Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 12/06

20060294179 - Method and system for deterministic throttling for thermal management: A scheme to facilitate deterministic thermal management by having either device connected via a link to generate a thermal management request based on one device's thermal capability and the present conditions. The request is transmitted over the link to the other device with a specific sleep period. Consequently, the receiving... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294185 - Communication device, communication method, and computer product: A data transceiver of a user terminal receives image data and sound data that are transmitted from a destination by streaming. A video chat processor of the user terminal reproduces the received data, thereby providing a communication device, a communication method, and a communication program that enable a user to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060294181 - Method and apparatus for maintaining state information in an event driven thin client environment: Methods and apparatus are provided for maintaining state information in an event driven thin client environment. A server-based method is provided for updating a presentation in an event driven, thin client device, comprising the steps of detecting a new presentation event; and sending a notification call to the client device... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060294180 - Service implementation: The present invention provides a method of allowing a user to obtain a service using a processing system. The method utilises components each of which corresponds to a respective service portion provided by a respective entity. The method includes causing the processing system to determine a combination of components defining... Agent: Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP

20060294182 - Service providing system, and client, server, and program for the same: A service providing system includes a providing server that provides a service, and a client that receives the service. The providing server includes a first receiving system that receives a request signal for requesting to provide the service, a first sending system that sends a response signal for providing the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060294183 - System, method, and computer program product for media publishing request processing: A system, method, and computer program product for publishing transcoded media content in response to publishing service requests from end users. A user request for media content, is processed intelligently, either by directing the processing of the request to one of a set of transcoding servers so as to effectively... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060294184 - System, method, and computer program product for media publishing request processing: A system, method, and computer program product for publishing transcoded media content in response to publishing service requests from end users. A user request for media content, is processed intelligently, either by directing the processing of the request to one of a set of transcoding servers so as to effectively... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060294186 - System and method for enriched multimedia conference services in a telecommunications network: In a telecommunications network, a system for providing multimedia conference services includes a conferencing server capable of receiving a request to participate in a multimedia conference from a conference participant. The conferencing server is further capable of determining a characteristic of the conference, requesting a preference of the conference participant,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20060294190 - Email sms notification system providing enhanced charge accounting features and related methods: A communications system may include at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device. An email relay server may detect a new email message on the at least one email server and, based... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20060294189 - Instant messaging with search: Instant messaging with search is described. One or more techniques of the described techniques may be employed to provide a search during an instant messaging session, the results of which may then be shared between participants in the instant messaging session.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060294187 - Integrated web communications system: A system for creating audio/visual content from within an email application includes a personal communications web page, an integrated web communications menu, an email communication component and a web browser. The web communications menu includes a URL corresponding to the web page and an encrypted identification and password. The email... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

20060294191 - Providing context in an electronic messaging system: A messaging system treats a set of related messages, such as an e-mail string between two or more people, as a message container having relational references to one or more submessages. A messaging server stores the messages and submessages as discrete message components having content. In addition, the messaging server... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060294188 - Providing status information about email recipients: A second email application and a third email application receive copies of an email sent by a first email application. In response to receiving the copy of the email, the second email application sends status information about the second email application to the third email application. The third email application... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20060294192 - Access control systems and methods using visibility tokens with automatic propagation: Access control systems and methods regulate access to shared content items in a corpus using visibility tokens. A user provides other users with access to a content item by associating a content token with the content item and associating a matching user token with each user who is to be... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20060294193 - Non-blocking buffered inter-machine data transfer with acknowledgment: A system, method and data structures for transmitting batched data over a network in asynchronous, non-blocking operations, with acknowledgements returned to the senders. Each machine includes a sender subsystem and a receiver subsystem. Transmission items corresponding to data to be sent are buffered until a send is triggered, at which... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20060294194 - Access control list checking: Method and system for dynamically checking an access control list during the data transfers between a client web browser and a web server. The method and system allow checking of access control list by an application firewall, independent from the web application. The rules, upon which the checking is based,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060294202 - Communications system providing shared client-server communications interface and related methods: A communications system may include a plurality of communications devices connected together in a network and having a plurality of user accounts associated therewith. At least one of the communications devices may process requests using an HTTP client application associated therewith. The system may also include an application server for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20060294203 - Electronic commerce session management: Methods and apparatuses for electronic session management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user is connected to a server when initiating a session. Until a predetermined period of time passes without any activity from the user, the user is connected to the same server even if the initial connection with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294198 - Mechanism for automatic backups in a mobile system: According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a first processor to operate a host system and a chipset, coupled to the first processor and the hard disk drive to operate an embedded system. The first processor includes a first file cache to maintain updates to one... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294196 - Method and system for storing a web browser application session cookie from another client application program: A system for storing a session cookie from another client application program, in which a separate client application is allowed to launch an external browser, and to supply a browser with a session cookie containing user specific session information. The browser is extended to support a new URI scheme providing... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Steubing Mcguinness

20060294195 - Multi-media message instant send: The present invention describes a method and apparatus for instantly sending active media files from a mobile terminal to a remote device. According to the present invention, a mobile terminal stores a user-defined instant send address in memory of the mobile terminal. The stored instant send address represents an address,... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20060294201 - Playlist composition apparatus, copylight management apparatus and view terminal apparatus: A playlist acquisition unit acquires a playlist including a view segment of contents for a user. The view segment has a start position and an end position in the contents. A copyright information acquisition unit acquires copyright information of the contents from a copyright management apparatus via a network. The... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060294197 - Schematization of establishing relationships between applications: Establishing relationships between one or more entities of a first application and one or more entities of a second application using metadata. At least one entity of the second application is identified for establishing a relationship with at least one entity of the first application. Metadata from the second application... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060294199 - Systems and methods for providing a foundational web platform: A Web platform web-application framework in which functional block components are loaded as library elements at the time a website is accessed provides increased quality, accuracy and consistency of the website by enabling website management without a need for third party editors. Look and feel aspects of the website are... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20060294200 - Telematics terminal: Accessing a service provided by a telematics terminal includes detecting selection of a link within a Web page displayed by the telematics terminal. The link includes a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address. A character string associated with a telematics service is identified within the URL address of the selected link.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060294204 - Methods and devices for redirecting subscriber communication: Methods and devices for redirecting subscriber communication using a network provider (110) other than its usual network provider (108) are disclosed herein. The electronic device (102) generates a signal having an initiating message (111). In response, the server (104) signal sends an instruction message (114) to electronic device (102). The... Agent: Motorola Inc

20060294205 - Method and mobile terminal for accessing a service portal via bi-directional network: A user of a combined mobile telephone and IPDC receiver (10) accesses a WAP portal (16) through the Internet (82) and/or a mobile telephone network (81). The WAP portal (16) provides a service menu, comprising a number of links to service menus further down in the hierarchy or to IPDC... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060294206 - Opaque cryptographic web application data protection: A method and a system for external and distributed protection of Web application data against prying, tempering, and impersonation using cryptographic mechanisms. The protection is offered opaquely so as to not expose the cryptographic mechanism to the Web application. Protection against prying prevents users from looking at data the Web... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060294210 - Ad-hoc multimedia information exploitation via web services and mobile agents: A method and system for transient access to multimedia data using devices attached to a communications network enables Web Services to be deployed in an ad-hoc fashion on networked devices using taskable mobile agents. Transient Web Services are transported and remotely controlled by mobile agents, thereby enabling information exploitation.... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20060294207 - Apparatus and method for autonomically adjusting configuration parameters for a server when a different server fails: A load balancer detects a server failure, and sends a failure notification message to the remaining servers. In response, one or more of the remaining servers may autonomically adjust their configuration parameters, thereby allowing the remaining servers to better handle the increased load caused by the server failure. One or... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20060294211 - Forwarding table synchronization for virtual environments: System architectures and protocols are described to synchronize forwarding state across redundant control planes in a computer network. Clusters of network devices include multiple agents, which are either in active or inactive mode. Each such agent is associated with a Forwarding Information Base (FIB), which stores network path information for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20060294208 - Methods and apparatus for subscriber configuration of cooperative communication services: Methods and apparatus for subscriber configuration of cooperative communication services are disclosed. A disclosed example system comprises a first communication system to provide a Unified Communications service to a customer, a second communication system to provide a telephony service to the customer, a communications path between the first and the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20060294209 - Pre-configured settings for portable devices: A system, method, and computer-readable media are disclosed for retrieving configuration files from host units to devices. The system, method, and computer-readable media can, through a media device, detect when a surrounding condition has changed so that the media device can benefit from at least one configuration file. If the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060294214 - Event logging techniques for broadband wireless access networks: An apparatus, system, method, and article for event logging for broadband wireless access networks are described. The apparatus may include a managed node to store a managed object associated with an event and to provide the managed object to a network management system. The managed object may include an event... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevates

20060294212 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An apparatus and method that, in transmission and playback of content between a server and a client, efficiently executes playing back part of content, such as an impressive portion, is provided. By setting index information as partial data region identification information in property information corresponding to content retained by the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060294213 - System and method for establishing peer to peer connections between pcs and smart phones using networks with obstacles: A method of circumventing network obstacles to provide a peer-to-peer communication channel between peers utilizing hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) includes communicating a HTTP request from a peer device to a relay through a network including an obstacle where the HTTP request is intended for another peer device. The method further... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060294217 - System and method for managing communication links: A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20060294215 - Using a network portal to store diagnostic data: A data analyzing system. The data analyzing system includes a number of data capture devices. The data capture devices may be for example, at different points in a network or for testing different components in a system. The data analyzing system further includes a distributed storage system connected to the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20060294216 - Wireless classroom response system: A wireless classroom response system includes multiple wireless networks, each serving a different classroom. Each network has a computer located proximate to the classroom that the wireless network serves. The computer executes a communications server and an application program, wherein the application program facilitates classroom activities. The system also includes... Agent: Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20060294225 - Acquiring, storing, and correlating profile data of cellular mobile communications system's users to events: A system to collect personal and demographic data from user's of cellular mobile communications system devices. This system uses a standard web browser to collect the personal and demographic data instead of the device itself because of the limited interactive experience available to cellular mobile communications system device users. After... Agent: James L. Davison

20060294227 - Communication apparatus and communication method: Data communication using wireless service discovery is continuously provided even if a radio wave condition temporarily deteriorates or movement of an apparatus occurs. If a temporary deterioration in wireless radio wave environment is found in a communication apparatus including a service discovery function, a search is made again at a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060294220 - Diagnostics and resolution mining architecture: A system and method for automatically modifying a configurable system based on proposed changes calculated using a corresponding model network. The model network includes a plurality of nodes representing the elemental attributes of the configurable system as well as correlations between the nodes. Upon detection of one or more nodes... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060294224 - Electrical power management system: A system for monitoring an electrical power distribution system monitors a selected device or quantity in the power distribution system and produces an output signal representing a sensed condition; receives and stores data relating to the sensed condition from the power distribution system; stores a display of at least a... Agent: Square D Company Legal Department - I.p. Group

20060294229 - Emergency report device: Transmission of an emergency report from an emergency report device is either permitted or prohibited depending on a registration condition of an identification code received by the emergency report device from an external device. The registration condition of the identification code in a service center is notified from the emergency... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060294230 - Information processing apparatus and connection control method for the apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive data via a wireless communication path to and from an external device, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of wireless communication with the external device, and a control unit configured... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060294218 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and computer program for information processing: An information processing apparatus that enables to perform a distributed processing in response to a user's operation reliably and effectively among a plurality of information processing apparatuses interconnected through a network. A main processor (21) writes an information data about an operating status of its own apparatus as an apparatus... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060294231 - Method and system for defining media objects for computer network monitoring: Method and system for defining media objects, such as images and graphics, to represent computer networked resources and assets, along with their associated events, while monitoring the same in a real-time environment is disclosed.... Agent: Mcintyre - Lilley Intellectual Property Management Services

20060294219 - Network system based on policy rule: A policy control device for reflecting a policy rule defined by a condition and an action corresponding to the condition for operation setting of respective network devices present in a network to be managed, according to a transition of operation states of the network, including a storage unit for storing... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20060294233 - Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of individuals: A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20060294223 - Pre-fetching and dns resolution of hyperlinked content: A web accelerator reduces web latency experienced when retrieving and displaying content. The web accelerator includes an interceptor component, a resolver component, a predictor component and a tracer component. The interceptor component captures web requests. The web requests are tracked by the tracer component, which logs the web requests to... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060294232 - Receiving network metrics data from disparate devices and displaying in a host format: Transmitting network metrics data from disparate client platforms to a service provider for the calculation of performance measurements so that the level of service may be verified. The metrics data is received by the service provider in formats associated with the subscriber's platform. When the metrics data is received by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060294222 - System and method for enhancing event correlation with exploitation of external data: A system and method for enhancing event correlation with exploitation of external data is presented. A correlation engine receives events and selects a correlation rule that corresponds to the events. The correlation rule includes an event selection, a trigger condition, and a correlation conclusion. The correlation engine uses the event... Agent: Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20060294221 - System for programmatically controlling measurements in monitoring sources: According to one embodiment, a method comprises providing a metric reporting configuration interface for enabling configuration of metrics included in monitoring data collected for at least one monitored component. The method further comprises supporting, by the metric reporting configuration interface, defining of configuration parameters of at least one metric to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060294228 - Systems and methods for preventing server overload: The present invention relates to methods, a system, computer readable mediums and computer program products for preventing overload of a network server (16a) of an electronic trading system (10). The inventive method comprises the steps of: monitoring (30) a resource utilization of the server (16a) by means of a number... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060294226 - Techniques for displaying impressions in documents delivered over a computer network: In one embodiment, an impression to be displayed in a placement of a web page is selected from candidate impressions that may be displayed in the placement. The candidate impression may be chosen based on behavioral data and a placement identifier particularly identifying the placement. The behavioral data may include... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20060294235 - Management and data handling system and method: Computer implemented systems for transferring data while maintaining an acceptable level of data security, methods for transferring data between servers, online management systems comprising a plurality of software modules, and methods of managing construction projects, such as construction of trade show exhibits, as well as software used in such systems.... Agent: Bryan Cave, LLP

20060294237 - Secure graphical objects in web documents: The invention provides a method and system for presenting information in a web document using a program applet to restrict further copying or redistribution. The web document includes a first region in which a graphical element or other information is displayed, and a second region covering the first region in... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060294236 - System, device, and method of selectively operating a host connected to a token: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method, device and/or system to selectively operate a host connected to a token. The device may include, for example, a host processor to communicate with the token; and a secure module including a secure unit; and a controller to authenticate an identity... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20060294234 - Zero-copy network and file offload for web and application servers: Methods and apparatus for transferring data from an application server are provided. By offloading network and file system stacks to a common stack accessible by multiple operating systems in a virtual computing system, embodiments of the present invention may achieve data transfer support for web and application servers without the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20060294239 - Method and system for controlling computer in system: A server computer is communicably connected to a client computer and has a first and a second execution environment for executing a program for performing information processing in accordance with a processing request transmitted from the client computer. The server computer stores a condition for judging whether a predetermined processing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060294238 - Policy-based hierarchical management of shared resources in a grid environment: The invention relates to controlling the participation and performance management of a distributed set of resources in a grid environment. The control is achieved by forecasting the behavior of a group of shared resources, their availability and quality of their performance in the presence of external policies governing their usage,... Agent: Thomas A. Beck Esq.

20060294242 - Communication system and session establishment method: A communication system capable of securely preventing illegal use of addresses and enhancing confidentiality of communication. Based on an originating-side real address which is the real address of an originating-side client terminal and specific information included in a registration message, a conversion data generator generates conversion data which the local... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20060294244 - Digital home networks having a control point located on a wide area network: A method of controlling and delivering media content from a media server (MS) to a media renderer (MR) utilizing a wide area IMS network for control. The method involves: provisioning a serving node in the IMS network with control point (CP) logic that includes logic to negotiate media content delivery... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20060294243 - Management of group communication: A method of group communication in a system where clients need to request floor access from a controlling network element includes a controlling network element that determines a floor access control situation where number of floor access requests should be limited and sends a session-specific indication on the floor access... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060294245 - Method and system for a communications session join function to facilitate the provision of enhanced communications services: A method and system for joining independent but related communications sessions to form a communications connection uses a communications session join function to join independent communications sessions connected to first and second endpoints based on information contained in the respective independent first and second communications session requests. The communications session... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20060294241 - Preserving sessions in a wireless network: A radio network controller and methods for reestablishing sessions in a wireless network are described. At least a portion of session information associated with a first session is saved; and in response to detecting an unexpected degradation of the first session, reestablishment of the first session is triggered using the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060294240 - System and method for generating a frameless web display: In a system and method for generating a frameless display, a processor may select one of a plurality of page configurations based on session data in response to a page request, and may display, in accordance with the selected page configuration, a unitary page including data of a plurality of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20060294248 - Automatic server configuration based on user agent: A communications server is provided that is able to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, and access SIP client-specific information within the SIP message. The client specific information can be provided in a user agent header. The server automatically adapts its interaction with the SIP client based on the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060294246 - Element designations for network optimization: A system for selectively handling client information in a network. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module adapted to determine whether a client will require roaming services or not. A second module, which communicates with the first module, maintains records of the client that are required only... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20060294247 - Extending digital artifacts through an interactive surface: A unique system and method that facilitates extending input/output capabilities for resource deficient mobile devices and interactions between multiple heterogeneous devices is provided. The system and method involve an interactive surface to which the desired mobile devices can be connected. The interactive surface can provide an enhanced display space and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060294249 - Communication system, communication terminal comprising virtual network switch, and portable electronic device comprising organism recognition unit: The communication terminal of a communication system comprises a virtual network switch which can forcibly alter the destination of data being transmitted/received between the communication terminal and a network. Data is transmitted/received between the network and the communication terminal through a portable electronic device. Various functions, including a security function,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060294251 - Output management system and method for enabling access to private network resources: A system and method for managing output such as printing, faxing, and e-mail over various types of computer networks. In one aspect, the system and method provides for accessing print and/or document resources located on private networks behind firewalls. A pass-through communication link is established between system components located on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294250 - System and method for routing signals intended for one device through another device connected to a shared access network: A system (100) and method (200) for delivering conditional access information to a conditional access controlled device (120) incompatible with the conditional access transmission protocol. The conditional access information is delivered through a conditional access controlled device (110) compatible with the conditional access transmission protocol via a home network connection... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20060294252 - Apparatus, method, and system for detecting a state of an apparatus: An apparatus, method, system, computer program, and product, each capable of detecting a state of an apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of devices. When at least one of the plurality of devices is determined to be in a first state, a second state of at least one of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060294253 - Object oriented communication among platform-independent systems over networks using soap: A system for object oriented communication among platform independent systems over networks using SOAP, in which communications can be performed over the internet and through a firewall utilizing a single communications protocol. A simple object access communications protocol (SOAP) is utilized for sending messages from one object to another across... Agent: Gary M. Nath Nath & Associates PLLC

20060294254 - Centralized hot-pluggable video and kvm: A distributed blade computer system and a method for operating a distributed blade computer system. More specifically, a computer system having one or more blades configured to operate as stand-alone computers are coupled to an infrastructure which includes one or more video modules. When a remote user wishes to implement... Agent: Intellectual Property Administration

20060294256 - Method for automating standard operation procedure: The present invention discloses a method for automating a standard operation procedure, comprising: editing multiple operation data, which describe the execution procedures of operations in detailed, into a standard operation procedure; recording the operation data respectively in multiple electronic operation procedure files; sequentially transferring the contents of those multiple operation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060294255 - Support system for standard operation procedure: The present invention discloses a support system for a standard operation procedure, which comprises: a task database, recording the task-related information of the operation procedure; user ends, having information-display interfaces to present the information of the operation procedure; and an operation procedure distribution server, communicatively connected to the task database,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060294257 - Ip address obtaining method: If a received packet is REQUEST, an IP address and a MAC address, which are stored in the REQUEST, are extracted. If the extracted MAC address is the MAC address of a network appliance to be examined, the MAC address and the IP address extracted from the REQUEST are associated... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20060294258 - Advertisement refresh rules for network applications: Advertisements are refreshed in an interface based on one or more parameters provided over a network. The parameters can be retrieved from a web service and implemented at a client device. Advertisement refreshing is performed independently of web page content loading. The parameters may include a time period and user... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20060294259 - Method and device for audience monitoring on multicast capable networks: The presented idea is a cheap solution for audience monitoring in multicast capable networks e.g. Ethernet, IP or UMTS. There is no need for user equipment in order to monitor the viewers' watching behavior. The measurement is done in the operator's network; therefore, there is no need to contact the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20060294260 - Management system and method for wireless communication network and associated user interface: A management system and method for a wireless communication network and an associated interface is provided. The management system provides a structure of data layers and a visualization design to upgrade the efficiency of network management. The management system includes a data generation module and a display module. The data... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060288072 - Method for associating content objects with a database: A method is provided for associating content objects with a database wherein the content objects are accessible over a network communication medium by a user. The method includes: receiving a suggestion for a new content object for addition to the database; approving the suggested content object; generating a list of... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20060288071 - Server device, user interface appliance, and media processing network: Components for a control and data processing infrastructure for multiple networked media peripherals are based on chained device connections using a transport-layer independent asymmetric control protocol such as PTP. These components provide a user interface which mirrors the chain of device connections, provides remote access to the media data distributed... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

20060288073 - Reciprocal public trust relationship: Publicly accessible linking information is to establish a trusted relationship between reciprocally linked entities controlling web resources, such as websites or web logs. A method of establishing a trust relationship between two entities identifying a user-installed link to a second web resource in a first web resource. Next, the method... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20060288074 - System, method and computer program product for collaborative broadcast media: A system, method and computer program product for collaborative media selection among a media provider and a collaborative group of media players, where each individual media player is in processing communications with the media provider. Enables a media broadcaster to perform a procedure which involves (a) sending one or more... Agent: Law Office Of Philip A Steiner

20060288078 - Communication terminal and server access method: A communication terminal includes an address specifying unit specifying an address, the address is to access the server, a parameter determining unit determining whether or not the address specified by the address specifying unit is attached with a specific parameter, a display unit displaying a warning screen if the parameter... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060288075 - Electronic mailbox address book management system and method for the same: An electronic mailbox address book management system and a method for the same are proposed. The address book management system has a mailing list database, a multimedia recording module and an editing module. The mailing list database stores a plurality of mailing lists. The multimedia recording module makes files in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060288076 - Method and apparatus for maintaining reputation lists of ip addresses to detect email spam: A method and system to maintain lists of IP addresses for detection of email spam are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving email messages from senders associated with Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, filtering the email messages to identify spam, and sending statistics pertaining to the email messages and... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060288077 - Systems and methods for instant messaging: An instant messaging system comprising a server and a client device. The server provides an instant messaging service and stores a master contact list, wherein the master contact list specifies the latest presence status of a plurality of buddy names predetermined by users. The client device utilizes the instant messaging... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060288080 - Balanced computer architecture: Methods and systems are described comprising a plurality of nodes each comprising at least one processor and at least one storage device providing storage for the system along with an interconnect configured to establish connections between pairs of nodes. The nodes may be configured (e.g. programmed) to determine from a... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20060288083 - Communication apparatus and browser switching method: The communication apparatus and browser switching method are capable of carrying out automatically an input of URL. A mobile device communicates with a server arranged in a network and has a first browser that processes and displays Web data acquired from the server, and a second browser that can process... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288081 - Information storage medium including application for obtaining metadata and apparatus and method of obtaining metadata: An information storage medium including an application for obtaining metadata for a disc library, and an apparatus and a method of obtaining the metadata. The information storage medium includes a network application to download metadata for a disc library from an external server to a reproducing apparatus for reproducing data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20060288084 - Micro-client for internet appliance: The invention provides a method and system for providing features for internet access at an internet appliance which go beyond the resource limitations of the internet appliance. The desired features are primarily implemented on the server, and coupled to the internet appliance for display, responsive to the ability of the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060288079 - Security system for personal internet communicator: The present invention provides a method and apparatus to prevent permanent storage of Internet-related files on the hard disk or other permanent storage of a user's personal computer. In an embodiment of the present invention, a portion of the computer's volatile random access memory (RAM) is used to form a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile. LLP

20060288082 - Systems and methods for facilitating the acquisition of content: The present invention provides systems and methods for acquiring ring content (e.g., a ring tone or a ring view) for a mobile phone.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20060288088 - Method and apparatus for managing a web cache system: A method and apparatus for managing a web cache system includes storage spaces allocated to web cache devices for storing cached information. Upon failure of a web cache device, the storage space allocated to that device is reallocated to a different operational device, so that the cached information in that... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060288086 - Method and apparatus for providing service profile upgrades with minimal downtime: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dynamically updating service profiles in a network system. A device, such as an edge device providing network services to subscribers, is configured to dynamically update profiles for services provided to subscribers with no downtime required. Devices may be configured in accordance with this disclosure... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20060288085 - Modular server architecture for multi-environment http request processing: Methods are provided for utilizing a modular server architecture for processing requests for services, such as authorization and authentication, in a web server. The modular server architecture includes self-contained modular components that can be plugged in and out of the web server, as needed, to provide requested web services. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060288087 - Web-based method and system for providing content-driven service to internet users: A web-based method and system provides Internet users with expert services driven by the content that users browse. Wherein users browse the web with the said web-based client tool downloaded from the expert service system, the list of experts is consistently retrieved and displayed beside the content from the expert... Agent: Jiehyeong Sun

20060288091 - Content providing system and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for providing a content and its method are disclosed. The mobile communication terminal for providing content includes a transceiver for receiving a content from a server; a display unit for displaying the content received from the transceiver on a pre-set region; and a controller for controlling... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20060288089 - Method and apparatus for configuring information for multiple network access providers: A computer program product that provides a graphical user interface for configuring communication information for multiple network service providers on a computer system. The program product is operable to display a network communication scene that includes edit windows and selectable options for a user to view, enter, remove, and modify... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060288090 - Privacy information reporting systems with refined content model: Information is identified as noteworthy by making comparisons and/or detecting patterns in data from multiple sources such as comparing data from a database with lesser authority with one with a greater authority; identifying inconsistencies among data, including direct inconsistencies (such as above) and indirect inconsistencies; and classifying data associated with... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20060288092 - Xml over tcp management protocol with tunneled proxy support and connection management: Network elements, which are network nodes in a transmission network, implement a proprietary XML agent which supports an XML over TCP network management protocol. The protocol permits tunneling of proxy management traffic, with connection management support, to a privately addressed subtending network element. This tunneling is performed via a publicly... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20060288094 - Methods for configuring cache memory size: A method, system, computer readable medium, and/or a computer program product for electronic trading systems. A cache memory of a computer network system communicating with a plurality of clients via communication network is configured. The system includes a processing means adapted to process incoming messages from the clients and a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20060288095 - Patient and device location dependent healthcare information processing system: A system automatically establishes context information (e.g., determining changes to user interface workflows, screens, menus, and access requirements for devices such as monitors, ventilators, and diagnostic equipment) used by a worker in using healthcare information applications based on patient geographic location (e.g., a room or bed or department). The system... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060288093 - System and method for information handling system custom application ordering and installation: Replacement of legacy information handling systems at a deployment site is automatically managed in cooperation with an information handling system manufacture site by coordinating the building of replacement information handling systems with appropriate configurations. An asset discovery tool interfaces with the legacy information handling systems through a deployment site network... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20060288103 - Communication system, information processing apparatus, server, and communication method: A first information processor (1) transmits a bubble packet to a port assigned after assignment of specified port from reference port in a second communication control unit (4), a server (6) detects the position of the bubble packet transmitting port in a first communication control unit (3) used in transmission... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060288096 - Integrated monitoring for network and local internet protocol traffic: An apparatus comprises a communication function monitoring module comprising a communication function call detecting module to detect communication function calls generated by one or more applications, and a communication function call reporting module to send information describing one or more of the communication function calls to a traffic monitoring module;... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20060288097 - Integration of local and remote jobs in the job queue: A method, system service, and computer program for handling status of remote jobs associated with a networked device provides a job queue that presents job status for jobs that are being processed both locally (i.e. within) and remotely (i.e. externally) from the device. A method for handling status of remote... Agent: Edward A. Pennington, Esq. Swidler Berlin LLP

20060288102 - Method and system for improved management of a communication network by extending the simple network management protocol: The invention provides an improved management of network devices in a communication network by extending the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which provides an effective identifying of the Management Client originating a request and sends rich textual status and error responses from the network device.... Agent: Tropic Networks Inc. Dr. Victoria Donnelly

20060288099 - Method of and system for presence management in telecommunications: The present invention relates to telecommunication systems and more specifically, to a method of and system for responding to inquiries regarding user presence with respect to various communication systems. The invention provides a method of responding to a presence inquiry for a given user which includes the steps of establishing... Agent: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20060288101 - Multipurpose interface and control system: A multipurpose interface and control system includes a managing and/or monitoring device (an “effectuator”) capable of monitoring parameter(s) and/or controlling function(s) of an apparatus, and a server system coupled to a communication medium, where the server system allows the effectuator (and via it the apparatus it monitors and/or controls) to... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20060288098 - Peripheral interface alert message for downstream device: According to some embodiments, a message generated by a downstream device is received at upstream device. The message may, for example, be received via a peripheral interface and may not require a response. It may then be determined that an error is associated with the message, and an alert message... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20060288100 - System and method for managing internet based sponsored search campaigns: A sponsored search campaign management tool designed to eliminate the gap between search engines and Sponsored Search advertisers by combining website monitoring with Sponsored Search campaigns. Specifically, by combining website monitoring technology with API (Application Program Interface) access to Sponsored Search advertising networks, the present invention is able to provide... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20060288104 - Information processing system: In an information processing system having an electronic device and a server device, the electronic device transmits information having a GIP to the server device, and the server device configures retuned information having a GIP, and transmits it to the electronic device. The electronic device receives and sets the GIP.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060288105 - Event-driven component mirroring method and system: A technique is provided for exchanging data between software components in interface devices, monitoring devices, control devices, and so forth. Device elements are stored in the devices that are capable of communicating signals to one other, with each device element including a predetermined functionality. A connection is established between the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20060288106 - Method and apparatus for protecting http session data from data crossover using aspect-oriented programming: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for detecting and identifying data crossover errors in servlet code are disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment, techniques of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) are used to instrument JAVA Servlet code to detect potential data crossover errors. Specifically, pointcuts are defined to intercept... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20060288107 - Method and apparatus for switching between concurrent messaging sessions: A method and apparatus for conducting at least two concurrent conversation sessions is provided whereby a user may quickly switch between sessions. A graphical user interface may be provided comprising a first portion for conducting a first communication session and a second portion for immediately invoking a switch to a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20060288108 - Video distribution system having a call control and video distribution coordination server: A video distribution system is provided that is capable of distributing the same advertisement both to an originating user terminal and to a destination user terminal. Upon receipt of http request, WWW server transmits a call processing and video distribution request to a coordination server. At this time, the telephone... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060288110 - Dynamically configurable web services: An information system engages in communications session with a client to process a workflow. A context object stores information describing the session. Transfer objects store data utilized to process the workflow. A client action causes inbound data to be received by the information system. The inbound data is transformed into... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20060288109 - Method and apparatus to facilitate layer 3 internet protocol socket connections: A plurality of socket connections (comprising, at least in part, Layer 3 Internet Protocol connections) are established (101) and the aggregated (102) with respect to those Layer 3 Internet Protocol connections. In a preferred approach this does not comprise aggregating the socket connections with respect to any corresponding Layer 2... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20060288111 - Web application for accessing media streams: A web page has a player for playing media objects, a sequencer which displays a play list that defines an order in which media objects are played by the player, and a media access area for containing a plurality of graphical icons. Each graphical icon representing a media object, and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20060288113 - Media streaming of web content data: Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other component streams comprising additional data other than... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060288114 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for throttling network address translation (nat) learning traffic in a voice over ip device: Methods, systems, and computer program products for throttling network address translation (NAT) learning traffic in a voice over IP device are disclosed. According to one method, a plurality of media packets associated with a media session are received at a voice over IP device. A NAT learning throttling filter is... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20060288112 - System and methods for storing music selections in network storage and for streaming the selections to a wireless device for playback on the wireless device: A system and methods for storing music selections in network storage and for streaming the music selections to a wireless device for playback on the wireless device. The system comprises a media storage database for storing music selections in a network, request receiving logic configured to receive a request sent... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20060288115 - A system and method for transferring a website from one web host to another: The current invention is designed to simplify the process it takes to transfer a website from one web host to another. The system will transfer a user's information through a series of easy to follow screens, similar to a Microsoft Windows wizard. The system will support the transfer of all... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20060288116 - Management system, and communication device and data processing device used in such system: There is provided a communication device, which is provided with a network interface that interfaces the communication device with a network, a reception judgment unit configured to judge whether to accept data received by the network interface from the network in accordance with predetermined restriction data defining at least one... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060288117 - Methods and apparatus for packetization of content for transmission over a network: Methods and apparatus for packetization of content for transmission over a network. A method is provided that includes generating one or more content packets from the multimedia content, wherein the content packets are associated with a time reference, and adding a sync header to the one or more content packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060288121 - Communications system providing enhanced client-server communications and related methods: A communications system may include an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another. The communications device may process requests using an HTTP client application, for example. Furthermore, the system may also include an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20060288122 - Method and apparatus for content based switching: Various embodiments are described for performing pattern matching for content based switching. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a document parser and a pattern parser. The document parser may be arranged to parse a document having transaction information and to create a document object from the transaction information. The... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevates

20060288119 - Multi-level redirection system: In a multi-level redirection method, a first level redirection of a first request is performed based on static information. At a manager, a second level redirection of a second request is performed to an agent server based on dynamic information. The manager is configured to monitor an individual status of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060288118 - Operations switches and systems for providing operations service for networks: A centralized point of management, such as an operations switch, is established for operations services being provided by operations service servers for various customer networks. The centralized point of control may include an application server for providing operations service management where the application server maintains databases for establishing customer subscriptions... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20060288120 - Service network system and server device: A server device that represents a plurality of service provision servers implements authentication and a SIP message exchange with respect to a SIP server as a representative, and notifies a service provision server of client communication information that is acquired by the SIP message exchange. The service provision server communicates... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060288123 - Interface for transcoding system: The invention relates to a transcoding system comprising an application platform and a transcoding platform for executing transcoding transactions that comprise the transmission of a request from the application platform to the transcoding platform, the execution of said request by said transcoding platform, and the transmission of a response to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060288124 - Method and apparatus for enhancing online searching: A method and apparatus are provided for processing search results obtained in response to a user query. This may include examining document pointers returned by a search engine to identify a source from which the documents are available and generating at least two visual abstracts of each of the documents.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060282493 - Apparatus and method for socially intelligent virtual entity: An agent that receives an input event and outputs Emotion_Response messages based on personality trait indices and emotional state indices is disclosed. The agent has a social response generator that receives an input event, an output from an emotional state register and an output from a predefined personality trait register,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060282494 - Interactive web crawling: A crawler that is either based on an interactive mode of operation or includes an interactive mode along with one or more other modes, such as automatic or manual. Similar to an automatic mode crawler, the crawler traverses web sites, web content and links. However, if the crawler encounters a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20060282495 - Method for providing information concerning broadcast contents for a user: A method for providing information concerning broadcast contents for a user is designed and further developed in such a way that the user sets preferences regarding the broadcast contents via the network, achieving the option of a systematic selection of program contents in an infrastructure that is at the same... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060282499 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus capable of transmitting or receiving file data to or from a server, the apparatus comprises a memory which stores file data, a receiver which receives file name data transmitted from the server, a conversion unit which reads from the memory file data which is indicated by... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060282501 - Dynamic server page meta-engines with data sharing for dynamic content and non-jsp segments rendered through other engines: Rendering a meta-page through a meta-engine, the meta-engine including a tag handler, the meta-page including static content, JSP dynamic content and one or more types of non-JSP dynamic content, and identifications of shared variables. Embodiments include writing to output the static content of the meta-page, rendering the JSP dynamic content... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20060282500 - Information management method using a managing symbol and information management server: An information management method using a managing symbol and an information management server for managing a plurality of electronic contents and automatically performing an action according to each content. Association between a bit string assigned to each content and the storage address of the content is stored, and a managing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060282496 - Method for controlling on the basis of case based tracking forecasts: A method for controlling digitally storable events on a computer system that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, includes receiving movement information of a user. Route information is recorded digitally in a user-specific manner so as to save a starting point and an... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20060282498 - Sensor network system, method for data processing of a sensor network system: An operation flow of each node is dynamically changed according to a user request or a situation. A client (205) includes: a step (415) of extracting a script for a lower node from scripts in which processing is preset for a plurality of nodes to distribute the script extracted to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20060282497 - Software defined radio download: A method for securely connecting a software defined radio (SDR) (110) to a server (140) through a network is presented. A request to download a radio configuration (R-CFG) file is sent from the SDR device to the server. A determination is made that the R-CFG file is configured to control... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20060282503 - Email emotiflags: Email emotiflags are described. A collection of emotiflags, each including a graphical icon and a text tag is maintained. Custom emotiflags may be defined by a user. While composing an email message, a user may associate an emotiflag with the email message such that when the email message is sent,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282502 - Method and system for translation of electronic data and software transport protocol with reusable components: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for communicating messages between applications, comprises an incoming connection component, a core logic component, and an outgoing connection component. The incoming connection component receives messages from a sending application and wraps the messages as a generic object in a message object.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20060282505 - Inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation. Nodes maintain collateral ring set entry tables that include collateral rings and corresponding entry nodes into the collateral rings. Nodes can exchange collateral ring set entry state to update one another... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20060282504 - Usage status notification system: A usage status notification management apparatus includes a user management unit, a document registration management unit, a recommendation processing unit, a recommendation history management unit and a usage status processing unit. The recommendation processing unit provides to a user terminal at least a part of document information of documents registered... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060282506 - Communication master station startup period control method: The present invention provides a communication master station startup period control method of being able to securely prevent malfunction of a PLC system, even if at least two communication master stations are connected to the PLC system which permits only one communication master station on the network. After the startup,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060282507 - System and method for formatting data for transmission between an embedded computer and a host computer having different machine characteristics: A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via either a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060282509 - Application server architecture: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for an application server architecture having a common connection manager for at least two heterogeneous application server software suites. One of the software suites is a standards-based application server software suite having a plurality of worker nodes. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060282512 - Method and architecture to support interaction between a host computer and remote devices: A method and architecture for enabling interaction between a remote device and a host computer. A service provided by the remote device is discovered, and a description pertaining to the service is retrieved by the host computer. A network communication link is the established between the remote device and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060282511 - Method for limiting utilizing terminal of contents, and memory device and system for method: The invention flexibly limits a terminal able to play content and prevents unfair utilization of the content. In one embodiment, an identifier proper to each terminal device is allocated to discriminate each playback equipment. The identifier of a terminal which is allowed to play the content is registered to this... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20060282510 - Multicast data distribution: A method of distributing a disk image by multicast includes a first computer downloading a disk image over a network, at least one second computer detecting the download and requesting the disk image, and the first computer multicasting the disk image to the at least one second computer.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282508 - System and method of responding to a flood attack on a data processing system: A system and method of responding to a flood attack on a data processing system is disclosed. The present invention mitigates the affects of SYN attacks with false IP addresses by immediately removing the associated embryonic connection from the system upon receiving notification that the IP address in the original... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20060282513 - Method and architecture to support interaction between a host computer and remote devices: A method and architecture for enabling interaction between a remote device and a host computer. A service provided by the remote device is discovered, and a description pertaining to the service is retrieved by the host computer. A network communication link is the established between the remote device and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060282514 - Method and architecture to support interaction between a host computer and remote devices: A method and architecture for enabling interaction between a remote device and a host computer. A service provided by the remote device is discovered, and a description pertaining to the service is retrieved by the host computer. A network communication link is the established between the remote device and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060282515 - Method, system and network server for recording use of network service capability by applications: The present invention discloses method, system and network server for recording use of network service capability by applications (APPs), and the key points of the methods comprise: a network server acquires an identity of the APP and type information of the network service capability providing services for the APP, conducts... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20060282517 - Method to obtain friendly names for bluetooth devices: A method and apparatus to decrease the amount of time it takes to obtain friendly names of Bluetooth devices is presented. A name server caches friendly names for devices that it has acquired from other devices or from other name servers. The name server is any device that caches friendly... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060282516 - System and method for discovering component applications: A mobile application discovery system and methods for providing and obtaining information associated with mobile applications available to be downloaded to a mobile device are provided. The system comprises a publishing module for publishing a mobile application to a discovery service, a discovery module for searching a UDDI registry and... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20060282518 - Multi-mode controller: A method and system for wireless communication is provided and may include, scanning by a wireless communication device, a plurality of radio frequencies for beacon messages from a plurality of master communication devices, in order to identify whether establishment of communication with at least one of said plurality of time-synchronous... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060282522 - Extending an internet content delivery network into an enterprise: An Internet content delivery network deploys one or more CDN server regions in an enterprise and manages those regions as part of the Internet CDN. In one aspect of the invention, a CDN service provider (CDNSP) deploys one or more CDN regions behind an enterprise's corporate firewall(s). The regions are... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20060282519 - Grid licensing server and fault tolerant grid system and method of use: A system and method for managing licensed and non-licensed resources in a grid network is provided. A license server receives and processes requests for a license and determines whether a license is available and, if necessary, causes a new configuration to be created on a server for satisfying the request.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060282521 - Local agent for remote file access system: Systems and methods for remote file access are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a local agent polls a server for a task request at a polling interval scheduled by a schedule timer in accordance with a set of local agent and remote client preferences. The local agent is responsible for... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20060282520 - Method and apparatus for computing within a wide area network: A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client computers also connected to the network, such that input devices of the client... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies (tips) Groups

20060282528 - Apparatus for executing an application function using a smart card and methods therefor: A method for effecting the execution of an application function on an application server from a client device with a smart card. The method includes transmitting a first text message pertaining to a request to execute the application function to the proxy server. The method also includes sending a token... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20060282524 - Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating communication between an enterprise information system and a client: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assuring delivery of an Enterprise Information System (EIS) event to a client. An adapter apparatus polls at least one EIS for an event. The event is staged to a staging table, consisting of an XA-compliant database, in preparation for delivery to the... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060282532 - Communication apparatus and network system, and control method thereof: A communication apparatus connected to a network collects functional information for apparatuses on the network and composes the middleware of the communication apparatus based on the collected functional information.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060282533 - Media play optimization: Systems, methods, and a user interface for automatically scheduling a media play is disclosed. The user can specify criteria for play of the media play, including times, stations, and/or external criteria such as a weather condition or the occurrence of an event. Information relevant to the entered criteria is received... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060282525 - Method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems includes acknowledging (e.g., at a systems management component in the computing system) a condition, and delegating responsibility for a strategy for a response to the condition to another component. In further embodiments, the present... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20060282529 - Method and apparatus for monitoring physical network topology information: A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring the physical topology of a network on a real-time basis. For patch panel systems, the approach is based upon a distributed architecture that may be modularly scalable and may allow each patch panel to determine port level connectivity by independently monitoring an... Agent: Panduit Corp.

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