Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 07/06

20060167965 - Network-specific estimation in network node discovery: Network node discovery is implemented using parameters reflecting network-specific characteristics. Estimates of the number of active nodes in a network are computed based on the presence of dead time (e.g., due to clock latency, device driver delays, etc.), network topology, packet size, network capacity, a tolerable network overload threshold, and...

20060167966 - Grid computing system having node scheduler: A scheduler for a grid computing system includes a node information repository and a node scheduler. The node information repository is operative at a node of the grid computing system. Moreover, the node information repository stores node information associated with resource utilization of the node. Continuing, the node scheduler is...

20060167967 - System and method for monitoring and control of beverage dispensing equipment: A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote beverage dispensing equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controllers communicate with an application host via a local area network, and the application host...

20060167969 - Data caching based on data contents: A novel method and structure in which data caching is based on data contents. The method comprises the steps of (a) sending a data request from a processing circuit to a target server; (b) in response to the target server receiving the data request, sending a first response portion of...

20060167971 - System and method for collecting and disseminating human-observable data: A system and method are disclosed for creating a network of persons, efficiently connected to a computer through a location-aware mobile phone network, to enable them to perform the duties of sensing agents to collect and deliver to a computer server human-observable data of commercial or public value across a...

20060167968 - System and method for publish/subcribe messaging: The invention relates to a message brokering system for connecting a client in a local publish/subscribe messaging system to a remote message broker. The system comprises a message broker in said local publish/subscribe messaging system and a metabroker application means representing said remote message broker. The local message broker comprises...

20060167972 - System and method for re-directing requests from browsers for communications over non-ip based networks: A method and system for deploying content to client applications is provided. Inbound messages are accepted from a client application running on a client device via a proxy IP/port. The inbound messages are packaged into an internal message format with an HTTP redirector. The packaged message is forwarded to a...

20060167970 - Testing using asynchronous automated virtual agent behavior: A method and computer program product for testing using asynchronous automated virtual agent behavior is presented. A communication including one of a web-based communication and a telephony-based communication is received at a contact center. The communication is responded to by a virtual agent simulating actions of an agent in a...

20060167975 - Caching content and state data at a network element: Methods are disclosed for caching content and state data at a network element. In one embodiment, data packets are intercepted at a network element. An application layer message, which specifies a request for specified data from a server application, is determined from the data packets. A first portion of the...

20060167976 - Compressible display of e-mail message string to facilitate readability: A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to “hot” key actuation(s) by a user....

20060167987 - Content delivery system, communicating apparatus, communicating method, and program: A content delivery system includes a client and a server, the client requesting deliveries of content from the server which transforms the content into layered-encoded data for transmission to the client over a network. The client includes: an inputting device inputting a time limit within which the content is to...

20060167973 - Database system monitoring method without connecting the database system: This disclosure relates to methods for monitoring a database system without access to the database system, wherein when data packets between a plurality of operating servers including the database system and a plurality of client application processes are sent and/or received through a SQL net protocol or BEQ protocol, the...

20060167974 - Environment aware business delegates: A method, system and apparatus for an environment aware business delegate. A method for delegating an invoked action in an enterprise application can include determining an environment from which the action has been invoked and selecting a behavior for use which corresponds to the environment. Subsequently, the action can be...

20060167984 - Estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms: A method, system, and program for estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms are provided. In general, a client side agent estimates future grid job costs by comparing a current grid job of a particular classification with a history of...

20060167983 - Inter-networked knowledge services (inks): Inter-Networked Knowledge Services (INKS) is a software platform designed to deliver IT services with expert functions and data access spanning many computing environments. INKS is a 4-tier architecture delivering remote applications to a lightweight client, bringing disparate systems together within and between diverse organizations. Through web services, INKS enables these...

20060167980 - Interface for external system management: A system and method for an interface for external system management is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method includes connecting a first client system with a web service of a server, the server including an application, the client system utilizing one of a plurality of computer...

20060167986 - Internet telephone system: Two or more users with PCs or similar devices to access the Internet may establish a connection between each other for instant messaging, even when the users are associated with different realms. For this purpose, the PCs are provided with an IM manager which oversees the instant messaging sessions. In...

20060167979 - Mapping of a content request for a cache server: An embodiment includes a method that includes receiving, into a cache server, from a client, a request for content from a content server. The request for content includes one or more fields. The method also includes mapping the request for content into a new request for content that is without...

20060167988 - Method and sytem for developing technical configurations: A method for developing a technical configuration and electronically delivering to a client from a server an order report for the technical configuration. The method comprises interactively eliciting and electronically receiving from a user on the client a desired technical configuration, wherein the act of interactively eliciting and electronically receiving...

20060167989 - Method, apparatus and system for processing compliance actions over a wide area network: The method, apparatus and system are provided for obtaining information regarding compliance with local laws via client computers to upload information to a centralized server preferably over a wide area network. The data is obtained through interaction with a client device and the data is stored on a server. The...

20060167985 - Network-distributed data routing: Data transfer over an network is effected in a manner that facilitates the use of available communications channels and makes possible enhanced data routing control and monitoring. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, data is transferred over a network having a plurality of communication links. A home...

20060167977 - Presence system and method for transforming device view of presentity preferences into media view: A presence server transforms a presentities preferences from a device view to a media view by collecting raw preference data from the presentity in a variety of formats and processing the raw preference data to determine a preferred order of media types. The raw preference data includes a preference indication...

20060167982 - Restricted media sharing over networks: Improved techniques to restrict sharing of media assets over a network are disclosed. A server computer having media assets can permit one or more clients to receive access to such media assets over a computer network. However, the access to such media assets can be restricted based on numerical limits...

20060167978 - Scalable presence distribution system and method: Scalable presence distribution system and method are described. In one embodiment, a presence distribution system comprises a plurality of presence servers and a centralized management function for coordinating registration of a presentity with one or more of the plurality of presence servers....

20060167981 - Web application architecture: A system providing a networked application in a client-server environment includes a set of application functions on the server, the application functions including a data type definition, and a set of client functions defining a scripting environment. The client functions are defined to include types matching each of the application...

20060167991 - Buddy list filtering: Customizing instant messaging communications for a first instant messaging participant includes receiving first filter criteria corresponding to an online presence state of instant messaging participants to be filtered. First information associated with each of one or more other instant messaging participants selected by the first instant messaging participant is accessed....

20060167999 - Ensuring a given transactional unit of work arrives at an appropriate server instance: Ensuring that a given transactional unit of work arrives at an appropriate server instance. A server instance receives a request that is associated with a unit of work. The server instance that received the request determines whether it is responsible for the unit of work associated with that request. When...

20060167998 - Integrated presence management system, presence server and presence information management program: To group plural applications and integrally manage their presence information. A presence server includes plural clients that receive services from application servers providing plural services, and a presence information that manages presence information of applications and group information. The presence server receives presence information registration from the application clients, updates...

20060167994 - System and method for automatically segmenting content from an instant messaging transcript and applying commands contained within the content segments: A system and method for automatically segmenting content from an instant messaging transcript and applying commands contained within the content segments is disclosed. The system includes a segment finding program, a command finding program, and a command list. The segment finding program identifies topic shifts in the IM conversation. The...

20060167996 - System and method for enabling electronic presentations: A system and method is provided for enabling collaborative electronic presentations. The method can include the operation of taking a snapshot of a shared application. The snapshot can be initiated by a snapshot control accessible to the user. Another operation can be linking the snapshot control to an electronic whiteboard...

20060167993 - System and method for instant messaging: A system and method for user-defined control of the operation and appearance of a computerized instant messaging service and associated user interface is disclosed, providing ease of use, control over presentation and access to instant messaging services, particularly for unsighted and other users requiring assistive technologies. A system and method...

20060167992 - System and method for text translations and annotation in an instant messaging session: A system and method for translating received input from a sender to recipient in an instant messaging dialog is disclosed. The method comprises receiving instant messaging input from a sender for recipient, wherein the instant messaging input comprises at least one subculture specific term. A category is identified the defines...

20060167995 - System and process for muting audio transmission during a computer network-based, multi-party teleconferencing session: A system and process for muting the audio transmission from a location of a participant engaged in a multi-party, computer network-based teleconference when that participant is working on a keyboard, is presented. The audio is muted as it is assumed the participant is doing something other than actively participation in...

20060167990 - System for presenting and controlling information on a display device: The present invention relates to a system (34) and a display (10), particularly a display (10) that is updated via a means of transferring data from a central server (32) to the display (10) using a wireless technology (30, 18) and that comprises a rotary member (12, 13) with light...

20060167997 - System, method and computer program product for establishing a conference session and synchronously rendering content during the same: A system for establishing and effectuating a conference session includes a plurality of participants. In turn, the participants include a source capable of operating in a fixed network environment, and at least one destination capable of operating in a cellular network environment. The participants are capable of establishing a conference...

20060168000 - Method of sharing files between user stations in a network: A method of sharing files between user devices connected to a common network, e.g. in accordance with IEEE 802.11b, where each user device can detect and use services of the other user devices. According to the invention the method comprises the steps of creating a shared folder in each user...

20060168002 - Real time update notification: Computer method and apparatus for communicating information between a plurality of client computers by means of a communications network. A data server computer coupled to the network communicates data from the data server computer to one or more of a plurality of client computers in response to a request for...

20060168001 - Web site presence detector: The present invention provides systems and methods for initiating relevant communication (e.g., text, voice, video, etc) based on a shared experience. Each client in a system includes a presence detector which provides information about a user experience. The information can include, for example, web pages viewed by the user, content...

20060168007 - A system for maintaining message privacy on an exposed display device: The invention is an instant-messaging system that minimizes undesirable alerts on an exposed output device. The instant-messaging system is configurable so that a user can select an alert mode that alters the instant-messaging system's response to receiving message data from a caller while a user is operating an exposed output...

20060168035 - Anti-spam server: A method and apparatus for blocking unwanted messages (spam) in a telecommunications network. Nodes for offering all types of telecommunications services are connected to a centralized anti-spam server. In response to reception of a message request, a node of the network transmits information about the request to the centralized server...

20060168030 - Anti-spam service: In a telecommunications network, a method and apparatus for blocking unwanted messages (spam). A centralized anti-spam network server is used to access data for customized anti-spam services for individual networks and the source and destination terminals of a requested connection. The class of anti-spam service can include, for example, message...

20060168039 - Asynchronous tamper-proof tag for routing e-mails and e-mail attachments: A method of automatically processing e-mails wherein the e-mail is tagged by the sender with a unique identifier so that the e-mail can be automatically routed or filed. The unique identifier is encrypted to protect it from unauthorized tampering or decoding to avoid misidentification or fraudulent labelling of the e-mails....

20060168040 - Automated email activity management: A system for organizing email comprising: (a) a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages; and (b) a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map the aforesaid incoming message to a transition in the aforesaid temporal sequential process....

20060168009 - Blocking unsolicited instant messages: A method, system and apparatus for blocking unsolicited instant messages. A system for selectively blocking unsolicited instant messages can include an instant messaging client, at least one human sensory test and, a spim sentry. Notably, the spim sentry can be configured to selectively block an incoming instant message based upon...

20060168031 - Detection of unwanted messages (spam): A spam filtering system and method are disclosed for filtering spam destined for a mobile communication device. In the spam filtering system, a processing system receives a message destined for a mobile communication device through an interface. The processing system processes the message based on first filtering criteria to make...

20060168017 - Dynamic spam trap accounts: A system and method for gathering data on unsolicited email messages delivered to non-existent accounts. The method may include the steps of receiving email for a subset of non-existent email recipient accounts on an email system; and gathering message data for at least a subset of said invalid recipient accounts....

20060168016 - E-mail: Improved e-mail functionality. In a first general respect, the invention relates to the ability to co-author an e-mail. For example, an e-mail can be attributed to several senders in the same or similar way that conventional technology attributes e-mails to be from a single user. In a second general respect,...

20060168029 - E-mail role templates for classifying e-mail: An e-mail categorization system can include a plurality of role templates, each role template being associated with an e-mail account and defining a plurality of categories for categorizing e-mail messages. An authorized account holder can establish the plurality of categories and can designate programmatic actions that are to be selectively...

20060168025 - Electronic communication system for user's ease of read: A method, computer program product, and system provides a collapsible view of electronic communication, which improves the ease of reading the communications, and reduces the time needed to read the useful parts of the communications. A method for displaying electronic communications comprises obtaining electronic communications, organizing each message thread into...

20060168008 - Electronic mail display method: An electronic mail display method is described. The display method establishes a database for storing a sender list and a plurality of group lists for senders, starts an electronic mail monitoring mode for checking incoming electronic mail, executes an electronic mail filtering process, and displays the existence of the incoming...

20060168071 - Electronic mail sending and receiving system: There is provided an electronic mail sending and receiving system capable of encrypting an electronic mail including its header when sending it without installing an encryption system in a sender client and decrypting the electronic including its header mail when received without installing an encryption system in a receiver client....

20060168064 - Electronic message management: In accordance with embodiments of the invention, message management services are provided for creating and/or adapting electronic messages with digital content items....

20060168065 - Electronic message response and remediation system and method: Provided is a method, system and software for responding to an incoming electronic message, including determining whether the incoming electronic message is relevant or irrelevant to a user, and if the incoming electronic message is irrelevant to the user, parsing the incoming electronic message for message origination information and replying...

20060168066 - Email anti-phishing inspector: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for implementing embodiments of an EScam Server, which are useful for determining phishing emails. Methods, systems, and program products are also provided to implement embodiments of a Trusted Host Miner, useful for determining servers associated with a Trusted URL, a Trusted...

20060168058 - Email transaction system: The present invention provides a method and a system in which, a determination is made in order to determine whether a destination mail server is able to process a number of emails associated with a distribution list. By requesting performance metrics for each destination server, analysis is performed to understand...

20060168011 - Fast paxos recovery: A distributed computing system can achieve consensus while introducing fewer message delays by using an algorithm that allows the constituent devices to vote on functions received directly from one or more clients. If a conflict occurs, a leader device from among the devices can be selected such that the leader...

20060168070 - Hardware-based messaging appliance: Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The hardware-based messaging appliance proposed by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging. The hardware-based messaging appliance is part of a publish/subscribe middleware system. With the hardware-based messaging appliances, this system operates...

20060168014 - Highly extendable message filtering daemon for a network appliance: A method for providing a filtering service to a front-end processing daemon (FD) in a messaging system independently of the FD. A front-end filtering daemon (FFD) is configured to accept filtering requests from at least one FD through a front-end filtering client (FFC) residing the at each FD, and send...

20060168005 - Image forming apparatus using system and office supply information server: An image forming apparatus using system including at least one image forming apparatus having a touch panel and an office supply information server that is connected to the image forming apparatuses via a network is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a part for sending order information to the office...

20060168072 - Image forming device for transmitting and receiving email message and method thereof: An image forming device for transmitting and receiving an email message and a method for transmitting and receiving an email message by an image forming device. The image forming device includes a communication unit, a memory unit, an email processing unit, an email preparing unit, and a controller. The communication...

20060168060 - Instant message filtering method: The invention relates to a method of filtering messages in an instant messaging server comprising a main instant messaging module connected to an information base containing instant messaging clients' contact lists with associated filtering rules, said method comprising the following steps: a) a first instant messaging client sending a messaging...

20060168015 - Instant messenger as a web-based communicator: A plug-in for use with an instant messenger utility that enables users to make telephone calls through the instant messenger. The plug-in provides users of web-based IM clients, an interface to call contact in their contact list. The plug-in also acts as a connector between users of disparate networks, allowing...

20060168050 - Interface for creation of limited-use electronic mail accounts: In one aspect, a method related to a limited-use electronic mail account. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application....

20060168051 - Limited-use instant messaging accounts: In one aspect, a method related to a limited-use instant messaging account. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application....

20060168046 - Managing periodic electronic messages: Management of periodic electronic messages received from a sender. Managing periodic messages includes reducing the number of stale and/or obsolete messages maintained in the user's account. A periodic message can be identified if the sender of the message is listed in a periodic mail rules list or by processing previously...

20060168042 - Mechanism for mitigating the problem of unsolicited email (also known as \"spam\": A method for reducing the reception of undesirable email is disclosed. The method includes initiating a first process for receiving email from a first server and receiving an email from the first server. The method further includes identifying the email as an undesirable email and determining an Internet Protocol (IP)...

20060168038 - Message gateways and methods and systems for message dispatching based on group communication: A system for message dispatching based on group communication. The system comprises a message gateway, receiving a message from a message server, retrieving a header and contents of the message corresponding to a message address, determining whether first field information in the header contents is identical to a group name...

20060168013 - Message management facility for an industrial process control environment: A message management facility is described herein that is hosted by a networked node, in a process control network environment, that is separate from a control processor. The message management facility routes a stream of messages received from the control processor to a set of destinations on a supervisory network....

20060168074 - Messaging and document management system and method: A communication system and method transmits electronic mail among multiple users that are senders or recipients of the mail, or both. The system and method use and augment the Internet with a postal server and software linked to the Internet. The sender and recipient have terminals also linked to the...

20060168054 - Messaging method and apparatus: A method and instant messaging client are provided to receive personalized content via an instant message. The method may include retrieving content identification criteria stored at the instant messaging client and communicating the content identification criteria via the instant messaging client to an instant messaging server. The instant messaging server...

20060168053 - Method and apparatus for immunizing data in computer systems from corruption: A system for immunizing a computer network against adverse effects caused by the receipt of a corrupting message. Each message transfers into a protocol-based controlled environment for a specific recipient where message criteria determine whether the incoming message is deemed to be a valid or suspicious message. Transmission criteria determine...

20060168055 - Method and apparatus for measurement, analysis, and optimization of content delivery: An apparatus and method for measurement, analysis, and optimization of content delivery over a communications network is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus detects data packets en route over a communications network. The detected data packets are read by the apparatus, combined into application messages, and further combined into user...

20060168068 - Method and computer system for e-mail processing: An e-mail system includes a storage means that stores at least one list of e-mail recipients. An e-mail client of the e-mail system is configured to present a user interface that is configured to assign the at least one list to an e-mail message and is further configured to receive...

20060168018 - Method and system for a sending domain to establish a trust that its senders communications are not unwanted: A method and system for identifying whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted by the recipient is provided. A trust system relies on a trust provider, such as a sending domain, to indicate whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted. The sending domain may assign its...

20060168063 - 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....

20060168012 - Method and system for electronic messaging via distributed computing networks: The present invention discloses an improved method and system for sending and receiving e-mail messages in a distributed computing network and for enabling users to search for and retrieve content sent as an attachment to e-mail messages on various computing devices participating in a distributed computing network. The present invention...

20060168057 - Method and system for enhanced electronic mail processing: An asynchronous proxy server system interposed between sender and recipient mail transfer agents, or other agent on the sender side, is configured to classify outgoing mail. Message and message header information is processed and compared against a set of business rules. The message header is modified to reflect an assertion...

20060168021 - Method and system for evaluating confidence in a sending domain to accurately assign a trust that a communication is not unwanted: A method and system for identifying whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted by the recipient is provided. A trust system relies on a trust provider, such as a sending domain, to indicate whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted. The sending domain may assign its...

20060168010 - Method and system for filtering electronic messages: A method for filtering an incoming electronic message sent by a sender and addressed to a user. The method includes providing a first temporary identifier, receiving the incoming electronic message from the sender, processing the incoming electronic message to detect the presence of the first temporary identifier therein, and upon...

20060168022 - Method and system for processing a communication based on trust that the communication is not unwanted as assigned by a sending domain: A method and system for identifying whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted by the recipient is provided. A trust system relies on a trust provider, such as a sending domain, to indicate whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted. The sending domain may assign its...

20060168076 - Method and system for regulating the dispatching of messages for requestors: A method and system in an application service provider (“ASP”) system for regulating the dispatching of event notification messages that generate return contacts. The ASP system is connected to various requestor systems and receives from those systems requests to send messages to designated recipients. The ASP system dispatches the messages...

20060168036 - Method and system to file relayed e-mails: A method and a system to file relayed e-mails is provided. The method includes receiving an e-mail, the e-mail including addressing information in an e-mail header and an the e-mail body. The e-mail is parsed to obtain the addressing information from the e-mail header and the e-mail body, after which...

20060168003 - Method for archiving multimedia messages: The present invention is in the technical field of imaging. It is used in digital networks to communicate and to archive multimedia messages. The invention relates to a method enabling the communication of at least one multimedia message between at least two terminals (3), (4) located in a digital network...

20060168067 - Method for automatically implementing special forms in an e-mail system: In an electronic mail system environment, a system and method for providing message flags, providing custom forms, and providing an autoresponse feature. The e-mail system notifies a recipient when a due date is approaching or when a follow-up action is past due. A custom forms feature allows a user to...

20060168019 - Method for discouraging unsolicited bulk email: A protocol-based method for email forwarding by an email server is performed as follows. An initial email is received from a sender, and checked to ensure that the initial email includes a reusable electronic paying means. If the initial email carries a reusable electronic paying means, the initial email is...

20060168049 - Method for redirection of instant messages: The present invention a method by which the sender of an instant message can designate an alternate recipient of the message in the event the initial recipient does not respond to the message within a predetermined time period. The sender can create a list of one or more alternate recipients...

20060168047 - Method for suppression of multicast join/prune messages from extranet receivers: A method of suppressing the number of PIM messages from extranet receivers is disclosed. Each receiver, before sending a PIM message, first searches for any other receivers other than itself. If there are no other receivers, then the PIM message is sent; otherwise, the receiver suppresses sending the PIM message....

20060168069 - Method, system and program product for performing message benchmarking: The present invention allows complex messaging configurations (e.g., server clusters) and messaging activities to be simulated in a single test. A server cluster having two or more mail servers is provided. Each server in the cluster is assigned one or more mail databases that are also replicated to the other...

20060168020 - Private domain name registration: A service for protecting the privacy of domain name registrants while preserving the registrant's ability to directly change the registration information or transfer the registration. A whois record is created that reflects the registrant's actual identity but contains contact information that is entirely associated with a privacy service....

20060168023 - Reliably transferring queued application messages: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for reliably and securely transferring queued application messages. Application messages are (e.g.,. binary or text) encoded and then encapsulated in transfer messages, enqueue messages, and dequeue responses such that composable protocol elements used in application messages can be reused...

20060168052 - Reliably transferring queued application messages: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for reliably and securely transferring queued application messages. Application messages are (e.g., binary or text) encoded and then encapsulated in transfer messages, enqueue messages, and dequeue responses such that composable protocol elements used in application messages can be reused...

20060168048 - Selectively blocking instant messages according to a do not instant message list: A method, system and apparatus for selectively blocking the transmission of an unsolicited instant message. The method of the invention can include receiving an instant message designated an intended recipient; locating the intended recipient in a do not instant message list; and, responsive to the location, blocking the instant message...

20060168024 - Sender reputations for spam prevention: Techniques are presented for assigning reputations to email senders. In one implementation, real-time statistics and heuristics are constructed, stored, analyzed, and used to formulate a sender reputation level for use in evaluating and controlling a given sender's connection to an message transfer agent or email recipient. A sender with an...

20060168061 - Server, server system, and e-mail delivery method: An object is to provide a server and an e-mail delivery method capable of processing an e-mail while determining whether the e-mail is to be stored into a mail box or whether only an attached file is to be stored into a storage area specified by a URL, based on...

20060168033 - Spam white list: A spam filtering system is simplified if it has a black list and white list of source terminals for each destination terminal since all traffic from a white list is automatically completed and all traffic from a black list is automatically blocked. In order to avoid traffic problems from problem...

20060168026 - System and method enabling interactive electronic mail and real-time messaging: A system, method, and computer program product for managing e-mail and real-time messaging activity between a first client and a second client. In accordance with one embodiment, the method includes the first or second client detecting an nth e-mail thread response to an original e-mail message delivered between the first...

20060168028 - System and method for confirming that the origin of an electronic mail message is valid: A system and method for preventing e-mail spoofing, in which a receiving e-mail checking server system sends a message to a confirmation server associated with a network domain of the sending system of a received e-mail message, to determine if the sender transmitted the message. The e-mail checking server sends...

20060168044 - System and method for display of chained messages in a single email in different orders: Systems and methods for display of chained messages in a single email in different orders allow a user to specify sort criteria to determine the order of display of chained messages. The system includes a message finding program and a message sorting program. The message finding program identifies individual messages...

20060168027 - System and method for dynamic information selection based on associated data: A system and method for dynamic information selection based on associated is presented. A user configures a plurality of endnotes in order to assign one of the endnotes to a recipient address. Each endnote may include signature text (e.g., name, phone number, etc.), as well as images, web page links,...

20060168045 - System and method for e-mail client with proactive indication unit: A system and method provide an enhanced e-mail (electronic mail) system with a proactive indication of recipient away message. The system and method provide an enhanced e-mail system with a proactive indication of away messages of individuals related to the recipient. The system and method also provides for enhanced e-mail...

20060168034 - System and method for mailing services including notification to recipient of items requiring time sensitive actions: A notification system and method that enables mail recipients to easily identify mail items that require some action on their part, as well as easily ascertain the date by which the action must be taken, is provided. Mail items that require some action on the part of the recipient are...

20060168059 - System and method for providing filtering email messages: A method for filtering email messages for a user, includes (a) obtaining from the user a first set of email addresses over which the user asserts authority and a second set of email addresses from which email messages are to be accepted; (b) obtaining from the email messages the sender...

20060168056 - System and method for providing improved access to spam-control feature in mail-enabled application: Disclosed is a system and method for providing users of web-accessible E-mail services with improved access to their E-mail messages and other information. In a first embodiment, a SPAM-control feature of a web-accessible electronic mail service is provided to a user of a mail-enabled application running on the user's client...

20060168004 - System and method for providing internet value-added service: The present invention generally relates to an Internet value-added service system and method for providing a conventional value-added service which has been provided in a web site with a message transmission medium of the Internet. More specifically, when an advertiser puts an advertisement through the message transmission medium of the...

20060168006 - System and method for the classification of electronic communication: From an electronic message, we extract any destinations in selectable links, and we reduce the message to a “canonical” (standard) form that we define. It minimizes the possible variability that a spammer can introduce, to produce unique copies of a message. We then make multiple hashes. These can be compared...

20060168073 - System and method of managing real-time communications using context-based awareness states: Described are a system and method for managing online communications by a user who participates in an awareness service system. A first awareness state associated with the user is published to a first participant of the awareness service system, while a second different awareness state associated with the user is...

20060168075 - System, computer program product and method for selecting an application service provider: A system, computer program product, and method for managing ASP documents includes requesting a transfer of an ASP document at an ASP user device connected to a remote document manager and a remote ASP via a network such as the Internet, establishing a predetermined time for effecting a transfer of...

20060168037 - Systems and methods for handling presence messages: Described are systems and methods for handling presence messages intended for an offline user. When an online user wants to send an instant message to an offline user, a presence-sensing server detects and notifies the online user of the status of the offline user. The presence-sensing server then can either...

20060168043 - Systems with message integration for data exchange, collection, monitoring and/or alerting and related methods and computer program products: Methods, systems and related products for collaborative exchange of healthcare data using a computer network are configured to: (a) receive a participating Subscriber's request for publication of selected clinical data from participating Publishers that have respective Publisher repositories of clinical data; (b) determine whether respective Publishers approve publication of their...

20060168032 - Unwanted message (spam) detection based on message content: In a teleconmmunications network a method of detecting unwanted (spam) messages. The content of a suspected spam message is analyzed to determine if the weighted properties and weighted sums of properties of the message exceeds a threshold. If these weighted sums exceed a threshold, the message is treated as a...

20060168041 - Using ip address and domain for email spam filtering: Email spam filtering is performed based on a combination of IP address and domain. When an email message is received, an IP address and a domain associated with the email message are determined. A cross product of the IP address (or portions of the IP address) and the domain (or...

20060168062 - Virtual calendar: An electronic mail system identifies autoreply messages and stores the date of return in a virtual calendar. The system then uses the virtual calendar for several features. A user can attempt to access the calendar of another user, and if that user's calendar is not accessible, then information from the...

20060168081 - Allocating communication bandwidth for executing web applications: In a system for serving a remote office by Web applications provided by a server, higher communication bandwidth is dynamically allocated to applications that require rapid execution by utilizing idle bandwidth. The server may have a priority management table for managing priorities for data transmission, a user management table for...

20060168089 - Controlling incoming communication by issuing tokens: A communication device is part of a communication system which is equipped with a token log. Tokens can be created by the operator of the communication device and issued to individuals who desire to communicate with the token issuer. Issued tokens are stored in the token log, potentially with settings...

20060168088 - Html delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network (cdn): A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which...

20060168087 - Instant messaging client and server: Instant messaging client capable of taking part in a group of instant messaging clients arranged for, when in communication mode, exchanging information with the other instant messaging clients of the group through an instant messaging server in a communication network. The instant messaging client comprises means for entering, staying in...

20060168084 - Method and apparatus for rendering load balancing and failover: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for balancing a load on a cluster providing a service and failing over ceasing a server of the cluster, the method comprising the steps of: for each of the servers of a cluster: broadcasting a heartbeat (e.g. according to...

20060168077 - Method and device for controlling a printer or a copier by accessing dtat objects by means of the network addresses associated with said data objects: In a method and device for control of a printer or copier, data are transferred over at least one data line between at least a first control unit and a second control unit. Respectively one identifier is associated with the first and second control unit. At least one value of...

20060168085 - 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....

20060168078 - Method and system for dynamic reader-instigated categorization and distribution restriction on mailing list threads: A method of regulating electronic message traffic is proposed. The method comprises sending an electronic message as part of a thread, receiving a response to the message, and tabulating said response in a counter. A data processing system compares the counter to a threshold and, in response to the comparing...

20060168082 - Methods and systems for adaptive delivery of multimedia contents: Methods and systems for generic adaptive multimedia content delivery are described. In one embodiment, a novel framework features an abstract content model and an abstract adaptive delivery decision engine. The abstract content model recognizes important aspects of contents while hiding their physical details from other parts of the framework. The...

20060168086 - Network adapter with shared database for message context information: A network interface adapter includes a network interface and a client interface, for coupling to a client device so as to receive from the client device work requests to send messages over the network using a plurality of transport service instances. Message processing circuitry, coupled between the network interface and...

20060168083 - Network alarm management system for managing event occurred in network element device and method for managing network alarm using the same: A network alarm management system managing an event of an error occurring in a network. The system having a network element device outputting the event information to notify it to a manager and outputting detailed processing information to guide the manager responding to a processing guide-requesting signal transmitted from the...

20060168080 - Repeatable message streams for message queues in distributed systems: Techniques for propagating messages in a distributed system are provided. A set of messages enqueued in a source queue are sent to one or more destination queues. An acknowledgement is received from each of the one or more destination queues, where the acknowledgement indicates which messages of the set of...

20060168079 - System and method for automatically connecting a client computer to a server: A method for automatically connecting a client to a server includes the steps of: sending a request to the server to reboot the server through a communication network; setting a wait time for the client computer; displaying the wait time on the client computer; counting down the wait time once...

20060168090 - Remote integrated subsystems in an aircraft or the like: A remotely accessible communication system is integrated within a structure. The communication system includes a master microserver having a master microserver card and at least one subsystem microservers having a subsystem microserver card. The communication network connects the master microserver and the at least one subsystem microserver together and is...

20060168093 - Data transfer scheme using caching technique for reducing network load: In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of...

20060168091 - Rnic-based offload of iscsi data movement function by initiator: A method and system including implementing an iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) offload initiator function with RNIC (Remote-direct-memory-access-enabled Network Interface Controller) mechanisms used for RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) functions....

20060168092 - Scsi buffer memory management with rdma atp mechanism: A method and system for registering a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) buffer memory by RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) ATP (Address Translation and Protection) Fast Memory Registration....

20060168094 - Direct access of scsi buffer with rdma atp mechanism by iscsi target and/or initiator: A method and system for directly accessing a SCSI buffer by a RDMA ATP (Address Translation and Protection) mechanism used in at least one of an iSCSI initiator function and an iSCSI target function. A preregistered SCSI buffer may be identified by means of an ITT (initiator task tag) or...

20060168102 - Cooperation between web applications: To provide flexible cooperation between web applications such as portlets. A first web application sends a request via a request dispatcher to a second web application. The second web application returns a response, to the first web application via the request dispatcher, enabling the first web application to display the...

20060168100 - Data retrieval from computing systems: A computing device embodiment includes a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and computer executable instructions executable by the processor. Computer executable instructions are provided to the memory and executable by the processor to access a first provider's communications computing device, having a user's information thereon, through a data lookup...

20060168097 - Internet radio receiver: A device used specifically to play internet radio stations using a consistent method for interacting with websites, eliminating the need for a full computer with a keyboard, computer screen and/or mouse. The said device is capable of accessing internet radio websites through a wireless modem and basic internet software, playing...

20060168103 - Method and system of remote diagnostic control and information collection using a dynamic linked library of multiple formats and multiple protocols: A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing...

20060168095 - Multi-modal information delivery system: A system and method for multi-modal information delivery is disclosed herein. The method involves receiving a first user request at a browser module operative in accordance with a first protocol applicable to a first mode of information delivery. The method further includes generating a browsing request in response to the...

20060168101 - Proactive browser system: A proactive browser system configured to implement stateful frame navigation using content specific icons, background frame maintenance, and asynchronous frame submissions. The proactive browser system includes three components: user-side proactive application terminals (PAT), network-resident proactivity enablement servers (PES), and server-side proactive wireless web-based application servers. The PAT resides on user...

20060168098 - Service offering for the delivery of partial information with a restore capability: A method for providing information to receivers including the step of receiving a request from a remotely located information requestor. The request can be associated with information controlled by an information controller and having a designated purpose. A transaction can be initiated to handle the request. At least one partial...

20060168099 - Virtual serial port and protocol for use in serial-over-lan communication: A method and system of conveying data to a remote computer, which may act as a management console. A virtual communications port is provided to a central processing unit. The virtual communications port is provided using a device distinct from the central processing unit, such as a network controller card...

20060168096 - Web servers: A web server comprising a memory and an information processor, the memory including a stored web page viewable by a remote user, wherein the stored web page is alterable by the remote user in at least one of appearance and function....

20060168114 - Audio processing system: A single universal audio processing system intelligently and transparently processes audio streams in real-time. The system receives audio input from one or more sources, determines how the streams should be processed, and automatically processes them in real-time for delivery to an output system. The processing happens without any intervention from...

20060168104 - Digital content delivery system, digital content delivery method, program for executing the method, computer readable recording medium storing thereon the program, and server and client for it: The digital contents distribution system of the present invention distributes digital contents through first and second networks 12 and 22. A server 14 is connected to the first network 12, and clients 20 for receiving and displaying or reproducing the digital contents are connected to the second network 22. The...

20060168111 - Distributed disparate wireless switching network: A distributed disparate wireless switching network is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, a connection origination exchange (COX), a proxy controller coupled to the COX, an access point coupled to the proxy controller, and a mobile node wirelessly coupled to the...

20060168117 - Element management server and method for managing multi-service network elements: Disclosed is an element management server and method for managing a multi-service network element in a network. The multi-service network element comprises: a first subsystem based on a first transmission technology comprising a first set of resources described by a first information model; and a second subsystem based on a...

20060168113 - File transfer management systems and methods: Systems and methods for file transfer management. A portal server receives a file transfer request from a client computer and performs file transfers between the client computer and a file server via leased line. The client computer connects to the portal server via Internet. The portal server connects to the...

20060168107 - Generalized on-demand service architecture for interactive applications: A method, system, and computer program for executing a network-based distributed application. An infrastructure is described that includes application containers configured to execute an application instance of the distributed application and measure quality of service metrics for the application instance. Workload management elements form a decentralized workload management layer. The...

20060168112 - Generic integration within an auto-id system: Systems, methods and computer program products, implementing techniques for generic integration within an auto-id system. The system includes an auto-id node operable to collect data emitted by one or more automatic data acquisition devices, process the data, and make the data available to one or more enterprise applications, user interfaces,...

20060168119 - Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor: The object of the present invention is to manage the use number relating to a user in a suitable manner, when a game device operated by a user downloads a file, such as a game program, or the like, from a file server, in order to play a game. Therefore,...

20060168118 - Method and system for differential distributed data file storage, management and access: A method and system providing a distributed filesystem and distributed filesystem protocol utilizing a version-controlled filesystem with two-way differential transfer across a network is disclosed. A remote client interacts with a distributed file server across a network. Files having more than one version are maintained as version-controlled files having a...

20060168115 - Method and system of encapsulating web site transactions for computer-aided generation of web services: A system and method for automatically generating web services from an existing web site having web page based business processes or transactions. A script is generated representative of the user navigation sequence involved to perform the transaction. The script elements include the web application calls, input/output parameters, and the interrelation...

20060168106 - Method for reducing latency periods during interactive data communication between a terminal server and a terminal server client in a geostationay satellite network: A method for reducing the latency time for interactive data communication between a server computer (6) and a client computer (2) via a satellite network (4) comprising a geostationary satellite (12), whereby a data processing application (14), in particular a database application, runs on the server computer (6) and generates...

20060168105 - Method for updating the local management system in at least one network element of a telecommunication network: The aim of the invention is to update a local management system in at least one network element of a telecommunication network, said local management system consisting of at least one network element agent stored in a management unit of the network element, and a network element manager. To this...

20060168110 - Method to facilitate use of multiple communication protocols in a communication network: A mobile node using non-Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 is able to successfully communicate via Mobile Internet Protocol version 4 infrastructure via an encapsulating tunnel as is established between a first network element (such as a Packet Data Serving Node) and a second network element (such as a Home Agent)....

20060168108 - Methods and systems for defragmenting subnet space within an adaptive infrastructure: Methods and systems for defragmenting subnet space within an adaptive infrastructure are disclosed. A method includes defining parameters of a netmask that is used to determine if subnets are joinable, identifying subnets to include in a list of available subnets that identifies subnets that are available to be allocated to...

20060168116 - Methods of issuing a domain name certificate: The present invention provides methods for covering a plurality of domain names with a single certificate. This may be accomplished even if two or more of the domain names have different top level domains (TLDs). In certain embodiments, a Subscriber may be subjected to a vetting process as a prerequisite...

20060168109 - Methods, devices and systems with improved zone merge operation by operating on a switch basis: Methods, devices and systems for improved zone merge operations are disclosed. Two connected switches are arbitrated as an initiator and a receiver. The merge operation is initiated only by the initiator on an initiator/receiver inter-switch link. The initiator may initiate a merge request and the receiver may perform the computation...

20060168120 - Non-invasive latency monitoring in a store-and-forward replication system: A method for monitoring replica servers in a networked computer system is provided, in which each server in the system has a replica partner vector table that includes state information about other servers in the system. The replica partner vector table includes data fields for storing an update sequence number...

20060168126 - Aggregated content listing for ad-hoc peer to peer networks: Providing access to content in an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network involves gathering, from a plurality of media servers coupled to the network, content listings that describe content available via the associated media server. A subset of the content listings is selected based on an identity associated with a control point device....

20060168133 - Apparatus and method for transmitting mpeg content over an internet protocol network: A method for transmitting packetized multimedia content over a network is disclosed. The method comprises, receiving packetized multimedia content to be transmitted over the network; classifying respective frame of the packetized multimedia content according to an assigned priority by analyzing a frame header of each frame of the packet; separately...

20060168143 - Automated method for executing a service order directed to a particular beneficiary, initiated after query requiring minimal response: An automated method is provided, operating on a computer and encoded on a computer-readable medium, for executing a logic flow that executes a service order on behalf of a client upon certain pre-scribed conditions. The service order is organized by the client according to the characteristics of each of at...

20060168132 - Business messaging standards to web services: A web services framework consists of a modular, extensible stack of XML specifications and standards targeting the emerging infrastructure in which distributed, heterogeneous applications are exposed by different organizations as services on the Internet. These services have their capabilities described and published in a machine readable format....

20060168130 - Bytecode localization engine and instructions: A system and method for localizing or translating computer program output is presented. Some aspects provide embedded localization markup tags in program output such that a localization bytecode engine can use the localization markup tags to look up and execute corresponding localization instructions kept in storage. In some aspects, the...

20060168131 - Electronic device and method for supporting different display modes: Data indicating a plurality of receiving specifications are stored in a memory unit. When an electronic device is set with its corresponding receiving specifications, data indicating the corresponding receiving specifications is read out from the memory unit and temporarily memorizes the same into a memory. When a demand for acquiring...

20060168127 - Host web page displaying target web page image: A system and method are disclosed for allowing a target web page to be edited on a host web page by a Designer. A scaled view of the target web page may be displayed on the host web page so that the Designer may view the target web page during...

20060168141 - Image server, image communication system, and control methods thereof: An image server and an image communication system capable of displaying images of plural image servers differing in IP address on a browser window by using a versatile browser, and a methods for controlling them. Plural image servers communicate with a client computer displaying image information presented from image servers...

20060168140 - Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor: The object of the present invention is to manage the use number relating to a user in a suitable manner, when a game device operated by a user downloads a file, such as a game program, or the like, from a file server, in order to play a game. Therefore,...

20060168147 - Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor: The object of the present invention is to manage the use number relating to a user in a suitable manner, when a game device operated by a user downloads a file, such as a game program, or the like, from a file server, in order to play a game. Therefore,...

20060168150 - Media presentation with supplementary media: Improved techniques for providing supplementary media for media items are disclosed. The media items are typically fixed media items. The supplementary media is one or more of audio, video, image, or text that is provided by a user to supplement (e.g., personalize, customize, annotate, etc.) the fixed media items. In...

20060168134 - Method and system for real-time observation assessment: Techniques for real-time observation assessment are provided. The techniques, which are designed for educators, take advantage of handheld computers, desktop/laptop computers and Internet access in order to reduce the paperwork associated with conventional educational assessments. An array of instructional assessment applications are designed to run on handheld computers. The instructional...

20060168121 - Method and system for storing and retrieving personal information: A method for storing and retrieving personal information adapted to improve the level of contentment of a user (30). A database (11) is provided, for storing therein and retrieving therefrom information that is related to sources of contentment. Each of the sources of contentment is associated with a different aspect...

20060168145 - Method for creating a secure and reliable content distribution framework: An upstream NDC site accesses a file that is alternatively accessible through at least two downstream NDC sites. The downstream NDC sites belong to a DDS domain which is a sub-domain of a domain at the upstream NDC site. Portal files at each downstream NDC store distinct network addresses for...

20060168151 - Method, system and computer program for retrieving information with reduced age in a periodic process: A solution (600) for retrieving information (for example, monitoring data such as heartbeat signals) is proposed. The information is collected (603-612) periodically on a central server (110) from remote sources (105); multiple clients (120) then download (615-630) the information from the server with a time pattern that is tied to...

20060168142 - Music distribution system: Systems for distributing music to a plurality of customers via the Internet provide each customer with a uniquely identified proprietary device for receiving, playing and recording music. A music server computer system is provided for distributing the music to the proprietary devices over the Internet. The system provides for tracking...

20060168123 - Queue and load for wireless hotspots: A system and method are provided for queuing and downloading content from a network. A user browses a network for content, and informs a scheduler of desired content and download parameters, such as a target end user device and conditions that are to be met before downloading occurs. The scheduler...

20060168135 - Recording and reproducing apparatus and file transfer method: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a file recorder, an interface, and controller which, upon receipt of content file with copy control information, records the content file in the recorder by adding thereto identification information M requesting transfer upon confirmation that a round-trip response time to a destination is not...

20060168146 - Remote copy network: A remote copy network realizes low-cost multi-hop remote copying. Remote copying is executed via a remote copy network (RCN) having a source edge device connected to a source storage and a target edge device connected to a target storage. Because the RCN is a network provided by a network business,...

20060168138 - Resource providing system, mediating agent, resource providing method and computer program product: A resource providing system is provided with a user agent, an interlayer agent, and a resource agent. The user agent includes a file acquisition processing portion that makes a request to the interlayer agent for a file desired by the user. The interlayer agent includes a file relay portion that...

20060168149 - Secure network computing: In one embodiment, a network element comprises one or more input/output ports, one or more processors, and a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory module comprises logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive a service request from a client computing device,...

20060168137 - Service providing method using profile information and system thereof: A service providing method using profile information and a system thereof is provided. According to the invention, in order to provide profile information for serving a user to a service provider at a place other than a home, a user device, an external device, an authentication server and a profile...

20060168129 - System and method for enhancing network browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device: A system for enhancing network-browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device comprises a browser operating on the handheld for sending a request for requesting a message including at least one image from a website, receiving a response in response to the request, a proxy server including...

20060168136 - System and method for launching a resource in a network: The invention provides a system and method for a client connected to a server in a computer network to access a resource, such as an application, database (either local, server, or web-based), service and/or a file, stored in the network. The system comprises: the client in the network; the server...

20060168125 - System and method for managing web content: A system and method for managing web content are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request to store content of a webpage, where the webpage includes an annotation tag. In one embodiment, the annotation tag indicates that the content includes an annotation. The method also includes...

20060168124 - System and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server: A system and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server. The system allows a user to open and interact with a document without opening a session. Aspects of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented method having steps for determining whether a document...

20060168122 - System and method for protocol independent access and invocation of web services: Middleware application for managing communication between a client and a web service so that changes in the web service information, such as a change in the web service location, are addressed by the middleware application is disclosed. A developer registers web services in a repository. The middleware application generates a...

20060168139 - System for integrating java servlets with asynchronous message: In a traditional application server that uses servlets, when a request is dispatched to a thread the service method of the appropriate servlet is called. When the service method returns the response is sent. This is sub-optimal in the case that an asynchronous event must occur before the response can...

20060168144 - System for viewing content over a network and method therefor: A system and method for viewing content over the Internet wherein a user accesses a service provider server to view a character icon provided by the service provider to a user interface device. The user will select web site addresses of subscriber target sites where the user can access enhancement...

20060168148 - System, computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes an image forming apparatus configured to display interactive menus so as to allow an operator of the image forming apparatus to interact with a document manager. The display interactive menus are downloaded from the document manager to...

20060168128 - Wireless network facilitator and monitor: Techniques are presented for facilitating and monitoring wireless network connections. Clients and intermediate nodes are configured to interact with one another via network connections. Initially, the clients wirelessly connect to a select one of the intermediate nodes. Tests may be periodically issued to the clients and to the intermediate nodes...

20060168158 - Automated bulk configuration of network devices: Multiple devices within a data communication network can be configured according to a single configuration profile. Configuration profile data is stored in a configuration file. Connections are made to individual devices, and the data in the configuration file is transformed into device-specific commands....

20060168162 - Call signaling approach to user self-provisioning of voip using a touch-tone interface: A method for providing self-provisioning of VoIP telephony to a subscriber of a VoIP telephony service is disclosed. An un-provisioned residential gateway that is associated with the subscriber is instructed to collect a subscriber numeric identity that uniquely identifies the subscriber and a Personal Identification Number (PIN) information that are...

20060168156 - Hierarchical system configuration method and integrated scheduling method to provide multimedia streaming service on two-level double cluster system: A hierarchical system configuration method and an integrated scheduling method for offering a multimedia streaming service on a two-level double cluster system are provided. The hierarchical system configuration method includes the steps of: determining whether one server node exists; if one server node exists, determining whether one virtual server node/specific...

20060168157 - Java applet update apparatus, java applet execution/processing apparatus, java applet update program, and java applet execution/processing program: A Java applet execution/processing apparatus is provided in a client that can be connected to a server having Java applet and an execution module. At the time when performing predetermined processing using the Java applet and execution module, the Java applet execution/processing apparatus performs the predetermined processing using Java applet...

20060168152 - Method and apparatus for configuring a server: A process identifies one or more roles associated with a target server. The process also identifies one or more services associated with each role and identifies one or more ports associated with each role. The identified ports associated with the role are presented to a user. The user is requested...

20060168153 - Method of configuring wireless device: A method for efficiently setting up a wireless local area network comprising one or more access points and one or more wireless client devices is provided. Unlike traditional approaches for setting up a wireless local area network, which involves repetitive manual configuration of every AP and wireless client device, the...

20060168161 - Methods of issuing a certificate for a domain name: The invention provides methods for efficiently registering a domain name and issuing a certificate without a Subscriber submitting a separate request for the certificate. In some embodiments, a notice may be provided to the Subscriber, after requesting to register a domain name, that a certificate may be issued for the...

20060168159 - Peer networking host framework and hosting api: A device hosting framework provides hosting for software-implemented logical devices (including peripheral devices bridges) on a computer to expose their services as controlled devices per a peer networking protocol. The device hosting framework encapsulates discovery, description and control protocol operations of the peer networking protocol, which frees the developers of...

20060168154 - System and method for a distributed object store: An improved system and method for flexible object placement and soft-state indexing of objects in a distributed object store is provided. A distributed object store may be provided by a large number of system nodes operably coupled to a network. A system node provided may include an access module for...

20060168160 - System and method for remote device management: A manufacturing method enables the manufacture of a remotely controlled network device management system. The manufacturing method includes the steps of obtaining a software program, obtaining a downloadable unit (e.g. an applet) configured to communicate with the software program, compiling the software program into a binary file, embedding the downloadable...

20060168155 - Virtual circuit identifications for hybrid point-to-point networks: Methods and systems for identifying communication circuits are disclosed. In particular a communication circuit communicatively couples a first node to a second node. A virtual circuit identification is then obtained based on a first address associated with the first node and a second address associated with the second node. The...

20060168164 - Dynamic ip address update: The present invention provides for a configuration tool that during configuration of a message server assists a user in registering, transferring, maintaining a domain name and/or automatically configuring a message system in accordance therewith. The configuration tool guides the user through a series of inquiries, and based on the user...

20060168166 - Evaluating hardware models having resource contention: A performance prediction simulator gives effect to the resource contention among multiple resources in a simulated system by adjusting event durations appropriately. A resource topology tree defining the resource configuration of the system is input to the simulator. The simulator includes an evaluation engine that determines the amount of resource...

20060168163 - Network configuration management: One implementation provides a computer-implemented method for modifying network configuration information on a client node. In this implementation, the client node establishes a first network connection with a host node using at least one network configuration parameter and collects configuration history information. The configuration history information includes at least one...

20060168165 - Provisional application management with automated acceptance tests and decision criteria: A method and system for testing newly installed or recently upgraded software is presented. All software installation activities are tracked and logged. New and upgrade software is isolated, either physically or logically, and tested using diagnostic software. If the new/upgrade isolated software passes the testing by the diagnostic software, then...

20060168167 - Bootstrapping devices using automatic configuration services: The present disclosure relates to attempting to automatically configure an unconfigured device utilizing a previously configured device and, more specifically, to attempting to bootstrap a universal plug-and-play (UPnP) access point utilizing a previously configured access point...

20060168179 - Adaptive management method and system with automatic scanner installation: A self-adaptive resource management method (200) is proposed. The system is based on an authority (105) that publishes multiple rules into a corresponding repository (115). Each rule defines a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (110); each category is specified by one or more attributes that are evaluated...

20060168189 - Advanced ipmi system with multi-message processing and configurable capability and method of the same: An advanced intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) system with multi-message processing and configurable capability, optimally used among message sources, the IPMI system is disclosed. The IPMI system includes a sensor unit having an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) which stores a sensing event of a physical change in...

20060168168 - Assisted determination of data flows in communication/data networks: There is provided a method of determining data flow in a network, the method comprising: (a) selecting a location within the network for providing a data processing means adapted to process data pertaining to the network data flow; (b) determining the expense and/or level of data capture that would result...

20060168175 - Client registration for purposes of maintaining detailed client information at a web services registry: A method is described to implement a web services environment in which web based service providers can be discovered and accessed with a web based registry. The method includes forcing a client to undergo a registration process as a condition for the client's discovering and/or accessing a web based service...

20060168185 - Collecting, analyzing, consolidating, delivering and utilizing data relating to a current event: Arrangements for collecting, analyzing, consolidating and delivering consolidated and enhanced data from a plurality of sources relating to a current event, to a third party, and reserving the consolidated and enhanced data for internal use so as to create a commercial proactive emergency management and disaster response information system that...

20060168182 - Determining and merging differences between configuration diagrams: System and method for determining and/or merging differences between configuration diagrams. First information is received regarding a first configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically representing a first system, and second information is received regarding a second configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically...

20060168183 - Determining differences between configuration diagrams: System and method for determining and/or merging differences between configuration diagrams. First information is received regarding a first configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically representing a first system, and second information is received regarding a second configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically...

20060168169 - Dynamic domain administration utility: The Weblogic Tuxedo Connector is used to provide interoperability between Tuxedo and applications such as Weblogic Server. In one embodiment, WTC may implement operations such as list, start, or stop WTC Tuxedo session connections. In WTC, the configuration is set up so that multiple WTC-Tuxedo connections are defined as part...

20060168174 - Grid application acceleration: A method includes, in a grid network, maintaining an application usage history by a grid manager or similar component, executing an application according to information contained in the application usage history prior to a user request to execute the application, caching results generated from execution of the application, and providing...

20060168173 - Method and apparatus for conditional application of management commands: Device management commands are augmented with a condition that is evaluated prior to the command being executed at a managed device. If the condition is met, the command is executed; otherwise, execution of the command is rejected. An agent for operating a network device comprises a parser that receives from...

20060168177 - Method and system for managing groups of networked heterogeneous devices: A system and method for managing a group of networked, heterogeneous devices, wherein the group of devices are regarded as a logically single “device”. This method separates the state management aspect from control aspect, such that applications using this method need not manage the devices and data directly, and as...

20060168188 - Method and system for presenting events associated with recorded data exchanged between a server and a user: Events associated with recorded data exchanged between at least one user and at least one server are presented to a user. A set of events associated with the recorded data is defined, and each event within the set is represented by an event identifier, e.g., a time stamp. Each event...

20060168171 - Method and system for using presence in a system management environment: Method, system and computer program product for communicating information regarding a managed resource in a network data processing system. A method, in a network data processing system, for communicating information regarding a managed resource includes receiving management information regarding at least one managed resource. The received management information is converted...

20060168184 - Method of operating a network management station: A network management station connected to a network infrastructure is configured for the acquisition and registration of at least a [portion of the network infrastructure. A selected region only of the network infrastructure is displayed graphically on the screen of the network management station....

20060168180 - Node discovery involving stealth node enumerators: A network node discovery method allows multiple enumerators to concurrently accept and interpret the same enumeration responses from responder nodes on a network. In this manner, the responder nodes do not have to issue individual responses for each enumerator. Each responder maintains a discovery state and one or more per-enumerator...

20060168172 - Obtaining user input for inclusion in system management logs: An administrator may enter information related to a system event or system performance directly into systems management software. The systems management software includes at least a portion of the information entered by the administrator in a log, which may be provided to a second administrator using the systems management software....

20060168186 - Parental controls customization and notification: A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for enabling a user and an administrator in a network environment to interactively customize administrator controls used to filter the user's online actions. The computer receives a user request to perform a blocked online action. The computer provides information about the...

20060168178 - Platform-independent system for remotely controlling home devices and method thereof: A platform-independent system and method for remotely controlling home devices and a computer-readable recording medium in which a program capable of executing the method is recorded are disclosed. The method includes installing a device control application to be used for the management of a home device when the home device...

20060168170 - System and method for analyzing information relating to network devices: A system for analyzing information relating to network devices comprises a computer readable storage medium and computer software stored on the computer readable storage medium. The computer software reviews message information generated by a plurality of network devices, stores event records associating events from the message information with the plurality...

20060168187 - System and method for archiving within a client management tool: A method and system is provided for archiving data within a client management tool. The archiving methods include accessing a set of client management data and creating an archive file. The method may further include reactivating an archive file, deleting an archive file, and reactivating a deleted archive file....

20060168181 - System and method for transporting multiple client data signals via a single server signal: Systems and methods for conveying multiple low-bit-rate data streams over a data transport medium which is configured to transport data in a single, high-bit-rate data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of low-bit-rate signals are received and a corresponding data rate is determined. Each of the signals is formatted in...

20060168176 - Systems, methods, and media for detecting outbound nagling on a tcp network connection: Systems, methods and media for detecting outbound Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may include creating by a sender computer one or more segments to be transmitted to a receiver computer and determining by the sender computer whether any of the one or more segments to be...

20060168196 - Automated provisioning of new networked devices: In one embodiment, a networked device includes a main platform having a processor, a memory and a basic input/output system (BIOS), and a management subsystem coupled to the main platform to provision the main platform irrespective of the presence of an operating system on the main platform....

20060168195 - Distributed intelligent diagnostic scheme: A system and methodology that employs an agent technology logic layer operating in connection with or integral to a controller is provided. The logic layer can be a functional extension of the controller's firmware that facilitates logical reasoning and decision-making with regard a network as a function of individual agent(s)...

20060168192 - High availability for intelligent applications in storage networks: Methods and apparatus provide formation and management of intelligent application clusters in a storage area network. Disk arbitration mechanisms ensure that a cluster is owned by a single member. In the event of a network partition, each cluster member involved arbitrates to gain ownership of a cluster. High availability mechanisms...

20060168199 - Method and apparatus for exposing monitoring violations to the monitored application: A method and system for exposing monitoring violations to monitored applications is provided. A monitored application may detect that a monitoring application has been applied to monitor a transaction. Based on a defined policy or a threshold within policy, the monitored application may determine if the transaction is in a...

20060168194 - Method to effectively collect data from systems that consists of dynamic sub-systems: A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided to improve the push/pull workload management model with intelligent routing to effectively collect data from systems that consist of dynamic sub-systems. The invention improves the push/pull model of the referenced invention with intelligent request routing to solve the above problem. An API...

20060168193 - Methods, computer program products, and systems for detecting incidents within a communications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting an incident within a communications network are provided. A method involves establishing a fingerprint for at least one of the network elements associated with the communications network. Each fingerprint established includes at least one message signaling characteristic and/or at least one message...

20060168204 - Mobile blocking indicators on a contact list: Techniques are described for forwarding an instant message addressed to an intended instant message recipient to the recipient's mobile telephone. Techniques are also described for prohibiting the forwarding of an instant message addressed to an intended message recipient to the recipient's mobile telephone. Further techniques are provided for updating an...

20060168197 - Monitoring device having a memory containing data representing access information configured to be used by multiple implementations of protocol access functions to extract information from networked devices: A method, system, and computer program product for encoding data representing access information configured to be used by a selected communication protocol to extract status information related to a monitored device among distinct devices communicatively coupled to a network, and a monitoring device having a memory containing data representing access...

20060168205 - Network analysis system and method: A system for analyzing a packet-based network includes a correlator processor that is configured to receive packet records corresponding to packets communicated over a network and store the packet records in a data store. The correlator processor is also configured to generate correlated packet records from the packet records stored...

20060168206 - Network analysis system and method: A system for analyzing a packet-based network includes a wireless network analysis processing device that is configured to receive correlated packet records representative of the order in which corresponding packets are transmitted in a wireless network. The correlated packet records include media access control (MAC) layer data and network layer...

20060168207 - Network analysis system and method: A packet-based wireless network visualization system includes a data store, an input/output subsystem including a display device, and a processing subsystem. The system is configured to receive network topology data, packet flow record data, and measurements data over the input/output subsystem and store the network topology data, packet flow record...

20060168203 - Policy rule management for qos provisioning: Described herein is a policy-based Internet Protocol (IP) network wherein the Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning across various network devices is managed by policy processing via a user interface including a graphic user interface. The user interface incorporates information made available by a server, such as lightweight directory access protocol...

20060168191 - Power status notification: A computer program product is for use with a computer that includes a communication interface for sending and receiving information over a communication network and that is connected to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that monitors and supplies information regarding power status associated with the UPS. The computer program product...

20060168201 - Safeguarded integrated means for internet-based cm systems: An overall condition monitoring (CM) system with at least one CM center (60) and the respective CM systems (50, 52), which can be located anywhere, together with the associated LAN and/or Internet-data network structures is designed such that protocol-blocking logic or physical devices (PB5, PB6, PB8) monitor the data traffic...

20060168202 - System and method for deterring rogue users from attacking protected legitimate users: An active deterrence method and system deter rogue cyber activity targeting one or more protected legitimate users (PLUs). Methodologies and/or techniques are included to establish a PLU registry and/or enable a PLU to bear an identifying mark; detect rogue cyber activity; issue warnings to one or more rogue users (RUs)...

20060168200 - System and method for managing a flow of network status messages at a network operations console: A computer based system, computer program product, and method for managing network status message data flow. A computer based system, computer program product, and method are provided for managing the flow rate of network status messages to a remote network operations console. Detailed network status is abstracted into hierarchical levels...

20060168208 - System and method for network management: A part of the elements discovered in a network are chosen to be monitored, and a user such as a network administrator is allowed to appropriately monitor desired elements. A network management server collects information on elements in the network, and displays collected information on a GUI screen. The user...

20060168190 - Telemetry system: In a remote monitoring system, a supervision terminal, 37, monitors the status of the communication link, 32, 34, 36, between the supervision terminal and each of a plurality of remote terminals, 33, connected to the supervision terminal via a data network, 35. The remote terminals may be used to emulate...

20060168198 - Web page browsing timer and method thereof: A web page browsing timing system and method thereof are disclosed for timing the web page browsing time of the user. When user login information is received, the server starts a first timing system according to the login information. Then, an inline floating frame updates regularly the first timing system...

20060168209 - Xdsl connection monitor: A system and method of maintaining communication between a computer and a server, the server being in communication with the computer via xDSL service or dial-up modem service, with xDSL service being the default mode of communication, the method including sending a request to the server via xDSL service to...

20060168222 - Authorization access controlled content exchange: Authorization access controlled content exchange can be implemented, for example, in a multimedia content distribution environment when individual client devices are capable of storing content. A content index is maintained for each client device that reflects the content stored thereat. Predefined authorization access information for each relevant content item may...

20060168216 - Digital management system and method for managing access rights in such a management system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing access rights in a digital management system. The apparatus includes a device manager module configured to communicate with a client module, and an authorization layer configured to manage client module requests and accounts. The system includes a network, a plurality of...

20060168219 - Enabling access to media content in media servers in remote networks: Provided are a method, system, and program enabling access to media content in media servers in remote networks. Available devices are discovered in a network capable of being controlled, wherein the devices include at least one media renderer and media servers. An access list is maintained indicating network addresses of...

20060168210 - Facilitating legal interception of ip connections: A method of facilitating the legal interception of IP connections, where two or more terminals can communicate with each other over the Internet using IPSec to provide security. The method comprises allocating to each terminal T1,T2 a public/private key pair for use in negotiating IKE and IPSec Security Associations (SAs)...

20060168211 - Information processing system, information processing device and method, program storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing device and a method, a program storage medium, and a program which allow content to be distributed according to a user's action. A content server transmits a content URI corresponding to an action processable by an application server...

20060168223 - Method and system for assigning client requests to a server: A method and system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first request from a user at a dispatcher that corresponds to a first transaction. The method further includes creating at the dispatcher a unique identifier that is associated with the user. The unique identifier is based on data that...

20060168218 - Method for remembering resource allocation in grids: A grid manager manages numerous submissions of a job request in view of maintaining a high degree of performance continuity in the execution of the numerous submissions of the job request by one or more job handlers. To this end, the grid manager receives an initial submission of the job...

20060168217 - Method, computer program product, and data processing system for data queuing prioritization in a multi-tiered network: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for data prioritization in a multi-tier network system is provided. A server having a plurality of processors receives data from a client. A priority of the client is then identified. Responsive to identifying the priority, the data is queued in...

20060168221 - Multi-domain access proxy for handling security issues in browser-based applications: A request-based communications method, system and program product for overcoming security restrictions, in a networked environment having a client Web Browser (1), a first Webserver (4), and at least a second Webserver (5) which runs a web application (6) that acts as a back-end content resource (13), wherein within the...

20060168220 - Network service providing method and system: This invention is to enable to provide a network service, flexibly and quickly. In an embodiment of the invention, a network platform is achieved by a service providing network. The network platform provides common functions such as authentication and authorization, billing, and client management, and individual functions such as session...

20060168212 - Security system and method: A security system and method are disclosed that are particularly suitable for a portable electronic device having a memory. The security system interacts with the electronic device to acquire at least a portion of the memory of the electronic device, and controls access to the acquired memory independently of an...

20060168213 - System and method for regulating the flow of information to or from an application: The flow of information to or from an application on a host machine is regulated by a trusted agent operating in conjunction with at least one security element, such as a firewall or a policy server. When a communication to or from the application is detected by the trusted agent,...

20060168214 - System for managing logical partition preemption: An apparatus, program product and method guarantee a period of time in which a partition's use of a resource will not be preempted by a hypervisor. An inquiry communication from the partition prompts the hypervisor to determine if work is pending for the hypervisor. If not, the hypervisor sends a...

20060168215 - Web service distribution system over the world wide web using web services description language (wsdl) standard including implementation for uniformly generating all fault conditions in wsdl message format: A Web Service distribution system with the standard combination of a general protocol for the transporting and handling of data entities to and from Web stations, e.g. SOAP layered over HTTP, including means for detecting fault conditions in these general protocol transport and handling means with standard Web Services Description...

20060168230 - Estimating a required number of servers from user classifications: Network computer users are classified in terms of levels of use of various application programs that require service from network servers. One or more data networks are monitored to determine average server demand per user for the various user classes and application programs. A server pool sizing calculator is programmed...

20060168232 - Host digital terminal tools for voiceport redistributions: Communication capacity of a node served by a host digital terminal is managed by redistributing communication lines among headend modems for the node in the host digital terminal. Each node has a plurality of communication lines connected to one or more headend modems, and the communication lines are distributed among...

20060168233 - Internet-based education support system and methods: A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a...

20060168234 - Method and system for selectively dedicating resources for recording data exchanged between entities attached to a network: Recording resources are selectively dedicated for recording data exchanged between entities attached to a network including at least one agent in an enterprise, a user, and a server connected to the agent and the user. At least one interconnection point is selected among interconnection points in the network including one...

20060168226 - Method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for scheduling the availability of versions of a network resource: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus are provided for allowing scheduled access to a network resource, such as a Web page. According to the method, a uniform resource locator (“URL”) may be assigned to a scheduled URL object (“SUO”). When a request is received at the URL assigned to the...

20060168225 - Network and a distributed electronic commerce system using the network: A distributed network for effecting content search requests and processing of transactions is disclosed. The network has application to processes for conducting electronic commerce transactions....

20060168224 - Remote dynamic configuration of a web server to facilitate capacity on demand: The present invention relates to a method and system for the remote and dynamic configuration of a webserver to facilitate capacity on demand. The present invention provides a solution to the problem of the management and administration of one or more servers within an environment such as a server farm...

20060168228 - System and method for maintaining data integrity in a cluster network: A system and method for failure recovery and failure management in a cluster network is disclosed. Following a failure of a storage enclosure or a communication link failure between storage enclosures, each server node of the network determines whether the server node can access the drives of each logical unit...

20060168229 - System and method for network management using extensible markup language: The invention relates to a system and method for management of an IP network using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or a similar protocol in addition to SNMP or other managed-device protocol. In embodiments of the invention, a XNMP gateway is coupled between the network management system and one or managed...

20060168231 - System, apparatus, method, and program for providing virtual books to a data capable mobile phone/device: A system for delivering data from a host site to a mobile device. The host site comprises a storing unit adapted to store the data. The mobile device comprises a requesting unit adapted to request the data from the host site, and a downloading unit adapted to download the data...

20060168227 - System, method, device, module and computer code product for progressively downloading a content file: A system and method for progressively downloading a content file. An electronic device including a browser application, and a server including a metafile and an associated content file. When a user desires to progressively download the content file to the electronic device, the electronic device reads the metafile to determine...

20060168246 - Assistant server and path connection control method for service provider's network: In a communication network having a communication node connected to a plurality of service providers' networks, a network controller connected to the communication node, and a server for supplying network control information to the network controller, the server stores definition information of communication services provided by the service providers. When...

20060168236 - Communication adapter device, communication adapter, method for write in nonvolatile memory, and electric apparatus used for the same, and rom writer: The present invention relates to a communication adapter apparatus that connects electrical apparatuses, sensors, and other apparatuses to a network. In order to obtain a communication adapter apparatus that is capable of realizing simplification of setting at the time of execution of works, simplification of execution of works, reduction of...

20060168235 - Communication control system, communication control method, and relay device: An object of the present invention is to reduce a load on the resource of a relay device (2) and to reduce the data-amount charging on a client, when communications are performed between a client (1) and a server (3). A communication control system according to the present invention includes:...

20060168237 - Confidence communication method between two units: A method for communication between a first unit and a second unit via a telecommunications network, wherein the first unit comprises a first family of applications and a second family of applications having communication capacities on the network extending beyond communication capacities of the applications of the first family, the...

20060168244 - Method and apparatus for an image server: A method and apparatus is disclosed for an image server capable of acquiring images and transmitting them across a network with header information and formatting specific to the destination selected by the user. Destinations include, other computers on the network, database servers, e-mail servers, fax servers, file servers, etc. Additionally,...

20060168242 - Method and apparatus for communicating text-based commands through a network: A network device having text-based command language functions that are accessible via the network, includes a receiver for receiving a network protocol command sent through the network and having a text-based command attached thereto. The receiver determines whether a text-based command is attached to the network protocol command, and an...

20060168240 - Method and apparatus for determining client-perceived server response time: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for determining client-perceived server response time enables a user to accurately measure client-perceived server response time in the presence of packet loss. In one embodiment, the inventive method includes capturing a copy of a first packet traversing a computing network between a...

20060168238 - Network device configuration: A network device initially has no configuration data and is permitted only to query a known network address. From this address a server verifies the connection and authorises another server to download to the network device the necessary configuration to carry out its purpose. This configuration may not be amended...

20060168241 - Redundant l2tp end points: Methods and systems are provided for recovering from an interruption in, or failure of, an L2TP tunnel connection, such that reconnection of the tunnel is not required. According to various embodiments, redundant storage of tunnel state information is used to avoid having to reconnect an interrupted or failed tunnel session....

20060168239 - Secure client/server data transmission system: A system for transmitting data, including at least one data transmission network (10), one or several client machines (12, 14, 16) connected to the network and one or several server machines (18, 20, 22) which are also connected to the network and which can be connected at a given moment...

20060168245 - Software component for a distributed control system, and method for designing a control system: The object of the invention is to provide a software component (1, 2, 3) for a distributed control system having application units (4, 5) which have one or more logic function nodes which each define an individual control system function in the application units and interact with one another, or...

20060168243 - System and method for determining a designated connection between components of computing devices: A system and method for identifying a single, designated connection from one or more connections (e.g. TCP connections) that may have been established between two components for data communications. Each component is associated with a component identifier that is generated by an identifier generating algorithm adapted to ensure that component...

20060168249 - Method and device for graphical interfacing: A method and device for graphical interfacing between a user and an information system. The method includes introducing a user request in a client station, transmitting the request to a server, processing the request and generating an answer and transmitting the answer to the client station. The generated answer includes...

20060168248 - Method for transmitting a user data record to a user station: A method is described for transmission of a user data record to a user station via a network system comprising at least one broadcast network. In Accordance with the invention the method features the following steps: Transmission of the user data record as a broadcast data record via a network...

20060168251 - Methods and systems for transferring client device data over a network: Systems and methods for the transfer of client device data on a network are described. One described method comprises causing non-time-sensitive client device data to be identified on a client device, causing the non-time-sensitive client device data to be prepared for output and stored by the client device, and causing...

20060168247 - System and method for communicating data between networks operating under different protocols: A method and communications system comprising networks for the communication of data according to different protocols, each network comprising at least one node. A plurality of communication interfaces provides communication between a first node of a first network and a second node of a second network. Each interface sends values...

20060168250 - System and method for facilitating personalization of applications based on anticipation of users' interests: A system and method for facilitating personalization of applications based on anticipation of users' interests are described. In one preferred embodiment, a communication session is established with a user. Data related to user activities conducted by the user is collected during the communication session. Finally, collected data is processed according...

20060168253 - Access control processing method: The present invention provides a device and a method for accurately and efficiently controlling an access from an external network to an internal network. Both a client device connectable to the external network and an application gateway store shared secret information (Secret) including a client ID: GUID(C) as an ID...

20060168254 - Automatic policy selection: An arrangement, in a computer system, for coordinating scheduling of threads on a processor associated with a scheduling-enabled entity. The arrangement includes a policy database of scheduling policies. The arrangement further includes an automatic policy selector associated with the scheduling-enabled entity. The automatic policy selector is configured to automatically select...

20060168256 - Controlling service failover in clustered storage apparatus networks: A controller for use at a node of a clustered computer apparatus comprises an exception detection component for detecting an exception raised by a service component at the node; a quiesce component responsive to the exception detection component for quiescing lease-governed activity by the service component prior to termination of...

20060168257 - Distributed policy model for access control: A distributed policy model for access control is disclosed. In an enterprise-only mode, each node within a networking environment has its resource access governed by the same enterprise-wide policy. The enterprise-wide policy is set through creation of one or more enterprise policy objects. In an integrated mode, nodes are organized...

20060168252 - Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program for allowing items in usage conditions set for digital content to be easily added, deleted, and replaced. A data acquisition section 91 requests a content distribution apparatus to supply digital content, and outputs...

20060168258 - Network resource control system: A network resource control system allows network terminals to communicate with network resources, and includes a resource registry, an authorization server and an administration server. The resource registry includes resource records which are associated with the network resources and define at least a user access level for each network resource....

20060168260 - Providing secure access through network firewalls: To enable controlled, secure connections using a versatile protocol such as TCP/IP to be established through a firewall and proxy server, the versatile protocol is tunnelled using HTTP. Client to server communications are effected using an HTTP POST operation. Server to client communications are effected using an HTTP GET operation...

20060168259 - System and method for accessing data via internet, wireless pda, smartphone, text to voice and voice to text: An intermediary system and method are disclosed for providing users access to enterprise data via the Internet, Wireless PDA, VoIP Phone, Wireless Phone, and GSM/EDGE SmartPhone, and other communication devices. The intermediary system allows users to access enterprise data based on the user's role in the enterprise, the user's assigned...

20060168255 - User interface for securing lightweight directory access protocol traffic: Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) management is described. In an implementation, a method includes exposing a user interface suitable for receiving inputs from a user that specify whether execution of a particular lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) action is permitted. A policy is configured based on the inputs, for managing...

20060168279 - Apparatus and method for providing multi protocol label switching (mpls)-based virtual private network (vpn): A virtual private network (VPN) based on a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) technique is established by an MPLS-based VPN providing apparatus and method. The MPLS-based VPN providing apparatus and method are capable of simplifying the use of protocols, reducing a load, and guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) by adopting...

20060168266 - Apparatus and method for providing signaling mediation for voice over internet protocol telephony: An apparatus and method are described that provide signaling mediation between different protocols, or different implementations of the same protocol, at network boundaries for voice over Internet Protocol telephony. The signaling mediation device translates control messages from one protocol, or implementation of a protocol, into another protocol, or implementation of...

20060168282 - Arrangement for delivering applications to a network enabled telephony device: A network-enabled user interface device, for example a VoIP telephony device, includes a display, a user input interface, an interface controller, and an application controller. The interface controller is configured for generating display elements for the display, controlling the user input interface based on received commands, and outputting responses to...

20060168269 - Bus abstraction: Systems and methodologies that facilitate a unification of bus protocols and networks via an abstraction system that can bind device models and higher level protocols to multiple bus implementations. Such abstraction system can provide a common language among buses for message transfers according to priority—e.g., semantics provided for a messaging...

20060168265 - Data set integrity assurance with reduced traffic: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of assuring integrity of a data set between multiple devices. A normalizing factor is generated at a first device. Based on the data set at the first device and the normalizing factor, a first integrity mechanism is calculated. The normalizing factor and the...

20060168264 - Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program: The present invention provides a device and a method enabling a client connected to an external network to efficiently obtain information about servers connected to an internal network. An information processing device serving as an application gateway connected at an interface between the external network and the internal network performs...

20060168273 - Mechanism for removing data frames or packets from data communication links: An apparatus for non-intrusive protection against unwanted data segments, transmitted through a data communication link, the apparatus comprising: a detector, configured for detecting a data segment in the data communication link, and an invalidator, associated with the detector, configured for invalidating the data segment upon the data segment being deemed...

20060168271 - Method and apparatus for measurement, analysis, and optimization of content delivery: An apparatus and method for measurement, analysis, and optimization of content delivery over a communications network is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus detects data packets en route over a communications network. The detected data packets are read by the apparatus, combined into application messages, and further combined into user...

20060168274 - Method and system for high availability when utilizing a multi-stream tunneled marker-based protocol data unit aligned protocol: Aspects of a high reliability system for transporting information across a network via a TCP tunnel are presented. The TCP tunnel may include a plurality of TCP connections that may be logically associated with a single TCP tunnel. At least a portion of the plurality of TCP connections may be...

20060168275 - Method to facilitate a service convergence fabric: A service convergence fabric (51) is provided (11) between a plurality of independent access networks, control networks, and services networks (56) and a converged application layer (50). The service convergence fabric has access (12) to information regarding at least one of end-user information, service information, network information, device information, resource...

20060168263 - Monitoring telecommunication network elements: A method of monitoring the status of one or more network elements (NEs) linked together in a telecommunication network, comprising receiving a down status notification from a NE in the network, identifying one or more other NEs which are linked to the NE, and polling the or each other NE...

20060168276 - Node discovery involving multiple node enumerators: A network node discovery method allows multiple enumerators to concurrently accept and interpret the same enumeration responses from responder nodes on a network. In this manner, the responder nodes do not have to issue individual responses for each enumerator. Each responder maintains a discovery state and one or more per-enumerator...

20060168280 - Pre-execution environment compliant dynamic host configuration protocol relay agent: A pre-boot server address relay device relays packets from the diskless computing device to an address allocation server to discover available network addresses. The pre-boot server address relay device receives offer packets from the address allocation server offering a network address and generates modified packets by modifying each of the...

20060168283 - Programmable network protocol handler architecture: An architecture that achieves high speed performance in a network protocol handler combines parallelism and pipelining in multiple programmable processors, along with specialized front-end logic at the network interface that handles time critical protocol operations. The multiple processors are interconnected via a high-speed interconnect, using a multi-token counter protocol for...

20060168261 - Radio communication interface module, and its use in a device reading, processing, transmitting and operating on a bar code: A two-way radio communication interface module based on a predefined protocol for at least a user application, the module includes at least a radio circuit for transmitting and receiving digital signals and at least a programmable circuit with a radio microcontroller for managing the radio circuit. The radio microcontroller includes...

20060168272 - Response time analysis of network performance: A system and method are described for analyzing the performance of a network while processing an application. The method involves measuring and calculating the amount of time nodes are active processing and sending frames, as well as the amount of time that frames spend traversing the network. Graphical user interfaces...

20060168268 - Specific method of setting transport-specific properties from transport-agnostic clients: The present invention is directed to a method and system of allowing the user-defined code to be written in such a way as to be independent on the underlying transport yet still send and receive information via transport-specific artifacts. As such, a user may not be required to develop unique...

20060168262 - System and method for reliable packet data transport in a computer network: A system and method for reliably transmitting a request from a client application (50) running on a client system (13)to a server application (52) running on a server system (15) and receiving a reply to the request, in which functions that provide parameters governing the reliable transport mechanism and message...

20060168281 - Tcp/ip offload device with reduced sequential processing: A TCP Offload Engine (TOE) device includes a state machine that performs TCP/IP protocol processing operations in parallel. In a first aspect, the state machine includes a first memory, a second memory, and combinatorial logic. The first memory stores and simultaneously outputs multiple TCP state variables. The second memory stores...

20060168270 - Techniques for migrating a point to point protocol to a protocol for an access network: Techniques for exchanging point to point protocol (PPP) information among network nodes using an arbitrary network protocol include determining whether a PPP payload includes PPP control data. If so, then an outbound protocol frame is generated with the PPP control data in a payload and with an outbound protocol type...

20060168278 - Technology administrative portal: A system and method for determining and displaying return-on-investment (ROI) of components on a network is described. The system includes one or more processes that initiate and receive data streams directly or indirectly from components on the network or from other databases on the network. A dependency tree is created...

20060168277 - Traffic forwarding and conversion for supporting multiple advertising providers in video game advertising: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing advertising content. A request is received for first advertising content according to a first advertising content request protocol. The first advertising content is then requested according to a second other advertising content request protocol. The first advertising content is...

20060168267 - Tunneling ipv6 packets: Methods, systems, and products are provided for tunneling IPv6 packets. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv6 packet having an IPv6 destination address; receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv4 address for a destination...

20060168292 - Apparatus and method for receiving or transmitting contents: A solution is provided for a problem that image playback processing is temporarily stopped due to content data transmitted from a content transmitter which has not arrived at a content receiver when contents are transmitted using a wired or a wireless LAN. When content data transmitted from the content transmitter...

20060168298 - Desirous scene quickly viewable animation reproduction apparatus, program, and recording medium: A video data reproduction apparatus displays an animation on a display by receiving and reproducing video data through streaming data communication. A memory stores index image generated from the video data corresponding to a video display time. The index image represents a part of an image created by the video...

20060168285 - File upload using a browser: A method of uploading data to a server 9n the Internet using a browser application. The browser application interprets received mark-up data identifying a first server for data upload and provides at least a first user selectable option for upload of pre-recorded data and a second user selectable option for...

20060168300 - Gallery tour guide system and method for real-time provision of information using stored data: An exhibition guide system and a method for providing information in real time uses stored data. The exhibition guide system provides information in real time using stored data. The exhibition guide system includes an exhibition data server for storing information on exhibitions, a portable information providing unit for storing the...

20060168294 - Hybrid local/remote streaming: A technique for streaming from a local device and a remote device involves providing a subset of data associated with a streaming application to a local device. An example of a method according to the technique includes running a streaming software player, accessing data from a local storage device necessary...

20060168288 - Identifying failure of a streaming media server to satisfy quality-of-service criteria: Methods and systems thereof for monitoring the performance of a streaming media server are described. A quality-of-service criterion is accessed. A failure to satisfy the quality-of-service criterion during streaming of data from the server to a plurality of clients is identified without assembling the data at the plurality of clients....

20060168291 - Interactive multichannel data distribution system: Multimedia distribution systems are disclosed in which servers communicate with clients via audio, video, overlay and/or control channels. Information sent between the clients and servers on the audio, video and/or overlay channels includes timestamps. The timestamps coordinate the queuing and processing of information received by the client. Once information has...

20060168286 - Iscsi datamover interface and function split with rdma atp mechanism: A method and system for providing a datamover interface that interfaces with an iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) driver and with an iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access)) datamover and an iSCSI datamover....

20060168303 - Method and apparatus for coordinating charging for services provided in a multimedia session: The present invention provides a mechanism for coordinating charging for a multimedia session between a mobile terminal and a remote host on both an application/session level and on an IP/access bearer level. The multimedia session is established over a radio access network via a packet-switched access network coupled to a...

20060168293 - Method of distributing stream data and system thereof: A method and system which improves reliability and availability of services for streaming distributions in general. To accomplish this objective, a distribution method takes the following procedure. A partition server and a plurality of distribution servers are provided in order to distribute stream data to one or more receivers connected...

20060168295 - Midstream determination of varying bandwidth availability: Systems and methods for midstream determination of varying available bandwidth for streaming content between two network entities are described. During content streaming, a client requests a server to surge the content transmission rate. One or more bandwidth measurements are taken during the surge to determine if the increased transmission rate...

20060168284 - Multimedia file format: A computerized method of encapsulating multimedia content data, multimedia content description data, and program instruction code into an aggregated data representation comprising a logical structure comprises: storing on a storage device, information about the multimedia content data, the multimedia content description data, and the program instruction code to form a...

20060168299 - Music contents providing apparatus and program: A music contents providing apparatus comprises a connecting device that connects the music contents providing apparatus to a network, a storage device that stores a plurality of music contents data, each music contents data corresponding to musical range information or musical instrument information, an obtaining device that obtains musical range...

20060168301 - On demand multicast messaging system: An on-demand message system includes a profile proxy server and a plurality of message servers coupled to a wireless network for sending messages to mobile users under conditions specified by the users and sellers. Users provide profile information specifying categories and conditions for which they will receive messages. Sellers also...

20060168297 - Real-time multimedia transcoding apparatus and method using personal characteristic information: Provided is a real-time multimedia transcoding apparatus and method using personal characteristic information. The apparatus provides a real-time multimedia transcoding apparatus using personal characteristic information for providing a fresh communication service by transforming a media type and/or a media codec by reflecting personal characteristic information such as gender and emotional...

20060168287 - Rotating event buffer: There is provided a system and method for ensuring relatively reliable transmission of data across a network connection from a client device to a server. The client device has a buffer in which new data items for transmission are stored on a FIFO basis. The method significantly reduces the chance...

20060168296 - System and method for controlling transport rate of real time streaming service: A system and a method for controlling transport rate of real time streaming service between a streaming server and a streaming client connected via a predetermined network are disclosed. In transmitting multimedia contents to the streaming client, the streaming server controls the transport rate by compensating as much as accumulatively...

20060168290 - System and method for media stream adaptation: A device accepts a set of configuration parameters relating to components involved in data streaming (e.g., clients or network equipment) and transforms a data stream in response to such configuration parameters, transmitting the transformed data stream onward to a client. Dynamic changes in the configuration parameters may affect the transformations....

20060168289 - System and method for signaling clients for multimedia streaming: 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...

20060168302 - System for distributing objects to multiple clients: A method for updating a set of presentation images through a single-buffered multipoint dispatcher over a network to multiple clients is provided. Each screen of a set of screens included in the presentation is divided into tiles. Packets respectively corresponding to the tiles of a first screen are stored in...

20060168307 - Methods and systems for controlling the admission of media content into a network: Methods and systems for controlling the admission of media content into a network are disclosed. A method includes accessing a request for authorization to transfer media content where the request for authorization includes details of a request for media content made to a server of a plurality of servers. In...

20060168304 - Network traffic control in peer-to-peer environments: A method and an electronic unit are disclosed for controlling traffic on a network, especially for controlling peer-to-peer related traffic. A filter unit is intercepting messages related to peer-to-peer application from a network line, irrespective of the messages' destination, A control logic then manages a request represented by an intercepted...

20060168305 - Packetization of variable bit rate encoded data based on rate control: A coding apparatus 100 that generates coded data by coding inputted data in a predetermined unit basis, maps one or more units of the coded data onto a packet of fixed length and output the packet including: a storage unit 103 that stores the coded data and outputs the data...

20060168306 - Recovery from iscsi corruption with rdma atp mechanism: A method and system for detecting and managing an error detected in an iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) PDU (Protocol Data Unit) by using a RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) dedicated receive error queue for error recovery....

20060168308 - Selective suspension of real time data exchanges for unreliable network connections: A method, system and apparatus for the selective suspension of real time data exchanges for unreliable network connections. A selective real time data exchange suspension method can include detecting a network outage condition affecting a real time data exchange. As an example, the real time data exchange can be an...

20060168309 - Symbol parsing architecture: A devices and method for parsing a data stream comprises a parser stack configured to store one or more parsing symbols, each parsing symbol representing a different state of data stream parsing, a table interface configured to retrieve one or more production rules from a production rule table according to...

20060168311 - Console redirection among linked computers: A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other....

20060168310 - Data communication system capable of adjusting transmission speeds: A communication system is disclosed, including: a network in which the transmission speeds of a upstream channel and a downstream channel for transmitting data can be changed independently; a data storage server connected to the network, the data storage server configured to store data uploaded thereto via the network; and...

20060168312 - Method for queued overlap transfer of files: It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a system and method for prequeuing of files predicted to be desired by a user, through a telecommunications link, into a local cache, based on a list, wherein the prequeuing system is responsive to any change in the sequence of...

20060168313 - Method of and apparatus for adaptive control of data buffering in a data transmitter: A data transmitter (10) divides incoming data for transmission into data blocks and passes them in frame transmission order to a radio link stage (16) via a serial frame buffer (14). The buffer (14) holds the data frames until the radio link stage (16) is able to transmit them. The...

20060168315 - Communication threads over different communication mediums: Included herein are systems and methods for associating information related to a first communication and information related to a second communication. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a first communication, the first communication being associated with a first communications protocol; and associating the received first communication with...

20060168314 - Intellectual property module for system-on-chip: Disclosed is an IP module for an SOC which brings easiness in designing system architecture and integration. The IP module of the invention includes a controller for generating a control signal for IP module with reference to a handshake signal and sending a control signal which leads the IP module...

20060168329 - Apparatus and method for acceleration of electronic message processing through pre-filtering: A classifier of electronic messages includes one or more pre-filters and a filter. Messages classified as spam or legitimate by one or more of the pre-filters bypass the filter. Messages classified as suspicious are further classified by the filter as either spam or legitimate. Messages classified as spam are routed...

20060168324 - Arbiter for array machine context data memory: A device comprises a plurality of interface circuits configured for communicating between a semantic processing unit and a memory and a selection circuit for selecting an interface circuit allocated to a semantic processing unit for processing a data operation request in the memory....

20060168325 - Control of a copy of an original document cached on a remote client computer: A data processing system comprises a document server (5), a messaging server (4) and a client (1). The client communicates over a network (7, 10) with the document server to request a copy of a document stored on the document server. The document server is configured so that in response...

20060168316 - Data transmission device and data transmission system: A data transfer apparatus and a data transfer system are provided that can reduce the cost of installing communication equipment compatible with each of several dissimilar communication protocols in one exchange office and can reduce the cost of constructing the network. The data transfer apparatus includes a data reception device...

20060168332 - Determining an applicable policy for an incoming message: Provides methods, apparatus and systems for determining an applicable policy for an incoming message having a service-level addressing element. A method includes the following steps: a) applying a potentially applicable policy (P1) on the incoming message to make the service-level addressing element of the incoming message visible, b) if the...

20060168326 - Dial plan transparency for fragmented networks: In one configuration, the present invention is directed to an enterprise network that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regions 202 and 206 communicating with one another through first and second networks 252 and 248 and respectively comprising first and second gateways 220 and 224 and first and second...

20060168331 - Intelligent messaging application programming interface: Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The intelligent messaging application programming interface (API) introduced by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging. The API is part of a publish/subscribe middleware system. With the API, this system operates to,...

20060168317 - Method and arrangement for routing data packets in a packet-switching data network: The invention relates to the routing of data packets comprising a target address in a packet switching data network. According to the invention, a first and second transmission path are assigned respective traffic distribution weightings in a routing table for individual target addresses that is assigned to a network node,...

20060168318 - Methods and apparatus for traffic management in peer-to-peer networks: Methods and apparatus relating to routing and caching systems for reducing traffic and the bandwidth used by decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks is described. The peer-to-peer network operates over an underlying network including first and second network portions. The method includes routing a peer-to-peer message in one of said...

20060168327 - Methods and systems for predicting events associated with renderable media content samples: Methods and systems are provided for predicting an event's occurrence and notifying one or more interested applications that an event has been predicted to have occurred....

20060168333 - Modeling a computing architecture: A method for modeling a computing architecture is provided. Computing layers of the computing architecture are identified, wherein each computing layer represents a functional layer of the computing architecture. Computing systems of the computing system are identified. Computing layers implemented by the computing system are identified. Stacked bars are displayed...

20060168322 - Network management apparatus and method for the configuration of network devices: A method for the configuration of devices on a network is described. The method is preferably implemented using a network management software application and comprises initially retrieving configuration information from a text-based configuration file of a selected network device. The method further comprises a user changing a value of a...

20060168320 - Network topology discovery service: A method and apparatus for network topology discovery. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request from a controller at a first network device, with the request inquiring whether a network path exists with a second network device; determining whether a network path between the first network device and...

20060168328 - Packet relay processing apparatus: A packet processing unit and a session managing unit, which are conventionally arranged in a server, are arranged in a network connecting device, and the network connecting device performs a packet relay process based on session management. As a result, the load on a server is reduced, and a process...

20060168321 - System and method for traversing firewalls, nats, and proxies with rich media communications and other application protocols: A tunneling system and method is described for traversing firewalls, NATs, and proxies. Upon a request from a device on the secure private network or on a public network such as the Internet, a connection to a designated or permitted device of the secure private network by way of the...

20060168319 - Systems and methods for multipoint service invocation: A system is provided for multipoint service (e.g., web service) invocation includes a plurality of event servers and a proxy. The event servers are associated with a group address representative of at least one characteristic of the event servers, and are also associated with at least one contact address. The...

20060168330 - Temporary disabling of a member of a virtual concatenation group: A member of a Virtual Concatenation Group (VCG) can be temporarily disabled under control of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). The VCG comprises a number of link members, in which payload data are transmitted. A management command (MLOCKOUT) is transmitted from a management system to at least one of...

20060168323 - Transcoding apparatus and method for distributed multimedia transmission network provided with transcoder: Disclosed is a transcoding method and apparatus for a mobile communication system provided with a transcoder. The transcoding method includes receiving a request for media content and codec information required for the requested media content, receiving the requested media content from a media content server and determining whether the received...

20060168334 - Application layer message-based server failover management by a network element: A method is disclosed for application layer message-based network element management of server failures. According to one aspect, a network element such as a router intercepts session state information that is contained in a request from a client and locally stores the session state information. As a result, application servers...

20060168335 - Context reactive hints mechanism for natural language user interface: Roughly described, a context reactive user interface which offers user-selectable on-screen choices or hints to help the user follow up in the context of his or her previous interactions. Alternatively or additionally, the system can offer on-screen choices which, when selected by the user, can invoke one or more back-end...

20060168337 - Mechanism for providing quality of service in a network utilizing priority and reserved bandwidth protocols: An apparatus for providing reserved connections between end stations, in a network, such as the Internet, capable of providing prioritized communications, comprises a switch in packet communications with end stations. The switch detects and forwards packets that contain prioritized data for priority processing, and packets that include requests for reserved...

20060168338 - Methods and systems for providing data across a network: The present invention comprises systems, methods, and means for sending data across a network. Intelligent Image Distributions (IID) systems and methods are also disclosed. Systems, methods, and means for a HawkNet, a transmission control protocol, are likewise disclosed. A description of such systems handling DICOM radiology studies is presented along...

20060168336 - Re-challenge communication control method and system thereof, packet transfer enabled/disabled decision method, packet transfer device, packer transfer system, packet monitoring method, call control device, monitor device, and program: A terminal apparatus firstly transfers packets of a trial class. When the communication quality is insufficient, the terminal apparatus determines after a predetermined period of time whether or not to transfer the trail-class packets again according to a traffic rate of priority-class packets. There are provided a trial-class band capacity...

20060168339 - System and method for routing network traffic through weighted zones: A system and method for routing between nodes in a network or subnet. An end node is associated with multiple identifiers for routing purposes, and therefore multiple paths may exist between two end nodes. Network nodes and components (e.g., switches) are grouped into fault zones. Each physical enclosure of network...

20060168341 - Facilitating ip-based multicasting control connections: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for implementing multicast control in a point-to-multipoint tree. In accordance with such method, an operation for translating a network element interface identifier associated with a first network element from a first type of network element interface identifier to a second...

20060168340 - Method and system for updating playlists: Improved techniques for automatic (or dynamic) updating (or maintaining) of playlists for a media system that stores and plays media content for a user of the media system. The automatic update to playlists can occur when additional media content is added to or removed from the media system. The automatic...

20060168344 - Address book information sharing system and method thereof: An address book information sharing system includes an LDAP server having a sharing address book and a LDAP server function and a plurality of communication terminals having an LDAP client function and respective address books which share the address book information between the communication terminals via the LDAP server. Each...

20060168342 - Method and arrangement for assigning names to devices in a network: A device arrangement for a network, and particularly a home network (1), comprises a plurality of devices (2) that can be actuated electronically by a user, and particularly consumer electronics devices, building control devices, home entertainment electronics devices and/or network control devices. Each device (2) has a name memory (6)...

20060168343 - Method and system for radio link establishment and maintenance with p2p communication in wireless communication: A method is provided for establishing P2P radio connection in wireless communication networks, comprising: the user equipment, as the link probing originator, transmits link probing signals via the allocated direct communication link to another user equipment as the link probing responder, according to the initial probing power provided by the...

20060168345 - Resource identifier zone translation: Methods, systems and apparatus are described for resource identifier translation. In an implementation, a method includes in a network environment having at least two separate resource identifier (ID) zones, collecting translation information, from first and second information producers, which describes translation of a resource ID between first and second resource...

20060168348 - Delta caching: A solution to latencies associated with server side processing time, as well as to latency resulting from the transit of information or tools from a server side to a client or user side is provided. The server side and client side can be coupled via a hard link or a...

20060168346 - Dynamic email content update process: An email update system dynamically updates the content of an email when the originator of an email has sent the email, and the originator later determines that the email requires editing. The updating may take place transparent to the recipient and without the introduction of duplicative content into the recipient's...

20060168347 - System for sharing context information between executable applications: A system permits client integration of two applications using complex integration points providing bidirectional transfer of contextual information enabling application integration. A system minimizes a need for application specific coding to support executable application interoperability by incorporating a mediation function enabling user configurable interception and substitution of commands, context information...

20060168350 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided that efficiently performs compression and encoding when an image obtained from an image pickup device is compressed and encoded for distribution. The image processing apparatus includes an image dividing unit for dividing an image into a plurality of areas, an image compression and encoding...

20060168349 - System and method for enhancing network browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device: A system for enhancing network-browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device is disclosed. The system comprises a browser for sending a request for requesting a message from a website and receiving a response in response to the request, a proxy server for transcoding and compressing the...

20060168352 - Automated grid compute node cleaning: A method includes, in a network of interconnected grid compute nodes, storing system criteria for a first grid compute node, storing an initial snapshot of the first grid compute node, comparing a current snapshot of the first grid compute node with the initial snapshoot to identify parts of the current...

20060168353 - Timestamp administration system and image forming apparatus: A timestamp administration system includes: a timestamp information acquiring section which acquires timestamp information via a network from a timestamp organization of verifying the time; a granting information storage which stores one or more granting information indicating granting of acquiring the timestamp information by the timestamp information acquiring section; a...

20060168351 - Wireless synchronization between media player and host device: Improved techniques for interaction between a host computer (e.g., personal computer) and a media player are disclosed. According to one embodiment, interaction between a host device (e.g., host computer) and a media player can be performed over a wireless channel. The interaction over the wireless channel can be used to...

20060168354 - Method for controlling a network station in a network of a first type from a network station in a network of a second type, and connection unit for the connection of the networks of the first and second types: The invention relates to the field of home networks, in particular the connection of two home networks of different types via a gateway. The network devices in the network of the first type are also intended to be able to control the network devices in the network of the second...

20060168355 - System and method for provisioning component applications: A system and method are provided for provisioning component applications for retrieval by a device. The system includes an application gateway server, which includes a message broker for communicating between the system and the device. The application gateway server is configured for communication with a provisioning server and a discovery...

20060161615 - Workflow anywhere: invocation of workflows from a remote device: A method and program for providing the ability for systems personnel to use a personal wireless device, such as a mobile phone, palm device, or blackberry device, to receive a system alert regarding a developing situation requiring action and to be notified of pre-selected workflows that can resolve the situation...

20060161618 - Abstract mechanism for constructing commands for the command pattern: The amount of code required to use the command pattern for client-server communications is reduced because, instead of creating separate commands for different actions, instructions required for an action are put into a single, abstract command, along with the required data. The command pattern, an object-oriented design pattern, describes a...

20060161616 - Provision of services over a common delivery platform such as a mobile telephony network: A system for providing services to subscribers of a network supports the provision of a plurality of different services to multiple subscribers. A first processing unit comprises a web container and provides a first execution environment for a first set of software applications. A second processing unit provides a second...

20060161619 - Provision of services over a common delivery platform such as a mobile telephony network: One embodiment of a system for providing services to subscribers of a network supports the provision of a plurality of different services to multiple subscribers. A first processing unit provides a first execution environment for a first set of software applications and a second processing unit provides a second execution...

20060161617 - Usb devices in application server environments: One or more universal serial bus (USB) devices are connected at a client computer. The USB devices are recognized by the client computer and a determination is made as to whether an application server computer provides functionality for one or more of the USB devices. A specific communication path is...

20060161620 - Extensible activities within collaboration sessions: An architecture for developing new media activities and deploying the newly developed activities in a reusable collaboration session is provided. The architecture comprises a base collaboration session, a base activity class, and a well defined contract between the base activity class and the collaboration session. The base collaboration session provides...

20060161624 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically sharing a portion of a display for application based screen sampling: In one embodiment, the invention includes: detecting a profile associated a presenter device wherein the profile indicates a hidden window; selectively sharing desktop content and excluding the hidden window with an attendee device wherein the desktop content corresponds with the presenter device; detecting a change in status of a content...

20060161623 - Methods and apparatuses for selectively sharing a portion of a display for application based screen sampling: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include: sharing desktop content with an attendee device wherein the desktop content corresponds with a presenter device and wherein the desktop content includes a hidden window; preventing the attendee device from viewing the hidden window; displaying the desktop content including the hidden window...

20060161622 - Methods and apparatuses for selectively sharing a portion of a display for application based screen sampling using direct draw applications: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include: sharing desktop content with an attendee device wherein the desktop content corresponds with a presenter device and wherein the desktop content includes a hidden window; preventing the attendee device from viewing the hidden window; displaying the desktop content including the hidden window...

20060161621 - System, method and computer program product for collaboration and synchronization of media content on a plurality of media players: A system, method and computer program product is provided which facilitates the collaborative selection and synchronous playing of digital media on a plurality of networked media players. Various embodiments of the invention provides for a plurality of media players in processing communications which enables individual users of the media players...

20060161630 - Apparatus and method controlling use of individual segments of instant messaging content: An apparatus and method is provided for a configuration of client work stations for instant messaging, wherein a participant intending to send a particular segment of chat content can elect to send the segment in an “off the record” mode. Content sent in this mode can be viewed but cannot...

20060161629 - Apparatus and method for limiting access to instant messaging content on a display screen: An apparatus and method is provided for substantially reducing the possibility that a message received at a computer terminal during an instant messaging conversation will become accessible to unintended viewers. A useful embodiment is directed to an arrangement wherein a computer terminal at a first client work station is disposed...

20060161633 - E-mail forwarding system having archival database: A method for forwarding an e-mail message from a disfavored e-mail address to a forwarding e-mail address via a remote e-mail forwarding computer having a unique e-mail address. An e-mail message is sent from a user to the remote e-mail forwarding computer. The remote e-mail forwarding computer parses the intended...

20060161631 - Revisions of already sent messages in an instant messaging communication: This invention relates to instant messages. More particularly, the invention relates to the delivery of revisions of instant messages that have already been previously delivered from a sender's instant message client to at least one recipient's instant message client during an instant messaging communication. Typically, revisions are made by the...

20060161627 - System and method for verifying and archiving electronic messages: The present invention relates to a method and system for certifying the transmission of an electronic document that is being transmitted from a sender's electronic device to a recipient's electronic device wherein the electronic document contains at least a header portion containing addressing information and a body portion. A first...

20060161632 - System and method for voice over internet protocol communication using an instant messenger: Disclosed herein is a system and method for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication using an instant messenger (IM). The disclosed system sets up a phone terminal connected with the IM and set up a phone control module inside the IM. The disclosed method generally carries out the sending and...

20060161628 - System and method of remotely locating a lost mobile communication device: A system and method of locating a lost wireless communication device is provided. A remote server is contacted to indicate that the wireless communication device is lost. A lost device policy setting is then activated in a database coupled to the remote server, the lost device policy setting indicating that...

20060161625 - System, a method and a message interceptor for overload protection in data network: A system for overload protection in a data network (1) for information delivery, comprising a server transmitting a plurality of unicast content messages (5, 5′) comprising a substantially identical content, communicatable via a data network (1), having unicast and distribution capabilities, to a plurality of terminals (3, 3′) respectively, a...

20060161626 - Systems and methods for management and delivery of messages in a centralized notification system: Systems and methods for providing centralized notification for over the air programming. The centralized notification system includes a central server that generates a message to be delivered to a mobile device. The centralized notification system includes an active server in communication with the central server that receives the message from...

20060161635 - Methods and system for use in network management of content: The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing content on at least a local network. Some embodiments provide a method for use in distributing content that receives a request to deliver premium content over a distributed network; identifies a location relative to where the request is...

20060161634 - Positioning systems and methods for portable devices: Positioning systems and methods for portable devices. The system comprises a plurality of access points, at least one portable device, and a service provider. Each access point has identification and set at a location. The portable device has identification, and wirelessly couples to a network provided by the service provider...

20060161637 - Cluster arrangement: A cluster arrangement having a first network (NW1), at least two data processing systems which each form an application node (AK) and which each have an operating system (OS), and an application agent (AA) on each application node (AK), which has the following functions: monitoring (UB) and identifying entities (I1,...

20060161636 - Method and apparatus for automated discovery of a remote access device address: A method for automatically managing an address of a remote access device (RAD) is disclosed. The method comprises defining the RAD at a service provider, the RAD being located physically remote from the service provider, and assigning a network address to the RAD. The service provider sends a query from...

20060161638 - System and method for passive detection and context sensitive notification of upgrade availability for computer information: The present invention is a system and method that monitors upgrade availability for computer information on a user's computer and allows the user to determine which of the available upgrades will be downloaded to the user's computer and installed. The upgrade availability for computer information on the user's computer is...

20060161641 - Computer-readable recording medium, relay control method, and relay control apparatus: A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for controlling relay of a client request from a client terminal to a server. The computer program includes instructions for causing a computer to execute determining a process corresponding to the client request, based on both an allowable waiting time for which the...

20060161639 - Control information transmission method, relay server, and controllable device: A controlled device (12) sends a signal to a intermediary server (21) at a predetermined time interval, and the intermediary server (21) receives the signal from the controlled device (12) with a private address allocated by a router (11) and changes an operation mode from a passive mode to an...

20060161640 - Information processor, software updating system, software updating method, and its program: When the user computer 103 sends user ID to the center computer 102, the center computer 102 have the user computer 103 obtain URL of the module storing region 104 that corresponds to the user ID and stores the modules that the user should obtain. The user computer 103 accesses...

20060161642 - Method and apparatus for implementing high-performance, scaleable data processing and storage systems: A data system architecture is described that allows multiple processing and storage resources to be connected to multiple clients so as 1) to distribute the clients' workload efficiently across the available resources; and 2) to enable scaleable expansion, both in terms of the number of clients and in the number...

20060161643 - System and method for provisioning broadband service in a pppoe network using a configuration domain name: A modem that includes a configuration domain name associated with a configuration Broadband Service Node (BNS) is firstly provided. A PPPoE session is established, and an authentication requested is transmitted, containing the identifier and a generic password, from the modem to a single configuration domain name over the PPPoE network....

20060161644 - Methods of issuing a credit for a certificate for a domain name: The invention provides methods for efficiently registering a domain name and issuing a certificate without a Subscriber submitting a separate request for the certificate. A notice may be provided to the Subscriber after requesting to register the domain name that a credit for a certificate may be issued for the...

20060161646 - Policy-driven mobile forms applications: A system for capturing data via an extensible markup language form is disclosed comprising a policy-based mobile content engine, a mobile-forms application client, and a transport engine. The policy-based mobile content engine is adapted to process a plurality of definitions from one or more mobile-forms application definition files. The policy-based...

20060161645 - Sensor network system and data retrieval method for sensing data: This invention enables to easily retrieve real-time information from a large number of sensors connected to a network. The sensor network system of this invention includes distributed data processing servers for collecting data from plural sensors at a predetermined frequency, a management server for maintaining a location of sensor data,...

20060161650 - Apparatus and method for processing an application program-related event in a wireless terminal: An apparatus and method is provided for processing an application program-related event in a wireless terminal. In the apparatus, a memory stores character user interface (UI) images associated with application program-related events. An event collection part collects the application program-related events occurring in the wireless terminal, and generates an event...

20060161649 - Communication control method, communication control apparatus and storage medium: Even if a communication is interrupted, a communication control module in a data terminal reestablish the communication without informing a communication module that the communication has been interrupted in a case where it is possible to reestablish the communication. The communication control module determines that the communication can be reestablished...

20060161654 - Facilitating property management via an internet web site: A system and method facilitate property management via an Internet web site. A property address is linked to the Internet web site via a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), where the URL includes at least a portion of the property address. A property management application is hosted via the Internet web...

20060161651 - Managing resources within a fault tolerant collaboration system: In one embodiment, the invention utilizes an application within a meeting zone; monitor usage within the meeting zone; detects a resource located outside the meeting zone; dynamically adds the resource within the meeting zone; and updates a database configured to track a status of the resource....

20060161655 - Method and a system to organize and manage a semantic web service discovery: An example embodiment refers to a method to organize and manage a semantic web service discovery within a network with a distributed architecture of multiple independent network nodes, each node being able to store a subset of semantic web service instances, wherein an assignment of each semantic web service instance...

20060161647 - Method and apparatus providing measurement of packet latency in a processor: A latency measurement unit, which can form part of a processor unit having multiple processing elements, includes a content addressable memory to store packet ID information and time information for a packet associated with at least one selected source and at least one selected destination....

20060161653 - Network appliance for vulnerability assessment auditing over multiple networks: An apparatus, system, and method are directed towards enabling auditing of network vulnerabilities from multiple network vantage points virtually simultaneously. Multiple network vantage points may include, but are not limited to, remote/branch enterprise sites, devices on an enterprise perimeter, on either side of a security perimeter, and even through the...

20060161652 - Network system: A network system automatically distributes management information to allow immediate monitoring. In the network system, the DHCP server of a network-information management server assigns information to a network-information management table when receiving an assignment request of IP information and network management information from a client. The DHCP client of the...

20060161657 - Peer-to peer name resolution protocol (pnrp) security infrastructure and method: A security infrastructure and methods are presented that inhibit the ability of a malicious node from disrupting the normal operations of a peer-to-peer network. The methods of the invention allow both secure and insecure identities to be used by nodes by making them self-verifying. When necessary or opportunistic, ID ownership...

20060161648 - System and method for statistical performance monitoring: A method using statistical parameters (e.g. mean, standard deviation, exceptional values) of performance monitoring metrics to substantially reduce the quantity of performance monitoring data collected and reported, make system performance monitoring scalable and enhance the readability of the system performance display. The number of metrics monitored may be reduced by...

20060161656 - System, performance monitor, server, and computer program: The invention relates to a system, performance monitor, server and computer product. The system comprises at least one user-specific performance monitor for registering training information, where the performance monitor communicates training information using a two-way wireless data transmission connection and is associated with a performance monitor-specific identifier. The system further...

20060161658 - Request method of service request apparatus: A client terminal acquires information associated with expendables of a device, and accesses a service providing server on the basis of a URL generated by a agent server. The client terminal receives page information that provides a service according to the information associated with the expendables of the device from...

20060161659 - Weighted fairness decisions in a srp forwarding block: A method and apparatus for servicing transit and transmit traffic in a node of a network. The network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes receiving usage data from a downstream node, identifying a first weighted...

20060161660 - Method for automatic browsing in interposition mode: The present invention relates to a method for automatic browsing from a web browser over a plurality of web pages which are stored on servers so that all the data flows between the browser and the servers of the web pages pass via an interposition server, including steps for: creating...

20060161661 - Techniques for automatically delegating address spaces among dynamic host configuration servers: Techniques for providing sets of network addresses for dynamically configuring hosts on a network include sending to a first server a first request for a first count of network addresses in a first set of network addresses. A first message indicating the first set of network addresses is received. A...

20060161663 - Network user priority assignment system: A network user priority assignment system (“NUPAS”) for assigning network user priorities on a network is described. The NUPAS may include a host and a gateway in signal communication with the host. The host may be configured to transmit a request message signal and the gateway may be configured to...

20060161662 - Remote command framework for devices: A robust device messaging framework is disclosed that enables a user to send commands to a device. A provisioning service is used to provision unique device identities and maps user web identities to device identities. The provisioning service also limits device per day provisioning attempts to limit denial of service...

20060161664 - System, computer program product and method for managing and controlling a local network of electronic devices and reliably and securely adding an electronic device to the network: A system method and computer program product for setting up a wireless electronic device to join a wireless local area network (LAN). The method upon which the system and computer program product is based includes sending a setup request from the wireless electronic device to a control device, the setup...

20060161666 - Apparatus and method for controlling use of instant messaging content: An apparatus and method is provided for use in instant messaging or chat conversations between participants at client computer terminals or work stations. When a participant wants to save some or all of the chat transcript, the participant actively requests consent from all other participants. The consent request includes the...

20060161665 - Method of automatically logging in a website: In a method of automatically logging in a website, a computer system is powered on and then automatically opens a browser and inputs a user's personal information to log in at least one website without any user operation. The method includes the steps of (1) initializing a computer system that...

20060161668 - Parental controls customization and notification: A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for enabling a user and an administrator in a network environment to interactively customize administrator controls used to filter the user's online actions. The computer receives a user request to perform a blocked online action. The computer provides information about the...

20060161669 - Parental controls customization and notification: A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for enabling a user and an administrator in a network environment to interactively customize administrator controls used to filter the user's online actions. The computer receives a user request to perform a blocked online action. The computer provides information about the...

20060161667 - Server apparatus, communication control method and program: A server computer and a client computer determine a method of storing user identification information into a connection request packet therebetween. When establishing a connection with the server computer, the client computer stores its own user identification information in a server application into a connection request packet and transmits it....

20060161670 - Communication system, computer comprising a peer-to-peer message filter and method for processing a peer-to-peer message: Peer-to-peer messages supplied from a mobile radio communication network to a peer-to-peer message filter are detected and are supplied to a superpeer computer which is connected to a mobile radio network/fixed network interface computer. The peer-to-peer message filter is disposed in the mobile radio communication network....

20060161674 - Method and apparatus for network management system: A network management system has a bus and a system controller connected to the bus. The bus has a plurality of fixed ports, where each of the ports is capable of connecting a router card to the system controller. A method of sending a file from the system controller to...

20060161671 - Method and systems for capture and replay of remote presentation protocol data: A recorder intercepts a protocol data stream comprising a plurality of packets, sent from a first device to a second device, the protocol data stream representing display data. The recorder copies at least one packet of the protocol data stream. The recorder creates a recording of the protocol data stream...

20060161673 - Routing apparatus and method for 6to4 network: This invention relates to a routing apparatus and to a routing method in a network system in which a 6to4 network is connected to a native IPv6 network. An optimum transmission route is selected by considering the topology of the 6to4 network and the topology of the native IPv6 network....

20060161672 - System and method for improved interportlet communications: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for configuring and executing portlet responses to events within a web portal framework. These mechanisms and methods can enable event descriptions to be organized within a portlet configuration file with event handlers designated for responding to the event. As used...

20060161676 - Apparatus for ip streaming capable of smoothing multimedia stream: An apparatus for IP streaming capable of smoothing a multimedia stream is disclosed. The apparatus transmits real-time broadcast through an Internet protocol (IP) network and reduces transmission loss by lowering the influence derived from jitters in an IP network having a burst characteristic. The apparatus is capable of smoothing a...

20060161675 - System and method for multimedia delivery in a wireless environment: A multimedia processing system and method thereof are provided. The system and method provide for synchronizing a first clock of a multimedia decoder of a first multimedia processing device to a second clock of a multimedia encoder of a second multimedia processing device, synchronizing a first timing reference of the...

20060161677 - Method and apparatus for an improved bulk read socket call: An apparatus and method for an improved bulk read socket call are provided. With the apparatus and method, a new field, so_rcvlen, is added to the socket structure that identifies the bulk read size requested by the user. The kernel of the prior art recv( ) function is also modified...

20060161678 - Method and apparatus for implementing high-performance, scaleable data processing and storage systems: A data system architecture is described that allows multiple processing and storage resources to be connected to multiple clients so as 1) to distribute the clients' workload efficiently across the available resources; and 2) to enable scaleable expansion, both in terms of the number of clients and in the number...

20060161679 - Method and apparatus for distributing messages: A procedure identifies multiple messages to distribute via a cable television network. The procedure determines first performance data associated with a downstream subnetwork and determines second performance data associated with an upstream subnetwork. The plurality of messages are prioritized based on the first performance data and the second performance data....

20060161680 - Communications interchange system: An extensible data communication protocol is described that operates between remote computers and a server computer on the same network, where the computers exchange data messages while the server manages addressing of the communication, so that applications running on the computers can communicate without reference to the underlying network addresses,...

20060161682 - Domain name acquisition and management system and method: A preferred embodiment of the present invention can accept an indication of a domain name or set of domain names from interested entity. The desired domain names are names that an interested entity desires to register through a domain name registration system or systems, such as that operated by a...

20060161683 - Domain name acquisition and management system and method: A preferred embodiment of the present invention can accept an indication of a domain name or set of domain names from interested entity. The desired domain names are names that an interested entity desires to register through a domain name registration system or systems, such as that operated by a...

20060161681 - Internet domain name acquisition pending deletion: A preferred embodiment of the present invention integrates a domain name monitoring and acquisition service with a registry system. The monitoring and acquisition service can receive a request from a registrar to acquire a domain name. The monitoring and acquisition service also can receive a pending delete notification from the...

20060161685 - Client aware extensible markup language content retrieval and integration in a wireless portal system: In a wireless portal system having a wireless server, a client aware Extensible Markup Language (XML) content integration and transformation method and system. The client aware XML content integration and transformation system includes logic for identifying wireless client devices connecting to the wireless server by using particular characteristics of the...

20060161684 - Method and device for modifying modular messages: A method and device for modifying modular messages transmittable via an electronic transmission system is described in which a message is read using a read devie and the structure of the message is determined. An individual structural unit of the message can be selected, in which the possible modifications and/or...

20060161686 - Method for managing storage space in a storage medium of a digital terminal for data storage according to a prioritized pixel transfer method: The invention relates to a method for managing storage space in a storage medium of digital terminal equipment for data storage according to the prioritized pixel transmission method, wherein multiple files with pixel groups sorted according to priorities are saved to the storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following...

20060161687 - Synchronised operation of serially connected devices: There is disclosed a method of synchronising operation of at least one component of each of a plurality of serially connected devices (1000) connected to a common power source. The method involves sending cycles of serial interrupts (610-619) to each of the serially connected devices (1000), allocating an operation time...

20060161688 - Systems and methods for efficient operations of components in a wireless communications device: Systems and methods for abstracting operations of an applications subsystem and a communications subsystem. Other embodiments include systems and methods of an interface module separately coupled to the applications subsystem and the communications subsystem....

20060155799 - High-speed information processing apparatus, high-speed information processing method, and high-speed information processing program: This invention relates to information processing such as coordination of distributed information processing resources, and makes collaboration of distributed information processing resources easy and improves convenience of information processing. A high-speed information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a conversion processing section operable to model a plurality of...

20060155800 - Image processing system for volume rendering: An image processing system using volume data comprising at least one node connected via a network, which is operative to monitor completion of a task property storing condition for storing a task property of a client terminal, collect the task property of a task state of the client terminal and...

20060155801 - Methods, systems and computer program products for bypassing routing stacks using mobile internet protocol: Methods, systems and computer program products for load balancing using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) Version 6 are provided. A request for a connection is received from a client at a routing stack. A Mobile IP Version 6 Binding Update message is transmitted from the routing stack to the client responsive...

20060155803 - Communication terminal having a function to inhibit connection to a particular site and program thereof: A mobile phone stores a plurality of profile data, each including a portal URL. A user of the mobile phone selects for use data of a profile including the portal URL. When a Java-AP running on the mobile phone transmits to JAM an instruction for a communication, JAM stores the...

20060155808 - E-mail filtering services using internet protocol routing information: Disclosed are methods of managing the delivery, including in certain cases the blocking, of electronic messages based at least in part on an electronic message's IP routing information. Also disclosed are methods of managing electronic messages with an intermediate service and the quarantining and user management of quarantined electronic messages...

20060155804 - Method for establishing and conducting communication between a data source and a user: A method of establishing and carrying out communication between a data source and a user, where the communication is effected via a fixed or a mobile network. A program that handles the presentation to a user is placed in a server which is connected to a data source that contains...

20060155802 - Method to realize dynamic networking and resource sharing among equipments: The invention relates to a method allowing dynamically networking among a plurality of devices to share resource. It includes: installing a software of dynamic networking and resource sharing on each of devices to realize dynamic networking and resource sharing. These devices periodically announce information with multicasting. A device serves as...

20060155805 - Scalable server architecture based on asymmetric 3-way tcp: A server architecture based on asymmetric 3-way TCP (ATCP) is disclosed that can distribute the work among multiple processors. In particular, the server system has a front-end server receiving a service request from a client. The server system also has a back-end server that receives a command from the front-end...

20060155807 - System and method for creating web services from an existing web site: A system and method for generating web services from an existing web site having web page based business processes or transactions. A script is generated representative of a user navigation sequence involved to perform the transaction. The script elements include the web application calls, input/output parameters, and/or the interrelation between...

20060155806 - Systems and methods for virtualizing functions and decentralizing service delivery in a flat network of interconnected personal devices: Systems and methods are described herein to virtualize functions and decentralize services in a flat-graph network of client devices. Other embodiments include apparatus and systems of devices comprising virtual node modules to perform a variety of service functions. Further embodiments include methods for overlaying service functions on flat-graph network of...

20060155809 - Message board aggregator: Web content representing a first message is displayed in a window of a computer program. The first message is one of a plurality of messages posted to an online forum. A plurality of message summaries are displayed in the same window of the computer program, contemporaneously with the first message....

20060155812 - Management of network devices via email: A system and method for the management of networked devices via an email client. According to one embodiment, the present invention generally comprises three fundamental elements for managing a network: 1) an email client running on each of a plurality of network devices and at least one central email server...

20060155810 - Method and device for electronic mail: A method manages emails in a mobile terminal of a mobile email system. The mobile email system including an email system and an email server coupled to a static terminal and in wireless communication with said mobile terminal. The static terminal has a folder-based data storage structure for storing emails...

20060155811 - System and method for mobile e-mail management: The present invention provides a system and method for e-mail management utilising a mobile device comprising the steps of establishing a link between the mobile device and a computer device, establishing a link between the computer device and a mail server, browsing through data files on the computer device under...

20060155813 - Instant messaging communications network with selectable responses to active status queries, made to individual user display stations by other user stations, personalized to such other querying user stations: A network distribution network for instant messaging including a plurality of display stations operated by a group of users enabled to send and receive displayable messages to other group members comprising storage for each individual station in the plurality of display stations for storing a list of identified other display...

20060155814 - Media client architecture for networked communication devices: A media client for a networked communication device includes a user agent to communicate with a multimedia application in the networked communication device. The user agent provides a high-level application interface to the multimedia application. A signaling agent under the control of the user agent performs signaling operations necessary to...

20060155815 - System and method for managing maintenance of building facilities: The present invention relates to a system for managing operational facilities that is of the type which utilizes predefined events to carry out managing operations for the facilities. The system includes one or more servers adapted to receive events from a client and forward the events to a clearinghouse via...

20060155816 - Data transmission system and data transmission device: A data transmission device (1a) generates and transmits a lock signal for establishing clock synchronization with data transmission devices (1b-n). The data transmission device (1a) is capable of generating a pattern 1 lock signal for giving a notice of start of communication by use of data subjected to eight-value mapping,...

20060155818 - Sensor node management: There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for sensor node management. The methods and apparatus may include the ability to receive a message indicating that a sensor node is active, determine the type of data generated by the sensor node, and designate a location to store the type...

20060155817 - Web services integration systems and methods: Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed to integrate web services with applications. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed which comprises determining an operation provided by a web service, determining an more input parameter associated with the operation, mapping the input parameter to an application input data parameter associated...

20060155820 - Method and device for transmitting messages over a data network: In a method and system for transmitting messages over a data network, the communication task is used which is implemented on a transmitting microcontroller which determines, on the basis of a routing table, which communication system is used to forward the message to which adjacent microcontroller. A dual-ported RAM is...

20060155821 - Method and system for sharing information in a network of computers: A method and a corresponding system are proposed for sharing information in a network of computers. In the method of the invention, a shortcut (410a,410b) is defined on the desktop (405a,450b) of each computer; the shortcut is associated with an editor, which is invoked passing the name of a shared...

20060155819 - Methods and system for using caches: A method of communicating data objects includes the steps of assembling at least one business object by a request server (225) from data held in a data store (230) in a remote information system (240) and storing a corresponding business object in a cache (210) in a local information processing...

20060155823 - Electronic information caching: Electronic information is made more readily available to one or more access requesters based on an anticipated demand for the electronic information using a process, system or computer software. For instance, electronic information stored on a first storage medium is identified for transport (e.g., in response to a request of...

20060155822 - System and method for wireless access to an application server: A communication method, comprising constructing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel between a mobile device and an Intranet; and performing an Extensible Authentication Protocol-Subscriber Identification Module (EAP-SIM) authentication through the VPN tunnel. Access right of target service can be verified according to information in a SIM card no matter what...

20060155824 - Method and system for extracting information from networked devices using the http protocol and precondition information: A method, system, and computer program product for extracting information associated with a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes the steps of (1) accessing a first memory to obtain access information for accessing the monitored device, the access information including a type of status information to...

20060155825 - Network device managing apparatus and method and storage medium: In a network device managing method using the SNMP protocol, a device on a network is designated as a management target, and a command for acquiring management information for the device and setting the information in a memory is generated. The management information for the device which is acquired through...

20060155826 - Method for determining existence of repeater using portable internet signal and method for measuring position of mobile station using the same: Disclosed is a method for determining an existence of a repeater using a portable Internet signal and for measuring a position of a mobile station using the same, the method receiving a portable Internet signal and a mobile communication signal from a base station, calculating distances between a mobile station...

20060155830 - Configuration mediator for a multi-component software solution environment: Method, computer readable medium and computer system are provided for coordinating configuration changes among components in a multi-component environment. In one embodiment, a method for changing a configuration of a component in a multi-component environment is provided, the method comprising: receiving a configuration change request for the component; accessing a...

20060155833 - Method and apparatus for automatic network configuration: A dynamically configurable network architecture comprising networked office appliances which provide network addressing, network naming, service discovery, and user identification in one system. The network architecture provides automatic configuration services for unadministered environments....

20060155832 - Method for setting change options of software systems of a software system landscape and computer system with software systems having change options: A method for setting change options of software systems of a software system landscape, wherein the systems are interconnected by logical transport paths for the transport of software services therebetween, the software services defining changes to at least one of the code and the data of at least one system,...

20060155831 - Network topology based storage allocation for virtualization: Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the configuration and allocation of storage resources in a fibre channel fabric. Network topology information and loop topology information is used to increase data availability and data access efficiency. For example, devices in different loops are selected for striping and devices connected to...

20060155827 - Reconfiguration of a group of network nodes in an ad-hoc network: To improve consistency of software update in an ad-hoc network, it is proposed to prepare a transition from an initial software configuration to a target software configuration in a first step (S10). Before deciding on commitment to the new software configuration, there is executed a step (S12) to evaluate at...

20060155828 - Router setting method and router device: A router device includes a VRRP (Virtual Redundancy Router Protocol) realizing a virtual router device for operating a plurality of router devices virtually as one router device. The router device further includes a virtual router processing section for executing virtual router processing and a virtual router information processing section for...

20060155829 - System and method for selection of a communication network by a terminal: System for selecting an architecture (15, 16, 17) dedicated to a communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) in a terminal (10) including a user interface (11). The connection to the communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) is set up by means of a PDP context link...

20060155834 - Signalling in controlled active networks: The invention relates to a controlled telecommunications network and a signaling method for use in a network of that kind, which comprises active nodes (11) and signaling control units (3, 4). The method comprises the steps of reception by a signaling unit of a virtual circuit request (5) from a...

20060155837 - Diskless computer operation management system: The management and reliability of communications between computers and a storage system are improved. As between the primary and secondary communication ports of storage devices 20a, 20b, the system management server 10 sets the primary communication port as the current communication port as a default setting in each storage device....

20060155836 - Method of configuring network device: A method of configuring a network device based on an easy configuration protocol. The method includes: sending a discovery packet to discover the network device, wherein the discovery packet includes a port number, and a destination address for broadcasting; then, receiving a response packet if the network device recognizes the...

20060155838 - Program installation system and method using the same: A program installation system and method allowing a diskless computer device to perform program installation is proposed, the method comprising: establishing a booting unit and a memory section in the computer device, a DHCP server comprising a network information database for storing network setting information, and a storage server comprising...

20060155835 - Schedulable network-enabled device with internal data delivery unit for use with a visusal medium and methods of use thereof: The present invention generally relates to network-enabled devices, and particularly to a schedulable network-enabled device and methods of use thereof. The present invention is particularly adaptable to provide a fully self-contained device that can be scheduled by an operator that for some future time(s), to automatically connect to a remote...

20060155847 - Deriving scenarios for workflow decision management: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for deriving a device usage scenario. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; detecting a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; detecting a device usage scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; and assigning a tolerance to...

20060155841 - Information transmission system, information transmission method, electric device communication device, information communication device, communication control program: The present invention relates to information transfer system, an information transfer method, an electrical-equipment communication apparatus, an information communication apparatus and a computer-readable record medium with a communication control program. An information panel 1 which controls electrical equipment 3 includes a first transmission and reception section 11, a server 2...

20060155843 - Information transportation scheme from high functionality probe to logic analyzer: A method is described that comprises transporting information that was captured from a point-to-point link by dividing the information into separate pieces and sending each of the separate pieces over its own point-to-point link toward a logic analyzer host. The point-to-point link is part of a link based computing system....

20060155844 - Log-in resource release system: A log-in resource release system includes a set of lists for managing log-in requests to a processing cluster input/output port from host server input/output ports. Host servers that have been granted memory structures within a memory storage device (“configured hosts”) are granted priority access to a storage processing device's input/output...

20060155839 - Method and device for performing floor control: A method of controlling a floor controller (14) of a communications network (8) including a group of network components (14, 16) which receive a data stream (12) from a data source (10) is described. The method comprises the steps of selecting the network component (14, 16) which is to control...

20060155846 - Method and system for extracting status information from networked devices using the snmp protocol: A method, system, and computer program product for extracting, using an SNMP protocol, information associated with a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes the steps of (1) accessing a first memory to obtain access information for accessing the monitored device, the access information including (a) a...

20060155845 - Method and system for initializing an internal storage table containing access information used by multiple implementations of protocol access functions to extract information from networked devices: A method for managing information configured to be used by a selected communication protocol to extract information related to a monitored device among distinct devices communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes the steps of (1) retrieving, from a first memory, a plurality of implementation identifiers, wherein each implementation...

20060155842 - Method for control of personal data: The invention relates to end user controlled handling of personal data on e.g. the Internet. Web services are offered in a controlled manner from a service broker (250) provided with appropriate security mechanisms. The broker contains end user controlled policies related to personal data/services, while the actual data is arranged...

20060155840 - Satellite communications system for providing global, high quality movement of very large data files: A system for providing communication services between geographically disbursed source and destination terminals includes at least one airborne or spaceborne wireless communication device, such as a satellite. The wireless communication device is configured to store and forward large data files of at least an aggregated 10 gigabytes. The wireless communication...

20060155849 - System and method for implementing polling agents in a client management tool: A method and system is provided for implementing a variety of polling agent functions in a client management tool. Users at a central manager are prompted to select either a central polling function or a resident polling function for the collection of client management data from a number of computer...

20060155848 - Workflow decision management including identifying user reaction to workflows: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments typically include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a derived scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern. In typical embodiments the derived scenario has...

20060155851 - Networked home surveillance architecture for a portable or remote monitoring device: A networked mobile home surveillance system includes a home surveillance application running on a user device to access services on a home network and receive data from the home network. A home network gateway uses SIP messaging to allow communication of commands and data on the user device to and...

20060155850 - Networked mobile epg service architecture: A networked mobile EPG system includes an EPG application running on a user device to query and retrieve EPG contents from a home network. A home network gateway uses SIP messaging to allow communication of commands and data on the user device to and from a home networked device through...

20060155855 - Apparatus, methods and computer software productus for judging the validity of a server certificate: A terminal (40a) comprises: a revocation number verification unit (435) that obtains a revocation number from a repository (20) storing such revocation number that is information serving as a criterion for judging the validity of a server certificate (75); a revocation number storage unit (436) that stores the obtained revocation...

20060155856 - Communications device, network system, communication management method, request signal, response signal, program, and recording medium containing the program: A communications device (non-AP QSTA) transmits a request signal to a central control device (HC) so as to establish downlink stream communications from the central control device to the communications device. The request signal indicates a request for an ACK information specify process related to group ACK. The central control...

20060155857 - Deterministic session state management within a global cache array: The present invention is directed to binding a user session in an application to a particular coordination point. The method includes recognizing a defined application session in response to an application generated by a cache. A user session and an origin server that generated the response are bound in a...

20060155853 - Method and arrangement for preventing illegitimate use of ip addresses: Illegitimate use of IP addresses is counteracted. A network (1) includes a switch (5) with ports (P1,P2,P3) to subscribers (6,6A) and a port (PN) to a core network (2) with DHCP servers (4, 4a,4b). The switch includes a database (MAC1, MAC2), port numbers (P1, P2) and VLAN identities (VLAN1, VLAN2)...

20060155858 - Network device and information protocol for open network system: Information protocol of network devices for an open network system, such as a UPnP-based home network) is provided. When a device receives a state information setting action for an internal service, the device extracts an input argument from the received state information setting action, and determines whether to set state...

20060155852 - Representation of boolean expressions for specifying filters using xml: A simplified evaluation of messages that control connection setup is made possible by a method for filtering (4) incoming messages (3) at a connection controlling element (5) of a telecommunications network (13, 14, 5) on the basis of predetermined filtering conditions (8). According to this method, the filtering (4) ensues...

20060155854 - Setting user preferences via a mobile terminal: Method, system and terminal for setting, in an information system comprising a network (2, 7) connecting user terminals (1) and one or more servers (4, 8, 9), local user preferences valid for the terminal and non-local user preferences valid for said one or more servers. A preferences setting file is...

20060155859 - Data handling system: A data handling system for multi-user transactions has a central data processing device incorporating a data store structured in accordance with a predetermined progressive transaction involving cooperation between users, and a plurality of data access interfaces for the device for the respective users with defined access privileges. At least some...

20060155860 - Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary...

20060155861 - Communication system and method between a recording and/or reproducing device and a remote unit: The present invention relates to a communication and/or reproducing device (20) able to read a data carrier (22) and a remote unit (10) comprising additional data (11) for the data carrier (22). The recording and/or reproducing device (20) and the remote unit (10) communicate via a network (30). The remote...

20060155862 - Data traffic load balancing based on application layer messages: A method is disclosed for application layer message-based load balancing. According to one aspect, when a network element receives one or more data packets that collectively contain an application layer message, the network element determines a message classification to which the application layer message belongs. Using a load-balancing algorithm that...

20060155863 - System and method for filter content pushed to client device: A system and method are provided for filtering data be pushed from a server to a communication device in accordance with a set of predefined rules. Data to be pushed to the communication device is received at the server. A content filter engine is used to determine at the server...

20060155864 - Communication apparatus, control method of communication apparatus, and control program of communication apparatus: In a communication apparatus corresponding to an analog communication path of a voice band and a network communication path, high-speed and high-reliability data communication are performed by selecting an appropriate communication path without troublesome user operation. A communication apparatus which performs IP communication and analog communication via an ADSL gateway...

20060155865 - Firewall method and apparatus for industrial systems: The invention includes a method and apparatus for use with a system including networked resources where communication between resources is via a dual packet protocol wherein a first protocol includes a frame that specifies a destination device/resource and a data field and the second protocol specifies a final destination device/resource...

20060155867 - Connection manager having a common dispatcher for heterogeneous software suites: A connection manager includes a dispatcher that dispatches requests to two or more heterogeneous software suites. The connection manager receives client requests and dispatches the request to either of the software suites coupled by a request/response shared memory to the connection manager....

20060155866 - Method of data gathering of user network: A method for collecting network usage data of a user in which access device in the network authenticates and authorizes the user, and an AAA server records the user's network resources information authenticated and authorized. IN addition, during network access a router records network usage information and sends the network...

20060155869 - Browser-plugin based method for advanced https data processing: The invention described here deals with implementing custom data processing of HTTPS based on a Browser-Plugin Method. Stich custom data processing may include, but is not limited to, custom data compression, custom data encryption, data monitoring, data modification. There are two distinct methods to implement the Browser-Plugin Method for Advanced...

20060155868 - Distributed system architecture for variable coupling: A distributed computer system in several embodiments includes several architectures or configurations. Each configuration exhibits a different degree of coupling between an application that provides data and an application that consumes that data. In an embodiment, a provider application knows the identity of a consumer application, converts data into the...

20060155870 - Connectionless protocol: A stream of packets is started at a slow rate to enable competing streams to achieve transmission rate equilibrium. The transmission window is initialized to a size smaller than an acceptable window advertised by the receiving client. Upon receipt of an acknowledgement from the client that a packet has been...

20060155872 - Efficient intra-domain routing in packet-switched networks: The invention relates to the routing of data packets in a packet-switched network, e.g. in an autonomous system, having traffic distribution. According to the invention, the forwarding or the routing of data packets occurs via the access interface based on an item of information and via the output interface of...

20060155871 - Techniques for hiding network element names and addresses: A technique for hiding network element names and addresses in communications between first and second networks includes providing a message generated by a network entity in the first network to be delivered to a target network entity in the second network, the messaging including first and second parts. The message...

20060155873 - Link state routing techniques: A link state routing communication device allowing path precalculation satisfying the required quality of a connection and reducing the call blocking probability is disclosed. A path satisfying a connection request can be selected from a plurality of precalculated paths which are stored for each destination in a memory. The precalculated...

20060155874 - Automatic access of internet content with a camera-enabled cell phone: A camera-enabled cell phone that is adapted to image a machine readable code such as a bar code, decode the bar code, send the bar code data over the Internet to a resolution server that will return an associated URL that will ink the camera phone to content on an...

20060155875 - Hierarchical associative memory-based classification system: A system and method for efficiently searching long strings of data, such as network messages, is described. The system preferably includes an associative memory structure, having a plurality of content addressable memories (CAMs). The CAMs are hierarchically arranged such the output of at least one CAM is used as the...

20060155876 - Method and apparatus for ip address assignment: A method and apparatus for assigning an IP address, in a modular network system, to at least one client premise equipment device coupled by a communications link to a router, wherein the last octet of said IP address may be one of at least three different values....

20060155877 - Communication device, communication system, communication method, and program thereof: The invention provides a communication apparatus used inside a house, a communication system connected thereto, a communication process, and computer program used therefor. The communication apparatus of the present invention connected via a network to one or more terminal appliances in the house, communicates with an outside via two or...

20060155878 - Method for improving the reliability of low latency handoffs: A method for improving the reliability of a low latency handoff is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first message from a first device. Upon receipt of the first message, transmitting a registration request via the first device to a home agent for pre-registration of a co-located care-of address associated...

20060149806 - Hashing algorithm used for multiple files having identical content and fingerprint in a peer-to-peer network: The present invention provides an improved technique for accessing information in a peer-to-peer network. According to specific embodiments of the present invention, each file accessible in the peer-to-peer network is assigned a respective hash ID or fingerprint ID which is used to describe the contents of that file. Files in...

20060149809 - Application specific key buttons in a portable device: Aspects of the invention implement and execute commands of applications and/or services on portable devices with various key button configurations. Certain aspects of the invention create and display an intermediary user interface on a display of a portable device in order to match and utilize an application's commands with the...

20060149808 - Automated remote monitoring and diagnostics service method and system: A technique is provided for detecting and responding to serviceable conditions in systems. Following detection of an indicator of a serviceable condition, a service request is generated and transmitted to a service provider. The requests results in consultation of a service knowledge base that contains information on the indicators, potential...

20060149810 - Method and procedure in creating a server side digital image file as receipt for web transactions: A method and procedure in creating a receipt by a Web server (10) for a Web based transactional application (11) by drawing data (51) from a Web transaction onto a pre-defined template image (FIG. 3B), making the resulting digital image file (FIG. 3D) available to the Web client (16) or...

20060149811 - Method for remotely controlling media devices via a communication network: A media client for a networked communication device includes a user agent to communicate with a multimedia application in the networked communication device. The user agent provides a high-level application interface to the multimedia application. A signaling agent under the control of the user agent performs signaling operations necessary to...

20060149807 - Method of reducing time to download a web page: A method for reducing time to download a web page includes storing a web page and its expiry time, and checking if the web page is expired according to its expiry time after a client delivers a request to a server to download the web page. If the web page...

20060149812 - System and method for accelerating call setup by caching: The present invention provides a system and method for accelerating call setup by caching, wherein a user equipment accesses an IMS network via a radio access network and a GPRS core network. The GPRS core network has a HSS recorded with data associated with the user equipment. The IMS network...

20060149813 - System and method for providing content, management, and interactivity for client devices: A system and a method for providing content, management and interactivity for client devices are provided. Digital data based on user specified preferences is automatically obtained and transferred from a wide area network to a computer. The digital data is then automatically sent from the computer to a client device...

20060149814 - Method and apparatus for presence status facilitation by an access gateway in a mobile communications system: A communications system is capable of knowing presence status of mobile communications devices such as cellular transceivers. An access gateway such as, for example, a PDSN access gateway or home agent access gateway, manages access to a mobile communications device. The access gateway knows the presence status of the mobile...

20060149815 - Managing participants in an integrated web/audio conference: Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, etc. for managing participants in an integrated web/audio conference system are provided. One embodiment is a method for managing participants in an integrated web/audio conference system comprising: merging one of an audio participant and a web participant of an integrated web/audio conference with...

20060149820 - Detecting spam e-mail using similarity calculations: A method for detecting undesirable e-mails is disclosed. The method includes collecting a plurality of undesirable e-mails, arranging the plurality of undesirable e-mails into a plurality of groups and generating, for each group, at least one token, thereby producing a plurality of tokens for the plurality of undesirable e-mails. The...

20060149821 - Detecting spam email using multiple spam classifiers: A method for detecting undesirable emails is disclosed. The method combines input from two or more spam classifiers to provide improved classification effectiveness and robustness. The method's effectiveness is improved over that of any one constituent classifier in the sense that the detection rate is increased and/or the false positive...

20060149823 - Electronic mail system and method: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a Sender of an email message to log email message attributes in an email database. An email filter located between the Sender and a Recipient of the email message may access the database and verify if the email message truly originated from...

20060149818 - Managing instant messaging sessions on multiple devices: Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at least a second instant messaging controller on a...

20060149816 - Method and system for providing notification when a user becomes available for communicating: A method and system for providing notifications of changes in the presence state of contacts is provided. A notification system allows a user to specify those contacts of interest for whom the user wants to be notified when the contact enters a certain presence state. When presence information is received...

20060149822 - Off-the-record e-mail methods and apparatus: This invention provides for an off-the-record e-mail system that can ensure that messages, particularly sensitive messages, are available only for the intended recipient and never reside on permanent storage media. Control of the existence of the off-the-record e-mail can lie completely with the sender. The sender of the off-the-record e-mail...

20060149819 - Responding to electronic mail messages: One implementation provides a method of replying to a user electronic mail (email) message sent from a user within a system that processes incoming user email messages and delivers responses to these incoming user email messages. The method includes processing a user email message sent from a user to determine...

20060149824 - Terminal data format and a communication control system and method using the terminal data format: A terminal data format capable of efficiently controlling various network-based robots in a ubiquitous robotic companion (URC)-based infrastructure, a communication control system using the terminal data format, and a method thereof are provided. The data format includes a Protocol Discriminator field including information on a protocol identifier (ID) in order...

20060149817 - Using collaborative annotations to specify real-time process flows and system constraints: A method of modifying an existing standard-based system using collaborative annotations can include associating an annotation with a message of the standard-based system. The message can correspond to a first service and the annotation can specify at least one of a second service. The method further can include intercepting the...

20060149825 - Content update feature for an instant messaging service: A first mobile terminal comprising a screen configured to display a first window for displaying messages communicated between the first terminal and a second terminal; a user interface, wherein a user may interact with the user interface to update content in a first message displayed in the first window, wherein...

20060149827 - Implementation of application management operations: A system and method for a connection resource system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, a server includes an interface to provide a connection for a client, an application to be managed by a client via the interface, and a registry, the registry including an entry for...

20060149826 - Index server support to file sharing applications: An index server support for file sharing applications is disclosed. A way of retrieving an index server includes sending a request for investigating a hierarchical structure of index servers in a network to a known index server, intercepting the investigation request by the first index server that becomes aware of...

20060149832 - Information intermediary apparatus, information management apparatus, and information communication system: An information intermediary apparatus for communicating through a communication network with an information management apparatus having user information stored therein, the information intermediary apparatus, which includes: a first communication section for establishing communication through the communication network with the information management apparatus; a second communication section for communicating with a...

20060149828 - Method and system for conducting client-to-server or peer-to-peer or mixed mode data synchronization: A system for synchronizing data between at least 2 separate appliances connected to a communications network includes one appliance of the at least 2 separate appliances for initiating synchronization, a data record containing editable and non-editable fields, and a software program for separating individual ones of editable fields and non-editable...

20060149829 - Monitor system: This invention is directed to a monitor system (1). The monitor system includes a monitor controller (10), at least one video server (141), at least one video camera set (151), and at least one microphone (161). The monitor controller and the at least one video server are connected to different...

20060149831 - System and method for document isolation: A computer based system and method of providing document isolation during routing of a document through a workflow is disclosed. The method comprises maintaining a separate “working” copy of the original base document while the document is routed through a workflow. Access controls, which define who may access the original...

20060149830 - System and method for setting up user self-activating network-based services: A system and method automates and simplifies tasks associated with setting up a user self-activating network-based service. A configurable input engine is configured to define the service. The service may, for example, use a plurality of networking devices and/or computing devices. After the service is defined, an offer of the...

20060149833 - System and method of web management: A web management system capable of assembling web content from composite parts to construct at least portions of a web site according to one or more standards. The composite parts include assets comprising content stored in a content repository and comprising content routed among at least some of said plurality...

20060149834 - System and method for finding persons in a corporate entity: A graphical user interface-based contact information system allows users to see obtain not only contact information in a quick, efficient manner, but also allows users to see organizational charts and update communication devices. The contact information system comprises a server executing the graphical user interface that a users uses to...

20060149835 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method, and computer program: This invention efficiently implements encoding processes corresponding to respective image processing functions while minimizing the memory use size in the apparatus in an image processing apparatus having many image processing functions. A data processing apparatus of this invention includes a data reception unit for receiving at least data of a...

20060149840 - End-to-end publish/subscribe middleware architecture: Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The end-to-end middleware architecture proposed by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging by, among other things, reducing intermediary hops with neighbor-based routing, introducing efficient native-to-external and external-to-native protocol conversions, monitoring system...

20060149836 - Method and apparatus for operating a computer network: The discovery process comprises the device (10) generating messages (112, 120 126) which together have the purpose of identifying a predetermined number of devices which satisfy a test condition included in each message. These messages are sent respectively to the on-line devices (12, 20, 26) neighbouring device (10). To ensure...

20060149839 - Network unit for exchanging a signal: Network units (1) for exchanging signals (20-70) comprising information (50) at layers (500) higher than internet protocol layers (300) comprise detector systems (2,3) arranged to detect fields of the information (50). To improve the detections of a status of priority, of fragmentation and/or of aggregation, the signal (20-70) is provided...

20060149837 - Remote monitoring and diagnostics service prioritization method and system: A technique is disclosed for automatically prioritizing requests for service of systems. A service request is generated upon detection of an indicator of a potentially serviceable condition in the system. Based upon the service request, a knowledge base is consulted that may contain prioritization scores for particular indicators, conditions, systems,...

20060149838 - System and method for logical modeling of distributed computer systems: A modeling system permits developers of applications for distributed computer system, such as those used in server data centers or Internet data centers (IDCs), to architect their hardware and software in an abstract manner. The modeling system defines a set of components that represent abstract functional operations of the application...

20060149841 - Application session management for flow-based statistics: A flow monitoring system for obtaining flow-based statistics in a communications network is described. An application session management (ASM) function is incorporated into the system to allow flow-based statistics to be customized in relation to network applications. This is accomplished by having the ASM interface with the usual flow monitoring...

20060149842 - Automatically building a locally managed virtual node grouping to handle a grid job requiring a degree of resource parallelism within a grid environment: A method, system, and program for automatically building a locally managed virtual node grouping to handle a grid job requiring a degree of resource parallelism for execution within a grid environment are provided. The grid environment includes multiple resource nodes which are identified by physical location as physically disparate groups...

20060149844 - Automatic mobile device detection: A method and an apparatus for classifying a data network connectable computing device as a mobile computing device. Information related to the location of a registering device is determined. The determined location information is compared to a stored location information associated to this device. The device is detected as a...

20060149843 - Paper-based control of computer systems: In one implementation of the present invention, a method is provided including: receiving a request to register with an online computer; receiving account holder information to register with the online central computer; establishing an account using at least the account holder received information including establishing a user-login that is associated...

20060149845 - Managed quality of service for users and applications over shared networks: Systems and methods are described for effectively managing the quality of service provided to subscribers in a shared network on a per-application, per-user basis. A system QoS proxy, sitting on a subscriber's computing device or on a web content server, captures network calls made by an application for a subscriber...

20060149847 - Handling suspended network state of a terminal device: The present invention relates to a method and terminal device for handling a suspended network state, wherein the end of a suspended network state is detected and subscription to a state event package is initiated in response to the detected end of suspension. Based on information given in a response...

20060149846 - Method for linking of devices: A method for linking of a first characteristic of a first device and a second characteristic of a second device by a server is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of selecting a first linking information and a second linking information, the first linking information matching to the second linking...

20060149848 - System, apparatuses, and method for linking and advising of network events related to resource access: The disclosed system, apparatuses, and method can be used to relate network event data generated by different devices in a computer network in order to provide a user with a comprehensive view or report of network activity occurring on a computer network, including the computer, user, network address, and resource...

20060149850 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing playback of streaming media in multiple output devices: A method and apparatus for synchronizing streaming media with multiple output devices. One or more media servers serve media streams to one or more output devices (i.e., players). For playback synchronization, one output device is the “master”, whereas the remaining output devices are “slaves”. More data is requested from the...

20060149849 - System for parameterized processing of streaming data: A method for processing streaming data, the method including receiving a selection of at least one streaming data source, creating an event stream in a stream database from streaming data from the selected data source, receiving a selection of at least one flow including at least one predefined operation for...

20060149852 - Allocation of distribution weights to links in a packet network comprising traffic distribution: The invention relates to a method for adjusting distribution weights in a network comprising multiway routing or distribution tiers. Traffic on links or via nodes in which a threshold value for the volume of traffic is exceeded is reduced by adjusting the relative distribution weights within the distribution tiers. The...

20060149851 - Inter-router adjustment method, router priority calculation device, and router device: Physical router devices report router status information to a router priority calculation device via a local network. According to the router status information reported, the router priority calculation device calculates priority of each physical router device and reports the priority to the physical router devices via the local network. According...

20060149853 - Maskable content addressable memory: A maskable content addressable memory may store one or more address prefixes. A port on which the packet may be sent is determined by comparing the destination address of a received packet by masking the address prefixes and the destination address....

20060149854 - Network service selection: A method of selecting a suitable service for the delivery of a communication across an integrated network is disclosed. Before now, users had to select the service that best suited their needs at the time of each delivery. By providing a computer programmed to act as a purchasing agent with...