60 results about "Layered Service Provider" patented technology

A system and method for facilitating multiplayer online gaming is disclosed. The system 100 includes a client gaming program 108 and a gaming layered service provider (“LSP”) 114, which are stored and operate on a client computer terminal 120. The client gaming program 108 detects when certain individuals identified by a user are playing online games and notifies the user of the individuals currently playing games online and the games that the individuals are playing. The client gaming program 108 allows the user to easily join the games in progress. The gaming program 108 and LSP 114 also monitor and detect games that are running on the terminal 120 and the connection status of the games. The gaming program 108 communicates data regarding the user, games and connection status over the computer network for receipt by selected individuals.

A developer can provide complex services to existing legacy applications using one or more components configured to tap into a service abstraction framework. In one implementation, for example, a developer of a remote service provider adds one or more authentication attributes to the remote service provider, and further creates a local client driver that incorporates a client proxy. When a legacy application generates a function request (e.g., to print, send a text message, initiate a voice communication), the client proxy intercepts the request through an appropriate communication subsystem, and relays the request to the server proxy. The server proxy determines the extent to which authentication measures may be required. If required, the client proxy can initiate out-of-band processing with various authentication managers to validate / process the request at the remote service provider.

Techniques for managing identities are provided. In some examples, identity management, authentication, authorization, and token exchange frameworks may be provided for use with mobile devices, mobile applications, cloud applications, and / or other web-based applications. For example a mobile client may request to perform one or more identity management operations associated with an account of a service provider. Based at least in part on the requested operation and / or the particular service provider, an application programming interface (API) may be utilized to generate and / or perform one or more instructions and / or method calls for managing identity information of the service provider.

The invention discloses a main and standby switching method of a device supporting multi-topology routing as well as a master control board. The main and standby switching method of the device comprises the following steps that when a standby board of the device supporting MTR (Multi-Topology Routing) finds that a main board goes wrong, the standby board enters a main and standby switching process, a backup intermediate system is used for interconnecting IS-IS (Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System) data so as to carry out routing computation and introduction on each sub-topology; when the standby board finds that the routing computation and the introduction of one sub-topology are completed, the standby board generates a LSP (Layered Service Provider) message, and for the sub-topology subjected to the routing computation and the introduction, a routing computation and introduction completing mark of each sub-topology is arranged in the LSP message; and the standby board sends the LSP message to a neighborhood device so that the neighborhood device carries out local routing computation on each sub-topology subjected to the routing computation and the introduction on the standby board according to the routing computation and introduction completing mark in the LSP message. By adopting the main and standby switching method, the routing convergence time is reduced when the main and standby switching occurs in the device supporting multi-topology routing.

Systems and methods are describe wherein a service provider provides media services that can include, but are not limited to, telephone, radio, interactive and television services. A user residence and / or a user receiving device are designated as a primary location or device for receiving the services of the service provider. An authorization center authenticates a request to provide the service(s) at one or more secondary location / device. The verification process can include, but is not limited to, password(s), Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and biometric identifiers such as voice, retina, finger print and DNA.

A system for automatically matching a service requestor with a service provider based on their physical proximity to each other. A client requesting a service (e.g. Taxi service) using a cellular telephone calls an automatic server. The server interfaces with the cellular operator(s) systems and acquires the client's location. The server also regularly keeps track of the locations and availability of pre-registered service providers (e.g. Taxi Cabs) through the same interface with the cellular operator(s). The server then matches the service requestor with a service provider based on the physical proximity of the latter to the former through a matching algorithm. Once the matching is performed, the server establishes a voice call where the service requestor is the call originator (A-Party) and the service provider is the call recipient (B-Party) so both parties can verbally agree on the details of their transaction.