Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090067350 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL MEETING - The present relates to a method and arrangement for controlling streams of participants of a virtual meeting, wherein at least a first participant and a second participant are located in a first location and at least a third participant is located in a second location. The arrangement comprises means for receiving location information associated with identity information for each participant, means for receiving a stream from each participant whereby the stream comprises at least audio and an identity of the respective participant, means for controlling transmission of each received stream separately to said participants based on said location information and identity information such that streams between the participants in the same location are blocked. | 03-12-2009 |
20110213800 | Pre-Fetching of Data in a Mobile Communications Environment - The invention relates to techniques for controlling a pre-fetching of data in a mobile communications environment. More specifically the invention relates to controlling a pre-fetching of data items into a cache associated with a mobile terminal. A method embodiment of the invention is performed by a cache management server and comprises the steps of receiving a pre-fetching request for data items, wherein the pre-fetching request comprises a first user identification associated with the mobile terminal; obtaining, based on the first user identification, one or more second user identifications from a community database of a social network; selecting items for the pre-fetching based on the second user identifications; and providing the selected items in response to the pre-fetching request. | 09-01-2011 |
20110263196 | Distribution of Content Items to User Devices in a Mobile Environment - The invention relates to a technique for controlling the distribution of content items such as advertisements, news, etc., to user devices in a mobile communications network. A method embodiment of the technique is performed in a distribution control gateway of the mobile communications network and comprises the steps of receiving, from a content provider server, a target user indication indicative of one or more target user devices for presentation of a content item; accessing a provider registry for determining a provider authorization of the content provider server; accessing a user registry for determining a user authorization for receiving the content item from the content provider server; and initiating a transmission of the content item to one or more of the target user devices. | 10-27-2011 |
20130226930 | Apparatus and Methods For Indexing Multimedia Content - A method, medium, and apparatus are disclosed for indexing multimedia content by a computer. The method comprises segmenting the multimedia content into a plurality of segments. For each segment, the method identifies one or more features present in the segment, wherein the features are of respective media types. The method then identifies, for each identified feature in each segment, one or more respective keywords associated the identified feature. Then, the method determines, for each identified keyword associated with an identified feature in a given segment, a respective relevance of the keyword to the given segment. The respective relevance is dependent on a weight associated with the respective media type of the identified feature. | 08-29-2013 |
20140032538 | Apparatus, Methods, and Computer Program Products For Adaptive Multimedia Content Indexing - This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for adaptive indexing of multimedia content. In some embodiments, the method includes: identifying a keyword associated with a feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the keyword being associated with a media type, and the media type being associated with a weight; determining a relevance for the keyword using the weight associated with the media type associated with the keyword; updating the weight associated with the media type based on a particular set of content items, wherein each content item included in the particular set was added to the particular set of content items because the content item was selected by a user from a set of content items that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user, thereby producing an updated weight; and updating the relevance of the keyword using the updated weight. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032562 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT INDEXING - A method and client device is disclosed for indexing content of a multimedia file. The method comprises using a client device to segment the content of the multimedia file into a plurality of segments and to determine structure-searchable data for each segment. Determining structure searchable data for a segment comprises (1) identifying one or more features of respective multimedia types in the segment; (2) correlating each of the identified features to one or more respective keywords; and (3) calculating one or more respective relevance factors for each of the keywords, where at least one of the relevance factors is based on one or more characteristics of the client device. The method also comprises the client device transmitting the structure-searchable data (including the keywords, relevance factors, and respective media types of the identified features) to an indexing server. | 01-30-2014 |
20140258387 | Distribution of Content Items to User Devices in a Mobile Environment - The invention relates to a technique for controlling the distribution of content items such as advertisements, news, etc., to user devices in a mobile communications network. A method embodiment of the technique is performed in a distribution control gateway of the mobile communications network and comprises the steps of receiving, from a content provider server, a target user indication indicative of one or more target user devices for presentation of a content item; accessing a provider registry for determining a provider authorization of the content provider server; accessing a user registry for determining a user authorization for receiving the content item from the content provider server; and initiating a transmission of the content item to one or more of the target user devices. | 09-11-2014 |