Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 08/06

20060195504 - Portable terminal device, method for restoring program, method for terminating program, and computer program therefor: A portable terminal device that controls execution, pausing, and termination of programs, including: a program execution section that makes an executing program become suspended, which is pausing if the executing program is an unmanaged program, or is terminating and storing restore information for restoration into a storage section if the...

20060195511 - Configuration of digital content communication systems: A method and system for effecting the modification of an operational aspect of a digital content communication system is disclosed. For one embodiment of the invention a request message is received from a user to modify an operational aspect of a digital content communication service. The digital content communication service...

20060195509 - Content reproduction system, content reproduction apparatus, and content reproduction method: The present invention provides a content reproduction system that can continue reproduction of a plurality of content even if a part of content is unreproducible. The content reproduction system includes a content storage apparatus including a content storage section that stores a plurality of content whose reproduction order has previously...

20060195508 - Distributed computing: A distributed computing system manages execution of jobs and their associated tasks. Multiple scheduling strategies respect job priority preferences. A graphical user interface allows viewing of job status information and on-the-fly modification of job priorities....

20060195510 - Information management and synchronous communications system: An information management and synchronous communications system and method facilitates database equilibrium and synchronization with wired, wireless and Web-based systems, user-friendly and efficient generation of computerized menus and reservations with handwritten/voice modifications for restaurants, enrollment sessions, and other applications that utilize equipment with nonstandard graphical formats, display sizes and/or applications...

20060195514 - Media management system and method: A media management system for managing a user's media files and information related to such media files and a method of the same. In one aspect, the system and method are operable on a user's computing device. In one aspect, the system comprises a storage management component, a server communication...

20060195516 - Method and system for generating affinity based playlists: A system and method of generating a playlist of affinity related media files using affinity relationship data. In one aspect the relationship affinity data is based upon a user rating score obtained from a population of user's ratings associated with media file attributes. In one aspect, a media file attribute...

20060195505 - Method and system for inserting a multimedia message multiple element into a multimedia message: The invention relates to a method and system for inserting at least one multimedia message multiple element into a multimedia message. The method comprises the following steps transmitting at least one multimedia message multiple from a network element to a mobile station, transmitting one first multimedia message from the network...

20060195507 - Method and system for providing users a lower fidelity alternative until a higher fidelity experience is available: A method for providing a low fidelity alternative until a high fidelity experience becomes available is provided. Upon detecting a need to download data, a download manager determines a download priority for downloading the data. The download priority specifies an amount of a low fidelity representation of data to download...

20060195506 - Simplified scheme of mobile to mobile rich content messaging: A method, client and server are directed at providing a simplified scheme for delivering multimedia messages from mobile to mobile via wireless networks and internet. The multimedia can be either resident on mobile devices or stored in a multimedia database on a server. The present invention provides a server that...

20060195513 - System and method for networked media access: A method, system, and media management application for providing a user access to a media file from multiple locations on a network. In one aspect, a user communicates a desire to access a media file at a future time and is able to access the bookmarked media file from various...

20060195512 - System and method for playlist management and distribution: A system and method for storing a playlist of media files that is accessible from various locations in a network. In one aspect, the playlist is accessible from multiple users of the network. A method is also described for arranging the media files of a playlist. In one aspect, the...

20060195515 - System and method for rating media: A method and system for leveraging user media file rating data. In one aspect, the system comprises a component in communication with a plurality of media file related services, a rating storage, and a component for making the user rating data available to be used by plural services so that...

20060195517 - System and method for wireless device configuration: A system and method for configuring, or provisioning, mobile communication devices 10 by an administrator 12. Administrator 12 comprises a computer, or second mobile device 18. Feature codes for configuring a device 10 are encrypted into a Short Message System (SMS) message or an Internet protocol-based Over-the-Air (IOTA) protocol message...

20060195522 - Communication device and connection establishment method: A game device is provided which can connect to a plurality of wireless controllers. A game device of the present invention has a plurality of communication modules, each serving as a master, which can wirelessly connect to slaves. One communication module performs an inquiry procedure for establishing a connection with...

20060195524 - Private network exchange with multiple service providers, having a portal, collaborative applications, and a directory service: A private network exchange with multiple service providers, having a portal, collaborative applications, and a directory service is provided. The private network exchange can operate across multiple service providers, and provides a minimum service level regardless of the service providers involved. The Portal provides a user friendly interface to present...

20060195518 - Reminder handling: A mobile telephone (1) includes associated with a processor (18) a reminder controller (22). A reminder can be entered either using the phone (1) or using a remote terminal, such as a PC or another phone. Each reminder is associated with an event being the start of a particular application,...

20060195521 - System and method for creating a collaborative playlist: A method, server, and user interface associated with creating a collaborative playlist between one or more users based on user interaction with a media program. In one embodiment, the media program is an instant messaging application....

20060195520 - System and method for providing one class of users of an application a view of what another class of users of the application is visually experiencing: A technique for providing one class of users of an application a view of what a typical user in another class of users of the same application is visually experiencing is provided. A client application that is interacting with the application provides a user an option of having a PIP...

20060195523 - System and method of broadcasting full-screen video: A system and a method of broadcasting a full-screen video on a network. The system includes a server computer system and a client computer system. The server computer system is connected to the client computer system via the network and executes an application program in a full-screen mode. The server...

20060195519 - Virtual conference center architecture: A method, system, and architecture for providing a virtual conference center that effectively increases the number of accounts supported by a conference center is provided. The virtual conference center architecture provides a virtual conference center that interfaces with multiple conference centers that each support a certain number of accounts. The...

20060195538 - Apparatus and method for affecting correspondent-centric electronic mail: Techniques to make e-mail correspondent-centric rather than message-centric, and reduce junk e-mail. Tabulates, maintains, and updates useful information about the user's chosen correspondents, and the history and status of each correspondence series. Filters incoming messages from an unrecognized sender, asking user whether to add sender to correspondent list, and if...

20060195529 - Bifurcation of messages in an extensible message transfer system: Within a mail transfer agent of a message transfer system, a message is received and if the recipient entity resolves to a number of recipients exceeding a specified quantity, the original message is not processed. Instead, at least two messages are created, with each of the created messages addressed to...

20060195532 - Client-side presence documentation: Client-side presence documentation is implemented in an instant messaging architecture. In a described implementation, respective presence documents are stored locally at respective client devices. Accordingly, presence information can be shared and disseminated in accordance with a peer to peer paradigm. In another described implementation, presence documents can include presence information...

20060195536 - Communication management apparatus, communication management method, and communication management program: A communication management apparatus includes: a receiving module which receives a message that is posted from a first terminal and includes information about the first terminal; an acceptance module which accepts a browse request for the received message from a second terminal that is different from the first terminal; a...

20060195526 - Device and method for user-based processing of electronic message comprising file attachments: A method for the user-based processing of electronic messages comprising file attachments is provided. According to the method, a file attachment of an electronic message is replaced by a memory location link to a selected memory location in a user file system and the file attachment of the electronic message...

20060195525 - Distributed application server and method for implementing distributed functions: The invention provides a distributed application server comprising a cluster of two or more nodes in a peer configuration. The two or more nodes are associated with at least one message stream comprising a plurality of messages propagated through the associated nodes. The invention also provides a method of implementing...

20060195541 - Electronic mail replies with speech recognition: A method for responding to an electronic mail message with a limited input device such as a phone includes audibly rendering the question and a set of proposed answers typically provided in the electronic mail message by the sender of the electronic mail message. A language model indicative of the...

20060195533 - Information processing system, storage medium and information processing method: An information processing system including: a sender information holding unit that stores an email address of a sender of an email in correlation with one of a plurality of sender categories; and an importance level estimation unit that determines, for each of the plurality of sender categories, importance levels of...

20060195534 - Information processing system, storage medium, and information processing method: An information processing system including: a first importance level estimation unit that employs information for emails previously received by a user to classify an email to one of a plurality of first importance level categories; and a second importance level estimation unit that employs the information for the emails previously...

20060195527 - Limited-operation electronic mail accounts with set functions: In one aspect, a method related to a limited-operation 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....

20060195531 - Managing working set in an extensible message transfer system: Within a mail transfer agent of a message transfer system, a message is received and if the recipient entity resolves to a number of recipients exceeding a specified quantity, the original message is not processed. Instead, at least two messages are created, with each of the created messages addressed to...

20060195540 - Message routing with telecommunication number addressing and key management: Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and/or fax or pager messages. Email can be addressed using nothing more than a standard telephone or fax number. If the registered...

20060195528 - Notification breakthrough status and profile: Techniques and tools are described for notifications of events, such as receipt of messages, and specifically to tools and techniques related to breakthrough notification profile and status. For example, it is determining whether a profile is active and whether a contact associated with an event is identified as having a...

20060195539 - Private network exchange with multiple service providers, having a portal, collaborative applications, and a directory service: A private network exchange with multiple service providers, having a portal, collaborative applications, and a directory service is provided. The private network exchange can operate across multiple service providers, and provides a minimum service level regardless of the service providers involved. The Portal provides a user friendly interface to present...

20060195530 - Reprocessing of messages in an extensible message transfer system: Within a mail transfer agent of a message transfer system, a message is received and if the recipient entity resolves to a number of recipients exceeding a specified quantity, the original message is not processed. Instead, at least two messages are created, with each of the created messages addressed to...

20060195537 - Systems and methods for managing directory harvest attacks via electronic messages: The present invention provides an electronic message management system (EMS) that includes a real-time feedback loop where data is collected from the electronic messages on incoming connection attempts, outgoing delivery attempts, and message content analysis, and written to a centralized data matrix. A separate process accesses the data matrix and...

20060195535 - Terminal apparatus: A terminal apparatus is provided that makes it easy to determine whether or not data once saved can be deleted. When data included in a memory is output to an external equipment of the terminal apparatus, output history data including an output destination, an output day and time, and an...

20060195542 - Method and system for determining the probability of origin of an email: A system, method and apparatus providing for characterizing e-mails to aid in the identification of masqueraded emails and the classification of email content in a distributed and non-distributed environment. Mechanisms are provided to facilitate the sharing of email data and such other data such as SPAM and email content classification...

20060195543 - Hard disk-incorporated optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus: There is provided a hard disk-incorporated optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus adapted to be capable of transferring a music file to an MP3 player without using a personal computer, etc. and to be capable of charging a battery in the MP3 player when the MP3 player is connected thereto....

20060195544 - Posting and receiving resources for external applications using a web browser as an agent: This application describes a novel method and apparatus to post to and receive resources from a global communication network via an alternative global communication network connection facilitated by a web browser acting as an agent. A web browser normally sends a request to a web server which responds to said...

20060195546 - Access to web services: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer program product which enable a web service gateway which provides support for business services which are described using a particular document format, for example Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), to further provide support for business services which are described using a...

20060195551 - Federated multiprotocol communication: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. A remote...

20060195545 - Information processing apparatus and content information processing method: The present invention provides an apparatus and method capable of efficiently sending an event corresponding to content to be transmitted from a server to each client. A content providing server assigns a session ID to each client on condition that the server receives an event notification request, which specifies an...

20060195549 - Method for controlling a compuer using an embedded unique code in the content of recorded media: A method for controlling a computer with recorded information of a recorded media includes embedding a unique code, which unique code does not contain routing information, in recorded information of the recorded media. The unique code is in close association with vendor information, such that the unique code will be...

20060195550 - System and method for storing and retrieving equipment inspection and maintenance data: An inspection and maintenance data storage and retrieval system features uniquely identified read/write memory buttons mounted in or on an equipment unit such as an aircraft, in association with specific components of the equipment unit. Technical information useful for inspection and maintenance of the components, plus historical inspection and maintenance...

20060195547 - Systems and methods for providing client-side accelerated access to remote applications via tcp multiplexing: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying and executing acceleration functionality on a client to improve the performance and delivery of remotely accessed applications. In one embodiment, the client-side acceleration functionality is provided by an acceleration program that performs a transport layer connection multiplexing technique...

20060195548 - Video distribution system: The invention relates to video distribution systems and, more particularly, to a system that blanket transmits video/audio content such as movies (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's recording, storage and playback system. Customers may preselect from a list of available movies or other content in advance using...

20060195552 - Information processor: In an information processor connected with an external apparatus by wireless to transmit and receive data, a connection with a plurality of external apparatuses can be easily changed. The information processor includes a wireless USB (WUSB) communication unit configured to connect to each of a plurality of external apparatuses by...

20060195553 - Content-information management system, content-information management apparatus, content-information management method, and computer program: A content-information-management system includes a meta-information server which handles meta information of contents on a network on which at least one content-provide device which provides the contents is provided. The meta-information server provides the meta information to a content-use device which uses the contents. The meta-information server discovers the at...

20060195554 - System and method for transmission of data: A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information....

20060195556 - Apparatus, method, and software for analyzing network traffic in a service aware network: The present invention generally relates to a method for describing network events in a service aware network (“SAN”). In addition, the present invention relates to software that performs the method and has a programming model containing protocol libraries, abstract protocol messages declarations, and network events. The method and software enable...

20060195557 - Configuration of digital content communication systems: A method and system for ascertaining configuration information for a digital content communication system to access a digital content account is disclosed. For one embodiment of the invention, one or more candidate configurations are determined using configuration information provided by the user in conjunction with known configuration parameters applicable to...

20060195555 - Updating of software stored in a computer of a data communication system: The invention relates to a method for updating software that is stored in a computer of a data communication system, a computer to be used in a data communication system, and a data communication system comprising several computers and an administrative computer. Data indicating which transmission medium should be used...

20060195560 - Application of attribute-set policies to managed resources in a distributed computing system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize sets of attributes respectively associated with managed resources and policies to match managed resources with individual policies. Multiple managed resources are permitted to be matched with a specific policy, such that the policy applies to all matching managed resources. Furthermore, by providing multiple...

20060195561 - Discovering and monitoring server clusters: In a server cluster, multiple nodes may host one or more virtual servers. Virtual servers that may be hosted by particular nodes are identified. From the nodes, status is provided as to nodes that are actively hosting virtual servers and status of nodes whether they are actively hosting or not...

20060195564 - Medical diagnostic system service method and apparatus: A system is provided for remotely servicing medical diagnostic systems. The diagnostic systems may include a range of modalities and system types. A remote service facility may be contacted by the diagnostic systems, or may contact the diagnostic systems via a network link. Service requests, messages, protocols, data and log...

20060195563 - Peer-to-peer inventory management system: A software tool, message construction and peer-to-peer internet communication methodology by which otherwise independent retailers that sell the same product lines can cost-effectively equalize inventory, facilitating the movement of items from geographic markets in which the items are slow-moving to geographic markets in which the items are faster-moving....

20060195558 - Redundant manager modules: A system comprises plural electronic modules, at least one interconnect structure and plural power supplies. The electronic modules communicate over the interconnect structure. The system further comprises plural redundant manager modules to perform management tasks with respect to the at least one interconnect structure and the power supplies....

20060195559 - Services for grid computing: A Grid management service for deploying legacy code applications on the Grid, without modification of the legacy code, the service having a three layer architecture that is adapted to sit on existing standardised Grid architectures, comprising a front end layer for permitting selection of a desired legacy code application, and...

20060195562 - System, software, and method for managing obsolescent high-technology inventory: A Business Method by which otherwise independent nodes of a distribution system can undergo confidential interactions via an internet website or other means to equalize inventory to their mutual benefit and profit, with the Business Method Practitioner operating the mechanism and retaining a percentage of each transaction as a fee...

20060195570 - Anonymous location service for wireless networks: An anonymous location wireless network service for use in a wireless network that tracks the location and identity of network users, such as networks complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides content providers with the location of network users without revealing their identities. The service includes a wireless network...

20060195565 - Method and apparatus for routing a service request: A method and an apparatus for routing a service request in a telecommunications system. A location server (LS) stores a service identifier (SID) which identifies a service hosted in an application server (AS) and addressing information (AI) usable for routing a service request (f2,g3,h2) towards the application server. The addressing...

20060195566 - Method and system for taking remote inventory in a network: A method of monitoring a network is provided, the method comprising scanning hosts across the network for information related to functioning services and applications, wherein at least one host/device utilizes anti-virus software and other software; and gathering and summarizing information from the host....

20060195568 - Method of monitoring and configuring: A method for managing and monitoring communication devices in a firewall/NAT protected network from a Management system outside the firewall/NAT protected network includes periodically and at predefined events opening an http connection and transmitting a request from the respective communication devices to the Management system through a firewall/NAT installation protecting...

20060195567 - Networked cash dispensing system: A networked cash dispensing system and a method for remote management of, and trend analysis for, networked cash dispensing systems is provided. The networked cash dispensing system comprises a casino transaction kiosk, a server, and a network. The casino transaction kiosk includes a central processing unit adapted to operate the...

20060195573 - System and method for creating resources in a connection pool: An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application...

20060195572 - System and method for performing resource maintenance in a connection pool: An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application...

20060195571 - System and method for performing resource pool maintenance: An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application...

20060195569 - System and method for using self-learning rules to enable adaptive security monitoring: Rules “learn” what is typical or expected for a certain attribute of device data for a given location, premises, time period, etc. Using a rule for a standard deviation the variance between newly collected data and the data stored in a fact table is either ignored or an alert (or...

20060195575 - Determining a user's groups: The present invention is directed to technology for determining the set of groups of which a user is a member. A user can be a static member, dynamic member or nested member of a group. A user is a nested member of a first group if that user is a...

20060195574 - Server, server system, client server control method and storage medium therefor: Information identifying an operator remotely controlling a camera can be obtained. By using voice as means for reporting the information, it is possible to achieve reporting that is ideal for a user interface. Specifically, a client (116) is connected to a camera server (101) via a network and is receiving...

20060195576 - Discontinuous transmission/reception in a communications system: Allocation information is transmitted in a communications system for indicating allocation of sets of transmission resources to communications devices. At least one allocation rule is defined for associating sequences of sets of transmission resources with communications devices, and a communications device monitors allocation information of sets of transmission resources associated...

20060195577 - Distributed server's failure response program product, server load balancing device, and server load balancing method: In a device according to the present invention, a failed server session persistence information managing unit transfers relevant session persistence information from a session persistence information storing unit to a failed server session persistence information storing unit, upon receipt of a failure detection notice from a distributed server. A session...

20060195582 - Domain name acquisition and management system and method: A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides for transfer fulfillment or reassignment of an expired internet domain name registration to a new registrant before the registration is purged from the registry. In one example, the method calls for first identifying a registered domain name of interest, for example through...

20060195581 - Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end quality of service in multiple transport protocol environments using permanent or switched virtual circuit connection management: A method and apparatus for ensuring end-to-end QoS for user applications operating in multi-transport protocol environments while using PVC or SVC connection management procedures. A user application at a workstation having specific QoS requirements can selectively connect to one of a plurality of servers having varying QoS profiles, regardless of...

20060195579 - Method and system for managing server load to execute transactions of an application program on multiple servers: A method and system for managing server load to execute groups of transactions of an application program on N servers. A condition, ascertained for each transaction group, is that a current value of global multiplicity is not or is, respectively, less than a specified maximum value of global multiplicity. For...

20060195578 - Resource allocation method for network area and allocation program therefor, and network system: A node resource within its own area is allocated to a service in accordance with a quality of service to be provided, a node resource lent out to a different network area is cancelled to allocate the lent out node resource to the service when there is a shortage of...

20060195580 - Usage request method for network system: A method of making a usage request for one or more of a plurality of request-accepting apparatuses that accept one or more usage requests in a network system including a plurality of request-making apparatuses that make one or more usage requests, and the request-accepting apparatuses, including: upon a request-making apparatus...

20060195584 - Call re-direction method for an sip telephone number of an sip client in a combined wired and packet switched network: When a specific numerical sequence and the SIP telephone number are entered on a telephone of any subscriber connection of switching equipment that is allocated to the communications network, the numerical sequence is evaluated in such a way that a first message containing the telephone number of the subscriber connection...

20060195591 - Event notification method in wireless communications system: An event notification method in a wireless communications system can reduce the amount of transmission data in a wireless section and improve transmission efficiency by reducing the number of notifications with respect to an event which is frequently generated as a user sends a server an event notification request message...

20060195592 - Http use for bidirectional communication: A method to transfer data in a telecommunication network between a first host (HOST A) and a second host (HOST B) via Standard Toolkit Software Components, HTTP Session Managers and a Transport medium. The data transfer is compliant with the SOAP 1.2 HTTP Bindings Specification, and comprises SOAP Requests sent...

20060195589 - Method and system for avoiding an unintentional time-out for communications in a client-proxy-server environment: When conducting anti-virus, anti-spam, or other content filtering on a gateway device, data traffic is run through a proxy that completes a “fetch-scan-forward” operation of the data traffic exchanged between a server and a client. During the transmission of data from the server to the proxy and while the gateway...

20060195587 - Method and system for providing expanded presence information when a user is offline: A method and system for providing expanded presence information of publishers to subscribers is provided. The presence system receives expanded presence information from a publisher. A client component of the presence system sends the expanded presence information to a presence server of the presence system. Upon receiving the expanded presence...

20060195583 - Method and system for providing information services to a client using a user profile: Information content is provided from at least one server to at least one user terminal, the information content being customized according to a user model. To that end at least a portion of the user model provided at the user terminal is sent from the user terminal to the server...

20060195590 - Network switching method and apparatus, wireless access apparatus, and wireless network: In a wireless network, access points communicate with each other by transmitting and receiving data in first units and with client devices by transmitting and receiving data in second units over wireless links. A first unit encapsulates one or more second units addressed to client devices served by the same...

20060195593 - Session processing system, server, communication terminal, session processing method, and program: A session processing system, a server, a communication terminal, a session processing method, and a program for selecting an effective session or switching to an effective session based on a policy set by a user. A session processing system comprises a plurality of communication terminals, and a server for providing...

20060195586 - Sessions and terminals configured for binding in an extensible manner: Systems and methods for configuring sessions and terminals for binding in an extensible manner are disclosed. In one implementation, a terminal is created in response to notification of an incoming connection. A session is also created. The terminal and session are bound together for operation. This implementation may be instantiated...

20060195588 - System for detecting vulnerabilities in web applications using client-side application interfaces: An improved method and apparatus for client-side web application analysis is provided. Client-side web application analysis involves determining and testing, using client-side application interfaces and the like, data input points and analyzing client requests and server responses. In one embodiment, a security vulnerability analyzer is employed to analyze web page...

20060195585 - Systems and methods for routing a communications link: Devices, systems and methods that route a communication link to a proper destination are disclosed. The method may include connecting the communication link to a first destination; requesting a response from the first destination; validating the response from the first destination; and disconnecting the communication link to the first destination...

20060195594 - Communication system: In a communication system using UDP, multiple communication lines are provided between a transmitter and a receiver, and the transmitter transmits communication data to the multiple communication lines in parallel, and the receiver is provided with facilities for receiving the transmitted communication data without excess or deficiency to enable communication...

20060195597 - Automatic network user identification: A method and system for allowing a secure transaction system (STS) that includes an access system in communication with a network access provider (NAP) identification module to convey to a third party trusted persistent identification details relating to a customer computer station. A user identification request including a set of...

20060195596 - Image formation system, image formation device, server device and program: An image formation system includes an image formation device and a server device connected with each other through a network. The image formation device includes an image formation executing unit that receives an image formation request from a terminal device through the network and executes the image formation a request...

20060195595 - System and method for globally and securely accessing unified information in a computer network: A client stores a first set of workspace data, and is coupled via a computer network to a global server. The client may be configured to synchronize portions of the first set of workspace data with the global server, which stores independently modifiable copies of the portions. The global server...

20060195598 - Information providing device,method, and information providing system: A robot apparatus and a server communicate with each other in accordance with a SOAP protocol. The information pertinent to a service request, stated in an inquiry from the robot apparatus, the information pertinent to the robot apparatus and the supplementary information of the data or programs are matched to...

20060195599 - Method and apparatus for adaptive load shedding: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive load shedding includes receiving at least one data stream (comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into a first sliding window of memory. A subset of tuples from the received data stream is then selected for processing in accordance with...

20060195601 - System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval: Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless and/or lossy data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to simultaneously or sequentially losslessly or lossy compress data at a rate equivalent to...

20060195600 - System, method and article of manufacture for remote control and navigation of local content: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for use in playing back content. Some embodiments provide a method for use in content playback by accessing an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object controls playback of content, communicating...

20060195602 - Video server for video distribution system: A video server for distributing a digitized video content includes a unit for determining whether or not a video content requested from a terminal is stored in the video server, a unit for issuing a transmission request to another server for transmitting the video thereto in accordance with the HTTP...

20060195603 - Network traffic control system: A network traffic control system, where traffic can be controlled by allowing a rate limit for each of the communication ports to be arbitrarily set, even in the case that its switching processor does not support the rate limiting capability. The network traffic control system in accordance with the present...

20060195604 - Storage abuse prevention: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates mitigation of storage abuse in connection with free storage provided by messaging service providers such as email, instant messaging, chat, blogging, and/or web hosting service providers. The system and method involve measuring the outbound volume of stored data. When...

20060195605 - Systems and methods for providing client-side accelerated access to remote applications via tcp buffering: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying and executing acceleration functionality on a client to improve the performance and delivery of remotely accessed applications. In one embodiment, the client-side acceleration functionality is provided by an acceleration program that performs a transport layer connection buffering technique...

20060195606 - Method and system for collating data in a distributed computer network: A method and system for collating data in a distributed computer network are disclosed. A set of data packets is initially received from a group of non-synchronous compute nodes. Each of the set of data packets is provided by one of the non-synchronous compute nodes. Then, the data packets are...

20060195607 - Application based active-active data center network using route health injection and igp: A distributed data center topology having at least a pair of active data centers that can recover from a disaster at one of the data centers and achieves load balancing using IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) between data centers. The distributed data centers use virtual IP addresses, route health injection and...

20060195608 - Method and apparatus for distributed processing, and computer product: A network-segment-determining unit determines network segments including servers to be involved in a distributed processing, based on configuration information stored in a configuration information database (DB). A data dividing unit divides data based on information on the network segments determined by the network-segment-determining unit. A data transfer unit transfers the...

20060195609 - Internal natural domain service system with local name servers for flexible top-level domains: Extended internal domain name service of URI taking distributed service scheme, wherein site names or proper nouns that are not formal top-level domains are used as top-level domains. A central name server, a local name server and a user computer, each of which is loaded with a program for domain...

20060195611 - Method and system for using a transfer agent for translating a configuration file: TFTP server address, configuration file name and relay agent address contained in a DHCPACK are recorded; the TFTP server address is overwritten with the relay agent address before forwarding. Upon receipt of a TFTP request, a transfer identifier is selected from a pool of available port values, and the source...

20060195610 - Security enhanced methods and system for ip address allocation: The present invention relates to methods and a system for enhancing DHCP to promote a more secure IP address allocation model. The invention advantageously accomplishes this through the utilization of an address generator which is compatible with the existing DHCP protocol, and which incorporates an algorithm for use in producing...

20060195613 - Protocol conversion apparatus, communication apparatus, method and program: There is provided with a protocol conversion apparatus including: a database unit which stores service descriptions, each describing at least one service in accordance with specification of a first protocol, and conversion rule descriptions each describing at least one protocol conversion rule; a database retrieval unit which retrieves from the...

20060195614 - System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files: The present invention teaches a digital media file conversion and integration system including a server coupled to the Internet to allow users to download media files to a server the Internet. The system contains devices to screen, compress, and update the media files, devices to break down the media files...

20060195612 - Transmitting over a network: Data for presentation in real time, such as a video or audio sequence, is available on different encoded versions having different degrees of compression. In order to assess, during transmission of one version, the feasibility of switching to another version, given the data rate known to be available at the...

20060195615 - Method and mechanism for reducing client-side memory footprint of transmitted data: The present invention is directed to a method and mechanism for reducing the expense of data transmissions between a client and a server. According to an aspect of data prefetching is utilized to predictably retrieve information between the client and server. Another aspect pertains to data redundancy management for reducing...

20060195616 - System and method for storing data to a recording medium: The present invention seeks to utilize the unused portions of storage capacity on servers. Existing servers (e.g. vendor servers) are used to store data for backup purposes. Data stored therein is preferably dispersed amongst multiple servers, or can be limited to one server. When a customer requests storage space for...

20060190521 - Network system and device: A network system includes devices connected to a network each of which is assigned an ordinal rank in the system, in which a device of the highest ordinal rank functions as a master device and devices of the other ordinal ranks function as general devices. In the network system, each...

20060190522 - Method for controlling a computer: A job scheduling system to execute plural jobs in an information system including plural computers for which an operation procedure is defined in the job flow format inputs a logical system configuration definition representing an architecture of the information system, sets a parameter for each job of the job flow...

20060190523 - Network match maker: The present invention relates to a method and a system for facilitating an exchange of information between at least two parties on an electronic network comprising of at least a server and plurality of clients. The network contains at least one of the parties' desired, own or both attributes and...

20060190524 - Method and system for an electronic agent traveling based on a profile: A method and system is described for an electronic agent to automatically travel from an origination computer to a destination computer. The method comprises the monitoring of requests for travel, generating a list of possible destinations, determining the final destination, prioritizing the importance of the travel, and then finally inserting...

20060190525 - Method and system for supporting the communication of presence information regarding one or more telephony devices: A system for detecting and communicating the presence of one or more computing devices is presented. The invention also presents a method and system for aggregating presence information generated by multiple devices associated with a single user. A server acting as a presence agent on behalf of a first user...

20060190528 - Apparatus and method for distributing signals: A server apparatus is capable of distributing audio, video, and/or data signals in a household and/or business dwelling using the existing coaxial cable infrastructure. According to an exemplary embodiment, the server apparatus includes a receiving element operative to receive signals from a broadcast source. First processing elements generate first analog...

20060190532 - Apparatus and methods for multiple user remote connections to an information handling system via a remote access controller: An information handling system includes a host computer system, at least one virtual machine, and a remote access controller. The virtual machine(s) runs on the host computer system. The remote access controller is configured to provide simultaneous out-of-band communication between a plurality of users and the host computer system....

20060190527 - Determining operational status of a mobile device capable of executing server-side applications: To determine the operational status of a wireless communication device capable of executing server-side applications, a message is sent to the device requesting operational status of the device. The message may be may be triggered by a system administrator at a middleware server. The wireless communication device may receive the...

20060190534 - Method and system for browsing a plurality of information items: In an information browsing method and system, for article information of an article described in an Web site, tag information assigning a tag to each particular article or each topic in the article information is linked with a content of the article to create a data item to store the...

20060190530 - Method and system to enable email services for mobile devices: The invention is a method and a system, which allows the integration of email-enabled devices into a carrier service network without the need for user individual configuration of the devices. A system with an email proxy and a database is provided for handling email requests from a terminal. The network...

20060190535 - Method, subject terminal device, target terminal device, data content server, system and computer programs for maintaining and updating data contents: The invention discloses a method, system, target terminal device, subject terminal device and computer programs for maintaining and updating data contents in at least one data content server and target terminal device. In one embodiment, a data content change relating to a subject terminal device is detected in a data...

20060190531 - Methods for handling communication requests received for former users of a communication system: The methods for handling a communication request received for a former user of a communication system include sending updated address book information for the former user to an initiator's address book, redirecting the communication request to the forwarding address for the former user, redirecting the communication request to an assigned...

20060190529 - Multipurpose semiconductor integrated circuit device: There is provided a multipurpose semiconductor integrated circuit device that can connect a variety of appliances to a network at low cost. The multipurpose semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: a plurality of types of input/output interfaces; a memory including a file storage region for a storing script file where processes...

20060190533 - System and method for registered and authenticated electronic messages: We show how to use a browser plug-in and a central Registrar server, to let users send registered or validated electronic messages in a lightweight manner, without using computationally expensive Public Key Infrastructure methods. To users, it is analogous to post office certified or registered mail. Our method can be...

20060190526 - Wireless communication device use of application server applications: To enable use of an application on an application server at a mobile communication device, at a transaction server, a message received from the mobile is pushed out to the application. Any return messages is routed back to the mobile. The transaction server may use a queue to store all...

20060190538 - Method and apparatus for recognizing location of a home device using rfid: A system where a home server can recognize a location of a home device in a home network. The home device includes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag which stores information about the home device, and each plug receptacle constituting the home network has an RFID reader. Accordingly, the RFID...

20060190537 - Method and system for enabling structured real-time conversations between multiple participants: The present invention provides a method and system for enabling a structured real-time network communication session for at least two or more client devices. Aspects of the invention include providing a server with one or more conversation applications that provide respective structured conversations; displaying a list of available structured conversations...

20060190536 - Method, system and program product for building social networks: Under the present invention, a user with an existing profile page who desires to have a social network built will first submit a subscription request. If approved, an existing contact list such as a chat list or the like for the user will be compared to existing contact lists for...

20060190539 - 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. The system has multiple processing units each providing a different execution environment for different sets of software applications, each associated with a service binding or...

20060190540 - Managing participants in an online session: The present invention relates to an application that is configured to be operated in a multi-participant environment on a computer network. The application manages participants in an online session of a multi-user application so that if one of the participants exits the session, the session can continue without interruption. The...

20060190544 - Data-type definition driven dynamic business component instantiation and execution framework and system and method for managing knowledge information: In a complex workflow environment, a data-type-definition (DTD) schema drives a dynamic business component instantiation and execution framework that integrates documents with data and information created by various applications, potentially operating on several different platforms, enabling complex workflow and collaboration to occur over a communication network such as the Internet....

20060190546 - Instant messaging (im) internet chat capability from displayed email messages: Systems and methods for integrating instant messaging (IM) services and email services are described. In one embodiment an email window is configured to display an email message, the email message including a plurality of intended recipients, wherein the email window is also configured to display information about the plurality of...

20060190545 - Method, apparatus, and program to forward and verify multiple digital signatures in electronic mail: A mechanism is provided for augmenting the mail header of a message with a list of digital signatures representing the chain of contributors to the message. The augmented header may also encode the actual contributions corresponding to each digital signature. The list is appended every time a message is forwarded....

20060190542 - Simplified email system: Email communication between an elderly individual and registered friends and family is facilitated by displaying photographs received by email from registrants on a monitor display screen, displaying visual indicators on said screen in association with photographs of registrants from whom emails have been received, and providing a selection means for...

20060190541 - System and method for public and private messages in an information management system: There is disclosed method and apparatus for storing and processing information in a data storage and processing system used by attorneys, wherein there is sent an electronic message from the processing system to one or more e-mail recipients. An electronic message is received in the processing system from an e-mail...

20060190543 - Systems and methods for advanced communications and control: Methods and systems for telecommunications operations and controls include (1) an enhanced text message process or methodology that allows a remote user who does not have, already installed, a specialized voice telephony program to nevertheless place and participate in a voice call, (2) call admission control using a “degrees of...

20060190547 - Method and apparatus for restricting instant messaging during a scheduled event: An instant messaging (IM) client-server network system includes a calendar server and an IM server in one embodiment. The calendar server stores calendars including events and lists of attendees for respective events. The calendar server also stores IM restriction information that specifies limitation of the IM capabilities of attendees of...

20060190548 - Personalized information subscribing and delivering over instant messaging: A method for providing information to an instant messaging (IM) user includes sending information to the user via an instant message based on interest information provided by the user. The interest information may not be restricted to a predetermined set of interest information....

20060190549 - Multi-media information device network system: One of the multimedia information devices connected to a network is set as a master, which generates and manages an integrated directory list (41) for all files in the network. In order to implement a function of the master described above, each of the devices has programs (31-34) for keeping...

20060190550 - Storage system and controlling method thereof, and device and recording medium in storage system: A first storage device control device stores, when a first data write/read request is received, correspondences between first logical units and second logical units referenced when determining whether or not storage regions identified by first logical units set in the request are storage regions of the first logical device control...

20060190551 - Network system, element thereof and context management method: On a network, there are provided a plurality of shared fields enabling a plurality of computers to interact with each other. The computer is allowed to move between the shared fields anytime. Upon leaving a shared field, the computer records, on the network, contexts including identification of another computer relating...

20060190552 - Data retention system with a plurality of access protocols: A data retention system is described that has a plurality of access protocols. The system comprises a memory store accessible through a virtual address space, a controller communicatively coupled to the memory store, and an interface. The controller is adapted to implement a memory access protocol for accessing at least...

20060190553 - Network system, device and program: In a network system including a plurality of devices connected to a network, a master device supplies general devices with shared data to be shared by the devices in the system. On each update of the shared data, the master device generates backup data (the shared data before the backup)...

20060190556 - Apparatus and method for consumer-oriented distribution of information processing capability: In order to provide a home user with cost-effective PC processing capability, the home user is provided with a terminal which has only sufficient processing capability to communicate with a service provider over a network. Any processing and program execution is performed, in response to requests from the home user's...

20060190558 - Computer system and storage device: When the system administrator, using an management terminal 600, changes the settings of a storage device 200, a log concentration device 400 is notified of the settings. These settings include the IP address of peripheral servers 300. On the basis of the IP address of the peripheral servers 300 of...

20060190557 - Method and apparatus for forwarding user information among multiple information handling systems: A networked system includes multiple information handling systems (IHSs) that store personal user information such as electronic business cards (EBCs). A first IHS stores the EBC of the EBC owner, namely the user of the first IHS. A second user operates a second IHS. When the second user attempts to...

20060190561 - Method and system for obtaining script related information for website crawling: A web crawler system has an automatic website crawler and a virtual browser that provides script related information to the website crawler. The virtual browser transforms an HTML document included in a web page of the website into an XML document, and builds a document object model containing document objects...

20060190554 - Method, server and mobile terminal for checking interactions between a server application and a mobile terminal by creating a virtual assistant: The invention essentially consists of a software component of a server application getting in contact with a software component of a mobile terminal during at least one connection, whereby generating a virtual assistant on the mobile terminal, and this virtual assistant controls interactions between the server application and the mobile...

20060190559 - Multimedia contents moving method and system: Multimedia contents moving method and system. In a multimedia system including a media server for transmitting media data, at least one multimedia device for playing the media data and at least one controller for controlling the multimedia device, the method includes the steps of: sending a copy command to a...

20060190560 - Remote maintenance/management system for sip device: There is disclosed a technique for increasing security in a system using the same communication protocol for maintenance/management as used in device functions. An information communication device transmits and receives maintenance/management information for maintenance/management in accordance with the same communication protocol as device function information used for device functions. A...

20060190555 - Wrapping non-live objects for liveness: A method, system and apparatus for wrapping objects for liveness in a collaborative environment. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a method for enabling liveness for a non-live object can include the step of wrapping the non-live object to emulate liveness in a collaborative environment. Preferably, the wrapping...

20060190562 - Information provision brokerage system, information provision brokerage method and computer program: A brokerage system (1) is provided with a data management portion (104), a transmission permission determining portion (106) and an information transmission portion (107). The data management portion (104) stores provider area information indicating an area designated by an information provider and provision information 70 that is provided by the...

20060190568 - Delivering electronic content: Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that cause a computer to collect information including an e-mail address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the e-mail...

20060190565 - Global network computers: This invention generally relates to one or more computer networks having computers like personal computers or network servers with microprocessors linked by broadband 5 transmission means and having hardware, software, firmware, and other means such that at least one parallel processing operation occurs that involve at least two computers in...

20060190563 - High-volume web page update system and method: A system is provided for updating a web page. The system includes a device and a server, the device is provided behind a firewall, and displays a web page. The device limits the display of information asynchronously transmitted to the device, and is further operable to request information. The server...

20060190564 - Secure server-based identification for simplified online transaction processing with palmtop computer: A secure simplified transaction processing method and apparatus for a palmtop computer. Sensitive personal information is stored in a secure personal information database. A site map database contains information which maps the fields of the personal information database to frames of a Web page. On request of a palmtop computer,...

20060190567 - System and method for providing customers with secure data access to a management system: A method for providing access to dealer data stored in a dealer management system comprises entering into a service agreement with a customer interested in access to current dealer data. The method continues by arranging for the dealer data to be remotely collected from the dealer management system and stored...

20060190566 - System and method for updating a database via secure data access over a network: A method for remotely collecting data from a dealer management system comprises remotely connecting to a dealer management system from a remote system coupled to the dealer management system over a public network, wherein the dealer management system includes stored dealer data. The method continues by collecting a current set...

20060190569 - Facilitating mobile device awareness of the availability of new or updated server-side applications: To facilitate wireless communication device awareness of the availability of new or updated server-side applications, in response to either of a new application being made available at a server or an updated version of an application being made available at a server, a message is transmitted over a wireless connection...

20060190572 - Filtered replication of data stores: Methods for enabling multi-master synchronization of particular sets of data using filters. In a synchronization request, data including knowledge and filters may be supplied. A response may comprise data including changes that are identified by the filter and that have versions that are not known by the requestor....

20060190573 - Method and apparatus for multiple contexts and layer 3 virtual private networks: A method an apparatus for multiple contexts and layer 3 virtual private networks is described. A method comprises providing a layer 3 virtual private network (VPN) to a first customer; providing backbone access to a second customer; and maintaining on a single network element a first set of information for...

20060190571 - Service framework for home network: Disclosed is a structure of a service framework of a home network, capable of integrating and simultaneously controlling a plurality of middlewares by controlling service profiles with different structures, thereby controlling middlewares and all home devices and thereby building a virtual service execution environment....

20060190570 - Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network: A method and apparatus for configuring a network interface to support a virtual private network includes storing configuration data at a server on a host computer on the provider network. It is determined whether conditions are satisfied for sending the configuration data to a particular node at an edge of...

20060190574 - Managing configuration request received via network: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product are disclosed, each capable of managing a configuration request received via a network. Upon receiving a configuration right request form a client, a determination is made as to whether or not a configuration right can be issued. Based on the determination, the...

20060190575 - Method and apparatus for provisioning network devices using instructions in extensible markup language: A system and an apparatus are disclosed for carrying out automatic network device provisioning and configuration. A configuration service receives a request from a network device to provide configuration information. The configuration service retrieves a template describing the device configuration, where the template associates one symbolic reference to one parameter...

20060190579 - Assisted command script template creation: A CLI command script template management system, tool, and human machine interface for script-based configuration management, service provisioning, operations and maintenance is provided. The system includes a CLI command dictionary repository, and means for loading a CLI command dictionary at run-time. Methods provide for obtaining a CLI command specification compatible...

20060190577 - Content output device: An Internet radio device (10), when an N-th radio station server (200) is selected, receives streaming contents from five N−2-th to N+2-th radio station servers (200, 200, . . . ), writes them respectively into five buffers, and reads only the streaming content from the N-th radio station server (200)...

20060190586 - Distributed network communication system to provide wireless access to a computing device at a reduced rate: A system and method for providing access and/or roaming features on a network system. The network system includes a plurality of wireless and/or wired access points coupled to a network. Access points (APs) for the network may be widely distributed in various facilities, such as airports, mass-transit stations, and various...

20060190580 - Dynamic extensible lightweight access to web services for pervasive devices: A Generic Mobile Web Services (GMWS) manager provides mobile clients with access to Web Services. The GMWS manager provides an interface between Web Services and mobile clients (hand held PDAs for example). The GMWS manager maintains a registry of supported Web Services and metadata attributes about the Web Services and...

20060190582 - Maintaining building serviceability information for geographic locations: Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining building serviceability information for geographic locations. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request for communication services information for a geographic location, wherein a user enters location information specific to the geographic location into a communications service management system. Furthermore, the...

20060190581 - Method and apparatus for updating application servers: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of servers. Responsive to an indication that an alteration of applications on the set of servers providing a service is to occur, a first group of servers and a second group of servers are created from the set of...

20060190584 - Method and system for automatically deciding what alarm, generated in an industrial plant, to hide or to present to an operator: A method and an alarm processing system for deciding what alarm, out of a number of alarms generated in an industrial plant or process, to present to a system operator. The method includes creating hiding rules, associating each hiding rule with a real-world object, storing these rules in a storage...

20060190578 - Method for implementing topn measurements in operations support systems: In an OSS, storing a plurality, typically less than all, of name-value pairs from a sample space and calculating a “representative” value based on values in the entire sample space. Optionally, a “remainder” value can be generated based on name-value pairs in the sample space that were not stored as...

20060190583 - Method, device, computer program and computer program product for controlling a digital information technology it infrastructure: Method, device, computer program and computer program product for the automated control of a digital information technology IT infrastructure comprised of a multitude of configurable IT components arranged for supporting processes to be executed by the IT infrastructure. The IT components in question are grouped, among other things, on the...

20060190587 - Network topology management: In certain embodiments of the present invention, each of a plurality of switches in a network can independently develop an equivalent set of network attributes without referring to the network's topology. An equivalent set of network attributes can define the entire network's topology. Each switch can also independently maintain its...

20060190576 - Scheduling method of advertisement/broadcasting and management system and method: A scheduling method of advertisement/broadcasting of Integrated Broadcasting System based on network and a Centrally Controlled Management System using screen partition and a method thereof for control image transmitting of advertisement/broadcasting are disclosed. This invention interrupts broadcasting on playing now and broadcasts urgent broadcasting. After finish of urgent broadcasting interrupted...

20060190585 - Status management device, status management method, and recording medium: A status management device includes one or a plurality of first application units for monitoring status information indicating a status of a management target, one or plurality of second application units for outputting first acquisition request information of the status information with identification information of the management target, a search...

20060190596 - Bottleneck detection system, measurement object server, bottleneck detection method and program: A bottleneck detection system, a measurement object server, a bottleneck detection method and a program capable of specifying a factor that causes a bottleneck on the occasion of concurrent processing of a plurality of transactions. A tracer collects execution histories of a measurement object server processing transactions with a specified...

20060190592 - Communications state transition monitoring method and communications state transition monitoring device utilizing the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for generating analysis object data that allows the simple setting of an intrusion detection policy, and more specifically, to allow policy setting that performs pattern matching with a plurality of signatures summarized as a single intrusion detection policy,...

20060190595 - Device and method for processing data resource changing events in a mobile terminal: A device and method are disclosed for processing a data resource changing event in a mobile terminal by recommending a change from a specific, currently used data resource to a new data resource when the data resource has not been changed for a long time. The method for processing a...

20060190599 - Handling node address failure in a distributed nodal system of processors: Addressing failure is handled in a nodal system of processor nodes, which comprise at least one processor and at least one interface to a network. Upon detection of a node address failure of a processor node for the network, such as lack of a node address, or presence of a...

20060190590 - Home network system and method for providing information therein: A home network system and a method of providing information in the home network system, wherein the home network system includes a sensor network tracking the location of a user in real time and transmitting location information of the user, a plurality of information terminals providing predetermined information to the...

20060190594 - Method and apparatus for evaluation of service quality of a real time application operating over a packet-based network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the service quality performance of a real-time application, for example VoIP, video over IP or IPTV, operating over a path defined in a packet-based network. The present invention performs active probing of a path of the packet-based network by transmitting...

20060190591 - Method and system for supporting the communication of presence information regarding one or more telephony devices: A system for detecting and communicating the presence of one or more computing devices is presented. The invention also presents a method and system for aggregating presence information generated by multiple devices associated with a single user. A server acting as a presence agent on behalf of a first user...

20060190589 - Multimedia content delivery system: The multimedia content delivery system is a low-cost enabler for many MPEG-based applications enabling the subscribers to play multicast MPEG streams. A plurality of files with MPEG encoded multimedia content are stored at a server and streamed to the subscribers using a multithreaded processing system (or MPEG sender). The sender...

20060190597 - Remote terminal, processor-readable medium, and method for remote adjustment of a user profile: A method includes monitoring, using a customer profile monitor at a server, a customer performance parameter of customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment includes a customer profile and is located remote from the server. The customer performance parameter is compared to a customer specific performance standard to determine a...

20060190593 - Signaling buffer parameters indicative of receiver buffer architecture: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for signaling parameters of multiple buffers by a terminal to a server and determining multiple buffer status of the terminal by the server using these parameters, e.g., for an adequate rate adaptation of multimedia streaming services provided...

20060190588 - System management method, system management device, system management program, and storage medium containing system management program: A system management method is disclosed for associating a process object and a process with each node in a tree structure, and operating each node based on the tree structure so as to manage the process object and the process, including: registering a registered user that performs operations for a...

20060190598 - Time-window-constrained multicast using connection scheduling: A method of reducing bandwidth limitations to send events to a set of interested clients within a pre-defined time period as quickly and fairly as possible. The clients can be re-distributed among the servers in a network such that the