Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 02/06

20060041611 - Data transfer control system, electronic apparatus, and program: A data transfer control system that controls data transfer between a first electronic apparatus connected via a first bus and a device connected via a second bus, including: a management section that conducts a process of receiving a login request when a login request for acquirement of a right to...

20060041612 - Method and system for discovery of remote agents: Method and system for discovering remote agents is provided. At least one web service is provided and at least one remote agent is discovered based on at least one web service....

20060041614 - Data access responding system, storage system, client apparatus, cache apparatus, and method for accessing data access responding system: A control apparatus provides a transfer instruction to one of storage apparatus and a cache apparatus, in which relevant data is stored, when receiving an access request from a client apparatus for the data for which the storage location is managed; and the one of the storage apparatus and the...

20060041613 - Method and system for visual art distribution and presentation: A method and system is described for enabling the exposure, distribution and presentation of high quality digital representations of images of visual art works to customers and entails infrastructure for storage, management, selection, and retrieval of one or more images of visual art, storing selected images in a portable storage...

20060041616 - Audio communications using devices with different capabilities: A multimedia collaboration system that integrates separate real-time and asynchronous networks—the former for real-time audio and video, and the latter for control signals and textual, graphical and other data—in a manner that is interoperable across different computer and network operating system platforms and which closely approximates the experience of face-to-face...

20060041617 - Log-in based communications plus two data types: A multimedia collaboration system that integrates separate real-time and asynchronous networks—the former for real-time audio and video, and the latter for control signals and textual, graphical and other data—in a manner that is interoperable across different computer and network operating system platforms and which closely approximates the experience of face-to-face...

20060041615 - Wireless delegate information and communication device, method and system: In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method and devices serving hundreds or thousands of delegates of conferences and other live events (such as management meetings or training seminars) with up-to date information related to the event and the delegates. Additionally, the present invention can link such information...

20060041619 - System and method for an on-demand peer-to-peer storage virtualization infrastructure: A system and method for creating an on-demand virtual drive from dedicated storage on a plurality of partners in a peer-to-peer network using an agent installed on each of the partners. The agent has a contributing program and a requesting program. The contributing program creates a first storage unit and...

20060041618 - System and method for sharing information among provider systems: A system is provided wherein information is provided once, and that information is provided to multiple provider systems. Information provided by a user is stored and implemented for each provider as needed. The information is provided by a user to a central server that distributes the information to one or...

20060041628 - Electronic routing slips for inter-organizational electronic mail: A system and method for separating inter-organizational email from the intra-organizational processing of that email are described. An email message is received by an email client program executing at a client computing system. A route operation is selected for the email message. A routing slip is generated in response to...

20060041629 - Magnification of incoming and outgoing messages in the user interface of instant messaging and other digital communication services: The invention relates to instant messaging communications. More particularly, the invention relates to the magnification, or set in evidence, of incoming and/or outgoing messages. Typically only the at least one latest exchanged messages is magnified. A messages ends being displayed in a magnified fashion at the occurrence of a predetermined...

20060041620 - Method and system for co-joining computational spacecells in a networked environment: A system, method and apparatus providing the creation, management and usage of a non-distributed computational and storage Space environment in the field of networked devices, specifically computational and storage devices. Mechanisms are provided to facilitate the merging of Space environments across dissimilar and security protected networks such that the merged...

20060041621 - Method and system for providing a disposable email address: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards providing a Disposable Email Address (DEA) that may be employed, in part, to manage email spam. The DEA may be generated based, in part, on an end-user profile, a keyword, and a domain address. The DEA may be distinguishable from a non-DEA...

20060041623 - Method and system to trigger an activity associated with a user interface element on a web page: A method to trigger an activity associated with a user interface element on a web page. The method includes, at a first machine, generating a user interface data message. The user interface data message includes a user interface controller to receive keyboard input that includes one or more keystrokes that...

20060041622 - Spam filtering for mobile communication devices: A spam filtering system and method are disclosed for filtering spam destined for a mobile communication device. In the spam filtering system, a processing system receives a message destined for a mobile communication device through an interface. The processing system processes the message based on first filtering criteria to make...

20060041624 - System and method for distributing an electronic message: A method and system for generating an individualized electronic message is described. The method includes receiving at an electronic message server a source message and generating a plurality of individualized electronic messages based upon an association between respective body portions of the source message and intended recipient groups. The source...

20060041627 - System and method for effectively exchanging photo data in an instant messaging environment: A system and method for effectively exchanging photo data in an instant messaging environment includes a first device coupled to an electronic network for utilizing a first messaging program and a first messaging display to create text messages for performing messaging procedures. A photo data source such as a digital...

20060041626 - System and method for response management in multiple email recipients: The disclosed invention is an improvement to a demand-based messaging system that enables multiple message recipients to coordinate responses to the message. The improved messaging system comprises a messaging program that provides an interface through which a recipient can indicate an intent to reply to the message. The messaging program...

20060041625 - System and method for sectional e-mail transmission: A process of segmenting a single email so that portions of it may be directed to or away from select recipients is disclosed. The sender highlights portions of the email and right clicks (or key command, button, or menu item) and selects an option to select recipients. The operator interface...

20060041630 - Gateway having an input/output scanner: A gateway having an input/output scanner is disclosed. The gateway includes a local area network interface, a serial interface, and a processor configured to provide protocol conversion between the local area network interface and the serial interface. Further, an input/output scanner module is operatively connected to the serial interface and...

20060041631 - Method and apparatus for serial communication system capable of identifying slave apparatus using half-duplex channel communication method: A serial communication system is provided which performs serial communication between host and slave apparatus using half-duplex channel communication with a serial data signal generated by superimposing a data signal on a clock signal. The host apparatus transmits through a transmission path an identification signal generated by superimposing on the...

20060041634 - Data providing system, data providing apparatus and method, data acquisition system and method, and program storage medium: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user...

20060041633 - Opportunistic directory cache: An opportunistic directory cache and method of usage reduce the number of calls between a client and server for file information, reducing the wastage of network resources and server resources. The expirable directory cache can be refreshed any time an appropriate directory enumeration call is made to the server, and...

20060041632 - System and method to associate content types in a portable communication device: A system and or/methodology that facilitates organizing content on a portable communications device to generate a compilation (e.g., presentation) containing the organized content. The system and/or methodology includes an authoring component that associates content of a first type with a subset of other content and a sharing component that communicates...

20060041635 - Flexible teleport architecture: A system and corresponding methods for mapping a teleport URL to a destination URL are provided. In one embodiment, a system for redirecting a teleport URL includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of teleport entries, where each of the teleport entries is capable of being identified by...

20060041636 - Policy processing model: Example embodiments provide for processing policies that include policy assertions associated with incoming or outgoing messages of an application in a distributed system, without having to have code within the application for executing the policy assertions. When a message is received by a Web service engine, a policy document associated...

20060041641 - Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals: The present invention relates to a method and respective system for managing the administration of electronic resources accessible in an electronic-network: A solution is offered, in which grid resources or services are enhanced with a presentation interface that provides an administration user-interface (UI) for configuring them, i.e., the administration UI...

20060041638 - Method, system, and computer program product for offline advertisement servicing and cycling: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for servicing advertisements for offline display on mobile devices are provided. In a first aspect, a channel is received at a mobile device server from one or more providers, including a first web page, an advertiser web page, and an advertisement image file....

20060041639 - Platform detection: A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed html/javascript file, logging of consumer identifier, media identifier, and playback device identifier in a cookie or log file. The media services comprises...

20060041637 - Reverse proxy portlet with rule-based, instance level configuration: A portal server having a reverse proxy mechanism for proxying one or more Web applications on a backend server in response to a request for Web content from a user. The reverse proxy mechanism includes a portlet, a set of configuration rules, and a rewriting mechanism. The rewriting mechanism is...

20060041640 - Subscribing to buttons/events: A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed html/javascript file, logging of consumer identifier, media identifier, and playback device identifier in a cookie or log file. The media services comprises...

20060041645 - Method and system for configuring settings for a communications client utilizing host device drivers: A system and method for configuring a client on a host device using a configuration application on a configuring device, the system comprising: a link between the configuring device and the host device; host drivers for communicating between the host device and the configuring device over the link; and an...

20060041642 - Secure proximity verification of a node on a network: A system and method determines the proximity of the target node to the source node from the time required to communicate messages within the node-verification protocol. The node-verification protocol includes a query-response sequence, wherein the source node communicates a query to the target node, and the target node communicates a...

20060041646 - System and method for automatically adjusting computer system times through a network: A system for automatically adjusting computer system times through a network includes one or more computers (1) to be adjusted, and a time server (3). Each computer includes: a setting determining module (10) for determining whether a user has set a new time zone and a new time format; a...

20060041643 - System and method for deployment plan: The present invention provides a deployment plan for an application server environment. In one embodiment, the deployment plan is an XML document that can be associated with any application that is deployed to an application server environment. The deployment plan may incorporates all server [vendor] specific deployment information as required...

20060041648 - System and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants' preferences and contexts: A system and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants' preferences and capabilities is provided. In one approach, the system attempts to optimize the inferred or directly accessed preferences of a contactee given the accessed or inferred preferences, capabilities and goals of the...

20060041647 - System and method for profiling messages: A resource-optimization system is set up to characterize the content of client messages before the transmission of those messages to final Web service endpoints and to route those messages to appropriate Web service endpoints dynamically, based on message content. A metadata storage stores service profiles that characterize resource capabilities of...

20060041644 - Unified system services layer for a distributed processing system: A distributed processing system is described that employs “role-based” computing. In particular, the distributed processing system is constructed as a collection of computing nodes in which each computing node performs a particular processing role within the operation of the overall distributed processing system. Each of the computing nodes includes a...

20060041655 - Bi-directional remote control for remotely controllable apparatus: Disclosed is a system for controlling a host using a remote control whose functions are defined by that host. Functions on the remote control are arranged by the host and grouped logically for easy navigation. The communication between the remote and host is bi-directional, and can occur in real time....

20060041654 - Cooperative application starter program: A cooperative application starter program that makes it easy to register a cooperative application and change a registration regarding the cooperative application. In an integrated management server, a correspondence information generation section obtains unit management information and generates correspondence information by which cooperative applications are associated with application servers and...

20060041650 - Method and system for cluster managing of network facilities: An object of the present invention is to provide a management method of network device, which can implement concentrate management of a large number of network devices with a small amount of IP resources, and thereby reducing maintenance workload and facilitating network management. In the management method of network devices...

20060041653 - Methods, systems and computer program products for obscuring traffic in a distributed system: Methods for obscuring real traffic in a distributed network are provided. In particular, obscuring traffic associated with ones of a plurality of components is generated on the distributed network. The generated obscuring traffic is transmitted to the ones of the plurality of components so as to obscure the real traffic...

20060041649 - Network establishment and management protocol: The invention relates to a protocol for communications between networked devices. The devices are logically arranged as a hierarchy of device types including a controller device type (52) from which no other device type depends and a basic device type (54) from which a number of other device types depend....

20060041652 - Network management with scalable trap definitions: One embodiment disclosed relates to a process of configuring a network management system to support a new event trap. A new trap definition file is created which corresponds to the event trap. The new trap definition file is dropped into a trap definitions folder that is known to the network...

20060041651 - Shared airport terminal equipment with peripheral management: Systems and methods are described for allowing shared terminal equipment at airports. Systems embodying the invention load airlines' proprietary applications onto common commercial, off-the-shelf computers. A peripheral manager device is disclosed for facilitating communication between the common computer and peripheral devices. The peripheral manager device translates airline-specific signals to and...

20060041656 - Storage area network methods and apparatus with coordinated updating of topology representation: A digital data processing apparatus of the type that manages a SAN includes a first queue with entries representing tasks and a second queue with entries representing data that correspond to those tasks. Data in the second queue is grouped in accord with the task to which they correspond. A...

20060041660 - Enterprise management system: A Managed Site (10), a logical network entity, is composed of a number of Sub Sites (20) in a one to many relationship. A Sub Site (20) is a logical component, which is composed of a number of Engines (30). Nodes (40) similarly relates to their Engine (30) in a...

20060041659 - Method and apparatus for correlating events in a network: A uniquely configured data structure is used to store event information for each network entity, where logical and physical dependency relationships among entities are captured in the data structure. For each entity, the data structure is configured to store (a) a “genuine event set”, which includes a list of events...

20060041657 - Method and apparatus for managing business cell phone usage: A process and apparatus to remotely gather data about cellphone hardware and software configurations and usage. The system uses agents which are resident on the phones and which can be remotely launched by a data collection server by sending a message to a public P address of the phone and...

20060041658 - Methods, systems and computer program products for network element information management: A method of monitoring network elements in a communications network includes querying the network elements for reboot and/or reconfiguration event data, identifying a group of the network elements responsive to the querying, and updating information for the identified group of network elements in a network configuration database. The method may...

20060041661 - Digital object repositories, models, protocol, apparatus, methods and software and data structures, relating thereto: A method of providing internet access to a data object repository comprising managing data objects hosted by said repository using a generalised repository directed graph data model having object nodes and resources, said resources comprising at least one of (i) a literal; (ii) actual resource data; and/or (iii) a URI...

20060041662 - Application loading and visualization: A system and method are described for performing application loading and visualization. In one embodiment, an application is accessed on a client to be deployed on the server. The client is in communication with machines having resources corresponding to the application. The application is then deployed on the server, and...

20060041663 - Location based dynamic information services: Systems, methods and software that provide information to a user based upon a combination of both geographic location to the user requesting the information and a determination that the information is provided by a person that is in some way similar to the user. In other words, information is organized...

20060041664 - Efficient accumulation of performance statistics in a multi-port network: Computer networks are provided with a resource efficient ability to generate link performance statistics. To calculate the average link utilization per I/O operation, a first counter accumulates the number of I/O operations processed by a link and a second counter accumulates the time required by the link to complete each...

20060041665 - Network services applications: An extensibility mechanism for networked services is disclosed. The service provider can specify the contract for each extension permitted, as part of the web service description. A potential client of the web service can use this description to create customized implementations of the necessary extensions, each conforming to the corresponding...

20060041667 - Method and apparatus for protecting legitimate traffic from dos and ddos attacks: An apparatus for protecting legitimate traffic from DoS and DDoS attacks has a high-priority (505) and a low-priority (506) queue. Besides, a queue information table (402) has STT (Source-based Traffic Trunk) service queue information of a specific packet. A queue coordinator (502) updates the queue information table (502) based on...

20060041666 - Method and system for policy-based control in a distributed network: A method and a system is disclosed for policy-based control of a communication network having a distributed architecture, including at least one heterogeneous communication network, which network elements provide for registering events, sending notifications of the occurrence of events and enforcing a policy upon said events if certain conditions are...

20060041668 - Method and system to automatically define resources forming an it service: A method to automatically define resources forming an IT service may include tracking resources utilized in responding to a request or set of requests or performing a transaction or a set of transactions. The method may also include automatically defining resources that form an IT service by aggregating all resources...

20060041670 - Method, computer system and computer program product for executing a network supported business transaction: The invention relates to a method for executing a network supported customer business transaction and a method for providing access to an access protected area of a server, in which in each case access to the access protected area in the server by the client terminal is granted when an...

20060041671 - Non-delegable client requests to servers storing local information only: Non-delegable client requests to servers storing local information only are disclosed. In one embodiment, a request is sent from a client to a server of a list of servers. The server determines whether it is inappropriate to fulfill the request. If so, it sends an error message to the client...

20060041669 - Securing web services: A scalable policy-based Web Services security architecture that incorporates a combination of authentication with service discovery, evaluation of access policies, and capturing the result of this process in a signed, security token, thus, allowing efficient processing for each service request in a secure manner. A method for securing a Web...

20060041673 - Measuring latency over a network: A method of transmitting data over a network, wherein data is transmitted in packets from a first station to a second station, data is transmitted in packets from said second station to said first station, a first data packet transmitted from said first station is modified to measure connection latency,...

20060041672 - Systems and methods for initiator mode connection management in sas connections: Methods and structures for managing connection requests within a SAS controller operating as an initiator device. A SAS initiator device maintains a table of information regarding known SAS devices in the SAS domain. An index value is used by each of a plurality of link layer processing elements in the...

20060041674 - Communication system and method of managing a streaming session: The invention proposes a content streaming service with the options of, a) streaming a content from a server to a terminal of a user, b) interrupting the streaming session, c) resuming an interrupted streaming session from the same terminal or from another terminal belonging to that user. According to the...

20060041676 - Interference suppression methods for 802.11: An 802.11 source station transmits a message, such as a CF-End message, to reset a network allocation vector at a time other than that required for indicating the end of the contention free period. That is, the source station uses the CF-End message to spoof stations within range of the...

20060041675 - Transmitting data over a network: Prioritised data is transmitted in packets. The data includes first data having a first priority level and second data having a second priority level. Each transmitted packet includes a first allocation of said first data and a second allocation of said second data and the relative sizes of said first...

20060041677 - Network data transmission: Network data transmission involves transmitting data packets from a first station for reception at a second station. The second station receives at least one of said transmitted packets in an input buffer, identifies at least one transmitted packet that has not been received as an identified non-received packet, and transmits...

20060041679 - Application server and streaming server streaming multimedia file in a client specified format: A method and data communication system for transferring multimedia data which stores on an application server a multimedia file including a plurality groups of multimedia data. Each group has a predetermined data size. Next, the system receives a client request and reads a client address at the application server. The...

20060041678 - Method for sharing and directing the content in real-time among multiple networked devices: A method and system for directing content to a plurality of devices provide one of the devices as a controller, form a network between the controller and other devices of the plurality of devices, and send from the controller to the other devices a play request for the content. The...

20060041680 - Reducing loop effects in a wireless local area network repeater: A method and apparatus are provided for operating a frequency translating repeater in a wireless local are network (WLAN) having one or more repeaters (200, 204), a network protocol for communicating between one or more base units (100) and one or more client units (104, 105). A first frequency channel...

20060041681 - Techniques for delivering personalized content with a real-time routing network: Techniques for dynamically updating a live object with personalized content for clients are provided. The techniques include receiving a first message from a source including a first identifier and a second identifier. The first identifier may be unique to a client. The second identifier may be generic across many clients....

20060041682 - Sharing ip network resources: A system and method for sharing access to an internet protocol (IP) network among multiple internet service providers (ISPs) uses multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). End-users are coupled to a broadband customer access network. Each end-user is also associated with at least one of the ISPs. An aggregation router interfaces the...

20060041683 - Reducing the memory requirements of a data switch: A data switch (4) is proposed which can be operated such that it generates a MA table of MAC addresses of devices associated with some of its ports (9, 13, 15, 17, 19), but not the MAC addresses associated with one of the ports (11). Packets received by the switch,...

20060041684 - Server-based message protocol translation: A system and method are presented in which a plurality of transport protocol objects (TPOS) are instantiated at a server. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of TPOs is adapted to provide a translation between a first IM protocol and a different IM protocol....

20060041685 - Template architecture and rendering engine for web browser access to databases: Methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for displaying data on a web browser interface where the data in its native format is not displayable on a web browser interface. A network server receives a request for content from a network device where the request includes a request for...

20060041686 - Apparatus and method for a synchronized mobile communication client: Some embodiments provide a system for synchronizing participant copies of presentation data during a collaboration session. A presenter/server controlling the session sends synchronization commands when a change in state of the presentation data occurs. The synchronization commands can be received by a mobile communication device and then forwarded to the...

20060041687 - Apparatus and method for enhanced synchronization using an ims server: Some embodiments provide a system for synchronizing participant copies of presentation data during a collaboration session. A presenter/server controlling the session sends synchronization commands when a change in state of the presentation data occurs. The synchronization commands can be received by a mobile communication device and then forwarded to the...

20060041688 - Sip-based session control among a plurality of multimedia devices: These exemplary embodiments utilize Sessions Initiation Protocol (SIP) for admission control among a plurality of multimedia devices. The use of the SIP allows a SIP server to perform admission control functions. The use of RSVP linkages is reduced. The use of SIP for admission control allows an application to communicate,...

20060036669 - Integrated circuit and method for establishing transactions: An integrated circuit (IC) comprises a network and a plurality of modules (M1, M2, M3) which communicate to each other via the network. A first module (M1) sends a plurality of requests (REQ) to at least two second modules (M2, M3, Mn) and the second modules send individual responses (RESP2,...

20060036671 - Content display system for sharing content between display apparatuses: A content display system for sharing contents between display apparatuses is provided. The content display system for displaying content, includes a first local interface module connected to a storage device storing the content, a first device interface module receiving a message requesting for the content stored in the storage device,...

20060036672 - Method and system for displaying content using message communications: Disclosed is a content displaying system and method using message communications. An embodiment of the system includes a server to store a large number of content therein, a device interface module to receive a message to display content or to receive content from the server, a device agent module for...

20060036670 - System and method for using agent-based distributed reasoning to manage a computer network: The present invention describes a system and method for using agent-based distributed reasoning to manage a computer network. In particular, the system includes interface agents to integrate event streams, distributed reasoning agents, and response agents, which run on hosts in the network. An interface agent monitors a resource in the...

20060036674 - Broadcasting network and content delivery system: A web server, a polling server, a client subscriber, and a plurality of media providers communicate with each other via a network. Media providers enlist the services of an Affinity Broadcast Network to provide their media content to a client subscriber. Likewise, a client subscriber contacts the Affinity Broadcast Network...

20060036676 - Consistent snapshots of dynamic heterogeneously managed data: A system and method for providing a consistent view of data stored therein, which can change dynamically in an uncoordinated way, includes a client program and a snapshot server program. The snapshot server program permits one or more client programs to request snapshots of data from the snapshot server program...

20060036681 - Method and apparatus for distribution of greeting cards with electronic commerce transaction: A system for enabling on-line creation of greeting cards and distribution of the cards with gifts also purchased on-line includes a server system and one or more client systems. The server system is accessible online and enables network users to select and customize electronic versions of greeting cards. The customizations...

20060036677 - Method and system for coordinating input and output between a communications client and its host device: A system and method for integrating a client with a host device where a client application has access to a user interface of the host device, the system having: a host independent engine adapted to provide an execution environment for the client application; a host native application adapted to provide...

20060036675 - Method and system for energy management and optimization.: A method and a system for utilizing expensive energy management software systems via the internet by a plurality of remote client users without having the major software systems resident on the internet, but resident offline, on a separate primary desktop computer. The remote client user utilizes an intermediary website. The...

20060036678 - Method for remote controlling and watching of displaying apparatus and system employing the same: A system and a method for more efficiently supplying content and remotely controlling and watching multiple displaying apparatuses. The method includes supplying control information to control a displaying apparatus connected by a network, creating a remote control message including the supplied control information and transmit it to the displaying apparatus,...

20060036673 - Network data transfer method: A network data-transfer method of transferring data from a server on a network to a network-connected equipment without having a user interface to make the network-connected equipment perform a processing includes relaying an access between the server and a client to represent for the access by the network-connected equipment; creating...

20060036682 - Programmatic management of software resources in a content framework environment: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamically integrating software resources (such as web services and other back-end software resources) using the services of a content framework (such as a portal platform). A portlet model is leveraged to allow programmatic portlets to serve as proxies for web services,...

20060036679 - Pub/sub message invoking a subscribers client application program: A client application program subscribing to a channel of a pub/sub service, receives a message published by the pub/sub service, the received message invoking an associated application program at the client....

20060036683 - System and method for managing states and user context over stateless protocols: A system and method for facilitating remote access of an application available via a stateless protocol is provided. Such applications are typically accessed via the World Wide Web portion of the Internet (the “Web”) using a browser application and an HTTP protocol. The system can include one or more components...

20060036680 - User privacy management apparatus and method in mobile communications system: Provided is a user privacy management apparatus and method on a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) network including a SUPL Location Platform (SLP) and a SUPL Enabled Terminal (SET) and performing privacy authorization according to location of the SET, wherein when the location of the SET is calculated, the SLP...

20060036687 - Computer implemented method and system for running a plurality of business processes: A computer implemented method for running a plurality of business services within an explicitly defined business context wherein the context and the business services are representing meaningful instances of work situation or actions, the method comprising: provisioning web services and/or a composition of services with an additional input/output interface for...

20060036684 - Document broadcasting utilizing hashcodes: In a business environment, a document with data can be distributed to one or more receivers on a regular basis. Between distribution intervals, the document may or may not be updated with different data. In one implementation, a document distribution system includes a hashcode generator for a document. The hashcode...

20060036686 - Meeting support apparatus and method: A share data memory stores a plurality of share data each corresponding to a group. The share data is a material for a meeting of a group. A reservation data memory stores a plurality of reservation data each corresponding to a group. The reservation data is schedule data of a...

20060036685 - Suggesting a discussion group based on indexing of the posts within that discussion group: A system and corresponding methods for recommending a discussion group as an appropriate place to post a message are provided. In one embodiment, the system searches a plurality of existing posts to identify the posts that are similar to a subject of a user's message. The system identifies the discussion...

20060036697 - Email system and method thereof: An email system and method thereof. The system includes at least a mail agent to receive at least one email message with a flag. The mail agent assesses the flag, and performs a predefined process including storing mail content of the email message in a database, generating a new email...

20060036696 - Managing email communications using email tagging: A computer program product for managing email communications includes code to incorporate email tags into an email. The email tags uniquely identify the corresponding email and an email family of which the email is a part. A user interface uses the email tags to permit a user to view the...

20060036701 - Messaging system having message filtering and access control: An electronic message system provides message filtering for allowing a supervisory user, e.g., a parent, to control the flow of messages to other users, such as a child. E-mail messages and/or instant messages from already approved senders are allowed to pass directly to the child's account. Messages from unapproved senders...

20060036700 - Method and apparatus for automatic sending of e-mail and automatic sending control program supplying medium: A method and apparatus for sending an E-mail, dispatching or delivering mail with an animated representation as if a pet were going in and out on a GUI picture simulating the inside of a room. In addition, the user can send an E-mail with a friendly feeling using an agent....

20060036688 - Method and system for managing interrupts in an instant messaging application: A method for managing interrupts in an instant messaging application may include receiving an interrupt request from an interrupting contact during an instant messaging conversation between at least two contacts. The method may also include interrupting the instant messaging conversation in response to a predetermined one of the interrupting contact...

20060036692 - Method and system of integrating instant messaging with other computer programs: Described is a system and method by which client programs such as desktop applications can use instant messaging functionality. An application program interface is provided that allows a client program (e.g., an application program) to interact with an instant messaging infrastructure, such as via event calls to initiate conversations, send...

20060036698 - Method and system to discourage a sender from communicating an electronic message to a user: A system to update a filter to discourage a sender from communicating an electronic message to a user. The system receives a message from a sender that includes a network address of the sender and determines whether to discourage the sender from communicating a second message to the user based...

20060036691 - Method, system, and computer program product for displaying message genealogy: A method, system, and computer program product for displaying message genealogy in the language of the user interface of an email recipient using a normalized set of subject prefix codes. The method comprises: sending an email to a recipient, wherein the email has an original subject; sending a normalized code...

20060036690 - Network protection system: The invention includes an anti-spam Protection Device installed on the same network as email servers that it protects, or on a separate network that is connected to the networks of protected email servers. Inbound email connections route to the Protection Device, which evaluates each sending server by employing information from...

20060036689 - Personal messaging proxy: The personal messaging proxy is deployed as a component in a messaging or instant messaging system. The proxy provides information processing and routing services not found in conventional messaging or instant messaging and presence systems. The proxy provides session mobility, parental control, message aggregation, redistribution and filtering. The proxy also...

20060036694 - Reports for email processing in an email response management system: One implementation provides a method for providing display information that represents a quantity of received email messages that have been held for processing by a specific entity for a predefined time period in an electronic mail (email) response management system. In this implementation, the method includes determining a first value...

20060036693 - Spam filtering with probabilistic secure hashes: Disclosed are signature-based systems and methods that facilitate spam detection and prevention at least in part by calculating hash values for an incoming message and then determining a probability that the hash values indicate spam. In particular, the signatures generated for each incoming message can be compared to a database...

20060036699 - System, method and program for selecting recipients of an e-mail: System, method and program product executed at a workstation for selecting recipients of an e-mail. The workstation displays an initial list of potential recipients of said e-mail. A user identifies to the workstation a first type of recipient to receive the e-mail. The initial list including at least one recipient...

20060036695 - Timed delivery of alert notifications based on user set criteria: An apparatus to receive a message (351) and detect if a delay should be applied (353). If so, delay (355) so that for each received message, at least a delay occurs between dispatch of a set of discrete message(s). Detecting a first priority class message (361) results in sending a...

20060036702 - Personal notification device: A personal notification device for providing messaging and alert services from a plurality of different sources, compromising a hardware device with integrated display, a suitable connection method to a computer and appropriate software applications. -The different sources can include one or more business productivity programs, such as electronic mail, a...

20060036703 - System and method for integrating instant messaging in a multimedia environment: A system and method are provided for combining an instant messaging experience with a primary media experience in a multimedia system. The method includes providing an instant messaging user interface component and displaying the instant messaging user interface component as an overlay on a screen displaying the primary media experience...

20060036704 - Communications system, and informaton processing device and control device incorporating said communications system: This invention provides communications systems that enable broadcasting while making use of the simplicity of the prior art and also provides control devices and information processing systems incorporating the communications system. In this invention, chip-select signals are provided for transmitting (TXCSi) and receiving (RXCSi) independently as well as for individual...

20060036705 - Method and apparatus for overflowing data packets to a software-controlled memory when they do not fit into a hardware-controlled memory: A system for managing packets incoming to a data router has a local packet memory (LPM) mapped into pre-configured memory units, to store packets for processing, an external packet memory (EPM), a first storage system to store packets in the LPM, and a second storage system to store packets in...

20060036709 - Data logging for resident applications within portable electronic devices: A method for gathering data from a portable communication device. The method comprises providing at least one application that runs in the communication device. The application includes code or calls to code as part of the application that provides data to a data log. At least a portion of the...

20060036710 - Data providing system, data providing apparatus and method, data acquisition system and method, and program storage medium: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user...

20060036707 - Method and apparatus for routing images: A method for exchanging images over a network includes associating an image router with an image repository. A first image request is received from a remote workstation in the image router. A second image request corresponding to the first image request is sent to the image repository. An image associated...

20060036708 - Method and system for collecting information from computer systems based on a trusted relationship: A method and system for retrieving data from devices in a way that seeks to preserve privacy and ensure the integrity of the retrieved data is provided. A retrieval system is implemented on a network of devices that communicate with each other via a secure communications link. Each device is...

20060036706 - Supplementary information dissemination system: A supplemental information dissemination system is disclosed which provides supplemental information on managed documents having unique identifying information printed thereon, and is comprised of a supplemental information management server and a supplemental information acquisition device. The supplemental information management server stores supplemental information on each document that has identifying information...

20060036711 - Automatic service apparatus and automatic service system: An automatic transaction system communicates with a Web server and performs automatic transaction according to the operation of a user. In order to decrease the download time with the Web server which is generated for each operation of the user, a screen frame of a browser of an automatic service...

20060036712 - System and method for providing and utilizing presence information: A method and system for utilizing presence information with a device is described. In one aspect, the method and system include obtaining user information for a user and obtaining presence information for at least one entity associated with the user. The method and system also include displaying at least a...

20060036714 - Client provisioning with enhanced linking: Methods, devices, systems, program products and computer-implemented methods for client provisioning are disclosed. A device includes a receiver configured to receive configuration information for the device. The configuration information includes one or more links indicative of settings. The device also includes a processor adapted to identify a first setting by...

20060036716 - Computer system and computer setting method: A technology is provided, with which any add-on computer becomes able to automatically acquire setting information without using a distribution server or a shared disk. A computer system is provided with: a plurality of computers for network connection; a second network connected with the computers; and an add-on computer connected...

20060036717 - Coupling a filter graph space to a network driver space: A communication path is established that allows for communication between a filter graph space and a network driver space in a system. The communication path allows bi-directional communication between a filter graph driver in the filter graph space and a network driver in the network driver space. Addresses of data...

20060036713 - Method, system and program product for configuring an event management system: An improved solution for configuring an event management system. In particular, a correlation rule can be deployed based on metadata for the correlation rule and/or a correlation engine. The metadata can describe one or more capabilities of the corresponding correlation rule/correlation engine. As a result, the combined capabilities can be...

20060036715 - System and method for scripting tool for server configuration: The present invention provides a scripting tool through which a user can interact with and execute scripting instructions of a scripting language on a server to perform administrative tasks. It interprets scripting instructions either interactively, supplied one-at-a-time from a command prompt on a scripting interface, or in batches via a...

20060036718 - Method and system for providing software maintenance service, and computer product: In a system for providing software maintenance service, a server includes: a storage unit that stores a determination rule for determining whether to deny a process request to the faulty software; and a transmitting unit that transmits the determination rule to the client. The client includes: a determination-rule receiving unit...

20060036725 - Administration manager: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for managing an enterprise network. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. A plurality of computer applications is located on the enterprise network. In addition, a plurality of user clients to access...

20060036719 - Arrangements and method for hierarchical resource management in a layered network architecture: A data network, method and a computer program product, wherein the data network is implemented by a first network level (104) having a first addressing scheme and at least a second network level (108) having a second addressing scheme. Each network level provides connectivity over at least one network domain....

20060036723 - Method and apparatus for converting network management protocol to markup language: A method is provided to convert network management protocol request into a markup language representation. In one embodiment, the present invention includes receiving a network management protocol request at a network device, generating a plurality of markup language tags and content embedded in the markup language tags based on the...

20060036724 - Method and computer program product for measuring quality of network services: In a method of reducing a running cost and labor required for quality measurement, client computers matching predetermined district information are selected from a plurality of management target computers receiving network services, a quality measuring program is installed in these client computers to obtain execution results of the quality measuring...

20060036722 - Nms with multi-server change requests processing: An event processing system performs quickly processing of events in a communication network. The system comprises a client process that controls the sequencing of event processing, a plurality of servers that process the events with the help of a shared object library and a dispatcher that selects an available server...

20060036720 - Rate limiting of events: In an embodiment, a method for rate limiting of events includes: monitoring and processing an event instance of an event type; and if a value of the event instance to be monitored meets or exceeds an associated suspension threshold value, then performing a user-defined action for the event instance. The...

20060036721 - Run-time tool for network management application: In one aspect, a method of monitoring and controlling managed objects within a distributed system by manipulating one or more management application programs is provided. The method includes: providing a run-time tool associated with a management station. The management station is in communication with the distributed system. The run-time tool...

20060036729 - Network monitoring system: To provide a network monitoring system extracting the performance measurement data while eliminating the performance measurement data that is not effective for improvement of the network performance on the basis of a predetermined extraction condition and presenting the extraction result to the operator. The network monitoring system includes extraction condition...

20060036730 - System and method for address block enhanced dynamic network policy management: A method, computer readable medium, and system for acquiring address block information for an attached function that initiates network access on a distributed computing network. Additional policy information in acquired concerning the attached function. One or more access policies are set based, at least in part, on the address block...

20060036727 - System and method for detecting and preventing denial of service attacks in a communications system: A method and system are provided for use in detecting and preventing attacks in a communications network. In one example, the method includes calculating first and second traffic volumes based on messages received at a first time and a second time, respectively. An average acceleration is calculated based on the...

20060036728 - Systems and methods for categorizing network traffic content: A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a first characterization of the network traffic content determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization, and categorizing the network traffic content based at least in part on the first characterization and the first probability of accuracy. A...

20060036726 - User interface for a distributed computing environment and method of using the same: A user interface can present a unified view as a dynamic object-oriented metaphor for displaying information pertaining to any one or more applications and portions thereof (e.g., transaction types) and logical and physical components within a distributed computing environment, mapping between applications or portions thereof and information pertaining to those...

20060036733 - Dynamic host configuration and network access authentication: According to some embodiments, systems and methods for binding dynamic host configuration and network access authentication are provided related to, inter alia, interactions between a PAA (PANA Authentication Agent) and a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, such as, e.g., for synchronization between the PANA SA state and the DHCP...

20060036732 - Methods and systems for transaction record delivery using thresholds and multi-stage protocol: The present invention provides systems and methods for conducting electronic transactions in a distributed computing environment. A communications protocol is provided that enables reliable transactional state synchronization for peers participating in a distributed transaction. A transaction processing application is deployed on a local computer system to manage transactions thereon. The...

20060036731 - Novel method and system of keyless data entry and navigation in an online user interface console for preventing unauthorized data capture by stealth key logging spy programs: Every secure Website provides Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connectivity to prevent user's confidential information from network sniffers. However, in recent times keyboard sniffing has become the preferred mode of stealing user information. Keystrokes capturing is a security hole in front of SSL, for which there is no effective solution. The...

20060036734 - Portal extensions: A portal includes an original configuration and extension. The original configuration can include resources and a portal file identifying the resources. The extension modifies the original portal to form an extended portal without changing the original configuration....

20060036737 - Adaptive permutation group method for overload control: A communication network includes an overload control algorithm that adapts to changing circumstances. In a disclosed example, an acceptance fraction for each of a plurality of message types depends upon the arrival rates of the message types. As at least one of the arrival rates changes, the acceptance fraction is...

20060036736 - Method and apparatus for limiting management operation of a storage network element: A method, apparatus and computer program for implementing a storage management system for limiting management operation of a storage network element by determining whether the storage network element is related to a host computer and determining whether the management operation is restricted based on the host computer and the time...

20060036735 - Method for avoiding unnecessary provisioning/deprovisioning of resources in a utility services environment: Provided is a method for the deployment of resources in a utility services environment, in which various resources are allocated and deallocated according to a calculated need for those resources. Provides is a “weighted” period of time, or “window,” corresponding to requests for a particular resource. A configuration file stores...

20060036738 - Broadband extension to an epabx or pabx: The patent defines and describes system architecture, methods and claims that allow broadband (several hundred kbps to several mbps) services access to end users and end user equipment to existing PABX or EPABX. The architecture is two major manifestations: as an external or remote box or node attached via some...

20060036742 - Content providing device and system having client storage areas and a time frame based providing schedule: A content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, content providing system and content reservation control method are disclosed. Many kinds of contents to be provided in a time schedule frame matching the time demanded are sequentially provided to a client PC 4 based on a providing schedule set...

20060036744 - Implementing and coordinating configuration of protocol processes: The present invention employs a method for coordinating communication of protocol processes within Access Terminals in order for the Access Terminals to successfully and efficiently communicate with the protocol processes within an Access Network. The method of the present invention can be used in conjunction with the current IS-856 standard....

20060036740 - Method and system for disappearing ink for text messaging: An instant messaging client presents messages and removes the messages from display after a predetermined amount of time. In one preferred embodiment, the predetermined amount of time is agreed upon by all participants during a policy negotiation. Each message may be associated with a display time and when the current...

20060036739 - Method and system for removing messaging information in a messaging client: An instant messaging client disables logging of the session through screen capture. The mechanism detects when the instant messaging client application loses focus or when key sequences that might cause the application to lose focus, or may be associated with screen capture, are encountered. When the text messaging application releases...

20060036741 - Method of managing a connection release, corresponding system and device: The present invention relates to a method usable for managing a connection release of an established connection between two or more parties via a communication network. When the reason for terminating a connection/session between at least two parties is caused by circumstances in the communication network, such as a loss...

20060036743 - System for balance distribution of requests across multiple servers using dynamic metrics: A system for distributing incoming client requests across multiple servers in a networked client-server computer environment processes all requests as a set that occur within a given time interval and collects information on the attributes of the requests and the resource capability of the servers to dynamically allocate requests in...

20060036748 - Apparatus and method for computerized information management: An effective and efficient process for providing access to, customizing, and updating various types of information provided via a computer network such as the Internet is disclosed. In the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, an individual or organization provides specific information to create a master information profile. Additionally,...

20060036745 - Developing and executing applications with configurable patterns: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for developing user interface applications using configurable patterns and for executing such pattern-based applications. The techniques include receiving an identification of a pattern, generating configuration data for the pattern, and storing the configuration data separately from the pattern. The pattern includes...

20060036749 - Method and system for creating a quality of service message: A test program creates a variety of types of quality of service messages to allow a user to test the response of one or more network devices to the variety of messages. The test program displays a representation of a quality of service message on a user interface. The representation...

20060036746 - Method and system to modify function calls from within content published by a trusted web site: A network-based publication system, to publish data over a communications network, includes an interface to receive, via the communications network and from a first user, user data to be published by a network-based publication system. The publication system further includes a publisher component to generate publication data (e.g., an HTML...

20060036747 - System and method for resource handling of sip messaging: A system and method is provided that includes a communication system for handling Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages. The system includes a plurality of first servers for processing a first and a second message. The system also includes a plurality of second servers, which may include a mapping/correlating function for...

20060036750 - Media extension apparatus and methods for use in an information network: Methods and apparatus for extending the capabilities of a client device (e.g., consumer premises equipment in a cable network) using one or more on-demand applications. In one aspect, an improved media handling extension is provided within the device with which the various application(s) can interface to facilitate on-demand interaction between...

20060036751 - Method and apparatus for governing the transfer of physiological and emotional user data: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are provided for governing the transfer of data characterizing a user's behavior, physiological parameters and/or psychological parameters. One embodiment provides a method of handling a request, from a requesting application, for emotion data characterizing an emotional state of a user. A firewall ruleset defining...

20060036753 - Multi-media remote data access terminals and system: In a public internet access terminal, the combination comprising an access station, and computer apparatus at the station and including a user keyboard and data display means, and a user credit card reader at the station, and the computer apparatus including circuit means operatively connected to the card reader to...

20060036752 - System and method for web service qos observation and dynamic selection: A system and method permits a user to observe the Quality of Service (QoS) of Web services and allows dynamic selection based on the user's preference. The system is built on QoS observation meta-model and comprises a QoS observation manager, service criteria generator, service repository, evaluation manager and service invocation...

20060036755 - Meta-protocol: The present invention teaches a multi-layer protocol management system and method, embeddable in a tangible computer-readable medium, that allow for on-the-fly machine-readable protocol discovery and negotiation, distribution of protocol specifications and components, automatic implementation of protocols from corresponding machine-readable protocol specifications, and corresponding execution of automatically generated implementations. Automatic protocol...

20060036754 - Web service simple object access protocol request response processing: Reduces time for processing a request Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP, message in a request means such as mobile equipment or the like. Sequence definition means divides one parent SOAP message as one request concerning a Web Service into segments of a Simple Object Access Protocol header and a SOAP...

20060036757 - Multimedia content display system having scheduling function and method of reproducing content using the system: A multimedia content display system is provided having a scheduling function, as well as a method of reproducing content using the system. The system includes a server which transmits designated content to a corresponding client at a designated time based on schedule information of the corresponding client, and one or...

20060036756 - Scalable, multi-user server and method for rendering images from interactively customizable scene information: A server for use in connection with a network including at least one client and a communication link interconnecting the client and server. The server comprises a user interaction control module, an image rendering module and an interface. The image rendering module is configured to render, from three-dimensional scene data...

20060036758 - Method and system for dynamically changing audio stream bit rate based on condition of a bluetooth connection: Methods and systems for controlling a personal area network access device are disclosed herein and comprise receiving at least one Bluetooth® event by a Bluetooth® device. A line speed used by the Bluetooth® device may be controlled based on the received Bluetooth® event. The line speed utilized by the Bluetooth®...

20060036759 - Mechanism for transmitting elementary streams in a broadcast environment: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed at transmitting elementary streams in a broadcast environment. The mechanisms provide a buffer controller and packet scheduler that allow a media format to be transmitted through the broadcasting environment in a manner resulting in a low channel switch delay. A buffer-fullness indicator...

20060036763 - Methods and apparatus for routing requests in a network: A system and method of routing requests received from client computers. The client computer processor is redirected to a router for which the address is within the preferred coverage zone. If a router is not identified for which the address is within a preferred coverage zone, but a router other...

20060036761 - Networked computer system and method for near real-time data center switching for client requests: A networked computer system provides a way to quickly switch to a backup data center when a primary data center fails. Each data center includes a redirect table that specifies a geographical area corresponding to each user. The redirect table is replicated on one or more data centers so that...

20060036760 - Stream transmitter, stream receiver, stream transmitting and receiving unit, and network system control method: In a network system including a stream transmitter and a stream receiver, continuous use can be made of stream data that is the same as or similar to stream data subjected to reception or transmission interruption. The stream receiver includes stream selection unit capable of selecting stream data that is...

20060036762 - System and method for automatic path generation in a computer network: A method and a system optimize the performance of an automatic path generation algorithm on a computer network. The system may include routers in the computer network configured into regions according to geographical locations, with some routers being designated inter-region routers in each region. The inter-region routers may be organized...

20060036764 - Priority control device: When a client-server system that adopts a Web service featuring dynamic connection among different systems is constructed, an existing priority control device therein disconnects communication with lower priority, at the time of server overload that continues for several hours. Thus, the availability of the system is reduced. A client-server Web...

20060036765 - Distributed bridging with synchronization forwarding databases: A network unit for use in a distributed bridging fabric has a multiplicity of user ports for the transmission of data frames to and from an external network and at least one fabric port for the transmission of frames between the network unit and another unit in the fabric. The...

20060036768 - Integrated information communication system: An integrated information communication system capable of improving information security is provided, in which an IP packet is detected which is sent from an external area toward either an operation management server or a relay apparatus, the detected IP packet is not entered inside the integrated information communication system in...

20060036767 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing internet domain names: The current disclosure describes an edge application (user agent) that supports name multiplexing and allows users the convenience of the ‘name*number.com’ format while allowing registration of the real domain name as exemplified by ‘ml--name--number.com’ which parallels the approach standardized for Internationalized Domain Names. Multiplexed domain names allow a virtually unlimited...

20060036766 - Method and system for managing identity overload and private/public availability of an instant messaging address: A method and system for managing identity overload and the private/public availability of an instant messaging address. For every internal address (Useri@E) in a business network, (A) declaring a generic internal address (Sales@E) in a list of contact addresses and, following transmission (B) by an external client (Ext@X) of a...

20060036769 - Storage switch task processing synchronization: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments relate to a storage switch including task processing synchronization. In embodiments of the present invention, the packet processing units may generate and store Task Index and Generation Count information that prevents the processing of expired commands or responses. Additionally or alternatively, embodiments...

20060036770 - System for factoring synchronization strategies from multimodal programming model runtimes: A factored multimodal interaction architecture for a distributed computing system is disclosed. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of clients and at least one application server that can interact with the clients via a plurality of interaction modalities. The factored architecture includes an interaction manager with a multimodal interface,...

20060036771 - Information processing capability transaction apparatus and method thereof: A request for operating a calculation module which calculates processing environments of data processing corresponding to bid plan information is transmitted to an information processing capability providing apparatus which indicates possible conditions on which the data processing can be made and which match to desired conditions for the data processing...

20060036772 - Computer node architecture comprising a dedicated middleware processor: The computer node architecture provides a separate computer for the execution of the respective one of the application software and the middleware software, with an interface precisely defined in the time and value range provided between said two computers, and thus to decouple largely these two subsystems so that development...

20060036773 - Service oriented platform architecture for a wireless network: Described is a framework system residing on a network including a plurality of services, wherein each of the services registers with the framework system, a service manager to manage each of the services which register with the framework system, the management including lifecycle management for each of the services and...

20060036774 - System level applications of adaptive computing (slaac) technology: An API (Application Programming Interface) for an adaptive computing system (ACS) may be used to create a system for performing an application on different types of ACS platforms. The API may be used to generate a system object including a host and a number of nodes and channels. A system...

20060031281 - Digital item application system via url: A data distribution system that distributes data adapting to a second terminal from a first terminal having data to the second terminal. The first terminal includes a data recording means that records data of a plurality of formats, a data distribution request receiving means that receives a distribution request of...

20060031283 - Asynchronous messaging using a node specialization architecture in the dynamic routing network: A network routes update messages containing updates to properties of live objects from input sources to clients having the objects. When the clients receive live objects, the clients identify the object IDs associated with the objects and register the object IDs with the routing network. The routing network is adapted...

20060031284 - Input device having positional and scanning capabilities: A multi-purpose input device (2500) for providing conventional positional tracking, and one or more read capabilities for automatically connecting a user PC (302) to remote node. In one embodiment, a user reads optically encoded indicia (1606) of a product by passing the input device (2500) thereover. A software interface (2505)...

20060031285 - Internet-based on-demand digital program delivery system and method: A method of providing video and/or audio on-demand service to owners of video and/or audio program rights for offering digital versions of the programs to web site visitors. The method is an Application Service Provider (ASP) model, whereby the services are provided to owners over the World Wide Web and...

20060031287 - Systems and methods for load balancing drives and servers: A file system that balances the loading of filers and the capacity of drives that are associated with the filers is described. The file system includes a first disk drive that includes a first unused capacity and a second disk drive that includes a second unused capacity, wherein the second...

20060031282 - Techniques for updating live objects at clients using a dynamic routing network: A dynamic content routing network routes update messages containing updates to properties of live objects from input sources to clients having the objects. Certain objects served to clients by a server are indicated as “live.” When the clients receive live objects, the clients identify the object IDs associated with the...

20060031286 - Transaction processing system having service level control capabilities: There is provided a transaction processing system for providing plural services according to service level contracts, the system comprising: an SLA database for storing contract conditions defined for each of the services provided; request queues for storing processing requests sent from clients for the services provided while putting the respective...

20060031293 - Business presence system and method: Systems and methods for managing collaboration with one or more persons are disclosed. Presence information from the one or more persons are published to a server. One or more presence sources for each person are formed based on the present state of one or more communication channels. The presence information...

20060031294 - Communication system: A communication system comprising: a first and second user equipment for communication over a shared floor; a controlling server for managing the shared floor; and at least one participating server for serving said first user equipment; the participating server being arranged to detect a connection request from said first user,...

20060031292 - Instant messenger reflector: A system and method are provided for establishing an Instant Messenger (IM) reflector service. The method comprises: establishing an interface between an IM network server and an IM master client identified with a first username; establishing a reflector service between the IM master client and an IM peer client; and,...

20060031290 - Method and system for conferencing: A method for conferencing may include monitoring a status of participants in a conference and recording the conference in response to at least one participant being disconnected or exiting the conference. Another embodiment of the present invention may also include transmitting a re-invite signal to any participant that is disconnected...

20060031288 - Method of and system for presenting media content to a user or group of users: The invention relates to a method of presenting media content to a user or group of users, wherein the media content resides on a storage system and the method comprises the steps of defining a query to retrieve the media content, which query is appropriate for the user's situation by...

20060031295 - Querying a dynamic database with a message directed to anonymous subscribers of a pub/sub service: A message received from a user causes a query of a dynamic database such as a FAQ or Relational Database, the results of the query are returned to the user. Furthermore the received message is published to a community of anonymous users. Optionally the user can edit the returned results...

20060031289 - System and method for automatically launching and accessing netwrok addresses and applications: A system and method are provided for automatically launching one or more computer-executable processes (such as network browsers and other applications) simultaneously while requiring minimal input from or actions by the user. The system and method operate securely and privately, and provide the capability to automatically initiate the processes such...

20060031291 - System and method of video presence detection: The disclosure includes systems and methods of video presence detection. A video presence detection system allows users at one location to monitor the presence of other users at other locations over a network based upon real-time video. Cameras and computer systems are present in each location. A video presence module...

20060031340 - Apparatus and method for advanced attachment filtering within an integrated messaging platform: A method comprising: receiving an electronic message containing an attachment; performing an analysis of the attachment to identify one or more characteristics of the attachment based on a set of attachment analysis rules; and filtering the attachment in a specified manner based on the one or more attachment characteristics....

20060031322 - Associating an instant message dialog with screen real estate and role based positioning: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for allowing areas of a display to be associated with particular instant messaging users. The present invention provides a menu option to allow a user to select whether to have instant messaging dialog windows open up in the same position as the current window,...

20060031346 - Automated solicited message detection: The invention relates to determining electronic text communication distributed in bulk is likely solicited. In one step, a first electronic and a second electronic submission are received. It is determined that the first electronic submission is likely solicited. A first portion is extracted from the first electronic submission and a...

20060031324 - Automatic email consolidation for multiple participants: The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of such information storable as a distinct entity. In particular, the invention is a process for composing and displaying a consolidated message document. The...

20060031338 - Challenge response systems: Disclosed are systems and methods that facilitate securing communication channels used in a challenge-response system to mitigate spammer intrusion or deception. The systems and methods make use of unique IDs that can be added to outbound messages originating from a sender, a recipient, and a third-party server. The IDs can...

20060031318 - Communicating information about the content of electronic messages to a server: Described are techniques and mechanisms for addressing unsolicited commercial, junk, or generally unwanted electronic messages. Very generally stated, a message server is provided that performs a message filtering analysis using resources local to the message server. The message server delivers to a remote device messages that do not fail the...

20060031347 - Corporate email system: An email server (11a) configured to store a template folder structure (11c) and template action rules (11b) for use by an email client (12a) in creating a folder structure (12b) and action rules (12c)....

20060031353 - Dynamic publishing in a service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031309 - Electronic mail attachment management system and method: The present invention provides a method for email attachment management. An email is received. The email is scanned to detect an attachment. If the email contains an attachment, the attachment is detached from the email. The detached attachment is stored in a storage location on a storage medium. The email...

20060031321 - Electronic mail distribution network with simple user-friendly interactive implementation enabling a user at a receiving display terminal to turn off spam: A user is provided with a simple inexpensive and interactively intuitive implementation of selectively turning spam off his receiving E-mail terminal. An E-mail distribution system for eliminating nuisance electronic mail, e.g. spam, from mail sent to said receiving terminals from sending locations remote from such terminals. Respective conventional addresses are...

20060031320 - Electronic mail distribution system for permitting the sender of electronic mail to control the redistribution of sent electronic mail messages: A system that will enable the sender of the E-mail to control the redistribution of the message tasks that are to be redistributed by the receiver of the E-mail. More particularly, the present invention comprises enabling the sender of E-mail to specify conditions for the redistribution of an E-mail message...

20060031356 - Electronic mail management system: An electronic mail management system and method is disclosed comprising a control table for storing information related to sent and received messages of an email client, wherein the stored information relates to header fields of the received and sent messages and, in particular, to fields as defined in Internet Engineering...

20060031298 - Electronic mail server, electronic mail delivery relaying method, and computer program: An electronic mail server includes an unsolicited site database for storing a part or a whole of a URL of a Web site that delivers undesired information to a user, a mail reception portion for receiving electronic mail sent by a terminal device of a delivering trader of direct mail,...

20060031328 - Electronic message distribution system: A method and system for distributing electronic messages, such as e-mails, using a subject-category-identifier are disclosed. A server receives electronic messages having an subject-category-identifier. The server includes logic for reading the subject-category-identifier and logic for sorting the electronic messages into a category based at least upon the subject-category-identifier. The server...

20060031351 - Enforcing compliance policies in a messaging system: A messaging system enforces compliance policies for the electronic messages. The messaging system treats a set of related messages, such as an email string between two or more people, as a message container (200) having relational references to one or more submessages (210, 212, 214). A messaging server (112) stores...

20060031327 - Enhanced electronic mail server: An enhanced mail server to transform electronic mail messages according to a set of rules controlled by the server's administrators. The server appends, embeds, or links promotional, informational, and organizational information to outgoing and incoming electronic mail messages, and reformat the mail messages into HTML form. Checks are provided to...

20060031311 - Extended message rule architecture: Embodiments provide for extending the architecture of a legacy messaging system that otherwise communicates message rules to a client as rows in a rule table. Due to architectural limitations of some messaging systems, rules larger than a specified size are prevented from being streamed between a server and a client....

20060031319 - Hiearchically verifying the identity of the sender of an e-mail message: The identity of the sender of an e-mail message is verified by performing a plurality of tests on DNS information. The DNS information is based on a client IP address or a sender address. Each test performed has a corresponding intrinsic confidence value representing the degree of confidence the test...

20060031344 - Image forming apparatus and information processing method and information processing program used therein: An image forming apparatus capable of creating and transmitting an e-mail to which is attached an image file created by the image forming apparatus, as well as a file received from an external device such as an information processing terminal, without reducing the capacity of the memory installed on the...

20060031343 - Integrated instant message system with gateway functions and method for implementing the same: The present invention discloses an integrated instant message system including gateway functions and a method for implementing the same. In the integrated instant message system, a user is used as a session initiator. The session initiator builds a session for passing instant messages through a network medium. In the session,...

20060031339 - Integration of instant messaging clients with user devices: Integration of instant messaging software with user devices, thereby enabling a user to communicate with an instant messaging client through an alternative device. A user receives a notification of an incoming instant message through this alternative device, which may be, for example, a cordless telephone. In preferred embodiments, the user...

20060031332 - Logging external events in a persistent human-to-human conversational space: A method, system and apparatus for logging external events in a human-to-human conversational space. In a preferred aspect of the invention, a persistent human-to-human conversational system can include a persistent human-to-human conversational tool such as a persistent chat tool, and an external event processor coupled to the persistent human-to-human conversational...

20060031345 - Mail system for transmitting instant message and method of the same: A mail system for transmitting instant message and method of the same is disclosed. The system comprises a mail servo module, a message protocol module, and a message conversion module. When receiving a message from a client unit, the message conversion module converts the message as a message readable for...

20060031341 - Maintaining instant message session status in dynamic operating environments: In an instant messaging session, the status of a participant of the instant messaging session is set via a data connection to a network; and changed via a voice connection to the network....

20060031359 - Managing connections, messages, and directory harvest attacks at a server: A method and apparatus for managing connections, email messages, and directory harvest attacks at a server is disclosed. The server maintains a count of a parameter and compares the count to a specified maximum value, such that when the specified maximum value is met or exceeded, an action is taken...

20060031335 - Managing contained e-mail: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, provide status and commands for manipulating contained-messages. A received e-mail message may contain the contained-messages, e.g., forwarded or replied-to messages, either embedded in the received e-mail message or as an attachment. The status may relate to not only the...

20060031305 - Managing on-demand email storage: A method, system, and program for managing on-demand email storage are provided. An email service provider allocates a predetermined amount of storage space to an intended recipient. When an email is received for the intended recipient at the email service provider, the email service provider determines whether the predetermined storage...

20060031326 - Managing personal communications from a calendar scheduling application: Triggering events in an electronic calendar schedule prompt modifications to responses to incoming communications. Different types of triggering events prompt different response modifications to different types of incoming communications. Response modifications may include setting a temporary voice greeting during a meeting scheduled in the calendar, and temporarily suspending an instant...

20060031364 - Message routing: Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and/or fax or pager messages. Email can be addressed using nothing more than a standard telephone or fax number. If the registered...

20060031310 - Messaging protocol for processing messages with attachments: A message that is to be processed according to an electronic messaging protocol is associated with a sender of the message. The message also includes an attachment from an attaching entity. The attachment is associated with a unique property of the attaching entity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed....

20060031304 - Method and apparatus for classification of relative position of one or more text messages in an email thread: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for classifying the relative position of one or more text messages (including transcribed audio messages) in a related thread of text messages. One or more classifiers are applied to the text messages; and a classification of the text messages is obtained that indicates the relative...

20060031361 - Method and apparatus for conversational annotation for instant messaging systems: This invention relates to a method, apparatus, or computer program for conversation annotation for instant messaging systems. The instant messaging method comprises: providing a graphical user interface; determining a selection of two or more existing messages; creating, on an instruction from the GUI, a relationship between the selected messages; and...

20060031362 - Method and apparatus for instant messaging: This invention relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for instant messaging, the method comprising: receiving more than one user message from one or more instant messaging applications; defining a user message structure based on the creation time of each message; displaying the messages in the defined structure...

20060031306 - Method and apparatus for scoring unsolicited e-mail: A method for filtering spam is disclosed comprising the steps of: assigning weights to a plurality of recipient e-mail addresses; determining a set of similar e-mails from a plurality of e-mails sent to the recipient addresses; calculating a score based for each set of similar e-mails; placing the score in...

20060031348 - Method and system for internet delivery of customized information packages: Previously talent was pitched by agents to studios using physical files and couriers. What is disclosed is a method of creating and delivering by email for viewing by one or more selected recipients, each recipient having a computer with a web browser, a customized compilation of one or more digital...

20060031349 - Method and system for providing a dynamic mailing list: A method and system for providing a dynamic mailing list are described. The method includes creating a calendar event and creating a dynamic mailing list with a reference to the event. Clients are added to the dynamic mailing list in accordance with a client's status with regard to the event....

20060031313 - Method and system for segmentation of a message inbox: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards managing unsolicited email messages, and the like, in part, by providing segmentation of an email inbox. In one embodiment, the email inbox is segmented into segments associated with a message from a trusted, trusted email address, an untrusted email address, and a...

20060031300 - Method and system for the phased retrieval of data: In a method of retrieving electronic messages the server (2) sends the header and the first N text characters of th message body to the terminal device (1), while holding back any remaining text and any attachments. The server also sends a first flag indicative of any remaining text characters...

20060031365 - Method and system for using screen names to customize interactive agents: A method for using the screen names of users are used to appropriately tailor a service for the users. If the service is a restricted service, then the screen name is used as the basis for deciding whether access should be granted to ensure that access is granted to a...

20060031315 - Method and system for verifying identification of an electronic mail message: A method and system for verifying identification of an electronic mail message. An electronic mail message including a signature and a key is received, the signature identifying a domain from which the electronic mail message originated and the key for verifying the signature. A key registration server of the domain...

20060031296 - Method for distributing mail: A method of sending mail electronically. A sender supplies information to a receiver on data media relative to mail to be sent, such as addressees and mail contents. The contents of the data media are fed into the receiver's computer system, in which the addressees are compared with a register...

20060031325 - Method for managing email with analyzing mail behavior: The present invention discloses a method for managing email with analyzing the mail behavior. The method utilizes the mail policies, such as the envelope information and the header information, to verify the transmission data one by one while the agent receives the email. Then, the method performs a corresponding action...

20060031357 - Method of and system for management of electronic mail: The present invention relates to electronic communication systems, and more specifically, to a method of and system for management of electronic mail or e-mail. E-mail use has become pervasive in western industry, and it is necessary to provide an efficient system and method for archiving the vast number of e-mail...

20060031333 - Method to populate white list: The invention is selectively used by an Email Protection System that protects and email system from spam. This method is used if the Email Protection System classifies as spam an email connection or email message from an Email Sender. The invention is unlike other white list population methods or challenge/response...

20060031302 - Method, system and server for sending and receiving e-mails with different addresses: The method makes possible to keep particular e-mails separate from other e-mails and is based upon an interaction between a plug-in program in the user's e-mail client program and a separate mediating server. User's private address and e-mail service address are saved in the mediating server. E-mail client program is...

20060031337 - Methods and systems for broadcasting offers over electronic networks: An electronic message broadcasting system is provided for facilitating an online transaction between a sending party and a group of users. The system provides functionality for receiving an electronic message comprising an offer to buy or sell from the sending party and broadcasting the message to the users. The system...

20060031334 - Methods and systems for forwarding electronic communications to remote users: An electronic message forwarding system is provided for selectively converting and forwarding email messages and text messages, thereby allowing users of the system to maintain email and text message communications with other users. The online status of an email computing device associated with a user of the system can be...

20060031297 - Multimedia messaging method and system using watermarks: A system for and method of controlling retransmission of a content item contained in a multimedia message. The method comprises: receiving the message containing the content item from a sender together with an identifier of an intended recipient of the message, processing the content item to detect the presence or...

20060031330 - Notification system and method for domain name registrars: A system and method of the present invention allow communication via electronic messages between a Customer and a domain name Registrar, avoiding traditional electronic mail (email) communication. Email messages may not be delivered to the Customer for various reasons including the situations where the Customer employs anti-SPAM protective technologies. The...

20060031355 - Programmable service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031331 - Real time communications system: A real-time communications system of networked communications devices, method and program product for operating such a system. E-mail activity is, monitored for e-mail exchange threads. Selected threads are identified and a prompt to switch to an IM session is sent to a local e-mail recipient. If the recipient elects to...

20060031360 - Reducing contention in an environment using optimistic locks: Contention in a distributed processor computer system with a replicated message environment is reduced. The system comprises processor consumers intercommunicating via a server interface that receives a message from a producer. The server favors one consumer, marks the message accordingly, communicates the marked message to the system, and delays the...

20060031350 - Searching electronic mail and messages: A method for recovering information from electronic communications, including conveying an indication of a topic of interest, from a searcher on the topic, to a computing system storing a first set of the communications of a first communicator, and searching within the first set, in response to the indication, to...

20060031342 - Selection of bearer mode according to message characteristics: A data processing device, such as a wireless telephone, includes logic to identify a first recipient address type for a first recipient of a message, and to identify a second recipient address type different than the first recipient address type for a second recipient of the message. A first message...

20060031354 - Service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031363 - Synchronizing access to shared resources in a multi-system mail infrastructure: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to file locking for mail management systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for synchronizing access to shared resources in a multi-system mail infrastructure. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for synchronizing access...

20060031308 - System and method for allowing a user to ensure actions taken on a document are applied to the most recent electronic correspondence: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for indicating most recent documents, such as email messages in a message file. A determination is made as to whether a more recent message in a thread of related messages is present in the message file in response to a first user input selecting...

20060031307 - System and method for filtering network messages: A system and method for filtering network messages, e.g., electronic mail, are provided. A user-specific blocked list or identified junk sender list is published at a server of a computing network, so when a new e-mail arrives, the server can automatically apply filtering rules based on the user-specific junk sender...

20060031329 - System and method for managing informational objects on mobile devices: A system and method for managing informational objects on a mobile device. A user-selectable option is displayed to a user of the mobile device. The option is associated with an action to be performed on informational objects sharing at least one specified characteristic (e.g., storing all e-mail messages that are...

20060031358 - System and method for managing mail messages: A method for managing a plurality of mail messages that are sent and received, the method comprising obtaining a message information portion for each of the plurality of mail messages, associating a default priority interval with each of the plurality of mail messages, and generating and associating an existing priority...

20060031299 - System and method of mimetic messaging settings selection: Systems and methods of mimetic message settings selection on a messaging client are provided. In one embodiment, when an outgoing message is composed on a messaging client, the messaging client determines whether the outgoing message is related to a received message. Where the outgoing message is related to the received...

20060031303 - System for policing junk e-mail massages: A system for policying an unsolicited e-mail communication. The system has a plurality of clients, each coupled together using a wide area network of computers, such as the Internet or an internet. Each of the clients is adapted to send an indication of an unsolicited e-mail message through an e-mail...

20060031317 - System for synthesizing instant message and presence attributes from polled, queried and event information sources: The system converts polled information sources into event information sources and then intelligently synthesizes new events, based on other polled, queried and subscribed-to notification messages. The newly synthesized events can be used to generate instant messages or for other purposes such as setting presence attributes, controlling devices and performing other...

20060031316 - System, method and computer program product for providing content to a terminal: A system for providing content to a mobile terminal includes a source and a messaging gateway. The source is capable of reformatting content intended for receipt by a terminal, and transferring the reformatted content and an address of the terminal to the messaging gateway. The content can be reformatted in...

20060031336 - Systems and methods for processing attachments associated with electronic messages: Attachments that are received through one or more message transport services are processed. An object identifier is received through an electronic message received through one of a plurality of message transport services. A thumbnail graphic of a portion of the contents of the object associated with the object identifier is...

20060031323 - Systems, methods, and media for database synchronization on a network: Systems, methods and media for database synchronization on a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for database synchronization on a network protected with firewalls are disclosed. Embodiments include an e-mail listener for receiving e-mails from a plurality of computer systems and modifying a central database based on the...

20060031352 - Tamper-proof electronic messaging: A messaging system treats a set of related messages, such as an email string between two or more people, as a message container (200) having relational references to one or more submessages (210, 212, 214). A messaging server (112) stores the messages and submessages as discrete message components within a...

20060031314 - Techniques for determining the reputation of a message sender: Techniques are provided for determining a reputation of a message sender by obtaining two or more lists from two or more list providers; determining which lists of the two or more lists indicate the message sender; and determining a reputation score for the message sender based on which lists of...

20060031301 - Use of proxy servers and pseudonymous transactions to maintain individual's privacy in the competitive business of maintaining personal history databases: A system is provided that preserves data privacy for the Individual—I and Private Data Owner (PDO) while granting data access to the User-U and Accessor who need such data to perform their usual and customary business functions. The method and system completely control the User's access to the Private Data...

20060031312 - Virtual network element framework and operating system for managing multi-service network equipment: A managed network element is partitioned into one or more virtual network elements. The managed network element may be partitioned based on physical components or services provided by that network element. Each virtual network element is then provided a respective agent to monitor and manage its portion of the managed...

20060031376 - Information managing system, information managing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable: Information to be distributed and a code representing the information are registered in correspondence with each other, and the valid dates of the registered information are set....

20060031367 - Instant messaging and presence using virtual devices: The virtual instant messaging system adds instant messaging and presence capability to devices and appliances which are not natively designed for instant messaging. The virtual instant messaging system performs the physical communication handling and semantic translation issues to allow legacy devices to operate within the instant messaging paradigm. Virtual devices,...

20060031366 - Method for dynamically ordering instant messaging lists: The present invention provides a method that dynamically orders entries in an electronic list such as a ‘buddy list’. In this order, the most recently contacted and most frequently contacted entries in the list will be placed at the top of the list in descending order. The location of each...

20060031369 - Method, system, and edge multimedia messaging service (mms) relay/server for multi-staged mms: A method, system and Edge Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Relay/Server for handling MMS messages in an MMS system, wherein incoming MMS messages are received at the Edge MMS Relay/Server from User Agents (UAs). The former determines criteria associated with the MMS messages and based on the criteria, selectively forwards the...

20060031374 - Packet switch and method thereof dependent on application content: A content-aware application switch and methods thereof intelligently switch client packets to one server among a group of servers in a server farm. The switch uses Layer 7 or application content parsed from a packet to help select the server and to schedule the transmitting of the packet to the...

20060031370 - Policy enhanced instant messenger client with dynamic interface: Described is a method for indicating a communication availability of a first instant messaging user to a second instant messaging user. A graphical parameter of a graphical feature for display on a user interface of the second instant messaging user is set in one of a plurality of states according...

20060031368 - Presence management in a push to talk system: A presence management system for a cellular-based Push-to-Talk (PTT) service. The PTT infrastructure obtains presence-relevant network status information from elements of the cellular network and of the overlying data network such as the home location registers (HLRs) of the mobile switching centers (MSCs) and the Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA)...

20060031371 - Prioritization of application component distribution: A method, system and apparatus for the prioritized distribution of application components based upon computing process impact. An application component distribution system which has been configured in accordance with the present invention can include a resource management system configured to manage communicatively coupled client computing devices over a computer communications...

20060031372 - Prioritized image visualization from scalable compressed data: A system and method for prioritized transmission of scalable compressed data are provided, the system including a database server for receiving an interactive prioritization request from a client and prioritizing transmission of the compressed data relative to a bin optimization in response to the interactive prioritization request; and the method...

20060031373 - Spam filter with sender ranking system: A spam detection system can monitor incoming and outgoing email messages and prevent email messages from being delivered. This spam detection system incorporates a sender ranking system that maintains prior sender's email addresses and an associated reliability value in a database. If an email message is categorized as spam, the...

20060031375 - Systems and methods for interfacing with a user in instant messaging: Reducing the amount of input required by a user to enter an electronic message. When an electronic message is received, one or more language expressions associated with the electronic message are displayed to a user. The user may select one or more of the language expressions and have the full...

20060031377 - Method and apparatus for enabling associated portlets of a web portlet to collaborate for synchronized content display: The invention provides method and apparatus for collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server comprising: associating each portlet with a portlet descriptor describing context names; forming collaboration groups of portlets having corresponding context names for sychronized contents....

20060031378 - System and method for providing digital data communications over a wireless intra-body network: A system and method for providing digital data communications over a wireless intra-body network is presented. A physical protocol layer is logically defined with an identifier uniquely assigned to a plurality of implantable devices in an intra-body network. Functions are specified within the physical protocol layer to transact data exchange...

20060031380 - Data storage system: A data storage system including data sending/receiving nodes and a relay node, which is provided between the data sending/receiving nodes and a network, for relaying data between said data sending/receiving nodes and said network. The relay node has a meta-data memory for registering data processes which should be conducted in...

20060031379 - Differential caching with template, sub-template, and delta information: A method for transmitting a web page to a client device is described. Template information, sub-template information, and delta information are identified based on a request for information from the client device. The template information includes seldom changing elements of a web page. The sub-template information includes: (i) information that...

20060031394 - Apparatus and methods for transparent handling of browser proxy configurations in a network gateway device: A method of providing web browsers with access to a foreign network via a network gateway device. The browsers are installed on clients of the gateway device and have different proxy settings. Web requests from a browser are intercepted during a browser pre-login phase. Based on the intercepted web requests,...

20060031398 - Apparatus, method, and computer product for web-based data management: An apparatus for managing data on a web page, through a web browser at a client device via a network, includes a receiving unit that receives a request from the client device to start a client application installed in the client device, where the client application is specified by a...

20060031397 - Client version advertisement service for overriding default version properties of client: Override client version properties are used to selectively replace default client version properties of a web browser to obtain versions of web resources that are operational on the web browser. A client operating the web browser issues a request for content through a proxy server. Using an index, the proxy...

20060031388 - Connection resource system: A system and method for a connection resource system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method includes establishing a first connection, the first connection being between one of one or more server applications and one of one or more external resources; and establishing a second connection,...

20060031381 - Method and device for regulating file sharing: A method of regulating sharing of a multimedia object (200) by a device (100), comprising registering usage information for the multimedia object (200) upon sharing of the multimedia object (200), and after the registering, billing a user of the device (100) for a certain amount in accordance with the registered...

20060031395 - Method and system for managing programs for web service system: A Web service system includes at least one client terminal that uses a Web service, a server device that provides the Web service, and a UDDI server that manages registered information concerning the Web service in WSDL format in a UDDI registry. The server device provides the client terminal with...

20060031383 - Method and system for retrieval and usage of remote entry points: A method for communicating between a client application and one or more servers is disclosed. In one embodiment, it is first determined whether a particular client application operation is the type of operation that requires a remote entry point. If a remote entry point is needed, the client application obtains...

20060031399 - Methods and systems for remotely securing data in a wireless device in a communications network: Methods and systems are provided for remotely securing data in a wireless device. A user sends a data message containing instructions for securing data to a remotely located wireless device. Securing data includes recovering data, purging data, locking the wireless device, and locating the wireless device within a communications network....

20060031392 - Methods for generating composite images including positioning grid: Methods for generating composite images are disclosed. A first image is selected via a Web interface presented on a browser and a second image is selected via a Web interface presented on the browser. The second image is positioned relative to the first image to generate relative positioning information, wherein...

20060031396 - Normalized rotation on a website of display items: A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate items to be displayed, (b) selecting items from a pool of all candidate sets, in a manner...

20060031385 - Reverse ip method and system: The present invention provides a new and improved domain name searching method and system which comprises steps selected from the group consisting of (1) downloading all zone files, public and/or non-public, associated with one or more host names; (2) performing reverse DNS on IPs associated with said host names in...

20060031389 - Storage system, computer system, and method of configuring storage system: A storage system is provided with a plurality of interface units each for connection with a server; an interface unit for connection with hard disk drives; a plurality of microprocessor units each for processing commands; and a switch unit for interconnecting the interface units and microprocessor units. A management console...

20060031387 - System and method for delivering web content to a mobile device: A system and method for delivery web content to a mobile device. A system includes a content delivery program associated with a webpage, where the webpage includes at least one content item. The content delivery program is configured to receive a user selection signal related to the at least one...

20060031384 - System and method for optimized property retrieval of stored objects: A system and related techniques generate an interrogation request from an initiator device, such as a client desktop machine or other machine, to a mobile or other media player, such as a digital camera, MP3 player, video camera or other device or hardware to enumerate the media content contained in...

20060031382 - System and method for translating fully qualified domain name access in a browser environment: A computer system having a user specified web browsing system for selectively translating user defined uniform resource locator addresses specified in a cookie is disclosed. A memory stored mapping is disclosed which maps URLs to corresponding fully qualified domain names. A web page translator will automatically translate a user web...

20060031393 - System and method of binding a client to a server: A system and method of binding a client with a server. Embodiments of the present invention allow a client to receive and maintain a set of “best-fit” server IP addresses. The best fit server IP addresses establish a hierarchy of server addresses that are used by a client to maintain...

20060031390 - System and method to evaluate a service contract covering a monitored device by integrating device, user, and account information: A system and method for evaluating a service contract for managing and servicing devices communicatively coupled to a network, including: storing business context information, including terms of the service contract for managing and servicing a device; storing contract expenditure information; receiving, from an authorized user, a request for information related...

20060031386 - System for sharing ontology information in a peer-to-peer network: A system and program product for sharing ontology information in a computer network. The system comprises a peer-to-peer file sharing system that is implemented by a plurality of clients within a network, wherein each client includes: a file sharing system that allows each client to access files from other clients...

20060031391 - Universal data-exchange system of sample-processing stations and a method of compiling and managing the aforementioned system: Proposed is a high throughput system composed from individual computer-controlled sample-processing stations, each of which is assigned at least one instrument identifier (ID). Each sample array that has to be processed in the system is uniquely associated with a specific electronic memory that can be accessed by the sample array...

20060031403 - Apparatus and process for a computer input device: A computer input device is described as being in the general form of a computer mouse with standard computer mouse functions in addition to having the capability of allowing the user of the computer input device to access a vendor's Internet web page, domain name, or URL address by actuating...

20060031402 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods and programs: An information-processing apparatus which can easily output an accessory content suitable for a user situation at a point of time in course of an operation to output a main content or before or after the operation is provided. The present invention includes a history-information generation section generates one or more...

20060031404 - Method of providing a web page with inserted content: Methods and systems are provided for inserting content into a web page and providing the modified web page to a web browser. A request for a web page is intercepted and redirected to a web page processing agent, which fetches the requested web content. A new web page is generated...

20060031401 - Multi-point service injection in a broadcast system: A broadcast system for broadcasting data streams includes a hierarchical network of data distributors starting from one central distributor (110) through at least one layer of intermediate distributors (120, 130, 140) to a plurality of broadcast receivers (150). Data streams are broadcast through downstream channels (160) of the network to...

20060031400 - System and method for upgrading the remote control functionality of a device: A system and method for upgrading remote control application resident on a device. To this end, a markup language file is created. The markup language file has a representation of information used to setup the remote control application to communicate with an appliance. The markup language file may be executed,...

20060031405 - System and method of inserting advertisements into an information retrieval system display: Systems and methods for selecting and inserting advertisements in an information document displayed to a user, wherein the selection is based at least in part on television programming viewed by the user. The systems and methods may be implemented using the Internet or another information retrieval system that includes a...

20060031406 - System and method to remotely manage and audit set top box resources: A system and method for determining the resources available or used in a remote device is disclosed. The system can be used to determine whether the remote device is using expected resources as originally configured or to determine whether resources are available to support new or extended services. The method...

20060031418 - Authenticating client-to-client communication: A communication system may include a network, a server, and one or more clients. The server may verify that a communication among two or more of the clients should occur. The server may facilitate key agreement among the clients. The clients may authenticate using a key obtained via the key...

20060031413 - Computer systems and methods for providing failure protection: Computer systems and methods are provided for providing failure protection. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided, such as a client-server system. The data processing system uses one or more web services as potential replacement(s) if a server computer and/or a component that is used by the server...

20060031411 - Document delivery: A server has a memory 16 arranged to have a document 17 having a number of parts stored in it. The server is arranged to: receive a request including a URI having a document identifier which identifies both the whole and a part of the document; determine capabilities of the...

20060031421 - Local community wireless network system utilizing multimedia receiver system: A local community Internet service is provided through use of specialized hardware that allows a local provider to securely deliver unique community oriented services. The services that are provided include commercial services such as sales and special events at local retailers as well as telephone book-like services. Special services such...

20060031419 - Method and apparatus for displaying intermediate content messages in the unused portion of a web browser display space: A system for displaying intermediate message content over the unused area of a web browser is described. An intermediate message display process is linked to the web browser program executed on a client computer. The process monitors user activity on the client computer and identifies areas of the web browser...

20060031414 - Method and apparatus for web service communication: Methods and apparatuses for web service communication are provided. A first communication is received for a web service that comprises a first address. A second address is then located corresponding to the first address. A second communication, including the request in the first communication, is sent the second address, and...

20060031423 - Method and system for asymmetric satellite communications for local area networks: A method and system for providing high-speed, satellite-based information delivery is described. Improved communication channel efficiency is accomplished by employing an asymmetric data flow. The high bandwidth channel capacity of digital satellite systems is used for the download of large volumes of data. While relatively low speed communication channels are...

20060031422 - Method and system for providing persistent storage of user data: A file server for serving data of a client from a network. The server includes disk means for storing the data. The server includes means for receiving the data from the network and sending an acknowledgment that the data has been stored to the client through the network but before...

20060031415 - Method of replacing content: A computer-implemented method of controlling content includes receiving an input from the user and monitoring content in an application program or content exchanged between the application program and an operating system residing at the user's computer system. The method includes determining whether monitored content corresponds to a predetermined advertisement. If...

20060031409 - Method, system, and computer program product for delivering data to a storage buffer assigned to an application: A method, system, and computer program product in a computer-readable medium for delivering data, received from a network, to a storage buffer assigned to an application is proposed. An application designates a communication buffer within a local data processing system for buffering data communicated with an application. The local data...

20060031412 - Methods and systems for interchanging documents between a sender computer, a server and a receiver computer: A method for storing, accessing and interchanging voluminous confidential documents for review by a plurality of parties and for notifying selected ones of a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of such electronic documents from a sender computer for...

20060031408 - Push to activate and connect client/server applications: A method (500) of activating an application in a client/server environment can include the steps of selectively highlighting (502) an application on a user interface on a client device (10) wirelessly linked to a server (25, 26, or 27) and launching and activating the application and connecting (508) to the...

20060031410 - Server system, user terminal, service providing method and service providing system using the server system and the user terminal: In a service providing system, a first database holds plural kinds of balloon data, in which each of plural pieces of three-dimensional real space range information and an identifier for identifying the three-dimensional real space range information is related, and a second database holds a service execution file in which...

20060031416 - Supplemental request header for applications or devices using web browsers: A method and system for generating and/or servicing requests for information requested across networks, such as the Internet, is disclosed. In some embodiments, supplemental request header information is included with HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a web page. The supplemental request header information may identify one or more characteristics...

20060031417 - Supplemental request header for applications or devices using web browsers: A method and system for generating and/or servicing requests for information requested across networks, such as the Internet, is disclosed. In some embodiments, supplemental request header information is included with HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a web page. The supplemental request header information may identify one or more characteristics...

20060031407 - System and method for remote network access: Systems and methods for remote network access are provided. The described methods may be implemented in a computer-readable-medium and executed on a processing device. Software modules resident on one or more networks servers and one or more client computing devices cooperate to provide the client computing device(s) with remote network...

20060031420 - System and method for upgrading software in a distributed computer system: A method for upgrading one of several computer programs stored on an application server in a distributed computing environment while permitting the application server to continue to service requests for other computer programs. In accordance with the method, the application server is prevented from receiving any new requests for the...

20060031433 - Batch updating for a service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031429 - Central coordinator selection in ad hoc network: Disclosed herein is a method employable in the task, during organizing of an ad hoc network from a collection of plural nodes, of selecting a central coordinator node, where such organizing is taking place in a setting wherein there is available, to all of the nodes in the collection, a...

20060031427 - Configuration commit database approach and session locking approach in a two-stage network device configuration process: A method and apparatus for modifying the configuration of a network device, such as a router, using a two-stage configuration model is provided. A first request from a user for a change in configuration of a network device is received. Configuration data associated with the first request is stored. A...

20060031425 - Method for imaging computer systems: A method is provided for configuring a target computer system in accordance with a computer image. The method comprises the steps of determining a hardware configuration of the target system, reconfiguring a hardware abstraction layer of the target system, transferring information from the computer image to a storage device in...

20060031424 - Packet signal processing architecture: A system for processing data packets comprising a plurality of data processing blocks and a controller, which allows the configuration parameters used in processing the data blocks to be updated in each data processing blocks at the data packet boundary. The present invention involves a system that utilizes a handshaking...

20060031426 - Programming a computing node connected to a sensor and an actuator: A computing node is connected to a sensor and an actuator. The computing node receives a module which is used to program the computing node to perform a function associated with the sensor and the actuator....

20060031431 - Reliable updating for a service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031432 - Service oriented architecture with message processing pipelines: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031434 - System and method for configuring a network device: A system and method for communicating with network devices without regard to the device type and/or manufacturer is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a global graphical user interface (GUI) for communicating with various network devices. The global GUI includes an intuitive interface driven by a template library....

20060031435 - System and method for configuring a network device: A system and method for communicating with network devices without regard to the device type and/or manufacturer is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a global graphical user interface (GUI) for communicating with various network devices. The global GUI includes an intuitive interface driven by a template library....

20060031428 - System and method for third party specified generation of web server content: A mobile terminal may either receive a script, or request to receive a script, which specifies a third party procedure to generate content on the mobile terminal. The script defines the procedure, manual or automatic, to be used for the content generation. If manual content generation is required, then the...

20060031430 - System and method of preventing computer virus infection: A system and method of preventing a computer virus infection includes a first network service module which accesses update information regarding an update program to perform a particular network service, the update information being present in a network apparatus connected to the system through a network, a network service loading...

20060031436 - Systems and methods for multi-level gateway provisioning based on a device's location: A system for providing diverse broadband service levels to multiple access points within an established network is provided. Specifically, the system comprises a guest device connected to an access point within the established network and configured to initiate a request for broadband service access. A gateway, in communication with the...

20060031452 - Data communication system, and server and client computer constructing said system: An edited image is created using fonts capable of being employed by both a client computer and a server. To accomplish this, the user of the computer selects a service to be utilized. Client information, which includes the service selected, information relating to the operating system of the computer and...

20060031438 - Device control management apparatus: Control commands are sent from communication stations (A, B) to devices (D to F), such as a VTR, connected to a communication station (C) via radio networks (NW) provided between the communication stations (A, B) and the communication station (C), thereby controlling the devices (D to F). As a result,...

20060031441 - Dynamic extension of network-accessible services: Services deployed in a network computing environment (such as a Web services implementation model) are transparently extended. Preferably, handler components in an engine that processes requests and responses provide the extensions. A handler for outgoing messages adds the extensions to a response message that is created responsive to receiving a...

20060031446 - Gathering network management data using a command line function: A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for gathering network management data. Network data is gathered from a plurality of network-coupled data processing arrangements using a network management protocol. A command line status function is remotely executed on one or more of the data processing arrangements. Combined network data is...

20060031445 - Method and apparatus for determination of network topology: A method and apparatus for determining network topology includes adapting a single sniffer to collect information from nodes associated with at least two selected areas of the network and determining a topology of at least a portion of the network using the collected information....

20060031439 - Method and apparatus for network management: A network, and a method and apparatus for network management are disclosed in which nodes in the network are arranged specified number of connections with other nodes by initiating links across the network tree structure to nodes on the same level in the hierarchical tree. As a result, nodes are...

20060031442 - Method and system for externalizing session management using a reverse proxy server: A method, system, and computer program product is presented for providing access to a set of resources in a distributed data processing system. A reverse proxy server receives a resource request from a client and determines whether or not it is managing a session identifier that was previously associated with...

20060031444 - Method for assigning network resources to applications for optimizing performance goals: A system and method for improving a network. The system and method may include receiving a virtual topology including a list of application components defining an arbitrary network, resource requirements for the application components and communication requirements between each set of application components and receiving a network topology including a...

20060031454 - Network-connected power manager for rebooting remote computer-based appliances: A network comprises a power manager with a network agent in communication over a network with an network manager. The power manager is connected to control several intelligent power modules each able to independently control the power on/off status of several network appliances. Power-on and load sensors within each intelligent...

20060031448 - On demand server blades: A method, system and service for providing on-demand computing power to an owner of a multi-blade computer in a server blade chassis. The server blade chassis is delivered fully populated with server blades to a customer. However, only a portion of the total number of server blades is initially enabled....

20060031451 - Resource policy management using a centralized policy data structure: Managing policies includes receiving policy data associated with a resource from a resource owner over a network, authenticating the resource owner to determine whether to accept the received policy data, and storing the received policy data in a centralized data structure if the resource owner is authenticated....

20060031449 - Selection of management method: The invention relates to a data processing device comprising: means for defining a management method to be applied in response to a need to arrange delivery of a managed asset for a managed device, and means for applying the defined management method for arranging delivery of the managed asset or...

20060031455 - Site integration management system for operational support service in an internet data center: A management system for an Internet Data Center, comprising an Information Technology and Network Management System IT&N for managing the Data Center, a Building Management System BMS for monitoring facilities related to the IDC such as access control, fire protection and intruder protection, and a Facility Management System FMS for...

20060031447 - System and method for consolidating, securing and automating out-of-band access to nodes in a data network: A system and method for out-of-band network management is provided wherein one or more different management interfaces are converted into a common format management data. The system may encrypt the common format management data. The system may also authenticate each user that attempts to access the management interfaces....

20060031437 - System and method for managing communication links: A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to...

20060031443 - System configuration and policies using set concepts: Set theory is used in a policy manager to manage sets of devices, each having multiple attributes, and can be used to evaluate and manage the individual attributes of the devices as groups. Each element of a network to be managed is defined by its attributes and treated as a...

20060031450 - Systems and methods for providing distributed cache coherence: A plurality of access nodes sharing access to data on a storage network implement a directory based cache ownership scheme. One node, designated as a global coordinator, maintains a directory (e.g., table or other data structure) storing information about I/O operations by the access nodes. The other nodes send requests...

20060031440 - Usage data harvesting: A method of harvesting usage data from a broadcast receiver configured to detect and store such usage data comprises providing (16, 18) to the receiver a privacy policy identifying not only the usage data sought to be harvested but also the intended use for such data. At the receiver, an...

20060031453 - Vertical-mount electrical power distribution plugstrip: A vertical-mount electrical power distribution plugstrip comprises a long, thin plugstrip body with several power outlet plugs distributed along the length of one face. A power input cord is provided at one end, and this supplies operating power to each of the power outlet plugs through individual relay control....

20060031477 - Ad hoc network with proxy networking: An ad hoc network organizational method which is employable with a collection of plural nodes in a setting where there is available a current overall network topology map containing at least the identities of, and the inter-nodal communication link qualities and capabilities associated with, each of the nodes. The method...

20060031476 - Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring a computer network: There is provided an apparatus for remotely monitoring a computer network. Monitoring is performed using an inside out approach from behind firewalls and other security devices. The monitoring appliance is shipped to a client site preconfigured and typically requires no technically trained person for installation. Collected network data is periodically...

20060031487 - Apparatuses for generation and collection of information, and computer-readable recording medium: This invention has a remote machine that collects local-machine logs via a network from a plurality of local machines, each of which has memory that stores local-machine logs generated due to its specific generation factor. This remote machine has a CPU that collects local-machine logs stored on the memory of...

20060031475 - Auditing of wireless network node databases: Synchronizing database files of a central node with database files of a local node in which the central node is coupled to the local node via a communication link. The communication link performance being continuously monitored via a periodic signal sent back and forth between the central node and local...

20060031484 - Automated time keeping system and method: A time keeping system includes a computer, which can be configured either standalone or in a network. The system is preprogrammed with a Maximum Inactivity Duration (MID) value. When the duration of inactivity at the computer exceeds MID, the user is automatically logged off. The MID can be subtracted from...

20060031488 - Automatic determination of correct ip address for network-connected devices: An automatic reconfiguration system for industrial networked devices. The system facilitates use of TCP/IP networks, such as Ethernet, as an alternative for industrial fieldbus or device buses by removing the need to perform significant reconfiguration of devices such as I/O modules, sensors, or transducers under field replacement situations. In one...

20060031482 - Connectivity fault notification: Connectivity fault notification is provided by generating an alarm indication signal at a device that is logically adjacent to the fault, and forwarding the alarm indication signal upward through various levels to at least one client level entity. The alarm indication signal may be suppressed at any level for a...

20060031461 - Deferred method of sending information: A status information tracking system is used to detect anomalous conditions in a monitored system, generate error messages representative of the anomalous conditions, and determine whether the error messages should be transmitted to a remote monitoring station or queued for transmission at a later, more convenient, time. In this manner,...

20060031483 - Electronic message source reputation information system: Disclosed herein are filtering systems and methods that employ an electronic message source reputation system. The source reputation system maintains a pool of source Internet Protocol (IP) address information, in the form of a Real-Time Threat Identification Network (“RTIN”) database, which can provide the reputation of source IP addresses, which...

20060031462 - Hybrid mode network stack under efi/tiano based bios in modular computing environment: A method of transmitting data through network stack choosing one of a synchronous and an asynchronous mode depending on requests of applications. The method may involve changing frequencies of a timer, for example, adjusting the frequency in the asynchronous Application Programming Interface (API) according to a load of network traffic...

20060031474 - Maintaining reachability measures: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method of, at different times, comparing multiple reachability measures of a remote device, and if the reachability measures of the remote device differ, setting the reachability measures to the same value....

20060031469 - Measurement, reporting, and management of quality of service for a real-time communication application in a network environment: An example of a solution provided here comprises providing a measurement process including: (a) transmitting a test stream over a transmission path; and (b) measuring a quality-of-service indicator for a real-time communication application based on the transmitting; utilizing the measurement process, in continuously sampling a plurality of transmission paths in...

20060031466 - Measuring responses incurred in network transactions: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for measuring responses incurred in network transactions that include one or more transaction steps including: (a) identifying browser events and setting timers use to determine navigation times and document download times; (b) periodically testing browser status to determine browser idle times;...

20060031456 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data between devices in a web networking environment: The web support system utilizes a pre-configured wire harness that interconnects a file server, web servers, application servers and a data base. The pre-configured wire harness provides at least a portion of the system bus network, over which data is transmitted between the system components and the web. The pre-configured...

20060031465 - Method and system of arranging configurable options in a user interface: A method (500) of arranging configurable options such as hot/soft keys in a menu can include tracking (502) a sequence of events initiated by a user on a device having a user interface and an application, tracking (504) the number of times an event occurs during a given time, and...

20060031486 - Method for automatically associating contextual input data with available multimedia resources: A method for automatically associating contextual input data with available multimedia resources includes capturing the contextual input data and processing the contextual input data and formulating a query based on processed contextual input data. The processed contextual input data is associated with the multimedia resources to generate association matches....

20060031470 - Method to update status on multiple voice and text systems from a single device: A method for updating a message on a plurality of devices from a single device comprising a Configuration Program (CP), an Audio Device Update Program (ADUP), and a Text Device Update Program (TDUP). Using the CP, the user may enable and disable the present invention, add or delete devices, create...

20060031479 - Methods and apparatus for configuration, state preservation and testing of web page-embedded programs: New and enhanced methods for configuring, preserving state and testing of executable code embedded in a web page, are disclosed....

20060031463 - Metric driven holistic network management system: A metric driven method for managing a network can include the step of specifying a profile for a network event. The profile can include multiple discrete factors and can be associated with at least one event operation. Metrics can be received from multiple remotely located components residing within a network...

20060031478 - Monitoring and management of assets, applications, and services: A method and system for monitoring and managing applications and services. A repository comprising information identifying a plurality of assets and one or more relationships among the assets is maintained. One or more assets used to support an application are identified, along with one or more applications that are included...

20060031472 - Network data analysis and characterization model for implementation of secure enclaves within large corporate networks: A database stores information about known hosts, the applications or services they host, and the ports (known as confirmed ports) used by the applications/services. A static traffic analyzer analyzes traffic data and identifies packets communicating with (either sent to or received from) confirmed ports on hosts. A dynamic traffic analyzer...

20060031480 - Network management support for oam functionality and method therefore: A method and apparatus for network management support of OAM functionality in a communication network is presented. The network manager receives OAM configuration information for a segment that includes a plurality of path points. For each path point of the plurality of path points, the network manager determines, based on...

20060031460 - Operation log cooperation utilizing device: An operation log cooperation utilizing device 10 which enables a cooperation control on a plurality of devices using separately managed operation logs. The operation log cooperation utilizing device 10 (i) detects a user's operation on a device (101), (ii) accumulates and manages the detected operation as an operation log (102),...

20060031459 - Remote control system of a home network: A remote control system of a home network includes a local home network to which plural devices are connected; a remote terminal for controlling the local home network from a remote place; and a remote access server having a function of a local control point and transferring and receiving request/response...

20060031485 - Remote data facility over an ip network: A data storage system capable of performing remote data services (e.g., data mirroring) over an IP network using native connections to the IP network is described. The data storage system employs an architecture that manages the remote data services and the native connections to the IP network in a way...

20060031468 - Secondary data storage and recovery system: A system for providing secondary data storage and recovery services for one or more networked host nodes has a server application for facilitating data backup and recovery services; at least one client application for facilitating host node configuration to receive services; a secondary data storage medium; and at least one...

20060031481 - Service oriented architecture with monitoring: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20060031464 - System and method for detecting sources of abnormal computer network messages: The present invention relates generally to a system and method for the monitoring of email and other message traffic on a network. The intent of the monitoring to determine if message traffic is abnormal, thus indicating unwanted messages such as spam. A number of methods may be utilized by the...

20060031473 - System and method for high capacity fault correlation: A system and method for high capacity fault correlation is disclosed, employing rapid indication of the relevancy of a received transaction (new, create, update description alarm) to correlations being run on a manager of managers in a large communications (data, wireline, wireless) to avoid unnecessary correlation processing....

20060031457 - System, computer program product and method for managing and controlling a local network of electronic devices: A method, control device and computer program product for remotely controlling wireless network devices broadcasting a wireless menu request from a control device to electronic devices connected to a wireless local area network (LAN), receiving a wireless menu response from one of the electronic devices, selecting the one of the...

20060031458 - Transaction recognition and prediction using regular expressions: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for identifying occurrences of transactions, especially in computer networks. A unique identifier, denoted “request identifier”, is associated with each service request. Accordingly, for a sequence of service requests detected, a corresponding sequence of request identifiers is generated. The request identifier...

20060031467 - Voting mechanism for session invalidation processing in an application server cluster: Under the present invention, there is provided a voting mechanism for assigning an application server of an application server cluster the task of invalidating all sessions containing listeners in the cluster for a web application. A method for session invalidation processing comprises assigning a vote to a web application upon...

20060031471 - Web based system for reporting operating conditions impacted by selected events: A web-based business-condition reporting system that enables a plurality of users to enter into a database, via an Intranet or the Internet, status information as to the impact of an event on performance of a business entity. The information can be retrieved for analysis from a plurality of disparate locations....

20060031492 - Automated process for a web site to receive a secure socket layer certificate: The present invention provides systems and methods for enabling encrypted communication capabilities for a Subscriber's Web Site, thereby allowing Customers to access the Subscriber's Web Site in a secure manner. A Hosting Provider, that hosts the Subscriber's Web Site, and a Certificate Authority (CA), that verifies the identity of the...

20060031502 - Content providing device and system having client storage areas and a time frame based providing schedule: A content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, content providing system and content reservation control method are disclosed. Many kinds of contents to be provided in a time schedule frame matching the time demanded are sequentially provided to a client PC 4 based on a providing schedule set...

20060031500 - Content providing method having client storage areas and a time frame based providing schedule: A content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, content providing system and content reservation control method are disclosed. Many kinds of contents to be provided in a time schedule frame matching the time demanded are sequentially provided to a client PC 4 based on a providing schedule set...

20060031501 - Content providing method having client storage areas and a time frame based providing schedule: A content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, content providing system and content reservation control method are disclosed. Many kinds of contents to be provided in a time schedule frame matching the time demanded are sequentially provided to a client PC 4 based on a providing schedule set...

20060031499 - Content reservation control method having client storage areas and a time frame based providing schedule: A content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, content providing system and content reservation control method are disclosed. Many kinds of contents to be provided in a time schedule frame matching the time demanded are sequentially provided to a client PC 4 based on a providing schedule set...

20060031495 - Fault tolerant e-mail feature for digital repository: A plurality of electronic documents can be configured such that one or more of the electronic documents are subject to a user-designated restriction. The plurality of electronic documents can then be selected, in response to a user input, as an attachment to an electronic message. Thereafter, the plurality of electronic...

20060031504 - Filtering techniques for managing access to internet sites or other software applications: A method and system for providing flexible access resources or services related to particular software applications are described. The system includes a database of Internet sites that have been categorized so that the system determines the category of information that a user is accessing on the Internet. The system is...

20060031491 - Memory and memory handling for mobile phones: A method of accessing at a first portable communications terminal a data object comprising: a) requesting access at a first portable communications terminal to a data object; b) using a first data structure at the first portable communications terminal to identify a second remote and separate portable communications terminal where...

20060031494 - Method and system for providing single sign-on user names for web cookies in a multiple user information directory environment: A system for providing single sign-on (SSO) user names for Web cookies in a multiple user information directory environment. SSO access to multiple applications is supported in situations where multiple user information directories are deployed, and users may be known by multiple identifiers. Convenient specification is enabled for which of...

20060031496 - Program interlocking system: A program interlocking system includes a portable user terminal connected to a provider server over a network. The provider server stores a start time of a program to be broadcast and interlock data for interlocking with the program. The interlock data includes reproduction data for reproducing a character string and/or...

20060031490 - Scalable mpls fast reroute switchover with reduced complexity: A Fast Reroute implementation suitable for use in a label switched router. Reroute from protected tunnels to backup tunnels may be achieved in constant time irrespective of the numbers of protected forwarding equivalence classes and protected tunnels....

20060031498 - Service-process providing system and service-process providing method: A service provider has prepared in advance a process definition which includes only a minimum amount of service required. Then, under this condition alone, a user is requested to add a necessary service to the process definition. This permits the user to utilize a customized process. A service providing server...

20060031489 - Smart shares and transports: Disclosed is a unique system and method that facilitates more efficient sharing or transporting of content between at least any two computers. In particular, the type, security, and/or size of the content desired for “sharing” from one location (e.g., primary location) to another (e.g., remote or secondary location) can be...

20060031497 - Systems and methods for collaborative content storage: A system and method comprising, sharing information between a plurality of participants in a collaboration; and exposing a set of functions that enable a participant in the plurality of participants to share the information, the set of functions comprising: first functions to facilitate establishing a context in which to interact...

20060031503 - Systems and methods for limiting web site access: Methods relate to providing limited temporary access to a web site to visitors who desire to experience all the features provided by this site before becoming a member. The temporary access privileges may be limited by duration, which is counted from the initial access request, or by number of accesses....

20060031493 - User confirmation in data downloading: The present invention relates to a method of arranging user confirmation for data downloading. A request is sent for a description of the object to be downloaded. The description of the object is transmitted, the description comprising an information unit indicating whether user confirmation is required. The information unit is...

20060031505 - Accessing on-line services: Method is provided for controlling access by a client computer to an on-line user group hosted by a second computer, wherein the first computer stores personal data of a user. A privacy policy (16) identifying the personal data required to be provided to permit access to the user group is...

20060031508 - Method and system for providing recommended options for a host computer system attachment to data storage facility adapter ports: Disclosed are a method and system for providing recommended options for a host computer system attachment to data storage facility adapter ports. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes an expert algorithm that provides these recommended setup options for host system fibre channel fabric attachment to storage facility host adapter...

20060031510 - Methods and apparatus for enabling a dynamic network of interactors according to personal trust levels between interactors: A system for causing routing of a communication event includes a sending platform for initiating and sending the communication event, a communications network for carrying the communication event, a receiving platform for receiving the communication event for final routing, and a router resident at least in the receiving platform for...

20060031509 - Resource management method: A method for enabling the sharing of resources for the processing of tasks in a virtual organisation. The method includes the steps of storing resource information in a memory, monitoring the stored information and processing at least part of the stored resource information to calculate a resource matrix to determine...

20060031506 - System and method for evaluating policies for network load balancing: Methods and systems for evaluating policies for load balancing in a network environment are disclosed. A switch provides load balancing of requests among different servers using an expression tree comprising data structures of precompiled executable code to determine an appropriate server group for sending traffic. When the switch receives a...

20060031507 - User oriented penalty count random rejection: A method and system for managing electronic mail (email) based on a user oriented penalty count (PC) random rejection. The invention determines a threshold for a specific user and assesses a cumulative PC for usage of a resource that exceeds the user specific threshold. Different operating states are determined based...

20060031516 - A system and method for connecting consumers with a diverse set of consultants and experts.: It is the objective of the current invention to provide a system that will allow Users to contact Service Providers in specific fields. The User will choose a Service Provider via an Internet-based icon from within any one of a broad base of Internet interfaces maintained by the system or...

20060031520 - Allocation of common persistent connections through proxies: The present embodiments provide apparatuses, methods and systems for use in facilitating access with a distributed network. In some embodiments, and apparatus can comprise a controller, a plurality of persistent connections, and communication ports that receive requests for objects, wherein the requests are communicated over the plurality of persistent connections...

20060031524 - Apparatus and method for supporting connection establishment in an offload of network protocol processing: A number of improvements in network adapters that offload protocol processing from the host processor are provided. Specifically, a mechanism for improving connection establishment in a system utilizing an offload network adapter is provided. The connection establishment mechanism provides the ability to offload connection establishment and maintenance of connection state...

20060031532 - Client version advertisement service for overriding default client version properties: Override client version properties are used to selectively replace default client version properties of a web browser to obtain versions of web resources that are operational on the web browser. A client operating the web browser issues a request for content through a proxy server. Using an index, the proxy...

20060031525 - Communicating between a server and clients: Communication occurs between at least one server and a plurality of clients. Client-side connections are established between a traffic manager and clients, in response to clients making requests to communicate with a server. Server-side connections are created and maintained between the traffic manager and the server in order to service...

20060031526 - Dynamic rdf groups: Described are techniques used in dynamically modifying RDF groups. A system call is issued by a host computer system to execute a remote system call on a first data storage system to create, remove, or modify an RDF group between the first data storage system and another data storage system...

20060031511 - Efficient image transmission: A mobile telephone (10, 20) receives, constructs and displays an image (32) from a server (18) over a mobile telephone network (12, 16, 18) where the server (18) determines the parameters for data transfer from the server (18) to the mobile telephone (10, 20), the capabilities of the mobile telephone...

20060031527 - Expanded transmission control protocol, methods of operation and apparatus: A communication protocol service in support of TCP based communication is modified to improve the operational efficiency of a server for a particular type of client-server application. The service is modified to support connection pools and connection groups within the connection pools, to enable connections with clients to be grouped...

20060031517 - Information transfer system and method: An information transfer system includes a content exchange appliance and an information communication device. The content exchange appliance includes a transmitter that transmits information to be stored. The information communication device is configured to communicate with the content exchange appliance and the content exchange appliance transmits the information for storage...

20060031514 - Initiating communication sessions from a first computer network to a second computer network: The invention relates to a method, an interface device and system of computing devices for enabling start of sessions from a first to a second network and to a computer program product and computer program element performing the method. A name query is received (44) in an interface device from...

20060031513 - Medium distribution device, medium reception device, medium distribution method, and medium reception method: According to the media server 100 and the network control apparatus 200, upon distributing a plurality of media data to the media receiving apparatuses 400 having different transmission rates by broadcasting or multicasting, the distribution precedence is attached by associating the program control information and the media data. The distribution...

20060031518 - Method and apparatus for transparent negotiations: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for transparent TCP negotiations. In one embodiment, endpoint machines (e.g., clients and servers) negotiate network characteristics through use of TCP header fields, which provide backward capability. Negotiations may be requested or initiated by either endpoint, and if the receiving...

20060031522 - Method and network entity for session initiation protocol (sip) based network traffic measurements: A method, network entity and test controller for establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session between a plurality of SIP-based network entities and performing test measurements over the SIP session. The test controller instructs the network entities to establish the SIP session and specifies which test measurements are to be...

20060031523 - Method and system for associating related messages of different types: The invention provides a system and method for associating related messages of different types. The system has a message server in communication with a client device over a network. The message server receives a message from the client device. The server determines whether a former session identification (ID) was transmitted...

20060031528 - Method and system for downloading software products with reduced transmission time: A method and a corresponding system for downloading software products (from a server to a client) are provided. The downloading of the product is started by the server as usual. Each proxy between the server and the client detects the starting of the downloading. If the proxy has a copy...

20060031521 - Method for early failure detection in a server system and a computer system utilizing the same: A method and system for detecting a failing server of a plurality of servers is disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises monitoring load balancing data for each of the plurality of servers via at least one switch module, and determining whether a server is failing based on the...

20060031512 - Method for testing browser-adapting server applications: A method for testing a browser-adapting server application includes collecting and recording, using another server application, key information of a number of browser types and/or versions. The information adaptation method of the browser-adapting server application is tested using the key information....

20060031515 - Mobile ad-hoc internet sharing: A method and a system for mobile ad-hoc Internet sharing. The system comprises a first portable device (10) that is provided with wireless communication capability (11) and that is enabled to identify a user A of the device (10), a second device (20I;20II) that is provided with wireless communication capability...

20060031531 - Networkable appliance: Provided is a client/server system in which clients (terminal appliances) can uniquely determine to which server they are to be connected irrespective of whether a network has a single or plural servers. When connected to the network, a client obtains function information of each server on the network, and sets...

20060031534 - Position identifier management apparatus and method, mobile computer, and position identifier processing method: When a first mobile node is moved, it reports binding information including a compatible node identifier (virtual mobile guaranteed general network identifier and a node identifier) and a compatible position identifier (mobile guaranteed real network identifier identified on a network to which the first mobile node is moved, and a...

20060031530 - Service providing system, service providing method, and program of the same: A method for controlling a service providing device includes the steps of determining whether the service providing device has already acquired a global address of a client station accessing the service providing device, requesting the client station to notify the global address of the client station when the determining step...

20060031519 - System and method for flow control in a network: A method for controlling command message flow in a network including a server and a client. A command window, comprising a maximum number of command messages that may be outstanding at the server, is included in messages sent from the server to the client. The value of the command window...

20060031533 - Throttling response message traffic presented to a user: Electronic message response reception at a client computer in a conversation are throttled according to a predetermined critera in order to reduce the volume of messages the client is presented. Critera for throttling messages comprises only presenting messages in a predetermined time window, presenting only a predetermined number of response...

20060031529 - Virtual application manager: A system and method are provided for managing applications over a network between a server system and client computers. In one example, the method involves receiving user login information from a client computer, then accessing on the server system a user profile associated with the login information. The user profile...

20060031536 - Efficient message routing when using server pools: Approaches for efficiently routing messages using a server pool are provided. In an embodiment, the system attempts to ensure high availability of servers by enabling clients to specify a domain name for the server pool even though the server pool comprises multiple servers, each having a distinct name. When a...

20060031535 - Media gateway for provision of the pst/isdn services in next-generation networks: Packet-based networks of the next generation work on the principle of separation of connection and data channel control. In the above networks, as opposed to current TDM networks, discrete network elements are used for connection control and data channel control, whereby the network element for data channel control is defined...

20060031539 - Method and apparatus for updating and synchronizing information between a client and server: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating applets running on a client with the application logic for applications running on a server. The mechanism of the present invention provides two significant advantages over the prior art: the synchronization of state, and the recognition of user actions in...

20060031538 - Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using a dynamic linked library of multiple formats and multiple protocols with restriction on protocol: A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing...

20060031537 - Method, system and program product for optimized concurrent data download within a grid computing environment: In a Grid computer system having a plurality of download servers in network communication with client computers and a download management system, a client requests a download plan from the download management system for downloading data in parallel from the plurality of download servers to a client. The client requests...

20060031542 - Equal-opportunity bandwidth regulation: Systems and methods for equal opportunity bandwidth regulation are described. In one aspect, data is received from a transmitting entity of one or more transmitting entities. Responsive to receiving the data, the data is transmitted across a bus to a target entity. This transmission is accomplished by dynamically regulating data...

20060031540 - High availability software based contact centre: A method and apparatus for ensuring high availability of services in a communication server. In particular the invention relates to a method and apparatus for ensuring high availability of services in a software based contact centre. The invention is based on a developed application of virtual backup units for ensuring...

20060031541 - System and methods for remotely recovering and purging data from a wireless device in a communications network: A system and methods are provided for remotely recovering and purging data from a wireless device in a communications network. The system includes a wireless device capable of executing a data recovery/purge application program for receiving a message from a communications device in the network. The application program retrieves the...

20060031544 - Device server access using a data-type aware markup language: A method of managing devices on a client/server computer network that comprises providing a transport protocol layer to transfer data among the devices, providing a request and response protocol layer implemented using a data-type aware general markup language, and transferring device management information to and from the devices using the...

20060031543 - Method and system for initializing protocol information used to extract status information from networked devices: A method, system, and computer program product for managing information used by a plurality of communication protocols to extract status information related to a monitored device among distinct devices communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes selecting a communication protocol among the plurality of communication protocols; retrieving, from a...

20060031545 - System and method for generating selectable extension to media transport protocol: A protocol and related techniques and platforms allow vendors to selectably extend the Media Transport Protocol (MTP), or other defined protocols to implement vendor-specific commands, data fields, instructions and other extension sets. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, one or more extension space may be utilized to...

20060031555 - Data context switching in a semantic processor: Embodiments of a multiple-parsing-context parser and semantic processor are shown and described. The described embodiments allow an input data stream to be parsed in multiple contexts, with the parser switching between contexts as the input data stream dictates. For instance, one embodiment allows a SONET input data stream, including multiple...

20060031552 - Data structure of metadata and reproduction method of the same: Since there is a case where reproduction of metadata is limited according to the processing power of a reproduction apparatus or the designation from a user, the invention provides a data structure in which metadata whose preferential reproduction is desired can be selected and reproduced. The metadata relevant to a...

20060031553 - Dynamic control method for session timeout: A dynamic control method of timeout in forward message transmission is disclosed, by which a continuous network transmission delay can be adaptively handled. The present invention includes a first step of initializing values of variables to be used, a second step of transmitting a message requesting a streaming service to...

20060031548 - Electronic media distribution system and method: A method of electronically distributing media files to remote users is disclosed. An interactive user interface is provided on at least one remote receiver processor, and a plurality of media files are electronically uploaded from at least one remote media source to a central media storage location upon payment of...

20060031546 - Method of reading a plurality of non-contact data carriers, including an anti-collision scheme: A method of inventorying data carriers (2) by means of a communication station, whereby the communication station and each data carrier (2) are brought into communicative connection, and each data carrier (2) brought into communicative connection with the communication station is capable of generating a response signal (IDS) that renders...

20060031554 - Service diversity for communication system: A communication transaction or use case is broken down into constituent parts, one of which can be provided, at the direction of a master service node, from the master service node or primary service path and the other of which can be provided from a support service node or secondary...

20060031556 - Synchronizing data streams: Methods and systems are provided for synchronizing various time-stamped data streams. The data streams can be synchronized to another data stream or to a point of reference such as a reference clock. In one embodiment, synchronization processing takes place in association with a filter graph comprising multiple filters. The filter...

20060031547 - System and method for integrated on-demand delivery of operating system and applications: The present invention discloses a system and a method for integrated on-demand delivery of operating system and applications, where operating system images are separate and distinct from application images. Integration of operating system streaming and application streaming services makes streaming delivery possible to a wide range of client devices, including...

20060031549 - System and method for using a webpad to control a data stream: A system and method for using a webpad to select a target device which is to receive from a source device a stream of a digital representation of a media. The webpad is used to send a transmission to the source device to cause the source device to route the...

20060031551 - System, device and method for remotely providing, accessing and using personal entertainment media: Systems and methods for permitting consumers to securely purchase, access, download and/or stream entertainment content such as musical and audio visual works, including a remote terminal or terminals. Consumers subscribe to the system and obtain a terminal or terminals. The terminals permit the subscribers to access the system to obtain...

20060031550 - Webpad adapted to communicate using wide area and local area communication channels: An adapter module attached to the personal digital assistant forms a webpad. The adapter modules includes a wide area network transceiver for allowing the webpad to communicate with a remote server via a wide area network and a local area network transceiver for allowing the webpad to communicate with a...

20060031558 - Method and system for delivering media data: For use in media communications, e.g. in the delivery of video and audio or in teleconferencing, a media file or title is partitioned for secured, efficient delivery. A data sequence representing the file is partitioned into smaller subsequences, with a first subsequence being chosen to convey a degraded-quality representation of...

20060031560 - Method and system for transferring a file between data processing devices using a communication or instant messaging program: A method having steps of transferring a file from a first data processing device to a third data processing device, transmitting a reference from the first device to a second data processing device using a communication program, and accessing the file on the third device from the second device using...

20060031562 - Method of arranging dialogue type service: A computer system executes a procedure by which a service broker accepts registration of interactive service; executes a procedure by which the service broker accepts a request from a client terminal to provide the interactive service; executes a procedure by which the service broker selects servers allowed to provide resources...

20060031563 - Method of controlling communication between two nodes in a communication system: This invention relates to a method of controlling communication between two nodes in a communication system, said method comprising the steps of providing a set of values for controlling communication between said two nodes providing information relating to traffic conditions, providing a command for controlling communication; and selecting one of...

20060031557 - Method to improve perceived access speed to data network content using a multicast channel and local cache: A method for increasing a user's perceived access speed to content available from a data network. The method utilizes a multicast channel and the selection of group data to be sent over that channel....

20060031561 - Methods for controlling a distributed computing environment and data processing system readable media for carrying out the methods: A system and method is provided for controlling a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment is controlled by controlling flows, streams, and pipes used by applications within the distributed computing environment. The controls on each of the flows, streams, and pipes include latency, priority, a connection throttle, and a...

20060031559 - Real time streaming protocol (rtsp) proxy system and method for its use: Systems and methods exercise control over the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) messages in order to control the underlying streaming services. The methods and systems also minimize bandwidth allocated for each streaming flow. The systems and methods control streaming services by analyzing the RTSP associated with a particular streaming service....

20060031564 - Methods and systems for streaming data at increasing transmission rates: Methods of streaming data, and systems thereof, are described. Data encoded at a first encoding rate is streamed at a first transmission rate. The first encoding rate corresponds to a first playback rate. The first transmission rate is increased by an incremental amount to an intermediate transmission rate that is...

20060031565 - High speed packet-buffering system: A number of techniques for implementing packet-buffering memory systems and packet-buffering memory architectures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet-buffering memory system comprises a high-latency memory sub system with a latency time of L and a low-latency memory subsystem. The low-latency memory subsystem contains enough memory to store an amount...

20060031568 - Adaptive flow control protocol: A method and system for directing data transfers between applications and devices residing on different computers or devices using an adaptive flow control protocol has been described. When an application or device requests to transfer data with another application or device, adaptive flow control protocol adapts the way data is...

20060031567 - Congestion control and avoidance method in a data processing system: A congestion control and avoidance method including a method check step of determining whether the request contents is cacheable or uncacheable on the basis of the request inputted from the client terminal, a first Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) check step of, when it is determined that the request contents is...

20060031566 - Road information providing server, road information providing system, road information providing method, route search server, route search system, and route search method: A road information provision system or route search system of this invention comprises a terminal device such as a car navigation device 20a, portable telephone 20b, or PC 20c which specifies routes and issues requests for road information; a VICS center 40 which provides congestion information; a road information provision/route...

20060031574 - Business model for packaging and delivering internet-mail: This invention describes a method for packaging and delivering secure internet-mail (I-mail) content reliably within a communication system (e.g., a mobile communication system) using a business model. The invention enables a business model of courier services like DHL or UPS for e-mail applications. The basic idea of the invention is...

20060031571 - Data communications through a split connection proxy: Data communications through a split connection proxy in a data communications protocol, including receiving in a proxy from a client, asynchronously with respect to any other messages between the client and the proxy, one or more client messages including client message data items including a connection request for a connection...

20060031572 - Event broker: The invention provides for in-process and inter-process event notification in a distributed computing environment. The event notification system and method utilizes a hierarchical namespace to determine events of interest to registered subscribers. If an event falls within the hierarchical namespace of a registered subscriber, the event is received in the...

20060031569 - Load balancing system using mobile agents: A method for managing the respective processing loads of a plurality of processors in a network using a load balancing technique for load balancing, in which: a first network management processor issues a processing load information collection message to an adjacent processor, said adjacent processor adds into the message its...

20060031573 - Method and system for autodiscovery of a network path: A method and apparatus for discovering network paths sets a bit, normally used for purposes other than tracing a network path, in an overhead portion of a signal for causing state changes at nodes along a network path. The state changes are correlated with information about the signal to determine...

20060031570 - Network establishment and management protocol: The invention relates to bridging between networks. One network uses a composite device type with a number of sub-devices. In response to a device description query from a first network device (202) a bridge device (206) responds with a message indicating its device type as being the composite device type...

20060031575 - Distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation by selective black-holing in ip networks: In an IP network during a DDoS attack on a website or other internet entity having an IP address, selective black-holing of attack traffic is performed such that some of the traffic destined for the IP address under attack continues to go to the IP address under attack while other...

20060031576 - Method for routing messages from a source node to a destination node in a dynamic network: A method for updating routing tables in ad-hoc networks (AHN), such as networks including mobile nodes communicating via wireless links, is disclosed. The method utilizes both stochastic and empirical information for updating routing tables at loss or gain of neighbor nodes....

20060031577 - Remote processing and protocol conversion interface module: An interface module (200) and method for operation include ports (302a-b) for communicating over a network (308) with a first protocol to a plurality of field devices (102a-n). The interface module also has a port (316) for communicating with a process controller (114) via a high speed network and protocol...

20060031579 - Method and system for internationalizing domain names: A method and system for internationalizing domain names is provided which 1allows domain names to be in any language without having to modify the existing Internet domain name servers. When a domain name includes non-English characters, a domain name transformer intercepts the domain name prior to reaching the resolver. The...

20060031578 - Method of creating and managing a virtual universe: The present invention discloses a method of creating and managing a virtual universe, enabling a plurality of users simultaneous and interactive access to the virtual universe via a network. A common system of coordinates is associated with the virtual universe and with virtual spaces contained therein. The method includes defining...

20060031583 - Communication system, communication method, transmission device, reception device, and control program: An object of the present invention is to provide a communications system etc., which can reduce the influence of interference from other systems which results from a difference in symbol length, in an area where a plurality of systems using different transmission methods are mixed. The present invention relates to...

20060031585 - Configuration options for a segmented print job: Configuration options for a segmented print job are translated into first and second formats for first and second printing systems. A first portion of the segmented print job and the first format for the configuration options may be forwarded to the first printing system. A second portion of the segmented...

20060031582 - Conversion of alert messages for dissemination in a program distribution network: A system for inserting alert based information into broadcast programming over a program distribution network. A program distributor transmits broadcast programming over program distribution network via a network fabric. When program distributor receives alert based information, the program distributor converts the alert information from a first format to a second...

20060031580 - System and method for converting and transmitting data: Disclosed is a data conversion and transmission system including: wire and wireless terminal clients; a management server connected with the wire and wireless terminal clients over the internet; and a data server connected to the management server, wherein the wire and wireless terminal clients for information provision receive an input...

20060031586 - System and method for routing messages: A hub-and-spoke communication arrangement is provided, in which the “hub” includes a server computer system. The “spokes” are other computers that act as message originators and/or destinations. All internal-to-external messages, and vice versa, are routed through the server computer system to reduce the number of proprietary connections needed between the...

20060031581 - Text-to-speech streaming via a network: A method, a platform and software are disclosed for converting a first type of data (10) into a second type of data (15). The first type of data (10) can be sent by an originating network-user (17) to a remote service platform (5) connected to a network (3). The conversion...

20060031584 - Web based dynamic data translation service and method: A method and system of translating data from a first format into one or more translated formats includes initiating a translation request on one of plurality of client systems. The translation request includes source data to be translated from the first format into desired translated formats and configuration data defining...

20060031588 - Distributing timers across processors: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method of maintaining network protocol timers in data structures associated with different respective processors in a multi-processor system. The timers accessed by a respective one of the processors include timers of connections mapped to the processor....

20060031587 - Method of synchronising between three or more devices: Hitherto synchronisation of a number of devices has involved a large number of comparison steps between actual data or changes in data. Such comparison has potentially involved extensive redundant comparison steps. Another problem with existing synchronisation methods is that such synchronisation has been effected based upon the systems clocks defined...

20060031589 - System and method for automatically adjusting computer system times via a com port: A system for automatically adjusting computer system times via a COM port includes one or more computers (1) to be adjusted, and a time loading apparatus (2). Each computer includes: a setting module (10) for determining whether there is a new settings; a request generating module (11) for generating a...

20060031590 - Communication circuit for a vehicle: A communication circuit for use within a vehicle includes a first network port and a second network port that is remotely located from the first network port. The networks are digitally connected together and digitally communicate a high speed multimedia signal therebetween, via a digital link adaptive to impairments thereof....

20060031591 - Device and a method for operating an electronic utility device from a portable telecommunication apparatus: A server device has a programmable controller, a memory coupled to the controller, and a server program stored in the memory and executable by the controller. A first interface of the server device provides a first communication link to a portable telecommunication apparatus. A second interface connects the server device...

20060031592 - System and method for user enrollment in an e-community: An Internet user transfers directly to a domain within an e-community without returning to a home domain or re-authenticating. The user's home domain server prepares and forwards a home domain identity cookie (DIDC) with an enrollment request to a user's browser, with the enrollment request being redirected to an affiliated...

20060031593 - Ring bus structure and its use in flash memory systems: A system and integrated circuit chips used in the system utilize a bus in the form of a ring to interconnect nodes of individual components for transfer of data and commands therebetween. An example system described is a memory having one or more re-programmable non-volatile memory cell arrays connected to...

20060026225 - Shared resources in a multi manager environment: A method is described for controlling a shared resource for interconnecting two or more network domains being controlled by different Managers. Multiple Managers control the shared resource for the configuration of a segment of a connection between two different domains and the Managers cooperate in order to control dynamically the...

20060026226 - Systems and methods for management of parameters in a multi-processor graphics system: Embodiments of the present invention are broadly directed to novel systems and methods for management of parameters in a multi-processor graphics system. In accordance with one embodiment, a plurality of processors is configured to collectively render a graphics image and a datastore is configured to store parameters that are used...

20060026227 - Agent administration console software for servicing failed requests: A Java-enabled computer system (AP1) hosts an application server (11) and a database (13). The application server hosts an agent server (15), a database access layer (17), and a servlet container (19). The agent server hosts a set of software agents (AGI, AGR, AG1, AG2 . . . AGN) for...

20060026228 - Device management system and device management command scheduling method thereof: A device management system and device management scheduling method thereof, in which a server transmits to a client a scheduling context including a device management command and a schedule for the performing of the device management command, and the client generates a device management tree using the device management scheduling...

20060026230 - Managing stored data on a computer network: A method and system for managing stored data on a computer network organizes data into logical volumes, and each logical volume has a friendly name associated with it. A domain controller keeps track of the friendly names of the logical volumes and associates those friendly names with the actual physical...

20060026229 - Providing an alternative caching scheme at the storage area network level: Methods and systems for providing an alternative caching scheme at the storage area network level are described. In one embodiment, it is determined that the number of accesses to a portion of data associated with a storage device exceeds a threshold that is greater than one access. A copy of...

20060026231 - Collaborative agent for a work environment: A system and method for connecting information resources in a collaborative work environment. A system includes at least one information source providing collaboration data, and a repository framework including at least one source for storing the collaboration data. A collaborative bot service is connected with the repository framework, and includes...

20060026232 - Methods, systems, and products for creating message logs: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a message log. The message log tracks non-recorded communications sent by and received by a user. One such system, for example, includes a processor communicating with memory. A communications manager is stored in the memory. The communications manager includes computer-readable instructions for...

20060026233 - Enabling communication between users surfing the same web page: A web page is YACHNEE™ enabled by providing an icon on the page which allows actuation upon being clicked. The user is then able to design a character to represent him on the screen. He also sees characters on screen representing other users, which characters have been designed by the...

20060026235 - Relations between collaboration workspaces: A collaborative system includes information about an organization. The organization can be a group of users or a collection of groups. Each user in the organization has access to at least one workspace, a graphical portal to the organization's information. Each workspace displays at least a subset of the information....

20060026234 - System and method for networked computer graphics: Functional components of a computer graphics network are separated from one another across a network. Each of these four components—a computer graphics application, user input functionality for the application, a graphics renderer, and a display for a rendered image—is allocated to its own network component, separate from the other components....

20060026250 - Communication system: When a mail server 31 and a mail server 32 are in a failover state, switches 21, 22 select communication paths E, F. A temporary save server 50 stores email received from a mail reception server 10 during the failover in a disk storage 60, and after the completion of...

20060026247 - Communication terminal apparatus: A print-mode storing unit presets print-mode setting information corresponding to print-mode determination information that is included in the document data, and stores the print-mode setting information preset. A mail receiving unit receives the electronic mail including the document data. A print control unit obtains, from the print-mode storing unit, the...

20060026244 - Electronic mail system having a recipient field modifier function: A method, system and graphic user interface for modifying a recipient field label associated with a recipient of an e-mail message are disclosed. A recipient field label modifier function is provided that operates to modify the recipient field label associated with a selected recipient. An object associated with the modifier...

20060026239 - Enhanced instant message connectivity: Connection state information for Instant Message (IM) users is collected and stored by an IM client. Connection state information for everyone in a sender's buddy list is replicated and stored by the sender's IM client. The IM clients are updated as updates are made on the IM server. This enables...

20060026249 - Information distribution system and information distribution method: An information distribution system and an information distribution method in which a user can view content on a personal digital assistant without complicated operation, thereby obtaining detailed information from an information distributor efficiently without fail. An information distribution system comprises a personal digital assistant for viewing a distribution file delivered...

20060026242 - Messaging spam detection: Detecting unsolicited messages (spam) by aggregating information across multiple recipients and/or across the same or differing messaging protocols. Multiple messages are analyzed to detect a call to action pattern that specifies a target communication address with which the recipients are requested to communicate, such as an email address, an Internet...

20060026237 - Method and system for instant message using http url technology: A method, system, means, and computer program code for providing instant message service. According to embodiments of the present invention, each instant message user has a HTTP URL as its unique identification. When the sender wants to chat with the receiver, just enter the receiver's URL for Instant Message in...

20060026240 - Method of collecting data from one or multiple respondents using spreadsheet based tool with programmed wizard utility deployed by e-mail: The invention discloses a method of collecting data from one or multiple respondents comprising creating a questionnaire using an easy-to-use wizard utility within a spreadsheet application operating a series of macros; deploying said questionnaire by e-mail; and retrieving data from an e-mail attachment (containing the filled out questionnaire) returned by...

20060026238 - Method of composing and sending e-mails with separate messages to copy recipients: An e-mail system provides the ability to compose, send and receive messages using a personal computer. The user creates a primary message, to be sent to primary message recipients, with or without attachments. The user can also create copy messages to be sent to copy message recipients. Attachments can be...

20060026236 - Method, system and computer software product for pre-selecting a folder for a message: In a computer system, a system, method and computer program product for pre-selecting a folder for a current message. The system, method and computer program product involve (a) providing a folder pre-selection cache having n configurable entries, n being a predetermined positive integer greater than one, each configurable entry being...

20060026246 - System and method for authorizing delivery of e-mail and reducing spam: Methods and systems for blocking, from a user's email account, emails sent by an unknown sender. In one embodiment, a method may include determining if a sender of a received email message is a trusted sender; if the sender of the received email message is not a trusted sender, administering...

20060026241 - System and method for bulk data messaging: A system and method can broadcast a plurality of instant messages, at substantially the same time, via a computer network to a plurality of recipients. The recipients can respond via the network to a human or an automated agent. A predetermined reply message can be sent if all agents are...

20060026245 - System and method for data organization and display in an instant-messaging interface: A system, method, and computer program product for simultaneous integrated access to multiple instant messaging (IM) servers from multiple IM vendors. A particular feature of many specific embodiments is a user interface that maintains separate, distinct branding for each vendor, so that a user of the system can see other...

20060026248 - System and method for preparing electronic mails: A method and system for processing electronic mail. Electronic mails are created via specifications in a document that includes a recipient type section and at least two recipient content sections. The recipient type section identifies recipient types and recipient(s) of electronic mails for each recipient type. Each recipient content section...

20060026243 - System and method for preventing transmission during message reception: A communication controller in a device on a network automatically prevents transmission of data onto the network in response to a transmit request from a CPU of the device if a message is being received or has been received but not read or acknowledged....

20060026252 - Method and apparatus for autocorrelation of instant messages: A text chat messaging system in which messages are displayed in chronological order on a message-by-message basis according to chat participants includes a messaging server (102); and a plurality of network clients (104) defining said chat participants and configured to identify messages (204) in a chat session according to chat...

20060026254 - Method for determining availability of participation in instant messaging: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for sending a user's availability information to an instant messaging (IM) partner. A user predefines areas of the user's display and associates these predefined areas, or “hotspots”, with user defined messages. If the user is not available to immediately respond to an incoming message,...

20060026251 - Method, system and program product for annotating a development artifact: An improved solution for managing a project. In particular, one or more development artifacts for the project can be annotated based on a collaborative session regarding the development artifact(s). The collaborative session can be stored as a collaborative artifact, which also can be stored in the project. As a result,...

20060026256 - Structured communication using instant messaging: The present invention uses instant messaging to effectuate structured communication. A structured communication component is used in conjunction with an instant messaging component to allow an instant messaging user to quickly formulate a structured communication for transmission to one or more recipients. The recipients are presented with the structured communications...

20060026255 - Themes indicative of participants in persistent communication: An auditory theme represents at least one participant in a networked group interaction, and reflects an attribute of that participant....

20060026253 - Using windowed user interface z-order with collaboration data for improved management of acknowledge of incoming instant messages: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for predicting the availability of an instant messaging user in an instant messaging system and providing that information to a message sender. The present invention analyzes a user's collaborative data to determine the user's availability to respond to an instant message and monitors z-order...

20060026258 - Disk drive partitioning methods: A storage device has partitions that are separately addressed by distinct IP addresses. This allows direct access of the partitions, on a peer-to-peer basis, by any other device that can communicate using IP. Preferred storage devices support spanning between or among partitions of the same device, as well as between...

20060026257 - Legacy storage device adapter: A storage device has partitions that are separately addressed by distinct IP addresses. This allows direct access of the partitions, on a peer-to-peer basis, by any other device that can communicate using IP. Preferred storage devices support spanning between or among partitions of the same device, as well as between...

20060026261 - Apparatus for and a method of facilitating the carrying out of a task: The controller (10) has a service discoverer (12) that discovers services at locations on the network (N) and a task manager (14) that controls the carrying out of tasks using services discovered by the service discoverer (12). The controller (10) also has a service publisher (13) that, as a result...

20060026262 - Content collection: In a web service system with one or more web servers, a system and method for distributing content directly from each web server to a single computer transfers files generated on web servers to a central location for access by a system operator. If files generated by multiple web servers...

20060026263 - Managing stored data on a computer network: A method and system for managing stored data on a computer network organizes data into logical volumes, and each logical volume has a friendly name associated with it. A domain controller keeps track of the friendly names of the logical volumes and associates those friendly names with the actual physical...

20060026260 - Method of communicating between web applications and local client application while maintaining remote user session: A method for non-browser based client applications to be integrated into a user's web session and allowed to transfer information from the non-browser applications to the user's session on the web server. The method provides communications between a web-based application and a client application while maintaining a unique client session...

20060026259 - Receiving apparatus, receiving system and receiving method: The present invention provides a receiving apparatus, a receiving system and a receiving method wherein a waiting time until the user obtains information is short and a function error hardly occurs even if a communication failure occurs with one storage apparatus, for example. The receiving apparatus in accordance with the...

20060026264 - Shared object stores for a networked computer system: A store of interfaced software objects are distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers to support an object oriented application communication environment that provides communication between software applications on each client computer. The application communication environment may include a central shared object store of interfaced software objects that...

20060026265 - Digital media downloading system: This invention discloses a device and methods for downloading digital media utilizing of a kiosk or plurality of kiosks coupled to a remote server. The kiosk and server cooperatively provide access for users to purchase digital media. In a preferred embodiment, all or part of the digital media is stored...

20060026266 - Information processing apparatus and method enabling users to easily acquire information that occurs on a network and suits their favorites: A server computer stores user favorites information that relates to the favorites of a user. Whether digital information that has newly occurred on a network suits the favorites of the user is judged based on the user favorites information. If it is judged that there exists digital information that suits...

20060026267 - Method, system, and cluster for the update of management objects: A method, system and cluster of Management Objects (MOs) for creating and maintaining a relationship between one or more MOs and one or more attribute values that are common to the MOs. These attribute values may be contained in one or more configuration templates, and the MOs are grouped in...

20060026268 - Systems and methods for enhancing and optimizing a user's experience on an electronic device: Certain embodiments are systems and methods for intelligently managing applications, hardware, connection access, and user requirements on electronic devices and systems. One aspect includes a resource manager functionality that takes into account parameters associated with some or all of multiple communications options, applications and platform, and uses those parameters to...

20060026269 - Automatic protocol determination for portable devices supporting multiple protocols: In accordance with certain aspects of the automatic protocol determination for portable devices supporting multiple protocols, a portable device detects which one of the multiple protocols is being used by the host device for subsequent communication with the portable device. This detection is based on the content of a command...

20060026270 - Automatic protocol migration when upgrading operating systems: Automatic protocol migration when upgrading operating systems includes checking, after upgrading at least a portion of an operating system of a host device, whether a new driver supporting enhanced functionality for a portable device is now available, where a driver supporting base functionality would have been previously used for communicating...

20060026276 - Automatic planning of network configurations: The invention relates to a device and a method, which reduce the outlay required when searching for a suitable network configuration, in particular in the field of automation. The device for the automatic planning of a network configuration, in particular for an automation system, comprises at least one partition module...

20060026275 - Fabric network management and diagnostic tool: The invention relates to a maintenance and diagnostic tool for embedded fabric (EF) networks providing an interactive graphical user interface for displaying, monitoring and managing processing elements, such as microprocessors, switches, bridges and memory, within the EF network....

20060026274 - Management system of monitor: A management system of a monitor including at least one first monitor, a first computer to supply a video signal to the at least one first monitor having a first controller to transmit monitor information about the at least one first monitor through a network, a second monitor, and a...

20060026272 - Method and apparatus for efficient communication of management data: A mediator for efficiently exchanging management data in a hierarchical management network for managing network elements of a data transport network partitions resources of the network elements among a plurality of management representations of the network elements and selectively forwards management data associated with respective management representations to a higher...

20060026273 - System and method for detection of reconnaissance activity in networks: A reconnaissance detector for protecting a network from attack by detecting attempts by one or more inquirers preparing for a network attack to collect information from network resources designated in queries by the inquirers, the reconnaissance detector including: (a) a computer operationally connected to an entry point of the network...

20060026271 - System and method for enabling the establishment and use of a personal network: A personal network may be established by interconnecting a plurality of satellites as part of the personal network. Each satellite may configured to communicate with one or more other satellites. On any given one of the plurality of satellites, data indicating a connectivity status for the one or more other...

20060026278 - Administration system for network management systems: A method and apparatus for receiving, storing and using server status information provided by a plurality of management system servers in, for example, a telecommunications network....

20060026282 - Method and apparatus for supporting a system management: A decentralized system managing method is provided for adapting a decentralized service changing day by day without having to recreate the overall existing application and for optimally executing the application without having to burden the overhead of the network load. The managing method is arranged to obtain the log information...

20060026277 - Methods, systems, devices, and products for providing alerts for communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing an alert to a called party's communications device. One method processes a communication initiated by a calling party and terminating at the called party's communications device. An alert accompanying the communication is also processed. The alert is selected by the calling party...

20060026280 - Safe mode operation for portable devices supporting multiple protocols: Safe mode operation for portable devices supporting multiple protocols includes a portable device that supports multiple protocols, such as a base functionality protocol and an enhanced functionality protocol, reporting to a host device that the portable device supports only a single protocol (e.g., the base functionality protocol). This single protocol...

20060026279 - Strategies for monitoring the consumption of resources: Strategies are described for monitoring resources (e.g., media resource) in a system that includes multiple processing mechanisms (e.g., set-top boxes) and multiple associated presentation devices (e.g., television sets). The strategies involve assigning one of the processing mechanisms the role of master processing mechanism, which defines the other processing mechanisms as...

20060026281 - System and method for providing a communications client on a host device: A system and a method (100, 500) for integrating an uncertified client (104) with a certified host device (102) are provided. The integration system (100) is configured to integrate the uncertified client (104), which has a plurality of client applications (106), with the certified host device (102), and has a...

20060026283 - System and method for updating software on a computer: One aspect of the invention is a method for updating the version of software resident on a computer that includes providing a kiosk in a public place. A communication path is established between the kiosk and a computer to be tested. It is determined, using the kiosk, whether at least...

20060026285 - Systems and methods for transmitting electronic data: Systems and methods for the transmission of electronic computer files are provided. One embodiment of the invention includes a framework of generalized components that allows a certain file, such as and email attachment, to properly operate on a recipient computer system regardless of whether the recipient computer includes a copy...

20060026284 - User experience enforcement: In order to provide for efficient security of a remote presentation (such as a remote display) on a client which presents user interface data from a remote server, all requests for action to be performed on the client are examined to determine if they are requests for user interface (UI)...

20060026287 - Embedded processes as a network service: Disclosed is a system and method for providing access to embedded processes as a network service Software proxies within the server route message traffic to one or more embedded processes. A server proxy and an embedded process handling proxy establish the connection between server and embedded processes. The embedded process...

20060026288 - Method and apparatus for integrating wearable devices within a sip infrastructure: The present invention is directed to a session initiation protocol (SIP) infrastructure containing various user devices and the use of this infrastructure to conduct media exchange sessions among the various user devices. Included in the user devices are wearable devices, for example pendants and wrist watches, that provide readily available...

20060026290 - Scalable infrastructure for handling light weight message protocols: A system and method is provided that includes a communication protocol for handling Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) messages is provided. The communication protocol may include a first protocol (e.g., HTTP channel tunneling) for providing a persistent connection based on the utilization of one or more HTTP methods (e.g., GET, POST,...

20060026286 - System and method for managing user session meta-data in a reverse proxy: A system and method for detecting and managing user session meta-data at a reverse proxy server. The reverse proxy server is logically located between one or more origin servers and any number of users. The reverse proxy server detects the establishment and tearing down of a user session, and any...

20060026289 - System, method and user interface for network status reporting: A method and user interface for informing a user of the status of a network connection are provided. Conventionally, the “connected” icon in the system tray only informs the user that the computer is linked to a network medium, such as an Ethernet or wireless access point. This icon does...

20060026292 - Data communication method and information processing apparatus for acknowledging signal reception by using low-layer protocol: In a data communication method and information processing apparatus which is highly secure against attack to a computer, data is transmitted from a first computer to a second computer, a confirmation signal of data reception at the second computer is transmitted from the second computer to the first computer, data...

20060026291 - Network establishment and management protocol: The invention relates to a protocol for communications between networked devices. The devices are logically arranged as a hierarchy of device types including a controller device type (52) from which no other device type depends and a basic device type (54) from which a number of other device types depend....

20060026293 - Strategies for transmitting in-band control information: Strategies are described for transmitting control information from a host module to a client module. The host module transmits the control information in-band along with a stream of media content information packets. The control information can be used to govern the operation of the client module. In one case, the...

20060026294 - Media transrating over a bandwidth-limited network: A transrate manager on a host computer determines if there is a limitation in network bandwidth and controls the bit-rate of streaming media content accordingly. The bit-rate is controlled by excluding types of video frames from the streaming media content and then reintroducing excluded types of video frames back into...

20060026295 - Home network system with transmission error recovery: A client TV in a home entertainment network receives and buffers an audio/video stream from a server, before playing the stream. In the case of buffer underflow, the client TV requests the server to raise the transmission rate. If this causes an ensuing buffer overflow, the client TV requests the...

20060026296 - Methods and apparatus for optimum file transfers in a time-varying network environment: Methods and apparatus for optimum file transfers in a time-varying network environment. A method is provided for transmitting content in a data network. The method includes transmitting content at a selected transmission rate, and receiving one or more acknowledgement signals. The method also includes estimating a network delivery rate from...

20060026297 - Computer system with multiple data access channels and control method thereof: A computer system with multiple data access channels is provided. The computer system is suitable for transmitting data between a communication module and a host module. The multiple data access channels mainly comprise a first data access channel, a controller, and a second data access channel. Wherein, the first data...

20060026298 - Method and system for prioritizing communications based on interpersonal relationships: A method and system for calculating the importance of persons based on interpersonal relationships and prioritizing communications based on importance of participants in the communications is provided. A prioritization system identifies relationships between persons and identifies the importance of a person to other persons based on these relationships. After the...

20060026299 - Communication among partitioned devices: A computing device having partitions, and a method of communicating between partitions, are disclosed wherein at least one partition comprises: at least one register substantially always accessible to other partitions and capable of defining an address area; at least one address area that may be accessible to other partitions and...

20060026300 - Communication system and method for real-time internet-based network connectivity to multiple heterogeneous backend systems: A communication system (110) for connecting in real-time an Internet-based network interface (130) to a plurality of backend systems (136), each of the plurality of backend systems having an associated backend communications protocol and requiring an associated backend data format. The system includes a router (112) for receiving a job...

20060026302 - Server architecture supporting adaptive delivery to a variety of media players: A media server component serves media programs to a plurality of client media players across a distribution network taking into consideration available data transfer rate and media player characteristics. The media programs are served adaptively, considering screen size, refresh rate required, frame rate, audio format, user preferences at the recipient...

20060026301 - Snmp proxy agent: An SNMP proxy agent includes a format conversion unit for converting management information received from a monitored device not using the SNMP as a management protocol, into a format corresponding to the SNMP, an IP address conversion unit for converting the particular information on the monitored device included in the...

20060026303 - Fast pattern processor including a function interface system: A fast pattern processor having an internal function bus and an external function bus. In one embodiment, a fast pattern processor includes: (1) an internal function bus, (2) an external function bus, (3) a context memory having a block buffer and a argument signature register wherein the block buffer includes...