Abstract: A computer implemented method and network device for tracking OPT-OUT user preferences in a global communication network and computer programs thereof, The method comprising performing, by at least one a user, at least one operation request for a service of an online system (500); tracking, by a network device (300), said operation request and detecting if it is linked to a tracking mechanism, wherein: a) if it is not linked to a tracking mechanism, said network device (300), bypasses the operation request to said online system (500) without performing any action; or if it is linked to a tracking mechanism, the network device (300), identifies whether an OPT-OUT or an Opt-In status related to the user is included in the operation request and sends or not the operation request to a tracking server (600) depending on the result of said identification.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and computer program products to improve security in authentication/authorization systems The computer implemented method comprising controlling the access to different resources and actions defined for a user by a first server, reducing the exposure time at which such operations are available, establishing a dual channel verification through the use of a second server and a defining a secure channel for certificate exchange for authentication. The computer programs implement the method.

Abstract: A method and a device for optimizing the assignation of network activity of a cellular communications network to land areas in a simple and accurate way. This technique allows representing the activity of a cellular network on a set of tiles in a grid covering a certain land area, instead of representing it associated to antenna cells that might or might not overlap. The activity dispersed and assigned to non-overlapping grid tiles is much simpler and clearer to understand and allows visualizing how the network activity is distributed over the space and how it varies along time allowing therefore an efficient network design and management optimization.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for classifying mobile applications and computer programs thereof.

Abstract: The method comprising a communication service (30): receiving a communication request in an application (20) that is adapted for an operating system (10) installed in a computing device (D) and is registered in the communication service (30); and checking a state of the application (20) with regard to the computing device (D), wherein if said state meaning that the application (20) being running in background or being offline, performing: a) triggering, by the application (20), an indication to the operating system (10) involving at least a visual indication, an audible indication or a vibration; b) upon the application (20) having waited a certain period of time, requesting said application (20) to delete by operating system (10) said triggered indication; and c) repeating steps a) and b) until the requested communication is established or the communication request finishes.

Abstract: A method for providing wireless data connectivity between user computing devices in a given area and computing device The method comprising: receiving, by a remote server, a message from each one of a plurality of user computing devices included in a given area, said message including information regarding each user computing device, sending, the remote server, based on said received message a response to each one of the plurality of user computing devices; adopting, by each user computing device, a specific state of operation comprising acting as an access point sharing its wireless data connectivity with another user computing device or alternatively acting as a client of another user computing device by means of using the wireless data connectivity provided by the latter; notifying, each user computing device, said adopted specific state of operation to the remote server; and providing said wireless data connectivity by one sharer computing device to a client computing device.

Abstract: A system and method for predicting victims and detecting fake accounts in OSNs, comprising: a feature-based classifier for predicting victims by classifying, with a classification probability, a target variable of each user in the OSN social graph; a graph-transformer for transforming the social graph into a defense graph by reassigning edge weights to incorporate victim predictions using the classification probability, a graph-based detector for detecting fake users by computing through the power iteration method a probability of a random walk to land on each node in the defense graph after 0(log n) steps, assigning to each node a rank value equal to a node's landing probability normalized by the node degree, sorting the nodes by their rank value and estimating a detection threshold such that each node whose rank value is smaller than the detection threshold is flagged as representing a fake account.

Abstract: A method system and device for distributed application execution. The system aims to automatically analyze and split application into application blocks to be run in the most appropriate place based on a set of resources optimizations constraints, combined with end user or provider defined set of rules. Each application can be analyzed in separated way and the results of the analysis might be shared with all the parties participating to the application execution optimization scheme. This way, the overhead during the execution is reduced and the resources are spread and shared.

Abstract: A content recommender based on collaborative filtering and implicit user feedbacks comprising retrieving a social graph split into a user and the user's relationship network in order to obtain a social aware model of the user's preferences based on preferences of the users belonging to the user's relationship network, minimizing the objective function for all the response values of the whole user-item matrix, the response values meaning implicit and explicit feedback data, providing a list of content recommendations obtained by a score function computed using the social aware model.

Abstract: A method and a system for analyzing dynamic graphs are disclosed. In accordance with such method and system, computations are performed at a plurality of graph vertices every time a change in the graph occurs. In order to minimize the computational load of each computation iteration, previous computation results are reused when the inputs for a computation at a given vertex are unchanged from previous computations. This approach enables real-time data mining from large dynamic graphs, without requiring users to devise their own incremental graph algorithms.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, system and device for improving the quality of photographs taken by a photo camera user. They provide, in real time, a continuous and customized auditory quality feedback to the user for an image displayed by the camera in the viewfinder, to help the user to decide whether to take a photograph or not for said image (that is, the photograph for said image has not been taken by the user yet). With the technical solution proposed herein, a more effective, faster and more accurate feedback is given to the photographer and more quality photos are taken saving camera resources at the same time.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for scheduling moment-based tasks associated with a medical treatment and computer program thereof. The method includes receiving by at least one patient a moment-based list of tasks as a patient's instruction specifying when a number of given tasks should be performed; assigning for each task of said list of tasks an amount of time or time normal zone indicating an optimal period of time to perform a given task; and assigning, for each time normal zone, a previous time zone and a subsequent time zone of the time normal zone indicating that said task also can be done. In case of overlapping of time normal zones and/or previous or subsequent time zones for a given number of tasks of a same type an algorithm is executed in order to resolve the conflicts between said overlapped tasks.

Abstract: The method comprises creating a single point in a communication flow, by a first farm load balancer, that both communication sessions requested by a client server A and a client server B at a network layer will pass through; creating stickiness based on said communication session requests and creates a bi-directional affinity by correlating the communication session requests of different sessions and maintaining a correlation mapping.

Abstract: Method for optimizing traffic volume caps in mobile cellular networks comprising: defining three traffic volume caps (x, y, z), wherein x indicates number of messages from mobile messaging services, y indicates bandwidth for mobile data and z indicates duration time of voice calls; computing initial user balance by subtracting total traffic cost generated by user for the mobile cellular network operator from total revenue paid by user to the mobile cellular network operator; obtaining total user balance for a range of caps (x, y, z) using the initial balance and at least a, net-oblivious or net-aware balance model which determines whether user is affected by the caps (x, y, z); selecting optimal traffic volume caps which maximize the total user balance. The method also computes social attraction parameters pk as a fraction of customers of the mobile cellular network operator having k contacts in the mobile cellular network operator.

Abstract: A method and a system for smooth streaming of media content in a distributed content delivery network, including encoding original media files; providing the encoded original media files to an indexer entity; calculating, the indexer entity, index jump tables for all the encoded original media files; ingesting the index jump tables and the encoded original media files to an origin server; requesting an end user to a SSS a stream fragment; retrieving, the SSS from the origin server, a specific index jump table associated to the requested stream fragment, and using the table to find out and retrieve, from the origin Server, a needed encoded original media file block; and retrieving, the SSS, the requested stream fragment out of the encoded media file block, and sending the requested stream fragment to the end user.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and device for gathering feedback information about a product (6) from a plurality of users (22) is disclosed. A feedback query about the product (6) is shown to the user (22) through a display (4) of a feedback gathering device (1) adjacent to the product (6), and the input of the user (22) regarding the query is received through a user interface (5) of the same device (1). The received user input is transmitted to external processing means (14) in the backend, where the user input is aggregated and analyzed.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for an anonymous communication and computer program thereof. A communication service accessible on a web that authenticates user credential information of a first user to authorize a request in order to perform a communication with at least a second user; the first user requesting to the communication service to generate a hyperlink that is associated to its address and provides the generated hyperlink to at least a second user; the latter requesting to initiate said requested communication with said first user by directly clicking on said provided hyperlink, wherein the identity of said at least second user is maintained anonymous and the identity of said first user is done based on the information provided on said hyperlink; said communication between said at least second user and said first user being authorized by and a first server.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for extracting out characteristics of a communication between at least one client and at least one support agent The method comprising: receiving from a communication service a communication copy of a communication performed between said client and said support agent through said communication service; extracting out, of said communication copy a set of characteristics therefrom based on the analysis of a set of parameters including at least text, voice, or video parameters depending on the type of the communication; determining, a score about evaluation level of the client based on said set of extracted characteristics; sending, said determined score and the communication copy, including the communication content and meta-data, to a timing media analyzer; and determining, based on said received score and said communication copy, a number of evaluation points by applying a set of rules.

Abstract: A computer implemented method including a software distributor signing via a first server at least one software file using a digital certificate with a digital signature and at least one user via a computing device acquiring a copy of the signed software file. The digital certificate to be used is previously recorded in a second server in communication with the first server, the digital certificate to be recorded being provided by the software distributor upon a registration of the latter in the second server and including information obtained from a trust certificate chain associated to the digital certificate when performing the registration. The second server generates, upon a request made by the software distributor, a hashstamp of the signed software file.

Abstract: A method and system for combined Peer-to-Peer (P2P) conferencing and central relay server-based conferencing using a telephony and conferencing protocol that includes Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), including receiving by a central relay server a request from a client device to participate in a conference call, comparing by the central relay server a received client device policy and a central relay server policy for selecting at least one of the P2P conferencing or the central relay server-based conferencing, and selecting at least one suggested connection mode for the client device based on a result of the comparing of the received client device policy and the central relay server policy, the combined P2P conferencing and central relay server-based conferencing including mixing server-based conferencing streams and P2P conferencing streams.