Abstract: A collaborative object analysis capability is depicted and described herein. The collaborative object analysis capability enables a group of cameras to collaboratively analyze an object, even when the object is in motion. The analysis of an object may include one or more of identification of the object, tracking of the object while the object is in motion, analysis of one or more characteristics of the object, and the like. In general, a camera is configured to discover the camera capability information for one or more neighboring cameras, and to generate, on the basis of such camera capability information, one or more actions to be performed by one or more neighboring cameras to facilitate object analysis. The collaborative object analysis capability also enables additional functions related to object analysis, such as alerting functions, archiving functions (e.g., storing captured video, object tracking information, object recognition information, and so on), and the like.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for scheduling television program recordings for a user (1), said method providing for: saving a history of television program recordings by said user in a database (3); analyzing said history in order to deduce said user's favorite television programs; generating television program recommendations to be recorded for said user based on said analysis; scheduling television program recordings based on said recommendations.

Abstract: A collaborative object analysis capability is depicted and described herein. The collaborative object analysis capability enables a group of cameras to collaboratively analyze an object, even when the object is in motion. The analysis of an object may include one or more of identification of the object, tracking of the object while the object is in motion, analysis of one or more characteristics of the object, and the like. In general, a camera is configured to discover the camera capability information for one or more neighboring cameras, and to generate, on the basis of such camera capability information, one or more actions to be performed by one or more neighboring cameras to facilitate object analysis. The collaborative object analysis capability also enables additional functions related to object analysis, such as alerting functions, archiving functions (e.g., storing captured video, object tracking information, object recognition information, and so on), and the like.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a new interactive method and system to implicitly enrich any multimedia content effortlessly by combining multiple pieces of information on media content. The new solution consists of logging implicit user actions (e.g., display, modify, remove, copy, classify, send) on media from their terminals (e.g., PC, mobile phone, PDA). Pertinent information related to media will be then statistically generated and consolidated from these logged media actions and will be used to enrich related media content. A unique identifier number will be associated with each media in order to retrieve its associated information.

Abstract: The basic idea is provide several spare boards at least on thereof being associated to a different chain of boards. By connecting the spare boards of the different board chains, a pool of spare boards is obtained. Thus, the associations of the spare boards to respective chains are, at least virtually, resolved allowing to employ the spare boards for healing of failures for any of the boards in the different chains. In particular, the present inventions allows a healing of several failures independently of the location of a failure in the chains. The number of spare boards in the different chains determines the number of pool spare boards and, thus, the minimum number of failures which can be healed. In order to increase the number healable failures, the number of spare boards in the different chains can be increased.

Abstract: The basic idea underlying the present invention is to operate a data communications device serving as a data traffic interface, such as a packet control unit or packet server, e.g. originally used according to PDH such that components thereof, e.g. boards, having a lower performance, e.g. data rate, are cooperatively operated to support a desired higher performance. In particular, higher load due to the higher performance to be achieved are distributed to components which are not capable to support the higher load by its own. In detail, the present invention teaches to operate boards of such a data traffic interface device as a chain of boards, wherein boards of the chain share data traffic processing load required for a desired higher data traffic performance.