222 results about "Data collaboration" patented technology

A multi-party online collaboration system that optimizes both the participation of the collaborators and the universality of membership is described. The system satisfies the two requirements for networked collaboration by providing shareable objects and a means of notifying the collaborators whenever the state of the shared objects has changed. For an open network (i.e., the Internet), the preferred embodiment uses two open standards mechanisms: URL-addressable networks for the accessible shareable objects, and asynchronous messaging for notification of changes to the objects that do not occur in real-time. The preferred embodiment employs these two open standards systems to ensure universal access, and obviates the need for the collaborators to install / maintain proprietary client systems. The preferred embodiment monitors the state of the objects, and automatically dispatches notification messages, along with addresses (e.g., URLs) to those URL-addressable objects, to only those collaborators who responded to the previous notification. Because the system automatically handles the asynchronous messaging notifications and because these messages are dispatched only to those participants who are actively keeping current with the latest changes, the preferred embodiment precludes the generally chatty nature of asynchronous messaging systems. Whenever a collaborator does decide to use a notification link to visit the URL-addressable network site, he or she is further presented with a message describing an interface to all of the shared objects.

A synchronous collaboration environment that supports real-time collaboration of multiple participants, each having shared and independent views of the shared workspace. Multiple views per participant are provided. Some of the views seen by a participant can be shared views with the usual common cursor and annotation tools. The shared views need not be homogeneous, which means that for a given view, each participant can see more than just some common data in his or window for the view. What the participant sees separately from the common data can make his or her shared view different from that of other participants. The view can be different due to different data being exposed in the view. Some of the views seen by a participant can be independent views. This allows to the participant synchronous working with the shared workspace alone on his or her own. The collaboration system includes a user interface and support for aligning views including goto and overlaying. Participants can modify the workspace through their views in a synchronized manner provided the sharing and access rights of their views allow them to do so.

A method for building a locking, migration, dynamic clients, and dynamic partitions capable distributed server for a real-time collaboration session supports the synchronous creation and deletion of partitions by clients as well as the addition and withdrawal of clients during a current collaboration session. The method is based on history servers for providing a history of modifications so that a newly-added client can compute the current state of a shared workspace. The history servers cache and granularize intermediate modification sequences so that computation space and time are reduced. The method supports migrating partition server(s), history server(s), a creation / deletion server, and a collaboration server to different machines. Partition(s) can be dynamically locked and unlocked and, in an extension of this procedure, creation and deletion of partition(s) can be pre-announced and supported. Advanced dynamic-partitioning activities like splitting a partition, merging partitions, shifting data from partition to partition are carried out naturally by locking the concerned partitions during the process of execution.

A distributed server for real-time collaboration is substituted for a centralized server to address the problem of the development of unacceptable communication and computation bottlenecks resulting from the use of a one-software-process-based centralized server running somewhere on the available network. The substitute distributed server improves scaleability of real-time collaboration by being based on multiple, independently-communicating, asynchronous, independent (i.e., no shared memory, data, variables, etc.) software processes. The processes can be distributed to multiple machines throughout the network and run simultaneously in order to avoid the centralized server's bottlenecks. To be used, a distributed server requires a disjoint, fully covering partitioning of a work space, wherein it can handle partition hierarchies and groups comprehensively. The distributed server solution is general because of the ability of distributed servers to work with different definitions of a modification. The distributed server solution is extensible because of its simple and comprehensive treatment of inter-partition synchronization.

Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate real-time information exchange in a multimedia conferencing environment. Data Client(s) facilitate data collaboration between users and are maintained separately from audio / video (AV) Clients that provide real-time communication functionality. Data Clients can be remotely located with respect to one another and with respect to a server. A remote user Stand-in Device can be provided that comprises a display to present a remote user to local users, a digital automatic pan / tilt / zoom camera to capture imagery in, for example, a conference room and provide real-time information to an AV Client in a remote office, and a microphone array that can similarly provide real-time audio information from the conference room to an AV Client in the remote office. The invention further facilitates file transfer and presentation broadcast between Data Clients in a single location or in a plurality of disparate locations.

Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate real-time information exchange in a multimedia conferencing environment. Data Client(s) facilitate data collaboration between users and are maintained separately from audio / video (AV) Clients that provide real-time communication functionality. Data Clients can be remotely located with respect to one another and with respect to a server. A remote user Stand-in Device can be provided that comprises a display to present a remote user to local users, a digital automatic pan / tilt / zoom camera to capture imagery in, for example, a conference room and provide real-time information to an AV Client in a remote office, and a microphone array that can similarly provide real-time audio information from the conference room to an AV Client in the remote office. The invention further facilitates file transfer and presentation broadcast between Data Clients in a single location or in a plurality of disparate locations.

A method of providing a magnetic-stripe type payment card with coupons and micropayment authorizations provides an internal link on a payment card between a contact / contactless processor and a MEMS magnetic device. This communicates information received from a contact / contactless payments infrastructure to be presented to a magnetic stripe payments infrastructure as specially recorded data bits written by the MEMS magnetic device in a magnetic stripe track.

A web based data collaboration tool includes a dynamic international collaborative environment in which system partners, including customers, technology partners and suppliers, can exchange information between one another in a truly collaborative environment. The web based data collaboration tool includes unique “fine grain” security at both the document and sub-document level. This allows one source document to be shared between the system partners, including partners from different companies and those located in different countries, based upon an individual document / sub-document security profile. Further, the web based data collaboration tool includes a secure “Sandbox” for peer-to-peer sharing of sensitive documents and electronically incorporates a business area export representative (BAER) approval process that includes the required retention of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) documents making the web based data collaboration tool fully ITAR compliant.

The present invention provides methods and systems for establishing and conducting multimedia multipoint conference using one or more handheld wireless communication devices (HWCDs). In one embodiment, upon receiving a request from a HWCD user to establish or join a multimedia conference, a collaboration server responds by sending an appropriate web-client to the requester's handheld device. The multimedia conference may include data collaboration, with or without audio or video. During data collaboration, conference participants working on a shared file may send commands to the collaboration server, which then updates the file and sends the modified file to the conference participants.

An online advertising management system and method cooperates with advertiser accounting and other data to provide improved control and performance. The management system assists with determining keywords and ad content through automating certain steps and simplifying others. The management system further monitors performance of an advertising campaign and allows automatic and manual adjustments.

A peer-to-peer collaborative network system is described. The peer-to-peer collaborative network system uses an authentication system with multiple levels of authentication. This allows some collaboration applications to allow a collaboration with a high authentication level, but not to allow a collaboration with a lower level of authentication. Other collaborative applications can allow a collaboration with the lower level of authentication.

A videoconferencing and data collaboration system is disclosed, wherein user systems exchange A / V data along with other computer data via conferencing devices over a packet network. The conferencing devices are configured to process and transmit A / V data to other devices participating in a conference. Each transmitting conferencing device uses DSP to encode A / V for transmission to the packet network. Once A / V data using the DSP is received, each receiving conferencing device decodes the A / V data and forwards it to a respective terminal for viewing via the digital link. The conferencing devices also share computer data and files over the digital network, where user modifications are tracked by transmitting short messages that indicate key depression or mouse movement.

Systems and techniques describe a collaborative road user safety service that interacts with a coordinating set of collaborative safety devices belonging to road users in order to interchange reliable information about road safety. A distributed ledger / blockchain is utilized in connection with the service to coordinate data exchange between collaborative safety device users and provide data subscribers with reliable safety data that can be used to automate ancillary technical processes. Collaborative safety devices can alert members to road safety issues and be used to confirm information about road safety by collecting sensor and telemetry data. Data subscribers can receive aggregated, anonymized, de-anonymized, or specific road user data pertaining to road users and define the terms of incentives to road users that “self-revise” if a road user's vehicle is a target vehicle via smart contract interfaces. Cryptographic token can be transferred to incentivize data sharing, accuracy, and safe road behaviors.

A unified enterprise mobile data system that allows fine distinction and control of groups from individual contacts. The group structures that a user sees in the group screen generally matches the business structures the user works with. When the user is associated with and accesses a screen for a group, s / he sees messages just for this group. Each group is associated with a secured shared data storage space; group calendar, to-do list, and task tracker. The group structure provides a unified entry to access all group associated resources. Aggregate secured shared data storage space, group calendar, to-do list, and task tracker covering all groups with which the user is associated are also accessible to the user, providing rapid generalized access to all the user's information and data. The unified enterprise mobile data system provides dynamic membership for users in geolocation-based groups in response to the user's movements in and around locations of the enterprise.

Databases storing digital fingerprints of physical objects enable enhanced security and collaborative authentication. Digital fingerprints enable reliable identification of an object without the need for attaching or associating physical tags, labels or other identifying materials with the object; and serialization for identification also is obviated. By combining digital fingerprinting and data collaboration in one process, parties to the data collaboration can gain a level of certainty that data attributed to an object by different parties or at different times is attributed to only that object and not erroneously attributed to an incorrect or counterfeit object. Collaborative authentication platforms and processes, combining digital fingerprint databases with associated incentive databases, contribute enhanced information to the authentication databases, and provide unparalleled reliability and enriched metadata to supply chain tracking, detecting counterfeit objects, and other applications.

A method and system for facilitating collaboration between two groups without impairing or affecting the structure of the two groups is provided.

A system and computer program product for providing certified confidential data collaboration between two or more of a plurality of parties where an established trust relationship is not required between the plurality of parties. The method includes creating, by a first party, a changeset proposal, the changeset proposal having a comment, a list of attachments, a list of parties, and a list of versioned and typed data sections, remotely performing, by the first party, a certified operation on a computer associated with a semi-trusted governor party and passing the changeset proposal to the certified operation, creating, by the semi-trusted governor party, a globally unique changeset reference in a certified thread having a globally unique thread tracking number and a sequential changeset number, validating, by the semi-trusted governor party, the changeset proposal and creating, by the semi-trusted governor party, a state-at-changeset structure including the validated changeset proposal and a timestamp, extracting, by the semi-trusted governor party, a section-state-at-changeset structure from the changeset proposal, performing, by the semi-trusted governor party, a cryptographic hash of the state-at-changeset structure, performing, by the semi-trusted governor party, a cryptographic hash of the section-state-at-changeset structure, writing, by the semi-trusted governor party, to a local transactional database a changeset fat twin record including the changeset reference and its associated state-at-changeset structure and section-state-at-changeset structure, communicating, by the semi-trusted governor party, a changeset reference notification for each fat twin record to each of the one or more parties, performing, by the semi-trusted governor party, a certified operation in a blockchain a certified thin twin smart contract and passing the changeset reference, the cryptographically hashed state-at-changeset structure and the cryptographically hashed section-state-at-changeset structure, validating, by the certified thin twin smart contract, that there does not exist a previous certified operation with the same changeset reference, and writing by the thin twin smart contract to the blockchain a new thin twin record containing the changeset reference, the cryptographically hashed state-at-changeset structure and the cryptographically hashed section-state-at-changeset structure. The section-state-at-changeset structure is a subset of a total state of the list of versioned and typed data sections. A certified operation is expressed by the changeset reference, the state-at-changeset structure and the section-state-at-changeset structure occurred may be proved by each of the list of parties by cryptographically hashing the state-at-changeset structure and the section-state-at-changeset structure associated with the certified operation, and performing a proof-of-certified-operation on the thin twin smart contract and passing the changeset reference, the cryptographically hashed state-at-changeset structure and cryptographically hashed state-at-changeset structure. The proof may be determined even where the semi-trusted governor party is unresponsive after performance of the certified operation.

A method for facilitating the creation of a digital communications network by collaborative interaction among users at computer interfaces, the method comprising, at a terminal in a digital communications network: receiving question data; collecting answer data, collaboration data, and selection data relating to the terminal; transmitting the collected answer data to at least one first remote terminal; receiving answer data from the at least one first remote terminal responsive to identical question data as the received question data; receiving collaborative data from the first remote terminal; one or more of storing and displaying the question data and responsive answer data; and displaying answer data from the at least one first remote terminal in accordance with whether the at least one first remote terminal is assigned to a same predetermined first-tier group as the terminal in an answer data driven device hierarchy. A terminal, system and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.

Systems and methods to accept information regarding audio communication sessions (e.g., telephone calls) and, in response, initiate a videoconference and / or data collaboration session via for example data collaboration terminals associated with the audio terminals used for the audio communication sessions. The videoconferences and / or data collaboration sessions may be initiated using for example a voice call or session, for example, by using DTMF, SMS, SVD etc. The information required for the initiation of a videoconference or data collaboration session may for example be transmitted between user terminals, a centralized database may be used, or other methods may be used.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an automatic cooperation method and a system, which relate to the technical field of the Internet and can improve the automation degree of an electronic office system. The invention comprises the following steps: reading task scene data; according to the task scene data, constructing a task flow definition corresponding to the task scene; the task flow definition comprising information for recording the flow relationship and the condition relationship between task templates; extracting a task template from the task template library and defining and assembling a task instance according to the task flow, wherein a task template is loaded into at least one robot client; running a task template in the task instance and obtaining a task result. The invention is suitable for improving the automation degree of the electronic office system in the large and medium-sized enterprises.

A system for effecting transition of a private branch exchange (PBX) system-hosted voice only telephone session in progress into a voice session optionally enhanced with a data collaboration channel hosted by a conference bridge includes a call escalation system (CES) application for determining call state of the voice session to be transitioned and for executing a sequence of command requests for effecting the transition based on a trigger event; and a control application server for controlling the PBX switch.

A method of real time computerized image collaboration of a computerized image stored in memory of transmitting computer. A window is opened which selects a portion of the computerized image and a corresponding portion of memory. Image data stored in the memory portion is compressed and the compressed image data is transferred over a network to a client computer attached to the network. The image portion is visually presented in real time on a client video display attached to the client computer. A user of a client computer requests of the window. Upon receiving control of the window, the controlling user may add metadata by overlaying the image portion or perform other tasks such as move, resize the window and change image parameters. The image portion along with the metadata is shared in real time among other clients.

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method of processing data signals. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for processing data signals in real-time via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a system for processing data signals comprises a first data signal received from a first client, a second data signal received from a second client, a mixer for mixing the first and second data signals, a first unique data mix, for the first client, generated by the mixer, a second unique data mix, for the second client, generated by the mixer, and a third unique data mix, for a Fan Room, generated by the mixer.

The invention discloses a method and a system for observing atmospheric transmittance in real time. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: 1) measuring the atmospheric aerosol data and the meteorological condition of an area according to a passively remote sensing actinometer, an actively remote sensing laser radar, an automatic weather transmitter and a visibility meter; 2) matching the measured data and conducting multi-data collaboration use according to a nearest neighbor time matching principle within a dynamic time period; and 3) creating an atmospheric subdivision profile or the whole atmosphere content information on the basis of the observation data, and calculating in real time the spectral transmittance and the average spectrum transmittance between the observation location and the target location. The more accurate observation result is coupled to a MODTRAN radiation transfer model to calculate in real time the atmospheric transmittance. According to the method and the system provided by the invention, the target of measuring and calculating in real time the atmospheric transmittance is fulfilled, the observation data are processed in real time, and the transmittance spectrum between any positions of the atmosphere is rapidly calculated.

This invention relates to a conferencing and data collaboration operation and management system and method and, more particularly, to a managing, system and method for scheduling, monitoring and controlling of audio and video communication and data collaboration.

The invention provides for extracting language and culture information from a POSIX(TM)* conforming locale source file for the purpose of formatting sample data for country and language expert validation. The invention is performed on a computer system by obtaining a locale source file, in a preferred form, containing a plurality of elements having language and culture information, extracting and then using those elements and their associated values cooperatively with sample data, to generate readable text representations, thereby providing a country and language expert reviewer with textual data formatted according to the conventions embodied in the locale source file. <FOOTNOTE ID="FOO-00001">* ISO / IEC 9945-1:1900 (IEEE Standard 1003.2-1990) Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(TM)) Shell Utilities, IEEE Standards 1003.2 and 1003.2a. < / FOOTNOTE> The invention provides representative results without requiring compilation of a locale object, thereby increasing the efficiency of validation efforts.

The invention relates to the field of computer security protection, in particular to a network information interaction method and a network security system. The network information interaction method comprises the following steps: firstly constructing a heterogeneous data collaboration server for an external network, restoring external network data displayed in different forms into information in an XML (Extensible Markup Language) format, screening and uniformizing, and translating the information in the XML format into Unicode; constructing a recognition and control system for an internal network, displaying the Unicode and control identification with variable color on a display, starting a photographing program and intercepting an image on the screen of the current display by a photography or videography device when the control identification is changed into specific color; and restoring an image file into XML information in a data recognition and control server by adopting an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, and leading the XML information into a corresponding internal network database through a data interface. The network security system takes an image recognition technology as a core, internal and external network equipment is not physically connected, and the data is screened before leading and connection so as to realize real-time data leading and connection on the basis of true physical isolation.

A system and method are provided to enable automated broadband AMR, optionally in real time. The system may include an Automated Meter Management Server and an Automated Meter Reading Converter, wherein the Automated Meter Management Server utilizes data generated by a Poller Converter and a Name Server, to enable automated data collaboration between Automated Meter Reading meters and a Power Line Communications System.