METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING WITH PLAYBACK OF REMOTELY STORED MEDIA FILES
Granted: October 2, 2014
Application Number:
20140297808
A software based system for facilitating streaming of media files to a device over a wide area network (WAN) includes an agent process, an authentication process, a client services process and a client process. The agent process catalogs local media files and advises the authentication process of it's availability on the WAN and the address at which it may be contacted. The client process contacts the client services process to obtain, after authenticating with it, the WAN address of the…
GUIDING SERVER, GUIDING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING GUIDING PROGRAM
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140288827
A guiding server according to this application includes an image storing unit, a retrieving unit, and a generating unit. The image storing unit stores a signboard image of a signboard. The retrieving unit retrieves, from the image storing unit, a signboard image of a signboard on a way to a destination based on location information and destination information of a user terminal. The generating unit generates guiding information including the signboard image based on the retrieved…
INTERFACE OVERLAY
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289647
A method and apparatus for providing a user interface overlay. In one embodiment, a toolbar remains visible and can be selected at any time to activate the interface overlay. The interface overlay provides an easily visible list computing options, such as contacts, that overlays the entire display area. The background of the overlay may be semi-transparent so that underlying windows are still visible, but the list is highlighted. The list includes selectable display elements with display…
TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND SERVER DEVICE
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289608
A terminal device includes an input receiving unit and a screen control unit. The input receiving unit receives input operation for inputting arbitrary information in an input field contained in an input screen. The screen control unit displays the input screen, as a confirmation screen, in which the input field is set to an uneditable state, when the information input in the input field through the input operation satisfies an input requirement of the input field.
Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289232
Computer systems and methods incorporate user annotations (metadata) regarding various pages or sites, including annotations by a querying user and by members of a trust network defined for the querying user into search and browsing of a corpus such as the World Wide Web. A trust network is defined for each user, and annotations by any member of a first user's trust network are made visible to the first user during search and/or browsing of the corpus. Users can also limit searches to…
LOAN SYSTEM, CREDIT INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, LOAN DETERMINING DEVICE AND LOAN CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289088
A loan system includes a loan determining device configured to determine a loan condition, and a credit information generating device configured to provide credit information of a store, which applies for a loan, to the loan determining device. The credit information generating device includes a storage unit that stores store operation result data including accumulation of latest data generated along with a store operation, a score data generating unit configured to generate score data…
ADVERTISEMENT GENERATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289058
An advertisement generation apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a page to foe displayed on a terminal device that displays an advertisement on a screen. The page includes a content page and an advertising page that are superimposed one on top of the other, where the content page includes an advertising space such that the advertising space is to be scrolled on the screen according to operation, and the advertising page is greater in size than the advertising space. The…
OUTPUT OF ADVERTISEMENT UTILIZING EXCHANGE OF ITEM DATA
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289050
A terminal device includes an owner attribute information holding unit, a program execution unit, an item data holding unit, an output unit, an item data reception unit, a partner attribute information holding unit, an advertisement output unit, and network communication unit. The owner attribute information holding unit holds one or more pieces of owner attribute information. The program execution unit executes a program. The item data holding unit holds item data. The output unit…
TERMINAL DEVICE, COUPON SERVER DEVICE, COUPON-USING DEVICE, COUPON HISTORY-OF-USE SERVER DEVICE, AND COUPON SHARING SYSTEM
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289041
A terminal device includes a coupon file acquisition unit, a share-coupon file generation unit, a user ID holding unit, a first instruction unit, and a coupon file output unit. The coupon file acquisition unit is configured to acquire a sharable coupon file including a coupon information storing portion and a history-of-share information storing portion through a near-field wireless communication. The share-coupon file generation unit is configured to generate a coupon file to be output…
ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD
Granted: September 25, 2014
Application Number:
20140289039
An advertisement distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes advertising content while switching an advertisement distribution process in accordance with a predetermined target figure within the range an advertisement listing fee paid to a provider of a Web page on which the advertising content is placed reaches the predetermined target figure.
Atmospheric Cooling of Servers in a Data Center
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140259966
A building for a data center (or server farm) includes a stack structure that interfaces with an environment and one or more housings coupled to a floor and the stack structure. Each of the housings includes one or more racks with a plurality of servers and each of the servers includes a computer fan capable of varying speed or reversing direction. The building also includes one or more filters between the one or more housings and the environment and one or more walls operable to be…
GENERATING DESCRIPTIONS OF MATCHING RESOURCES BASED ON THE KIND, QUALITY, AND RELEVANCE OF AVAILABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE MATCHING RESOURCES
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280229
Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of…
ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT PUSH DELIVERY
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278952
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to online advertising and may relate, more particularly, pushing advertising content to user computing devices, for example.
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND ADVERTISEMENT EXTRACTION METHOD
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278939
An advertisement extraction device according to the present application has a calculating unit, a tallying unit, and an extracting unit. The calculating unit calculates a hypothetical advertisement effect for each user attribute of a user, based on a delivery history regarding advertisement content delivery to a terminal device used by the user. The tallying unit tallies up an advertisement effect for each piece of advertisement content in which a user attribute as a delivery object has…
SYSTEM AND METHOD IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVERTISING ENTITIES BASED ON USER GOAL ACHIEVEMENT
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278929
Disclosed herein is system, method and architecture facilitating goal setting and achievement and providing positive social and economic motivators for goal achievement. Progress toward a goal is tracked and a determination may be made based the progress whether or not to initiate one or more actions to stimulate progress and/or increase the likelihood of success in achieving a goal and/or achieving a milestone in a path of progression toward the goal.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES TO PROCESS INPUTS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278369
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing natural language to process queries. The method for analyzing a linguistic input may include receiving the linguistic input, the linguistic input including at least one word, accessing prestored language data for a language corresponding to the linguistic input, converting the linguistic input into a text-possibility representations based on the received language data, determining a meaning of the text possibility based on the prestored…
IDENTIFYING REGIONS CHARACTERIZED BY LABELED MEASUREMENTS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140270522
Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
Visualizing regions charcaterized by labeled measurements cross-reference to related applications
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267433
Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for visualizing regions characterized by a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
VIRTUAL BILLBOARDS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267416
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for implementing a reality overlay device. A reality overlay device captures information that is pertinent to physical surroundings with respect to a device, the information including at least one of visual information or audio information. The reality overlay device may transmit at least a portion of the captured information to a second device. For instance, the reality overlay device may transmit at least a portion of the captured information to a…
MEDIA CONTENT ENRICHMENT USING AN ADAPTED OBJECT DETECTOR
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140267219
Disclosed herein are a system, method and architecture for media content enrichment. A visual object detector is trained using a training data set and an existing visual object detector. The newly-adapted visual object detector may be used to detect a visual object belonging to a class of visual object. The existing object detector that is used to train the adapted object detector detects a class of visual objects different from the visual object class detected by the adapted object…
