177 results about "Collaborative software" patented technology

Multiple users access a collaborative data-sharing system during a data-sharing event. Each user can establish the level of sharing to be allowed with each other user and filtering criteria for filtering the data before it is provided to the other users. Data can be extracted from a number of different sources, including data input by other users and/or previously created information sources. For example, slides from a presentation on a similar topic may be identified and included by a user as a potential source of information to be used by other users. Shared data can be displayed on devices used by users to communicate with the collaborative data-sharing system. A user can selected data provided by the collaborative data-sharing system, which was obtained from the data input by other users and/or from the identified additional data sources and added to that user's data as data entered by that user.

A system and method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network. The plurality of participants receive segment instructions for authoring the segment candidates. The candidates are submitted to the system and at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates are distributed to a voting audience over the computer network. In response the system receives votes for a favored segment candidate from the voting audience. Next, a winning segment candidate is selected from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes. This process is repeated by the system until the collaborative work is complete.

The invention relates to a collaborative signature and decryption method, apparatus and system of an SM2 algorithm. The collaborative signature method of the SM2 algorithm implemented from the angle of a first communication party comprises the following steps: generating a message abstract of a to-be-singed message according to a preset password hash algorithm; receiving a first elliptic curve group element fed back by a second communication party based on a first public key parameter and a selected random number; generating a first part signature according to the message abstract and the first elliptic curve group element; performing modular arithmetic based on the first part signature to generate a confused intermediate result, and transmitting the confused intermediate result to the second communication party; when the intermediate signature fed back by the second communication party according to the confused intermediate result is received, generating a second part signature according to the intermediate signature and the first part signature; and obtaining a complete SM2 digital signature according to the first part signature and the second part signature.

Techniques are provided for determining collaborative notes and automatically recognizing speech, handwriting and other type of information. Domain and optional actor/speaker information associated with the support information is determined. An initial automatic speech recognition model is determined based on the domain and/or actor information. The domain and/or actor/speaker language model is used to recognize text in the speech information associated with the support information. Presentation support information such as slides, speaker notes and the like are determined. The semantic overlap between the support information and the salient non-function words in the recognized text and collaborative user feedback information are used to determine relevancy scores for the recognized text. Grammaticality, well formedness, self referential integrity and other features are used to determine correctness scores. Suggested collaborative notes are displayed in the user interface based on the salient non-function words. User actions in the user interface determine feedback signals. Recognition models such as automatic speech recognition, handwriting recognition are determined based on the feedback signals and the correctness and relevance scores.

The invention discloses an instantaneous impact point based unmanned aerial vehicle non-collaborative real-time obstacle avoidance method. The instantaneous impact point based unmanned aerial vehicle non-collaborative real-time obstacle avoidance method comprises the steps of 1 performing obstacle detection, namely obtaining a relative motion state of an obstacle, 2 performing obstacle motion estimation, namely obtaining machine state information based on satellite navigation information and calculating a motion state of an inertial space obstacle, 3 performing impact conflict detection, namely judging whether obstacle impact occurs or not, 4 performing obstacle avoidance decision making, namely making an obstacle avoidance decision based on a detection result in the step 3, 5 performing obstacle avoidance route re-planning based on a quick expanding random tree algorithm considering an instantaneous impact point, namely introducing route evaluation heuristic information based on the instantaneous impact point and achieving obstacle avoidance route re-planning. The instantaneous impact point based unmanned aerial vehicle non-collaborative real-time obstacle avoidance method has the advantages of being simple in principle, easy to achieve, capable of improving unmanned aerial vehicle safety and the like.

Techniques used in a system for collaborative work which gives collaborators unskilled in data processing technologies access to a variety of information resources to provide the collaborators with information resources which are obtained in response to parameterized information requests such as queries. The techniques use records in database tables to represent a class of parameterized information requests. Information for instances of the class includes queries that may be used in the instances and default values for bind parameters in the queries. Values for the bind parameters may also be specified for classes of user interfaces that employ the information sources returned by the parameterized information requests and for instances of the user interface. A user may also use specify values for bind parameters in his or her instance of the user interface.

A section of a housing on a portable computing device is removed or folded away, thereby exposing a free edge of an LCD screen as well as electrical (data and power) connectors and structural connectors. Connectors are placed symmetrically across the exposed edge whereby a male connector on one side mates with a female connector on the other device. Two such devices are physically pushed together, with locking catches securing the two devices together. Upon docking, the two devices recognize the new configuration and re-map the desktop area of the display into a single display for the combined device. In a preferred embodiment, either a top edge or a side edge is selectively exposed independently on the same device, to mate two devices in either a portrait or landscape orientation.

The present invention relates a method and system for collaborating in a shared network space comprising logging in from the one or more user machines to the shared space in a network from a user application to a host, wherein the shared space is created by interaction of executable codes in the host and the user application and the shared space is described by a session attribute list; loading a media application with tools into a one or more user machines; inputting graphical content; and displaying the content by other user machines in the shared space synchronously or asynchronously including anchoring a sidebar panel to a region of a browser; creating one or more user messages in the sidebar panel; displaying graphical content on a whiteboard; highlighting points of interest within the graphical content; and associating said user messages to the points of interest by one or more lines.

Improved techniques for using connectors in a system for collaborative work for users unskilled in data processing techniques, including UI techniques. Data may be augmented by associating a connector query to obtain additional data and the data viewed in a “drill down” fashion, or by associating an additional resource for entering additional data by clicking on a link: the additional resource is created as needed and is a full-fledged resource of the system. A number of other connector queries may be combined into a single query that composes them, and information from different information sources may be combined easily, such as to make the form consistent; the information may also be transformed in a complex fashion. An alternative source for an information result may be used by a connector query to optimize performance, such as a cached result. A connector may be used to obtain information from resources created by other users within the system, and a connector may be used to obtain information from the resource in which it is used.

The invention provides a secure two-party collaboration SM2 signature method consisting of steps of system initialization, negotiation generation of a signature public key, collaborative signature andoutput of a complete signature. According to the secure two-party collaboration SM2 signature method provided by the invention, prior to the negotiation of the signature public key and the collaborative signature, the both communication parties authenticate the identity of the opposite party by using the zero knowledge proof technology, the correctness of outputting the complete signature is ensured by using the promise technology, it is ensured that the first communication party does not need to decrypt a received ciphertext by using the homomorphic encryption technology, the operation of the corresponding ciphertext can be realized, and a timestamp mechanism is added to ensure that the both communication parties can output the complete signature only when the identity of the first communication party, the current time and the position information of the first communication party are consistent, so that the security of the system is greatly improved, the loss caused by the leakage ofa signature private key is reduced, and the man-in-the-middle attack can be prevented. The secure two-party collaboration SM2 signature method provided by the invention has higher security and can beused in an environment in which a communication channel is not safe.

An architecture and a method are disclosed for providing secure, scalable, and dynamic user configuration in the distributed network for the cloud computing to provide authentication and authorization for the plurality of the users to use the SaaS service. The system includes a hierarchical tree structure that configures the cloud-computing model by using the certificate less identity-based cryptography to establish the hierarchical relationship between the participating entities. The hierarchical model provides a hierarchical certificateless aggregate signature (HCL-AS) for authentication and non-repudiation for SaaS in cloud computing. The HCL-AS generates a collaborative aggregate signature at a parent level of each child node (users) without the loss of identity of the users in the resulting signature and sends an aggregated signature to the third-party software provider. The HCL-AS significantly reduces the computation and communication cost during the user verification and authentication.

The invention discloses a reconfigurable wall climbing robot and a collaborative obstacle-detouring method thereof. The reconfigurable wall climbing robot comprises an adaptive seal skirt, a sealing lining, a centrifugal pump, a centrifugal pump motor, a centrifugal pump motor driver, a robot body, and the like, wherein the seal skirt is vertically fixed on the periphery of the lower bottom surface of the robot body; the robot body is provided with a through hole, the air inlet of the centrifugal pump is corresponding to the through hole of the robot body and fixedly arranged on the robot body, and an output shaft of the centrifugal pump motor is connected with the centrifugal pump; and the sealing lining is arranged on the lower bottom surface of the robot body and located between the through hole and the seal skirt. In the invention, each reconfigurable wall climbing robot is an independent individual, and can independently complete tasks such as reconnaissance and the like under the condition of no barrier; and when a certain wall climbing robot is required to detour an obstacle, two independent reconfigurable wall climbing robots can collaboratively complete an obstacle-detouring task through being combined to be a whole.

In a distributed system that includes a debug server and debug clients coupled for data communications through a data communications network, where the debug server includes a debug administrator, a message router, a back-end debugger, and a debuggee, collaborative software debugging includes receiving application-level messages, including receiving, a request to establish a chat session associated with a location in source code of the debuggee; routing the application-level messages among the debug clients, the debug administrator, and the back-end debugger; returning client-specific debug results, including sending, to the debug clients, a notification of an established chat session; and administering, by the message router, chat content for the established chat session among debug clients. Debug clients display the chat content in a chat box at the location in source code when the view of source code includes the location.

A method for communicating collaborative software development information including receiving a development of a software code via an integrated development environment (“IDE”) from one of a plurality of collaborative software developers, receiving information about the development of the software code via the IDE, storing the information on the storage device via the IDE, whereby the information is accessible from the storage device together with the development and the software code, indicating the development of the software code by emphasizing the development through modifying the software code text from a normal format, indicating an availability of the information about the development by providing a selectable indicator in proximity to the indicated development that includes a selectable icon or hyperlink added to the software code, presenting the information to the other of the collaborative software developers in response to the developer selecting the selectable indicator while reviewing the development via the IDE.

According to the present invention, a virtual network communication system is provided for effecting secure communications between user agents at different sites within said virtual network, comprising at least one Private Tuple Space within each of the sites for effecting intra-site communications between the agents, a Shared Tuple Space for effecting inter-site communications between different sites, and a Coordinator Manager within each of the sites for receiving user initiated communication requests from the Private Tuple Space to communicate between user agents at the different sites, authenticating the requests and in response dynamically creating and managing instances of Coordinators at each of the different sites which embed messages from the user agents in secure tuples using multi-layered encryption and exchange the secure tuples over the Shared Tuple Space.

In a distributed system that includes a debug server and debug clients coupled for data communications through a data communications network, where the server includes a debug administrator, a message router, a back-end debugger, and a debuggee, collaborative software debugging includes receiving, by the debug server, a plurality of application-level messages, including receiving, from a session owner, a request to enable a predefined operational mode; enabling the predefined operational mode; routing, by the message router in accordance with an application-level message passing protocol and in accordance with the enabled predefined operational mode, the application-level messages among the debug clients, the debug administrator, and the back-end debugger, including providing distributed control of the back-end debugger to the debug clients with application-level messages routed to the back-end debugger; and returning, by the debug server to the debug clients in response to the application-level messages routed to the back-end debugger, client-specific debug results.

In a distributed system that includes a debug server and debug clients coupled for data communications through a data communications network, where the debug server includes a debug administrator, a message router, a back-end debugger, and a debuggee, collaborative software debugging includes receiving, by the debug server from the debug clients, application-level messages including receiving, from a requesting debug client, a request to establish a private debug session of the debuggee; routing, by the message router, the application-level messages among the debug clients, the debug administrator, and the back-end debugger, including forwarding, to the back-end debugger, the request to establish a private debug session of the debuggee; and; and returning, by the debug server to the debug clients in response to the application-level messages routed to the back-end debugger, client-specific debug results, including establishing the private debug session of the debuggee for the requesting debug client.

In a distributed system that includes a debug server and debug clients coupled for data communications through a data communications network, where the debug server includes a debug administrator, a message router, a back-end debugger, and a debuggee, collaborative software debugging includes receiving, by the debug server from the debug clients asynchronously during a debug session of the debuggee, a plurality of application-level messages; routing, by the message router in accordance with an application-level message passing protocol, the application-level messages among the debug clients, the debug administrator, and the back-end debugger, including providing distributed control of the back-end debugger to the debug clients with application-level messages routed to the back-end debugger; and returning, by the debug server to the debug clients in response to the application-level messages routed to the back-end debugger, client-specific debug results.

Data objects replicated at multiple computers can be synchronized using synchronization messages exchanged over a network. The synchronization messages include a current operation parameter and a previous operation parameter that are processed to determine how and when the replicated data objects should be manipulated. The current operation parameter identifies an operation and associated data to be executed at a receiving computer to synchronize the receiving computer's data object. An execution stage parameter is also sent to identify a correct execution timing for the operation. The previous operation parameter identifies a preceding operation executed by the sending computer, an execution stage at which the preceding operation was executed, and the computer first originating the preceding operation (e.g., an identify of a third computer that first initiated the operation). Data in the synchronization message can also indicate a unique priority level of the sending computer with respect to the other computers.