Abstract: A method for monitoring browsers (B) for a communications network (N), wherein a monitoring server contains a set of monitoring elements, and implements: ?—a step (E1) of receiving a monitoring element request from a browser (B), ?—a step (E2) of determining whether the request is a first request from the browser, ?—if so, a step (E3) of calculating an identifier for the browser, then a step (4) of determining a cache duration value associated with each monitoring element of the set, and a step (E5) of transmitting the set of monitoring elements and associated values to the browser; ?—if not, a step (E6) of determining the browser's identifier based on the monitoring elements requested in the request.

Abstract: A method and system for deploying and customizing advertisement selection logic without requiring a shutdown and/or restart of system resources. A first arrangement of advertisement logic may include filters to be executed in a pipeline model. A second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be determined based at least in part on information received. Alternatively, the second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be automatic based at least in part on statistics or defined hints. The second arrangement of advertisement selection logic may be implemented using different filters or rearranged filters in an updated pipeline model.

Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products for facilitating the selection of a sourcing peer in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming environment are disclosed. These methods allow peers to select candidate source peers in an informed manner with low overhead and minimized complexity. These and other features are accomplished by signaling detailed information regarding the buffer contents to one or more requesting peers. This information includes the presence or absence of requested content segments and a listing of gaps in the requested content segments, which allow the requesting peers to select an appropriate sourcing peer. The selection of a sourcing peer is also effected by considering network connectivity and/or network congestion status between the sourcing and the requesting peers.

Abstract: A method for monitoring browsers (B) for a communications network (N), wherein a monitoring server contains a set of monitoring elements, and implements:—a step (E1) of receiving a monitoring element request from a browser (B),—a step (E2) of determining whether the request is a first request from the browser,—if so, a step (E3) of calculating an identifier for the browser, then a step (E4) of determining a cache duration value associated with each monitoring element of the set, and a step (E5) of transmitting the set of monitoring elements and associated values to the browser;—if not, a step (E6) of determining the browser's identifier based on the monitoring elements requested in the request.

Abstract: Methods, devices and computer program products for facilitating the selection of a sourcing peer in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming environment are disclosed. These methods allow peers to select candidate source peers in an informed manner with low overhead and minimized complexity. These and other features are accomplished by signalling detailed information regarding the buffer contents to one or more requesting peers. This information includes the presence or absence of requested content segments and a listing of gaps in the requested content segments, which allow the requesting peers to select an appropriate sourcing peer. The selection of a sourcing peer is also effected by considering network connectivity and/or network congestion status between the sourcing and the requesting peers.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing advertising content to terminals communicating over a communications network is provided. The apparatus includes a processing element that communicates with network elements residing on the network or other networks to receive information regarding the terminals and their users. At least one of the terminals may be a mobile terminal. The processing element communicates an instruction to an advertising platform based on this information, and the advertising platform in turn selects and transmits advertising content to the respective terminals according to the instruction. Such content may include text messages, voice messages, picture messages, video clips, and more. In some cases, the processing element may determine a common characteristic of two or more terminals and their users based on the information received, and advertising content based on that common characteristic may be sent to the terminals. A method, system, and computer program product are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing a capability discovery. The method is implemented by a home server (10) and comprising the steps of:—receiving (101), from a user terminal (11), a principal discovery request (12) comprising a complete contact list,—from the complete contact list, determining (102) which contacts are locally known, and which contacts are locally unknown,—generating a limited contact list containing all contacts that are locally unknown,—sending (103) a plurality of secondary discovery requests (19) comprising the limited contact list to a plurality of remote servers (17, 18),—receiving (104), from each remote server (17, 18), a notification (16) containing information about contacts contained in the limited contact list,—sending (105), for each unknown contact by the home server (10) and the plurality of remote servers (17, 18), a back-end subscription to a home IMS core (21).

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from traffic steering. For example, radio access network based traffic steering can be used to benefit of communications by steering traffic to Wi-Fi leveraging Hotspot 2.0. A method can include determining that an off-load condition exists in an area of a radio access network. The method can also include commanding a user equipment to off-load to non-cellular radio access based on the determining.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing advertising content to terminals communicating over a communications network is provided. The apparatus includes a processing element that communicates with network elements residing on the network or other networks to receive information regarding the terminals and their users. At least one of the terminals may be a mobile terminal. The processing element communicates an instruction to an advertising platform based on this information, and the advertising platform in turn selects and transmits advertising content to the respective terminals according to the instruction. Such content may include text messages, voice messages, picture messages, video clips, and more. In some cases, the processing element may determine a common characteristic of two or more terminals and their users based on the information received, and advertising content based on that common characteristic may be sent to the terminals. A method, system, and computer program product are also provided.

Abstract: A resource assignment capability is presented. A resource specification associated with a plurality of elements is received. The resource specification includes, for each of the elements, a resource request including an indication of a quantity of resources requested by the element and a resource offer including an indication of a quantity of resources offered by the element for use by one or more other elements. A resource assignment, including an indication of an association between the resources requests and the resource offers, is determined using a resource assignment process. The resource assignment process may be a greedy assignment process or a maximum flow resource assignment process. The maximum flow resource assignment process includes constructing a maximum flow resource graph based on the one or more resource specifications and applying a maximum flow process to the maximum flow resource graph to determine thereby the resource assignment.

Abstract: A data block storage management capability is presented. A cloud file system management capability manages storage of data blocks of a file system across multiple cloud storage services (e.g., including determining, for each data block to be stored, a storage location and a storage duration for the data block). A cloud file system management capability manages movement of data blocks of a file system between storage volumes of cloud storage services. A cloud file system management capability provides a probabilistic eviction scheme for evicting data blocks from storage volumes of cloud storage services in advance of storage deadlines by which the data blocks are to be removed from the storage volumes. A cloud file system management capability enables dynamic adaptation of the storage volume sizes of the storage volumes of the cloud storage services.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting, by a first device, a timing measurement frame from a second device, the timing measurement frame having a plurality of time measurement samples, wherein at least the first of the measurement samples has a transmit timestamp value; determining transmit timing values for the subsequent measurement samples; applying a receive timestamp value to each of the received measurement samples; and determining a relative clock drift between a clock of the first device and a clock of the second device by comparing the receive timestamp values with transmit timing values of one or more measurement samples contained in the frame.

Abstract: There are disclosed various methods and apparatuses for providing power to a set of power amplifiers. In some embodiments the method comprises obtaining first transmission parameters associated with a first transmit signal, selecting one or more output voltage values on the basis of the first transmission parameters, controlling a multi-level power source to generate one or more output voltages on the basis of the one or more output voltage values, multiplexing based on the first transmit signal between two or more of the output voltages and a first supply voltage terminal of a first power amplifier, and amplifying the first transmit signal with the first power amplifier.

Abstract: User equipment receives and stores configuration information for selection of an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG). The ePDG configuration information includes one or more parameters relating to identification and functions of ePDGs in an HPLMN and/or in one or more VPLMNs. When the UE performs ePDG selection, the UE accesses the ePDG configuration information and then selects an ePDG for access to a core packet network using the ePDG configuration information.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for: storing at least one three-dimensional matrix C[M][N][K] of calibration data; performing singular value decomposition of each at least one three-dimensional matrix C[M][N][K] of calibration data to produce at least one first unitary rotation matrix U, at least one diagonal scaling matrix S and at least one second unitary rotation matrix V; and resizing each of the at least one first unitary rotation matrix U, the at least one diagonal scaling matrix S and the at least one second unitary rotation matrix V by removing dimensions therefrom, thereby producing resized matrices U, S and V. Corresponding decompression is also provided.

Abstract: A data block storage management capability is presented. A cloud file system management capability manages storage of data blocks of a file system across multiple cloud storage services (e.g., including determining, for each data block to be stored, a storage location and a storage duration for the data block). A cloud file system management capability manages movement of data blocks of a file system between storage volumes of cloud storage services. A cloud file system management capability provides a probabilistic eviction scheme for evicting data blocks from storage volumes of cloud storage services in advance of storage deadlines by which the data blocks are to be removed from the storage volumes. A cloud file system management capability enables dynamic adaptation of the storage volume sizes of the storage volumes of the cloud storage services.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, devices and systems, where a first radio connection is formed from a user device to a communication network, and information of a location of the user device is provided to a server system connected to the communication network over the first radio connection. Then, link setup information is formed at the server system and provided from said server system over the first radio connection. The link setup information comprises data for forming a second radio connection from the location of the first user device to a communication network using a beam forming antenna. Utilizing this link setup information, a second radio connection is formed from the first user device to a communication network, and a beam forming antenna operating in a beam forming mode is used in the forming of the radio connection. The second radio link may be a link between the user device mounted in a fixed location, e.g. a wall of a building and a network radio node. The user device may be e.g.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a first magnetic plate; a second magnetic plate oriented parallel no the first magnetic plate, magnetically coupled to the first magnetic plate, and slidable relative to the first magnetic plate; a dielectric material positioned between the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate; and a contact in communication with the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate through which a voltage is applied, the voltage generating a signal that is responsive to a task performed on a mobile device, the signal providing a haptic effect to the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate upon sliding of the first magnetic plate relative to the second magnetic plate.

Abstract: An approach is provided for substantially automatically determining that a user is associated with at least one product. A processing platform determines one or more media files, one or more content files, or a combination thereof, which are associated with the at least one product. Further, the processing platform associates the one or media files, one or more content files, or a combination thereof with descriptive information associated with the at least one product.

Abstract: Network device for transmitting packets having packet properties, including at least two input-output-buffers for queuing packets in the network device; a sojourn time calculator for calculating a sojourn related time for each head packet in the at least two input-output-buffers; a sojourn related time adaptor for, based on an adaptation function assigned to the corresponding input-output-buffer, adapting the sojourn related time into an adapted time for each head packet in the at least two input-output-buffers; and a scheduler for scheduling outgoing packets based on the adapted time.