Abstract:
A method is disclosed for delivering personalized content from a content provider system to a satellite communication receiver user. The user selects content from the content provider system and specifies Internet or satellite delivery. If the user specifies Internet delivery, then the content provider system transmits the selected content to the user via the Internet. However, if the user specifies satellite delivery, then the content provider system acquires the user's satellite communication receiver ID code from the user. The content provider system then transfers the selected content and the user's ID code to a satellite transmitter of a satellite radio provider system. The satellite transmitter transmits the selected content and ID code via a satellite to the user's satellite communication receiver. If the ID code received by the user's satellite communication receiver matches the ID code of this satellite communication receiver, then the satellite communication receiver stores, and allows to the user to access, the selected content.
Abstract:
A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and computer program product for ordering television stations and programs are provided. Aspects of the present invention allow users to order television stations and programs based on their preferences. In addition, the aspects of the present invention allow the custom order of stations and programs to be displayed contiguously in the programming guide. Furthermore, the aspects of the present invention automatically activate a custom order based on an assignment of a particular time or schedule. Moreover, the aspects of the present invention identify a specific user from a plurality of users that share the same programming guide, such that a corresponding custom order of stations and programs may be retrieved for the specific user.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method is provided for use of a confirmation object by a reviewing computer to determine the accuracy of statements in a received document. The reviewing computer receives a document containing a statement and a confirmation object associated with the statement. The confirmation object includes a hyperlink to a substantiation object residing on a web page on a server computer. The reviewing computer reads the statement. The reviewing computer actuates the confirmation object, thereby transmitting a request to the server computer that the web page containing the substantiation object be served to the reviewing computer. The reviewing computer receives the web page containing the substantiation object from the server computer, reads the substantiation object, and compares the statement with the substantiation object in order to ascertain their degree of agreement. A substantiation authority system including a server computer is also provided for substantiating statements in a document.
Abstract:
A new communicating object class is created: “The electronic excuse object”. This is an object class that provides for the automatic distribution via a communications network of a certification by an accepted authority of the existence of events justifying a responsive action or inaction by an entity, e.g. a person subjected to the effects of such events. A system for the certification of the existence of events enabling responsive actions that comprise at least one object of an object class including the identity of the entity authorized to make the certification, the identity of the entity enabled to take the responsive actions and a certification by the authorized entity of the existence of the events and a communication network process through which this object may be accessed so as to provide the certification to a designated recipient. The object contains an appropriate programming process for sending an electronic communication, such as an e-mail or Web document, to the designated recipients.
Abstract:
Transmission of interactive menus that include a user's requesting, by a call to a call service, a service of the call service, the call service including services, a voice response system, and one or more interactive menus; receiving in a telecommunication device from the call service an interactive menu, including suspending the requested service at a processing point; the user's providing interactive menu response information according to the interactive menu; and the user's resuming the requested service with the interactive menu response information from the processing point at which the requested service was suspended.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for displaying keystrokes on a display screen in the mobile communications device. In response to detecting a user input selecting a character on a keypad, the character is displayed on the display screen using a full screen display of the character. The full screen display is adjusted to the selected size after a selected period of time.
Abstract:
A method and device for receiving a voice mail from a cellular phone service provider utilizing a satellite radio. When the cellular phone service provider determines that a called party's cellular phone is unable to receive a call because the called cellular phone is not within a live cell, the calling party is prompted to leave a voice mail message. The voice mail message is uplinked to a space satellite, which transponds the message to a one-way satellite radio receiver. The radio receiver sends the voice mail message to a coupled recorder. A repeater, coupled to the recorder, then transmits the voice mail message to the called cellular phone to a highly limited zone. The called party's cellular phone then receives the voice mail message as if it were one-way cellular phone call.
Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for allowing a third party to assume a mobile telephone user's airtime and other charges when the mobile telephone user enters a particular geographic area, such as the third party's property is disclosed.
Abstract:
An improved electronic whiteboard is provided. The improved electronic whiteboard includes a plurality of toggle switches along a vertical side for drawing vertical straight lines across the electronic whiteboard and a plurality of toggle switches along a horizontal side for drawing horizontal straight lines across the electronic whiteboard. When some or all the switches along the vertical side are turned on, vertical straight lines are drawn across the electronic whiteboard. Likewise, when some or all the switches along the horizontal side are turned on, horizontal straight lines are drawn across the electronic whiteboard. The intersections of the vertical straight lines with the horizontal straight lines form a plurality of grid cells. The electronic whiteboard contains means for determining the location of these cells.
Abstract:
The refinement of existing search output. The present invention further improves upon the prior art in that: (1) it provides a means for employing the automation of the selection process; (2) it further provides for the elimination of the need to manually reformulate the search, which is very tedious; and (3) the use of weighted logic processes to refine the search.