Abstract: A method provides for access to an electronic profile of a first client to a second client. The method comprises creating a network accessible electronic profile of the first client, wherein the electronic profile is accessible by an active object, wherein the active object is bound to the electronic profile. The method further comprises defining an access right of the second client, wherein the access right determines a portion of the electronic profile of available to the second client via the active object. The method verifies an identity of the second client, and provides access to the portion electronic profile to the second client via the active object, wherein the active object is transferable.

Abstract: A method for routing a communication connection request includes the steps of obtaining context information from a communication connection requester in response to a communication connection request. The steps further include using the context information to determine a communication connection action, and connecting the communication connection requester based upon the connection action.

Abstract: A method for routing a communication connection request includes the steps of obtaining context information from a communication connection requestor in response to a communication connection request. The steps further include using the context information to determine a communication connection action, and connecting the communication connection requestor based upon the connection action.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus to distinguish and/or separate an object from a background. The methods use backgrounds of known and/or advantageous texture. In an embodiment, a measure of image texture, namely the spatial frequency is used to distinguish and/or separate an object from its background. The use of image texture overcomes limitations of chroma keying used as a processing technique in photography for object-background separation. This is useful in the separation of image pixels belonging to the object of interest from image pixels belonging to the background.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for the color calibration of displays. These methods are particularly useful for displays having properties different than those associated with cathode ray tubes (CRT). Some displays, for example liquid crystal displays (LCD), have a high luminance black, the chromas of their primaries are not independent of their luminance levels, the intensities of their primaries are not strictly monotonically increasing with respect to their RGB levels, the color additivity of their subpixels is affected by crosstalk or leakage and their color measurements are dependent on the view angle of the observer. Therefore, the usage of CRT methods is deficient for such displays.

Abstract: A method provides for access to an electronic profile of a first client to a second client. The method comprises creating a network accessible electronic profile of the first client, wherein the electronic profile is accessible by an active object, wherein the active object is bound to the electronic profile. The method further comprises defining an access right of the second client, wherein the access right determines a portion of the electronic profile of available to the second client via the active object. The method verifies an identity of the second client, and provides access to the portion electronic profile to the second client via the active object, wherein the active object is transferable.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing bookmarks. In response to detecting a service domain with a dynamic bookmark service, a client device sends a request containing criteria identifying a dynamic bookmark to the service domain. In these examples, the dynamic bookmark contains attributes or criteria that may be used to bind or locate regular bookmarks having similar attributes or criteria. The request is received by a server, which queries a data structure using the criteria for a bookmark, corresponding to or matching the criteria, to generate a result. This result is returned in a response to the client. The client processes any bookmarks received in the response, wherein any bookmarks returned in the request are bookmarks matching the dynamic bookmark.

Abstract: A system and process by which misregistration among the pixel components of the several color planes of a color image can be substantially eliminated is presented. In an embodiment, the physical object which comprises the test scene is represented as having features that are uniform squares of alternating black and white color arranged. The digitized color image of the test scene is employed to make measurements of misregistration of scene features in its color planes. A process by which misregistration among the several color planes is measured, and substantially eliminated, is made up of three parts. First, one of the color planes is chosen as a reference plane. The remainder of the color planes are called secondary planes. The relative misregistration of image features in the secondary planes relative to corresponding image features in the reference plane are measured at dispersed pixel locations in the reference plane.