International Business Machines Corporation

Snap Inc.

Jean-Luc Collet

Francois-Xavier Drouet

Gerard Marmigere

Carole Truntschka

Frederic J Bauchot

Joaquin Picon

Fabien P Lanne

Beatrice Coulomb

Marc Charles Fiammante

Arnaud Lund

Christophe Mialon

Stephane Charles Michel Marie Lebrun

Pierre Secondo

Gerard Marmigère

Sebastien Bousseton

Stephane Charles Lebrun

Jean-Christophe Mestres

Eric Menguy

Michel Y Porta

Corrine S Fresko

Christophe Menant

Francois X Drouet

Corinne Suzanne Fresko

François Xavier Drouet

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communicating via an avatar embedded in an email message. In some embodiments, the avatar can provide information associated with the email message.

Interactive avatar in messaging environment

A method and system for managing overlapping windows. A hook filter intercepts an event directed to a target application before the event reaches the target application. The event is characterized by an overlapping condition in which a floating window partially or totally overlaps an active window on a computer screen of a computer system. Responsive to intercepting the event, the hook filter detects the overlapping condition. Responsive to detecting the overlapping condition, the hook filter eliminates the overlapping condition to make the active window totally visible. Parameters of the floating window are recorded in a table, the parameters prevailing upon the intercepting of the event, the parameters including an overlap condition parameter. After the overlapping condition is eliminated and responsive to the active window becoming inactive, the floating window is restored on the computer screen in accordance with the recorded parameters.

Managing a floating window

A method and system for managing overlapping windows. A hook filter intercepts an event directed to a target application before the event reaches the target application. An association of the hook filter with the event was established. The event is characterized by an overlapping condition in which a floating window partially or totally overlaps an active window on a computer screen of a computer system. A software application is executed in the active window. Responsive to intercepting the event, the hook filter detects the overlapping condition. Responsive to detecting the overlapping condition, the honk filter eliminates the overlapping condition to make the active window totally visible.

There is revealed a progressive and conditional delivery of digital contents. A given master digital content is previously divided in content blocks, each content block being associated with related content blocks presenting particular hierarchical and dependency characteristics. Responsive to user selection of the master digital content, for each selected content block, there is checked first the display of each related content block and upon positive checking there is displayed the considered selected content block. There is further disclosed steps of checking display performed from an analog capture of the user interface or from video frame buffer memory data. There may be detected predefined marks. There may be performed image similarity comparisons or image matching tests with expected images associated with content blocks. There are also disclosed predefined encryption keys being used to decipher one or a plurality of content blocks. In response to a negative display checking according to the invention, there is displayed a predefined content block such as a warning message, an authentication request, a kaptcha challenge, advertisement content or a blurred content block. There is discussed a correspondence of content blocks with DOM nodes.

Method and system of generating digital content on a user interface

A method and system of broadcasting a regional television channel to a user. A digital subscriber line access multiplex (DSLAM) receives a broadcast of multicast channels intended for delivery to the user. The multicast channels include national channels and a regional channel. The DSLAM broadcasts the multicast channels to the user and receives a regional channel control signal specifying a broadcast during a specified period of time of the regional channel instead of a national channel previously scheduled to be broadcast to the user during the specified period of time. The DSLAM switches the multicast channels broadcasted to the user during the specified period of time from the national channel to the regional channel such that the regional channel is in a specific channel slot of the national channel during the specified period of time during broadcasting the multicast channels to the user.

Providing a regional channel in a digital broadcast environment

A method and system for managing overlapping windows on a computer screen of a computer system. A hook filter intercepts an event that has occurred. An association of the hook filter with the event was established prior to the occurrence of the event. The event is characterized by an overlapping condition in which a floating window partially or totally overlaps an active window on the computer screen. A software application is associated with the active window. Response to intercepting the event, the hook filter detects the overlapping condition. Response to detecting the overlapping condition, the hook filter eliminates the overlapping condition to make the active window totally visible.

System and method for managing a floating window

The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for easily and securely managing multiple keys on a computer, each key being used to access one or a plurality of computing resources. The method comprises the steps of receiving a command for selecting a key among one or plurality of keys, each key comprising one or a plurality of key fields; receiving a command for activating a computing resource corresponding to the selected key in order to have access to the computing resource; retrieving and displaying on a computer screen, the one or plurality of key fields associated with the selected key; displaying on the computer screen one or a plurality of input fields, each input field being used to enter the content of an appropriate key field associated with the key selected to access the activated computing resource; passing, in response to an action of a pointing device on a displayed key field, the content of the key field in an appropriate input field of the activated computing resource; and having access to the activated computing resource when all key fields of the selected key have been passed to the appropriate input fields.

Method and system for easily and securely managing multiple keys used to have access to multiple computing resources

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for administering a peer-to-peer file sharing computer network. The method includes: maintaining a reference associating a particular shared file with a seeder in a community of peers and a number of seeders in the community; and registering a second peer as a second seeder of the particular shared file, if a first seeder in the community of peers has informed the peers of a termination of the availability of a file seeding of the particular shared file. The system includes means for performing the steps of the method. The computer program product includes computer program instructions for carrying out the steps of the method.

Method and system of administrating a peer-to-peer file sharing network

A method of building an interactive display related to TV programs in an internet protocol television (IPTV) environment includes parsing a plurality of TV programs provided in an IPTV environment for display to a user. The step of parsing includes capturing an image in each TV program, identifying video content in each captured image, interpreting the video content, capturing audio data, identifying an audio content in each captured audio data, and interpreting the audio content for each captured audio data. The method further includes the steps of identifying a selected TV program by the user; determining a correlation level between the interpreted video and audio content of the selected TV program and the interpreted video and audio content of each of the other TV programs; determining TV programs other than the selected TV program; and building and presenting a mosaic display on a TV display including the selected TV program.

Intelligent TV mosaic for IPTV

A method, computer program, and system for delivering digital content to a user interface. A method according to an embodiment includes: generating a starting content on the user interface including at least one clickable content, each of the at least one clickable content being previously associated with a first key; upon selection of a clickable content associated with a first key, determining a second key, associated with a destination content, from the first key; determining an executable asset program from the second key, an execution of the asset program generating the display of a predefined asset content; attaching the second key to the executable asset program according to a hiding mechanism; executing the executable asset program to display the predefined asset content, and releasing the second key during the execution of the program.

Method and system for delivering digital content

The invention provides a system and method for content protection. A system according to an embodiment includes a media center connectable to a mobile secure and protection keyring associated with an identifier and with a media Key block MKB. The media center includes: a unique identifier identifying the media center MC_UID, a set of device keys DK; storage means for storing files identified by respective file identifiers; and a processing unit comprising file encryption means for encrypting each file before storage in the storage means, using a title key (Kt) computed from the identifier MC_UID of the media center and for encrypting the title key Kt from the set of device keys DK of the media center, and from the identifier and the media key block MKB of the mobile secure and protection keyring, the media center being further provided to write the encrypted title key (eKt) in association with the file identifier of the file to the mobile secure and protection keyring.

System and method for protection of content stored in a storage device

The invention provides a system and method for content protection. A system in accordance with an embodiment includes a media center connectable to a mobile master memory unit associated with an identifier, the media center including: a protection key; storage means for storing files identified by respective file identifiers; a processing unit comprising file encryption for encrypting each file before storage, using a title key computed from the protection key of the media center and for encrypting the title key using the protection key of the master storage device and the identifier of the master memory unit, the master storage device being further provided to write the encrypted title key in association with the corresponding file identifier to the master memory unit.

System and method for content protection

System enabling the cancellation of previously-sent e-mail comprising a data transmission network, wherein a plurality of users are connected to the network, each user being able as a sender to forward an e-mail over the network to at least another user as a recipient connected to the network, and wherein a message transfer agent MTA is associated with each user for sending the e-mail when the user acts as a sender and delivering the e-mail when the user acts as a recipient. Each MTA includes a cancel mailbox for transmitting a cancellation message to the recipient(s) when the user associated with the MTA is a sender wanting to cancel a previously-sent e-mail or for managing the cancellation of e-mails in the mailbox of the user associated with the MTA upon receiving the cancellation message from the sender when this user is a recipient.

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La Gaude, France

Jean-Luc Collet