An apparatus comprising a storage medium and a communicatively coupled processor are presented. The storage medium has stored therein a plurality of executable instructions which, when executed, implement an information server which, upon receiving a request including a resource identifier for an information page that may or may not exist, constructs and issues commands to retrieve the requested information and dynamically generates instructions to create the requested information page for provision to a requesting client if the information page does not exist.
A negotiation protocol that allows for multi-attribute in a negotiation that is guaranteed to terminate. The negotiation protocol comprises a plurality of rounds including an advertisement, look-up, offer, counter, agreement, and failure. A negotiation conducted according to the negotiating protocol follows these rounds. These rounds have rules by negotiating parties. These rules are directed towards allowing compromise and leading the negotiation towards agreement or failure. If the rules are obeyed, then every negotiation will end in either the agreement or failure round.
The technologies allow a digital content developer to define, and a user to switch between or select, various versions of digital content for purposes of displaying, rendering, improving, or testing digital content. For example, a source code developer inserts identifiers in source code, and a source code layer viewer displays code segment choices defined by the identifiers. A user (e.g., the developer or others) selects code segments for inclusion in a source code version. The technology is also useful for providing versions of media content such as audio, video, DVD, images, text, etc.
An apparatus and method for creating or presenting marketing initiatives in a sales manager system. A user inputs offer parameters for a new initiative. The offer parameters includes an initiative time period and an initiative description. After the parameters have been entered, customer selection criteria is associated with those parameters. The effectiveness of the new initiative is determined using stored statistics associated with past initiatives, after which, the new initiative is complete and is stored in a database.
An apparatus and method for creating or presenting marketing initiatives in a sales manager system. A user inputs offer parameters for a new initiative. The offer parameters includes an initiative time period and an initiative description. After the parameters have been entered, customer selection criteria is associated with those parameters. The effectiveness of the new initiative is determined using stored statistics associated with past initiatives, after which, the new initiative is complete and is stored in a database.
An apparatus for storing predetermined multimedia information is provided. The apparatus includes a telephony messaging platform and first and second storage locations contained in the telephony messaging platform. The predetermined multimedia information is stored in at least the first storage location and the second storage location such that a first multimedia portion of the predetermined multimedia information is stored in the first storage portion and a second multimedia portion of said predetermined multimedia information is stored in the second storage portion. In addition, the telephony messaging platform receives at least one multimedia command from an access device of a user. Then, the telephony messaging platform selectively reproduces one of the first multimedia portion and the second multimedia portion as a selected multimedia portion based on the one multimedia command. Afterwards, the telephony messaging platform outputs the selected multimedia portion to the access device.