Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions

20080250095 - Content distributing system and content receiving and reproducing device: A technology that makes a program line-up related to contents distributed to a user side, depending on various conditions, preferences, and communication environments of the user side that views and listens to the content is disclosed. According to the technology, an on-board device (content receiving and reproducing device) 1 receives,... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080250096 - Data management apparatus, control method of data management apparatus, and computer-readable storage: A service providing unit adapted to provide a first service which transmits image data to the external apparatus under the control of the external apparatus on the network; a service retrieval unit adapted to retrieve the external apparatus, on the network, capable of providing a second service which processes the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080250098 - Communication system and e-mail check method: A communication device which accesses a mail server includes an acquisition unit and a judgment unit. The acquisition unit periodically accesses the mail server and acquires a total number of mails at each access. The judgment unit compares a total number of mails currently acquired with a total number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080250097 - Method and system for extending the services provided by an enterprise service bus: In a middleware implementing an enterprise service bus (ESB) for interconnecting disparate software applications a method and a system of extending services provided by the ESB are disclosed. All incoming service requests reaching ESB from end-clients are not only forwarded to a primary server but are all, or an adjustable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080250104 - Apparatus, system and method for secure information dissemination: An apparatus transfers the title of content to an ID-assigning unit which assigns an ID to the content and transmits the content ID to a broadcasting unit via a tagging unit. A broadcasting apparatus then broadcasts the content ID and a receiver extracts the content ID from a received signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250100 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program: An information processing apparatus, that obtains pieces of content information relating to content recorded in an information recording medium, includes a content identifier generation unit configured to read a content certificate which is recorded in the recording medium and which corresponds to the content stored in the information recording medium,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250102 - Information processing system: The present invention provides a technique capable of generating and providing information in which various elements are associated with one another in accordance with situations. An information processing system has a server and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals obtains element associated information obtained by associating elements belonging... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250105 - Method for enabling a user to vote for a document stored within a database: The present invention relates to a method and computer readable recording medium of enabling voting for a document stored within a database over a data network, comprising: (a) receiving user's search query; (b) providing a search results list, according to said search query, wherein said search results list comprises at... Agent: Dan Grois

20080250101 - Multimedia data transmitting apparatus and multimedia data receiving apparatus: To provide, in a multimedia content server which stores multimedia data and transmits the stored multimedia data to a terminal, a technique which allows the terminal to implement a data broadcast even when random access for trick play, and the like, is performed. Upon receiving a data transmission request from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080250099 - On-demand propagation of routing information in distributed computing system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize on-demand propagation of routing information to reduce the overhead associated with distributing routing information throughout a distributed computing system. The staleness of the routing information utilized in routing client requests for a particular client is gauged based upon the number and/or frequency of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080250103 - System and a method for accelerating communication of tcp/ip based content: A technique for downloading multiple objects from at least one server in an accelerated manner. Typically, in a TCP/IP environment, a client is limited in the number of sockets that can be opened for a single server. A spoofer (410) is utilized to intercept traffic between the server and the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080250113 - Individually specifying message output attributes in a messaging system: A method, system and program for specifying message outputs in a messaging session are provided. A message entry is received in association with a particular topic from among multiple available topics from a particular user from among multiple users participating in a messaging session. Output attributes are assigned to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080250107 - Instant message archive viewing: Techniques for traversing a conversation history between a first user and a second user are provided. A window is displayed that is used to send messages from the second user to the first user. The window includes a conversation history window. The second user scrolls through the conversation history (associated... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080250112 - Method and apparatus for determining whether an email message is ready for transmission: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to analyze an email message using a policy to form a result in response to detecting a request to send an email message. A determination is made as to whether the result indicates that the email message is complete. An... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250109 - Method and system for tracking time over instant messenger: A method and apparatus for allowing the tracking the starting, ending and duration of instant messenger (“IM”) interactions, are disclosed. An IM application, running on an electronic device, may provide functionality to capture the duration and history of an interaction between users over an IM infrastructure. The IM application may... Agent: Petnote LLC Attn: Steven Rueben

20080250114 - Mitigating address book weaknesses that permit the sending of e-mail to wrong addresses: A computer-implemented method for mitigating address book weaknesses that permit sending of e-mail to wrong addresses includes determining prior to sending an e-mail message whether one of a plurality of recipients of an e-mail message should receive the e-mail message, the determining prior to sending the e-mail message including analyzing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080250110 - Peer-to-peer messaging system: In one embodiment, a distributed environment for supporting on-line collaborative meetings among a plurality of users includes a plurality of applications executing on different client machines. A sequence of messages is transmitted from a first application of the distributed environment to a second application of the distributed environment, using a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080250111 - Remote operation of instant messaging systems: A method for allowing remote operation of an instant messaging session is provided. A remote instant messaging client is selected from a list of remote instant messaging clients. User input, indicating an instant messaging command to be executed on the selected remote instant messaging client, is received. A request that... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250106 - Use of acceptance methods for accepting email and messages: An email and message management system invention that rejects all emails and messages unless the messages pass acceptance filter criteria. Without any filtering this invention will refuse to accept all incoming email and messages, whereas current systems accept all email messages without filtering aids. The invention uses several acceptance filtering... Agent: George L. Rugg

20080250108 - Web and telephony interaction system and method: Apparatus for location at a website comprising: a media input for receiving a media signal, typically video; a chat room host configured to host chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display; a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080250115 - Enterprise notification system: A system for notifying an end-user of the occurrence of an event is disclosed. The inventive concept comprises a front-end system that is accessible by the end-user, and a back-end system that is remotely accessible through the front-end system. The front-end system contains one or more mini-applications associated with various... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20080250116 - Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch: Reducing pool starvation in a switch is disclosed. The switch includes a plurality of egress ports, and a reserved pool of buffers in a shared memory. The reserved pool of buffers is one of a number of reserved pools of buffers, and the reserved pool of buffers is reserved for... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080250117 - Context providing method, system, and apparatus: A context providing method includes the collection step of collecting context information representing a situation of a target via a network, the generation step of applying a predetermined rule to the collected context information and information associated with a context entity which generates/utilizes the context information, thereby generating new context... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080250119 - Data transfer scheme using caching and differential compression techniques for reducing network load: In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250120 - Method and apparatus for distributing a multimedia file to a public kiosk across a network: A video network includes public kiosks having digital storage capacity. Centralized inventory control manages the video files stored at individual kiosks or network LANs. A user requests a multimedia file for download, and selects various ancillary files and control features, such as languages, subtitles, control of nudity, etc. The requested... Agent: Law Office Of Ronald Shea

20080250118 - Systems, methods, and apparatus of a space communication file transfer system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a CFDP protocol state machine and state table is implemented on each of a number of entities in a space communication system. Some embodiments of the state table specify at least one action to specific events for each of... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20080250121 - Facilitating configuration of multiple instances of an application on a server cluster: Facilitating configuration of multiple instances of an application executing in a server cluster. A centralized storage is provided at which configuration data for multiple application instances potentially executing on different servers (of a server cluster) is stored. The application instances may retrieve the configuration data from the centralized storage and... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080250122 - Methods and systems for network configuration: Network and device configuration systems and methods are described. In an embodiment, a first user interface configured to receive from a user configuration information regarding a first network provided. Program code stored in computer accessible memory is configured to generate a barcode that includes information related to the first network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250123 - Network switch and method of preventing ip address collision: A network switch and a method of preventing an IP address collision is provided. When a new node tries to use an IP address, which is being used in one broadcast domain, it is possible to detect and prevent an IP address collision in real-time, disconnect only the new node... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080250124 - Redundancy-protocol configuration in a ring network: In a network having a plurality of nodes each with at least two ports and lines or links connecting the ports in a ring. The improvement wherein one of the nodes is configured as a ring manager capable of configuring the other nodes via the links. Thus starting from a... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080250125 - Supervisor partitioning of client resources: A system for supervisor partitioning of client resources in a subnet communications environment includes a plurality of client nodes, each receiving an allocated set of resources determined by a central authority, which assigns resources to a supervisor key associated with each supervisor of the plurality of client nodes. At each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080250126 - Method and apparatus for updating firmware for interface unit connecting portable audio/video player with another audio/video player: A method and apparatus updates software data for an interface unit that interfaces a portable audio/video player with another audio/video system. When the portable audio/video players are updated by adding new features, etc., the method and apparatus enables the users to obtain the corresponding update file for the interface unit... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080250127 - Network management program, network management device, and network management method: When a new service is implemented by adding a server, a network management device detects a network device requiring setting modification. Next, the network management device presents to an administrator a plurality of samples corresponding to the detected network device requiring setting modification and selects a sample selected by the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080250129 - system and method for binding a subscription-based computing system to an internet service provider: A system for binding a subscription-based computer to an internet service provider (ISP) may include a binding module and a security module residing on the computer. The binding module may identify and authenticate configuration data from peripheral devices that attempt to connect to the computer, encrypt any requests for data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080250134 - Architecture for a centralized management system: An example of a solution provided here comprises: providing a logical design, including at least one hub containing central management tools, and a plurality of lower tiers containing local management tools; placing components according to the design; and providing, from the hub, one or more management functions. The lower tiers... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080250128 - Automated time zone based grouping: Time zone data is obtained from clients, such as web browsers, which interact with a server, and used to classify metrics of the clients such as response times. This classification technique does not require that a mapping of IP addresses to geographic location is available. Metrics from the clients are... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080250133 - Probing network nodes for optimization: A method is disclosed for optimizing a network that is formed from a plurality of nodes. The NC node of the network compiles an order that the plurality of nodes perform a probing operation. The order is typically round robin. The NC node receives a request from a client that... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Entropic Communications

20080250131 - Server and related method for inserting data into streaming data for a network system: A server of a network system for inserting data into a streaming data displayed by a user comprises a first store unit, a statistic unit, a selecting unit, a displaying control unit and an output unit. The first store unit is sued for storing a plurality of data contents. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080250132 - System for controlling and managing network apparatus and method thereof: Disclosed is a network device control and managing system and method. The network device control and managing system receives network device information and subscriber information from a database server of the network device control and managing system according to the manager's client information request and realizes hierarchical combined information. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250130 - System, method and engine for playing smil based multimedia contents: A system for playing SMIL based multimedia contents, comprising: a plurality of SMIL engines for analyzing and interpreting SMIL documents, as well as communicating with and controlling SMIL sub engines, remote media proxies, or local media playing devices; a plurality of remote media proxies for receiving instructions from the upper... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080250136 - Accelerated and reproducible domain visitor targeting: A device, system, and method are directed towards managing and tracking of cross-domain user activities through use of a beacon. As a user of a client device requests content from different domain services managed by a common entity, they may receive a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a beacon in... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080250139 - Facilitating monitoring and simultaneously analyzing of network events of multiple hosts via a single network interface: The substantially simultaneous tracing/monitoring of a plurality of sets of events via a single network interface. The plurality of events can be traced and/or monitored for one host or for a plurality of hosts coupled via the same network interface. The sets of events to be traced/monitored for a host... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080250135 - Methods and computer program products for managing application performance on a network: Managing application performance on a network. A network graph is generated from a set of application endpoints on the network. The network graph is annotated by associating one or more of the application endpoints with at least one of a corresponding latency annotation or a corresponding available bandwidth annotation. An... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080250140 - Monitoring apparatus, processing method, program for implementing the processing method, and management apparatus, management method, and program for implementing the management method: There is provided a monitoring apparatus which is capable of efficiently notifying an external host of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatuses, and completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses. The monitoring apparatus is connected to a management apparatus for communication therewith.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080250141 - Monitoring service with inter-enterprise contextual analysis: Methods and apparatuses for receiving data associated with one or more system metrics, contextually analyzing that data in view of prior received data of other computer systems of different subscriber enterprises, determining, based at least in part on the results of the contextual analysis, if an alert needs to be... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080250138 - Multiple displays of large dynamic alarm windows: A GUI for a Network Management System client is provided. The GUI presents network alarms in more than one alarm window. Each alarm window includes a drop-down menu for selecting an alarm filter and a pause button for halting display of new alarms. Alarm filters may be retrieved from a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080250137 - System and method for intrusion prevention high availability fail over: A system and method for intrusion prevention high availability fail over. The system includes a network infrastructure which comprises a first sensor and at least one back-up sensor. The first sensor and the at least one back-up sensor are in line with a network path. The first sensor and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080250142 - Access node selection in a network: The invention is directed towards determining an access node (14, 16) for a terminal (18) in a network (10) having one or more access nodes capable of providing access to the terminal based on one or more access technologies. Access node is selected through determining whether at least one network... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080250143 - Grid accounting method and system: A method is provided for accounting the usage of networked resources and/or services available for invocation in a grid computing architecture, said grid computing architecture including a grid middleware for invoking said services and/or resources, said method comprising the act of receiving at least one resource and/or one service available... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080250145 - Apparatus and computer-readable media for recoverable workflow: Improved methods for providing recoverable workflow of complex and/or risk-prone workflows in a computer system or computer network include segmenting such workflows into sub-processes, associating a checkpoint with the end of each sub-process, and determining whether processing of each sub-process was successful. If so, a set of parameters is stored... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080250146 - Method and apparatus for application or protocol version negotiation: A method for version negotiation between two entities is provided. Described in the context of communication protocol negotiation, an initiating entity proposes an initial communication protocol version to a receiving entity. In response, the receiving entity accepts the protocol version if it is within the range of its supported versions... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080250144 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of content data: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling transmission of content data. In the method, a communication channel is initially established to transmit the content data, the content data is transmitted through the established communication channel, verification is performed a plurality of times to determine whether the content data is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080250148 - Member activation: A method and system are herein disclosed for registering a member at a targeted web-based information management system using a reduced amount of member and system interaction to confirm and establish the member's contact information. Generally, the method may communicate permission to solicit a potential member to the information management... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080250149 - Methods and system for providing concurrent access to a resource in a communication session: Methods and a system are described for providing concurrent access to a resource in a communication session. For example, a method includes receiving a message including a request for a communication session between first and second participants represented in a presence service by first and second participant tuples. The request... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080250151 - Network system, network connecting device, and network connecting method: A network system that performs network connection between devices conforming to a predetermined communication standard is disclosed. The system includes client devices including first network starting units that present first identification information including an identifier decided in advance and designating a first network and start the first network and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250150 - Networked display device: A networked display device includes a memory, a network transmission module, a processing unit, an operational interface and a screen. The memory is to store a plurality of websites. The processing unit is to connect with one of the websites through the network transmission module to download at least a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080250147 - Proximity check server: This invention provides a method, proximity check server (203), system (200), and computer program product (207, 208) for determining the level of allowed communication between devices (201, 202) in e.g. a home network. By addition of one or more tamper-resistant devices, so-called proximity check server(s) (203,204), round-trip time measurements to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080250152 - Communication method having firewall network tunnel and location transparency: A communication method allowing data to be exchanged over different networks and having a firewall network tunnel and location transparency includes a first web application program, a first web server, a first cache, a first transport layer communication program, a plurality of second web application programs, a plurality of second... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080250153 - Streaming of templates and data records in individual streams using a multistream protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a first template defining a data format for one or more first data records and a second template defining a data format for one or more second data records. The template may be needed to decode the information included in an associated data... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080250154 - Self-adaptive multicast file transfer protocol: Self-adaptive multicast and reliable transfer of digital files from a server device to one or more client devices including an active client device, one or more passive client devices and one or more smart client devices.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080250156 - Method and apparatus for overload control and audit in a resource control and management system: A system and method for resource control management implementing Diameter protocol is disclosed. The system includes a border gateway which is configured to send an overload message and a controller that is acting as a Diameter protocol server which is configured to receive the overload message and block a number... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080250155 - Server side tftp flow control: Methods and apparatuses for server side flow control. Receive a request from a first client device to multicast a file as a plurality of packets of data from a server device to multiple client device; transmit the plurality of packets of data from a server to the multiple client devices... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080250157 - System for financial documentation conversion: A method to prepare an Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) document in a web-hosted server includes authenticating a user, uploading financial information from a spreadsheet, storing the information, and processing the data into an XBRL compliant document for transmittal to a financial regulatory agency. The process takes an input from... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080250158 - Methods and systems for disseminating information to ensure recipient retention: The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus of disseminating information about a topic to more than one recipient. The information includes a plurality of informational segments (e.g., ticklers), wherein an informational segment has one or more pieces of media, an image, text, or any combination thereof. The methods... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C. Dba Agg Intellectual Property Law

20080250159 - Cybersquatter patrol: An exemplary method includes providing a typographically erroneous domain name, tracing the domain name where tracing includes entering the domain name as part of a URL and recording one or more subsequent URLs, identifying a domain parking service for the domain name based at least in part on information in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080235320 - Distributed 3d environment framework: A system for, and client-side and server-side applications for, constructing, connecting and real time management of independent 3D environment portions (2) in a distributed ad hoc network of independent servers to form a seamless massive 3D environment (1). A 3D-aware browser composes multiple interconnected 3D environment portions (2) hosted on... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080235321 - Distributed contents storing system, copied data acquiring method, node device, and program processed in node: s

20080235318 - Information processing system for classifying and/or tracking an object: According to one embodiment, a computing system includes a computing node coupled to a number of sensors. The sensors are operable to generate records from received information and transmit these records to the computing node. The computing node is operable to bind the plurality of records in a plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080235322 - Media sharing: A method and device for distributing media from a network based content server to two or more clients participating in a burst-based service session. The method includes, following establishment of the burst-based service session, joining the content server to the session as a further participating client, sending a media grant... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080235324 - Providing shared tasks amongst a plurality of individuals: A mechanism for sharing tasks is provided in which individuals in a share group may signal their intent to complete individual shared tasks and communicate that intent to other individuals in the share group. A required time for completion of the shared tasks may be associated with an individual's signaling... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080235317 - System and method for providing an extended computing capacity: A system, method and business model is disclosed in which computation and storage intensive tasks are performed using remote commercial products (13) of a product manufacturer (80) rather than with centralized resources (10) owned by the product manufacturer (80). The present invention uses the spare resources (e.g., processing, storage) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235319 - System and method for user-definable document exchange: A document exchange based on user-definable validation rules provided by the exchanging parties. In one embodiment, an uploader uploads a document from a first computer, the upload being associated with a first member account registered with a network site. A user interface receives a delivery destination for the document from... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080235323 - Transmitting content in wagering networks: Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting content in wagering networks are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a first source for a first block of a wagering content file. The method can also include determining a second source for a second block of the wagering content file.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080235327 - Achieving low latencies on network events in a non-real time platform: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing low-latency handling of events and/or requesting actions of external resources in a real time environment while utilizing non-real time components. According to one embodiment, a system for providing low-latency handling of events in a real time environment while utilizing non-real... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080235325 - Identifying appropriate client-side script references: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying appropriate client-side script references. Embodiments of the invention facilitate tailoring a list of script references to send to a Web browser based on a list of script references included in a server page. Referenced scripts sent to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080235330 - Method and apparatus for utilizing portable e-mail addresses: A signal bearing medium tangibly embodies a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations comprising receiving an email message having an extended email address encoded virtual address, resolving said address to an actual email address, replacing the virtual address with the actual email address,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235329 - Method for reproducing media content in terminal and terminal having function for reproducing media content: A method for reproducing media content in a terminal and a terminal having a function for reproducing media content are disclosed. The method for reproducing media content in a terminal includes accessing a content server; and reproducing at least one media content configured with the accessed content server, among at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080235326 - Methods and apparatus for accelerating web browser caching: Methods and apparatus for processing intercepted requests and responses related to document retrieval between client and server computers. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, document metadata from server responses are inspected and stored in a database by an acceleration device in the network path between client and... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080235328 - Network system, server, data processing method and program: A front-end server for temporarily holding an operation request for a NAS server, which is sent from a predetermined client, is interposed between the NAS server and clients on a network. This front-end server holds information concerning a correlation among data files stored in the NAS server, optimizes the operation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080235332 - Advertising substitution payment system: There is provided a method that includes sending information to a first device, receiving a confirmation that a user of the first device acknowledged receipt of the information, and facilitating a communication between the first device and a second device via a peer-to-peer network in return for the confirmation.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080235333 - Group access privatization in clustered computer system: An apparatus, clustered computer system, and program product rely on cluster-private group names to perform accesses to groups that are resident in a clustered computer system. Thus, for a cluster-accessible group, all nodes capable of participating in a cluster are configured to map to the same cluster-private group name for... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080235331 - Scheduling synchronized demand for p2p networks: A method and system are provided to share a file over a P2P network comprising: notifying a plurality of peer devices of a scheduled time during which sharing of a file over the network is to occur; receiving requests from multiple peers from the plurality to participate in sharing of... Agent: San Francisco Office Of Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20080235337 - Adaptive buddy lists: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) monitoring for a buddy relevant event; (ii) deriving a buddy list portion from the buddy relevant event; (iii) determining presence information for each member in the buddy list portion; and (iv) updating an adaptive buddy list using the buddy list portion and... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080235338 - Apparatus, systems, and methods to facilitate the interaction between parties: Devices, systems and methods for facilitating interactions between individuals are disclosed. The exemplary method may include providing member facility information and allowing other members to review the facility information. Members may request a meeting with another member with details of the requested meeting via the system. The request is transmitted... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20080235344 - Auto reply email and auto reply email method: Auto reply email and auto reply email methods are disclosed. A particular email message includes a no-reply origination address and a message body. Characteristics of the message body are selected based at least partially on a previous email message sent to the no-reply origination address.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235336 - Implementation of private messaging: A method is disclosed for sending messages such as emails where the sender and receiver in the exchange remain anonymous to each other. The method uses a service, which may for example be an Internet service provider, which acts as an intermediary between a first party and second party to... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080235340 - Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program: Included are a browse determining unit 9 determining whether or not a user to whom an electronic mail is addressed browses information of the delivered electronic mail by referring to a user information storage unit 6 stored with at least an electronic mail address of the user in information about... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080235342 - Interactive communications system: An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080235341 - Messaging system: A method of selecting a recipient of a message on the basis of data identifying access to previously transmitted messages, wherein each said message includes content data for display within a display area of a receiving terminal and control data including data indicative of a user selectable portion within the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080235345 - Method, apparatus, and program to forward and verify multiple digital signatures in electronic mail: A mechanism is provided for augmenting the mail header of a message with a list of digital signatures representing the chain of contributors to the message. The augmented header may also encode the actual contributions corresponding to each digital signature. The list is appended every time a message is forwarded.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235335 - Method, system, and computer program product for changing the status of an existing email in a recipient email client inbox: A method, system, and computer program product for changing the status of an existing email in a recipient email client inbox are provided. The method includes receiving a message from an email server that includes a message identifier identifying the existing email message, the existing email message transmitted to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080235334 - Methods for creating and using electronic mailing groups: A method for creating an electronic mailing group. The method is implemented via execution of computer readable program code on a processor of a computer system. A first input is stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The first input includes a first group name for distributing a first electronic mail... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080235339 - Subject matter resource website: A method and apparatus for providing searchable data. The method includes the steps of detecting a content capture request from a user and analyzing a screen being viewed by the user to capture a content and format of any information elements displayed on the screen. The method further includes the... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080235343 - System for status reporting: A system for status reporting. The system provides a plurality of status messages, and reports to at least two user groups at least two status messages of the plurality of status messages, wherein each of the at least two user groups receives a different status message.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235346 - Method of detecting response time-out based on master-slave protocol architecture: A method of detecting response time-out based on master-slave protocol architecture, which calculates the time required for a slave device to respond to a Modbus request sent by a detection device based on Modbus communication protocol. The method is to send a Modbus request to the slave device through a... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20080235347 - Service providing method and system: In a service provider system, a service provider provides service information dependent on location information of a mobile terminal to the mobile terminal in response to a service request with the location information sent by the mobile terminal. A communication control unit controls communication between the mobile terminal and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235351 - Apparatus, systems and methods for targeted content delivery: According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system, apparatus and method for targeted content delivery is presented. In some embodiments, the method comprises registering users logging-on to a computer network and gathering user-related information from users. Location-centric information for each user logged-on to the network is relayed to... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080235348 - Program viewing history: A method may include tracking program viewing information via a set-top box and storing the tracked program viewing information.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080235350 - Root node for file level virtualization: A root node creates and issues an object ID comprising share information designating a share unit, which is a logical public unit. The share unit is a logical public unit comprising no less than two objects. Transfer control information in which share information is associated with device information showing a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235349 - System and method for social-networking based presence: A telecommunications system includes a network; a social networking service operably coupled to the network and configured to allow registration of users, to allow identification of registered users' interests, and to identify associated users, said associated users being associated with registered users; a presence service operably coupled to the network... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080235352 - Architecture for installation and hosting of server-based single purpose applications on clients: Architecture for installing and hosting of remote or server-based single-purpose applications (or server gadgets) on a local client. Where the client supports client gadgets that are available all the time, the server gadgets can now be installed and utilized on the client. Once installed in the client gadget framework, server... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235355 - Intelligent electronic device for receiving and sending data at high speeds over a network: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for improving a data transfer rate from an intelligent electronic device (IED) to external PC clients, via a network interface. In one embodiment, an FTP based approach is disclosed which allows for significant optimization of download speeds providing as much a 100 times... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20080235354 - Network agnostic media server control enabler: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for interacting with a media server on a network and/or protocol agnostic basis. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a media server can comprise receiving a request to perform a media control function of the media server from an application... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080235353 - System and method for confirming an association in a web-based social network: A method for confirming a request for an association with an organization by a user of a web-based social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the request includes an e-mail address not controlled by the organization. The request may also be part of an application for membership with the web-based... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080235356 - System, apparatus, method and program for processing information: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080235357 - On-line configuration management system and method: A system and method for on-line configuration management of a production environment having a plurality of target nodes, each of which has a current configuration of software controlling at least some of the functions of the node. The system includes a central configuration management server, a plurality of agents associated... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080235358 - Proxy device, network system, and communication method: The present invention provides a proxy device, a network system, and a communication method to enable communication between an information appliance capable of communicating only within a closed network and an information appliance capable of communicating only within a closed network different from the network, via an open network, wherein... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235359 - System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080235361 - Management layer method and apparatus for dynamic assignment of users to computer resources: A management layer method and apparatus for dynamically assigning computer users to remote computer resources according to predetermined rules and irrespective of remote viewer protocol utilized by the user. The method and apparatus is capable of managing hundreds of thousands of users across multiple physical sites and is operable with... Agent: Eaton Peabody Patent Group, LLC

20080235363 - Method and system for platform level data model for indications based event control and data transfer: For a platform level data model for indications based event control and data transfer, a management controller may enable performing indications based management operations that may be based on a management service utilizing CIM Indications model. The management controller may enable communication of indications based messaging and/or data. The indications... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080235362 - System and method for conference management: A method in a mobile communication device for communication over a wireless network for managing conference equipment, including: establishing a connection with a video conferencing management server via the wireless network; receiving information from the video conferencing management server, the information including one or more lists of entries from one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235360 - System and method for scheduling downloading in a cached network environment: A system and method schedules downloading of content files from a content server to a client through a cache server. A user can request a content file for future delivery at a certain service time at a certain location such as a hotspot. A cache server receives these requests and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080235365 - Automatic root cause analysis of performance problems using auto-baselining on aggregated performance metrics: Anomalous behavior in a distributed system is automatically detected. Metrics are gathered for transactions, subsystems and/or components of the subsystems. The metrics can identify response times, error counts and/or CPU loads, for instance. Baseline metrics and associated deviation ranges are automatically determined and can be periodically updated. Metrics from specific... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080235369 - Distributing replication assignments among nodes: Replication in distributed systems may be based on a determination of the number of connections to a node to be replicated. When a new user is adding a node in a distributed system, the number of connections between nodes connected to the new node is determined. In addition, the change... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080235374 - Electronic device monitoring method, electronic device computer and program thereof: Processing relating to maintenance of a monitoring subject device is performed by detecting by a computer an IP address of an electronic device connected to a LAN, automatically referring to communication protocol specification data indicating a communication protocol with the electronic device indicated in remote maintenance management data provided in... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080235367 - Method and apparatus for updating user status in an instant messaging system: A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for managing user status. A number of active conversations present for a user of an instant messaging service is identified. The user status for the user is changed based on a policy using the number of active conversations.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235364 - Method and apparatus for using dynamic workload characteristics to control cpu frequency and voltage scaling: Some embodiments involve determining a processor performance characteristic associated with a workload, determining a workload characteristic associated with the workload, and determining a processor performance state for the workload based on the performance characteristic and the workload characteristic. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080235370 - Method and system for controlling network traffic of p2p and instant messenger softwares: A method and a system for controlling a network traffic of P2P and instant messenger softwares are disclosed. In accordance with the method and the system, both a header and a payload of a packet generated by an instant messenger software or a P2P software are monitored to terminate a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235372 - Method and system for measuring status and state of remotely executing programs: A system and method for providing attestation and/or integrity of a server execution environment are described. One or more parts of a server environment are selected for measurement. The one or more parts in a server execution environment are measured, and the measurements result in a unique fingerprint for each... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235366 - Method and system for monitoring messages passed over a network: A method for performing a monitoring function for an application that passes messages between two or more endpoints, comprising: receiving a message including transaction data, the transaction data including data relating to transport of the transaction data; storing the message and transaction data in respective message data and transaction data... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080235373 - System and method for detecting status changes in a network using virtual coordinate mapping: A system and method for scalable status change detection in a network of nodes includes embedding node coordinate positions into a virtual map environment. A cluster of nodes are represented with a representative node to form a hierarchy of nodes and clusters where changes in a status of the representative... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235368 - System and method for monitoring network traffic: Described herein are systems and methods for matching clicks of links on a webpage with page views by a user. The method may comprise identifying a link on a webpage requested by a client device, generating a link identifier for the link and attaching the link identifier to the link.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080235371 - System, computer product and method for event monitoring with data centre: A system, computer product and method for monitoring and disseminating data form a plurality of electronic devices via the Internet is provided. The plurality of electronic devices, or further electronic devices connected to the plurality of electronic devices, generate signal data. A computer product of the present invention is loaded... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080235376 - Access selection method: A method of access management in a communication system comprising a terminal, a first access point, a second access point and a network is described. The first access point offers a first access connection to the terminal and the second access point offers a second access connection to the terminal.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080235377 - Aggregation system: An aggregation system includes: a load balancer for distributing accesses to a plurality of user proxy server devices, the accesses including operation information and ID numbers; a plurality of user proxy server devices, wherein the user proxy server devices include program device for identifying a user management server device where... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080235375 - Social networking online community: Access to a network resource, such as an Internet web site, may be controlled by a server receiving requests for the web site and responding by presenting users with a survey question that must be answered before site access is permitted. The users of the web site may be members... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080235379 - Network resource negotiation: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for negotiating resources in a communication system. One exemplary method includes transmitting, by a service manager, a request for a service, wherein the service request either explicitly provides, or implicitly refers to, a list of a plurality... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080235378 - Policy algorithm for selection of compatible systems for virtual server mobility: A method and system for selecting compatible systems for virtual server mobility. Responsive to determining a current location of a workload partition instance running on a managed server, mandatory compatibility tests specified in a compatibility policy associated with the workload partition instance are executed to compare properties of the managed... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235380 - Factoring out dialog control and call control: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing session control and media exchange control that can include and combine, for example, call control and voice access concepts such as dialog (voice dialog, prompts and DTMF) or web/GUI elements. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a media session can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080235381 - Message relaying apparatus, communication establishing method, and computer program product: A storage unit of a relaying apparatus stores first identification information that identifies an SIP terminal and second identification that identifies other SIP terminal which is forecast as a transfer destination of a message. A transmitting-and-receiving unit receives from the SIP terminal a request message that is received before a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235382 - Fault tolerant tcp splice systems and methods: Computer architecture and method splice a new TCP connection. A proxy group for the new TCP connection is determined and, at one of the proxies, the new TCP connection is accepted. At the one proxy, a client request is received from a client of the new TCP connection and an... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080235383 - Methods, systems, products, and devices for generating and processing dns friendly identifiers: When a request having a keyword is received, a domain name having the keyword can be generated and a network resource corresponding to the domain name can be requested wherein the network resource is adapted to extract the keyword from the domain name. In turn, when a request having a... Agent: Eric Schneider

20080235385 - Selective use of anonymous proxies: A method and apparatus for selectively using an anonymous proxy. A user request for content is received. A determination is made as to whether the user request satisfies context criteria. When the user request satisfies the context criteria, the user request is forwarded to an anonymous proxy. When the user... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235384 - Web service for coordinating actions of clients: Architecture for providing communications resources of a network for client intercommunications. A client that desires to communicate makes a request to an arbitrary communications server node by the announcing of identifying information. The web service “parks” the request until the identifying information is ready. A second client can ultimately interact... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235387 - Method and apparatus for the dynamic introduction of new attributes into policies: In one aspect this invention provides a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium that is executed by at least one data processor of a policy management system. The computer program includes first computer program instructions for implementing a user interface and second computer program instructions for implementing a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235386 - Techniques for updating security-related parameters for mobile stations: A method is performed on a first server for communicating with a mobile station in order for the mobile station to update a security-related parameter. The method includes determining that a request expressed in a first protocol has been made by a second server for updating the security-related parameter on... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235388 - Method and apparatus to determine hardware and software compatibility related to mobility of virtual servers: A method and system for determining hardware and software compatibility related to mobility of virtual servers. Upon receiving an inventory of properties of a managed server which are relevant for compatibility testing, mandatory and optional properties available for use in a compatibility policy for a WPAR instance running on the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235389 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of transmitting data from a first node to a second node in a communication network includes receiving a signal; dividing the signal into data elements arranged in a first data stream comprising active and inactive data elements; analysing at least one characteristic of the signal to determine if... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080235391 - Method and apparatus for transferring files to clients using a peer-to-peer file transfer model and a client-server transfer model: A method and apparatus is provided for delivering a content file to a client over a packet-switched network. The method begins by determining a suitable throughput required to deliver the content file to the client. Next, the throughput available in a peer-to-peer network for delivering the content file to the... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080235390 - Moving image displaying method and system: In order to overcome a difficulty in which, when a moving image played back by an operated-side computer is displayed on an operating-side computer through a network, a smooth moving image cannot be displayed because of being adversely influenced by the variation of a transfer data amount or a network... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235392 - Network file system: A method in one embodiment is performed at least in part at a server in a network file system that includes said server and a plurality of clients connected by a network, the method comprising: receiving a data write request from one client; selecting a client as a write object... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Ibm

20080235393 - Framework for corrrelating content on a local network with information on an external network: A correlation system and method implement a framework for correlating content available from a local network with information on an external network. The system identifies information related to content available on the local network of interest to the user and also identifies one or more external sources that contain such... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080235395 - Medical image transfer control apparatus and method, and medical image transfer system: A medical image transfer system consists of a plurality of transfer servers for transferring individually a medical image from a modality to an image server, and a control server for controlling the transfer servers. The transfer server sends information tagged to the medical image to the control server, to inquire... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235394 - Secure document management system: A method of uploading documents to a secure electronic document storage system includes receiving a request from a user for an upload of at least one document to a secure electronic document storage system. A routing document is generated including routing information related to the secure electronic document storage system.... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080235396 - Method and system for processing a service request associated with a particular priority level of service in a network data processing system using parallel proxies: A proxy server is provided with a plurality of prioritized proxies configured in parallel. The proxy server can include 1-to-n proxy subunits, where “n” can vary depending on the total priority levels available for any given system. Each service (e.g., document-handling) request made to the proxy server is prioritized according... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080235397 - Systems and methods for content-aware load balancing: Improved load balancing techniques are disclosed. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a method of satisfying requests in a system comprised of a plurality of servers comprises the following steps. At least one load balancer is provided for routing requests to the plurality of servers. At the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080235398 - Method for coordination of concurrent processes or for control of the transport of mobile units within a network: A method for coordination of concurrent processes or for control of the transport of mobile units within a network, wherein a) the control of the network occurs in a decentralized and self-organizing manner in the controllers of node points or local defined sub-networks, whereby the control units of adjacent node... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080235400 - Content request routing and load balancing for content distribution networks: A content distribution mechanism that distributes content of a content provider at various sites across a network and selects the site that is nearest a content requestor using an anycast address that resides at each of the sites. The sites are configured as nodes (or clusters) and each node includes... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080235399 - Information processing device, server, communication system, address decision method, address modification method, and program: A first information processing device (1) of a communication source performing tunnel communication with a device of a communication destination includes: a tunnel communication unit (11) for encapsulating data to be communicated and performing tunnel communication; an identifier reception unit (12) for receiving a communication destination device identifier for identifying... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080235401 - Method of storing media data delivered through a network: There are various methods to stream media data, particularly video data, through a network for playing on a client workstation, for example, WMV™, Real™ Video, and so on. If multiple formats are involved, it is difficult to store the media data, and streaming the stored data whenever required. Further, existing... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080235402 - System and method for bi-directional synchronized conversion of electronic mail data: A portable storage device is connected to a first computer and the email data is synchronized between the first computer and the device. The portable storage device can then be connected to a second computer that has an email program that is incompatible with the first computer's email program. The... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080235403 - System, method, and device to wirelessly communicate multimedia timeline data: Systems, methods, and devices to provide to wirelessly communicate multimedia timeline data are disclosed. A first wireless network may be provided to communicate data associated with a multimedia timeline between a multimedia device and a second network. A request that identifies a multimedia timeline may be received from the multimedia... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080228849 - Apparatus and methods for a message buffering system: Techniques for implementing a log message buffering system are disclosed. To this end, a computer implemented method includes receiving log messages. The computer implemented method also includes associating log messages with items of work and organizing the received log messages according to the items of work. Each item of work... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080228848 - Data processing device and data processing method: A data processor can exchange data with a device, which is connected to a network and uniquely identifiable in the network by its own device information. The processor includes: a processing section for generating content data and identification information to uniquely identify each content and getting them stored on a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080228858 - Incrementally sychronizing occasionally-connected mobile databases, preserving horizontal filter scope consistency by using client pre-image: A system for synchronizing data on a first device with data at a second device, includes: determining a pre-image of the data on the first device according to a filter after a previous synchronization with the data at the second device; determining a current image of the data at the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080228857 - Information exchange tool: Mining human capital information includes defining one or more attributes of a communication group, extracting a target group by searching one or more of explicit and implicit data sources according to the defined attributes, communicating with the extracted target group, logging at least some of the communications, and analyzing the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080228856 - Information processing device detecting operation, electronic equipment and storage medium storing a program related thereto: An information processor comprises an image sender for sending an image including the image section of an operation object element displayed and operated on an electronic device to the electronic device, a detection information receiver for receiving operation detection information indicating that the image section is operated on the electronic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228851 - Method and system for implementing built-in web services endpoints: A method and system for implementing Web service built-in endpoints is described. In one embodiment, the system includes a built-in endpoint manager interface and a built-in endpoint implementation container.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080228854 - Method for controlling a multimedia device from a mobile terminal, corresponding computer programs, multimedia device and server: A method is provided for controlling, via a mobile terminal, a multimedia device for playing back and/or storing multimedia contents, the mobile terminal and the multimedia device being connected to a communications network. The method includes the following steps: the mobile terminal sends to a remote server, via the communications... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080228855 - Network management system and method of managing the same: A network management system capable of simultaneously setting environments of a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to each other on a network to different values so as to allow a user to effectively and conveniently manage the image forming apparatuses. The network management system includes a plurality of image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080228853 - Software system: A software system including at least one MAPI client component, a model adapter, and a model sub system. The MAPI client component(s) operate in a COM environment, the model adapter operates partly in the COM environment and partly in a .NET environment, and the model sub system operates partly or... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080228852 - Synchronization of information items with references: The present invention is related to a method and a system for bidirectional synchronisation of information between two devices, a first device and a second device where the synchronisation is limited to exchange of modified data and the request for synchronization can be initiated by any of the two devices.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080228850 - Systems and methods of clustered sharing of compression histories: Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080228859 - Grid computing system for testing application program capacity of server: Disclosed is a grid computing system for testing the application program capacity of a server. The system includes an application server having an application program installed therein; a number of user clients having a capacity measurement program installed therein, the user clients applying a load, which contains a scenario, to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080228860 - Method and system for implementing ws-policy: A method and system for implementing WS-Policy is described. In one embodiment, the system includes an API that may be used to call one or more methods for processing a WS policy file. These methods are associated with one or more classes.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080228865 - Electronic personal computing and videophone system consisting of a remote server system providing dynamic, subscription based virtual computing services & resources, a thin client hardware device connected to a television set and wireless keyboard &: 3. a Wireless Mobile Electronic Device Composed of a Housing, an Electronic Circuit Board, a Flash Memory, an LCD screen, a Keyboard, a Mouse, a Microphone, Speakers, a Camera, and a Software Program that Connects and Communicates With The Remote Online Server System To Send Computing Commands and Audio/Video Data... Agent: Nazareno Cruzada

20080228874 - Method and apparatus for collocating application monitoring reports with web applications: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to display a Web site with its corresponding monitoring information. A determination is made as to whether a user at a client data processing system is permitted access monitoring information for a Web site. The Web page is retrieved to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080228873 - Method and system for generic application liveliness monitoring for business resiliency: A system and method for monitoring liveliness includes a management device which has an application layer where applications are executed. A connection monitor is located other than on the application layer, and the connection monitor is configured to receive requests from clients and deliver the requests to components on the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080228869 - Method for online distribution of drm content: The invention relates to a method for online distribution of digital content that is protected by digital rights management (DRM). It makes it possible to disseminate such content via peer-to-peer networks, for instance, according to the bitstream principle. According to the invention, the file segments that are identical in terms... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080228870 - Method for transmitting information from an information server to a client: During the transmission of information from a first information server (3) to a client (9) with which a profile (15) is associated, by means of a communication network (2) in a client-server system (1a), the load on the resources of the client server system (1a) and the communication network (2)... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080228866 - Scrapbook server, method of controlling same, and control program therefor: A user accesses a scrapbook server using a computer and executes a simulation for creating a scrapbook by affixing part images such as photographic images and decorative images to an image of a paper mount utilizing a scrapbook image, which has been created by another person, on the display screen... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228872 - System and method for processing transactions in a multisystem database environment: A system for satisfying a request from a client for a send-then-commit transaction includes a front-end information management system (IMS) server. Shared message queues (SMQ) communicate with the front-end IMS server and plural back-end IMS. The front-end IMS server receives the request from the client and transmits the request to... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

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