146 results about "Shared space" patented technology

A peer-to-peer collaboration system in which changes to a shared space may be broadcast to all of the peers in a collaboration session using messages sent with a combination of addressing techniques. Messages may be addressed for direct peer-to-peer transmission, indirect transmission through another peer or indirect transmission through a server. The type of addressing used to communicate with each peer is determined through the use of a routing table. The routing table defines interconnected groups of peers and may be used to select one or more peers in each group as the initial recipients of the message. The initial recipients may forward the message to other peers within their groups, such that all peers receive the message. For peers behind a NAT, one or more NAT traversal techniques may be used to obtain information to construct the routing table.

A computer implemented method and system enable users to share files in a server-less shared space. By providing access to such spaces via a visual presentation, the system renders content available for access by other group members. Access is sometimes provided through propagation of metadata or other uniquely identifying indicia associated with the shared space to all group members.

Abstract of Disclosure A genomic portal system is described that receives user-selected identifiers of potential probes. The system determines verified probes corresponding to the identifiers and generates a custom probe array design. The system then displays the custom probe array design to the user via a graphical user interface and receives a user selection specifying acceptance, modification, or rejection of the design. The system provides the user with the accepted or modified custom probe array. The system may also enable a number of users to share space on a custom probe array. Another optional feature is to enable a number of users to share in ordering portions of a lot of catalog probe arrays to take advantage of economies of scale from lot-size purchases.

The present invention relates to a system and method to allow multiple users to collaborate on tasks and interact in a shared space session within a network in real-time; using a media application to manage media-layers. Each media-layer serves as a container for multimedia programs or plug-ins. The invention allows which media-layer to display via organization metaphors and filtering criteria. When multiple users are logged into the same shared space, each user can invoke and observe modifications to media-layers with the browser based or client based application. All events are synchronized among all users in that shared space, where the system is a communication conduit. The media-layers in the shared space maintains spatial and temporal correlation by a media application stage manager tool and described as a collection file descriptor such as an XML file. The ability to invoke events that affect media-layers can be supported in a synched or non synched mode on demand.

A method and system for distributed computing interface are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises accessing a collaborative interface, wherein the collaborative interface comprises persistent shared space, wherein visual representation of the collaborative interface is identical for each client accessing the collaborative interface. In a single action, an object is dragged into the collaborative interface and the object is displayed in real time in the collaborative interface. The object is accessible to other clients in the collaborative interface and the state of the object is continuously synchronized. The object is manipulated in the collaborative interface and other clients accessing the collaborative interface are viewed.

A method is described for aligning video streams and positioning camera in a collaboration event to create a blended space. A local physical environment of one set of attendees is combined with respective apparent spaces of other sets of attendees that are transmitted from two or more remote environments. A geometrically consistent shared space is created that maintains natural collaboration cues of eye contact and directional awareness. The remote environments in the local physical environment are represented in a fashion that is geometrically consistent with the local physical environment. The local physical environment extends naturally and consistently with the way the remote environments may be similarly extended with their own blended spaces. Therefore, an apparent shared space that is sufficiently similar for all sets of attendees is presented in both the local and remote physical environments.

A computer implemented method and system enable users to create a server-less shared space providing access to other users. By providing access to such spaces via a visual presentation, the system renders content available for access by other group members. Access is sometimes provided through propagation of metadata or other uniquely identifying indicia associated with the shared space to all group members.

Proper user-to-data associations are maintained in shared spaces created in a peer-to-peer collaborative system by means of a simplified and minimal user interface that permits users to easily authenticate other members of a shared space. In particular, support is provided for automatically building authenticated relationships even if users do not take the time to authenticate other users. When a user enters a shared space and views the contacts in that space, the display names of each contact are accompanied by distinctive icons that identify that authentication status of that contact. A mechanism is provided for resolving conflicts between contacts with the same display names to prevent confusion and contact “spoofing.” Security policies can be established to provide a uniform approach to authentication. These policies can be set by a user or, alternatively, the policies can be set by an administrator.

The invention relates to a method for data quantity subspace construction on the network and a distributed document storage system. Through the distributed document storage system, user nodes use service nodes to choose and upload data documents onto usable user nodes in the network, and the distributed nodes are formed; after the user nodes upload the data documents or during the transmission of the data documents, the service nodes adjust the usable nodes in the whole backbone nodes network automatically to distribute tasks which are undertaken, the data documents that the user requests to upload or transmit are distributed and stored in the sharing space of a plurality of user nodes through copying the data documents, a plurality of sharing nodes are formed to be used by the user nodes to download or transmit the documents, so a data storage and transmit quantity subspace is formed in the network. The invention can realize stable, high efficient and opened enterprise-level distributed storage application.

Immersive environments for teleconferencing, collaborative shared spaces and entertainment require spatial audio. Such environments may have non-ideal sound reproduction conditions (loudspeaker positioning, listener placement or listening room geometry) where wavefront-synthesis techniques, such as ambisonics, will not give listeners the correct audio spatialization. A method disclosed for generating a sound field from a spatialized original audio signal, wherein the original signal is configured to produce an optimal sound percept at one predetermined ideal location. A plurality of output signal components are generated, each for reproduction by one of an array of loudspeakers. Antiphase output components are attenuated such that their contribution to the spatial sound percept is reduced for locations other than the predetermined ideal location. Position components defining the location of a virtual sound source, normalized to the loudspeaker distance from the ideal location, can be adapted to generate a warped sound field by raising the position components to a power greater than unity, such that the virtual sound source is perceived by listeners in the region surrounded by the loudspeakers to be spaced from the loudspeaker.

An apparatus for controlling a shared screen for shared applications, which can be shared, in a network system of a plurality of connected communication terminals, with other communication terminals when running on the terminals. The communication terminals include a window information acquiring portion for acquiring window information of the application to be shared while running on the terminals. Window controlling portion controls how windows are displayed on the communication terminals. The window controlling portion displays a window of shared space for displaying windows of shared applications collectively on the communication terminals. The windows of the shared applications are displayed as sub-windows in the window of shared space. For the “entire screen sharing type”, the apparatus includes a conference managing device having a conference information managing portion for managing information about communication terminals participating in those conferences, and shared screen controlling portion. An unused terminal for providing a shared screen is dynamically selected and provided. With the “application sharing method”, it can be recognized easily, whether a displayed application window is shared or unshared, and with the “entire screen sharing method”, a terminal for providing a shared screen can be selected optimally, so that the system resource can be used efficiently.

The present invention relates to a method and system for creating a collaborative file in a shared network including: accessing one or more user machines in a shared space, wherein the shared space is created by interaction of executable codes in a host and a user application and the shared space is described by a session attribute list; loading a media application with tools into one or more user machines; using a stage manager tool from the media application to stage and correlating media-layer events according to spatial, temporal and relational coordinate data in the user application, wherein the content composed of the media-layer events are described by at least a user, media-layer events, time and command; recording content associated with one or more of layers according to a user, media-layer events, time and command; and accessing said content based upon a user, media-layer events, time and command.

The invention relates to a method for sharing and acquiring data in a social network service (SNS), belonging to the technical fields of computer network and computer data storage. A flash disk is used as an identity authentication device. The method comprises the steps as follows: the SNS uses a server-side to carry out user registration, perform the identity authentication and access data on a user, and carry out social circle registration as well as read files under Web; the user carries out interaction with the server-side by a client-side; a remote server-side is logged in by double authentication, namely the physical identification of the identity authentication device and user password; a user personal space and a shared space which is not in the social circle are respectively mounted to a local operating system in the form of an catalog; and different catalogs are established in the shared space in accordance with different social circles, and the user reads files which are shared in the different social circles by accessing the corresponding catalogs. By using the method, the user can share data selectively in the different social circles without extra management.

A connection between a secure shared space and an external system is created with a connector tool. The connector tool code is included in an independent agent called a “bot” that is created by a software developer. Bots run in the background in an automated and unattended manner in a specialized enterprise integration server. Each bot has a unique identity and runs under an account assigned to the enterprise integration server. A bot can be invited to a shared space much as another collaborator. Bots can also invite others to shared spaces. All bots running in the enterprise integration server are administered by a centralized administrative control. This allows account and identity policies to be established and global behaviors, including authentication settings, startup options and scope to be determined centrally. The centralized control allows simple installation, configuration and deployment and administrative control of bot operation and access. It also allows for logging and monitoring of system behavior.

A system and method for providing authenticated access for a user to a restricted physical space via a mobile device is described. The system employs a smartphone application, which facilitates a user's reservation of a selected seat and space within a shared space. The shared space is equipped with a lock interfaced with a secured server, which is configured to unlock upon an authenticated request for entry by a user with a reservation. Biometric and / or pin authenticated means of entry are provided via the application as well as a pin pad disposed on a control module. Sensors disposed in or near the seats available for reservation are configured to detect a human presence employing the reserved space, which confirm the presence of a user, and monitor unauthorized use. A timeclock of the server records the duration of time spent within the shared space, and bills users accordingly.

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for automatically putting a reference mark on an object to pay attention to. A server device which provides a virtual reality space to multiple client devices connected to the server device via a network detects movement of an avatar related to a client device, the movement indicating an object in the virtual reality space displayed on a screen of the client device, as a trigger for generating a reference mark. In response to detection of the movement of the avatar, the server device generates a reference mark to be put on the object. The server device notifies another client device of the presence of the generated reference mark. Accordingly, the other client device is guided to the object by selecting the notification displayed on the screen.

A process and system for managing business, technical and operational data uses a single interface in a shared space environment over the Internet, including a common authentication and environment. A supplier portal creates a central repository for registration process information, company information, and user information, making this information available to all applications that open into the supplier portal.

The invention discloses a retrieval result clustering method facing to a Web2.0 label picture shared space, which comprises the following steps: excavating a vocabulary relationship and an associated relationship between labels; obtaining an expanded querying label set by a query label according to the vocabulary relationship between the labels; obtaining a candidate image set relevant to query by the expanded query label set; selecting front K most relevant labels according to the relevance measurement of the labels in the query label set and the candidate image set; automatically dividing the K labels into an optimal clustering result according to the association between the K labels by a clustering algorithm based on a picture division from top to bottom; and correspondingly clustering the candidate image set according to clustering labels. Aiming at the problem of inconformity of label expression, the effective query expansion is realized, and the image clustering method based on most relevant label set clustering solves the problem of diversity of label semanteme. Compared with a traditional method, the invention leads a user to rapidly and effectively retrieve and browse a picture in the Web2.0 label picture shared space.

A managed policy driven virtual data space for managing artifacts relationships and sharing artifacts among services. A policy model is used to represent business artifacts, sharing of the artifacts, and subscription of other artifacts that is of interest to current artifact and, to represent the various state of the artifact. An active shared space provides support functionality for the policy model, such as artifact lifecycle management. The active shared space also provides the support of sharing of such artifact with external / internal services and other artifacts. The active shared space also controls the artifacts storage in the relational database for archiving purposes. Active shared space also provides the mechanism of subscribing to various artifacts and publishing the availability of artifact for services and other artifacts itself. Active shared space also makes the artifact aware of the context within which the said artifact operates and allows subscribing to appropriate artifacts to support the context needs. Active shared space also provides the mechanism to trace through the various states of an artifact and facility to query the artifact data content.

A method and system for managing files in a server environment includes launching a plurality of Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) in a computing system; copying a content of a file of a VPS to a shared space; providing access to the file copy in the shared space when the VPS attempts to access the file; detecting files with the same content in other VPSs; and providing access to the file copy in the shared space from the other VPSs when they attempt to access their files with the identical content.

The invention discloses an image retrieval method based on sparse non-negative matrix decomposition. It includes the following steps: 1) Query and extract the image and accompanying text of the retrieval results under two different image data sources; 2) Extract the tags in the accompanying text, and filter the results according to word frequency to form a vocabulary; 3) For each Image set, using the association relationship between labels and images to form an association matrix between labels and images; 4) Using sparse non-negative matrix decomposition to analyze the association matrix obtained in step 3), to obtain the shared subspaces of different sources of data and their corresponding independent subspaces Subspace; 5) The user sends a retrieval request for images on a data source, forms a query vector and maps it to the corresponding subspace of the data source, calculates the similarity with all images and sorts them, and returns the top N most similar images. The present invention makes full use of the associated knowledge of tags and images under multiple data sources, performs migration learning through sparse non-negative matrix decomposition, and improves the accuracy of image retrieval on target data sources.

This invention discloses a method and a system for sharing storage space by mobile terminals, in which, a mobile terminal applies for sharing file space to network servers, if it is effective, the server distributes shared space for it and generates or gets authentication information from the terminal which can read and write to the space after the terminal or other mobile terminals log on the server by said authentication information, the storage time of the space can be set in advance and the server releases said space automatically when the time is over or the time is not set and the shared storage space is released when the terminal applying for the space puts forward the release request.

Burst-switching nodes using a common-memory or a time shared space switch and employing flow-rate control are disclosed. Within a switching node, data bursts are segmented into data segments of a fixed size with some segments containing information bits as well as null bits. A switching node handles data streams allocated different flow rates and, for any data stream, the internal flow rate through the switching node can be higher than the external flow rate due to null padding of segmented data. The switching node is provided with a sufficient internal capacity expansion in order to offset the effect of null padding. A controller of the switching node is provided with a flow-rate-regulation apparatus to enable scheduling the transfer of data segments across the switching node in a manner that guarantees adherence to the allocated information flow rates.

This invention relates to tracking of user-worn and hand-held devices with respect to each other, in circumstances where there are two or more users interacting in the same share space. It extends conventional global and body-relative approaches to “cooperatively” estimate the relative poses between all useful combinations of user-worn tracked devices such as HMDs and hand-held controllers worn (or held) by multiple users. For example, a first user's HMD estimates its absolute global pose in the coordinate frame associated with the externally-mounted devices, as well as its relative pose with respect to all other HMDs, hand-held controllers, and other user held / worn tracked devices in the environment. In this way, all HMDs (or as many as appropriate) are tracked with respect to each other, all HMDs are tracked with respect to all hand-held controllers, and all hand-held controllers are tracked with respect to all other hand-held controllers.

The present invention provides a method for auto uploading files and a related computer-readable medium. The method of the present invention comprises: determining whether file variations occur in at least a folder of a first electronic device to generate a determining result; and executing an auto uploading operation to auto upload files resulting in the file variations occurring in the folder to a data storage space of at least a second electronic device when the determining result indicating that the file variations occur in the folder. The present invention can be utilized for auto uploading different types of files to different types of network sharing spaces such as YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. Thus, the present invention can help users to save a lot of time in uploading files to the different types of network sharing spaces.