Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110022603 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORING AND DISTRIBUTING MULTIPLE APPLICATION VERSIONS BASED ON AUDIENCE QUALIFIERS - A computer system is used to create and distribute applications. An audience qualifier and a set of categories corresponding to the audience qualifier are selected. A master application template is selected. The master application template may be pre-certified. For each of the selected categories, an application instance is created from the master application template, where the modifications to the master application template for each category are determined at least in part by the characteristics of the category. Metadata describing the audience qualifier and category are associated with each application instance. The application instances and associated metadata are stored. The application instances may be certified. A request for an application is received specifying an audience qualifier and a category. An application instance matching the specified audience qualifier and category is selected from the stored application instances. The selected application instance is supplied in response to the request. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022612 | METHOD FOR APPLICATION AUTHORING EMPLOYING A PRE-CERTIFIED MASTER APPLICATION TEMPLATE - A computer system is used to create an application. An application is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a master application template by creating an application representation and creating associated metadata that define at least one allowable modification that may be made to the application representation. An application is created from the master application template, and the application and master application template are submitted to a certification body for certification. The certification process affirms that the application, with any modification to the application specified by the master application template metadata, meets all requirements for certification. The certified master application template is used to create a certified application. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORING MULTIPLE APPLICATION VERSIONS BASED ON AUDIENCE QUALIFIERS - A computer system is used to create and distribute applications. An audience qualifier and a set of categories corresponding to the audience qualifier are selected. A master application template is selected. The master application template may be pre-certified. For each of the selected categories, an application instance is created from the master application template, where the modifications to the master application template for each category are determined at least in part by the characteristics of the category. Metadata describing the audience qualifier and category are associated with each application instance. The application instances may be certified. The application instances are distributed in accordance with the metadata. | 01-27-2011 |
20110023011 | METHOD FOR APPLICATION AUTHORING EMPLOYING A CHILD APPLICATION TEMPLATE DERIVED FROM A MASTER APPLICATION TEMPLATE - A computer system is used to create an application. An application is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a master application template by creating an application representation and creating associated metadata that define at least one allowable modification that may be made to the application representation. The master application template may be certified. A child application template is derived from the master application template by deleting at least one allowable modification of the master application template, or by deleting, adding, or modifying at least one constraint to at least one allowable modification of the master application template, where the effect of the deletion, addition, or modification is to reduce the scope of the allowable modification to the child application template source code. The child application template is used to create an application. | 01-27-2011 |
20110023012 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A CERTIFIED APPLICATION EMPLOYING A PRE-CERTIFIED MASTER APPLICATION TEMPLATE - A computer system is used to distribute an application using a data resource. An application using a data resource is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a certified master application template. The certified master application template is used to create a certified application and certified data resource. The certified application and certified data resource are distributed. During the distribution of the application, the certified master application template is modified and a new certified data resource is created. The new certified data resource is distributed. | 01-27-2011 |
20110023016 | METHOD FOR APPLICATION AUTHORING EMPLOYING A PRE-CERTIFIED MULTI-PLATFORM MASTER APPLICATION TEMPLATE - A computer system is used to create an application. A multi-platform application intended for two or more target platforms is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a multi-platform master application template by creating an application representation and creating associated metadata that define at least one allowable modification that may be made to the application representation. For each target platform, an application is created from the multi-platform master application template suitable for the target platform, and the application and multi-platform master application template are submitted to a certification body for certification on the target platform. The certification process affirms that the application, with any modification to the application specified by the multi-platform master application template metadata, meets all requirements for certification. The certified multi-platform master application template is used to create a certified application for each target platform. | 01-27-2011 |
20110023022 | METHOD FOR APPLICATION AUTHORING EMPLOYING AN APPLICATION TEMPLATE STORED IN A DATABASE - A computer system is used to create an application. Application source code or an executable application is converted into an in-memory representation. The in-memory representation is stored in a database. Attributes of the database representation are selected for modification, and constraints are assigned to the modifications. Modifications and constraints are stored in the database to create an application template. A copy of the application template is made in the database, and modifications are performed on the copy in the database. The modified copy of the application template is retrieved from the database and used to create an executable application. | 01-27-2011 |
20120144417 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT IN A MULTIMEDIA DISPLAY - A computer system is used to create and distribute a multimedia presentation. At a source, audio-video content and an interactive application are broadcast. At a distributor, the audio-video content and the interactive application are received, and at least one resource of the application is replaced with a replacement resource. The audio-video content and the modified interactive application with the replacement resource are distributed. At a receiver, the audio-video content and the modified interactive application are received, the audio-video content is displayed, and in response to an external signal the interactive application is executed utilizing the replacement resource. | 06-07-2012 |
20130031528 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A CERTIFIED APPLICATION EMPLOYING A PRE-CERTIFIED MASTER APPLICATION TEMPLATE - A computer system is used to distribute an application using a data resource. An application using a data resource is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a certified master application template. The certified master application template is used to create a certified application and certified data resource. The certified application and certified data resource are distributed. During the distribution of the application, the certified master application template is modified and a new certified data resource is created. The new certified data resource is distributed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130097176 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA MINING OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO DETERMINE AN EMOTIONAL IMPACT VALUE TO MEDIA CONTENT - A computer system provides access to a corpus of social media content; extracts from the corpus of social media content one or more ratings of an item of media content; identifies the author of each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the content of each of the one or more ratings of an item of media content and assigns a value to each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the corpus of social media content and assigns an impact coefficient to the author of each of the one or more ratings; aggregates the values of the one or more ratings, weighted by the assigned impact coefficients of the author of each of the one or more ratings, and determines therefrom an aggregated value; and based on the aggregated value, assigns an emotional impact value to the item of media content. | 04-18-2013 |
20140140679 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT SYNCHRONIZED TO MEDIA PRESENTATION - A computer system provides a method for delivering a video stream to a viewer and delivering, in synchrony with the video stream, social media content created during the current and previous viewings of the video stream by first-time viewers of the video stream. | 05-22-2014 |
20140325555 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING INTERACTIVE CONTENT - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for controlling the distribution of supplementary content by generating a first control signal when known content is initially detected in a broadcast stream, and after generating the first control signal, generating a second control signal when the detected content is no longer detected in the broadcast stream. The first and second control signals may be used to control the distribution of supplementary content. | 10-30-2014 |