Multiple conversations or parts of conversations (or both) are blended into the users acoustic channel without requiring user interaction at the level of individual comments. Advertising may also be integrated. The resulting information flow is translated into formats acceptable to the user's receiving device. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080299 | SHARING ON-LINE MEDIA EXPERIENCES - A lead user may share an on-line media content experience with one or more followers by identifying content of interest being experienced on the lead user system, identifying one or more followers with whom to share the content of interest, inviting the followers to experience the content of interest, and enabling the followers to access the content of interest. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080306 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED UPDATING STATUS RELATED DATA ON SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - The various embodiments herein disclose a method for sharing a status update automatically over a social networking platform. The method comprises storing a registered user's schedule over a timeline of the social networking platform and seeking permission for tracking a registered user's personal devices. The schedule is modified and saved by the registered user manually. The method further comprises tracking a user activity through a combination of plurality of components installed in the personal devices. The tracking is done in an online as well as an offline mode. The method further comprises analyzing a variation in the user activity and testing a priority of variation in the user activity. The method further comprises sending suggestion to user to attach or post the user activity over the social networking platform and uploading and posting the user activity over the timeline as well as a homepage of the respective user's profile. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080309 | ORGANIZATION OF INPUTS FOR ONLINE SERVICE - Technologies are generally described for organizing inputs for an online service. It is determined that there are no updated inputs generated on a personalized page hosted on a server corresponding to the online service for a predetermined time period. The inputs may be associated with an acknowledged contact regarding the online service. Inputs previously generated on the personalized page hosted on the server are reorganized in accordance with one of multiple arrangements. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080440 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION STREAMS BETWEEN DEVICES - Methods and system for routing first communication session data between a first device and at least one participant device via a first communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for routing first communication session data between a first device and at least one participant device includes receiving a request to establish a second communication session with at least one discovered extension device proximate to the first device, routing at least a portion of the communication session data to the discovered extension device via the second communication session and synchronizing the communication session data routed via the first communication session, and the at least a portion of the communication session data routed via the second communication session. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING PRESENTATION DATA AND ANNOTATION - A method and apparatus for sharing presentation data, interactions, and annotation information between devices. The method includes: converting the presentation data into at least one image; transmitting the at least one image to the second device; displaying an image from among the at least one image on a screen of the first device, and transmitting image identification information about the displayed image to the second device; adding annotation data to the displayed image, based on a user input; and transmitting annotation information about the annotation data to the second device. The second device displays an image corresponding to the image identification information on a screen of the second device based on the image identification information, and the second device displays the annotation information on the image displayed on the screen of the second device the annotation information. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080472 | Measuring Sharing Behavior and Audience Coverage in Online Communities - Configurations for measuring sharing behavior and audience coverage for one or more users are provided. Some configurations can include the following components: an input processor (IP), a data processor (DP) and a visualization processor (VP). The IP extracts data from user logs or processes existing raw data, and prepares the data for the data processor. In one example, the IP transforms each user record into a structured file including time-ordered data corresponding to instances of information sharing activity, target users, and associated date-time(s) for the sharing activity. The DP takes the time-ordered data from the IP and performs statistical evaluations to classify and determine the audience coverage and sharing behavior. The VP receives processed data from the DP and generates different graphical visualizations (e.g., one or more graphs) based on the statistical analysis provided by the DP. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080476 | MEME DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A system for discovering internet memes from a social media stream includes a meme detector for grouping together incoming posts that contain a common set of anomalous terms, the meme detector comparing the frequency of use of the anomalous terms against normalcy models to ensure that the use of the anomalous terms is non-recurring. The system additionally includes a meme tracker for classifying each cluster of related posts as a particular meme and, in turn, associating new related posts from the media stream with the classified cluster. In this manner, the particular set of anomalous terms used to classify each meme can be augmented to include other discriminating terms. Accordingly, the parameters, or features, associated with each meme are continuously monitored and refined, as needed, to ensure that the most comprehensive and reflective cluster of posts for each meme is collected from the social media stream in an efficient fashion. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080485 | Systems and Methods for Determining Recommended Aspects of Future Content, Actions, or Behavior - A method includes providing, by a processor of a computing device, potential requests. Each of the potential requests include an indication of at least one recommended aspect type for a future content. The method further includes receiving a selection of at least one of the potential requests for the at least one recommended aspect type for the future content. The selection is associated with a unique author in at least one social network, website, application software, or mobile application software (app). The method further includes automatically determining, in response to the selection, the recommended aspect for the future content. The recommended aspect is determined at least in part based on activity data that indicates aspects of other content authored by or interacted with by a plurality of authors in the at least one social network, website, application software, or mobile application software (app) prior to receipt of the selection. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080492 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A CLOUD SERVICE WITH PRIVATE STORAGE - The present application advantageously provides a system and method for implementing a cloud service with private storage. The system includes a storage device, a cloud server, and a client device. The system is configured in a way that the private storage device designated/owned by a user of the cloud service to initiate a communication with the cloud server to register as the user data storage location for a particular account of the cloud service rather than using a “central public storage” location as in a traditional public cloud service. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080503 | SECURITY INFORMATION INTERACTION SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention discloses a security information interaction system, apparatus and method, the method comprising the following steps: establishing a first communication channel and a second communication channel between a security information interaction terminal and a security carrier; the security carrier actively sending a command to the security information interaction terminal via the first communication channel and the second communication channel so as to complete a corresponding security information interaction procedure. With the security information interaction system, apparatus and method disclosed by the invention, the security carrier can send a command to the security information interaction terminal flexibly and actively on its own, and thus greatly improving the efficiency of the security information interaction system. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACQUIRING AND PROVIDING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CRISIS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a geographical area associated with a crisis. A first user within the geographical area can be identified based on locational data associated with the first user. Information about a safety status of the first user can be actively requested or acquired from the first user. The safety status of the first user can be broadcasted, communicated, or provided to at least a second user associated with the first user. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, activity associated with a user interacting with a network-based system is tracked. Based, at least in part, on the tracked user activity on the network-based system, a recommendation relationship type is selected. The recommendation relationship type can be either a substitute relationship type or a complement relationship type. A recommended object can be selected based at least in part on the recommendation relationship type and a first object accessed by the user interacting with the network-based system. A recommendation can be generated for the recommended object for presentation to the user interacting with the network-based system. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080516 | MULTIMEDIA GENERATING METHOD AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A multimedia generating method for use in a target electronic device includes: communicating the target electronic device with a central relay server (CRS) via internet to conduct an identity authentication; receiving an activation command from the CRS via internet; after receiving the activation command, activating a websocket server module in the target electronic device to establish one or more network sockets between the target electronic device and other electronic devices, so that the target electronic device and other electronic devices communicate control parameters via the websocket server module; generating one or more corresponding images according to control parameters received from other electronic devices; and displaying the one or more images on a display of the target electronic device. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080520 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING BEHAVIOR PROFILES FOR DEVICE MEMBERS OF A NETWORK - A method and system for generating a digital profile defined by digital behavior expressed by a device includes receiving digital behavior data and identifying information defined by a device in communication with a content server, generating a device profile for the device, associating the device with at least one device population, and generating a population profile defined by the device population. The device profiles and population profiles may be made accessible to users of a social network. Related contents, including identifying information, device behavior analysis, comparative ratings, service and diagnostic information, messages and alerts may be associated with a device profile or population profile and published to the social network. A population profile may define normal digital behavior of the population, such that the population profile may be compared with the device profile of a device, to determine whether the device operation is abnormal with respect to the population profile. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085845 | SERVER APPARATUS, DATA AGGREGATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a server apparatus includes: a processor configured to perform: receiving a group ID and a plurality of calculation data corresponding to the group ID from a communication device; registering the plurality of received calculation data correlated with the received group ID; and transmitting image data acquired by aggregating the plurality of registered calculation data for the group ID. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONFERENCING IN A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for a conferencing system. Responsive to a new conference request received at a conference orchestration service, participants of the conference and participant regions for each determined participant are determined. A mixer topology is generated that specifies an assignment of each determined participant to at least one input channel of a plurality of mixers. A mixer state manager generates the mixer topology based on the determined participant regions and at least one regional association of a mixer. Media of each determined participant is routed to the assigned at least one input channel according to the generated mixer topology by using the conference orchestration service. The mixer state manager generates the topology responsive to a request provided by the conference state manager. The conference orchestration service receives the generated mixer topology from the mixer state manager via the conference state manager. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088031 | Associating a Captured Image with a Media Item - Examples disclosed herein include a computing system receiving a first data set representing (i) an image and (ii) an event associated with the image; receiving a second data set representing (i) a media item and (ii) the event; associating the media item with the image; and storing data indicating the association. The examples may also include a computing device capturing an image while the computing device is at an event location; sending, to a computing system, a first data set representing (i) the image and (ii) an event associated with the image and the event location; receiving, from the computing system, a second data set representing a media item that is played back by a media playback system at the event location; causing display, by the display, of the image; and providing an indication of the media item. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088064 | STORING AND TRANSFERRING APPLICATION DATA BETWEEN DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for storing and transferring application data between devices. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first service running on a first device, from a second service running on a second device, application data for a first set of applications on the second device; causing, by the first service and for each application in the first set, the first device to store the application data for the application; receiving, by the first service and from a third service running on a third device, a request for application data for a second set of applications on the third device; determining, by the first service, that the first device stores application data for the second set of applications; and causing, by the first service, the first device to provide stored application data to the third service running on the third device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088067 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF RESTFUL ENDPOINTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods, systems, and program products for dynamically managing RESTful endpoints. In one embodiment, an application server provides dynamic management of RESTful endpoint, including the ability to re-use the same resource information for multiple endpoints across multiple routers, allowing for applications aliases or sharing routing capability between applications. Yet other embodiments of the present invention can provide a high availability application server system and/or failover support for routers and resources, as well as the ability to remotely add new containers and resources to the application server. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088069 | MULTIPLE USER DATA ENTRY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer program acts as a data collection, compilation, storage, and display in an autonomous and dynamic fashion. The software may be used by numerous separate and unrelated facilities working as a network on related projects with diverse hardware. A portable storage device is used to store the necessary software. This storage device will be shared between computer systems on site to collect, compile and store information from each facility. Once all sections are complete, it will be handed to a final arbitrator for review. The ultimate goal of a preferred embodiment is a portable system capable of dynamic modification capable of use in many different fields of operation. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088075 | INLINE MEDIA - Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card based web application is disclosed, where the card information and character may be shared with other users or within a group. The cards may also be configurable by users. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088099 | EVENT NOTIFICATION - In an approach to event notification, one or more computer processors determine a baseline for a volume of activity on a social media website in a geographic location. One or more computer processors determine whether a deviation from the baseline for the volume of activity occurs. Responsive to determining a deviation from the baseline occurs, one or more computer processors identify an event that caused the deviation. One or more computer processors calculate an estimate of population for the geographic location. One or more computer processors identify based, at least in part, on the identified event and the estimated population, a relevant party to be notified of the event. One or more computer processors generate a recommendation based, at least in part, upon one or more of the identified event, the estimate of population, and the identified relevant party. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING VISUAL SESSION RECORDING FOR USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method can monitor one or more user sessions on a target system in a computing environment. An account managing system can capture a plurality of user session screen captures that are associated with said one or more user sessions on the target system. Furthermore, the account managing system can compare a user session screen capture, which is captured at a time during said one or more user sessions, with one or more user session screen captures that are recorded before the time. Then, the account managing system can record said user session screen capture if the target system is determined to be active at the time when said user session screen capture is captured. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088105 | Method, Apparatus and Computer for Identifying State of User of Social Network - A method and an apparatus for identifying a state of a user of a social network. The identification method includes acquiring a user-event similarity of a user regarding a new event; identifying whether the user is a silent user or a non-activated user according to the user-event similarity; and determining whether the silent user or the non-activated user on the social network is finally in an activated state or a non-activated state. In the foregoing manner, a novel user state model of a social network is designed in the present disclosure, the model includes an activated state, a non-activated state and an unstable silent state, and a final state of a user is inferred precisely under full and comprehensive consideration of factors that may affect the state of the user, such that the state of the user can be accurately and precisely monitored. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088111 | Method, Apparatus and Network for Multi-Domain Conference Management - A conference management system, network, and method for enabling the management of teleconference resources across multiple telecommunications networks that serve multiple conference domains. A disclosed multi-domain conference manager (MDCM) subscribes to a network management platform and for one or more sets of entities. Each set defines a particular combination of i) communications service provider(s) (CSP) and ii) enterprise, in which the combination defines a particular scope of management. When a conference-related event occurs, such as a particular conference involving video endpoints being set up with a unified communications (UC) network, the MDCM can notify a CSP network that is within a same scope of management as the UC network, to report on related events as they occur. The MDCM can then coordinate the connection of resources associated with the multiple domains via a cascaded link between bridging resources that serve the different domains. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088121 | BRIDGING RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS ENTERPRISE AND PERSONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS - A user interface (UI) may be provided that allows a user to connect a first identity in a first social community to another identity in another social community by allowing the user to specify the first identity and another identity. Responsive to a user utilizing the UI, the user may be presented with an option to identify connections in the first social community according to a criteria with members associated with another identity in said another social community. A list of identified connections may be presented. | 03-24-2016 |
20160094405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTITENANCY STORE IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, a system and method provides a messaging service in a multitenant application server environment. Deployable resources are usable within the multitenant environment and groupings of resources are defined by resource group templates within a domain. One or more partitions are provided, each partition providing an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain that can be associated with a tenant. Java message service (JMS) resources are defined within a resource group template or a resource group, and instantiated within a partition to enable messaging for applications deployed within the partition and between partitions. Integrating JMS in a multitenant application server environment further includes a custom store defined within each of the resource group templates for use by the JMS resources. Components of the custom store are fully partition scoped and exist in an isolated JNDI name-space and use fully partition scoped runtime MBeans and configuration MBeans. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094592 | Creating and Using Groups for Task Collaboration - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using groups for task collaboration. A computing device can include a processor. The computing device can detect an opportunity to initiate collaboration on a task by a group of devices that includes a collaborating device. The computing device can create the group of devices, provide collaboration data to the collaborating device, and obtain input generated by the collaborating device based upon the collaboration data. The computing device can terminate the group. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094593 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING VIEWABLE CONTENT WITH CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS THROUGH AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT TO BE SHARED - A computer implemented method and apparatus for sharing the contents of a presentation in a web conference through automated identification of documents for selective sharing with web conferences comprises launching a web conference in which an application or an entire desktop view of a conference presenter is caused to be rendered as content viewable on the displays of all conference participants. The method detects that one or more documents are being accessed by application(s) executed concurrently with the desktop sharing application and identifies documents having a supported format as including viewable content available for rendering to the display of the presenter. Automatically, or after presenter confirmation, the content is uploaded to a web server and converted into a format that can be distributed to and cached at the respective participant computers. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094596 | DYNAMIC MEDIA NEGOTIATION IN SECURE MEDIA-BASED CONFERENCING - Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for negotiating media capabilities between a plurality of end point devices in a media-based conference session. A server computing device receives a request to join a conference session between a plurality of end point devices, the request received from a first device and comprising a media flow. The server computing device identifies at least one of the first device and a network from which the first device sent the request. The server computing device determines whether a media negotiation profile associated with the identified device exists. The server computing device determines whether a media negotiation profile associated with the identified network exists. The server computing device adjusts one or more of a bitrate, a session description, and a destination multipoint control unit, based upon the media negotiation profiles. The server computing device connects the adjusted media flow to the conference session. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094597 | Storage Medium Storing Communication Program, Communication Terminal, and Communication Method - A program includes: a first acquiring instruction of acquiring, from a storage, first setting information including function identification information, first permission information, and conference identification information that are associated with one another; a second acquiring instruction of acquiring, from the storage, second setting information including the function identification information, second permission information, and organizer identification information that are associated with one another; a comparing instruction of comparing the first permission information with the second permission information for each of the function indicated by the function identification information, based on the first and second setting information; and a notifying instruction of, in a particular case, selectively providing notification relating to at least one different function based on a comparison result. The at least one different function is indicated by the function identification information of which the first and second permission information are different from each other. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094603 | AUDIO AND VIDEO SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An audio and video sharing method and system is provided. The audio and video sharing method includes initializing a plurality of audio capturing modules in response to a plurality of applications, capturing the first audio data from the first application and the second audio data from the second application, generating the first audio and video stream based on the first audio data, and transmitting the first audio and video stream in response to the first audio and video sharing request. Accordingly, the system separately captures the audio stream from the different applications, and after appropriately coding, transmits the corresponding audio stream to the corresponding user, thereby sharing the corresponding audio stream individually in response to the request of each user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094620 | SCALABLE LOGGING CONTROL FOR DISTRIBUTED NETWORK DEVICES - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more logging events from a client application during a period of time when a logging control configuration has not been fully applied, handling any logging events directed toward at least one of a library code and one or more client applications by storing information relating to an originator of the logging events in a log file and dispatching the logging events directed toward at least one of the library code and the one or more client applications to a syslog daemon, and en-queuing all other logging events for later processing in a circular buffer maintained in non-persistent memory of a shared memory for later retrieval, wherein the other logging events are en-queued for later processing regardless of a severity indicated for any individual logging events. Other methods, systems, and computer program products are described according to more embodiments. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CLUSTERED JMS IN AN APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, a system and method provides a dynamic clustered messaging service in an application server environment. A cluster includes one or more servers operating within the application server environment and is configured to vary a number of the servers based on a service load of applications running on the cluster. The number also varies based on failure and restart of the servers. A messaging service for communicating messages between components of the applications includes instances of messaging service artifacts running on the one or more servers. A placement engine operating on the cluster is configured to migrate the instances of messaging service artifacts between the one or more servers based on a set of rules as the number of the one or more servers in the cluster expands and contracts and as a number of the instances of messaging service artifacts expands and contracts. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094632 | Inline Service Switch - Some embodiments provide novel inline switches that distribute data messages from source compute nodes (SCNs) to different groups of destination service compute nodes (DSCNs). In some embodiments, the inline switches are deployed in the source compute nodes datapaths (e.g., egress datapath). The inline switches in some embodiments are service switches that (1) receive data messages from the SCNs, (2) identify service nodes in a service-node cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (3) use tunnels to send the received data messages to their identified service nodes. Alternatively, or conjunctively, the inline service switches of some embodiments (1) identify service-nodes cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (2) use tunnels to send the received data messages to the identified service-node clusters. The service-node clusters can perform the same service or can perform different services in some embodiments. This tunnel-based approach for distributing data messages to service nodes/clusters is advantageous for seamlessly implementing in a datacenter a cloud-based XaaS model (where XaaS stands for X as a service, and X stands for anything), in which any number of services are provided by service providers in the cloud. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094633 | Configuring and Operating a XaaS Model in a Datacenter - Some embodiments provide novel inline switches that distribute data messages from source compute nodes (SCNs) to different groups of destination service compute nodes (DSCNs). In some embodiments, the inline switches are deployed in the source compute nodes datapaths (e.g., egress datapath). The inline switches in some embodiments are service switches that (1) receive data messages from the SCNs, (2) identify service nodes in a service-node cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (3) use tunnels to send the received data messages to their identified service nodes. Alternatively, or conjunctively, the inline service switches of some embodiments (1) identify service-nodes cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (2) use tunnels to send the received data messages to the identified service-node clusters. The service-node clusters can perform the same service or can perform different services in some embodiments. This tunnel-based approach for distributing data messages to service nodes/clusters is advantageous for seamlessly implementing in a datacenter a cloud-based XaaS model (where XaaS stands for X as a service, and X stands for anything), in which any number of services are provided by service providers in the cloud. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094646 | TRENDING OF AGGREGATED PERSONALIZED INFORMATION STREAMS AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL DEPICTION THEREOF - A system and a method for trending of aggregated personalized information streams and multi-dimensional graphical depiction thereof are disclosed. The method, which may be embodied on a system, includes retrieving a plurality of social media objects that relates to a focused social media object from social media sites; determining relationships between the social media objects; and/or presenting, at a graphic interface, a network diagram including nodes and lines. In one embodiment, each individual node of the nodes represents one of the social media objects. Each individual line of the lines represents one of the relationships between two of the social media objects that are represented by two of the nodes being connected by the individual line. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094651 | METHOD OF PROCURING INTEGRATING AND SHARING SELF POTRAITS FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK - This invention relates to a system, software and method to procure, share, and join selfie in a given social network. The usual existing and new methods of sharing and connecting may be used for implementing this software as used as computer implemented method. Hardware is used for procuring, sharing and integrating the software as a system. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094656 | RELAYING DATA VIA A CLIENT DEVICE - Disclosed are various embodiments for relaying data from a device that may not be equipped with a network interface. A data representation can be generated by the device on a display or via any other localized communication interface. The data representation can be captured by a computing device, which can relay the data to another computing device via a network. The data may be related to the operation of the device, such as status data with respect to the device or information about consumable resources associated with the device. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098490 | SUGGESTING ACTIONS FOR EVALUATING USER PERFORMANCE IN AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products for suggesting actions for evaluating user performance in an enterprise social network. In some implementations, a server of the enterprise social network identifies a message configured to be published to a feed of the enterprise social network. The message may comprise textual input received from a client machine associated with a first user of the enterprise social network. The server determines that the textual input comprises information evaluating a second user associated with the enterprise social network. The server provides data for display at the client machine, the data comprising a prompt to the first user to include the information related to the second user in a performance evaluation record for the second user. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098616 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING DISCUSSION SHARING ON A MOBILE PLATFORM - Techniques for managing discussion sharing on a mobile platform, comprising a mobile discussions application. The mobile discussions application may include, among other components, a discussions imaging component for recognizing a ticket associated with a resource in a social networking system and a discussions management component for enabling a user having an associated user profile information to access the resource based at least partially on the ticket associated with the resource. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099893 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATIONS CONTROL APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed is a transmission system including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal in which the first transmission terminal transmits data to the second transmission terminal. The transmission system includes a first communications connector configured to connect first data communications between the first transmission terminal specified by first identification information and the second transmission terminal specified by second identification information, a determination part configured to refer to registered information registering third identification information in association with the first identification information of the first transmission terminal, acquire the third identification information in association with the first identification information, and determine whether the third identification information is included in transmission data transmitted by the first transmission terminal, and an addition part configured to add first information indicating that determination is made on the transmission data by the determination part. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099898 | FILTER RULE GENERATION APPARATUS AND FILTER RULE GENERATION METHOD - A filter rule generation apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is configured to store instructions. The processor, in accordance with each of the instructions stored on the storage unit, executes a process that causes the filter rule generation apparatus to perform extracting a co-occurrence message group per system, based on a co-occurrence probability, from a plurality of logs in which messages are accumulated, the messages being generated within systems, first generating value information representing a degree of similarity in operation between the systems, based on the extracted co-occurrence message group, clustering the systems, based on the value information, and second generating a rule for extracting messages from the logs of the systems included in each cluster, based on the co-occurrence message group in the cluster generated by the clustering. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099977 | METHOD OF UTILIZING TOKEN TO ENABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES TO ACT SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH EACH OTHER - The present invention is to provide a method enabling a first electronic device to execute steps of: connecting to a cloud server; establishing connection with a second electronic device to obtain a second device parameter stored in the second electronic device; transmitting a first device parameter stored therein and the second device parameter to the cloud server; receiving and storing a token generated by the cloud server, wherein the token is associated with management data stored in the cloud server when the cloud server determines that the first and second device parameters correspond to the management data; and transmitting the token to the second electronic device; such that the first and second electronic devices are stored with the same token, and the cloud server transmits a control instruction to the first and second electronic devices according to the tokens when the second electronic device is connected to the cloud server. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099980 | SPLIT SCREEN TELECONFERENCING - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate conducting a teleconference between a remote client device and a teleconference system. According to various embodiments, the teleconference system may include a data input device that receives teleconference data and a teleconference output device that presents teleconference output data. The data input device and the data output device may reside at different network end points. The system identifies the presence of a user on two different devices and leverages the appropriate device for video capture and display. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099982 | METHODS AND SOFTWARE FOR WEB DOCUMENT SPECIFIC MESSAGING - The present invention is directed to methods and software for web document specific messaging. The methods and software may comprise first determining the digital identifier of a current web document from an application on a user device. The digital identifier is then received at the application server comprising a database. The database is queried for any viewable content associated with the digital identifiers. The viewable content may further be filtered based on user selected filters. The resulting filtered content is then displayed to the user. The user may further be able to input user content relating to the current web document and other user content, which may be viewable by other users depending on user selected privacy settings, this user content may be submitted and associated to the same digital identifier to be shared with other users. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENT ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES - Method for scheduling and implementing an electronic meeting conducted among remotely-located users communicating with an agenda server, including: accepting a meeting agenda that includes a plurality of topics, a quorum, an identification of resources used by each topic, an identification of data used by each topic, and an identification of data produced by each topic; partitioning the meeting agenda into at least a first and second group of topics; searching for data dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; searching for resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; if data dependencies or resource dependencies are found between the first and second groups of topics, then repartitioning the meeting agenda until the data dependencies and resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics are reduced below a predetermined dependency threshold; and concurrently scheduling and executing the first and second groups of topics. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100019 | Contextual Presence Systems and Methods - Systems and methods are provided for managing contextual collaborations. A plurality of contextual collaborations are associated with a plurality of users and resources. A first interaction associated with a first contextual collaboration is receive from a first computing device associated with a first user. The first interaction is stored in association with the first user and the first contextual collaboration. A first status associated with the first user and the first contextual collaboration is updated. The first status is transmitted, over a network, to computing devices associated with at least a first portion of the plurality of users associated with the first contextual collaboration. The first contextual collaboration is one of the plurality of contextual collaborations. The first user is one of the plurality of users associated with the first contextual collaboration. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103903 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GENERATION OF CONTEXTUAL OBJECTS MAPPED BY DIMENSIONAL DATA TO DATA MEASURES - This disclosure in part describes systems, devices, and methods for implementing a unification mechanism that enables the unification of various data sets, which can permit greater collaboration between users of a data management platform. For example, a system can be configured to enable a user to add or associate a contextual object with a data measure. In associating the contextual object with the data measure, the system can store the contextual object with a parameter indicative of the unique dimension coordinates that are associated with the data measure. Other users of the system may, in turn, access the data measure and be shown the contextual object associated with the data measure. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105319 | Device Connectivity Framework - A system and method for providing a device agnostic framework between two or more computing platforms. The system includes a protocol for creating device agnostic messages including data from a message generated by an application on the first computing platform, as well as identification and targeting data to enable the message to be sent to the intend target computing platform. The intended target computing platform responds via a callback, thereby establishing a communication protocol between the first and second computing platforms regardless of different computing languages or hardware being used. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL MEDIA CAPTURE AND RELATED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system and method is provided for media capture and social networking that encourages communication via media posts in an interactive manner. The media content can be recorded via a mobile application running on a mobile device. The application presents an intuitive display in a single screen for capturing various media formats, including images, video, and audio, as well as media compilations of multiple media formats (e.g., still image and audio, video and still image, and others) in a single file. The resulting media content can be shared to the social network via the application. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105472 | Seamless Switching Between Computing Devices During an Online Meeting - Methods and systems for switching between computing devices during an online meeting are described herein. A collaboration server may receive a token from a first computing device connected to an online meeting hosted by the collaboration server. The collaboration server may receive another token from a second computing device and determine whether the received tokens match. If so, the collaboration server may establish an association between the second computing device and the meeting participant attending the online meeting via the first computing device. The collaboration server may accept a request from the second computing device to join the online meeting thus allowing the meeting participant to continue the online meeting from the second computing device. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105486 | SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a social media sharing system including a mobile device, a media playing device, a social networking website, a cloud database and a media resource platform. The members in the social networking website can together edit a media list and then store the media list in the cloud database. The media playing device of the present invention analyzes the content of the media list and obtains a media website address from the media resource platform so as to share the social media instantly. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105496 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING GROUP ACTIONS BASED ON MACHINE-READABLE CODES - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive from a user a machine-readable code associated with a group. The group can be identified based on the machine-readable code. A set of current members of the group can be identified. The user can be provided with access to the set of current members of the group. In some instances, an identifier for the user can be received. The user can be added, based on the identifier, to the set of current members of the group. The current members can be provided with access to the set of current members including the user. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105497 | CONTEXTUALLY INTERACTING WITH APPLICATIONS - The present discussion relates to contextually interacting with applications. One example can include a computer that has a set of applications installed thereon. This example can also include a URI manager configured to receive a context-defining URI, the URI manager can be configured to run a sub-set of the applications specified by the context-defining URI and to set a common context for the sub-set of the applications as specified by the context-defining URI. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105526 | Photographic Album Creation and Sharing - Embodiments of the invention relate to file sharing, and more specifically to sharing image files based on a spatiotemporal relationship. A device with image taking capabilities, such as a camera or mobile computing device, is provided with functionality to communicate with a shared pool of resources via a network connection. The device is connected to a network at a venue. As image files are captured in the venue, social contact metadata from all connected devices is embedded with the captured file(s). These files are published to a shared storage, and the publication includes the social contact metadata. Other image files from other devices may be added to the shared storage, with each added file having embedded social contact metadata. Authority to access the image files located on the shared storage is granted to social networking users based on their social networking name being contained within the embedded social contact metadata. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105527 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GHOSTING AND PROVIDING PROXIES IN A NETWORK FEED - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for maintaining anonymity in an online social network. In some implementations, a user can be designated a ghost user with respect to an entity in the online social network. One or more invisibility levels can be determined for the ghost user. Data indicating content to display in accordance with one or more invisibility levels can be generated and provided to a display device configured to display a presentation of the social network feed associated with the entity in a user interface associated with a second user. Also disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for designating a proxy in an online social network. In some implementations, a first user can be designated as a proxy user of a second user in an online social network with respect to one or more entities within the online social network. | 04-14-2016 |
20160112245 | ANOMALY DETECTION AND ALARMING BASED ON CAPACITY AND PLACEMENT PLANNING - Operational parameters of a running multiserver data processing system are automatically and repeatedly sampled and compared with constraints defined in a capacity and placement planning specification of the multiserver data processing system. Constraint violations are automatically declared as operational anomalies and, if serious enough, corresponding alarm signals are automatically produced. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A USER DEVICE WITH FUNCTIONALITY ENABLING NEWS FEED FILTERING - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to provide a user device with functionality enabling news feed filtering. One example embodiment may include a method for receiving post information having associated filterable subject matter attributes, providing selectable subject matter filter values, each of the one or more selectable subject matter filter values configured to enable the first user to identify a subject matter by which to filter the non-filtered scene information, receiving a subject matter filter value, providing, to the user device, via the communication interface, filtered scene information, the filtered scene information comprised of one or more instances of filtered post information, each instance of the filtered post information having one or more associated filterable attributes matching the subject matter filter value. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112360 | UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMENTS BEING MADE TO THE CONTAINERS AND THE COMMENTS BEING MADE TO THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONTAINERS - A method, system and computer program product for improving understanding of comments on collections of data. A social media stream is monitored for comments to a container (e.g., photo album) and elements within the container (e.g., photographs). These comments are stored in a data structure along with an identification of the container or element of the container upon which the comments are directed. In response to a user selecting to view comments to an element within the container or the container itself, the data structure is searched for the comments to the selected element or container. Images of the container are then displayed in a fliptych manner, where the selected element or container is displayed in the center section of the fliptych. A list of comments is displayed in a comments section below the fliptych, where the list of comments includes highlighted comments directed to the selected element or container. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112365 | TECHNIQUES FOR ASCRIBING SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES TO CONTENT - Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content items and for selecting content to display in a content feed are described. According to various embodiments, accessing one or more content items accessible via a network are accessed, each of the content items having received one or more social activity signals. Thereafter, members of an online social network service that submitted the social activity signals may be identified. Member profile data identifying member profile attributes of the members cemented the social activity signals may then be accessed. Thereafter, social attribute information may be generated and associated with each of the content items, the social attribute information identifying the member profile attributes of the members that submitted the social activity signals associated with each of the content items. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A conference managing computer system for managing one or more communication sessions is disclosed. The conference managing computer system includes a monitoring module for monitoring one or more requests from one or more user devices to remotely access the communication session. The conference managing computer system further includes a detection module for detecting presence of the one or more user devices based on proximity. The conference managing computer system further includes a connection module for establishing one or more real time communication sessions with one or more detected user devices. The conference managing computer system further includes a conferencing module for managing the one or more communication sessions to enable the one or more detected user devices to join the communication session. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112473 | METHOD FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WEB BROWSERS - The invention relates to a real-time communication method using WebRTC type technology between web browsers on an Internet type communications network, the method comprising: a first web browser of a first terminal associated with a first user previously loading (S | 04-21-2016 |
20160112475 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MICRO-SERVICES COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - A multi-tenant media communication platform system and methods. The platform system includes media communication micro-services and micro-service configuration for a plurality of entities configured for use of the platform system. Enrolling an entity in the platform system includes setting entity configuration for use of the platform system by the entity. A micro-service request is processed according to the entity configuration. The micro-service request is a request for use of at least one micro-service of the platform system on behalf of the entity. Use of each micro-service is accounted for on behalf of the entity. Billing information for the entity is generated based on the accounting for the use of each micro-service on behalf of the entity. Entity configuration includes micro-service configuration, and micro-service configuration specifies at least one of: an endpoint mapping to at least one application logic URI, an event callback URI, and an event application logic URI. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE - A method and apparatus for providing collaborative workspace are disclosed. The method receives a request to establish a video conference for two or more participants, and obtains information from historical information on the two or more participants to be used with the collaborative workspace. The method determines preferences for each of the two or more participants as to a presentation of the collaborative workspace. The method receives one or more live images of the two or more participants and presents the collaborative workspace to each of the two or more participants in accordance with the preferences for each of the two or more participants. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112482 | CAMERA CAPTURE FOR CONNECTED DEVICES - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the capture and coordination of audio and/or video data across connected devices in a communications system. The communications system may include at least two media devices in communication via a network. One of the media devices may be a media application device configured to provide one or more media applications. Another of the media devices may be a media input device configured to capture video and/or audio data. Coordination between a media application and a media input device may be facilitated by a driver layer configured to communicate with the applications. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112498 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ACQUIRING USER INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to a method for acquiring user information in a terminal device for acquiring user information and a terminal device thereof, and a method for acquiring user information in a server and a server thereof. The method includes: receiving acquisition information uploaded by a first wearable device bound. Herein the acquisition information comprises an identifier for identifying a second wearable device detected by the first wearable device; uploading the acquisition information to a server; receiving the user information pushed by the server. Herein the user information is obtained by the server according to the identifier and is associated with the acquisition information; and performing a processing operation according to the user information. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112501 | Transferring Device States Between Multiple Devices - Exemplary methods and systems relate to creating and loading a device-group snapshot, which allows the states of devices to be stored and restored by different devices. A hub system may create a device-group snapshot for a plurality of devices in a source device group and load the device-group snapshot to a target device group by: (a) receiving an instruction to load a device-group snapshot; (b) determining the target device group with devices that are available to load the device-group snapshot; (c) determining that there is a difference between device groups; (d) modifying the device-group snapshot based on the difference between device groups; and (e) communicating with devices in the target device group to load the corresponding device states from the modified device-group snapshot. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING NOTIFICATION EVENT - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a receiving module configured to receive the notification event from an object and a processor configured to identify the receipt of the notification event, create attribute information based on the information provided by the object, configure background information of the notification event by using the attribute information, and to output the background information of the notification event. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112764 | NETWORK OF COLLABORATIVE ONLINE SHOWS - The present invention generally relates to networked communication systems. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods configured to provide an audience centric instant micro forum for sharing media and communications regarding a particular event and/or product. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117284 | METHODS FOR USING TEMPORAL PROXIMITY OF SOCIAL CONNECTION CREATIONS TO PREDICT PROPERTIES OF A SOCIAL CONNECTION - Aspects of the subject technology relate to a social-networking system, including one or more computers communicatively coupled via a network. In certain aspects, the computers are configured to perform operations including, receiving one or more indications that a common user has initiated a connection with each of a plurality of contacts in a social network and identifying two or more contacts, from among the plurality of contacts, that share a temporal relationship with respect to the connections formed between the common user and the respective two or more contacts in the social network. In certain implementations, the operations can further include comparing information associated with the two or more contacts to determine a likelihood that a common feature is shared by the two or more contacts. Computer-implemented methods and computer-readable media are also provided. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119259 | METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVER FOR PUSHING MESSAGE THROUGH LIGHT APPLICATION - The present disclosure relates to a method, a terminal device and a server for pushing message through light application, which belongs to the field of internet technology. The method comprises: acquiring an application list of light applications added to a terminal device, the application list listing at least one light application; sending the application list to a push server through a browser, so that the push server acquires a data packet to be pushed corresponding to the at least one light application according to the application list, the data packet to be pushed comprising at least a message to be pushed and push object information; and receiving the data packet to be pushed corresponding to the at least one light application through the browser. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119403 | MODIFICATION-TIME ORDERING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for determining relative modification times between a local file stored on a local device and a remote file stored on a remote device are disclosed. The method may include sending, from the local device to the remote device, an inquiry requesting a remote modification time for the remote file on the remote device and receiving a remote modification time at the local device from the remote device. The remote modification time is determined by subtracting a time the file was modified on the remote device from a current time obtained on the remote device. A local modification time is calculated by subtracting the time the local file was modified on the local device from a current time on the local device, and the local modification time is compared to the remote modification time. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119413 | SYNCHRONIZED VIEW ARCHITECTURE FOR EMBEDDED ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for synchronizing information between devices are provided. An exemplary method receives, at first computing device, electronic content and data identifying one or more peer computing devices and establishes respective connections between the first device and each of the peer devices. The method sends, from the master device, to each of the peer devices, the content. When the content is received by the peer devices, at least a portion of the content is simultaneously displayed by the master device and the peer computing devices. In an embodiment, each of a group of devices at a location is configured to execute a player application within a browser in order to simultaneously display website content in a synchronized manner. One of the devices is referred to as a master device. The master device obtains current website content from a content repository and propagates the website content to the peer devices. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE NODE COMPOSITION ON LOCAL OR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Embodiments are directed to scaling services, transitioning from a first service version to a second version and to implementing an external system integration service. In one scenario, a computer system establishes a message broker service that maintains message queues that allow communication between services. The message queues receive messages from publishers and transfer messages to subscribers. The computer system indicates a specified message queue for each service, where the specified message queue is configured to maintain messages for that service. The computer system also moves at least one of the services to a second, different computer system, while the specified message queue maintains messages for the moved service. The computer system further allows an external system integration service to be implemented which subscribes to specified, registered messages and forwards the registered messages to selected external entities. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119444 | ORGANIZATION TARGETED STATUS UPDATES - A social networking server receives a request from a member of an organization to configure a targeted update for the organization. The targeted update may be intended for a particular group of members of a social network service. The social networking server may provide various follower dimensions to associate with the targeted update, where each of the follower dimensions include one or more selectable attributes. When the social networking server receives a request for an organization's webpage from a member of the social network service, the social networking server may compare member attributes of a member profile associated with the member with the follower dimension attributes associated with the targeted update. The social networking server may provide the targeted update for display with the webpage of the organization based on the member attributes satisfying at least one follower dimension attribute associated with the targeted update. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SOCIAL CALLER ID AND CALLER RATING ON WEB CALLS - A method is provided for providing caller ID for a caller. An indication is received from a social networking site on which a caller has a profile that the caller has signed into the social networking site. A request is received from the caller to place a call to a callee. The system automatically associates at least one aspect of the caller's profile from the social networking site with the call request. The system then signals to the callee that there is a new call by displaying the call request with the at least one aspect of the caller's profile from the social networking site. A method is also provided for enhancing a callee's control over receiving a call. A method is also provided for facilitating web calling by a caller. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127432 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING, HOSTING AND MANAGING A SCREEN SHARING SESSION INVOLVING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Techniques for establishing a screen sharing session are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a web conferencing application executing at a mobile computing device enables a user to specify the identity of a remote computer. The identity of the remote computer is communicated to a web conferencing service, directing the server operating the web conferencing service to establish a remote desktop connection with the remote computer. Once established, the web conferencing service receives from the remote computer a stream of information representing a user interface of the remote computer, and then broadcasts the user interface to all computing devices participating in the web conferencing session, while enabling the mobile computing device to manipulate the user interface of the remote computer. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127433 | BROADCASTING AND MANAGING BROADCASTS USING A TELEPHONY CONFERENCE PLATFORM - A system for managing a broadcasting platform includes a gateway device that broadcasts a broadcast media stream to a plurality of user devices. Each user device is connected to a primary conference room of a telephony conference platform of the gateway device via a first user telephony connection. The gateway device receives a user signal from a first user device through the telephony conference platform via a second user telephony connection associated with the first user device, between the first user device and a secondary conference room of the telephony conference platform. The gateway device mixes the user signal into the broadcast media stream in real time using the telephony conference platform and broadcasts the broadcast media stream comprising the user signal to the plurality of user devices connected to the primary conference room in real time, excluding the first user device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127457 | Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Autonomous Media Delivery - Systems, methods, and apparatuses may use machine-to-machine communication to provide customized media in response to an autonomous detection of an event, such as a celebration, emergency, or security event. A method may include receiving a request in response to an autonomous detection of an event, whereby the request includes information about the event. Media appropriate for the event may be determined based on the information about the event. The media appropriate for the event may be further adapted according to information on a destination device and users of the destination device. Instructions are then provided to deliver the media appropriate for the event to the destination device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127458 | P2P APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR P2P CONNECTION - A point-to-point (P2P) apparatus has a device resource, a processor, a storage device and a network interface. The processor processes the device resource. The storage device stores a unique identification code. The network interface connects to a first network via a first gateway and transmits the unique identification code to a server via a second network by a first gateway. An external device accesses the device resource via the first gateway. The second network is a TCP/IP network and the first network is not a TCP/IP network. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127501 | HINT-BASED IDENTIFICATION SCHEME FOR A NETWORK - An interest vector directed from a source profile to a target profile, and hints associated with the interest vector, are received. A profile filter is generated based on the hints. Profiles of a network are filtered, creating a set of profiles, each having attributes matching the hints. A first number of profiles in the set of profiles is calculated. Second hints are received, based on the first number, the second hints associated with the interest vector. A second profile filter is generated based on the second hints, and used to filter the profiles of the network, creating a second set of profiles. A second number of profiles in the second set of profiles is calculated. An interest alert is generated based on the second number, the interest alert including data sufficient to directly or indirectly identify the source profile and configured to notify the target profile about the interest vector. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127502 | METHOD FOR OPERATING MACHINES AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a method for operating machines and a system using the method, which can manage relations required in order to execute commands. The method includes generating a capability set required to execute the command by analyzing the command, and determining whether to participate in a machine group to execute the commands based on the generated capability set and capability parameters and status parameters of the machine. | 05-05-2016 |
20160128124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING PERIPHERAL DEVICES - A method and apparatus for connecting peripheral devices are disclosed. The method is performed at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, and includes: scanning, through a user interface of a social networking application, an image containing encoded information associated with a first peripheral device that provides a first wireless communication interface; retrieving, based on the encoded information, a first identity information item of the first peripheral device from a server hosting a social networking platform associated with the social networking application; and in accordance with the retrieved first identity information item, establishing a wireless connection between the electronic device and the first peripheral device via the first wireless communication interface of the first peripheral device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160134428 | User Device Evaluation for Online Meetings - Presented herein are techniques for detecting that a plurality of user devices are available for use by an individual to participate in an online meeting and evaluating the plurality of user devices to enable selection of an optimal user device for use during the online meeting. In one example, an online meeting server receives a request to initiate an evaluation of user devices for use by an individual/participant during an online meeting. The meeting server identifies a plurality of devices associated with the individual and sends a message to a first one of the plurality of user devices. The message enables display, to the individual, of an indication of two or more of the user devices for use during the online meeting. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL EVENT OPPORTUNITY NOTIFICATION - Methods and apparatus for arranging event opportunities are disclosed. For example, the method detects the event opportunity that matches user profiles of at least two users who are unassociated with one another, verifies a safety parameter for one of the at least two users, wherein the safety parameter is defined by the one of the at least two users, and if the safety parameter is satisfied, sending an invitation to the event opportunity to each of the at least two users. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134570 | Messages from Absent Participants in Online Conferencing - In one embodiment, a method includes displaying, by a participant processor on a display device and during an online conference, a list of invited participants of the online conference. The list includes a declining one of the invited participants whom declined to participate in at least a part of the online conference. The method also includes indicating, by the participant processor on the display device and for the one of the invited participants whom declined to participate, a message having a reason for declining. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134573 | System and Method for Equitable Processing of Asynchronous Messages in a Multi-Tenant Platform - Systems, methods and media are shown for equitable job processing of asynchronous messages for multiple tenants in a multi-tenant platform that involve receiving messages of a given message type in an input buffer from at least one front end tier (FET) device, providing messages of the given message type from an output buffer to at least one back end tier (BET) device, determining a priority weight W for each message in the input buffer based on a tenant identifier and message type for the message, and evaluating the priority weight W for the message and delaying the message if the priority weight W is below a priority threshold and moving the message to the output buffer if the priority weight W is not below the priority threshold. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134575 | System and Method of Providing Social Networking Web Site - A method of providing a social networking website includes steps as follows. A user profile associated with the parent ID is acquired from a member database when a parent ID is logged in the social networking website, where the user profile includes a plurality of personal basic data, the personal basic data at least includes a child age. A first age range based on the child age is set. When the child age associated with the parent ID and another child age associated with another parent ID fall within the first age range, or when the gestational age associated with the parent ID and another child age associated with said another parent ID fall within the second age range, said another parent ID is served as a recommended parent ID, and information on the recommended parent ID is provided for the parent ID. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134576 | IDENTIFYING GROUPS FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED ON LIKELIHOODS OF THE USER INTERACTING WITH VARIOUS GROUPS - A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determining scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for a likelihood of the user providing content to the group as well as the user accessing or viewing content associated with the group. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may apply one or more diversity rules so that the selected groups have a variety of characteristics. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134666 | PROVIDING SURVIVABLE CALLING AND CONFERENCING - Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134670 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for displaying parts of display screens in synchronization across multiple terminals connected via a network. The process includes receiving connection requests from the terminals, granting to one of the terminals having transmitted the connection request an operation right to operate on materials that are displayed in synchronization, and notifying the terminals, other than the terminal that has been granted the operation right from among the terminals having transmitted the connection requests, of material information of the materials displayed on the terminal and operation information indicating contents of an operation performed on the materials. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING A PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION SESSION - Systems and methods are disclosed for initiating a peer-to-peer communication session. According to certain embodiments, at least one peer device is identified. A first request is sent to the at least one peer device for an inventory of service capabilities of the at least one peer device. The requested inventory of service capabilities of the at least one peer device is received from the at least one peer device. A second request is sent to the at least one peer device to initiate a communication session with the at least one peer device using at least one service from the requested inventory of service capabilities. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134690 | System and Method for Providing a Virtual Environment with Shared Video on Demand - A system and methodology for creating, compiling, managing and distributing works of multimedia within a virtual space (environment) or virtual meeting space. The system consists of a server and client architecture. Within this architecture, the server or controller plays a “master” role, pulling, storing, and delivering media content from a plurality of client sources. The master server or controller manipulates the storage and delivery of these streams through an intelligent database and programming architecture. These streams are encoded to a specific format and delivered through a server to single or multiple recipients as a vital component of a complete virtual meeting experience. The result is a complete and organized virtual meeting room experience from attendee invitation though follow-up and record meeting dispersal. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134692 | IDENTIFYING GROUPS FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED ON GROUP CHARACTERISTICS AND LIKELIHOOD OF USER INTERACTION - A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system determining scores for various groups representing a likelihood of the user interacting with the groups. When determining a score for a group, the social networking system accounts for a likelihood of the user providing content to the group as well as the user accessing or viewing content associated with the group. Based on the scores, one or more groups are selected and presented to the user. Additionally, the social networking system may apply one or more diversity rules so that the selected groups have a variety of characteristics. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134718 | Mobile Push Notification - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first notification through a real-time push service. The first notification includes a subset of user-facing information of an object having one or more states, the subset being determined at a first point in time. A second notification is received through the real-time push service. The second notification is an update to the user-facing information of the object, and the update may be a subset of user-facing information determined at a second point in time after the first point in time. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140245 | Identifying Relationships in an Online Social Network - In particular embodiments, a method comprises accessing, from a first user of an online social network, profile information of the first user comprising personal information of the first user and a visibility preference specified by the first user, wherein the visibility preference specifies a degree of separation preference and determines a flow of the first user's profile information to users of the online social network and a flow of information to the first user, identifying relationships between the first user and one or more second users of the online social network based on the personal information and the visibility preference of the first user, and further based on personal information of the one or more second users, and updating a member database with the identified relationships between the first user and one or more of the second users. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142368 | Routing to Multiple Diameter Peers with the Same Identity - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) for processing a Diameter message, the method including: providing alias Diameter identifiers (IDs) to peers with the same Diameter IDs; receiving a Diameter message at the DRA associated with one of the peers with the same Diameter ID; determining a correct peer of the peers with the same Diameter ID associated with the received Diameter message; setting the destination host of the received Diameter message to the aliased ID of the correct peer; and transmitting the Diameter message to the correct peer. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142453 | FEATURES AND OPTIMIZATIONS FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE BASED PUBLIC ADDRESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described herein, a method including, but not limited to, receiving, by a client, audio data and uplink data simultaneously from one of a plurality of Personal Communication Devices (PCDs) connected to the client. The uplink data includes at least one of device information and session identifier. The client sends downlink data to each of the plurality of PCDs based on the uplink data. The client further sends the audio data to the PA system for sounding. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142478 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - [PROBLEM] To provide a communication management system dynamically forming a communication network between users based on user's health condition and living behaviors to support more active communication between the users relating to the health or life. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142494 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A method for providing a social network service in a service server, which includes: receiving a first keyword from a first terminal of a first member of members of the service server; generating a network related to the first keyword, wherein the network includes an online community; and transmitting a first message inviting to join the network to at least a second member of the members of the service server when a second keyword that is identical or analogous to the first keyword is received from a second terminal of the second member. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142495 | RELEVANT COMMUNICATION MODE SELECTION - When initiating a communication session, a user may be faced with the challenge of deciding which communication mode to use to contact and/or share content with one or more other users intended for participation in the communication session. A communication application may be configured to provide a relevant communication mode selection, the communication application including selection and communication modules. For example, the selection module of the communication application may determine available communication modes in response to detection of a request to initiate a communication session from within an application or from a user experience provided by the communication application. The selection module may remove one or more unused communication modes, and prioritize the remaining available communication modes to select a communication mode. A communication module of the communication application may then automatically initiate the communication session through the selected communication mode. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142500 | CONTENT SUGGESTION FOR POSTING ON COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Technologies are presented for providing a suggestion list presenting options for posting information related to viewed content on a communication network. In some examples, a user may desire to contribute to posted content by adding comments and other relevant information. A system may identify one or more key terms included in the viewed content, and may compare the key terms with content, such as files, emails, websites, images and media content, on computing devices and web browser histories associated with the user to identify information that may be related to the viewed content. If the system identifies information related to the key terms of the viewed content, the system may present the identified information associated with key terms to the user, and may enable selection from a posting suggestion list for automatically posting. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142501 | CONTENT PREVIEW GENERATION USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - Disclosed is a system and method for generating a preview of a digital content item using social network analysis. Members of a social network who acquire the digital content item may identify interesting portions of the digital content. When a member of the social network requests a preview of the digital content item, typically in anticipation of an acquisition of the digital content item, the interesting portions of the digital content item identified by fellow social network members are considered in the generation of the preview. Selection of the interesting content for preview may include more identified content, as well as social network relationship and role magnitudes. The digital content item may include: text, such as books or articles; multimedia such as audio/video; and interactive, such as games or virtual worlds. | 05-19-2016 |
20160149796 | Mapping Virtual Machines from a Private Network to a Multi-Tenant Public Datacenter - A method for creating a set of virtual machines on a public datacenter. The method, from a first network controller of a private network, commands a second network controller of the public datacenter to create the virtual machines. The method, from the first network controller of the private network, communicates with the second network controller of the public datacenter to determine a type of the second network controller. When the first network controller includes instructions for using application programming interfaces (APIs) of the type of the second network controller, the method uses the APIs to set up a VLAN for the set of virtual machines in order to allow the virtual machines of the set of virtual machines to communicate securely with each other without sending the communications through the private network. In some embodiments, the VLAN is a private VLAN (PVLAN). | 05-26-2016 |
20160149968 | Queued Sharing of Content in Online Conferencing - In one embodiment, a method includes sharing first content from a first computer of a first participant in an online conference. The first content is shared on a second display of a second computer of a second participant in the online conference. During the sharing of the first content, third content from a third computer of a third participant is queued in a queue at the second computer without display on the second display. For a transition from the first participant to the third participant in the online conference, the third content is shared on the second display of the second computer from the queue. | 05-26-2016 |
20160149969 | MULTI-DEVICE COLLABORATION - Aspects of the present invention relate generally to a method of automatically selecting a collaboration mechanism for content to be shared between a source computing device and a destination computing device. The collaboration mechanism may be one of multiple collaboration mechanisms available to a collaboration application. Aspects of the present invention can automatically select the collaboration mechanism that is optimized for the present network conditions, hardware conditions, and quality requirements to share the selected content. Many of the network and processing conditions utilized by aspects of the present invention are not readily available or discernible by a user selecting a method. | 05-26-2016 |
20160149970 | DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMABLE CONNECTION METHOD TO ESTABLISH PEER-TO-PEER MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIONS - The present invention proposes a technique for establishing peer-to-peer multimedia interactions and data exchanges via a discovery mechanism which relies on a model of (chained) programmable switchboards which may be implemented to enable a step-by-step discovery process until the endpoint of the communication chain is actually reached. The novelty of the proposed system and distinct contrast to known systems is that each endpoint can actually program if, how and when it wants to be reached for each individual user initiating contact, and to provide the information on how to be reached to its potential users initiating contact along its own model. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150016 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING VIA A SHARED INTERACTION SPACE - The invention relates to a method for communicating between at least a first terminal (T | 05-26-2016 |
20160150037 | Action Based Trust Modeling - Embodiments of the invention relate to assessing characteristics of a message and a message recipient. A trust model is established to take into account a set of trust antecedents, including characteristics of the messages and properties of the recipients, a set of action motivations, and their contribution to the action-based trust measurement. The assessment(s) is utilized to produce a tangible trust measurement that is employed to gauge the recipient's perception of credibility towards the received message. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AD-HOC EVENTS FROM SENSED SPORT-SPECIFIC DATA - A method, a sports watch, a computer program, a computing device and a system for creating an event accessible over a communications network, characterized by the method comprising receiving a first sport-specific data from a first sports watch; receiving a second sport-specific data from a second sports watch; comparing the first sport-specific data and the second sport-specific data; detecting a common context with the first sport-specific data and the sport-specific second data; and creating an event based on the common context. | 05-26-2016 |
20160156482 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL | 06-02-2016 |
20160156483 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION ADAPTER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 06-02-2016 |
20160156570 | Method, Storage Medium Storing Management Program, and Storage Medium Storing Terminal Program | 06-02-2016 |
20160156682 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FUNCTION SHARING BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES | 06-02-2016 |
20160156684 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |
20160156713 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION TRANSFER AND SHARING AMONG MOBILE APPARATUSES | 06-02-2016 |
20160156736 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING FORWARDING INFORMATION | 06-02-2016 |
20160156738 | DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM HAVING EIR TERMINAL INTERFACE NODE | 06-02-2016 |
20160164929 | CONTROL FOR CONTENT CHANNEL IN WEB REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - In order to provide compatibility between WebRTC communication endpoints and legacy communication endpoints that use BFCP, a web media gateways is used to establish a conference call between the communication endpoints that use WebRTC and the legacy communication endpoints that use BFCP. A floor command is received to control the floor of the conference call from a first communication endpoint. The floor command is translated from WebRTC into BFCP or from BFCP to WebRTC. The floor command is sent to the second communication endpoint. This allows a conference call where communication endpoints support both WebRTC and BFCP. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164931 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - The invention discloses a method and system for displaying electronic information for an Online Dating Service. Information is received through a variety of means including electronic analysis of photographs and communications as well as direct questions posed to an individual. Once the information is received a profile describing the interest, personality traits and what traits the individual looks for in a companion is created. To prevent priming based on physical appearance the word cloud is displayed to other individuals prior to a photograph. The photograph can be revealed to the other individuals if they take affirmative action to view the photograph or after an arbitrary period of time such that the other individuals can be primed based on the information in the word cloud without losing the emotional investment in finding a companion. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164940 | PERFORMING AN ACTION ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON A CONTENT IDENTIFIER EMBEDDED IN PROVIDED CONTENT - A content source provides metadata associated with content, such as an audio signal or video data, to a social networking system. The metadata identifies characteristics of the content or specifies an action for the social networking system to perform. A content identifier associated with the metadata is generated by the social networking system, and an association between the content identifier and the metadata is stored. The content identifier is provided to the content source, which encodes the content identifier into the content (e.g., as a watermark). When a client device receives the content encoded with the content identifier, the content identifier is extracted and communicated to the social networking system in connection with a user account associated with the client device. Based on the content identifier, the social networking system retrieves the corresponding metadata and performs an action in connection with the user account based on the metadata. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164966 | Peer-to-Peer Communication of Non-Common Data - A first peer device receives distinct first and second metadata. The first metadata includes a common identifier having a one-to-one relationship with a common data piece of a data entity. The common data piece is common to the first peer device, a second peer device, and a third peer device. The second metadata includes one or more non-common identifiers. Each of the one or more non-common identifiers has a one-to-one relationship with a non-common data piece of the data entity that is common to a group of peer devices including the first peer device and excluding the third peer device. The first peer device also receives a third identifier from the second peer device. The first peer device determines whether the second peer device is in the group of peer devices based on whether the third identifier is included in the one or more non-common identifiers. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PRESENCE - Remote presence systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a pilot workstation comprising a pilot computing station having a display, a microphone, a camera oriented to capture images of the pilot, a network connectivity subsystem, and a master input device such as a keyboard, mouse, or joystick. The pilot network connectivity subsystem may be operatively coupled to an electromechanically mobile workstation comprising a mobile base interconnected to a head component. The mobile workstation may comprise a display, a microphone, a camera oriented to capture images of nearby people and structures, and a workstation network connectivity subsystem that preferably is operatively coupled to the pilot network connectivity subsystem. Preferably by virtue of the system components, the pilot is able to remotely project a virtual presence of himself in the form of images, sound, and motion of the mobile workstation at the location of the mobile workstation. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE MONITORING - A communication system includes a switch device communicatively connected to terminal devices and a computer device. The computer device is configured to initiate a connection to the switch device and, after establishment of the communication connection, initiate a bulk start-up of device monitoring for devices to which the switch device is connected. In some embodiments, the bulk start-up of monitoring can be initiated by obtaining an identification of all relevant devices in a reply to a single request sent by the computer device to the switch device. In some embodiments, the computer device can also be configured to send a monitor stop request to the switch device to stop the monitoring of devices. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164981 | GENERATING BUSINESS INSIGHTS USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from beacons of a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), session information for users of an online social network. A mobile device of each user may have been in at least one wireless communication session with at least one beacon, and during the session the mobile device was proximate to the at least one beacon. The session information may include an identifier for each of the users, which may be used to access social-networking information for each user. A report of business insights may be generated based on aggregated social-networking information (e.g., demographics) and aggregated session information (e.g., average duration of sessions) of the users. For example, the report may include statistics regarding the business' clientele. User-specified permissions may delimit which information may be included in the report. The report may be sent to a third-party system for display. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164982 | CUSTOMIZING THIRD-PARTY CONTENT USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes sending, via a beacon of a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), a request to associate with a user's mobile device. The request may be sent when the mobile device is proximate to the beacon, which may be located within a place of business. The request may include an attribute of the business (e.g., the type of business). A wireless communication session may be established between the beacon and the mobile device, and, in response, social-networking information of the user may be received, via the beacon. The particular information sent may be tailored to the business based on the received attribute, and a set of user-specified permissions may delimit what information is sent and to whom the information is sent. Third-party content may be customized based on the received social-networking information and sent to the mobile device for display. | 06-09-2016 |
20160164988 | ENABLING PHOTOSET RECOMMENDATIONS - In a social networking system, photographs and photographic sets are recommended to a user based upon information gathered from the user's social networking profile, as well as information gathered from the social networking profile of the user's friends, and the general pattern of usage by the user of various elements of the social network. In one embodiment, information entered into the social networking profile of the user is used to recommend additional photos and sets of photos. In one embodiment, user preferences indicated by the user via elements of the social network are considered in recommending photos or photo sets. In one embodiment, the general usage pattern of the social network is considered when recommending additional photos and sets of photos to the user. In one embodiment, profile information, usage information, or the indicated preferences of the user's friends are used to recommend additional photos and photo sets. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165002 | GENERATING USER NOTIFICATIONS USING BEACONS ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider (e.g., a business), session information of the first user of an online social network. The first user's mobile device may be proximate to and in a wireless communication session with the beacon, which may be located at the third-party content provider. One or more second users, who are each connected to the first user in a social graph, may be selected. A communication session is not active between the beacon and the mobile devices of the second users. The selection may be based on selected second users being located within a predefined distance of the beacon (e.g., in the same neighborhood). A notification referencing selected second users (e.g., a prompt to invite the selected second users to the beacon location) may be sent to the first user's mobile device. | 06-09-2016 |
20160173425 | MANAGING RICH PRESENCE COLLECTIONS | 06-16-2016 |
20160173437 | BALANCING A WORKLOAD BASED ON COMMITMENTS TO PROJECTS | 06-16-2016 |
20160173543 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT COLLABORATIVE UNDO OPERATIONS IN COMPUTER APPLICATION SOFTWARE | 06-16-2016 |
20160173545 | METHOD OF SHARING CONTROL RIGHT ADAPTED TO INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD SYSTEM AND HOST DEVICE THEREOF | 06-16-2016 |
20160173586 | Persistent Network Negotiation for Peer to Peer Devices | 06-16-2016 |
20160173587 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SETTING UP AN APPLICATION SERVICE PLATFORM (ASP) PEER TO PEER (P2P) GROUP | 06-16-2016 |
20160173593 | MESSAGE RETRIEVAL IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NETWORK | 06-16-2016 |
20160173607 | Peer-to-Peer Data Storage | 06-16-2016 |
20160173621 | METHOD AND PROCEDURE FOR DYNAMIC SERVICES ORCHESTRATION THAT RUNS WITHIN AN ON-DEVICE SOFTWARE CONTAINER | 06-16-2016 |
20160173622 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT WITH SOCIAL CONNECTIONS BASED ON LOCATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160173625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT WITH SOCIAL CONNECTIONS BASED ON LOCATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160173629 | USER PRESENCE DATA FOR WEB-BASED DOCUMENT COLLABORATION | 06-16-2016 |
20160173646 | AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTION OF FLOW OF CONTROL IN A DISTRIBUTED VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM | 06-16-2016 |
20160180241 | Perturbing a subject's contextualization of a proposition about an item considered in a quantum representation by altering the item | 06-23-2016 |
20160182364 | ARCHITECTED DATA TRANSFER | 06-23-2016 |
20160182432 | WIRELESS NETWORK RELIABILTY OVER RELATIVELY LOW-POWER PROTOCOLS | 06-23-2016 |
20160182435 | SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISPLAY OF MESSAGING | 06-23-2016 |
20160182438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION OF USER COMMENTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK | 06-23-2016 |
20160182440 | Terminal Status Subscription Method, Apparatus, and System | 06-23-2016 |
20160182575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CUSTOMIZE A MULTIPOINT CONTROL UNIT | 06-23-2016 |
20160182576 | Electronic Meetings with Known Participants but Anonymous Comments | 06-23-2016 |
20160182578 | DYNAMIC PROFILE SHARING USING EXPIRING TOKENS | 06-23-2016 |
20160182579 | METHOD OF ESTABLISHING AND MANAGING MESSAGING SESSIONS BASED ON USER POSITIONS IN A COLLABORATION SPACE AND A COLLABORATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME | 06-23-2016 |
20160182580 | OFFLINE VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION IN AN ONLINE CONFERENCE MEETING | 06-23-2016 |
20160182591 | AUTOMATED COMPRESSION OF DATA | 06-23-2016 |
20160182592 | Publish/Subscribe Mashups For Social Networks | 06-23-2016 |
20160182609 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROPERTY CONTROL PROGRAM, PROPERTY CONTROL METHOD, PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING COMMON FILE | 06-23-2016 |
20160182612 | CONFORMING DISTRIBUTED POSTS TO REFLECT SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB SITE ENVIRONMENTS AND AUDIENCES | 06-23-2016 |
20160182621 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING THROUGH UNIVERSAL PORT CONNECTIONS | 06-23-2016 |
20160182642 | INTELLIGENTLY DETECTING THE LEADER OF A CO-BROWSING SESSION | 06-23-2016 |
20160182656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOFEEDS, ORIENTATION-BASED GEOFEEDS, AND GEOFEEDS BASED ON AMBIENT CONDITIONS BASED ON CONTENT PROVIDED BY SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT PROVIDERS | 06-23-2016 |
20160182659 | SOCIAL MEDIA WITH MULTI-LEVEL RELATIONSHIPS | 06-23-2016 |
20160191261 | FACILITATING GENERATION OF USER CONTENT FOR AGGREGATED STORY UNITS - A social networking system aggregates two or more stories having at least one common characteristic to create an aggregated story unit. Each story describes an action performed on an object over the social networking system or external to the social networking system. The aggregated story unit includes one or more input elements allowing a viewing user to interact with the aggregate story unit as a whole or with individual stories in the aggregated story unit. The input elements included in the aggregated story unit may be based on the types of the actions or of the objects described by stories in the aggregated story unit and on one or more input policies. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED CAPTURE, STORAGE, SEARCH, SELECTION AND DELIVERY OF IMAGES ACROSS A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The present invention generally relates to a system, implemented over a communications network, enabling system users (“Users”) to view and obtain photographs and videos (“Images”) of Users, to direct the taking of Images by such Users and to enable Users to procure Images, including digital Images as well as physical prints and products, and to provide such Images to Users. The system allows Users to easily view and procure Images taken by cameras operated by venues, independent Photographers or other people in the same location. The system allows Users to easily procure all the Images taken by others which contain the faces of persons indicated as “of interest” (e.g., themselves, family, friends, colleagues, celebrities, etc.). The present invention is directed to Image capture and delivery and embodies a core set of system mechanisms and functionalities which are employed across several different use case scenarios, specified in greater detail herein. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191447 | ANALYZING INTERESTS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Systems and methods are provided for analyzing people's interests, based on signals available within social media. In general, the systems and methods can include determining interests for a group of people that differentiate the group from another group. First, topics of interest for each individual can be calculated based on topics associated with their activity on social media websites and topics associated with people in their social media network. The interest topics of people in a first group can be compared to the interest topics of people in a second group to determine which interest topics have a high affinity for one group but not the other. The invention can further provide for visualization of the topic distribution between the two groups, which can include illustrations of the number of people in each group who are interested in a plurality of topics and/or the prevalence of each of the plurality of topics in the first group relative to the second group. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191576 | METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A COLLABORATIVE EVENT AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME - A method of conducting a collaborative event comprises receiving, by at least one computing device, a shared file from a participant computing device joined to the collaborative event; displaying the shared file on at least one interactive board in communication with the at least one computing device during the collaborative event; and sending an updated shared file from the at least one computing device to the participant computing device, the updated shared file comprising at least user input injected into the received shared file using the at least one interactive board. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191577 | Non-transitory computer-readable medium, terminal, and method - A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of a first terminal configured to be connectable to a network, causes the first terminal to execute a first reception operation of receiving specific data relating to each of other terminals, a storage operation of storing identification information and position information in association with each other, a display command operation of transmitting, to a second terminal, a command to display document data on a second display of the second terminal, a second reception operation of receiving state information, the state information indicating a display state on the second display, an identification operation of identifying position information associated with identification information of the second terminal, based on the identification information and the position information stored in the storage, and a display operation of displaying a corresponding image in an identified position. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191578 | METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS PROVIDING CHAT SERVICE - A method of providing a chat service between a first device and a plurality of second devices, includes: creating a first chat room configured to display visual signs transmitted and received between the first device and the plurality of second devices; receiving a command to select one or more of the plurality of second devices while the first chat room is displayed on the first device; selecting the one or more of the plurality of second devices based on the command; and creating a second chat room configured to display visual signs transmitted and received between the first device and the selected one or more of the plurality of second devices. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC MEETING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A disclosed information processing apparatus connected with terminals through a network includes a list generating unit receiving a request to acquire a list listing a place registering a material to be shared, and generating the list listing the place allowing presence, a list sending unit sending the list to the terminal sending the request, and a data generating unit receiving a presence request to be present at the place selected from the list, and generating material data for displaying the material registered in the selected place on the terminals, and a data sending unit sending the material data to the terminal sending the presence request, wherein the list generating unit determines the place to be opened or resumed as the place allowing presence, and the data generating unit generates the material data for displaying a hand written memo written in the place and the material registered in the place. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION AMONG MULTIPLE DEVICES - A method for sharing information among multiple devices is provided. The method includes a sensing device sensing signals of at least one object associated with a targeting device and extracting at least one feature of the object from the sensed signals. The method also includes the sensing device broadcasting the extracted feature of the object on a determined network containing a plurality of targeting devices and receiving feedbacks from the plurality of targeting devices on the network in response to the broadcasting. Further, the method includes the sensing device automatically identifying one of the plurality of targeting devices based on the received feedbacks, synchronizing information with the identified targeting device and displaying the information to a user of the sensing device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191639 | Recommending Content Based On User Profiles Clustered By Subscription Data - A method for recommending content based on user profiles clustered by subscription data includes receiving usage data of users. The usage data for each user includes device usage data and subscription data associated with the one or more applications installed on the user device. The method further includes receiving a recommendation request from a first user device of a first user for new subscription data and determining first usage data of the first user. The method also includes identifying a second user having second usage data that has a threshold similarity to the first usage data amongst the users. The method includes determining the new subscription data as being at least some of the subscription data of the second usage data that is different than the subscription data of the first usage data and outputting the new subscription data to the user device of the first user. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191640 | Methods and Devices for Providing Information - The present teachings relate a method | 06-30-2016 |
20160196530 | Generating a Filtered View of a Content Stream | 07-07-2016 |
20160197842 | METHOD OF USING SERVER, SERVER RESERVATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM | 07-07-2016 |
20160197862 | CONTEXT BASED VIRTUAL AREA CREATION | 07-07-2016 |
20160197874 | System for Social Media Tag Extraction | 07-07-2016 |
20160197969 | Method and device for implementing social service based on video sharing | 07-07-2016 |
20160197981 | PICTURE CONVERSION SNS SYSTEM AND METHOD, APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL | 07-07-2016 |
20160197987 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SITUATION SPECIFIC INFORMATION SHARING AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME | 07-07-2016 |
20160198005 | RECOMMENDING OBJECTS TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED IN PART ON TOPICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OBJECTS | 07-07-2016 |
20160198017 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SHARED CONTENT BASED ON SHARING PROFILES | 07-07-2016 |
20160205146 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A VIDEO CONFERENCE IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | 07-14-2016 |
20160205147 | Session Information Recording Method and Recording Server | 07-14-2016 |
20160205154 | PROVIDING A MEETING LINK TO A PARTICIPANT WHO HAS LEFT A LOCATION OF THE MEETING | 07-14-2016 |
20160205163 | System And Method For Curating Digital Content From A Digital Content Platform | 07-14-2016 |
20160205171 | FLOW CHARACTERISTIC BASED PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM | 07-14-2016 |
20160205178 | PEER-TO-PEER SHARING IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK | 07-14-2016 |
20160205197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT | 07-14-2016 |
20160255127 | Directing Meeting Entrants Based On Meeting Role | 09-01-2016 |
20160255162 | DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME WITH AUTOMATED INTERACTIONS WITH VIEWER AND VIEWER DEVICES | 09-01-2016 |
20160255164 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM | 09-01-2016 |
20160255170 | Recommending Content Based on Intersecting User Interest Profiles | 09-01-2016 |
20160380940 | COLLECTING MESSAGES FROM A GROUP CHAT WINDOW THAT MENTION A SPECIFIC USER - Collecting online group chat messages. The method may include receiving a message associated with an online group chat session between chat participants. The method may also include determining the received message satisfies at least one message collection rule. The method may further include recording the received message to at least one message table based on each chat participant mentioned in the received message. The method may also include determining a first chat participant chooses to open a private chat session with at least one second chat participant. The method may further include identifying recorded messages within the message tables associated with the at least one second chat participant. The method may also include displaying the identified recorded messages in a private chat session sub-window. | 12-29-2016 |
20160380945 | FLEXIBLE COMMAND AND CONTROL IN CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORKS - One embodiment provides a transport-framework system that facilitates command messages to be communicated in a layer-agnostic manner. During operation, the system generates, by a component of a stack of communication modules, a first command message for a target entity. The first command message includes a name unique to the target entity, and the stack does not require a respective communication module to communicate only with a layer above or below thereof. The component sends the first command message to the target entity by inserting the first command message into a queue corresponding to the component. The component can also receive a second command message from a sending entity via a queue corresponding to the sending entity, and the second command message includes a name unique to the component. This facilitates command messages to be communicated in a layer-agnostic manner. | 12-29-2016 |
20160380953 | SMART FEED SYSTEM - A system for providing smart feeds to users, comprising a content curation server that receives content via a network and associates content with users, and provides content to a feed generator, a feed generator that produces feeds based on received content from a content curation server user associations, each feed being associated with a user, and an integration engine that receives feeds from a feed generator, adapts feeds for display, and provides feeds to network-connected software applications, and a method for providing a smart feed to a user. | 12-29-2016 |
20160380957 | ENABLING AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER TO ACCESS A THIRD PARTY APPLICATION WITHOUT INSTALLING THE THIRD PARTY APPLICATION - An online system provides a user with access to applications associated with third parry systems via the online system and generates an identifier that identifies the user to a third party system without providing the third party system with information personally identifying the user. Using an identifier that identifies an additional user to the third party system, an online system user may invite the additional user to use an application associated with the third party system without installing the application on the additional user's client device. When the user invites the additional user to use the application, the online system sends the third party system associated with the application the identifier identifying the additional user to the third party system. If the additional user accepts the invitation, the online system or third party system provides application content to the additional user via a frame on the additional user's client device. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381094 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication terminal determines whether counterpart information of a candidate counterpart communication terminal obtained from a memory is described in a first format or a second format, and transmits a communication start request to one of a first server and a second server based on a determination. When the determination indicates that the obtained counterpart information is described in the first format, the communication start request is transmitted to the first server on the first network. When the determination indicates that the obtained counterpart information is described in the second format, the communication start request is transmitted to the second server on the second network. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381097 | GUIDING A DESIRED OUTCOME FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY HOSTED CONFERENCE - Arrangements described herein relate to guiding a desired outcome for an electronically hosted conference. During the electronically hosted conference, participant activity related to the electronically hosted conference can be monitored for each of a plurality of participants participating in the electronically hosted conference. Based on the participant activity, a sentiment of each of the plurality of participants with regard to a subject of the electronically hosted conference can be determined. A list of the participants can be presented to a user. The list of the participants can indicate an order in which to poll the participants to achieve the desired outcome for a decision requested of the participants in the electronically hosted conference. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381158 | Automatic Invitation Delivery System - A method may provide, by a content distribution system, access to interactive content, such as a game, to a group of users and obtain a social media data indicating an interaction level of the users on a social network. The method may determine a content sharing rating for the users based on the social media data and select a user from the group based on the content sharing rating. The method may determine a recommendation for an incentive to be provided to the user within the interactive content, in exchange for the user performing an action to connect the interactive content to the user on a social network, such as by posting a link to the game. The method may provide the recommendation to an administrative system that administers the interactive content, such as the game developer, and that is distinct from the content distribution system. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381172 | Selecting Content For Presentation To An Online System User Based On Affinities Of The User For Additional Users Inferred From An Organizational Chart - An online system provides a social networking environment for a set of users, enabling the users to establish connections with and to communicate with each other. Absent explicit connections between a user and an additional user in the set, the online system determines a measure of affinity of the user for the additional user based on an organizational chart for an organization including the set of users that indicates relationships between the users based on their roles in the organization. The measure of affinity may also be based on actions associated with the user and the additional user and characteristics of the user and the additional user. Based on the measure of affinity, the online system determines whether to establish an inferred connection between the user and the additional user. The online system may account for the inferred connection when identifying content for presentation to the user. | 12-29-2016 |
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20170237786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING VIDEO COMMUNICATION USING VIRTUAL AVATARS | 08-17-2017 |
20170237788 | CONTROLLING AGGREGATION OF SHARED CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE ENDPOINTS DURING AN ONLINE CONFERENCE SESSION | 08-17-2017 |
20170237810 | DETERMINING VISIBILITY OF GROUP CONTENT TO A USER BASED ON INFERRED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN USERS OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM | 08-17-2017 |
20170237827 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTITUTING REFERENCES TO CONTENT | 08-17-2017 |
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20180027029 | MULTI-CHANNEL CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM | 01-25-2018 |
20180027030 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION PLATFORM DETERMINING METHOD, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND TRANSMISSION TERMINAL | 01-25-2018 |
20180027073 | EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF ENCODED DATA SLICE SETS TO NEW OR ALTERNATE STORAGE UNITS | 01-25-2018 |
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20190149347 | AUTOMATED VIDEOCONFERENCE SYSTEMS, CONTROLLERS AND METHODS | 05-16-2019 |
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