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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131041 | INTERACTIVE STORY COMPILATION Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and non-transitory, tangible computer-readable media associated with facilitating publishing of written material. In various embodiments, an interactive story compiler provides stored questions and stores the written responses ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110621 | Social Aspects of Media Guides A computer-implemented method, including receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user to display descriptors of media programming content for a time period; identifying people associated with the user employing information stored in a computer database, and i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084667 | CUSTOMIZED PRESENTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS According to a general aspect, a method can include receiving a request, triggered via a consumer account, to access, using a social media application, a plurality of sharer content. The sharer content can be associated with a sharer account using the social media appli... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084666 | COMPOSITION OF CUSTOMIZED PRESENTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION According to a general aspect, a method can include receiving a request, triggered via a consumer account, to access, using a social media application, a plurality of sharer content. The sharer content can be associated with a sharer account using the social media appli... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072854 | CONCURRENT DOCUMENT MARKUP A system, method, and computer readable medium are presented for concurrent markup of a document by a plurality of reviewers. A method includes combining a document and markups associated with a plurality of reviewers into a reviewing file for use by a user. Markups ass... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054640 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A COLLABORATIVE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT Described herein are systems and methods for enabling a collaborative remote desktop environment. The system includes a computing device and a first application instance that has an application state associated therewith. The first application instance includes, or is a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054639 | INTELLIGENT WORKSPACE Described herein is a technology for collaboration. In accordance with some implementations, the workspace tool is adapted to cooperate with an electronic communication system. Electronic communications related to the workspace tool are stored in a repository and are as... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054638 | AUTOMATED EFFORT JUDGEMENT OF USER GENERATED CONTENT Techniques are described for estimating the effort involved in creating content on a content site. Embodiments of the invention may collect data by monitoring actions taken by a user creating content on the site, and may then calculate an effort value for the created co... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047446 | ESTABLISHMENT OF MESSAGE CONTEXT IN A COLLABORATION SYSTEM A processing device used to support communications between users of the collaboration system is provided with a graphical user interface. A graphical context activation mechanism associated with a discussion between users of the collaboration system may be displayed. Re... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120036453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL CREATION, EDITING AND PRESENTATION OF SCENARIOS The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating, editing, reusing and presenting of scenarios. The scenario may comprise events, where each event may comprise instance and/or class components. The system may comprise a processor and a GUI that is obje... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036452 | MASKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN A SCREEN SHARING SESSION A system can mask specific components of an application, such as a web page, displayed during a screen sharing session. As the web page is being displayed on a first computer screen (i.e., screen), the system can automatically mask specific components of the web page. T... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030586 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA USING SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS Systems and methods for social media guidance applications are provided. A social media guidance application may be integrated with one or more social networks associated with a user. In some embodiments, the application may receive input from a user to publish a media ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA USING SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS Systems and methods for social media guidance applications are provided. A social media guidance application may be integrated with one or more social networks associated with a user. In some embodiments, the application may receive input from a user to publish a media ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023413 | VIRTUAL DATA ROOM FOR DISPLAYING CLINICAL TRIAL STATUS REPORTS BASED ON REAL-TIME CLINICAL TRIAL DATA, WITH INFORMATION CONTROL ADMINISTRATION MODULE THAT SPECIFIES WHICH REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DISPLAY A system is provided for use in distributing information associated with an investigational product, such as a pharmaceutical drug. The information includes electronic documents associated with the investigational product, and a plurality of different electronic reports... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011140 | Analytics of historical conversations in relation to present communication A method of analyzing historical communications. During a first communication session between a first user and at least a second user, at least a first communication exchanged between the first user and the second user can be detected and stored. A second communication ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005596 | SAVING AND RESTORING COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS IN CONTEXT A method for saving and restoring collaborative applications to a selected earlier time, may include saving, by a processing device, content for each collaborative application of a plurality of collaborative applications as a user uses each of the collaborative applicat... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005595 | USERS AS ACTORS IN CONTENT A method may include receiving a plurality of images of a face of a user, wherein each image of the face of the user is associated with one of a plurality of different expressions. The method may also include receiving a first video, wherein the first video comprises im... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005597 | COOPERATIVE BATCH SCHEDULING IN MULTITENANCY SYSTEMS Systems and methods for cooperative batch scheduling in multitenancy computing systems are described. A number of batch requests are received in the computing system, where each batch request includes a job reference, and a start time when the execution of the reference... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320958 | CONFERENCE RECAP AND RECORDING A method, system, and device are provided for presenting event views via a calendaring application or the like. In particular, the event view is alterable depending upon whether or not the event currently being viewed is a past event or not. Past events may posses addit... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314389 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF AN APPLICATION RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INTO A USER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Systems and methods for creating application runtime environments or application environments that can be downloaded and integrated into the computing environment of a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a computing device on which a... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A COLLABORATIVE PLAYLIST An approach is provided for generating a collaborative playlist. An input for initiating creation of a collaborative playlist is received. The collaborative playlist can be based, at least in part, on one or more criteria. A notification of the collaborative playlist is... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313751 | Providing Compartmentalized Security in Product Reviews A mechanism is provided for providing compartmentalized security in product reviews. A central authoritative state module within a compartmentalized security mechanism identifies a clearance level associated with a user that has been authenticated. Responsive to the cle... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314387 | INTELLIGENT FILTERING FOR RENDER STATUS DETERMINATION IN A SCREEN SHARING SYSTEM A shared space can be identified that represents a portion of a graphical user interface that is shared and concurrently viewable among of set of at least two different computing devices. Data can be determined for a synchronization status representing a degree to which... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307777 | WEB SERVICE USER EXPERIENCE WITHOUT UPFRONT STORAGE EXPENSE A system and method is provided for creating accounts for users of a service. An infrastructure associated with an invited user enables the invited user to view a document that is stored in association with another user. A server computer is capable of receiving an indi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307788 | ROLE-BASED PRESENTATION VIEWS A presentation state that includes a presentation and other information is synchronized between one or more client computers executing a presentation client application. A client computer executing the presentation client application receives the presentation state, inc... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307801 | CONTRIBUTOR COMPENSATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for contributor compensation. In some embodiments, a user contributes content data to a wiki. The user is compensated for the contribution of the content data to the wiki. In othe... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307803 | Community Interest Network Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a community interest network that is developed on a societal relationship platform. In various embodiments, the platform is based on a collection of online... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307802 | REVIEW OF REQUESTS TO MODIFY CONTEXTUAL DATA OF A PROGRAMMING INTERFACE Some embodiments of a system and a method to review contextual data of programming interfaces have been presented. For instance, a processing device may generate a user interface to collect feedback from a group of reviewers on a programming interface in response to a r... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302503 | FEATURE SET DIFFERENTIATION BY TENANT AND USER A system for online collaboration includes an application for online collaboration, the application including an application feature set, a control module programmed to receive a request from a user to access a tenancy associated with the application on the system, the ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302504 | Mobile Application for Proximity Based Awareness System A proximity-based awareness system that includes a mobile computing device for each user and a system server in communication with the mobile devices. The system server may enable the user to create and edit a personal profile; broadcast the profile to another user; ena... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296303 | REPLICATING RECORDED ACTIONS ACROSS COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT A first computer system in a collaborative environment receives a plurality of indications of actions executed on content of a second computer system in the collaborative environment. A mapping between the content of the second computer system and corresponding content ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296300 | Concurrent Editing of a Document by Multiple Clients A first computing device opens a local copy of a document. The first computing device updates the local copy of the document to reflect a remote change. The remote change is a change made to a remote copy of the document by a user of a second computing device. The first... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110283201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MATCHING DATES ON THE INTERNET A dating Internet site based computer system offers matchmakers to aid in the dating process. The system includes a client database to hold clients that wish to date and attributes of said clients. The system contains a matchmaker database that holds matchmakers, who ar... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282942 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ONLINE STATIONERY OR GREETING CARD SERVICE A system and method are described for managing friends within an online stationery/card service. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: connecting to an external social networking service on behalf of a user; retrieving the user's friend data from ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276895 | Conversation Capture Solutions for capturing and displaying conversation history for providing conversation capture functionality. Some such solutions use a user supersystem as a communications hub to capture and/or generate relevant information for enhancing conversations with contacts, in... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276896 | Multi-User Integrated Task List Solutions for providing integrated task list functionality. Some such solutions use a user supersystem as a communications hub to generate, display, and/or handle user-based tasks for a family group. For example, tasks may be assigned to one or more members of the famil... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276894 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MULTI-USER FEEDBACK TO INFLUENCE AUDIOVISUAL QUALITY System, method, and computer program product to collect user settings regarding the quality of audiovisual (AV) content, and to change the quality of the content based on the collected settings. Users may provide input regarding tradeoffs in AV quality, such as audio qu... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271201 | Decentralized Contextual Collaboration Across Heterogeneous Environments Methods and systems are described for enhancing applications, such as browser applications, to include contextual collaboration functionality within the application's user interface by providing a collaboration interface. The collaboration interface provides access to a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265011 | SOCIAL GRAPH THAT INCLUDES WEB PAGES OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM A social networking system includes a mechanism for incorporating nodes in the social graph, where the nodes are associated with a web page. Each web page includes one or more tags, which contain meta-information for defining the node in the social networking system, su... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND CATALOGING In some embodiments, a method includes accessing a provider interface. The provider interface is associated with a provider having at least one asset for purchase. The asset can be, for example, a plant-related product, a livestock-related product and/or the like. Data ... | 10/27/2011 |
