648 results about "Meeting place" patented technology

Improvements to a system for enhancing the quality of group interaction, group activities, and group environments over computer networks. New features include the capacity for participants to form subgroups within a larger group, as well as to move about a virtual environment, interacting with other participants they come across in the environment as desired. Unique methods for creating and distributing structured group programs for use on the system, for playing computerized board games or card games on the system, and for building virtual social environments using the system are also disclosed. The system creates improved virtual environments for high-tech business meetings, on-line classrooms, conferences, group counseling sessions, internet trade shows, and private meeting places where family and friends can spend quality time together.

A computer-implemented method provides location-sensitive and time-sensitive calendaring to a wireless device, such as a cellphone, pager, PDA, etc. A user's calendar is maintained with a number of appointments, start times and end times for the appointments, meeting place and a list of attendees for the appointments. When the present time reading is within a predetermined minimum of a meeting start time of an appointment of a calendar of a user, the location of the user is determined based on the location of the wireless device. The location of the meeting place is also determined. Using historical data (of the user or others), the estimated time of arrival of the user at the meeting place is determined. If the estimated time of arrival is after the meeting start time, then a late message may be sent to the user and/or to the other meeting attendees.

A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for suggesting meeting locations to multiple users based, at least in part, on their current locations. In one example, a method includes receiving location information associated with at least two users, determining a center location with respect to the received location information, causing a search for a meeting location based on the determined center location, and causing communication of the meeting location(s) to at least one of the users. The method may further include receiving search criteria, where the search includes searching point-of-interest locations based on the center location and filtering the search results based on the search criteria. The method may further include receiving or using additional context information in addition to location information, such as time of day, day of the week, traffic conditions, weather conditions, and the like, to filter or order the search results.

The present invention includes an apparatus for combining a water barrier fluid to a bundle of optical fibers including an entrance die having an orifice which is dimensioned to allow for a bundle of optical fibers to be drawn therethrough. Also, an exit die having an orifice is provided. The entrance die and the exit die, respectively, have inner sides which define a cavity. The cavity is in fluid communication with the orifice of the entrance die and the orifice of the exit die, such that a gap is formed at a meeting point between the cavity and the respective orifices of the entrance and the exit die. The gap is radially surrounded by an extension of the cavity to define a critical flow region. A plurality of baffles are formed in the exit die which are operative to inject fluid into the cavity. Also provided is a main body which supports the entrance die and the exit die. The main body includes a passageway that is in fluid communication with the plurality of baffles. A retaining ring is included which secures the entrance die and the exit die to the main body.

A browser-enabled system of software and services that focuses on connecting people across spatial, temporal, and organizational barriers to achieve specific objectives. The system includes a client server system that provides a virtual meeting place for a learning community and a structure through which that community can achieve its goals.

A method and apparatus that eliminates blind networking and allows targeted networking amongst event attendees, both for personal as well as professional reasons, while also making events ubiquitously available anytime anywhere beyond the physical limitations of time and space, such that anyone anywhere in the world can not only attend the event from the comfort of his office desk or home but also network with the other event attendees without physically attending the event is disclosed. Event hosts can be any non-profit/for-profit organization or entity hosting events of any nature in any realm. Another embodiment of the invention provides enhanced, multiple levels of profile content privacy that give complete freedom, control, and flexibility to the users to express themselves fearlessly by controlling the specific chosen contents in their profiles for input, storage, analysis, retrieval, and/or display to specific chosen authorized users or groups. Another embodiment of the invention provides integration in a chat/instant messaging to allow a user to set up an online meeting with one or more participants in the chat and/or that allows a user to find a meeting place where one or more participants can decide to meet in person locally or globally in various parts of the world. Another embodiment of the invention is related to sales and revenue generation, particularly for e-commerce/e-services companies whose products or services, which include but not limited to, yellow page, directory, or business information databases by area, reach large numbers of users directly.

A certificate of deposit (“CD”) portfolio system and method to attract institutional investors through dealers to CD issuing small to medium sized community deposit taking institutions. The central entities of the system include a system operator and a system clearing house. The system operator contacts and signs up the institutions to become a part of the system. These institutions are community banks that are too small to individually attract institutional investors. It also contacts and signs up dealers and then unitizes FDIC insured CD's into single investment instrument portfolios which the dealers then market to their institutional investor clientele. The clearing house is in communication with the system operator, the institutions and the dealers to act as an agent facilitating transactions by issuing the CD's, handling funds, settling transactions, and acting as custodian/trustee for all transactions. The invention includes a system operator controlled internet website to provide access to information to for the use of CD issuing banks, the system clearing house, the system operator and the dealers. In effect the invention creates a meeting place for small banks to pool their FDIC insured CD's together into single investment instrument portfolios large enough to attract institutional investors at favorable interest rates because of the credit enhancement resulting from full FDIC insurance of the portfolio. This is achieved because the system and method prevent exceeding the $100,000.00 FDIC insurance limit per investor per bank.

A system and method for controlling a social network based virtual world, in which users are represented by avatars that in turn are linked to the user's real world social network social profiles. The users may virtually meet in various different virtual meeting places or “rooms”. In order to promote development of new and productive virtual relationships with a high degree of relevance to the user's real world experience, the system makes use of probability to interact (PTI) methods and algorithms. The PTI method keeps track of both the respective user's real-world interactions and virtual world interactions, computes one or more PTI values, and uses these PTI values to control the distribution of the user's avatars in a social interaction optimized manner. The PTI methods may also be used to control avatar appearance, suggest virtual events, and control the output of virtual event search engines.

An apparatus for separating teeth utilizing a base member having a first end portion, a second end portion, and an intermediate portion. A first spring extends outwardly from the first end portion while a second spring extends outwardly from the second portion of the base member. A lingual shield spans the distal portions of the first and second springs extending from the base member. A pair of tines overlap one another, one tine extending from the base member, the other extending from the shield. The first and second springs urge the meeting or overlapping of the first and second tines in the vicinity of gap for meeting place between a pair of teeth.

The invention concerns a method for identifying a physical meeting location using an automatic location identification (ALI) equipped wireless device. The method can include the steps of identifying a first physical location of a remote ALI equipped wireless device; calculating a second physical location corresponding to a location of the wireless device; and displaying on said wireless device at least one a bearing and distance from said first physical location to said second physical location. The invention can also include the step of processing the data to identify a third physical location between the first and second physical locations; and displaying on the wireless device information concerning at least the third physical location.

An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a navigation module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each divided into a set of zones and each having an assigned context through a user interface provided to a plurality of users through one or more client systems. The CVE provides each user with a respective avatar representation for navigating and interacting within the locations of the virtual world. The navigation module provides a user interface element for each user to specify a respective set of navigation settings. The navigation module automatically directs the avatar representation for each user to traverse the set of zones of a respective subset of the set of locations of the virtual world in a particular order of locations and at a particular rate for each location according to the respective set of navigation settings specified by the user.

The invention relates to a multimedia communication interactive system and a method thereof. The system comprises: a private network device which is accessed to an IMS based on an SIP protocol to interact with a PSTN and a mobile communication network; an integrated scheduling platform interacting with the private network device based on an HTTP protocol, which at least comprises a web page interactive module for issuing web pages and receiving data submitted in the form of web pages; and a session module, which is used for issuing a session control web page, establishing a session when a session calling request submitted in the form of web pages is received, analyzing identifications for acquiring selected terminals of a main meeting place and each branch meeting place, and calling the selected terminals to participate in the session through the private network device. The method is achieved on the basis of the multimedia communication interactive system. The system is particularly applicable to communication guidance of a large-scale activity and the integrated scheduling platform interacts with the private network device in the form of web pages, thus the flexible control can be achieved, and particularly a session control can be achieved conveniently and fast.

A method for operating a driver-assistance system for a vehicle traveling on a road is described, which includes the steps:

• • detecting a bottleneck lying ahead of the vehicle as well as at least one vehicle that approaches the vehicle from the opposite direction,
  • determining the distance and the width of the bottleneck as well as the distance, the width, and the current driving speed of the oncoming vehicle,
  • predicting the expected trajectories of the vehicle and the oncoming vehicle, and determining an expected meeting point of the two vehicles,
  • analyzing the predicted traffic situation, and
  • activating a safety function if the expected meeting point of the two vehicles lies in the region of the bottleneck (500),

the activation instant of the safety device (150) being determined as a function of the current traffic situation.

A hydrogen generator (100) includes: a hydrogen generating unit (1) configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by using a raw material gas; a hydro-desulfurizer (7) configured to remove a sulfur compound in the raw material gas supplied to the hydrogen generating unit (1); a first gas channel (5) through which the raw material gas supplied through the hydro-desulfurizer (7) to the hydrogen generating unit (1) flows; a recycle channel (10) through which the hydrogen-containing gas from the hydrogen generating unit (1) is supplied to the raw material gas in the first gas channel (5) located upstream of the hydro-desulfurizer (7); a raw material gas supply unit (6) disposed between the hydro-desulfurizer (7) and a meeting point where the first gas channel (5) and the recycle channel (10) meet; and a first on-off valve (8) disposed between the raw material gas supply unit (6) and the hydro-desulfurizer (7) to close when the hydrogen generator (100) stops.

A navigation system, which can determine a place suitable for meeting as a meeting place, is disclosed. This navigation system obtains positional information of mobile units, and extracts candidates for a meeting place from adequate meeting places registered in advance. The navigation system automatically selects or a user manually selects one place from the extracted candidates, and determines the selected one as the meeting place. The navigation system transmits the information about the meeting place to the other mobile units, so that the mobile units can meet each other at the right meeting place free from any place-caused inconvenience.

A method of operating a navigation system is disclosed. A request for a route to a large scale point of interest having multiple entrances is obtained. Data indicating a meeting point for the large scale point of interest is obtained from a geographic database associated with the navigation system. The meeting point defines a location within the large scale point of interest or proximate to the large scale point of interest. A route to the meeting point location is calculated and the meeting point location is sent to another user.

The invention discloses an electromobile charging method and system and belongs to the field of automobile charging. The method comprises the steps that an automobile to be charged receives the identification, the position information, the traveling speed, the direction and the electric energy information of a power supplying automobile sent by a base station; the automobile to be charged sends a charging request to the power supplying automobile according to the identification of the power supplying automobile, wherein the identification, the destination and the navigation path of the automobile to be charged are contained in the charging request; the power supplying automobile generates agreement information according to the destination and the navigation path of the automobile to be charged and sends the agreement information to the automobile to be charged; the automobile to be charged determines the meeting place of the power supplying automobile and the automobile to be charged according to the position information, the traveling speed and the direction of the power supplying automobile and sends the meeting place to the power supplying automobile; the automobile to be charged acquires electric energy from the power supplying automobile so as to be charged according to the electric energy information of the power supplying automobile after the two automobiles arrive at the meeting place. The electromobile charging method and system improve the charging efficiency of the automobile to be charged.

The embodiment of the invention discloses meeting place environment control method, device and system in video communication, wherein the meeting place environment control in video communication comprises the following steps that: master control equipment receives meeting place environment factor capability information reported by a terminal, and the meeting place environment factor capability information shows states of meeting place environment elements supported by the terminal; the master control equipment determines the state of meeting place environment elements to be used by the terminal according to the state of the meeting place environment elements supported by the terminal; and the master control equipment sends indicating information to the terminal, wherein the indicating information shows the state of meeting place environment elements to be used by the terminal. By using the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the meeting place environment at which the terminal in video meeting is positioned can be automatically controlled.

The embodiment of the invention provides a conference recording method and a conference system. The conference recording method comprises the following steps of: extracting the key information of each meeting place on the basis of a configuration file at each of a plurality of time points on a conference timeline, wherein the conference timeline is associated with conference time, and the configuration file is used for defining the key information of a conference and the format of a conference summary; combining the key information of each meeting place into key index points, wherein the key index points are used for interaction with or the edition of the conference summary; and combining a plurality of key index points corresponding to the time points to form the conference summary. Therefore, the conference summary can be automatically generated according to the self-defined randomly-modifiable configuration file, and is presented, and detailed conference information can be obtained by the key index points in the conference summary.

The embodiment of the invention relates to a method and a device for choosing a screen of a remote presentation system. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving a first input instruction provided in a first touch input operation manner; selecting a display mode according to the first input instruction, wherein the display mode comprises a single-screen mode, a multi-picture mode and a multi-screen mode; and controlling the screen to display a meeting place picture according to the display mode. In the embodiment of the invention, a user can select a display mode by a first touch input operation way and control the screen to display a wanted meeting place picture so that the user can see any wanted meeting place picture; and therefore, the usability is improved and the requirements of controlling the meeting by the user are met.

A video conference system based on Soft-MCU includes a server, a video conference terminal BHU-ICT, a computer terminals and video communication system procedures, wherein, the video conference terminal BHU-ICT is composed by a digital video camera, a microphone, and an audio and video encoder. The digital video camera and the microphone are respectively connected to the audio and video encoder, the encoder, the server and the computer terminal are connected on the network, and the procedures are respectively running in the server and the computer terminal. The digital video camera and the microphone acquire the audio and video information of the meeting place, and use the encoder to execute hardware coding. A media control procedure runs on the computer terminal, and an MCU service procedure run on the server terminal, uses the Ethernet to exchange the audio and video information with the encoder, for performing audio and video communications. All of the texts, requests, commands and other information formats in the system control signaling system conform to the XML standard. The invention constructs a remote network video communications platform with high-quality, high stability and high security, which can be widely used in party and government organs and enterprises and institutions. The invention has advantages of reduced system cost, reduced travel costs, shortened decision cycles and enhanced work efficiency.

A browser-enabled system of software and services that focuses on connecting people across spatial, temporal, and organizational barriers to achieve specific objectives. The system includes a client server system that provides a virtual meeting place for a learning community and a structure through which that community can achieve its goals.

The embodiment of the invention discloses coding and decoding methods and coding and decoding devices, relating to image processing technology and aiming to improve the quality of the images displayed when multi-scene display in the meeting places is realized. The coding method comprises the following steps: respectively obtaining a basic layer image and at least a reinforcement layer image in the meeting place scene; and taking the basic layer image as the scaled video coding (SVC) basic layer and the reinforcement layer image as the SVC reinforcement layer to be coded to form coding stream. The embodiment of the invention is mainly applied to video conferences.