Abstract: Method and systems for establishing a collaboration among individuals and an imaginary character in a virtual world are disclosed. An exemplary method may include establishing an internet protocol channel between a first individual and a program represented by the imaginary character. The exemplary method may also include establishing a non-internet protocol channel between a second individual and the program represented by the imaginary character.

Abstract: An approach is provided for enabling interactive hyperlinked video. A hyperlink is generated and specifies an action that is performed upon activation of the hyperlink. The hyperlink is embedded in a video stream.

Abstract: Portable battery operated electronic devices often use a “sleep mode” for energy conservation. A key feature introduced in the IEEE 802 standard ensures power-efficient operation of these battery operated mobile devices. However, the standard fails to define what will trigger a device into the sleep mode while other systems define “waiting time threshold” as a time for which a Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) waits before entering into sleep mode which has a constant duration. An embodiment of the present invention uses a unique method (1500) and algorithm for optimizing waiting time threshold (1509) according to traffic arrival pattern for uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) data packets. This leads to significant reduction in energy consumption with little increase in average waiting delay and acceptable end-to-end delay for non real time traffic.

Abstract: Method and systems for establishing a collaboration among individuals and an imaginary character in a virtual world are disclosed. An exemplary method may include establishing an internet protocol channel between a first individual and a program represented by the imaginary character. The exemplary method may also include establishing a non-internet protocol channel between a second individual and the program represented by the imaginary character.