90 results about "User awareness" patented technology

A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of devices connected via a wired and / or wireless communications network. The devices include audio / visual devices (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). The control server supports video / audio serving, telephony, messaging, file sharing, internetworking, and security. A portable controller allows a user to access and control the network devices from any location within a controlled residential and / or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The controllers are enhanced to support location-awareness and user-awareness functionality.

A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of devices connected via a wired and / or wireless communications network. The devices include audio / visual devices (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). The control server supports video / audio serving, telephony, messaging, file sharing, internetworking, and security. A portable controller allows a user to access and control the network devices from any location within a controlled residential and / or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The controllers are enhanced to support location-awareness and user-awareness functionality.

A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of devices connected via a wired and / or wireless communications network. The devices include audio / visual devices (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). The control server supports video / audio serving, telephony, messaging, file sharing, internetworking, and security. A portable controller allows a user to access and control the network devices from any location within a controlled residential and / or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The controllers are enhanced to support location-awareness and user-awareness functionality.

A remote control unit is provided that includes an annular touch sensor for manipulating an annular menuing system displayed on a display device. In response to a user gesturing by scrolling clockwise or counter-clockwise about the annular touch sensor, pressing firmly on the annular touch sensor, or tapping at a particular location on the annular touch sensor, the annular menuing system is manipulated to select particular items. The remote control unit is further configured to implement location-awareness features. Control is adapted to the location of the remote control unit and to the devices located nearby to this location. Similarly the remote control unit is further configured to implement user-awareness features, such that the control is adapted for the individual preferences of different users.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing contextual and social awareness in search results through a layer approach are herein disclosed. Awareness in search results is provided through one or more search layers, result operational layer, an interactive result layer, and loopback feedback among embodied layers. Specifically, the system provides collective and contextual intelligence to the presentation of search results. The present invention establishes end-user awareness by way of user layer, contextual awareness by way of session layer, and group awareness by way of group layer. Each layer can work independently of one another or can be integrated for further utility. Further provided are methods of search layer lens, search layer bins, and search layer funneling. The present invention also provides an apparatus providing contextual and / or social awareness for search to be utilized by methods disclosed herein.

Systems and apparatuses for providing contextual and social awareness in search results through a layer approach are herein disclosed. Awareness in search results is provided through one or more search layers, result operational layer, an interactive result layer, and loopback feedback among embodied layers. Specifically, the system provides collective and contextual intelligence to the presentation of search results. The present invention establishes end-user awareness by way of user layer, contextual awareness by way of session layer, and group awareness by way of group layer. Each layer can work independently of one another or can be integrated for further utility. Further provided are methods of search layer lens, search layer bins, and search layer funneling. The present invention also provides apparatuses providing contextual, end-user, social awareness, or combination thereof for search to be utilized by methods disclosed herein.

The invention relates to the determination of a diagnostic index indicative of the clinical state, especially nociceptive state, of a subject. In order to improve the quality of the determination process, desired input signals derived from the subject are monitored and the quality of the process is improved based on the monitoring. This is implemented by increasing user awareness of the reliability of the index or by controlling the measurement set-up. Quality information indicative of the reliability of the current index values may be produced based on the input signals. The quality information may then be employed to give an indication of the current reliability of the index and a warning if the reliability of the diagnostic index becomes compromised.

An exemplary wireless device includes a communication radio and a position location receiver. When the wireless device has established a call with the communication radio, and a request for position location is received, the communication radio is deactivated while the position location information is collected using the position location receiver. A local warning message is communicated to the user of the mobile device while the communication radio is disabled. The warning message may be a text display, a graphical display, an audio message, or an input-key challenge. By generating and presenting the local warning message, the user is made aware that the lack of normal call activity is expected and temporary. After the position location information is collected, the call is resumed with the communication radio, and the position location information is transmitted. Since the mobile device is now acting with normal call activity, the local warning is removed.

A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of devices connected via a wired and / or wireless communications network. The devices include audio / visual devices (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). The control server supports video / audio serving, telephony, messaging, file sharing, internetworking, and security. A portable controller allows a user to access and control the network devices from any location within a controlled residential and / or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The controllers are enhanced to support location-awareness and user-awareness functionality.

The present invention provides employees and / or associates the opportunity to share corporate knowledge via the storage of electronic message (email) with user awareness and consent features. In various embodiments of the invention, awareness and consent over email sharing is provided via automated message modification and message generation. In one embodiment of the invention, the granted sharing permissions are communicated to all original message recipients and authors to enhance awareness of sharing decisions made by individual employees. All employees who are allowed to access the shared content according to the sharing privileges can subsequently find or discover content via full-text searches or other means, such as content-based recommendations.

To provide a data protecting apparatus and an image forming apparatus capable of providing an operating environment to make a user aware of protection of data. When turning on power of the image forming apparatus, a system is checked, and whether or not a security kit is mounted on a ROM mounting part, or whether or not the security function is made effective, is determined. When it is determined that the security kit is mounted, or the security function is made effective, an electronic mail address of a device manager is received by starting a notifying destination setting mode and displaying a notifying destination setting screen on a display part. When it is determined that the received address can be accepted as a notifying destination and can be accepted as a transmitting destination, a security program is executed by unloading such a program from the security kit mounted on the device. Or by using the security function made effective, the security kit or the security function made effective is set in operable state.

If content is transmitted / received through a digital signal bus, protection of copyright causes a problem because of no deterioration in quality. Accordingly, authentication is required. The quantity of information to be processed is, however, so large that a long time is required for authentication. Accordingly, both achievement of handling property as in conventional analog connection and protection of copyrighted content without user's awareness become an object. The foregoing object can be achieved by authentication which is executed, for management of copyright, among apparatuses connected to the digital signal bus when the apparatuses are powered on or connected to the digital signal bus or when an input terminal connected to the digital signal bus is selected. The object can be further achieved by an encryption key shared among these apparatuses.

A smart selection engine is provided. The smart selection engine may run in the context of a spreadsheet application on any device, service, or general endpoint capable of running the spreadsheet application. The smart selection engine reduces the cognitive load and complexity for performing spreadsheet operations by clearly presenting the user with easy to use and understand options that are big, simple, and lend themselves nicely to natural user interfaces, touch enabled devices, and devices with small displays as well as with graphical user interfaces, larger displays, and traditional input devices. By making contextually based suggestions, the smart selection engine reduces or eliminates the need for the user to be aware of the available operations or how to perform the operations. Further, the smart selection engine improves the consistency and efficiency of working with a spreadsheet.

The invention provides a frequency sweep and mobile phone measurement report-based method for automatic frequency optimization. The method specifically and efficiently grasps the improvement of wireless coverage quality on user groups from user group hierarchy, associative network quality and user awareness through the association and integration of frequency sweep data and mobile phone measurement report data so as to achieve a better balance among the user awareness, the network quality and various performance assessment indexes, reduce blindness and avoid fluctuations in network quality.

Devices and methods are provided for automatically analyzing a user's conversation or verbal presentation and providing feedback to the user, in real-time and / or off-line, to make the user aware of improper speech habits and thus enable the user to acquire better language habits while speaking. For example, a device for providing user awareness of speech habits may be a portable device, which can be worn or carried by the user, has various functions for monitoring and analyzing a speech session (e.g. conversation, verbal presentation) of a user and providing notification to the user of improper speech or language habits that are identified during the speech session.

The invention discloses a method and device for evaluating mobile data service quality oriented to user experience and belongs to the field of mobile wireless network performance evaluation. In view of eight current main mobile data services of the mobile Internet, a key quality indicator system for both subjective quantitative evaluation and objective quantitative evaluation is provided. The measured value of the key quality indicator system may perform objective quantitative evaluation on user subjective service experience by means of a nondimensionalized and analytic hierarchy process and can be mapped to a network performance indicator to be used for analyzing and positioning a network fault influencing user awareness and improving the user awareness by eliminating network performance problems. The method and the device solve a problem that a network key performance indicator based on network elements, which is still mainly taken by network operators, for evaluating the network performance, cannot reflect the real feeling of a user using mobile data service so as to cause disjunction between the service using experience of the user and network performance evaluation optimization.

The invention discloses a user awareness depth detection method based on MR and XDR, which comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring MR data and XDR data; S2, extracting user location informationfrom the XDR data; S3, by using the S1-MME interface data in the XDR data as a control plane and by using the S1-U interface data as a service plane, forming a service quality KQI index from the twodimensionalities including the control plane and the service plane; S4: establishing a scoring model of a user awareness MOS index, calculating a user awareness MOS value based on the scoring model and the service quality KQI index; S5, establishing a 'wireless performance-service performance-user awareness' three-layer analysis model according to a wireless performance KPI index, the service quality KQI index and the user awareness MOS value, and restoring the instantaneous wireless performance during poor quality of user awareness by the three-layer analysis model. The method, by means of the two-way linkage analysis between a wireless side and a service side, upgrades the analysis level of a poor-quality user from the cell level to the user level and improves the problem location accuracy and efficiency.

Devices and methods are provided for automatically analyzing a user's conversation or verbal presentation and providing feedback to the user, in real-time and / or off-line, to make the user aware of improper speech habits and thus enable the user to acquire better language habits while speaking. For example, a device for providing user awareness of speech habits may be a portable device, which can be worn or carried by the user, has various functions for monitoring and analyzing a speech session (e.g. conversation, verbal presentation) of a user and providing notification to the user of improper speech or language habits that are identified during the speech session.

A system and method for facilitating real-time end-user awareness in results to a query to optimize and refine a computerized search utilizing an interactive result layer (IRL) and result operational layer (ROL) are disclosed. The present invention establishes a loopback feedback between encapsulated end-user interactions, which are facilitated through an interactive result layer (IRL), and the results from a query, passed through a result operational layer (ROL). An end-user selects interactions to particular results by way of a prompt within the IRL. The end-user interactions are provided to and processed in the ROL in real-time without the end-user having to re-query the system to reflect said interaction or combination of interactions. A real-time automatic result feeder aides in delivering new results to end-user when results are deleted. Subsequent queries can reflect past end-user interactions.

The invention discloses a method and a device for configuring a different frequency measurement threshold. The method comprises steps: measurement information reported by user equipment (UE) is received; when a different frequency adjacent area meeting a set condition exists in the adjacent area, a different frequency measurement opening threshold is determined according to the measurement information; and the determined different frequency measurement opening threshold is sent to the UE via a fourth reconfiguration message. When the different frequency adjacent area is judged to be switched, according to the different frequency measurement opening threshold determined by the measurement information reported by the user equipment, accurate opening different frequency measurement can be realized, invalid different frequency measurement can be reduced as much as possible, and the user awareness is enhanced.

A data migration method is provided which can provide a user at a low cost with a function of migrating data from an existing storage when an additional storage is installed. A business application is operated by using a business server and a first storage. When the capacity and performance of data used by a business application become insufficient, a second storage is installed to compensate for insufficiency. In this case, the management server collectively copies data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, the data and configuration information are deleted at a later time in accordance with migration command information selected from a GUI screen. It is therefore possible to migrate necessary data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, without making a user be conscious of the details of the configuration information of logical devices of a storage.

There is provided a method and apparatus for displaying a watermark on a screen. According to the present invention, when an application is executed or a document is opened by a user's manipulation, it is determined whether a watermark is displayed based on a message generated from an operating system and screen watermark display policies, and when it is determined that the watermark is displayed, the watermark is displayed on a screen. According to the present invention, when the watermark is displayed on a screen, it is possible to provide a user with notification that corresponding content is important content or confidential content. Even when the screen is captured or is imaged using a camera, the watermark is displayed in the captured image or the imaged video. Therefore, it is possible to identify that the corresponding content is important content or confidential content. As a result, it is possible to increase user awareness of security.

An interactive system and method automates the control and management of routing changes that are focused on specific routes or particular network hot spots. Based on the premise that the user is aware of a particular problem that needs to be solved, the system leads the user through an end-to-end process from the identification of the problem to the generation of configuration instructions for effecting a selected solution. A graphic user interface provides a visualization of the current routing and alternative routings, to facilitate the analysis and selection of an improved routing, if any. Throughout the process, the effect of each proposed routing change on the overall network performance is determined, so that the selection of a preferred solution can be made in the appropriate context, and globally sub-optimal solutions can be avoided.

A remote control unit is provided that includes an annular touch sensor for manipulating an annular menuing system displayed on a display device. In response to a user gesturing by scrolling clockwise or counter-clockwise about the annular touch sensor, pressing firmly on the annular touch sensor, or tapping at a particular location on the annular touch sensor, the annular menuing system is manipulated to select particular items. The remote control unit is further configured to implement location-awareness features. Control is adapted to the location of the remote control unit and to the devices located nearby to this location. Similarly the remote control unit is further configured to implement user-awareness features, such that the control is adapted for the individual preferences of different users.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an essential factor lost score data processing method and essential factor lost score equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: determining the contributions of a representative key performance indicator (KPI) to a quality of experience (QoE) lost score according to a representative KPI lost score; searching for correspondence between the representative KPIs and essential factors, and determining the contributions of the essential factor corresponding to the representative KPI to the QoE lost score; counting the contributions of the essential factors corresponding to all representative KPI lost scores to the QoE lost score; and summating the contributions of the same essential factor to the QoE lost score to obtain the lost scores ofthe same essential factor. The embodiment of the invention determines the contributions of the essential factor corresponding to the representative KPI to the QoE lost score according to the representative KPI lost score to further obtain the essential factor lost score, thereby realizing the allocation of responsibilities of user awareness evaluation results.

A cipher processing system is provided for allowing file access while maintaining the integrity without a user being conscious of the difference between files when the user accesses a file in a folder containing both a ciphertext file and a plaintext file. Thus, according to the present invention, if a folder stores both a ciphertext file and a plaintext file, the ciphertext file is attached with identification information (preferably, footer information) indicating that the file is a ciphertext file, so that the plaintext file and the ciphertext file can be differentiated from each other when the files are read. A deciphered file gained by removing identification information from a ciphertext file and deciphering the file is delivered to an upper-level application. If the read file is a plaintext file, decipher processing is not executed on the plaintext file but the plaintext file is passed to the upper-level application program.

An exemplary wireless device includes a communication radio and a position location receiver. When the wireless device has established a call with the communication radio, and a request for position location is received, the communication radio is deactivated while the position location information is collected using the position location receiver. A local warning message is communicated to the user of the mobile device while the communication radio is disabled. The warning message may be a text display, a graphical display, an audio message, or an input-key challenge. By generating and presenting the local warning message, the user is made aware that the lack of normal call activity is expected and temporary. After the position location information is collected, the call is resumed with the communication radio, and the position location information is transmitted. Since the mobile device is now acting with normal call activity, the local warning is removed.

An image forming apparatus which is capable of making a user aware of a violation of an information security policy. A network communication unit receives data having a user ID attached thereto from an external apparatus. A printing unit prints an image based on the data. A control unit executes user authentication using the user ID attached to the data and determines, when the user authentication is successful, whether or not a password expiration date of the user has passed. When it is determined that the password expiration date has passed, the control unit restricts printing of the image to be printed based on the data having the user ID attached thereto.

The embodiment of the invention provides a version upgrading method, a version upgrading server and a version upgrading system. The version upgrading method comprises the following steps: synchronizing an upgrade program file into a program service providing server; performing clock synchronization on the program service providing server; under the condition that the preset online time of an upgrade version is reached, adjusting the program service providing server through substitution of an original program file by the upgrade program file. Through version upgrading method, the version upgrading server and the version upgrading system, the technical problems that during the conventional version upgrade, service stop is required and a user experience is not high are solved, the technical effect of low-cost seamless program upgrade is achieved, and user awareness is avoided.