Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 04/06

20060089962 - Content providing system, information processing device and method, and program: The present invention relates to a content-providing system, information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods and programs which are capable of keeping up with changes in content value. A license server 221 transmits a utilization condition and a price table to a terminal 211. The terminal 211 has set contents stored in advance...

20060089963 - Method for initializing a distributed software architecture and an electronic system: The present invention relates to a method for initializing a distributed software architecture as well as an electronic system. A control module for a network function is made available in the form of a DCM. This control module is registered in a registry as a DCM. The present invention permits...

20060089965 - Dynamic linkage of an application server and a web server: A method, system and apparatus for dynamically linking a content server to one or more application servers can include updating a routing configuration for the content server by automatically cataloging host application servers for an application serviced by the content server. Specifically, the updating step can include determining each host...

20060089966 - Maintaining cached terminal data: A method of maintaining cached Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) terminal capability information at an end user terminal of a telecommunication system, for one or more other end user terminals. The method comprises predefining one or more signalling message properties for signalling messages to be received from peer terminals, and recording...

20060089964 - Method for performing neighbor discovery in a multi-tier wlan: A method for performing neighbor discovery in a multi-tier wireless local area network where a client creates a neighbor list identifying a neighbor wherein the neighbor is identified as an access point or a client. Then, the client determines a time to perform a scan of neighbors based upon 1)...

20060089967 - Secure multi-user web hosting: A web server is able to efficiently host multiple web sites. Since overhead is significantly reduced, the server can accommodate a large number of concurrent users without service delays or disruptions, even under heavy load conditions. A persistent controller process executes on the server, and responsively to a user request...

20060089969 - System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network: A system and method applied to a communications network which transmits document portions in which an original document portion having an identifier portion and an information portion is replaced or swapped with a substitute null document portion. The reads the identifier portion of the original document portion, determines the information...

20060089968 - Terminal for mobile communications: A mobile telecommunications terminal is disclosed, in which an adaptive software development platform corresponding to user interface (UI) or man machine interface (MMI) is effective for the development of application programs and fast changing product specification. The mobile communication terminal having a adaptive software development platform, wherein the platform comprises:...

20060089970 - Enforcing rights mangement through edge email servers: The present invention provides for methods, systems, and computer program products for ensuring that sensitive subject matter within electronic messages is not inappropriately transferred between domains with differing security rights. The present invention utilizes the appropriate placement of message transfer agents or servers along with policy documents that include configurable...

20060089971 - Instant message contact router: A method and apparatus are provided for processing an instant message within a system having a plurality agents for handling the instant message. The method includes the step of a buffer sever detecting an arrival of the instant message. The method also includes the steps of sending the instant message...

20060089972 - Method and apparatus for configuring electronic mail according to a user-selected type: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for reminding a user to include an e-mail attachment file with an e-mail communication. The e-mail application is configured to provide a menu of different types of e-mail for the user to select, and to provide templates that require the...

20060089973 - Automatic configuration information generation for distributed computing environment: A method and system for configuring information for a distributed computing environment is provided. The method and system comprises providing a job containing a list of tasks to a controller, the tasks including a bootstrap tool and configuration information related to the computer network. The method and system also comprises...

20060089974 - Information processing method and apparatus: In a system in which a plurality of processes connected via a network hold and use shared data to be shared by these processes, when a manipulation request of the shared data is generated, a manipulation event that represents the manipulation request is issued (T2501). Also, a flushing event is...

20060089975 - Online system recovery system, method and program: An online system recovery method to address an error in an active online system, involves changeover to a stand-by online system to continue operation. Log information indicative of a history of a reference operation carried out in the active online system and log information indicative of a history of an...

20060089976 - Fast make-up fatigue resistant rotary shouldered connection: A thread form having improved strength and fatigue resistance. The root of the thread may be cut on multiple cutting radii having displaced centers. At least two of the root surfaces formed by cutting radii may have lengths that are greater than the root truncation. The threads may be used...

20060089977 - System and method for providing virtual online engineering of a production environment: A system and method of provide real-time monitoring and control of a production environment. Manufacturing equipment having proprietary or non-standard digital interfaces provide a plurality of data streams having incompatible communication protocols that are converted to a common communication protocol by a translator and aggregated on a local area network....

20060089978 - Systems and methods for shared browsing among a plurality of online co-users: Systems and methods for establishing and maintaining a shared browsing experience are disclosed. A method for establishing a shared browsing experience includes an inviter computer communicating to an invitee computer, via an online messenger communication path,an invitation to establish a co-browsing experience. The invitee computer communicates to the inviter computer,...

20060089979 - Systems and methods for proliferating a computing device configuration: In one embodiment, a system and method for proliferating a computing device configuration relates to generating a categorized registry file including at least one registry entry that is categorized relative to a feature of the source computing device to which the at least one registry entry pertains, providing the categorized...

20060089980 - Video storage system: Control data, such as a store-request, and video data are sent via different paths to video storage. More specifically, a load balancer sends the control data from a camera to the storage device, and the camera sends the video data to video storage. By separating the transmission paths of the...

20060089981 - Supporting device information of a combo device in a universal plug and play network: The present invention relates to a method for bookmarking content being transferred between devices in a universal plug and play (UPnP) network. The method comprises receiving a request from a user for bookmarking content being transferred to at least one of a plurality of devices capable of performing playback of...

20060089983 - Method and apparatus for electronic document management: A method and apparatus for managing electronic documents within a network. A series of processes perform electronic document capture, indexing, and searching functions within a networked environment. A graphical web-based user interface is provided to facilitate user interaction with the apparatus....

20060089982 - Method, system, and computer program product for capacity planning by function: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for capacity planning by function. The method comprises: periodically collecting metrics for a plurality of components in a dynamic system; periodically determining dynamic system membership for a function provided by the dynamic system; providing at least one summation formula;...

20060089986 - Method and system for processing concurrent events in a provisional network: A method and system for processing concurrent events in a provisional network that comprises a plurality of dynamically allocatable nodes. Specifically, the method includes receiving notification of an event associated with a node in the provisional network. The event requires processing a new lifecycle operation to update a status of...

20060089984 - Process and implementation for autonomous probe enablement: A monitoring program for online transactions can define an ‘enable module’ that requires minimal overhead. When the monitoring program is triggered, the enable module is loaded without a context to determine if the probe is enabled, with the loading of any context deferred until enablement is determined. When the full...

20060089985 - Stackable aggregation for connection based anomaly detection: A system includes a plurality of collector devices that are disposed to collect statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network. The system also includes a stackable aggregator that receives network data from the plurality of collector devices, and which produces a connection table that maps...

20060089987 - Information processing device, access control processing method, and computer program: An apparatus and a method which enable to execute different access controls based on setting modes are realized. A MAC address table in which a manually registered client MAC address and an automatically registered client MAC address are registered in forms to be able to distinguish each other is set....

20060089988 - Mechanism for sharing resources among different senders and receivers: A technique enables resources to be shared among data flows that may have different senders (sources) and/or different receivers (destinations) in a data network. Identifiers are associated with data flows and used to indicate whether resources may be shared between data flows. The identifiers are carried in signaling messages used...

20060089989 - Method and apparatus for using multiple links at a handheld device: A network is disclosed. The network includes a server computer, a first wireless communications link communicatively coupled to the server computer, a second wireless communications link communicatively coupled to the server computer, and a handheld device communicatively coupled to the first and second wireless communications links. The handheld device concurrently...

20060089994 - Concealing a network connected device: In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a network client (42) inserts an authorization key (38) into the SEQ (30) and ACK (32) fields of a TCP connection request (56). The TCP connection request (56) is sent to a authorizing server (46). The authorizing server (46) extracts the authorization key...

20060089996 - Connection management system and method: A system and method for managing connections between a server and a plurality of clients at a network connection management device is provided. The method comprises maintaining at least one connection to the server, receiving requests from the clients, transmitting the requests to the server, receiving responses to the requests...

20060089990 - Method and apparatus for relaying session information from a portal server: For a portal server system for managing a collection of associated portlets responsive to user requests to access a application, the invention provides apparatus and methodology including: a portlet application session object for saving parameters from user requests of associated portlets; and, a portlet application communication client linked to said...

20060089993 - Output device and input device: An output device comprising: a first unit that receives a request for an output service via a network; a second unit that receives a data processing service required for providing the requested output service via the network; and a third unit that provides the requested output service in a directly...

20060089991 - Providing a proxy server feature at an endpoint: Providing a proxy server feature includes initiating the proxy server feature at an endpoint of a number of endpoints. Registration information comprising addresses for the endpoints is received and then stored in a routing table at the endpoint. The endpoint locates a callee endpoint using the routing table in order...

20060089992 - Remote computing systems and methods for supporting multiple sessions: A plurality of remote computing sessions is established on a computer. Each of the plurality of remote computing sessions has an associated client device. For each of the plurality of remote computing sessions, a virtual machine for the respective remote computing session is instantiated on the computer and software is...

20060089995 - System for conversion between physical machines, virtual machines and machine images: A system and method for converting machines from one form to another. For example a virtual machine may be moved to a physical machine or vice versa. Conversions may also be performed with images. An image is a static datastore of the state of a machine at a given time....

20060089997 - Content distribution method, program, and information processing apparatus: A content distribution method includes sending, by a client apparatus, distribution requests to server apparatuses via a network, the distribution requests requesting distribution of content data in a distributed manner on a packet basis; distributing, by the server apparatuses, the content data to the client apparatus in response to the...

20060089998 - Method and system for determining server having controlling function: A method and system for determining a server having a controlling function, are provided. The method includes determining which server serves most clients invited to a session among at least two different servers serving at least two clients, and designating the determined server to be a server having a controlling...

20060089999 - Method for providing ims-based wireless download services: Various embodiments are described to provide wireless download services that are more robust than those currently available. Signaling between and among the user equipment (UE) (101) obtaining download service, one or more IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) servers (151), and the download server (161) from which the content is obtained enable...

20060090000 - Method of improving communications data throughput on embedded systems and reducing the load on the operating system and central processing unit: A method is provided for dramatically improving communications data throughput on embedded systems and reducing the load on the operating system and central processing unit by moving the network protocol logic nearer to the underlying communication hardware, and utilizing the communication processor hardware abstraction layer (CPHAL) concepts. This movement of...

20060090002 - Programmable task scheduler for use with multiport xdsl processing system: A task scheduler for a TC subsystem is disclosed. The task scheduler is responsible for responding to computation block requests from the TC subsystem, and retrieving/storing data objects for such computation blocks. The task scheduler thus facilitates a type of logical pipeline by exchanging such data objects with a common...

20060090001 - System and method for scalable and redundant sip message routing in an ip multimedia subsystem: An Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem for use in a telecommunication network. The IP multimedia subsystem comprises: 1) an IP switch for receiving Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages from an external IP network; and 2) a plurality of call application nodes capable of executing a plurality of service applications groups....

20060090005 - Enhanced information and presence service: A network-based system for routing data between software applications with access to the network is taught, the system including at least one router connected to the network for routing between applications and the router, software in the router for creating and deleting routes and for converting incoming data of differing...

20060090006 - Enhanced information and presence service: A network-based system for routing data between software applications with access to the network is taught, the system including at least one router connected to the network for routing between applications and the router, software in the router for creating and deleting routes and for converting incoming data of differing...

20060090003 - Rendezvousing resource requests with corresponding resources: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for rendezvousing resource requests with corresponding resources. Doubly linked sorted lists are traversed using modulo arithmetic in both directions. Sorted lists can be partitioned based on a multiple proximity metrics. Node routing tables provide a logarithmic index to nodes...

20060090004 - Throttling service connections based on network paths: The present invention protects local services from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks based on network paths or sub-paths used to transfer data between a local service and remote clients. As requests for connections to the local services are received, the network sub-paths corresponding to the requests can be retrieved by...

20060090007 - Message delivery apparatus, method thereof, system thereof, and program thereof: A node (500) transmits a message to a reception node (501) via a message router (600). In the message router (600), a DB (database) read unit (240) extracts, as reception target candidate nodes, nodes in a sub-tree rooting in a domain designated by a domain path that is an attribute...

20060090009 - Advanced trick mode: An implementation of trick mode methodology receives a first request to stream media for presentation at a first normal playback rate; streams a first media stream configured to the first normal playback rate; receives a second request to stream the media for presentation at a second greater playback rate; and...

20060090011 - Communication system and control method thereof: A method for controlling a communication system comprising obtaining moving picture data, inquiring about processing capability with respect to the obtained moving picture data, changing a preset transfer rate of the moving picture data to a changed transfer rate based on the inquiry results, and transmitting the moving picture data...

20060090008 - Pseudowire termination directly on a router: A method, apparatus and computer program product for routing data within a packet-switched network using a PW wherein the PW is terminated directly on the layer-3 routing device such that certain services and applications can be utilized is presented. The method, apparatus and computer program product receives an encapsulated layer-2...

20060090010 - Video performance evaluation: Techniques can be employed to automate evaluation of video performance. Video frames of a video presentation can be intercepted and information for the intercepted video frames can be recorded. Statistics such as frames per second or mean time before freeze can be calculated without observation by a human tester. An...

20060090012 - Modular sdd (scalable device driver) framework: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving one or more packets from one or more base drivers, indicating the one or more packets to one or more protocol offload modules in a system implementing a scalable device driver (SDD), handling...

20060085498 - Intermediary apparatus, distributed processing system, data-transfer method, program and recording medium: An intermediary apparatus for intermediating communications between a first communications apparatus and multiple second communications apparatuses is disclosed. The intermediary apparatus includes first receiving means for receiving from the first communications apparatus at least an operational request, first transmitting means for transmitting to a second communications apparatus to be a...

20060085501 - Mediation system for browsing internet applications and non-internet applications: A system is dedicated to mediating between Internet applications accessible by a web browser installed in a communication equipment connected to an Internet Protocol communication network and non-Internet applications accessible by at least one secondary browser installed in the communication equipment. The system comprises mediation means adapted, each time that...

20060085500 - Message interface for configuring web services for remote portlets: A web services system enables web servers to serve pages that utilize remote portlets stored on remote systems. A consumer system serves pages that utilize remote portlets stored on one or more producer systems. When a user system accesses a page utilizing a remote portlet through a web browser, the...

20060085499 - User customizable mobile phone: A system and method is provided for efficiently modifying or changing resource files in a mobile phone. The resource files, such as ring tone, font, and wallpaper files, are preferably stored in one or more memory segments, which are separate from one or more code file memory segments, of the...

20060085502 - Organizing electronic mail messages into 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...

20060085504 - A global electronic mail classification system: A global email classification system enables email messages to be classified based on various factors into many categories. The global email classification system includes email classification servers, email classification clients, and other components. Personal email messages are in a special category. This invention includes a method to classify email messages...

20060085506 - Controlling receipt of undesired electronic mail: Spam and other unwanted electronic-mail may be controlled by a system in which a given external message transfer agent using a given Internet protocol address and a given domain name is limited in the number of connections that it may make and the number of messages it may deliver over...

20060085503 - Data communications system using e-mail tunnelling: This invention is generally concerned with data communications systems, more particularly systems for communicating between two software processes through an intervening firewall. A method of communicating data through a firewall, from a first software process on a first machine to a second software process on a second machine, the method...

20060085510 - Data sending/receiving method and apparatus, data receiving apparatus and data sending apparatus: A sending receiving method for data, such as musical data, in which plural data stored in a first storage unit are retrieved based on the request information sent from a host side device. The retrieved data is sent to a terminal side device. The sent data is checked to see...

20060085511 - Data sending/receiving method and apparatus, data receiving apparatus and data sending apparatus: A sending receiving method for data, such as musical data, in which plural data stored in a first storage unit are retrieved based on the request information sent from a host side device. The retrieved data is sent to a terminal side device. The sent data is checked to see...

20060085508 - E-mail communication apparatus, attached-file updating apparatus, e-mail communication method, attached-file updating method, and e-mail communication program: An E-mail communication apparatus that edits files attached to an E-mail and transmits the E-mail. The apparatus comprises a mail generating unit, a temporary-file generating unit, a temporary-file editing unit, an attached-file updating unit, and a transmitting unit. The mail generating unit generates a mail which is to be transmitted...

20060085514 - Efficiently sending event notifications over a computer network: A method for efficiently sending notifications over a network. A client system requests to be notified when an event occurs. A server system receives the requests and monitors for the occurrence of the event. When the event occurs a single packet using a connectionless protocol (such as User Datagram Protocol)...

20060085513 - Method and apparatus for configuring electronic mail for delivery of electronic services: An event manager is disclosed for sending services through an email communication. The event manager provides a template through which a user may select an available service that he wishes to send as an attachment to an email. The event manager enables the user to attach electronic services such as...

20060085509 - Server based constraint of mail folder content through filters: The present invention provides a way to allow the user to restrict message sets per folder. The invention allows a mail client to offload the burden of automatically constraining the mail content seen at the mobile device. The constraints are fully configurable and manageable by the client at a per...

20060085512 - Service designer solution: In one embodiment, a system and method are provided that allows easy integration of an existing third-party information or services management system into a services platform such as a Platform without requiring actual compiled code to be written. In addition, in one embodiment, the system and method allow developers to...

20060085507 - Subscription propagation in a high performance highly available content-based publish/subscribe system: The present invention is directed to a publish/subscribe system containing a plurality of brokers, a plurality of subscribers and plurality of brokers including publisher connecting brokers, intermediate brokers and subscriber connecting brokers. Subscriptions are introduced into the system by the subscribers through associated subscription brokers. New subscriptions are aggregated, assigned...

20060085505 - Validating inbound messages: A system and method for verifying messages. The method may include the steps of receiving an inbound message and characterizing the inbound message by analyzing a latent cryptographic identifier in the inbound message. The identifier is generated by a recognized message system, which may be the receiving system itself, for...

20060085515 - Advanced text analysis and supplemental content processing in an instant messaging environment: A computer-implemented method is described comprising: analyzing text entered by one or more users during an instant messaging session; identifying supplemental content based on the analysis of the text; highlighting the text or portions thereof to indicate to a user that supplemental content associated with the text is available; and...

20060085517 - Download user agent plug-in for facilitating over-the-air downloading of media objects: A manner of facilitating over-the-air downloading of media objects to devices using browser-independent download user agents. A browser is provided at the communication device to facilitate user discovery of network services offering downloadable content. A download user agent is provided, which is configured as a plug-in capable of communicating with...

20060085516 - Method and apparatus for providing a work flow web application that receives image data via a web browser and exports the image data to a document processing server: An improved image processing system is provided which receives image data at a computer and transfers that image data to a work flow server for image processing and document distribution. The system uses a work flow web application computer program that receives image data from a scanner, transfers that image...

20060085518 - Method and system for efficiently transferring a self-defined non-contiguous message in a one-sided communication model: A method and system for transferring noncontiguous messages group including assembling a set of data into a series of transmission packets, packaging a description of the layout of the transmission packets into description packets and then places each description packet into a local buffer while maintaining a count of the...

20060085519 - Method and apparatus providing domain-based cache storage for a mobile internet browser: A system is disclosed for storing content received from a data communications network. The system includes at least one physical memory device for implementing a cache memory and a cache memory manager responsive to content received from at least two sources for associating an identifier with content stored in the...

20060085520 - User interface for configuring web services for remote portlets: A web services system enables web servers to serve pages that utilize remote portlets. A consumer system serves pages that utilize remote portlets stored on one or more producer systems. An improved user interface enables a user to select a portlet from a page on a producer system and drag...

20060085521 - Interactive audio content delivery system and method: The present invention provides a system and method for delivering programmable, personalized interactive audio content, including advertising, via telecommunications carriers. Also, a telecommunications-carrier-based interactive combined entertainment, advertising, and sales channel is provided....

20060085525 - Communication system and method for enabling improved use of an electric appliance: A communication system comprising at least one electric appliance (2, 17, 18, 19, 20) and a server (1, 21). The appliance (2, 17, 18, 19, 20) is linked to the server (1, 21), relevant data of the appliance (2, 17, 18, 19, 20) is reproduced in the server (1, 21)...

20060085523 - Login specific virtual ports: A system and method of mapping remote ports so that they appear as local ports. One or more accounts is created, including a first and a second account, wherein the first account is assigned to a first user and the second account is assigned to a first computer. A plurality...

20060085522 - Method and apparatus for fully automated iscsi target configuration: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for self-configuration of iSCSI storage devices suitable for being utilized as a “plug and play” device for various network environments including direct attached, IP storage area networks with iSNS servers, and IP storage area networks without iSNS servers. The present...

20060085524 - Method and apparatus to drive network device in security by using unique identifier: A method and an apparatus to drive a network device in security without memorizing a password or directly entering a user's identifier into the network device. The apparatus includes a communication terminal, a network device connected to the communication terminal via a network, and a unique ID removable storage media...

20060085526 - Method and apparatus for maintaining network device configurations: A method for maintaining the configuration of a network device in a user device of a network includes updating a network management device each time the configuration of any of the network device changes, and notifying a plurality of user devices in the network each time the network management device...

20060085527 - Remote services for portable computing environment: The described systems, methods and data structures are directed to a portable computing environment. A communication link is established between a portable device and a host device. The portable device is equipped with a processing unit and is configured to execute a process that is accessible by the host device....

20060085531 - Active data transmission device and system: The present invention provides an active data transmission device and system. In the system, a portable electronic image-capturing/data-storage device is stored with data. An active data transmission device is connected to the portable electronic image-capturing/data-storage device for actively reading the data therein. A network server provides a dedicated storage space...

20060085533 - Content search mechanism: An improved content search mechanism uses a graph that includes intelligent nodes avoids the overhead of post processing and improves the overall performance of a content processing application. An intelligent node is similar to a node in a DFA graph but includes a command. The command in the intelligent node...

20060085530 - Method and apparatus for configuring, monitoring and/or managing resource groups using web services: In one embodiment, methods and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a virtual machine in a resource group. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a resource group in accordance with a relocation policy that authorizes relocation of a resource from one cluster to another. In a...

20060085529 - Method and system for streaming images to wireless devices: A method for interactively viewing raster images using scalable vector graphics (SVG), including receiving an SVG document, the SVG document including a reference to a raster image within the SVG document, the reference indicating a rectangular portion, a display width and height, and an IP address for a server computer,...

20060085532 - Remote management of communication devices: A canonical interface for remote interaction with communication devices in a network is described. The canonical interface supports interactions for communicating with remote devices for the configuration of router/communication software or devices; querying run-time information (dynamic and static) and statistics from router/communication software or devices; performing multi-system consistency checking; reporting...

20060085528 - System and method for monitoring network communications for pestware: Methods for monitoring network communications between a protected computer and a remotely-located computer such as a Web server are described. One embodiment is configured to intercept a data packet transmitted from a protected computer. This embodiment then compares the destination address of the data packet against a list of approved...

20060085534 - Video monitoring application, device architectures, and system architecture: Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing still image and video image data in mobile devices and monitoring applications. Corresponding mobile device and camera architectures, and service platform architectures for transmitting, storing, editing and transcoding still images and video images over wireless and wired networks and viewing them...

20060085541 - Facilitating optimization of response time in computer networks: A system and method are disclosed for leveraging bandwidth and processor utilization to advantageously influence response time performance. The objective of such leveraging is to maximize transaction throughput (e.g., requests per second) between a pair of servers when the servers are connected through less than optimal networks and/or network connections....

20060085539 - Managing multiple unit attentions: A format is provided for a command signal from a target device comprising a bit field adapted for communicating a unit attention signal from the target device following a status changing event. A method is provided for managing a unit attention signal from a target device in a distributed network,...

20060085537 - Method and system for programmatically generating synthetic transactions to monitor performance and availability of a web application: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for programmatically generating synthetic transactions to monitor performance and availability of a Web application. The mechanism of the present invention may be implemented as a Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) transaction, wherein the J2EE application is instrumented with just-in-time-instrumentation (JITI). A JITI probe...

20060085543 - Personal wireless monitoring agent: An agent for monitoring a wireless device is provided. The agent compares communications against policy guidelines and determines whether a violation of the policy guidelines has been committed, and communicates information about the violation to an authorized user....

20060085538 - System and method for enhanced network monitoring: A system for monitoring a communication network for actual and potential network problems is provided. The system includes a communication tracking module to track network communications between at least one network-user device and a network service provider device during a predefined time interval. The network communications are based upon a...

20060085536 - System and method for sharing data polling and buffering for multiple requesters: A system and method for sharing data polling and buffering for multiple requesters are provided. With the present invention, a user/computing device may register with a data polling system whose purpose is to periodically poll computer system resources for data. This data is stored in a common storage buffer with...

20060085540 - System and method for the use of redundant network interface cards: A system and method is disclosed for providing a redundant network interface card in an information handling system. Each of the network interface cards of the computer system is coupled to an external switch. When a failure is identified in one of the network interface cards, a signal is sent...

20060085535 - System and method to integrate device, user, and account information: A system for managing and servicing at least one device communicatively coupled to a network, including a communication manager configured to receive an alert and monitored information from the at least one device over the network, and to receive a user request for information related to the at least one...

20060085542 - System monitoring in multi-tier application environments: A method of system monitoring in multi-tier application environments. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a script is periodically initiated. System monitoring information is collected in accordance with the script. The system monitoring information is sent to a log file....

20060085544 - Algorithm for minimizing rebate value due to sla breach in a utility computing environment: The invention described is a new and useful process for minimizing the overall rebate a provider disburses to customers when a service level agreement (SLA) breach occurs in a utility computing environment. Specifically, the process compares performance data and resource usage with the SLAs of the customers, and reallocates shared...

20060085548 - Apparatus and method for firewall traversal: An apparatus and method for traversing a network address translation/firewall device to maintain a registration between first and second devices separated by the firewall device are provided. In one example, the method includes intercepting a registration message from the first device to the second device. A determination is made based...

20060085546 - Managing terminal services accounts and sessions for online utilization of a hosted application: Systems, computer-program-products, and methods for managing terminal services (TS) accounts and sessions for online utilization of hosted applications are provided. A system is operative to monitor a supply of available TS accounts and create TS accounts in response to detecting that the supply of available TS accounts is below a...

20060085547 - Method and apparatus for controlling an upper layer in a protocol stack to delay timeouts: In a device communicating over a network, a proxy to delay timeout of an application on the device where the proxy is on a communications path between the application and the network, the proxy comprising means for registering a data request from the application to the network; a counter for...

20060085549 - Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamically updating session state affinity: Session state affinity is maintained in a workload balancing system that includes a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) routing server and a plurality of application servers. The application servers maintain backup session state information for a first session to a first server of the plurality of application servers at fewer than...

20060085545 - Session initiation protocol-based routing support apparatus and method: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy is dedicated, at least in part, to supporting routing of communications for a plurality of clients (such as push-to-talk mobile clients) in a given region. In a preferred embodiment, such support exists notwithstanding that at least some of the clients are able to present...

20060085550 - Encoding for remoting graphics to decoder device: A portable graphics encoder connects with one or more protocol decoder devices based on a particular communication protocol. The portable graphics encoder is not specific to any particular operating system. The portable graphics encoder receives protocol decoder device commands such as input instructions that determine higher-level graphics commands that are...

20060085551 - Methods for streaming media data: In the present technique of streaming a main media stream that has been requested, an anti-shadow stream (36) that represents a backup copy of the main media stream (24) is sent along with an output media stream (34) that represents an output copy of the main media stream. The content...

20060085552 - System and method to manage processing operations within a wireless terminal following receipt of a null page: A method and system to determine when a wireless terminal has been paged by a servicing base station. An encoded paging burst is received on a paging channel and then decoded to produce a decoded paging burst. The decoded paging burst is processed to determine if it is a null...

20060085553 - Method and system for broadcasting multimedia data: A broadcast system provides support for clients to receive transmissions over a unicast or a multicast channel from a broadcast server. A server administrator configures each of a first server and client systems connected to the server to receive data in one of a multicast or unicast transmission mode. An...

20060085554 - System and method for balancing tcp/ip/workload of multi-processor system based on hash buckets: A method and system is provided for balancing work load for a plurality of computer processors in a multiple processor computer system. In such a system, there are a plurality of packets to be processed. First, a plurality of hash buckets are generated and each packet is assigned to a...

20060085556 - Method and apparatus for accessing cdma2000 networks: A method and apparatus for accessing a CDMA2000 network translate Internet (IP) addresses of wired and wireless out-of-network users in a source IP address of a single CDMA2000 account that is used for data communications with users of the CDMA2000 network by a group of the out-of-network users....

20060085557 - Method and apparatus for kernel-level passing of a data packet from a first data network to a second data network: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for passing a data packet from a first network to a second network at a kernel level. According to one illustrative embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving a data packet from a first network, storing the data packet in a kernel-space buffer, determining if...

20060085558 - Mobile hybrid software router: A hybrid router for dynamical control systems is described. The mobile hybrid software router (MHSR) combines distinctive computational and mathematical techniques, including evolutionary computation (EC), probabilistic simulations (PS), machine learning and artificial neural networks (A-NNs), in order to solve unique problems encountered in an unknown environment in real time. Embodied...

20060085555 - Positional addressing for a computer cluster: A cluster of computers including a plurality of processing nodes, a command network connecting to each of the processor nodes, and circuitry for addressing each of the processor nodes on the command network based on a position of the processor node on the command network....

20060085559 - System and method for efficiently forwarding client requests in a tcp/ip computing environment: A system and method for efficiently forwarding client requests from a proxy server in a TCP/IP computing environment is described. A plurality of transient requests are received from individual sending clients into a request queue. Each request is commonly addressed to an origin server. Time estimates of TCP overhead, slow...

20060085560 - Generalized protocol mapping: Signals are mapped from one protocol to another protocol. A first protocol is received, and a mapping interface is generated to a second protocol. The first protocol is then mapped to the second protocol in accordance with the mapping interface. The mapping interface may comprise a coordination map. Moreover, a...

20060085562 - Devices and methods for remote computing using a network processor: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a network processor unit included in a host device, raster data for a remote computing session executing on a main processor of the host device. The method further comprises compressing the raster data using remote computing software executing on a network processor...

20060085561 - Efficient algorithm for finding candidate objects for remote differential compression: The present invention finds candidate objects for remote differential compression. Objects are updated between two or more computing devices using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques such that required data transfers are minimized. An algorithm provides enhanced efficiencies for allowing the receiver to locate a set of objects that are similar...

20060080379 - Network system and method allocating addresses: A method of allocating an address of a network system including a central control device and a plurality of terminal devices sequentially connecting to the central control device along a predetermined wiring path, communicating with the central control device, including each of the terminal devices sequentially accessing the central control...

20060080387 - Communications network: This invention relates to a communications network, comprising a first network controller, a second network controller and a proxy function, said proxy function being arranged when control of user equipment is to change from said first network controller to said second network controller to cause said first network controller to...

20060080381 - Data transfer: A client device for obtaining a data object from a server device, comprising: a transmitter for sending to the server device a request comprising a first codeword and an arbitrary alphanumeric string, wherein the first codeword indicates that the alphanumeric string should be interpreted at the server as a search...

20060080389 - Distributed processing system: A distributed processing system delegates the allocation and control of computing tasks to intelligent agent applications running on computing resources. This provides flexible control, efficient allocation, scalability, and simple adaptation of applications to the distributed processing system. The distributed processing system includes an agent, a server, and application programmer interfaces....

20060080380 - Home terminal apparatus and communication system: An internet terminal (110) according to the present invention is comprised of: a communication unit (111) that sends a local packet generated by a packet generation unit (113) and receives a response local packet from a server apparatus (200); an encryption processing unit (112) that encrypts the local packet to...

20060080384 - Methods and apparatus for providing access to content: Methods and apparatus are provided for providing access to content via messaging services, such as email, voicemail, instant messaging, text messaging, or other similar messaging services. A content server is provided that includes a user interface, a web server and a file. The web server includes a web page for...

20060080386 - Mobile communications terminal having an improved user interface and method therefor: A mobile communication terminal having a display with an application area thereon. The application area is partitioned into at least two unequally, sized sections. The size of the application area allocated to the respective application area sections is dynamically controlled in response to user input....

20060080388 - System and method for workload-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers: A method and system for workload-aware request in cluster-based network servers. The present invention provides a web server cluster having a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises a distributor component, a dispatcher component and a server component. In another embodiment, the present provides a method for managing request distribution...

20060080385 - System, method, and medium for configuring client computers to operate disconnected from a server computer while using a master instance of the operating system: A computer system comprises a server. The server, in turn, comprises one or more master instances of an operating system (OS). The OS comprises a set of computer program files to operate a computer. The server also includes a version-managing program maintaining the one or more master operating systems. The...

20060080383 - Time-out management for session dependent applications: A method, system and apparatus for time-out management for session-dependent applications. A time-out management system can include one or more of pages defining a session-dependent application. The system further can include a server-side time-out manager configured for use in a content server in detecting a time-out condition in the session-dependent...

20060080382 - Upnp user interface system and method: A system, apparatus and method for remoting a user interface from a UPnP server to a UPnP client are described herein....

20060080390 - Systems and methods enabling interoperability between network centric operation (nco) environments: Systems and methods enabling interoperability between different NCO environments generally include receiving data from a first NCO environment by either using a preexisting import proxy, or by creating a subscriber and then using that subscriber as an import proxy when a preexisting import proxy is unavailable. The imported data can...

20060080391 - Synchronization among plural browsers: A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record...

20060080396 - Electronic mail charging system and electronic mail charging method: In the present invention, processing for a service such as reducing the charges placed on electronic mail transmitted and received within a predetermined group is performed efficiently. An electronic mail charging system comprises: a user database storing information specifying a mobile communication terminal in association with the group ID of...

20060080393 - Method for using e-mail documents to create and update address lists: A method for generating address lists from documents, which include e-mail address, stored on a computing device is provided. The method describes mapping at least one e-mail address from the documents to the address list. The mapped address list may be updated by its inclusion as one of the input...

20060080392 - Server system, message communication method, and program: A message can be efficiently communicated by using a location accessed, in a virtual world embodied in a network by a portable terminal such as a mobile phone, as a trigger. By recording a message which is desired to be sent to a friend registered in a message record table...

20060080395 - System and method for granting deposit-contingent e-mailing rights: An Email guarantee deposit method, system, and program product, with the method comprising in one embodiment, the steps of: receiving from a sender a request to send to a recipient an Email; receiving a deposit or an authorization to obtain a deposit of something of value; sending the Email to...

20060080394 - Web service broadcast engine: A system, computer architecture, and method of enabling asynchronous callback and broadcast notification between a server and a client software application in a network, wherein the method comprises processing computer logic instructions in the network; requesting a notification of a completion of the processing of the computer logic instructions; storing...

20060080397 - Content management across shared, mobile file systems: A content management system and method are disclosed having one or more shared file systems located on one or more networks having a firewall. The content management system includes an explorer client, a mounting client, and a gateway. The gateway is in communication with both the explorer client and the...

20060080398 - Direct access of cache lock set data without backing memory: Methods, apparatus, and systems for quickly accessing data residing in a cache of one processor, by another processor, while avoiding lengthy accesses to main memory are provided. A portion of the cache may be placed in a lock set mode by the processor in which it resides. While in the...

20060080400 - Method and system for efficiently storing web pages for quick downloading at a remote device: A web server for efficiently storing web pages for quick downloading at a remote device comprises a fast memory, a disk memory and a storage device. The fast memory stores a first plurality of web pages and receives a first signal from the remote device indicating selection of one of...

20060080399 - Remote configuration management for data processing units: The invention relates to managing a local data processing unit—DPU—from remote by a remote control unit, wherein a remote management unit—RMU—is coupled to the remote control unit by means of a network external with respect to the DPU, and the RMU is coupled with the DPU through a data bus,...

20060080401 - Adaptive vicinity prefetching for filesystem metadata: Network latencies are reduced by detecting a metadata access call for filesystem metadata contained in a filesystem node of remotely located filesystem. The metadata corresponding to the metadata access call is fetched when the metadata corresponding to the metadata access call is not contained in a local filesystem cache that...

20060080402 - Apparatus and method for socket communication between applications in operating system that does not support a process: An apparatus and method are provided for socket communication between applications in an operating system that does not support a process. The apparatus includes a server socket interface and a client socket interface. The server socket interface is created by the server application and has a first name. The client...

20060080403 - System and method for remote traffic management in a communication network: A traffic manager to manage flows to a plurality of remote physical ports. The traffic manager employs two tiers of shaping and scheduling driven by performance characteristics of the remote physical ports. By modeling the remote physical ports within the traffic manager, flows to the physical ports can be controlled...

20060080404 - Method and device for generating a mobile homepage in accordance with context related information: Disclosed is a method for handling and generating a mobile homepage of a mobile terminal device in accordance with context related information of said device. The method comprises the determination of context related information of said mobile terminal device, and the generation of said mobile homepage in accordance with said...

20060080405 - System, method, and service for interactively presenting a summary of a web site: An interactive web site summary system builds an overview browsing system for the entire Web. Overview browsing represents an alternative to the search-based view of information work by providing a consistent set of summary views that can be browsed interactively. The views presented by the present system partition and linearize...

20060080406 - Xwindows++: The invention is a programming functionality extension to any protocol for the implementation of network-based windows systems (e.g., The X-Protocol), that allows an independent requirement in hardware and software between the computer that runs the application and the computer that displays the graphic output of that application....

20060080407 - Multimedia session establishment in a user entity having audio floor control: A method (500) and apparatus (301) are described for establishing a video information stream (102) and a corresponding audio information stream (103) between an originating communication unit (110) having floor control and a target communication unit (120). A call is initiated to obtain floor control and a media path is...

20060080408 - Smart home control of electronic devices: A content management (CM) system is provided to centrally control operation of one or more connected devices by issuing control requests and/or data requests. In some situations the connected device(s) include devices that control presentation of television programming-related content, such as digital video recorder (“DVR”) devices and media center devices,...

20060080420 - Coupling a filter graph space to a network driver space: A communication path is established that allows for communication between a filter graph space and a network driver space in a system. The communication path allows bidirectional communication between a filter graph driver in the filter graph space and a network driver in the network driver space. Addresses of data...

20060080409 - Device for producing and or configuring an automation system: The invention concerns a device for developing, producing, engineering, and/or configuring an automation system. The device comprises a storage system wherein are recorded the required and/or produced files, during production and/or configuration. A remote client passes via an interface to access programme files and/or data files. The invention is characterized...

20060080411 - Distributed software application software component recovery in an ordered sequence: A distributed software application comprises a plurality of software components within a plurality of executables. A manager component for the distributed software application performs a recovery of two or more software components, of the plurality of software components, in an ordered sequence based on one or more dependency relationships among...

20060080418 - Farfield analysis of noise sources: An algorithm diagnoses the noise source strength distribution on an arbitrarily shaped object based on acoustic pressures measured in the far field, known as FANS. FANS enable one to acquire a quick estimate of the acoustic pressure at locations that are off limit to traditional measurement microphones. Generally, in the...

20060080410 - Method and apparatus for forming and maintaining a network of devices: A network of enabled devices, the enabled devices being arranged to permit computer programs to be dynamically downloaded onto and executed on the devices, and the devices being connected to one or more general computer networks containing a plurality of non-enabled devices not arranged to permit computer programs to be...

20060080413 - Method and system for establishing a deployment plan for an application: A method and system for establishing a deployment plan for an application. The deployment plan represents the dependencies between the application's elements and the physical and networking components of a deployment and provides a framework for the steps to be taken in order to realize the application deployment within a...

20060080412 - Method and system for establishing a server template for an application deployment: The server template groups the configuration elements that have to be applied to a group of similar servers (e.g. a cluster of servers) in a structured entity, decoupling the set of parameters from the element those configurations are implemented for. The server template encapsulates the configuration elements that have to...

20060080417 - Method, system and program product for automated topology formation in dynamic distributed environments: A method for automated topology formation in a dynamic distributed environment includes configuring a master node in an active topology having nodes and intercommunciation paths between the nodes. The master node includes an automated topology formation application including a predefined topology policy definition and a representation of the active topology....

20060080415 - Methods and apparatuses for automatically synchronizing a profile across multiple devices: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses for automatically synchronizing a user profile across multiple devices includes detecting an electronic device; matching the electronic device with a corresponding user profile; and automatically updating the electronic device with content from the corresponding user profile. In another embodiment; the methods and apparatuses...

20060080419 - Reliable updating for a service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture, including in one embodiment a method for configuring at least one service proxy, comprising: providing a configuration to a service bus segment, accepting a response from the service bus segment wherein the response indicates whether or not the configuration can...

20060080414 - System and method for managed installation of a computer network: A system includes a portable computer that provides temporary Internet access to a server. The portable computer selects and downloads network applications from one or more support servers. The portable computer installs network applications on the server and associated clients and generates a network model to review the simulated operation...

20060080416 - Virtual logical unit state maintenance rules engine: A rules engine is provided to enhance management capability in storage area networks and particularly within storage switches. Resulting state and status information for virtual logical units can be maintained in a database. The database can be indexed according to the current state and/or status of members of a virtual...

20060080424 - A generic framework for deploying ems provisioning services: A method and apparatus for deploying EMS provisioning services is provided. A communication to administer a particular service on a network element is transmitted from an EMS client to an EMS server. The communication contains service data that describes a particular service to be administered on the network element. The...

20060080426 - Dynamic value sets in a service-oriented business framework: A method includes receiving a representation of a service, the service including handling of a request for a context-dependent data set derived from one or more collections of data elements. The representation includes a specification of a first data field, a specification of an input data structure including two or...

20060080425 - Method and apparatus for remotely configuring network devices: A preferred embodiment apparatus for configuring network devices in a network includes a controller provided at a remote location on the network for receiving a configuration request from a user to configure a select user defined device. The controller translates the configuration request to another configuration request, and issues the...

20060080421 - Method and system for automating membership discovery in a distributed computer network: A system and methods for automating membership discovery in a distributed computer network is presented. A first virtual circuit label switch path (LSP) associated with a first VPLS is established between a first multi tenant unit (MTU) and an attached provider edge (PE) device. A first label mapping message (LMM)...

20060080423 - System and method for a printer access point: Deploying a wireless local area network of plural information handling systems interfaced with each other and a printer is simplified by integrating printing and networking components in a common housing. For instance, a wireless access point, print server, router and modem are disposed in a printer housing and powered by...

20060080422 - System and method for discovering communities in networks: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for discovering communities in networks. The system and method may include selecting a plurality of nodes from a network of nodes to serve as poles, setting weight values for the poles, applying a community-discovering algorithm based on the weight values, and...

20060080427 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating determination of synchronization status of database copies connected by way of a radio air interface of a radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating determination of whether database copies are in match with one another. A group hash is formed, associated with a group of data records of one of the database copies. The group hash is communicated, by way of a radio air interface, and the...

20060080434 - Dynamic configuration of network devices to enable data transfers: A system and method for optimizing the use of network resources is described. In one embodiment, an enterprise first requests provisioning of network resources for a particular transaction. Responsive to that request, network resources are dynamically configured to meet the enterprise's request. When the transaction is complete, the network resources...

20060080433 - Method and system for delivering information with optimized pre-fetching: A method (300) for delivering monitoring data is proposed. The monitoring data is collected on a central server from selected managed computers, in order to be provided to multiple clients (in response to periodic requests). In the method of the invention, for each managed computer the central server estimates (336;351-354)...

20060080429 - Method of creating 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 creating a 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 using the communication protocol to obtain at least vendor information related to...

20060080428 - Method, system and computer program to enable semantic mediation for sip events through support of dynamically binding to and changing of application semantics of sip events: An event notification system includes a data communications network (18), at least one event server (20) coupled to the data communications network and at least one subscriber (12) coupled to the data communications network. The subscriber is operable to send a subscribe message to the event server, the subscribe message...

20060080431 - Mp3 headphone structure: The present invention relates to a headphone including a headband with an ear covering and a fixing seat formed each side, wherein, a battery groove formed at one fixing seat and a circuit board with MP3, radio, and amplified circuits, a control key and a microphone formed at the other...

20060080430 - System, method and program to identify failed components in storage area network: System, method and computer program product for identifying a failed component in a system comprising application servers, storage servers and a switch fabric. The switch fabric has first ports coupled to the application servers, second ports coupled to third ports of the storage servers and internal switches to interconnect the...

20060080432 - 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,...

20060080440 - Authentication and authorization pipeline architecture for use in a server: A method, system, and article of manufacture for providing an authentication and authorization pipeline for use in a web server to grant access to web resources to users. The server creates an entry within an userID to roles database for each user who may access resources present on the web...

20060080438 - Brokering network resources: A method of brokering a network resource 10 includes providing a service broker processor 12 and a service broker registry 13. On receiving a request at the service broker processor to register a network resource to provide a network service, the service broker processor authenticates the request and authorises registration...

20060080437 - Fake web addresses and hyperlinks: A destination address is processed to determine if the destination address is a fake web address or hyperlink. The destination address may be compared with a database of known domain names to see if the domain name is legitimate or illegitimate. The designation address may also be compared to other...

20060080441 - Flexible automated connection to virtual private networks: A network interface unit is provided for use intermediate a LAN and a public or private network, or a combination of both, for establishing secure links to a VPN gateway. Login by a LAN client with the network interface unit, addressing, authentication, and other configuration operations achieved using a web...

20060080439 - Method and system for reducing bandwidth needed to filter requested content: A method and system uses an improved protocol in content request filtering, in connection with a Content Filter Server and a Content Filter Client. The number and size of messages defined by the protocol is comparatively small, to achieve significant reduction in bandwidth requirements. In one useful embodiment, wherein a...

20060080435 - Resource adapter deployment: A system and method for deployment of a resource adapter are described. Under an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises storing deployment information for a resource adapter, the deployment information comprising one or more elements to configure the resource adapter; deploying the resource adapter, deploying the resource adapter comprising...

20060080436 - System and method for multimedia streaming using interleaved packetization: Methods, devices, systems, program products and computer-implemented methods for communication of non-interleaved and interleaved packets of streamed data are disclosed. A method of streaming multimedia includes transmitting a signal from a client device to a multimedia server. The signal is indicative of desired settings for the client device to receive...

20060080442 - Systems and methods for self-service dispatch: Systems and methods are disclosed that process service requests associated with one or more work machines. In one embodiment, a process is disclosed that includes receiving status information associated with operations of the first work machine and analyzing a first work machine flow sequence associated with the first work machine...

20060080446 - Session load balancing and use of vip as source address for inter-cluster traffic through the use of a session identifier: A method and system for enhancing a load balancing network's ability to load balance sessions is presented. A session identifier is placed within the TCP packet to enable a new mechanism of load distribution and connection grouping within a load balancing system. Specifically, TCP is invoked by a user application...

20060080445 - System and method for concurrent security connections: A system and method for concurrent security connections is presented. An association table is used that includes a list of active credentials. An active credential includes information such as user id and password information for a given domain. The active credential may also include dynamic data that is retrieved from...

20060080444 - System and method for controlling access to a network resource: A method and system that identifies connection attempts to a resource through the IP address used in the connection and compares the IP address against one or more of single or multiple lists of IP addresses simultaneously to affect the connection process. The result of the comparison against the list...

20060080443 - Url namespace to support multiple-protocol processing within worker processes: A server system in typical operation has a process manager, multiple listeners (each to receive requests for its protocols) and multiple worker processes that are each able to handle requests in multiple protocols. At server start-up, each listener connects with the process manager via a pipe published by the process...

20060080447 - Operation definition information producing method, operation definition information producing apparatus, operation definition information producing program, recording medium and data structure: An operation definition information producing method can easily produce operation definition information which can define an operation of a client when using services. The operation definition information defines an operation of a client when using service in a system in which a server providing the service and the client using...

20060080448 - Communication method and terminal between two units: Method of communication between a first unit and a second unit via a telecommunications network, the first unit comprising applications belonging respectively to a first family and a second family having a priori a lower degree of confidence than the first family, comprising the step of forcing at least one...

20060080449 - Information processing apparatus, transfer program product, and transfer control method: Setting information is transferred to an information processing apparatus from another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a transfer unit, a rule unit, an acquiring unit, and an updating unit. The transfer unit sets transfer instruction information to instruct a transfer process to be performed, when the user...

20060080450 - Method, system and program product for simulating activity in a server environment: Under the present invention an audit log for the server environment is obtained and parsed to remove any extraneous information. The parsing operation will typically leave only the previous operations processed by the server environment in the audit log. Thereafter, the parsed audit log is fed back to the server...

20060080451 - System and method for transmitting acars messages over a tcp/ip data communication link: An ACARS messaging system according to the invention is deployed when a TCP/IP subnetwork is available to the aircraft. ACARS messages are encoded into ASN.1 notation and translated to become compliant with the TCP/IP suite of protocols. A wireless subnetwork provides the initial access point to establish the TCP/IP datalink...

20060080456 - Device and method of integrating and executing multimedia streaming service and application streaming service: The present invention provides a device of integrating and executing a multimedia streaming service and an application streaming service, the device including: a user interface for executing and displaying multimedia data or application data to a user, and receiving a control signal from a user; a multimedia streaming control module...

20060080455 - Method of managing communication buffers employing an application framework for a plurality of communication layers and node employing the same: A method of network communication includes employing a communication network protocol stack having a plurality of independent communication layers providing a plurality of different corresponding services. A buffer manager is employed for a plurality of communication buffers. The buffer manager is independent of the independent communication layers. An application framework...

20060080453 - Redirection of streaming content: Redirection of streaming content is described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving a request at a client from another client, wherein the request is to redirect on-demand content being streamed from a head end to the other client and includes a bookmark that specifies a point in time during...

20060080454 - System and method for receiver-driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network: 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...

20060080452 - System and method for remotely controlling network resources: 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...

20060080457 - Computer system and bandwidth control method for the same: A computer system is structured, including a plurality of computers sharing a storage apparatus. The computers each include a control section for determining an access priority based on an attribute of a client computer forwarding an access request. In the control section, the result derived by adding up the priorities...

20060080459 - Communication system and method: Based on a packet arrival time required for a specified reference number of packets corresponding to the transmission window size to arrive, the receiver 120 generates the new window size information, adds it to the accumulative ACK packet, and returns it to the transmitter 110. The transmitter 110 transmits the...

20060080458 - Method for transparently exchanging data packets: The invention relates to a method for transparently exchanging data packets with a packet-oriented network, via which a number of network elements and a network node device are connected based on a common access method. The network elements are allocated unique local addresses only within the network. The network node...

20060080463 - Interconnection fabric connection: Link used variables are defined for links related to an interconnection fabric. The links used variables are representative of whether or not a link is used for handling flows between a plurality of hosts and devices. Constraints for links, and hop counts or port counts are also defined. An objective...

20060080460 - Mobile router device, mobile network system, and mobile management method of mobile router device: A mobile router device connects a mobile network containing several terminal devices and moving in a backbone network with the backbone network. The mobile router device includes: means for deciding whether to operate as a master router which is a router for actually connecting the mobile network with the backbone...

20060080461 - Packet exchange for controlling system power modes: A method is described that, in order to change an operational state of a resource within a computing system that is shared by components of the computing system so that the computing system's power consumption is altered, sends a packet over one or more nodal hops within a packet based...

20060080462 - System for meta-hop routing: A system for managing a distributed MetaHop that is administered, managed, and monitored as a single entity. If a new gateway is added to a MetaHop, the gateway can be provisioned with membership credentials by an administrator who indicates relatively basic information for the new gateway to join the MetaHop....

20060080465 - Apparatus, system, and method for presenting a mapping between a namespace and a set of computing resources: An apparatus, graphical user interface, system, and method are provided for presenting a mapping between a namespace and a set of computing resources. The apparatus includes an input module, a format module, and an output module. The input module obtains a mapping between namespace identifiers and a set of computing...

20060080464 - System and method of utilizing a mac address based unlocking key: A system and method are described for activating programming downloaded to electronic devices. The method involves the generation of an encrypted (or encoded) activation key which is produced in response to the network address (i.e. media access control (MAC) address) of the electronic device to which the download is directed....

20060080467 - Apparatus and method for high performance data content processing: Incoming data streams are processed at relatively high speed for decoding, content inspection and classification. A multitude of processing channels process multiple data streams concurrently so as to allows networking based host systems to provide the data streams—as the packets carrying these data streams are received from the network—without requiring...

20060080469 - High availability/high density system and method: A system and method for providing high availability for telecommunications and data communications by implementing a network bus architecture at a card level. The network bus architecture, which may be a combination of hardware, software, and APIs, replaces the conventional midplane/backplane as the system bus for PCI purposes. The system...

20060080468 - Smart client add-in architecture: A Smart Client solution for an enterprise application (e.g., a Customer Relationship Management system) includes a base application (e.g., Microsoft Outlook), and add-in software that interacts with the base application. The add-in software allows the base application to be used to access data and functions of the enterprise application. The...

20060080466 - Web page upload method, terminal device, computer program, and recording medium: The present invention relates to a web page uploading method in which whether or not a web page is suitable for being made public can be checked without imposing a burden on an administrator and a web server. When a client computer in which a software for editing and uploading...

20060075013 - System and method for relating computing systems: A system, method, and computer program for relating computing systems. A plurality of applications form a plurality of solution domains, where each solution domain represents at least a portion of one or more computing systems. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications....

20060075015 - Control point filtering: A universal plug and play (UPnP) control point includes a memory and a system for selecting a first user profile. The memory includes multiple user profiles. A first one of the profiles includes content filter information. The system for selecting the first user profile is for use by the UPnP...

20060075014 - Method and apparatus for securing devices in a network: An access point receives a notification (or advertisement) from a device, which lacks a service. The access point adds the service to the notification, and forwards the notification to other devices on the network. Upon receiving from a control point a request to use the added service, the access point...

20060075016 - Combination equipment selection system using network: The present invention provides a combined equipment selection system which is capable of reducing the load on the host computer and securely obtaining the user information. A user terminal device 1 comprises a user information memory means 13 for storing the user information, a constant data memory means 14 for...

20060075020 - Context administrator: A context management and administration system includes a context manager, which manages the context of plural applications programs, and an administration suite, which oversees and manages the manager. Context administration can include setting up and maintaining subject data definitions, intervening in context manager operations, providing security functions to protect sensitive...

20060075021 - Information exchange apparatus and information exchanging method: There is disclosed an information exchange apparatus in which apparatus name information and address information of a display/headphone are transferred to a DVD reproduction apparatus from the display/headphone via a path of an infrared ray or the like different from a radio path for exchanging information. The information are registered...

20060075017 - Internet studying system and the studying method: The present invention for supplying an custom-made education system on internet is composed of conceptual contents subdivided by the minimum unit, problem groups related to each conceptual content, and problem explanations for each problem, so that they can be reconfigured. In addition that, it has the space on line for...

20060075018 - Method and device for storing content on a removable medium: The method consists of providing (1) a user interface for selecting a content item stored on a storage means, retrieving (3) a further content item related to the content item from a system on a network using an identification of the content item, and storing (5) the further content item...

20060075019 - Method and system for providing content to users based on frequency of interaction: A system and method for providing content to a user based on at least one prior user experience are provided. First content is transmitted to a user, wherein at least some of the first content is transmitted in response to one or more user content selections. Frequency information based on...

20060075024 - Method and apparatus for connecting a secure peer-to-peer collaboration system to an external system: A connection between a secure shared space and an external system is created with a connector tool. The connector tool code is included in an independent agent called a “bot” that is created by a software developer. Bots run in the background in an automated and unattended manner in a...

20060075022 - Method and device for co-ordinating networked group members: The invention provides the concept of a network channel which is used as a waiting channel, wherein members of a group other than a first member join the waiting channel whilst performing an action or process, and then leave the waiting channel once the action or process has been performed....

20060075023 - System and method for vote-based, interest specific collaboration regarding location of objects: Systems, devices, and methods of generating location information for an object of interest are disclosed. The location information is based on dynamic input from one or more members of an interest group associated with the object. The input from the one or more members can be provided by users of...

20060075036 - Automatic electronic publishing: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for publishing an electronic document. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. A distribution module retrieves a distribution list identifying at least one user that is to be notified about the publication...

20060075031 - Bounce management: The present invention provides a method and system for managing incoming potential bounce messages with user-created rules. Bounces that are not recognized by the SMTP may be identified and follow-up actions for these bounces may be performed. A user can create rules for analyzing an incoming message to determine whether...

20060075050 - Business card exchange system: When a PC receives an electronic business card from other PCs in a business card exchange system, the PC stores the electronic business card in a database and stores personal information described in the electronic business card in a directory by a manual instruction. The directory is linked to a...

20060075026 - Contents and information providing service system for using a code, user terminal, communication agency platform, operating agency platform, on-line relation member module, and the method from the same: Disclosed is a platform for providing users with a variety of contents and information of on-line/off-line interested party using barcode, method for providing contents using the platform, and a billing system and method therefor. A system for providing wired/wireless contents and information using codes includes a communication entity platform for...

20060075047 - Electronic file delivery device and delivery method: In delivering various types of electronic files to a recipient specified by a sender, even after the operation of transmission is done, the transmission can be confirmed again before the electronic file is received by the recipient so as to securely cancel the delivery if necessary. When a delivery device...

20060075035 - Email customization techniques and systems: An automated email system configured to perform an email task with respect to a recipient on behalf of an application. The email system includes a recipient data engine configured to obtain specific recipient data pertaining to the recipient responsive to a request from the application to perform the email task....

20060075032 - Envelope e-mail journaling with best effort recipient updates: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for e-mail envelope journaling. A server determines that an entity's (e.g., a recipient revealed form an expanded distribution list) home mailbox store has envelope journaling enabled and specifies a journaling mailbox address. The server sets a journaling property in...

20060075042 - Extensible resource messaging between user applications and network elements in a communication network: Extensible resource messaging in a communication network is provided through creation of a flexible, extensible, and secure messaging environment. A client-server architecture may be implemented in which user applications employ messaging clients to send resource requests for network information, allocation and other operations and receive resource responses, and in which...

20060075040 - Message thread handling: Described are techniques and mechanisms for easily allowing a user to unsubscribe (“opt out”) from receiving subsequent messages in a particular message thread. Generally stated, a component maintains information about a message thread that a user has indicated a desire to opt out of. The information includes identifying information about...

20060075038 - Method and apparatus for automatically setting \"out of office\" greetings: A telecommunications method includes setting a media server greeting automatically responsive to detection of a change in setting of an e-mail system default message. The e-mail system default message may be an “out of office” outgoing message. The media server greeting may be a voice greeting....

20060075034 - Method and apparatus for creating and storing personal information relating to earth shaking events: An apparatus and method for creating, storing, retrieving and sharing personal information relating to earth shaking events (ESE). Upon receiving notice of an ESE, a user device may create an ESE data set by creating a name/description, creating metadata and collecting information relating to the event. The parameters of the...

20060075046 - Method and computer-readable medium for navigating between attachments to electronic mail messages: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for navigation between attachments to electronic mail messages. According to the method, a list of e-mail messages is displayed that includes header information associated with each of the messages. When one of the messages in the list is selected, a determination is made...

20060075033 - Method and system for creating and sending electronic mail having multi-media files: A method and system for creating and sending electronic mail messages having multi-media files. The method and system include creating the multi-media file in an email application used to create an email message without having to exit the email application. The multi-media file is added to the email message and...

20060075048 - Method and system for identifying and blocking spam email messages at an inspecting point: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for identifying and blocking spam email messages at an inspecting point, the method comprises the steps of: measuring the flow rate of email messages sent from an originator through the inspecting point; and if the measured flow rate exceeds...

20060075054 - Method and system for implementing instant communication of images through instant messaging tool: A method and a system thereof for implementing instant communication of images through instant messenger are provided in the present invention, image data processing module is added in the instant messenger, which is used to acquire image data and transit the acquired data into object data, then the object data...

20060075053 - Method for representing virtual image on instant messaging tools: The present invention discloses a method for representing avatar on Instant Messenger, which comprises the following steps: step A: Instant Messenger sends a request for obtaining avatar to avatar picture server; step B: according to the received request for obtaining avatar, avatar picture server obtains corresponding avatar picture from avatar...

20060075043 - On demand email response: An improvement to an electronic mail program is disclosed. In particular, the improved electronic mail program enables a user to mark individual action items within a message and set attributes for each action item. In the preferred embodiment, attributes include priority, deadline, abstract, and responsibility. The electronic mail program stores...

20060075052 - Platform for intelligent email distribution: An Email filtering system is disclosed which comprises: a user interface module is mounted on a server and allows access by one or more end-users; a database module containing one or more configuration options relating to the end-users, and which is connected to the interface and allows configuration options to...

20060075037 - Portal for managing communications of a client over a network: Methods and systems for managing communications of at least one user, e.g., a client, over a network, e.g., the Internet, are provided. The methods and systems of the present disclosure are implemented via a portal web site running on an appropriate computing platform, e.g., a portal server. The portal will...

20060075049 - Program product enabling effective use of computer storage area: A program product, which cooperates with an e-mail program having a function of forming an e-mail with an application program data attached, causes a computer to execute the steps of: storing an edition data processed by an application program in a storage unit of the computer; passing information for forming...

20060075045 - Securely 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...

20060075030 - Self-tuning statistical method and system for blocking spam: A system is provided for detecting unsolicited bulk email (spam). A list server receives email from various senders as well as queries regarding the senders. A database is used for storing information corresponding to the amount of unsolicited bulk email received at the spamtrap addresses. The list server dynamically makes...

20060075029 - System and method for client based instant messenger queue limit: A system and method that limits the number of concurrent instant messaging sessions at a given time is provided. The system and method allows a user to configure the number of instant messaging sessions that are allowed at a given time. When a new request for an instant messaging session...

20060075025 - System and method for data tracking and management: In one embodiment of the present invention's a system for tracking and managing data over a computer network including a plurality of application computers each operating a computer software application program is provided, comprising a key master (106, 108); a system startup module (100) connected to the key master (106,...

20060075044 - System and method for electronic contact list-based search and display: A request for communications information associated with an entry in a contact list of a computer user is received at a server computer. The request is generated in response to a request for contact information for the entry. The entry is associated with a party. At least a subset of...

20060075055 - System and method for integration of instant messaging and virtual environment clients: A system and method for integration of instant messaging and virtual environment clients. Users of instant messaging clients can participate in channel-based or conference-call-like conversations with multiple users simultaneously, without compromising the ease of use typically associated with those clients. The system allows for the integration of avatars and virtual...

20060075039 - System and method for supporting instant messaging in disconnected modes: A method, system, and computer program for a) buffering instant messages to an intended recipient while the recipient is currently not logged on to an instant messaging system, and b) delivering buffered messages to the intended recipient after the recipient connects the instant messaging system. Thus, users are enabled to...

20060075056 - System, method and apparatus for communicating via instant messaging: A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant...

20060075041 - Systems and methods for detection and removal of metadata and hidden information in files: Systems and methods for detecting and removing metadata and hidden information from a file. A system can include a review module to identify metadata and hidden information, and a scrubber module for removing the metadata and hidden information from the file. The scrubber module can remove the metadata and hidden...

20060075051 - Topology for journaling e-mail messages and journaling e-mail messages for policy compliance: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for e-mail envelope journaling. A server determines that an entity's (e.g., a recipient revealed form an expanded distribution list) home mailbox store has envelope journaling enabled and specifies a journaling mailbox address. The server sets a journaling property in...

20060075027 - User interface and anti-phishing functions for an anti-spam micropayments system: A protocol for protected email transmission using micropayments and a segregated inbox in which protected emails are displayed. The protocol also involves authentication of the sender to defeat phishers and an opt out protocol which can be used to block protected emails from sources from which the user no longer...

20060075028 - User interface and anti-phishing functions for an anti-spam micropayments system: A protocol for protected email transmission using micropayments and a segregated inbox in which protected emails are displayed. The protocol also involves authentication of the sender to defeat phishers and an opt out protocol which can be used to block protected emails from sources from which the user no longer...

20060075057 - Remote direct memory access system and method: A remote direct memory access (RDMA) system is provided in which data is transferred over a network by DMA between from a memory of a first node of a multi-processor system having a plurality of nodes connected by a network and a memory of a second node of the multi-processor...

20060075058 - Information processing method and apparatus: In an information processing method for maintaining, in a system in which each of a plurality of processes connected via a network holds and uses shared data to be shared by the processes, consistency of shared data held by the respective processes, when a manipulation request for the shared data...

20060075061 - Management of microcode lock in a shared computing resource: In a power controller or other computing resource shared by multiple processors, an ID is written to the lock register, thereby designating a master processor. A timer is then initialized to count for a predetermined period. Periodically, the master processor transmits a “heartbeat” signal to the shared resource, indicating that...

20060075059 - Method and system for caching directory services: A computing device includes a local directory service cache. The local directory service cache is a live database. The directory service cache is stored in a shared memory space. In certain embodiments of the invention, client processes needing directory services can directly access the local directory service cache via memory...

20060075060 - Sharing monitored cache lines across multiple cores: In one embodiment, a system comprises a first processor core and a second processor core. The first processor core is configured to communicate an address range indication identifying an address range that the first processor core is monitoring for an update. The first processor core is configured to communicate the...

20060075062 - Initiating internet protocol (ip) communications in an ip communication system based on databases of contact information: Methods, communication terminals, Internet Protocol (IP) communication systems, and computer program products are provided for initiating an IP communication based on contact information from one or more contact information databases. At a first communication terminal, contact information is accessed from a first database of contact information that is within the...

20060075064 - Concurrent ftp read and write: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for concurrent ftp transfer of a file. In one embodiment, the method for concurrent ftp reading and writing includes uploading a file by a first computer system in communication with an ftp site, such as a server, having an ftp program. Further, the method...

20060075066 - Directory structure in distributed data driven architecture environment: The invention employs systems and methods to provide addressing for appropriate access to data in automation devices. Data attributes can be related to a number of various factors in a data driven architecture such as the source of the data, the data subscriber and/or the path employed to convey the...

20060075063 - Method and apparatus for providing data storage in peer-to peer networks: A method and apparatus for enhanced data storage in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Users subscribe to a P2P storage network that allows each user to store files on the storage network by swapping blocks of the user's files with blocks from storage of a peer, or peers, on the network. A...

20060075068 - Predictive pre-download of a network object: A method for fetching network objects from a web server is described. The method includes intercepting at a device a request from a web client to a web server for a first network object. The same device intercepts a response to the request from the web server. The device determines...

20060075067 - Remote direct memory access with striping over an unreliable datagram transport: In a multinode data processing system in which nodes exchange information over a network or through a switch, a structure and mechanism are provided which enables data packets to be sent and received in any order. Normally, if in-order transmission and receipt are required, then transmission over a single path...

20060075065 - Wireless video surveillance system and method with single click-select actions: A surveillance system and method performing actions and interacting with a base system including at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, and, optionally a remote server computer (RSC), including the steps of providing base system; at least one user...

20060075070 - Development and deployment of mobile and desktop applications within a flexible markup-based distributed architecture: A computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium is configurable to accomplish execution of an application that is specified and encoded in a markup-based descriptor language. The product includes client runtime computer code configured to cause a client computer device to process the markup-based descriptor language to deploy an...

20060075069 - Method and system to provide message communication between different application clients running on a desktop: A method and system to facilitate the communication of data and/or messages between a browser-based application and a non browser-based application including, at the browser-based application, embedding data in an anchor portion of a URL string and invoking execution of an embedded browser component of the non browser-based application by...

20060075071 - Centralized management of digital files in a permissions based environment: A centralized file management method, apparatus and article of manufacture for use in a permissions based environment. A network file transfer method can include the steps of, responsive to the activation of a browse control in a file transfer user interface, displaying a file hierarchy for locally accessible files. At...

20060075072 - System, method and apparatus for use in monitoring or controlling internet access: An apparatus method and system are described for categorising Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) when accessing the Internet 20 from a client 12. A request message 500 is generated to request categorisation of a specified URL, and a category is provided in a reply message 600. The specified URL and the...

20060075074 - Adaptor migration tool: A system and method for interfacing disparate systems, comprising an adaptor migration tool for communicating with an end point manager of a first system and an application integration component of a second system, wherein the first system comprises a plurality of first properties, wherein the second system comprises a plurality...

20060075079 - Distributed computing system installation: A distributed processing system delegates the allocation and control of computing tasks to intelligent agent applications running on computing resources. The distributed processing system includes agents and a server. The agents are run on or associated with any computer system contributing computing resources to the distributed processing system. An installation...

20060075075 - Method and system to contextually initiate synchronization services on mobile terminals in an enterprise environment: A system and method are disclosed for providing security features to a wireless mobile device based upon its context when it establishes a wireless connection with different access points. A plurality of access points are connected to a connectivity server which includes a security context middleware. Each of the access...

20060075078 - Method for transmitting data, and communication device operating on the basis thereof: A method is disclosed for transmitting data to an information indicator. A subset of data is indicated to a human user from a total set of data containing appliance data, the subset of data being ascertained centrally after configuration on the information indicator. In a further disclosed communication device, the...

20060075077 - System and method of secure updating of remote device software: A method of securely updating software in a remote device includes copying selected portions of program code in the remote device to a memory, downloading software to the remote device, and upon detecting an unsuccessful download, reinstalling the selected portions of program code....

20060075076 - Updating software while it is running: To avoid extensive time during which servicing of clients' requests is stopped for updating a piece of software or a data structure, various embodiments of the invention update an instance of the piece of software or an instance of the data structure instead of updating the original piece of software...

20060075073 - Wlan tight coupling solution: A method for communicating between a cellular system and a mobile terminal by way of a standard wireless LAN and the Internet allows data communications to traverse the core of the cellular network, thereby allowing monitoring of the time and volume usage by the subscriber for billing purposes. The user...

20060075082 - Content distribution system and content distribution method: Individual clients 8 have a storage 85, a registration means which registers a part or all of the storage 85 in a local server 6 as a resource pool, and a requesting means which sends a distribution request for contents to the local server 6. The local server 6 has...

20060075081 - Role grouping of hosts in computer networks: Techniques to assign nodes in a network to groups of nodes are described. The techniques include representing hosts in the network by property vectors that encode information about the hosts, identifying properties of the property vector by integers in the property vector for the host and determining proximity of hosts...

20060075083 - System for distributing information using a secure peer-to-peer network: A secure peer-to-peer network including servers and peer computers that are connected via a network are described. In one aspect of the invention, the reliability of information provided by one peer to another can be verified. One embodiment includes a server connected to a network and a first peer computer...

20060075080 - Systems and methods for virtual host name roaming: The invention relates to systems and methods for providing a uniform network addressing scheme for a user accessing a network that is independent from the computer to which the user accesses the network. A virtual IP address can be assigned to a user, a user session or a program the...

20060075084 - Voice over internet protocol data overload detection and mitigation system and method: A system and method is disclosed for detecting and/or mitigating an attempted overload condition targeting a voice over data or Internet protocol system, and the like. A network connection receives a plurality of VOIP or IPTV requests, for example. A processor detects whether two or more of the requests are...

20060075095 - Communication bandwidth control method for a broadcast communication system, a server and a user terminal used in a broadcast communication system, and a program: A method transmitting and receiving data other than voice data and preventing deterioration in quality of communication voice data due to transmission and reception of the other than voice data, and utilizing a limited communication bandwidth when a plurality of users conduct the broadcast communication through common use of the...

20060075090 - Handheld electronic device including preferred network selection, and associated method: A handheld electronic device adapted to display a listing of known networks, scan for available networks, display a listing of the available networks and enable the entry of information relating to manually entered networks. In addition, the device is adapted to (1) enable the addition of preferred networks to a...

20060075085 - Method and a system for ensuring a bus and a control server: A method and a system for ensuring the operation of a field bus. In the method the field bus is controlled with two control servers one of which is at a time set active and one is set passive. The control servers are connected with a backup bus. In the...

20060075096 - Method and apparatus of data transfer controlling data transfer among a plurality of equipments connected to a network and medium recording the program thereof: A data transfer apparatus includes an attribute collecting unit collecting attribute of data managed by an equipment connected to a network, a transfer control unit selecting a method of data transfer based on the attribute information of data collected by the attribute collecting unit, a data receiving unit receiving data...

20060075087 - Method and platform for the automated management of distributed system, corresponding telecommunications network and computer program product: A method for managing a distributed system having processing modules and based on the execution of at least a process within a process engine, which is possibly decentralised, entails interventions for run-time adaptation of the processing modules accomplished by means of effectors. A uniform implementation surface configured to interact with...

20060075086 - Method and system between subnetwork operation and full network operation: In order further to develop a method for changing over a serially networked system (100), in particular a serial databus system, from subnetwork operation (T), in which at least one node (22, 28) and/or at least one user (32, 38) of the system (100) is in a state of reduced...

20060075088 - Method and system for building a client-side stateful web application: This is a method to keep user interaction states of a web application within a user agent, such as a web browser, by recording those states into a dynamically tagged tree structure, such as the document object model (DOM) structure, which resides in the user agent memory. Active current state...

20060075097 - Method and system for diagnosis and control of machines using connection and connectionless modes of communication: A method and system for monitoring, controlling and diagnosing operation of a machine such as a business office machine including a facsimile machine, a copier, and a printer. When the speed of communication between the remote device and machine is not urgent, a connectionless mode of communication may be used....

20060075094 - Method for discovery and troubleshooting of network application usage and performance issues: During monitoring of IP network traffic, network application monitoring metrics are extracted, aggregated into logical group types and subsequently analyzed by identifying group sets of the logical group types, correlating anomalous conditions across the logically grouped and aggregated metrics, and isolating the anomalous conditions to one or more related members...

20060075092 - System and method for determining the status of users and devices from access log information: A system and method for determining status of one or more devices in a network includes accessing access log information for one or more devices on the network, the access log information including information about one or more events occurring at a device. A set of rules including one or...

20060075091 - System and method for historical presence map: A telecommunications system includes a network (202); a plurality of client devices (212) operably coupled to said network, said plurality of client devices adapted to select one or more of others of said plurality as contacts on a contact list (404); a presence server (204) coupled to said network and...

20060075089 - System, method and program to troubleshoot a distributed computer system or determine application data flows: A system, method and computer program product for determining active connections likely needed to handle client requests. First program instructions repeatedly detect active connections between a first server and other servers. Second program instructions determine how often an active connection between the first server and each of the other servers...

20060075093 - Using flow metric events to control network operation: A system and method to monitor, detect, analyze and respond to, triggering conditions associated with packet and signal flows in a network system including attached functions and a network infrastructure. The system includes a detection function, an analysis function, and a response function. The detection function includes a monitoring sub-function,...

20060075099 - Automatic elimination of viruses and spam: The present invention utilizes honeypots, which are messaging system resources set up to attract unauthorized or illicit use thereof, for automatically identifying messages with malignant content. As messages are received at a honeypot, fingerprints of the messages are generated, which correspond to pattern information within the messages. These fingerprints are...

20060075102 - Method and system for provisioning services on a communication network: A method for provisioning a service on a communication network includes receiving a service order comprising a service request. The service request relates to a service provided on a communication network. The method includes analyzing the service order to determine a plurality of network elements to provision to complete the...

20060075101 - Method, system, and computer program product for supporting a large number of intermittently used application clusters: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for supporting a large number of intermittently used application clusters without consuming all the resources needed to run server processes for all the application clusters all the time. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises: holding an...

20060075098 - Protocol for adapting the degree of interactivity among computer equipment items: The invention concerns a protocol for adapting the degree of interactivity among computer equipment items (A, B), which consists in writing, in an initiating participant equipment item (A), a list (L_IDA) of identifiers of reciprocal responding participant equipment items (B), a list of behaviour identifiers (L_CA), at least one association...

20060075100 - System, device, software and method for providing enhanced upnp support on devices: A system, device, software and method for providing enhanced UPnP support on constrained devices. A low power proxy is used to save and communicate information with other devices on a local area network. The low power proxy can aggregate information for transmission to the constrained device in various situations, aiding...

20060075103 - Systems, methods, and media for providing access to clients on a network: Systems, methods and media for providing access to a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for providing network access only to client computer systems with acceptable status information are disclosed. Embodiments include a method that generally includes receiving a request for a network address from a client computer...

20060075104 - system and method for expert service providers to provide advice services through unique, empowered independent agents to consumers.: The present invention provides techniques for managing, supporting and empowering Independent Agents to offer a method for enabling expert Service Providers to deliver, and charge for, advice to consumers, by connecting two parties in real time. The present invention also provides the method and techniques for expert Service Providers, in...

20060075114 - In-line modification of protocol handshake by protocol aware proxy: The present invention relates to systems and methods for network communication between a client and server via multiple proxies. A network protocol is used to establish and control an end-to-end connection between the client and the server via a single handshake mechanism. Through the protocol and end-to-end handshake, the proxies...

20060075106 - Managing multiple remote computing sessions displayed on a client device: A method manages, at a client device, a plurality of remote computing sessions. The method comprises executing a session manager application on the client device. The session manager application comprises a user interface in which configuration information about the plurality of remote computing sessions is displayed. Each of the plurality...

20060075117 - Message request response server and processor: Provides methods, apparatus and systems for message request response server and processor. A server apparatus including: a request processing unit for performing processing for a first processing request message received, and creating a first processing response message; a cache unit for caching the first processing response message in association with...

20060075109 - Methodology, system and computer readable medium for masking network connection data: A method system and computer-readable media are provided for manipulating the presentation of network connection data, in response to a request from a user space application, on a computer running a Solaris operating system and utilizing a STREAMS sub-system. The method involves a determination of whether a getmsg system call...

20060075108 - Network media gateway: The present invention provides a network media gateway (NMG) that provides a centralized interface between different types of consumer electronics devices and service providers through one or more disparate networks. The network media gateway may enable a single consumer electronics device to interact with different service providers over different types...

20060075113 - Network node enumeration: Enumeration requests are sent from a node in a network. Each node that receives an enumeration request sends an enumeration response at a time determined by the node receiving the enumeration request....

20060075121 - Registration based addressing and call handles to establish 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...

20060075105 - System and method for data synchronization over a network using a presentation level protocol: A mechanism for synchronizing data on a device communicating with a client system with data accessible from a server-hosted session is disclosed. The synchronization occurs over a network connection using a presentation-level protocol to transmit communications between the client system and the server system. Devices communicating with the client system...

20060075116 - System and method for discretization of client-server interactions: A system and method for converting continuous data streams received over a persistent communication connection (e.g., for Telnet) into discrete requests that may be issued over non-persistent connections (e.g., via HTTP). An application is served from a J2EE-compliant application server, to clients operating a variety of communication protocols (e.g., HTTP,...

20060075110 - System and method for gracefully reestablishing an expired browser session: A new system for gracefully re-establishing an expired user session in which a separate session expiration time cookie is provided to communicate the session expiration time from the Web server to the browser. The Web server further provides the browser with session validation and re-establishment routines that include logic for...

20060075107 - System and method for passing messages to a web browser: A method and system for passing messages to a Web browser. According to one embodiment, a controller receives one or more messages to be delivered to a Web browser session, provides notification to the Web browser session of the receipt of the one or more messages, receives a request by...

20060075115 - System and method for serving an application to a heterogeneous collection of client devices: A system and method for serving an application to different types of client devices. The application is served from a J2EE-compliant application server, to clients operating a variety of communication protocols (e.g., HTTP, Telnet). The application is developed according to a single application model, but can be served to heterogeneous...

20060075120 - System and method for utilizing asynchronous client server communication objects: A session-based client-server asynchronous information search and retrieval system for sending character-by-character or multi-character strings of data to an intelligent server, that can be configured to immediately analyze the lengthening string and return to the client increasingly appropriate search information. Embodiments include integration within an Internet, web or other online...

20060075118 - System for exchanging messages between customer devices and servers: Systems (1) for exchanging messages (10-13,40-55) between customer devices (2) such as customer premises equipment and servers (3) such as auto configuration servers at several layers comprising a first layer such as a hyper text transfer protocol layer and a second layer such as a simple object access protocol layer...

20060075112 - Systems, methods, and media for sharing session data on a network: Systems, methods and media for sharing session data on a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for sharing user session data between different servers on a network are disclosed. Embodiments include a data processing system for sharing session data on a network, where the network includes an application...

20060075119 - Tcp host: A network application executing on a host system provides a list of application buffers in host memory stored in a queue to a network services processor coupled to the host system. The application buffers are used for storing data transferred on a socket established between the network application and a...

20060075111 - Virtual internet based pc service for households: A home-based terminal, or so-called bare-bones PC, includes a processor, which is capable of handling a high-speed data connection to a service provider. The home user would instruct the service provider to construct a virtual PC having user selected hardware performance characteristics (e.g. processor class, processor speed, memory storage size...

20060075124 - Automatic activation and deactivation of wireless network adapter: Systems and methods of automatic activation and deactivation of a wireless network adapter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless network adapter and a wired network adapter included in a system are controlled by determining if the wired network adapter has established a wired communication link and, if the wired...

20060075122 - Method and system for managing cookies according to a privacy policy: The present invention involves a user agent (100) requesting a cookie-associated resource over Internet from a content provider (200) on behalf of a user. In response thereto, the content provider (200) transmits a privacy policy file, describing the content provider's policy regarding usage of cookies and privacy data in connection...

20060075123 - System and method for managing virtual ip addresses: The invention relates to systems and methods for assigning a unique network identifier to one or more programs invoked on a computer. The computer obtains a plurality of network identifiers and associates a first network identifier to a first program invoked on the computer and associates a second network identifier,...

20060075128 - Method and device for questioning a plurality of computerized devices: Some embodiments of the present invention may relate to a device and a method of questioning computerized devices within an organization's network. The device, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, may include a questioning module and an agentless module. The questioning module may be adapted to receive...

20060075126 - Method for fast switchover and recovery of a media gateway: A device and method for fast switchover and recovery of a media gateway. A network interface of a router is monitored for a network interface failure, in which the router receives data over a network using a network protocol. In response to detecting a network interface failure, the network interface...

20060075125 - Method, system and program product for closing a communication session with outstanding data commands on a transport communication system: Under the present invention, when a TCS receives a data command (e.g., a read or write command) pursuant to a communication session between the TCS and an application, it will first request permission from a permission system to execute the data command. By applying a set of rules to a...

20060075127 - Multiplayer peer-to-peer connection across firewalls and network address translators using a single local port on the local host: Embodiments of the invention achieve a very high success rate in multilayer peer-to-peer connection across firewalls and network address translators (NATs) using a single port on the local host. In one embodiment, a system of providing peer-to-peer connection comprises a plurality of host devices disposed behind corresponding NATs; and a...

20060075129 - Method and apparatus for specifying web service interfaces and processing web service messages using protocol multiplexing: Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying Web service interfaces and for processing Web service messages using protocol multiplexing. A Web service comprised of a plurality of sub-services (or clients of the Web service) are designed in accordance with the present invention by analyzing a plurality of micro-protocols between two...

20060075130 - Protocol stack that offloads a tcp connection from a host computer to a network interface device: A host CPU runs a network protocol processing stack that provides instructions not only to process network messages but also to allocate processing of certain network messages to a specialized network communication device, offloading some of the most time consuming protocol processing from the host CPU to the network communication...

20060075131 - Tag location,client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless network: Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless stations of the wireless network path loss information of the path loss of one or more location frames received at the respective wireless...

20060075132 - Compressing, filtering, and transmitting of protocol messages via a protocol-aware intermediary node: Methods, apparatuses, and a system for compressing, filtering, and transmitting of protocol messages to be transmitted from a transmitting side via a protocol-aware intermediary node to a receiving side, the compressing method comprising the steps of: detecting a type of a protocol message to be compressed; and selectively compressing, based...

20060075133 - Reliable messaging using clocks with synchronized rates: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for reliable messaging using clocks with synchronized rates. In some embodiments, a message source adds at least an interaction ID and TTL value to a message. The message source begins a countdown timer having duration of the TTL value....

20060075135 - Effective protection of computer data traffic in constrained resource scenarios: Described is a system and method that protect certain classes of sensitive data traveling across an accessible transmission medium, such as an internal bus in a device, from automated attacks. The protection is particularly useful for resource-constrained and/or security constrained components. Automated attacks depend on analyzing data characteristics such as...

20060075136 - Interdomain routing system: In an interdomain network path control, by making path information with a network resource in a destination domain accessible in addition to path information with transmission domain and interdomain network resources, path selection taking network resources into consideration end to end is enabled and optimum path selection not only in...

20060075134 - Routing data packets in a compressed-header domain: The invention concerns routing of data packets in a header-compressed domain. According to the method described, routing a data packet with a compressed header section and an uncompressed payload section comprises steps of receiving the data packet at an ingress interface, routing the data packet to an egress interface, and...

20060075139 - Apparatus and method for domain name resolution: An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. Multiple edge servers and edge caches are provided at the edge of the network so as to cover and monitor all points of presence. The edge servers selectively intercept domain name translation requests...

20060075140 - Client compliancy in a nat environment: Techniques for implementing client compliancy in a network address translation (NAT) environment are disclosed. Network appliances (e.g., NAT hubs, routers, switches, and other NAT devices) actively cooperate with client compliance strategies by engaging in the compliance evaluation of the hosts connected to it, and interact with the up-stream compliance mechanism....

20060075137 - Information processing apparatus and receiving apparatus: A system includes electronic equipment, an information processing device and a server device. The electronic equipment sends first address change confirmation information containing first address information to the information processing device. The information processing device sends second address change confirmation information obtained by writing second address information in the received...

20060075138 - Method and apparatus to facilitate ipv6 dns requests: A network element, such as a Packet Data Serving Node, serves both as a traditional Packet Data Serving Node and as a Domain Name Server proxy. So configured, Internet Protocol version 6 mobile nodes can successfully source Domain Name Server requests and receive Domain Name Server replys from Internet Protocol...

20060075141 - Networked computing using objects: A system for networked computing using objects, each object comprising: enablement data, a first identity arrangement for holding a first identity indicating a host or provider (22) of said object (26), and a second identity arrangement for holding a second identity of a remote entity (client 10) establishing a relationship...

20060075142 - Storing packet headers: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes causing the header of a packet to be stored in a set of at least one page of memory allocated to storing packet headers and causing the packet to be stored in a location not in the set....

20060075143 - Administration system for administration target devices, data server and branch server for use in said system: An administration system for an administration target device includes at least one branch server that collects data from the administration target device, and a data server that integrally administers the data of each branch server. Each branch server and the data server are synchronized in data so that data held...

20060075144 - Remote access to a local hard drive: A method and system for remotely controlling a hard drive on a local computer. A NIC includes a Port Selector under the control of a NIC processor. Access to the hard drive is selectively afforded to either the local computer or to a remote computer by the Port Selector. Preferably,...