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Temporal/Spatial Calendar Events And Triggers, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson Mar 2015

Temporal/Spatial Calendar Events And Triggers, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson

Defensive Publications Series

Spatial and/or temporal triggers may be established so that when actuated, one or more notifications such as reminders may be provided to one or more users. These triggers may be established manually, e.g., by a user operating a user interface, automatically, e.g., by scraping calendar and/or email data to ascertain and/or predict various aspects of upcoming appointments such as start times, duration, date, location, and so forth, or a combination of the two. Spatial triggers may be actuated based on a determination that a user is, or will be, at a particular location. Temporal triggers may be actuated at particular …


Incentivizing Publishers To Join A Publisher Network, Patrick Hummel, Christopher Harris Feb 2015

Incentivizing Publishers To Join A Publisher Network, Patrick Hummel, Christopher Harris

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discusses an automated system in which publishers would be able to tell the advertisement platform which features they would value having and how much these features are worth to them. The advertisement platform can decide which features to develop as well as which publishers to invite to join the advertisement platform. The advertisement platform uses the information about how the publishers value certain features to find publishers who value the same features, before the advertisement platform develops the features. The advertisement platform may invite the publishers who value the same features to join the system, and may make …


Secure Traffic Metering With A Router, Swaminathan Krishnamurthy, Nick Arini Feb 2015

Secure Traffic Metering With A Router, Swaminathan Krishnamurthy, Nick Arini

Defensive Publications Series

Current gateway-based metering is not capable of capturing secured traffic because the gateway sits in the middle of the server-client transaction. A current solution uses client-side metering for secured traffic and gateway-based metering for unsecured traffic. This current solution is becoming less practical with the ever-increasing use of encryption for Internet delivered traffic. To overcome the above-noted problems, and other problems, with metering Internet traffic, disclosed herein are systems and methods that enable such secured traffic to be metered at a router or gateway.