347 results about "Internet resources" patented technology

The embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods which update petroleum activity data and allows for geospatial modeling of the data in an interactive fashion or for the creation of a report to display customizable reports in accordance with user-preferred fields. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods for collection of data from various Internet resources, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and specifically allow user-friendly interaction to select various fields, such as bids, contract information, well production, and produce graphical representation or generate reports that accounts for the organization of the data.

A system, method and apparatus for efficiently accessing Internet resources are disclosed. The system, method and apparatus employ a portable device for receiving and transmitting information such as contact information, voting information and medical information, for example.

A computerized system for integrating internet sources and television sources in a convergence system is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the system integrates both television channels and internet channels in a single list of channels available on the system. The lists of channels are stored in an electronic program database. The system solves the problem of managing multiple channels from multiple sources by seamlessly integrating channels from the television with channels from the internet in a single channel list.

A web hosting system comprises a plurality of geographically separate web hosting facilities with a plurality of servers located at each of the facilities having internet resources hosted thereon. A network accessible centralized database remote from at least some of the web hosting facilities contains information comprising one or more of server serial number, server model, server facility location, server location within a facility, server speed, server memory capacity, server traffic, and server software configuration for at least some of the servers. In some embodiments, different users are allowed to access different information in the database.

A server-oriented method and system for providing access to Internet resources. A web server is used to convert the content of web pages in a plurality of formats compatible with users' devices or with the needs of users with disabilities and to provide the users with the requested web pages in the format compatible with their specific needs or with the requirements/capabilities of the user device.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for prefetching Internet resources based on the estimated round trip time of the resources. Whenever a user clicks on an embedded hyperlink, the prefetching strategy aims to ensure that the corresponding document has been prefetched or can be fetched very quickly from its origin server. Web access time as perceived by the user is reduced, while also minimizing the network, server and local resource overhead due to prefetching. The estimated round trip time is obtained or approximated for all referenced documents. The “round trip” time or access time of a resource is the time interval between the sending of the first byte of an HTTP request for the resource until the last byte of the server response has arrived at the requesting Web client. Documents with the longest access times are prefetched first and prefetching generally continues until the estimated round trip time falls below a predefined threshold. An HTTP HEAD request may be used to determine the estimated round trip time of a Web resource. The prefetching agent can be configured to prevent prefetching of those documents that are quickly fetchable, dynamically generated or non-HTTP based resources, or those documents whose size exceed a certain limit, to minimize the network, server and local resource overhead due to prefetching. The thresholds applied to the list of documents to be prefetched can be dynamically adjusted by the agent, based on changing network and server conditions.

A method for tagging internet resource identifiers (IR) based on situationally aware software includes: determining a user's role, context, situation, and which uniform IR is currently being viewed by the user; retrieving one or more of: role and situation tags, and predefined vocabulary from a database in response to the determining; creating a community tag list in the event one or more community tags exist in response to the determined IR; providing the community tag list to the user; receiving a user selected community tag from the community tag list; tagging the IR with the user selected community tag; wherein in the event the community tag list has not been created, the IR is tagged with at least one of the retrieved role and situation tags, and the predefined vocabulary; and wherein the tagging is based on at least one of the user's context, role, or situation.

A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites, e-mail services, individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which contains a hostname in the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display.

DNS in its native form cannot identify a good or best server. Traditional Service Providers deploy a centralised approach to global traffic management based on enhancements to DNS, but do have the capability to augment this with edge-based server selection because they do not own/operate an edge network. Their resolution of DNS requests is typically restricted to identifying candidate servers within an edge domain rather than selecting the “best” server. The invention proposes a method of handling Internet resource requests whereby a local lookup server receiving a request searches for a best server able to satisfy the resource request. The local lookup server finds the best server by searching a database for a resource record associated with the best server, and then uses the resource record to retrieve an identifier of a series of executable instructions that are executed to locate the best server. The resource requests and responses may hold additional information relating to operational characteristics which may used to determine the best server. The invention proposes a DNS record type comprising a user-defined field for conveying this additional information in the resource request and in the response. The invention also proposes architecture for handling the resource request comprising a network server that provides the requested resource using the best server, as well as a communications network comprising this architecture.

A method of anti-phishing and domain name protection. The method comprises capturing a system call sent to an operating system of a client by an application requesting an access to an Internet resource; extracting a URL included in the captured system call; capturing a response to the system call sent from operating system to the application; determining if the system call's response includes any one of a domain name system (DNS) error code and fake internet protocol (IP) address; checking the extracted URL against an anti-phishing blacklist to determine if the Internet resource is a malicious website; performing a DNS error correction action if any one of the DNS error code and the fake IP address was detected; and performing an anti-phishing protection action if the internet resource is determined to be a malicious website.

This invention disclosed a system and method for resource based virtual communities. Any resources that can be shared or used by multiple people, including Internet resources, software or other resources can be the basis for the community, whose members are users of the resource. Web resources include web sites, web pages, news groups or discussion forums. Other types of resources include software products, bulletin boards, games or other products. The community composes of the current resource users such as web page readers, bulletin board posters, game players, software users. Whenever a person accesses or uses the resource, the user is automatically joined as part of the community. At the same time they are using the resource, they can access all services provide by the community, such as talking with other members, collaborating with others, publishing comments, or even adding new community services.

Data transmission system including a proxy connected to the Internet network and at least a content server to which a user can gain access by the intermediary of the proxy, the proxy being associated with authentication means adapted to perform form-based authentication of the user when receiving a user request for Internet resources therefrom and wherein the proxy transmits the user request to the content server which sends back a response to the proxy. The authentication means comprise a Single Sign-On (SSO) server adapted to obtain a login form from the content server when receiving the user request from the proxy, to fill the login form by using the credentials associated with the user and to send back the filled login form thereby, playing the role of the user regarding the content server, so that the content server can provide the requested information after authentication of the user.

A centralized host server domain can be setup to process all the A (Address) wildcard DNS records of matching non-existent domain names. The left-most label of the non-existent domain will be identified as the “DOMAIN PREFIX” and it will be extracted from the non-existent domain name of the Universal Resource Locator (URL) HTTP Request that is sent by a client. The host server will use the extracted “DOMAIN PREFIX” and perform a search against a centralized database where Domains' output URLs are defined and mapped to “DOMAIN PREFIX” values. The search result, which can be a single URL or multiple URLs, of the same or different protocol, will be sent back to the client as the Response. Domain Prefixes values and their associated keywords that are stored in the centralized database and mapped to output URLs will be accessed and utilized by new and existing internet resources search engines.

In a preferred form, the present invention provides a method (200) for searching the Internet (14n). The method (200) comprising the steps of: in response to a user search query, identifying at least one search origin (12n) comprising an Internet resource (12n) deemed of relevance; retrieving and reviewing the contents of the search origin (12n) to identify the presence of one or more search avenues (12n) stemming from the search origin (12n), identifiable search avenues comprising: sites (12n) which are ascertained by the search origin contents (12n); submission fields presented by the search origin (12n); and/or, dynamically generated content (12n) retrieved from the search origin, and, perusing identified search avenues (12n) to identify search results to be returned in response to the user search query.

A web browser for Internet access distinguishes between client users and supervisory users. Supervisory users are authorized to create and/or modify local content access settings to Internet resources that are stored in a local data structure and/or a remote data structure. Client users are prevented from accessing these local content access settings. When a client user logs on, the all-in-one environment retrieves the local content access settings and connects to a predetermined remote site to retrieve additional content access control information. Modules embedded within the all-in-one environment coordinate local and remote control access settings to provide regulation, in the form of control and/or screening of the Internet resources, of the content that the client user can access. The amount of regulation afforded is readily modified through the setting of local content access settings by a local supervisor and by the selection of the remote site(s) contacted for additional content access control information. The all-in-one environment also encompasses one or more interactive agents to assist and/or entertain client users during Internet access. In some embodiments of the present invention. the all-in-one web browser is rendered to have a three-dimensional look and feel and provide unique features to enhance the web browsing experience.

A method and apparatus for data communications over a wireless network. A user contacts an Internet gateway over the wireless network. When the user requests an Internet resource it sends an improved HTTP command to the gateway. The improved HTTP command causes the internet gateway to access a resource file and obtain not only the requested resource, but also all of the resources embedded in the requested resource. The requested resource and embedded resources are bundled into a file and sent to the user. By eliminating parsing of the requested resource by the user and subsequent requests for embedded information, the wireless network does not have to make multiple supplemental communication channel assignments, which improves overall performance.

A remote site filtering and monitoring system and method is described in which the Internet accesses of a remote device are monitored and categorized by a remote server in real-time. The system also provides for offline access logging and subsequent uploading, adjustable filtering sensitivities and particular HTTP port filtering.

A metering system meters usage of on-line and off-line services by way of interactive service devices. Interactive service devices may include personal computers and non-personal-computers. Non-personal-computers may include network computers, gaming devices, Internet televisions, Internet telephones, and the like. The on-line service usage may include Internet usage such as which home pages, advertisements, and other Internet resources are accessed by a user. The off-line service usage may include application program usage such as which application programs are executed by a user.

The invention provides an open system for providing resources for an application program. The open system is connected with an Internet system and a mobile communication system, acquires Internet resources from the Internet system or acquires mobile communication resources from the mobile communication system, and provides the acquired Internet resources or mobile communication resources for the application program to call. The open system can bring convenience to the development and running of the application program.

The invention discloses a method allowing a vehicular terminal to share an intelligent mobile terminal network. The method includes that the vehicular terminal is connected with an intelligent mobile terminal through Bluetooth, USB (universal serial bus) or WIFI (Wireless Fidelity); the vehicular terminal accesses to the network through sharing network hot spots of the intelligent mobile terminal. By the aid of the method, the vehicular terminal can access to the Internet to use Internet resources by taking the intelligent mobile terminal as a network channel, installation is facilitated, and cost is saved.

Systems and methods for controlling broadcast streaming media to a user's Internet-accessible device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a timeline temporally associating streaming media content programs from a plurality of Internet resources is created and sent to a server. After receiving a playback request form a user's device, the server accesses the timeline and identifies the address associated with a streaming media content program for the current time as indicated in the timeline. The server then sends across the Internet to the user's device the address of the program associated with the current time on the timeline. The user's device then accesses the broadcast streaming program and playback begins. At subsequent times, according to the timeline, the server will send a new address to the user's device that is indicative a program within the timeline. Thus, playback on the user's device is continuous and changes automatically according to the user's preferences as indicated in the timeline.

The invention discloses an execution strategy generation method and device under cross-IDC (Internet Data Center) big data processing architecture, and relates to the field of big data processing. According to the method, current available computing resources and internet transmission resources reported by each IDC cluster are received; on the basis of a task classification model base, optimum execution strategies of tasks are determined according to the types of the tasks; the optimum execution strategies of the tasks comprise the demanded computing resources and consumed time of the tasks; the current optimum execution strategies of the tasks are obtained through calculating according to every two of [cluster available computing resources and task data distribution] matrixes in an available resource pool and [demanded computing resources and consumed time of each task and cluster available internet resources] matrixes. Compared with the existing scheme, the technical scheme provided by the invention has the advantages that the computing and internet resources can be utilized in a high utilization rate on a big data processing platform built cross-IDC, the service quality demands of different services can be satisfied, and the flexible service extension capability is realized.

The invention discloses a system for information collection processing and retrieving, which comprises a strategy managing module which allocates and manages the grasp strategy and the mode setting of a data mining processing module; the data mining processing module which searches according to the internet resources, saves the grasped data, extracts the valid information after identification to sieve, and writes the kept information into an information database for saving; a retrieving model which processes the information in the information database, generates the abstract information, classifies the information and constructs an index base; the information database which stors the information delivered by the data mining processing module and the returned information written by the retrieval module, and provides to a browsing and retrieving interface for retrieval; the browsing and retrieving interface which receives user query requests and retrieves via the information database. The system is able to collect information comprehensively and timely, implement automatically the subsequent processing treatment of the information, and retrieve and browse centrally.