Abstract:
Method for providing advertisement to a user of a communication network. An advertisement database stores an association between the identifier of a further user and at least one visual advertisement associated to and selected by the further user. When a communication session is set up in the communication network between the user and the further user, an advertisement manager uses the identifier of the further user for retrieving from the advertisement database a visual advertisement selected amongst the visual advertisements associated to the further user. The advertisement manager then transmits the selected visual advertisement to the user for displaying it on a display of the user device.
Abstract:
It is disclosed a method for providing a telecare service to a patient. According to the method, at least one sensor installed in a domestic environment of the patient detects a datum relating to either the domestic environment or an interaction between patient and domestic environment. Based on the detected datum, an anomaly in the domestic environment or in the interaction between patient and domestic environment is detected. Then, a predefined question uniquely associated with the detected anomaly is selected for generating a questionnaire to be submitted to the patient, with the purpose of determining the cause of the detected anomaly. According to preferred embodiments, based on the patient's reply it is determined if the detected anomaly is a false anomaly and, in the affirmative, the predefined question associated to such false anomaly is excluded from the next questionnaire(s), even if the anomaly persists.
Abstract:
An electronic device (100) is disclosed. The electronic device is adapted to receive and process an electromagnetic radiation, such as a radio frequency signal from a wireless communication system. The electronic device comprises:a metasurface (115) for intercepting the electromagnetic radiation, the 5metasurface comprising a plurality of active elements for sensing at least one parameter of the electromagnetic radiation as it is actually received at the electronic device, wherein the active elements of said plurality of active elements are controllable to implement a plurality of configurations of the metasurface each one corresponding to a radiation pattern with which the electromagnetic radiation is passed through the 0metasurface, a control unit (CU) communicably coupled to the metasurface, wherein the control unit is configured to iteratively:receive the sensed at least one parameter from the metasurface;identify, based on the at least one parameter of the electromagnetic 5radiation, an optimized configuration, among the plurality of configurations, that optimizes electromagnetic radiation reception at the electronic device, andcontrol the active elements to implement the optimized configuration.
Abstract:
It is disclosed a method of providing a content-on-demand service to a user by means of a communication network. The method comprises transmitting a content to a first terminal of the user and determining whether the user wishes to pay the content at a reduced price. In the affirmative, the method further comprises: generating an acknowledge request message and an expected acknowledge message; generating an advertising block including k commercials and the acknowledge request message in such a way that the user is able to answer to the acknowledge request message only after consuming the k commercials; transmitting the advertising block to a second terminal of the user; listening for an acknowledge message from the second terminal; and determining whether the received acknowledge message corresponds to the expected acknowledge message.
Abstract:
A system for the automatic identification of a device or appliance (105a-105c) comprises: at least one sensor (110) configured to be associatable with the device or appliance to be identified, and to monitor an evolution in time of at least one electrical quantity indicative of a consumption of energy by the device or appliance; an analyzer (110;115;125) in communication relationship with the at least one sensor and configured to receive therefrom reports (215) of the monitored electrical quantity, the analyzer being further configured to automatically identify the device or appliance by analyzing (220) the evolution in time of the monitored electric quantity, The analysis comprises: calculating a cross-correlation (530,555) between the evolution in time of the monitored electric quantity and at least one reference pattern representative of at least one sample device or appliance; inserting the at least one sample device or appliance in a list of candidate devices or appliances in case a value related to the calculated cross-correlation is above a predetermined threshold; in case more than one sample device or appliance is included in the candidate list, identifying the device or appliance by performing a selection among the candidate devices or appliances based on characteristic parameters related to the respective calculated cross- correlations and different from said value.
Abstract:
Method for enabling a user of a communication network to get information about entities, said entities being classified in an entity database according to a plurality of characteristics, the user being associated with a list of contacts, each contact being associated with a log of communication sessions the contact has been involved in through the communication network, for each communication session the log comprising an indication of parties involved in the communication session.