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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONSISTENT USER NAME-SPACE ON NETWORKED DEVICES Implementing a consistent user name-space on networked computing devices includes various components and methods. When a network connection between a local or host computing device and one or more remote computing devices is present, remote items are represented using t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130971 | Systems and Methods to Play Media Cotent Selected Using a Portable Computing Device on a Display Device External to the Portable Computing Device A particular method includes identifying, at a portable computing device, media content that is accessible from a remote computing device via a network. The method includes receiving user input associated with a particular media content item of the indentified media con... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131640 | ENABLING PRESENCE INFORMATION ACCESS AND AUTHORIZATION FOR HOME NETWORK TELEPHONY In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a presence server in a home network is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for presence information; sending an event notification to all subscribed control points informing them of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131142 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE OF SERVICE PROVISION-RELATED INFORMATION A method and related apparatus determine, at a serving entity, whether a memory resource of the serving entity is insufficient for storing service provision-related information required for service provision from the serving entity to a served entity. Then the serving e... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131130 | Network Control Architecture and Protocol for a Distributed Control, Data Acquisition and Data Distribution System and Process A system and process for distributed control, data acquisition and data distribution. The system and process comprise a one or more chain of nodes configured to remove and add packets to a synchronous data stream without management or control of a master node. Additiona... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130808 | SELECTION COMPRESSION A method of generating a compressed video stream, comprising: providing a plurality of display commands which represents a display; generating a plurality of quantized transform coefficients from said display commands, wherein said quantization is different for differen... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131133 | FILE SHARING METHOD AND FILE SHARING SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME A file sharing system includes a storage device for storing files and an electronic device. The electronic device is coupled to the storage device, obtains information pertinent to the files, transmits a file sharing message having the information to a predetermined net... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF CONTENT DATA A computer-based method and system for content data management and provision. The method may include receiving a content request message from a registered user. The content request message may be addressed to an address associated with a broadcast entity. An identity of... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131140 | FINGERPRINTS AND MACHINE-READABLE CODES COMBINED WITH USER CHARACTERISTICS TO OBTAIN CONTENT OR INFORMATION The present invention relates generally to processing audio and video data. One claim recites a method of accessing content stored in a remote database. The method includes: receiving video or audio data; decoding an auxiliary machine-readable code from the video or aud... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131131 | SHARING OF MOBILE CODE INFORMATION An apparatus and method for sharing information corresponding to a Mobile Code (MC) by a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes scanning an MC by the mobile terminal, transmitting an identifier of the scanned MC to a server, and transmitting an identity of gr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131472 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOOK AND FEEL CUSTOMIZATION INCLUDING CONTEXT ANNOTATION An apparatus and method for providing Look and Feel Customization (LFC) in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes receiving an LFC Package including a plurality of LFC Element Settings to the mobile terminal, wherein at least one of the LFC Package and one ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131135 | NONCONFORMING WEB SERVICE POLICY FUNCTIONS Arrangements for enforcing a nonconforming web service policy document are presented. A request for a web service policy document may be received by a web service. A conforming web service policy document may be generated using the nonconforming web service policy docum... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131132 | IF-NONE-MATCH FOR AGGREGATED PAGE DISTRIBUTION Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for page request management for aggregated page content. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for page request management for aggregated page content can include issuing on... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131139 | PROCESSING DATA FEEDS Exemplary embodiments allow performance of stream computations on real-time data streams using one or more map operations and/or one or more update operations. A map operation is a stream computation in which stream events in one or more real-time data streams are proce... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131141 | Asynchronous Context Data Messaging An acceleration engine that stores context data is operatively disposed between a network and at least one web server. Incoming requests from the network are inspected by the acceleration engine and passed on to the web server. If the inspection reveals a reference to c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131134 | UE Initiated IUT Transfer Based on Policy Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to control an inter user equipment transfer (IUT). A first user equipment (UE) may control an inter user equipment transfer (IUT) associated with a communication flow currently terminated at the first UE. The first U... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TARGETED CONTENT TO A USER BASED ON USER CHARACTERISTICS A system and method for providing a personalized advertisement for a good or service for display to a user is described. The system includes a communications device operated by the user; a virtual person database comprising information about the user; and a search engin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131137 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Energy Efficient Task Execution Offloading A control circuit (such as a smartphone processor) having access to a wireless two-way transceiver (such as a short-range transceiver) determines a need to offload execution of a task to a server and then determines present unavailability of that server. This control ci... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131138 | Client-Selected Network Services A system and a method are disclosed for authenticating a user request to determine whether to optimize content requested by the user based on a user profile, a network provider profile, network conditions and the user's service level with an application requesting the c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110031 | SYSTEM FOR LOCATING NEARBY PICTURE HOTSPOTS Portable communication devices transmit digital images and their location information to a central server. If a particular location is often photographed it can be designated as a hot spot. Thereafter, if a communication device is currently transmitting from within a vi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID EXCHANGE OF ACCIDENT SCENE DATA A system and method are disclosed for rapidly exchange accident related information. Data locator codes representing people and respective vehicles the people are insured to drive are generated and stored by central server. Software is installed on mobile devices that i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110120 | Methods and Devices for Media Description Delivery Methods and devices for providing a media description of a media stream to a client are described. The client is subscribed to a media description delivery service. The media description delivery service comprises a media description delivery rule. A request for a media... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110115 | Exchanging Data Associated With A Communication Session Within A Communications System In an embodiment, an access terminal includes at least first, second and third functional layers, whereby the first functional layer (e.g., a MAC layer) attempts to a data packet on behalf of the third functional layer (e.g., an application-layer) to an application serv... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108213 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING AN OVER-THE-AIR ACTIONABLE MESSAGE Provided are exemplary apparatus and methods for transmitting an over-the-air actionable message. In an example, a mobile device includes a detector to identify an over-the-air actionable messaging command that has a destination device identifier corresponding to a seco... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110678 | Digital Rights Management (DRM) Domain Recommendation and Selection Based on a User's Social Graphs A network server implements Digital Rights Management (DRM) techniques to limit or inhibit unauthorized access or usage of protected multimedia content, such as a video or a song. However, the server also allows a user who has purchased protected multimedia content to s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110124 | AUTOMATED CONTENT AND BOOKMARK DISTRIBUTION A method of submitting content on behalf of a client to multiple service providers includes the steps of receiving a request from a client to submit content to a plurality of service providers and processing the request utilizing a server. The step of processing include... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110121 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WEB BROWSING The discloses method and apparatus (“system”) enables users to: generate a map of computer servers visited while browsing, calculate the total distance travelled on the web, earn “Goosemiles” or travel points for the distance surfed on the web, earn bonus points... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110102 | Data Distribution Method and System A self-distribution method and system for distributing information content among network connected devices includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an advertising campaign, a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110122 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, PROGRAMS AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, in which contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. In the information communication terminal, a content ripped from ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109922 | USER FEED DATA DELIVERY A system for delivering user specific data comprises a web browser, an application server, and a content server. The browser receives an identification associated with a user profile and transmits a login message to the application server. The application server receive... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110117 | CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS Content receiving apparatus including: a receiving unit which is an export medium having a content recording unit, and an export condition information recording unit; an export condition information acquisition unit having information indicating the number of times of e... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110116 | PLATFORM SYSTEM WITH PROVIDER CONTROLLING MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a provider controlling platform system includes: determining a provider criterion for selecting a service provider; determining a device capability for selecting a device service for a peripheral device; generating a selection threshold based on... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110118 | DISTRIBUTED CACHING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK OF CONTENT DELIVERED FOR A MOBILE APPLICATION OVER A LONG-HELD REQUEST Systems and methods for distributed caching in a wireless network of content delivered for a mobile application over a long-held request are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a distributed proxy... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110119 | DIGITAL AUDIO-VIDEO CONTENT MOBILE LIBRARY Methods for managing digital video content include registering, in a registry identified with a user account, mobile device platform information and telephone number information for at least one wireless mobile device indicated by information received from a client devi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105249 | Method and Distributed System for Detecting and Managing Data from a Plurality of Measuring Devices A method for acquiring and managing data from a plurality of measuring instruments includes acquiring data from at least one measuring instrument disposed in each of at least one measurement station. The data is provided to a server computing unit. The data is processed... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110123 | ENABLING ROUTING OF DATA ON A NETWORK BASED ON A PORTION OF DATA ACCESSED FROM A NON-NETWORK ENABLED DEVICE A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-ne... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084381 | Virtual Desktop Configuration And Operation Techniques Techniques for configuring and operating a virtual desktop session are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, an inter-partition communication channel can be established between a virtualization platform and a virtual machine. The inter-partition communication ch... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084388 | INTER UE TRANSFER BETWEEN MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL CLIENTS Mobile IP (MIP) protocol may be used to transfer a communication flow between nodes. An indication to transfer the communication flow is received at a first node, and the first node sends a communication flow transfer request via mobile internet protocol. The request is... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084199 | AUTOMATIC FORM FILLING A user, such as a merchant, populates a form, such as an on-boarding form from a payment provider, with information unique to the user. In one embodiment, the user enters a URL address. The information is communicated to the payment provider, who then obtains additional... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084352 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF A user terminal device and method for providing a service in the user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a location calculation unit that calculates location information of the user terminal device, a storage unit that stores a service hub pr... | 04/05/2012 |
