Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing apportioning of opportunity among campaigns in an on-demand service in a database system. These mechanisms and methods for providing apportioning of opportunity among campaigns can enable embodiments to automatically determine which campaigns are related to an opportunity and provide a filtered set of campaigns that are related to at least one opportunity. The ability of embodiments to apportion opportunity among campaigns can provide marketing information that accurately reflects the true relationship between an opportunity and a plurality of campaigns.

Abstract: Service delivery systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a service delivery system includes a set of tokens, a database, multiple terminals, and a service manager. Each of the tokens includes a respective token identifier. The database stores personal user profiles each of which is associated with a respective token identifier. The terminals are distributed about a selected locale. Each terminal has a reader that is operable to read token identifiers from tokens and a controller that is operable to transmit read token identifiers and context data identifying one or more conditions under which a token identifier is read through a network connection each time a token identifier is read. The service manager is connected to each of the terminals through a respective network connection and to the database.

Abstract: Methods and systems for complementing network discovery with physical discovery are provided. In one embodiment, a universal physical discovery layer and a legacy network discovery layer are provided. The legacy network discovery layer is implemented using a legacy network discovery protocol. The legacy network discovery layer is separate from and communicates with the universal physical discovery layer. Data representing a physical relationship type between the physical entities is obtained and used to establish the physical relationship type at the universal physical discovery layer.

Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing apportioning of opportunity among campaigns in an on-demand service in a database system. These mechanisms and methods for providing apportioning of opportunity among campaigns can enable embodiments to automatically determine which campaigns are related to an opportunity and provide a filtered set of campaigns that are related to at least one opportunity. The ability of embodiments to apportion opportunity among campaigns can provide marketing information that accurately reflects the true relationship between an opportunity and a plurality of campaigns.

Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating a story mail between communications devices extends voice mail are provided. In one embodiment, user specified correlation information that describes a correlation for presenting visual media with continuous audio data is used to generate synchronization information. A story mail transmitting device transmits a story mail that is associated with synchronization information. A story mail receiving device uses the synchronization information to present the continuous audio data and the visual media associated with the story mail. Either the story mail transmitting device or the story mail receiving device is a handheld communications device.

Abstract: Using a web presence manager infrastructure (see Appendix), actions, appliance events, and presences are continuously and automatically captured and stored as historical metadata for each physical context managed. The metadata is mapped interactively for all users. Personal content for each user, such as digital file usage, is indexed in association with each physical context. Users personal content from autobiographical web presence manager past events is displayed upon each registration of the user's presence in a current physical context with content recall directly related to the current physical context. Personal content mapping to available services is also provided.

Abstract: A user input module that enables user input without the relatively high costs associated with dedicated user input mechanisms or the relatively high costs associated with handheld devices. A user input module for a device according to the present teachings includes a set of RFID tags for storing a user input and a switching mechanism for activating the RFID tags such that the RFID tags when activated transmit the user input. Devices may use RFID readers to obtain the transmitted user input and then act on the user input as appropriate.

Abstract: Service delivery systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a service delivery terminal includes a network adapter, a memory, a reader, and a controller. The network adapter is operable to exchange data over a network connection. The memory stores a database of one or more access addresses for each of one or more remote services accessible over the network connection. The reader is operable to read token identifiers from tokens. The controller is operable to transmit read token identifiers to a selected service access address in the stored database over the network connection each time a token identifier is read.

Abstract: Service delivery systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a service delivery system includes a set of tokens, a database, multiple terminals, and a service manager. Each of the tokens includes a respective token identifier. The database stores personal user profiles each of which is associated with a respective token identifier. The terminals are distributed about a selected locale. Each terminal has a reader that is operable to read token identifiers from tokens and a controller that is operable to transmit read token identifiers and context data identifying one or more conditions under which a token identifier is read through a network connection each time a token identifier is read. The service manager is connected to each of the terminals through a respective network connection and to the database.

Abstract: A context-aware client system includes a web browser that sends a request to a remote web server to retrieve a web page from the remote web server. A context store stores context information of the client system. A transformation module is coupled to the web browser and the context store to add the context information into the web page before the web page is displayed by the web browser such that services specified in the context information and available to the client system can be readily invoked via the modified web page. A method of including context information of a client system into a web page shown by the client system is also described.

Abstract: A context-aware proxy server system includes a proxy engine that processes a request from a client system coupled to the proxy server system to retrieve a web page from a remote web server and pass the web page to the client system. A context store is provided to store context information of the client system. A transformation module is coupled to the proxy engine and the context store to add the context information into the web page before the web page is sent to the client system such that services specified in the context information can be readily invoked by the client system via the modified web page. A method of including context information of a client system into a web page sent to the client system is also described.

Abstract: A system that provides an Internet-based representation of a physical environment which reflects physical/environmental relationships among the physical entities in the physical environment. A system according to the present teaching enables the formation of relationships involving the physical entities and the performance of behaviors associated with the relationships. A system according to the present teaching also provides an interface between physical entities and a vast assortment of Internet services in a manner that takes into account the physical environment of the physical entities.

Abstract: A method for providing user context information to customize responses from a Web server. The method includes the step of receiving user context information from a user and receiving an HTTP request from the user for information from a Web server. The user context information is added to the HTTP request. The HTTP request is transmitted with the user context information to the Web server to obtain a customized response from the Web server. The customized response is then forwarded to the user. The user context information received from the user can be stored in a proxy server. The user context information is received in accordance with Internet communication standards, and a proxy server can be used to receive the HTTP request from the user and to forward the customized response from the Web server to the user. The user context information can be appended to the HTTP request by using a cookie HTTP header or by using an extended HTTP header.