12th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130073543 | SEARCH SYSTEM UTILZING PURCHASE HISTORY - A method for providing a purchase history context search includes receiving at least one search term from a user through an input device. A purchase history for the user is then accessed from at least one purchase history database over a network. A web index that is located on at least one storage device is then accessed. A plurality of search results, each associated with a web page indexed by the web index, are then determined using the at least one search term and the purchase history, each search result including a link to an associated web page. The plurality of search results are then provided for display on a display device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073544 | Method and System to Combine Keyword and Natural Language Search Results - A search query is received from a single input field of a user interface. A keyword search is performed based on the search query to generate keyword search results. A natural language search is performed of a frequently-asked question (FAQ) database based on the search query to generate FAQ search results. The keyword search results and the FAQ search results are combined in a display page. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED CONTENT FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT ON AN ARTICLE - A method and system for providing recommended content for user generated content on an article. The method includes determining one or more features of the article on a web page. The article along with a topical set of comments is viewed by a user. The method also includes defining one or more features of the topical set of comments. The method further includes retrieving the recommended content based on the one or more features of the article and the one or more features of the topical set of comments. Further, the method includes ranking the recommended content based on a plurality of parameters. The plurality of parameters includes user-intent features, a contextual user-model, user history, and user preferences. Moreover, the method includes displaying the recommended content along with the topical set of comments. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073546 | Indexing Semantic User Profiles for Targeted Advertising - Embodiments facilitate greater flexibility in definition of user segments for targeted advertising, by employing indexed semantic user profiles. Semantic user profiles are built through extraction of online user behavior data such as user search queries and page views, and include user interest information that is inferred based on user behavior. Semantic user profiles are then indexed to facilitate search for a set of users that fit specified semantic search terms. Search results for semantic profiles are ranked according to a ranking model developed through machine learning. In some embodiments, building and indexing of semantic profiles and learning of the ranking model is performed offline to facilitate more efficient online processing of queries. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073547 | DATA MINING ACROSS MULTIPLE SOCIAL PLATFORMS - One or more devices store in a memory, customer tags originating on an external social platform and employee tags originating on an internal social platform. The one or more devices provide to a user device, keyword suggestions for new content to be published on the internal social platform. The keyword suggestions include selections from both the customer tags and the employee tags. The one or more devices receive employee metadata, for content published on the internal social platform, that includes tags selected from the keyword suggestions, and associates the tags in the employee metadata as customer-originated tags or employee-originated tags based on the stored customer tags and employee tags. The one or more devices perform data correlation to determine relationships between use of the customer-originated tags and use of the employee-originated tags in the employee metadata. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073548 | PRODUCT ATTRIBUTE ENFORCEMENT RULES - Rules may be defined and enforced against air waybills in a logistics management system (LMS) to reduce operator input error and reduce operator input omissions. A rule may include a product code, a restriction type, and special handling codes associated with the product code by the restriction type. For example, when an air waybill has a particular product type, a rule may require certain special handling codes be applied to the air waybill. In another example, when an air waybill has a particular product type, a rule may prevent certain special handling codes from being applied to the air waybill. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073549 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a presenting unit, an information extracting unit, a characteristics extracting unit, and a limiting unit. The presenting unit presents information. The information extracting unit extracts, in a case where the information presented by the presenting unit is selected, information associated with the selected information from a storing unit that stores plural pieces of information and association between the plural pieces of information. The characteristics extracting unit extracts characteristics relating to the plural pieces of information and the association between the plural pieces of information. The limiting unit limits, in a case where the presenting unit presents the information extracted by the information extracting unit and the number of pieces of information to be presented is greater than or equal to or greater than a predetermined number, information to be presented on the basis of the characteristics extracted by the characteristics extracting unit. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073550 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An information management method to be executed by a computer, the information management method includes; accepting a registration request that includes identification information of a mobile device, and position information of the mobile device that includes latitude and longitude; generating a value that includes the identification information followed by information that indicates a date and time when the registration request is accepted; storing the position information in a first storage unit in a manner correlated with the value; generating another value that includes the information that indicates the date and time followed by the identification information; storing the position information in a second storage unit in a manner correlated with the other value; storing the position information in a third storage unit in a manner correlated with the identification information; and storing the identification information in a fourth storage unit in a manner correlated with the position information. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AWARDING TROPHIES - A method and apparatus for adding trophy support games that do not have trophies without modifying the original game. The method and apparatus are used to detect particular disk access, use the detected disk access as potential trophy triggers in games, and recognize the triggers while a game is played. Trophies are awarded based on the triggers, and the awarded trophies are stored. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073552 | Data Center Capability Summarization - A method for summarizing capabilities in a hierarchically arranged data center includes receiving capabilities information, wherein the capabilities information is representative of capabilities of respective nodes at a first hierarchical level in the hierarchically arranged data center, clustering nodes based on groups of capabilities information, generating a histogram that represents individual node clusters, and sending the histogram to a next higher level in the hierarchically arranged data center. Relative rankings of capabilities may be used to order a sequence of clustering operations. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073553 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An information management method to be executed by a computer, the information management method includes: accepting a registration request including information in which latitude and longitude are included, and correspondence information corresponding to the position information; generating one character string by alternately arraying one character of the latitude and another one character of the longitude, each of the one character and the other one character is in a same digit regarding all of the digits of each of the latitude and the longitude, or some digits from the least significant digit of each of the latitude and the longitude; and storing the correspondence information in a storage unit in a manner correlated with the character string as a key. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073554 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING AND PROCESSING VETERINARY-RELATED INFORMATION TO FACILITATE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS - Computer-implemented methods and systems for acquiring and processing veterinary-related information, such as non-human animal diseases, associated medical signs, differentials, and treatment-related information, are provided. The disclosed methods and systems facilitate performing computer-based differential diagnosis by veterinary medicine practitioners. An example method may comprise: importing veterinary-related text information, wherein the veterinary-related text information is related to one or more non-human animal diseases; parsing the veterinary-related text information into one or more terms; determining relations between the one or more terms; classifying the one or more terms such that each term relates to one of: a non-human animal species, an animal disease, a medical sign and a treatment; and generating a database table associated with the imported veterinary-related text information, the database table comprising the one or more classified terms and the relations therebetween. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073555 | Method and system for improving interaction between participants of online networks - The present invention presents a system and method for improving interaction between participants of Online Networks increasing the probability of a match connecting Online Networks and Marketplace Participants, using conventional retrieval technology. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073556 | AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF ENTRIES IN A CONTACT LIST - Entries within a participant list of an electronic communications system may be categorized automatically into one or more groups based on attributes of users represented in the participant list. Categorizing users includes maintaining a list of identifiers that are selected by a first user and for which online presence information is made perceivable through the list. The list includes one or more categories into which the identifiers are categorized. At least one attribute associated with an identifier for which online presence information is to be made perceivable through the list and attributes stored relative to at least one of the categories are accessed. The attributes associated with the identifier are compared to the stored attributes. Based on results of the comparison, at least one category within the list that corresponds to the identifier is identified, and the identifier is categorized into the identified category. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073557 | MATCHING OF CASES BASED ON ATTRIBUTES INCLUDING AN ATTRIBUTE RELATING TO FLOW OF ACTIVITIES - A particular case is matched to further cases, where the matching is based on plural attributes contained in the particular case and in the further cases, wherein one of the plural attributes relates to a flow of activities taken to address the respective case. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073558 | SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA LOOKUP - Under the present invention, index keys are generated for a set of documents. This is typically accomplished by examining the set of documents, and connecting data values extracted from the set of documents to yield the index keys. Once the index keys are generated, an index view will be generated into which the index keys are populated. Using the index keys in the index view, an agent will automatically obtain the set of documents (i.e., in the background). Then, when a user requests one of the documents, the document will already have been retrieved from storage. As such, it can readily be provided to the user. It should be understood that as used herein, the term “document” is intended to refer to any type of electronically stored data. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073559 | Methods for Indexing and Searching Based on Language Locale - In response to a search query having a search term received from a client, a current language locale is determined. A state machine is built based on the current language locale, where the state machine includes one or more nodes to represent variance of the search term having identical meaning of the search term. Each node of the state machine is traversed to identify one or more postings lists of an inverted index corresponding to each node of the state machine. One or more item identifiers obtained from the one or more postings list are returned to the client, where the item identifiers identify one or more files that contain the variance of the search term represented by the state machine. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073560 | Facilitating Object Searches in Virtual Worlds - A mechanism is provided for facilitating object search in a virtual world environment where each object is defined by a plurality of attributes and the search is performed on any attributes of the object however is not limited to a 3-D search. The co-ordinate location of each object in the virtual world is also provided in the search result and the range within which to perform the search may also be specified. Optionally, the user has the ability to teleport/transport to the location of the object using the search result. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073561 | RANDOM SAMPLING FROM DISTRIBUTED STREAMS - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for random sampling from distributed streams. An aspect provides a method for distributed sampling on a network with a plurality of sites and a coordinator, including: receiving at the coordinator a data element from a site of the plurality of sites, said data element having a weight randomly associated therewith deemed reportable by comparison at the site to a locally stored global value; comparing the weight of the data element received with a global value stored at the coordinator; and performing one of: updating the global value stored at the coordinator to the weight of the data element received; and communicating the global value stored at the coordinator back to the site of the plurality of sites. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073562 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED WEIGHTED TREE SEARCH - Methods for resolving ambiguity in a search of a tree data structure are provided. Ambiguity occurs when a searched value occurs at two or more nodes of the tree data structure. Weighted distances between a context node and two or more candidate nodes are determined where each of the candidate nodes contains the searched value. The weighted distance between the context node and each candidate node equals the number of downward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a first constant plus the number of upward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a second constant. The node having a desired weighted distance is selected and information from the selected node is returned. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073563 | ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An electronic computing device includes a database in which for multiple objects, data combining a first property value and a second property value representative of properties of images of each of the objects is accumulated by respectively changing the first property value and the second property value by given values; an acquirer that acquires image data; and an application processor that searches the database, extracts from the acquired first image data, a combination of the first property value and the second property value, and searches the database based on the extracted combination. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073564 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a first set generating unit that generates a first set of states reachable by following ε-transitions in a forward direction and a reverse direction among states included in a finite state automaton; a second set generating unit that generates a second set representing a set of states included in each of a plurality of first sets connected by one transition that is not an ε-transition and the first set that is not connected to another first set by one transition that is not an ε-transition; a combination generating unit that obtains, among combinations of ε-removal patterns to be respectively applied to the ε-transitions in the second set, a combination with which the number of transitions after removing ε-transitions is the smallest; and a removing unit that removes ε-transitions in the second set by the removal patterns included in the obtained combination. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073565 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL SHEETS - The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user's interactions with digital assets. Based on the user's interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that the higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than the lower ranked digital assets. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073566 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCH OF A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are provided for using bonds, which reflect relationships between items, to facilitate searches against the items. The degree of separation between any two given searchable items is based on the minimum number of bonds that have to be traversed to arrive at one of the two searchable items when starting at the other of the two searchable items. The bonds are used to respond to a search request, performing a search relative to a particular searchable item. For example, the search may involve only those searchable items that are within a particular degree of separation of the particular searchable item. As another example, the search may involve determining the order in which searchable items are compared against search criteria of the search request based on the degree of separation of the searchable items from the particular searchable item. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073567 | Method and Apparatus for Staged Content Analysis - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work, perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the multimedia work, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the multimedia work, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073568 | RANKING STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Information about the actions and the objects is gathered from external systems as users of the social networking system interact with the external systems. Content items are ranked according to the information about the actions and the objects as well as preferences of the viewing users. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073569 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR EXTRACTING SUBJECTS OF INTEREST TO THE USER, AND A METHOD THEREFOR - A portable communication device for extracting a user interest comprises a term vector generation unit for generating, based on types of text data stored in the portable communication device, a term vector representing each text data, a subject classification tree storage unit for storing a subject classification tree, which is a tree structure in which multiple nodes, each including at least one training data and representing a subject, are connected to one another, and a similarity calculation unit for calculating a similarity between the term vector and the training data for each node in the subject classification tree. The similarity calculation unit extracts a node name representing the user interest from the subject classification tree based on the similarity. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073570 | SEARCH-BASED UNIVERSAL NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing a search-based navigation of data across different contexts. According to one embodiment, navigating and accessing data across different contexts can comprise maintaining indexed sets of data related to the different contexts. A user interface can be generated based on a search of the index and presented to a user. The user interface can comprise a view of a current context and a search element for receiving a set of user defined search criteria. The user defined search criteria can be received through the search element of the user interface and the contexts can be searched using the index and based on the search criteria. An updated user interface for presenting the search results be generated and presented to the user. The updated user interface can comprise a representation of the results of the searching and the search element. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073571 | Method And System For Extraction And Normalization Of Relationships Via Ontology Induction - Methods for developing an ontology of pharmacogenomics (PGx) relationships starting from a lexicon of key pharmacogenomic entities and a syntactic parse is described. The syntactic structure of PGx statements is used to systematically extract commonly occurring relationships and to map them to a common schema. In an embodiment, extracted relationships have a 70-87.7% precision and involve not only key PGx entities such as genes, drugs, and phenotypes (e.g., VKORCl, warfarin, clotting disorder), but also critical entities that are frequently modified by these key entities (e.g., VKORCl polymorphism, warfarin response, clotting disorder treatment). | 2013-03-21 |
20130073572 | METHOD OF LEARNING CHARACTER SEGMENTS FROM RECEIVED TEXT, AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of enabling input on an electronic device having stored therein a plurality of objects that comprise a number of raw inputs, a number of characters, and a number of segments, each raw input having one or more of the characters associated therewith, each segment comprising a plurality of the characters, The method includes: receiving a string of reference characters; obtaining raw inputs with which the reference characters are associated; generating a proposed character interpretation of the obtained raw inputs; and determining, based on the proposed character interpretation, to store at least a portion of the string of reference characters as an object of the plurality of objects. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073573 | QUERY PIPELINE - A query pipeline is created ( | 2013-03-21 |
20130073574 | RULE-BASED METADATA TRANSFORMATION AND AGGREGATION FOR PROGRAMS - A method and devices for obtaining metadata associated with programs from multiple metadata sources. Title metadata is compared to determine if any title metadata match. Transformation rules are applied to the title metadata when title metadata does not match with other title metadata. The transformation rules transform the title metadata into a common format. The title metadata is compared after transformation to determine whether the title metadata matches other title metadata. Title metadata that matches other title metadata, the metadata associated with a program is aggregated. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073575 | CROWD-SOURCED EXCLUSION OF SMALL MATCHES IN DIGITAL SIMILARITY DETECTION - The present invention relates to systems that search documents and highlight occurrences of text found in previously published documents, publications, Internet websites and electronic documents. In particular, the present invention relates to originality assessment of a variety of documents (e.g., student papers, college admissions essays, PhD theses, magazines, newspapers, and book publications). | 2013-03-21 |
20130073576 | System and Protocol To Dynamically Query Sensor Data Collections - A sensor registry includes a query dispatcher, a registration dispatcher, and a continuous query engine. The query dispatcher receives a query from a subscriber, searches a sensor database for at least one sensor that satisfies the query, and returns a result set corresponding to the query to the subscriber. The result set includes the at least one sensor. The registration dispatcher receives a message from a requesting sensor in a sensor network, and updates the sensor database based on the message. The continuous query engine receives the query from the query dispatcher, updates the result set corresponding to the query based on the received message, and notifies the subscriber upon determining that a change has been made to the result set. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073577 | STATISTICAL INFORMATION GENERATION SYSTEM AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - A statistical information generation system includes a condition input section, an extracting section that extracts unidentifiable location data and unidentifiable attribute data, a magnification factor adding section that adds a magnification factor to the unidentifiable attribute data, a statistics section that calculates statistical data by using the unidentifiable location data, the unidentifiable attribute data, and the magnification factor, a counting section that counts the unidentifiable location data, a determining section that determines a magnitude of the number of pieces of data, and an output section that hides the statistical data to output the statistical data. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073578 | Processing Audio-Video Data To Produce Metadata - A system for processing audio-video data to produce metadata, has an input for receiving audio video data. A characteristic extraction unit is arranged to extract n multiple distinct characteristics from the received audio-video data. A data comparison unit is arranged to compare the n multiple distinct characteristics with data extracted from example audio-video data by comparing in n dimensional space to produce a value for each of f features of the audio-video data where f2013-03-21 | |
20130073579 | SOURCING TERMS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE - Information may be presented to a user by receiving a selection of one or more terms passively displayed in a document, loading the terms to a search configuration, generating first results responsive to a user's predicted interest as expressed in the search configuration, and enabling display of the first results. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073580 | INTELLIGENT MAP 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. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073581 | GEOGRAPHICALLY PARTITIONED ONLNE SEARCH SYSTEM - In one example, a memory includes a data structure organized to include information resident in a number of databases geographically-partitioned according to a number of shards. The data structure includes a geographically-hashed look up table containing a number of gee-hash ranges associated with the shards and is organized to enable instructions to execute and access the ranges according to a number of characters in a generated geo-hash value. The data structure also includes a plurality of user data object tables that contain respective user data attributes and link to a particular server node and an associated geo-partitioned database. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073582 | WEB SEARCH RESULTS WITH LIVE DATA - A system and method for receiving a search request comprising one or more key words; providing a plurality of web links associated with search results generated responsive to the search request; providing a portion of dynamic information associated with the search results; and rendering a search results page to include the portion of the dynamic information along with the search results. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING A SEARCH BASED ON AVAILABLE DATA MODES - An approach is provided for conducting a search based on an extraction of a search term from available sensor data. The approach involves determining sensor data associated with at least one device, the sensor data determined from among a plurality of available data modes. The approach also involved processing and/or facilitating a processing of the sensor data to cause, at least in part, an extraction of one or more search terms for at least one query. The approach further involves determining one or more results of the at least one query based, at least in part, on context information associated with the at least one device, user profile information associated with the at least one device, or a combination thereof. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073584 | METHODS AND SYSTEM TO SHARE MEDIA - Methods and apparatus to share file(s)/recommendation(s) are disclosed. An example method includes verifying a first service used by a first user recommending a file and encoding a first service identification code with the file based on the first service, verifying a second service used by a second user upon receipt of a file request by the second user and/or detection of a mention of the second user in the file recommendation, searching for a second service identification code associated with the file based on the second service and encoding the second service identification code with the file, and providing the file recommendation with the first service identification code to the second user where the second service and the first service are the same or providing the file recommendation with the second service identification code to the second user where the second service and the first service are different. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073585 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a search system which stabilizes the number of output search results while preventing a response time from increasing. A search condition acquisition section ( | 2013-03-21 |
20130073586 | DATABASE SYSTEM USING BATCH-ORIENTED COMPUTATION - Systems, methods, and computer program for processing large volumes of data in travel and travel-related applications. A computation platform is configured to receive batch re-computation orders from the search platform, process a batch re-computation order by computing the plurality of database query results according to a batch processing schedule within a given time frame, and return the computed database query results resulting from the batch re-computation order to the search platform. Each batch re-computation order instructs the computation platform to compute a plurality of database query results. A search platform is configured to maintain the computed database query results in a memory, and to make the computed database query results available to clients connected to the search platform and to transmit the batch re-computation orders to the computation platform. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073587 | RUN TOTAL ENCODED DATA PROCESSING - A system, method and data structure for processing a sequential set of data. A set of data is processed such the repetitive sequences of data are represented by a value and an offset of the last array element in the sequence. The resulting compressed array facilitates binary searching of data element values, modification of data element values, and/or addition/deletion of data array elements without requiring a regeneration of the array. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073588 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION QUERY - A method and system for information query include: receiving and saving shared information released by users ( | 2013-03-21 |
20130073589 | DYNAMIC QUERY FOR EXTERNAL DATA CONNECTIONS - An application module generates a query that may involve retrieving data from a local data storage source or from an external data storage source. The application module retrieves metadata to form a query tree stored in the local data storage source and uses the query tree to ascertain one or more sub-queries necessary to complete the query and whether the necessary data for each sub-query is stored locally or externally. Based on the location of the data to complete a sub-query, the application module uses the services of an internal query processing layer if external data is involved for the sub-query. The application module uses the services of a query processing layer in the local data storage source if the data is local. Once all the sub-queries associated with the query tree are performed, then the overall query results are returned to the application module. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF UNIFYING DATA - A system, method and database design is provided for unifying data from a plurality of databases, each having business-context related data and a data access mechanism. A database is created which contains a node for each dimension of an industry. For each data source accessible via the system, a set of data source specific dimensions is created and mapped to the corresponding industry business context dimension(s). A set of templates (e.g., UniViews) is created to query the data sources. Each UniView contains a specific question for a specific dimension designed for a specific data source. A central server coordinates the system and facilitates use of the system through an interface (e.g., the UniViewer). UniViewer allows a user to query the data sources by identifying an industry business context dimension, a dimension instance and at least one UniView. Multiple UniViews can be combined, cached and saved to facilitate complex queries. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-SERVICE CONFIGURATION OF AUTHORIZATION - The present disclosure includes a system and method for self-service configuration of authorizations. A collaborative information system [ | 2013-03-21 |
20130073592 | MATCHING OFFERS TO KNOWN PRODUCTS - A method and apparatus for electronically matching an electronic offer to structured data for a product offering is disclosed. The structure data is reviewed and a dictionary of terms for each attribute from the structure data is created. Attributes in unstructured text may be determined. Each pair of the attributes (name and value) from the unstructured data and the structured data are obtained, the attribute pairs of the structured data and the unstructured data and compared and a similarity level is calculated for the matching the attribute pairs. The structured data pair that has the highest similarity score to the unstructured data pair is selected and returned. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073593 | Bitemporal Relational Databases and Methods of Manufacturing and Use - A method of reducing the time taken to manufacture a bitemporal relational database is disclosed. The method involves designing business database tables with relational rules stored in a relational kernel or referential rule dictionary, and designing those tables so as to be without start date and end date columns for start of valid time and end of valid time for entities, and designing the system to be without history tables recording the history of relationships between entities in the database; the system being designed as a current view with primary key and unique key constraints, and time-related issues being taken care of by the S$, T$, and E$ tables automatically generated as the data structure of the system is populated with data. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073594 | Methods and Systems for Assessing Data Quality - Methods and systems for assessing data involve, collecting samples of data elements from a database storing a population of data elements representing attributes of each numerous different financial transactions. Critical data elements from the collected samples are determined. Data quality rules are built and data dimensions are calculated for the critical data elements. A quality of data within the critical data elements for different data quality dimensions is monitored. Critical data elements that produce a high number of outliers are identified and causes for the outliers are identified. Thereafter, a corrective action plan to address a solution for the causes for the outliers may be developed and executed. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073595 | DATA CONVERTER - A method and apparatus are provided for preparing a data converter between a source apparatus, in which source data items have been stored according to a predetermined specification of source representation, and a user apparatus having a specification of user representation for the utilization of user data items. The method includes: setting up a pair of machine-interpretable source and user descriptors respectively, of the source and user specifications of representation respectively; and comparing between the source descriptor and the user descriptor to set up therefrom a block for data interpretation by a machine. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073596 | FILE FOLDER TRANSMISSION ON NETWORK - Disclosed are a method and a system for transmitting a file folder from the sending end to the receiving end. The system uses a file folder transmission unit at the sending end side to generate a directory structure file of the file folder. The directory structure file may have properties such as the size of the file folder, paths and path lengths of the files in the file folder. The sending end then sends the directory structure file to the receiving end through the file folder transmission unit to allow the system to determine which files in the file folder need to be transmitted. The needed files in the file folder are then transmitted to the receiving end according to the determination. The sending end and the receiving end may communicate using an instant messaging tool. The disclosed method and system allow a faster and more convenient file folder network transmission. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073597 | FILE TRANSFER SYSTEM - A file authentication requesting device that stores a computer program for requesting authentication of files in digital systems, the device comprises a confirmation request system that generates a request for a confirmation receipt from a third party authenticator authenticating the attributes of a file; a transferring system that transfers attributes of at least one file to be authenticated to the third party authenticator from the device that requested the confirmation; and a receiving system that receives the confirmation receipt comprising authenticated file attributes, after authentication by the third party authenticator; wherein, at least one file authentication is received from the third party authenticator. Corresponding processing devices, media, systems and methods are also provided. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073598 | Entropy source with magneto-resistive element for random number generator - An entropy source and a random number (RN) generator are disclosed. In one aspect, a low-energy entropy source includes a magneto-resistive (MR) element and a sensing circuit. The MR element is applied a static current and has a variable resistance determined based on magnetization of the MR element. The sensing circuit senses the resistance of the MR element and provides random values based on the sensed resistance of the MR element. In another aspect, a RN generator includes an entropy source and a post-processing module. The entropy source includes at least one MR element and provides first random values based on the at least one MR element. The post-processing module receives and processes the first random values (e.g., based on a cryptographic hash function, an error detection code, a stream cipher algorithm, etc.) and provides second random values having improved randomness characteristics. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073599 | HARDWARE FOR PERFORMING ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS - Hardware for performing sequences of arithmetic operations. The hardware comprises a scheduler operable to generate a schedule of instructions from a bitmap denoting whether an entry in a matrix is zero or not. An arithmetic circuit is provided which is configured to perform arithmetic operations on the matrix in accordance with the schedule. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073600 | REMOTE PROCESS EXECUTION MANAGEMENT - A remote execution management process is directed to the execution and management of aspects of a software process instance at a network computing provider. A client computing device may instantiate a software process instance. The client computing device determines a remote process configuration for the software process instance, including identifying at least one sub-process of the software process instance for execution at the network computing provider. The client computing device may provide the remote session configuration information to the network computing provider. Based on the remote session configuration information, the network computing provider may instantiate a remote session corresponding to the at least one sub-process. The network computing provider may transmit processing results back to the client computing device associated with execution of the least one sub-process by the remote session. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073601 | REMOTE PROCESS EXECUTION MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for the execution and management of aspects of a software process instance at a computing component. A client computing device instantiates a software process instance and determines a remote process configuration for the instantiated software process instance. Based on remote session configuration information, a network computing component instantiates a remote session corresponding to at least one sub-process of the software process instance instantiated on the client computing device. The network computing component may transmit processing results back to the client computing device or another computing device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073602 | STORING AND RETRIEVING OBJECTS ON A COMPUTER NETWORK IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE - Further preferred embodiments of the present invention include methods directed to (a) Active Data Structures, (b) Mobile Devices, (c) Ad-Hoc Device Collections, and (d) Concurrent Massively Parallel Supercomputers. Therein, a distributed, object-oriented database engine utilizing independent, intelligent processing nodes as a cooperative, massively parallel system with redundancy and fault tolerance. Instead of using traditional methods of parallelism as found in most distributed databases, the invention utilizes a messaging system and a series of message processing nodes to determine where attributes and data files associated with objects are stored. The architecture is loosely coupled, each node independently determining if it manages or routes storage and retrieval requests. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073603 | SEND-SIDE MATCHING OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS MESSAGES - Send-side matching of data communications messages in a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: issuing by a receiving node to source nodes a receive message that specifies receipt of a single message to be sent from any source node, the receive message including message matching information, a specification of a hardware-level mutual exclusion device, and an identification of a receive buffer; matching by two or more of the source nodes the receive message with pending send messages in the two or more source nodes; operating by one of the source nodes having a matching send message the mutual exclusion device, excluding messages from other source nodes with matching send messages and identifying to the receiving node the source node operating the mutual exclusion device; and sending to the receiving node from the source node operating the mutual exclusion device a matched pending message. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073604 | Optimized Settings in a Configuration Database with Boundaries - A set of optimizations may be defined in a configuration database. The configuration database may be defined with a set of boundaries that may define conditions under which the optimizations may be valid. When the conditions are not met, a new configuration database may be requested from an optimization server. The system may be used to distribute and manage optimizations for an application, which may be deployed in interpreted or runtime scenarios or in pre-execution or compiled scenarios. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073605 | Publication of Equipment Status - This disclosure concerns novel tools and techniques for distributing status information, including without limitation status information about commercial equipment. In some cases, a status monitoring device can be attached to, incorporated within, or otherwise placed in communication with a piece of commercial equipment. The status monitoring device can monitor the status of the equipment and communicate that status. Some of the discloses tools and techniques employ a social networking infrastructure to convey information (such as status information about a piece of equipment). | 2013-03-21 |
20130073606 | Methods and Systems for Dynamically Generating and Reusing Dynamic Web Content - Methods and systems for generating and reusing dynamic web content involve, for example, automatically generating client-side code on a server at run time, and automatically downloading the client-side code to the client side at run time. The client-side code is executed on the client side to become a widget with dynamic behavior attributes displayed as a component of a web page on a display screen of a client-side computing device. Dynamic behavior of the client-side code may triggered via an event handler mechanism wherein properties of the client-side code are dynamically changed without affecting any other content on the web page. The widget may be redisplayed on a subsequent occasion with a change in the widget without regenerating the client-side code. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073607 | Registered Users Of An Application - Method and system for identifying contacts of a user of a device, wherein the user is a registered user of an application which is implemented at the device. Contact identifiers are retrieved from a contact list stored at the device, wherein the contact identifiers identify contacts of the user of the device. The retrieved contact identifiers are transmitted to a server associated with the application. The server determines which of the contacts identified by the transmitted contact identifiers are registered users of the application. Indications of the contacts of the user of the device which are determined by the server to be registered users of the application are transmitted from the server to the device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073608 | USER INFORMATION PUSHING METHOD, USER INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, SYSTEM, SERVER AND CLIENT - The invention discloses a user information pushing method, a user information representation method, a system, a server and a client. The pushing method includes: arranging a plurality of service interfaces to be invoked by the client, wherein the service interfaces comprise a real-time information pushing interface; receiving, by a server, through the real-time information pushing interface, a real-time information acquisition instruction sent by the client, when the client uses a target service and automatically invokes the real-time information pushing interface; acquiring real-time information of the target service according to a subscriber number contained in the real-time information acquisition instruction; and pushing the real-time information to the client. In the embodiments of the present invention, by means of the client, user may obtain in real time the user information pushed by the server and present the user information by means of the preset presentation interface while using a target service. Compared with the prior art, the user does not need to conduct manual query operations after finishing the target service, therefore the implementation performance for the client to output user information and user experience are improved. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073609 | MOBILE RESOURCE ACCELERATOR - In a client/server environment wherein resources are returned in response to client requests, a resource can be in-lined the first time it is requested, and then cached locally for use in connection with subsequent requests. When a user returns to the page for a subsequent visit, the resource requests are served from the local cache, thus avoiding the need for re-transmission with each response. According to various embodiments, the system and method of the present invention can be implemented in connection with delivery of any content in a client/server system, including for example HTML responses to requests for web pages. In at least one embodiment, the techniques described herein are tailored to mobile data network constraints; however, these techniques can be applied to any data network. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073610 | DYNAMICALLY MODIFYING PROGRAM EXECUTION CAPACITY - Techniques are described for managing program execution capacity, such as for a group of computing nodes that are provided for executing one or more programs for a user. In some situations, dynamic program execution capacity modifications for a computing node group that is in use may be performed periodically or otherwise in a recurrent manner, such as to aggregate multiple modifications that are requested or otherwise determined to be made during a period of time, and with the aggregation of multiple determined modifications being able to be performed in various manners. Modifications may be requested or otherwise determined in various manners, including based on dynamic instructions specified by the user, and on satisfaction of triggers that are previously defined by the user. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fee-based program execution service that executes multiple programs on behalf of multiple users of the service. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073611 | ANTI-TERRORISM WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM - A method of monitoring advanced separation and/or ion exchange processes through the collection of localized data. The data is manipulated to generate preconfigured performance, maintenance, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory, cost reports, performance graphing and historical trends. The data is collected from sensors located at an equipment site and transferred to a remote located by use of the Internet, further all data received and used for generation of reports is also accessible by Internet connection. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073612 | CONFIGURING OUTPUT ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In one general sense, display of content communicated by a sender communication device to a destination communication device may be enabled by receiving, at a destination communication device, content to be displayed by the destination communication device. Characteristics of a display of the received content by the destination communication device may be algorithmically identified in accordance with display configuration settings for the destination communication device. Based on the identified characteristics, at least one change to be made to capture configuration settings at a capturing communication device used to capture the received content may be identified. At least one alternative capture configuration setting may be communicated to the capturing communication device. Content that is captured by the capturing communication device is received at the destination communications device based on the alternative capture configuration setting communicated. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073613 | DIGITAL ASSET HOSTING AND DISTRIBUTION - A first collection of content that includes digital assets is maintained on a host computer. Based on a determination that a portable media device becomes connected to a client computer that is separate from the host computer and that interacts with the host computer, initiation of a synchronization of the first collection of content resident on the host computer with a second collection of content on the portable media device is automatically triggered. The synchronization of the first collection with the second collection includes a transfer of at least one of the digital assets from the host computer to the client computer to the portable media device and is triggered and conditioned upon the determination that the portable media device has become connected to the client computer. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND DEPLOYMENT OF ACTION-ORIENTED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS SUPPORTED BY A CLOUD BASED ACTION SERVER PLATFORM - A method and apparatus for the development, delivery and deployment of action-oriented business applications supported by a cloud based action server platform are provided. The cloud action platform enables the development, delivery and deployment of a new type of business application—Action Apps which are the opposite of traditional business applications which are large, expensive, viewed as an investment, hard to upgrade and oftentimes require training The Action Apps are light-weight consumer friendly micro-apps that enable the business user to take the right actions, at the right time to produce the right business outcome. The action may be as simple as approving a vacation request, or it may trigger a series of more complex actions such as automatically discounting stock based upon competitors pricing within a specific radius in a given timeframe. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073615 | PRIVATE NETWORK WITH ENHANCED USER EXPERIENCE - A private network comprising a repository server and a proxy server configured to work with a client-side web server to manage the presentation of content to users of the network. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073616 | DISTRIBUTION OF XML DOCUMENTS/MESSAGES TO XML APPLIANCES/ROUTERS - XML appliances/routers may be organized to implement one or more XML distribution rings to enable XML documents/messages to be distributed efficiently. The rings may be logical or physical. The XML distribution rings enable the XML documents/messages to be exchanged without requiring the XML appliances/routers to run a routing protocol to determine how XML documents/messages should be distributed through the network. Documents may be transmitted in one way on the ring or may be transmitted in both directions around the ring to enable the ring to tolerate failure of an XML appliance/router. Each XML appliance/router will receive all XML documents/messages and will make routing decisions for those clients that have provided the XML appliance/router with XML subscriptions. The subscriptions may be formed according to the XPath standard or in another manner. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073617 | INFORMATION APPLIANCE DATA CONNECTION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, CLIENT APPLIANCE, INFORMATION APPLIANCE DATA CONNECTION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An authenticator ( | 2013-03-21 |
20130073618 | Information Providing System, Information Providing method, Information Providing Device, Program, And Information Storage Medium - An information providing system for accurately providing a user with information that matches the user at a small calculating cost. The system includes a feature vector generating unit for generating a feature vector of each of a plurality of persons, and a user cluster generating unit for classifying the plurality of persons into a plurality of clusters based on the feature vector of each of the plurality of persons. The system selects at least one of the plurality of clusters based on a feature vector of a specified person, and outputs information related to the selected cluster. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
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. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073632 | STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073633 | FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COMPUTER USERS ACROSS A NETWORK - A stand-alone icon (i.e., an icon that is not part of an application interface) is provided to facilitate communications across a network between users of at least one communications program. The icon represents a contact or a set of contacts. Status information regarding the contact or set of contacts is received and displayed using the icon or in response to an operation performed on the icon. The icon additionally may provide an interface for performing actions related to the contact or set of contacts. The actions may generally include, for example, retrieving profile information about the contact, setting an alert to indicate that the contact's network/login status (e.g., login, logout, or idle) has changed, or performing communications with the contact. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073634 | EMAIL CLIENT WITH ERP TASK INTEGRATION - Various arrangements for handling enterprise resource planning (ERP) tasks external from ERP software are presented. An email client, executed on a user computer system, may retrieve ERP tasks that are assigned to a user from an ERP computer system. The email client executed on the user computer system may integrate the ERP tasks retrieved from the ERP computer system into an email client task list such that the email client task list displays the ERP tasks assigned to the user. The email client executed on the user computer system may display the email client task list that comprises the ERP tasks retrieved from the ERP computer system. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073635 | ADAPTATION METHOD AND ADAPTER APPARATUS BASED ON MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for adaptation based on the multimedia messaging service. The apparatus comprises: an integrity detecting unit for performing integrity detection for first multimedia message data to determine that the first multimedia message data is integrated; and a data import unit for import the first multimedia message data from a mobile storage apparatus into a terminal. The technical solution according to the present invention can prevent the destroyed multimedia message data from being imported into the terminal, which avoids abnormity occurring when the terminal starting a multimedia message application. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073636 | GROUP CHAT ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method for enabling a multi platform chat service defines communication channels in accordance with group member presence information and allows the delivery of messages to the group members through the channels. When a recipient of a message replies, the reply is distributed in the same manner as the original message. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073637 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION CHANNEL USING AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) - A method for performing a communication using a virtual object includes displaying a dynamic virtual object on a display screen; identifying the dynamic virtual object in response to a selection input; determining a target to which the identified dynamic virtual object is to be transmitted; and performing a communication using the identified dynamic virtual object. A terminal to communicate using a virtual object includes a virtual object providing unit to provide a dynamic virtual object on a display screen; a virtual object managing unit to store the dynamic virtual object and target information of a target corresponding to the dynamic virtual object; a virtual object selection unit to select the dynamic virtual object in response to a selection input; and a channel establishing unit to establish a communication channel with the target using the dynamic virtual object. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus receives, from a site on Internet, first messages related to a first broadcast station and posted on the site. The apparatus scores each of the received first messages based on a number of characters in each of the received first messages so as to give a higher score to first messages each with a smaller number of characters, and calculates a first evaluation value for content data being broadcast by the first broadcast station based on the scores for the received first messages. The apparatus transmits the calculated first evaluation value to a user terminal. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073639 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - A mechanism for reducing an operator's time and effort in image data distribution is provided. To accomplish this, an image processing apparatus, which is capable of communicating with a server that provides a microblogging function for publicizing a message registered by a user to other users, registers the first message with the server if image data is stored in a memory; monitors a second message newly registered with respect to the registered first message; analyzes the second message if the second message is detected; and transmits image data based on the result of the analysis. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073640 | METHOD AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR INSERTING ATTACHMENTS INTO ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method for inserting attachments into an electronic message is provided. The method may include searching a keyword database to determine if a content of the electronic message includes a keyword, a key phrase, or a key sentence defined in the keyword database. The method may also include applying a condition to a file database, if the determination is affirmative, so as to search for at least a candidate item. The candidate item may be presented in a menu to the user. The method may further include enabling, in response to the user's confirmation of the candidate item, the confirmed candidate item to be inserted into the electronic message automatically to become an attachment thereto. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073641 | MULTI-APPLICATION FOLLOW-UP - A system that responds to a user setting a follow-up flag on a message within a first communication application by associating the flagged message with another user, such that the flagged message is available to a second communication application. When a user sets a flag on an electronic mail message contained in an electronic mail mailbox provided by an electronic mail application, the system responds by associating the flagged message with another user in a list of other users with whom flagged messages are associated. When a communication session occurs with the other user through another communication application, the system checks the list and determines that a flagged message is associated with the other user. The flagged message is then brought to the attention of the local user, for example within a list of flagged messages associated with the other user displayed simultaneously with the instant messaging session. | 2013-03-21 |
20130073642 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 2013-03-21 |