729 results about "Content type" patented technology

A method and apparatus for providing hypermedia content maintained remotely on a network to a wireless device without a browser are described. A Short Message Service (SMS) request for Internet-based content is received from the wireless device at a proxy server, via an SMS Center (SMSC). The SMS request is transmitted to the SMSC on a wireless network. The proxy server transcodes the SMS request from a character set of the SMSC to a character set of an application and extracts a keyword from the trancoded request. The proxy server maintains a mapping of keywords to URLs. The proxy server looks up the extracted keyword in the keyword-to-URL mapping to identify the URL of an application associated with the keyword. The proxy server constructs an HTTP POST operation containing the keyword and the URL, and submits the HTTP POST operation to the application over a wireline network such as the Internet. Upon receiving an HTTP response containing the requested content from the application in response to the POST operation, the proxy server extracts the content from the HTTP response. The proxy server then translates the content from the content-type used by the application to the content-type used by the SMSC and transcodes the content from the character set used by the application to the character set used by the SMSC. The proxy server then sends the translated and transcoded content in an SMS response to the SMSC, for subsequent delivery to wireless device as an SMS message.

A content modification platform facilitates personalized presentation and interaction associated with content such as web content, document content, transactional content, multimedia content, and the like. The platform provides sharing of personalization features to facilitate developing a community view of content, such as the internet Menu features are configured to modify source content through simple commands such as add, delete, replace targeted toward content and links to content. The content modification platform is beneficially and effectively used in a variety of on-line content types, environments, transactions, business activity, e-commerce, stock trading, education, human resources and many others. By facilitating a user defining what relationships between and among content is important to them, a customized view of the internet can be presented to the user.

Data supplied to a display having a plurality of pixels comprises both content to be displayed and metadata that identifies the content of the respective pixel as being of a particular type by setting the metadata for each pixel to a value that is one of a predefined set of values. The identification of the content as being of a particular type enables the classification of the pixels on a per pixel basis into one or more categories. Pixels containing data for an advertisement can be identified and metered to determine the total display space they occupy and length of time they are displayed, which are both considered measures of the effectiveness of the advertisement. This metering can therefore be used to more equitably charge for advertising on web pages because an advertiser can be charged on the basis of what a user actually sees on the display. If only a percentage of the advertisement is visible, the advertiser pays an amount in proportion to the percentage of the advertisement that is visible. Pixels belonging to an advertisement can also be metered by a video game in a manner that gives an incentive to a game player to view advertisements. Additionally, metadata can be used to identify a pixel as containing objectionable content or some other information or type of content not desired by a user. The pixels containing objectionable or undesired content, which usually are pixels that display an object or portions thereof, can then be filtered out of the picture in a more precise way to either delete or leave a blurred image of the object or objectionable / undesirable portion thereof only, without hiding an entire screen of data.

Protecting a fragment of a document includes automatically detecting the fragment without user intervention based on the content of the fragment and / or the context of the fragment within a set of documents, selectively encrypting the fragment to prevent unauthorized access, and providing an alternative view of the fragment that prevents viewing and access of content corresponding to the fragment unless a decryption password is provided. Automatically detecting the fragment may include detecting numbers and alphanumeric sequences of sufficient length that do not represent commonly known abbreviations, detecting generic terms, detecting proper names, detecting terms signifying a type of content, detecting mutual location of terms and sensitive content, and / or detecting user defined terms. The generic terms may correspond to password, passcode, credentials, user name, account, ID, login, confidential, and / or sensitive. The proper names may be names of financial organizations and security organizations.

In one exemplary embodiment, a system for providing data access between an information source and a mobile communication device includes a transcoding system and a first network device. The transcoding system includes a plurality of transcoders, and each transcoder is operable to transcode information content from a respective first content type into a respective second content type. The first network device is in communication with the transcoding system and includes a connection handler system. The connection handler system is operable to receive connection data for a connection between the information source and the mobile communication device and to select a corresponding connection handler. The connection handler is operable to select one or more transcoders from the plurality of transcoders to transcode the information content.

Methods and apparatuses to present advertisements on mobile devices for communication connections of multiple content types. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing an advertisement to a mobile device, the advertisement to include a communication reference to be used by the mobile device to request a communication connection; and billing for the advertisement in response to an initiation of a communication, comprising more than one of text, voice, audio, image, and video, via the communication reference.

A system comprising an analysis engine that interacts with a user profile server and a content management system. The user profile server is used to collect and manage data. The content management system manages a plurality of content types for a plurality of service points in real-time. A service point supports a content type.

Methods and apparatus for dynamically adapting the degree of compression used in compressing data based upon the type of contents contained within a packet are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus that forwards data across a digital communications network includes a compression switch, a compression system, and an output interface. The compression switch receives the data, determines a content type associated with the data by examining the data, and assigns a compression level to the data in response to the determined content type. The compression system is arranged to compress the data based upon the compression level, while the output interface forwards the compressed data across the network. In one embodiment, the apparatus also includes a network congestion estimator that determines a level of network congestion.

A method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata is provided. User access to content is monitored. A set of extraction rules for information extraction is selected. Key information is extracted from metadata for the content based on the selected extraction rules. Additionally, a type for the content can be determined, and a set of extraction rules is selected based on the content type. The key information is used in queries for searching information of potential interest to the user, related to the content accessed.

A method for access control in a wireless network having a base station and a plurality of remote hosts includes the optional abilities of making dynamic adjustments of the uplink / downlink transmission ratio, making dynamic adjustments of the total number of reservation minislots, and assigning access priorities by message content type within a single user message stream. The method of the invention further provides for remote wireless host paging and for delayed release of active channels by certain high priority users in order to provide low latency of real-time packets by avoiding the need for repeated channel setup signaling messages. In the preferred embodiment, there are N minislots available for contention in the next uplink frame organized into a plurality of access priority classes. The base station allows m access priority classes. Each remote host of access priority class i randomly picks one contention minislot and transmits an access request, the contention minislot picked being in a range from 1 to Ni where N(i+1)<Ni and N1=N. In an alternate embodiment of a method for access control according to the present invention, each remote host of access priority class i and with a stack level that equals 0, then transmits an access request with a probability Pi where P(i+1)<Pi and P1=1.

A customised Network Application suitable for a specific type of Wireless Computing Device is automatically generated and sent to that Device. The Application is able to download a preview of content on demand by an end-user from a Server that stores the content and to play the preview of the content. It can also display an option or function that enables the end-user to download and buy that content from the Server. Attributes for that type of Wireless Computing Device are defined as Metadata; attributes for various different kinds of mobile content are also defined as Metadata; the Server then determines what content is compatible with the Wireless Computing Device by comparing the Metadata of the content and the Wireless Computing Device. The kind of content that can be provided includes ringtones, wallpapers / pictures, screensavers, realtones / truetones, full music downloads, video, SMS & MMS alerts, and mobile games.

The invention discloses a replicated data deleting method based on file content types, which belongs to the replicated data deleting method of computer data backup, is applicable to disk-based backup systems, and solves the problems that the existing replicated data deleting method is single in block strategies and can not carry out optimization according to the file content types. The deleting method carries out a block boundary characteristic calculation step in advance, and then comprises the following steps sequentially: content type identification, file blocking, digital fingerprint calculation, replicated data block judgment and ending. The deleting method carries out classification on backup files based on content types, computes the optimal block boundary characteristic value aiming at every content type; and when the backup files are processed, the file content type identification step is added, and the block boundary characteristic is selected according to identification result, therefore, the overall effectiveness of the replicated data deleting method is improved when the complex backup files are processed.

To adjust brightness of at least a portion of a display image, a type of content to be included within the display image is determined and, based on the identified content type, the light source of the display is set to an adjusted intensity. Thereafter, that portion of the display image unrelated to the content requiring adjusted brightness is processed to account for the adjusted intensity of the light source. Because the processing in accordance with the present invention is performed entirely on one or more processors that provide the display images to the display, the present invention overcomes the added complexity and cost associated with prior art techniques, while simultaneously providing the flexibility to quickly adjust display brightness based on types of content being included in the displayed image.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for protecting sensitive content. In response to receiving a selection of content, the process determines whether the content is of a sensitive content type based on a policy. The process then designates the content as the sensitive content in response to the content being of a sensitive content type. Thereafter, the process generates a sensitive content reference for publication and stores the sensitive content in a data structure, wherein the data structure associates the sensitive content with the sensitive content reference. Subsequently, in response to receiving a request from a requester for the sensitive content reference, the process obfuscates the sensitive content using a selected obfuscation algorithm to form obfuscated content, and returns the obfuscated content to the requester.

A system and or / methodology that facilitates organizing content on a portable communications device to generate a compilation (e.g., presentation) containing the organized content. The system and / or methodology includes an authoring component that associates content of a first type with a subset of other content and a sharing component that communicates and distributes the associated content. The subject invention can include a visual content input component that receives visual content and another content input component that can generate and organize other content in accordance with a user preference. The other content can include any content type known in the art including, but not limited to, visual, audible, text or the like.

A system for providing information content over a network to a mobile communication device includes a transcoding system and a first network device. The transcoding system includes a plurality of transcoders. Each transcoder is operable to transcode the information content from a respective input content type into a respective output content type. The first network device is in communication with the transcoding system and includes a connection handler system. The first network device is operable to receive a first connection request that includes transcoder request data and to select a corresponding connection handler. The connection handler is operable to select one or more transcoders from the plurality of transcoders based on the transcoder request data.

Various techniques are provided for facilitating the management of hierarchical data within a relational database system. One such technique involves separating the storage structures used to store data that captures the information about the hierarchy (the “hierarchy structures”), from the storage structures used to store the content of the resources that belong to the hierarchy (the “content structures”). Techniques are also provided for allowing users to customize the metadata attributes associated with resources that belong to the information hierarchy. One technique involves registering XML schemas that specify the metadata attributes desired by a user. Another technique involves storing attributes that do not correspond to any declared field in a “catch-all” column within the resource table. Techniques are provided for determining how to store resources as they are added to the database. According to one technique, the database server searches the data of the resource to find content-type information. If content-type information is found, then the database server consults a content-type to content-structure mapping to determine where to store the content of the resource.

A system and method that regulates the various operations between computing stations and storage or content. Any operation that involves or may lead to the exchange or accessing of content (data) between storage or hosting content container and computing station may be regulated by means of a policy which comprise a set of rules. Rules may be defined according to specific criteria, including the type of storage, the type of content, the attributes of the content, and other attributes associated with the storage device and / or the content. The policy will be dynamically installed / updated upon a computing station for specific User(s) and will regulate the data operations that may take place between the computing stations and storage or content based on evaluation of the policy. Based on the evaluation of the policy, the requested operation is permitted, restricted in some areas, or denied.

A receiver such as in an automobile and / or wireless communication device is configured for a method of playing of live and recorded multimedia content. A desired genre of content is first defined. Both recorded and live content of that desired genre is identified and assembled into a playlist. Live content that is near a beginning of its being played can be rotated to a top of the playlist. In this way, live content, which a user may not have heard is given a priority of recorded content of the user. Since a start time of live content typically will not coincide with an end time of recorded content being played, the receiver can fade-in and fade-out to a the live content or buffer it for delayed play.

A web-based image detection system includes: an image capture device, a web browser, a plug-in, and a recognition server. A captured image is processed by the plug-in to assess whether a pre-determined content type is contained with in the image. Once an initial analysis at the browser plug-in detects a pre-determined content type in an image, the image is transmitted to a recognition server for content recognition of the image by content type. The system thus enables users to link documents or other image types to electronic data using only a capture device and a web browser.

Methods, systems, and computer program instructions for enabling users of pervasive devices to remotely access and manipulate information in ways that might otherwise be impossible or impractical because of inherent limitations of the device. The disclosed techniques enable a wide variety of data manipulation operations to be performed on behalf of the pervasive device, for a wide variety of content types. In preferred embodiments, no modifications or add-ons are required to the pervasive device.

Objects captured over a network by a capture system can be indexed to provide enhanced search and content analysis capabilities. In one embodiment the objects can be indexed using a data structure having a source address field to indicate an origination address of the object, a destination address field to indicate a destination address of the object, a source port field to indicate an origination port of the object, a destination port field to indicate a destination port of the object, a content field to indicate a content type from a plurality of content types identifying a type of content contained in the object, and a time field to indicate when the object was captured. The data structure may also store a cryptographic signature of the object to ensure the object is not altered after capture.