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20110040787 | PRESENTING COMMENTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES - A system may include one or more databases to store comments relating to documents, the comments originating from first and second sources, where the comments from the first source include comments received from users via commenting functionality associated with browsers installed on client devices, and the comments from the second source include comments received from users independent of the commenting functionality associated with the browsers installed on the client devices. The system may also include one or more server devices to receive a request for comments relating to a particular document, search at least one of the one or more databases to identify comments relating to the particular document, and provide the identified comments for presentation in connection with the particular document. | 02-17-2011 |
20110145219 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 06-16-2011 |
20110161413 | USER INTERFACE FOR WEB COMMENTS - One or more server devices receive a request associated with a link, where the link is further associated with a comment and where the comment provides an opinion of, or remarks upon, a content of a document. The one or more server devices retrieve a content of the comment associated with the link from a database and retrieve the document. The one or more server devices generate another document that displays the content of the comment and includes a frame that further displays the document, and send the generated another document to the client device. | 06-30-2011 |
20120023392 | USER INTERFACE FOR WEB COMMENTS - One or more server devices receive a request associated with a link, where the link is further associated with a comment and where the comment provides an opinion of, or remarks upon, a content of a document. The one or more server devices retrieve a content of the comment associated with the link from a database and retrieve the document. The one or more server devices generate another document that displays the content of the comment and includes a frame that further displays the document, and send the generated another document to the client device. | 01-26-2012 |
20130006978 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 01-03-2013 |
20140250099 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 09-04-2014 |
20140280106 | PRESENTING COMMENTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES - A system may include one or more databases to store comments relating to documents, the comments originating from first and second sources, where the comments from the first source include comments received from users via commenting functionality associated with browsers installed on client devices, and the comments from the second source include comments received from users independent of the commenting functionality associated with the browsers installed on the client devices. The system may also include one or more server devices to receive a request for comments relating to a particular document, search at least one of the one or more databases to identify comments relating to the particular document, and provide the identified comments for presentation in connection with the particular document. | 09-18-2014 |
20150213027 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 07-30-2015 |
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20140242560 | FACIAL EXPRESSION TRAINING USING FEEDBACK FROM AUTOMATIC FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION - A machine learning classifier is trained to compute a quality measure of a facial expression with respect to a predetermined emotion, affective state, or situation. The expression may be of a person or an animated character. The quality measure may be provided to a person. The quality measure may also used to tune the appearance parameters of the animated character, including texture parameters. People may be trained to improve their expressiveness based on the feedback of the quality measure provided by the machine learning classifier, for example, to improve the quality of customer interactions, and to mitigate the symptoms of various affective and neurological disorders. The classifier may be built into a variety of mobile devices, including wearable devices such as Google Glass and smart watches. | 08-28-2014 |
20150036934 | FILTER AND SHUTTER BASED ON IMAGE EMOTION CONTENT - A computer-implemented (including method implemented using laptop, desktop, mobile, and wearable devices) method for image filtering. The method includes analyzing each image to generate a content vector for the image; applying an interest operator to the content vector, the interest operator being based on a plurality of pictures with desirable characteristics, thereby obtaining an interest index for the image; comparing the interest index for the image to an interest threshold; and taking one or more actions or abstaining from one or more actions based on a result of the step of comparing. Also, related systems and articles of manufacture. | 02-05-2015 |
20150071557 | SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF IMAGES BASED ON EMOTION FACE CLOUDS - A collection of photos is organized by arranging a limited number of clusters of the photos on a predefined topology, so that similar photos are placed in the same cluster or a nearby cluster. Similarity is measured in attribute space. The attributes may include automatically recognized facial expression attributes. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120124347 | BRANCH PREDICTION SCHEME UTILIZING PARTIAL-SIZED TARGETS - A method and apparatus to utilize a branch prediction scheme that limits the expenditure of power and the area consumed caused by branch prediction schemes is provided. The method includes accessing a first entry and a second entry of the data structure, wherein each entry stores a portion of a predicted target address, determining the predicted target address using the portion of the predicted target address stored in the first entry and a portion of a branch address of a fetched branch instruction for a fetched branch instruction of a first type, and determining the predicted target address using the portion of the predicted target address stored in the first entry and the portion of the predicted target address stored in the second entry for a fetched branch instruction of a second type. | 05-17-2012 |
20140201542 | ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF SYSTEM-ON-CHIP COMPONENTS - Methods, apparatus, and fabrication relating to adaptive performance optimization of a plurality of components in view of power consumption and demand, component activity, and thermal events. A method may comprise allocating a first power budget to a first component of an apparatus, wherein the first power budget is less than a maximum power required by the first component; applying at least a portion of a borrowable power budget, wherein the borrowable power budget equals the maximum power required by the first component minus the first power budget, to a second component of the apparatus; and increasing the first power budget of the first component, in response to a first number or more of thermal events occurring in a first time period. | 07-17-2014 |
20150082074 | TECHNIQUE FOR SCALING THE BANDWIDTH OF A PROCESSING ELEMENT TO MATCH THE BANDWIDTH OF AN INTERCONNECT - A transmitter is configured to scale up a low bandwidth delivered by a first processing element to match a higher bandwidth associated with an interconnect. A receiver is configured to scale down the high bandwidth delivered by the interconnect to match the lower bandwidth associated with a second processing element. The first processing element and the second processing element may thus communicate with one another across the interconnect via the transmitter and the receiver, respectively, despite the bandwidth mismatch between those processing elements and the interconnect. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082075 | TECHNIQUE FOR SCALING THE BANDWIDTH OF A PROCESSING ELEMENT TO MATCH THE BANDWIDTH OF AN INTERCONNECT - A transmitter is configured to scale up a low bandwidth delivered by a first processing element to match a higher bandwidth associated with an interconnect. A receiver is configured to scale down the high bandwidth delivered by the interconnect to match the lower bandwidth associated with a second processing element. The first processing element and the second processing element may thus communicate with one another across the interconnect via the transmitter and the receiver, respectively, despite the bandwidth mismatch between those processing elements and the interconnect. | 03-19-2015 |
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20100178935 | PROVIDING A LOCATION SERVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK USING AN INDICATION OF WHETHER THE LOCATION SERVICE IS AN EMERGENCY-RELATED LOCATION SERVICE OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT-RELATED LOCATION SERVICE - In a wireless communications network, a method of performing a location service with respect to a mobile station includes communicating a paging message containing an indication of whether the paging message is related to at least one of an emergency-related location service and a law enforcement-related location service. In another aspect, a mobile station in a wireless communications network communicates messaging to move the mobile station to a traffic channel in response to a callback by at least one of an emergency services entity and a law enforcement entity. The mobile station also receives a location request on the traffic channel, the location request containing an indication of whether the location request is related to at least one of an emergency-related location service and a law enforcement-related location service. | 07-15-2010 |
20110047282 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SELECTING AN OPTIMAL MEDIA-ADAPTATION RESOURCE FOR LATENCY-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for selecting an optimal media-adaptation resource for latency-sensitive applications are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for selecting an optimal media-adaptation resource for latency-sensitive applications. The method includes determining a need for a media-adaptation resource for a media stream between nodes in a telecommunications network, and, at a selection entity for selecting media-adaptation resources, selecting, from a plurality of media-adaptation resources, a media-adaptation resource for the media stream based on an Internet protocol (IP) topological proximity of the resource to at least one of the nodes. | 02-24-2011 |
20110320592 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTENT DELIVERY USING DEEP PACKET INSPECTION - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for content delivery using deep packet inspection are disclosed. According to one method, steps are performed at a packet inspection (PI) module that is distinct from a cache module. The method includes receiving a request for content. The method also includes inspecting the request to obtain information about the content. The method further includes determining, by comparing the obtained information with traffic management policy information based on a dynamically derived content access profile, whether the cache module is to process the request. The method also includes, in response to determining that the cache module is to process the request, sending the request towards the cache module. | 12-29-2011 |
20120123870 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING PERSONALIZATION OF DATA SERVICE PLANS - Systems and methods for enabling personalization of data service plans are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method can include receiving profile and network usage data of a subscriber. Further, the method can include generating a personalized data service offer for the subscriber based on the profile and network usage data. The method can also include presenting the personalized data service offer to the subscriber. The subscriber may respond to accept the offer. | 05-17-2012 |
20120140624 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC CONGESTION MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for dynamic congestion management in communications networks are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method can include determining traffic statistics of at least one node in a communications network. The method can also include determining whether the at least one node is congested based on the traffic statistics. Further, the method can include dynamically changing or provisioning a set of at least one traffic shaping rule for application to the at least one node in response to determining that the at least one node is congested. | 06-07-2012 |
20120176896 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DEEP PACKET INSPECTION (DPI)-ENABLED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT FOR xDSL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for DPI-enabled traffic shaping for xDSL networks are disclosed. According to one method, a DPI node analyzes signaling for an xDSL network access node or a broadband network gateway to determine nodal or link capacities available to nodes upstream from the network access node or the broadband network gateway for delivering downstream traffic to the network access device. The DPI node uses the determined capacities to shape downstream traffic delivered to the network access device. | 07-12-2012 |
20130281147 | PUSH-TO-TALK TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM UTILIZING AN VOICE-OVER-IP NETWORK - A method and system to provide ad-hoc push-to-talk calls between a plurality of users in a wireless packet data telecommunications network are described. The system may include: a wireless communication network including push-to-talk (PTT) functionality, with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Proxy Server; a SIP Registrar and Location Server operable to store contact addresses of active mobile devices; a Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) Media Gateway (PTT Server) operable to function as a call endpoint for each of a plurality of mobile devices wherein the plurality of mobile devices may be segmented into membership groups, the PTT Server further operable to multicast a communication from one member of the group to the other members of the group; and an Internet Protocol (IP) network interconnecting the SIP Proxy server, the SIP Registrar and Location Server, and the PTT Server. | 10-24-2013 |
20140221035 | Push-to-Talk Telecommunications System Utilizing an Voice-Over-IP Network - A method and system to provide ad-hoc push-to-talk calls between a plurality of users in a wireless packet data telecommunications network are described. The system may include: a wireless communication network including push-to-talk (PTT) functionality, with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Proxy Server; a SIP Registrar and Location Server operable to store contact addresses of active mobile devices; a Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) Media Gateway (PTT Server) operable to function as a call endpoint for each of a plurality of mobile devices wherein the plurality of mobile devices may be segmented into membership groups, the PTT Server further operable to multicast a communication from one member of the group to the other members of the group; and an Internet Protocol (IP) network interconnecting the SIP Proxy server, the SIP Registrar and Location Server, and the PTT Server. | 08-07-2014 |
20140341025 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC CONGESTION MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for dynamic congestion management in communications networks are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method can include determining traffic statistics of at least one node in a communications network. The method can also include determining whether the at least one node is congested based on the traffic statistics. Further, the method can include dynamically changing or provisioning a set of at least one traffic shaping rule for application to the at least one node in response to determining that the at least one node is congested. | 11-20-2014 |
20150223031 | Push-to-Talk Telecommunications System Utilizing an Voice-Over-IP Network - A method and system to provide ad-hoc push-to-talk calls between a plurality of users in a wireless packet data telecommunications network are described. The system may include: a wireless communication network including push-to-talk (PTT) functionality, with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Proxy Server; a SIP Registrar and Location Server operable to store contact addresses of active mobile devices; a Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) Media Gateway (PTT Server) operable to function as a call endpoint for each of a plurality of mobile devices wherein the plurality of mobile devices may be segmented into membership groups, the PTT Server further operable to multicast a communication from one member of the group to the other members of the group; and an Internet Protocol (IP) network interconnecting the SIP Proxy server, the SIP Registrar and Location Server, and the PTT Server. | 08-06-2015 |
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20090319302 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING COST OF INSURANCE RATES - According to some embodiments, a current net amount at risk associated with a life insurance policy is determined. The life insurance policy may, for example, have been previously issued to a consumer for a given face death benefit amount. At least one applicable cost of insurance rate may then be automatically selected based at least in part on the determined net amount at risk. The applicable cost of insurance rate can then be applied to the current net amount at risk for the policy. For example, a first cost of insurance rate may be applied to a first portion of the current net amount at risk, and the applicable cost of insurance rate may be applied to a second portion of the current net amount at risk. | 12-24-2009 |
20100305976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING LAST SURVIVOR LIFE INSURANCE POLICY - A computer system for administering a last survivor life insurance policy paying a death benefit on the death of the last survivor of insureds, includes a processor; and a memory storage device in communication with the processor. The processor is adapted to: determine at least one variable of a feature related to the policy based on a mortality charge based on, for each future year of the policy, a sum of the statistical likelihoods of the deaths of each of the insureds determined as of the policy issue date; store data indicative of the determined variable; output a signal having data indicative of the determined variable; access data indicative of whether any of the insureds is deceased; if all of the insureds are deceased, access data indicative of the death benefit amount under the policy and an identity of a beneficiary, the identity including at least a name and address; and output a signal having data indicative of the amount of the death benefit under policy and the identity of the beneficiary. | 12-02-2010 |
20110208549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING COST OF INSURANCE RATES - According to some embodiments, a current net amount at risk associated with a life insurance policy is determined. The life insurance policy may, for example, have been previously issued to a consumer for a given face death benefit amount. At least one applicable cost of insurance rate may then be automatically selected based at least in part on the determined net amount at risk. The applicable cost of insurance rate can then be applied to the current net amount at risk for the policy. For example, a first cost of insurance rate may be applied to a first portion of the current net amount at risk, and the applicable cost of insurance rate may be applied to a second portion of the current net amount at risk. | 08-25-2011 |