28th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140195537 | CONTENT PROVIDING TECHNIQUES - Techniques for content providing and classifying users based on content search conditions are generally described. In some examples, the techniques may be embodied in apparatus, systems, and methods. An example content providing apparatus may include a receiving unit, a classifying unit, a content acquisition unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit may be configured to receive content search conditions and the classifying unit may be configured to classify users into types according to the search conditions. The content acquisition unit may be configured to acquire content that includes non-text data based on the received search conditions and the determining unit may be configured to evaluate acquired content to identify data of the non-text data in the acquired content that is firstly processed to output based on the user type. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195538 | EFFICIENT ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION FROM MOTION INPUTS - A device worn by a human performing a method using accelerometer data to classify human activities is disclosed. The method uses memory and computation efficiently. A stream of samples is divided into a sequence of sampling periods; each sample has an acceleration value for each axis (e.g., a 3-D accelerometer). Standard deviation of the values for each axis during each sampling period are calculated. A running sum of each axis' values can be maintained sample-by-sample. Each value is sorted into a bin of a histogram, by quantifying a deviance from a respective mean in standard deviations. A standard deviation produced from samples of a previous period can be used. The histogram is compared with histograms associated with particular activities and a classification output can be produced. Classification outputs from multiple sampling periods can be used for voting. A threshold amount of activity can be required to begin activity classification. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF A SCIENTIFIC FIELD - A system and method are provided for automatically generating systematic reviews of received information in a field of science and technology, such as scientific literature, where the systematic review includes a systematic review of a research field in the scientific literature. The method includes the steps of constructing a time series networks of words, passages, documents, and citations and/or co-citations within received information into a synthesized network, decomposing the networks into clusters of fields or topics, performing part-of-speech tagging of text within the received information to provide tagged text, constructing semantic structures of concepts and/or assertions extracted from the source text, generating citation-based and content-based summaries of the clusters of fields or topics and the semantic structures, and generating structured narratives of the clusters of fields or topics and the summaries of the generated semantic structures. Narratives of the citation-based and content-based summaries are merged into a systematic review. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195540 | EXPEDITIOUS CITATION INDEXING - Methods and systems for indexing patent related prior art citations are disclosed. Electronic documents can be obtained from one or more patent information systems. An OCR process can be performed on some of the electronic documents. Citations within the documents can be identified and compared to a trusted records list. The citations can be associated with one or more predetermined categories. For example, citations can be categorized into groups such as when a reference is cited (e.g., with original filing, pre and post allowance), who provided the reference (e.g., cited by the applicant, or the examiner), and how the reference is characterized (e.g., statutory basis, combination of references). The citations and corresponding categories can be output to a user or made available for subsequent processing. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195541 | MESSAGE EVALUATION TOOL - In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include configuring, at a message evaluator, one or more factors to enable monitoring of a plurality of messages exchanged between a sending object and a receiving object, the one or more factors including a key generated based on a plurality of attributes obtained by accessing at least one of the sending object or the receiving object, the plurality of attributes representing data fields in at least one of the sending object or the receiving object; selecting, by the message evaluator, at least one of the plurality of messages, when at least one of a match or a substantial match exists between the generated key and a portion of the at least one of the plurality of messages; and presenting, by the message evaluator, the selected at least one of the plurality of message. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195542 | ADAPTIVE RANGE FILTERS FOR RANGE AND POINT QUERIES - The technique described herein provides a way to summarize data and can also minimize unnecessary accesses to a data store. In one embodiment, the technique creates and stores an adaptive range filter that contains a compact summary of the contents of an index for a data store in the form of a trie data structure. Before accessing the index of the data store in response to a query, the technique checks the filter to determine whether the data store does not contain any keys for a specific range of data. If the adaptive range filter indicates that the index contains no keys satisfying the query predicate, the index of the data store and the data itself is not accessed. The adaptive range filter of the technique supports both range predicates and equality predicates. It is adaptive to changes in data and queries by learning the query and data distribution. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195543 | System And Method For Providing Orientation Into Subject Areas Of Digital Information For Augmented Communities - A system and method for providing orientation into subject areas of digital information for augmented communities is provided. Topics are provided for subject areas. Each subject area is associated with an augmented community and each topic is hierarchically organized under a fine-grained topic category. Evergreen indexes are maintained and includes topic models that are each matched to topics associated with each augmented community. Interrelatedness of the evergreen indexes is determined by identifying the topics found in the topic hierarchy for each evergreen index that are shared. A social network including neighbors made up of each augmented community associated with each interrelated evergreen index is formed. A user interest is determined and each of the plurality of topic models for the evergreen indexes is evaluated against the digital information. Access to the digital information via the identified best matched evergreen index and the identified other evergreen index is provided. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195544 | DEMOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA PREFERENCE PREDICTION USING MEDIA CONTENT DATA ANALYSIS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for predicting data. A name or title is obtained from a taste profile. There is an index into a data set based on the name or title, and a set of terms and corresponding term weights associated with the name or title are retrieved. A sparse vector is constructed based on the set of terms and term weights. The sparse vector is input to a training model including target data. The target data includes a subset of test data which has a correspondence to a predetermined target metric of data. A respective binary value and confidence level is output for each term, corresponding to an association between the term and the target metric. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195545 | HIGH PERFORMANCE HASH-BASED LOOKUP FOR PACKET PROCESSING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing a lookup on a hash table stored in external memory. An index table stored in local memory is used to perform an enhanced lookup on the hash table stored in external memory. The index table stores signature patterns that are derived from the hash keys stored in the hash entries. Using the stored signature patterns, the packet processing node predicts which hash key is likely to store the desired data. The prediction may yield a false positive, but will never yield a false negative. Thus, the hash table is accessed only once during a data lookup. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195546 | Selective Push System For User Data And Confidential Information Management With High Precision Matching - A computer implemented selective push system and method for user data and confidential information management with high precision matching based on user-defined values. The process is carried out by a user using a computer having a central processor unit, memory, a graphics user interface, input device, and communication device. A user enters and ranks data and information and selected targeted destinations to which data and information is to be submitted; the system analyzes and confirms the entered data and information, locates and matches destinations, and pushes the data and information to the highest ranked target destinations defined by the user, and generates a notification of the submission to the user. The user may define pushing times, dates, priorities, importance, customize data submission options, and history and retention and forwarding options, and specify which data elements are confidential to selected target destinations and for selected purposes. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND RANKING NEWSWORTHINESS - A system and method for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, including the steps of receiving data describing a news story from a client, comparing the data describing the news story to a set of pre-determined factors, locating the factors that are present on the set of pre-determined factors in the data, adding pre-calculated values to a running total, the newsworthiness score, for each factor found in the data. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195548 | IDENTIFYING VIDEO CONTENT VIA FINGERPRINT MATCHING - Methods and systems to identify video content based on video fingerprint matching are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems generate a query fingerprint of a frame of video content captured at a client device, query a database of reference fingerprints, determine the query fingerprint of the frame of captured video content matches a reference fingerprint, and identify the video content based on the match of fingerprints. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195549 | SUGGESTED OUT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION RECIPIENTS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195550 | ACCESSING AUDIO FILES FROM AN ONLINE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that facilitates accessing audio files associated with a user from an online content management system. During operation, the online content management system receives a function call from a client to list audio files associated with the user. In response to the function call, the system filters through operations for files associated with the user to identify audio files. Next, the system returns metadata for the identified audio files associated with the user to the client. In some embodiments, filtering through the operations involves filtering an operation log to identify operations performed on audio files associated with the user, wherein the operations occurred since a preceding call to the function. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195551 | OPTIMIZING SNAPSHOT LOOKUPS - A system and method for performing search optimization operations. In order to optimize lookups for received data requests, a storage controller attempts to collapse the medium graph, thus reducing the number of mediums in which the storage controller must look to find a given block. One technique for collapsing the medium graph involves promoting individual mappings from a lower-level medium to a higher-level medium. Another technique for collapsing the medium graph involves pushing medium range pointers higher up in the medium mapping table to reduce the number of mediums that must be searched. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLATING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION - A system and method for collating and presenting information including at least one structured data source on a non-transitory computer readable medium; at least one unstructured data source on a non-transitory computer readable medium; an analytical engine in data communication with the at least one structured data source and the at least one unstructured data source; wherein the analytical engine combines and transforms data from the at least one structured data source and from the at least one unstructured data source into newly structured data; the newly structured data being stored on a computer readable medium; an engine data handler adapted to correspond with the analytical engine and to access the newly structured data; a schema definition stored on a computer readable medium accessible by the analytical engine and executed by a computer processor to define a domain of the newly structured data and one or more state views within the domain; a processor for configuring the at least one or more state views into at least one visual element capable of being displayed on a screen; and, a grid module executed by the processor and adapted to display the at least one visual element on the screen. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195553 | METADATA CACHE SUPPORTING MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A request for a metadata object is received where the request includes an identifier. It is determined whether the metadata object is stored in a metadata cache, including by: selecting a sub-cache in the metadata cache based at least in part on the identifier and determining whether the metadata object is stored in that sub-cache. If it is determined the metadata object is not in the metadata cache, a request (in a format associated with the source) to obtain the metadata object is sent to a source with which the metadata object is associated. If the metadata object provided by the source is in a native format which is not the same as the common format, the metadata object is transformed from the native format into the common format. Access to the metadata object in the common format is provided. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CASE ACTIVITY MONITORING AND CASE DATA RECOVERY USING AUDIT LOGS IN E-DISCOVERY - A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for analyzing data recorded in an audit log generated as part of an electronic discovery (e-Discovery) process in litigation is disclosed. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented method of analyzing data recorded in an audit log generated as part of an electronic discovery (e-Discovery) process in litigation is provided. The method comprises retrieving, on one or more computers, an audit log from a storage system accessible from the computer, the audit log comprising data regarding a chronological sequence of actions taken to produce case documents relevant in litigation. The data in the audit log is analyzed and a comprehensive overview of the electronic discovery process is compiled based on the analyzed data for presentation to a user. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195555 | AUTOMATIC REPORT GENERATION IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for automatically generating reports in a networked computing environment is provided. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a user will: designate and/or modify a report template; input a set of unique identifiers corresponding to a set of electronic documents (e.g., patent documents); optionally designate a hierarchy of the set of electronic documents; provide a set of input parameters for report content; and optionally provide any manually generated content. Thereafter, the electronic documents will be retrieved from a database or the like. Based on the input parameters, report content and/or report objects will be automatically generated from the electronic documents and populated into a report (using the template) along with the manually generated content provided by the user. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195556 | Calories Tracking When Making Mobile Payment Through Near Field Communications - A system, a method, and a computer program product for tracking of attributes, such as calories, vitamins, minerals, fat, and the like, of a food item when purchasing the food item from a point of sale location are disclosed. Information representative of a plurality of food items purchased from at least one point of sale location is received by the user's equipment from a terminal at a point of sale location via a near field communications medium. The information includes an identification of the plurality of food items and identification of at least one attribute associated with each food item in the plurality of food items. The user's equipment obtains numerical values of at least one attribute associated with each purchased food item in the plurality of food items from a database that stores numerical values of at least one attribute. User's equipment determines a total value of numerical values of at least one attribute associated with a plurality of purchased food items by summing the numerical values during a predetermined period of time. The total value and the values of the attributes can be displayed by the user's equipment. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195557 | Presenting Mobile Content Based on Programming Context - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating search queries in response to obtaining audio samples on a client device. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of i) receiving audio data from a client device, ii) identifying specific content from captured media based on the received audio data, wherein the identified specific content is associated with the received audio data and the captured media includes at least one of audio media or audio-video media, iii) obtaining additional metadata associated with the identified content, iv) generating a search query based at least in part on the obtained additional metadata, and v) returning one or more search results to the client device, the one or more search results responsive to the search query and associated with the received audio data. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE QUERY ENGINES - Techniques for a system capable of performing low-latency database query processing are disclosed herein. The system includes a gateway server and a plurality of worker nodes. The gateway server is configured to divide a database query, for a database containing data stored in a distributed storage cluster having a plurality of data nodes, into a plurality of partial queries and construct a query result based on a plurality of intermediate results. Each worker node of the plurality of worker nodes is configured to process a respective partial query of the plurality of partial queries by scanning data related to the respective partial query that stored on at least one data node of the distributed storage cluster and generate an intermediate result of the plurality of intermediate results that is stored in a memory of that worker node. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195559 | NETWORK DEVICE, CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK DEVICE, AND NETWORK CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided are a network device, a controller for controlling at least one network device constituting a software-defined network (SDN), and a network control system. The network control system includes at least one event processing network connected to a central server. The central server is configured to give each of the event processing network an event condition and an instruction describing an operation according to the event condition, and each of the event processing network is configured to analyze sensor data of the event processing network itself or a message received from a surrounding event processing network on the basis of the instruction given by the central server, and perform the operation according to the event condition when the event condition is satisfied. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195560 | TWO WAY LOCAL FEATURE MATCHING TO IMPROVE VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY - To improve precision of visual search processing, SIFT points within a query image are forward matched to features in each of a plurality of repository images and SIFT points within each repository image are backward matched to features within the query image. Forward-only, backward-only and forward-and-backward matches may be weighted differently in determining an image match. Two way matching may be triggered by query image bit rate in excess of a threshold or by a sum of weighted distances between matching points exceeding a threshold. Significant performance gains in eliminating false positive matches are achieved. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195561 | SEARCH METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS - A search method to be implemented in a computer which performs a process to search searching information including a plurality of items that are targets of information search, includes, in response to receiving a search request for the searching information, comparing one or more first character strings stored in a storage in a related manner to information related to a source of the search request, and a second character string specified in the search request, in order to judge the item corresponding to the second character string based on a result of the comparing, and searching the searching information using the second character string as a search condition related to the item that is judged as corresponding to the second character string. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195562 | DETERMINING PRODUCT CATEGORIES BY MINING INTERACTION DATA IN CHAT TRANSCRIPTS - The propensity and intent of a user to make a purchase is predicted based on product search queries and chat streams. The contents of the data sources, including search queries and chat streams, are analyzed for product names and product attributes. The results of the analyses are used to predict user needs. Product names and attributes are extracted from the data sources. The extracted information is mapped onto abstract product categories. Based on the abstract product categories, offers for products and services are made to the user. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195563 | OBJECT GRAPH PARTIAL IMMUTABILITY AND ISOLATION ENFORCEMENT - The type definition of particular types such that different portions of the corresponding object graph may have different permissions assigned to those portions during instantiation. This allows structured permissions to be applied to instantiations of the object graphs of those defined types, allowing fine grained control over what access permissions are enforced against which portions of the object graph. In some embodiments, different instantiations of the object graph may apply permissions differently. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195564 | PERSISTENT DATA STRUCTURES - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for a persistent data structure. A method includes associating a logical identifier with a data structure. A method includes writing data of a data structure to a first region of a volatile memory module. A volatile memory module may be configured to ensure that data is preserved in response to a trigger. A method includes copying data of a data structure from a volatile memory module to a non-volatile storage medium such that the data of the data structure remains associated with a logical identifier. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ACCOUNT NUMBER AUTOMATICALLY - A system and method for generating an account number are described. In an example embodiment, the creation of a first table and a first field, capable of receiving alphanumeric characters, is disclosed. An alphanumeric input is received and recorded in the first field, and a sequence number associated with the input so received is recorded. In a further aspect of the present invention, a second table is created, and an account number key stored therein. An account number may then be generated in accordance with the key. In an additional aspect, an alphanumeric field may be created specifically to aid in the application of a check digit methodology | 2014-07-10 |
20140195566 | DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A distributed data management system has multiple virtual machine nodes operating on multiple computers that are in communication with each other over a computer network. Each virtual machine node includes at least one data store or “bucket” for receiving data. A digital hash map data structure is stored in a computer readable medium of at least one of the multiple computers to configure the multiple virtual machine nodes and buckets to provide concurrent, non-blocking access to data in the buckets, the digital hash map data structure including a mapping between the virtual machine nodes and the buckets. The distributed data management system employing dynamic scalability in which one or more buckets from a virtual machine node reaching a memory capacity threshold are transferred to another virtual machine node that is below its memory capacity threshold. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195567 | DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT BY USING EXCESS CAPACITY IN A CAPACITY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT - Excess capacity (or excess resources) can be used in a capacity controlled environment to effectively manage data storage of a database. In this context, excess capacity can, for example, be controlled used as needed, as configured and/or on a temporary basis. Management of data storage in a database can, for example, include operations associated with moving or relocating data of the database. Relocation of data can, for example, be performed to relocate data deemed to be “hot” data to a location that can provide a faster access time in order to improve the overall efficiency of the database system. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195568 | OBJECT DATABASE AND OBJECT DATABASE IMPROVING METHOD - The current invention concerns an object database comprising a set of object entries, which comprise object properties, whereby said object properties comprise obtained object properties, which comprise DHM-obtained object properties and preferably object identification properties, characterized in that said DHM-obtained object properties comprise properties about a sample comprising said objects, said information derived from information acquired by a digital holographic microscope (DHM) and whereby preferably said object identification properties comprise information about the objects which allow identification of the object between the object database and an database. The invention furthermore discloses an object database updating method and a computing system comprising an object database and object database updating method as disclosed in the current invention. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195569 | STATUS DISPLAY DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, STATUS DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a status display device includes an input module and a display module. The input module is configured to input a measurement file includes file information indicating a file in a measurement target, access information indicating access to the file, and time information. The display module is configured to display a status of the measurement target based on the measurement file input to the input module. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195570 | BONDING CONTENTS ON SEPARATE STORAGE MEDIA - Local storage on player instruments provides the ability for adding further amendments and most recent supplements to the optical disc content. A problem arising with this technically applicable possibility is the protection of copyrights bound to disc and supplement data. The present invention describes a technique to ensure a security framework that is able to handle this, by creating a virtual file system (VFS) by merging optical disc data and local storage data based upon a common identifier. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195571 | FAST NEW FILE CREATION CACHE - In one embodiment, a new file creation cache is reserved on a fast storage device that is part of a composite storage device that also includes a slow storage device; the composite storage device is treated as a single logical volume (or a plurality of logical volumes) by a file system which maintains a mapping table that is used to determine whether the write operation is for a new file. If the write operation is for a new file, the file system attempts to write the new file to the fast storage device. If the write operation is not for a new file, the mapping table specifies which device is used for the write operation. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO TRANSFER FILE DATA TO A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are directed to a file storage system that manages configuration information for each cloud gateway's storage device. Systems and methods also manage a configuration parameter; and a file transfer slot number, which represents how many HTTP sessions the cloud gateway can process substantially simultaneously. Based on the configuration information, systems and methods may prioritize the multiple cloud gateways. Systems and methods calculate time lengths weighted by the priorities of the cloud gateways and multiplied by the file-transfer slot number for each cloud gateway in a time period, and then allocate time slots of the cloud gateways in the time period according to the above calculated time lengths. Systems and methods therefore allow for automatically aligning the traffic between cloud gateways and cloud storage according to the configuration of cloud gateways. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195573 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - An example of the present invention is a storage system comprising a first real storage apparatus including a plurality of real resources. The first real storage apparatus includes: real resource groups allocated to a plurality of virtual storage apparatuses; first management information for associating virtual resource identifiers individually assigned to real resources in a namespace independently defined for each of the plurality of virtual storage apparatuses with real resource identifiers individually assigned to the real resources in a namespace defined for the first real storage apparatus; and a controller for receiving a command including a designation with a virtual resource identifier, converting the virtual resource identifier in the command into a real resource identifier with reference to the first management information, and processing the command with the converted real resource identifier. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195574 | STORING ENCODED DATA FILES ON MULTIPLE FILE SERVERS - In some examples, a method for encoding and storing data blocks of a data file on multiple file servers is described. The method may include selecting a data clip size S, selecting a number N of data clips to include in each data block, and dividing the data file into data blocks each having data size (S×N). The method may also include, for each data block, dividing the data block into N data clips, generating a random number R where 1≦R≦N, selecting a number K of redundant data clips where N≦K<2̂N, encoding K data clips using random linear coding by XORing R data clips K times, and storing the K encoded data clips on the multiple file servers. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195575 | DATA FILE HANDLING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT AND INDEPENDENT FILE SERVER - According to one embodiment, an independent file server connected to a wide area network (WAN) includes local file storage, a file system comprising information about directory structures, path, and file names of other file systems of other file servers connected to the WAN, and a deduplication module configured to communicate with other deduplication modules of other file servers connected to the WAN, perform data deduplication of data objects stored locally in the local file storage, and create and maintain a deduplication table mapping data chunks of locally stored data objects to identification characteristics and storage location in the local file storage, and construction plans of data files including locations of data chunks within the data files. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are presented according to more embodiments. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195576 | Hardware Random Number Generator - A random number generator may include an input configured to receive a plurality of entropy bits generated by an entropy source of a random number generator, wherein the random number generator is configured to generate a plurality of random numbers; and an entropy health monitor coupled with the input, wherein the entropy health monitor is configured to perform a corrective action based on the plurality of entropy bits. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195577 | Method and Apparatus for Signal Filtering and for Improving Properties of Electronic Devices - The present invention relates to nonlinear signal processing, and, in particular, to adaptive nonlinear filtering of real-, complex-, and vector-valued signals utilizing analog Nonlinear Differential Limiters (NDLs), and to adaptive real-time signal conditioning, processing, analysis, quantification, comparison, and control. More generally, this invention relates to methods, processes and apparatus for real-time measuring and analysis of variables, and to generic measurement systems and processes. This invention also relates to methods and corresponding apparatus for measuring which extend to different applications and provide results other than instantaneous values of variables. The invention further relates to post-processing analysis of measured variables and to statistical analysis. The NDL-based filtering method and apparatus enable improvements in the overall properties of electronic devices including, but not limited to, improvements in performance, reduction in size, weight, cost, and power consumption, and, in particular for wireless devices, NDLs enable improvements in spectrum usage efficiency. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195578 | FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM CIRCUIT - A multiplexer receives a plurality of data streams transmitted in parallel on a time axis, and outputs partial data of each data stream every unit time in determined data stream order. A butterfly computation section at a first stage receives as second input data the partial data outputted from the multiplexer. A delay section corresponding to the butterfly computation section at the first stage receives in the data stream order the partial data outputted from the multiplexer, delays the partial data, and outputs the partial data as first input data for the butterfly computation section at the first stage. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195579 | Efficient Angle Rotator Configured for Dynamic Adjustment - An apparatus and method for angle rotation is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle θ to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle θ | 2014-07-10 |
20140195580 | FLOATING POINT ROUND-OFF AMOUNT DETERMINATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS - A method of an aspect includes receiving a floating point round-off amount determination instruction. The instruction indicates a source of one or more floating point data elements, indicates a number of fraction bits after a radix point, and indicates a destination storage location. A result including one or more result floating point data elements is stored in the destination storage location in response to the floating point round-off amount determination instruction. Each of the one or more result floating point data elements includes a difference between a corresponding floating point data element of the source in a corresponding position, and a rounded version of the corresponding floating point data element of the source that has been rounded to the indicated number of the fraction bits. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195581 | FIXED POINT DIVISION CIRCUIT UTILIZING FLOATING POINT ARCHITECTURE - A system, method, and computer program product for dividing two binary numbers. The divider implements a fixed point division function using a floating point normalization architecture to yield the closest initial quotient approximation. The divider normalizes the input dividend and divisor to a range of [0.5, 1.0) by scaling each by necessary factors of two. The normalized inputs are submitted to a divider core that may be optimized for dividing inputs of such limited ranges. The divider core output is then rescaled by an appropriate factor of two, appropriately signed, and loaded into saturating registers for output in various formats. The divider core progressively outputs quotient bits in decreasing order of significance until a predetermined level of precision is reached, typically fewer bits than in a complete quotient, for faster output. One embodiment generates the six most significant quotient bits in one clock cycle. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTER-APPLICATION COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK - A system and a method provide an inter-application communication framework. A first application executed on a first device may establish communication and/or interaction with a second application executed by a second device and compatible with the first application. The first device may be connected to the second device by a network which enables the communication between the first application and the second application. The first device may support different application frameworks relative to the second device, and the first application and the second application may exist in different application frameworks. The first device may query an application knowledge repository to determine one or more compatible applications which exist in an application framework supported by the second device. In response, the first device may obtain identifiers which may identify the compatible applications in the application framework supported by the second device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195583 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND MULTIMEDIA FILE PREFETCHING METHOD - A multimedia playback apparatus and a multimedia file prefetching method are provided. In the method, a first multimedia file is downloaded and played first. Next, at least one playlist is read, and at least one second multimedia file sorted after the first multimedia file in the at least one playlist is searched. Then, the at least one second multimedia file is prefetched. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195584 | COMMUNICATION DONGLE PHYSICALLY COUPLED WITH A MEDIA DEVICE TO AUTOMATICALLY DISCOVER AND LAUNCH AN APPLICATION ON THE MEDIA DEVICE AND TO ENABLE SWITCHING OF A PRIMARY OUTPUT DISPLAY FROM A FIRST DISPLAY OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO A SECOND DISPLAY OF THE MEDIA DEVICE THROUGH AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE MOBILE DEVICE SHARING A LOCAL AREA NETWORK WITH THE COMMUNICATION DONGLE - A system, apparatus and method related to a communication dongle physically coupled with a media device to automatically discover and launch an application on the media device and to enable switching of a primary output display from a first display of a mobile device to a second display of the media device through an operating system of the mobile device sharing a local area network with the communication dongle is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a mobile device to access a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with an selector on a header bar of a browser application of the mobile device and/or an indicator on a menu bar of the operating system of the mobile device, a media device, and a communication dongle that communicatively couples the mobile device with the media device through a local area network that is commonly shared between the mobile device and/or the communication dongle. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195585 | PROCESS EXECUTING SYSTEM, PROCESS EXECUTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A process executing system includes a first device and a second device connected via a network. The second device includes a receiving unit configured to receive process definition information and process object data from the first device, a control unit configured to analyze the process definition information and determine whether the next process is to be executed at the self-device, a process execution unit configured to execute the next process on the process object data when the next process is determined to be executed at the self-device, an updating unit configured to update the process definition information by changing a definition of a process, which is defined to be processed after the next process according to the execution order, to be a new next process, and a sending unit configured to send the process definition information and the process object data to another second device other than the self-device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195586 | MESSAGE TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA INTEROPERABILITY - Provided is a message transmitting system and method for distributed data interoperability. That is, the system and method may include a master device configured to register one or more operating devices, each operating a corresponding legacy system, as slave devices, so as to form each domain for processing an individual process, and to generate and transfer a process request message with respect to a slave device forming a corresponding domain according to processing of a predetermined process, and a slave device configured to be registered in one or more operating devices, each operating as a master device so as to form each domain, to execute a requested process as a process request message transferred from a corresponding master device according to domain-based process processing is received, to generate a process response message including a process execution result, and to transfer the generated process response message to the corresponding master device, thereby forming a plurality of domains for processing individual processes to enable a predetermined operating device to be shared among the domains, and enabling a process for multiple purposes in addition to a process for a single purpose. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL CONTENT - A method for managing and distributing media content in a network system includes receiving a request from a control device to deliver at least one item of digital content through the network system from the host server. The method also includes providing the control device with status information associated with the digital content and a plurality of outputs of the host server connected to the network system in response to receiving the request. The method includes receiving a command from the control device to serve the at least one item of digital content or the status information associated with the digital content or the status information for the plurality of outputs of the host server via a selected output. Further, the method includes serving the at least one item of digital content or the status information via the selected output in response to receiving the command from the control device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195588 | MULTIPLE DEVICE CO-BROWSING OF A SINGLE WEBSITE INSTANCE - Embodiments described herein provide systems and method for allowing multiple devices to browse the same instance of a website. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving an instruction in the co-browsing system to initiate a co-browsing session for a website with a first client and a second client. The method further provides acquiring the website from a server that hosts the website and rendering the website in the co-browsing system to generate a rendered image of the website. The method further provides transferring a first copy of the rendered image to the first client and a second copy of the rendered image to the second client. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195589 | CLOUD-BASED RENDERING - This document describes methods, systems and computer program products related to cloud-based rendering. The subject matter of this document is embodied in a method that includes receiving, at a server from a remote client application, files related to rendering of a frame, and storing the files related to the rendering of the frame at storage locations local to the server. The files are stored in accordance with an organization of the files on a remote computing device associated with the remote client application. The method also includes rendering the frame from the files using a rendering application determined based on information associated with the files, and making the rendered frame available to the remote client application. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195590 | MANAGING A LOGICAL CLIENT FOR A VIRTUAL MACHINE - A logical client includes a primary client device and one or more secondary client devices. Each of the secondary client devices may be coupled to one or more peripherals. The primary client in the logical client may use a virtual machine (VM) and/or an application that uses one or more peripheral devices. The primary client device may not be coupled to the one or more peripheral devices used by the application and/or the VM. The primary client device may access the peripheral devices coupled to secondary client devices in order to use the application and/or the VM. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195591 | System and Method for Enhancing Server Media Throughput in Mismatched Networks - An information handling system includes a transmission queue and a media client module. The media client module is in communication with the transmission queue. The media client module receives a disk command, stores a first number of packets in the transmission queue in response to the disk command, and transmits the first number of packets to a server associated with the disk command. The media client module also receives a restart message, stops transmission of the first number of packets in response to the restart message, calculates a delay between burst of packets and sets a second number of packets based on the restart message, stores a second number of packets in the transmission queue, and transmits the second number of packets to the server. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195592 | MANAGING A LOGICAL CLIENT FOR AN APPLICATION - A logical client includes a primary client device and one or more secondary client devices. Each of the secondary client devices may be coupled to one or more peripherals. The primary client in the logical client may use a virtual machine and/or an application that uses one or more peripheral devices. The primary client device may not be coupled to the one or more peripheral devices used by the application and/or the VM. The primary client device may access the peripheral devices coupled to secondary client devices in order to use the application and/or the VM. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195593 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR MANAGING EMBEDDED CONTENT - A method, system and medium for managing embedded content in documents are provided. The method, e.g., includes detecting, at a host device running a host application program, a user's action to initiate editing of content embedded in a document associated with the host application program and querying for the user's content management configuration to determine a target device having an interface suitable for editing the embedded content. If it is determined that the user's configuration specifies a device other than the host device as the target device, the method further includes sending a revision notification to the target device, wherein the notification includes a copy of, or a reference to, the document and receiving an update notification from the target device, wherein the update notification includes one of a copy of or a reference to a latest version of the document including the latest edits made to the embedded content. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195594 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING, RENDERING, AND DISPLAYING OF CONTENT - A system and method for distributed processing, rendering, and displaying of content. A first client request is received from a first client of a plurality of clients. The first client request is authenticated from the first client of the plurality of clients. A first data stream type is determined, based on the first client request, to establish with the first client of the plurality of clients. The first session comprising the first data type is established, based on a determination of the first data stream type, with the first client of the plurality of clients. The data of the first stream data type is provided for the first session to the first client of the plurality of clients. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195595 | INPUT REDIRECTION WITH A CLOUD CLIENT DEVICE - In one embodiment, a cloud client device identifies one or more devices within a pre-determined range of the cloud client device operable to communicate with the cloud client device. The cloud client device pairs with one or more of the devices. The cloud client device receives first input from a client device coupled to the cloud client device. The cloud client device translates the first input from a first format to a second format and sends the translated first input to one of the one or more devices. The cloud client device receives second input from one of the one or more devices, translates the second input from a third format to a fourth format, and provides the translated second input to the client device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195596 | COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Communication equipment, arranged between a terminal device and a server, includes: a detector configured to detect transmitted data that is transmitted to the terminal device and non-transmitted data that is not transmitted to the terminal device, from service data transmitted from the server to the terminal device through the communication equipment; a first calculator configured to calculate a first cost of transmitting the non-transmitted data to the terminal device; a second calculator configured to calculate a second cost of transmitting, to the terminal device, a difference image between an image corresponding to the service data and an image corresponding to the transmitted data; and a transmission scheme decision unit configured to transmit the non-transmitted data to the terminal device when the second cost is greater than the first cost and transmit the difference image to the terminal device when the second cost is smaller than the first cost. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195597 | WEB SERVICES - A method, system, and/or computer program product invokes a web service in a software application. A software application comprises a machine readable description of a functionality to be supported by a web service to be invoked, and a machine readable description of an execution instruction for the web service to be invoked. One or more processors determine/identify a web service that supports the functionality to be supported and the execution instruction for the web service to be invoked. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195598 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER PERIPHERAL ACCESS FROM CLOUD COMPUTING DEVICES - A method includes monitoring data communicated over a bus and determining that the data is communicated between a peripheral device and a client device. The method also includes sending the data in an unaltered form, and an identifier identifying the peripheral device, to a cloud server, wherein the data is operable to be received by a device driver executing on the cloud server. Another method includes receiving data in an unaltered form and an identifier identifying a peripheral device, wherein the unaltered data is a forwarded communication between the peripheral device and a client device. The method also includes enabling a device driver based on the received identifier. The method also includes executing one or more commands via the device driver, based on the received data. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDIRECTING CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE OPERATIONS - A method and apparatus for redirecting client-side storage operations to one or more remote storage devices. An HTTP message generated by a web server includes one or more client-side storage operations. Based on defined criteria, the client-side storage operations are replaced with remote storage instructions to generate a modified HTTP message. The modified HTTP message is sent towards the client device. A user agent on the client device receives the HTTP message and executes the remote storage instructions. The storage operations are implemented on the remote storage devices rather than on the client. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195600 | Network Connection Hand-off Using State Transformations - Some embodiments provide a director agent, a server agent, and a specialized hand-off protocol for improving scalability and resource usage within a server farm. A first network connection is established between a client and the director agent in order to receive a content request from the client from which to select a server from a set of servers that is responsible for hosting the requested content. A second network connection is established between the server agent that is associated with the selected server and a protocol stack of the selected server. The first network connection is handed-off to the server agent using the specialized hand-off protocol. The server agent performs network connection state parameter transformations between the two connections to create a network connection through which content can be passed from the selected server to the client without passing through the director. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195601 | DATA STORE INTERFACE THAT FACILITATES DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY ACROSS A MULTI-TIER CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - Methods and systems for facilitating distribution of application functionality across a multi-tier client-server architecture are provided. According to one embodiment, multiple data points from a database associated with a server computer system are cached into a hierarchical data map representing a random access memory-resident data structure. Each of the data points includes a field name and a calculated value. A request, containing input values that are to be stored within the hierarchical data map, is received by the server computer system from a client computer system. Responsive to the request: (i) the input values are transferred to target data points of the multiple data points; (ii) the calculated value of at least one of the data points is updated based on the target data points and a formula corresponding to the calculated value; and (iii) changed contents within the hierarchical data map are persisted to the database. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMPLOYING A CLIENT SIDE DEVICE TO ACCESS LOCAL AND REMOTE DATA DURING COMMUNICATION DISTRUPTIONS - A method and system are provided for locally storing data obtained from a plurality of sources, the local communication device being in communication with a local server that is associated with a local network, the local server also associated with an external network, and at least one client terminal device that communicates with the local server over an internal network, the local server synchronizing with a set of at least one or more remote servers over the external network. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195603 | MOBILE INTERACTIVE KIOSK METHOD - An information exchange system includes a mobile electronic device and a stationary electronic device. The mobile electronic device generates a transient or mobile information cloud around the user and includes a range selector module associated that receives input from the user regarding a physical range to extend the mobile information cloud around the user. The stationary electronic device generates a stationary information cloud. At an intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud, information is exchanged between the mobile electronic device and the stationary electronic device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195604 | CLIENT ACTIVITY DNS OPTIMIZATION - Client and user activity in an application or a browser are monitored to determine whether potential actions will result in a server being contacted. A DNS request to resolve the server's host name is generated to ensure the server's IP address is cached and available. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195605 | Creating a Customized News Collection Based on Social Networking Information - A system and machine-implemented method for generating a customized news collection based on social groups, the method comprising receiving an indication of one or more social groups associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more social groups is associated with the user's account in a social networking service, determining, one or more contacts associated with each of the identified one or more social groups at a social networking service, selecting a set of news items including one or more news items associated with the one or more identified contacts and generating a news collection including a number of the one or more news items of the set of news items for provision to a user. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195606 | IDENTIFYING VALUABLE USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for determining a value of a user of a social network are disclosed. For example, the method measures user influence information of the user on the social network. The method then calculates the value of the user based upon the user influence information. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195607 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES, SERVERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A SERVER - A communication device may be provided. The communication device may include: a requester to request information indicating communication devices that provide pre-determined data; a receiver to receive the information indicating communication devices that provide the pre-determined data; a determiner to determine a download target based on the information indicating communication devices that provide the pre-determined data; and a transmitter to transmit information indicating the determined download target for a peer-to-peer communication of the pre-determined data from the download target. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195608 | MOBILE INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND PROCESSING METHOD - At a mobile information processing terminal, a close-range communication unit performs close-range communications with another mobile information processing terminal, a reception unit receives through the close-range communication unit a user identifier for uniquely identifying a user of an application for a social networking service (SNS) on the other mobile information processing terminal, a determination unit is configured to determine whether there is a match between the social networking service on the other mobile information processing terminal and an SNS used on the mobile information processing terminal, and when the determination unit determines that there is a match, the transmission unit transmits the received user identifier to a server of the SNS so as to register a user identified by the user identifier as a friend. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195609 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH GROUP EDITING AND ACCESS - A process of managing a digital photo involves capturing the photo using a digital camera; communicating the photo to a server system; the server system identifying faces of people in the photo; the server system matching the faces to the communication addresses of portable devices of the people; and the server system communicating the photo to the portable devices. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING AND DESIGNING COMMENT - A method for determining and organizing multimedia content of a network page, related to reactions of at least one user to at least one common content object or context. The method includes receiving plurality of comments originated by different users relating one or more common multimedia object, wherein the user is required to define characteristics of their comment from multiple choice of definition types, enabling users to react to the comment by selecting one type of reaction from multiple choice of reaction types, wherein the each reaction type define different characteristics of the comment, analyzing comment characteristics as defined by the originator user and/or by reaction type; and selecting and organizing of comments and/or content objects which are related to the comments and/or and the relevant reactions according to the analysis. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195611 | METHODS AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS FOR GEOSCIENCES AND PETRO-TECHNICAL COLLABORATION - Computing systems and methods for geosciences collaboration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for geosciences collaboration includes obtaining a first set of geosciences information from a first computer system of the plurality of computer systems; distributing the first set of geosciences information from the first computer system to at least a second computer system; receiving a user input from the second computer system of the plurality of computer systems, the user input entered manually by a user; providing the user input to the first computer system; in response to providing the user input to the first computer system, receiving a revised set of geosciences information from the first computer system; and repeating the receiving a user input, the providing the user input, and the receiving the revised set of geosciences information until the revised set of geosciences information is determined to satisfy accuracy criteria. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195612 | QUEUE-BASED ADAPTIVE CHUNK SCHEDULING FOR PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - A method and apparatus are described for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving a message from a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all peers in the peer-to-peer network. Also described are a method and apparatus for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving one of a message and content from one of a content source server and a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, storing the received content, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all other peers in the peer-to-peer network. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195613 | Offline Names Addressing Online Community Web Pages - Avoidance criteria are obtained and used to help prevent offline encounters between members of an online community by limiting online communications between members who share some aspect of offline life, thereby reducing the risk of offline encounters that could otherwise arise from online interaction. For each member of the online community, a system provider obtains one or more avoidance criteria ratified by the member and associates them with the member. Avoidance criteria include aspects of the member's offline life, such as geographic regions in which the member resides or plans to travel, organizations in which the member is active, and other interests and activities of the member. Respective avoidance criteria of different members are compared to determine whether the members share at least one avoidance criterion. Online communication between members who share an avoidance criterion is automatically limited. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195614 | Third Party Delivery of Preferred Perishable Content - A user can specify particular news, weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195615 | SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SERVING CLIENT NODES BASED ON P2P CONNECTIONS - An infrastructure for serving client nodes is disclosed, wherein the infrastructure comprises: a first plurality of service nodes; a second plurality of client nodes; and at least one linking server for providing connecting information to enable the nodes to establish connections between each other, wherein each service node provides service to at least one of the second plurality of client nodes through P2P connections respectively, and a first service node of the first plurality of service nodes acts as a client node to receive service from a second service node of the first plurality of service nodes. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195616 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING PLAYED CONTENT OF APPLICATION - A method, a device and a system for sharing content being played by an application are provided. To share the content, the application may generate content position information of the content being currently played. An application platform system may generate a position information address according to the content position information, and further may form a sharing address by combining the position information address with an access address of the shared content. The sharing address may be published through a sharing channel. If and when a receiver clicks the sharing address, an application platform system of the receiver may extract the content position information therefrom. The content position information may be sent to an application of the local application platform system for parsing. The local application program may play, according to the parsed content position information, the shared content provided by the access address. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195617 | Retained Data Handling at Differentiated Response Times - The present invention relates to a method for handling response times in a communication system comprising at least one data retention system ( | 2014-07-10 |
20140195618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNFILTERING FILTERED STATUS MESSAGES - An approach for unfiltering a filtered electronic communication is provided. In one aspect, a computer system receives filtered electronic communication, wherein the filtered electronic communication is a status message. Moreover, the computer system determines a requestor of the filtered electronic communication. The computer system also detects an attempt made to communicate with the requestor. Furthermore, the computer system unfilters, in response to the attempt, the filtered electronic communication. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195619 | Emotive Text Messaging System - A system for expressing emotion in respective users' text messages, the system comprising: respective user text generation engines for generating emotive text messages according to respective user entered text and respective user selected emotional values associated with the text; respective user interfaces for permitting the users to enter the text and select the associated emotional value to be used in generating the emotive text message. respective displays for displaying the emotive text to respective users; wherein the emotive text is displayed as the written text against a background having a color according to the emotional value associated with the written text. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195620 | NOTIFICATION ROUTING TO A USER DEVICE - A system, machine-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for routing a notification to at least one device of a user is provided. User preference data including usage data is obtained from a user. The usage data may relate to activity of the user on at least one device and may indicate a preference of the user in receiving notifications on the at least one device. The occurrence of a notification event is detected. In response to the detection of the notification event, a notification is communicated to the user in accordance with the user preference data. The notification may indicate that a notification event has occurred. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195621 | INTELLIGENT CHAT SYSTEM - The disclosure herein describes an intelligent chat system. During operation, the system monitors content provided by participants of an online chat, and automatically obtains, from a data source, additional information based on the monitored content. The system then presents the obtained additional information to the chat participants without the need for the chat participants to request the additional information. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195622 | DYNAMIC SUBSCRIPTION AND MESSAGE ROUTING ON A TOPIC BETWEEN PUBLISHING NODES AND SUBSCRIBING NODES - A system for dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes includes a plurality of message queues, at least one topic/node table, a subscribing module, a publishing module, and other modules to send messages between one or more publisher and one or more subscribers. Methods include: a method for publishing a message on a topic, a method for forwarding a message on a topic, a method for subscribing to messages on a topic, a method for automatically removing subscribers, a method for direct publishing of messages, and methods for optimizing message transmission between nodes. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195623 | SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that manages a processing flow including a plurality of tasks and is connected to an image processing apparatus and a user terminal, the information processing apparatus comprises: an issuing unit which, if the processing flow requested from the image processing apparatus includes a mail-transmission task of transmitting an e-mail with an attached document from the image processing apparatus to the user terminal, issues a mail address in association with the requested processing flow, wherein the attached document is document data to be processed in the processing flow; a setting unit which sets, as a “Reply-To” setting of the e-mail, the issued mail address into the mail-transmission task included in the requested processing flow; and a first transmission unit which transmits the processing flow set by the setting unit to the image processing apparatus. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention relates to sharing patient care information through electronic messaging. Systems for managing electronic health records may comprise extensive patient information, e.g., names, addresses, insurance coverage and/or other financial arrangements, health conditions, allergies, procedures undergone, and/or tests performed. The invention involves transfer of such information between users. Embodiments of the invention may pass such information by adding to electronic messages pointers that uniquely refer to one or more patient records. Some embodiments may thereby send health information electronically while preserving metadata and/or other meaning associated with the data. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWDSOURCING EVENT-RELATED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS - Approaches for facilitating crowdsourcing of event-related social media posts are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first post that includes information specifying a first meteorological event may be received from a first user. Information specifying a first location associated with the first post may be obtained. A determination of whether the first location is within a predetermined proximity threshold of a second location associated with a second post that includes information specifying the first meteorological event may be effectuated. The first post may be presented to one or more other users in response to a determination that the first location is not within the predetermined proximity threshold. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESS-CONTROLLED INTERACTIONS - An interaction server controls access between a plurality of senders and/or users exchanging electronic interactions. A sender may identify a user with whom the sender desires to interact using a public identifier associated with the user. The interaction server may coordinate the desired interaction without revealing private information, such as information about private user resources (e.g., personal contact information, personal payment information, personal data, etc.). The interaction server may determine whether to provide an interaction by evaluating an access code, by determining whether a user is trusted, and/or the like. The interaction server may provide the interaction, a notice of the interaction, a payload associated with the interaction, and/or the like to a user resource associated with the public identifier if access is allowed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195627 | CUSTOMER-IDENTIFYING EMAIL ADDRESSES TO ENABLE A MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SUPPORTS MANY SERVICE PROVIDERS - A system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server is configured to receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider. The at least one server is further configured to parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider and identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data. The at least one server is further configured to extract the identified information and transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195628 | CUSTOMER-IDENTIFYING EMAIL ADDRESSES TO ENABLE A MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SUPPORTS MANY SERVICE PROVIDERS - An information distribution system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server configured to receive a communication message. The at least one server further configured to identify an element, in a communication text portion, corresponding to a predefined category based on an element classification model. The at least one server further configured to identify additional information associated with the predefined category and provide the identified information to an application on the computing system. The application on the computing system is pre-specified for utilization of information associated with the predefined category. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195629 | GEO-SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED PRIVATE NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system of a geo-spatially constrained private neighborhood social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer server of the global neighborhood to verify that a user lives at a residence associated with a geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment through a social community module of the computer server using a processor and a memory, to create a social network page of each user once verified, to enable the user to limit communications with only neighbors in a neighborhood in a geospatial vicinity of the user, and to distribute a message in a specified range of distance away from the registered users using an announce module. The computer server to constrain access in the online community with neighbors of the user based on the residence associated with the geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195630 | DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS RATE LIMITING IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Rate limiting operations can be implemented at an ingress DMA unit to minimize the probability of dropped packets because of differences between the communication rates of the ingress DMA unit and a packet processing engine. The communication rate associated with each of the software ports of a communication device can be determined and an aggregate software port ingress rate can be calculated by summing the communication rate associated with each of the software ports. The transfer rate associated with the ingress DMA unit can be limited so that packets are transmitted from the ingress DMA unit to the packet processing engine at a communication rate that is at least equal to the aggregate software port ingress rate. If each software port comprises a dedicated rate-limited ingress DMA queue, packets from a rate-limited ingress DMA queue can be transmitted at the at least the communication rate of the corresponding software port. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195631 | ROCE PACKET SEQUENCE ACCELERATION - A method, network device and system for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) packet sequence acceleration are disclosed. The network device comprises one or more functionality components for communicating with a host system. The host system is configured for implementing a first set of functionalities of a network communication protocol, such as RoCE. The one or more functionality components are also operable to implement a second set of functionalities of the network communication protocol. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195632 | IMMUTABLE SHARABLE ZERO-COPY DATA AND STREAMING - The environment and use of an immutable buffer. A computing entity acquires data or generates data and populates the data into the buffer, after which the buffer is classified as immutable. The classification protects the data populated within the immutable buffer from changing during the lifetime of the immutable buffer, and also protects the immutable buffer from having its physical address changed during the lifetime of the immutable buffer. As different computing entities consume data from the immutable buffer, they do so through views provided by a view providing entity. The immutable buffer architecture may also be used for streaming data in which each component of the streaming data uses an immutable buffer. Accordingly, different computing entities may view the immutable data differently without having to actually copy the data. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVABLE DATA STORAGE ELEMENTS PROVIDED AS CLOUD BASED STORAGE SYSTEM - Provided is a system and method for providing removable data storage elements as a cloud based storage system. More specifically, the method achieves this for at least one embodiment by receiving at least one generally random stream of data objects, each data object having at least one identifiable element. The method directs the selection of at least a first identifiable element. The method then orders the stream of data objects against the first identifiable element and disposes the data objects upon at least one of the removable data storage elements in accordance with the ordered stream of data objects. A system for performing the method is also disclosed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195634 | System and Method for Multiservice Input/Output - An apparatus for multiservice input/output switching includes a plurality of logical storage endpoints coupled to a plurality of remote servers via native input/output bus, a plurality of downstream ports coupled to a plurality of persistent storage drives, a storage transaction switch, and at least one processor configured to communicate with the plurality of remote servers and the plurality of persistent storage drives. The storage transaction switch translates received storage transaction using configured mappings from the server view to the physical view of persistent storage drives. Optionally, a network switch is integrated in the apparatus. Additionally, corresponding methods and computer readable medium embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING REST INTERFACE OF CLOUD CACHE IN NGINX - The present invention provides a method for realizing a REST (Representational State Transfer) interface of a cloud cache in an Nginx. The method includes: receiving a Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) message transmitted from a client, and parsing out key information and an operation type corresponding to the HTTP message according to a preset configuration file; converting the key information and the operation type into a parameter required by a cloud cache operation and a cloud cache operation type, and transmitting the parameter to a cloud cache apparatus, so that the cloud cache apparatus performs the cloud cache operation according to the parameter and the cloud cache operation type; receiving a cloud cache operation result returned by the cloud cache apparatus, processing the cloud cache operation result, and returning the processed result to the client. The present invention also provides a corresponding system. The present invention enables a larger cache capacity and better saves CPU resources, thereby enabling a more powerful cache function of the Nginx. | 2014-07-10 |
20140195636 | Cloud Based Data Migration and Replication - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for data replication. The mechanism divides a set of data to be replicated into a plurality of slices. Each slice of the plurality of slices is to be copied from a primary site to a master secondary site within a plurality of secondary sites. The plurality of secondary sites comprises the master secondary site and at least one subsidiary peer site. The mechanism copies the plurality of slices from the primary site to the plurality of secondary sites such that the master secondary site stores a first slice of the set of data and each of the at least one subsidiary peer site stores a corresponding slice of the set of data. Responsive to completion of copying the plurality of slices to the plurality of secondary sites, for each of the at least one subsidiary peer site, the mechanism initiates copying of the corresponding slice of the set of data to the master secondary site. | 2014-07-10 |