Abstract: The protected resource, typically an API, is exposed by endpoints of a plurality of administrative domains. The endpoints are previously unknown by said service application and the method further comprises: i. using an intermediate or global entity for: a) selecting one of said administrative domains based on flexible criteria (i.e. at least on the identity of said end user but also considering varying user or service preferences); and b) performing, said selected administrative domain, a secure authorization to grant access to said end user by means of an open protocol; and ii. providing, said selected administrative domain to said service application, once performed said secure authorization, direct or proxy access to said user's protected resource via the endpoint established by said intermediate entity.

Abstract: The method includes a computing mechanism running in a computer device receiving as inputs, the geographical region R, base stations giving coverage to the geographical region R and call records generated by individuals using the base stations. Prediction of the socioeconomic level is automatically performed by using information during a given time period from the call records. The computer programs include code adapted for computing the average socioeconomic value for each coverage region and computing a set of variables when the program is run on a computer.

Abstract: Comprises providing several widgets and linking them to exchange data there between for performing the execution of an application or functionality, the method further comprising providing a widget suite grouping said several widgets and having an external entry point associated to one of said several widgets.

Abstract: A method, computer programs and a use for automatic identification and classification of land uses. The method including a computing mechanism running in a computer device receiving as inputs, a geographical region R, a plurality of base stations giving coverage to the geographical region R and a call records generated by individuals using the base stations, and performing automatically the identification and classification of land uses by making use of information extracted during a given time period from the call records. The programs include code adapted to perform the approximation of each coverage region when the program is run on a computer, and to perform a comparison when the program is run on a computer.

Abstract: Method, system and computer program for determining the matching between a first and a second sampled signals using an improved Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, called Unbounded DTW. It uses a dynamic programming algorithm to find exact start-end alignment points, unknown a priori, being the initial subsampling of the similarity matrix made via definition of optimal synchronization points, allowing a very fast process.

Abstract: A method, computer programs and a use for automatic identification and classification of land uses. The method including a computing mechanism running in a computer device receiving as inputs, a geographical region R, a plurality of base stations giving coverage to the geographical region R and a call records generated by individuals using the base stations, and performing automatically the identification and classification of land uses by making use of information extracted during a given time period from the call records. The programs include code adapted to perform the approximation of each coverage region when the program is run on a computer, and to perform a comparison when the program is run on a computer.

Abstract: A method for the construction of commuting matrices using call detail records, computer programs and a use for providing user's mobility information, including computing mechanism for constructing a commuting matrix according to phone call records of a user. The method includes: a) providing a user's origin time range; b) providing a user's destination time range or second user's origin time range; c) constructing the commuting matrix based on call detail records using the user's origin time range and the user's destination time range; d) comparing the commuting matrix with a predetermined ground truth matrix and obtaining a comparison result; and e) optimizing the origin time range and/or destination time range based on the comparison result.

Abstract: The optical connection device comprises a housing body (20) having a transceiver cavity (21) to receive an optical transceiver and an approaching channel formed about a longitudinal axis (15) to receive a plastic optical fibre (10) having a termination (11) adjacent to and aligned with said optical transceiver, a deformable clamp arranged around said plastic optical fibre (10), and a movable fixer element (40) configured to deform said deformable clamp to grip the plastic optical fibre (10) when said fixer element (40) is moved in a fixing direction with respect to said housing body (20). The fixer element (40) is moved in said fixing direction by a fixer spring member (70) and a releaser element (50) is arranged to move the fixer element (40) in an opposite releasing direction for releasing the deformable clamp when said releaser element (50) is manually depressed.

Abstract: The procedure comprises using a pre-planned path restoration scheme for computing in advance, or pre-calculating, recovery paths for recovering failed working paths, and particularly comprises pre-calculating a set of recovery paths for each working path linking an origin node with a destination node, and simultaneously using the recovery paths of the set of recovery paths to try to communicate the origin node with the destination node, in case of one or more failures have been produced in the working path. The system is arranged for pre-calculating a set of recovery paths for each working path and simultaneously using them to recover a working path failure, and is apt for implementing the procedure.

Abstract: A multilayer communications network system for distributing multicast services and a method for such a distribution The system comprises a switched optical transport network layer, such as a WSON, and an electronic packet switched network layer, such as a IP/MPLS, where the switched optical transport network layer transports multicast flows services and the electronic packet switched network layer is a backup layer of a dynamic restoration mechanism for recovery against one or more failures occurring in the switched optical transport network layer. The method comprises transporting multicast flows services through the switched optical transport network layer, and performing a recovery against one or more failures occurring in the switched optical transport network layer by means of a dynamic restoring carried out by using said electronic packet switched network layer as a backup layer.

Abstract: A method is described for providing cloud computing resources. The cloud computing resources having a plurality of virtual machine hours and/or bandwidth storage to be provided by a user and intended to attend a number of requests from the user, the requests including a plurality of tasks per second, the method portioning the virtual machine hours uniformly divided in units among several periods of time and providing access to the units virtual machine hours in response to said user's requests and dynamically allocating the cloud computing resources provided, by means of a temporal load awareness scheme.

Abstract: An identification method for accessing mobile Broadband services or applications using a communications device of a computing equipment and involving sending a credential to a server providing Broadband services or applications, through an MBB network.

Abstract: Two ends of a QKD system are connected through a private quantum channel using a protocol based on the principles of quantum physics and a conventional channel, both channels being introduced through the same medium using multiplexing techniques, wherein a possible intrusion in the communication is detected by checking the variability of the distribution of exchanged photons between both ends of said private quantum channel and in case of detecting an intrusion due to the risk identified on the communication channel the system launches an alarm. To avoid other attacks another conventional channel different from the quantum channel is further used in order to check the error rate in the exchanges.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system which can be used for exchanging short multimedia messages between two or more users. The system is used, without distinction, for client-server implementations (31, 32, 33) or for server-free client-client implementations (41, 42). The system has the following essential technical features: (i) the session is established (311, 411) when a first client presses a user button and is ended (313, 413) when said first user releases said button; (ii) at the start of the session (311, 411) a list of all the participants is transmitted; (iii) at the start of the session (311, 411) a global session identifier is transmitted; (iv) the clients receiving a PTT message sent by the aforementioned first client optionally reply after receiving said list and identifier.

Abstract: Comprises a network termination device (1) at a home network, and, for providing broadband services to different end devices of said home network, networking and service capabilities which are implemented, virtualized, in separate elements (2, 3) of a broadband service provider network, and connected to said termination device (1), therefore providing a home gateway capabilities Virtualization system.

Abstract: It comprises defining the residential location of one or more users according to his mobile phone activity during a time pattern comprising at least one specific period of time. It also comprises carrying out said residential localization by automatically carrying out the next steps: a) determining said time pattern, or residential calling pattern, from mobile phone-call data (such as that included in CDRs) of a plurality of users whose residential locations are known a priori, such as users with a contract, and b) applying said determined residential calling pattern to mobile phone-call data (such as that included in CDR) of one or more users whose residential location is unknown, such as anonymized users or pre-paid customers, in order to determine their residential location as that at which at least one call has been made with their mobile phone within said specific period included in said residential calling pattern.

Abstract: The method comprises performing said calculation by using data provided by an image recognition process which identifies at least one geo-referenced image of an object located in the surroundings of said personal device. The system is arranged for implementing the method of the present invention.

Abstract: A method for distributing long-tail content, including the steps of: a) loading, a first user, into a local PoP to which said first user is remotely connected an amount of long-tail content to be distributed and shared; and b) geo replicating, at selected times, the amount of long-tail content to a at least one remote PoP, to which at least a second user is remotely connected, by pushing said amount of content to be distributed and shared to the at least one remote PoP. The method including selecting, before performing steps a) and b), the at least second user, based on the probability that the amount of long-tail content generated by the first user will be requested by the at least second user, the probability being estimated by historical preference information generated between the first user and the at least second user.

Abstract: Method for an automatic identification of urban dense areas from cell phones records, by using a computing device that receives as inputs: a geographical region R, a time period ?t for which dense areas in the region R need to be computed, a set of BTSs in the region R, a set of CDRs generated by individuals during the time period ?t using the set of BTSs of the region R, a coverage C and a granularity ?.

Abstract: The method comprises defining the workflow of a service lifecycle by means of a state diagram and following its evolution and adaptation using rule-based adaptation mechanisms enabling the transformation of services to change in response to user requirements, and delivering to said rule-based adaptation mechanism user predefined application information, which declaratively defines the architecture of an application formed by several services or said architecture plus the behaviour of the whole application under a series of variable circumstances, and using said rule-based adaptation mechanism to process and enforce at run time at least said user predefined application information. The system is arranged and intended for implementing the method, by comprising interrelated elements arranged and intended for carrying out the actions of the method.