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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110252084 | Optimized event routing in distributed data management Event routing in a distributed computing system with distributed data management is optimized by communicating events a datum only to either backup server processes or server processes respectively associated with an application process having an interest in an event af... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252085 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A communication system according to the present invention has a display device (10) including a storage unit that stores a plurality of contents and contents identifiers which are different from contents, and a controller that successively outputs the contents an... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252088 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING POLICY BASED CONTENT SERVICE IN A MOBILE NETWORK Serving user selected content in accordance with a service policy is disclosed. The user may select content from a content source to be accessed at a mobile device. The desired content is modified as necessary such that transmission of the content complies with a policy... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF CONTENT OBJECTS Techniques for delivering content to an end user device are disclosed. A policy server performs an ingest process in which multiple versions of a content object are created. The multiple versions of the content object are associated with a single network identifier whic... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252083 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MEDIA USING EITHER NETWORK EFFICIENT PROTOCOL OR A LOSS TOLERANT TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL A method and apparatus for transmitting media from a node to one or more recipients over a network using either a network efficient protocol or a loss tolerant protocol. The method includes ascertaining at the node if media available for transmission is or will be consu... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252089 | Extensible and Programmable Multi-Tenant Service Architecture An extensible, multi-tenant software-as-a-service business application platform is provided for hosting multiple organizations. Organization services are provided by virtual or physical servers with dedicated data stores assembled in scalable groups. Distributed interac... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251902 | Target Area Based Content and Stream Monetization Using Feedback A system and method to increase monetization of event streams with relevant content such as advertising, games, puzzles, sensory output, etc. using target areas on a client device. The target area enables contextually relevant advertisement objects to be streamed in fro... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251895 | TARGET SPECIFIC URL SHORTENING BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING Methods of the present inventions allow for URL shortening based online advertising. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a URL that resolves to a first network resource, parsing the URL into keyword(s), transmitting the keyword(s) to an online advert... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CENTRALIZED GIFT REGISTRY WITH AUTOMATIC RETAILER-SPECIFIC REGISTRY CREATION Systems and methods for that allow for the creation and management of a centralized gift registry are described. Gifts are added to the centralized gift registry from retailer-specific registries. A gift registrant may select one or more retailers. The centralized gift ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOPIC-BASED BROWSING Disclosed is a method and system for navigating, by a browser executing on the computing device, to a web page; transmitting by a client-side module executing on the computing device to a server computer over a network a request to the server computer for topics associa... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252081 | METADATA SUBSCRIPTION REGISTRY Updated metadata can be requested from a set of remote servers according to a subscription registry. The subscription registry can include information for retrieving metadata from the remote servers. The requested updated metadata can be received from the remote servers... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252226 | PRESERVING USER PRIVACY IN RESPONSE TO USER INTERACTIONS User privacy is preserved in response to user interactions with information items, such as advertisements, by controlling the behavior of a user's computer. Information items are associated with item response specifiers. Item response specifiers control the behaviors of... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251894 | TOOLS ENABLING URL SHORTENING BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING Systems of the present inventions allow for URL shortening based online advertising. An exemplary system may comprise a website hosted on a server computer and having a field configured to receive a URL that resolves to a first network resource. The system may further c... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251890 | SYSTEM FOR COMMERCIAL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION AND ITS APPLIED METHOD THEREIN A system for electronic commercial information transmission, and the method for electronic information transmission applied therein. The system comprises a server and at least one portable work station that can communicate with the server on which a combination of free ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246561 | Server apparatus, client apparatus, content recommendation method, and program A server apparatus includes a first storage, a second storage, a communication unit, and a controller. The first storage is configured to store statistical information that is generated by performing a statistical process of a plurality of pieces of first meta and secon... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246559 | FOUR TIER ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPLEMENTING THIN CLIENTS An application structure for enabling a logical client based 3-tier applications to support a thin client in a 4-tier architecture is provided. A logical client residing in a web server is extended with a proxy logical client residing in the thin client. The proxy logic... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246560 | SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR INTER-MEDIA OBJECTS Embodiments are disclosed that relate to social context for inter-media objects. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving preference data indicating user preferences of each of the plurality of socially networked users regarding the inter-media object, and ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246562 | VISUAL COMMUNICATION METHOD IN A MICROBLOG A visual communication method adapted to microblogs is provided. The visual communication method comprises analyzing, by a server, a user's input text using context and words, extracting, by the server, a picture corresponding to the text using a multimedia classificati... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246563 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TIMESHIFT SERVICE IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND SYSTEM THEREOF A system and method for providing content in a digital broadcasting system are provided. The system includes a server for, after a lapse of a buffering time of a segment of the content, storing the segment, and for transmitting an updated Multimedia Presentation Descrip... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATION MESSAGES WITHIN A WIRELESS TRANSACTION A method and system for correlating messages within a wireless transaction, each of the messages requiring a unique message identifier, the method having the steps of: creating a transaction identifier, the transaction identifier being the same for related messages; and... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246555 | Metadata Role-Based View Generation in Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor Systems and methods for automatic transformation the overall metadata associated with the multimedia content (MMC) at the global media hub (GMH) into unique role-and-client-based views via the network for review through the media access node (MAN) associated with the cl... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246556 | OPTIMIZING SCHEDULING OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS IN DISKLESS ENVIRONMENTS Methods and arrangements where clients, in a diskless environment involving a storage area network, communicate to more optimally distribute the amount of disk input/output the individual clients are creating for the shared disk array.... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246564 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A PLURALITY OF USERS A method to provide information items to a user includes providing, to a user through a user information handling system (IHS), a first task information update that is associated with the user, wherein the first task information update includes a first information item.... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246557 | WEB CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM A web content distribution system includes a web content server; a relay server; and a client device. The web content server stores content data. The relay server stores additional information and is connected to the web content server through a network. The client devi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246565 | EXTENSIBILITY FOR MANIPULATION OF MEDICAL DATA A method for extending a functionality of a computing device programmed to obtain physiological measurements from a patient includes: registering, at the computing device, a plug-in module, the plug-in module providing additional functionality for the computing device; ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246971 | COMMON RECORDING AND REPLAYING PERFORMANCE TEST TOOL FOR A CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT A method, system and computer program product for recording and replaying a program execution in a client-server environment capable of supporting different client-server communication protocols. A common recorder of the exemplary embodiments identifies respective class... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246892 | Navigable Content Source Identification for Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client computer terminals (515,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246571 | Integrated System and Method to Create a Video Application for Distribution in the Internet A system and method for individuals to create and manage an online video presentation for promoting skills, products, or ideas using a computer and a web cam, or any other video recording equipment. The video can be integrated into a portfolio of related documents, file... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246373 | PAYMENT MANAGEMENT ON MOBILE DEVICES Embodiments of techniques and systems for asynchronous offline bill review and payment are described. A bill payment management module, operated on a manageability engine on a mobile device, communicates with an online bill payment service. The bill payment management m... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246755 | Method and System for Automated Operating System Image Loading A method, system, and article for dynamic management of two or more operating system images for at least two client machines operating in a computer system sub-network. Different physical areas of the sub-network support separate image of the operating system images. As... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246570 | SERVER SIDE WEB BROWSING AND MULTIPLE LENS SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS A user may access a host server and receive display information within a single browser window. The display information includes at least one lens, wherein each lens controls server side web browsing and allows the user to view a separate web page from the Internet. The... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246763 | Parallel method, machine, and computer program product for data transmission and reception over a network A method, machine, and computer program product for high speed data transmission over networks by multiple data connections transmitting data in parallel having read from a data source sequentially a fixed number of blocks equal to the number of data connections in use ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246882 | VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT TIMELINE Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to the presentation of an entertainment consumption history via a timeline. For example, one embodiment comprises receiving entertainment consumption history comprising one or more entertainment content identifiers each ident... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246308 | Method and system for managing interactive communications campaigns with preference management A preference management component for a hosted communications campaign system is shared among different types of permitted user roles (e.g., administrators, customer service representatives, and consumers) and enables those users to define and maintain a set of consumer... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110247061 | COMPUTATION TO GAIN ACCESS TO SERVICE Access to some aspect of a service may be limited until a user has invested in performing some amount of computation. Legitimate users typically have excess cycles on their machines, which can be used to perform computation at little or no cost to the user. By contrast,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246566 | PROFILE FOR MEDIA/AUDIO USER PREFERENCES DATABASE Systems and methods for providing a media profile that is based on receiving data from various content distributors and creating a media profile. The media profile is web-based and accessible via an API. Data can be provided to the media profile host server via the API,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246554 | Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client computer terminals (515,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246567 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING IMS FUNCTIONALITY IN A SET TOP BOX A set top box (50) is enabled to handle in IMS services by providing a script-based IMS application (40) run in a declarative application environment (54) of the set top box (50) to effectuate IPTV session signaling between an IMS gateway ( 10/06/2011 | |
| 20110246568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL USERS ACCESSING A WEB SITE An improved method and system for identifying individual users accessing a web site. A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. The unique identifier co... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION A system for management of multimedia content having a processor and memory configured to execute software instructions for implementing a content management component operative to upload the multimedia content and to create at least one compilation from the multimedia ... | 10/06/2011 |
