Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 09/06

20060212507 - Location-based historical performance information for entertainment devices: Methods and systems for operating an entertainment network are provided. The method includes: receiving a request to perform entertainment content at a venue; performing the entertainment content at the venue with an entertainment device; and transmitting to a user device at the venue information regarding the performed entertainment content. The...

20060212508 - Method and system for identifying a time specific event: Method and system for providing a compact, portable electronic devices capable of storing data related to time specific events such as music broadcasts, television broadcasts and advertisements, and which are capable of recalling the stored time specific events to provide users with information corresponding to the stored time specific events...

20060212509 - Profile driven method for enabling annotation of world wide web resources: Disclosed are a client server annotation system for, and a method of, managing annotations for Web pages. The preferred client server annotation system comprises an annotation server for storing annotations; a set of Web page profiles, each of the page profiles being associated with one of the Web pages; and...

20060212515 - Applications server and method: An applications server is operable to provide a plurality of user driven services by running an application program. The application program is arranged to provide the services in response to user commands for selecting service options. The applications server comprises in accordance with the application program a state machine able...

20060212513 - Managing apparatus, managing method and computer-readable storage medium: A managing apparatus is provided with a first part to transfer data requested by an information processing apparatus to the information processing apparatus, a second part to determine a start date when use of the data is started, based on start date and time information indicating a date and time...

20060212510 - Method and device for identifying patterns in a message and generating an action: A method for identifying a pattern in a message and generating an action in a communication terminal, and a communication terminal adapted to identify a pattern in a message and generating an action, aiming at providing actions associated with a received message to enable a user to use a multitude...

20060212514 - Method for the server side processing of user interactions with a web-browser: m

20060212512 - Method, system, and program product for optimizing monitoring and discovery services for a grid computing environment: Under the present invention, a stability and updateability (SUP) ratio for a grid computing environment is generated. Thereafter, a size of a set (e.g., at least one) of scale free graphs for the grid computing environment is estimated. Then, based on at least one predetermined parameter such as a quantity...

20060212511 - System, method, and network elements for providing a service such as an advice of charge supplementary service in a communication network: The invention provides a system, method, and network elements for providing a service, preferably an advice of charge, AoC, service requested by a user equipment at a session set-up or during a session. An application server provides information for the requested service to the user equipment. In an embodiment, authorisation...

20060212516 - Content broadcast distribution system, transmitter and receiver apparatuses used therein, and content broadcast distribution method: A content multicasting system is capable of quickly finding the location of a content to be multicast simultaneously. Contents to be simultaneously released are extracted on the basis of attribute information on contents, a location table in which location information on the extracted contents and their content identifiers are associated...

20060212518 - Copying chat data from a chat session already active: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine whether a user at a first client has a chat session already active at a second client with a third client in response to a request for initiation of a chat session for the user at the first...

20060212517 - Method, system, and program product for maintaining synchronization among replicated applications using externality forwarding: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for maintaining synchronization among replicated applications. The method comprises: detecting an externality in an application on a moderator and making an external call associated with the externality; and forwarding results of the external call to a replica of the...

20060212521 - Asynchronous transactions action buttons over communication mediums: A system, method, and related computer program for asynchronous transactions action buttons over communication mediums. The present invention allows users to maintain control over an instant message after it is sent. More specifically, a sender of an instant message can revoke a sent instant message, or amend a sent instant...

20060212528 - E-mail communication apparatus and data processing method and program: An improved e-mail communication apparatus, a data processing method and a program are provided. First, an MFP 100 which receives an e-mail decides whether or not the e-mail is one of a plurality of split data generated by dividing image data in data amount units and stores the e-mail. The...

20060212527 - E-mail communication apparatus, e-mail communication method and program: To provide an e-mail communication apparatus, an e-mail communication method and a program capable of, in the case of receiving e-mail which is split e-mails including request-to-send (RTS) information for transmitting the e-mail to a predetermined destination, suitably performing transmittal confirmation without transmitting to a source the e-mail of the...

20060212520 - Electronic message system with federation of trusted senders: Systems and methods for allowing challenge messages to be sent directly to a recipient's inbox where normally the challenge message would be sent to a pending folder or deleted. Challenge messages sent between federated messaging services contain a federated token which can be identified, authenticated and validated to determine whether...

20060212522 - Email address verification: A system and method for sending email. The method includes the steps of receiving: an email address including a destination domain from a user; prior to sending a message to the destination domain, determining whether the destination domain will receive email; and providing an indication to the user that the...

20060212526 - Method and apparatus for implicit floor control in push-to-talk over cellular systems: A method and apparatus for implicit floor control in push-to-talk over cellular system. A message is generated by a client in a communication system and is then streamed to a push-to-talk server. The server checks to see if the floor is idle, and if so, distributes the message to at...

20060212525 - Method and apparatus for interworking between push-to-talk over cellular (poc) systems and instant messaging (im) systems: A method and apparatus for interworking between push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) systems and instant messagaing (IM) systems is provided. An interworking entity that behaves like a PoC client to a PoC server and as an IM client to the IM server is provided. The interworking entity may be implemented as...

20060212523 - Policy based control of multiple message forwards: A method, system and apparatus for the policy based control of multiple message forwards. A method for policy based control of multiple message forwards can include reviewing a policy associated with a message to identify a set of recipients for a message. Responsive to a request to forward a substantially...

20060212519 - Rfid wireless control of instant messaging: A remote control instant messaging method and system for automatically activating an instant messaging session based upon remote detection of a user approaching a processor capable of executing an instant message system. The method and system also automatically deactivate the instant messaging session based upon remote detection of the user's...

20060212524 - Rules-based transaction prefetching using connection end-point proxies: Network proxies reduce server latency in response to series of requests from client applications. Network proxies intercept messages clients and a server. Intercepted client requests are compared with rules. When client requests match a rule, additional request messages are forwarded to the server on behalf of a client application. In...

20060212529 - Short message management system using a vm application and a mobile communication terminal: A message management service server includes a messaging group information storage unit for storing messaging group information, a VM environment setting information storage unit for storing user-set environment information, a group special service code management unit for managing group special service code information, a group message history storage unit for...

20060212530 - Adapter architecture for mobile data system: A data architecture provides View objects that define an enterprise data source interface to an application through connectors, and also by Data Objects defined by Commands. Thus, a Data Object comprises a configurable request for data that is issued through Commands to the Adapters of the enterprise data sources. The...

20060212537 - Card device for loading applications to a mobile device: A system for loading application identifiers to a mobile device includes a mobile device, a card device insertable into the mobile device, and an application center. The card device is adapted to determine an effective mobile device identifier of the mobile device, and transmit the effective mobile device identifier to...

20060212531 - Content providing server, information processing device and method, and computer program: A device and method is provided to enable improved control of streaming live delivery and recording processing as to a client from a server of tuner-received content. This is configured such that a tuner control instance which executes streaming delivery of the tuner-received content under the control of the tuner,...

20060212532 - Method and apparatus for proxying initial client requests to support asynchronous resource initialization: A set of programs allows a server computer that does not have an application installed to temporarily hand off a client request for the application to a peer server until the application is installed on the first server. The hand off is transparent to the client and temporary to the...

20060212534 - Method and system of providing a personal audio/video broadcasting architecture: A system for providing customized audio/video (A/V) and animation programming over a network is disclosed. The system includes a client configured to allow a user to specify a content portal page and a server configured to: store a plurality of content files, each of the plurality of content files including...

20060212536 - Method of securing radiolink for remotely programmable devices: A remotely programmable device includes a message store for receiving messages over a radiolink from a controller and forwarding the messages to a local application resident in the device, writable registers for controlling operation of the device, a command interpreter for interpreting commands embedded in thessages to write data to...

20060212533 - Minimizing problems in accessing referred content: According to an aspect of the present invention, information indicating the list of referrer documents referring to a referred document, is maintained. Thus, when the document identifier (name and directory location of the document) changes, the list of referrer documents that need to be changed can be easily identified. In...

20060212539 - Network file system: A method and system that combines efficient caching and buffering to provide a network file system, that may utilize data stored in one or more compressed image files of sequentially arranged byte stream data. As an application requests file opens and file reads of a file system, one or more...

20060212535 - Network system for distributing protected content: A system for distributing content in a network comprises memory that stores content. A provider network device communicates with the memory. A requester network device requests a copy of the content. the provider network device determines a local/remote status of the requester network device and selectively sends a copy of...

20060212538 - Network system for distributing protected content: A system for distributing content in a network comprises memory that stores content. A provider network device communicates with the memory and wirelessly communicates with a requester network device that requests a copy of the content. The provider network device determines a local/remote status of the requester network device, transmits...

20060212540 - Software test environment for regression testing ground combat vehicle software: A STE for automated testing of ground combat vehicle software application to validate vehicle software logic provides a system and method to conduct interactive (manual) testing of the vehicle software while under development, record information related to the interactive testing activities, including but not limited to tester inputs and expected...

20060212541 - Data delivering system, data acquisition device, writing device, data acquisition program, data acquisition method, recordable medium, data delivering device and content delivering system: A user terminal (5-N: FIG. 1) receives karaoke data from a Web server (1: FIG. 1). A writer (7-N: FIG. 1) writes the karaoke data as received by the user terminal (5-N) to a memory cartridge (13: FIG. 2). In this case, the writer (7-N) can only be written once...

20060212546 - Information-processing apparatus and information-processing method: The object of the invention is to provide the user with improved operatability of an information-processing apparatus and usability of application programs as well as to implement rendering of services to download the application programs from a server to the information-processing apparatus. If storage means employed in the information-processing apparatus...

20060212542 - Method and computer-readable medium for file downloading in a peer-to-peer network: A method and computer-readable medium for downloading content in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A client detects a download event associated with an identifier of a file and submits a query that includes an identifier of a file to an indexing server. The client receives a peer list including connectivity...

20060212544 - Method and device for transfer of image data: In a method for transfer of image data using a data transfer device wherein the image data of an image file can be separated into data packets, and transferred with variable image quality, image data of the image file are transferred in lower image quality, image data of at least...

20060212543 - Modular applications for mobile data system: Operating sequences of a mobile data integration system include operational modules, also called transportable applications (“TransApps”), that are self contained and capable of being linked together with other operating sequences and TransApps. Each operational module can accept input data and can generate output data. The input data can be received...

20060212545 - 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...

20060212550 - Information processing apparatus and activation method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a body to which a plurality of devices are attachable, an input unit which designates one of a first activation mode and second activation mode as an activation mode of the apparatus, a first executing unit which executes...

20060212549 - Ip address assigning method, vlan changing device, vlan changing system and quarantine process system: An IP address assigning method is used for assigning a second IP address to a computer to which a static IP address is assigned in advance. The method includes the steps of storing one temporary IP address and the static IP address of the terminal device in association with each...

20060212548 - Method and system for installing applications via a display page: A method and system for downloading via a browser a target application using a target control is provided. An installation system provides a web page that is downloaded from a web server to a computer system on which the target application is to be installed. The web page includes a...

20060212551 - Plug and play node addition in a dual ring topology network: A method and apparatus for adding a node to a network where the network includes a plurality of nodes connected by first and second rings formed by two or more transmission media. The method includes connecting the node to each of the first and second rings, determining a ring identifier...

20060212552 - Presentation during network address acquisition: A method and apparatus for instructing a processing system to present information. In one embodiment of the invention a server processing system on a network uses the DHCP protocol to provide network configuration information for a client processing system. The server processing system uses DHCP option code 56 to include...

20060212547 - Router or bridge device comprising an installation application: A router or bridge device for connecting for example a local area network to a wide area network is described. According to the invention, the router comprises: means for connection to a first network and means for connection to a second network; an application for selecting configuration parameters, wherein the...

20060212554 - Control apparatus, communication control method executed by the control apparatus, communication control program controlling the control apparatus, and data processing system: A control apparatus is provided between a first network and a second network different from the first network, in which a data processing apparatus is connected to the first network. The control apparatus notifies the data processing apparatus of a change of setting information that is set for network communications....

20060212553 - Sync-time read only memory image binding for limited resource devices: A method and system for installing an application or a set of applications on a client device, such as a portable (or palmtop) computer system. The application(s) to be installed are identified. The host device has stored therein an operating system comprising a plurality of software routines. A subset of...

20060212556 - Centralized network control: A method of network control. The method includes collecting real-time operation information on one or more first network elements of a network, selecting a policy to be implemented by at least one second network element, different from the first network element, responsive to the collected real time information from the...

20060212564 - Content management system and associated methodology: A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium, a communicator for communicating data...

20060212559 - Data source access editor and network data management method: A data source access editor and a network data management method are disclosed. The method is carried out in a network within which at least one data service element interacts with services. The network has data access layers, an administrator user interface and different platform data sources. The method includes...

20060212558 - Defining nodes in device management system: The invention relates to a method for defining the nodes of a management structure used in device management in a device management system. In the arrangement, case sensitivity information is associated with at least one node to define whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters. At least one node...

20060212557 - Hmi system for operating and monitoring a technical installation by means of mobile operating and monitoring device and secure data transmission: Disclosed is an HMI system comprising at least one mobile operating and monitoring device for the automation components of a technical installation and a radio link for contactless data transmission between the mobile operating and monitoring device and the automation components. A first firewall is provided for securing data transmission...

20060212565 - Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium therefor: In an information processing system, when image data captured by a digital camera is to be stored on a remote HTTP server, a user stores the image data on a removable medium, for example, a memory card, and inserts it into a media drive of a local personal computer. In...

20060212561 - Method and apparatus for controllable communication: Communication and a communications apparatus are controlled with a communication intermediating apparatus. Multiple methods of processing communication requests are provided. Decided rules comprising of pairs of identification information of communication requests and methods of processing are recorded beforehand. When a communication request is received, the identification of the communication request...

20060212555 - Network analyzing method and a network analyzing apparatus: A network analyzing apparatus (100) and method for analyzing the network properties of a device under test (20) to which modulated signals are applied including modulating data contained in output signals (10) of the device under test (20), generating modulated signals (140) based on demodulated data and setting data supplied...

20060212563 - Split socket send queue apparatus and method with efficient queue flow control, retransmission and sack support mechanisms: A mechanism for offloading the management of send queues in a split socket stack environment, including efficient split socket queue flow control and TCP/IP retransmission support. As consumers initiate send operations, send work queue entries (SWQEs) are created by an Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) and written to the send work...

20060212562 - System and method for trap management and monitoring on wireless terminals: A wireless device and a method for providing remote trap management of the wireless device by which a management server remotely sets a trap whose trigger needs to be monitored. A method for providing remote trap management of a wireless device comprises receiving from a remote device a request to...

20060212560 - Systems and methods for denying rogue dhcp services: Methods of controlling dynamic host control protocol (DHCP) communication on a network are presented including: receiving a data frame on a network switch; and if the data frame is a DHCP offer frame that is not received from an authorized DHCP server port, dropping the data frame. In some embodiments,...

20060212569 - Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment: Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment allows IT professionals to maintain processes running on the network. In one embodiment, the dynamic discovery is performed by identifying one or more computers in a computer network, identifying one or...

20060212567 - Method and system for business activity monitoring: The disclosure is directed to an enterprise system including a message topic, a monitor definition, a monitoring manager, and an alert topic. The message topic includes a message associated with performance of a distributed computing application. The monitor definition includes performance rules for evaluating data associated with the message associated...

20060212571 - Network apparatus and event processing method: For enabling to deal with various kinds of events, but without knowing the meaning of the event issued by network equipments, an event notifying equipment notifies URL for an event receiving equipment to access a HTML file corresponding to the event, in the form of an event parameter, thereby providing...

20060212566 - Remote control method and device controlled from communicating terminals: The inventive remote control method includes opening a first communication session between a calling terminal and a centralized information system by a telecommunication network, transmitting the identifier of the calling terminal user to the centralized information system, the identifier of the information system being transmitted to a remote control by...

20060212570 - Security system: A security system with processing optimized for monitoring the actions of a surveillance subject and detecting abnormal actions. The action record of an individual is monitored using a sensor network security system SNS, and the development of an action event is reported as an action, and the corresponding processing of...

20060212568 - System and method for managing a computer network: A system and method for managing a distribution network is provided. A management system obtains a network topology of physical locations and usage data for each identified location. The management system displays a set of possible distribution configurations for each location. The management system generates configuration recommendations based upon the...

20060212573 - Efficient locking of shared data that is accessed for reads in a cluster database: Described herein are techniques for synchronizing access to resources in a multi node system by establishing a resource as a read-mostly resource based on one or more criteria, and allowing a node to acquire a shared lock, not granted by the master, on the read-mostly resource where no anti-lock exists...

20060212572 - Protecting against malicious traffic: A method for screening packet-based communication traffic. At least a first data packet, sent over a network from a source address to a destination address, is received. A determination is made, by analyzing the first data packet, that the first data packet was generated by a worm. In response to...

20060212575 - Dynamic implicit localization of web content: A web page generator dynamically and implicitly generates localized web content. A web developer can mark the content of a page (including controls and literal content) with resource keys, and can dynamically process this request by dynamically substituting the marked content with localized content. Multiple properties of the controls within...

20060212576 - Method and system for reducing the number of ports allocated by a relay: A method and system for reducing the number of ports allocated by a relay server is provided. A connection system uses a bidirectional technique to establish a connection via the relay server between two endpoints (e.g., client computers) that can be used bidirectionally to send a stream from a first...

20060212574 - Policy interface description framework: Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for providing resource interface descriptions with policy parameters. In one embodiment, a method comprises intercepting, at a framework, a request for a resource interface description. The resource interface description is obtained at the framework and at least one policy associated with the resource...

20060212582 - Architecture for building a peer to peer messaging platform: The claimed system is a multicast programming model for implementation on top of a service oriented framework, specifically a service oriented messaging system. It provides application-layer multicast capability without requiring an IP multicast infrastructure. The claimed system enables service oriented applications to implement multicasting communications easily and efficiently...

20060212583 - Distributing messaging session logs to users entering an already ongoing messaging session: A method, system, and program for distributing messaging session logs to users entering an already ongoing messaging session are provided. When, first and second user are participating in an ongoing instant messaging session and an additional user enters the instant messaging session, the additional user can only see those entries...

20060212577 - Method and deivce for network operator information retrieval: The present invention relates to an information retrieval concerning information about telecommunication network operators. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for an automatic information retrieval of public land mobile network (PLMN) operators serving telephony services of subscribed mobile communication terminals. For instance, automatic retrieval of network information...

20060212584 - Method and system for accelerating downloading of web page content by a peer-to-peer network: A method and system for accelerating downloading and displaying of content in web pages in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A peer-to-peer network client captures a download request from a web browser, and submits a query that includes an identifier of the file to an indexing server. The peer-to-peer network...

20060212578 - Method and system of providing a personal audio/video broadcasting architecture: A server for providing customized audio/video (A/V) and animation programming over a network is disclosed. The server includes memory configured to store a number of content files, each of the content files including A/V and/or animation data, content processing logic configured to: receive a content portal page, create a personalized...

20060212579 - Method and system of providing a personal audio/video broadcasting architecture: A client for providing customized audio/video (A/V) and animation programming over a network is disclosed. The client includes content processing logic configured to: allow a user to specify a content portal page, transmit the content portal page to a server, receive a personalized program from the server, wherein the personalized...

20060212580 - Method and system of providing a personal audio/video broadcasting architecture: A method for providing customized audio/video (A/V) and animation programming over a network is disclosed. The method includes configuring a server to: store a number of content files, each of the content files including A/V and/or animation data, receive a content portal page, create a personalized program based on the...

20060212585 - System for providing continuity between session clients and method therefor: An online communication system (10) includes a plurality of remote session clients (12) and one or more online servers (14). The online communication system (10) provides continuity of an online session (80) between a server (14) and one of the remote session clients (12). A first session client (18) participates...

20060212586 - System, method and computer program product for processing accounting information: A system, method and computer program product are provided for processing accounting information. In use, accounting information is received over a network. After receiving the accounting information, at least a portion of the accounting information that occurs during a surge in network traffic is discarded, based on at least one...

20060212581 - Web server http service overload handler: A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided for dealing with capacity exhaustion conditions. A module is which may be loaded into a Web server and invoked during its processing of requests. The module stores conditions under which the Web server should return a “Service Unavailable” status rather than continuing...

20060212587 - System, method and program product to manage a communication session: System, method and program product for managing sessions. A request to open a session with a destination server is received. A determination is made whether an operational request is received concurrently with the open request or within a predetermined time thereafter. If so, the requested session is opened. If not,...

20060212591 - Method for providing location information relating to an emergency call, a telecommunications terminal, a server and a computer program product: The invention relates to a method for providing location information relating to an emergency call, in which when there exists differing location information, a weighting is made of any available location information and that the location information with the highest ranking is provided for further use, as well as a...

20060212588 - Method of flexible frequency allocation: In the method of flexible frequency allocation, at least a portion of a frequency spectrum for a lower priority class of applications is allocated to a higher priority class of applications if overload of frequency spectrum for the higher priority class of applications is detected, an emergency situation occurs, etc....

20060212590 - Personal mailbox: A personal print mailbox software application for printing or peripheral device, such as a photocopier, is disclosed. Documents received on the printing device have associated information sent with them identifying the user logged in on the workstation that sent them. Documents from various users are collected in a common storage...

20060212589 - Session manager for web-based applications: A communication manager for web-based applications receives indications of application time outs via a callback mechanism. During session initiation, the communication manager provides a termination address to an application along with a session ID. If the session times out due to inactivity, the application may signal the communication manager that...

20060212592 - Apis to build peer to peer messaging applications: The claimed method and system is an API set to support a multicast programming or implementation on top of a service oriented framework, specifically a service messaging system....

20060212593 - Dynamic service composition and orchestration: A system, method and media for service infrastructure that enables dynamic service composition and orchestration. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification,...

20060212595 - Method and computer-readable medium for associating sequence numbers with data blocks for distribution of data in a peer-to-peer network: A method and computer-readable medium for identifying multimedia content in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A multimedia data structure is segmented into a plurality of data blocks. Each of a plurality of sequence numbers is respectively associated with one of the plurality of data blocks. The plurality of data blocks...

20060212594 - Method of dynamically adjusting quality of service (qos) targets: In the method of dynamically adjusting quality of service targets, quality of service targets for a first group of applications are reduced based on an overload detection...

20060212596 - Systems for distributing content data over a computer network and method of arranging nodes for distribution of data over a computer network: The invention is a system for distributing content data over a computer network and a method of arranging receiver nodes in a computer network such that the capacity of the server is effectively multiplied many times over, and may even be increased exponentially. The invention takes advantage of the excess...

20060212597 - Multi-stage load distributing apparatus and method, and program: A multi-stage load distributing apparatus is constituted of a preceding stage load distributing apparatus connected to a network, a plurality of latter stage load distributing apparatuses connected to the preceding load distributing apparatus, and one or plural servers connected to each latter stage load distributing apparatus, where, after a request...

20060212598 - Frame transfer method and apparatus: In a frame transfer method and apparatus, a data entry into a content addressable memory is set to enable, and upon receipt of a transfer frame addressed to a first apparatus from a line bus, header information of the frame is entered into the content addressable memory based on the...

20060212601 - Method and system to determine the geographic location of a network user: A system and method to determine the geographic location of a network user based on a plurality of network addresses and a plurality of mapping request information. The method involves receiving a plurality of mapping requests from a plurality of network users identified by a plurality of network addresses. A...

20060212600 - Method of sending and receiving personal information by using mobile terminal: A system for sending and receiving personal information using a mobile terminal is disclosed. In the present invention, a personal information is sent using a short message service with an attached identification information. Accordingly, when the short message is received by a receiving mobile terminal, the attached identification information allows...

20060212599 - Resolving virtual network names: An apparatus and method is provided for resolving virtual network names using one or more name routers. A conventional Uniform Resource Locator (URL) naming scheme is extended by allowing any component to be mapped to an address. The resolution process occurs recursively through a plurality of name routers. Resolution can...

20060212602 - Processing method of device information and network device in device information management system: In a device information management system in which a management server for managing device information and various devices are connected, a plurality of different types of device information is transmitted to the management server at predetermined timings, respectively. In a device information management system in which a management server for...

20060212603 - Apparatus and method for controlling storage device: A method and apparatus for controlling a transmission of data from a first storage device to a second storage device. The first storage device includes a recording unit for recording the data, a buffer for temporarily storing the data read from the recording unit, and a transmission unit for transmitting...

20060212604 - Coupler for a ring topology network and an ethernet-based network: A network coupler is provided between a network, on which Ethernet messages can be transmitted, and a plurality of subscribers, the network being linked to an external interface of the network coupler and the plurality of subscribers being linked in series to a ring-type transmission path via an internal interface...

20060206558 - Reliable request-response messaging over a request-response transport: A reliable request-response mechanism allows a requesting computer system and a responding computer system in an established end-to-end connection to send and receive messages in a manner that the responding computer system processes a request as intended by the requesting computer system, such that all the message communication is initiated...

20060206560 - Video conferencing system, conference terminal and image server: In a video conferencing system, required bandwidth is suppressed to a lower level and a key person or the like of a conference can be confirmed easily. A presence server 1 manages location information in a virtual space for a user of each conference terminal 2. Each conference terminal 2...

20060206559 - Web services layer synchrony in relation to the business layer synchrony: A web services system provides web services interfaces to applications having native interfaces with different types of synchrony. The web services interfaces can have the same or different type of synchrony than the underlying application. The web services layer translates a web services request from a client to corresponding function...

20060206563 - Method of enhancing rendering of a content item, client system and server system: A client system (200, 220) receives a content item. The user can mark the received content item as being of interest. In response to said marking, tracking means (204, 224) automatically provide identifying data for the marked content item to a remote server system (250). The server receives a portion...

20060206561 - Personal multimedia on-line broadcasting system and method thereof: A personal multimedia on-line broadcasting system is provided, comprising: a network broadcasting server including a plurality of media sources, a network interface card, and a network broadcasting server module; and a client device including a network interface card, a video and audio output interface, and a client player module. The...

20060206562 - System and method for network transmission of graphical data through a distributed application: Systems and methods for network transmission of three-dimensional graphical data are disclosed. A single graphical application instance can virtually and efficiently exist on multiple local or remote display systems by directly sharing its raw rendered framebuffer memory information among all local or remote graphics accelerators, thus avoiding the need to...

20060206565 - Method and system for providing instantaneous media-on-demand services: Various techniques for providing instantaneous media services are disclosed. Some of the techniques provide an instantaneous media-on-demand system, process and method for the same. Such a system offers a dynamic library with a significant number of titles from which a user may select and offers play back a desired title...

20060206564 - System and method for sharing notes: Systems, methods and techniques are provided in which pens capable of capturing and transmitting information representative marks made by them, e.g., wireless-enabled digital pens, are used. In one representative implementation, notes taken during a meeting automatically are wirelessly transferred (i.e., copied and/or moved) among devices used by the participants, thereby...

20060206566 - Personal and timed chat interface: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling the presentation of submissions within a real-time communication session by sequentially organizing and displaying messages immediately followed by their corresponding responses for allowing participants within the session to easily view, follow and participate within such session. Sequential tags are associated...

20060206572 - Authenticating electronic communications: A method includes generating an authenticity indicator for an electronic communication based on a comparison of domain name data and purported sender data associated with the electronic communication, the authenticity indicator indicating a likelihood that the electronic communication was sent from a purported sender of the electronic communication. The authenticity...

20060206570 - Automatic off-line availability for document content linked in electronic mail messages: A system for providing automatic off-line availability of shared document content linked in electronic mail (“email”) messages. Documents indicated by links in processed email messages may accessed when a client system user is working either online or offline. A software component operates to read through email messages sent to a...

20060206567 - Dynamic service surrogates: Example embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism for allowing developers to define new interfaces and insert custom translational code that implements these new interfaces for legacy components that otherwise cannot communicate in a web service environment. These new interfaces are then exposed to the web service client in...

20060206574 - Method and apparatus for filtering email: A method and apparatus for filtering messages comprising determining a first semantic anchor corresponding to a first group of messages, for example, legitimate messages and a second semantic anchor corresponding to a second group of messages, for example, unsolicited messages. Determining a vector corresponding to an incoming message; comparing the...

20060206568 - Method and system for rapid dissemination of public announcements: The present invention provides a method and system for disseminating urgent public announcements over an IP-based network. One or a plurality of Internet- or Intranet-connected servers receive and store data identifying particular geographic locations to current announcements. The servers identify IP addresses of users making URL requests or requests for...

20060206573 - Multiattribute specification of preferences about people, priorities, and privacy for guiding messaging and communications: The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate multiattribute adjustments and control associated with messages and other communications and informational items that are directed to a user via automated systems. An interface, specification language, and controls are provided for defining a plurality of variously configured groups that...

20060206569 - Smart size reduction of a local electronic mailbox by removing unimportant messages based on an automatically generated user interest profile: A system that enables a user to conveniently reduce the size of one or more mailboxes stored on the client computer system. The user can indicate that “unimportant” email messages are to be removed from one or more mailboxes. Unimportant email messages are automatically removed before important ones. To calculate...

20060206571 - System and method for url risk assessment, and computer product: A client device requests a server device to assess a risk of a URL included in an email received. The server device stores the URL for which the request was received, in correspondence with the user information, in a storage unit. Risk of the URL is assessed based on whether...

20060206575 - Method and apparatus for controlling an input or output device over the internet: In a network having an initiator, a server, and an input/output (I/O) device remote from the initiator, the initiator transmits to the server a request containing the network location of data to be retrieved from an input device, such as a video camera, fax, or scanner, or output by an...

20060206576 - Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (gps) based advertising information to, automobiles: In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail”, messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages...

20060206577 - Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (gps) based advertising information to, automobiles: In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages...

20060206578 - Publication to shared content sources using natural language electronic mail destination addresses and interest profiles registered by the shared content sources: A system that enables users to conveniently and intuitively send email messages that automatically publish information in appropriate shared content sources. The system allows users to send email messages to shared sources based on keywords within text entered as destination email addresses. The shared sources register interest in certain topics...

20060206579 - Techniques for providing packet rate pacing: Techniques to pace the transmission of packets to multiple connections using one or more queues or storages. When multiple queues are used, each queue may have an associated throughput rate and each of the queues may have a different associated throughput rate....

20060206581 - Interactive video: An interactive video platform, interactive video player and computer implemented methods are described, for providing interactive video on a user device, such as a mobile phone. An item of video content to be displayed is identified and a control file associated with the item of video content is determined. A...

20060206580 - Multimedia distribution apparatus and method: A multimedia apparatus for allowing an individual to upload and download multimedia content to and from a central command center. The multimedia apparatus includes an enclosure for providing a quiet environment and a communication means for uploading edited audio and video content to the central command center. The enclosure includes...

20060206582 - Portable music device with song tag capture: A portable music device (PMD) for capturing song tags while monitoring a broadcast (via Internet or radio), either on the PMD (either via an Internet connection or via a built-in FM radio receiver), or on a nearby radio (by detecting the station to which the nearby radio is tuned). The...

20060206583 - Framework for managing client application data in offline and online environments: A multi-phase synchronization framework allows developers to develop smart client applications that can operate efficiently in offline and online modes. For example, a client application receives user input, and generates an object that includes the user input data, as well as some associated logic for one or more phases in...

20060206584 - System and method for listing data acquisition: A method and system of data acquisition by a listing service provider is disclosed. A network address is received from a client computer that is operated by a lister. The network address can be indicative of a location of listing data on a computer network. The listing data comprises at...

20060206588 - Information processing system and method: Loads on access destinations are balanced. A first controller and a second controller, which accept requests from a plurality of sources, and write and read data to/from a storage device in response to these requests, are provided. The first controller returns to at least one first source of a plurality...

20060206591 - Method and apparatus for coupling a visual browser to a voice browser: A method and apparatus for concurrently accessing network-based electronic content in a Voice Browser and a Visual Browser can include the steps of retrieving a network-based document formatted for display in the Visual Browser; identifying in the retrieved document a reference to the Voice Browser, the reference specifying electronic content...

20060206589 - Method and systems for providing access to dynamic content via static pages: A system and method for providing access to dynamic content via static pages. A page or portion of a page is received containing at least one executable element and at least one static element. The at least one executable element is identified and then processed to produce output. A static...

20060206586 - Method, apparatus and system for a location-based uniform resource locator: An aspect of the present invention is a method for routing content information to a mobile user or client application. The method preferably comprises re-directing a user request to one or more gateway servers provided via an overlay network. In another aspect, the present invention is an apparatus that includes...

20060206587 - System and method for automatically uploading updates: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a user of an electronic device with an Automatic Upgrade Functionality (AUF), the ability to automatically upgrade software installations with a configurable amount of user interaction and interruption....

20060206585 - System and method for publishing targeted copy in a previously opened document independent of a user-initiated submission: A system for publishing targeted copy in an electronic originating document already generated on a computer. The originating document has text, at least one data field and a user-initiated submission element. The system includes polling code that is called by a first launch code embedded in the originating document. The...

20060206590 - Theme change system, portable communication device, server apparatus, and computer program: A theme change system includes a portable communication device; and a server apparatus, wherein the portable communication device and the server apparatus are connected to each other via a communication network. The portable communication device includes a theme request section making a request for theme data related to an interface...

20060206595 - Communications handles and proxy agents: Methods and apparatuses for proxying communication requests to services hosted on a data processing system. In one exemplary method, an open-ended configuration file is distilled to create an object tree from the configuration file. In addition, distillation creates communication handles for the services. The object tree is serialized and forwarded...

20060206598 - Extended domain name method, apparatus, and system: An extended DNS server that supports non-standard domain naming includes an update module, a query module, and a domain name database. Client computers are converted to extended clients capable of supporting extended domain naming by changing a DNS server IP address to reference an extended DNS server. The conversion program...

20060206597 - Method of allocating an internet protocol address in a broadband wireless access system: A method of reconfiguring an internet protocol (IP) address during handover by a mobile station (MS) is disclosed. In the method, the MS transmits a ranging request message to a base station (BS) in a network and then receives a ranging response message which includes a IP address refresh parameter...

20060206594 - System and method to uniquely identify identically configured branches in a distributed enterprise: A system and method to uniquely identify identically configured branches in a distributed enterprise such that branch specific configuration information may be used to configure computing devices in the identified branch are provided. With the system and method, upon being deployed in a branch location, the computing device sends a...

20060206596 - Systems and methods for an extensive content build pipeline: Systems and methods are provided for an extensive content build pipeline. The exemplary content build pipeline is based on a code build process using a standard XIF file format containing reference to game content produced using various game content editors and tools. This standardized file format is capable of containing...

20060206593 - Use of discovery scanning and method of ip only communication to identify owners and administrators of network attached devices: Method, system, and product for remotely communicating with and identifying owners of objects on an IP network by providing a database identifying owners of objects on an IP network, discovery scanning the IP network for logical objects, sending a message to an unlisted logical object requesting a registration action of...

20060206592 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication device and control method: This invention has as its object to establish a wireless communication between wireless communication devices and to provide a desired service without any troublesome setup operations. To this end, a digital camera and printer of this invention have wireless communication functions. When it is determined that a wireless communication instruction...

20060206599 - Dynamic service generation for legacy components: The present invention provides a mechanism that allows an administrative event to trigger or cause the generation of a dynamic web service during initialization of legacy application components. Similar to other types of static tooling approaches, the dynamic approach-as supported herein-uses available metadata describing an interface for communicating with legacy...

20060206603 - Integrated storage virtualization and switch system: A system integrates an intelligent storage switch with a flexible virtualization system to enable efficient service of file and block protocol data access requests for information stored on the system. A storage operating system executing on a storage system coupled to the switch implements the virtualization system to provide a...

20060206601 - Method of designating a future network coordinator: A method (500) is provided for operating a network coordinator (110). The method includes receiving device capability information from a plurality of network devices (121-125), including whether each of the network devices can perform network control functions (520); determining whether any of the network devices is capable of performing network...

20060206600 - Method of operating a video-on-demand system that prevents congestion: A video-on-demand (VOD) system utilizes an access platform that has a controller, and uplink and downlink cards that support a predetermined number of unicast and multicast data streams. When a VOD application server receives a request from an end user to receive a unicast data stream, the VOD application server...

20060206604 - Methods and systems for providing a communication manager for wireless wireline converged telecommunication services: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a communication manager. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request for a communication service. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining, from a plurality of servers based on the request, a first server capable of servicing the request...

20060206602 - Network switch link failover in a redundant switch configuration: A method and system to quickly redirect traffic from a server blade to different access switches that provide data communication to a network is presented. Each access switch has external ports directed upstream towards the network, and correlated internal ports directed downstream towards the server blade. The server blade has...

20060206605 - Network system, method and apparatus for processing information, and control program: Property information of a driver is newly set or updated via a simple operation on a network. First, property information is created. When a driver is installed or updated, the created property information associated with the driver is transmitted from a server device to a client device, which in turn...

20060206606 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic traffic control within a communications network: A method and apparatus for providing traffic management through dynamic and granular definitions of route groups. Within a communications network, a traffic routing control unit (e.g., an intelligent route service control point (IRSCP)) creates route group assignments for each route within a customers network in accordance with a customer's routing...

20060206607 - System and method for providing update information: A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a program selection server which allows the user to select which...

20060206608 - User terminal management apparatus, user terminal management program, and user terminal management system: An apparatus, program, and system that manages user terminal in an integrated fashion is disclosed. User terminal management apparatus 20, for managing the plurality of user terminal group 10a-10n, comprised of information tables 203b, 204b for storing prescribed user terminal information for each terminal in user terminal group 10, interface...

20060206609 - Method and system for managing objects distributed in a network: Various techniques for a library with a significant number of titles are disclosed. A user may select and order a title whenever desired and play back the title fairly instantly. The library is dynamically updated in accordance with a schedule. According to one aspect of the techniques, whenever an ordered...

20060206611 - Method and system for managing programs with network address: When a server in standby mode receives no heart beat communication message from a server in execution mode for a predetermined time period, the standby mode server assigns an IP address stored in a storage of the standby mode server to own server. And the standby mode server changes the...

20060206610 - Method, system and apparatus for location-aware content push service and location-based dynamic attachment: A method and system for providing location-aware and location-based content services. The system preferably comprises an overlay service network that includes a plurality of information gateway servers. A mobile client uses the servers in the overlay service network to request and receive information. The particular server used by the mobile...

20060206612 - Cross-system log in a distributed system environment: Embodiments consistent with the invention provide a computer-implemented method for providing a cross-system log in a distributed computer system environment having multiple computer systems. The method comprises electronically receiving data in a first system, the data including cross-system characteristics of a cross-system activity originating from a second computing system, electronically...

20060206613 - Information processing system in which information expressing a current time point is transmitted from one computer to another for use in calculating an amount of delay in transferring data between the computers: In a system in which a first computer transmits data to a second computer, the first computer transmits data conveying time information to the second computer, with the information expressing a first time point that occurs prior to commencement of the transmission and, following reception of the time information, the...

20060206614 - Processing requests transmitted using a first communication directed to an application that uses a second communication protocol: Provided are a method, system, and program for processing requests transmitted using a first communication directed to an application that uses a second communication protocol. A request is received from a client over a network in a first communication protocol. A determination is made as to whether the request includes...

20060206616 - Decentralized secure network login: A system and method for remote peer authentication make use of an exchange of user authentication information between a remote peer and an active peer in a peer-to-peer network. The active peer can authenticate the user based on the provided authentication information, and allow the remote peer to participate in...

20060206615 - Systems and methods for dynamic and risk-aware network security: Systems and methods for dynamic and risk-aware network security are described. In one embodiment, a system dynamically assesses whether a connection over a communications medium (102) is anomalous (suspicious, malicious, deviating from normal behavior, fits a certain profile or pattern, or has the potential to be any one of these)...

20060206618 - Method and apparatus for providing remote audio: A method and apparatus for providing remote audio using an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel. The method enables audio content to be broadcast from a media host to multiple media clients using an OOB communication channel that is transparent to operating systems running on the media host and clients. Audio content...

20060206617 - Method of reporting quality metrics for packet switched streaming: A method of reporting quality metrics for packet switched streaming in a wireless network between a server and a client, comprising the step of transporting content data to the server to the client using a real time streaming protocol, the step of reporting at least one quality metric relating to...

20060206619 - Electronic service level agreement for web site and computer services hosting: Computer-based methods and systems are provided for building, provisioning and executing one or more electronic service level agreements (eSLAs) for Web and other computer hosting services, which specify and enforce service contracts for Web and other computer hosting services. In one aspect of the invention, a computer-based eSLA system includes...

20060206620 - Method and apparatus for unified exception handling with distributed exception identification: A system, method and tangible medium for unified exception handling with distributed exception identification includes a packet processing pipeline with at least two processing stages for processing data packets, each of the data packets being processed having an associated exception map in a memory of the apparatus. An exception detector...

20060206622 - Methods and apparatus for data routing and processing: Systems and techniques for data management and routing. Associated collections of information comprising data and associated documents are received, with the documents in each grouping of information being able to be received in one of a variety of formats. Each collection of information that is received is assembled into an...

20060206621 - Movement of data in a distributed database system to a storage location closest to a center of activity for the data: A network provides distributed database services based on replicating data records to a new storage location that is closest to consumers of the data records, based on comparing a network distance between the new storage location and an attribute identifying a center of activity of at least one data element,...

20060206623 - Path determination system for vehicle infrastructure paths: Aspects of the present invention relate to path determination for vehicle infrastructure paths. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for identifying alternative paths and determining optimized vehicle paths for projects. The methods and systems may involve providing a client-based application having a GUI that presents a plurality of constraints...

20060206625 - Digital network modem with an integrated dhcp server: The digital network modem has a built-in Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) mechanism for dynamically assigning network addresses to clients on the local network. To prevent confusion with a potentially existing DHCP server on the local network, an autosense mechanism is provided to detect the existence of a DHCP server...

20060206624 - Method and system for web resource location classification and detection: A method and system for identifying locations associated with a web resource is provided. The location system identifies three different types of geographic locations: a provider location, a content location, and a serving location. A provider location identifies the geographic location of the entity that provides the web resource. A...

20060200515 - Data bus between middleware layers: A system and method is introduced that integrates middleware components without canonicalization of data at runtime. An interface receives inputs identifying at least a first and second middleware to be made interoperative and a configurator configures at least an in-port and an out-port based on a binding and transport associated...

20060200516 - Data processing system and method for message handling: A data processing system for message handling comprises a coupling facility for receiving messages, the coupling facility arranged to maintain a queue of messages, and a database for storing messages. A component, such as a server, of the system is arranged to detect that a message is of a size...

20060200521 - Freefi qwikbar/toolbar: The present invention provides a user access to the Internet via a wireless connection subscribing to the IEEE 802.1 1 or 802.16 standard or their logical derivatives, while being displayed web based content independent of the users web browser. Such content appears when logged in and is removed when logged...

20060200517 - Method and apparatus for real time multi-party conference document copier: A document exchange device for assistance with an audio/video conferencing session includes an image capture component configured generate a scanned image of a document and an output component configured to provide a printed image of the document. A user interface of the document exchange device is configured to display connection...

20060200518 - Method and system for presenting a video conference using a three-dimensional object: A presentation system receives streams of videos of a video conference and presents the videos on the faces of a three-dimensional object. The presentation system selects which video should be presented more prominently than the other videos. The presentation system generates an image of the three-dimensional object that represents a...

20060200519 - Networked meeting recording method and apparatus: An apparatus is endowed with the ability to receive contents and audio of a networked meeting, and store the received contents and audio. The apparatus does not facilitate any participant to participate in the networked meeting....

20060200520 - System and method for record and playback of collaborative communications session: A collaborative communication session (“session”), as created by the presenter and witnesses by one or more users on second computers, may be recorded. The session may be replayed by a user's computer, directing the audio and visual components of the browser on the user's computer as if the user was...

20060200529 - Apparatus, method, and program for communication: A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes: upper limit setting unit, adapted to set a transmission upper limit which defines an upper limit of data size of mail data to be transmitted in a single e-mail; image data acquiring unit, adapted to acquire image data to be attached...

20060200526 - Message filtering: Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for message filtering. The techniques include receiving a plurality of messages generated by an application, and filtering the messages, including simplifying one or more of the messages, eliminating one or more of the messages, or both simplifying and eliminating messages. The...

20060200528 - Method and system for processing data messages: A system (10) for processing data messages includes a mail server (16), data messaging server (20) and a mobile communications device (22). The mail server (16) is operable to receive a first data message (100) transmitted over a public network (24), the first data message (100) having a plurality of...

20060200532 - Method and system for providing visual notification in a unified messaging system: A method and system for interfacing a legacy e-mail, voice mail and facsimile system into a unified messaging system. The system includes visual message notification for notifying a user of incoming messages. Visual notification may include a flashing light emitting diode and/or text messages. The text messages may include various...

20060200524 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring electronic messaging applications: Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums configure electronic messaging applications to communicate with a server storing messages to and/or from an electronic messaging account of a user. A method involves receiving an electronic message address and a password of the user as inputs, deriving server connection settings based on the electronic...

20060200525 - System and method for providing instant messaging capability in conjunction with an online reference: Methods for providing instant messaging capability in conjunction with an online reference is provided. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving an indication to initiate display of online content, selecting at least one reference in response to the indication, the at least one reference being associated with a source,...

20060200527 - System, method, and computer program product for communications management: The system, method, and computer program product includes a first destination mail server for receiving a plurality of e-mail messages addressed to a first E-Mail address, the first destination mail server creating an action list digest of the plurality of e-mail messages and forwarding the action list digest to a...

20060200523 - User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email: A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from...

20060200530 - User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email: A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from...

20060200531 - User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email: A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from...

20060200522 - Web services processing using mapi compliant mail applications: The present invention provides Web Services over a mail transport. In particular, the present invention sends Web Service messages using MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface) mail applications in order to support offline communications and extended processing time of service requests without creating additional infrastructure for such message exchanges. A custom...

20060200533 - High availability designated winner data replication: Collisions are resolved in a database replication system. The system includes a plurality of nodes arranged in either a master-slave or network configuration. Each node includes a database, wherein changes made at the databases of each node are replicated to the databases at one or more of the other nodes....

20060200534 - Multi-medium information sharing system: In a multimedia information sharing system, multimedia information is shared between multiple devices over a network to which a server is connected. The server includes: a management table for managing identifiers to identify terminal devices and the addresses of the devices on the network; a server receiving section receiving the...

20060200536 - Communication with an external source application: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for communication with an external source application. In one aspect, the methods include determining in an independent reader application residing on a client computing system whether a property of an electronic package received and displayed from a source application residing on a server...

20060200535 - Method and computer system for handling incremental data in client-server communication: Methods and computer systems are provided for handling incremental data in client-server communications. In one exemplary system, a server-controller is provided for receiving a modification-request from a client to modify an original model of an application component that is stored on the server into a modified model of the application...

20060200537 - System and method for online human resource outsourcing and portal access: An system and method for online human resource outsourcing is provided via online and through portal access such as obtained when utilizing wireless applications....

20060200538 - System and method for upgrading the remote control functionality of a device: A system and method for upgrading remote control application resident on a device. To this end, a markup language file is created. The markup language file has a representation of information used to setup the remote control application to communicate with an appliance. The markup language file may be executed,...

20060200539 - Determining a boot server network address from which to download an operating system during a boot sequence: Provided are a method, system, and program for determining a boot server network address from which to download an operating system during a boot sequence. A request for a network address to use to communicate on a network to a server during a boot sequence is transmitted. An operation is...

20060200540 - Information provision method and computer-readable recording medium recording info