46th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140337386 | INTERNAL FOLDER SHARING - A method and system of sharing a folder in a file system between an owner and a grantee is provided. An indication of a folder to share with a grantee may be received from the owner. The folder to share may be a subfolder within a parent folder, the parent folder not shared with the grantee. Then, sharing permissions indicating a level of access the grantee has to the folder may be stored with the folder. A virtual folder corresponding to the folder to share may be created on a device of the grantee. The virtual folder maps to all objects within the folder to share and may be stored at a level equal to parent folders of a file hierarchy on device of the grantee. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337387 | Content Search Mechanism That Uses A Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) Graph, A DFA State Machine, And A Walker Process - An improved content search mechanism uses a graph that includes intelligent nodes avoids the overhead of post processing and improves the overall performance of a content processing application. An intelligent node is similar to a node in a DFA graph but includes a command. The command in the intelligent node allows additional state for the node to be generated and checked. This additional state allows the content search mechanism to traverse the same node with two different interpretations. By generating state for the node, the graph of nodes does not become exponential. It also allows a user function to be called upon reaching a node, which can perform any desired user tasks, including modifying the input data or position. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337388 | ENHANCED DATA CONTAINER WITH EXTENSIBLE CHARACTERISTICS AND A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION OF SAME - A variety of tools and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing an enhanced data container. The enhanced data container is comprised of extensible characteristics that when processed interact with a variety of computing devices and computing device components. The enhanced data container is communicated to a variety of computing devices in varying ways and processing of the enhanced data container is coupled with additional systems to manage the enhanced data container by as controlling the number of instances in a system, assigning virtual or real monetary value to instances, assign unique identifiers to instances, and allowing the enhanced data container to be modified by inputs and rendered or transmitted to outputs of computing devices. These technologies bring additional functionality and levels of interaction to data in consumer and business applications. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337389 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCHEDULING TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTINUATION THREAD BLOCKS - A system, method, and computer program product for scheduling tasks associated with continuation thread blocks. The method includes the steps of generating a first task metadata data structure in a memory, generating a second task metadata data structure in the memory, executing a first task corresponding to the first task metadata data structure in a processor, generating state information representing a continuation task related to the first task and storing the state information in the second task metadata data structure, executing the continuation task in the processor after the one or more child tasks have finished execution, and indicating that the first task has logically finished execution once the continuation task has finished execution. The second task metadata data structure is related to the first task metadata data structure, and at least one instruction in the first task causes one or more child tasks to be executed by the processor. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337390 | SPACE-TIME-NODE ENGINE SIGNAL STRUCTURE - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices or platforms to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations associated with a space-time-node engine signal structure. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337391 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA PLANE ABSTRACTION TO ENABLE A NETWORK STORAGE PLATFORM ECOSYSTEM - A method for network storage by receiving, by a storage compiler, a first storage definition from a storage application developer, where the first storage definition describes a customized storage implementation for storing data in an abstraction of at least one physical storage device, compiling the first storage definition to generate a first customized storage implementation module, and loading the first customized storage implementation module into an IO engine. The first customized storage implementation module causes data to be stored in the at least one physical storage device differently than prior to loading the first customized storage implementation module in the IO engine. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337392 | FLEXIBLE PARTITIONING OF DATA - Disclosed are various embodiments of a flexible application-level partitioning scheme for data storage components. A data store is accessible by one or more computing devices and includes multiple partitions. One of the partitions is identified by mapping a key value of a data item to one of the partitions according to one of multiple versions of mapping metadata. Each of the versions of mapping metadata specifies a respective list of some or all of the partitions and an approach for mapping the key value to one of the partitions. The data item is inserted into the identified partition. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337393 | TRANSACTION ORDERING - Nodes of a database service may receive a read request to perform a read of a record stored by the database service and a transaction request to perform a transaction to the record. First and second indications of time may be associated with the read and transaction, respectively. A potential read anomaly (e.g., fuzzy read, read skew, etc.) may be detected based, at least in part, on a determination that the first indication of time is within a threshold value of the second indication of time. In response to detecting the potential read anomaly, the read may be performed after the transaction specified by the transaction request, regardless of whether the first indication of time is indicative of an earlier point in time than the second indication of time. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337394 | DISPERSED STORAGE WITH PARTIAL DATA OBJECT STORAGE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A first section of the data object is received that contains less than a full amount of the data object. A processing module of a distributed storage (DS) processing unit determines that communication of the data object has been interrupted and whether to store the first section of the data object. The first section of the data object is stored in a DS network when determined to store the first section of the data object. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337395 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR - According to one embodiment, semiconductor memory device and a random number generator includes A semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor memory | 2014-11-13 |
20140337396 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A TRANSFORM BETWEEN SPATIAL AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS WHEN PROCESSING VIDEO DATA - A data processing apparatus and method are provided for performing a transform between spatial and frequency domains when processing video data. The data processing apparatus comprises transform circuitry configured to receive N input values and to perform a sequence of operations to generate N output values representing the transform of the N input values between the spatial and frequency domains. In doing this, the transform circuitry employs a base circuitry that is configured to receive M internal input values generated by the transform circuitry, where M is greater than or equal to 4, and to perform a base operation equivalent to matrix multiplication of the M internal input values by a Hankel matrix, which is a square matrix with constant skew diagonals, where each element of the array identifies a coefficient, performance of the base operation generating M internal output values for returning to the transform circuitry. The transform circuitry is arranged during performance of the sequence of operations to generate from the N input values multiple sets of the M internal input values, to provide each set of M internal input values to the base circuitry in order to cause multiple sets of the M internal output values to be produced, and to derive the N output values from the multiple sets of M internal output values. It has been found that such an approach is scalable to accommodate varying sizes of N, results in a significant reduction in the number of multiplications required in order to perform the transform between the spatial and frequency domains of the N input values, and produces a bit exact result. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337397 | Generating a Signal - A method for generating a signal for a transmission antenna in a magnetic resonance imaging system includes generating a real part and an imaginary part of a baseband signal, generating a real part and an imaginary part of variations in frequency and in phase, and performing a complex multiplication of the baseband signal with the variations in frequency and in phase and a radiofrequency carrier signal for modulation. The method also includes modifying the modulated signal, and may include establishing a characteristic angle for a phase shift of the modified signal, and correcting the modulation based on the established angle in a closed-loop control. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337398 | INCLUSIVE OR BIT MATRIX TO COMPARE MULTIPLE CORRESPONDING SUBFIELDS - A computer system is operable to identify subfields that differ in two data elements using a bit matrix compare function between a first matrix filled with pattern elements and a reference pattern. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337399 | METHOD OF GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS III - A system and method of generating uniform and independent random numbers is given by comprising two distinct odd primes that give an odd integer and an even integer, together with by taking an integer exponent and an integer exponent, by forming the composite modulus by taking a primitive root modulo and a primitive modulo and giving the multiplier modulo by either the system of congruence relations, any of which determines the multiplier modulo uniquely, by taking an initial value coprime. The method generates the sequence of integers by recursive congruence relations and gives an output of uniform and independent random numbers. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337400 | INTEGRATED QUANTUM-RANDOM NOISE GENERATOR USING QUANTUM VACUUM STATES OF LIGHT - An integrated quantum random noise source includes a substrate, an optical oscillator that may be integral to the substrate coupled by an optical waveguide to an optical directional coupler. The optical directional coupler has two outputs that are coupled by optical waveguides to a pair of photodetectors that are part of a balanced photodetector. The balanced photodetector in response outputs an analogue signal proportional to the difference in photocurrents of the two photodetectors. The analogue output signal from the balanced photodetector is a random Gaussian-distributed signal representative of quadrature measurements on the quantum vacuum state of light. The random noise source can be coupled other apparatus to provide a source of random bits. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337401 | DATA ACCESS METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL FFT COMPUTATION - The present disclosure provides A data access method and device for parallel FFT computation. In the method, FFT data and twiddle factors are stored in multi-granularity parallel memories, and divided into groups throughout the computation flow according to a uniform butterfly representation. Each group of data involves multiple butterflies that support parallel computation. Meanwhile, according to the butterfly representation, it is convenient to generate data address and twiddle factor coefficient address for each group. With different R/W granularities, it is possible to read/write data and corresponding twiddle factors in parallel from the multi-granularity memories. The method and device further provide data access devices for parallel FFT computation. In the method and device, no conflict will occur during read/write operations of memories, and no extract step is required for sorting the read/written data. Further, the method and device can flexibly define the parallel granularity according to particular applications. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337402 | Analysis Computation Method, Analysis Computation Program and Recording Medium - A method for efficiently carrying out an analysis and computation using mesh structures is disclosed. When an insulator is brought into contact with two conductors, the mesh structures are generated and a displacement current is analyzed. In the generated structures, the insulator is considered a three-dimensional mesh structure and at least a portion of the conductor brought into contact with the insulator is considered a three-dimensional structure whereas the other portions are taken as a one- or two-dimensional structures. In an alternative, the insulator is considered a three-dimensional structure and at least a portion of the conductor brought into contact with the insulator is considered a three-dimensional structure whereas the other portions are considered three- to one-dimensional structures. In the conductor, a short-circuit section with no mesh elements is provided between at least a portion brought into contact with the insulator and the other portions. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337403 | COMPUTING DEVICE, COMPUTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a computing device includes an input unit and a power computing unit. The input unit is configured to input, in a form of vector representation, an element of an algebraic torus selected from elements of an M-th (M is an integer of 2 or greater) degree extension field obtained by extending a finite filed by an M-th order polynomial. The power computing unit is configured to compute an N-th (N is an integer of 2 or greater) power of the input element of the algebraic torus, computing the N-th power being performed on the basis of an arithmetic expression for computing the N-th power of an element of the M-th degree extension field expressed in the form of vector representation, and the arithmetic expression being satisfied when the element of the M-th degree extension field satisfies a condition for an element of the algebraic torus. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS POINTS - A method for providing a dynamic system-generated set of access points to a user including determining at least one web application or one web page to include within a set of access points according to a set of criteria, generating an access point for the determined web application or one web page, adding the generated access point to the set of access points such that the set of access points includes at least one access point corresponding to a web page and at least one access point corresponding to a web application and providing the set of access points for display to a user in a first page of a web browser. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - An approach is provided for asynchronous distribution of content and notifications of updates to a client. A proxy server causes an establishment of at least one communication connection between at least one proxy client, at least one proxy server, and/or at least one service provider. The proxy server determines one or more updated content items available to the at least one proxy client. The proxy server causes a transmission of the one or more updated content items, one or more notifications regarding the one or more updated content items, or a combination thereof via the at least one communication connection. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337406 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION OF USER PROFILE INFORMATION TO A WEB SERVER - A method and apparatus for the automatic transmission of user profile information to a web server are disclosed. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337407 | NFS STORAGE VIA MULTIPLE ONE-WAY DATA LINKS - A system for bilaterally transferring information between a client and an NFS server. The client is coupled with an NFS server proxy running on a second receive server via a first network and communicates thereon. The processed first information is passed to a first send server via a dedicated network connection. The first send server causes the first information to be transmitted to the NFS server, via a first one-way data link, a first receive server, a second dedicated network connection and an NFS client proxy running on a second send server. The NFS server is coupled to the NFS client proxy via a second network. The NFS client proxy forwards information received from the NFS server to the client via a second one-way link, the NFS server proxy running on the second receive server and the first network. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337408 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR MINIMIZING DATA DOWNLOADS - Systems, methods and media are provided for minimizing data downloads. One method includes providing a virtual view of a list of files remotely stored in a cloud storage server. The method also includes detecting a user request for file data associated with a file selected from the virtual view and inspecting a local cache associated with the selected file to determine whether the requested file data already exists in the cache. The method further includes displaying the file data from the cache when it is determined that the cache already includes the file data. When it is determined that the cache does not include the file data, the method also includes generating a client request for the file data, sending it to the server, receiving the requested file data from the server, updating the cache using the file data received from the server; and displaying the requested file data. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337409 | ONLINE DATA MANAGEMENT - Technologies are generally described for a data management scheme. In some examples, a method may include displaying, by a client device, a representation of a data item received from a server; transmitting, by the client device, to the server, a request to access the data item and information regarding the request to access, in response to a user input; updating, by the server, the representation of the data item to further include the information regarding the request to access; and displaying, by the client device, the updated representation of the data item received from the server. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337410 | ENTERPRISE CROSS-DOMAIN SOLUTION HAVING CONFIGURABLE DATA FILTERS - A cross-domain system for transferring files from a client to a server. A first server in the first network domain receives and stores files from the client via the first network. The received files are processed based on predetermined instructions stored in an associated file. The processed received files are transmitted to a second server via a one-way data link. The second server in the second network domain receives and stores the processed received files. The received files are further processed based on predetermined instructions stored in an associated file. The further processed received files are transmitted to the server via the second network. The two associated files are stored in permanent memory with security policies which prevent the files from disrupting operation of the first and second servers, respectively. The security policies allow the associated files to be overwritten to update the processing performed by the associated server. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337411 | PROXY FOR FACILITATING STREAMING OF MEDIA FROM SERVER TO CLIENT - A method for preparing streaming media content to be rendered by a media player employs a proxy for the media player. The proxy sends a request over a network to a content server. In response, a rolling manifest file is received by the proxy. The manifest file includes a sequence of media segment URLs indicating an ordering of the media segments that create a representation of a portion of the content stream. The URLs follow a predefined naming convention that allows URLs occurring prior to and subsequent to the URLs included in the manifest file to be predicted. The proxy predicts additional URLs that occur prior to and/or subsequent to the URLs included in the manifest file. The manifest file is modified by inserting the additional media segment URLs into the manifest file. The additional URLs are sequentially located before or after the URLs included in the manifest file. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337412 | CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD AND DEVICE - A content reproduction device includes: a communicator that requests a server for recommended content information, and receives from the server the recommended content information as a response to the request; a controller that is configured to select content based on the received recommended content information; and a display that outputs the selected content, wherein the recommended content information is information for selecting the content according to a viewing information. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337413 | RELAYING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, RELAYING DEVICE AND SERVICE SERVER - A relaying device may comprise a network interface configured to connect with a network; a processor coupled to the network interface; and a memory configured to store tagging rule information and instructions. The tagging rule information may concern a tagging rule relating to tag information for a service server capable of storing at least one tag information in association with stored contents data. The relaying may receive designated tag information designated by an image processing device. The relaying device may determine whether the received designated tag information conforms to the tagging rule. Only when it is determined that the received designated tag information does not conform to the tagging rule, the relaying may convert the received designated tag information into converted tag information. The converted tag information may conform to the tagging rule. The relaying may transmit, via the network interface, the converted tag information to the service server. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337414 | DYNAMIC RENDERING FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dynamic rendering for hybrid apps. One of the methods includes receiving user input navigating to a first view of an application; determining, using a navigation hierarchy stored on the mobile device, to render the first view using a native rendering engine native to the mobile device; receiving an update to the navigation hierarchy from a server; after receiving the update, receiving user input navigating to the first view; and determining, using the update to the navigation hierarchy from the server, to render the first view using an open rendering engine that is not native to the mobile device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337415 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - Roles of communication apparatuses in a service executed by the communication apparatuses and roles of the communication apparatuses in a layer different from a layer corresponding to the service are efficiently controlled. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337416 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - The invention relates to an image processing system in which a client apparatus transmits RAW image data to a server apparatus, receives a result developed by the server apparatus, and displays onto a display area. The client apparatus reduces the RAW image data to a size suitable to display, transmits to the server apparatus, and requests a development processing. At this time, the client apparatus also starts a transmission processing of original RAW image data to the server apparatus. While making adjustment of the development processing to reduced RAW image data, the client apparatus and the server apparatus also execute a transmission and reception processing of the original RAW image data in parallel therewith. After the development processing of the reduced RAW image data, if there is a request from the client apparatus, the server apparatus also executes the development processing of the original RAW image data in a manner similar to the reduced RAW image data. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SERVER LOAD BALANCING BY USING THE RESULT OF HASH FUNCTION - For load balancing of a plurality of servers, a server load balancing apparatus selects a hash source from a uniform resource locator (URL) input from a client, and applies a predetermined hash function to the hash source. The server load balancing apparatus selects a server from among the plurality of servers according to a hash value based on the hash result of the hash function application. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337418 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An information providing system includes: a server device that is communicably connected to an external server device, the external server device accumulating review management information that includes review information that indicates a review of a piece of content by a first user and first identification information that corresponds to the first user and providing a first service that includes a browsing service that makes the review of the piece of content by the first user browsable, the server device providing a second service to each second user; and a terminal device that the second user operates. Upon receiving a request from the terminal device, the server device acquires and sends, to the terminal device, review management information regarding a piece of content based on a favorite piece of content that has been registered beforehand with the external server device by the user. The terminal device controls a screen display based on the received review management information. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337419 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM A SOCIAL GRAPH - A method, system and article of manufacture for determining a global hierarchy of an entity by computing subjective coherence strength between nodes of first members of a social network service, computing objective entanglement strength between nodes of second members of the social network service, using subjective coherence strength and objective entanglement strength, compute the pairwise latent relationship probabilities between different ones of the nodes of the social network service, and using the pairwise relationship probabilities, compute the global hierarchy relationship. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337420 | System and Method for Recording Music Which Allows Asynchronous Collaboration over the Internet - A system for recording music is disclosed. The system for recording music comprises an audio plug-in, wherein the plug-in is configured to be incorporated to a computer having a digital audio workstation, wherein the plug-in allows for asynchronous collaboration of a plurality of audio files recorded by a plurality of collaborators, wherein the audio files are transmitted and received among the plurality of collaborators via the Internet. A method for recording music is additionally disclosed. The method for recording music comprises the following steps: (a) uploading a plug-in to a computer having a digital audio workstation, wherein the plug-in allows for asynchronous collaboration of a plurality of audio files recorded by a plurality of collaborators, wherein the audio files are transmitted and received among the plurality of collaborators via the Internet; (b) recording a first audio file on digital audio workstation; (c) submitting the audio file to at least one collaborator via the Internet; (d) receiving a second audio file via the Internet; and (e) incorporating the second audio file into the digital audio workstation. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337421 | QUERY-DRIVEN VIRTUAL SOCIAL NETWORK GROUP - Embodiments relate to implementing a query-driven virtual social media network group. An aspect includes providing, through a social media network, a search function option incorporated into a user interface that is configured for access by a user of the social media network. Another aspect includes receiving, at the social media network, a query from the user through the search function option of the user interface and searching a database of user profiles and content history for information that satisfies the query. The user profiles and the content history include content received from users as members of the social media network. A further aspect includes creating a virtual social media network group from results of the searching and providing access to a view of the virtual social media network group via the user interface for the user. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337422 | ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING METHODS - Electronic conferences for a large number of attendees may be facilitated by a preliminary greeting employing live greeters. Such preconferences allow a conference to begin contemporaneously for all attendees while providing early arrivals with introductory information, thus filling what would otherwise be a vacuous wait. Preferred embodiments for these conferences use outbound initiation: initiating contact with potential attendees. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337423 | LIVE GREETERS FOR ELECTRONIC PRESENTATIONS - Live greeters are employed for proceedings prior to electronic presentations. Using multiple live greeters affords handling a large number of attendees who respond at different times to outbound initiation. Greeters are rotated so as to optimize responsiveness to attendees. Preconferencing with live greeters allows an electronic presentation to begin contemporaneously for all attendees while providing early arrivals with introductory information, thus filling what would otherwise be a vacuous wait. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337424 | Authorizing Push Notifications for Websites - In some implementations, a website can be certified by a push notification service operator to send push notifications to user devices. A web browser on the user's device can communicate with the website to advertise the user device's ability to receive push notifications. The website can provide to the web browser a certificate indicating that the website is authorized to utilize the push notification service. If the certificate is valid and has not been revoked, the browser can prompt the user to allow push notifications from the website. If the user authorizes push notifications, a device token can be provided to the website that allows the website to send push notifications to the user device through the push notification service. In some implementations, the web browser can be configured to provide websites access to APIs for accessing information stored on a user device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337425 | MODIFYING A SOCIAL GRAPH BASED ON LANGUAGE PREFERENCE - Social networking applications may provide an enhanced user experience by considering information regarding the language preference of a user as well as other signals. According to the implementations disclosed herein, one or more signals may be utilized to determine the language in which content may be displayed to a user of a social networking application or website. A first language preference for a user may be determined based on at least one signal. A second language preference may be determined for a social graph component of the social networking application based on at least one signal. The first language preference may be compared to the second language preference and a weighted value may be assigned to the social graph component. The social graph component of the social networking application may be presented based upon the weighted value assigned to the social graph component. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337426 | USE OF HANDHELD DEVICES (PHONES/TABLETS) AS SPEAKERS TO MAKE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO CONFIGURATION OVER WI-FI - An approach is provided for managing multichannel playback of audio data over a wireless network. In one example, a host device determines one or more client devices that are eligible to receive a transmission of the audio data over a wireless network from the host device for playback of the audio data. The host device displays the one or more client devices that are eligible. The host device receives a selection of at least one of the client devices. The host device establishes a connection to each of the selected client devices for the host device to transmit at least one channel of the audio data to each of the selected client devices over the wireless network. The host device displays a map of positions of the connected client devices. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337427 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING ELECTRONIC CONTENTS - A system according to an embodiment recommends, to users, electronic contents which can be enjoyed together with other users. The system includes: a service provision control unit for controlling provision of services; an information storage unit for storing information; a selection unit for selecting, from a plurality of games, recommended games to be recommended to a user and selecting, from a plurality of users, one or more introduction users to be introduced to the user as users using the recommended games; a screen setting unit for setting the screen data of a content recommendation screen; a sending unit for sending the screen data of the content recommendation screen to the terminal device; and a reward providing unit for providing a reward to the user or the introduction users. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337428 | FACILITATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - Embodiments relate to facilitating social interactions. An aspect includes determining that a first communications device is in communicative contact with a second communications device, identifying at least one artifact relating to a user of the first communications device, and searching at least one database for information about a user of the second communications device that is in common with the user of the first communications device with respect to the artifact. Also, results of the searching are provided as a topic of conversation to the first communications device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337429 | INDUSTRIAL DATA ANALYTICS IN A CLOUD PLATFORM - Cloud-aware industrial devices feed robust sets of data to a cloud-based data analyzer that executes as a service in a cloud platform. In addition to industrial data generated or collected by the industrial devices, the devices can provide device profile information to the cloud-based analyzer that identifies the device and relevant configuration information. The industrial devices can also provide customer data identifying an owner of the industrial devices, contact information for the owner, active service contracts, etc. The cloud-based data analyzer leverages this information to perform a variety of custom analytics on the data and generate reports or notifications catered to the particular industrial assets' optimal performance and business goals of the owner's industrial enterprise, as well as perform real-time decision making and control. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337430 | METHOD FOR CONTENT TRANSMISSION USING SOCIAL INFORMATION - A method for efficiently transmitting contents on a network is provided. The content transmission method using social information, includes: requesting content registration and social information of a user; allocating, by a social information management node, a multicast address to be used in content transmission based on the content registration information and social information received from a social service provider; transmitting the allocated multicast address to a first access control node to which a first user terminal is connected so as to set the first access control node as a multicast source, in response to a request of the first access control node; and transmitting a response message to a second access control node for setting a multicast transmission path for content transmission between the first access control node and the second access control node when there is a sharing request of the second access control node. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337431 | Method and Apparatus To Enable Converged Infrastructure True Elastic Function - Method and Apparatus to enable converged infrastructure true elastic function are disclosed by analysis of capacity of workload and application components across public and private data centers and clouds; assessment of available infrastructure components across the data centers and clouds; comparison of capacity with availability; real time roll out and orchestration of application components across data centers public or private within allowed threshold bringing about true elastic behavior; and rapid configurations of all needed infrastructure components. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337432 | NETWORK-ASSISTED PEER DISCOVERY - Techniques for performing network-assisted peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are described. In one design, a device registers with a network entity (e.g., a directory agent) so that the presence of the device and possibly other information about the device can be made known to the network entity. The network entity collects similar information from other devices. The device sends a request to the network entity, e.g., during or after registration. The request includes information used to match the device with other devices, e.g., information about service(s) provided by the device and/or service(s) requested by the device. The directory agent matches requests received from all devices, determines a match between the device and at least one other device, and sends a notification to perform peer discovery. The device performs peer discovery in response to receiving the notification from the network entity. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337433 | Media Streams from Containers Processed by Hosted Code - Described is a technology by which code, such as an untrusted web application hosted in a browser, provides content through an interface for playback by an application environment, such as an application environment running in a browser plug-in. Content may be in the form of elementary video, audio and/or script streams. The content is in a container that is unpackaged by the application code, whereby the content may be packaged in any format that the application understands, and/or or come from any source from which the application can download the container. An application environment component such as a platform-level media element receives information from an application that informs the application environment that the application is to provide media stream data for playback. The application environment requests media stream data (e.g., samples) from the application, receives them as processed by the application, and provides the requested media stream data for playback. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337434 | TIMING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH INTEGRATED EVENT PARTICIPANT TRACKING MANAGEMENT SERVICES - An automated system and method for managing a tracking and an automated real-time remote reporting thereof of a participant's participation in an event having a participant event management system (PEMS) that receives a request for tracking of the participant, a participant proximity detector detects the proximity of the participant to a detection point, a location detection system receiving and transmitting participant location data, the timing system receives the preorder request from the PEMS, determines a time of passing of the detection point of the participant, receives the location data and associates the participant event number with the participant identifier number, and transmits the location data forming at least a part of the participant tracking data to an output interface. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337435 | Device and Method for the Dynamic Load Management of Cloud Services - The invention substantially relates to a device and a method for the dynamic load management of cloud services. At least one cloud service can be used by a service client, and the service client has a load management adapter which exchanges messages comprising reservation feedback with a service load manager, said service load manager exchanging additional messages in the form of an execution plan with the cloud service. In this manner, a minimum number of physical IT resources is achieved to the greatest degree possible while simultaneously complying with the service-level agreements agreed upon beforehand, and denial-of-service false alarms due to high peak loads are prevented. The invention can be advantageously used for optimizing a routing plan. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337436 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT FEED ITEMS TO DISPLAY IN A FEED OF AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for identifying relevant feed items to display in a feed of an enterprise social networking system. A plurality of data items from one or more of a plurality of data sources may be identified as relevant to a user by satisfying one or more relevancy parameters comprising: a data source providing the data item being one of an inner circle of data sources, content of the data item being identifiable using an interest graph associated with the user, the data item comprising a mention of the user, and the data item being designated as relevant to a group or an organization with which the user is associated. A highlights feed can include the identified data items as feed items. The feed items can be arranged according to a determined characteristic of each data item. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTI-MEDIA SERVICES TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of processing multi-media service requests received at a multi-media services provider computer system, including a processor coupled to a media gateway controller and to a media server. The method includes receiving a message from a SIP INVITE-enabled communication device at the media gateway controller. The message is processed at the media gateway controller for generating an instruction message with unique indicators, which is communicated to the media server in a SIP INVITE format. The media server processes the instruction message to provide media services and collect user-information from the communication device. The media server processes the user-information and generates a first message in an HTTP form POST format with unique indicators, which includes the user-information and which can be processed at the processor. In this manner, the multi-media services provider computer system is compatible with the SIP INVITE-enabled device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTING A PHRASE BASED ON A CONTEXT - A method and a system to suggest a content item to be included in a message based on a determined context are provided. A context of a message that user is composing via a composition interface is determined based on one or more properties of the message. One or more inputs to the user composition interface are identified, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message. One or more suggested content items are provided for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message and the one or more inputs. A suggested content item of the suggested content items are added in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337439 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY NEGOTIATION AND REJECTION - Processing electronic mail can include receiving, within an electronic mail server, an electronic mail from a sender client system, sending acceptance criteria for a recipient of the electronic mail to the sender client system responsive to receiving the electronic mail, and receiving, within the electronic mail server, acceptance criteria values from the sender client system in response to the acceptance criteria for the recipient. Using a processor of the electronic mail server, a determination is made whether the acceptance criteria values comply with the acceptance criteria. Responsive to determining that the acceptance criteria values are non-compliant with the acceptance criteria, the electronic mail server rejects the electronic mail, wherein the electronic mail is not delivered to the recipient, and providing, to the sender client system, an indication of rejection of the electronic mail including a reason for non-compliance. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337440 | HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR COMMUNICATION - A method, computer program product, and system is described. A communication session transcript is identified. A chat session input is received. The chat session input is associated with an inactive portion of the communication session transcript. The chat session input is provided to a recipient, in context with the inactive portion of the communication session transcript. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EMAIL TO ENABLE EFFICIENT EMAIL PROCESSING - An email system is disclosed which provides annotations associated with email to recipients and allows the recipients to interact with annotated email. The system receives email and determines whether the received email includes items that should be annotated. Responsive to determining that an email includes items that should be annotated, the system acquires annotated information related to the email. The received email and associated annotated information are stored in the email system. When a request is received to access email for a specific user, the email system displays an email listing, identifying email that is associated with an annotation using a visual representation. If the recipient responds to an annotation, the system receives and stores the recipient's response. The system then sends the recipient's response to the sender of the email. The system also receives updates to received email from email senders and displays email updates to the appropriate recipients. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337442 | CLOUD MESSAGING SERVICES OPTIMIZATION THROUGH ADAPTIVE MESSAGE COMPRESSION - Intelligent adjustment of compression levels of messages being brokered or otherwise handled by message service providers in a cloud-computing environment to strike a balance between the reduction in network usage and storage requirement resources owing to message compression on one hand and the increase in CPU resource usage owing to message compression on the other hand for reducing usage-based charges from the cloud customer's point of view and reducing the equipment and operational cost from the cloud provider's point of view (resulting in the ability of the provider to take on and/or retain customers). Determination of an “optimal” compression level that strikes an appropriate balance among resource usage may include consideration of a current messaging load (e.g., bytes of data per unit time), a current compression level, and current usage levels of one or more of the various resources. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337443 | USING THE DISTANCE FROM A FORUM POSTING AS CRITERIA TO SELECTIVELY CONVEY EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS OR NOT - A collaboration server determines a response to a posting on a communication forum. The collaboration server determines whether or not to convey an email notification to a posting user via email based upon a distance threshold established for email notifications. The distance threshold is an integer value. The collaboration server calculates a current distance between the response and the posting, where the current distance represents a quantity of responses to the posting from forum participants that have occurred without a new response from the posting user being submitted to the communication forum. Responsive to the current distance being less than the distance threshold, an email is conveyed to an email account of the posting user informing the posting user of the response. Otherwise, no email is conveyed. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337444 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An electronic mail communication system or the like capable of transmitting and receiving electronic mail to and from a target who does not have a membership registration without disclosure of a personal electronic mail address and also easy in controlling acceptance or rejection of mail. Where the received electronic mail is determined to be target addressed mail, the decode means | 2014-11-13 |
20140337445 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DATA PROCESSING - A data process system including a unit receiving a mail data including an output data or a target output data via a network, a unit identifying a user-identification data to be associated with the output data based on an address data of a transmission source of the mail data by referring to first and second units, the first unit storing a first address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, the second unit storing a second address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, a unit storing data-identification data in correspondence with the output data in a unit in a case where the user-identification data is identified by referring to the second unit instead of by the first unit, a unit notifying the data-identification data via the network, and a unit transmitting the output data corresponding to the user-identification data or the data-identification data received via the network. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337446 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND TRANSFERRING CONTENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and method enabling a user to efficiently share contents. A user of an electronic device performs an image capturing by use of a camera, thereby generating an image capture event. According to the image capture event, the electronic device obtains address information of a content transferring apparatus and transfers a content requesting message to the content transferring apparatus having the address information. Upon reception of the content requesting message, the content transferring apparatus provides the electronic device with contents in execution and status information of the content. The electronic device uses the content and the status information to restore a status of the content which has been executed in the content transferring apparatus. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF DATA - A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information. The notification centric portions of information is wirelessly broadcast to wireless receiving devices which are attached to computing devices. Upon receipt of the information at the personal computer, the user is notified through different multimedia alerts that there is an incoming message. Wirelessly broadcasted URL's, associated with the data, are embedded in data packets and provide an automated wired or wireless connection back to the information source for obtaining detailed data. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND RESPONDING TO COMMUNICATIONS - The present application is directed to a method of aggregating and responding to communications. The method includes receiving incoming communications from a plurality of network connected communication sources, and automatically receiving, at a computing device, incoming communications from a plurality of network connected communication sources; and automatically sending to each of the plurality of network connected communication sources a customized message that is based on at least identification information associated with a sender of the respective incoming communication. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING GROUP MESSAGES - A method and system for managing the creation and delivery of an electronic group message is disclosed. The electronic group message can be provided to two or more (i.e., a group) of signers to sign the electronic group message. Once signed, the electronic group message can be provided to one or more recipients. Alternatively, the electronic group message can be provided from a signer to a plurality of recipients, where different recipients receive different messages. One type of electronic group message is an electronic card known as a care card. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337450 | Fitness Activity Related Messaging - In one embodiment, a method for generating a message to a friend of a user is provided, comprising: processing activity data of a first user measured by an activity monitoring device to update a value of an activity metric for the first user; identifying a change in an inequality relationship between the value of the activity metric for the first user and a value of the activity metric for a second user; in response to identifying the change in the inequality relationship, prompting the first user to generate a message to the second user. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337451 | Notifications Regarding Interesting or Unusual Activity Detected from an Activity Monitoring Device - A method is provided, including: processing requests from a plurality of users to join a group event, the group event defined for an activity metric for each of the plurality of users for a period of time; analyzing the activity metrics of the plurality of users to determine a ranking of the plurality of users based on their activity metrics, and to identify a change in relationship between activity metrics of two or more of the plurality of users; generating a message, wherein generating the message includes, identifying, based on the identified change in relationship, one or more user accounts of select ones of the plurality of users to receive the message, selecting a message template based on the identified change in relationship, and populating the message template to generate a message describing the change in relationship; sending the message to the one or more user accounts. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - Messages having a reputation score higher than at least one message already on a queue are added to the queue when the queue has already reached the predetermined maximum permitted size. One or more messages having a low reputation score may be discarded from a bottom of the queue in favor of a new incoming message having a higher reputation score. This may be particularly useful in the context of Internet e-mail, wherein mail delivery protocols (i.e. SMTP) allow a connection for an incoming message to be held open for a limited time period and during this period the message processing apparatus does not assume responsibility for onward transmission of the message. Thus, the message processing apparatus is able to selectively accept only those messages having a highest reputation score for detailed analysis, without adversely affecting the operations performed by other parts of the electronic messaging system. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337453 | SNMP request processing within distributed device architecture - A distributed device architecture includes a master device and one or more member devices. A simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent of a master device receives an SNMP request from a managing device. Where the SNMP request pertains to a given member device, and where the SNMP request requires involvement of the given member device to fulfill the SNMP request, the master device generates a non-SNMP request corresponding to the SNMP request and transmits the non-SNMP request to the given member device. A non-SNMP agent of the given member device processes the non-SNMP request and transmits processing results back to the master device. The master device generates an SNMP response corresponding to the processing results, and the SNMP agent of the master device transmits the SNMP response back to the managing device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337454 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTENT DOWNLOAD METHOD - In an information processing system, a speculative DL content information acceptor | 2014-11-13 |
20140337455 | MASTER DEVICE OF PROCESS FIELD BUS DECENTRALIZED PERIPHERY - The master device of Profibus DP according to the present disclosure automatically configures network by performing a communication with a plurality of slave devices connected through Profibus, the device including a Profibus communication module configured to perform a communication with a plurality of slave devices, an imaginary network configuration information storage configured to be stored in advance with imaginary network configuration information, a network configuration information storage configured to be stored with network configuration information, and a Profibus master state machine configured to obtain network configuration information by performing a communication with the plurality of slave devices in response to the imaginary network configuration information stored in the imaginary network configuration information storage, to store the obtained network configuration information in the network configuration information storage, and to perform a communication with the plurality of slave devices in response to the stored network configuration information. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING RDMA BETWEEN DIVERSE ENDPOINTS - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include determining one or more characteristics of each of two endpoints of a data transfer, the one or more characteristics comprising whether the endpoint is Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)-capable. The method may also include establishing an RDMA termination between the two endpoints. The method may additionally include configuring a first path between the RDMA termination and a first endpoint of the two endpoints, wherein the first path is RDMA-capable, in response to determining that the first endpoint is RDMA-capable. The method may further include configuring a second path between the RDMA termination and a second endpoint of the two endpoints. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337457 | USING NETWORK ADDRESSABLE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE NODE-LOCAL INPUT/OUTPUT - Data storage systems and methods for storing data in computing nodes of a super computer or compute cluster are described herein. The super computer storage may be integrated with or coupled with a primary storage system. In addition to a CPU and memory, non-volatile memory is included with the computing nodes as local storage. A high speed interconnect remote direct memory access (HRI) unit is also included with each computing node. When data bursts occur, data may be stored by a first computing node on the local storage of a second computing node through the HRI units of the computing nodes, bypassing the CPU of the second computing node. Further, the local storage of other computing nodes may be used to store redundant copies of data from a first computing node to make the super computer data resilient while not interfering with the CPU of the other computing nodes. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337458 | MANAGING A LOCAL CACHE FOR AN ONLINE CONTENT-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments relate to techniques for managing a local cache on a computing device that stores content items for an online content-management system. These techniques generally operate by gathering information that is available on the computing device (such as information about user actions, information about which applications are executing, and information about the location of the computing device) and using this information to identify relevant content items that are likely to be accessed in the near future. This enables the system to perform cache-management operations at the local cache to facilitate rapidly accessing the relevant content items through the local cache. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337459 | CACHING ARCHITECTURE FOR PACKET-FORM IN-MEMORY OBJECT CACHING - One embodiment provides a caching system comprising a hash table, a network interface for receiving a sequence of network-level packets for caching, and a caching application module for storing the sequence of network-level packets in the hash table. The sequence of network-level packets is stored its original form without de-fragmentation. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337460 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING ACCESS PRIVACY OF CACHED CONTENT - Embodiments relate to systems, devices, and computer-implemented methods for preventing determination of previous access of sensitive content by receiving, from a user, a request for content at a device in an information centric network, where a cached version of the content is locally stored at the device; initiating a time delay based on a determination that the user has not previously requested the content; and transmitting the cached version of the content to the user after the time delay. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337461 | COLLECTOR MECHANISMS IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A computer-implemented method operable in a content delivery service (CDN), includes, by a collector system: receiving multiple event streams of event data, said multiple event streams comprising event data from a plurality of CD services in said CDN, each event of said event streams comprising: (i) a timestamp for said event, (ii) information relating to said event; and producing state data relating to information represented in said event data of said multiple event streams while being able to asynchronously respond to queries relating to said state data. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337462 | Delivering Identity Related Data - Method and apparatus for delivering from a storage node to an end device, a subset of data stored in the storage node and relates to an identity that uniquely identifies the identity module comprised in the end device. The storage node receives from the end device a request for the subset of the data, the request comprises the identity. The storage node identifies the data related to the identity and filters the identified data to obtain the requested subset of the data. The storage node further sends the subset of the data to the end device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337463 | Location Based Processing of Data Items - A method includes transmitting a first data item from a first data processing device within the network, determining the distance between a first position and a plurality of second positions associated with second data processing devices. At a first point in time, when the distance between the first position and each of the second positions is below a threshold, each of the second data processing devices is enabled to receive, access or display the first data item. After a first point in time, one or more second data items from the first data processing device are transmitted, and even if the distance between any of the second positions associated with the second data processing devices and the first position is above the threshold, each of the second data processing devices are enabled to receive, access or display the second data items. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INLINE HTTP NOTIFICATION - Various exemplary embodiments relate to method performed by a router. The method may include: receiving a HTTP GET request from a user device; forwarding the HTTP GET request; receiving a response to the HTTP GET request; determining whether to intercept the response based on flow selection criteria; and replacing the response with a modified response. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a router including a plurality of line cards interconnected by a backplane, the plurality of line cards receiving communication packets; and an application assurance card connected to the backplane and configured to detect application traffic flows among the communication packets, identify a HTTP session including a HTTP GET request and a matching response from among the packets; determine whether the HTTP session meets selection criteria; and modify the response to include a command to execute a script located on a notification server responsive to the HTTP session meeting the criteria. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337465 | ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR APPLICATIONS AND METHODS OF DISTRIBUTING AND MANAGING STATIC ASSETS FOR APPLICATIONS - A method of providing an application to a user device, a method of managing static assets for applications and an asset management system are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method of providing an application to a user device includes: (1) receiving a request from a user device to download an application, (2) sending a manifest of the application to the user device, the manifest including a list of asset keys for the application wherein each of the asset keys uniquely corresponds to a static asset of the application and (3) compiling, by a processor, a transmit list of the static assets that are absent from the user device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337466 | PERSONA MANAGER FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - A device for communicating via a network includes a processor, a memory containing persona instructions to cause the processor to obtain one of multiple persona profiles for use while communicating via the network, each persona profile controlling access to personal information of a user tailored to the type of communications being performed. A communication mechanism couples the network to perform communications between the device and the network using the obtained persona profile to share limited personal information. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337467 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING JSON WITH A CLI FOR MANAGING NETWORK DEVICES - A method for executing a command line interface (CLI) command by receiving a hyper text transport protocol (HTTP) comprising the CLI command from a controller, extracting the CLI command from the HTTP request, and executing, by a network device, the CLI command to generate a populated model comprising results generated from executing the CLI command. The method also executes the CLI command by converting the populated model into a JSON format using a JSON engine to obtain a JSON result; encapsulating the JSON result in a JSON Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and transmitting the JSON RPC as a HTTP response to the controller. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first receiving unit that receives information specifying an area for pasting sticky information onto a board, the information being at least start point information indicating a start point for pasting sticky information within that area, and direction information indicating a direction in which to paste sticky information in order from that start point, an associating unit that associates sticky information pasted onto the board, on the basis of start point information and direction information received by the first receiving unit, and a display that displays a sticky information group associated by the associating unit so as to indicate the association on the board. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337469 | RUGGED AND MOBILE MEDIA SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDIA TO PASSENGERS ON A PUBLIC TRANPORT VEHICLE - A rugged and mobile media server/portal for use on a public transport vehicle, such as a train to provide media content to passengers on board said vehicle. The rugged and mobile media server/portal includes a mobile and protective case that contains a computer with a media library stored thereon and a local wireless network access point for providing a local wireless network on board the vehicle. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337470 | Method and System for Tunable Distribution of Content - A method and system for tunable distribution of content are disclosed. Preferably, the content comprises digital rights and/or watermark information. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a request from a client. One or more content files related to the request and a user profile of a user are determined. One or more seeders are assigned to start the delivery of the one or more content files. The client is allowed to obtain a plurality of pieces of the one or more content files from the one or more seeders. At least one piece of the plurality of pieces of the one or more content files contains digital rights and/or watermark information. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337471 | MIGRATION ASSIST SYSTEM AND MIGRATION ASSIST METHOD - A system for assisting migration between first and second information processing systems includes a table retaining communication information on communication between first nodes constituting the first information processing system; a table retaining a design requirement being a condition for a second node constituting the second information processing system; an identifier configured to identify the communication information on the first node which is to be migrated; a comparator configured to acquire the design requirement associated with the identified communication information; a mapper configured to determine based on the design requirement whether addition or deletion of the second node is necessary or not; and a generator configured to generate tenant design properties based on the determination on whether addition or deletion is necessary or not, the tenant design properties being information necessary for the migration and containing a configuration of the second node constituting the second information processing system. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337472 | Beacon Services in a Content Delivery Framework - A computer-implemented method, operable with a content delivery network (CDN) comprising multiple CD services including at least one beacon service, includes, at particular CD service in said CDN: obtaining at least one first request; responding to the at least one first request; and making a second request to a beacon CD service, said second request including information about the at least one first request. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337473 | MULTIPATH DATA STREAMING OVER MULTIPLE WIRELESS NETWORKS - Embodiments described herein relate to real-time streaming of large quantities of time critical data over multiple distinct networks from a wireless communications device. More specifically, embodiments described herein may address challenges and problems of maintaining consistent data reception quality when faced with the anomalies of a moving sender that is sending data using a relatively unstable radio frequency (RF) method. This may be achieved by converting single source data into multiple data streams, placing them in transport buffers and storing them for forwarding. A plurality radio frequency interface modules provide wireless connectivity to a plurality of wireless networks for transmission over the plurality of networks. Links are maintained to provide feedback on network connections to allow for the transfer of data from one network to another, from one radio frequency interface module to another, and to adjust the amount of data being transmitted. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING DATA CENTER RESOURCES IN REAL TIME INCORPORATING MANAGEABILITY SUBSYSTEM - A method is disclosed for forming a distributed data store using a remote access appliance associated with a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system. Data may be generated which is associated with operation of managed device being monitored by the DCIM system. At least one remote access appliance may be used to receive the data. An element library framework may be used by the remote access appliance to generate events from the data. The remote access appliance may also be used to implement a complex event processing subsystem to analyze the events and to generate event related signals therefrom. A bus may be used to transmit the event related signals from the appliance to a common platform services (CPS) subsystem of the DCIM system. The CPS subsystem may be used to receive the event related signals and to use the event related signals to inform the user of an aspect of performance of the managed device. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337475 | ASYNCHRONOUS SOCIAL CONSUMPTION - A method of displaying previously recorded and stored primary media content, such as a movie, program, or application, is provided with simultaneous display of previously transmitted secondary content, such as social media. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337476 | IMAGE PROVIDING DEVICE, IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD, IMAGE PROVIDING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM - An image providing device includes a page information transmission unit that outputs a first page to be displayed on a client terminal and an image output unit that outputs images contained in the first page to the client terminal and then outputs a second composite image combining images, other than the images contained in the first page, of a plurality of images contained in a second page to the client terminal. This avoids that an image contained in common in the first page and the second page is redundantly output to the client terminal. This thus reduces the number of transfers of images. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PORTRAYING THE SHIFTING LEVEL OF INTEREST IN AN OBJECT OR LOCATION - The principles of the invention relate to a system and method, that may include various different software and hardware components, that can provide feedback graphically indicating how many people are focused on an object or location at the same time on observers' image capture device screen. Such information may be communicated to each observer's device to convey the aggregate level of interest in the object, where the system performs operations involving tracking of the focus of the image capture devices, such as cell phones, on a location, following changes in a cluster size, and using the information to alter the displayed images according to the level of interest. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337478 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - In order to capture additional network address information that potentially is useful for establishing peer-to-peer connections, client nodes collect network address information from one another. In some examples, the client nodes perform their own independent asymmetric discovery for network addresses that may be sent to a server node for distribution to other client nodes and used to establish peer-to-peer connections between client nodes. In this way, the client nodes are able to obtain network address information that otherwise might not be discoverable by the sever node and thereby increase the number of direct peer connections, improve the robustness of the session establishment process, and reduce the network address collection and peer node matchmaking burdens on the server node. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337479 | COMMUNICATIONS TOOL FOR REQUESTING, TRACKING, AND/OR MANAGING SERVICES - A method for receiving a request for a service and for providing services based on the request. The method may include providing an interface module configured for downloading to an electronic mobile device as a mobile app and configured for display on a display screen of the electronic mobile device, and receiving, via the interface module, information relating to a request for a service, the information including at least one of written text, a photo, a video, and an audio file. Upon activation by a user, the information relating to the request may be transmitted to a remotely located backend module. The transmitted information relating to the request may be analyzed for determining how to complete the requested service. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337480 | PLAYLIST SHARING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337481 | REMOTE SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for enabling a consumer to remotely access a media content subscription are described. The method includes providing a local point of presence to the consumer. The local point of presence has an address within the local media market in which the local media content provider provides the media content subscription. The method further includes allowing the consumer to use the address of the local point of presence to subscribe to the media content subscription from the local media content provider. Finally, the method includes receiving, at the address of the local point of presence from the local media content provider, media content that is available to the consumer under the media content subscription that is subscribed to by the consumer. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337482 | Network Folder Synchronization - Synchronization of folders shared among multiple clients over a network is provided. A first user of a first client instantiates a folder to be shared, and the folder and its contents are synchronized with a host system. As the user makes changes to the folder and its contents on the first client, those changes are propagated to the synchronized version on the host server. Other clients who will be sharing the synchronized folder register with the host system and obtain a current version of the synchronized folder and contents. As the contents of the synchronized folder are changed by any of the clients, the changes are propagated to the host system, which in turn delivers the changes to each of the clients registered as sharing that folder. In this way, each client participating in the share has a current version of the folder and its contents. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337483 | REDUNDANT STORAGE GATEWAYS - Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for providing redundant storage gateways. A client may create a storage gateway group and add storage gateways to the group. The client may assign one or more volumes on a remote data store to each the storage gateways in the group. Volume data for each storage gateway in the group may be replicated to at least one other storage gateway in the group. If one of the gateways in the group becomes unavailable, one or more other gateways in the group may take over volumes previously assigned to the unavailable gateway, using the replicated data in the group to seamlessly resume gateway operations for the respective volumes. Client processes that previously communicated with the unavailable gateway may be manually or automatically directed to the gateway(s) that are taking over the unavailable gateway's volumes. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337484 | SERVER SIDE DATA CACHE SYSTEM - In an example embodiment, a system and method to store and retrieve application data from a cache and a database are provided. The example method may comprise receiving location data associated with application data from a user device, using the location data to determine a cache or database on which the application data is stored, and requesting application data from the cache or database. The system and method may further include monitoring requests for application data associated with instructions having a set of characteristics, identifying application data as associated with the instructions having the set of characteristics, and requesting the application data based on receiving subsequent instructions sharing the same set of characteristics. | 2014-11-13 |
20140337485 | COMMUNICATION OVER BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED NETWORK - An apparatus and a system are provided to proxy one or more media signals between at least one local client device and at least one remote client device. For instance, the apparatus can include a first network interface, a rate controller and media transcoder, and a second network interface. The first network interface receives a plurality of media signals over a first communication network, where the plurality of media signals is encoded into at least one codec format. The rate controller and media transcoder transcodes one or more of the plurality of media signals into a different codec format based on channel and processing capabilities associated with one or more local client devices and one or more control messages. The second network interface transmits the one or more of the transcoded plurality of media signals to a respective plurality of remote client devices over a second communication network. | 2014-11-13 |