Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for selectively rendering media contents on remote displays (604-612). SOLUTION: The present apparatus includes a communication device (100) having a controller (106) that manages operations of a wireless transceiver (102), for example. The controller is programmed to detect (402) a display server (200) within a wireless local area network, to receive (410) from the display server (200) its capabilities for presenting content, to generate (414-418) displayable content conforming to the capabilities of the display server, and to transmit (420) the displayable content to the display server. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for operating a wireless communication device. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of battery powered modules that are carried by a user and together operate as the wireless communication module (ensemble), detecting a battery reserve power level of a first module of the plurality of modules and transferring a processing function from the first module to a second module of the plurality of modules based upon the detected battery reserve power.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for operating a wireless communication device. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of battery powered modules that are carried by a user and together operate as the wireless communication module (ensemble), detecting a battery reserve power level of a first module of the plurality of modules and transferring a processing function from the first module to a second module of the plurality of modules based upon the detected battery reserve power.
Abstract:
Energy-efficient discovery techniques are provided for a client node to discover at least one peer provider node in an ad hoc network. For example, the client node can be configured to turn on its first ad hoc interface while in a discovery mode to establish a channel for a first time period. The client node can then transmit a first beacon to advertise its presence to other nodes within the transmission range of the client node to acquire service information from at least one of a plurality of prospective peer provider nodes within the transmission range of the client node. At least one of the prospective peer provider nodes is configured to turn on its second ad hoc interface for a second period of time to listen for beacons from other nodes. The second period of time is less than or equal to the first period of time.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device ( 101 ) for direct communication with one or more near-proximity devices ( 111, 113 ) to form an adhoc network is provided. The wireless communication device comprises a transceiver ( 201 ) configured to send, via wireless link, a beacon signal. The beacon signal includes a device identifier ( 305 ) and a service map ( 307 ) associated with the wireless communication device. The service map identifies one or more applications ( 223, 225, 227 ) that may operate on the wireless communication device.
Abstract:
A memory-based collaborative filtering algorithm is optimized for large numbers of users by employing a personalized location-based data partitioning method that allows the system to scale even for very large datasets. Collaborative filtering then takes place on the scaled dataset.
Abstract:
A method and system for managing a terminal management system including a terminal management network element (100) and at least one wireless terminal (20). The terminal management network element (100) includes a wireless terminal condition based control information generator (120) that generates wireless terminal condition based control information (20) represented by extensible markup language code. The wireless terminal condition based control information (20) includes selected action data (46) based on selectable action data (820) associated with a terminal management action to execute on at least one wireless mobile terminal (22), selected condition data (42) based on selectable condition data (840) wherein the selected condition data (42) is associated with the selected action data (46), and selected attribute data (44) based on selectable attribute data wherein the selected attribute data (44) is associated with the selected action data (46). A wireless terminal condition based controller (30) executes the terminal management action if the selected condition (42) data associated with the terminal management action is satisfied.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device (104) for providing guidance about surrounding conditions and a communication server (1000) for receiving data feeds from cooperative wireless devices are provided. The wireless communication device (104) comprises a device discovery mechanism (214, 302) to identify second devices (116-150) in a vicinity (106-114) of the device, a processor (306) to determine a coverage capability for each area surrounding the first device (104), and a display (208, 310) to represent the coverage capability of each area surrounding the first device. The communication server (1000) comprises a network interface (1002) to receive one or more data feeds associated with a location of a first device (104), a processor (1004) to associate each data feed with an area adjacent to the first device, and a display (1008) to represent surrounding cells surrounding the first device. One or more surrounding cells (1102-1118) show a data feed of the location of the first device (104), and each data feed is provided by a second device (116-150) located in the corresponding surrounding cell.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for sharing product information among users of a computer network (108) using productmarks (202). A productmark (202) for a product is created by a user of the network (108) and includes a product identifier (204), an annotation containing user comments, a username that identifies the creator of the productmark (202), and a categorization tag (208) that identifies the user's level of interest in purchasing the product. Productmarks (202) are stored in a database (110) that may be queried using a product identifier (204), a username, a categorization tag (208), or any combination of these to retrieve productmarks (202). A user network device (104) provides access to the database (110) and includes modules for creating (138) and uploading (140) productmarks (202) to the database (110) and for querying and downloading (142) productmarks (202) from the database (110). A peer-to-peer communication session may be formed relating to a particular product or geographical location.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a "light weight" protocol used to coordinate shared copies of a data element (106). A central repository (102) holds a master copy of the data element (106). Applications (104a, 104b, 104c) "subscribe" (200) to the data element (106) (or to an aspect (108) of it) by sending a message to the central repository (102). Whenever the data element (106) (or aspect (108)) is changed, applications (104a, 104b, 104c) that have subscribed to the data element (106) (or aspect (108)) are notified (204) of the change. When an application (104a, 104b, 104c) wishes to change the value of a subscribed aspect (108), it sends (210) an update request to the central repository (102). The central repository (102) changes (306) the master copy of the data aspect (108) to the requested value and then informs (306) all subscribed applications (104a, 104b, 104c) of the new data value. If two applications (104a, 104b) both wish to change the value of the same data aspect (108), they send (210) their update requests, and the central repository (102) processes (306) them in the order in which they are received.