644 results about "Netizen" patented technology

The present disclosure controls the network and manages resources for managing network assets through in a network-based supply chain framework. Network assets are available to network users. One user may submit information reguarding potential for growth, the capacity, or the technological level of one of the network assets. Another user may submit similar information about another network asset. Based on the information from the users, the system may determine the optimal set of network assets. When network events about the assets are recieved, the events can be filtered, correlated and isolated. These events can then be translated into a standard object form for facilitating the determination of the problem causing the network event.

Disclosed is a method and structure that identifies relationships between users of a computerized network. The method extracts relationship information from databases in the network. The information includes address book information, calendar information, event information, to-do list information, journal information, and / or e-mail information. The invention evaluates the relationship information to produce relationship ratings of the users of the network. The invention determines the level of reciprocity of relations between different users; a longevity of relations between the different users; how current relations are between the different users; a frequency of relations between the different users; a level of exclusivity of relations between the different users; a level of complexity of relations between the different users; and / or a proximity of the different users.

A location query service for use with a wireless network that tracks the location of network devices, such as a network complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides requesters with the locations of network users, based on the locations of the users' wireless network devices. The service receives a location query from a requester, retrieves location information associated with the network user, and returns the location information to the requestor. Alternately, before returning the location information to the requester, the service authenticates that the requestor is authorized by the network user to receive the network user's location information. A requestor can submit a location query, for example, by voice calls through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to an interactive voice response unit (IVRU), personal computer access through a global computer network, and cellular telephone access through a global computer network.

Reduction of administrative overhead in maintaining network information, rapid convergence on an optimal routing path through the data network, and utilization of only required network resources are realized by a novel method for establishing a call path between network users. The method is based upon deployment of a network information server that stores network topology information and that is addressable by each end user. In this method, the network information server receives a request to establish a call path. The request identifies at least the calling party. In response to the request, the network information server determines a network traversal between the calling party and a root network wherein the network traversal includes call path information about the sub-networks between the calling party and the root network. The request for establishing a call path can also identify the called party. Based on the calling and called party identification, the network information server also determines a second network traversal between the called party and the root network. The second network traversal is sent to either the calling party or the called party or to both the calling and called parties. The server can determine an intersection of the traversals and send the intersection information to the parties. The intersection information is known as a merge point and represents an optimal call path between the parties.

A system for redirection of online queries to a genuine content includes a user interface module to provide a user interface between a network user with administrative authority and an Internet service, a communication module to receive a request to establish a genuine content resolution policy for a network, a policy generating module to establish the genuine content resolution policy for the network, and a policy enforcement module to apply the genuine content resolution policy to a user request to access an intended website. The policy enforcement module may determine whether or not the genuine content resolution policy is activated, determine whether or not that the intended website is the genuine website, and based on the determination, selectively redirect the user to the genuine website.

A visual method for enhancing search result navigation, comprising: obtaining a first search result from a search engine; clustering the first search result to get clustering information; calculating the correlations between the clustering information and the ranked list of the first search result, and performing visualization processing on the clustering information; and displaying the visual cluster hierarchy and the ranked list of the first search result in a joint manner based on the correlations. When a cluster is selected, further searching is performed and the search result is clustered again. Using the present invention, through combining a traditional ranked list of search results and the visual cluster hierarchy of these search results to display them in a joint manner, a convenient way is provided for the web user to find the potential correlations between the visual cluster hierarchy and the ranked list of the search results. Besides, through dynamically searching and clustering more search results again, the web user may get more detailed and more accurate search results easily.

A system and method for notifying an offline global computer network user of an online interaction in which the offline user could participate. The system and method specify notification criteria of the offline user, monitor activities occurring on the global computer network, compare the activities to the notification criteria, and, if the activities satisfy the notification criteria, forward an offline communication to the offline user, which notifies the offline user of the online interaction. Examples of the online interactions include chat rooms, game sites, instant messaging services, auctions, and calls made over the global computer network. Examples of the offline communication include calls to a wireline telephone, calls to a wireless telephone, messages to a caller identification device, messages to a wireless access protocol device, messages to a one-way pager, and messages to an interactive pager.

A system and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks, enabling creation of advertisements using licensed third party content and placement of said ads at desired network locations, utilizing an auction of ad spaces based on bids placed by advertisers to have their ads displayed at such locations. When a network user / ad viewer requests an ad by clicking or other action, an auction algorithm executes to select the ad to be displayed from those that bid for display at such ad space location and then the ad is composed and delivered to the ad space location by accessing a relational database storing commands that retrieve, assemble and dispatch the licensed ad content. Usage and display of licensed content on designated ad space is tracked to enable cost-per-use charging for both use of licensed content and ad display at the designated ad space.

A client-server system for recording web site activity by web users and dynamically customizing web display apparatuses for optimal information presentation based on the users' prior activity history. The system assigns each user a user identifier that allows the system to track the user's web sessions. The system also assigns every web site an application identifier that allows the system to track the user's activities at a particular web site. The system then records the user's activities as they visit different web sites via the user and application identifiers. The system determines how the user prefers to view each web site based on their prior activity, their preferences, the web site, and various other factors. As the user surfs from web site to web site, the system dynamically configures the user's web browser and the web page information for optimum presentation based on how the user prefers to view the web site.

Sidebars group a plurality of Internet and other services in one easily accessible location on the desktop. In one embodiment, a user's sidebar preferences, such as, for example, the types of applications modules that populate their sidebar are stored by an Internet content provider on a network server. A user can access their personal sidebar preferences from any computer with an Internet connection. In addition, in one embodiment, application module information loaded into the application modules is also stored on a server, thus changes made in a sidebar are reflected in their “full service” counterpart applications.

Web traffic reporting methods that rely upon third-party cookies suffer in accuracy when those tracking cookies are frequently refused by web users or deleted once they have been accepted. The invention described herein circumvents this problem by employing first-party cookies instead. This is accomplished by a client-side script that maintains the first-party cookie (as placed by the web site in question) and sends a site-maintained visitor ID to a tracking service for analysis. The effect is to improve the accuracy of traffic statistics that rely on that cookie.

A network browser interface having client-specific information and associated method are disclosed that provide improved client-specific advertising and marketing to network users. The present invention takes advantage of program interfaces with client-specific or co-branded information to deliver, in part, substantially continuous client-specific advertising to users. The present invention also provides additional advantageous features for a network browser. The network may be the Internet, intranet networks, or other networks linking together multiple users.

The invention includes a method and system for personalizing displays of published Web pages provided by Web content providers to meet the interests of Web users accessing the pages, based on profiles of the users. The system preferably provides to the requesting user, through a proxy server, an edited version of the HTML file for the original published Web page that is served by a host Web server. The system uses user profiles that may include demographic and psychographic data to edit the requested Web page. The content of a Web page as published by a host Web server may be coded to correlate components of the Web page with demographic and psychographic data. The user profiles may then be used to filter the content of a coded Web page for delivery to a requesting user. The system may rearrange content on a published Web page so that content determined to be of higher interest to a user is more prominently featured or more easily or quickly accessible. The system may also delete content on a published Web page that is determined to be of low interest to a user. In embodiments of the invention, a single proxy server or proxy server system personalizes Web pages from multiple Web servers, using a single user profile for a user.

A web user profiling system and method. The method includes a profile editor for user-controlled profile creation and management, a web classification tree including a keyword language, the tree providing a hierarchal structure for classifying a user's web behavior, and a web page analysis engine for classifying web pages viewed leveraging the tree. The system further includes a page stream analysis engine for filtering the classified web pages into classification groupings to provide dynamic user profile information, and a profile gateway having a security manager, the gateway providing permissioned remote access to a user's profile.

An exemplary method and apparatus for facilitating contact sharing between users of a communication network are described. The method may include maintaining contact information in first and second address books associated with first and second users, respectively, and forwarding, from the first user to the second user, a request to copy contact information from the first address book to the second address book. The method may further include receiving a confirmation from the second user in response to the request, and copying the contact information from the first address book to the second address book in response to the confirmation.

In a computer network having a plurality of computer nodes, a directory database (DDB) distributed throughout the network in each of the nodes, the contents of the DDB being maintained consistent or replicated throughout the network in a manner to avoid a single point of failure through the use of one of its nodes having been appointed as master node. The master node has a privileged status as compared to the other nodes. The master node updates each DDB in each node in its network or domain configuration when the configuration changes, such as when a node fails, a network link fails and / or a node is added or removed. A node can be added to or removed from the configuration through the master node or through a non master node. A node can fail under different circumstances in which it may or may not know which node is its master node. A master node can fail and be replaced or can be replaced for other reasons. A global administrator is a privileged user compared to other computer network users who has authority to replace or appoint a master node and to configure a domain, and who performs these and other functions by way of computer terminal screen dialogs offered by a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the computer network. Replication service includes pinging by the master node of its failed or potentially failed nodes, and participating nodes in the configuration use repetitive polling of their master node to aid it in its pursuit of DDB consistency across the configuration.

An Internet user transfers directly to a domain within an e-community by providing a home identity cookie having an extensible data area and enrollment token to a web browser by a home domain server, and enrolling through an e-community for a user of the web browser by redirecting the home identity cookie via the web browser to each of the affiliated domains in the e-community until each affiliated domain has been visited once by the web browser. Upon each visit to each affiliated domain, an affiliated domain identity cookie is sent to the web browser including an enrollment successful indicator. Enrollment success indicators are accumulated and persistently stored received in the extensible data area of said home identity cookie. Subsequently, the identity of the user is vouched for at an affiliated domain through exchange of a vouch-for request and vouch-for response between the home domain server and an affiliated domain server.

A location query service for use with a wireless network that tracks the location of network devices, such as a network complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides requestors with the locations of network users, based on the locations of the users' wireless network devices. The service receives a location query from a requester, retrieves location information associated with the network user, and returns the location information to the requester. Alternately, before returning the location information to the requestor, the service authenticates that the requestor is authorized by the network user to receive the network user's location information. A requestor can submit a location query, for example, by voice calls through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to an interactive voice response unit (IVRU), personal computer access through a global computer network, and cellular telephone access through a global computer network.

The invention provides an effective recording and playing method and system. The recording and playing method and system are characterized in that in an online teaching process or an online meeting, operation of functions of multimedia whiteboard by a user, speech / voice of the user, communication voice with other users and / or tutoring voice and the like are recorded to respectively form different data streams; and a united timestamp can be generated by an online teaching system to mark various data streams rather than completely recording the whole event in a form of streaming media so that network users can conveniently download various data steams which need to be played via a network from a Cloud server or a local area network server anytime anywhere; after obtaining the data streams, clients of user terminals can obtain the data streams on line according to the timestamp and organically combine and play the data streams to the users, thus finishing the on-demand browsing.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for managing information concerning users of a network web site. The system includes a web server for providing access to various network resources, such as web pages and applications and an applications server coupled to the web server for running two or more protected applications, to which access is restricted to authorized users. The system also includes a customer profile and registration application for receiving user login information and authenticating users and providing single sign-on capability. The system further includes a user directory server for centrally managing information concerning users, a first database for storing user credentials and a second database for storing user profile information. User profile information and user credentials can be added, modified, deleted or retrieved by operations carried out within at least one of said applications.

Providing access to a mobile user session in a manner that more closely corresponds access to network resources to the trustworthiness of authentication methods and devices associated with the mobile user session. Characteristics of authentication methods associated with a mobile user session are synthesized to generate an authentication bundle. Characteristics may include data associated with passwords, biometric data or devices used to execute an authentication method. By synthesizing characteristics in varied manners, a non-binary sliding scale of access to network resources may be generated. An authentication bundle may be accessed to grant a mobile user session appropriate access to network resources. Granting access may include generating an authorization token that is passed to a filter or reverse proxy. Access to network resources may be dynamically modified as authentication methods associated with a mobile user session change.

A plug-in for use with an instant messenger utility that enables users to make telephone calls through the instant messenger. The plug-in provides users of web-based IM clients, an interface to call contact in their contact list. The plug-in also acts as a connector between users of disparate networks, allowing users of one IM network to communicate with users of another IM network. The plug-in can also call-enable other web-based applications.

The invention relates to an internet of things networking method and a system thereof. The system comprises an internet or mobile internet, a plurality of network elements connected with the internet or mobile internet in parallel, clients respectively communicated with the internet or mobile internet, and a cloud server. Each network element comprises a network element controller, and a plurality of devices which are of a star network topological structure and are contacted with the network element controller. The relevant information of the devices in the network element is stored in the cloud server. The clients can directly operate the network element controller, or visit and control the devices in the network element through the internet or mobile internet, or place the devices under trusteeship through the cloud server to realize the automatic and intelligent management of the devices. The internet of things constructed by the invention is an open and diversified network, users can control and monitor any device and can inquire and share information as long as the device joins in the network, and thereby the automatic control, the user control under trusteeship and the authority-based information share in the entire network are realized.

Entities seeking to promote goods, services, offers, candidates, etc., may elect to use advocates in a social networking environments instead of advertising. Social networking user profile characteristics are analyzed to identify advocates for subjects of advocacy such as brands, products, services, offers, political candidates, etc. Profile characteristics may include the advocate's own profile information as well as profile information of those in the advocate's social network. An advocate may select a subject of advocacy and generate advocacy materials or customized advocacy materials may be created and / or combined with user materials. The advocacy materials may be analyzed using neuro-response data to generate effective and targeted materials for distribution using social networking channels.

The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the present UPnP standard (Universal Plug and Play) allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. A UPnP standard may have one or more control point devices. To allow profile information such as user profile or network profile to be interchanged, the invention proposes providing a control point device firstly with an expanded device ascertainment service which can be used to find the other control point devices in the network and also with one or more additionally implemented profile services which allow the other control point devices in the network to be notified about change to profile information on a control point device.