Patents Examined by Michael A. Chambers
  • Remote access of media items
    Patent number: 8463924
    Abstract: Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified. Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. Media item content data associated with a first subset of the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. In this manner, only media item metadata associated with a second subset of the plurality of media items is stored on the first network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Heller, Thomas C. Mavrakakis
  • Systems and methods for managing multimedia operations in remote sessions
    Patent number: 8433812
    Abstract: Techniques relating to managing multimedia transmissions in terminal services scenarios are described. In an example, a method sends a user-interface component from a server to a remote client. The exemplary method further streams a media component for presentation on the remote client in combination with the user-interface component and the media presentation is tracked but not displayed by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rajneesh Mahajan, Vladimir Stoyanov
  • Image data transmitting apparatus and image data transmitting method
    Patent number: 8429241
    Abstract: Provided is an image data transmitting apparatus capable of transmitting an image data in a given form according to a command from the receiving side. The image data transmitting apparatus is an image data transmitting apparatus transmitting image data to a receiving apparatus through a network, and includes: image data converting unit not only converting the image data to a converted image data file but also preparing file information of the converted image data file; posting unit posting the file information to the receiving apparatus; receiving unit receiving command information concerning a transmitting method for the converted image data file; and transmission controlling unit transmitting the converted image data file to the receiving apparatus based on the command information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Munehiro Natsume, Yuji Kobayashi, Noriyo Kawashima, Kiyohito Tsujihara, Shigeo Tomita
  • Data processing apparatus, data processing method, data processing system, storage medium and program
    Patent number: 8428577
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a reproducing element for reproducing each of a plurality of content data items a reproduction status detecting element for detecting status of each content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element a selecting element for selecting the content data item being reproduced by the reproducing element depending on the reproduction status of the content data item detected by the reproduction status detecting element a content identification data generating element for generating content identification data for identifying the content data item selected by the selecting element from the plurality of content data items and a transmitting element for transmitting to a second data processing apparatus the content identification data generated by the content identification data generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsuda, Akira Tange
  • Apparatus and a method for distributing bandwidth
    Patent number: 8411566
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for distributing bandwidth, on one or more first ports having a maximum bandwidth, the bandwidth usage being monitored and compared to a percentage of the maximum bandwidth. If the bandwidth usage at the first port(s) exceeds the percentage, a bandwidth of data received on the first port(s) and forwarded to a local user on one or more second port(s) being reduced so as to reduce the bandwidth of the data at the first port(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Smart Share Systems APS
    Inventor: Morten Brørup
  • Video-aware P2P streaming and download with support for real-time content alteration
    Patent number: 8386630
    Abstract: A method for generating chunks for peer to peer distribution, the method includes: converting a media stream to chunks of variable size in response to media characteristics of the media stream; generating a hash value for each chunk; and transmitting to a peer to peer manager hash values and media characteristic information associated with the chunks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: ARRIS Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Asaf Atzmon
  • Methods and apparatus for storing collected network management data
    Patent number: 8386732
    Abstract: A system provides a store process and method of operation that stores network management data collected from a managed resource by obtaining agent data collected by an agent from a managed resource in a network. The store process populates a set of adapters with the agent data, the set of adapters determined from the agent data collected from the managed resource. Based on the set of adapters populated with the agent data, the store process selects and applies at least one of a plurality of read mechanisms to read corresponding managed object data from a management database into managed objects that are to be synchronized with the agent data collected from the managed resource. The store process then synchronizes the agent data populated in the set of adapters with the managed object data in the management database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Anoop George Ninan, Samuil Shmuylovich
  • Automatic non-junk message list inclusion
    Patent number: 8380793
    Abstract: Method to effectively include a transaction electronic mail (e-mail) message to a non-junk mail list of an email account of a user. The method includes interacting with the user to start to complete a business transaction at a transaction web site of a party. A confirmation step is defined to be a second to last step in a plurality of transaction steps to complete the business transaction. A request associated with the defined confirmation step is provided to the user and the request includes adding a transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list. The e-mail account is further received from the user, and properties of the received e-mail account are identified. The method further interacts with the user to log-in to the received e-mail account and interacts with the user to include the transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list of the e-mail account of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Omar Shahine
  • Method and system for analyzing shopping behavior in a store by associating RFID data with video-based behavior and segmentation data
    Patent number: 8380558
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for analyzing shopping behavior by associating RFID data, such as tracking data by the RFID tag identifications, with video-based behavior and segmentation data, such as behavior analysis and demographic composition analysis of the customers, utilizing a plurality of means for sensing and using RFID tags, a plurality of means for capturing images, and a plurality of computer vision technologies. In the present invention, the association can further comprise the association of the RFID with the transaction data or any time-based measurement in the retail space. The analyzed shopping behavior in the present invention helps people to better understand business elements in a retail space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: VideoMining Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeev Sharma, Satish Mummareddy, Jeff Hershey, Namsoon Jung
  • Mapping network addresses to geographical locations
    Patent number: 8364816
    Abstract: A network address mapping system is described. The network address mapping system can identify a set of Web pages, collects information from the Web pages indicating geographical locations (“geolocations”), and correlate the geolocations with the network addresses from which the identified Web pages are served. The collected information can be weighted based on various factors, such as its relative position in a Web page. The collected information can then be used to identify a geolocation. The network mapping system can deduce geolocations for portions of ranges of network addresses based on the score, and can infer geolocations for other portions based on the deduced geolocations. This mapping can then be stored in a database and provided as a geomapping service. The network address mapping system is able to map network addresses to geographical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanxiong Guo, Jiahe H. Wang, Qing Yu, Yongguang Zhang, Yunxin Liu
  • Intercept device for providing content
    Patent number: 8359402
    Abstract: Described are computerized methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for network virtualization. An intercept device receives a DNS response message from a DNS server. The DNS response includes a domain name, a network address associated with the domain name, and a destination address of a first network device. The intercept device determines whether the domain name satisfies a DNS intercept criterion. If the domain name satisfies the DNS intercept criterion, then a request intercept criterion is updated to include the network address associated with the domain name. The DNS response message is transmitted on to the first network device by the intercept server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: SeaChange International, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew E. Cross, Bruce E. Mann
  • Visual detection of clear air turbulence
    Patent number: 8339583
    Abstract: Presented is a system and method for detecting clear air turbulence comprising an image capturing element, a lens having focal length adapted to focus a scene onto the image capturing element such that the combination of the lens and array of pixels are capable of optically resolving any visual distortions of features in the scene that are caused by turbulent air, and a processor. The processor compares the image with a subsequent image, or a stored image of the scene, to detect a change in refraction of light received from the feature in the scene that is due to turbulence and produces an indication of the area of turbulence in the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian J. Tillotson
  • Managing network security
    Patent number: 8341739
    Abstract: Technology for network security is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing network security includes receiving sampled packets. The sampled packets represent packets being sampled from network packet traffic in at least one location in a network. The sampled packets are converted into an appropriate format for analysis to form converted packets. Moreover, the converted packets are sent to a first group including at least one security device for analysis. If an event message is generated by the at least one security device as a result of analysis of the converted packets, the event message is received from the at least one security device. Network security is evaluated based on the event message and security policies and is adjusted based on that evaluation. The method may be implemented with a network manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Foundry Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Animesh Chaturvedi, Marc Lavine, Manan Shah, Ron Lau
  • Mobile terminal, printing system and printing method
    Patent number: 8319994
    Abstract: A first reception section is operable to receive an input to designate thumbnails of printing images from an image storage server. A first transmitter is operable to transmit an image transmission request for requesting the thumbnails to the image storage server when the input to designate the thumbnails is received by the first reception section. A first receiver is operable to receive the thumbnails from the image storage server. A second reception section is operable to receive a designation of the printing images based on the thumbnails received by the first receiver. A local area transceiver is operable to transmit an identification information request for requesting identification information of a printing device to the printing device using a local area radio communication and receives the identification information from the printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation and Sammy Networks Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Katsunori Nagao, Shingo Sato, Kazuhiro Itagaki, Kengo Egawa, Atsushi Kamimura
  • Web feeds over SIP
    Patent number: 8321557
    Abstract: A method may include issuing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request to a Web feed server to receive a Web feed, and receiving from the Web feed server the Web feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Johan Anders Apelqvist
  • Online ranking protocol
    Patent number: 8312004
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions that can be reported by the signals, a format for specifying values for one or more of a set of predefined parameters for qualifying the user actions, a format for specifying one or more subscriber-specific parameters relating to the resources or the user actions, and a format for identifying resources to which the user actions are related using a namespace defined by the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Wen-Kai Shih, Adam Sah, Daniel S. Tarlow, Beverly Yang, Ryohei Takahashi, Christopher Rohrs
  • Confidential presentations in virtual world infrastructure
    Patent number: 8285786
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming and presenting confidential presentations within a computing environment associated with a virtual application are presented. For example, a method for forming a confidential presentation includes obtaining a correspondence indicator from an asset server, obtaining a first texture from the asset server, and overlaying the first texture onto a first object. The correspondence indicator indicates the first texture corresponds to the first object. The first object is within the computing environment associated with the virtual application. The first texture and the asset server are inaccessible by the computing environment associated with the virtual application. The confidential presentation comprises the first texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Bussani, Jan L. Camenisch, Thomas R. Gross, Dirk Husemann, Dieter M. Sommer
  • Service creation via presence messaging
    Patent number: 8285784
    Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium for service creation via presence messaging comprising assigning an information exchange state associated with a presence message and directing the presence message to at least one of a service provider from a predetermined set of service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Timucin Ozugur
  • Signal processing device for biological observation apparatus
    Patent number: 8279275
    Abstract: Tissue information of a desired deep portion of a biological tissue based on a spectral image obtained from signal processing is adjusted to image information in a color tone suitable for observation. Outputs of a matrix computing section 436 are respectively connected to integrating sections 438a to 438c, and after integrating computation is performed for them, color conversion computation is performed for respective spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3 in a color adjusting section 440, spectral color channel image signals Rch, Gch and Bch are created from the spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3, and images of the spectral color channel images Rch, Gch and Bch are sent to a display monitor 106 via a switching section 439.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
  • Method of using tokens and policy descriptors for dynamic on demand session management
    Patent number: 8281024
    Abstract: Tokens and policy descriptors are used for dynamic on demand session management in a distributed and scalable architecture for on demand sessions and resource management. The architecture includes an on demand client, a purchase server, and a session manager. A purchase token is generated at the purchase server and assigned to the on demand client. The purchase token represents at least one requested asset. In response to an on demand session set-up request corresponding to the purchase token from the on demand client to the session manager, the purchase token is expanded to generate at least one dynamic policy management descriptor for the on demand session. This provides token-based purchase authorization and policy management for on demand services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Weidong Mao, Neville A. Black, Charles L. Compton