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 dis