34th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120215794 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided are providing an ECG unit which is formed of content information and related information related thereto, and is linked to another ECG unit through the related information, calculating an association-degree score between the pieces of content information based on a degree of association of an attribute between the pieces of content information, collecting a history of operation performed for making a transition from a link-source-ECG unit to a link-destination-ECG unit, as a usage log of the ECG unit, calculating a transition score between the ECG units in a manner that a weight of a larger correction coefficient is assigned to a number of usage logs, as there are more attributes of content information having low degree of association with each other between the link-source-ECG unit and the link-destination-ECG unit, and generating an ECG unit linked to another ECG unit, based on the association-degree score and the transition score. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215795 | System and Method For Intelligent Job Hunt - A system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method performs an intelligent job hunt to determine a sorted set of job openings relevant to a user's career goals. An intelligent job hunt engine uses user profile information to query a job openings index for job's relevant to the user. Results of the query are filtered and sorted according to their relevance to different career goals. A job readiness evaluator determines readiness scores indicative of the user's preparedness for reaching a career goal. Specific action items are generated based on the user's interaction with the sorted job openings and the user's job readiness scores. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS WITHIN CITATION INTENSIVE DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS - Systems and methods facilitate a search and identify documents and associated metadata reflecting content of the documents. In one implementation, a method receives a query comprising a set of search terms, identifies a stored document in response to the query, and determines a score value for the retrieved document based on a similarity between one or more of the query search terms and metadata associated with the identified document. The method locates the identified document in a citation network of baseline query results, the citation network comprising a first set of documents that cite to the identified document and a second set of documents cited to by the identified document. The method further determines a new score value of the identified document as a function of the score value and a quantity and a quality of documents within the first and second set of documents. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215797 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE TRAVEL RECORD SCORING - A system, method, and computer readable medium. A method of characterizing and comparatively scoring travel records of a plurality of travelers includes, for each traveler in the plurality of travelers, calculating a point value for each of a plurality of characteristics of a travel record of the traveler. The method also includes comparing the point values for the plurality of travelers and ordering the plurality of travelers according to the comparison. The method further includes, for each traveler in the plurality of travelers, storing a total score value representative of the position of the traveler in the ordered plurality of travelers. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215798 | System and Method for a Centralized URL Commenting Service Enabling Metadata Aggregation - An embodiment of the invention includes a method for centralized URL commenting, wherein user-generated comment data is extracted from web pages on a plurality of web sites. Access control parameters are also obtained from the web sites. The comment data is tagged with identifiers indicating the web sites that the comment data was extracted from, URLs indicating the web pages that the comment data are on, and authors of the comment data. The comment data is stored in a repository. Keywords are extracted from the comment data; and, the keywords are normalized. The normalizing of the keywords includes creating a single normalized keyword for multiple keywords related to the same topic, and tagging comment data that include at least one of the multiple keywords with the normalized keyword. Read access and/or write access to the repository is controlled based on the access control parameters. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215799 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING, MAPPING AND STRUCTURING DATA FROM DISPARATE SYSTEMS IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for receiving, mapping and structuring data from disparate systems in a healthcare environment are described. An example system for processing healthcare data includes an interface to receive input and display output, the input comprising a plurality of differently formatted healthcare messages and an identifier to identify a message type of the plurality of healthcare messages received. The example system also includes a mapper to map data of the plurality of healthcare messages to respective models based on the message type identified and a data store to store the models and corresponding mapped data. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215800 | TIME-AWARD READING CONTENT - Embodiments generally relate to time-based reading content. In one embodiment, a method includes opening a content file, wherein the content file contains time-dependent content items. The method also includes determining the time of day, determining which time-dependent content items to display based on the time of day, and displaying the time-dependent content items based on the time of day. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215801 | Method and Apparatus for Adjustable Data Matching - A method and apparatus for performing a matching operation on data are disclosed. With an exemplary embodiment, a programmable logic device can be used to search for data of interest to an application, where the programmable logic device processes streaming data against a data key to generate a signal indicative of a similarity between the streaming data and the data key and compares the generated signal with a defined threshold to thereby determine whether the streaming data is deemed a match to the data key, wherein the threshold is adjustable to control whether the programmable logic device performs an approximate match operation or an exact match operation, and further to control, for an approximate match operation, a degree of approximate matches returned by the approximate match operation. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215802 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROFILE TYPING IN BATCH LOADING DOCUMENTS INTO A SERVICE REGISTRY IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for profile typing in batch loading document files into a service registry module in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves loading document files into a service registry by profile typing document files for loading into a service registry of a service oriented architecture (SOA) computing environment, including automatically identifying a profile of each document file; and batch loading the document files into the service registry based on their corresponding profile type. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215803 | AGGREGATE CONTRIBUTION OF ICEBERG QUERIES - One or more embodiments determine a distance between at least two vectors of n coordinates. A set of heavy coordinates is identified from a set of n coordinates associated with at least two vectors. A set of light coordinates is identified from the set of n coordinates associated with the at least two vectors. A first estimation of a contribution is determined from the set of heavy coordinates to a rectilinear distance between the at least two vectors. A second estimation of a contribution is determined from the set of light coordinates to the rectilinear distance norm. The first estimation is combined with the second estimation. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215804 | DATA-PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT - A data-programming environment is disclosed that facilitates data manipulation. Visual representations are presented of available operations with respect to one or more data sources. A preview of data is displayed capturing the state of data with respect to manipulations. Further, a visual representation of a series of selected operations is maintained to capture successive refinements and aid subsequent interaction. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215805 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control display of parts information of a plurality of items, to generate search information according to feedback from a user for the parts information, and to control display of a search result according to the search information. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215806 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM DATA BASE SYSTEM - A system for performing a similarity search in a navigation device data base uses a metric index structure. The index structure includes a plurality of nodes. When a query object is received, a node of the index structure which is associated with at least one object is accessed. A distance between the query object and the at least one object is determined in accordance with a distance metric. Based on the determined distance, another node of the index structure is selectively accessed. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215807 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REPRESENTING DIGITAL DOCUMENTS FOR SEARCH APPLICATIONS - A method and a device for representing digital documents for search applications are provided. The method includes periodically obtaining one or more digital documents stored in a memory of a handheld device, and generating a compressed representation of the one or more digital documents stored in the memory using one or more balanced trees. Additionally, the method includes receiving a search query including one or more words from a user of the handheld device for searching for one or more digital documents, and retrieving the one or more digital documents including the one or more words by traversing through a digital document map table and providing a search result including the one or more retrieved digital documents on the display of the handheld device if it is determined that the one or more words correspond to the one or more nodes in the word balanced tree. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215808 | GENERATING CANDIDATE ENTITIES USING OVER FREQUENT KEYS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for matching an inbound identity record to existing entities. A composite generic key may be generated from multiple entity resolution (ER) candidate-building keys determined to be generic keys. A query may be generated based on the composite generic key and executed to retrieve candidate entities for an inbound identity record. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215809 | SEARCH MEDIATION SYSTEM - A user registers information in searcher information storage in advance. Database creators register provision conditions of information in provision condition storage as a rule for defining information granularity. When a query request is received from a user terminal, a search request is sent to each database. Query results from the each database are acquired, and information to be provided into a form at an appropriate information granularity is sent to the user terminal. A third party may register disclosure restriction information. In this manner, a search mediation system capable of controlling information to be disclosed according to the searcher who wants to access to the information is provided. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215810 | DATABASE QUERY MECHANISM USING LINKS AS AN AGGREGATE BASE - A method may include receiving a syntactic database query for retrieving information, where the syntactic database query may include two or more tokens. A subset of the two or more tokens may include a nested aggregation, and the nested aggregation may include at least (a) a first aggregate expression including a first aggregate function, a first base, and a first range, and (b) a second aggregate expression including a second aggregate function, a second base and a second range, where the second range includes the first aggregate expression. The method may further include parsing the two or more of tokens, where parsing includes identifying at least a first query context and a second query context. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONIC FILES - A remote server is arranged to respond to a request from a user terminal for the download of a media file to cause a unique water-marked copy of a media file to be generated and sent to the user terminal. At the same time the remote server is arranged to access a seal server, which causes an electronically sealed record of the transaction to be generated and stored in a download database. Subsequently, if a suspect media file is identified the sealed record provides evidence of the original transaction which led to the water-marked copy of the media file being issued and hence the original source of the unauthorised copy of the file. Control of distributed media files can be enforced by imposing penalties in the event that unauthorised copies corresponding to the distributed water-marked media files are identified. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215812 | System and Method for Providing a Standardized Data Sharing Platform - A standardized platform, implemented in a secure web-based environment, enables the sharing of data between different individuals, institutions and even industries. Data is shared between members of the platform in accordance with defined data objects with specified relationships and permissions which are managed, accessed and modified by members using the platform. Such data objects have defined relationships to entities and other data objects, and are controlled by designated preferred owners, which can vary over time. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215813 | DATA BACKUP, STORAGE, TRANSFER AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A data storage system including a virtual server on a network managing a plurality of user accounts, each user account including one or more files; the virtual server adapted to verify user access information for a particular user account; the virtual server transferring over the network information relating to files stored on the virtual server in the particular user account to a verified user on a user computer; the virtual server further adapted to transfer files associated with the particular user account to and from the user computer. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215814 | Client Integrated Artwork/File Repository System - Systems and methods for controlling file access. A data structure is provided which includes a set of files (artwork for a promotional products ordering system in some embodiments) and a set of user accounts. Each file and each account has associated arbitrary classifiers associated therewith. When account classifier(s) match file classifier(s), the corresponding users (salespersons in some embodiments) may access the files. The matching files may be listed for the users. The arbitrary classifiers can be nominal key:value pairs. A system is provided which includes a network, computers, and memory which contains such a data structure. The system may include a Web based file access interface. A method is provided in which arbitrary classifiers are associated with files and users. Users with classifiers which match a file classifier are allowed access to the corresponding file. An administrator may upload files to a shared repository in the memory. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215815 | TEST DATA GENERATION AND SCALE UP FOR DATABASE TESTING USING UNIQUE COMMON FACTOR SEQUENCING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for test data generation using unique common factor sequencing. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for test data generation using unique common factor sequencing is provided. The method includes loading a table for population with test data in a test data generation tool executing in memory of a computer. A column set of multiple columns in the table associated with a key to the table can be selected for processing and different cardinality sequence values are assigned to the columns in the set such that the cardinality sequence values do not share a common factor except for unity as in the case of prime numbers. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215816 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CMP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via CMP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the CMP may obtain content discovery supportive information for a universally resolvable user. The CMP may then determine apportionment heuristics among the obtained information for the user. In one implementation, the CMP may identify a first set of universally resolvable content items based on the determined apportionment heuristics and may create a caching queue that includes the identified first set of universally resolvable content items. The first set of universally resolvable content items in the caching queue may then be provided to the user. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215817 | CROSS-PLATFORM CLOUD-BASED MAP CREATION - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for cross-platform cloud based map creation are described herein. A method embodiment includes receiving one or more GIS datasets in their respective source formats, each GIS dataset comprising one or more map assets, translating the GIS datasets into a platform independent format, and providing the translated GIS datasets and their respective map assets in the platform independent format to one or more client platforms. The embodiment further includes identifying missing map assets and metadata that comprise a GIS dataset, tracking map assets that comprise a single translated GIS dataset to maintain the translated GIS dataset as a single entity, and providing the translated GIS datasets to a serving system. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215818 | REQUEST PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A processing method has been claimed for reducing the average wait time of requests in a queue in a system environment where garbage collection may occur. In the method, a computer system treats as a unit each request in a queue and a completion time of garbage collection that may occur at the time of processing the request, and processes requests preferentially and systematically in ascending order of the processing times of the units including the garbage collection times, thereby, reducing the average wait time of the requests. While, the computer system managing the queue knows the remaining amount of heap just before processing a certain request, the computer system statistically calculates in advance the amounts of heap to be consumed on a request type basis and holds the values. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215819 | TOOL FOR REMOVING INACTIVE OBJECTS - A method, system and computer program product for removing inactive objects from a file to produce a thinner file. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying inactive objects in a specified object file, listing the identified inactive objects in an input file, and executing a tool to remove from the specified object file all of the objects listed in the input file. In one embodiment, the tool is used to generate a log file identifying defined information about the objects removed from the object file. In an embodiment, the tool removes all of the objects from the specified object file and checks to determine if each of the removed objects is listed in said input file. The tool deletes all of the objects listed in said input file and returns to the object file all of the objects not listed in said input file. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215820 | FILE STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - Three or more file storage apparatuses and a management computer coupled thereto construct a file storage system. The management computer stores therein migration path management information, which indicates a configuration of a migration path capable of including three or more file storage units arranged in a cascade form, and path history information, which indicates a change history of the configuration of the migration path. Each time when the configuration of the migration path is changed, the management computer updates the migration path management information to information that indicates the changed configuration of the migration path, and adds the information that indicates the changed configuration of the migration path, to the path history information. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215821 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SOLVING COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS - Systems, devices, and methods for using an analog processor to solve computational problems. A digital processor is configured to track computational problem processing requests received from a plurality of different users, and to track at least one of a status and a processing cost for each of the computational problem processing requests. An analog processor, for example a quantum processor, is operable to assist in producing one or more solutions to computational problems identified by the computational problem processing requests via a physical evolution. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215822 | Number format pre-conversion instructions - Apparatus for processing data includes processing circuitry | 2012-08-23 |
20120215823 | Apparatus and method for performing floating point addition - An apparatus and method are provided for performing an addition operation on operands A and B in order to produce a result R, the operands A and B and the result R being floating point values each having a significand and an exponent. The apparatus comprises prediction circuitry for generating a shift indication based on a prediction of the number of leading zeros that would be present in an output produced by subjecting the operands A and B to an unlike signed addition. Further, result pre-normalization circuitry performs a shift operation on the significands of both operand A and operand B prior to addition of the significands, this serving to discard a number of most significant bits of the significands of both operands as determined by the shift indication in order to produce modified significands for operands A and B. Operand analysis circuitry detects, with reference to the exponents of operands A and B, the presence of a leading bit cancellation condition, and addition circuitry is configured, in the presence of the leading bit cancellation condition, to perform an addition of the modified significands for operands A and B, in order to produce the significand of the result R. Such an approach provides a particularly simple and efficient apparatus for performing addition operations. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215824 | ITERATIVE-DIVISION OPERATIONS SUCH AS FOR HEADER COMPRESSION IN PACKET-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - In one embodiment of a header-compression method, a 32-bit timestamp value is divided by a 16- or 8-bit stride value using a plurality of 16/8-bit division operations, each performed using a corresponding hardware instruction issued to an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) of the corresponding communication device, such as an access terminal or a base station of a communication system. When specialized 32/16-bit and/or 32/8-bit division-logic circuitry is not available in the ALU, embodiments of the header-compression method can advantageously be used to improve the speed and efficiency of timestamp compression in communication devices. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215825 | EFFICIENT MULTIPLICATION TECHNIQUES - Techniques are disclosed that involve the multiplication of values. For instance, a plurality of partial products may be calculated from a first operand and a second operand. This calculating bypasses calculating partial products having corresponding shift values that are less than a shift threshold value. These partial products are summed to produce a summed product. In turn, the summed product is truncated into a final product having a final precision. This final precision may be a shared precision employed by multiple processing units (e.g., algorithmic units in a graphics or display processing pipeline). | 2012-08-23 |
20120215826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT A MATRIX MULTIPLY UNIT OF A BROADBAND PROCESSOR - The present invention provides a system and method for improving the performance of general-purpose processors by implementing a functional unit that computes the product of a matrix operand with a vector operand, producing a vector result. The functional unit fully utilizes the entire resources of a 128b by 128b multiplier regardless of the operand size, as the number of elements of the matrix and vector operands increase as operand size is reduced. The unit performs both fixed-point and floating-point multiplications and additions with the highest-possible intermediate accuracy with modest resources. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING AND EXECUTING INSTRUCTIONS FROM A PRIVATE NETWORK - Systems and methods for website and application monitoring and testing inside from a private network are presented. An agent module resident on an agent device inside the secured network periodically sends an HTTP message to a controller server and receives an HTTP response. The agent module parses out a set of instructions from the content of the HTTP response and executes the instructions. The agent module collects and compiles responsive information resulting from the instructions being executed and sends the compiled information to the controller server for storage and reporting. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215828 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device is arranged to include a macro changing unit to change a pertinent device of a process in macro information to a second information processing device when the second information processing device has a function required to execute the process and determined as being not executable on the information processing device, and to set the pertinent device in the macro information to the information processing device when the function required to execute the process is determined as being executable on the information processing device. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215829 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE ANALYTICS WITH CROSS-DOMAIN CORRELATION - A method of generating analytics to provide an analysis of data from distinct data domains includes collecting sensor data from at least two distinct data domains, deriving parameters from the collected data, wherein at least one of the parameters is a first domain parameter derived from one of the data domains and at least another one of the parameters is a second domain parameter derived from the other data domain, providing a data model that enables a user to specify at least one of the first parameters and at least one of the second domain parameters and generate at least one rule based on the selected parameters, and generating analytics that analyze the collected data against the rules to determinate whether the rules have been satisfied and provide results of the analysis to a user of the analytics. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215830 | Matrix Code for Use in Verification of Data Card Swap - A content receiver receives an update to a memory unit contained therein utilizing data stored in a data card inserted or incorporated into the content receiver. The content receiver dynamically generates a matrix code based on the updates received in the memory and on information uniquely identifying the content receiver. The matrix code is transmitted to a content display device for display, and a matrix code reader detects the displayed matrix code and transmits information contained within the matrix code to a content provider for updating a user's account associated with the updated content receiver. The content provider may transmit a message to the content receiver for display on the content display device indicating the update to the user's account. The content provider may transit a similar message to the matrix code reader. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215831 | Software Application Delivery and Launching System - One embodiment allocates a first virtual memory; receives executable code of a first piece of software; writes the executable code of the first piece of software directly into the first virtual memory; marks the first virtual memory as executable; executes the executable code of the first piece of software directly from the first virtual memory; and downloads and executes executable code of a second piece of software as facilitated by the executable code of the first piece of software. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215832 | PUBLISHER-BASED MESSAGE DATA CASHING IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for a broker-assisted, publisher side cache that can be utilized to reduce a volume of data (e.g., network traffic) delivered between a publisher and broker in a publication/subscription (pub/sub) environment. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, when a message is received on a broker system from a publisher system, the broker system analyzes the message for potentially repetitive data. Such data can be determined from historical messages (e.g., determining that a certain set of data appeared in multiple messages and is thus flagged in a database or the like), a set of rules (e.g., if data set “Y” appears, flag it as potentially repetitive), etc. Regardless, once such a set of data has been identified, a unique identifier/key corresponding thereto will be sent back to the publisher system and the set of data will be stored in a (data) cache. Upon receipt, the publisher system will cache/store the unique identifier in a (key) cache. Then, when the publisher system generates a future message that would contain the same set of data, the publisher system will substitute the unique identifier (as retrieved from the key cache) for the set of data to yield an abbreviated/truncated message. The abbreviated message would be sent to the broker system, which would: analyze the message; locate the unique identifier; retrieve the corresponding set of data from the (data) cache; replace the unique identifier with the set of data to yield a completed message; and then send the completed message to relevant subscriber system(s). | 2012-08-23 |
20120215833 | GATEWAY/SET TOP BOX IMAGE MERGING FOR DELIVERY TO SERVICED CLIENT DEVICE - A gateway includes at least one communications interface and processing circuitry and establishes communications with at least one service provider device and with a serviced client device. The gateway receives serviced client device display structure instructions, first streamed content from a service provider device, and second streamed content from a cloud server, the second streamed content based upon an Internet session hosted by the cloud server. Based upon the serviced client device display structure instructions, the gateway combines the first streamed content with the second streamed content to form merged streamed content and transmits the merged streamed content to the serviced client device. In another operation the gateway forwards the first streamed content to a first client device and the second streamed content to a second client device based upon the serviced client device display structure instructions. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215834 | CLOUD SERVER/THIN CLIENT/GATEWAY SELECTIVE BROWSER INSTANTIATION - A gateway having at least one communications interface and processing circuitry establishes communications with at least one service provider device and at least one serviced client device. The gateway then determines that a serviced client device is to establish an Internet browsing session. Based upon characteristics of the serviced client device, the gateway determines where to instantiate a web browser to service the Internet browsing session. Based upon the determination, in a first operation, instantiates the web browser to service the Internet browsing session at the gateway or client device. In a second operation, the gateway instantiates the web browser to service the Internet browsing session at a service provider server. In other operations, the gateway may determine to instantiate a browser for a first client device at a cloud server and to instantiate a browser for a second client device either locally or at the second client device. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215835 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SERVER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLIENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a client processing apparatus, each application program independently performs communication with a server processing apparatus in spite of relevance between the application programs. For example, when plural application programs issue a request at the same timing in correspondence with a user's operation, the operation speed of the application program may become low. A request which occurs at the same timing of a particular request outputted from an application program to the server processing apparatus is previously defined in a communication grouping table. When the application program actually outputs a request, the communication grouping table is referred to, then the request and a request in the table to occur at the same timing are transmitted at once to the server processing apparatus. The server processing apparatus processes the plural requests at once, and returns the result of processing to the client processing apparatus. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215836 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus in which a process communicating with an external apparatus operates is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying the process; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire port information indicating a characteristic of a communication port used by the process to communicate with the external apparatus; and a control unit configured to control a storage unit to store the port information and the identification information in correspondence with each other, wherein the second acquisition unit is further configured to acquire the port information by filtering an input or output of driver software used by the process to use the communication port, monitoring communication between the process and an application programming interface used to access the communication port, or a port monitoring interface. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215837 | NETWORK DEVICE AND FILE TRANSFER METHOD - A network device that includes a server-side specific functional unit which has a function to manage a location of a data file in accordance with a specific file sharing function; a client-side specific functional unit which has a function to acquire the data file in accordance with the specific file sharing function; a server-side general functional unit which has a function to manage the location of the data file in accordance with a general file sharing function; and a client-side general functional unit which has a function to acquire the data file in accordance with the general file sharing function. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215838 | OPTIMIZATION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM - In at least one embodiment, data relating to the usage and the operating status of a frontend module of a software application implemented on the client side is acquired continuously during the execution of the application by way of a monitoring frontend module implemented on the client side of a client/server system. This acquired usage and status data is transmitted by the monitoring frontend module to a monitoring backend module implemented on the server side. The usage and status data is stored by the monitoring backend module in a database on the server side. The usage and status data stored in the database is automatically analyzed by way of an analysis module. In the process, default settings of the software application are automatically modified by way of the analysis module on the basis of the result of the analysis in order to improve the performance of the application. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215839 | NETWORK-AWARE STRUCTURED CONTENT DOWNLOADS - A request for content is received at a content server via a first network connection from a client device. The content includes a set of portions represented within a root document. Based upon a download constraint of at least one portion of the content and a network characteristic of the first network connection, at least one portion of the content is deferred for download over a network connection other than the first network connection. The content is sent with each deferred portion of the content replaced with a content stub within the root document. Each content stub identifies the respective portion of the content as a deferred portion of the content and includes a content identifier of the respective deferred portion of the content. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER CONTEXT SUPPORT IN A NATIVE TRANSACTION PLATFORM - According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium comprising processor executable codes. The computer-readable storage medium includes code for receiving information from a client entity at a server entity over a network. The computer-readable storage medium includes code for providing a server process at the service, the server process including one or more process threads. The computer-readable storage medium includes code for providing a first context associated the one or more process threads. The computer-readable storage medium includes code for receiving a user request from the client entity for a user thread, the user thread being associated with the service process. The computer-readable storage medium includes code for generating the user thread at the server entity. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING OPERATIONS OF MULTIPLE GROUPS - A method is disclosed for synchronizing operations of at least a first group on a first server and a second group on a second server. The method includes establishing an association between the first group and the second group using a pre-set association identifier, receiving operation information containing a type of operation and specifying an operation, and performing the operation specified by the operation information on the first group. The method also includes sending the operation information and the association identifier to the second server, receiving the operation information and the association identifier, and searching the second group corresponding to the association identifier. Further, the method includes performing an operation corresponding to the type of the operation information on the second group based on the type of the operation information. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING EVENT OF THIRD PARTY DEVICE IN HOME NETWORK SUPPORTING UPNP REMOTE PROTOCOL - An apparatus for outputting an event of a third party device in a home network is provided, which includes a remote user interface (RUI) client taking part in a user interface (UI) session using a universal plug and play (UPnP) remote protocol; an RUI server taking part in the UI session, judging whether the RUI client exists on the home network, storing and transmitting an event message of a third party device that does not take part in the UI session; and an i-box receiving the event message from the RUI server if the RUI client does not exist on the home network, and transmitting the event message to the RUI client existing outside the home network by using an external network. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215843 | Virtual Communication Techniques - Techniques for facilitating communication are provided. The techniques include using a machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users of a communicator device and a compatible communicator device, wherein using the machine-to-machine communication to facilitate communication between one or more human users comprises initiating a machine-to-machine communication with a compatible communicator device if the device is within the geographic proximity, wherein the machine-to-machine communication incorporates one or more related items from a user profile of each device automatically extracted by the device initiating the machine-to-machine communication, and conducting the machine-to-machine communication in a manner in which the communication can be monitored by the one or more human users. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215844 | CONNECTING USERS OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for establishing connections between users of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising a plurality of network devices, the network devices comprising a plurality of user devices and a plurality of network infrastructure devices, comprising: providing a system for establishing said connections; wherein the system performs on one or more of the network devices a semantic analysis and similarity calculation operation on a data item associated with a user so as to ascertain whether the data item has more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity with other data items associated with other users, and in a case that more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity is ascertained between the data item and a said other data item, between the user and the user associated with that said other data item, indicating awareness and a possible channel for communication. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESERVING PRIVACY FOR APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - An approach is provided for preserving privacy for appointment scheduling. A scheduling platform receives a request to schedule an appointment among one or more users. The scheduling platform determines availability information for the one or more users from one or more respective devices, wherein the availability information is encrypted using homomorphic encryption. The scheduling platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the availability information using, at least in part, one or more homomorphic functions to determine one or more recommended time slots for the appointment. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215846 | DISPLAY OF CONTENT INTERACTION DATA IN A BROWSER - A browser obtains content items from a content server, where the content items may include web pages, any individual content within a web page, items fetched via a web services-based API of the content server, and/or items in a feed. Additionally, an interaction module of the browser obtains information about interactions with the content items by those with some relationship to a user of the browser, such as the user's friends on a social networking site. Based on the obtained information, the browser provides an illustration of the information in visual association with the content item. For example, the browser may directly highlight or otherwise visually emphasize the content item itself, or it may provide an indicator for the browser or web page as a whole, or it may display some or all of the information. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215847 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIARY-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for providing Social Network Service (SNS) on the Internet and a system using the same. The present invention is characterized by creating a user tag list constructed with tags that are acquired by a user terminal; forming a social network between the user and other users, based on tags of the user tag list; and creating a diary based on the user tag list and social network associated with tags of the user tag list. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215848 | DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND COMMUNICATING VIA A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for querying the collective social network on behalf of a limited group of users is described. The method consists of a system that schedules and executes searches according to a set of search objectives specified by the users. The system searches each member's social network for a connection that matches any search objective. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSUMING VIRTUAL MEDIA - Provided is a method of consuming virtual media. The method allows a user to identify virtual media that the user wants to consume in the presence of at least one other user. The method recognizes co-presence of the user and the at least one other user and recommends the identified virtual media for consumption by the user and the at least one other user. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215850 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THE SELECTION OF COMMUNICATION PEERS IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK - A method for supporting the selection of communication peers in an overlay network, wherein a multitude of communication peers participate in the overlay network by providing certain pieces of information, and wherein at least one peer-to-peer server—tracker—is provided that maintains a database of the participating communication peers and the information possessed by them, wherein the tracker, upon receiving a query regarding a specific piece of information from a communication peer—requesting client—, answers the query by providing the requesting client a list that includes a subset of all communication peers possessing the requested piece of information, includes providing a network entity located such that it receives messages directed from the requesting client to the tracker, wherein the network entity stamps topological location information of the requesting client into any of the messages directed from the requesting client to the tracker. Furthermore, a corresponding system is disclosed. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215851 | On The Managed Peer-To-Peer Sharing In Cellular Networks - A method, system and apparatus are provided for performing peer-to-peer (P2P) data sharing operations between user equipment (UE) devices in a wireless-enabled communications environment. A first client node comprises content data and operates in a server peer mode to provide content data. A second client node submits a request to a P2P application server (P2P AS) for the content data. In response, the P2P AS provides the address of the first client node to the second client node. The second client node then uses the provided address to submit a request to the first client node to provide the content data. The first client node accepts the request and then provides the content data to the second client node. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215852 | COMMUNICATING WITH RECIPIENT EMAIL SERVER WHILE COMPOSING EMAIL - Provided are techniques for the transmission of electronic mail (email). While a user composes an email message and once an intended recipient has been entered, negotiation modules associated with client and server computers check both the recipient and attributes of the message as they are entered. The user is notified if there is an issue with the intended recipient and alternative recipients may be suggested. The user is also notified if a particular attribute exceeds a defined limit. In this manner, the user may alter the message so that the attribute conforms to the limit to ensure delivery. Tests may be provided to enable a user to exceed a limit and some users may be pre-authorized to exceed a limit. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215853 | Managing Unwanted Communications Using Template Generation And Fingerprint Comparison Features - Unwanted communication detection and/or management features are providing, including using one or more commonality measures as part of generating templates for fingerprinting and comparison operations, but the embodiments are not so limited. An computing architecture of one embodiment includes components configured to generate templates and associated fingerprints for known unwanted communications, wherein the template fingerprints can be compared to unknown communication fingerprints as part of determining whether the unknown communications are based on similar templates and can be properly classified as unwanted or potentially unsafe communications for further analysis and/or blocking. A method of one embodiment operates to use a number of template fingerprints to detect and classify unknown communications as spam, phishing, and/or other unwanted communications. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215854 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OVERRIDING A MESSAGE FILTER - A communication device and method for overriding a message filter are provided. A first message is transmitted from the communication device to a communication network, the first message associated with a filtering override condition stored at a memory device. A second message is received from the communication network, the second message meeting a filtering condition stored in the memory device such that an alert device is not triggered to provide an alert of second message. The second message us determined to be received in response to the first message associated the filtering override condition, and in response, the alert device is triggered to provide the alert of the second message. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215855 | Determining Availability Based on Percentage Available - An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for displaying the scheduling availability of a user. The system includes an occupancy module for analyzing the schedule of the user to determine the occupancy for a time period in the schedule. The time period includes an available time slot and/or an occupied time slot. A processor connected to the occupancy module determines whether the occupancy for the time period is above a threshold level of occupancy. The threshold level of occupancy includes a maximum number of occupied time slots, a maximum percentage of occupied time slots, a maximum amount of occupied time, and/or a maximum percentage of occupied time. A scheduling module connected to the processor automatically displays the scheduling availability of the user as unavailable for the time slot when the occupancy for the time period is above the threshold level of occupancy. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215856 | MESSAGE PUBLICATION FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215857 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus to correlate healthcare information are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a healthcare message from a first entity of a healthcare enterprise, wherein the healthcare message is configured according to a first identification schema of the first entity; identifying one or more subjects of the healthcare message for correlation into an electronic clinical information system; selecting one of a plurality of correlators for each identified subject to correlate each identified subject, wherein each of the correlators are customizable to handle a specific type of healthcare message subject; and correlating the identified subjects of the message to associate each of the identified subjects with an identifier internal to the electronic clinical information system. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215858 | CACHING POTENTIALLY REPETITIVE MESSAGE DATA IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - In general, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for caching potentially repetitive data in a publication-subscription (pub/sub) system. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, when a message is received on a broker system from a publisher system, the broker system analyzes the message for potentially repetitive data. Such data can be determined from historical messages (e.g., determining that a certain set of data appeared in multiple messages and is thus flagged in a database or the like), a set of rules (e.g., if data set “Y” appears, flag it as potentially repetitive), etc. Regardless, once such a set of data has been identified, the set of data will be tagged/marked in the message with a unique identifier. The message and inserted unique identifier is then sent to the relevant subscriber system(s). Upon receiving the message, the subscriber system(s) will analyze the message, identify the unique identifier, and cache the tagged data. Thereafter, when the publisher system receives another message that contains the same set of data that was previously tagged, the publisher system will substitute the unique identifier for the repeated data to yield an abbreviated message. The publisher system will then send the abbreviated message to the subscriber system(s), which will analyze the abbreviated message, identify the unique identifier, and retrieve the associated data from cache. Thus, the substitution of unique identifiers for potentially repetitive data can avoid unnecessary communication of data and reduce overall network bandwidth consumption. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215859 | PUBLISHER-ASSISTED, BROKER-BASED CACHING IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for a publisher-assisted, broker-based cache that can be utilized to reduce a volume of data (e.g., network traffic) delivered between a publisher and broker in a publication/subscription (pub/sub) environment. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, when a message is being generated on a publisher system, the publisher system will determine if the message includes a set of data that has a potential to be repeated in subsequent messages. Once such a set of data has been identified, the set of data will be associated/marked/tagged (e.g., in the message) with a unique identifier/cache key corresponding thereto (i.e., to yield a modified message). The modified message will be sent to a broker system, which will detect/locate the unique identifier, cache the corresponding data, and send the message along to any applicable subscriber systems. When a subsequent message that is supposed to contain the cached set of data is generated, the publisher system will instead substitute the unique identifier for the set of data to yield an abbreviated message and send the abbreviated message to the broker system. Upon receipt, the broker system will detect/locate the unique identifier, retrieve the corresponding set of data from the cache, replace the unique identifier with the set of data to yield a completed message, and then send the completed message to the applicable subscriber systems. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215860 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING, MAPPING AND STRUCTURING DATA FROM DISPARATE SYSTEMS IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for receiving, mapping and structuring data from disparate systems in a healthcare environment are described. An example computer-implemented method of receiving data input associated with different versions of healthcare message structures includes receiving first data in a first format through a single service interface. One or more fields of the first data is not supported by at least one of the different versions of the healthcare message structures. The example method also includes receiving second data in a second format through the single service interface. One or more fields of the second data is not supported by at least one of the different versions of the healthcare message structures. The single service interface enables the receipt of the first data and the second data to minimize a number of interface end points. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215861 | Spam Filtering and Person Profiles - Systems and methods to reduce false positives in spam filtering. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing e-mails. Messages flagged as spam can be checked against the profile to identify false positives. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215862 | SPAM REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for spam detection within electronic messages transported over a communication network. One embodiment is a spam center that connects to multiple entities of a communication network that handle electronic messages, such as text messages. The spam center receives spam reports from the entities that detect spam in prior electronic messages, analyzes the spam reports to generate spam filtering rules based on the spam detected in the prior electronic messages. The spam center then distributes the spam filtering rules to one or more of the entities. The entities may then use to spam filtering rules to filter spam out of electronic messages that subsequently received. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215863 | DEDICATED MESSAGE CHANNEL - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing secure, dedicated, one-to-one communication between content providers and interested participants. In embodiments, a dedicated message channel platform may provide content generators with the ability to send recipient-specific messages to recipients, such as by using a dedicated message application installed on communication device under control of the recipient, such as a smartphone. The dedicated message channel may also be used to facilitate communication between a third party and a message recipient through a content generator facilitating the third-party communication. In embodiments, messages may be used for communications between a physician and a pharmaceutical sales representative. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215864 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A document management apparatus according to the present invention performs storing, in response to a document registration request from an information processing apparatus, a document entity of the document, acquiring document information of the document, and storing data of a type determined based on the acquired document information, as a preview-image document of the document, and determining, upon reception of an acquisition request for the preview-image document from the information processing apparatus, whether the preview-image document stored in the preview-image document storage unit or the document entity stored in the document entity storage unit is to be transmitted based on a state of the document management apparatus, and transmitting data determined to be transmitted. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215865 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTING SOCIAL NETWORKS - An online community bridges two or more different client social networks and includes users of the client social networks and, optionally, one or more users who are not included in the client social networks. The online community provides an area for micro-blogging to be shared between its users while enforcing a separation between it and the client social networks and maintaining the original separation between the client social networks. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215866 | Automatic Grouping of Electronic Mail - Automatic sorting and grouping of electronic mail items in an electronic mail system is provided. An automatic mail grouping property may be selected for electronic mail received, sent or stored in a variety of storage folders. For a given mail location (e.g., received mail, sent mail, or a given mail storage folder), a selected automatic grouping property causes mail to be displayed to a user in one or more categories that make location of specific mail items easier and more efficient. Visible dividers with optional headings may be provided between mail categories to quickly draw a user's attention to a given mail category and to separate large numbers of mail into logical groupings that make location of specific mail items more manageable. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215867 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED ON VARIOUS COMMUNICATION MODES FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO USERS - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and an end user or a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device which is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device by an end user to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215868 | PERSONALIZED ELECTRONIC-MAIL DELIVERY - Personalized electronic-mail delivery is disclosed. The content of incoming electronic-mail messages is identified. Determinations may be made with respect to whether the content of the incoming electronic-mail messages corresponds to a user profile. The user profile may indicate one or more user preferences of a particular user with respect to incoming electronic-mail messages. If the incoming electronic-mail messages correspond to the one or more user preferences indicated in the user profile, the electronic-mail messages may be delivered to an electronic-mail server. The electronic-mail messages may then be displayed to the user via a list of electronic-mail messages reflective of those messages that are stored at the electronic-mail server and accessible to the end-user. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215869 | Multimedia Message Transmission Method and Apparatus Thereof, and Domain Name Server - The present invention discloses a multimedia message transmitting method, a multimedia message transmitting device, and a domain name system server. The method includes: the multimedia message transmitting device transmitting a multimedia message transmitting request to the domain name system server after receiving multimedia message submitted by a multimedia message transmitting party; and receiving identification information of multimedia message centers returned by the domain name system server, wherein the identification information is identification information of a multimedia message center selected by the domain name system server from various multimedia message centers after receiving the transmitting request; and the multimedia message transmitting device transmitting the received multimedia message to the multimedia message center identified by the received identification information. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215870 | Method and System for Implementing Time Processing of Message - A method and a system for implementing time processing of a message are provided in the present invention. The method includes: when determining that the time information in the received message needs to be processed according to a customized mode, performing the time conversion on the message according to the customized mode; distributing the message after the time conversion. The time information in the message can be processed according to the customized mode, thereby enabling the message, based on the actual requirements of the user terminal, to be displayed in manner of flexible time format, avoiding a confusion of the message time for the user and ensuring a better development of user message services. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215871 | INSTANT MESSAGING ROBOT TO PROVIDE PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215872 | CRITERIA-BASED MESSAGE PUBLICATION CONTROL AND FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215873 | FAILURE-CONTROLLED MESSAGE PUBLICATION AND FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF MASTER/SLAVE DEVICES ON A NETWORK - A people counting system and method for the automatic reconfiguration of a failed people counting sensor device in a people counting system. The system includes a plurality of addressable people counting sensor devices defining a cluster having a master device in communication with at least one slave device, each of the master device and the slave devices having a corresponding Media Access Control (“MAC”) address. The master device is adapted to sequentially transmit power-on commands to each of the slave devices, assign a different node address to each of the slave devices, receive an association of the MAC address of the master device to the node address and MAC address of each of the slave devices to form a cluster configuration, store the cluster configuration as a cluster configuration table, and replicate the cluster configuration table to the slave devices. A dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server assigns an IP public address to the master device. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215875 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK NODES, METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPUTER NETWORK AND COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention relates to a control device for controlling a plurality of network nodes of a computer network, comprising a master computing means for controlling the network nodes in accordance with a program, which master computing means assigns at least one program to each network node, comprising a control logic which is configured to group the network nodes in accordance with the programs assigned to these network nodes in each case and to transmit the same program in parallel to those network nodes of the same group which have been assigned this same program by the master computing means. The invention further relates to a method for operating a computer network and to a computer network. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215876 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system includes a master node and a plurality of cluster nodes managed by the master node, and stores a node list having set a transfer sequence of the request information sent from the master node to the cluster nodes. The cluster nodes accept the request information to transfer the same to the next transfer destinations according to the node list or to the master node if the next transfer destinations do not exist. The master node sends the request information to one of the cluster nodes according to the node list, and divides the plurality of cluster nodes into a cluster node group positioned under the management of the master node and another cluster node group positioned under the management of a predetermined cluster node according to the time interval after sending the request information until receiving the request information from other cluster nodes. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215877 | DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL MANAGEMENT OF A DISTRIBUTED CACHING INFRASTRUCTURE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the dynamic structural management of an n-Tier distributed caching infrastructure. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of dynamic structural management of an n-Tier distributed caching infrastructure includes establishing a communicative connection to a plurality of cache servers arranged in respective tier nodes in an n-Tier cache, collecting performance metrics for each of the cache servers in the respective tier nodes of the n-Tier cache, identifying a characteristic of a specific cache resource in a corresponding one of the tier nodes of the n-Tier crossing a threshold, and dynamically structuring a set of cache resources including the specific cache resource to account for the identified characteristic. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215878 | CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CDP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via CDP components such as discovery and gurus into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the CDP may provide facilities for obtaining a universally resolvable list of content items on a local client and identifying a non-local item from the list that is absent on the local client. The CDP may generate a local cache request for the identified non-local item having an associated universally resolvable content identifier and transmit the generated local cache request to a universally resolvable content server. The CDP may then receive, in response to the transmitted request, a universally resolvable content item corresponding to the local cache request and may mark the requested item as temporary and locally available upon receiving the content item. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215879 | Generating A Graphical Representation Of A User - Methods and apparatus are described for generating an online graphical representation of a user. For example, a method includes receiving, at a layering module, a request for an online graphical representation of a user, the request comprising indicia of a first asset and a second asset, the first asset and the second asset collectively providing an online graphical representation of the user; retrieving, with the layering module, a first file associated with the first asset and a second file associated with the second asset from an asset repository based on the indicia, the asset repository storing a plurality of files associated with assets including the first file and the second file; and compositing, with the layering module, the first and second file to form a first image being the online graphical representation of the user. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215880 | FORWARDING DATA FROM SERVER TO DEVICE - Various embodiments of systems and methods for forwarding data from a continuation server to handheld devices are disclosed. At the continuation server, protocol connections established from the handheld devices is received. A stack is created on the continuation server, which stores a status of each protocol connection received. The status indicates an availability of the protocol connection between the corresponding handheld device and the continuation server. The connectivity between the continuation server and the handheld device is maintained. Once a data notification is received by the continuation server, the stack is invoked to retrieve the status of each protocol connection. The data notification may include an availability of data to be downloaded to the handheld devices. Based upon the availability of the protocol connections between the continuation server and the handheld devices, the data notification and the available data are forwarded from the continuation server to the corresponding handheld devices. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215881 | PARTITIONING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each other over one or more channels. For communicating the data, the present invention separates data communications on a channel from that of other channels. More specifically, each node runs under the control of a separation kernel (SK) that partitions the nodes to define the subjects according to an SK configuration data. A partitioning communication system (PCS) separates the communications channels according to a PCS configuration data. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215882 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, MANAGEMENT STORAGE DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSISTORY CONTENT MANAGEMENT COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A content management method, apparatus and computer program product cooperate to transmit from a management storage device a connection list request that requests a list of connection contents stored in a connection storage device connected to the management storage device via a public network to the connection storage device. A connection storage device receives the connection list request, and transmits the list of connection contents. The management storage device receives and arranges the list of connection contents, and converts a protocol corresponding to the connection storage device into a protocol corresponding to a local device, and transmits a consolidated content list to the local device. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215883 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A document management apparatus delivers a to-be-delivered document to a delivery destination and collects information about browsing history of the document. The document management apparatus includes: a delivery-pattern determining unit; a delivery-information generating unit; a document delivery unit that delivers the document by transmitting the information of the delivery pattern to a network address of the delivery destination; and a browsing-history management unit that acquires information about browsing history. The delivery-pattern determining unit, when the type of the device is a type not adapted to a function of collecting information about browsing history, determines that a pattern for delivering a program for implementing collection of the information about browsing history together with the document as the delivery pattern. Otherwise, the delivery-information generating unit generates associating information that associates the document with the program such that the program is to be executed when the document is browsed. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215884 | MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A medical-information management system, connected via a network to multiple servers including medical-information memories storing medical information, which manages the medical information by distributing the medical information of multiple medical facilities to the multiple servers, comprises operating-time-information memory, operational-status analysis part, and medical-information transmission part. The operating-time-information memory stores respective operating times of each of multiple servers. The management-information memory stores management information indicating servers in which the medical information is stored. The operational-status analysis part provides notification of other servers other than a first server based on information indicating operating times. The medical-information transmission part determines a second server for temporarily saving the medical information from among the notified other servers, and transmits the medical information to the second server. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DATA - A data sharing system includes at least one first client device, at least one second client device, and a hub equipment. The at least one first client device provides data. The at least one second client device receives data. The hub equipment receives data from the first client device using a first transmission protocol, and transmits the received data to the second client device using a second transmission protocol. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215886 | MANAGEMENT OF BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN A NETWORK SERVER - A server is configured to transfer information to a plurality of client devices in accordance with bandwidth-limiting and bandwidth-adjustment techniques. Bandwidth may be reduced based on an amount of data previously transferred to a client device (e.g., within a prior time period). Bandwidth may also be reduced based on variable input parameters such as file size, data type, server load, network response time, and number of transfer requests from a client device within a prior period of time. In some embodiments, bandwidth may be reduced by inserting delays between portions of data being transmitted. A length of a delay period may be determined based on the various factors above (amount of previous data transfer(s), file size, etc.). Bandwidth to a client device may also be adjusted dynamically. In some embodiments, bandwidth may be increased (rather than decreased). | 2012-08-23 |
20120215887 | SECURE DELIVERY OF FLASH CONTENT OVER NETWORKS - A method for securing delivery of flash content over a network includes rewriting flash content action code capable of making a network request for flash content to redirect network communication associated with the flash content to a network device. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215888 | INTERFACING DISTINCT SERVICES FOR PROVIDING WEB BASED DOCUMENT MANIPULATION ACCESS - According to some embodiments, a callback interface for web accessible services is provided. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or similar address is issued by a host associated service to the user. User's browser provides the URL to an activity service, which on the user's behalf contacts the host service indicated by the URL and supporting the callback interface. The activity service then facilitates the user's requests on documents maintained by the host service through stateless calls to the host service providing web accessible services such as document manipulation, image processing, and similar ones. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215889 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTENT DATA RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed is a communication terminal device whereby a user's perception of a wait time can be lessened while missing data portions are downloaded, and whereby the user becomes irritated less. In this device, a broadcast wave receiver ( | 2012-08-23 |
20120215890 | NETWORK-AWARE STRUCTURED CONTENT DOWNLOADS - A request for content is received at a content server via a first network connection from a client device. The content includes a set of portions represented within a root document. Based upon a download constraint of at least one portion of the content and a network characteristic of the first network connection, at least one portion of the content is deferred for download over a network connection other than the first network connection. The content is sent with each deferred portion of the content replaced with a content stub within the root document. Each content stub identifies the respective portion of the content as a deferred portion of the content and includes a content identifier of the respective deferred portion of the content. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215891 | Port-independent topologically planned real-time network - For an industrial network, for example a PROFInet IRT net for a motion control or in general a network with an isochronous time structure for transmitting time-critical data, it is the object according to the invention to considerably simplify the handling during installation or during maintenance and device replacement. For this purpose, a port-independent, topologically predefined real time network is introduced which provides the compliance with the at least similar safety standard as the PROFInet IRT while dispensing with the (target) specification of a network interface being used. The apparatus according to the invention is illustrated. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CUSTOMIZE DNS REPLIES BASED ON CONNECTION IDENTITY - A highly advantageous domain name system and method are disclosed for receiving and replying to queries for information associated with at least one Internet connected domain in which replies to queries are based at least in part on the identity of the querying entity. | 2012-08-23 |
20120215893 | Characterizing and Selecting Providers of Relevant Information Based on Quality of Information Metrics - Mechanisms for selecting data providers to provide input data to an application are provided. A desired region and desired quality of information (QoI) function for the desired region are defined. The desired region is a region for which a condition is to be analyzed by the application. One or more provider regions and one or more QoI functions associated with the one or more provider regions are retrieved. A relevancy level between the one or more provider regions and the desired region is calculated based on the desired QoI function for the desired region and the QoI functions associated with the one or more provider regions. One or more data providers for providing input data to the application are selected based on the calculated relevancy level. | 2012-08-23 |