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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131102 | ONE-TO-MANY AND MANY-TO-ONE TRANSFER, STORAGE AND MANIPULATION OF DIGITAL FILES A method of distributing at least one digital file to a group. The group includes multiple group members and is managed by a managing user. The method includes: generating an album for the managing user, the album including at least one digital file by operation of a pr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130823 | MOBILE MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for matching is disclosed. User profile information, location information and event information are stored in a database. First and second electronic check-in information representing that a first user and a second user have checked-in to an event is... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131101 | Cloud-Processing Management With A Landscape Directory Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus and products, including a method that includes maintaining data in a cloud landscape directory, including data regarding multiple individual landscapes. Each landscape of the multiple individual landscapes identifying at least a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131089 | COMMUNICATION SERVICES AND APPLICATION LAUNCH TOOL Resources in a communication system are associated based on a query by receiving the query from a client device, generating requests based on the query, each request being formatted in a different message format, transmitting each of the plurality of requests to at leas... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131609 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING AND RECEIVING DATA A method of selecting targeted advertising content. According to one implementation the method includes receiving in a social network site from a computing device of a member of the social network site identifying data of the member and also broadcast data related to br... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF CONTENT Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for the transmission and reception of content. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method for the transmission and reception of content implemented in a comp... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131047 | SOCIAL GENOME Systems and methods are provided for processing a data stream in real time to identify connections between one or more social elements social elements and aggregating and storing the identified connections over a rolling time window. Social elements may be stored as nod... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131095 | OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCE POLLING INTERVALS TO SATISFY MOBILE DEVICE REQUESTS Systems and methods for optimizing a polling interval to capture new or changed content at an application server in a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for polling... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY A system for supporting collaborative activity in a network includes a storage component storing data related to the network and a model of the network; a processor that accesses the stored data and the model to process the data according to the model, where the stored ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131100 | DATA COLLECTION FROM UTILITY METERS OVER ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE Communicating data via an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). An infrastructure is disclosed that includes: a plurality of communication modules incorporated into a plurality of associated utility meters; a data aggregator configured for communicating with each of t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110096 | SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying graphical representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-impleme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110083 | Inter-Corporate Collaboration Overlay Solution for Professional Social Networks A service provider includes a broker. The broker receives a request from a business organization requestor for one or more potential collaborators in a determined subject matter area; accesses one or more personal profiles maintained by one or more social network servic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109830 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND DECENTRALIZED PAYMENT NETWORK SYSTEM In the context of social networks, a social network based peer computing system, apparatus and method for a decentralized social network system and decentralized payment system in a peer to peer network environment. Two one way relationships involving a public key/priva... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110076 | VISIBILITY INSPECTOR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying digital content to an author user, the author user having authored the digital content, receiving ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110084 | PROFILE INFORMATION BASED ON PARTICIPANT IDENTITY FOR PEER-TO-PEER SESSIONS A method is employed in association with a communication session over a peer-to-peer network between a first node associated with a first session participant and a second node associated with a second session participant. In the method, identification information identi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit that, upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judges whether there is any common application bet... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110079 | RELATIONSHIP AND SECURITY IN ONLINE SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES A method is provided for evolving a defined online existing relationship between a first member and a second member, the online existing relationship defined by a plurality of existing relationship features for use in managing network interaction on a communications net... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110080 | SOCIAL NETWORKING RELEVANCE INDEX A system and method are provided for organizing a listing of activities on a social networking website, including present each user of the plurality of users an organized representation of activities, the representation of activities sorted by how relevant each activity... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for allowing communicating parties at remote locations to view the same displayed content and to point to desired positions on the displayed image of the content. A ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110072 | Method and System for Assessing Social Media Skills of User The present disclosure provides a method for assessing social media skills of a user registered on multiple networks. The method includes providing a questionnaire having questions related to one or more networks to the user, and evaluating social media knowledge of the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110073 | SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMED MASHUP CREATION A plurality of mashups created by a plurality of mashup authors indicated as being in a community relevant to a mashup based, at least in part, on social network data are identified in response to indication of a mashup building operation. Frequencies of a plurality of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110078 | APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD According to one embodiment, an application execution control apparatus includes a memory, a wireless communication module, and a controller. The memory is configured to store a relationship between a first application and a first wireless communication device, and a re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110077 | System and Method Using A Simplified XML Format for Real-Time Content Publication A system and method for delivering content in real-time using advanced messaging technology that reduces the risk of content being lost or dropped in transmission. The system and method utilize a custom, simplified XML format to deliver real-time textual, numeric, and m... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE An approach is provided for facilitating the delivery of content to a device through activation of an indicator executable on the device. One or more user devices are determined to receive the content from a content delivery platform using an electronic directory servic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110071 | INFERRING USER PROFILE ATTRIBUTES FROM SOCIAL INFORMATION User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, locati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110082 | Semantic Note Taking System A method and system for collecting information, enriching the collected information and linking the enriched information is provided. The system includes an application server that is accessible by users via their computer device for performing a variety of functions en... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084359 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An information processing device in an information communication system in which node devices are connected to an overlay network, and contents are distributed in the node devices, includes: an acquisition unit acquiring domain information from an inquiry device; a retr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084360 | MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A COMMUNITY PAGE A system and method for managing membership in real-time using a community page that enables communication between a member and a provider is disclosed herein. The membership management system may include an information transferring unit to transfer access information, ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING OPERABILITY WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT A method and apparatus for maintaining operability with a cloud computing environment. The apparatus includes a storage module and a local environment module. The storage module may store cloud computing data from a cloud computing environment onto a local storage devic... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA SESSION SHARING AND GROUP SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTI MEDIA STREAMS A method and apparatus for synchronizing, transforming, modifying, duplicating and retrieving media streams between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that may not be IMS-capable in real-time, via Inter-User Equipment Transfer (IUT) across any internet protocol (IP... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084357 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT USING COMMUNICATIONS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORM A collaboration service operation method provides an efficient and flexible method for operating services implemented across multiple systems. In particular, the method includes determining a change in a master record, and determining the nature of the change. Based on ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084358 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY FINDING Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorith... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084361 | INTER-USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TRANSFER (IUT) FOR COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS THAT INCLUDE MEDIA SESSION INFORMATION A method and apparatus for inter-user equipment (UE) transfer (IUT) of collaborative session control and session information between WTRUs. A collaborative session control transfer request including ongoing session information is transmitted prior to transfer of session... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084363 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084861 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT SELECTIVELY RESURRECT BLOCKED COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DEVICES Data communications between devices are selectively blocked and resurrected based on error notifications. Data communications from one or more source devices to one or more intended destination devices are selectively blocked based on content of the data communications.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084362 | INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE SHARING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE INDIVIDUAL SECURITY LEVEL SETTINGS An interactive experience sharing and evaluation system is implemented through a website in one easy step. Users submit information in the form of journal entries about experiences they have had, which can include photos, videos, a rating, and comments with varying priv... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072493 | ASSOCIATING CAMERAS WITH USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM Images uploaded by users of a social networking system are analyzed to determine signatures of cameras used to capture the images. A camera signature comprises features extracted from images that characterize the camera used for capturing the image, for example, faulty ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072432 | FACET-BASED FILTERING OF SOCIAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA A network update interface is presented to a user on a network to display network updates from other users of a mutual social-networking site. The network updates shared by the other users are gathered in a stream and supplied to a facet-filtering system including a net... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072494 | SOCIAL NETWORKING MANAGEMENT SERVER A social media management server (MS) provides a single authentication point for a client device to log in to multiple social networking accounts. Through the MS, the client device can pull social networking updates to it or have them pushed to the client device. Also, ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072495 | CONTIGUOUS LOCATION-BASED USER NETWORKS A system and method are provided for creating location-based user networks. In general, a proximity group including a number of users is identified. Each user in the proximity group is within a proximate area of at least one other user in the proximity group and has an ... | 03/22/2012 |
