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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization October categorized by USPTO classification 10/06

20060242222 - Method of improving control information acquisition latency by transmitting control information in individually decode-able packets: Provided is a method and system for enhancing acquisition latency in a communications network. The method includes identifying control information associated with transmitted information and fragmenting the identified control information. Each fragment of control information is then associated with a corresponding transmission unit of the transmitted information. This process facilitates...

20060242224 - Organic data network having a dynamic topology: The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit at least one data connection to a data network to which several devices provided with a data processing unit are connected by means of a data...

20060242223 - System and method for using an rmi activation system daemon with non-java applications: An RMI (Remote Method Invocation) service framework that enables a non-Java application to be managed by an RMI activation system daemon is disclosed. The present invention enables the non-Java application to communicate with other Java applications that make use of RMI following a registration process. Additionally, because the non-Java application...

20060242225 - Self-forming, self-healing configuration permitting substitution of agents to effect a live repair: In select embodiments of the present invention, a configuration incorporates a suite of agents in a “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture implemented in software. Embodiments may be employed in various applications, such as maintaining network integrity. In one embodiment, a building security monitoring network...

20060242227 - Apparatus and method for community relay node discovery: A method of discovering a community relay node within a network community wherein the community relay node is operatively coupled to an access-protected client and adapted to facilitate communication between the access-protected client and a requesting client, includes receiving a request message from a requesting client relating to a request...

20060242229 - Method and system for virtual service isolation: A method of managing resources in a host computer includes generating a virtual service provider in two different computer partitions and linking them in a serial manner. The virtual service providers are associated with a computer resource. Virtual service clients in different partitions may use the virtual service provider software...

20060242226 - Ndma socket transport protocol: Data transferred between DICOM devices located at a hospital or clinic to external storage and retrieval systems are formatted in accordance with a four layer protocol. The first layer includes an NDMA socket protocol. The second layer includes an NDMA header and is nested within the first layer. The third...

20060242231 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal displays on a selection screen not only contents stored in the portable terminal but also contents stored in a contents server communicatable via a network with the portable terminal. The selection screen displays information regarding the size and location of each of the contents, as well as...

20060242228 - Redistribution of operating environments for the redeployment of grid clients: A client-server network environment is temporarily transformed into a grid computing environment through the deployment of a network-booted grid operating system to each of a plurality of network clients. Each participating client operates in the client-server mode under a local operating system. At an appropriate time, a server transmits to...

20060242230 - Short messaging service center mobile-originated to http internet communications: A mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway (MHG, or “MO Gateway”) which translates between Wireless Mobile Originated commands from an SMSC, and an application server on the Internet (i.e., a “web IP Server”). A wireless Internet gateway establishes communications with one or more relevant SMSCs using standard format SMPP commands, and the...

20060242238 - Automatic creation of bidirectional online album links in a peer-to-peer photo sharing network: The present invention provides a method and system for creating a bidirectional link between first and second online albums in a peer-to-peer photo sharing network. Exemplary embodiments include receiving on a first peer, a user request to create a bidirectional link, wherein the request includes an identification of a first...

20060242232 - Automatically limiting requests for additional chat sessions received by a particula user: A method, system, and program for automatically limiting requests for additional chat sessions received by a particular user are provided. The number of multiple chat sessions concurrently open between a particular user and a separate user from among a first selection of multiple users are detected, wherein the first selection...

20060242234 - Dynamic group formation for social interaction: A system and method that facilitates dynamic group formation for social interaction and/or real-time sharing of content with the group is provided. A group formation system includes a user interface component that facilitates a user's entry of information and display of information regarding group formation. For example, the user interface...

20060242239 - Presence information processing method and computer: The presence information delivery system according to this invention manages, for each user, data of one or plural presence group so as to associate one or plural presence information items for the presence information to be delivered with an ID or IDs of one or plural delivery destination user of...

20060242235 - Presence monitoring in a serverless peer-to-peer system: Systems and methods are described for facilitiating collaboration and/or communication in a peer-to-peer serverless system. The system may transmit to other computing systems associated with other entities information regarding presence information associated with a user entity. Also, the system may request of other computing systems associated with other entities information...

20060242237 - System and method for collaboration with serverless presence: Collaboration between collaborative endpoints may be facilitated by a serverless publication service of a collaborative services platform. The serverless publication service may be configured to accept communicative connections from the collaborative endpoints. Users of the collaborative services platform may publish their associated collaborative presences with the serverless publication service. For...

20060242236 - System and method for extensible computer assisted collaboration: A collaborative services platform may include a connectivity service, an activity service and a contact management service. The connectivity service may provide communicative connectivity between users of the collaborative services platform. The activity service may provide one or more collaborative activities supporting various modes of communication. The contact management service...

20060242233 - Utilizing group statistics for groups of participants in a human-to-human collaborative tool: A method, system and apparatus for utilizing statistics in a human-to-human collaborative tool. A method for utilizing group statistics for a group participating in a collaborative session can include collecting group statistics for a grouped set of participants designated to participate in a collaborative session and rendering the group statistics...

20060242240 - Milestone synchronization in broadcast multimedia streams: A server at the edge of a broadband network distributes multimedia content streams to clients, while ensuring that the first data delivered to each client is key data (milestones) needed for correctly decoding the stream content. This is obtained by buffering the packets in the incoming stream and transmitting the...

20060242243 - Communication device having function for automaticaly determining unsolicited e-mails: In a mobile telephone 100 having an email transmission and reception function, a control unit 106 acquires, from a history information recording unit 1082, history information of emails transmitted by the mobile telephone 100, and determines, based on the acquired history information whether a received email, which has the email...

20060242242 - Communication terminal, communication terminal control method, and communication terminal control program: The invention is to enable a secure sharing of an internet resource with a partner in conversation by the IP telephone, in simple and inexpensive manner and not requiring cumbersome operations, by a communication terminal only, not relying on another equipment. Internet resource sharing means is provided for a shared...

20060242241 - Dual authentication of a requestor using a mail server and an authentication server: Improved approaches for providing secure remote access to email resources maintained on private networks are disclosed. The secure access can be provided through a public network using a standard network browser. Multiple remote users are able to gain restricted and controlled access to email on a mail server within a...

20060242244 - Federated challenge credit system: Systems and methods for reducing the number of challenge messages that are sent in response to an incoming message in situations where the incoming message is likely not unsolicited. The systems and methods include evaluating the behavior of a sender with regard to one or more federated messaging services and...

20060242246 - Managing the delivery of queued instant messages: A method and apparatus for managing the delivery of instant messages in a queue. The method can include designating a recipient of a composed instant message. Responsive to determining that the recipient is in a state in which the recipient is not receiving instant messages, the composed instant message can...

20060242249 - Method for the display of visual sequencing of message communications between application portlets and task page relationship information in a web-base environment: A display portal page in a web-based environment. This display portlet presents the message communication information between the portlets that are currently running on that portal page. The displayed message communication information indicates the portlet that is the source of a transmitted message and displays one or more portlets that...

20060242247 - Methods and systems for integrating physical mail with electronic mail: The present invention discloses a method and system for integrating physical mail and electronic mail, such that it enables delivery of documents in electronic as well as physical form. In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for enabling the sending of physical mail to a recipient upon receipt...

20060242250 - Methods, systems, and products for indicating receipt of electronic mail: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for delivering an indication of an email message's arrival. The email message is received and identifies at least an addressee. The addressee is looked up in a database that associates multiple addressees to a shared Internet Protocol address. The shared Internet Protocol address is...

20060242245 - Sender identification system and method: A database is queried based upon data contained in a message to obtain sender identification information, at least part of which is not contained in the message as it was sent. The sender identification information is presented to a recipient, which can send a signal accepting or rejecting the message...

20060242248 - Shortcut generator for services accessible via a messaging service system: A method and equipment by which a mobile station (10) is able to request a service of a content provider (23) via a message center (22) (or other server of a communication network) without having to key in an identifier for the service (among other things). The invention includes a...

20060242252 - Extensible scheduling of messages on time-triggered busses: A scheduling algorithm for scheduling messages on a time-triggered bus in a distributed real-time embedded system. The algorithm first determines an initial message schedule for assigning the messages to time slots on the bus so that predetermined precedent relationships are enforced. In one embodiment, the algorithm uses an earliest-deadline-first schedule...

20060242251 - Method and system for filtering spoofed electronic messages: Methods of detecting e-mail messages that are spoofed to appear from internal to a private network are provided. The methods involve examining the header of messages to determine if they purport to originate from internal to the network when in fact they originate external to the network. The presence of...

20060242253 - Method and system for providing tts collect call: A collect call method and system using text to speech (TTS) technology is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of converting information into a voice to be sent to a recipient's communication terminal via a collect call. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises...

20060242254 - Remote control system and access control method for information input apparatus: When an access request (a request for transfer of video and audio information or a request for a camera operation) to a camera apparatus connected to a network via a terminal is issued via the network, a camera management server processes the access request on the basis of an access...

20060242255 - High-speed data readable information processing device: A CAN module receives a message from a CAN bus to store the same in a message box unit of a message box. A reception request signal is output from the message box unit to a DMAC/IF. The DMAC/IF outputs a 7-bit encoded address together with a transfer request signal....

20060242256 - Processing by use of synchronized tuple spaces and assertions: A system for controlling and coordinating activities among entities in an information and process environment comprising a communications pathway for transmitting and receiving communications of the entities, and a shared memory connected to the communications pathway for maintaining a tuple space on which the entities post and receive messages synchronized...

20060242257 - Multi-processor system and message transferring method in the same: A multi-processor system includes a plurality of processors; and a memory section connected with the plurality of processors and configured to store a message transmitted from each of the plurality of processor to another. The memory section has a plurality of priority buffer regions corresponding to a plurality of priority...

20060242258 - File sharing system, file sharing program, management server and client terminal: A file sharing system comprises a client for transmitting only control information on I/O to a server and, based on I/O target determination information received from the server, performing I/O by itself with a disk device, a server for receiving control information from the client and transmitting to the client...

20060242259 - Aggregation and synchronization of nearby media: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media make media content (e.g., audio, video, or pictorial data) from multiple sources available through a single interface of a client device. The client device may be a portable media playing device (such as a laptop, Tablet PC, MP3 player, portable video player, or the like)....

20060242263 - Content reproduction apparatus, and content reproduction method: A content reproduction apparatus including reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data item stored in recording medium storing first server identifier and content data item including destination identifier, reads first server identifier from recording medium, to store first server identifier in table, certifies first server corresponding to first sever identifier,...

20060242260 - Data processing device, registration method, and program: A data processing device according to the present invention can request a first server to transmit identification information for identifying the data processing device and an address of the data processing device to a second server. Moreover, the data processing device can also transmit the identification information for identifying the...

20060242262 - Method for downloading content from a server onto a recording medium as well as recording medium being suitable therefor: d

20060242264 - Network file sharing method and system: A method for writing file data from client to server which comprises writing file data from a client to a server, wherein the client issues to the server a file transfer proposal that includes the names of a plurality of files to be transferred and attributes of each of the...

20060242261 - System and method for information technology assessment: According to the present invention system and method, an assessment of IT resources is made utilizing a comprehensive approach to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of IT departments and/or IT resources. One or more assessment professionals, perhaps utilizing (or replaced by) various software modules, formulate an assessment by combining...

20060242265 - Projector and image generating method thereof: A projector for projecting an image is disclosed. The projector includes a memory device containing a plurality of memory blocks for storing a plurality of image data respectively corresponding to different image sources; an integrating module coupled to the memory device for selectively reading the plurality of image data from...

20060242266 - Rules-based extraction of data from web pages: A rule creation application uses a reference web page, and user input regarding information displayed thereon, to generate a rule for extracting such information from the web page. The rule uses a structured graph representation of the web page, such as the page's Document Object Model (DOM), to extract the...

20060242267 - System and method for consumer engagement and revenue optimization: The invention is an apparatus and method that targets communications devices with content from service providers, third party content providers, sponsors, promotional partners and advertisers. The invention matches the content with communications device users using customer profiles or device usage profiles and transmits the content to communications devices over a...

20060242269 - Hybrid distribution method for playable media: A hybrid distribution system and method for distributing/temporarily renting playable media items, such as movies in a digital format. The distribution system includes a first option in which a title is delivered in a ranking order identified by the subscriber and based on an allocation priority associated with the subscriber...

20060242268 - Mobile radiology system with automated dicom image transfer and pps queue management: A system and method for providing efficient DICOM image transfer and PPS information management in a mobile RAD system. Various aspects of the present invention provide a method that comprises a mobile RAD system performing radiology examination activities (e.g., including acquiring X-ray image and/or PPS information). Such performance of radiology...

20060242273 - Data backup and transfer system, method and computer program product: A file backup system, method and computer program product connects an account user's computer to a remote, secure, redundant system computer via the Internet. The system operates to copy selected data between the account user's computer and the system computer including, documents, music files, image files, and email in any...

20060242270 - Isolation of user-mode device drivers: A host process for use in a user-mode device driver architecture is provided by the subject invention. The architecture includes a reflector, a driver manager and the host process which hosts and isolates one or more user-mode device driver(s). The user-mode device driver runs in the user-mode (UM) environment and...

20060242272 - Method, device, system and computer program product for transmitting setting data: A method of transmitting setting data from a terminal device to target devices on a network is provided. The method includes the steps of preparing new setting data for the target devices, obtaining current setting data to which the target devices are currently set, comparing the new setting data with...

20060242274 - Protecting system for data used by java applications: The invention relates to a method for protecting data used by Java applications and a device using the method. The writer of a Java application adds to its attribute table an attribute signifying the need to protect the data used by the application. When the application is loaded into the...

20060242271 - System and method for accessing devices with a console server: A system and method for accessing a plurality of devices with a console server. The plurality of devices includes a first device having a console port and a second device having a network connection. A port of a console server is communicatively coupled to a first device. A network connection...

20060242276 - System and method for remotely configuring testing laboratories: The invention provides a system for remotely configuring a plurality of devices to customize a lab network system for testing components and for training operators to use and maintain such systems. The system is configured to remotely access and control such a system via a computer network such as the...

20060242275 - System, method, and computer program product for remotely determining the configuration of a multi-media content user: A method for remotely determining the configuration of a computer of a multimedia content user includes sending player detection code the user's computer and receiving configuration information regarding the user's computer. A method of determining a connection speed of a computer includes determining a size of a timing block based...

20060242277 - Automated change approval: An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method may include facilitating creation of a first memorialization, in digital form, of first one or more changes made to a first data processing device of the data processing environment. In various embodiments,...

20060242279 - Methods of wireless data synchronization and supporting apparatus and readable medium: In the present technique of wireless data synchronization, a data synchronization request to wirelessly synchronize data related to the request with a server is intercepted (304). Synchronization information of the data synchronization request to the server is assessed (306) to determine (308) whether the synchronization information corresponds in at least...

20060242278 - System and method for enabling a person to switch use of computing devices: A method is provided to enable the person to switch use of computing devices when working with records and/or documents. A method such as described may be implemented for an individual operating two (or more) computing devices that share and synchronize sets of records. One or more operations may be...

20060242280 - Out-of-band platform initialization: The present disclosure relates to attempting to initialize and configure a device utilizing a remote server and, more specifically, to attempting to initialize a device with low level device configuration information that is stored on a remote server or servers....

20060242288 - inferential diagnosing engines for grid-based computing systems: Disclosed herein is the creation and utilization of automated diagnostic agents that are used by service engineers to diagnose faults, errors and other events or conditions within a grid-based computing system, and provide a derived list of suspect root causes for the events. Related computerized processes and network architectures and...

20060242287 - Detection of duplicated network addresses: The present invention relates to an access unit for coupling a plurality of subscribers to a data communication network, and comprising an auto-configuration control unit adapted to learn, from first auto-configuration data issued by an auto-configuration server and transiting through said access unit towards a particular subscriber coupled to said...

20060242284 - Generating mibs from wmi classes: The present invention is concerned with translating the object relationship model used in WMI to a tree-based structure (such as an OID tree structure) that will expose all functionality to a remote SNMP management system. A set of pre-specified WMI qualifiers is provided such that a developer, when creating WMI...

20060242290 - Integrated service management system for remote customer support: The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation, management, and access control of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitable network services, for example. In representative embodiments, techniques for constructing integrated network and storage...

20060242282 - Method and system for visualizing network performace characteristics: Techniques for visualizing and monitoring the quality of service for a computer network. Herein, a method and system monitor network transactions and behaviors for the computing network, which computing network includes one or more client subnets accessing one or more servers, The monitoring may be independent of client site monitors....

20060242289 - Methods and systems for communications path analysis: The present invention provides an automated mechanism for technicians located remotely from a network operations center to query a communications system for the status of communications paths. An automated capability is also provided for the remote management and testing of network components along a communications path in order to more...

20060242281 - Network management system of virtual private network and the method thereof: The present invention provides a Network Management System (NMS) of Virtual Private Network (VPN), comprising the provider NMS and the customer NMS, characterized in that: there is a customer network management agent functional module between the provider NMS and the customer NMS, said module is connected with the OSF functional...

20060242285 - Sensor network system and data transfer method for sensing data: To suppress a server processing load and a network load in a sensor network which accommodates a great number of mobile sensor nodes. Among a plurality of distributed data processing servers (DDS) for managing data of sensor nodes, a distributed data processing server (DDS) that is a home server to...

20060242283 - System and method for managing local storage resources to reduce i/o demand in a storage area network: An information handling system for managing local storage resources includes multiple client nodes, each with an associated local storage resource. An intelligent switch includes a read management module operable to receive a read request for a selected memory block from a client node and compare the read request with a...

20060242286 - Systems and methods for controlling error reporting and resolution: Various system and method embodiments are disclosed that include using a first node to receive messages including error information from a plurality of client computers via a computer network. Recommendations for resolving errors associated with the error information are made available to the client computers via the computer network....

20060242293 - system for managing patient medical data derived from a plurality of medical devices: A system for managing patient medical data derived from at least first and second medical devices acquiring respective medical data from a patient includes a proximity detector, for use by the first medical device, for detecting proximity of the second medical device. A command processor responds to the detection of...

20060242291 - Method and device for determining and notifying users having matching preference profiles for accessing a multiple access online application: Method and device for starting a multiple access to a multiple access online application such as an online game. The method enables a plurality of mobile terminal devices each being connected to a wireless communication network and each being related to a user, to participate multiple access online application. The...

20060242295 - Mobile hub and managing events in a mobile hub: A mobile hub is proposed, the mobile hub includes a circular buffer for storing events, a timer for monitoring the storage period of an event stored in the buffer, and an event manager designed for discarding an event from the buffer when a time-out of the associated timer is exceeded....

20060242294 - Router-host logging: According to a general aspect, a method includes receiving, at a network interface device at a user location, a request from a first machine located at the user location, the request including a first-machine identifier and a request to access through the network interface device a first location on a...

20060242292 - System, apparatus and method for characterizing messages to discover dependencies of services in service-oriented architectures: A system, apparatus, computer readable medium and method are disclosed for identifying underlying services of transactions in a service-oriented architecture (“SOA”)-based computer network. In one embodiment, a computer readable medium includes executable instructions to characterize messages communicating among services to form characterizations of the messages. Also included are executable instructions...

20060242297 - Database cluster systems and methods for maintaining client connections: Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure include a highly available database cluster that can maintain a connection with potentially geographically remote client application programs, including non-fault tolerant application programs, even in the event of one of the database management systems (DBMS) of the cluster becoming unavailable. For example, the...

20060242296 - Method of adding new users to a web based portal server: A method of adding new user's to a web based portal server such as Microsoft SharePoint® by detecting a new user's request and interrogating the proper domain controllers to determine if the user has a single active directory domain account. Then completing the add user process with the proper active...

20060242298 - Load balancing according to an iterative greatest common divisor approach to weight normalization: A method, system and apparatus for load balancing workloads in a cluster according to an iterative greatest common divisor approach to weight normalization. A load balancing method can include computing a greatest common divisor for a set of current normalized values for raw weights corresponding to endpoints in a cluster....

20060242300 - Load balancing server and system: When load balancing (LB) for SIP message communication is performed across multiple SIP servers, the number of messages that must be processed by an LB server is reduced. The SIP LB server includes an LB management means which, if the previous hop source of a received request message is a...

20060242299 - Method and apparatus for distributing requests among a plurality of resources: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in mathematical mapping space. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the mathematical mapping space. The...

20060242306 - Child-oriented computing facilities: An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems for providing a child-oriented computing system....

20060242304 - Communication apparatus and its control method: A wireless communication apparatus recognizes whether an information input apparatus is in a wirelessly communicable state at periods shorter than a disconnection waiting time in an information transfer protocol which transfers information between the information input apparatus and an information output apparatus. If the wireless communication apparatus recognizes that the...

20060242301 - Dns compatible pnrp peer name encoding: A method of converting a peer name to a PNRP DNS is disclosed. The method may take a peer name and encode it into a common DNS name. The method may also take a PNRP DNS name and convert it to a peer name....

20060242307 - Method of providing location service over ims network: A method of providing Location Services (LCS) over an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network in a wireless communication system is provided. An LCS client transmits a service connection request message including a message requesting the location information of a User Equipment (UE). The UE transmits the location information to...

20060242302 - Proof-of-service (pos) workflow customization via task extension: Task extensions for a proof-of-service (POS) system allow easy customization without requiring modification to the POS application itself. Current preferences capability is used to specify new tasks, which are downloaded to the device during an administrative sync process. The new workflows are detected at runtime. This provides a way to...

20060242303 - System and method for enabling residential and mobile consumer collaboration: A system and method are described herein that can be used to establish a new type of conference (e.g., collaboration) between a leader and one or more participants. In one embodiment, the leader downloads media (e.g., digital photos) from a consumer appliance device (e.g., digital camera) into a network connected...

20060242305 - Vpn proxy management object: Current specifications/proposals use client provisioning or device management for provisioning bearer-specific configuration and application-specific configuration of communication devices. A proxy management object (MO) can, for example, set up tunnels according to particular protocols between application MOs and a generic connectivity MO. A communication device's application configuration can then refer to...

20060242309 - Community-based parental controls: According to a general aspect, a method includes maintaining rating groups, each rating group providing a rating for content compiled based on information received from a user evaluating the content. The method also includes receiving, from a first user, a selection of a first rating group, from among the rating...

20060242308 - Node synchronization for multi-processor computer systems: A method and apparatus for controlling access by a set of accessing nodes to memory of a home node (in a multimode computer system) determines that each node in the set of nodes has accessed the memory, and forwards a completion message to each node in the set of nodes...

20060242310 - Session initiation from application servers in an ip multimedia subsystem: The present invention provides a technique where application servers can initiate sessions within the IMS network by initially sending session initiation messages to the I-CSCF. By routing the session initiation messages to the I-CSCF, the application servers need not directly access the HSSs in order to initiate sessions. Upon receiving...

20060242311 - Virtual multicasting: A method and system of virtual multicasting content is disclosed. The method and system disclosed enable the receipt of virtual multicast content without requiring the expensive investment in the infrastructure necessary for a network to be multicast enabled. The virtual multicasting may be performed according to a method of virtual...

20060242313 - Network content processor including packet engine: Packets received over a network are routed using a packet engine of the invention based on information contained in layer 4 or above. The information for switching is contained in the header information of the packet. Based on this higher level information, the packet engine may drop the packet, redirect...

20060242312 - Tunneling sata targets through fibre channel: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed To send SATA FISs to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller,...

20060242314 - Delay management of presentation output system and method: A system and method of delivering synchronized audio and audio/video signals in the form of analog signals and streamed data over networks such a hybrid power line communications network is described. Signal magnitude matching by monitoring directly feed audio outputs is also provided....

20060242315 - System and method for intelligent buffering and bandwidth allocation: A method comprises generating a bitrate template comprising a histogram of bitrate as a function of time for each of a plurality of previously-encoded multimedia programs, each bitrate template indicating actual bitrate requirements for every given point of time within the associated multimedia program, and, prior to transmitting one of...

20060242316 - Mechanism for transferring data between network nodes: According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method includes initiating a transfer of data from a source computer system to a receiving computer system, rebooting the source computer system, receiving a negative acknowledge (Nack) at the source computer system from the receiving computer system and resuming the transfer...

20060242317 - Non-blocking, multi-context pipelined processor: A packet processor whose processing capabilities are optimized by concurrently processing multiple packets within various pipelined stages. At each stage, multiple packets are processed via an internally pipelined sub-processor. In one embodiment, the packets are processed in a round robin fashion. When a particular packet is done processing at a...

20060242318 - Method and apparatus for cascading media: A method and apparatus is presented for distributing data among media servers in a network. Methods implemented in accordance with the teachings of the present invention facilitate load balancing across the network. In one embodiment, a client-side load-balancing method is presented. In a second embodiment, a server-side load-balancing method is...

20060242319 - Service differentiated downlink scheduling in wireless packet data systems: A base station design for a wireless communication system is disclosed with a hierarchical scheduler for packet data services which is advantageously both traffic-aware and channel-dependent in a manner which enhances the users' perception of network performance. In one embodiment, a cross-layer hierarchical scheduler is disclosed which further comprises an...

20060242320 - Method and apparatus for polling: A method and apparatus for performing polling is presented. Polling servers include the intelligence and as such may control polling clients. What is polled, when it is polled and how it is polled is controlled by the polling server and may be dynamically changed and any time. As such, the...

20060242323 - Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a physical location of a sensor: A method that determines a physical location of an unknown position device (UPD) in a communication network including a plurality of known position devices (KDPs), in which a message transmitted by the UPD is received by plural KDPs. The method includes measuring a signal quality of each received message received...

20060242321 - Priority based differentiated dns processing: Prioritizing requests made to a domain name system server to translate domain names into Internet Protocol addresses. First, the request is received in the domain name server. Next, the request is prioritized based on the source sending the request. Finally, the request is processed according to a priority assigned to...

20060242322 - Trans-network roaming and resolution with web services for devices: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate automated network address determinations and communications between roaming peers. In one aspect, a network communications system is provided. The system includes methods for updating a resolution provider with a current host transport address and for determining a roaming hosts service address and port...

20060242324 - Data replacement output apparatus and method: The data replacement output apparatus 10 determines whether to perform a sequential output of replacement data based on a comparison between (i) the number of units of data constituting replacement object data received during a time period and (ii) the number of units of data constituting replacement data output during...

20060242325 - Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata: A transcoder is adapted to perform transcoding of metadata to enable sharing and consumption of media content at dissimilar devices that are coupled to a home network. The transcoder, which is also coupled to the home network, is adapted to receive media content and metadata from a first media consumption...

20060242326 - System and method for independently enforcing time based policies in a digital device: A method and system for enforcing time based usage policies for resources within a digital device without requiring a continuous power source and without requiring a connection to a secure server following an initial connection. Several embodiments of time measuring apparatus are presented....

20060242327 - System and method for data synchronization: Data is synchronized among multiple web servers, each of which is coupled to a common data server. Each web server retrieves a scheduled activation time from the data server. If the current time is prior to the scheduled activation time, then each web server retrieves updated data from the data...

20060242328 - Power management for wlan: Computer-implemented methods for power management of network interface devices are disclosed. Such methods may include dividing a time period into a plurality of time slots, determining an amount of data received by the network interface device during a first of the time slots, and determining whether the amount of data...

20060235925 - Client-server system and method thereof for providing multimedia and interactive services to mobile terminals: Multimedia service contents are provided to user terminals in a wireless communication network, such as, a GPRS or UMTS network, by generating delivery packets that convey both the multimedia service contents and a corresponding service logic. These delivery packets are received and interpreted by means of an interpreter at the...

20060235926 - Portable communication apparatus: A portable communication apparatus is provided, in which a plurality of event information items are acquired, each of which includes information acquired when a user executes a predetermined function of mobile phone and a date and time of this execution, and the plurality of event information items are stored in...

20060235927 - System and method for synchronizing distributed data streams for automating real-time navigation through presentation slides: A system and method for synchronizing distributed data streams for automating real-time navigation through presentation slides in an electronic conference are provided. With the system and method, a participant in an electronic conference is permitted to navigate back and forth through a series of presentation slides while being able to...

20060235928 - System and method for creating a mapping document for binding messages between an application and an associated backend server: A mapping module for executing in combination with an application design tool. The mapping module includes a correlation unit and a map creation unit. The correlation unit is configured to determine a relationship between a message in an application and a message element in an interface to a corresponding backend...

20060235929 - Electronic message notification: A technique that allows a recipient of an electronic message to be notified that the electronic message has been received for the recipient. A notification message containing an address of the recipient is used to notify an intelligent gateway in a communications network that an electronic message has been received...

20060235930 - Method to counter junk e-mail by limiting validity of e-mail addresses: A restrictive e-mail system restricts the receiving of junk e-mail by limiting the validity of an e-mail address that can be used at a firewall. An arbitrary e-mail address is allocated for the e-mail directed to each recipient which is unknown to the firewall. A validity stamp is attached to...

20060235931 - System for two-way exchange of personal data over mobile telephone networks: A system for two-way exchange of personal data over mobile telephone networks is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a mobile telephone running a Mobile Translator Program, a Wireless Transport Gateway embodying a Wireless Transport Protocol and connected to an Application Server, said Application Server including a Data Repository,...

20060235932 - Chat server mute capability: A method for enhancing chat sessions to include a server based mute capability. The method can include the step of a chat server receiving a mute indicator from at least one client participating in a chat session established by the chat server. The chat server can determine from the mute...

20060235934 - Diminishing false positive classifications of unsolicited electronic-mail: A system and method for diminishing false positive classifications of unsolicited electronic-mail is disclosed. An electronic-mail message is received whereby a set of message classifiers are applied the message. One or more signatures indicative of unsolicited electronic-mail based on at least the application of the aforementioned classifiers is generated. The...

20060235933 - Method and system for activity based email sorting: Messages of a user are ranked based on metrics derived from user actions with regard to the messages. Groupings of messages, such as conversations or a set of messages that are determined to be similar, may also be ranked. When new messages are received, their interest to the user is...

20060235935 - Method and apparatus for using business rules or user roles for selecting portlets in a web portal: An embodiment of the invention includes means to select portal resources (portlets, page and page groups) as displayed to a user based on pluggable rules engine; a rules database; and a portlet application aggregation engine which applies rules to select and display selected portlets, pages and page groups to a...

20060235936 - System and method for pacs workstation conferencing: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an improved medical imaging and information management system and method with conferencing and control capability. Certain embodiments of the system include an initiator workstation capable of remotely controlling functionality at a slave workstation and a slave workstation including functionality capable of control by...

20060235937 - System and method for processing commands in a storage enclosure: A system and method for receiving and responding to issued commands in a storage enclosure is disclosed in which each storage enclosure processor of the storage enclosure is coupled to each expander of the storage enclosure. Each storage enclosure processor receives each interrupt and command issued by another expander of...

20060235939 - Apparatus and methods for tunneling a media streaming application through a firewall: When transmitting multimedia data associated with a multimedia application, a TCP/IP connection is established between a client application and a server application. UDP data is intercepted at an application level from one or more UDP data ports and channeled into one or more tunneling TCP data connections. TCP data is...

20060235946 - Console input/output control system and console control device: A system to control a plurality of server computers as a group on a single client computer. An input/output (I/O) control system controls the command input/output from a plurality of consoles to a single server. The input/output control system controls the I/O status of the commands from each console to...

20060235943 - Image forming apparatus and information processing method: An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an object that is stored in a location identified by a URI (uniform resource identifier) that is input, a printing unit configured to print the object that is obtained by the obtaining unit, a storage unit configured to store...

20060235944 - Method and system for a home screen editor in smartphone devices: A home screen editor technique is described for use in smartphone devices having an operating system (OS) capable of executing an application and/or interacting with an application executed on a remote computer that affects the smartphone. One such technique collates at least one application associated Plug-in data from different sources,...

20060235940 - Method and system for sharing personal attributes, sharing/ insertion/ terminal modules, internet access provider, proxy server, services provider and computer program for this method: In this method of sharing personal attributes of a user between several on-line services providers, a Proxy server of an Internet access provider spliced into the flow between the terminal and the world wide web, intercepts an attributes request addressed to a user terminal and redirects it automatically to a...

20060235945 - Software architecture for wireless data and method of operation thereof: A software architecture, data model, and access protocol to facilitate real time, session-based access to server-based data from low bandwidth wireless computing devices....

20060235938 - System and method for delivery of information based on web page content: The present invention provides a system for determining when to present information to a user based on web page content. The system includes a retriever engine, a display engine, and a parser engine. The retriever engine transmits a domain to a server. In response, the server transmits information to be...

20060235941 - System and method for transferring web page data: A system and method are disclosed which may include accessing an Internet site by a proxy server; converting image data from the Internet site into a multiresolution representation; and transmitting the image data in said multiresolution representation to a client device....

20060235942 - System for processing requests to portlets: For processing a request to a portlet, for use with an environment comprising a first data processing system having one or more portlets and a publish/subscribe broker, a system comprises means, responsive to receiving the request, for executing a first component and a second component associated with the portlet, wherein...

20060235947 - Methods and apparatus for performing diagnostics of web applications and services: A method and apparatus for performing a diagnostic of a web based client server application. The web based client server application comprising a web application code, a web application framework, a web server, and a web client. The method comprising an act of collecting diagnostic data associated with the execution...

20060235952 - Exactly once jms communication: A system for managing a JMS message store in a clustered network includes an object acting as a message store for Java Message Service (JMS). A lead server is selected from several clustered servers. The lead server uses a distributed consensus algorithm to select a host server, utilizing multicast messaging...

20060235949 - Firmware update method for automatically updating firmware of a plurality of electronic devices and network thereof: A firmware update method used in a network. The network includes a firmware server, an update initiator, and a plurality of electronic devices. The method includes the following steps: transmitting an update initiating command from the update initiator to each of the electronic devices; transmitting a firmware update request from...

20060235951 - Industrial controller interface providing standardized object access: An interface for an industrial control system provides, at a server side, a set of objects for programmer use. Instances of object provider objects, linked to each of the software objects, provide a uniform interface for the software objects allowing software objects from different vendors to be used while preserving...

20060235948 - Managed access to information over data networks: A system for providing a user with access to an information site hosting information with controlled access, such as an e-Learning content provider. The user logs on to a management site such a learning management system and is authenticated by the management site. The user requests the management site for...

20060235950 - Personal internet portal (pip): The disclosure is directed to a limited application computing device including a processor having an input device interface responsive to user input devices, an output interface to provide communication to a display device, a memory interface to access at least one solid-state memory device, and a network interface coupled to...

20060235953 - Systems and methods for installing, configuring, and supporting computer networks: A computer networking package that, in various embodiments, comprises: (1) networking software that installs, configures, and manages a home networking system; and (2) a service contract for providing phone or Internet-based technical support for the software and/or hardware used in the home networking system. In various embodiments, the networking software...

20060235957 - Connection management method, system, and program product: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing a connection. In particular, the invention manages connection information in memory based on an expected usage of the corresponding connection. Connection information can be stored in faster memory, such as cache memory, when the connection is expected to have...

20060235956 - Information process distribution system, information processing apparatus and information process distribution method: An apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a process of information relating to a content which applies a high load to a CPU can be processed efficiently in a distributed manner. A request source information processing apparatus transmits a process type of the process to be executed, and receives identification...

20060235955 - Method and system for remote server administration: Methods and systems for enabling remote server administration using a terminal device of a wireless network. The terminal device is hosted by an application gateway designed to mediate signalling between the terminal device and web services of a data network. A web service implementing administration functionality for one or more...

20060235954 - Methods and systems for managing network information objects: Methods and systems that substantially reduce the burden of fulfilling network management request response details...

20060235958 - System, computer program product and method for managing and controlling a local network of electronic devices: A method, control device and computer program product for remotely controlling wireless network devices broadcasting a wireless menu request from a control device to electronic devices connected to a wireless local area network (LAN), receiving a wireless menu response from one of the electronic devices, selecting the one of the...

20060235968 - Command line interface processor: A method of interacting with a managed data network entity is provided. The method includes a sequence of steps. A change in the operational state of the managed data network entity is detected. A CLI dictionary entry is retrieved form a CLI dictionary associated with the data network entity. Based...

20060235960 - Method for blocking network advertising: The present invention discloses a method for blocking network advertising, which comprises the steps of installing a blocking software program having at least one blocking module in the storage medium of an electronic device, each blocking module has different blocking conditions going with a corresponding processing condition respectively, such that...

20060235965 - Method for quantifying the propensity to respond to an advertisement: A method of quantifying the propensity of a consumer to respond positively to an advertisement. The process begins by producing a set of training factors from the entire set of user data available, one set of such factors being associated with each advertisement under study to indicate the probability of...

20060235962 - Model-based system monitoring: Model-based system monitoring includes accessing a model of a system that includes multiple components and executing a monitoring policy to monitor performance of the system. A notification of a problem is received from a first component. A determination is made regarding the cause of the problem. The determination is made,...

20060235959 - Network connection management method and electronic apparatus: Disclosed is a method for supervising the network connection employing an electronic apparatus employing in turn an OS (operating system) of a non-event driven system. The electronic apparatus includes a connector jack (11) for LAN, an access controller (12) for detecting that a LAN cable (22) has been connected to...

20060235964 - Policy based auditing of workflows: An auditing system is disclosed comprising a Policy Validation Mechanism Program (PVMP) that operates in conjunction with a Workflow Engine (WE), and a Policy Validation Server Program (PVSP) that operates on a Policy Validation Server (PVS) connected to the WE by a secure communication link. The PVMP converts a workflow...

20060235966 - Predefined live chat session: Directing qualified respondents into communication with a moderator of a chat session for collection of qualitative information, includes soliciting an audience for participation in an on-line survey which is conducted through a network with one or more client devices, gathering data from the audience during the survey, selecting qualified respondents...

20060235967 - System and method for exchange of information amongst peers in a peer to peer wireless network: A method and system for exchanging information amongst a plurality of peers. A first peer collects environment data related to an environment proximate to the first peer, which may for example be associated with a traffic or weather condition proximate to the first peer. The first peer transmits the environment...

20060235963 - System and method for exposing a synchronous web service as a notification web service: A method for exposing a synchronous worldwide web service as a notification web service includes polling a synchronous web server at a predetermined frequency, and forwarding selected responses in notification messages to service subscribers. A system for performing the method may include a subscription manager that serves as a client...

20060235961 - System and method utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node for measuring the roundtrip response time of web pages with embedded html frames over a public or private network: A computer-based system and method utilizing a single response time monitor, located on a non-origin node of a public or private network, for measuring the total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request having embedded HTML frames. The response time monitor builds a relationship...

20060235971 - Method and apparatus for simple network management protocol bulk information processing: A method is disclosed for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) bulk information processing. A request for a plurality of object instances stored in a storage space is received. The request specifies a condition and a maximum number of repetitions. The values of one or more object instances of the plurality...

20060235970 - System and method for exposing synchronous web services as notification style web services: A system and method for asynchronous processing of network communications between a client device and a respective synchronous web service. The system and method comprises: an input for receiving a subscription request; a subscription module configured for processing the received subscription request to identify subscription request data in the subscription...

20060235972 - System, network device, method, and computer program product for active load balancing using clustered nodes as authoritative domain name servers: A cluster of devices is provided that shares a domain name and functions as the authoritative name server for the domain. Each device or node in the cluster would typically repeatedly announce status information to all the other nodes in the cluster, such that all the nodes in the cluster...

20060235969 - Systems and methods for online information exchange using server-mediated communication routing: The invention, in one embodiment, relates to facilitating communications between a user and one or more members of one or more groups by routing the communications from the user to particular group members based, at least in part, for example, on information known about: the communication; the one or more...

20060235974 - Load distribution method in which delivery server is selected based on the maximum number of simultaneous sessions set for each content: A session management database stores, in association with each delivery server, a total of the maximum numbers of simultaneous sessions, which is a total value of the maximum numbers of simultaneous sessions accumulated in the delivery server, the maximum number of simultaneous sessions being the number of sessions simultaneously connectable...

20060235975 - Method, system and computer program for managing data transmission: The present invention discloses a method and system for managing data transmission. A method in accordance with the present invention includes the steps of: determining available network resources between a device and a remote server; choosing a network resource from the available network resources with a bandwidth which is greater...

20060235973 - Network services infrastructure systems and methods: Network services infrastructure systems and methods are disclosed. Policies for client access to a services network and network services available in the services network are enforced at client gateways. Once authenticated and authorized at a client gateway, a client of the services network may make its own network service(s) available...

20060235980 - Enabling voip calls to be initiated when a call server is unavailable: Providing fail_over call processing services by sniffing signaling traffic, without the overhead of configuring/provisioning terminals (phones), call servers etc. According to an aspect of the present invention, the integrated device operates as a backup call server when external call servers are unavailable. In one embodiment, the integrated device checks whether...

20060235982 - Information appliance and access control method: An information appliance accesses content stored in a content server through a computer network. The information appliance includes: a first IP address information acquisition unit that acquires URI information of the content from the content server and extracts first IP address information contained in the URI information; a second IP...

20060235983 - Message exchanger: Using a message exchanger (“message exchanger”), data messages are exchanged between entities in a decentralized, distributed, potentially heterogeneous, network environment. The message exchanger employs XML (extensible Markup Language). To accomplish this, the entities on both ends of the message exchange understand, identify, and parse the message format. The message exchanger...

20060235976 - Method and apparatus for metadata driven web service mediation: A mechanism lets a service consumer add mediation metadata in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message and lets a service provider perform server side mediation based on the pre-defined mediation metadata. A client side mediation engine is plugged into a client SOAP engine. When the client side mediation engine...

20060235979 - Method of navigation in at least one graphic user interface, corresponding computer program product, storage means and controller: A method of navigation in at least one graphic user interface coming from a device included in a communications network comprising a plurality of devices, comprises the following steps implemented in a controller connected to a display device: the detection of a first navigation command signal coming from a remote-control...

20060235977 - Offloading data path functions: Input/Output (I/O) protocol operations such as iSCSI protocol operations may be selectively offloaded to an I/O protocol offload device, or retained by a host driver software. In one embodiment, iSCSI data transfer functions are offloaded to an offload device while session and connection establishing and maintenance operations are retained by...

20060235981 - Providing a second service to a group of users using a first service: The invention relates to providing services to a group of users, wherein the group of users is assigned to a first service, the group being identified by a common group identity, and each of the users assigned to the first service may have different states regarding the first service. The...

20060235978 - System and method for connecting wireless applications to heterogeneous backend servers via a gateway server: A connector facilitates delivery of a message received from an application to one of a plurality of heterogeneous backend servers via a gateway server. The message is defined in a schema-based description document in accordance with a set of predefined criteria specific to the connector. The connector comprises a processor...

20060235984 - Collaborative web page authoring: Collaborative web pages are enabled which allow every page on a website to be editable by an author and by others the author lets access the site. Web pages can send and receive email messages. Users can attach files to pages. Structure queries and page-building are enabled by use of...

20060235985 - Fine granularity access control for a storage area network: A SAN management software program controls access to resources in the SAN by associating individual users with one or more administration domains. A user that is associated with an administration domain that includes a port of a SAN switch can configure or otherwise access the port but is restricted from...

20060235986 - Web service processing apparatus and method: A web service processing apparatus and method web services can provide by combining web services. The web service processing apparatus includes a registration unit where a plurality of web services are compounded and registered through predetermined conditions, a storage unit where the registered web service lists are stored, and an...

20060235987 - Information communication device and method for selecting protocol: An information communication device has a storage medium that stores information to determine a target information communication device on a network. A selection unit selects at least one protocol from plural protocols for obtaining information on other information communication devices on the basis of the stored information. A generating unit...

20060235988 - Apparatus and method for communicating over a distributed system of computers: A communications system particularly suited for a distributed network of computers such as the World Wide Web or the Internet. Connected to the distributed network is a broadcast computer which simultaneously communicates two streams of video. The first stream of video is of entertainment content; the second stream of video...

20060235990 - Method and apparatus for controlling data flows in distributed storage systems: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for controlling data flow. A control message is formed for the data flow in response to an event while the data flow is occurring. The control message includes a data type, an action, and a duration. The control message is sent to a receiver...

20060235989 - Shutoff valve for mechanically sealed orvr system: A vapor vent/tipping valve has a diaphragm with a bleed therethrough responsive to the differential pressure of bleed flow to control vapor venting to the canister and vapor recirculation to the filler tube. A dip tube causes rising fuel in the tank to close the dip tube and prevent vapor...

20060235991 - Probabalistic throttling of application server requests: A servlet filter receives all incoming requests for dynamic content and can be used to ensure that the load on a server does not become too great during the time the server is engaged in start-up. The filter is configured to be the first filter encountered and will evaluate a...

20060235992 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for data compression of network packets: Methods, apparatus and computer readable code for compression, encoding and decoding of units of data such as packets are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods, apparatus and computer readable code for transmitting and/or receiving the data packets (for example, transmitting from a sending location to a receiving location where packets are...

20060235995 - Method and system for implementing a high availability vlan: A network node is described herein which ensures that whenever an ingress station (e.g., PC) communicates a special MAC DA packet then that packet's copies are forwarded (via a high availability VLAN) to its port(s) that are associated with remote network node(s) and/or egress server(s) (e.g., firewall(s)) and not forwarded...

20060235996 - Method for operating a packet based data network: A method for operating a packet based data network (21; 31), the data network (21; 31) comprising a multitude of nodes (A, B, C, D) and a shared data bus (22; 32), wherein at least some of the nodes (A, B, C, D) add traffic to the data bus (22;...

20060235994 - System and method for routing communication sessions based on priority, presence and preference information: A communications system includes a presence server for collecting presence information and preference information for a presentity. The presence information includes availability of devices of the presentity, and the preference information includes a priority level for one or more initiators and preference indications for each media type supported by each...

20060235993 - System and method for utilizing multicast ip and ethernet to locate and distribute a satellite signal: A system and method for distributing satellite television program signals utilizes IP and Ethernet multicast addresses to define and allow the acquisition and/or distribution of a particular satellite television program signal. The satellite program identification data or parameters for the particular satellite program signal are encoded by an IP multicast...

20060235997 - Methods and sytems for resolving internet protocol (ip) address conflicts using agents for a zero configuration network: Systems and methods are provided for resolving Internet Protocol (IP) address conflicts using agents in the zero configuration network. Agent's originate at respective nodes on the zero configuration network. Each agent and each node logs a localized shared memory table (SMT) providing identifying information pertaining to other nodes on the...

20060235998 - Off-loading data formatting to a communicatively coupled client: A method, system and apparatus for offloading the data formatting task to the client-side. A method for off-loading data formatting to a communicatively coupled client can include identifying formatting of raw data in a server-side response to a client-side request for processing. Optionally, the identifying step further can include receiving...

20060230099 - File cache-controllable computer system: An object of this invention is to speed up file access and shorten the switching time upon failure. There is provided a computer system with plural storage systems and plural servers, in which: the storage systems each have a disk drive for storing files read/written by the servers and a...

20060230098 - Routing requests to destination application server partitions via universal partition contexts: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a request and an associated universal partition context, determine a destination application server partition based on a context of the request and a partitioning scheme, and route the request and the universal partition context to the destination server...

20060230102 - Automated training program generation and distribution system: A system for generating and distributing training programs includes a program server, a library of program sections and templates and a program generator. A participant sends a request for a program that is matched to one of the templates. The template is then used by the program generator to assemble...

20060230104 - Client in a client-server network and a method of operation: A client, in particular in a mobile terminal device, contains a memory unit external to a server. A server configuration is loaded in the client such that an application is self-dependently executable in the client. The client comprises, for example, an input-/output unit, a first module, an internal connection and...

20060230103 - Method for reproducing configuration of a computer system in a remote site: A computer system that has formerly handled a service is quickly reproduced with another computer system to resume the service immediately. The association relations between services run by a primary site (1) and primary site servers (13) are collected. The association relations between the primary site servers (13) and a...

20060230105 - Method of providing a remote desktop session with the same look and feel as a local desktop: In a client-server system, a method providing windows of applications running on server nodes the same look and feel as windows of applications running on a client node, and providing remote virtual desktops with the same look and feel as the local desktop on the client node, including: (a) providing...

20060230101 - Telecommunications system for diffusing a multimedia flux through a public communication network: A telecommunication system has at least one conference bridge for transmitting at least one flow of stimuli to several active users. A data server receives data coming from at least one terminal. A compilation device (1) collects the flow of stimuli on the one hand and synchronisation information relating to...

20060230100 - Web content transcoding system and method for small display device: Disclosed is a web content converting system and method for converting a large display screen web document into a small display screen web document. The system can include a preprocessor for standardizing a web document for analysis; a client profile analyzer for extracting and managing client information; a structure analyzer;...

20060230108 - Information display system: An information display system includes a sensor which measures a state of each part of a body of a user, an active state identifying section which identifies an active state of the user based on a measurement result, an information estimating section which estimates information required by the user based...

20060230107 - Method and computer-readable medium for multimedia playback and recording in a peer-to-peer network: A method and computer-readable medium for storing content in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A client of a peer-to-peer network receives a plurality of data blocks that respectively include a portion of the content. One or more of the plurality of data blocks are pseudo-randomly selected. The selected data block...

20060230106 - System and method for real-time feedback with conservative network usage in a teleconferencing system: Disclosed herein are teleconferencing devices having remote access monitoring and control functions, and network systems and methods including and using the same. Also disclosed herein are methods for interacting with teleconferencing devices over an HTTP or other network service utilizing a persistent network connection and systems which implement the methods....

20060230110 - Apparatus and system for managing multiple computers: A switching device and system for interconnecting a single user console having user interface devices, including a console keyboard, a console video display unit, a console mouse, and speakers to a plurality of host computers each capable of using user interface devices, including a keyboard, a video display unit, and...

20060230109 - Mediator-based recovery mechanism for multi-agent system: A method of recovering the status of a collaboration between a plurality of component agents in a multi-agent systems architecture, the method comprising: processing collaboration information forwarded by a mediator agent for each component agent; maintaining a collaboration processing status information record derived from the collaboration information provided by each...

20060230111 - Method for allowing peer-to-peer data transmission: Method for allowing peer-to-peer data transmission The invention relates to a method for allowing peer-to-peer data transmission between peer communication terminals. In this context, a file (D), for which multiple requests regarding retrieval have already been sent to an index server (IS) by peer communication terminals in the past, is...

20060230116 - Electronic messaging backup catalog: Within an electronic messaging system, a method of backing up data can include storing attributes for a plurality of message attachments exchanged through the electronic messaging system. Responsive to a request for a message attachment from a requestor, the request can be compared with attributes of the plurality of message...

20060230112 - Method for signing into a mobile device over a network: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing automatic sign in to an Instant Messaging (IM) session on mobile device from another computing device, such as a personal computer (PC), over a network. The end-user of the PC may provide an account identifier, password, and the like, and in...

20060230115 - System and method for automatically populating appointment fields: A system and method for automatically populating appointment fields of an appointment template. A messaging client provides a message having message data associated with one or more fields. A field populator automatically transfers the message data associated with the one or more fields to an appropriate field of an appointment...

20060230113 - System and method for billing in a professional services information management system: According to various example embodiments of the inventive subject matter there is disclosed method and apparatus for receiving a message from an electronic mail handling system wherein a message is received in an intellectual property management system, and automatically associating the message with a legal matter represented in the intellectual...

20060230114 - Updating unread email messages: A method for a system to reply to a user email message includes receiving a user email message from a user email address that comprises particularized subject matter. The system creates a first response message that is responsive to the particularized subject matter and creates a second response message that...

20060230117 - System and method for message prioritization: A method for message prioritization includes receiving a plurality of messages from a plurality of senders. Each of the plurality of messages is directed to a user of a messaging system. Graphical representations of the messages are presented to an assistant of the user, using a graphical user interface. A...

20060230118 - Share memory service system and method of web service oriented applications: A share memory service system and method of web service oriented applications, which includes the steps of declaring an object requiring to be shared of a plurality of web services as a shared object, storing the shared object to a shared virtual memory, and providing the shared object of the...

20060230119 - Apparatus and method for packet transmission over a high speed network supporting remote direct memory access operations: A mechanism for performing remote direct memory access (RDMA) operations between a first server and a second server over an Ethernet fabric. The RDMA operations are initiated by execution of a verb according to a remote direct memory access protocol. The verb is executed by a CPU on the first...

20060230120 - Content acquisition method: The present invention decreases the processing load of the content provision apparatus when providing the content data. An apparatus according to the present invention acquires the content-provision addresses and data-size information corresponding to the content data from the acquisition utilization information provision server 5. The apparatus then determines the division-start...

20060230121 - Referential integrity across a distributed directory: A system and method for autonomically maintaining group referential integrity across a distributed directory. When a server receives an operation request from a client regarding an entry in the distributed directory, the server sends a request to the particular server containing the entry to be modified that instructs the server...

20060230124 - Distributed computing services platform: A server federation cooperatively interacts to fulfill service requests by communicating using data structures that follow a schema in which the meaning of the communicated data is implied by the schema. Thus, in addition to the data being communicated, the meaning of the data is also communication allowing for intelligent...

20060230122 - Method and system for managing programs in data-processing system: A data-processing system has at least one computer executing at least one application program and at least one storage device. The computer and the at least one storage device storing data are communicatively connected via a plurality of data transfer paths assigned to each program. A data-processing apparatus is communicatively...

20060230123 - Online shopping and item selection system and method: A system for online shopping and item selection includes an audiovisual system coupled to a remote server, an audiovisual program transmitted from the remote server to the audiovisual system and an input device coupled to the audiovisual system. The audiovisual system includes a video display that displays the audiovisual program....

20060230126 - System and method for port assignment management across multiple nodes in a network environment: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for detecting port assignment conflicts in a network data processing system is provided. Additionally, a mechanism for automatically resolving port assignment conflicts in response to detecting such conflicts is provided. A first data processing system receives configuration data of a...

20060230125 - System and method for sas phy dynamic configuration: The present invention is directed to a system and method for SAS PHY dynamic configuration which allows for attaching SAS devices having various width ports. Each PHY is configured to be a narrow port internally to the controller while PHYs for the attached device is configured to be a wide...

20060230130 - Apparatus and method for managing and controlling upnp devices in home network over external internet network: An apparatus and method for managing and controlling UPnP devices in a home network over an external Internet network. The apparatus comprises a client connected to the external Internet network, and a UPnP proxy server for controlling and managing the UPnP devices in the home network. The client includes a...

20060230129 - Apparatus, method and computer program product to reduce tcp flooding attacks while conserving wireless network bandwidth: A method for operating a firewall includes: in response to the firewall receiving a TCP SYN request packet that is sent towards a first node from a second node, said TCP SYN request packet comprising a sequence value (“seq”), sending to the second node a SYN|ACK packet, said SYN|ACK packet...

20060230131 - Information-processing device, information-processing method, recording medium, and program: There is provided a processing apparatus which increments and thereby restores a lendable number upon receiving a content returned from a portable device, and which confirms the return of the content and increments the lendable number even when the portable device does not have or deletes the content borrowed from...

20060230128 - Method and apparatus interfacing for controlling a device between an application and a library of a master on home network: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for interfacing for controlling a device between various applications operated on a home network and a library to ensure their compatibility. In a method for controlling a device on a home network according to the present invention, an application calls a function...

20060230127 - Methods and systems for auto-sensing internet accelerators and proxies for download content: The present invention allows for the downloading of content regardless of a computing device's configuration. Computer software is executed on the computing device to accommodate multiple download protocols and techniques. The present invention also works through problems associated with proxies, firewalls, and internet accelerators to download content from the internet....

20060230132 - System and method for selective installation of a network document processing device: A system and method for selective installation of a network document processing device. Data representing available networked document processing devices is first communicated to a network, whereupon a visual indication of one of the document processing devices is displayed on a thin client interface. The thin client interface then receives,...

20060230142 - Contents sharing apparatus and contents sharing method: When a content is playbacked via a network, if a transmission-sided terminal of the content is under stopping condition, then a lengthy time is required until the content is playbacked. When an activation time of a recorder is measured and contents are recorded on this recorder, a content corresponding to...

20060230138 - I/o (input/output) device: An I/O device to be connected to a network, which is configured to input and/or output data, includes a self-address storing system configured to store the I/O device address, a receiving system configured to receive data whose destination is an address stored in the self-address storing system, the data being...

20060230140 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a first learning unit adapted to learn a first SOM (self-organization map), based on a first parameter extracted from an observed value, a winner node determination unit adapted to determine a winner node on the first SOM, a searching unit adapted to search for a...

20060230136 - Intelligent auto-archiving: Herein described is a method and system for archiving data files into a data storage device. The data storage device acts as a central depository where the data files may be archived by one or more data computing devices. The data storage device may be communicatively coupled to the one...

20060230143 - Isdn disconnect alarm generation tool for use in voice over ip (voip) networks: An alarm generation tool that operates within a Voice over IP (VoIP) network environment to generate alarms based on ISDN disconnect cause codes. The tool examines call-specific usage records associated with VoIP traffic to detect ISDN disconnect cause codes and determines failure rate information from failure-type disconnect cause codes among...

20060230137 - Location or activity monitor: A Location or Activity or Presence Monitor enables a Providing Member to supply visibility in real-time to Requesting Members of their current location or activity, a literal or abstract description of their current location, the communications services available to them at their current location, and their willingness and ability to...

20060230139 - Method and apparatus for running a test program in a computer system: Method and apparatus for running a test program for an element of a computer system by detecting idle processor cycles in a processor in the system, selecting a test program for an element of the computer system; and running the test program for the element on the processor in response...

20060230141 - Method of routing and managing advertising feedback data: The action of impressing an advertisement within a virtual environment of a video game is stored in a log file. The log file has a public portion and a private portion. The log file is provided to a server that determines an appropriate destination for the log file based upon...

20060230134 - Network experience rating system and method: A network experience rating system and method determines a network connection quality for a computer by monitoring characteristics of data traffic through a connection with another computer on the network. The network experience rating system statistically analyzes the characteristic data and compares the statistically analyzed data to historical data gathered...

20060230133 - On demand problem determination based on remote autonomic modification of web application server operating characteristics: A method, system and computer program product for selectively collecting problem determination data. In a preferred embodiment, the method begins when a request for an application server is received from a user. Once it is determined that the request should have triggers added, triggers are added. This modified request is...

20060230135 - Simplifying affiliated transactions through an auto-populating web page sub-window: A transaction web page method provides a transaction web page from a first server at a first service address to a user client computer where user-specific transaction information is incorporated into the web page in connection with a first transaction. A transaction sub-window is provided from the first service address...

20060230147 - Asynchronous frame transmission method for strictly ensuring beginning of super frame in residential ethernet: A method for transmitting asynchronous data includes including: comparing a size of asynchronous data with that of an empty transmission area; inserting the asynchronous data into the empty transmission area when the asynchronous data has a size smaller than or equal to that of the empty transmission area; determining if...

20060230144 - Method and apparatus for relieving pressure during peak-usage times: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of relieving pressure during peak-usage times of an online system. Current usage of the system is monitored, and a determination is made as to whether the current usage is above a pre-determined threshold level. If the usage is above the threshold, then an...

20060230146 - Method for generating super frame by using sub-frame in residential ethernet system: A method for generating a super frame of a predetermined size in a a residential Ethernet system for separately transmitting isochronous data and asynchronous data includes the steps of: receiving by the residential Ethernet system the isochronous data and the asynchronous data to be transmitted through the residential Ethernet system;...

20060230145 - Methods and systems for a multi-service federated content distribution network: The multi-service federated content distribution network provides a flexible directory service to define a set of service providers which clients are permitted to use. The directory service interfaces with other computing devices of two types: Either the computing devices includes a group of service providers that want to provide their...

20060230152 - Communication apparatus, program product for adding communication mechanism to communication apparatus for providing improved usability and communication efficiency, and recording medium storing program product: A computer program product for, when run on a computer for controlling a second communication apparatus installed inside a firewall including a plurality of service providing mechanisms for receiving a communication request including an operation request from an apparatus installed inside the firewall, and sending a communication response including an...

20060230150 - Method and apparatus for assigning channels to mesh portals and mesh points of a mesh network: A radio resource management (RRM) entity which increases the capacity of a mesh network including a plurality of mesh points (MPs) and a plurality of mesh portals is disclosed. A discovery phase is performed in the mesh network such that, for each MP, the mesh network has access to information...

20060230151 - Multi-mode terminal for supporting media independent handover: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal for performing a handover to at least one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network. Accordingly, media independent handover (MIH) is supported, by which a delay attributed to the occurrence of processing during handover between heterogeneous media-independent networks is reduced. Preferably, the present...

20060230149 - On-demand access to compute resources: Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for controlling and managing the identification and provisioning of resources within an on-demand center as well as the transfer of workload to the provisioned resources. One aspect involves creating a virtual private cluster within the on-demand center for the particular workload from a...

20060230148 - Tcp forwarding of client requests of high-level file and storage access protocols in a network file server system: For each high-level protocol, a respective mesh of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections is set up for a cluster of server computers for the forwarding of client requests. Each mesh has a respective pair of TCP connections in opposite directions between each pair of server computers in the cluster. The...

20060230154 - Method and entities for performing a push session in a communication system: The present invention relates to an arrangement and method for performing a push operation in a communication system. Also, the present invention concerns an involved gateway entity and push destination entity. The arrangement comprises a receiver device, at a gateway entity of the communication system, configured to receive a request...

20060230157 - Method and system for maintaining buffer registrations in a system area network: A system and method of managing memory in a system area network that registers buffers for use by an application program to access hardware adapters. The system and method maintains a list of registered buffers so that the application program may perform more than one request using the buffer. De-registration...

20060230153 - Network communication using push technology: A system and method for managing a network connection using a connectionless, file-transferring protocol is disclosed. The exemplary method periodically transmits a browser executable script from a first node of a network to a second node of the network. A browser of the second node runs the browser executable script...

20060230156 - Seamless windows functionality to remote desktop sessions regarding z-order: In a client-server system, a server-node application runs a user session and a remote presentation protocol communicates between the client node and the server node. The server node stores a remote virtual desktop including remote windows of the user session. The client node displays multiple local windows of applications running...

20060230155 - System and method for peer-to-peer communications with soft hand over for internet enabled devices: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications with soft hand over for Internet enabled devices....

20060230158 - Compilation system: An aggregation system that can aggregate and order user operation information at high speed through a communications network. An ID number to the user is provided, and a proxy server forwards the operation information with the ID number from the user to a specific administration server based on the ID...

20060230159 - Method for supplying content to a user device in a communication system and apparatus therefor: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for supplying content to user devices in a communication system. In a described embodiment a content proxy is provided, which receives content from a broadcast distribution network, acting as a broadcast overlay network, and provides the content to a base station. Thus...

20060230161 - System and method for providing service in a communication system: A system and method for providing a service in a user-selected communication mode in an IP multimedia communication system are provided. In a method of providing a service between a calling terminal and a called terminal in a communication system including a plurality of calling and called terminals and a...

20060230160 - Systems and methods for calculating a distribution: Systems and methods are provided for calculating a distribution of a quantity over a number of receiver objects. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided that comprises a number of application programs, each of the application programs being adapted to generate a distribution request, storage means for storing...

20060230162 - Scalable video coding with two layer encoding and single layer decoding: Some embodiments comprise a method of decoding a video bitstream that include receiving a first layer of data and a second layer of data, combining the received first layer data and the received second layer data, and decoding the combined data. Also, a method of video encoding that includes selecting...

20060230163 - System and method for securely establishing a direct connection between two firewalled computers: The disclosed system describes a means for internetworked computers protected behind blocking firewalls to communicate directly with other internetworked computers protected behind blocking firewalls. A trusted computer helps establish a connection between the two protected computers, but all subsequent communications takes place directly between the two protected computers....

20060230164 - Efficient retrieval of information from a network service using soap: Information can be retrieved by a requesting computer system from a responding computer system using a SOAP-based get operation. In one implementation, a requesting computer system identifies an endpoint reference for content at a responding computer system. The requesting computer system then creates a SOAP get message for retrieving the...

20060230166 - Method and apparatus for allowing a remote site to interact with an intermediate database to facilitate access to the remote site: Method and apparatus for allowing a remote site to interact with an intermediate database to facilitate access to the remote site a method for delivering information from a source on a global communication network to destination location thereon. A unique code is associated with an advertising action associated with the...

20060230165 - Method and apparatus for provisioning network infrastructure: A system, apparatus, method and article to provision network infrastructure are described. The apparatus may include a network processing node to receive provisioning information from a provisioning node. The network processing node may include an identity to associate provisioning information with the network processing node, a boot loader to request...

20060230168 - Method and system for establishing ad-hoc session in push-to-talk over cellular network: A method is provided to establish an ad-hoc PoC group session by causing a PoC client with a pre-established session to use an existing session as a conference server for a group PoC call and by including many individuals and members of at least one PoC group among talk targets....

20060230167 - Network controller, network control system and network control method: A network controller, capable of high-speed extraction of malicious traffic from networks and determining characteristics of such traffic, includes a unit for accumulating a number of packets for each arbitrary itemset included in the header portions of packets to be transferred, and a unit for determining whether the accumulated value...

20060230174 - Failsafe stream processing: This invention relates to a method for fault-tolerant, reliable stream processing, where a data stream is processed by a processing means for yielding a result data stream, where before the data stream is processed, the data stream is decomposed (fission) (D1, D2) into at least two fission sub-streams (S1.a, S1.b,...

20060230172 - Method of multiplexing over an error-prone wireless broadcast channel: Provided is a method and system for transmitting information. The method includes determining stream length information for at least one data stream to be transmitted and associating the stream length information with a system parameter message. The system parameter message including the associated stream length information is transmitted separately from...

20060230171 - Methods and apparatus for decreasing latency in a/v streaming systems: In audio-video (A/V) streaming systems, end to end latency is decreased with the goal to improve the user's viewing experience. Buffers in the server and client are flushed when a user initiates a change program signal. The client and server contain control modules to provide a flush buffer command. Latency...

20060230173 - Methods and apparatus for service planning and analysis: Methods and apparatus for service planning and analysis. In an aspect, a method is provided for scheduling a presentation for delivery over a distribution network. The method comprises generating a contact window that comprises a selected time duration, performing an allocation cycle to allocate the presentation to the contact window,...

20060230170 - Streaming media content delivery system and method for delivering streaming content: A method for delivering streaming media files to a plurality of end users from a streaming media delivery system including a filer for storing the media files and a streaming server for serving the media files generally includes the steps of monitoring demand for the streaming media files, identifying at...

20060230175 - System and method for tracking changes to files in streaming applications: A technique for modifying virtual files involves tracking changes locally. A method according to the technique may include virtually representing a file on, for example, a streaming client, and writing modifications to the virtual file into a diff-file on the streaming client. A system according the technique may include a...

20060230169 - System and method to simultaneously transcode audio and video content for optimized streaming via mobile telecommunications: A method to simultaneously transcode audio and video content for optimized streaming over one or more mobile telecommunications networks, wherein a streaming server receives multimedia content, transcodes the received multimedia content, and forwards the transcoded multimedia content to a telecommunications hub, wherein the telecommunication hub streams the forwarded multimedia content...

20060230176 - Methods and apparatus for decreasing streaming latencies for iptv: Streaming latency in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is decreased by providing a separate source of the selected A/V content to the user that is immediately available to the user when the user requests the A/V content, and that can be used until the requested A/V content is received...

20060230177 - Optimization of a message handling system: A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprises defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the...

20060230178 - Method and apparatus for data transfer device: An apparatus and method for transferring data from storage and input devices, such as hard drives, digital cameras, scanners, audio devices and similar accessories to other storage devices or computer systems, like hard drives, removable disk storage devices, tape drives, compact-disc burners or any computer, via direct connection or by...

20060230180 - Method for optimization of dispersion compensation, transponder and its use in an optical network with path protection: The invention relates to a method for optimization of dispersion compensation in an optical data network (1), the network (1) comprising two nodes (A, B), at least two paths (AB, ACB) connecting the two nodes (A, B), and means (2, 3) for switching between the paths (AB, ACB), characterized in...

20060230179 - Organic data network having a dynamic topology: The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit at least one data connection to a data network to which several devices provided with a data processing unit are connected by means of a data...

20060230181 - System and method for multi-host sharing of a single-host device: The present disclosure describes a system and method for multi-host extension of a single-host device comprising a network switch fabric that comprises a rooted hierarchical bus, a first compute node coupled to the network switch fabric, and an input/output (I/O) node coupled to the network switch fabric, the I/O node...

20060230182 - Integrated information communication system using internet protocol: The integrated information communication system is comprised of an access control apparatus for connecting a plurality of computer communication networks or information communication equipment to each, and a relay device for networking the aforementioned access control apparatus. The system has functions for performing routing by transferring information by a unified...

20060230183 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing content with a collection of home devices: A synchronization controller in a network of devices, provides content synchronization between the available content in the network and the content on another device. When the synchronization controller identifies the device for content synchronization with the home network, the synchronization controller attempts to match the device's content with content available...

20060230184 - System, method, and computer program product for online and offline interactive applications on mobile devices: A system, method and computer program product for exchanging data between a client and information sources via a server. The invention operates by obtaining data objects from a plurality of sources, wherein the data objects have native data formats specific to the sources. The data objects are converted to a...

20060230185 - System and method for providing multiple virtual host channel adapters using virtual switches: A processor node of a network is provided which includes one or more processors and a virtualized channel adapter. The virtualized channel adapter is operable to reference a table to determine whether a destination of the communication is supported by the virtualized channel adapter. When the destination is supported for...

20060230186 - Method of resetting a plurality of connected units: A method of resetting a plurality of connected nodes comprising initiating a reset request at a first node; sending a packet from said first node to a second node wherein said packet is recognised by said second node as a reset command, and said second node resets itself. Usually the...

20060230187 - Method and system for optimizing a software-defined radio system: A method for optimizing a software-defined radio system comprising a plurality of processors is provided. The method includes, for each of the plurality of processors, (i) providing an input burst comprising a first specified burst size, M, of input words to the processor for each of a plurality of configurations,...

20060224660 - Image processing apparatus and control method for image processing apparatus: It is an object of this invention to, in an image processing apparatus executing load distribution processing over a network, perform appropriate processing in accordance with an instruction from a user at power shutdown. There is provided an image processing apparatus which is connected to a network and performs processing...

20060224659 - Multiple service ring of n-ringlet structure based on multiple fe, ge and 10ge: The present invention presents Link Encapsulation Protocol (LEP) used to Multiple Services Ring (MSR) based on FE/GE/10GE aggregates in the way of pre-plan and connection based. LEP is provided for specific use on a N-ring structure (N=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . ,) consisting of the unidirectional (N−M)...

20060224661 - Programmable terminal system: A Programmable Terminal (PT) system, a PT device and a PT system management method having a function of displaying a screen having a content on a display screen while at the same time positively preventing the leakage of confidential content are disclosed. When a part read from a screen data...

20060224662 - Associating supplementary information with network-based content locations: The subject invention leverages a locating means, such as, for example, Internet addresses to provide supplementary information based on the location of network content. This allows additional information to be disseminated with the content without requiring the content itself to be modified to contain the supplementary information. By providing locating...

20060224663 - Data processing environment change management methods and apparatuses: An apparatus is provided with a change management module adapted to manage making changes to a data processing device of a data processing environment....

20060224664 - Exposing bluetooth compliant wireless device connection as modems or sockets: A method for providing an interface to a Bluetooth compliant device can emulate a modem such that computer software programs can communicate through the Bluetooth compliant device in the same manner in which they would communicate through a standard modem to access a dial-up, wide area network. The method also...

20060224666 - Method for connection acceptance control and optimal multi-media content delivery over networks: A method for bandwidth allocation for delivery of multimedia data from at least one server to one or more clients over a network. The method includes the steps of: determining a maximum flow rate and a minimum flow rate for each client; determining a flow rate range for each client...

20060224665 - Service system, information control apparatus, and information control method: A communication control that holds setting information applied when a communication among a first user terminal, a second user terminal, and a plurality of server apparatuses each supplying service data corresponding to a predetermined service to the first user terminal is established while associating the setting information with the service...

20060224670 - File distribution method and client terminal implementing the same: A file distribution method is provided that is suitable for the transfer of files, such as patch files and virus definition files, to be released to an indefinite number of client terminals, and that can reduce the load concentration at a server without adding any extra hardware resources. A P2P...

20060224667 - Method and system for communication between parties: A method for filling a psychological gap during the communication of at least two people considering making a date, the method characterized by playing a dating game by the at least two people on a game board having a plurality of spaces. The dating game method includes obtaining a game...

20060224668 - Methods and apparatus for efficiently placing stream transforms among broker machines comprising an overlay network in a publish-subscribe messaging system: The methods and apparatus of the present invention operate in publish-subscribe messaging systems including at least publishing clients, subscribing clients and a plurality of broker machines. The broker machines form an overlay network responsible for receiving input messages from publishing clients, transforming information contained in the input messages according to...

20060224671 - Presence information management system and presence information management server: When starting subscribe for acquiring presence information, there is no need of acquiring an identifier of the presentity or an identifier of the group, which have been conventionally indispensable. There is provided a state information management system including a management server for managing state information on a plurality of terminals....

20060224669 - Systems with application service overlay advised by knowledge overlay: A system having a knowledge overlay with a number of knowledge nodes, one or more application service overlays, each having a number of application service nodes and a number of client devices is disclosed. The application service nodes of a service overlay collaboratively provide an application service to the client...

20060224672 - \"@\" symbol for use in a multifunction device: Apparatus and methods for entering an email address using an @ symbol. The email address may be entered at a user interface having a display and a data input terminal. The email address is shown on the device display while the address is entered. An @ symbol may be displayed...

20060224680 - Electronic mail sending and receiving apparatus, and electronic mail sending and receiving program: According to the electronic mail sending and receiving apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to intelligently implement personal representation that is suited to individual users of electronic mail by converting a character string representing a person that is included in the body of an electronic mail into a...

20060224679 - Mail server, mail receiving apparatus, mail server program storage medium, and mail receiving program storage medium: There are provided a mail server, a mail receiving apparatus, a mail server program storage medium, and a mail receiving program storage medium, the mail server which relays transmission and reception of electronic mail including a mail receiving section which receives electronic mail to which an attachment file is attached...

20060224677 - Method and apparatus for detecting email fraud: A system and method for detecting email fraud is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the system includes a collection module for collecting a plurality of bounced email messages originating from an injection source, and a source mining module for determining the location of the injection source. The bounced...

20060224675 - Methods and systems for providing current email addresses and contact information for members within a social network: Methods and systems for providing current email addresses or contact information to members within a social network are described. In one described method, an email program application requests an email address for a member within a social network. Using profile information associated with the member, the email address is provided...

20060224674 - Methods and systems for saving draft electronic communications: Methods and systems for saving draft electronic communications, such as web e-mails, are described herein. One such described method comprises automatically saving a draft web-email in the e-mail web page. A second such described method comprises saving a draft web e-mail in a cookie residing on the client machine. A...

20060224681 - Mobile communications device e-mail message delivery: An e-mail message addressed to an e-mail message address is received. From this e-mail message, characteristics of the e-mail message matching one or more predetermined conditions are identified. Thereafter, a transmission of a notification message to a mobile communications device associated with the e-mail message address may be initiated. The...

20060224682 - System and method of screening unstructured messages and communications: Embodiments of the present invention include a system and method of screening unstructured messages and communications. In one embodiment, messages and communications may be received in the form of email and telephone transcripts. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of extracting text from email and telephone transcripts...

20060224676 - System, method and program product for managing communications pursuant to an information technology (it) migration: Under the present invention, a distribution list of message recipients within an organization undergoing the IT migration is generated by analyzing the infrastructure of the organization. Once the message recipients are known, they can be grouped into a set of mailing groups. Thereafter, specific message templates can be assigned to...

20060224673 - Throttling inbound electronic messages in a message processing system: Providing for proactive and/or active processing of message events is provided. Message event information received by the system is aggregated, a message event throttling policy is generated from the aggregated information and distributed globally. Subsequent message events are then processed using the global rules and/or policies as well as local...

20060224678 - Web-based communications addressing system and method: A system and method is provided for sending and receiving authorized messages from a sender to a recipient in a network utilizing a Web-based mail server. The Web-based mail server communicates with a user via HTML or another general purpose language. The mail system makes use of a channelized address...

20060224683 - Message announcements: An announcement thread addressing format which comprises a first sub-part concatenated with a second sub-part is described. The first sub-part is preferably the address of the party which generates the addressing identifier, whereas the second sub-part may be random data. An announcer apparatus may then use these address formats by...

20060224684 - Multimedia messaging method and system: A system for and method of controlling retransmission of a content item contained in a multimedia message, comprising receiving the message containing the content item from a sender together with an identifier of an intended recipient of the message, obtaining an identifier for the content item, retrieving approval information from...

20060224685 - System management architecture for multi-node computer system: In a multi-node SMP system, at least one processor per node is enabled to execute the SMM task for the hardware resources that are local to that node. Additionally, each node is allocated its own local SMM code copy in its own SMM memory segment, to allow for improved access...

20060224686 - System and method for managing documents with multiple network applications: A method and system for managing documents, where the system includes a document manager server connected to image processing devices and to applications via a network. The document manager server receives identification information from the image processing devices and transmits information relating to network applications to the image processing devices....

20060224692 - Adhoc queries for services: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for accessing a service on behalf of a requester and applying a query to results returned by the service. These mechanisms and methods applying queries to results returned by services make it possible for results from...

20060224687 - Method and apparatus for offline cooperative file distribution using cache nodes: Methods and apparatus are provided for cooperative file distribution system employing one or more storage proxies to allow an offline receiver to obtain files or pieces thereof when the receiver comes online. A central tracker receives an indication from the sender that the sender has the file; determines if the...

20060224695 - Method and apparatus for remote reporting of impression data using log files: A system and method for generating log files that store information regarding the presentation of advertisements in video games is described. The log file is copied to a server when a suitable network connection is available. The log file comprises a public portion and a private portion. The public portion...

20060224694 - Method of automatically enabling utilization of particular types of files: A method of automatically enabling utilization of particular types of files is to be implemented by a user computer when utilizing a file with an unrecognized file type extension. The method includes: with reference to configuration information of the user computer, searching a file source mapping table stored in the...

20060224689 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing customized content over a network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing customized content over a network are provided. The method includes associating content with at least one of a domain name, group, and geography for an entity, the content relating to at least one of the domain name, group, and geography. For each...

20060224690 - Strategies for transforming markup content to code-bearing content for consumption by a receiving device: Proxy functionality is described for receiving a request for markup content from a receiving device, retrieving the markup content, converting the markup content to code-bearing content, and transferring the code-bearing content to the receiving device. The receiving device can then consume the code-bearing content without the use of conventional browser...

20060224693 - System and method for the delivery of content to a networked device: In a system for delivering information to and displaying information on a networked device of a user, a microprocessor is coupled to a database and a memory device. The microprocessor runs a software application for delivering an applet application to the networked device and managing the delivery of the applet...

20060224688 - System and method for utilizing a presence service to facilitate access to a service or application over a network: A system and method for allowing a remote client to have access to a service or application over a network is described. In one version, the method includes registering the service with a presence service on the network and providing information related to the service from the presence service to...

20060224691 - Transparent rendering of media to remote client: An apparatus, including a media service access module, and methods practiced thereon, for transparently facilitating a media rendering application to render a media file to a remote client device, are described herein....

20060224697 - Method to display and manipulate new content on top of an existing web page: A method is disclosed to display and manipulate new content on top of an existing web page and republish the web page to include the new content. The method provides a computing device an HTA application comprising an IFRAME, a single <DIV> layer, and a Flash Application embedded in said...

20060224696 - Targeted advertorial and multimedia delivery system and method: A system and method for the distribution and display of multimedia content to at least one remote location is described. The system includes a first server for storing and sending multimedia content, a second server located in at least one location remote from the first server, where the second server...

20060224702 - Local workflows in a business process management system: A system and method for executing business process logic between two more business applications is disclosed. A global workflow container stores one or more business processes, each business process having process logic that defines communication between the two or more business applications. A local workflow builder defines a local workflow,...

20060224699 - Methods and system for event transmission: The invention relates to methods and a system for the management and transmission of events from a server to at least one client, by means of a communication connection, whereby the server has at least one server event service, communicating with at least one client, by means of a communication...

20060224700 - Multipart response generation: A multipart response generation system generates content (such as pages) that may contain mixed linked content that is referenced by a separate locator. When a page is requested (during a “primary request”), the image and PDF file, for example, based on specific input from the user are generated and each...

20060224703 - Slideshow system, rule server, music reproducing apparatus and methods of controlling said server and apparatus: TOC (Table of Contents) information is read from a music CD and transmitted to a rule server. The latter reads a slideshow rule, which corresponds to the TOC information, from a database and transmits the rule to a client computer. The client computer presents a slideshow in accordance with the...

20060224698 - System and method for referencing av data accumulated in av server: A system in which AV data stored in an AV server is previewed by a plurality of edit terminals includes a recording apparatus which is connected to those edit terminals and which is capable of higher speed access than a recording element in the AV server, and a first processing...

20060224701 - Wireless communications to receiver devices using control terminal communication link set-up: Methods of delivering electronic content include exchanging communications with a network access point from a control terminal to establish a communication link configured for two-way communications. Electronic content transmitted by the network access point is received at a remote terminal over the established communication link without providing responsive communications to...

20060224704 - Auto-configuration for data collection terminals: A system, method and computer readable medium is provided for automatically configuring at least one un-configured data collection terminal (DCT) interfaced to a network utilizing TCP/IP protocol. The network may include a plurality of devices, including at least one client or server. The system and method includes determining the presence...

20060224706 - Resource assigning management apparatus and resource assigning method: In a system which divides requests to an application, into computers on which the application is operating, computers are managed so as to prevent the lowering of the service level of each application. The resource assigning management apparatus 1 subtracts a total number of request counts (receive request count) received...

20060224705 - Server apparatus and system for providing device drivers and application softwares: Management information for specifying use environments of devices and application softwares at a plurality of user terminals is created at an administrator terminal. User-specific configuration information is generated at a server according to the management information obtained from the administrator terminal. The user-specific configuration information is referenced by installation support...

20060224707 - Wireless connection setting program: A computer program product includes computer readable instructions that cause a computer to execute a wireless connection setting process. The computer includes a communication interface configured to communicate with at least one device. The wireless connection setting process includes recognizing a state of the at least one device through the...

20060224708 - System management controller (smc) negotiation protocol for determining the operational mode of smcs: A computer system module includes a system management controller to negotiate with other system management controllers to determine the controller's initial operational state. In an embodiment, negotiation with other system management controllers is based at least in part on one of controller capability, user configured preferences, module type, and geographical...

20060224715 - Computer management program, managed computer control program, computer management apparatus, managed computer, computer management system, computer management method, and managed computer control method: The present invention has been made to provide a computer management program, a managed computer control program, a computer management apparatus, a managed computer, a computer management system, a computer management method, and a managed computer control method allowing the management agent to easily perform autonomous communication frequency control. A...

20060224718 - Content providing system and information collecting device and program: A content providing system includes an information collecting device including a content collecting unit and a content providing unit, a plurality of relaying devices each configured to relay transmission of the collected contents provided by the content providing unit, and a terminal device connected to at least one relaying device...

20060224712 - Device management in a communication system: A method delivers device management information in a communication system. The method includes discovering an active secure connection for data communication between a communication device and a private network. The method also includes performing at least one device management task using the active secure connection. Furthermore, a virtual private network...

20060224716 - Digital content distribution system: In the setting of distribution contents and distribution time of digital content, data processing efficiency is increased and operability are improved for users. Distribution processing is efficiently executed according to, for example, a position of a portable terminal, and excellent usability is realized for digital content and advertisements. To solve...

20060224714 - Display technique for displaying a layout of a print network system: A display terminal comprises a position storage, a status storage, a connection relationship storage, and a display device. The position storage stores a position of each of the terminals and the printers. The status storage stores a status of each of the printers. The connection relationship storage stores a connection...

20060224713 - Distributed computers management program, distributed computers management apparatus and distributed computers management method: A distributed computers management program, a distributed computers management apparatus and a distributed computers management method can distribute a cryptography process among nodes and safeguard confidential information. The distributed computers management program for causing a computer to execute a distributed computers management method for managing distributed computers having a plurality...

20060224710 - Hall monitor-method and apparatus for providing contact information and communications capability for an organization: The invention comprises a computer-implemented “hall monitor” system. The hall monitor includes a centralized database of employee presence data, and server software that allows users to update and access employee presence data over a network through a custom interface. The invention allows organizations to manage employees and members working from...

20060224717 - Management system for warranting consistency between inter-client communication logs: In inter-peer communication between an application server for providing service such as Voice over IP or contents distribution and a client using the service, the client or the application server notifies a log management server of a communication log by a log information process. The log management server verifies consistency...

20060224709 - Network connectivity management: Network connectivity management can manage (e.g., harmonize) network connectivity services and network connectivity modules. By way of example only, network connectivity management is applicable to connections to a network through a network connectivity service via a network connectivity module. In a described implementation, network connectivity configuration information is scanned to...

20060224711 - Self-learning server communicating values from a plurality of communicating devices of one communication network to a client of another communication network: A system includes a first communication network, such as the Internet, having a client; a second INCOM communication network including a plurality of communicating devices; and a server. The server includes a first Ethernet transceiver communicating with the Internet, a second INCOM transceiver communicating with the INCOM communication network and...

20060224732 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a telecommunications network: A method and apparatus for monitoring telecommunications network elements, especially where direct access to those network elements is not available. The invention allows a network manager to build and maintain significant relationship information, as well as model the state of network elements with a high degree of accuracy, but based...

20060224730 - Apparatus and methods for determining network access performance of a wireless device: Apparatus, methods, processors and computer readable media for determining the wireless network access performance or capability of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of network access performance data during processing activities on the wireless device....

20060224723 - Data updating system and method: An data updating system and method are proposed. The data updating system and method are applicable to a at least a first server and a second server linked to establish a networking connection via a network system, and operation condition of each of the servers is determined to be normal...

20060224728 - Failover method in a cluster computer system: In a high-availability computer system having a cluster configuration, a reset command issued from each of computers 0110 through 0140 to any of the other systems in a cluster is transmitted to a reset control unit 0190. A control module 0191 of the reset control unit 0190 makes a judgment...

20060224734 - Failure analysis system, a disk array apparatus, a controller, a method for analyzing failure, and a signal-bearing medium embodying a program causing a failure analysis system to perform the method: A failure analysis system includes a controller A that sends a control command A, a looped interface A, the controller A being selectively connectable to the looped interface A, a node device A that is selectively connectable to the looped interface A, a node device B that is selectively connectable...

20060224727 - Image communication apparatus: There is described an image communication apparatus in which the transmission efficiency is as high as possible for the network conditions at the time of transmission, and transmission can be performed using method of coding in which there is little image deterioration. The communication apparatus includes: a checking section that...

20060224724 - Latency free scanning of malware at a network transit point: In accordance with the present invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying malware at a network transit point such as a computer that serves as a gateway to an internal or private network is provided. A network transmission is scanned for malware at a network transit point without...

20060224731 - Method for measuring server performance, system for measuring server performance and computer programs therefor: A server performance measurement system for efficiently measuring and collecting server performance differently depending on each business application in actual operation environment in which business applications are operated, includes a plurality of servers for processing requests from users, a load balancer for suitably distributing loads of the plurality of servers,...

20060224720 - Method, computer program product, and system for mapping users to different application versions: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for mapping a user to an application in a data processing system network are provided. An application service request from a client is received. The request is directed to a first network address. A user identifier from which the request...

20060224726 - Monitoring system: A monitoring system of the present invention achieves highly reliable switching control by having a monitored response time creating/calculating unit calculate a maximum value and a minimum value between which a response time is judged as normal from a response time of the last measurement and from a response time...

20060224725 - On-demand global server load balancing system and method of use: A method and system for measuring performance and balancing workload of sites, virtual clusters and servers within the virtual clusters is provided. A monitor measures and computes performance metrics at each level. Servers e.g., LDAP servers, are individually measured for performance, e.g., response time, and based on average response time...

20060224719 - Operator simulator and non-invasive interface engine: Information and data that is created, stored and operated on by various systems may be necessary for other systems but may not be readily attainable. A non-invasive interface engine is introduced that allows the data among various systems to be freely shared without the need for creating expensive and customize...

20060224721 - Referral tracking: A computer system is configured as a referral-tracking system that responds to receipt of a listing from a recruiter by generating an identifier, associating it with that listing, and giving it to the recruiter. If, before the listing is withdrawn, the system thereafter receives from a requester a message offering...

20060224729 - Referral tracking: A computer system is configured as a referral-tracking system that responds to receipt of a listing from a recruiter by generating an identifier, associating it with that listing, and giving it to the recruiter. If, before the listing is withdrawn, the system thereafter receives from a requester a message offering...

20060224733 - Server system, server apparatus, terminal apparatus and method for connection acknowledgement: A server system is provided with a server apparatus and a terminal apparatus capable of logging in a predetermined mode of the server apparatus. The terminal apparatus comprises a transmitter for transmitting a connection acknowledgment signal at intervals of time to the server apparatus while remaining in a log-in state...

20060224722 - System and method for context-specific instant messaging: A system and method for context-specific instant messaging are presented. A user views a page of data that is segmented into regions. The user performs a user action (e.g., a mouse click) and, in turn, a message generator displays context-specific phrases for the user to select based upon the region...

20060224735 - Access validation and management of access permissions to referenced shared resources in a networked environment: A method, system and apparatus for automated management and validation of access permissions to referenced shared resources. A method for access validation and management of access permissions to referenced shared resources in a networked environment can include incorporating a reference to an underlying shared resource within a primary shared resource...

20060224736 - Distributed service deliver model: A root silo that authorizes one or more clients to access one or more services at one or more servicing silos receives a request from a client for interaction with a service. The root silo identifies a servicing silo as an available provider of the service for interacting with the...

20060224738 - Method and system for managing images over a communication network: A method and system for managing digital image media files. A server is provided for managing access to a digital image media collection stored on a remote user computer of a user. The digital image media collection has at least one digital media file having at least one image file...

20060224737 - Method for forming super frame used for transmitting isochronous data and asynchronous data in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a method for forming a super frame used for transmitting isochronous data and asynchronous data in a residential Ethernet system. The method includes the steps of receiving the isochronous data and the asynchronous data to be transmitted through the residential Ethernet system, forming an isochronous frame using the...

20060224740 - Allocating resources based on rules and events: A method of providing an application with a resource of a computer system includes storing a set of rules for assigning resources of the computer system, identifying an event, and assigning the resource to the application based on the event and at least rule in the set of rules. The...

20060224741 - Automatic workload transfer to an on-demand center: Disclosed is an on-demand computing environment. The method embodiment relates to a method of managing resources between a local compute environment and an on-demand environment. The method comprises detecting an event in a local compute environment and based on the detected event, automatically establishing communication with an on-demand compute environment,...

20060224742 - Mobile data security system and methods: The present invention is directed to security systems and methods for mobile network-based data environments. The present invention provides an integration of security, mobile computing, wireless and IT infrastructure management technology, to create a new level of automation and enforcement to enable the transparent application of mobile security across an...

20060224739 - Storage aggregator: A storage aggregator is described. In an implementation, a method includes executing a module to determine whether sufficient storage is available to the module to store a particular content item and access a content storage provider over a network to open a client account to obtain additional storage when sufficient...

20060224745 - Error recovery mechanism and network element comprising same: A method is provided for facilitating error recovery of media stream packets in an access node. The method comprises storing a plurality of data transmission units of a media stream in a buffer of an access node, receiving a request for retransmission of at least one designated data transmission unit...

20060224743 - Methods and systems for exchanging data between a client and a server: Systems and methods are disclosed for exchanging data. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving, on a client, first content data and second content data from a server over a communication channel. The first content data may be configured to cause a first window to be displayed on the...

20060224746 - Presence service system, a presence apparatus, a presence service method, and a presence service program: In a presence service system, at least two terminals are connected via a network to each other for communicating presence information therebetween. Each terminal applies a presence notification policy registered corresponding to a condition regarding presence information. A presence service system, a presence apparatus, a presence service method, and a...

20060224744 - Sending inter-server notifications using an out-of-band communications protocol: A method and system for sending notifications from servers of a server pool to clients is provided. The notification system determines when an in-band notification is to be sent to clients. The notification system identifies a distinguished server for each client that is to send the in-band notification to that...

20060224747 - Method and device for setting up a virtual electronic teaching system with individual interactive communication: A method and device for setting up a virtual electronic teaching system with individual interactive communication is proposed. Various methods and devices for carrying out tele-teaching or e-learning sessions have been previously suggested. These methods and devices are improved in such a manner that work stations that can be freely...

20060224748 - Service support framework for peer to peer applications: The claimed system is a service support framework for a multicast programming system implemented on top of a service oriented framework, specifically a service oriented messaging system....

20060224750 - Content-based notification and user-transparent pull operation for simulated push transmission of wireless email: Exemplary system, method, software and apparatus embodiments provide for creating a content-based notification for a mobile device, as a simulated push operation, for devices which do not have push capability. The system comprises a database, a server, and may also include a second web server for user account configuration. The...

20060224749 - Selective exclusion of lsps on a per-packet basis: A method is provided for selectively loading a layered service provider (LSP). The method includes registering at least one category for an installed LSP and registering a list of permitted categories of LSPs for an installed application. The application is then loaded, and the list of permitted categories of LSPs...

20060224751 - Storage system, a host adapter, a data storage, a method of controlling a node device, a method of controlling a host adapter, a signal-bearing medium embodying a program causing a host adapter to perform a method of controlling a storage system, and a si: A storage system for use with a node device, includes host modules that access the node device based on an address conversion information. The node device is connectable to the host modules and includes the address conversion information....

20060224752 - Determining geographic locations of private network internet users: A method of determining a geographic location of an Internet user in a private network involves use of an internal server placed within the private network. The internal server determines the geographic location of the Internet user and returns this information to the requestor. The internal server can determine the...

20060224755 - Radio lan system implementing simultaneous communication with different types of information and communication method for the same: A radio LAN (Local Area Network) system includes an access point and a mobile or a fixed station each having a physical layer implemented by a direct spread spectrum system. The LAN system uses different spread codes, maintains transmission power semi-fixed, and selects a frequency and a frequency band in...

20060224753 - Session relay apparatus, session relay method and program: A session relay apparatus includes a packet relay unit, session relay unit, storage unit, session state registration unit, and session state updating unit. Upon receiving a session initiation packet or an acknowledge packet to acknowledge the session initiation packet, the packet relay unit directly transmits the received packet to a...

20060224754 - System and method for controlling boot-up process in a communications network switch using preconfiguration of port hardware: A system and method for controlling an Ethernet node's boot-up process. Port hardware associated with the Ethernet node may be configured to include a TX DISABLED state as a default condition during power up. Upon detecting a system reset condition with respect to the Ethernet node, the TX DISABLED state...

20060224761 - Interactive video applications: An interactive video platform, interactive video player and computer implemented methods are described, for providing interactive live video, recorded video or video based games on a user device, such as a mobile phone. Encoded video from a source of video is sent over a network to the user device. A...

20060224760 - Method and system for providing streaming content in a peer-to-peer network with network coding: A system, method, and computer-readable medium distributing streaming media content to clients in a peer-to-peer network. A streaming source divides the streaming media content into a plurality of data segments of equal length. A request from a peer client is received for at least a portion of the streaming media...

20060224762 - Quasi-constant-quality rate control with look-ahead: Methods and apparatus efficiently encode multimedia data, such as live video streams. An encoding complexity of a predetermined time interval, such as 1 second, is estimated before the actual encoding that will be used. This permits the actual encoding to be performed with an a priori estimate of complexity, permitting...

20060224763 - Switching and simultaneous usage of 802.11a and 802.11g technologies for video streaming: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods, devices, and systems wherein a server is able to transmit streaming content elements of a source content via a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel. The transmission via these two channels may be performed simultaneously with each other or performed...

20060224759 - System and method for a peer-to-peer streaming content operation by a browser plug-in: A method, computer-readable medium and system for configuring a network client as a peer client in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A network client connects with a network node and obtains a data structure that includes plug-in code from the network node. The network clients installs a plug-in from the...

20060224756 - System and method for error recovery for massive exit in peer-to-peer network: A method, computer-readable medium and data processing system for randomizing termination of peer services in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A streaming media application receives a close command and closes a media player in response thereto. A randomized delay time is obtained by the streaming media application. The streaming media...

20060224758 - System and method for file header operation in a peer-to-peer network providing streaming services: A method, computer-readable medium and data processing system for streaming content operation in a peer-to-peer network. A peer client in the peer-to-peer network connects with a node of the peer-to-peer network. The client receives header data associated with the streaming content and stores the header data in a local storage...

20060224757 - System and method for streaming service replication a in peer-to-peer network: A method, computer-readable medium and data processing system for replicating streaming content in a peer-to-peer network is provided. A first client of the peer-to-peer network receives streaming content encapsulated in one or more data blocks formatted according to a transport format of the peer-to-peer network. The first client extracts the...

20060224765 - Contents transfer system and terminal: A contents transfer system which includes a transmitter for transmitting a compressed contents via a network, and a terminal for inputting the contents transmitted from the transmitter via the network and outputting the input contents to a recording/reproducing media according to user's specification. A user can acquire the contents within...

20060224764 - Fail over cluster system and fail over method: A cluster system coupled to a client computer via a network has plural nodes which provide services to the client computer. A first node of the plural nodes has a priority recognizing processing module, which consults a priority of a frame received from the client computer. A second node of...

20060224766 - Operating room communication bus and method: An operating room system that enables real time control between applications connected to a backbone within the operating room so that these devices can effectively communicate and interact in real time....

20060224767 - Information processor and data communication control method capable of preventing problems in data communication caused by breakdowns: A DGP, upon detecting the occurrence of a fault in an IOP that controls a CH, causes another IOP that can control the CH to control the CH and reports to an EPU the occurrence of the fault in the CH and the recovery from the fault. The DGP stores...

20060224768 - Method for connection acceptance control and rapid determination of optimal multi-media content delivery over networks: A method of bandwidth allocation for delivery of stored digital content from at least one server device to at least one client device by way of a network. The method includes the steps of: describing a control variable which represents a target flow rate of content from the server device...

20060224772 - Apparatus and computer readable medium for transporting and processing digital media: The present invention is directed providing a simple and convenient way for consumers to organize, share and display their digital media. According to an embodiment, a consumer can transfer data to a server, which will automatically prepare copies of the data and deliver them to the consumer, transfer the data...

20060224770 - Data unit transmission method and device: A method of controlling a transmission of data units arranged in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol over a plurality of network entities, said network entities operating according to said predetermined communication protocol, from a sending network entity to a receiving network entity over one or more forwarding network entities,...

20060224771 - Invitation for transferring objects in a communications network: Method for transferring objects in a communications network. A preferred embodiment comprises defining a location of an object to be transferred, providing descriptive information for an invitation, specifying a recipient of the invitation, and issuing the invitation. The invitation can provide a way for a creator of the invitation to...

20060224769 - Method and transmitter for transmitting data packets: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a series of user data packets from a transmitter to a receiver using a TCP protocol. A first number of user data packets in the series is transmitted to the receiver in sequence during the transmission of several user data packets. Subsequently,...

20060224773 - Systems and methods for content-aware load balancing: Improved load balancing techniques are disclosed. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a method of satisfying requests in a system comprised of a plurality of servers comprises the following steps. At least one load balancer is provided for routing requests to the plurality of servers. At the...

20060224774 - Communication apparatus and communication control method: If an address-resolution request message is received from a data processing terminal via an interface connected to the data processing terminal, it is determined whether a physical address corresponding to a target network address of the address-resolution request message has already been registered. If it has been registered, then an...

20060224775 - Contents synchronization system in network enviroment and a method therefor: A contents synchronization method comprises steps for: setting the synchronization policy; monitoring files and directories of a specific server in real time; checking whether there is content modification; performing said monitoring step again if there are no modification, but if there is modification, notifying to the CD Master server in...