Abstract: A method for determining integrity in an evolutionary collaborative information system is provided. The method involves recursively defining interaction of each component ensembles that respects product and technology information for identifying credentials on components and constraints on component interactions. Constraints are explicitly defined as interactional properties that are measured, derived from measurements, or evaluated from other constraints or credentials in the context of an component ensemble. Credentials are defined as properties of components that are measured, derived from measurements, or evaluated from other credentials in the context of an component ensemble. The applied ensemble decompositions that realize a service are identified for a service invocation. The values of constraints and the values of credentials in the ensemble decompositions are recursively evaluated. The integrity of the ensembles as a function of the values of the credentials and constraints is determined.

Abstract: The present invention relates to accessing, distributing, and presenting hypermedia documents (5, 6). In particular the invention relates to a method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of generating a hypermedia by presenting the hypermedia in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server, requesting the hypermedia at a hypermedia client, deploying the hypermedia description from the server to said hypermedia client, presenting the hypermedia by translating the hypermedia description, where said hypermedia description comprising expression means for a reference (70) from an atemporal hypermedia object to a referred hypermedia object, where said method comprises the steps of generating, requesting, deploying, and presenting hypermedia, uniformly, using a hypermedia description comprising further expression means for a reference from a temporal hypermedia object (5) to a referred hypermedia object (5,6).

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for automatically adapting a computer program product to an environment, the computer program product comprising executable parts and data parts, the method comprising the steps of configuring the computer program product for the environment and executing the software in the environment. Furthermore the method comprises the steps of observing effects of the execution, i.e. metering the behavior, of the executable parts, analyzing the inter-relation of the observed effects with the software, and modifying executable parts based on rules in order to reduce undesirable observed effects like in-efficiency or failure. The present invention relates also to the automatically adapting computer program product, and a method for manufacturing the automatically adapting computer program product.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for fault-tolerant, reliable stream processing, where a data stream is processed by a processing means for yielding a result data stream, where before the data stream is processed, the data stream is decomposed (fission) (D1, D2) into at least two fission sub-streams (S1.a, S1.b, S2.a, S2.b), such that each fission sub-stream carries a partial information of said data stream, the data stream is processed by processing the at least two fission sub-streams independently (P.a, P.b) yielding at least two fission result sub-streams (RS1.a, RS1.b, RS2.a, RS2.b), where each fission result sub-stream carries a partial information of the result data stream, and where the at least two fission result sub-streams are composable (C1, C2) (fusion) to the result data stream, such that in case of unavailability of a part of the fission sub-streams the missing information could be interpolated. The invention also relates to an apparatus, a system and a computer software product therfor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a network-assisted communication method comprising: establishing a communication in a telecommunication network; capturing an identified communication contribution; and presenting and storing said communication contribution, associating the established communication with the captured communication contribution, and associating references to related communications to the established communication. The invention further relates to a telecommunication service, a server, a terminal device, and a computer software product therefor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for retrieving a web document provided by a web server, where the method comprising the usual steps of requesting a web document from the web server and replying with the web document, extended by the steps of requesting an analysis according to an inspection requirement, analyzing the content of the web document according to inspection requirements at the web server, and replying an analyzing result. The invention relates inter alia to a web document description language, a web server, a web document transfer protocol, and a computer software product for retrieving a web document.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing a location based appointment service for arranging meeting co-ordinates between a plurality of subscribers using a wireless device; determining the location of the wireless device and navigation information to the meeting co-ordinates; and providing the navigation information by the wireless device, in order to guide a subscriber to adhere to the meeting co-ordinates, and aligning the navigation information with the navigation information of another subscriber of said plurality of subscribers in order to guide the subscriber and the another subscriber commonly on approximating routes. The invention further relates to a computer software product, a server, a telecommunication service, and a mobile telecommunication device therefor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a video conference system (SC, SE, VI) comprising at least one visual scan means (SC) , a mediating Server entity (SE) and a at least one visual presentation means (VI) for presenting a scanned perspective view connected via a network, where the visual scan means (SC) comprises change means for changing the perspective view, and the video conference system (SC, SE, VI) comprises further mediating means (SE), storage means (MO), and control means that are adapted to process individual visual perspectives for the at least one visual presentation means, where the mediating means are adapted to aggregate multiple scanned views, where the storage means buffer the aggregate multiple scanned views, where the control means are adapted to instruct the change means for selecting a scan perspective, and where retrieval means are adapted to extract a requested individual perspective view out of the aggregated multiple scanned views.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sharing a hypermedia document presentation in a browser context between at least two clients (C1, C2, C3), the method comprising the following steps of establishing a common presentation context (SV), exchanging continuously interaction events (IC1, IC2, IC3) between the clients within the common presentation context, and presenting the common presentation context, such that a client has its own replica of the shared presentation context within a browser and the method comprises the further steps of coordinating interaction events by resolving the interaction events according to preferences and emulating the coordinated interaction events in the replica of the shared presentation context at a client. The present invention relates further to a hypermedia browser, a network client, a network server, and a computer software product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to computer networks and deals more particularly with a method, a service system, and a computer program product of self-organizing distributing services in a computing network (such as web services or other network accessible services) to/from various sites within a network, where the method of self-organizing distributing services in a computing network comprising the steps of receiving requests for a selected service from a client, identifying a first approximate server for the selected service, serving the received requests from the first approximate server, effecting a dynamic deployment of the service to one or more other servers when a dynamic deployment is indicated, and serving the received requests from the one or more other servers, and metering performance of the web service and deriving a local environmental area performance map, deriving a performance topology for identifying approximate server locations, and indicating the dynamic deployment based on a cluster anal

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a communication dialog when recognizing handwriting between a capturing device (HWSC+) at a client (C) and a recognizer unit (HWRE+) at a server (S), the server (S) and the client (C) being connected via a network, the method comprising the step of translating the captured handwriting into a digital transfer format for captured handwriting and handwriting recognizing, hereafter called digital ink (HWPRP), at the client (C) terminal, delivering the digital ink to the server (S), and when the digital ink is recognized by the recognizer unit at the server (S), delivering the recognition result back to the client (C), comprising the further steps of initializing a recognizing session and configuring a context of said handwriting recognizer unit (HWRE+) by an instruction in the digital ink (HWPRP) exchanged via said network, requesting (RReq1, RReq2) recognizing the digital ink part by part, and replying (RRes1, RRes2) a partial recognition result when the recognizer u

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for screening and disinfecting a communication network for viral infection, the communication network comprising interconnected network nodes and a designated network node, the method comprising scanning a plurality of data streams, detecting the presence of components of the computer virus at a designated network node with suitable detection means, applying suitable cure or protection means for ensuring an operative state in case of a virus detection, propagating the suitable cure or protection means and/or the suitable detection means to an originating network node of an infected data stream, receiving other suitable cure or protection means and/or the suitable detection means, curing the originating network node by applying the other suitable cure or protection means and/or the suitable detection means, if necessary, and propagating the other suitable cure or protection means and/or the suitable detection means to potential source network nodes (from which the virus could

Abstract: The present invention relates to accessing, distributing, and presenting hypermedia documents (5, 6). In particular the invention relates to a method for a hypermedia communication system comprising the steps of generating a hypermedia by presenting the hypermedia in a hypermedia description at a hypermedia server, requesting the hypermedia at a hypermedia client, deploying the hypermedia description from the server to said hypermedia client, presenting the hypermedia by translating the hypermedia description, where said hypermedia description comprising expression means for a reference (70) from an atemporal hypermedia object to a referred hypermedia object, where said method comprises the steps of generating, requesting, deploying, and presenting hypermedia, uniformly, using a hypermedia description comprising further expression means for a reference from a temporal hypermedia object (5) to a referred hypermedia object (5,6).