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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131146 | Scalable Content Streaming System with Server-Side Archiving Some embodiments provide a scalable content streaming system that performs server-side archiving. The content streaming system includes a set of streaming server clusters, a remote storage server, and a set of distributed servers. Each streaming server cluster includes ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131149 | File system for portable device The present application teaches a special kind of filesystem and/or connection for a computer device and especially for a computer device of the type which includes reduced resource capability. In one embodiment,**... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130782 | Cloud Contact Information System A method of communication, includes providing a mobile device having a user web browser; transmitting a request from a user of the mobile device via the user web browser to a contact application stored in a shared pool of configurable computing resources; and transmitti... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT IN MOBILE TERMINAL A method and apparatus for providing users with electronic book (e-book) content by means of a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes receiving an e-book from a provider server; transmitting a character request message containing identity information of the e-... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131151 | LOCATOR AND MESSAGING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS Methods, graphical user interfaces, systems and devices for remotely tracking location of a subject, such as a child, and for remotely communicating with the subject. The devices can be low cost, low function devices, having limited input members, which can be used for ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131147 | Method And Network Node For Distributing Customized Content By using embodiments of the present invention, a targeted advertisement, or other customized content, can be published to a consumer when visiting a website. The consumer is connected to a mobile broadband network and is authenticated and authorized to this broadband ne... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131148 | CLIENT DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM There is provided a client device including a storage section which stores content data, a control section which acquires content identification information for identifying the content data stored in the storage section, and a transmission section which transmits, to a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131152 | MANAGING RICH PRESENCE COLLECTIONS IN A SINGLE REQUEST A method and system for increasing the computational and network efficiency of presence servers having collections of publications is provided. The presence system uses several techniques that enable a presence server to provide rich presence information without requiri... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131144 | Methods, Devices, and Computer Program Products for Providing a Plurality of Application Services via a Customized Private Network Connection A plurality of application services are provided to subscriber devices in a cloud computing network. A plurality of requests for application services are received from a subscriber device via a customized private network connection assigned to the subscriber device, and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131145 | POWER BASED CONTENT MODIFICATION, TRANSMISSION, AND CACHING Methods and apparatus for operating a mobile device based upon a power capability of the mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the mobile device includes a network selection component configured to select a particular transceiver for communication based upon t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110135 | Loading a Mobile Computing Device with Media Files In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for loading media files to a mobile computing device. A media library that includes media files is stored at a server system. Information indicating ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106932 | Reconciling digital content at a digital media device In one embodiment, a method includes initiating recording a program at a digital media device, identifying at the digital media device, a missing portion of the program, generating and transmitting a request for the missing portion, receiving a media file containing the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110132 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM There is provided an image processing device including: a transmission unit that transfers data to an FTP server in a specified transmission mode; and a transmission mode specifying unit that initially specifies an active mode for the transmission mode for transferring ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110134 | Terminal Device Plural pieces of content are sequentially reproduced, without interruption. A terminal measures a processing time from request for content data of a first tune from a server to decoding of first content data in a streaming format. A reproduction end time of content unde... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109368 | REAL-TIME TARGETED DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY TO A CONSUMER VIA SERVER-DRIVEN MESSAGING Content for display to a consumer at a vending machine is dynamically generated at a remote content server based on one or more variables maintained at the content server, and delivered in real time to the vending machine for display to the customer during a vend proces... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109754 | SPONSORED MULTI-MEDIA BLOGGING The sponsored multi-media blogging technique is an advertising-driven service on a computing device, such as a mobile phone, that makes the multi-media micro-blog or blog an effective carrier for advertising. The data collected while employing the sponsored multi-media ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA FILE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM USING THE METHOD A method and a system for playing a multimedia file and a computer readable medium using the method are provided. In the present invention, a control apparatus sends a control command to a destination apparatus. A multimedia playing module in the destination apparatus i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110127 | MESSAGING ABSTRACTION IN A MOBILE DEVICE SERVER A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a mobile device server that receives a pairing key, establishes communication with a media resource center using a web server application of the mobile device server, transmits the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110128 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO ROUTE POLICY REQUESTS Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to route policy requests are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving, at a policy request router, a policy request from a policy requestor, applying, at the policy request router, a rule to a parame... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109785 | PERSONALIZED VIRTUAL GOODS HOLIDAY OR EVENT CALENDAR A printed calendar, method and system for preparing the printed calendar, and system for redeeming virtual goods are provided herein. The printed calendar includes at least one form sheet having printed thereon one or more occurrences of time. The one or more occurrence... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110139 | APPLICATIONS REGISTRY FOR A TELEVISION ENVIRONMENT An applications registry provides a repository of television-based applications. The registry stores information about television-based applications registered, and allows users to view information regarding the registered television-based applications through one or mo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110138 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND NETWORK DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING HTTP-BASED STREAMING SERVICE A method for implementing a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-based streaming service is disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: a server receives a request from a client, and returns, to the client according to a request for a medi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110137 | Method of Performing Service Group Owner Transfer Procedure in Communication System A method of performing a Service Group Owner Transfer procedure in a communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a SG Owner transfer request message from a first PNE to a CPNS Server, and from the CPNS Server to a second PNE; and transmitting a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110126 | Loading a Mobile Computing Device with Media Files In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for loading media files to a mobile computing device. A media library that includes media files is stored at a server system. Information indicating ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110141 | VARIANT STREAMS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110136 | FILE TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF REMOTE DEVICES Systems and methods are provided for the monitoring and/or management of a remote apparatus. A remote computing device associated with a remote apparatus obtains information related to the apparatus, and generates a file containing the information. The file is uploaded ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110129 | WEBSITE REDEVELOPMENT WRAPPER Existing network-based services can be reused by a new network service providing an updated interface to the existing services. A client request directed to the new network service triggers a back-end request from the new network service to the existing network service.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110131 | VIRTUAL CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT A client premises equipment or STB receiver/decoder (15) thin CPE device that comprises a proxy unit (154) that transmits data captured locally on the thin CPE (15) to a virtual CPE (14) and receives, on a secondary framebuffer graphic client... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110140 | PARALLEL DATA TRANSFER OVER MULTIPLE CHANNELS WITH DATA ORDER PRIORITIZATION A parallel download system is described to download data from a plurality of source servers in parallel. The system may include a source scheduler, a prioritization scheduler, and an I/O dispatcher. The source scheduler generates a download schedule to control which sou... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110133 | FILE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, FILE TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND FILE TRANSMITTING PROGRAM A file transmitting apparatus carries out accepting client information of a client as a transmission target from a transmitting terminal 300 used by a client who is to transmit a file, identifying the client-specific application use authority information of the c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084848 | SERVER AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF A service providing method of a server is provided. The method includes registering a service hub according to a service request; setting a service hub program corresponding to the service hub; receiving a request for the service hub program from a user terminal device ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084401 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A communication apparatus, which communicates with another communication apparatus via a server, requests the server to obtain a transmission authority required to exclusively transmit data to the other communication apparatus. When the transmission authority is obtaine... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084405 | Methods And Apparatus For Optimizing Responsiveness Of Portable Documents One disclosed method includes the steps of initiating a download of a first document by a computer system, the first document having a plurality of parts according to a first predefined format; initiating a download of a second document by the computer system, the secon... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084399 | Reconfigurable Download Manager Some embodiments provide a reconfigurable tool for managing the downloading of content from, while reporting information to, various content providers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) through a single installed instance of the reconfigurable tool. In some embodiment... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084186 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS OF A MOBILE DEVICE SERVER A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which operates in a mobile device server and which has computer instructions to obtain a software application, store a first pairi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084403 | DEVICE ABSTRACTION FOR PAGE GENERATION Device Abstraction for Page Generation. A request is received for information to be provided as a page of content, the page provided by a server device to a remote requesting device. The page of content is dynamically constructed in response to the request based on meta... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084400 | Machines, Computer Program Products, and Computer-Implemented Methods Providing an Integrated Node for Data Acquisition and Control Embodiments of an integrated node, such as a programmable logic controller, are provided for process automation and seamless, flexible subsystem communications, allowing a remote host to interface with a plurality of remote and in-plant subsystems and services using a w... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084404 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER UTILIZING NETWORK-BASED DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT An approach provides for recording and editing digital media. A digital media stream is generated from an input signal (such as a live broadcast feed). The digital media stream is transmitted to a browser application configured to concurrently record and edit the digita... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084402 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RELAY APPARATUS An image processing system includes: a relay apparatus; a service providing apparatus for an electronic-file storing service; and an image processing apparatus, which are connected to a network. The image processing apparatus includes: a first-address-get-request transm... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084398 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUBMITTING AND REVIEWING AUDITIONS Auditions need no longer be held locally within the casting director's office. Talent registration forms, size cards, talent worksheets and the duplication of numerous DV tapes or DVDs are no longer necessary, thus resulting in the saving of time, money and energy. Audi... | 04/05/2012 |
