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 delay due to server overloading is minimized by moving clients...

20060190600 - Group based presence availability management: A presence management system allows or blocks access to presence information at a group-level. A subscriber assigns contacts to groups and sets presence access parameters for the groups. In response to a request for the presence information, the presence management system determines a contact group assigned to the requester and...

20060190601 - Localized authentication, authorization and accounting (aaa) method and apparatus for optimizing service authentication and authorization in a network system: An authentication and authorization method/apparatus, in a network system which includes a mobile terminal and a home authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server, includes: receiving a network access service request signal from the mobile terminal; forwarding the received network access service request signal to the home AAA server which corresponds...

20060190603 - Congestion controller and method for controlling congestion of network: This invention efficiently restricts access to high-load web servers on an IP network, improves total throughput, and prevents web server and system stoppage and failures, while at the same time improving user service efficiency. After storing the association between IP addresses and host names into a memory, the congestion controller...

20060190606 - Data transfer security: An apparatus for protecting against computer malware, comprising: a data inputter for intercepting data units flow, a trust level assigner, associated with the data inputter, for assigning to each of the data units a respective trust level, an isolated-processing environment, operable to process the data units in an isolated manner...

20060190607 - Method and system for community data caching: A cache module (26) at a client computer (12) controls a cache portion (28) on a storage device (24). The cache module communicates with other cache modules at other clients to form a cache community (15). The cache modules store World Wide Web or other content in the cache portions...

20060190602 - Monitoring for replica placement and request distribution: A platform that may be used to dynamically reallocation resources to support an Internet application is disclosed. In an embodiment, the platform may include two layers of distribution, one at the DNS layer and one at an Internet data center layer. The platform may include a dynamic resource allocation manager...

20060190605 - Providing computing service to users in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment: For providing a service-centric approach to allocating computing service power to users in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment such as a grid, a grid service broker comprises a central service broker and distributed service brokers. Service power is measured in resource-independent service units defined and used by the service broker....

20060190604 - Service processing apparatus and service processing method: In the present invention, in the case where distributed services are brought into cooperation among a plurality of service processing apparatuses, no instruction will be prepared in advance or no instruction is needed to be prepared again in the case where a novel function is added as well. And a...

20060190608 - Method for the obtaining of deployment components to electronic devices: In a method for the delivery of deployment components to an electronic device, a management session is set-up between the electronic device and a server. The electronic device receives a location for a deployment component from the server. A target state is received for the deployment component in the electronic...

20060190610 - Communication system, transmitter and receiver: Disclosed is a communication system in which appropriate retransmission control operations are respectively performed for two data types including real time data and non-real time data, and the transmitter and the receiver used for this communication system. A data type identifier identifies a data type as real time or non-real...

20060190609 - Splicing proxied web requests with callback for subsequent requests: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for splicing proxied web requests with callback for subsequent requests. The method comprises: initiating by a proxy a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) splice between first and second socket connections in order to service a request; and returning control of...

20060190611 - Access management method between plural devices constituted by hierarchical relation, management computer, and computer system: In a computer system that includes plural host computers and plural data storage apparatuses (storage systems) and performs, in particular, virtualization of a data storage area, unless zoning is performed correctly to activate a zone between a data storage apparatus holding a virtualized data storage area and a device holding...

20060190612 - Delayed network protocol proxy for packet inspection in a network: An intermediary device, which behaves as a proxy for two entities after the entities have established a connection between themselves, is disclosed, as is a method that may be performed by such a device. The intermediary device can inspect a complete message, whose parts may be spread among multiple separate...

20060190613 - Method, program and system for efficiently hashing packet keys into a firewall connection table: A method for increasing the capacity of a connection table in a firewall accelerator by means of mapping packets in one session with some common security actions into one table entry. For each of five Network Address Translation (NAT) configurations, a hash function is specified. The hash function takes into...

20060190614 - Non-homogeneous multi-processor system with shared memory: A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which...

20060190617 - Apparatus and method for reproducing digital multimedia broadcast and card for receiving digital multimedia broadcast: Disclosed is an apparatus for enabling a user to selectively view satellite digital multimedia broadcasts or terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasts through a single terminal, a control method thereof, and a card for receiving the digital multimedia broadcasts. The apparatus includes a first card for receiving a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcast,...

20060190618 - Information processing system, reproducing terminal device and reproducing method, information processing device and method, and program: A transmitting terminal including: first displaying means for displaying an already transmitted content in synchronism with a receiving terminal after transmission of the content to the receiving terminal; second displaying means for displaying a content yet to be transmitted to the receiving terminal; saving flag setting means for setting a...

20060190615 - On demand peer-to-peer video streaming with multiple description coding: A peer-to-peer novel video streaming scheme is described in which each peer stores and streams videos to the requesting client peers. Each video is encoded into multiple descriptions and each description is placed on a different node. If a serving peer disconnects in the middle of a streaming session, the...

20060190616 - System and method for aggregating, delivering and sharing audio content: A digital audio content aggregation, delivery and sharing system and method are provided. The system and method delivers high-quality personalized digital audio directly to mobile handsets. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the digital audio content may be podcasts. The system also provides a unique way to monetize audio...

20060190619 - Web browser communication: The present invention relates to a method for sharing and transferring data between different web browser frames (1, 2) which are served from different domains. This makes it possible to outsource services that would not be possible otherwise, owning to security limitations imposed by the web browser (101). The interaction...

20060190620 - Device, method, and program for estimating quality-deteriorated area of network: The object is to enable highly accurate and high-speed estimation of quality-deteriorated areas. The quality-deteriorated area estimating device comprises: a flow quality information collecting unit for collecting flow quality information including a transmitter address, a receiver address, and communication quality of a flow flown by a network user; a route...

20060190621 - Hybrid device and person based authorized domain architecture: This invention relates to a system and a method of generating an Authorized Domain (AD) by selecting a domain identifier, and binding at least one user (P1, P, PN1), at least one device (D1, D2, . . . , DM), and at least one content item (C1, C2, . ....

20060190623 - Method and system for providing static addresses for internet connected devices even if the underlying address is dynamic: A method and system for resolving domain names of web sites with dynamic addresses. The resolution system, which may execute as part of a domain name server, receives a domain name associated with a web site. The resolution system then identifies a dynamic address name associated with the received domain...

20060190622 - System, computer program product and method for scanning and managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for scanning and managing documents. The system includes a scanning device, a scan server connected to the scanning device via a network, and a directory server connected to the scan server. The system allows a user of the scanning device to search the...

20060190624 - Control server, control terminal, control system, and recording medium storing control communication program: Screen data is generated by a screen generating processor (74) of a control host computer (7) and transmitted to a programmable display apparatus (5). In accordance with the screen data, the programmable display apparatus (5) inquires a PLC (3) or the like about a state of a device (21), so...

20060190625 - Video encoding method, video encoder, and personal video recorder: A video encoding method, a video encoder, and a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) are disclosed. The PVR includes: a first video decoder for decoding an input MPEG-2 video signal, calculating reference picture information of the MPEG-2 video signal and a motion vector of a reference picture, and outputting the calculated...

20060190626 - Method and apparatus for updating information stored in multiple information handling systems: A networked system includes multiple information handling systems (IHSs) that store personal user information such as name and contact information. The networked system automatically updates personal user information when one IHS communicates with another IHS. A first IHS stores personal user information associated with a first IHS user. A second...

20060190627 - Community network system with broadband integrated services: A community network system with broadband integrated services includes video servers, video storages, video conference servers, satellite digital television receiver servers, a network accounting server, a network management server, Gigabit Ethernet Switches, Fast Ethernet switches, home gateways, wireless gateways, digital television sets, analogue television sets, computers, PCs with wireless interface,...

20060190628 - Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products: A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and closing of the micro-warehouse door, scanning the plurality of...

20060184606 - Passing identification information: A data communications architecture employing serializers and deserializers that reduces data communications latency. In an illustrative implementation, the data communications architecture communicates data across communications links. The architecture maintains various mechanisms to promote data communications speed and to avoid communication link down time. These mechanisms perform the functions including but...

20060184610 - Apparatus and method for notifying of the posting of a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184612 - Apparatus and method for posting a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184611 - Apparatus and method for sending a web logging message to a dispatch communication device: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184620 - Changeable display components in an internet web page: A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive...

20060184613 - Data conduit: This disclosure describes techniques for data transfer between web browsers and a server computer in a web-based environment. In particular, this disclosure describes a data transfer system that includes a set of web-based applications designed to rapidly transfer large amounts of data as a background task, and similarly transfer updated...

20060184607 - Method and device for pre-processing requests related to a digital signal in an architecture of client-server type: This method of transmission of an animation in a digital image by a first server containing a descriptive file of the animation to a client, an animation being defined by a series of portions of a digital image according to a plurality of requests to be received from the client,...

20060184608 - Method and system for contextual site rating: The present invention allows a user or community of users to rate content across a variety of web sites and display contextual sensitive reviews. Rather than the rating information being controlled by the web site owner, the rating information may be owned and controlled by a third party. Users have...

20060184623 - Method and system for presence determination of mobile devices: Largely in response to the tremendous growth of allied presence services and applications to wireless users, an improved method and system for wireless subscriber presence determination is disclosed hereunder, which seeks to assuage the strain and impact on network resources which the existing art facilitate....

20060184619 - Method and system for providing programs to user operable device: In a server system, a first receiving unit receives a request including a search requirement that a target program should meet and sent from a user operable device through a communication network. A search unit searches the plurality of programs to retrieve information indicative of at least one program. The...

20060184617 - Method and system for the creating, managing, and delivery of feed formatted content: The invention provides a system and method of providing user interest to a potential feed publisher. The method includes providing at least one feed, providing at least one information request feed item in the feed, receiving request information associated with the feed; and providing the request information to a potential...

20060184616 - Method and system of managing conflicts between applications using semantics of abstract services for group context management: A method and a system of managing conflicts between context-aware applications by use of semantics of abstract service for group context information management. The method includes detecting and resolving a conflict between context-aware applications; upon receiving a service request from an application, analyzing a semantic of the requested service; and...

20060184618 - Methods and systems for providing self-registration of communication services: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing self-registration. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to connect a communications device to a network and determining that the communications device is unprovisioned. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining if the communications device is associated with...

20060184615 - Service framework for home network: A service framework in a home network for controlling middlewares. A virtual execution environment is provided for home devices as well as middlewares by controlling device profiles, thereby integrally controlling all the home devices....

20060184621 - Serving signals: Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating...

20060184622 - Serving signals: Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating...

20060184609 - Simplified scheme of rich content messaging from pc to mobile devices: A method, apparatus, client and server are directed at providing a simplified scheme to deliver rich content messages that include text, audio, video, and images from desktop computing devices to multimedia capable phones. A web form is provided for users to specify rich content elements such as text, audio, video,...

20060184614 - Thin-client network computing method and system: A method and system are provided for executing an application remotely on a server computer for a client computer in a computer network. The server receives at user input from the client computer associated with the application, and executes the application. The server processes display commands of the application to...

20060184625 - Short query-based system and method for content searching: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for processing queries provided as short messages. Keywords can be extracted from short messages and specific meaning can be derived and attributed to the short messages based on various attributes and context associated with the message, time of day and a user....

20060184624 - Television system video conferencing: Television system video conferencing is described. In an embodiment, a television-based client device receives program content from a content provider via an IP-based network to display a program for viewing. The client device generates video conference data to participate in a video conference session with one or more additional television-based...

20060184627 - Automatic commutativity detection for generalized paxos: Synchronized devices comprising a distributed system attempt to agree on a compatible sequence of commands to execute. Each device in the distributed system may act as a proposer, acceptor, or a learner. Each proposer proposes a command for each device to execute. The acceptors either accept or reject the proposed...

20060184626 - Client / server application task allocation based upon client resources: A software method for allocating application tasks between a client and a server can include the step of detecting client-based computing resources for executing at least one application task. At least one indicator of the detected client-based computing resources can be conveyed to a remotely located application server, the application...

20060184632 - Apparatus and method for analyzing and filtering email and for providing web related services: The inventive methodology provides an integrated plug and play solution designed to protect home networks against spam, phishing emails, viruses, spyware as well as other similar threats. The described content filtering appliance can be used for processing of web and email traffic implemented and can be deployed as a stand-alone...

20060184635 - Electronic mail method using email tickler: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a Sender of an email message to save the message into a network email storage and send an Email Tickler to a Recipient. The Email Tickler contains a location reference for the email message at the network email storage. A Recipient's Receiving...

20060184634 - Electronic mail system using email tickler: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a Sender of an email message to save the message into a network email storage and send an Email Tickler to a Recipient. The Email Tickler contains a location reference for the email message at the network email storage. A Recipient's Receiving...

20060184633 - Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various communication modes for sending messages to users: A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from...

20060184628 - Method and system to compose and transmit different contents to different receipients in a single message: A method and system to compose and transmit different contents to different recipients in a single message may include entering a plurality of different contents in a single message. The method may also include assigning at least one recipient of a plurality of recipients to each different contents. The assigning...

20060184630 - System and method for notifying of the posting of a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184629 - System and method for relaying a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184631 - System and method for retrieving a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184636 - Fault tolerant communication apparatus: A fault tolerant communication apparatus provides redundant links between at least two computers. The apparatus includes a first set of links connected to a first computer, a second set of links connected to at least one second computer, and a communication controller between the first set of links and the...

20060184637 - Method and apparatus for electronic delivery of electronic model images: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide a distributed computing system delivering and manipulating electronic model images to end users. One aspect of the present invention includes a method for providing electronic delivery of electronic model images. The method generates one or more electronic model images, a portion of...

20060184640 - Method and apparatus for processing a website request: A method includes receiving a request from a client device regarding a website, wherein the request is received by a network device in communication with the client device via a LAN, transmitting the request to a server associated with the website, receiving a web page from the server, modifying the...

20060184643 - Method for making and selling signs and charts: A method and system of generating a printed medium such as a sign, chart, or banner is disclosed. The system includes software configured to permit a user define parameters used in creating a printed medium. The software includes several modes of operation. In a Banner Builder Mode, the customer chooses...

20060184642 - System and method for creating and adminstering web content: Systems and methods for creating and administering web content include receiving web content data via a user interface, storing the web content data in a database, receiving instructions from a script engine, and generating a web page from the data in the database and the instructions....

20060184641 - System and method for implementing dynamic memorial webpages: An automated method is provided, operating on a computer and encoded on a computer-readable medium, for executing a logic flow that enables the setup, maintenance and modification of dynamic memorial pages. Such pages are customizable by the user to show an epitaph specific to the visitor and display or mask...

20060184644 - System, computer program product and method for scanning and managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for scanning and managing documents. The system includes a scanning device, a scan server connected to the scanning device via a network, and a directory server connected to the scan server. The system allows a user of the scanning device to search the...

20060184639 - Web content adaption process and system: A web content adaptation process and system is described which allows for the automated production of different versions of web content with reference to a set of intended display device characteristics, and for the adapted content versions to be saved such that they can then be provided to a requesting...

20060184638 - Web server for adapted web content: An apparatus and method for providing adapted web page content to a client are described. Here, a variety of pre-generated versions of the same web content are stored in a server in advance of the receipt of client requests therefore. Each version is adapted to be displayed on a device...

20060184646 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous network systems: An enterprise network architecture has a trust link established between two autonomous network systems that enables transitive resource access between network domains of the two network systems. The trust link is defined by data structures maintained by each of the respective network systems. The first network system maintains namespaces that...

20060184645 - Method and nodes for performing bridging of data traffic over an access domain: The present invention relates to a method and nodes for performing bridging of data traffic over an access domain. For doing so, for data traffic received at an access node from a first user domain and destined to a second user domain, the access node identifies a service binding corresponding...

20060184648 - Information processing system, information providing apparatus, information providing method, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information providing apparatus is disclosed which provides contents to an information processing apparatus connected via a network, the information providing apparatus including, a generating device generating sample data including metadata about contents ready to be provided, before transmitting the generated sample data to the information processing apparatus, and a...

20060184647 - Method and apparatus to modify network identifiers at data servers: A method of modifying network identifiers at data servers is disclosed. A virtual private network (VPN) gateway server generates a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request. The HTTP request not only requests data from a data server that is within a VPN, but also instructs the data server to modify (“mangle”)...

20060184651 - Architecture for general purpose trusted virtual client and methods therefor: A method of installing a software patch on a device is disclosed. The method includes coupling the device to a network, the network including a set of network resources, the device further including a virtual client and a first software application. The method also includes determining if the device includes...

20060184650 - Method for installing operating system on remote storage: flash deploy and install zone: Two methods (native and clone) are used for installing software, such as an operating system, on client system(s) booting from shared storage. The native installation method configures an interconnection network to create an exclusive communication zone between the client system and the shared storage system and installs the operating system...

20060184649 - Non-invasive method and system for automated administration of diverse security constrained servers: According to one embodiment of the invention, method of automatically administering a plurality of servers includes automatically transmitting commands to at least one of the plurality of servers. Administrator level access is non-invasively obtained on the at least one of the plurality of the servers utilizing the automatically transmitted commands....

20060184652 - Applications for remote differential compresssion: Remote differential compression is integrated within applications. Objects are updated between two or more computing devices using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques such that required data transfers are minimized. An algorithm provides enhanced efficiencies for allowing the receiver to locate a set of objects that are similar to the object...

20060184653 - System and method for creating and managing virtual services: A method of creating and managing virtual servers utilizes separate master copies of information such as operating systems, configuration files, and application programs. When a virtual server is created, it loads an appropriate operating system and configuration information. During the boot process, the virtual server is configured to provide a...

20060184656 - Proxy server caching: Providing an input-dependent output is disclosed. A received message is processed to determine if a previously cached output exists for the received message. If a previously cached output is found, the previously cached output is provided to a destination other than the sender of the received message as output for...

20060184654 - Server-functionality role extensibility model: Described herein are one or more implementations facilitating the extensibility of a tool for configuration and management of server-functionality role(s) of a network server. One or more implementations, described herein, provide an extensibility model that allows additional server-functionality roles to be included in the list of user-selectable server-functionality roles available...

20060184657 - Service broker for processing data from a data network: A method and system for communication between server-less computing devices or clients in computers communicating over networks, such as the World Wide Web (WWW) using stateless protocols, e.g., HTTP. In this scheme there are two classes of clients which can operate independently or can be combined in computer communicating over...

20060184655 - Traffic analysis: A method, system and apparatus for traffic flow reporting for websites is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a request to review traffic of a domain. The method further includes accessing traffic information for the domain. The method also includes accessing link information...

20060184666 - Anonymity service providing system, device, and program: Provided is an anonymity service providing system for authenticating an anonymous user device based on a group signature and providing service to the user device, the system comprising a group management institute device which manages a plurality of groups in the group signature system, a user device belonging to at...

20060184663 - Communication system, mobile terminal, relay apparatus, and transfer route learning method: A communication system includes a relay apparatus which offers an access link to a mobile terminal, a layer 2 switch which relays data between the relay apparatus and a router on a next hop from a communication destination terminal of the mobile terminal, and a route information notification unit. The...

20060184671 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and transferring a client from a low priority access number to a higher priority access number during active internet and other wan connection-sessions: A network system is provided for enabling priority-based number switching from a lower priority access number to a higher priority access number during an active data session is provided. The system comprises, a CTI-switch for establishing call connections and performing call switching according to instruction, a network-hosted part of a...

20060184659 - Method and system for extracting information from networked devices using multiple implementations of protocol access functions: A method, system, and computer program product for extracting, using a selected communication protocol, information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes retrieving, from a first memory, implementation identifiers, each of which identifies (1) a first access function configured to access the monitored device...

20060184662 - Method and system of administration in a jmx environment comprising an administration application and software systems to be administered: A method of administration in a JMX environment of software systems to be administered, represented by first respective MBeans, and at least one administration application, in which the administration acts produce the exposure of MBeans in at least one MBeanServer server, characterized in that it is implemented by means of...

20060184664 - Method for preventing unnecessary retransmission due to delayed transmission in wireless network and communication device using the same: A method for reducing unnecessary retransmissions due to transmission delays in a wireless network environment, comprising: measuring a packet inter-arrival time with respect to a received data packet; transmitting an acknowledgement packet corresponding to the data packet received at the packet inter-arrival time in excess of a first threshold time...

20060184665 - Method of acquisition and transmission of a network infrastructure: Network infrastructure and changes thereof are acquired and transmitted automatically to an entire process technology device for immediate display on an on-going basis. The transmission is effected by an ActiveX-Control protocol....

20060184669 - Monitoring system-calls to identify runaway processes within a computer system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that monitors system-calls to identify runaway processes within a computer system. First, the system monitors system-calls on the computer system during runtime, to generate a trace of system-calls made. Then, the system analyzes the trace to detect runaway processes....

20060184661 - 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...

20060184660 - Scaling upnp v1.0 device eventing using peer groups: Disclosed is a method for scaling and extending the reach of UPnP device discovery and eventing by leveraging the use of a peer-to-peer network infrastructure. Peer-to-peer networking allows for the organization of a set of nodes into a group for efficient exchange of information and the group has an efficient...

20060184670 - System and method for analyzing the performance of multiple transportation streams of streaming media in packet-based networks: Streaming media network parameters are measured using an electronic system and displayed directly to a user or transmitted via an electronic interface such as an existing system network conduit, either in or out-of-band. A scalable hardware and/or software compute engine filters and reduces network parameters to simplify tracking the instantaneous...

20060184658 - System and method for tracing a data path across off-network distributions: A system and method for tracking data stores identification data on a portable storage device physically present at the point of delivery. The identification data, which is associated with an identification of the first recipient, is provided to the first recipient for delivery to an end-user on a portable storage...

20060184667 - System and method to publish information from servers to remote monitor devices: To assist in monitoring the intelligent messaging network, a system and method for publishing logging and status information from the servers is provided. A list of available servers accessible for monitoring by persons, devices, and applications via a remote monitor device can be provided. The remote monitor device may forward...

20060184668 - System for modelling a process: A system of a plurality of interconnectable nodes for modelling states; wherein one predetermined node is configured to act as a master node, the master node being configured to instantiate a state by creating the state and distributing the created state to at least one of the nodes, the master...

20060184672 - Communication channels in a storage network: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture, wherein a first application receives a message from a second application, wherein both the first application and the second application execute on a node of a network that comprises a plurality of nodes. The first application also receives an identifier corresponding...

20060184673 - Novel media file access and storage solution for multi-workstation/multi-platform non-linear video editing systems: A novel system, method and computer program product for accessing digital media files stored in a media storage device via a server device in communication with the media storage device. The method includes providing, via the server, a file virtualization scheme that permits that enables a server to permit multiple...

20060184674 - System and method for posting a web logging message via a dispatch communication: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184676 - Image communication device: Even when an SIP server imposes a restriction on a description content of an SDP, an image communication device can freely define a content of a media session with another end without receiving the restriction. Even when the image communication device is connected to a carrier network set for a...

20060184675 - System and method for applying flexible attributes to execute asynchronous network requests: Flexible attributes are attached to network requests that may be executed asynchronously. Any number of criteria may be attached to network requests. The requests are queued until the associated criteria are satisfied. Once the criteria are satisfied, the request is executed. Applications that make the requests are provided with simple...

20060184679 - Apparatus and method for subscribing to a web logging service via a dispatch communication system: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184681 - Identifying a computer device: A computer architecture for enterprise device applications that provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user...

20060184677 - Interim execution context identifier: A system and method for identifying a communication connection with an interim identifier prior to recognition of an original or previous identifier received via the connection. A first server or server process receives a service request (e.g., for an application, a web page or other data), and associates an original...

20060184680 - Location services for unlicensed mobile access: There is disclosed an unlicensed mobile access network including a network control element and a network access point, said network being adapted to determine the access and/or tranmission range of a network access point to which a mobile terminal is connected, to determine whether the position of the network access...

20060184682 - Method and device for scanning a plurality of computerized devices connected to a network: Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a device for scanning a plurality of computerized devices connected to a network. According to some embodiments of the invention, a plurality of computerize devices to be scanned may be provided. A plurality of threads of an agentless module may...

20060184678 - System and method for subscribing to a web logging service via a dispatch communication system: A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces...

20060184683 - Method of controlling communication between a head-end system and a plurality of client systems: A method of controlling communication between a head-end system and a number of client systems through a network, wherein, for each receiver, only a nearest one of the multicast router systems in the network is configured to forward a copy of a message addressed to the multicast groups of which...

20060184684 - Reconstructed frame caching: Systems and methods for processing input media in a computing device are described. In one aspect, a reconstructed frame is cached according to a set of criteria. A request to scrub to a predictive frame of input media is received. Responsive to receiving the request, the predictive frame is decoded...

20060184686 - Secure distribution process and system for the distribution of audiovisual streams: A process for secure distribution of digital audio streams according to a standard, normalized or proprietary format, on which streams a separation of the stream into two parts is made prior to transmission to equipment of an addressee to generate a modified main stream having a format of an original...

20060184687 - System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval: Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless 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 compress data at a rate equivalent to or faster than the...

20060184685 - System for distribution of numerous streams of multimedia content to a multiplicity of video displays: Each of a plurality of remotely located video displays, projectors or multimedia equipment receives operator scheduled and initiated streams of multimedia content. Under the control of the operator each remotely located video display may receive from one to many multimedia streams. Each remotely located video display is associated with a...

20060184688 - System and method for parallel indirect streaming of stored media from multiple sources: A system and method are herein disclosed for parallel streaming of stored media from multiple sources. The architecture utilizes the notion of indirect streaming and provides a local proxy streaming server which is responsible for interacting with the multiple servers and scheduling downloads of media blocks and for dealing with...

20060184690 - Method for source-spoofed ip packet traceback: Method for source-spoofed internet protocol packet traceback. This is an IP packet traceback technique for locating the origin of a malicious packet, even if the packet's IP source address is incorrect (spoofed). This is done by having routers lookup the source address in their routing tables, and mark the relevant...

20060184689 - Scalable processing network for searching and adding in a content addressable memory: An alternation network for use with a content addressable memory for implementing a divide and conquer algorithm is described. The alternation network comprises: a plurality of alternation modules connected in series together, each module comprising: a plurality of cascaded logic gates arranged to propagate a match parity signal via the...

20060184691 - Methods and systems for dynamic information transmission: Methods for dynamic information transmission. Data objects having the highest broadcast positions respectively in the data object sequences are acquired as multiple candidate data objects. A measure for each candidate data object is calculated using a GMF (gain measure function). One candidate data object is pushed in an output queue...

20060184692 - Home link setting method, home gateway device, and mobile terminal: A home gateway device having a home agent function selects communication interfaces other than the communication interface which has acquired network information for setting a home network to be home links, and appropriately sets the home link and a home agent by using the acquired network information, thereby reliably achieving...

20060184693 - Scaling and extending upnp v1.0 device discovery using peer groups: Disclosed is a method for scaling and extending the reach of UPnP device discovery and eventing by leveraging the use of a peer-to-peer network infrastructure. Peer-to-peer networking allows for the organization of a set of nodes into a group for efficient exchange of information and the group has an efficient...

20060184694 - Method and nodes for handling broadcast messages over an access domain: The present invention relates to a method and nodes for handling broadcast messages over an access domain. For doing so, an access node and an access edge node are adapted to allow tunnelling of broadcast messages within Unicast messages transmitted over the access domain. The access node receives broadcast messages...

20060184695 - Method and nodes for handling multicast messages: The present invention relates to a method and nodes for handling multicast messages over an access domain. The method starts with the receipt of a multicast message from a service provider domain. The method pursues with the identification of a service agent corresponding to the service provider domain from which...

20060184696 - 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...

20060184697 - Detecting clock drift in networked devices through monitoring client buffer fullness: A digital media system uses client buffer fullness reports to detect clock drift between a clock on a host/source device that delivers streaming media content and a clock on a client playback device that receives the streaming media content. The system provides a reduction in playback interruptions during playback of...

20060184698 - Reduced hardware network adapter and communication method: The present invention provides a network interface adapter for connecting a client computer to a computer network that includes a reduced hardware media access controller (MAC) coupled through a physical interface (PHY) to the network physical link. A significant portion of the MAC functionality is implemented as software within the...

20060173950 - Method and system for delivering information with caching based on interest and significance: A method (200) for delivering information (for example, monitoring data) is proposed. The information is collected (235) on a central server (110) from remote sources (105), in order to be provided to multiple clients (120) in response to corresponding requests. In the method of the invention, an interest index is...

20060173956 - Directory information for managing data in network file system: A computer network file system is described. The computer network file system includes first metadata, which is managed primarily by a first file server that is operably connected to a network fabric. The first metadata includes first file location information, and the first file location information includes at least one...

20060173952 - Localizing a remote event timestamp from a network device with an independent clock method and apparatus: A timestamp localization method and device includes two processors with independent clocks connected to a communication network. Two messages are exchanged between the processors. First a request message is sent with a transmit timestamp. Second, a reply message is sent back with receive, originate, transmit and remote timestamps. Then the...

20060173955 - Method and apparatus for allocating network subscriber device addresses in a profinet io network: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for allocating subscriber device addresses in a Profinet IO network. It is an object of the invention to demonstrate a novel, further way of ensuring the allocation of station identifiers, which are needed in Profinet IO systems and on the basis...

20060173954 - Mobile device and content transmission method: The present invention provides a mobile device that makes it simple to perform content updates. The mobile device comprises a content storage portion for storing content, a content update portion for updating the content of the content storage portion, a user information storage portion for storing user information as saved...

20060173953 - Product data management method and system: A PDM method and system is described, wherein documents associated with products are stored in at least one PDM server (2) and data exchange (4, 6, 8, 14, 16) between the at least one PDM server (2) and clients (20, 22, 24, 26) of divisions via at least one interface...

20060173951 - System and method for transfer, control, and synchronization of data: The present invention provides both a system and method for conducting remote online and offline real-time transactions on a handheld device....

20060173959 - Agent based application using data synchronization: A network-based messaging system comprises multiple agents to communicate messages between multiple users in real time using, for example, an XML document synchronization model. Each agent has properties defined in XML and can subscribe to properties of other agents. Each agent can notify other agents which subscribe to it of...

20060173957 - Apparatus and method for message-centric analysis and multi-aspect viewing using social networks: Electronic data files are broadly characterized as “messages” and a social network is constructed by analyzing one or more messages exchanged between various entities. Additionally, messages from structured and/or unstructured data stores are correlated using one or more common/related data elements from two or more messages. Further, the social network...

20060173958 - 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...

20060173964 - Communication terminal device and method for controlling same: A communication terminal device and a method for controlling the same which can operate a mail restriction function effectively without increasing a mail address registered for the mail restriction function are provided. The transmission and the reception of the mail is restricted by storing by a domain conversion table a...

20060173962 - Establishing an ad-hoc group based on addresses in an e-mail: This invention describes a method for establishing an ad-hoc group based on addresses of users in a message (e.g., an e-mail) received or sent using a pre-selected communication method (e.g., an e-mail communication) by an electronic device. Any recipient or a sender of the e-mail message can use the e-mail...

20060173965 - Multimedia messaging service method of mobile communication terminal: A multimedia messaging service method of a mobile communication terminal includes receiving message information extracted from a multimedia message by a multimedia messaging service center; setting a streaming rate and buffer size based on the received message information; and receiving the multimedia message according to the set streaming rate and...

20060173961 - People-centric view of email: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates contact- or people-based organization of messages. A list of contacts can be generated based on the people or groups who have communicated with the user (mailbox owner) via email or otherwise. To view desired messages, a user can select...

20060173963 - Propagating and responding to announcements in an environment having pre-established social groups: Strategies are described for propagating and responding to announcements within an environment having pre-established social groups, such as pre-established instant messenger social groups. More specifically, a member within a group can create an announcement, whereupon the announcement becomes associated with the member's identity. The member can then propagate that announcement...

20060173960 - Strategies for peer-to-peer instant messaging: Strategies are described for establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) direct coupling channel between two user devices at the commencement of an Instant Messaging (IM) conversation. Provisions are described for gracefully switching to a switchboard coupling channel when the conversation includes more than two participants, and switching back to the P2P coupling...

20060173966 - Method and apparatus for inferring read status of instant messages: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for inferring the read status of instant messages. One embodiment of the inventive method involves displaying the instant message on the receiver's computing device and sending a message to the sender indicating a probability with which the receiver has...

20060173967 - Method and apparatus for increasing the search space or peer-to-peer networks using time-to-live boosting: Disclosed are methods and systems for expanding the search space in a Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) network. In one embodiment, the search space is expanded by increasing the time-to-live value of the search request message. The P2P network may include a plurality of nodes, and the method for increasing the search space...

20060173968 - Method and system for sending a message through a secure connection: The method and system enable secure forwarding of a message from a first computer to a second computer via an intermediate computer in a telecommunication network. A message is formed in the first computer or in a computer that is served by the first computer, and in the latter case,...

20060173969 - Retention of functionality and operational configuration for a portable data storage drive: Various aspects of the invention provide a system and method of operating a data storage drive using any one of one or more data storage devices. In a representative embodiment, a data storage device may be used in a data network and may be referred to as a network attached...

20060173970 - Including descriptor queue empty events in completion events: Roughly described, method for managing data transmission between a host subsystem and a network interface device, in which the host writes data buffer descriptors into a DMA descriptor queue, and the network interface device writes completion events to notify the host when it has completed processing of data buffers. Each...

20060173971 - Adjusting timing between automatic, non-user-initiated pollings of server to download data therefrom: The timing between automatic, non-user-initiated pollings of a server to download data from the server is changed. In one embodiment, user input in relation to polling the server to download data from the server is detected. In response, the timing between automatic, non-user-initiated pollings of the server is changed based...

20060173972 - Audio sharing: One aspect of the disclosure relates to obtaining at least some audio information, at least partially at a shared audio device. The aspect of the disclosure also relates to temporally coordinating transmitting at the shared audio device the at least some audio information and at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information...

20060173974 - System and method for providing mobile access to personal media: The invention is a media access system. A multipoint installation may create a connection system which permits client devices, such as wireless media playback devices, to connect to host devices in a partnered relationship which permits authorized access to selected media located on the host device, without a need to...

20060173973 - Systems and methods for mass printing: Systems and methods are provided for generating mass reports. In one implementation, a graphical user interface (GUI) or web interface is provided that enable a user to run an analysis and generate reports. The user may run software on a computer workstation to access a network or, alternatively, may use...

20060173975 - Download system, communication terminal, server, and download method: A download system capable of appropriately spreading loads on a server and on a transmission path, and further enhancing convenience in download of data. A reservation candidate acquirer of a communication terminal acquires from a software managing server reservation candidate information containing time information about time zones as candidates to...

20060173977 - A process for dynamic user control on always-on ip network: A system and method for permitting an operator of a terminal device to switch from a first network to a second network without requiring a rebooting or resetting of the communication protocol system is disclosed. More specifically, filters present at the customer premise equipment (CPE) are configured to as to...

20060173976 - Configuration of wifi network parameters: A system and method of configuring network access parameters of a portable computing device is provided. A portable computing device usually includes wireless networking components and may be used with various wireless networks. A configuration server using a device management protocol, such as the OMA-DM protocol, sends network configuration information...

20060173978 - Minimum intervention authentication of heterogeneous network technologies (miahnt): Methods and systems for enabling communication of information within a network are disclosed herein and comprise receiving at a first communication device located within a network, configuration information from a network service provider for configuring a plurality of communication devices located within said network. The first communication device located within...

20060173979 - Method for configuration of devices in a computer network by a computer program: The Method provided is for the configuration of devices in a computer network by a computer program. The method renders fully automatic management of all devices in a LAN possible. Internet Service Providers and Original Equipment Manufacturers will be able to deliver products that configure themselves automatically. The invention regards...

20060173980 - Detachable device, control circuit, control circuit firmware program, information processing method and circuit design pattern in control circuit, and log-in method: The present invention provides a highly convenient removable device and a startup method. A hub division unit 31 in a single composite device 2 allocates data exchange with the computer 1 side to a plurality of devices, thereby easily realizing a plurality of functions. When connected to a USB, a...

20060173984 - Application governor providing application-level autonomic control within a distributed computing system: A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. A user, such as a system administrator, interacts with...

20060173990 - Browser, method, and computer program product for managing documents: A browser, method and computer program product for managing documents. The browser can receive and process a request from an input device of a image processing device. Based on this processing, the browser can transmit information over a network to a document manager connected to the scanning device via the...

20060173986 - Communication apparatus, electronic apparatus, imaging apparatus: A communication apparatus is disclosed that includes a transmission circuit configured to transmit transmission data to a communication counterpart; a reception circuit configured to receive reception data from the communication counterpart; a storage device configured as at least two buffers including a transmission buffer that stores the transmission data and...

20060173985 - Enhanced syndication: A variety of tools and techniques are disclosed for managing, viewing, publishing, searching, clustering, and otherwise manipulating data streams. Data streams such as RSS data feeds may be searched, aggregated, and filtered into a processed feed. The processed feed, along with rules used to process the feed may be shared...

20060173983 - Information processing system and method of controlling information processing system: The present invention provides an information processing system which comprises multiple processor nodes creating parallel computers, an information transmission line for connecting the processor nodes, and a separation switch provided on the information transmission line for separating the information transmission line so that the processor nodes create multiple parallel computers...

20060173987 - Method for performing a dynamic update of composed web services: A method performs a dynamic update of at least one composed web service within a web service environment. The composed web service relies on a set of component services which are linked to at least one goal of the composed service. The method includes publishing the at least one goal...

20060173989 - Method for synchronization of policy cache with various policy-based applications: A hardware-based policy engine that employs a policy cache to process packets of network traffic. The policy engine includes a stream classifier that associates each packet with at least one action processor based on data in the packet, and the action processor further acts on the packets based on the...

20060173982 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing quality of service guarantees for clients of application servers: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for providing quality of service guarantees at the application level for clients of application servers. The method includes: receiving a request for a transaction of type k; calculating a throughput rate λi of each type of transaction i, 1≦i≦n,...

20060173988 - Network, network terminal device, ip address management method using the same, and program therefor: When a communication malfunction occurs in the transmission line between routers, and operation is carried out by a backup system control device, IP telephone terminals can connect to the backup system control device through the use of an IP address that is previously acquired from the address management device and...

20060173981 - Secure web browser based system administration for embedded platforms: The invention provides a method for a web browser based remote administration system to maintain its security by utilizing an ActiveX control or a plug-in, without relying on HTTPS protection to transact management information. The invention does not burden the embedded system and thus is ideally suited for the remote...

20060173994 - Autonomic control of a distributed computing system using an application matrix to control application deployment: A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. A user, such as a system administrator, interacts with...

20060173992 - Event detection/anomaly correlation heuristics: A system for detecting network intrusions and other conditions in a network is described. The system includes a plurality of collector devices that are disposed to collect data and statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network. An aggregator device is disposed to receive data and...

20060173993 - Management of software images for computing nodes of a distributed computing system: In general, the invention is directed to software image management within a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of application nodes interconnected via a communications network, and an image repository storing a plurality of pre-generated software image instances. A control node may pre-assign a network address...

20060173997 - Method and apparatus for remote management of a monitoring system over the internet: A Monitoring system and a method in a monitoring system comprising a public network, a private network, an access limiting device arranged to limit the access of the private network from the public network, and a control server connected to the public network. The monitoring system further comprises a monitoring...

20060173996 - Multi-user computer system: A system for connecting multiple users to multiple computers uses a switch for making and breaking connections between individual computers and input/output devices such as display screens, keyboards and pointing devices at user locations. A supervisory computer system includes one or more helper computers which run programs to aid the...

20060173995 - Processing method for sensing data: Detection of variations in a large quantity of sensing data connected to a network and prescribed processing corresponding to the variations are to be executed at high speed. An event-action controller for monitoring data collected from plural sensors and executing preset processing when the data has come to satisfy preset...

20060173991 - Security element commanding method and mobile terminal: The invention relates to a method for commanding a security element of a mobile terminal, and to a mobile terminal. An installed application of the mobile terminal issues a command to a platform library of the mobile terminal. Then the platform library reads information from an access control file of...

20060173998 - System, device and server for providing service: A service providing system including a client device and a server is provided. The client device includes a function execution unit that executes one of the functions of the image reading and printing units in accordance with an execution command from the server, an error notification unit that notifies the...

20060174003 - Access control using file allocation table (fat) file systems: Herein described is a system and method of providing access to data stored in non-data pool or legacy file systems, such as those file systems that utilize file allocation tables (FAT). The method associates one or more FAT partitions of a FAT file system to one or more shares or...

20060174000 - Method and apparatus for automatic verification of a network access control construct for a network switch: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatic verification of a network access control construct for a network switch. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses an actual network access control construct on a network switching device, the actual network access control construct for defining...

20060174005 - 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...

20060174001 - Responding to malicious traffic using separate detection and notification methods: A method and a system for responding to malicious traffic in a mobile IP network are provided. The method may detect malicious traffic communicated to and from a mobile subscriber via a first method, and notify the mobile subscriber using a second method. The system may include a network interface...

20060174002 - System and method for controlled access to up-to-date contact information: A method and system for controlling a recipient's access to a user's information. The method includes receiving a plurality of contact information, registration information and access information from the user. Only person's knowing the user's registration information can update the contact and access information of the user. The contact information...

20060174004 - System and method for optimizing access network authentication for high rate packet data session: Provided are improved systems, methods, devices, and computer program products for optimized access network authentication of an access terminal on an access network supporting negotiation of an application level protocol for the air link or implementing access network authentication functionality with an extended packet-oriented RLP. A packet-oriented air link application...

20060173999 - System and method for securing network resources: A system and method for securing access to network resources are described. One embodiment includes an exemplary method for securing access to a network element and can include associating a network element with a set of data, and configuring a portion of the data to be responsive to a first...

20060174006 - End to end test between gateways in an ip network: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements to test end to end relations between gateways MGW1, MGW2 in an IP network IPNW, which method comprises the following steps: 1) reserving call handling resources CH231-CH260 in a destination gateway MGW2; 2) sending data packets RTP/UDP/IP from an originating gateway MGW1...

20060174007 - Permanently activating resources based on previous temporary resource usage: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine whether an amount of usage of a resource, which is used under a temporary usage plan, exceeds a threshold. If that determination is true, a quantity of the resource is calculated and that quantity is converted from the...

20060174013 - Data transfer method, data transfer program, information processing terminal device, and information system: In a data transfer method for transfer of data by a first information processing terminal device to a second information processing terminal device connected to the first information processing terminal device via a signal line, the first information processing terminal device calculates a maximum required time according to the amount...

20060174008 - Digital media transfer based on user behavior: A collection of digital media is stored at a source device and transferred to a target device. A subset of the collection may be transferred based on a priority related to a points assigned by a user's rating of particular digital media and on rules based on particular user actions....

20060174011 - Mechanism for preserving session state when using an access-limited buffer: Preserving session state correlation in a distributed computing environment in which a service module instance receives messages from a general input buffer. The general input buffer is not accessed by a service module instance one the service module instance is determined to be recycled. After the service module instance receives...

20060174009 - Method for establishing a multimedia session between a caller device and a receiver device of a multimedia sub-domain type network and a communications system implementing said method: e

20060174012 - Relay method, relay apparatus, and computer product: A relay apparatus for relaying a communication between a client and a server includes a determining unit that determines, when the server is to be switched to a standby server, whether connection in an application layer established between the server and the client can be maintained, without depending on an...

20060174014 - System and method for transmitting/receiving alerting information for mobile terminal in a wireless communication system: A system is provided for transmitting/receiving alerting information in a wireless communication system. A calling mobile terminal (MT) encodes a session initiate protocol (SIP) invite message comprising multimedia alerting information and transmitting the encoded SIP invite message. An Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) server receives the SIP invite message from...

20060174010 - Systems and methods for implementing an instant messaging remote control service: Systems and methods for implementing an instant messaging remote control service are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a control point discovers a device. The control point retrieves a device description associated with the device from the device. The device description includes a pointer to a description of a instant messaging...

20060174015 - Method and apparatus for codec selection: A telecommunications system includes a public network, to which a first endpoint device is connected, and a data network, to which second endpoint devices and a multimedia controller are connected. The networks are interconnected via a remote access server which provides data connectivity for the first endpoint device but which...

20060174016 - System and method for building and using communication binding objects: The present invention provides for an automated, user friendly way of constructing and using a binding object. A developer is presenting and selects binding elements that will ultimately be used to create a runtime communication channel for transporting a message between a client and service endpoint. After receiving the user...

20060174017 - Automated integration of content from multiple information stores using a mobile communication device: A system and method for merging information from a plurality of enterprise information stores on a network using a mobile communication device capable of accessing the network. Using the mobile communication device, communication or contact information is requested from the enterprise information stores, and merged with the content of a...

20060174018 - System and method for securely providing a configuration file over and open network: A method for securely provisioning a device for operation within a service provider infrastructure over an open network comprises the device establishing physical and data link layer network connections for communication on at least a subnet of the open network and obtaining a network configuration data such as an IP...

20060174019 - User specific automatic data redirection system: A data redirection system for redirecting user's data based on a stored rule set. The redirection of data is performed by a redirection server, which receives the redirection rule sets for each user from an authentication and accounting server, and a database. Prior to using the system, users authenticate with...

20060174021 - Media transfer protocol: A computer device selected as a media server is connected to a consumer electronic (CE) device over multiple media transfer channels. The multiple media transfer channels together with an improved media transfer protocol allow for efficient, real-time transfer of different types of digital media, in various combinations, for playing on...

20060174022 - Session initiation protocol enabled set-top device: A method and apparatus for handling subscriber services from different sources without requiring interaction with different devices. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for receiving multimedia services using session initiation protocol (SIP) messages received from a source, such as a server on a network. In one embodiment,...

20060174020 - Systems and methods for providing reliable multicast messaging in a multi-node graphics system: Embodiments of the present invention are broadly directed to novel systems and methods for providing reliable multicast of data in a multi-node graphics system. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a multi-node computer graphics system is provided comprising a master node capable of executing a graphics application and...

20060174027 - Method and apparatus for transmission queue in communication system: Disclosed is a wireless LAN system comprising: a memory; a central processing unit segmenting data, which is to be transferred, into frames, generating descriptors containing frame addresses and lengths in the memory, and storing the segmented frames and the descriptors into the memory in accordance with transmission priorities; a media...

20060174023 - Method for obtaining information about a transmission capability: A method for obtaining information about a transmission capability of a transmission link (TL) is disclosed. A sending entity (SE) sends data packets at a sending rate to the transmission link (TL), which transmits the data packets according to its transmission capability to a receiving entity (RE) receiving the data...

20060174026 - System and method for a remote user interface: A remote user interface provides a full motion, full-color, dynamic interface with complex visuals without imposing heavy hardware requirements on a consumer electronics device. Instead, the hardware requirements are placed on another computer device that is designated as a media server. The media server generates the complex UI, encodes the...

20060174025 - System and method for streaming content utilizing client upstream communication bandwidth capacity over a network: A system and method for distributing content over a network including a server and a first client device in communication with the server over a first data communication link and first control communication link over the network. A second client device may be in communication with the server over a...

20060174024 - Systems and methods for maintaining closed frequent itemsets over a data stream sliding window: Towards mining closed frequent itemsets over a sliding window using limited memory space, a synopsis data structure to monitor transactions in the sliding window so that one can output the current closed frequent itemsets at any time. Due to time and memory constraints, the synopsis data structure cannot monitor all...

20060174028 - Method for malicious traffic recognition in ip networks with subscriber identification and notification: A technique for recognizing malicious traffic in IP networks coupled with an identification and notification of a mobile subscriber generating or receiving malicious traffic is provided. An embodiment of the present invention may include intrusively or non-intrusively monitoring in real-time the mobile subscriber's data traffic for malicious traffic as well...

20060174030 - Coordinator's data transmission method, device's data reception method, coordinator using the coordinator's data transmission method, and device using the device's data reception method in zigbee system: A coordinator's data transmission method, a device's data reception method, a coordinator using the coordinator's data transmission method and a device using the device's data reception method are provided. In a Zigbee system including at least one device and a coordinator for coordinating the device, in a case where a...

20060174029 - Method and device for exchanging data by means of tunnel connection: The aim of the invention is to exchange data between an external device and applications installed on network elements of a packet-switching network by means of at least one tunnel connection. Said aim is achieved by connecting each network element to a network node device that is part of the...

20060174031 - Data transmission among network-connected information processors: An information processor includes a network adapter connected to a network for transmitting data at the data link layer level, and a setup processing section for recognizing the network adapter connected to the network within a memory, sending out a broadcast packet that requests a response at the data link...

20060174033 - Datacenter mail routing: A system and method for providing email using a flexible routing technique based on MX records. The method includes the steps of creating an MX record for a user, the MX record identifying a storage location for the user within the system; and routing mail within the enterprise email system...

20060174032 - High speed ethernet mac and phy apparatus with a filter based ethernet packet router with priority queuing and single or multiple transport stream interfaces: In one embodiment, an audio-visual content delivery system, such as a set-top box/personal video recorder system, is configured to interface with a local area network (LAN). A packet processing circuit comprised in the system may be configured to filter and route Ethernet packet data received from the LAN to specific...

20060174034 - Portable diagnostic device for trouble-shooting a wireless network and a method for trouble-shooting a wireless network: A portable diagnostic device (PDD) for diagnosing packet-based wireless networks. the PDD comprises an input device configured to convert user input into electrical signals, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, an antenna, processing logic, a modem, and a display device. The processing logic is configured to execute a diagnostic software module...

20060174035 - System, device, & method for applying cos policies: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, comprising: in a BGP network comprising a plurality of neighbors: associating a desired COS policy for a specified interface with a BGP community value; and providing a BGP update message comprising the BGP community value....

20060174036 - Apparatus, system, and method for automatically mapping a tape library system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically and transparently mapping tape drives within tape libraries to IP addresses. In one embodiment, the tape library includes, a DHCP server, a LAN to serial switch, and a library manager configured with the necessary modules to map the tape library devices...

20060174037 - Identifying a computer device: A computer architecture for enterprise device applications that provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user...

20060174039 - Methods and apparatus for using sctp to provide mobility of a network device: Methods and apparatus for supporting mobility using SCTP are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, an SCTP association between a first network device and a second network device may be modified. The SCTP association includes a first set of IP addresses associated with the first network device...

20060174038 - Universal address recognition for text-capable communication devices: A valid destination address is determined. An availability request is sent to each destination address from a set of destination addresses. The destination addresses are correlated with a destination party. At least one response to the sent availability requests is received. Each received response is uniquely associated with its own...