Abstract:
An apparatus a receiver for a camera for signal communication with transmitters in known locations for determining location of the camera, a compass for the camera for determining orientation of the camera, and a device for determining time associated with the determined camera location and orientation.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for recovering data, comprising establishing a secondary recovery network with a device, detecting data loss and recovering via the secondary recovery network the lost data from the device, the device having correctly received the data, are described. The lost data was sent in a primary wireless multicast network. A method and apparatus for recovering data, comprising receiving data, establishing a secondary recovery network with device and recovering the lost data via said secondary recovery network, are also described. The received data was sent in a primary wireless multicast network.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for transmitting data are described including partitioning a stream of data into a plurality of sub-streams, establishing an allocation of the plurality of sub-streams among a plurality of sending devices, enabling the plurality of sending devices to simultaneously begin transmitting the plurality of sub-streams in accordance with the allocation and adjusting the allocation.
Abstract:
A method and system for providing secure, anonymous access to a wireless local area network, including configuring an access point to drop packets except packets exhibiting an URL access protocol like HTTP and HTTPS, intercepting a URL access request by an access point from a mobile device via a web browser, re-directing the URL access request to a web server by the access point generating a security key by one of the access points and the web server, communicating the generated security key to the said web server securely by the access point or vice versa and setting the security key by the access point is described. A mobile device including means for forwarding a request for secure access to a wireless local area network via a URL access request, means for receiving a mobile code or a signal for displaying a security key and means for setting the security key is also described.
Abstract:
There is provided a method for automatically detecting and indicating a mis-configuration condition in an electronic device having one or more factory-default settings. At least one mis-configuration rule that relates to at least one mis-configuration condition of the electronic device, is checked against at least one corresponding current configuration setting to determine whether the electronic device is mis-configured. A mis-configuration alert is provided with respect to the electronic device, when the electronic device is determined to be mis-configured in said checking step.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for improving the security of a mobile terminal in a WLAN environment by installing two shared secrets instead of one shared secret, the initial session key, on both the wireless user machine and the WLAN access point during the user authentication phase. One of the shared secrets is used as the initial session key and the other is used as a secure seed. Since the initial authentication is secure, these two keys are not known to a would be hacker. Although the initial session key may eventually be cracked by the would be hacker, the secure seed remains secure as it is not used in any insecure communication.
Abstract:
A system, method, and computer readable medium for enabling roaming of wireless client stations among wireless access points are disclosed. A gateway programmed to receive session data requests is provided in a network, which comprises access points which are programmed to send session data requests to the gateway. The gateway sends session information setting commands to the requesting access point, or sends a session data failure response to the access point.
Abstract:
A system and method for generating a model based on the user's interests and activities by receiving with a logging unit user activities from heterogeneous data sources, generating a log of user activities for a content item by joining the user activities for the content item, expanding attributes of the log by at least one of content and by the user to form an expanded log and generating a user model based on the expanded log. A feature extractor extracts features from content items and assigns weights to the features. A scoring engine receives the model and the content items with their associated weighted features and scores the content items based on the user model. The scoring engine generates a stream of content based on the scored content items.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing admission control in a peer-to-peer video-on-demand system are described including determining if there is sufficient bandwidth to support leading sub-clip streaming for a new request from a video playback device, determining if there is sufficient bandwidth to admit the request without sacrificing quality of service for existing requests, accepting admission of the new request if both determining acts are positive and rejecting admission of the new request if either of the determining acts are negative. Also described is an apparatus for providing content to a video playback device in a peer-to-peer video-on-demand system including an admission control unit and a data engine component.
Abstract:
An exemplar dictionary is built from exemplars of digital content for determining predictor blocks for encoding and decoding digital content. The exemplar dictionary organizes the exemplars as clusters of similar exemplars. Each cluster is mapped to a label. Machine learning techniques are used to generate a prediction model for predicting a label for an exemplar. The exemplar dictionary is used to encode digital content. Clusters of exemplars are obtained by applying a prediction model to a target block of digital content for encoding. A predictor block is selected for encoding the target block based on frequency of occurrence of exemplars in the clusters. The target block is encoded using the predictor block.