Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 03/06

20060069711 - Terminal device and data backup system for the same: The invention relates to data backup of a terminal device and attempts to facilitate data backup by utilizing the existing communication capabilities of backup data storage equipment and the terminal device. Arrangement is such that the terminal device comprises a communication unit connecting to electronic equipment having data storage and...

20060069712 - System and method providing multi-tier applications architecture: A network-based distributed application system is provided in accordance with the present invention for enabling services to be established locally on a client system. The system may include an application and presentation logic, at least a portion of which is interchangeably processed by a server or a client without modification...

20060069713 - Securely and efficiently extending data processing pipeline functionality: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for securely and efficiently extending data processing pipeline functionality. Data processing agents register, potentially based solely on configuration data contained in the data processing agents, to manipulate data of a data processing pipeline. Configuration data can identify a specified...

20060069718 - Apparatus, system and method for secure information dissemination: An apparatus transfers the title of content to an ID-assigning unit which assigns an ID to the content and transmits the content ID to a broadcasting unit via a tagging unit. A broadcasting apparatus then broadcasts the content ID and a receiver extracts the content ID from a received signal...

20060069716 - Decision mechanisms for adapting raid operation placement: A client node of a distributed storage system adaptive determines on an operation-by-operation basis whether to process a network-RAID IO operation (IO request) locally at the client node or to forward the IO request to a storage server of the system for processing. The client node determines to process the...

20060069715 - Mobile adaptive cache: A system and method are described for providing dynamic mobile cache for mobile computing devices. In one embodiment, a cache is created at a server at the time a communication session between the server and a client is initiated. The server then determined whether the client requires the cache. If...

20060069725 - Multifunctional network device and a network system: There is disclosed a network device in a network system connected to a directory server and a plurality of network devices, in which a combined function is generated utilizing two or more functions out of a plurality of functions able to be provided by a first network device constituting the...

20060069721 - Negotiated wireless peripheral systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent...

20060069722 - Negotiated wireless peripheral systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent...

20060069724 - Portable wireless player and associated method: A method of providing programming to a portable wireless music player includes connecting to a music service provider from a remote client and defining a play list at the music service provider through user interaction at the remote client. The player connects to the music service provider over a wireless...

20060069717 - Security service for a services oriented architecture in a data integration platform: A security service is deployed as a service in a services oriented architecture for use, for example, in a data integration platform....

20060069723 - System and method for concentration and load-balancing of requests: A system and method for concentration and load-balancing of requests in a distributed computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a system and a method for reducing the number of connections in an Internet environment using one or a plurality of connection handlers which handle the connection from the client...

20060069714 - System enhancement using client context information: A system and method responsive to context information includes a client device and a module associated with the client device, which accesses static or dynamic context information about a condition of the client device or the environment of the client device. A collector collects context information from the at least...

20060069719 - Transaction accelerator for client-server communication systems: In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation thereof, to a server for responding to the request. The server sends...

20060069720 - Video distributing system, video distributing method, and server: A video distributing system comprises a server which distributes a video, and a client which requests video distribution to the server. The server comprises an application program which communicates with the client, and the client comprises a web browser comprising an application program which communicates with the server and a...

20060069726 - Hospitality environment communications architecture: A hospitality teleconferencing architecture. A web-supported teleconferencing system interfaces to a hospitality communications system to facilitate teleconferencing capabilities in the hospitality network. The system can include a hospitality communications network component that facilitates hospitality communications, and a web-supported teleconferencing system component that interfaces to the hospitality communications network to facilitate...

20060069729 - Alert for interactive users of msn messenger: A method and a device for alerting MSN message transmission are provided. An alert software is activated immediately after the user activates and logs in the MSN real-time messenger. The software then performs the confirmation of on-line status, and enters the computer system into a standby mode for alert. When...

20060069733 - Detection and removal of information in files: A computer system includes an application programmed to create a document, and a component including at least one internal module programmed to examine and modify the document to remove hidden information or metadata. The computer system also includes a communications interface for an external module programmed to examine and modify...

20060069730 - Public relations communication methods and systems: An arrangement for distributing information from Information Providers (IP) to Information Recipients (IR) that utilizes the email system and the Internet to communicate with popular hardware devices—computers, PDAs, cellular phones, etc. IRs receive information anonymously and only the information desired. IPs do not need to “spam” the world in the...

20060069731 - Sender address setting when generating return mail: A standard mail address is assigned to each user who uses mail exchange service provided by a mail server. Each user can also have an extended mail address including a character name used in a network game provided by a game server. The extended mail address can be changed/deleted by...

20060069727 - System and method for synchronizing between an instant messenger client and a central contact store: Contacts and associated presence information for contacts of an instant messenger (IM) application are synchronized with a centralized contact store within a file system of a computing device. Contacts are added, deleted, and changed that correspond to the IM application. Furthermore, the presence information of the contacts also change. These...

20060069728 - System and process for transforming a style of a message: Systems and processes are provided for transforming a style of a message. A processor is configured to facilitate determining a message (111) to be transmitted. Further, the message processor can facilitate selecting one or more styles responsive to a determination of a context (113) associated with the message; and can...

20060069732 - Systems and methods to rank electronic messages and detect spammer probe accounts: We show how to compute useful and robust metrics for a Bulk Message Envelope. These metrics are based on whether recipients of messages read them, and if so, whether they click on any links in those messages, or perform other allowed actions, and optionally the time order in which they...

20060069735 - Content formatting and installation techniques: Content formatting and installation techniques are described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving one or more inputs for initiating an installation process of one or more content items and performing the installation process without user intervention. The performing of the installation process includes obtaining a content package, from over...

20060069736 - Content formatting and installation techniques: Content formatting and installation techniques are described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving one or more inputs for initiating an installation process of one or more content items and performing the installation process without user intervention. The performing of the installation process includes obtaining a content package, from over...

20060069734 - Method and system for organizing and displaying message threads: A method and system for organizing and displaying a message thread list is disclosed. A current counter value and a set of message threads that a user has permission to access are determined. For each message thread in the set, the method determines an elapsed counter value between the current...

20060069737 - System and method for pushing encrypted information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A system and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event is disclosed. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect certain user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile...

20060069739 - Method and apparatus for encoding design description in reconfigurable multi-processor system: A method (400) and apparatus (100) are disclosed for storing the software specifications (320) for each processor (110) in a multi-processor system (100). The disclosed storage technique reduces the total memory space that is required to store the configuration information for each processor (110) and does not require a linear...

20060069738 - Multi-processor computer system: The present invention relates to a multi-processor computer system comprising at least two processors for parallel execution of processes, at least two cache memory units, each being associated with and connected to a separate processor, a connection bus connecting said processors and said cache memory units, and a process list...

20060069740 - Information distribution system, information acquistion device, information distribution server, information reproduction device, information reproduction method, information distribution control method, information distribution control program, and compu: The subject invention provides an information delivery system which performs information reproduction according to reproduction circumstances, such as available communication modes for the information reproduction device, user's request etc., thereby carrying out information delivery in the most appropriate way to the user. For example, the center system (3) determines the...

20060069743 - Integrated method and apparatus to manage mobile devices and services: Disclosed herein is a method, a system, a network node and a computer program executable by a data processor or data processors to accommodate a non-IP OTA protocol using an end-to-end IP protocol. The method includes receiving a message from a non-IP entity; using a markup language, such as XML,...

20060069744 - Method and system for transmitting information through multiple communication channels: A method for transmitting information (from a source computer to one or more target computers) is proposed. The solution of the invention applies to a message (300o) that includes a main body (310) with possible attachments (315), each one identified by a corresponding internal link (320i) The attachments including bulk...

20060069742 - Method, system, and computer program product for prefetching sync data and for edge caching sync data on a cellular device: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for prefetching sync data and for edge caching on a cellular device (e.g., a cell phone). The method for prefetching sync data comprises: providing unprocessed sync data at a first location; downloading the unprocessed sync data from the first...

20060069741 - Route objects in telecommunications networks: In a telecommunications network, a route object (RO) computer program product, creates a RO which presents a user with editable fields relating to more than one type of RO, and allows the user to specify the contents of one or more of the fields to create any one of the...

20060069747 - Audio signal transmission system, audio signal transmission method, server, network terminal device, and recording medium: Disclosed is an audio signal transmission system that allows all users to confirm the overall system operation and actively select various system services. The audio signal transmission system, which allows a plurality of terminal devices to share channels that are allocated to various sound sources, includes a terminal device corresponding...

20060069748 - Information servicing method, recording medium recording with programs for realizing the method, and information servicing system.: An information servicing method for communicating information between a server and a client terminal through a network, comprising: deciding whether a predetermined time period has elapsed without user input; switching a prevailing processing to a background processing when it is decided that the no user input has occurred during the...

20060069745 - Method, system and program product for identifying web page dependencies: Under the present invention provides a method, system and program product for identifying web page dependencies. Specifically, under the present invention, any dependencies needed to properly view a web page are identified prior to rendering the web page on the client. Once any dependencies are identified, the client from which...

20060069746 - System and method for smart persistent cache: A system and method for smart, persistent cache management of received content within a terminal. Received content is tagged with cache directive allowing cache control to determine which of cache storage locations to use for storage of content. Cache control detects the number of instances that received content correlates to...

20060069752 - Incentivizing software sharing thru incentive points: A method for incentivizing sharing of a software product through awarding incentive points utilizing unique identifiers including removable storage identification, user console identification and user identification. The granting of access permissions and the awarding of incentive points are facilitated through a host server....

20060069749 - Location enhanced information delivery system: The Location Enhanced Information Deliver System Architecture (LEIA) customizes the information that is displayed to an information recipient based on optimizing a match between information purveyors, such as advertisers, and the information recipients who are local to an information delivery system. The present location enhanced information delivery system presents the...

20060069750 - Location enhanced information delivery system: A mechanism for detecting events generated from a device in communication with a client system and the re-direction of those events to a server system over a network using a presentation-level protocol is disclosed. Plug and play events are detected at the client system, bound to a virtual connection for...

20060069751 - System and method for transaction processing with delegated commit feature: A transaction service that allows lightweight clients to perform a delegated commit at a server. This process allows lightweight clients to begin and terminate transactions, while the actual responsibility for transaction commit processing is delegated to a commit server and transaction manager running on the machine hosting the server. Client...

20060069757 - automated pcn downloads: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for comparing a product change notice with a plurality of network equipment is disclosed. Preferably, the method includes automatically obtaining one or more product change notices (PCN's). Preferably, the PCN's are automatically obtained at predetermined time intervals. Once the PCN's have been obtained,...

20060069753 - Automatic web-based client-server application program update system: An automated software update method for distributed client/server computers is described. A server process is executed a program on either a standalone computer or a server computer in a distributed client/server network environment. The program updates are either programmed into the server process directly or downloaded to the server in...

20060069754 - Enablement of software-controlled services required by installed applications: Sequences of instructions may be stored on machine-readable media such that, when they are executed by a machine, the instructions cause the machine to 1) identify a number of applications installed on the machine, 2) identify a number of software-controlled services required by the installed applications, and 3) enable the...

20060069755 - Maintaining mobile device electronic files: A mobile device is provided that includes a first processor coupled among at least one additional processor and a communication device for use in maintaining electronic files of the device. The mobile device can, for example, be a cellular telephone. The mobile device further includes an upgrade engine coupled to...

20060069756 - Parental and corporate controls for camera-phones: A system and method of the present invention provide parental and corporate control for a camera-phone. An administration authority web site is provided that enables an owner of a camera-phone to log into a server and establish a set of control policies that specify what actions on the phone are...

20060069758 - Providing automatic policy enforcement in a multi-computer service application: Enforcing policy in a multi-computer service application is described. In one aspect, a scale-independent logical model of an application is generated. The application is for implementation in a distributed computing system. The scale-independent logical model includes multiple components representing logical functions of the application and intercommunication protocols. The model components...

20060069760 - Automatic switching network points based on configuration profiles: Methods and apparatus to reconfigure parameters for establishing a link with a new host after a computer is moved to a new location or a new network. A computer-implemented method for networking includes steps of examining an established link for a need to establish a new link, establishing the new...

20060069759 - Programmatic server page re-tooling: A method, system and apparatus for programmatic server page re-tooling. A server page re-tooling method can include the steps of detecting a condition related to a compiled form of server page code; mapping the detected condition to aspect code; and, weaving the mapped aspect code with the server page code...

20060069761 - System and method for load balancing virtual machines in a computer network: A system and method for balancing the load of virtual machines among the physical servers of a network is disclosed. When a server of the network is identified as exceeding its total resource utilization, a virtual machine within the server is selected for migration to another physical server within the...

20060069764 - Computer switching device: The present invention is aimed at achieving a computer switching device for switching between a plurality of computers for the operation using common user interfaces. The computer switching device comprises an input device switcher for performing switching to a computer to be controlled by input user interfaces, an image processor...

20060069765 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium: The present invention has enabled computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with a maximum efficiency. Actual condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are integrally controlled by a personal computer functioning itself as a...

20060069763 - Queue management device: To make it possible to restrain a load of a server by setting a request in a standby status when the server has a high load and to restrain a halt of the request. A load of a server for providing a service in response to request information given from...

20060069762 - Systems and methods for efficient discovery of a computing device on a network: Systems and methods for discovering a device on a computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method involves providing key data to be sent with an initiation message. The initiation message is sent by an origination device on a computer network to an undiscovered destination device on the computer network. The...

20060069770 - Automatic transmission of messages and processing of responses: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for transmitting a message upon the detection of a predetermined event and performing an action associated with a predetermined option indicated by a received response. Upon detecting a predetermined event in a system, an asynchronous message based upon the detected predetermined event is...

20060069768 - Method and system for grouping diagnostic information: Client network traffic data and server network traffic data regarding a number of network nodes is collected and then grouped by IP address. The network nodes are divided into logical groupings and the network traffic data is presented in the aggregate for all IP addresses in each logical group. The...

20060069766 - Method and system for treating events and data uniformly: Information that includes both a time component and a value component is collected. The time component provides time and duration information associated with the value component. The value component includes one or more attributes, such as, for example, quantity, magnitude, and model parameters. The information is then transmitted over a...

20060069769 - Method for data synchronization with mobile wireless devices: A system and method for utilizing non-interactive communications with wireless networks for a mobile wireless device such as a telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), laptop, or other mobile device configured for performing data transfers over a wireless network. By way of example, the invention allows a user to send and...

20060069767 - Method of initializing a data processing object associated with a communication protocol used to extract status information related to a monitored device: A method, system, and computer program product for initializing at least one data processing object associated with a communication protocol used to extract status information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network, including accessing the monitored device to obtain vendor information related to the monitored device; obtaining,...

20060069771 - Method, system and program product for decentralized monitoring of server states within a cell of nodes: Under the present invention a node agent of a node in a cell will post state (event) information pertaining to the applications server(s) it controls to a messaging service such as a Highly Available (HA) messaging system (e.g., to bulletin board). Also, from the messaging service, the node agent will...

20060069775 - Apparatus, system, and method for automatically freeing a server resource locked awaiting a failed acknowledgement from a client: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for automatically freeing locked server resources using a timeout value closely related to actual real-time message delays plus a delta value that can be adjusted at a plurality of levels. The levels include default, server, connection, and transaction. The apparatus includes a timer,...

20060069778 - Content distribution system: A content distribution system includes a center server and a plurality of terminal devices connectable to the center server. The center server specifies, from among a plurality of content portions into which a content item is divided, a target content portion to be received next by a recipient terminal device...

20060069773 - Data accession process: A user terminal (15) accesses data from an internet application (14) over a distributed information network such as the Internet (17), by making a plurality of access requests for a plurality of duplicate series of packet data (1,2,3, . . . ; 1′,2′,3′, . . . ; 1″,2″,3″,) from the...

20060069774 - Method and apparatus for managing data center using web services: Access of data center resources is provided by the present invention using stateless and stateful Web services. For stateless Web services, the present invention provides an invoker API that allows a client to invoke a specific resource and perform an operation on the resource. For stateful Web services, the present...

20060069779 - Method for, and a topology aware resource manager in an ip-telephony system: A method and arrangement in a communications network. The object is to provide a way of handling recourse management issues and admission control within an IP telephony system. The object is achieved by a topology aware resource manager collecting routing information concerning the IP network, obtaining resource information concerning resources...

20060069772 - Parallel access to data over a packet network: An end user application (15) generates a plurality of access requests for the same data to be delivered over a plurality of routes (21,22,23), each request conveying an indication of their common origin to the targeted webserver or other internet application (13). The targeted application (13) has means arranged to...

20060069777 - Request message control method for using service and service providing system: In the case where Web service providers and Web service brokers are successively connected in a multistage manner to form a tree structure, with each of the Web service brokers relaying messages to be transmitted and received between a Web service requestor and the Web service providers, not only the...

20060069776 - System and method for load balancing a communications network: The invention relates to a system and method for load-balancing multiple servers in a communications network. Instead of using round robin or other predetermined scheme, SIP messages are forwarded to one of multiple SIP servers according to a performance score that is calculated from measured performance data. Advantageously, the disclosed...

20060069780 - Control server that manages resource servers for selected balance of load: A control server of an apparatus in one example manages a plurality of resource servers that are allocated to handle a load. The control server receives from a first resource server, of the plurality of resource servers, a first status message that comprises a first indicator of a relative availability...

20060069781 - Global internet voice communication system method: A global communication internet telephone system and method is a new software Web Call structure, wherein the system user only requires a computer with Windows 98 or above, a duplex sound card, a display interface and internet access, and logging directly into a GTD Web 800 wed page thereafter, receiving...

20060069782 - Method and apparatus for location-based white lists in a telecommunications network: A method is disclosed for determining whether access to a host requested by a client session connection is permitted. After determining attributes of the client session connection, a list of hosts is selected based on the determined attributes of the client session connection. The list of hosts is then used...

20060069783 - Program, method and device for managing information shared among components, recording medium and communication apparatus: A component-shared information management method for managing information shared by a plurality of components constituting application software, is characterized in that a shared information management means receives a registration request from a processing executing component among the plurality of components, receives a specific type of information from the component and...

20060069784 - Internet domain keyword optimization: A computerized system and method for optimizing contents of a domain landing page for increased revenues for the domain name owner. A landing server tracks user interactions with the domain landing page and generates an optimized keyword data set for the domain name. The keyword data set is...

20060069786 - System and method for ascribing resource consumption to activity in a causal path of a node of a distributed computing system: According to at least one embodiment, a method comprises identifying at least one causal path that includes a node of a distributed computing environment that is of interest. The method further comprises analyzing the identified at least one causal path to determine at least one time interval when the node...

20060069785 - System and method for controlling display windows: Systems and methods for opening and managing a window on a client computer system. In response to an action by the user transferring user information from the client to a server, code executes in the browser of the client to open and immediately hide a window on the client display,...

20060069787 - System, method and apparatus for use in monitoring or controlling internet access: A system method and apparatus are provided for use in monitoring or controlling internet access at a client device 12. A request message 500 is generated to request categorisation of a specified URL, and a reply message 600 is returned denoting a category of the specified URL amongst a predetermined...

20060069789 - Apparatus and method for improved transfer of files using an internet protocol: A file is to be transferred over the internet employs TCP/IP procedures to insure accurate transmission of the file. When, in a processing system, a URL request for a file is generated, a determination is made whether the requested file is stored in a device associated with processing system issuing...

20060069790 - Content presentation adaptation: The present invention relates to a method of arranging content presentation for a data transmission system. A received object to be transmitted to the recipient terminal is associated with presentation description information or with a reference to presentation description information defined in the control point and transmitted to the recipient...

20060069788 - Interface method, system, and program product for facilitating layering of a data communications protocol over an active message layer protocol: A protocol interface is provided for an active message protocol of a computing environment and a client process employing the active message protocol. The protocol interface includes an interface to a header handler function associated with the client process. The interface to the header handler function has parameters to be...

20060069792 - Method to offload a network stack: A method to offload a network stack connection is presented. A request, which includes a list of resource requirements from each software layer in the stack, to offload the network stack connection is sent through the stack to the peripheral device. The device allocates resources for the list and sends...

20060069791 - Service oriented architecture with interchangeable transport protocols: 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....

20060069798 - Digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system: A DRM scheme that may be optionally invoked by the owner. With the DRM protection turned on, the media is encrypted before it is distributed in a P2P network, and is decrypted prior to its use (play back). The peers may still efficiently distribute and serve without authorization from the...

20060069796 - Method for automatic patching of a sparsely streamed application: A method and apparatus are provided for automatic patching of a sparsely streamed application, such as a game application. The invention enables an initial file set to be streamed to a client's network device. The file set is used to generate file segments. A patcher is then authorized to write...

20060069795 - Methods to test multimedia devices on computer systems: The described embodiments relate to testing streaming media capture devices and/or computer systems. One exemplary method enumerates and tests multiple streaming media capture device which are operably associated with a computer. The method simultaneously exercises said computer's display and power states....

20060069793 - System and method using a circular buffer for detecting packet loss in streaming applications: A circular buffer, i.e., a chain of buffers forming a circle, is provided for managing packet loss detection in Internet streaming. The detection latency is determined by the size of the buffer chain, which can be dynamically adapted to network conditions and application requirements. The present invention can achieve reasonable...

20060069794 - System for maintaining white uniformity in a displayed video image by predicting and compensating for display register changes: A system for correcting a color characteristic of an image displayed in response to a video signal involves processing the video signal for predicting a variation in a physical characteristic of a display device displaying the image, processing the video signal for determining a change in the color characteristic occurring...

20060069797 - Systems and methods for multimedia remoting over terminal server connections: Techniques relating to managing multimedia transmissions in terminal services scenarios are described. In one instance, a method sends a user-interface component from a server to a remote client. The method further streams a media component for presentation on the remote client in combination with the user-interface component and wherein the...

20060069801 - Method and apparatus for identifying and classifying network-based distributed applications: A method and apparatus for specifying the identification and classification of at leat one application having components distributed over selected nodes of a network system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of creating a first section containing at least one directive for specifying information or initiating at least one...

20060069799 - Reporting for multi-user services in wireless networks: The basic idea of the present invention is to adapt multi-user multimedia data in a communication system with a server providing the multi-user multimedia data to clients and with an intermediate network part. Said intermediate network part is arranged to provide information on communication between the server and the clients....

20060069800 - System and method for erasure coding of streaming media: A “PeerStreamer” provides receiver-driven peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming for loosely coupled P2P networks. Peers in the network perform only simple operations, may cache all or part of the streaming media, do not collaborate with other peers, may be unreliable, and may drop offline or come online during any given streaming...

20060069802 - Point-to-point delivery verification report mechanism for point-to-multipoint transmission systems: Methods, systems, transmitters, receivers, network elements and software applications in a system for acknowledging the reception of sets of data objects, wherein one or more transmitters transmit one or more sets of data objects within respective point-to-multipoint transmission sessions to a plurality of receivers, and wherein repair requests and/or delivery...

20060069804 - Server device, client device, and process execution method: A server device 20 requests a client device 30 to execute one of a plurality of computations having different degrees of difficulty. Client device 30 identifies, based on an amount of computation required for each of said plurality of computations, a computation to be executed and executes the computation. Client...

20060069803 - System and method for flexible data transfer: A method and system for flexibly transferring data from one or more data sources to one or more data destinations within an information network where each of the one or more data sources have data in a particular source format and each of the one or more data destinations have...

20060069806 - Cluster pc: A computer design based on a platform of multiple central processing units (CPUs). When running multiple applications, each of the multiple CPUs performs all the processing for one of the individual applications. All of the multiple CPUs may operate below the physical layer of the OSI model. They may communicate...

20060069805 - Network system role determination: The role of a system in a network may be categorized as a networking system, a security system, a systems management system, a mail system, a database system, a web system, a file/print system, a communication and collaboration system, and/or any other system in the network. The role of a...

20060069807 - Setting management system and setting management program: When a user of a PC of a setting management system designates an IP address that should be deleted from IP addresses that have been set for a management target device, the PC presumes that another parameter should be changed together with the designated IP address based on a setting...

20060069808 - Selective display of content: A method and system for selectively fully displaying additional content in a browser window, without requiring scrolling in more than one direction, based on an available display area. For example, additional advertising content is thus selectively displayed in an otherwise unused area of the browsing window to the right of...

20060069810 - Multiphase encoded protocol and synchronization of buses: A multiphase encoded protocol has sufficient density of commands to allow a rich language to be realized on a bus. When ten field bits are dedicated to commands, it is possible to have more than six million words to choose from per clock. Architecture to implement the multiphase encoded protocol...

20060069809 - State based synchronization: A system for synchronization whereby metadata repository maintains information regarding the history and status of data items in a data repository. Data items are associated with states and such states changes (e.g. increment) in response to changes to the data items. History statements associated with the same states describe the...

20060069811 - Computer cluster: Apparatus for providing a cluster processing system including a plurality of processing nodes, each node having a processor and associated local memory, each node being capable of responding to software commands to execute operations on data and to store the results of the operations locally, one of the processing nodes...

20060059223 - Client-side caching of streaming media content: Various functionality with respect to streaming media content is made available to users. Such functionality includes one or more of: streaming media content at a rate independent of the encoded bit rate of the content, allowing streaming of content to continue even when the user has selected various shuttle control...

20060059224 - Message reception confirmation method, communications terminal and message reception confirmation system: A message sending device sends a message. A message receiving device generates reception authentication information of the message when receiving the message, and further generates reception confirmation information of the message by using the reception authentication information of the message, to send the reception confirmation information of the message to...

20060059226 - Information handling system and method for clustering with internal cross coupled storage: A method of clustering in an information handling system is disclosed. The method includes defining at each of two nodes a logical storage unit corresponding to a locally attached storage device. The logical storage units are then interfaced through iSCSI targets at the nodes to expose iSCSI logical units. Each...

20060059225 - Methods and apparatus for automatic generation of recommended links: Methods and apparatus for automatically generating a list of recommended links for a user are disclosed. For a particular user, one or more criteria for use in generating a list of recommended links are identified or selected by the user. A list of one or more recommended links is then...

20060059228 - Capturing and re-creating the state of a queue when migrating a session: A method and apparatus for migrating the session state of an original session from a first node to a second node, such that a process, executing in the migrated session, may enqueue and dequeue messages from a queue of messages and experience the same behavior from the queue of messages...

20060059227 - Methods, systems and storage medium for displaying content in response to a consumer format preference: A method of displaying content to a consumer including storing a consumer format preference and obtaining a request from the consumer to display the content. It is determined if the content meets the consumer format preference and the content is formatted to meet the consumer format preference if the content...

20060059229 - Inter vehicle communication system: A method and network for transmitting a message from a sender to a recipient wherein the sender has no previous knowledge of the recipient's identity. A method is provided for registering a user with a web-enabled database service by providing correlating data on the user's identity and vehicle license plate...

20060059234 - Automated messaging tool: A system and method for an automatic messaging system which automatically sends emails or pages to groups of people with specific data from a database. Other messaging tools may be utilized. The data source that provides information may be any ODBC compliant data source including standard DBMS (SQL Server, Oracle,...

20060059237 - Dynamic integration of application input and output in an instant messaging/chat session: A method, system and apparatus for integrating dynamic application input and output in an instant messaging/chat system. In this regard, a method for integrating dynamically produced application input and output into instant messaging/chat content in an established instant messaging/chat session can include receiving application input from a remote instant messaging/chat...

20060059239 - Electronic messaging system with intelligent polling: A messaging system is disclosed that provides dynamic polling of a message server for use in a stateless communication system. The polling interval may be determined by a user, or it may be determined based on current message activity or on statistics derived from historical message activity. Application-to-application, as well...

20060059231 - Information acquiring device and information providing device: An information acquiring device and an information providing device used for a pull-type data distribution service is connected to an e-mail server and an information server on a network to receive an e-mail from the e-mail server through the network to acquire data, analyzes the data of the acquired received...

20060059236 - Instant messaging with audio: Instant messaging with audio is described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving an input during an instant messaging session indicating a selection of at least one of a plurality of audio items from an audio menu. The plurality of audio items is taken from a content item. An output...

20060059233 - Media data transmission apparatus and media data reception apparatus: In the present invention, content is comprised of a plurality of items of data, and a transmission cycle and others of data composing the content are varied corresponding to the importance and/or necessity and purpose of the data. In this way, for example, it is possible to set a shorter...

20060059232 - Message transmission/reception system and method: In a mobile terminal (1), upon completion of the preparation of a transmission message in a message preparation unit (13), a position information appending unit (12) uses a position-acquisition unit (11) to begin acquisition of its position and thus acquires information of the current position of the mobile terminal (1)....

20060059238 - Monitoring the flow of messages received at a server: An approach for monitoring electronic messages received at a server is disclosed. Message information for a plurality of electronic messages received at the server: is determined and stored in a queue. Based on the queue, aggregate information is generated for a particular network address of a plurality of network addresses....

20060059235 - System and method for multi-threaded discussion within a single instant messenger pane: A system and method that allows multiple threads, or topics, to be managed and displayed within a single instant messaging session is provided. When an instant messaging session commences, an initial, or first, thread commences to which both parties to the instant messaging session can add comments. Two input areas...

20060059230 - System and method for transferring data between applications: A method of transferring data between applications, wherein at least one datum relating to a subject is published by a first application over a transport infrastructure; and the published at least one datum is provided in accordance with a delivery protocol to a second application that has previously subscribed to...

20060059240 - Method for multi-identifier login of an instant messaging system: A method for multi identifier log in of instant messaging system, setting corresponding relation between more than one user identifiers; after receiving log in request, instant messaging system allows the user to log in according to the corresponding relation among the said user identifiers. The present can support multi kinds...

20060059241 - Systems and methods for networked haptic devices: Systems and methods for haptic devices are described. One described method comprises receiving a first input signal from a first control node and generating an output signal configured to administer a haptic effect on a second control node that is based at least in part on the first input signal....

20060059242 - Lazy deregistration of user virtual machine to adapter protocol virtual offsets: A method is provided for operating a communications adapter employed in a multinode data processing system in a fashion which enhances the performance of remote direct memory access data transfers. The system is provided with pointers and a table which are employed to determine whether or not an address which...

20060059244 - Communication mechanism and method for easily transferring information between processes: A communication mechanism and method for assisting in the transfer of information between at least two processes through a data storage system is provided. The communication mechanism is provided between a protocol family and the process, and is capable of communicating with both. Both the processes and the protocols may...

20060059243 - Method for sending batch download messages: The method of the invention for sending a message batch download in a telecommunication network comprising a sender entity, one or more receiver entities, and intermediate entities there between, is mainly characterized by creating a test message and sending the test message to each receiver, receiving an acknowledgement in case...

20060059247 - Automatic simultaneous entry of values in multiple web page fields: A method, system, and program for automatic simultaneous entry of values in multiple web page fields are provided. Responsive to detecting a single action selection by a user to fill multiple fields of a web page, wherein each of the fields is associated with one from among multiple field descriptors...

20060059245 - Data transmission device: A data transmission apparatus (100) causes a data reception apparatus to execute an appropriate reproduction process on content data, and comprises: a file analysis unit (110) and an RTSP processing unit (101) which (i) establish and initialize a transmission path of the content data with the data reception apparatus, (ii)...

20060059248 - Peer-to-peer-type content distribution system: The system of the present invention includes a number of dynamic peers DP between which content items are exchanged, and a center server CS for controlling the exchange of content items. Each dynamic peer DP sends the operation status thereof to the center server CS, and the center server CS...

20060059246 - System and method for connection optimization: A system for connection optimization includes a client, a server, and a domain assigner configured to assign referenced objects to additional domains to influence the number of connections used by the client for requesting and receiving the referenced objects. In one embodiment, the domain assigner dynamically assigns referenced objects to...

20060059249 - Method and a system for designating a user selected console device as the primary console device for a particular computer: Methods and systems for designating a user selected console device as the primary console device for a particular computer are provided. In one embodiment, information indicating which potential primary console device associated with a particular computer is the user selected console device is received. The user selected console device is...

20060059250 - Remote management of computers: The present invention comprises a system for the control of multiple remote computers. A control computer, of the type including operating software, keyboard, monitor and a cursor control device, controls at least one remote computer or device. The control computer sends control signals to the remote computer without passing the...

20060059253 - Architectures for netcentric computing systems: An execution architecture, a development architecture and an operations architecture for a netcentric computing system. The execution architecture contains common, run-time services required when an application executes in the netcentric computing system. The development architecture is the production environment for one or several systems development projects as well as for...

20060059251 - Method and system for request management processing: A system and method are provided for determining a processing engine to process a request from a client in a distributed client-server architecture. Requests from the clients are handled by a request management module, which determines a processing entity for each request. A processing entity may be one or more...

20060059252 - Web service providing system, server device for the same, control method for controlling computer system as server device for web service providing system, program for executing the control method, and recording medium: Provided are a method, system, and program for processing call requests with respect to objects. A call request is received with respect to an object. Access authority for the object is require. An access authority set is read for execution of the call request with respect to the object. A...

20060059257 - Message queue tuning: Message queue tuning is disclosed. A communication routine is provided that is able to record a log entry for a message. A log is obtained by running a software application with the communication routine. The log is evaluated to determine a desired value of a tuning knob for a message...

20060059259 - Method and system for dataflow management in a communications network: The present invention relates to a method and system for dataflow management in interactive communications networks. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method for dataflow management in interactive communications networks, the method comprising the steps of: determining characteristics of network components; and managing dataflow in accordance...

20060059255 - Method and system for using abstract classes to extract status information from networked devices: A method, system, and computer program product for extracting, for a selected communication protocol, status information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network,including accessing the monitored device using the selected communication protocol to obtain at least vendor information related to the monitored device; obtaining, from a first...

20060059254 - Method for the transmission of measured data from a measuring computer to a control computer in a measuring system: A method for transmitting measured information from a measuring computer to a control computer of a measuring system, the control and measuring computers being interconnected via a telecommunications network, includes combining measured data into characteristic values having a lower volume than the measured data. The characteristic values are transmitted from...

20060059258 - Multi-layered measurement model for data collection and method for data collection using same: A method and system are described for collecting information from a device in a network at a collection interval. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for collecting the information includes determining data needed from the device at the collection interval to evaluate the information. A measurement request is defined...

20060059256 - Signaling a state of a transmission link via a transport control protocol: A method, a system, a sender, a receiver, a device and software applications are shown for transferring data segments, wherein data segments are sent from a sender to a receiver, wherein said sender receives acknowledgements from said receiver, and wherein said acknowledgements acknowledge reception of said sent data segments at...

20060059261 - Method and device for selecting network access to one or more data networks by means of a telecommunication terminal: The invention relates to a method for selecting network access to one or more data networks by means of a telecommunications terminal. In a first step of said method, network access information, which has been determined by the telecommunications terminal and/or additional telecommunications terminals during network connections established by different...

20060059262 - Methods, systems and computer program products for inventory reconciliation: Network asset recovery includes querying assets on a communications network to obtain a current inventory of the assets on the communications network and obtaining inventory data for the communications network from an inventory management database. The current inventory is compared with the inventory data from the inventory management database to...

20060059260 - Recommendation of media content on a media system: A method, a media system of/for recommending media content on the media system (103) by use of a first set (300) of preference profiles stored on the media system and a second set (301) of preference profiles stored on a server (101), wherein each preference profile of said two sets...

20060059263 - Optimizing scaleable video algorithm asset distribution utilizing quality indicators: A method is directed to controlling asset allocation of a consumer terminal. The method provides for receiving input data into at least one scalable media algorithm, processing the input data through at least one scalable media algorithm, and determining at least one quality indicator value, for an amount of data...

20060059264 - Enabling push technologies for mobile ip: Methods and apparatus for enabling a Mobile Node supporting mobile IP to roam without an assigned IP address and receive lookups indicating that a Corresponding Node wants to send information to the Mobile Node are disclosed. A name lookup may be sent from a Corresponding Node to a Home Agent...

20060059266 - Registration based addressing over multiple networks with digital audio communication: 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...

20060059265 - Terminal connectivity system: The present invention provides a Server (1) for allowing a user to connect to services using a remote terminal (“Host A”,3. “Host B”). The Server is coupled to the remote terminal via one of a number of communications links (4,5,2), as well as being coupled to the one or more...

20060059267 - System, method, and device for downloading content using a second transport protocol within a generic content download protocol: Provided are improved systems, methods, and devices for downloading content using a second transport protocol within a generic content download protocol, such as using a FLUTE session to download content within a DLOTA session. The DLOTA download descriptor file can point to a media object which is a FLUTE session...

20060059268 - System and method for managing industrial process control data streams over network links: A data acquisition service on a network node is disclosed for forwarding received process data to a process history database over a potentially slow and/or intermittent network connection. A store and forward functionality within the networked node receives incoming process data via a first network interface and forwards outgoing process...

20060059269 - Transparent recovery of switch device: An interconnect device for transmitting data packets includes a plurality of ports, a hub, and an arbiter. The hub is configured to connect the plurality of ports together. The arbiter is coupled to the hub for controlling transmission of data packets between the hub and the ports. A reset is...

20060059270 - System and method for synchronizing operations of a plurality of devices via messages over a communication network: A system and method synchronize operations of a plurality of devices via messages over a communication network. A plurality of devices are communicatively coupled via a communication network, and the devices have their local clocks synchronized to a high degree of precision a technique, such as IEEE 1588, for synchronizing...

20060059271 - Information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and printing program: An information processing apparatus, a printing apparatus and a printing program are provided which are capable of not only improving efficiency in print processing but also making efficient the management of print documents on the part of users. The printing program is adapted to make a computer execute a related...

20060059272 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a unified view of multiple mailboxes: A method of presenting a unified view of two mailboxes, each mailbox associated with a client is described. The unified view allows the user to see all actions she/he performed on a message in one mailbox performed in all other unified mailboxes. One of the clients has both a high...

20060059273 - Envelope packet architecture for broadband engine: The present invention provides for sending an envelope and replying to an envelope. A transmitter is configured to send an envelope. A receiver is coupled to the transmitter, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the envelope and generate a reply envelope. A send buffer is coupled to the transmitter....

20060053194 - Systems and methods for collaboration: In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files,...

20060053195 - Systems and methods for collaboration: In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files,...

20060053196 - Systems and methods for collaboration: In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files,...

20060053198 - Configuring monitored information in an email response management system: One implementation provides a method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows a user to customize processing of incoming electronic mail (email) messages. This method is performed in a system that receives incoming email messages and manages events that may alter statuses of these messages. The method includes...

20060053207 - Data sharing sequence display method and corresponding sharing device: The present invention discloses a method of displaying a sequence for sharing digital data items with a set of recipients using a terminal capable of using at least two communication modes for communicating with the recipients. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a first list of recipients communicating with...

20060053199 - Displaying monitored information in an email response management system: One implementation provides a method to provide a display of electronic mail (email) message volume information in a graphical user interface (GUI) within a system that receives incoming email messages. The method includes providing first email message volume information for display in the GUI, the first email message volume information...

20060053201 - E-mail service provider method and apparatus: An e-mail service provider method and apparatus provide means for individuals to register with a service that provides e-mail addresses that correspond to their vehicle license plate characters. Registered users will make their e-mail addresses available to those observing their vehicles. The service provider also furnishes indicia for attachment to...

20060053200 - Electronic mail metadata generation and management: Electronic mail is archived and retrieved based on metadata generated by the client sending the electronic mail. The metadata is generated based on variable metadata generation policies distributed to each client. The metadata generation policies are executed in each client in conjunction with each electronic mail sent from the client....

20060053206 - Email multicasting device: The present invention provides an email multicasting device which changes a distribution interval of emails dynamically in accordance with the number of emails to be multicast. The email multicasting device pre-stores on a client basis, mobile numbers of users which are destinations of an email. The email multicasting device, when...

20060053208 - Group details of group services: A server for a communication system is disclosed. The server is configured to receive group communication information comprising a group detail indicator. The group detail indicator provides information on at least an identity of a group and a type of the group. The server is further configured to store the...

20060053205 - Method and device for distinguishing user http requests: The invention relates to a method for distinguishing an HTTP request sent over a telecommunications network from a client device equipped with a browser to a Web server, characterised in that the HTTP request is marked when said request is sent explicitly by the user. Thus, the invention makes it...

20060053202 - Method and system implementing secure email: This method and system was developed to reduce the email spam and viruses embedded in the attachment and to provide a more secure method to deliver email messages. In addition, the internet link in the email message will be verified to eliminate email fraud. Using this implementation, email messages never...

20060053203 - Method for the filtering of messages in a communication network: The invention relates to a method for the filtering of messages in a communication network comprising at least a messaging server and a wireless node. In the method first filtering criteria is stored in the messaging server. A first message is received in the messaging server. It is determined whether...

20060053197 - Multimedia message service apparatus: With the object of making it possible to generate international multimedia message calls, an MMSC 11 determines from the destination MSISDN of the header of a multimedia message that the call is an international transmission and, at the same time, determines whether or not the forwarding destination supports number portability,...

20060053204 - Presenting and manipulating electronic mail conversations: The present invention extends to methods, systems, data structures, and computer program products for organizing electronic mail messages into conversations. Electronic mail conversation items store attribute values representing attributes of corresponding electronic mail conversations and included electronic mail messages. Attributes of an electronic mail conversation can be changed by changing...

20060053212 - Computer network architecture for providing display data at remote monitor: A computer network architecture for providing display data at a remote monitor is disclosed. The computer network architecture comprises a local computer, a local user interface controller, a remote user interface controller, and a remote monitor. The local user interface controller electrically connected to the local computer comprises a video...

20060053211 - Deterministic communication between graphical programs executing on different computer systems: A system and method for enabling deterministic or time-triggered data exchange between a first graphical program and a second graphical program. A first variable is assigned to a first time slot in a network cycle. A first graphical program may be configured to write data to the first variable. A...

20060053210 - Method for using snmp as an rpc mechanism for exporting the data structures of a remote library: A semi-automatic mapping of a library definition to a simple network management protocol (SNMP) management information base (MIB). By exposing the internal data needed to remotely access arbitrary user space libraries as SNMP data structures which can be directly modified over the network, the internal data, its operations, and usages...

20060053209 - System and method for distributed streaming of scalable media: A “PeerStreamer” provides receiver-driven peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming for loosely coupled P2P networks. Peers in the network perform only simple operations, may cache all or part of the streaming media, do not collaborate with other peers, may be unreliable, and may drop offline or come online during any given streaming...

20060053213 - Method of handling web page requests from a browser: When an end-user enters a request for a web page directly into the URL line of a web browser, but erroneously mis-types the TLD as a country code TLD (e.g. typing ‘.co’ instead of ‘.com’), in place of a conventional error message being returned or browser defined default page, a...

20060053214 - Method and system of detecting a change in a server in a server system: A method for detecting a change in a server in a server system includes a server system coupled to a network server. The method includes booting the server from the network server. Scan the server by the network server to obtain a new inventory of information. Compare the new inventory...

20060053216 - Clustered computer system with centralized administration: Systems and methods for a computer cluster and for conducting user sessions in a managed enterprise computer network. A cluster includes multiple inter-connected nodes with specific roles. Master nodes administer and monitor slave nodes and the slave nodes are used to conduct user sessions with users through terminal nodes that...

20060053217 - Information processing apparatus, transfer program product, and transfer control method: An information processing apparatus from which setting information for setting up an operating environment is transferred to another information processing apparatus includes a logged-in user setting information expanding unit, and a non-logged-in user setting information expanding unit. The logged-in user setting information expanding unit reads setting information of a logged-in...

20060053215 - Systems and methods for providing users with access to computer resources: Systems and methods for providing multiple users with access to network resources including software applications. A system has an architecture that centralizes and manages computer nodes. The computer nodes include server computers and desktop computers. The centralized computer nodes support multiple instances of different operating systems and are accessed by...

20060053220 - Client server system, grouping method, server, program, computer-readable storage medium, client: It is an object to provide a method for grouping many messages having variable formats transmitted to a unit of server from many clients in the manner that a user can easily verify such messages on the server. A client server system including a plurality of clients and a server...

20060053218 - Method and device for reducing a dataset consisting of process data to be transmitted: A method for reducing an amount of process data to be transferred from a field device, wherein the process data includes information concerning an operating condition of the field device, and/or information concerning process variables registered with the field device, and/or identification data of the field device. It is provided...

20060053219 - Operation history utilization system and method thereof: There is provided an operation history utilization system which includes a terminal electric device (101), a server electric device (user server) (102), and an application server (103) that are connected to one another via network. On the terminal electric device (101), there is implemented a device agent (201) for storing...

20060053221 - Packet communication network, route control server, route control method, packet transmission device, admission control server, light wavelength path setting method, program, and recording medium: A packet transfer apparatus (3) executes mutual conversion and transfer of an upper layer packet on a user terminal side and a lower layer frame on an optical wavelength path side. An admission control server (4) sets, of the optical wavelength paths of the photonic network, an optical wavelength path...

20060053222 - Dynamic distribution of files to be processed between terminals: Files to be processed are distributed dynamically and fairly between participant terminals connected to a distribution server in order to minimize the file processing time. The distribution server determines and updates processing speeds of the terminals and an average of the processing speeds in order to adapt the distribution of...

20060053225 - Group details of group services: A group detail indicator is provided that relates to group communication in a communication system. The group detail indicator provides information on at least an identity of a group and a type of the group. The group detail indicator also is attached to one of a request to initiate a...

20060053223 - Method and apparatus for persistent connections to a device through the use of multiple physical network connections and connection hand-offs between multiple bands, modes and networks: A method and system to provide multiple connections to a device from separate physical networks through the same logical network layer while keeping connections persistent. In order to keep connections persistent and change physical networks, at least one additional connection is needed to seamlessly accomplish the “hand-off”. If one or...

20060053224 - Method and system for communicating and exchanging data between browser frames: Browser frames residing on different domain servers may exchange information indirectly without compromising security that ordinary restricts frame to frame communication. The first browser frame causes the browser to generate a notification of a change of state of the browser frame. The browser sends the notification, together with data values...

20060053226 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium: The present invention has enabled computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with a maximum efficiency. Actual condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are integrally controlled by a personal computer functioning itself as a...

20060053227 - Multi-media messaging: Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for creating multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a message in a first format, adapting the message to a MMS message, and sending the MMS message to a user device....

20060053228 - Method and apparatus for allowing sharing of streamable applications: A client on a network includes a file system that includes various non-streamable software applications. A streaming support system in the client enables a streamable software application to be located in the file system and executed in a streaming mode without being isolated from the non-streamable software applications in the...

20060053229 - Common protocol layer architecture and methods for transmitting data between different network protocols and a common protocol packet: The present invention provides common protocol architecture and methods for transmitting data between different network protocols and a common protocol packet. The common protocol architecture comprises an application layer; a common protocol layer positioned under the application layer, the common protocol layer enabling data communications between the different protocols; a...

20060053230 - Method of contextually determining missing components of an incomplete uniform resource locator: A technique and apparatus for connecting a terminal to a host server on the Internet in response to an incomplete uniform resource locator (URL). The remaining or missing components of the incomplete URL is contextually determined as a function of the host server....

20060053231 - Method and apparatus for providing backup internet access: A method, an apparatus and a system for providing secondary or backup Internet access are disclosed. The system includes a local network server having a primary router for directing data to/from a primary Internet backbone and a secondary router for directing data to/from a secondary Internet backbone. The primary router...

20060053232 - Digital content distribution system, right management server and user terminal: In a right management server (100), a license data generation/updating unit (307) generates license data (900) including a use condition (503) for permitting a user to use a content based on a content use right (500) owned by the user. A subset use condition setting unit (308) sets a subset...

20060053233 - Method and system for implementing a remote overlay cursor: A graphic display control system is disclosed. The graphic display control system comprises a server computer comprising a memory unit, a graphic display controller accessing image data displayed on the server computer and a cursor information and thereby storing the image data and the cursor information in the memory unit,...

20060047742 - Method and apparatus to accomplish peer-to-peer application data routing between service consumers and service providers within a service oriented architecture: A Peer-to-Peer Application Data Routing Fabric is described. The Fabric provides routing between endpoints resident in peer nodes of a Service Oriented Architecture where the routing is based on endpoint presence, availability, status, and location to satisfy the requirements of fault tolerance and load balancing among homogenous endpoints; or routing...

20060047741 - Method and device for quickly processing communication protocol by replacing software with hardware: A method and apparatus for implementing information transmission, computation, and especially Internet server functionality by means of hardware modules are provided. Software implementing an Internet server is converted to hardware by using a merging circuit module that merges input packets from a plurality of circuits into one output. A designer...

20060047743 - Method for document page delivery to a mobile communication device: A process for viewing a selected portion of a document on a mobile communication device without having to request multiple pages of the document contents containing document global properties applied to the selected part of the document, comprsing marking pages of the document within a server, based on size required...

20060047746 - Split personal computer system: A cable television interface box for interconnecting a television display unit to a cable television connection. The cable television interface box includes a television accessory unit in communication with the television display unit and the cable television connection. The television accessory unit interfaces with a remote portion of a split...

20060047744 - System and method for maintaining on a handheld electronic device information that is substantially current and is readily available to a user: An improved system and method for managing data on a handheld electronic device includes a server that periodically pushes data to a particular handheld electronic device, with the data being stored on the handheld electronic device by way of a routine running in the background whereby such reception and storage...

20060047745 - System and method for maintaining on a handheld electronic device information that is substantially current and is readily available to a user: An improved system and method for managing data on a handheld electronic device includes a server that periodically pushes data to a particular handheld electronic device, with the data being stored on the handheld electronic device by way of a routine running in the background whereby such reception and storage...

20060047749 - Digital links for multi-media network conferencing: A videoconferencing and data collaboration system is disclosed, wherein user systems exchange A/V data along with other computer data via conferencing devices over a packet network. The conferencing devices are configured to process and transmit A/V data to other devices participating in a conference. Each transmitting conferencing device uses DSP...

20060047748 - Preventing the capture of chat session text: A method, system, and computer program product for disabling the capturing of chat session text. A chat session participant may store a profile for informing other chat session participants of preferences regarding the capture of chat session text. A chat session user may disable another user's ability to capture text....

20060047747 - System and method for automatic selection of an instant messenger client: Automatic selection of an instant messenger (IM) client is made in response to a request to initiate a communication activity with a selected contact, such as an IM chat session. The IM client is selected according to which IM client is providing presence information related to the contact. The IM...

20060047750 - Systems and methods for connecting video conferencing to a distributed network: A data capture module can be connected to a multi-point control unit managing a video conference session just as the end point of a participant to the video conference session is connected. The data capture module receives the video and/or audio digital data content just as the participating end points...

20060047752 - A system and method to capture, filter, and statistically analyze electronic messages: A business transaction management product which captures “snapshots” of messages and their payload content from a messaging network, on the fly, applies filters to select and abstract only priority messages/transactions, transfers the information over a private network or the Internet in a totally secure fashion and formats and stores the...

20060047751 - Distributed request routing: A plurality of servers for processing client requests forward the requests among themselves to achieve a balanced load. When a server initially receives a client request, it randomly selects another of the plurality of servers, referred to as a first-chance server, and forwards the request to this server. Upon receiving...

20060047760 - Apparatus and method to identify spam emails: A method and apparatus to identity SPAM emails is disclosed. The method sets a misspelling rejection ratio. Upon receipt of an email comprising (X) words, the method determines the number (Y) of misspelled words comprising that email. The method then calculates a misspelling ratio by dividing (Y) by (X), and...

20060047766 - Controlling transmission of email: Techniques are disclosed for controlling the transmission of undesired bulk email by, for example, authenticating and classifying sender email addresses and aggregating recipient feedback to provide to participating senders. For example, senders may be separated into two classes—real people and bulk emailers. Senders may be authenticated in different ways depending...

20060047764 - Data processing methods, systems and computer programs: Methods, systems and computer programs are provided for processing data in a web service environment. In accordance with one embodiment, a data processing method is provided that comprises: entering data values into respective data entry fields of an electronic data entry form of a first computer; entering an identifier of...

20060047765 - Electronic mail communication system, electronic mail communication apparatus, electronic mail communication method, and storage medium storing electronic mail processing program: An electronic mail communication system for sending an electronic mail from a sending side communication apparatus to a reception side communication apparatus through a network, in which the sending side communication apparatus includes: a processing instruction unit that instructs a content of processing of the attached file to be performed...

20060047758 - Extending and optimizing electronic messaging rules: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for extending and optimizing electronic messaging rules. A messaging module automatically generates intermediate language instructions that represent messaging rules. The intermediate language instructions are decompiled into corresponding source code and modified to extend the functionality of the messaging rules....

20060047757 - Flexible context management for enumeration sessions using context exchange: Mechanisms for providing requested date items in a request-driven enumeration session while retaining to control over how much inter-message context information is retained by the data provider. Upon receiving a request for the data items, the data provider identifies a portion of the data items to be provided in the...

20060047754 - Mailbox interface between processors: A mailbox (5) is proposed for transferring data between two processors (1, 3). The mailbox (5) includes a main memory (7) and an ancillary memory (13, 15). The mailbox stores received data packets in the main memory (7), and stores in the ancillary memory (13, 15) those data packets which...

20060047761 - Mechanism to support transparent roaming between imp service providers in wireless networks: The instant messaging and presence (IMP) protocol implementations are swapped in and out as a client application roams among various service provider networks. The IMP API, and hence the IMP application, remains unchanged. Moreover, the IMP application continues to operate seamlessly and transparently. When the client application roams and a...

20060047759 - Message delivery to multiple forests with no unified directory: The present invention provides for a messaging system that automatically identifies a forest that corresponds to a particular recipient of a message, without using a common or unified directory that maps forests with recipients. In a network with multiple forests, each forest having multiple recipients, when a message is received...

20060047756 - Method and apparatus for indicating truncated email information in email synchronization: A method by which an email synchronization server (11) communicates to an email synchronization client (12) that an email being provided to the client (12) by the server (11) during a synchronization session is truncated, based on including in a description of the email a truncated element (21) and also,...

20060047762 - Method of generating a certified email return receipt: A method of generating a certified email return receipt is provided. The method includes receiving an email requiring a certified email return receipt in a locked condition, prompting a person attempting to open the email to enter certified email return receipt information, collecting the certified email return receipt information entered...

20060047753 - New online service offering email chat people location-in-a-dynamic-scenario, messagining, auctions and other services based upon real id of its subcribers: Subscribers would find the Service more useful for carrying out formal/official communications from the Service with other Subscribers and non-Subscribers. Subscribers shall be able to make confidential comments in their e-mail communications that are meant only for the recipients in cc AND/OR BCC lists. Subscribers will also be able to...

20060047763 - Rapid email reading system and method of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message: An email reading system and method of combining multiple electronic mailboxes and a short message, which has at least one Internet mail server, an Internet message gateway and at least one handheld device. The message gateway applies the POP3 protocol for sending a command of processing email to the mail...

20060047755 - System and method for managing connections: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for managing connections. A filter may receive a client request message having one or more parameters. In an embodiment, the filter may modify the request message based, at least in part, on the one or more parameters. The...

20060047767 - Unified messaging system using web based application server for management of messages using standardized servers: A unified web-based voice messaging system uses an application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, that accesses subscriber attributes from a standardized information database server (such as LDAP), and messages from a standardized messaging server (such as IMAP), regardless of message format. The application server,...

20060047768 - Communicating information about the character of electronic messages to a client: A messaging system on a server computes a spamicity value (spam score) for incoming messages. The messaging system may filter the incoming messages using that spamicity value, or using any other basis. Conversely, the messaging system may not filter the messages at all. In either case, the spamicity value is...

20060047770 - Direct information copy and transfer between real-time messaging applications: Information transfer between instant messaging applications and configured personal information management application programs such as electronic address books, date books, phone books, to do list, and the like, is automated to alleviate burdensome and tedious user actions of manually cutting and pasting several strings of text from the instant messaging...

20060047769 - System, method and program to limit rate of transferring messages from suspected spammers: A system, method and program product for managing e-mails from a source suspected of sending spam. The e-mails are received at a firewall or router en route to a mail server. A determination is made whether a source has sent an e-mail which exhibits characteristics of spam. In response, subsequent...

20060047771 - Rdma server (osi) global tce tables: In remote direct memory access (RDMA) transfers in a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, there is a need for the system to ensure efficient memory protection mechanisms across jobs. A method is thus desired...

20060047772 - Applet embedded cross-platform caching: An applet is used to deliver a persistent caching mechanism. An initial package of the applet incorporates a lightweight caching mechanism into its root set of classes. The remainder of the applet are divided into functional modules that can be subsequently downloaded as needed. The initial applet and caching mechanism...

20060047773 - Sequential ordering of transactions in digital systems with multiple requestors: A digital system with an improved transaction ordering policy is disclosed. Individual occurrences of requests for access to common system resources specify whether or not the request is ordered. In some embodiments, the invention includes a memory that holds data, a controller, and at least two processors that generate requests...

20060047776 - Automated failover in a cluster of geographically dispersed server nodes using data replication over a long distance communication link: An embodiment of the invention is a method for performing an automated failover from a remote server node to a local server node, the remote server node and the local server node being in a cluster of geographically dispersed server nodes. The local server node is selected to be recipient...

20060047777 - Enhancing portlet run-time display with dynamically applied portlet skins: A method, system and apparatus for enhancing the run-time display of a portlet using dynamically applied portlet skins. In this regard, a portlet display enhancement system can include a portlet aggregator configured to aggregate portlet views into a portal page, and alternate skin insertion logic programmed to wrap at least...

20060047774 - Media play of selected portions of an event: A system is provided for selectively presenting a portion of an event to a user. The system includes a first device, a second device, and a network allowing communication between the first and the second device. An application at the first device displays a plurality of sub-events that characterize an...

20060047775 - Method and apparatus for downloading content: Methods and apparatus for managing download of content to a client device are disclosed. In one aspect, the download process is optimized for bandwidth usage by using criteria such as time of day, level of network activity and priority of download. In another aspect, download of content is prioritized based...

20060047778 - Peer-to-peer hosting of intelligent field devices: Device configurations are stored in a system including at least two intelligent field devices (IFDs) connected by a communications connection. A configuration for a first IFD is stored in the first IFD, and a backup of the configuration for the first IFD is stored in at least one other IFD....

20060047779 - Http agent-driven content negotiation for scalable video coding: A client can discover the quality-selection parameters that are available from a server for a particular scalable-coded video resource using an HTTP-based agent-driven content negotiation technique. A client sends an HTTP-based request to a server for a list of variants of the resource. The server receives the HTTP-based request and,...

20060047780 - Method and apparatus for web-based, schema-driven application-server and client-interface package using a generalized, data-object format and asynchronous communication methods without the use of a markup language.: Web-based applications provide an alternative approach to client-server computing using the internet or intranet as the transport mechanism. The invention uses the schema and system catalogs of a relational database to contain and describe the methods, features, functions, and operation of a web-based application. In the invention, a generalized object...

20060047781 - Method and system for providing remote portal service modules: The present invention is a method for providing Remote Portal Services (RPS). RPS is a system for easily and quickly incorporating remote applications (RPS Services) into a portal. RPS Services may be enabled making the RPS Service available for incorporation onto a server implementing a portal. Enabled RPS Services may...

20060047790 - Automatic cluster join protocol: A method for new nodes to join a cluster in a serial sequence includes (a) a new node transmitting a first type of request to join the cluster and (b) the new node determining if it has to back off the first type of request. The new node has to...

20060047792 - Dynamically configuring a server computer: A method and system for dynamically configuring a server computer is provided. A global configuration file is utilized to configure a server computer on a per request basis. When a request is received at a server computer embodying aspects of the present invention, the server computer dynamically configures itself utilizing...

20060047787 - Hot swap and plug-and-play for rfid devices: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates adding a device to an RFID network and associated a process to such device. An interface can receive a new device and/or related identification data that is to be incorporated into an RFID network. A hot swap component can...

20060047788 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program: In an information processing device according to the present invention, in the case of acquiring a setting value by using a protocol, a setting value acquired from a server by using the protocol is stored into a storage area for storing a setting value designated by a user....

20060047784 - Method, apparatus and system for remotely and dynamically configuring network elements in a network: A method, apparatus and system enable remote, responsive and dynamic management and configuration of various network elements on wired or wireless networks. In one embodiment, a host controller may obtain privileges to remotely configure network elements that include a configuration module. The host controller may additionally communicate with network elements...

20060047783 - Methods and apparatuses for automatically selecting a profile: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses for automatically selecting a user profile includes detecting a peripheral device in communication with an electronic device; and automatically presenting a user profile associated with the peripheral device on the electronic device based on matching a device identifier associated with the electronic device...

20060047786 - Network retrieval system, information retrieval method, bridge device and program: There is provided network retrieval system, information retrieval method, bridge device and program in which in case where any one of plural computers arranged on a network is instructed to retrieve certain information, the plural computers cooperate to retrieve the certain information by using a distributed hash table according to...

20060047782 - Presence service: A presentity improves presence service and includes a presentity account setup device adapted to cooperate with a presence server of a service provider (LOC_SP) of a local domain. The presentity account setup device includes presentity account definition means, responsive to an instruction input, to define a presentity account at the...

20060047789 - Rule-based filtering and alerting: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates utilizing rule-based technology with radio frequency identification (RFID) network. An interface can receive real-time RFID data from a process comprising at least one device collection in the RFID network, wherein a rules engine (RE) component can employ a...

20060047785 - System and method for configuring and managing communication devices: A system (3) for configuring and managing communication devices that include non-volatile memories includes a user interface (31) for providing a configuration and management interface for a network administrator, one or more service modules (35) for generating configuration information, and a configuration manager (33) for managing the configuration information. The...

20060047791 - System and method of assigning and reclaiming static addresses through the dynamic host configuration protocol: Presented is a system and method for providing centralized address management of static IP addresses through the dynamic host control protocol. Static or permanent IP addresses are those addresses assigned by DHCP having an infinite lease time. The assignment of such static IP addresses follows the conventional DHCP mechanism for...

20060047794 - Application of genetic algorithms to computer system tuning: The software and/or hardware components of a multi-purposed computer system may be tuned by using a genetic algorithm. The genetic algorithm may be used to optimize a plurality of configuration parameters of the components of the computer system....

20060047793 - Method for configuring computing devices using reference groups: Arrangements and methods for configuring at least one computing device using at least one reference group. In a preferred embodiment, a reference group of peer devices is identified, configuration settings of the peer devices are extracted, the extracted configuration settings are analyzed and at least one configuration template is provided....

20060047796 - Device management system and method: A device management system and method is provided. The device management system and method includes a transmission server to transmit a communication from at least one device. A reception server receives the communication from the at least one device. And a device manager coupled to the reception server manages the...

20060047799 - Model-based operation support systems and related methods: Model-based operation support systems (OSSs) use generalized, normalized models capable of recognizing changes, etc., to any number of different network elements. The ability to recognize changes, modifications and extensions made to various network elements helps reduce the costs associated with OSSs....

20060047795 - Service object for network management: A telecommunications system includes a first site. The system includes an ingress node in communication with the first site. The system includes a network in communication with the ingress node. The system includes an egress node in communication with the network. The system includes a second site in communication with...

20060047801 - Snmp wireless proxy: Efficient network management techniques for use in wireless environments are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a network system includes a server-client architecture, where a number of mobile clients (e.g., cell phones, PDAs, smart phones) wirelessly access and interact with the system via jack service points. The server...

20060047798 - System and method for automated capture, editing, replication, and deployment of server configurations: A system and method for the automated capture, editing, replication, and deployment of server configurations. The system includes a set of tools for creating system configurations; for editing configurations that are actively used on a server or stored but not in active use; for replicating configurations and allowing customization of...

20060047797 - System and method for determining one of a plurality of shells based on user identification information: According to one embodiment, a system comprises a processor-based device and a startup application that is operable to determine one of a plurality of different shells presented by the processor-based device based on a user's identity information....

20060047800 - Systems and methods for network management: An network management system (NMS) architecture is disclosed that takes advantage of intelligence capable network devices for network monitoring and control. NMS functions may be distributed where possible to intelligent devices where local storage and processing may be performed. Local collection and processing of monitoring information may reduce NMS-related network...

20060047804 - Accelerating user interfaces by predicting user actions: A client assistant, sometimes called a browser helper, runs on a client computer. The client assistant monitors a user's browsing activities and infers one or more next documents that are most likely to be requested by the user. The client assistant attempts to locate a fresh copy of the inferred...

20060047805 - Apparatus, system, and method for gathering trace data indicative of resource activity: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for gathering trace data indicative of resource activity on a computer system. The present invention includes a monitoring module that initiates one or more activity monitors on a target computer system to detect different types of resource activity. A determination module determines activity...

20060047810 - Asset management system and method: A computer asset management system permits users of computing devices to run a system profiler tool on their computing device, and an inventory of the computing device's assets are uploaded to a database specific to the organization to which the computing device belongs. An IT manager from the organization can...

20060047806 - Mediation-based methods and devices for updating operations support systems: The cost of updating an operations support system may be reduced by using a mediation unit that is capable of transforming changes made to any number of different, vendor-specific network elements. The transformations involve the generation of a more generalized, normalized set of changes that are recognizable by the operations...

20060047809 - Method and apparatus for assessing performance and health of an information processing network: Network functional components made up of a set of network elements (routers, switches and other infrastructure devices) communicating and cooperating to implement a network service such as a routing protocol or the spanning tree used to implement VLANs, are assigned performance and/or health metrics, which are communicated through a communications...

20060047807 - Method and system for detecting a network anomaly in a network: A method for detecting a network anomaly in a network includes collecting management information base (MIB) data from the network at an interval and constructing a time series of the collected data. The method also includes decomposing the time series of the collected data in the wavelet domain, constructing an...

20060047803 - Method and system for dynamic device address management: Maintaining a current network address between a network device and a network management system (NMS) that enables central configuration control over a number of network devices. Network devices with dynamically changeable network addresses provide address updates to a listener system, which maintains a database of current IP addresses relative to...

20060047802 - Provisioning grid services to maintain service level agreements: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for provisioning grid resources for a set of grid services. The service performance for the set of grid services is monitored. The set of grid services has a set of service level agreements. In response to monitoring service performance, a determination is made as...

20060047808 - Workload placement based on thermal considerations: A method of workload placement among servers includes receipt of a workload request. The method also includes selection of a group of servers from a set of servers capable of performing the requested workload. In addition, server workload indexes, which are ratios of temperature rises due to re-circulation load for...

20060047811 - Method and system of providing access to various data associated with a project: Described is a system and method that enables project management across application programs, including an email program, calendar program, spreadsheet program, word processing program, note taking program and others. A central project-related view provides access to project-related data items and may display a schedule, a task list of tasks filtered...

20060047815 - Adapting computer resource usage based on forecasted resource availability: An exemplary method includes forecasting availability of a system resource, adapting a policy for handling requests for the system resource based on the forecasted availability, and handling a request for the system resource according to the policy. An exemplary system includes a forecasting module forecasting availability of one or more...

20060047812 - Network audio file receiver system for connecting home stereo to wide band network: The present invention is to provide a network audio file receiver system for connecting a home stereo to a wide band network, which comprises a network audio file receiver coupled to a home stereo for receiving and playing audio files sent from an Internet radio via an Internet protocol sharing...

20060047813 - Provisioning manager for optimizing selection of available resources: A method and software for fulfilling a resource request in a data processing network includes specifying characteristics of the requested resource responsive to detecting the resource request. A set of attributes is then derived from the specified characteristics. The specified characteristics indicate broad or general properties of the needed resource...

20060047814 - System and method for managing end user approval for charging in a network environment: An apparatus for managing information in a network environment is provided that includes a content service gateway operable to communicate with an end user in order to facilitate a communication session. The communication session relates to a request by the end user for content or for a service. A quota...

20060047817 - Digital media receiver having a reader: A digital media receiver, method, and computer readable medium bearing instructions for transferring information from media to a connected computer system are described. The receiver includes a memory for storing instructions for execution, a first interface coupled with a processor for transmitting a signal representative of media information to a...

20060047816 - Method and apparatus for generating and distributing meeting minutes from an instant messaging session: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for distributing meeting minutes from an instant messaging session. Meeting minutes are generated using data from the instant messaging session, in response to receiving a user input to distribute text from the instant messaging session. The meeting minutes are then distributed by email to...

20060047818 - Method and system to support multiple-protocol processing within worker processes: A server system has a process manager, listeners and worker processes in which the listeners connect to worker processes. At server start-up, each listener connects with the process manager via a pipe published by the process manager. The process manager then provides information to each listener associating applications to application...

20060047819 - Simultaneous transfer of database updates between multiple clients and a server: The present invention relates to simultaneous transfer of database updates between multiple clients and a server. A plurality of (potentially limited resource) clients simultaneously establishes (e.g., TCP) connections to a server. Database updates are efficiently transferred between the server and each of the plurality of clients simultaneously. Server resources are...

20060047820 - System and method for monitoring simultaneous poc sessions: The system includes a push to talk over cellular (PoC) client for requesting storage of media data of a sub-participation session among the simultaneous sessions, a storage part for storing the media data of the sub-participation session, and a push to talk over cellular (PoC) server for transmitting the media...

20060047821 - System, method, and medium for relaying data using socket application program: Provided are a method and system for relaying data using a socket application program. The data relay system includes a server socket module that receives data requesting access to a server from the first and second clients and establishes a connection between the server and either the first or second...

20060047822 - System and method for optimizing publication of operating states: A system and method for optimizing publication operating states includes sending a first publication message to provide an operating state of a mobile unit. The operating state of the mobile unit is stored in a data session slot associated with the mobile unit. A second publication message is sent to...

20060047836 - A method for maintaining transaction integrity across multiple remote access servers: A system for providing failover redundancy in a remote access solution that includes at least one application resource on a back-end server is discussed. The system further includes multiple gateway servers. One of the multiple gateway servers is designated as a primary gateway server while the other servers are designated...

20060047828 - Apparatus, system, and method for preserving cluster level serialization during file server serialization reinitialization: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for preserving cluster level serialization during file server serialization reinitialization. The apparatus includes a permission request module, a cluster negotiation module, and a completion notification module. The permission request module communicates a permission request to a remote file server in anticipation of a...

20060047827 - Automatic configuration of computers in a network: A system for automatic configuration of computers on a network is disclosed. In a first aspect a storage area network is disclosed. The network comprises at least one controller; and a plurality of clients coupled to the at least one controller. The network includes a storage device coupled to the...

20060047826 - Client computer self health check: A method and system for defining every operation required of a client PC before being authorized to obtain an IP address that will enable the client PC to join a network serviced by specified DHCP servers. Each successful operation generates a value that is stored on a pre-determined location on...

20060047829 - Differentiated connectivity in a pay-per-use public data access system: Provides methods and apparatus for offering tiered application services for access to network services on a pay-per-use basis in public access networks. Using personal devices, the user can access different tiers of application services on demand, without the need of any preexisting association, e.g., subscription, with the service provider of...

20060047825 - Location based service (lbs) system and method for creating a social network: A system and method for providing a location based service to create a social network, comprising activating a feature from a wireless terminal, registering from the wireless terminal with a location based service associated with the feature, creating a profile of a user of the feature, and displaying candidates based...

20060047823 - Method and apparatus for detecting an unauthorized client in a network of computer systems: A method and system for detecting an unauthorized client system attempting to connect to a network of computer systems is disclosed. The network includes a certification authority server that includes a database of unique identification codes of authorized network client systems. A client system attempting to connect to the network...

20060047832 - Method and apparatus for processing web service messages: Methods and apparatuses for processing a web service message are provided. The apparatus includes a data store and firewall logic means. The data store stores configurable firewall criteria. An interface can optionally be provided for configuring the firewall criteria. A web service message is processed through the firewall logic means...

20060047835 - Method and system for lan and wlan access to e-commerce sites via client server proxy: a secondary private address space) and uses dynamic routing (with Virtual Network Adapters) to facilitate access from the client to subscribed e-commerce platforms. ODIPA also uses something called DHCP Scope Rotation to help avoid or minimize the chance of IP address conflicts. Scope Rotation is basically a timed and/or database...

20060047833 - Multi-homed web server: A multi-homed web server is disclosed including web server software configured to provide a plurality of virtual hosts. A configuration sub-file derived from a master configuration file is provided and associated with each of the virtual hosts. The web server software processes incoming connection requests according to rules contained in...

20060047834 - Multi-homed web server: A multi-homed web server is disclosed including a plurality of virtual hosts operable in a web server. A master configuration file associated with each of said plurality of virtual hosts is provided. A plurality of modules are available for processing particular types of incoming connection requests. Associations are maintained in...

20060047830 - Pctel14100u method and system for automatic data transfer on a network-connected device: A service provider interface protocol, when embedded into a network-capable device, can automatically connect the device to a wired or wireless network. This automatic device connectivity can include automatic logging on, automatic authentication and seamless, automatic data upload to, or download from, another location on the network. Configuration parameters for...

20060047831 - System and method for clustered tunneling of requests in application servers and transaction-based systems: A system and method for clustered tunneling of requests in application servers and other systems is provided. The system includes a client, a cluster having a plurality of members, and a proxy. The cluster does not advertise the internal addresses of its members since clients might attempt to directly connect...

20060047824 - System and method for transferring data in high latency firewalled networks: A system and method are provided for establishing multiple parallel connections between a client and a server on a single server port. Data may be transferred on the multiple parallel connections between the server and the client through an opening in a network firewall that corresponds to the single server...

20060047837 - Arrangement for informing application capabilities by an object exchange protocol: The invention relates to a method for informing application properties by an object exchange protocol. Properties of an application to be stored are determined as property information as a response to an addition or modification of the application in the data processing device. The property information is stored to a...

20060047838 - Inferring server state in a stateless communication protocol: Server state objects are identified by an intermediate server among packets transmitted between an application server and a client device on a network based upon a stateless communcation protocol, by monitoring and analyzing the packets transmitted between the application server and the client device. The packets are parsed into a...

20060047841 - Method and apparatus for wireless networking: A method and apparatus for wireless networking employs a wireless protocol module and a wireless interface module for controlling a remote terminal unit, whereby the modules integrate the remote terminal unit software and wireless networking application software....

20060047840 - Method and session initiation protocol (sip) server for the exchange of end-point capabilities: A method and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server for efficiently creating a SIP message, such as a SIP request or response message. A new service is installed in the server, and a service engine of the server acquires information regarding end-point capabilities (e.g. option tags or feature tags) associated...

20060047839 - Reproxying an unproxied connection: A method is disclosed for reproxying connections. According to one aspect, a first connection is established between a client and a proxy device. A second connection is established between the proxy device and a server. The first connection comprises a first endpoint at the client and a second endpoint at...

20060047842 - Joint symbol, amplitude, and rate estimator: The system in one embodiment relates to tightly integrating parameter estimation, symbol hypothesis testing, decoding, and rate identification. The present invention provides Turbo-decoding for joint signal demodulation based on an iterative decoding solution that exploits error correction codes. The system iteratively couples an initial amplitude estimator, a symbol estimator, a...

20060047844 - One step approach to deliver multimedia from local pc to mobile devices: A method, apparatus, html form, image processing function, web server is directed to enabling one step uploading, format conversion, and delivering of multimedia to mobile devices. A web form is provided for users to upload multimedia from their local desktop computing device. Also provided in the form are input fields...

20060047845 - Streaming gateway: The exemplary embodiments describe methods, systems, and products that intelligently translate between streaming formats. One such method receives a multimedia stream of data, with the multimedia stream of data having a streaming protocol. Network control data is received and indicates a level of demand for the multimedia stream of data....

20060047843 - System and method for combining memory resources for use on 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...

20060047846 - Integrating electronic messaging diagnostics into a messaging pipeline: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating messaging diagnostics into a messaging pipeline. A messaging pipeline receives a control message and passes the control message through one or more pipeline components (potentially a security component) positioned in the messaging pipeline. The control message is...

20060047847 - Sharing personal information of a user: A host-based system for sharing personal information of a network user with the resources accessed by that network user. The host-based system generally involves either or both of two data stores, referred to as passport and wallet. Passport and wallet are host-based collections of routinely requested personal information and can...

20060047849 - Apparatus and method for packet coalescing within interconnection network routers: A method and apparatus for packet coalescing within interconnection network routers. In one embodiment, the method includes the scan of at least one input buffer to identify at least two network packets that include coherence protocol messages and are directed to the same destination, but from different sources. In one...

20060047850 - Multi-chassis, multi-path storage solutions in storage area networks: Systems and methods in accordance with various disclosed embodiments are provided for multi-chassis, multi-pathing solutions in storage area networks. A physical target connected to a first storage switch can be virtualized as a member of a virtual logical unit at a second storage switch to which the physical target is...

20060047848 - Nodelay per port: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for improved granularity of a response-request communication on a networked computer system. One example embodiment includes receiving the request-response communication by the networked computer system, and associating the request-response communication with a port, having a nodelay setting, from a set of ports on the...

20060047851 - Computer network with point-to-point pseudowire redundancy: A computer network includes a core network connected with first and second Ethernet access domain networks, each of Ethernet access domain networks including a user-facing provider edge (u-PE) device, a primary network-facing provider edge (n-PE) device, a redundant n-PE device, and a plurality of aggregation provider edge (Agg-PE) devices providing...

20060047852 - Method and system for using boot servers in networks: A method and system for booting a server and/or server blade in a network is provided. The system includes, a boot server that is used to store plural WWPNs, an active profile for the server and a boot schedule, wherein a HBA registers a default WWPN and/or HBA profile with...

20060047853 - Network device management system, control method therefor, network device, management apparatus, methods carried out thereby, and programs for implementing the methods: A network device management system which is capable of preventing breakdown in communication between network devices connected to each other even when the IP address of one of the network devices is changed. When a change of the IP address of a multifunction peripheral is requested on a network device...

20060047854 - Active node, and contents transfer system and method using the active node: Provided are an active node, and a system and method of transmitting contents using the active node. When contents to be transmitted from a contents server to a terminal are received, resource information of the terminal is identified, the contents transmitted from the contents server are transformed into a pertinent...

20060047855 - Efficient chunking algorithm: The present invention provides a method for chunking an object. The method is arranged to provide efficient chunking of objects such that objects can be efficiently updated between a remote machine and a local machine over a network. The chunking algorithm is applicable in networked application such as file synchronization...

20060047856 - Computer architecture and process for implementing a virtual vertical perimeter framework for an overloaded cpu having multiple network interfaces: Techniques and modes of operation for using network interfaces in a single or multi-CPU environment are disclosed. The techniques provide a virtual “vertical perimeter” framework suitable for processing data through multiple network interfaces assigned to a single CPU. In this framework, techniques for installing and servicing a plurality of network...

20060047857 - Low-power receiver decoding: Embodiments of a method and apparatus for decoding an Ethernet signal are disclosed. The method includes receiving an Ethernet bit stream. The bit stream is at least one of low-complexity decoded or high-complexity decoded. If the bit stream fails a low-complexity decoding test, then the bit stream is high-complexity decoded....