195 results about "Message board" patented technology

When a message source user desires to advertise an object such as an event or a sight-seeing resort on an electronic board, a write request is formulated with a message and auxiliary information as to the position and state of affairs of the object, and transmitted to a server finder. Using the position information of the request, the server finder selects one of a number of message board servers for retransmission of the request. On receiving the write request, the selected server maps the contents of this request in a database. When a message recipient user desires to read a message, a read request is formulated with auxiliary information of a desired object and transmitted to the server finder, which retransmits it to one of the servers corresponding to its position information. On receiving the read request the selected server searches its database for messages having likeness to the auxiliary information of the request.

User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and / or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent to another user, a blog to be posted for viewing by other users, a message to be sent to another user, a message board entry to be posted for viewing by other users, a document published and made available to other users, etc. Hence, UDA ads provide a scaleable advertising platform that achieves at least some of the benefits of manual targeting. Charges might be assessed to the advertiser, perhaps subject to one or more conditions being met. Rewards might be provided to the user that inserts and / or distributes the UDA ad, perhaps subject to one or more conditions being met. Performance metrics of UDA ads might be determined and used for various purposes, such as later ad serving arbitrations. A user interface for advertisers to allow their ads to be UDA ad-enabled might be provided.

A recommendation system is used to provide suggestions in environments such as message boards, RSS aggregators, blogs and the like by comparing member interests and creating recommendation items corresponding to categorized topics or other members. In some instances a natural language can assist in processing content to sort it into the appropriate topic bin. An advertising module cooperates with the system to provide content based ads relevant to the recommended items.

In order to enable communication in which information is exchanged with friends and acquaintances, and a plurality of messages can be listed as on a bulletin board without being aware of electronic mail functions, an electronic mail transmission / reception system comprises a communication mean to transmit and receive electronic mail; a display mean to display transmitted and received electronic mail on a display screen; a message input mean to input messages to the display screen; a message storage mean to store input messages; and a control mean to cause the above display means to display input messages in a message-board format. The control mean divides the above display screen into a plurality of message display regions, and associates each message with a message display region for display.

A database management system employs a number of community and customized software search robots. The robots interact with subscribers to access, retrieve and post content according to content groupings and classifications that reflect the collective shared interests, desires, etc. of such subscribers. A user query interface is also adapted to facilitate searching and review of the content through predefined and customized filtering parameters.

A content query management system at a content site employs a number of community and customized software search robots which collect content, such as messages from message boards, from other websites. The robots interact with subscribers to access, retrieve and post content according to content groupings and classifications that reflect the collective shared interests, desires, etc. of such subscribers. A user query interface is also adapted to facilitate searching and review of the content through predefined and customized filtering parameters.

TruCast is a method for management, by way of gathering, storing, analyzing, tracking, sorting, determining the relevance of, visualizing, and responding to all available consumer generated media. Some examples of consumer generated media include web logs or “blogs”, mobile phone blogs or “mo-blogs”, forums, electronic discussion messages, Usenet, message boards, BBS emulating services, product review and discussion web sites, online retail sites that support customer comments, social networks, media repositories, and digital libraries. Any web hosted system for the persistent public storage of human commentary is a potential target for this method. The system is comprised of a coordinated software and hardware system designed to perform management, collection, storage, analysis, workflow, visualization, and response tasks upon this media. This system permits a unified interface to manage, target, and accelerate interactions within this space, facilitating public relations, marketing, advertising, consumer outreach, political debate, and other modes of directed discourse.

System and method for operating reputation-based communication or content service. Method includes obtaining metric related to first user contributor reputation; identifying communication or content having association with first user contributor; and processing communication or content to generate processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation. Service is broadly defined and may be selected from bulletin board, message board, chat room, forum, information provision service, content delivery service, email service, information provision service, search engine service, content delivery service, communication or content screening service, communication or content screening service, or other. System for providing reputation processed based on-line communication or content. Communication or content provided or generated by the inventive system or method. Business method for operating a communications or content provision service. Computer program and computer program product stored either on a tangible media or in an electronically accessible and readable form to implement method.

Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services. From a single user interface, the method includes creating a library of content items including at least one of a photo library and a video library, creating at least one other content item including at least one of a web page, newsletter, message board, email, instant message, chat room text message, and electronic greeting, associating at least one component of the library with the at least one other content item to form an arrangement, and designating access restrictions to the arrangement. The access restrictions include the option of applying no restriction.

The present invention will reserve lines of space within a message board display at predetermined positions for paid advertisement listings, such as hypertext links. The present invention will post purchased advertisement listing at the predetermined positions within the message board display in response to subscriber input. The present invention will post user messages to the message board display, adding new messages as they are input, while preserving the predetermined position of the advertising links.

User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and / or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent to another user, a blog to be posted for viewing by other users, a message to be sent to another user, a message board entry to be posted for viewing by other users, a document published and made available to other users, etc. Hence, UDA ads provide a scaleable advertising platform that achieves at least some of the benefits of manual targeting. Charges might be assessed to the advertiser, perhaps subject to one or more conditions being met. Rewards might be provided to the user that inserts and / or distributes the UDA ad, perhaps subject to one or more conditions being met. Performance metrics of UDA ads might be determined and used for various purposes, such as later ad serving arbitrations. A user interface for advertisers to allow their ads to be UDA ad-enabled might be provided.

The present invention allows for extending the functionality and data properties of a messaging board protocol, while maintaining support for legacy clients. A secure side channel is provided that allows functionalities and data properties not supported by a legacy protocol to be implemented. The unsecured legacy channel that uses a legacy protocol, however, is maintained. Legacy data can be sent over the legacy channel and subsequently linked up with the data properties sent over the secure side channel for extending the data properties. Because side channel is secure, a hashing and comparison of legacy data on the client and the server side allows for securing the unsecured legacy channel, thereby extending the functionality of the legacy protocol.

The vast majority of today's busy families with computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cell phones (all modern computing devices classified generally as computers), still use wall calendars, sticky notes, and kitchen message boards to coordinate their everyday activities. The complexity of family schedules and household information, ease of use, ease of access, and portability have remained powerful barriers to adoption of electronic solutions. This invention features computer-based input methods for use in group calendaring such that in the shortest possible amount of time, and with the least amount of effort, notations can be made of one or more events or tasks pertaining to one or more people using computers in one or more computer networks.

A group of documents in a forum / message board are stored as a document group database in a predetermined server computer. A document group analysis device analyzes a group of documents contained in each set of documents corresponding to each message board in the document group database. A summation device generates a meta-index, a thread index, and an indexed file. A display device displays a group of documents in a display format of a keyword view, a thread view, or an author view using a meta-index and a thread index.

The invention relates to a road self-adapting entry ramp afflux control device and a method thereof, used for adjusting the entry ramp afflux rate of the speedway or the city express way. The core device ramp afflux controller collects the traffic parameters of the flux, the speed, the occupancy and the like detected by the traffic parameter detectors in certain period, through the EXPAlinea arithmetic, the ramp afflux signal lamps change alternately to control the flux, also control the assistant devices of the ramp afflux down counter, the ramp port passing light and the message board and the like, which causes the integral device full of humanness. EXPAlinea arithmetic first adopts the dynamic target occupancy fundamental algorithm to obtain the elemental fundamental algorithm, then performs the smoothness according to the regulation of the last period or adopts the queue preference strategy according to the upstream and downstream of the main line and the ramp. The signal time assignment is the manifestation of the regulation obtained by the EXPAlinea control algorithm, to display by the traffic signal lamp. With the same regulation, the queue length of the ramp is different, and the different signal period and the green ratio are adopted.

A program and graphical user interface is provided for facilitating user interactions with an online message board system. The interface provides multiple levels of filtering and screening capability with query parameters presented within a first portion of the interface to permit comprehensive and flexible selection of message entries of interest to a user. The message entries are compiled into intelligent sets corresponding to logical constructs tailored for the community of users for the online message board system, so that the need for reviewing messages to locate relevant subject matter is substantially eliminated. After the user specified message entries are retrieved, they can be displayed in list form in a second portion of the interface, and then reviewed in depth in yet a third portion of the interface. The query and reviewing operations by the user can all take place therefore, within a single screen, providing the user with a simplified but powerful tool for perusing subject matter of interest from a large collection of message postings. Collections of messages can be pre-compiled and downloaded to the user in advance, based on predictive logic, resulting in faster perceived response times from the user's viewpoint. In a preferred embodiment, the present interface is used in connection with a financial information based message board system, where it is used by members of an online electronic community to capture and share individual user rationales and logic for purchasing or selling financial instruments such as securities, options, etc.

A device is provided that generates the gestures and expressions of a human image on a computer without expending a great amount of labor. The words for the system response to the input of a user and the state of the dialogue are described in a dialogue flow memory unit, a dialogue flow analysis unit analyzes the spoken text of the flow, extracts the key words associated with a movement pattern by referring to a text movement association table, and the movement expression generation unit generates the movements corresponding to the movement pattern. In the generation of the movement, movement patterns determined in advance are selected according to the state of the dialogue written in the dialogue flow, and the movement pattern is determined or modified by the key words. In addition, in a text output control unit, words are displayed by switching between the display of a "conversation balloon" or the display of a "message board" according to the state of the dialogue written in the dialogue flow.

A system and method that allows dynamic updating of a static email message by maintaining the status of the content of the email message on a server and remotely serving images or stylesheets relaying the current status to a user's email client when the static email digest is displayed. Other applications of the system and method include, but are not limited to, updating the status of online message board postings contained in an email digest once the original poster has accomplished what was requested in the posting, so he will not subsequently be contacted about the post by users reading the email digest.

A system is provided for allowing collaboration among users while they conduct information searches. The system allows users to share their search queries and see what other users are searching for. This is accomplished by copying the search queries of users to a message board type activity stream where a user can see other users' search queries. In the process it allows users to help other users by providing guidance and additional information on their queries or in other ways by responding to other users' search queries. Additionally, a system is provided to allow users to discover other users who are searching for the same information concurrently, and a system that shows other users that the current user has included in his or her sharing network who have previously searched for the same information.

The present invention allows for extending the functionality and data properties of a messaging board protocol, while maintaining support for legacy clients. A secure side channel is provided that allows functionalities and data properties not supported by a legacy protocol to be implemented. The unsecured legacy channel that uses a legacy protocol, however, is maintained. Legacy data can be sent over the legacy channel and subsequently linked up with the data properties sent over the secure side channel for extending the data properties. Because side channel is secure, a hashing and comparison of legacy data on the client and the server side allows for securing the unsecured legacy channel, thereby extending the functionality of the legacy protocol.

Inventory management of work-in-process (WIP) inventory within a processing facility is accomplished with a staged holding area in concert with control systems. Receiving of material into the staging area is tracked by scanning mechanisms such as Radio Frequency ID (RFID) or bar coding methods. Aggregation of material is recorded by cart sizing factors into the automatic control system. Carts are stored temporarily in locations arranged in a pre-determined grid fashion. The grid location information for a cart is made known to the automatic control system for reference or reporting to production supervisors. Down-stream processing can request staged inventory material from staging operators via overhead message boards or computer screens. Requests may be by particular types of material or by specific cart grid location. Manual entry or manual release of material is also accommodated including manual corrections of staged materials. Release of entire cart contents to down-stream processing is converted to actual material counts

Traffic information processing method and apparatus. The method includes the steps of: obtaining road traffic data of a plurality of road sections; predicting for at least two road sections of the plurality of road sections, based on the obtained data, traffic flow information at an expected time when arriving at the road section from a current position, the traffic flow information being used for describing a traffic state of a road; displaying via a display apparatus the predicted traffic flow information of at least two road sections in the at least two road sections. In addition, the present invention provides a traffic information processing apparatus, a GPS navigation device, and a variable message board. By applying the technical solution provided in the present invention, the road traffic condition can be effectively transferred to users so that it is convenient for the users to plan routes for their travel.

A surveillance system that is comprised of an environmentally sealed metal cabinet enclosure consisting of high impact resistant metal, said enclosure consists of a metal back and having two equal metal sides and an equal top and bottom pieces that are framed and fastened in such a manner as to form a framed rectangular metal box style enclosure. A front mounted metal access door with two recessed metal hinges, a rubberized gasket to form a seal and an attached locking device and handle complete the cabinet enclosure. Side access ports of at least one per side, and generally being round in nature provide a side access point to the interior of the cabinet, said access ports provide a mounting point for the generally hollow camera mounting arm to be attached to each side of said cabinet. The said access ports allow wiring and cables to pass through the connected camera mounting arm to the interior of the cabinet, with said camera mounting arm ends being environmentally sealable, thus rendering the wiring and cable protected from the environment and secure from tampering or accidental damage. The cabinet contains and houses the various subsystem components consisting of, but not limited to, a video encoding device, communication equipment and various control systems for powering and controlling the plurality of pan, tilt and zoom cameras with analytic capabilities, sensor apparatus, various warning devices and having at least one, but not limited to one, power source providing power to the plurality of electronic devices. Secondly, a programmable LED digital message board is positioned and attached at or near the top of the cabinet to provide a highly visible visual warning that the area is under surveillance.

A toolbox comprises a rigid case having an open top side providing access to an internal case storage volume therein, and a rigid cover with an open bottom side open to a cover storage volume. The cover is fixed with the case at a plurality of hinges. A removable message board and marking implement are selectively fixed within the cover storage volume of the cover. The rear side of the case includes winding posts around which a power cord is wound that conducts power to a power strip circuit having a plurality of power receptacles fixed with the case. An audio system is fixed with the case and includes a plurality of speakers, a display interface, a wireless audio signal receiver, and a control circuit. An optional bottle opener and removable lamp device may be further included.

A system and method for conducting an online research study from a host machine over a distributed computer network. Through their computers participants attend the online research study conducted over a distributed computer network and our in communication with a moderator using a participant interface having an audio / video captive mechanism connected thereto. Each participant is not required to be physically present at a same geographical location as a moderator for the online research study. The system permits for substantially real time audio / video communication between the moderator and participants during the online research study. The online research study can also be streamed in real time, while ongoing, one or more client computers who also are not restricted to any geographical location. Two-way communication between the moderator and a designated client can also be permitted while the online research session is being conducted. In another embodiment further embodiment, the system provides audio and video recording capabilities that can combine or encompass any various combinations thereof and which can permit for Synchronous and Asynchronous audio and video message boards.

Web content representing a first message is displayed in a window of a computer program. The first message is one of a plurality of messages posted to an online forum. A plurality of message summaries are displayed in the same window of the computer program, contemporaneously with the first message. The plurality of message summaries include first information derived from the first message and second information derived from a second message in the plurality of messages. The web content representing the first message may, for example, be displayed in a first frame of the window and the information derived from the first message may be displayed in a second frame of the same window. The online forum may, for example, be a web-based financial message board.

The present lighting system adds detection capabilities to perceive the presence and measure the velocity of objects such as automobiles, trucks, pedestrian and other users, to lighting modules for transportation applications like traffic signal, pedestrian control, rails signal, street light, message board and speed monitoring board. For example, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) has the capability to be used as lighting source for illumination as a first function and also be pulsed or modulated as a source for the detection sub-system as a second function.