Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 02/07

20070043807 - All weather housing assembly for electronic components: A sensor network for monitoring of a pipeline comprises a sensor disposed for monitoring of a pipeline, the sensor capable of acquiring data related to the pipeline and communicating sensor data; a first remote sensor interface (RSI) comprising a data communications device capable of receiving the sensor data communicated from... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070043806 - Apparatus, method, and system for communicating via a network: An apparatus, method, system for communicating with a counterpart communication apparatus via a network using more than one communication procedure or protocol. The communication procedure or protocol is selected based on the presence information or location information of a firewall on the network.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070043803 - Automatic specification of semantic services in response to declarative queries of sensor networks: Automatic specification of semantic services in response to declarative queries of sensor networks is described herein. Declarative Queries from users are received, and a set of sensors and related semantic services are automatically planned that prove or solve the input query against a network of sensors deployed to monitor one... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070043805 - Information processing device, communication system, management device, method, and program: An information processing device comprises: a communication unit which communicates with each device on a network, determines whether to accept data received from a device on the network or not based on a prescribed criterion, and transfers the received data to the inside in response to the received data being... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070043804 - Media processing system and method: A signal processing system including: a first processing unit including: a central hub interface receiving a stream of signal data from an external interface and forwarding the stream to one of a plurality of configurable node processing elements; a plurality of configurable node processing elements interconnected to the central hub... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070043808 - 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

20070043811 - Dynamic total asset management system (tams) and method for managing building facility services: According to an embodiment, a dynamic system and method for managing facility services that utilize scheduled predefined events and/or unscheduled variable events, are discussed. The dynamic system can include one or more servers, mobile devices, imaging devices, etc. designed and programmed to receive, manage, control, and/or report events from designated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070043809 - Storage network interconnection systems, kits and methods for using the same: Storage network interconnection systems have a server connection section including a plurality of connector members coupled to respective optical fibers extending to a server distribution point, the server distribution point being configured to couple ones of the optical fibers to storage device interface ports of selected computers. A storage device... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070043810 - Unlocking digital content on remote systems: A method executed on a server for unlocking digital content includes receiving a message corresponding to a request to access digital content embodied in digital readable form, associated with an electronic representation of a publication, sending a test that is based on the user having physical possession of the publication;... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070043818 - Creation and delivery of customized content: A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas an language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is used as a template for inserting localized content into a basic document framework... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070043816 - Electronic mail forming method and recording medium storing program: Disclosed is an electronic mail forming method comprising the steps of: classifying a plurality of electronic mail addresses into a plurality of groups; forming, for each of the groups classified in the classifying step, at least one electronic mail in which only electronic mail address(es) classified into the corresponding one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070043819 - Electronic mail system, mail server and mail terminal: A mail server and mail terminals are connected through a radio communication network. The mail server makes viral infection decision of if e-mails are infected with computer virus without burdening the mail terminals having poor processing power. The mail terminals are constructed to serve as small-sized mail terminals. When an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070043815 - Enhanced e-mail folder security: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that enhance the security of electronic mail messages and folders. Messages that are deemed to be less secure and have a higher security risk, such as unsolicited commercial e-mail (i.e. SPAM) and phishing messages, are reformatted and displayed in plain text with hyperlinks disabled... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070043813 - Method and system for delivering electronic messages using a trusted delivery system: A method and system for delivering electronic messages from a sender to a recipient over a communications network. The method includes receiving an email message verification request from a recipient mail server. Authorization of an email message is then verified, and the verification step includes generating a hostname using information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070043817 - Personalized electronic-mail delivery: Personalized electronic-mail delivery is disclosed. The content of incoming electronic-mail messages is identified. Determinations may be made with respect to whether the content of the incoming electronic-mail messages corresponds to a user profile. The user profile may indicate one or more user preferences of a particular user with respect to... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070043814 - Programmatic message partner list management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and real-time communications systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated partner list management in a real-time communications system. In one embodiment, a real-time communications data processing system can include a... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070043812 - Systems, devices, programs, and procedures... methods to use, methods of doing business, and business model: A system for sending electronic messages (data, voice, picture, or other) to specific motorists or motor vehicles using their license plate information is disclosed. Internet, wireless email, and instant messaging systems provide much of the core competency of the system. Proximity messaging systems between motorists and/or motor vehicles that are... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070043822 - Instant messaging prioritization based on group and individual prioritization: A method in a data processing system for prioritizing instant messaging chat sessions. Individuals and groups within a buddy list are given a priority, arranged in hierarchical order. A hierarchical list of chat session correspondents is created. A numerical prioritization value is assigned to each chat session correspondent based on... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070043821 - Method and system for task delegation via instant message: A system for the quick and efficient delegation of a task via an instant messaging system. A task leader sends an instant message broadcast to members in a workgroup. Each responding workgroup member is listed with biographical information on a result screen. The task is delegated to one or more... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070043820 - System and method for obtaining remote instant messages: A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070043823 - System and method for pushing activated instant messages: A system and method for sending activated instant messages includes determining a condition under which an activated instant message is permissible and determining if the condition is met. If the condition is met, the activated instant message is sent such that the activated instant message causes a receiver device of... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070043824 - Methods, apparatus and computer programs for data communication efficiency: To reduce repetitive data transfers, data content of an outgoing message is stored within cache storage of an intermediate node of a data communications network. A token for identifying the cached data content is stored at the intermediate node and the sender. When a subsequent outgoing message is to be... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070043826 - Graphical user interface and method for customer centric network management: A graphical user interface and method for customer centric network management. The graphical user interface includes a first view showing text input by a user indicative of customer identification data corresponding to a customer in a network. This data is received by a server connected to the user. The server... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070043825 - Methods and systems for dynamically changing the transport protocol and envelope of a message communication system: A transport policy for one or more documents for transmission from a local storage to one or more end points for said documents is retrieved from a remote registry associated with an offering. Thereafter the documents are transmitted according to the transport policy. The registry may be co-hosted with at... Agent: Sun/blakely

20070043827 - Rfid edge server with security wsrm: An RFID edge server using an application server allows for improvements in an RFID system.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070043833 - Computer platform system program remote upgrading control method and system: A computer platform system program remote upgrading control method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a network system for providing a local computer platform with a remote upgrading control capability, and which is characterized by the utilization of a specific network communication protocol, such as TCP/IP... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070043831 - Distribution of software based on scheduled time to deploy software dynamic resource state of systems involved in deployment of software and based upon environmental conditions: A method, computer program product and network management server for distributing software. The network management server receives a request to deploy an application on a designated target client station at a designated scheduled time. The network management server determines whether to deploy the application on the designated target client station... Agent: Kelly K. Kordzik Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20070043828 - Ghost messaging: In some embodiments, a ghost messaging system is disclosed that includes: a server configured to store user information, location information of client devices and ghost messages composed by users of client devices; a plurality of access points configured to transmit location information related to client devices to the server; and... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLC

20070043829 - Method and system for accessing a storage or computing device via the internet: A system and method for accessing a storage or computing device via the Internet using a Domain Name System (DNS)-based infrastructure is disclosed. One aspect of the methodology pertains to registering a storage device with a SIP registration server and associating it with an E.164 phone number. In one embodiment,... Agent: Charles B. Lobsenz Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes, PC

20070043832 - Scalable specification of page flows: The invention enables a specification of a customized flow of pages for an interactive web application. Execution of page flows is differentiated from other aspects of execution. Instead of implementing continuations by using an entire procedure call stack, a separate, relatively small page flow stack is used to save state... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070043835 - State-based workpath system and method: A state-based workpath system comprises a database that stores data relating to existing workpaths. A server executes a server module and communicates with the database. Client computers execute client modules that communicate with the server module and that provide a user interface, allow a first user to initiate a new... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070043834 - Store and forward messaging from rfid edge server: An RFID edge server using an application server allows for improvements in an RFID system.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070043830 - System and methods for collaborative scrapbook creation: A system for creating a scrapbook by a plurality of users includes a computer storage device configured to store book-design information for a scrapbook comprising a plurality of pages and an image on at least one of the plurality of pages, one or more first computer servers configured to retrieve... Agent: Xin Wen

20070043836 - Terminal for supporting dynamic contents delivery service, and system thereof: The present invention discloses a terminal for supporting a DCD service a system thereof, and method thereof. A general terminal cannot provide information specialized for individuals. In order to solve the foregoing problem, there is provided a method for delivering contents includes the steps of: acquiring contents at a DCD... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070043838 - Device and method for remote activation/deactivation of services for communication terminals via an ip network: A device is dedicated to the remote activation/deactivation of services for a communication terminal coupled to an Internet Protocol communication network. The device comprises management means adapted to be associated with the terminal and coupled to an instant messaging server which i) on receiving from the terminal a message to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070043837 - Method and system for producing web pages matched to client properties: The web components (24), (37), (38), (39), (40), (41), (42), (43), (44), (45) are instantiated on the basis of the properties of the client appliances (1), (2), (3). The instantiated web components (24), (37), (38), (39), (40), (41), (42), (43), (44), (45) are used to produce representations of the requested... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070043839 - Installing data with settings: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying information, such as a gadget or a part and for dragging and dropping the part from a web page onto a separate location on a display such that the part is instantiated at the separate location and configured based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070043844 - Communication device and control method thereof: Capability information about communication devices joining a network is collected, and a determination as to whether to continue first processing is made on the basis of the collected capability information. If it is determined not to continue the first processing, an end message is sent to terminate the first processing.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070043846 - Electronic content management systems and methods: Electronic content management systems and methods are disclosed. Geographic locator addresses such as mailing addresses are associated with respective, unique, geo-specific electronic addresses. For example, unique electronic addresses may be generated based on information specifying geographic locator addresses. The electronic address associated with a geographic locator address, to which information... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070043841 - Management of redundant objects in storage systems: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein one client node is selected from a plurality of client nodes. A determination is made that an object corresponding to a client node has to be stored. A determination is made as to whether the object has already been stored... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070043840 - Method and apparatus for identifying an order in a network: The invention relates to a method for identifying an order of users of a network, whereby the network contains a multitude of nodes and each of the nodes has a number of connections by means of which the nodes and the users can be interconnected. The inventive method comprises the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070043842 - Method and system for managing client-server affinity: In a computer communication network, affinity between a client and server is established dynamically. The client desiring affinity sends a request to establish affinity to an available server. The server can then respond by sending the client a redirect to an elected server, with which the client already has affinity.... Agent: Sun/blakely

20070043847 - Multimedia synchronization method and device: A system and method for synchronizing a multiplicity of devices in a multimedia environment is described. The system has at least one central storage and interface device, wherein audio, video, and photographic information including content information and content management information, relating to at least one user, are stored in digital... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070043845 - System and architecture for the handling of shared and personal preferences in call processing and presence for ip telephony and collaborative applications: A system for resolving conflicts between personal and shared space policies, comprising a location manager for monitoring location of users, each of the users being represented by a user agent for receiving session requests in accordance with user specified personal policies, a common proxy for receiving location data for the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070043843 - Wireless augmented reality communication system: The system of the present invention is a highly integrated radio communication system with a multimedia co-processor which allows true two-way multimedia (video, audio, data) access as well as real-time biomedical monitoring in a pager-sized portable access unit. The system is integrated in a network structure including one or more... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070043861 - Capture, analysis, and visualization of concurrent system and network behavior of an application: A first capture system that captures network communication events related to an application, and a second capture system that captures internal processing events related to the application. A visualization system analyzes the data captured by each of the capture systems, synchronizes and correlates the data, and presents an integrated display... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070043851 - Facilitating a user to detect desired anomalies in data flows of networks: A detection system in which a user can indicate the permissible sequences of packets (e.g., by virtue of a state transition table), and the detection system detects packets which are inconsistent with such permissible sequences. As a result, all anomalies (which are inconsistent with the user specified normal behavior) may... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070043849 - Field data collection and processing system, such as for electric, gas, and water utility data: A method and system for data collection and processing, such as for collection and processing of data read by a utility meter, generates a message having header information, a first packet having data of a first type, and a second packet having data of a second type. Each packet includes... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070043853 - Method and apparatus for controlling access in a motor control system: A motor control system includes a first peripheral device and a motor control host. The first peripheral device is operable to generate a first configuration message. The motor control host includes a plurality of ports and the first peripheral device is coupled to a first one of the ports. The... Agent: Susan M. Donahue Rockwell Automation, Inc.

20070043848 - Method and system for selective control of mms service in well defined premises: A method for restricting usage of a mobile communicator in a well defined area, the method comprising: monitoring protocol signals between the mobile communicator and a mobile communicator network, the mobile communicator in communication with the mobile communication network for MMS services; determining MMS capability of the mobile communicator, and... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20070043857 - Method and system to accelerate data processing for mal-ware detection and elimination in a data network: A method and system to accelerate data processing for mal-ware detection and elimination in a data network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first data stream via a data transmission medium; storing the first data stream in a first-in-last-out stack with additional data; receiving a second... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070043854 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing storage network dynamic tuning of i/o flow with queue depth: In accordance with a computer program product, apparatus and a method there is provided a redundant network wherein a host computer operates with a plurality of storage devices by monitoring conditions of the multipath storage network and controlling a storage multipath device driver in conjunction with an associated storage multipath... Agent: Harrington & Smith, L.L.P.

20070043856 - Methods and systems for low-latency event pipelining: Methods and systems for low-latency event pipelining. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for reducing a latency associated with the stream of information passes through the virtual pipeline. The method is performed in a network system, wherein a stream of information passes through a virtual pipeline... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070043855 - Methods for monitoring and managing processes: Systems and methods are provided for managing process execution within an operating system. The systems and method store a process initialization file, preparing a process list of processes that can be controlled by an individual user, and monitoring execution of the processes based on the process list for each user.... Agent: Dean D. Small Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070043862 - Secure in-band signaling method for mobility management crossing firewalls: An in-band signaling method that enables secure updates of a care-of-IP address for a mobile host that roams between access networks. In the illustrative embodiment described herein, a mobile host includes an intelligent interface that handles IP networking functions and tunnels IP packets between the mobile host and the mobile... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070043852 - System and method of html transaction logging in a web based (http) customer contact center: The present invention includes a system and method of HTML transaction logging in a Web based HTTP protocol contact center. The system includes a central processing unit operatively connected to a server having a filter portion and a servlet container. A storage facility is operatively connected to the filter portion... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070043859 - Systems and methods for content monitoring on a network: Exemplary systems and methods for content monitoring are provided. An exemplary content monitor comprises a plug-in application configured to initiate the monitoring of a network for one or more parameters over an extended time period. A mechanism is provided for notifying users about content monitoring results immediately after the one... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070043850 - Verfication of the availability of a server: According to the invention, an availability request is transmitted by a client to a server in order to verify whether a server is available. A response to said availability request is transmitted by the server to the client by means of a confirmation message if the server is available. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070043860 - Virtual systems management: Automatic configuration management of a network is provided by determining an inventory of resources at a virtualization layer of a node of the network, assigning prioritization to members of a set of network configuration elements, allocating virtual resources among the set of network configuration elements, establishing a network configuration. The... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070043858 - Worm detection method and apparatus using arp packet: A worm detection method and apparatus using an ARP packet are disclosed. The worm detection method and apparatus using an ARP packet according to the present invention can be easily implemented, and the driving load of program is less. Since a common characteristic of worm is used, it is possible... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070043864 - Image processing apparatus and file transmission method: An image processing apparatus is premised on the assumption that it is connected to a policy server. If no access policy is given to a file to be transmitted, the image processing apparatus forms definition information for defining an access policy, and registers the formed definition information in the policy... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070043863 - Resource selection in a communication network: A communication system comprising an end device, a location server, and a plurality of resources, each resource for providing individual instances of a first application. The end device is configured to transmit a first test message for the first application to a first resource of the plurality of resources using... Agent: Sprint

20070043867 - Information receiving apparatus, data downloading method, and information receiving system: An information receiving apparatus includes: a communication unit; a storage unit that stores data; a data acquisition unit that acquires distribution data that are received via the communication unit and stores the distribution data in a prescribed storage area of the storage unit that is determined in advance; and a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070043869 - Job management system, job management method and job management program: A job management system of the present invention includes a first processor element which receives a job flow and a second processor element. The first processor element includes a first element which generates first and second virtual hosts. The first and second virtual hosts correspond to the first and second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070043865 - Method of assigning objects to processing units: The present invention relates to a method of assigning objects to processing units of a cluster of processing units, each one of the objects having an object size and an object load, each one of the processing units having a storage capacity and a load capacity, the method comprising the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070043866 - Predictive email actions and load prompts: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for determining and managing the impact, or probable impact, of electronic-mail messages on computer resources. In one embodiment, prior to sending a first electronic mail message to a plurality of intended recipients over a network, a prospective impact of the first electronic mail message... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070043870 - Remote copying system and method of controlling remote copying: A secondary storage system comprises received marker information in which all received markers are recorded. A master secondary storage system collects marker numbers in received marker information from all of the secondary storage systems, and, from these collected marker numbers, selects the maximum marker number of marker numbers that are... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070043868 - System and method for searching for network-based content in a multi-modal system using spoken keywords: A speech-based method of searching for network content is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a portable communication device, speech input containing a keyword. Data representative of the speech input is then sent by the portable communication device to a server. The method further includes receiving, at the portable communication... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070043871 - Debug non-terminal symbol for parser error handling: A device has an input port to allow the device to receive data. The device also has a parser to parse the data in response to symbols in a parser stack, determine when a symbol is a debug non-terminal symbol, and notify the device via an interrupt. The interrupt causes... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070043872 - System and method for transmitting system messages insession initiation protocol: Provided is a system and method to accomplish system messaging in SIP by introducing a new content in the form of MIME body and a new feature tag to the existing SIP framework, for transmitting service specific information and receiving the user response. System Messages may contain a list of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070043873 - System and method to identify devices employing point-to-point-over ethernet encapsulation: A method and system for use in identifying customer premises equipment (CPE) in a distributed network are presented. The method includes receiving a first point-to-point-over Ethernet active discovery packet generating a device identifier code that identifies a product model of a customer premises equipment (CPE) device, and sending a second... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070043874 - File transfer method and system: A file transfer method for transmitting a large data file in slices from a sender to a receiver through the Internet on multiple parallel FTP connections uses the restart (REST) command of the industry-standard FTP Protocol to command an FTP server to transfer the respective slices starting with the first... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Godbey Griffiths Reiss & Chong

20070043875 - Systems and methods for media stream processing: Systems and methods for processing streaming media by selectively removing a portion of the streaming media data, e.g., for storage and/or delivery over a computer network medium. The amount of data in a media stream itself may be selectively reduced for delivery and/or storage and, in one exemplary embodiment, the... Agent: O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, L.L.P. Building C, Suite 200

20070043876 - Stimulation traffic for binding refreshment: The present invention relates to a method, system, session control device and computer program product for maintaining a binding relationship in an address translation function (20) used for providing a translation between a first address used for addressing a device (10) from inside a data network and a second address... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070043877 - Method for transferring data via a field bus of the process automation technology: In a method for transmitting data over a fieldbus of process automation technology with a field device in which a first application program for a first fieldbus protocol runs, the data of a second application program for a second transmission protocol are mapped onto the first fieldbus protocol and transmitted... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070043879 - System and method for shortening click urls: The present invention is directed to a system and method for reducing the size of one or more keys encoded into a link to a target resource. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a request for a target resource, encoding a link to the target resource with one or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070043878 - Virtual robot communication format customized by endpoint: An interactive agent, or bot, is disclosed which is capable of formatting information for optimal presentation depending at least in part on the functionality of the endpoint device receiving the information. The bot may operate as part of an IM application interface which provides protocols for network communications between a... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070043880 - Remotely associating network ports to a server: An implementation of an apparatus in one example may have: a network component, coupled with a communication network, having a plurality of network ports and a plurality of visual indicators that correspond respectively to the plurality of network ports; and a message received over the communication network by the network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070038695 - Communication apparatus and method: A communication apparatus communicates a first message via a network, extracts a difference between the first message and a second message that has been received, and applies the extracted difference to further communication.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070038696 - Secure electronic media distribution and presentation system: A method and apparatus for the distribution of electronic media content for distribution to employees of a subscriber. The system includes an electronic display for displaying selected electronic media content that may be selected, modified and/or generated by the subscriber. The system allows for dramatically increased subscriber control of the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070038700 - Field-based asset management device and architecture: A field mountable interface module is provided. The intelligent interface module includes at least one data connection port configured to couple to a data communication network as well as at least one process communication connection port configured to couple to a field device bus. The intelligent interface module also includes... Agent: Christopher R. Christenson Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070038698 - Method and apparatus for generating unique id packets in a distributed processing system: Method and apparatus for generating unique id packets in a distributed processing system. A method for facilitating processing over a network includes generating at a server location on the network a pointer that defines an information profile on the network. The pointer is then associated with the information profile, and... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070038699 - Method and device arrangement for managing a user application/device management server/client device environment: The invention relates to a method and data transfer arrangement for executing consecutive instructions in a client device (21) in a mobile user application device management server—client device environment (23, 22, 21). The invention also relates to an instruction execution module utilized in the implementation of the method. In the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070038697 - Multi-protocol namespace server: A namespace server translates client requests for access to files referenced by pathnames in a client-server namespace into requests for access to files referenced by pathnames in a backend NAS network namespace. The namespace server also translates between different file access protocols. The namespace server may change the translation of... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070038701 - Conferencing system: A conferencing system includes a moderator to enable audio transmission by individual participants to improve the effectiveness of communication between remotely located conferees.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070038712 - Acquisition of syndication feed items via an information workflow application: Syndication feed resources, such as those adhering to the Really Simply Syndication (RSS) protocol are accessed, and syndication feed items are acquired from syndication feeds that are available. The syndication feed items are converted to a format compatible with an electronic mail module of an information workflow application so that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070038702 - Communications data management: A method of a recipient processing a received e-mail to cause data interaction is described. The method comprises: reading a text-based data structure within the text body of the received e-mail message; identifying some pre-stored data of the recipient by use of the data structure; and causing an interaction to... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070038703 - Content router gateway: A gateway is provided which includes an interface to a command memory of a content routing server, interfaces to different types of content nodes, protocol translators to transform communications between the command memory of the content routing server and the interfaces to the content nodes. The gateway may interface to... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070038717 - Customizable content creation, management, and delivery system: A multimedia-enabled, customizable system for email and distributed rich media creation, management, and delivery is disclosed. The system includes: an email management server, web-animation and interface-enabled campaign sender device, and one or more recipient devices connected to the sender device and the email management server via a data communications network.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070038708 - Electronic mail distribution via a network of computer controlled display terminals with interactive display interfaces offering a sender creating an e-mail message proposed recipients based upon e-mail wording: Sending E-Mail including the conventional implementation enabling the sender of an electronic mail document to specify users to receive the document; but, in addition, the process invites the sender creating the E-Mail to prompt the sender with more potential recipients as the sender, proceeds with the creation of the E-Mail... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070038706 - Heterogeneous related document attaching for (clinical) messaging: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for messaging with heterogeneous inter-related attachments. Embodiments provide messaging systems, devices and methods for electronic messaging with attachments containing, for example, documents created from a translating print driver and/or documents containing identifiers associating the documents to a subject.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070038707 - Indexing and searching of electronic message transmission thread sets: A method includes describing the thread configurations of a volume of well-ordered electronic message transmissions (EMT) and utilizing the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume. An apparatus includes a thread processor and a query manager. The thread processor analyzes the EMT threads and records the... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070038713 - Mail processing apparatus, mail processing system, and mail processing method: A redirect mail processing machine processes mail judged to be a redirect mail by a mail sorting machine. The redirect mail processing machine has a takeout unit which supplies a redirect mail to a transfer path, an ID code reader which reads an ID code from a redirect mail, a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070038710 - Managing redundant email: Methods and computer program products for managing redundant email. According to one aspect of the invention, a determination is made as to whether a first email is contained in a second email. If the first email is contained in the second email, the first email is purged. Email attachments may... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070038709 - Method and system for identifying spam email: A method, system, and computer program product for selectively allowing email identified as spam by a spam filter to be received by an end-user.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070038714 - Method and system for journaling electronic messages: A method and system is provided for efficient journaling and management of electronic messages, wherein a copy of a first message sent from or received on a mail server is received, the copy of the first message is then recorded by a journal service, wherein the journal service comprises determining... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070038715 - Reduced traceability electronic message system and method: An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. An electronic message is separated into a message content and container (header) information. In one aspect, the message content and header information are displayed separately. In another aspect, an electronic message is permanently automatically deleted from the system at a predetermined... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20070038704 - System and method for processing messages being composed by a user: A system and method for processing messages being composed by a user of a computing device (e.g. a mobile device). Embodiments are described in which the performance of certain tasks is initiated before a direction is received from a user to send a message being composed by the user. This... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070038716 - System for multiple signers on an electronic card and gift: The current invention is a viral group greeting cards Internet service. It is a method and process that is an electronic greeting card service that utilizes the distributed access afforded by the Internet or local area networks (LANs) to enable the collection of greetings from multiple users on a single... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20070038718 - Systems and methods for online marketing and advertising on e-mail systems: Methods for enhancing e-mail messages to provide preview enhanced e-mail messages that allow e-mail senders to associate customized preview content related to an e-mail message, including graphical images, that can be viewed by recipients directly from an e-mail inbox listing without opening the e-mail message itself. The e-mail messages have... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20070038711 - Tracking of electronic mail messages: Electronic mail messages are tracked for the sender by allowing the sender to flag the electronic mail messages. Flagging the electronic mail messages allows for various notifications to be provided to the sender. For example, notification may be provided to the sender by placing an item in a to-do bar... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070038705 - Trees of classifiers for detecting email spam: Decision trees populated with classifier models are leveraged to provide enhanced spam detection utilizing separate email classifiers for each feature of an email. This provides a higher probability of spam detection through tailoring of each classifier model to facilitate in more accurately determining spam on a feature-by-feature basis. Classifiers can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070038719 - Method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages to determine address mismatches: A method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages in which address mismatch errors are detected. In at least one aspect, the number of address mismatch errors reported to a user for a message may be minimized for messages that properly incorporate message portions signed by someone other than the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070038722 - Event control device and digital broadcasting system: To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 which in turn determines to which of applications AP1, AP2, .... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070038720 - Method and apparatus for address book contact sharing: An exemplary method and apparatus for facilitating contact sharing between users of a communication network are described. The method may include maintaining contact information in first and second address books associated with first and second users, respectively, and forwarding, from the first user to the second user, a request to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070038721 - Web service connecting apparatus, web service connecting method: A connection setting part holds a selecting condition for a binding to use; a common interface part receives a connection request from a common interface execution code to be executed by a client; a reading/analyzing part obtains the selecting condition from the connection setting part; an environment information obtaining part... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070038724 - Home network using wireless module: Methods and apparatus for implementing a home network including a wireless module. In one implementation, a home network includes: two or more host devices, where at least one host device includes a wireless module port, and where the host devices are connected in a local network; and a wireless module... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070038723 - Method and system for subscribing a user to a service: For subscribing a user to a service offered by a first application server (SIP-AS1) of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, a request for the service, addressed to a public service identifier of the service, is received from the user in a Call Session Control Function unit (S-CSCF). The request is... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070038728 - A system for controlling the distribution of advertisements to informational client devices using a playlist: Software for use on a client device that is configured for communications via a communications network instantiates a communications function that effects an advertisement download communication link between the client device and an advertisement distribution server system via the communications network, at selected advertisement download times, an advertisement download function... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070038727 - Electronic menu and concierge system: An electronic menu and concierge system (100) for the travel and hospitality industry. The electronic menu and concierge system (100) is a centralized, Internet-hosted service that is accessible by hotel guests and visitors. The system may provide hotel information, such as hotel events (162), directions (248), and local attractions (166).... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (seattle Office)

20070038725 - Method and equipment of asp service for multi-resolution image on the environment of multi-server.: A method and apparatus are provided in which an Application Service Provider (“ASP”) generates a multi-resolution image on a multi-web server to provide the total process to manufacture the multi-resolution image, up-load to the image to the server, as well as to put it into web in one service. The... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070038726 - Quick deploy of content: Non-administrators selectively move content from a source network to a destination network. The source network includes a deployment server that can deploy an item and its dependencies (if any) listed in a quick deploy list without having to get specific administrator authorization for the deployment. The deployment server can be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070038729 - Systems and methods for direction of communication traffic: An Internet traffic redirection architecture is disclosed that allows for directing of trash traffic to specified sites. The system or method allows a controller, such as an ISP, to benefit from mistyped Internet addresses so that participating partners of the ISP are presented to the customer when the requests a... Agent: LatimerIPLaw, LLP

20070038731 - Information processing apparatus, selector, remote operation system, scan code transmission method, and program product therefor: An information processing apparatus includes a code converting portion that converts a scan code output from a keyboard into a corresponding key code, a data converting portion that converts the key code into packets, and a changing portion that changes an output destination of the scan code from the code... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070038730 - Method and apparatus for providing a standard control system with custom application capability: A system and method for managing the activities of a process. The system includes a first computer that uses standard control classes to manage the activities according to a standard control strategy. A second computer is used by a user to input custom data. A custom application program uses the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070038732 - Hardware management module: A hardware management module is enabled to perform hardware management for a modular platform system that includes a plurality of modular platform shelves coupled via one or more communication links in a network. Hardware management to include monitoring board interfaces resident on one or more backplanes within the plurality of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070038734 - Method and control plane for provisioning connections in a multi-layer transport network: In a multi-layer transport network, a method and related control plane allow automatic provisioning of a client layer connection (31, 32, 33, 24, 34, 35) over at least one server layer connection (11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 14, 15, 16, 25, 26) by selecting a path through the transport... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070038733 - Task-oriented management of server configuration settings: Task-oriented management is provided for managing server configuration settings. The server configuration settings are logically grouped into a set of tasks. User interface elements are mapped to each task in the set of tasks. The task represented by a user interface element is also mapped to one or more of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070038736 - Time division multiple access/time division duplex (tdma/tdd) transmission media access control (mac) air frame: A time domain multiple access/time division duplex (TDMA/TDD) media access control (MAC) transmission frame includes: one or more dynamically allocatable control packets for providing control information over a wireless medium between a wireless base station and one or more subscriber customer premises equipment (CPE) stations; and one or more dynamically... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070038735 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, wireless communication program, and recording medium recording the same: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus where a searching condition according to connection schemes for to-be-searched peripheral apparatuses is set, and a connection request transmitting source apparatus transmits a service searching request to the peripheral apparatuses to wait for detection of the peripheral apparatuses, when a peripheral apparatus is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070038741 - Automatically adding an ip address of dna to a list of instruments displayed to a user by a downloaded instrument management application: A user downloads an instrument management application from a distributed network analyzer, which is an instrument managed by the instrument management application and has an internet protocol address. The distributed network analyzer sends a message, including the internet protocol address of the distributed network analyzer, to the instrument management application.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070038742 - Computer system with network signal level indication device: A computer system with a device for indicating the network signal level of the LAN connected to the computer system is provided. The network signal level indication device includes a network signal level detection unit for detecting the signal level of the LAN connected to the computer and generating a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070038746 - Event management methods and systems: A method for event management. A first subscription request transmitted from a first subscriber apparatus is received, comprising information regarding that the first subscriber apparatus desires to subscribe events published by the service. A first service initiation message is sent in reply to the first subscription request, comprising a group... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070038744 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for enabling monitoring of a resource: To enable adaptive monitoring of the resource, metrics about the workload received at the resource from one or more clients are used to derive monitoring feedback comprising a recommendation as to how the monitoring should be performed. This is then used as input to a decision making process controlling the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070038740 - Notification service: The present invention provides a flexible and dynamic notification system. A service node acts as a contact proxy for a subscriber, wherein each subscriber has various actual notification addresses associated with different networks or communication terminals. For each subscriber, the service node supports a common notification address, which is used... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070038745 - Processing module: A processing module to use for a processing system having a plurality of processing modules connected via a communication line is comprising mounting position information for the processing module in the communication line; a unique logical address to indicate the processing module; a database to correspond with a physical address... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070038747 - Storage device and method of setting configuration information of same: Configuration information settings for a storage device are made highly reliable and facilitated. The storage device includes a service processor for setting storage device configuration information, and a terminal device connected to the service processor via a private line to send a command group, received from an operator and related... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070038738 - System and method for adaptively collecting performance and event information: A method for communicating information from a first computing node to at least one of the following: a storage device and a second computing node. The first computing node is monitored to collect at least one estimate of available resources, and based on this estimate, an amount of data collected... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070038739 - System and method for communicating with console ports: In a console server having a user interface and one or more ports, a system and method of accessing devices connected to the ports. A device connected to one of the ports is recognized, wherein recognizing includes recording in a port log information received through a port on a console... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070038743 - System and method for communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network: A system and method for improving digital communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. More specifically, the system includes one or more portable network devices operable to support the seamless operation of a self-initializing, self-healing, adaptive portable network. The portable network devices implement protocols that provide bandwidth management capabilities for... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070038737 - System and method for networking educational equipment: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring availability of end user devices needed for performing tasks. The system comprises a first network including one or more devices associated with an end user, at least one device adapted for communicating with a service provider over a second network, the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070038748 - Storage control method and storage control system: A novel storage control technology using a common aspect of the external connection and the remote copy is provided. At least one path is selected from a plurality of paths where one of three or more storage systems is a start point storage system and another one thereof is an... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070038749 - Combined local and network storage interface: A method, system and computer program product for a generic data storage interface for local and remote networked storage is provided. It comprises providing a data storage interface accessible by an operating system, transmitting data from an application running on the operating system to the data storage interface and selectively... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070038750 - Method for providing for quality of service (qos) - based handling of ip-flows in a wireless point to multi-point transmission system: A method for providing quality of service (QoS) aware, wireless point to multi-point telecommunications in a telecommunications system. The telecommunications system includes: a wireless base station coupled to a first data network; one or more host workstations coupled to the first data network; one or more subscriber customer premise equipment... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070038754 - Open-innovation network: An Open-Innovation Network wherein an Intermediary facilitates the research, creation and exchange (e.g., sale or license) of digital media (i.e., “Digital Innovations”). The Intermediary may participate in both the design and development of the Digital Innovations, and also acts as a broker between individuals or entities seeking to license or... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070038752 - Quality of service (qos) - aware wireless point to multi-point (ptmp) transmission system architecture: A quality of service (QoS) aware, wireless point to multi-point telecommunications system is provided. The system includes a wireless base station coupled to a first data network; one or more host workstations coupled to the first data network; one or more subscriber customer premise equipment (CPE) stations in wireless communication... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070038755 - Systems and methods for direction of communication traffic: An internet traffic redirection architecture is disclosed that allows for directing of various traffic to specified sites. The system and method allow a controller, such as an ISP, to benefit from unresolved IP Address requests and keyword and hotword queries by capturing this traffic and directing it to participating partners... Agent: LatimerIPLaw, LLP

20070038753 - Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (tcp/ip) - centric \"quality of service(qos)\" aware media access control (mac) layer in a wireless point to multi-point (ptmp) transmission system: A packet centric wireless point-to-multipoint (PtMP) telecommunications system is provided. The telecommunications system includes a wireless network that provides for true QoS. A media access control (MAC) layer is used in a packet-centric wireless point to multi-point (PtMP) telecommunications system, the telecommunications system includes a wireless base station coupled to... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070038751 - Use of priority-based scheduling for the optimization of latency and jitter sensitive ip flows in a wireless point to multi-point transmission system: A quality of service (QoS) aware, wireless point to multi-point telecommunications system includes: a wireless base station coupled to a first data network; one or more host workstations coupled to the first data network; one or more subscriber customer premise equipment (CPE) stations in wireless communications with the wireless base... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070038757 - Client and presentation layer architecture for session initiation protocol-based applications: The present disclosure provides a web browser having an HTTP client and a SIP user agent. The HTTP client is operable to receive and render data transmitted via hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) communication protocol. The SIP user agent is operable to receive and render data transmitted via session initiation protocol... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070038760 - Information processing apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus having a receiver, a user identifier generator, a generation source identifier memory, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request transmitted from a terminal device. The user identifier generator generates a user identifier corresponding to the request. The generation source identifier memory stores a generation source... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070038756 - Mechanisms for supporting back button function of web browser as web service server in interaction with business process engine: This application describes systems and techniques for using a Web-service based business process to interact with a Web browser as if the Web browser were a Web service server. In one exemplary implementation, an interface module with a HTTP server is provided to convert data from the Web browser into... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070038759 - Method and apparatus for providing mobile and other intermittent connectivity in a computing environment: A seamless solution transparently addresses the characteristics of nomadic systems, and enables existing network applications to run reliably in mobile environments. A Mobility Management Server coupled to the mobile network maintains the state of each of any number of Mobile End Systems and handles the complex session management required to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070038758 - Method for transferring chat messages by establishing chat room data transfer channel: Provided is a method for transferring messages by establishing a chat room data transfer channel, applicable to an instant message (IM) chat room system based on Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)/Instant Message and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE). The method includes the steps of: establishing a first data transfer channel after a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070038761 - Method and apparatus for detecting the location of a user and for facilitating access to location-specific applications: A method and apparatus for detecting the location of a user and for facilitating access to location-specific applications are described. In one embodiment, one or more connections available to the user are detected based on at least one predetermined priority parameter. One or more potential locations of the user are... Agent: Stattler Johansen & Adeli LLP

20070038766 - Computer readable medium and recording medium therefor: A computer readable medium including computer readable instructions is provided. The computer readable instructions cause a computer to execute the steps of obtaining a current time, judging whether the current time is prior to at least one predetermined time, and controlling accessibility of the computer to a piece of device-related... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070038763 - Method of enabling a multitasking computing device to conserve resources: A multitasking battery operated computing device preserves battery power by determining if an untrusted application is in the background or foreground and preventing an untrusted application that is in the background from running. A window server component may be used to determine if an untrusted application is in the background... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070038764 - Network equipment for supplying multimode mobile terminals with data necessary for automatically selecting radio access network interfaces during service sessions: A network equipment is dedicated to radio access networks of different types connected to a backbone network to which is coupled at least one application equipment including at least one external application adapted to exchange data with at least one internal application installed on multimode mobile terminals and further comprising... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070038762 - Secure gateway with proxy service capability servers for service level agreement checking: The present invention describes a gateway in an Open Service Access (OSA) network where Service Level Agreement (LSA) checks are performed by a Framework (15) on a Central Gateway node (1). A distinction is made between applications (10) that can be trusted, like applications provided by the same firm as... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070038765 - User-centric consent management system and method: In a network computing environment, a user-centric system and method for controlling access to user-specific information maintained in association with a web-services service. When a web-services client desires access to the user-specific information, the client sends a request. The request identifies the reasons/intentions for accessing the desired information. The request... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070038767 - Method and apparatus for constructing a backup route in a data communications network: A method is disclosed for constructing a backup route from a source node around an adjacent component. The source node derives a first set of nodes reachable from it without traversing the adjacent component and a second set of nodes from which a neighbor node of adjacent components is reachable... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070038769 - Method and/or system of scheduling transmission of a power signal: Described are a system and method for scheduling transmission of a power signal. A predetermined schedule may determine when selected data ports transmit a power signal to devices connected to the data ports.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070038770 - Method for implementing service customization on session initiation protocol application server: The present invention discloses a method for providing customized service for users, including: a SIP AS receives service customization request sent by a user via a SIP client; the SIP AS extracts service customization information from the request and provides the service corresponding to the service customization information for the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070038768 - Reflective driver: A system for communicating with a device is disclosed. The system includes a client configured to issue a request. The request represents an operation that the client wishes to have the device perform. The system further includes a server configured to receive the request from the client and translate the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070038771 - System and method for managing distribution of media files: A system, method and technique are provided for managing distribution of digital images and other media. A host computer may store a library of media files, including digital images, such as those captured by a digital camera of a user. One or more applications may run on the host computer,... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070038772 - Vehicle-to-vehicle communication apparatus, vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, and method of determining applicability of moving image information to an application program: In a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, when moving image information is transmitted between vehicles, a delay time acquisition unit determines a delay time that occurs when the moving image information is transmitted from a first vehicle to a second vehicle, and an applicability determination unit determines whether the moving image information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070038773 - Media download method and system based on connection speed: A method of offering a video file to a video receiver that comprises determining a connection speed of a network connection to the video receiver. A progressive download, but not a non-progressive full download, of the video file is offered to the video receiver via the network connection when the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070038775 - Rule engine: A rule engine for a computer network traverses a rule mesh having path nodes and path edges in form of a tree part and a graph part. The rule engine evaluates data packets flowing through a network to determine rules matched for every packet. Subsequent packets having same expression values... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070038774 - Translating switch and method: Payload information in a data unit may be translated into the attribute portion of a data unit by receiving a first data unit from a terminal with payload information, identifying attribute information from within the the payload information, and translating the first data unit into a translated data unit having... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070038777 - Conversation message server: A conversation message server, including: a receive process component for receiving a creation message sent to a creation address; an establish process component for generating, in response to the creation message, a conversation address, storing other addresses of the creation message as addresses of participants to a conversation corresponding to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070038776 - International regulatory compliance for ad hoc networking: A method is provided to facilitate compliance with wireless communication regulations for a regulatory domain when creating or joining an ad hoc network. The method can include interacting with a driver of a wireless communication device to facilitate compliance. Another method is provided to offer an option to enable or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070038781 - Apparatus and method for converting contents: Provided is an apparatus and method for converting contents. The apparatus includes: a contents input unit for receiving contents for digital television (DTV) broadcasting; a decompiling unit for analyzing a class file of the contents for DTV broadcasting transmitted from the contents input unit and creating common contents conversion information... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070038779 - Method and apparatus for accessing a wide area network: A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the telephone user. Preferably, the access system receives... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC Dba Tips Groups

20070038780 - Method and system for facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems: The present invention is related to a method and system for facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems by allowing networks of integration framework installations and/or other compatible B2B servers to inter-operate across corporate enterprise boundaries to integrate the disparate systems operating within each corporate enterprise.... Agent: Irving S. Rappaport

20070038778 - Method and system for playing multimedia files: The present invention discloses a method for playing audio/video files in a console at a conference in the next generation network. The method includes the following steps: the conference console sends a request for playing the audio/video files to a conference application server; the media resource server determines a media... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070038782 - System of virtual data channels across clock boundaries in an integrated circuit: This disclosure relates to a system of communicating data within an integrated circuit across different clock boundaries. Multiple components can share common physical communication lines between elements within the system, even if those elements are in different clock domains. In some aspects, only one component can access the physical lines... Agent: Ambric, Inc. C/o Marger Johnson & Mccollom PC

20070033246 - Thin metal film uninterruptable power supply system: A basic computer system of the present invention includes a CPU electrically connected to an un-interruptible power supply (UPS). The UPS includes a Control and Memory block 106 that is attached to a battery pack containing power cells, such as thin metal film power cells. The number of cells may... Agent: Wallace G. Walter

20070033247 - Methods and system for distributing data to technical computing workers: A method and system is disclosed for providing a distributed technical computing environment for distributing technical computing tasks from a technical computing client to technical computing workers for execution of the tasks on one or more computers systems. Tasks can be defined on a technical computing client, and the tasks... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070033248 - System and method for support of legacy communications protocols in a smart card: A method and system for providing support for legacy protocols for remote method invocation on a computer system. An annotation in program source is used to build a mapping data structure appended to the executable program. During execution of an executable program legacy protocol messages are translated using the mapping... Agent: Anderson & Jansson L.L.P.

20070033251 - Automatic scheduling and establishment of conferences: A method of automatically conducting a conference can include determining availability for each of a plurality of conference participants and selecting a date and time for the conference based upon the availability of each of the plurality of conference participants. The method further can include automatically initiating the conference among... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070033252 - Dynamic virtual network and method: A system and method of operating hardware and services to allow participating members to find and establish partnerships, communicate, transact business and share information. The dynamic virtual network comprises the business exchange network, the network authority and the access device. The present invention employs the network authority, a neutral body... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070033249 - Multimodal conversation: Techniques for associating one or more real-time sessions, which are each signaled separately, into one logical conversation without a centralized control, are provided. Some techniques share a conversation identifier that uniquely identifies a logical conversation across the real-time sessions that belong to the logical conversation. The conversation identifier is generated... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070033250 - Real-time conversation thread: Techniques for managing the continuity of real-time conversations are provided. Some techniques allow a participant to restore a conversation that previously occurred and has ended, and continue a thread of the conversation by reusing history data associated with the conversation and appending new data. A participant who is invited to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070033253 - Sharing web sessions: A web session may be shared between two or more browser clients both viewing the same content on the same web content server. By providing a proxy device on the server side of the network, bandwidth may be utilized effectively. As one example, a help session may be initiated via... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070033254 - Sharing skins: A system and method for sharing skins between a first user and a second user on a computerized network. A first skin selected by the first user is transferred to and displayed to the second user. The transfer and/or the display is performed automatically. A second skin selected by the... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070033259 - Chat interface with haptic feedback functionality: A chat interface allowing a user to exchange haptic chat messages with other users in a chat session over a computer network. A chat interface can be displayed by a local computer and receives input data from a user of the local computer, such as text characters or speech input.... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070033257 - Communications control program, communications control server and communications control method: A communications control program in which communication over an open network is allowed only between users who have previously communicated with one another over a local network. A terminal automatically registers, with a destination list, destinations with which the terminal has communicated over a local network such as ad hoc... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070033255 - Establishing communication between a messaging client and a remote device: A first device running a messaging application, such as an instant messaging (IM) application, engages in messaging communication with a remote device running a browsing application. The remote device user is not associated with the messaging network of the first device. The first device sends an instant message directed to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070033258 - System and method for an email firewall and use thereof: One aspect of the present invention provides an Email Firewall system and/or method, which is a system for selective delivery of electronic mail (email), within the framework of conventional email protocols, and authentication of the source of electronic mail, with an objective of blocking unwanted email. In one embodiment of... Agent: Bay Area Intellectual Property Group, LLC

20070033256 - System and method for the prevention of unsolicited calls and contacts: Embodiments of a system for preventing unwanted calls are presented. In one embodiment, the system includes a transmitter, for transmitting an electronic message to a user, a receiver communicatively coupled with the transmitter, for receiving the electronic message intended for the user, and a message filter coupled with the receiver,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070033260 - Multiple operating systems sharing a processor and a network interface: A computer system configured for communications, comprising: a processor; a first operating system running on the processor; a second operating system running on the processor; and a network interface for communicating packet data, characterised in that the first and second operating systems are arranged to share access to the network... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070033263 - Methods and apparatus for providing integrated bandwidth dedicated transport services: Methods and apparatus for providing dedicated transport communication services are disclosed. A disclosed method provides a customer with first and second access ports to a circuit based communications network. Each access port has at least one associated bandwidth attribute. The method configures the communications network to route traffic between the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070033261 - Personalized discovery of services: A method of discovering at least one service being advertised in a communication system using at least one service ontology describing service characteristics with service attributes supports user-centered and personalized discovery of services. A discovery statement is formulated as a function of the query term and services with service attributes... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070033265 - System and method for accessing and operating personal computers remotely: A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host computer as though the remote keyboard and mouse... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070033262 - System, method and devices for accessing or sharing a digital document in a peer-to-peer communication network: r

20070033264 - User interface: There is disclosed an improved user interface for a network, for example the Internet. If a user clicks on an incorrect hyperlink then the system, instead of merely informing the user that an error (e.g. “404 Not Found” error—meaning that the requested web page is not available) has occurred, provides... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070033266 - Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a remote system: A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central service center using an Internet access module. The remote central service center monitors the received events and states for errors or warnings. The monitoring software... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033267 - Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a remote system: A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central service center using an Internet access module. The remote central service center monitors the received events and states for errors or warnings. The monitoring software... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033268 - Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a remote system: A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central service center using an Internet access module. The remote central service center monitors the received events and states for errors or warnings. The monitoring software... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033269 - Computer method and apparatus using embedded message window for displaying messages in a functional bar: A computer-implemented method employs message windows in a functional bar (e.g., toolbar, status bar, address bar, task bar, etc.) embedded in a software program to display messages (including text, images, animation, video, audio, etc.), where the messages displayed in the windows are based on searches conducted by the user. The... Agent: Ying Chen

20070033270 - Dynamic content delivery to static page in non-application capable environment: A system to provide dynamic content to a static page includes a database to store the dynamic content to be incorporated into the static page. A non-application capable server is provided to store the static page. The non-application capable server has no database connectivity and no ability to execute applications.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070033271 - Method of synchronising three or more electronic devices and a computer system for implementing that method: Methods, systems and machine readable media for synchronising three or more electronic devices. In one exemplary method of synchronising three or more electronic devices, said method comprises: a) selecting at least one category of record for synchronisation; b) storing an original value and a changed value of each changed record... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033272 - Dynamic subnet updates: A method is provided to dynamically update the subnets of a server. Subnet configuration updates are received from a user or administrator and the subnets affected by the configuration updates are determined. The clients associated with the subnets are saved to storage and the subnet configuration updates are loaded. Once... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070033274 - Enhanced charging rule for packet data service and operation method thereof: A method for enhancing charging rules in packet data service includes: allocating an identifier for identifying a charging rule and the identifier provided by a CRF is stored by a TPF. The identifier is used to identify the charging rule or a service data flow filter. Therefore, when the CRF... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070033273 - Programming and development infrastructure for an autonomic element: Programming and development infrastructure for an autonomic element is provided. The system includes a control plane (ISAC), a host server, a management console, and a module development environment. The ISAC contains an Autonomic Controller Engine (ACE) and management module(s). The management module is comprised of a set of scenarios. The... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070033276 - Application portfolio and architecture research tool: A method and computer program product are provided for automatically managing and coordinating information and changes relating to an information technology infrastructure. The information and changes are stored in an application portfolio database. Information for a plurality of applications and a plurality of servers is determined and stored in the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070033281 - Error management system and method of using the same: An error management system for managing an error occurring in a client application includes: a client terminal which intercepts an event, and collects error information and a crash dump file when the client application is abnormally terminated, and transmits the collected error information and the crash dump file in a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070033277 - Fault data management: A system and method are provided for managing mobile platform fault data. The method includes automatically collecting raw fault data regarding at least one fault that occurs onboard the mobile platform utilizing a central maintenance computer (CMC) onboard the mobile platform. The raw fault data is automatically transmitted from the... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070033275 - Method and a device for frequency counting: A memory efficient method and electronic device for counting frequencies of various events. The structure for storing frequency data comprises primary (204) and secondary (206) storages which contain frequency data (208, 210, 214) in different levels of detail. The primary storage (204) is a detailed storage comprising both event type... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070033280 - Method and apparatus for generating object-oriented world wide web pages: In the present invention, HTML elements are mapped to objects in an object-oriented environment. Classes of objects are defined for each HTML element as well as the HTML document (or page). By providing a one-to-one mapping between each HTML element and object classes, HTML documents can be manipulated programmatically. The... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070033279 - Method and apparatus for intuitively administering networked computer systems: A method and apparatus intuitively to administer all components of a networked computer system by use of real multi-dimensional views of any component or any set of components, including components related to a specific business interest, and with customizable and fully extensible functionality, across heterogenous platforms and applications. Navigation and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070033278 - Method and apparatus for providing a list-based service: Various embodiments are described for providing a list-based service. One group of embodiments involves receiving a subscription to a list to which multiple list members are associated and then providing a notification when an aggregated state of the list satisfies a condition. The aggregated state of the list is based... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070033283 - Method and system for managing electronic communication: The present invention provides a novel system and method for managing electronic communications. In one embodiment, a mail server is coupled to a client and a policy server. For an email outbound from the client, the email is first sent to the policy server which applies a policy against the... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20070033282 - Signaling redirection for distributed session and resource management: A system for on demand session and resource management in an on demand platform for the delivery of on demand digital assets involve a session manager, a plurality of resource managers, and a resource manager redirector. These components cooperate to provide a distributed and scalable system for on demand session... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070033284 - System server for data processing with multiple clients and a data processing method: Disclosed is a system server for data processing between the server and more than one client connected via wired or wireless communication network and a data processing method. The system server includes a connecting module for establishing connection with a client and cutting off the connection, a data transmitting module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070033285 - Value information transfer system and value information transfer method: A value information transfer system transfers value information held by a transfer source communication device, which is connected via a network to a transfer management server, to a transfer destination communication device. The transfer source communication device includes a transfer request acceptor for accepting a transfer request for transfer of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033286 - Method for setting media streaming parameter of upnp-based network: The present invention discloses a method for setting media streaming parameters on a UPnP-based network which can improve quality of media. The method for setting the media streaming parameters on the UPnP-based network can improve media playing quality and efficiently use resources of each device, by allowing an AV control... Agent: Jonathan Y Kang Lee Hong Degerman Kang & Schmadeka

20070033287 - Network and terminal devices: A service providing system including an administrator terminal device, a user terminal device, and a service providing device. The service providing device authorizes a process to register a user terminal device after determining that the service providing device is connectable to both the user terminal device and the administrator terminal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070033288 - Method of using pause time information on media content in upnp environment: A method and apparatus of using pause time information on media content under an UPnP environment. A method of using pause time information on media content under UPnP environment includes: transmitting the media content to a first media renderer; receiving a signal that stops the media content from being transmitted;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070033289 - Network displays and method of their operation: A digital networked studio and the needed software services to allow the use of the system for monitoring the creation and distribution processes of real-time created content is described. Distribution problems are solved using an off-the-shelf network, e.g. using an IP based or similar data protocol, such as an IP... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070033290 - Normalization and customization of syndication feeds: Systems and methods for normalizing and customizing syndication feeds. The systems and methods include formulating a request for a syndication feed that has been normalized into a particular syndication feed format, sending the request to a server, and receiving a response from the server, where the response includes the normalized... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070033292 - Method for sending multimedia bookmarks over a network: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: D.a. Stauffer Patent Services LLC

20070033291 - System and method for support of legacy communications protocols in a smart card: A method and system for providing support for legacy protocols for remote method invocation on a computer system. An annotation in program source is used to build a mapping data structure appended to the executable program. During execution of an executable program legacy protocol messages are translated using the mapping... Agent: Anderson & Jansson L.L.P.

20070033293 - Techniques for delivering personalized content with a real-time routing network: Techniques for dynamically updating a live object with personalized content for clients are provided. The techniques include receiving a first message from a source including a first identifier and a second identifier. The first identifier may be unique to a client. The second identifier may be generic across many clients.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070033295 - Host configured for interoperation with coupled portable media player device: Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV,... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070033294 - Method for temporal synchronization of clocks: In order to carry out in a communication system (1) a temporal synchronization of clocks in a particularly rapid and efficient manner, a method is proposed which has the following steps: acquiring state values which are dependent on a time base (10); filing each acquired state value at a position... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070033296 - Method and system for virtual pwerline local area networks: A system for powerline networking. The system has an external data source, which is derived from a world wide networks of computers. A router is coupled to the external data source and coupled to a first datasource connection. A powerline network switch apparatus is coupled to the first datasource connection.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070027947 - Approval administration system and method thereof: A simple approval administration system and a method which can reliably administrate information regarding proposal and approval are provided. A proposer terminal sends proposal data to a host server, which stores the proposal data on a proposal DB 110 by correlating the proposal data with an administration ID and sends... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070027950 - Encapsulated document structure, method of creating document having web server functions, and computer-readable program: An encapsulated document structure includes at least one digital information file to form a representation entity, a display information file to specify a display format of the digital information file, and a program file, interpreted and executed by a computer, and including a function operation program that executes a predetermined... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070027951 - Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a remote system: A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central service center using an Internet access module. The remote central service center monitors the received events and states for errors or warnings. The monitoring software... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070027949 - Mobile terminal having bookmark function of contents service and operation method thereof: A mobile terminal having a bookmark function for a contents service include a controller for bookmarking a particular time point of currently reproduced contents, a storage unit for storing information on the bookmarked particular time point of the contents, and a reproducing unit for reproducing the contents starting from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070027948 - Server blades connected via a wireless network: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, connect service processors in server blades via a wireless network. The server blades include a wireless network interface adapter, which connects the server blades to a master service processor in a blade management controller. The master service processor uses... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070027952 - Broadcast of shared i/o fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to all affected root nodes: A method, mechanism and computer usable medium is provided for distributing I/O fabric errors to the appropriate root nodes in a multi-root environment. The case where the I/O fabric is attached to more than one root node and where each root can potentially share with the other roots the I/O... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070027953 - Electronic mailbox address book sharing system and method for the same: An electronic mailbox address book sharing system and a method for the same are proposed. The address book sharing system has an electronic mail server and a plurality of client computers. The electronic mail server has an address book, including a public address book database and a private address book... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070027954 - Method for parsing emails: A method of parsing an email includes receiving an email and determining whether the email includes a response history. Based on the response history, the email is parsed. A computer usable medium including computer readable code and a system including means for accomplishing similar actions is also disclosed... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070027955 - Systems, methods and apparatus of an email client: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an email client accesses email data through an interface to a database manager, the database manager having a high level security manager.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070027956 - Wireless communication system congestion reduction system and method: A system and method for reducing congestion in wireless communication systems is provided. An unsolicited message reduction system includes a message detector and an all points bulletin (APB) generator. The message detector applies predefined filtering rules to identify and act upon unsolicited email messages to reduce the total number of... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070027957 - Identical recordings on p2p network mapped onto single query result: A P2P network of digital recorders is queried about the presence of particular content that relates to a recorded broadcast program. The list of matching query results may be enormous if the program is a popular one. Therefore, the list is condensed by means of representing multiple identical ones among... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070027960 - Methods and systems for sharing multimedia application data by a plurality of communication devices: In a method for sharing multimedia application data by a plurality of communication devices, at least two communication devices establish a short-rang wireless communication link to a data distribution device. At least one of the communication devices informs the data distribution device of the data that are offered for sharing,... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070027958 - Podcasting having inserted content distinct from the podcast content: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a podcast file that has inserted content that is distinct from the content of the podcast. A remote server provides a web page to a subscriber computing device via a network, and a subscriber computing device transmits a podcast file to... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070027959 - Virtual memory remote control: A remote control system includes a remote control that includes a first memory configured to store remote-control information, and a display for displaying the remote-control information; and a computer having a second memory that the remote control is configured to access via a wireless communication link, wherein the second memory... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070027961 - Method and apparatus for relationship management: A method and apparatus for relationship management of devices utilizing a network are described. A service aggregator receives information from a device and sends information to the device directing the device to communicate with a service provider.... Agent: Heimlich Law

20070027962 - Method, apparatus, and system for capturing data exchanged between a server and a user: Data exchanged between at least one server and at least one user is intercepted in a capturing module that operates independently from the server and the user. A copy of the intercepted data is stored in a database. The intercepted data that is destined for the server is forwarded to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070027967 - Home server: A home server according to the present invention transmits a screen information including a second apparatus identification information identifying a second apparatus and which correlates with a first apparatus identification information identifying a first apparatus, and operation contents realized through linkage of the first apparatus and the second apparatus.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070027963 - Method and apparatus for implementing service requests from a common database in a multiple dhcp server environment: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing service requests from a common database in a multiple dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server environment. A DHCP authorization cache is provided to implement synchronized access for the multiple DHCP servers to the common database. The DHCP authorization cache includes a plurality... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070027966 - Network based device for providing rfid middleware functionality: Some embodiments of the present invention provide middleware functionality integrated into a module of a network device, such as a router or switch, that is configured to provide application-oriented network (“AON”) services. Some preferred implementations of the invention provide policy-based application services for RFID data, such as conditional routing, security... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070027965 - Remote configuration and management via electronic mail: A network device and a method of configuring a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving an e-mail message at the network device; parsing the e-mail message to retrieve configuration instructions; and executing a configuration action according to the configuration instructions contained in the e-mail message. The network device... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070027964 - System and method for rapid deployment of network appliances and infrastructure devices: Described is a system having a receiving element to receive configuration information for a network appliance and a generation element to generate codes for a readable element. The readable element is configured to be read by a reading element of the network appliance and the configuration information configures the network... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070027968 - System and method for remotely configuring devices for testing scenarios: 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... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027969 - Sensor device, server node, sensor network system, and method of controlling sensor device: A sensor network system includes (i) a server node that transmits and receives, via network, a signal to/from an external device having one or plural external application and (ii) one or plural sensor device connected to the server node. The server node includes a processor for reducing transmission from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070027971 - Device management network with notifications comprising multiple choice prompts: The notification client in a mobile device is sent a notification message by a DM server to indicate the need to conduct a device management task on the mobile device. In response, the notification client displays the message received, which could be a multiple choice message. The user's response is... Agent: Kevin Borg Mcandrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

20070027972 - Method for controlling operations of computing devices: The present invention provides a process to establish or configure a mode of operation for computing devices through the use of affinity groups, policy guidelines, and priority graphs. An affinity group is a group of peer devices identified by a network to which a target device is connected as being... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20070027976 - Multicast delivery method, system, and content server: If a failure occurs in a content server having a function to deliver a content as a multicast IP packet, the influence on the end user is minimized. An active content server and a standby content server are provided. The active content server delivers a multicast content, and the standby... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070027974 - Online service monitoring: A status notification method and facility is provided for use with a service chain processing a request for a service. The service chain can include multiple computer nodes, and the method includes dynamically creating the service chain for processing the request, and guaranteeing agreement, on at least two of the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070027975 - Policy engine: A system includes a policy engine in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The policy engine may be configured to store a group of policies associated with the IMS, and forward the group of policies to a group of policy components in the IMS.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070027970 - System and method for ensuring a device uses the correct instance of a network service: A system and method are provided for ensuring access to the correct instance of a network service. The system includes a plurality of management domains. Each management domain may include at least one server and at least on managed device. When the managed device sends a request for a network... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070027977 - System and method for self configuration of reconfigurable systems: The invention is a system and method for reconfigurable computers. The invention involves a plurality of reconfigurable component clusters (RCCs), each of which can change their respective configuration upon receiving a configuration command. The invention uses a reconfiguration network for distributing the configuration command to the RCCs, wherein the reconfiguration... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070027973 - Virtual data center for network resource management: A system and a method for implementing a virtual data center. In which, the functions to be performed by a computer, and the access the computer equipment is required to have to the storage and network facilities, are decoupled from the hardware, and instantiated dynamically on any suitable computer equipment,... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070027981 - Computer diagnostic system: A monitoring system for providing status information about a computer system is provided. The monitoring system includes: a system interface configured to couple with a corresponding interface on a motherboard of the computer system; a display to visually indicate a status of the computer system; a nonvolatile memory; a network... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070027983 - Dynamically balancing user experiences in a multi-user computing system: A media experience policy engine includes three components: an information manager, a policy evaluator, and an enforcement module. The information manager collects information regarding the current state of a media delivery system, such as, for example, usage of a CPU, memory, hard disk, (I/O) interface, and a network. This collected... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070027982 - Dynamically generating custom reports using self-defining report events: A reporting system comprises a plurality of reporting modules and a reporting server. Each reporting module comprises an executable data gatherer and an executable registration portion that dynamically registers the reporting module with the reporting server. The reporting server generates reports by invoking the data gatherers associated with registered reporting... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070027978 - Information acquisition and distribution system: Methods and apparatus for a network adapted to acquire, analyze, and distribute information regarding time sensitive and area specific events. The system acquires information from a plurality of available sources and filters the data to detect reportable events as defined by a selected criteria. The detected reportable events are then... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070027979 - Management of document content processing using bi-directional communication: Device and operational management using bidirectional communication can be performed by a system that includes a service requesting component that generates first metadata, and a service provider component that receives the first metadata and generates second metadata in response thereto for processing by the service requesting component. In other aspects,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070027984 - Monitoring of network packets: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of monitoring network traffic. A network data packet is received. Network address information is extracted from the network data packet, and a data value is created therefrom. The data value is compared with a set of predetermined network address information. If a match... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070027980 - Offline management of wireless devices: Described is a method including receiving an offline management policy from an enterprise management system of a network, the offline management policy including a triggering parameter and a management action and storing the offline management policy. The collected parameter is compared to the triggering parameter when a device is offline... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070027985 - Rule-based performance analysis of storage appliances: A rule-based performance analysis tool and a method analyze metrics from a network storage system and generate recommendations for resolving actual or anticipated performance problems. The tool and method collect system metrics from one or more sources, including a storage appliance and optional user-reported comments and/or information about proposed changes... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070027986 - Selective cache flushing in identity and access management systems: The present invention provides cache flushing of selected data while leaving remaining cached data intact. Data can be flushed from caches distributed across various components of a network-based computer system. These caches can contain various types of data. In one embodiment, the caches exist in an Access System and contain... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070027987 - Computer system polling: Polling is disclosed. A client rule set, associated with a service level, is provided. Based upon the client rule set, a polling interval for a request type is determined. A message associated with the request type is provided, and a server is polled with the message in accordance with the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070027988 - Verified computing environment for personal internet communicator: A method and apparatus of the present invention provides a verified computing environment for a personal Internet communicator. In various embodiments of the invention, the functionality of software files on a personal Internet communicator can be modified based on the Pay-State of the user. Upon a request to load a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile. LLP

20070027989 - Management of storage resource devices: A method and apparatus for managing a community of storage resource devices are provided. Management of each storage resource device within a community may be performed through a connection established between an administrator computer and a proxy storage resource device established over an out-of-band network. The proxy storage resource device... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070027990 - Print portal system on network: The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070027994 - Data transmission system and data transmission terminal: A data transmission system, comprising a terminal to which data is input including a storage device in which the input data is recorded and a server to which the data stored in the storage device is collectively transmitted from the terminal according to a transmission instruction, wherein the server comprises... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070027992 - Methods and systems for exposing messaging reputation to an end user: Systems and methods for providing message reputation to an end user.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070027993 - Server, client, method for operating a server and method for operating a client: A server of a communication system which decides, in a case of a conflict between a request that no invitation to participate in a communications session should be forwarded to a first client and a request that a second client invite the first client to participate in a communication session,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070027991 - Tcp isolation with semantic processor tcp state machine: A system and method for isolating TCP comprises a proxy configured to manage a plurality of sessions including at least one transmission control protocol session, wherein the proxy translates data between the transmission control protocol session and a local session.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070027996 - Configuring application settings based on changes associated with a network identifier: Application settings of a network device may be dynamically configured based on a network identifier of the network to which the network device is connected. For example, a value of an application setting specifying a proxy server and/or a firewall client may be automatically set based on the current NLA... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070027995 - Data packet filtering in a client-router server architecture: A computer network system comprising a plurality of client hardware elements forming a computer network (414); a server network segment (412); and a router (416) for interconnecting the computer network (414) with the server network segment (412); the computer network (414) being assigned at least one first access address range,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070027997 - Technique for translating location information: A technique for enabling location information associated with an entity in a communication network to be translated from one format to another. A request to translate a location of a first entity from a first format to a second format is generated by the first entity. The request contains a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070027998 - Transmission of av/c transactions over multiple transports method and apparatus: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting AV/C data over one or more transports. Further disclosed is a system and method for transmitting AV/C data over non-FCP communication media. The disclosed system and method includes an AV/C transaction delivery system which operates in conjunction with communicatively coupled AV/C protocol... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20070028001 - Applying quality of service to application messages in network elements: A network element such as a router or switch provides application-level quality of service for application-layer messages processed in the network element, using application QoS logic which when executed by the one or more processors is operable to cause receiving an application-layer message; matching one or more attributes of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070028000 - Content router processing: A method, apparatus, and system for routing changes to information between a plurality of content nodes and a command memory of a content router. Content nodes may be user devices (such as mobile phones) and user accounts (such as email accounts). Content nodes may hold one or more content types... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070027999 - Method for coordinated error tracking and reporting in distributed storage systems: A system for coordinating error tracking, level setting and reporting among the various layers/components of a distributed storage system. Each component of the distributed system includes a trigger generation and response (TGR) utility, which generates an error tracking trigger (ETT), comprising: (1) an action that the initiator wants the stack's... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070028002 - Performing multicast communication in computer networks by using overlay routing: An overlay protocol and system for allowing multicast routing in the Internet to be performed at the application level. The overlay protocol uses “native” Internet multicast and multicast routing protocols to route information, according to overlay routing tables. Overlay groups are mapped to native multicast groups to exploit native multicasting... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070028003 - Inter-domain congestion charging: A method and system to allow congestion charging signals to be generated and congestion charges to be applied on an inter-domain basis, on an aggregated basis and not on a per flow basis. Each network domain charges its neighbouring domain for any ECN marks that it forwards to them. Since... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070028004 - Method of maintaining synchronization between mobile e-mail server and client stations, system supporting the same, and mobile station therefor: Disclosed is a system and method of directly setting priority information for maintaining synchronization between a mobile e-mail server and a plurality of client stations. The system includes: at least one client station for transmitting client station information containing priority information and transmitting event information; and a server for receiving... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070028005 - Communication system with integrated services and adapting and connection device for an environment having several spatial zones: A communication system for integrating services in an environment having a plurality of spatial zones, the communications system includes an IP-based communication network and at least one adapting and connecting device connected to the IP-based communication network and assigned to one of the plurality of spatial zones. The adapting and... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC