Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Instaply, Inc.

Google Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Nxp B.v.

Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn

Fabien Ghislain Degaugue

Andrew Swerdlow

Garth Shoemaker

Jan Van Ee

Ivan Medvedev

Amanda Elwell Walker

Mark B Hoffberg

Lisa Holzhauser

Willem Bulthuis

Robert Lambourne

Mieko Kusano

Russell Owen

Gregory Gewickey

Richard Stanley Williams

Paul John Rankin

Kevin D Brune

Dmitri Borisovich Strukov

Duane Valz

Martin Freeman

Simon Royce Turner

Vladimir Pisarsky

Rudy Musschebroeck

Stefaan M Note

Thomas James Dubil

Joost Kemink

Frank Louis Boghe

Nicole Gibson

Stuart Peter McKechnie

A computer-implemented system keeps records of communications between participants as a conversation. All communications between participants in a transaction are stored as part of the conversation including documents, photographs, forms etc. needed to complete the transaction. A computer system interacts with a wallet service of one or more participants to keep a record of, or to affect the transfer of, consideration between participants in the transaction. Conversations can occur for any topic or conversations for a particular topic can be selected and a template provided for documents and/or conversation participants most often needed to complete an associated transaction.

Coordinating products and services for customers

System and method for facilitating transactions as conversations between participants

A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.

Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content

Systems and methods for managing privacy settings of shared content include receiving content associated with an object; receiving privacy settings associated with the object associated with the received content; based on the received privacy settings, obfuscating, at least a portion of the content associated with the object to generated obfuscated content; and transmitting the obfuscated content to a publishing server, wherein the publishing server publishes the obfuscated content to one or more third parties.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting notifications in an enterprise system. In one aspect, a method include actions of obtaining a template that defines (i) trigger criteria for presenting a notification type and (ii) content rules for determining content to include in a notification of the notification type. Additional actions include accessing enterprise resources of an enterprise, the enterprise resources including data describing entities related to the enterprise and relationships among the entities. Further actions include, accessing user information specific to a user and determining that the trigger criteria is satisfied by the enterprise resources and the user information. Additional actions include generating a particular notification of the notification type based at least on the content rules and providing the particular notification to the user.

Trigger associated notification delivery in an enterprise system

A reconfigurable multilayer circuit () includes a complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) layer () having control circuitry, logic gates (), and at least two crossbar arrays () which overlie the CMOS layer (). The at least two crossbar arrays () are configured by the control circuitry and form reconfigurable interconnections between the logic gates () within the CMOS layer ().

Reconfigurable multilayer circuit

An Internet service makes available control codes for use on a programmable universal remote. The remote controls CE equipment through IR or RF commands. A server supplies the control codes as XML data that gets processed at the receiver's set top box or PC, or the remote itself, for being properly installed on the remote.

Control codes for programmable remote supplied in XML format

Tasking systems and methods are provided that support user interfaces for displaying objects, the displayed objects enabling user access to resources that provide for effecting tasks among the system and devices of the systems' environment. More particularly, tasking systems and methods are provided that support the foregoing features, wherein the systems and methods support clustering operations respecting such task-associated objects so as to enhance the effecting of the associated tasks, such clustering operations responding to context. The clustering operations preferably are both adaptive and dynamic. Tasking systems and methods preferably support the tracking of selected states, including, as examples, one or more of environment states, device states, and system states. Tracked states typically also include states respecting other relevant criteria, such as temporal criteria.

Clustering of task-associated objects for effecting tasks among a system and its environmental devices

A consumer apparatus is made an intuitive component of a user-interface to a topical server. A specific user-interaction with the apparatus or its proxy on the home network causes a request to be sent to a specific server on the Internet based on a predefined URL. The home network receives a particular web page from the server with content information dedicated to the context of use of the apparatus.

Topical service provides context information for a home network

An electronic file, e.g., an MP3 file, is partitioned into a sequence of segments at the server side. The first segment is played out upon downloading. While the first segment is being played out, the second is being downloaded and buffered so that it is available when the play out of the first segment is completed. While playing out a current one of the segments, next one(s) of the segments are being downloaded and buffered. This partitioning and sequential play out enables to emulate streaming of a file and to minimize latency while downloading an electronic file.

Partitioning of MP3 content file for emulating streaming

A server system enables a subscriber to select a specific broadcast program for recording and a specific location and time frame for play-out of the recorded program.

PVR set-up over the internet

A hand-held information processing device, such as a mobile phone, has a thumb wheel that lets the user scan a circular array of options. Each respective one of the options is represented by a respective audio output that gets played out when the wheel is turned a notch up or down. This enables the user to select an option with one hand and without having to look at the device. It also allows for a form factor smaller than that of a conventional mobile phones since a keypad is not needed for entering digits to make a call from a personalized directory.

Hand-ear user interface for hand-held device

An ID is being calculated in a manner distributed among devices of the user's personal area network (PAN). The devices communicate in a wireless manner. A server runs a simulation of the PAN. If the server and the PAN calculate matching results, it is assumed that the user's ID is correct for purposes of conditional access. The distribution of the calculation of the ID among the user's PAN devices and its, for practical purposes, stochastic nature render the system very hard to hack.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Yevgeniy Eugene Shteyn