Abstract: A system and method are provided for establishing a multipath connection between two endpoints. The method includes establishing a connection between a first of the two endpoints and one or more consumer devices, creating a virtual network interface in the first of the two endpoints for each of the one or more consumer devices connected to the first of the two endpoints, and transferring packets from the first of the two endpoints through each virtual network interface to a second of the two endpoints.

Abstract: A method for operation of a search and recommendation engine via an internet website is described. The website operates on a server computer system and includes accepting text of a product review or a service review, initializing a set of words with seed words, predicting meanings of the words in the set of words based on confidence scores inferred from a graph and using the meanings of the words to make a recommendation for the product or the service that was a subject of the product review or the service review. The search and recommendation engine is also described.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for retrieving information from a massive amount of user-written businesses reviews are described. From the bag of words of a given review set, a graph based on mutual information between the words is built. Spectral analysis on this graph enables creation of a Euclidean space specific to those reviews where the distance corresponds to semantic proximity. Applying a cover-tree based divisive hierarchical clustering in this space yields therefore a semantic tag tree. Such a taxonomy is specific of the review set used, which could be all the reviews about a product or written by a user, and can be used for profiling. These taxonomies are used to build profiles. Also described is a tool to summarize and browse the review set based on the obtained trees.