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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112478 | Email and discussion forum system Systems, methods, and media associated with coordinating a discussion forum application and an email application are described. One example system includes a data store and a coordination logic. The data store may store a discussion forum message in a data structure... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112479 | Method, system and device for establishing a peer to peer connection in a P2P network A method and system for establishing a peer to peer connection in a P2P network and a peer device in the P2P network, wherein the method comprises of the following: (1) a management node in the P2P network receives a resource request; (2) the management node selects... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108463 | Demand-driven, collaborative systems and processes for collecting structured information A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108462 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for storing the program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus capable of exchanging information with another apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit for carrying out a communication with the other apparatus; a unit for acquiring information on a state of a communication... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099461 | Conference system and its multimedia data storage method According to one embodiment, a conference system which is provided with a plurality of communication terminals, a communication network connecting the plurality of communication terminals thereto and forming a communication environment, and a server apparatus actual... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099458 | Workgroup application with contextual clues A workgroup application with contextual clues. The workgroup application allows any one of multiple participants to provide input, such as commands to edit a document or speech. The effects of the input are presented to other participants in a workgroup session in c... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099460 | 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... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099459 | Content feedback for authors of web syndications Transmit user feedback from a user to a web syndication author. A first communication link is opened. Content data from the web syndication author is received. The received content data is stored on a first client device. The opened first communication link is termi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099462 | Method of displaying interactive effects in web camera communication To allow for greater interactivity in video chat environments, displaying multiple effects from a sender of a first electronic device to a chat client of a second electronic device on a video chat region starts with the sender selecting an effect. If the selected ef... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099463 | Method and apparatus for sharing concurrent ad hoc web content between users visiting the same web pages A method and apparatus are provided for sharing concurrent ad hoc Web content between users visiting the same Web domain, sub-domain, section or page. In one example, the method includes associating a user with a current uniform resource locator and Web domain, sub-... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095595 | Summarization of immersive collaboration environment A system (and corresponding method) that enables automatic (and/or manual) summarization of significant events that occur within a collaborative discussion is provided. The summarization promotes efficient review and asynchronous participation where a user can trigg... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095409 | Methods and program products for organizing virtual meetings A method for organizing a virtual meeting includes steps of creating a meeting file, the meeting file including at least a meeting date, a meeting start time, a meeting duration time, and a meeting code. The meeting file is stored on a memory accessible to the netwo... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095594 | System for performing collaborative tasks A system for performing collaborative tasks which permits collaborators to determine the form of a model of the collaborative work, to modify the model in the course of the collaborative work, and to use the model to access information related to the collaborative w... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095593 | Method for managing electronic information, the related user terminal and the related information source The present invention relates to a method for managing electronic information and related devices where electronic information is forwarded from at least one electronic information source of a plurality of electronic information sources towards at least one terminal... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090666 | System, method, and computer program product for providing an association between a first participant and a second participant in a social network A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network. In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090775 | Time limited collaborative community role delegation policy A system for establishing and maintaining a permission delegation policy for roles within a collaborative computing environment provides a list of potential delegatee end user persons to a delegator end user person. A list of delegatable permissions is provided to t... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086671 | Systems and methods that facilitate in-order serial processing of related messages The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate serial access to related messages stored within a queue. The systems and methods comprise a conversation manager that generates conversation groups and associated conversation group identifiers for... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082302 | Automatically setting chat status based on user activity in local environment A method is presented for managing user chat status in a chat application. The chat application automatically detects user activity and/or user inactivity external to the chat application and then automatically sets a user chat status value within the chat applicati... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082300 | Web based extranet architecture providing applications to non-related subscribers An extranet includes a network which couples a plurality of non-related participants and a server coupled to the network. The server stores a plurality of applications including workgroup applicants, transaction applications, security applications and transport circ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082303 | Methods and apparatus for combined peer to peer and wide area network based discovery A first wireless communications device includes a wide area network (WAN) interface and a peer to peer interface. The first device discovers the presence of a second wireless communications device via a peer discovery signal, received via its peer to peer interface.... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082301 | System for supporting collaborative activity A system includes a processor which has access to a representation of model of activity, which includes workspaces. Each workspace includes domain hierarchies for representing an organizational structure of the collaborating users using the system, and initiatives h... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078678 | Video messaging Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the int... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078676 | System and method for managing remote computer training labs An educational and training system allows organization and management of computers and course material used in teaching and administering classes of computer based information. Remote users access computers in laboratories or virtual classrooms as if they were actua... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078677 | Method for making recommendations in a social networking system based on personal communication information and a social networking system incorporating same A social networking system comprising a plurality of communication devices; a tracking system; and a social networking interface, where, when a first communication device from the plurality of communication devices communicates with the tracking system so as to auth... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073908 | Method and apparatus for utility computing in ad-hoc and configured peer-to-peer networks Executing a program structure by leveraging a peer-to-peer network comprises generating a program structure comprising a plurality of program instructions. A first of a plurality of network peers then executes a portion of the program instructions which initiates th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073907 | User contribution based mapping system and method A computer implemented user contribution method is provided. The method includes receiving identifying information from a plurality of users and receiving from the plurality of users indications of one or more geographic areas. A quality value of the one or more geo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073905 | Method and apparatus for maintaining consistency of a shared space across multiple endpoints in a peer-to-peer collaborative computer system In a peer-to-peer collaboration system, deltas containing data change commands are organized in a persistent data structure called a delta log. The delta log is organized into blocks, which are the largest division in the delta log. In turn, blocks contain groups, g... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073906 | Inviting a conferencing unaware endpoint to a conference Systems and methods that enable conference unaware clients to participate in the conference. A conferencing component is aware of what protocol to employ, and enables devices and/or end points that employ disparate or heterogeneous protocols to participate in the sa... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069206 | System and method for real-time feedback with conservative network usage in a teleconferencing system Disclosed herein are teleconferencing devices having remote access monitoring and control functions, and network systems and methods including and using the same. Also disclosed herein are methods for interacting with teleconferencing devices over an HTTP or other n... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069205 | Communications controller and method therefor The present invention is directed to IP telephony communications control. A user-interface device is communicatively coupled to an IP communications link and adapted to provide communications control selections to a user via a display. A plurality of IP telephony de... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065366 | System and method for transmitting personal networking-based blog post, and server applied to the same Disclosed are a system and method for distributing a blog post based on personal networking, and a server to be applied thereto. The system includes a writer terminal unit, which makes a series of settings for forming a blog post containing contents posted by a writ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065365 | Grouping event notifications in a database system Techniques for grouping events in a computing system are provided. A registrant sends, to a database server, a request to register to receive a single notification based the occurrence of multiple events that satisfy certain criteria, referred to as grouping attribu... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060563 | Collaboration agent A collaboration agent for facilitating real-time communications on behalf of a user. The collaboration agent includes a conference bridge that anchors calls to the conference bridge. The collaboration agent uses contextual information associated with the user to man... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060562 | Real time update notification Computer method and apparatus for communicating information between a plurality of client computers by means of a communications network. A data server computer coupled to the network communicates data from the data server computer to one or more of a plurality of c... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055708 | Multimedia spaces The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that detect watermarks incorporated within analog and/or digital signals associated with multimedia presentations. The disclosed system can include a component that receives analog and/or digital signals, as... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055707 | Calendar interface for digital communications Information from communications is displayed in a calendar format. Text from the communications is used to determine whether a scheduling entry should be created. If so, text from the communication is used to create a proposed calendar or to-do list entry, which can... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055709 | Systems and methods for clickstream analysis to modify an off-line business process involving product pricing Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior. In embodiments, the output file enables the third... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055710 | System, method and computer program product for intelligent multi-person chat history injection A method, system, and computer program product is provided for automatically searching and injecting a multi-person chat history into a chat session, and allowing users to inject a multi-person chat history into a new chat session. After comparing new chat session p... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051129 | Arrangement and method for reducing required memory usage between communication servers An arrangement and method for reducing memory usage for communications between servers in a communication network utilizing the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) by controlling establishment of SIP dialogues. A single SIP dialogue for a certain event package is util... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051130 | Methods and apparatus for creating, combining, distributing and reproducing program content for groups of participating users A communications system for simulcasting audio or audiovisual program content to a plurality of participating system users via a communication network. Each user operates an access device that reproduces the received program content for the user and also accepts spo... | 11/01/2011 |
