04th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140025659 | SELECTING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - A selecting method for a multi-media device includes acquiring a target keyword; and outputting at least one selecting result according to a selecting relative net, a searching relative net and the target keyword; wherein the selecting relative net is built according to a text information and includes a plurality of selecting keywords and a plurality of selecting results, each selecting keyword of the plurality of selecting keywords corresponds to at least one of the plurality of selecting results, and the searching relative net is built according to a cloud database. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025660 | Information Targeting Systems and Methods - The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for the secure management of electronic information relating to a user. In certain embodiments, systems and methods disclosed herein may allow for personal information related to a user to be used in connection with information targeting systems and methods configured to match and/or target information for delivery to a user based on the user's interests. In some embodiments, personal information relating to a user may be stored and/or managed in a personal ontology graph or other data structure including, among other things, various inferred interests of the user derived from available personal information. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025661 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULT DATA, SEARCH SERVER AND MOBILE DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method of displaying search result data, a search server and a mobile device. The method includes: receiving, at a server, a search request sent by a mobile device, the search request includes a search keyword; performing, by the server, a search based on the search keyword and obtaining search result data, where the search result data includes the search keyword; converting, by the server, the search keyword in the search result data into an abbreviated indicator; and returning, by the server, the search result data that includes the abbreviated indicator, the search result data that includes the abbreviated indicator being used for display on an interface of the mobile device in an abbreviated manner. The present disclosure can improve a utilization rate of an interface space of a mobile device and saves the amount of online traffic for a user. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025662 | CONTENT SEARCH METHOD BASED ON CLOUD SERVICE, AND SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - The present invention relates to content search based on a cloud service, wherein a content search screen is displayed for providing a content search in a predefined format and the search request can be made, via the received content search screen, by manipulating the displayed contents in a more intuitive manner so that a user can access the desired item more efficiently. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025663 | MESSAGE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Multi-media content for inclusion into an SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multi-media Message Service), IM (Instant Message) or other message type can be searched, pre-searches, fetched and pre-fetched based upon predictive- and rules-based searching techniques. A system can predict or infer an in-process message, for example, based upon a portion of the inputted text message. Thereafter, in real- or near real-time, content related to the topic of conversation can be retrieved from a local store, remote stores (e.g., servers) or cloud-based sources. The retrieved content can be incorporated into the SMS, MMS, or IM message as appropriate or desired thereby enhancing the messaging experience. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025664 | IDENTIFYING TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH QUERIES - Computer-readable media and computerized methods are provided for identifying terms associated with one or more queries, including aspects directed to manipulating a list of terms associated with a query class by extracting terms, identifying equivalences or relevant terms, and condensing or expanding the list of terms. In embodiments, synonymous terms can be identified. An updated list of terms can be written to a storage location in association with a query or query class. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025665 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING A NETWORK FEED IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discusses a dashboard application that compiles values across a set of records, each of the records having fields which include data pertaining to user-defined criteria. The user enters a query into the system and the set of records is returns and analyzed according the criteria. The results are numerical and are displayed in components of the dashboard. The component is a graph, bar graph, pie chart, etc. that appears in a user interface of the dashboard. A user can customize the application and define its component. Multiple users can view and subscribe to the dashboard and can select specific components to follow. Some components can have user-defined threshold values and can provide graphics displaying breakpoints of those values. When the system refreshes, or the user manually refreshes the dashboard, an alert is generated if the threshold value is traversed. The alert, including the component graphic, is posted in the subscriber's feed and a feed of the dashboard. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025666 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT DATA FOR PAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention improve the ability of a social networking system to determine which types of data—hereinafter referred to as “fields”—are relevant to which types of user pages. Specifically, a social networking system assigns page types to different user pages, and likewise stores information on different types of fields. By analyzing the relationships of different pages and fields, the social networking system determines which types of fields are particularly well-suited for inclusion on different types of pages. Using the learned information about page types and field types, the social networking system can better aid page administrators in specifying data to add to their pages. For example, the social networking system can recommend to administrators the addition of certain types of fields or automatically add the fields. Further, the social networking system can specialize a search for social networking system data to field types. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING COMPATIBILITY RATINGS FOR AN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Computing compatibility ratings for an online collaborative environment is described, including receiving request for a compatibility rating, the request comprises a user identifier of a first user and an I3 identifier of an I3 submitted by a second user, the I3 is associated with submission information; determining if there are other I3s submitted by the first user, each of the other I3s is associated with respective submission information; for each of the other I3s, analyzing the respective submission information and the submission information associated with the I3 submitted by the second user, and computing a score; and computing the compatibility rating based at least on the score associated with each of the other I3s. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025668 | Method and System of Ranking Search Results, and Method and System of Optimizing Search Result Ranking - The present disclosure provides techniques to rank search results. The techniques may include acquiring a set of primitive characteristics and extracting effective characteristics from the set of primitive characteristics based on historical transaction data. The effective characteristics include characteristics that can have an influence on ranking of search results. The techniques may also include determining an initial weight of each of the effective characteristics based on the historical transaction data, and training the initial weight using the historical transaction data and a predetermined training model to obtain a final weight. Based on the final weight, the search results may be ranked. In some aspects, the techniques may also optimize the ranking to ensure the objectivity and accuracy of ranking results. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025669 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB RELATED TO A FIRST FILE WITH A MORE RECENT PUBLICATION DATE - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, 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 web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025670 | LOCATION BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method disclosed herein comprises ranking a service provider or a product for a user based on scorings of the service provider by one or more members of a network of the user and weights assigned to each of the scorings, wherein the weights are determined based on the user. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025671 | CONTEXT-BASED OBJECT RETRIEVAL IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Embodiments improve the ability of users of a social networking system to search for information that is likely to be relevant to them by learning and/or applying a search context associated with selector components used to search for objects of the social networking system. The search context is specific to the use of an individual selector and thus need not be as general as the context of an entire page or set of pages in which selectors can be embedded. The social networking system may learn the context of a selector by monitoring user selections from prior search results performed using the selector. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025672 | SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses a search method and system. A method obtains a first search result set of first search results relevant to query data submitted by a client. According to a first relevance score and a preset diversity field of each first search result in the first search result set, a second relevance score of each first search result is calculated. The preset diversity field represents an attribute category of a respective first search result. According to the first relevance score and the second relevance score, a relevance parameter score for each first search result is generated. According to a preset number of second search results and the relevance parameter score, the present number of second search results are extracted from the first search result set to display to the client. The technique achieves lower consumption of system resources, faster computation speed and more flexibility in diversification of search results. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025673 | TECHNIQUES FOR ESTIMATING DISTANCE BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Techniques for estimating, in real time, the likelihood that any particular member of a social network service is a third degree connection of another member are described. Consistent with some embodiments, various member profile attributes of a member are used as a sort of proxy for determining the likelihood or probability that the member is a third degree connection of another member. For example, in some instances, the number of first-degree connections a member has is used to derive a probability score indicating the likelihood that the member is a third-degree connection of another member, such as a person performing a people-search. Once derived, the probability score for each member may be used in various applications, such as a people-search engine, to boost or increase a ranking score assigned to each search result and used to order the search results when presented to the user who has performed the search. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025674 | User-Specific Search Result Re-ranking - A search result is re-ranked/re-ordered in a user-specific manner, where the search result comprises an ordered sequence of identifications of a plurality of network-accessible documents that match a search query, based on a model corresponding to a user who will view the search result. The model comprises keywords and relationships among them, according to how the user perceives relationships among the keywords. The re-ranking comprises changing an order of at least one of the identified plurality of network-accessible documents within the ordered sequence, responsive to comparing ones of the keywords in the model to the identifications of network-accessible documents. The search result is then rendered, as re-ranked, for the user. The relationships may have an associated bond strength, and the re-ranking comprises changing the order accordingly. Keywords from the model are preferably used to group the identifications during the re-ranking. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025675 | AS-BUILT COMPILER - Diverse drawings, documents, files and notes in different formats describing buildings in their finished and installed state are electronically aggregated into sets of as-built drawings for convenient and rapid future access. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PRE-AUTHORIZED CONTACT DATA - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing pre-authorized contact data. An exemplary computer-implemented method includes receiving contact data by a computing device based at least in part upon accessing a machine-readable code, wherein the machine-readable code encodes a network address for accessing the contact data. The method can also include automatically associating at least one of current location, current date, or current time information with the received contact data. Moreover, the method can optionally include associating one or more notes with the received contact data, wherein the one or more notes are capable of providing information relating to the received contact data. The method can further include generating an electronic contact entry based at least in part upon the received contact data, at least one of the associated current location, current date, or current time information, and optionally upon the one or more notes. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025677 | Group Management Apparatus, Substrate Processing System and Method of Managing Files of Substrate Processing Apparatus - There is provided a group management apparatus connected to a substrate processing apparatus configured to store at least a configuration file, the group management apparatus including a controller configured to: receive a command for generating a file group for the configuration file; receive the configuration file and at least one associated file related to the configuration file from the substrate processing apparatus according to the command for generating the file group; and generate the file group including the configuration file and the associated file received from the substrate processing apparatus and store the file group in a state where an output is possible. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025678 | USER-FRIENDLY DISPLAY OF DATA - A display apparatus for displaying accumulated data items includes obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of data items accumulated, classifying means for classifying the plurality of data items into N groups on the basis of predetermined criteria, display-control means for controlling an indication on a display unit such that the plurality of data are displayed in N display regions corresponding to the N groups, and accepting means for accepting a specification of one display region from among the N display regions. When the accepting means accepts a specification of one display region from among the N display regions, the classifying means classifies a plurality of data items displayed in the specified display region into a further N groups, and the display-control means controls an indication on the display unit such that the plurality of data items are displayed in the N display regions corresponding to the N groups. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025679 | FORMING LOGICAL GROUP FOR USER BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FROM USER DEVICE - 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. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TAGGING CONTENT - A content tagging and management capability is provided for enabling automatic tagging of content and management of tagged content. A method includes receiving content including an object, and automatically associating an information structure with the object included within the content to form thereby tagged content. The content may be received locally at a content capture device, and the information structure may be automatically associated with the object by the content capture device. The automatic tagging may be performed at the content capture device when the content is captured by the content capture device. The content may be received at a computer, and the information structure may be automatically associated with the object by the computer. The information structure may be available locally or retrieved from one or more remote devices. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025681 | Apparatus and Method for Perusing Selected Vehicles Having a Clean Title History - A system and method for allowing a consumer to search a database containing used vehicles from a variety of sellers that can be queried to provide search results that include only vehicles having clean title histories. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025682 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: acquiring posted information items, each of the posted information items including at least either of a text information item and an image information item; generating text information items including text items in such a manner that image information items are removed from the posted information items, and classifying the text items into first categories; generating image information items including images in such a manner that text information items are removed from the posted information items, and classifying the images into second categories; associating the classified text items and the classified images with each other on the basis of the first and second categories to obtain results; and outputting the text items and the images for each of the results. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNITY-UPDATEABLE DATA - A method of managing crowdsourced data includes storing contact information regarding a plurality of contacts within a community-updateable repository accessible by a plurality of users, receiving a plurality of discrepancy reports associated with a selected contact of the plurality of contacts, extracting fact data regarding the selected contact from the plurality of discrepancy reports, determining an action to be taken based on the fact data and a fact model applied to the fact data, and performing the action to modify the community-updateable repository. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025684 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING A DATA COLLECTION - A system searches a data collection using a bloom filter index to reduce the search scope to improve search efficiency, while at the same time allowing more flexible searches of the data collection using search terms containing any arbitrary string of data. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025685 | MANAGING STORAGE OF INDIVIDUALLY ACCESSIBLE DATA UNITS - Managing data by: receiving a group of individually accessible data units, each data unit identified by a key value, with key values determined such that the key value identifying a first data unit received before a second data unit occurs earlier in a sort order than the key value identifying the second data unit; and processing the data units for storage in a data storage system. The processing includes: storing blocks of data, the blocks being generated by combining a plurality of the data units; providing an index with entries that enable location, based on a provided key value, of a block that includes a data unit corresponding to the provided key value; and generating one or more screening data structures associated with the blocks for determining, based on a given key value, whether to search the stored blocks for a data unit corresponding to the given key value. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM BUSINESS CARD DATA - A system and method for determining organizational hierarchy from contact data. A phrase having multiple terms representing a job title is received and converted to lower case, then concatenated with a symbol to separate the terms. The phrase is compared to a training set of predefined normalized phrases representing known job titles. If a match is found, a data record is created or updated with organizational hierarchy information associated with the matched phrase in the training set. If a match is not found, a term is removed from the phrase and the comparison repeated. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025687 | Analyzing a report - A report analyzing system ( | 2014-01-23 |
20140025688 | DETERMINING, DISTINGUISHING AND VISUALIZING USERS' ENGAGEMENT WITH RESOURCES ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for displaying top fan status information relating to selected content in a social network. An item of content is selected in a social network application. An engagement score is determined for each of one or more first users. Each engagement score is based on interactions of each of the one or more first users with the selected item of content. A subset of the one or more first users that has interacted with the item of social content the most is identified and displayed. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025689 | DETERMINING A SIMILARITY BETWEEN GRAPHS - A method for determining a similarity between a plurality of graphs includes inferring a low-rank representation of a first graph, inferring a low-rank representation of a second graph, wherein the low-rank representations of the first and second graphs are stored in memory, estimating a left interaction between the first and second graphs, estimating a middle interaction between the first and second graphs, estimating a right interaction between the first and second graphs, wherein the estimations are based on the low-rank representations of the first and second graphs stored in memory, and aggregating the left interaction, the middle interaction and the right interaction into a kernel, wherein the kernel is indicative of the similarity between the first and second graphs. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025690 | CONTENT RANKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A relevance of a content item to an event is determined. A user rating of the content item is received. A ranking of the content item is determined with respect to the event, relative to one or more other content items associated with the event based at least in part on the relevance and the user rating. In some embodiments, the ranking is determined based at least in part on a sentiment score associated with the content item. A ranking algorithm provides a novel method for retrieving, scoring, ranking, and presenting content related to an event based on a combination of scoring contributions such as user rating, relevance, and sentiment. Embodiments provide users with the most relevant, engaging, and informative content concerning events of interest to them. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025691 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC FILTERING OF AN OBJECT GRAPH IN A CONTENT REPOSITORY - A method and apparatus for dynamic filtering of an object graph in a content repository. The method comprises accessing a plurality of objects in an object graph of a content repository; forming a request using at least one filtering expression, wherein the filtering expression is used to perform an operation on a selected subset of objects in the object graph; and executing the request on the selected subset of objects, using the at least one filtering expression. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025692 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A TOPICAL-BASED HIGHLIGHTS FILTER - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for filtering content to be displayed in an online social network. Highlights from a plurality of highlight sources relevant to a first user can be received. Topics or other subject matter associated with the received highlights can be identified and social network data to be presented to the first user can be determined based on the identified subject matter. In some implementations, data indicating the determined social network data can be generated and provided to a display device associated with the first user. A presentation including a reference to the determined social network data can be displayed on the display device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025693 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHARING EMAIL IN A MULTITENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - A method for sharing an email in an on-demand database system is provided. The method receives, at one or more computer systems associated with the on-demand database system, the email from a first user; determines, at the one or more computer systems, a database record associated with the email; logs, at the one or more computer systems, the email with the associated database record; and provides access to the email to one or more second users with access rights to the database record. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025694 | DATABASE QUERY LANGUAGE GATEWAY - A method includes receiving a query request, generating a modified query in a database query language by modifying a stored query in the database query language based on the query request, and transmitting the modified query to a database endpoint. The method includes receiving query results in the database query language and converting by the processor the query results from the database query language to a format usable by a reporting engine. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025695 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UNIFIED ACCESS TO VARIOUS DATA RESOURCES USING VIRTUALIZED SERVICES - A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor. The code causes the processor to receive, from a client device, a request for a service associated with a set of compute devices. The processor is caused to define a normalized request, based on a metadata associated with service requirements. The processor is caused to define a translated request for a compute device from the set of compute devices based on the normalized request. The processor is caused to send the translated request to the compute device in accordance with an endpoint interface associated with a format of the translated request. The processor is caused to receive data associated with the service from the compute device, in response to the translated request. The processor is caused to send, to the client device, a response having a format associated with the client device based on the data. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025696 | Method, Program and System for Generating RDF Expressions - A system and method of generating RDF expression. The system receives a URI from a tool using linked data, and identifies an object to become a seed from the URI. Next, the appropriate mapping file is identified from the type of object, and type information is generated from this. The generated type information is referenced, and objects are collected following recursively from the seed. The system sends a graph of the collected objects to an RDF converter. The RDF converter references the mapping file, and converts the object graph into RDF, which is then outputted. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025697 | DATA RELATEDNESS ASSESSMENT DEVICE, DATA RELATEDNESS ASSESSMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided are a data relatedness assessment device, a data relatedness assessment method, and a recording medium that stores a program, which calculates relatedness between two or more pieces of data relevant to a task of a worker. A display area acquirer ( | 2014-01-23 |
20140025698 | TEXTUAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method, and an associated apparatus configured to implement such a method, for analysing mark-up language text content, such as might be found on a website or within online user generated content. The method comprises a training phase, in which plurality of schemas are automatically generated from a specified text and a final schema is compiled. This final schema can then be used to compare with other online text content such that content which matched the final schema can be identified, for example for further analysis and comparison. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025699 | MEDIA FINGERPRINTING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify media, such as movies, television shows, and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user then can share this information with other users, such as by uploading to a social networking site or passing the information to peers on a peer network as part of a container. Users can have the ability to add tagged content, provide comments and ratings, and otherwise interact based at least in part upon the tagged media content. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025700 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR INTRODUCING SEMANTIC CONCEPTS INTO COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS - Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for introducing semantic concepts into complex event processing (CEP) systems and/or methods. In an event processing system, for example, an event bus is configured to receive a stream of events, each having a predefined event type. An event processing agent is configured to execute predefined queries on the events, with each query conforming to a query language, and with the query language being enhanced via a semantic extension corresponding to an ontology. An ontology management component in communication with the event processing agent stores mappings (optionally specified at design time) between concepts of the query language and concepts of the ontology that enhances the query language. Processing resources of the component translate (optionally at compile time) references to ontology concepts into translated queries processable by the event processing agent in accordance with the query language, without the semantic extension enhancement. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025701 | QUERY EXPANSION - The present disclosure provides example query expansion methods and systems. A query input by a user is received. A normalized query of the query is determined according to the query. The normalized query is used as an expansion term of the query to implement query expansion. For example, session information in a search log of the user is obtained. All queries appearing in a single session are obtained and a number of votes for each query is calculated or counted. A vote similarity between a single query and a target query is determined and a correlation degree between the single query and the target query is determined according to the vote similarity. A normalized query of the target query is determined according to the correlation degree. The present techniques accurately expand queries and reduce query times, thereby improving system response speed and processing efficiency. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025702 | Filtering Structured Search Queries Based on Privacy Settings - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a structured query that included references to nodes and edges from a social graph, identifying target nodes that correspond to the structured query, and then generating search results that include target nodes with privacy settings where the nodes and edges along the path connecting the target node and the querying user are all visible to the user. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025703 | INTELLIGENT DATA EXPLORATION AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing an intelligent response are disclosed. The systems and methods may include a processing device that performs the following: receiving a request from a user, translating the request into one or more intelligent query parameters, querying a plurality of sources in accordance with the one or more intelligent query parameters, obtaining data from the plurality of sources, generating a response to the request from the natural language data and providing the response to the user. The response may contain a report that has at least a portion of the data from at least two sources. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025704 | QUERY METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM AND QUERY APPARATUS - A method, system, and/or computer program product queries a distributed database system. In one embodiment, the query method comprises: parsing a query request; generating an access plan for the query request, wherein the access plan specifies therein a database table related to the query request, and the database table has a plurality of copies stored in different database devices respectively; selecting, based on status information of each of the plurality of copies of the specified database table, one copy from the plurality of copies as a target database table; and executing a query operation in the target database table according to the access plan. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025705 | Method of and System for Inferring User Intent in Search Input in a Conversational Interaction System - A method of inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring user intent in a search input includes providing a user preference signature that describes preferences of the user, receiving search input from the user intended by the user to identify at least one desired item, and determining that a portion of the search input contains an ambiguous identifier. The ambiguous identifier is intended by the user to identify, at least in part, a desired item. The method further includes inferring a meaning for the ambiguous identifier based on matching portions of the search input to the preferences of the user described by the user preference signature and selecting items from a set of content items based on comparing the search input and the inferred meaning of the ambiguous identifier with metadata associated with the content items. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025706 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING USER INTENT IN SEARCH INPUT IN A CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION SYSTEM - A method of inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring user intent in a search input includes providing a user preference signature that describes preferences of the user, receiving search input from the user intended by the user to identify at least one desired item, and determining that a portion of the search input contains an ambiguous identifier. The ambiguous identifier is intended by the user to identify, at least in part, a desired item. The method further includes inferring a meaning for the ambiguous identifier based on matching portions of the search input to the preferences of the user described by the user preference signature and selecting items from a set of content items based on comparing the search input and the inferred meaning of the ambiguous identifier with metadata associated with the content items. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION WITH KNOWN INDIVIDUALS - Methods and related systems are presented that relate to establishing communications among individuals connected through social networking services. To obtain the contact information of an encountered connection, a person may take a photo of the connection and provide information indicating how he/she knows the connection. Using the provided information, a subset of the person's connections in the social networking services that he/she belongs to is selected. The photos included in the profiles of the connections in the selected subset are searched and a profile that includes an image with features matching the features of the obtained image is selected. Once a match is found, personal information of the connection is obtained from his/her profile and transmitted to the person. The individuals can establish connection using the obtained personal information. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025708 | INDEXING HIERARCHICAL DATA - A system includes generation of an encoding for each of a hierarchy of nodes, each of the nodes associated with one or more attributes, and the encoding for each node including a first pointer and a second pointer, and generation of an order tree comprising a hierarchy of entries, where each pointer of the encoding points to a respective one of the entries, wherein the encoding and the order tree indicate a position of each node in the hierarchy of nodes. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025709 | CONCURRENT INSERTION OF ELEMENTS INTO DATA STRUCTURES - A method of adding an element to a data structure may include atomically associating the element with the data structure if the element is not associated with the data structure. The element may be prepared for insertion into a location in the data structure. The method may also include atomically inserting the element into the location in the data structure if another element has not been inserted into the location. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025710 | Storage Optimizations for Multi-File Adaptive Bitrate Assets - Improved storage of ABR encoded content is described. According to the current disclosure, it is possible to concatenate a plurality of individual segment files of ABR encoded content into a file. The file, instead of all of the individual segment files, may be easier to manage and/or may improve I/O efficiency due to the reading and writing of a larger file possibly across a plurality of parallel disks. A playlist of the content is updated to refer to the file and a location within the file for each segment, rather than referring to individual segment files for each segment. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025711 | UNIFIED FILE AND OBJECT DATA STORAGE - A server computing device receives, from a client computing device, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request to perform an operation on an object. The server computing device identifies a file, that corresponds to the object, in a network attached storage file system in a local area network. The server computing device mounts, via the local area network, the network attached storage file system to perform the operation using the file that corresponds to the object. The computer device sends a HTTP response indicating performance of the operation to the client computing device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025712 | Global Recently Used Files List - A global recently used files list identifies files recently accessed by a user through one or more network services and files accessed by the user that are stored locally on a computing device. In order to generate the global recently used files list, a network recently used files list is retrieved that identifies files that were recently accessed through the one or more network services. Applications may update the network recently used files list each time a user accesses files by way of a network service. The network recently used files list may then be merged with a local recently used files list that identifies recently accessed locally stored files in order to generate the global recently used files list. Applications may update the local recently used files list each time files are accessed that are stored locally on a computing device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025713 | UNIFIED FILE AND OBJECT DATA STORAGE - A server computing device receives, from a client computing device, a request to perform an operation on an object. The server computing device identifies a file, that corresponds to the object, in a network attached storage file system in a local area network. The server computing device mounts, via the local area network, the network attached storage file system to perform the operation using the file that corresponds to the object. The computer device sends a response indicating performance of the operation to the client computing device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025714 | Method and Apparatus for Realizing a Dynamically Typed File or Object System Enabling the User to Perform Calculations Over the Properties Associated with the Files or Objects in the System - A dynamically typed file system and method enables a user to perform calculations over the meta information associated with files, documents, or other entities stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025715 | Neural Signal Processing and/or Interface Methods, Architectures, Apparatuses, and Devices - Processing a neural signal sequence occurs in accordance with a neural signal spiking model that includes an exponential component (EC) and a polynomial component (PC). The exponential component is correlated with the presence of signal sequence noise, and the polynomial component is correlated with the presence of detectable signal sequence spikes distinguishable from the noise. A neural interface includes a frequency shaping amplifier (FSA) configured for receiving input signals; an amplifier gain stage and an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) stage; a Hilbert transformer configured for performing a Hilbert transform upon neural signal data received from the ADC stage; a linear regression engine configured for estimating EC parameters and PC parameters corresponding to Hilbert transformed neural signal data; and a neural spike probability estimator configured for generating a neural spike probability map based upon the EC parameters and the PC parameters. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025716 | COMPUTATIONS USING A POLYCHRONOUS WAVE PROPAGATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a polychronous wave propagation system that is based on relative timing between two or more propagated waves through a wave propagation medium. The relative timing may be associated with interference patterns of energy between the propagated waves. Operational behavior of the polychronous wave propagation system is based on the relative timing of the propagated waves and distances between initiators that transmit the propagated waves and responders that receive the propagated waves. The operational behavior may include arithmetical computations, memory storage, Boolean functions, frequency-based computations, or the like. The polychronous wave propagation system relies on time delays between the propagated waves that result from propagation velocities of the propagated waves through the wave propagation medium. By incorporating the time delays into the system, operational capacity may be greatly enhanced. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025717 | SIMD INTEGER ADDITION INCLUDING MATHEMATICAL OPERATION ON MASKS - Methods, apparatuses, and articles associated with SIMD adding two integers are disclosed. In embodiments, a method may include element-wise SIMD adding corresponding elements of a first SIMD-sized integer (A) and a second SIMD-sized integer (B) to generate a SIMD-sized integer result (R) and a carry bit. A may have an integer size (SizeA), while B may have an integer size (SizeB). The addition, in response to SizeA greater than SizeB, may further include updating R and the carry bit in view of one or more elements of A that do not have corresponding element or elements of B. Further, element-wise SIMD adding may include performing one or more mathematical operations on first one or more masks, with the first one or more masks interpreted as integers, and interpreting one or more integer results of the one or more mathematical operations as second one or more masks. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025718 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RANDOM NUMBER - A circuit and a method for generating a random number are provided. The circuit for generating the random number includes an analog-to-digital converter and a controller. The analog-to-digital converter sequentially generates a plurality of digital data in response to an analog signal. The controller utilizes an estimation procedure to sequentially analyze a variation trend of the plurality of digital data in a time sequence or extract components of the plurality of digital data within a preset frequency band. In addition, the controller generates a true random number based on a result of the estimation procedure. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025719 | ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING BASED SYSTEM - An embodiment of the invention includes asynchronous data calculation and data exchange in a distributed system. Such an embodiment is appropriate for advanced modeling projects and the like. One embodiment includes a distribution of a matrix of data across a distributed computing system. The embodiment combines transform calculations (e.g., Fourier transforms) and data transpositions of the data across the distributed computing system. The embodiment further combines decompositions and transpositions of the data across the distributed computing system. The embodiment thereby concurrently performs data calculations (e.g., transform calculations, decompositions) and data exchange (e.g., message passage interface messaging) to promote distributed computing efficiency. Other embodiments are described herein. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025720 | SOLVING LINEAR EQUATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE RIGHT HAND SIDES BY KRYLOV SUBSPACE EXPANSION - One embodiment sets forth a method for solving linear equation systems that include the same matrix A coupled with multiple right-hand-side vectors. For each new right-hand-side vector, a solver expands an existing Krylov subspace based on the Krylov subspace and data associated with the previous right-hand-side vector. The solver then uses the expanded Krylov subspace to approximately solve the linear equation system for the new right-hand-side vector. By expanding the Krylov subspace for each new right-hand-side vector, the solver continually leverages the information from the preceding right-hand-side vectors. Advantageously, expanding the Krylov subspace is typically computationally quicker than prior art-techniques, such as creating a new Krylov subspace or transforming an existing Krylov subspace. Consequently, by implementing the disclosed techniques, the likelihood of exceeding time constraints associated with algorithms that include solving certain classes of linear equation systems may be decreased. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025721 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING RESOURCES FOR ON-DEMAND COURSES - A method for providing access to dynamically provisioned resources and on-demand courses includes receiving, by an instantiation engine executing on a first computing device, from a second computing device associated with a user, an indication that the user has purchased access to the course at a scheduled time. A type of computing resource is identified for use during the course at the scheduled time. A service provider computing device is selected from a plurality of service provider computing devices, based upon an ability to provide access to the identified type of computing resource at the scheduled time. Before the scheduled time, the instantiation engine instructs the selected service provider computing device to provision a computing resource of the identified type. The method includes transmitting, to the second computing device, an instruction to establish a connection to the provisioned computing resource at the scheduled time. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025722 | APPARATUS FOR A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS TO ACCESS A PLANT ASSET MANAGER - An apparatus for a plurality of clients to access a plant asset manager, the apparatus comprising a gateway server configured to communicate directly with a plant asset management server of the plant asset manager; and at least one client server configured to communicate directly with the gateway server and to communicate directly with at least one of the plurality of clients; such that there is no direct communication between the plurality of clients and the plant asset management server. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025723 | CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA STORAGE AND SHARING METHOD BASED ON THE SYSTEM - A cloud storage system comprises at least one server, and an intermediate device that communicates with the at least one server and a plurality of client devices that are presented on a network. The client devices comprise various data for sharing, and attribute information of the sharing data are stored in the at least one server through the intermediate device. The intermediate device establishes peer to peer connections between the client devices, and controls data transmission between the client devices through the peer to peer connections, so that the client devices can share their data through the peer to peer connections. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025724 | PERSONAL SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A personal safety communications system includes a plurality of user terminals belonging to a plurality of individual users and being interconnected via one or more networks. The system includes an alert management apparatus, the apparatus includes a relationship database storing a set of dependant-guardian relationships among users of said user terminals such that one or more users can be designated as guardians of another user, including the possibility for users to be guardians of one another. The apparatus further includes an alert initiation interface by which a first user having one or more designated guardians can use their user terminal to initiate an alert situation and to indicate their location. The apparatus further includes a guardian response interface and a situation monitoring interface for informing the first user of the identity and location of one or more guardians who have indicated they will attend. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025725 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOVING WEB OBJECT BASED ON INTENT - A method and apparatus for moving a web object based on an intent is provided. A primary device may identify a web object supporting movability on a loaded web page, and may determine whether the identified web object can be moved to a secondary device based on movability information of the identified web object. The primary device may re-render the web page in a web browser, aside from the web object supporting movability, while maintaining a full layout of the web page. In the movement of the web object, the primary device may push, to a push server, movement of the web object to the secondary device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025726 | HARDWARE RESOURCE ACCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING HARDWARE RESOURCES IN BROWSER-BASED OPERATING SYSTEMS AND MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - Methods for accessing hardware resources in an electronic device with a browser-based operating system (OS) which includes a user interface running in a browser are provided. A local server is first provided on the electronic device, wherein the local server has a corresponding URL and a dedicated network port. Then, upon receiving a service request from the client-side web application, the local server analyzes a service type of the service request and performs an operation to at least one of the hardware resources corresponding to the service type, wherein the service request is generated and directed to the local server according to the URL and the dedicated network port of the local server by the client-side web application on the electronic device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025727 | SYNCHRONIZATION SERVER FOR CLIPBOARD AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM FOR CLIPBOARD HAVING THE SAME - A clipboard synchronization system and method are provided that allow data in the clipboard to be shared among a plurality of client terminals that share a common account. The system synchronizes the data in the clipboard that may be cut and/or copied from a document or application on a particular client terminal. The system and method also may provide history keeping that may be a listing of the data in the clipboard that is shared by each of the client terminals through synchronization. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING COMPUTING PROGRAMS - A process transmission system comprises a process transmission server and a client device configured to communicate with the process transmission server. The process transmission server receives program request information from the client device, packs a process of a program to generate a process package comprising a central processing unit (CPU) register value associated with the program, and transmits the process package to the client device. The client device transmits program request information to the process transmission server, receives a process package corresponding to the program request information from the process transmission server, and executes a process by performing data processing on the received process package. The data processing comprises storing the process in a main memory device of the client device based on the process package and transmitting the CPU register value to a CPU of the client device. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025730 | MANAGING CONCURRENT CONVERSATIONS OVER A COMMUNICATIONS LINK BETWEEN A CLIENT COMPUTER AND A SERVER COMPUTER - A method, system and/or computer program manages a maximum permissible number of concurrent conversations over a communications link between a client computer and a server computer. State information includes an indication as to whether the most recent message sent is the final message in the conversation. When a client computer requests to start a new conversation, the server computer starts the conversation if the maximum number of conversations will not be exceeded. If the maximum number will be exceeded, the server computer checks the state information to find a conversation in which the most recent message sent is the final message in the conversation. If such a conversation cannot be found, the server computer does not start the new conversation. If such a conversation can be found, the server computer queues the message from a client computer to start a new conversation. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025731 | Page Server for Navigation Data - A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
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. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025749 | System and Method for Delivering Alerts - A technique is provided for delivering an alert to a user. The technique includes identifying which single device of a user's multiple devices should receive the alert. A server is configured to collect device statistics about the user's devices and determine which device should receive the alert. Example device statistics include locations of the devices, last use time of the devices, statistics received from other applications that the user is accessing (e.g., email, search engine, applications, mobile apps, etc.), statistics from other users in the same location as the user, statistics from cameras, motion detectors, or proximity sensors associated with the devices, history/pattern of the user consuming previous alerts, what type of message is associated with the alert (e.g., email, SMS, picture, video, etc.), and/or whether a particular device is ON/OFF or locked/unavailable, among others. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION BASED PING DURING CHAT MODE - A system or method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a predetermined motion profile during a chat mode with a remote communication device and sending a ping signal to the remote receiving device in response to detecting the predetermined motion profile. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025751 | Method and Devices for Message Disposition Notification after Session Termination - This invention provides a method as well as a client apparatus and a server apparatus which will support sending and receiving a disposition notification to session based messaging clients after the message session has terminated. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025752 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION AND VIEWING RULES IN A NETWORK - A system, method and computer-readable medium for displaying a message over a network are disclosed. A distribution indicator is associated with a defined distribution rule for displaying messages over the network. A message includes the distribution indicator in the message. The message is displayed over the network according to the distribution rule indicated by the distribution indicator included in the message. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIVATE TOKEN COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Rather than forcing users to give personally identifying contact data to information providers, this disclosure teaches an apparatus and method enabling the use of “private tokens,” which allow information providers to send electronic communications to targeted users without having access to personally identifying contact information. These features are provided by an anonymous communication service that manages the private tokens and provides communication proxy services intermediating the electronic communications between the information providers and the users targeted by those communications. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025754 | MOB SOURCE PHONE VIDEO COLLABORATION - Methods and systems for identifying video clips in a video clip repository that are of the same event are disclosed. Video clips are identified as being of the same event based on timestamps and geolocation stamps associated with the video clips. In one embodiment, authors of video clips receive messages that notify them of the existence of other video clips of the same event. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025755 | INFERRING EVENTS BASED ON MOB SOURCE VIDEO - Methods and systems are disclosed for inferring that an event of interest (e.g., a public gathering, a performance, an accident, etc.) has likely occurred. In particular, when there are at least a given number of video clips with similar timestamps and geolocation stamps uploaded to a repository, it is inferred that an event of interest has likely occurred, and a notification signal is transmitted (e.g., to a law enforcement agency, to a news organization, to a publisher of a periodical, to a public blog, etc.). | 2014-01-23 |
20140025756 | INTER-MODAL MESSAGING COMMUNICATIONS - Inter-modal messaging communication is described. In one embodiment, a method of communication includes receiving an electronic mail message to be distributed and determining whether the electronic mail message is a multi-modal distribution message. Respective portions of the message may be separated for each mode of distribution. The separated portions may represent portions to be delivered by SMS messaging and facsimile, for example. The method further includes the steps of transmitting a short message comprising the short message portion of the mail message and establishing a conversation comprising conversation attributes. The conversation attributes are referenced, in certain aspects, to maintain a conversation between an originator of the received electronic mail message and a distribution address of short message portion of the mail message. For example, upon receipt of a short message in reply, the short message may be forwarded to an originator of the conversation. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025757 | System and Method for Providing Multi-Modal Asynchronous Communication - Embodiments include receiving a first synchronous communication message in a first modality from a first user device. The method may further include generating a first asynchronous communication message in a second modality, based at least in part on the first synchronous communication message in the first modality, wherein the first modality differs from the second modality. The method may also include receiving a second asynchronous communication message in the second modality from a second user device. The method may further include generating a second asynchronous communication message in the first modality based at least in part on the second synchronous communication message in the second modality. The method may also include providing for display to the first user device, the second asynchronous message in the first modality. The method may further include providing for display to the second user device, the first asynchronous message in the second modality. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025758 | System and Method for Delivering Alerts - A technique is provided for delivering an alert to a user. The technique includes identifying which single device of a user's multiple devices should receive the alert. A server is configured to collect device statistics about the user's devices and determine which device should receive the alert. Example device statistics include locations of the devices, last use time of the devices, statistics received from other applications that the user is accessing (e.g., email, search engine, applications, mobile apps, etc.), statistics from other users in the same location as the user, statistics from cameras, motion detectors, or proximity sensors associated with the devices, history/pattern of the user consuming previous alerts, what type of message is associated with the alert (e.g., email, SMS, picture, video, etc.), and/or whether a particular device is ON/OFF or locked/unavailable, among others. | 2014-01-23 |
20140025759 | Alert Management System - In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a system for monitoring device status and for forwarding service notifications to customers. The system broadly comprises a first module for downloading and storing e-mail alerts from the customer's servers, a second module for interpreting the alerts and storing the alerts for action, and a third module for creating service calls and sending e-mail notifications. | 2014-01-23 |