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Examples of network computing technologies patents
 USP 6,912,726 entitled "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING HYPERLINKS IN VIDEO"
This invention allows video hyperlink data to be easily added to existing video files. Hypervideo data is encoded with two distinct portions, a first portion which contains the video data such as an existing video file and a second portion, typically much smaller than the first, which contains hyperlink information associated with the video data. Preferably, the first and second portions are stored in separate and distinct files. The encoding of the hyperlink information is preferably made efficient by encoding only key frames of the video, and by encoding hot link regions of simple geometries. A hypervideo player determines the hot link regions in frames between key frames by interpolating the hot link regions in key frames which sandwich those frames. One important benefit of this novel approach is that hyperlink data can be efficiently added to existing video programming.
USP 6,937,868 entitled "APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A MOBILE PHONE ANSWERING MODE AND OUTGOING MESSAGE BASED ON A LOCATION OF THE MOBILE PHONE"
This invention allows a mobile phone to change its answering mode mode and outgoing message or other indicator based on a location of the mobile phone itself. The apparatus and method make use of a location system to ascertain the current location of a mobile telephone being carried by a user. Based on the current location, a determination is made whether operation of the mobile telephone to receive and/or send calls should be restricted what an appropriate outgoing message should be provided to calling parties while the mobile telephone is located in an area where use of the mobile telephone to receive calls is prohibited. The particular outgoing message provided can be customized to the current location of the mobile telephone and optionally, the caller ID of the calling party.
USP 6,973,580 entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALERTING COMPUTER USERS OF DIGITAL SECURITY INTRUSIONS"
This invention allows remote clients such as a web browser to monitor for digital intrusions of their computers by host servers and alert such clients or users thereof of such intrusion. In general, the present invention monitors actions taken by host servers relating to information about the remote client and displays graphical alerts when a digital intrusion or a breach of security occurs during a network connection, such as a connection to the Internet, with the host server. Specifically, the present invention monitors certain aspects of the remote client user s interaction with host servers. Based on certain interaction, such as an attempt by the host server to retrieve non-related information about the remote client, the remote client user can be provided with a graphical alert. This allows the remote client user to make an informed decision whether or not to allow certain host server sites to retrieve the client user's personal information.
USP 6,886,129 entitled "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAWLING THE WORLD-WIDE WEB TO IDENTIFY IMPLICITLY-DEFINED COMMUNITIES OF WEB PAGES"
This invention identifies groups of pages of common interest (or "communities" ) from a collection of hyper-linked pages. Identifying such communities from the Web as they emerge provides a valuable resource for the interested user, gives insights into the intellectual evolution of the Web, and portals that identify and distinguish between these communities can target advertising at a very precise level. A plurality of community cores are identified from the collection where each core includes first and second sets of pages, and each page in the first set points to every page in the second set. Each identified core is expanded into a full community which is a subset of the pages regarding a particular topic. The identification community cores is based on the analysis of the Web graph in which the communities correspond to instances of Web subgraphs. Extraneous pages are then pruned to improve the quality of the resulting communities.
USP 6,879,835 entitled "LOCATION-SPECIFIC MESSAGING SYSTEM"
This invention allows messaging between mobile devices within a physical proximity without directly identifying or communicating with the recipient mobile devices. A central server has information regarding the location of mobile devices. When a user of one mobile devices desires to give pertinent geographical information (e.g., traffic jam), ask a question related to location (e.g., any good restaurants nearby?), or otherwise communicate with other users in physical proximity, their mobile device will communicate to the central server with the message and location of the physical device. The central server will determine one or more mobile devices within physical proximity and relay the message. The users may be anonymous or part of predefined groups.
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