Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 04/07

20070094321 - General purpose rss catcher: A device that receives high-volume emails or other similarly address content is used to provide selectable and controllable content to various users. The device captures the incoming content and creates personalized RDF or XML files for the intended recipients. The URLs associated with the files include a unique code that... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094323 - Managed resource sharing method and apparatus: A digital community provides shared resources across a wide collection of users. Users donate resources to the community and in return are allowed to employ resources of the community. The digital community conforms to a set of rules, or community rules, so as to enhance cooperation between users and increase... Agent: Patent Department Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20070094322 - Transferable component that effectuates plug-and-play: A plug-and-play system comprises an agent component that includes instructions for enabling a first device and a mobile device to be compatible upon detecting a connection between the first device and the second device. A transfer component pushes the agent component from the mobile device to the first device, the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070094325 - Hybrid peer-to-peer data communication and management: Hybrid peer-to-peer data communication and management is described, including querying a plurality of elements in an environment for state data, the state data describes a state of the environment and an activity occurring in the environment, receiving the state data from one or more of the plurality of elements in... Agent: Kokka & Hsu, PC

20070094326 - Object oriented based, business class methodology for generating quasi-static web pages at periodic intervals: A method for providing a requestor with access to dynamic data via quasi-static data requests, comprising the steps of defining a web page, the web page including at least one dynamic element, creating an executable digital code to be run on a computer and invoked at defined intervals by a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20070094324 - Web-based, secure supervisory system for social guidance and professional consultation and method of use: The invention provides a supervisory internet system designed for organized information retrieval under professional expertise and/or social guidance. The invention has three components, a supervisor, a supervised entity and a system enabling informed web-guidance. Being an expert in a particular filed and/or a social partner of the beneficiary (supervised entity),... Agent: Korkut Vata

20070094328 - Multi-media tool for creating and transmitting artistic works: A system for collaboratively producing artwork includes a server and a plurality of user computers coupled to a network. The server transmits a request for submissions to collaborators and who prepare portions of the artwork using multimedia tools provided by the server computer. The collaborators transmit their completed portions of... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070094327 - Personal connection network analysis apparatus and method, storage medium storing personal connection network analysis program organizational rigidity determination apparatus and method, and storage medium storing organizational rigidity determination pro: A personal connection network analysis apparatus includes: event history holding means for holding histories of events related to organization members; relation calculation means for extracting, from the event history holding means, histories of events common to both a first member of the organization members and second members of the organization... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070094329 - System and method for accelerated dynamic data message generation and transmission: The present invention provides a system and method for dramatically increasing the speed of generating and transmitting electronic messages to one or more recipients over a communication link. When the inventive system processes a new outgoing message for transmission, by obtaining a number of predetermined types of values, the system... Agent: Edward Etkin, Esq.

20070094330 - Animated messaging: A method and apparatus that allows an animated interactive talking character to appear on a user's screen when conducting an Instant Messaging (IM) session. The character which is displayed on the user's screen is determined by a profile for the sender of the message. This allows a user to pre-select... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070094336 - Asynchronous server synchronously storing persistent data batches: An asynchronous conversation state machine asynchronously sends and asynchronously receives messages for storing in batches in an intermediate storage. A synchronous storage engine receives the batches of messages from the intermediate storage. Particular batches of messages are stored in the storage engine based on their parameters.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070094337 - Instant messaging device/server protocol: A generic IM device/server protocol permits a single implementation of a IM application on client devices for communicating with different enterprise IM servers types. The protocol defines a server maintained tag to identify the currency of a contact list it is managing for a client device. The client device receives... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070094339 - Method and system for selectively requesting an acknowledgement to recipients of an electronic mail: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program in a client side of an electronic mail management application, for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to one or a plurality of recipients of a mail among a plurality of recipients.... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070094332 - Method for determining user uniqueness in e-mail campaigns: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for determining user uniqueness in e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in an e-mail to form a modified e-mail. The modified e-mail is sent to a server for a distribution list, wherein the instruction set is executed in response to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070094331 - Method for identifying and tracking grouped content in e-mail campaigns: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying and tracking grouped content in e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in an e-mail to form a modified e-mail, wherein the modified e-mail contains a grouped content having a plurality of levels that are expandable to present additional content.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070094340 - Method for sending an electronic message utilizing connection information and recipient information: A method comprises displaying a mail server information screen, and receiving connection information via the mail server information screen. Further, the method comprises displaying an address page, and receiving recipient information via the address page. In addition, the method comprises displaying a content page, and receiving content in the content... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070094334 - Service/client synchronization: Embodiments, of email service and client synchronization are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070094338 - System for transmitting an electronic message: A system for transmitting an electronic message, wherein the electronic message is generated by a first entity utilizing an electronic messaging application, the system comprising: an input detector for detecting a first input to the electronic message from the first entity, wherein the first input is associated with a first... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094335 - Systems and methods for providing a visual indicator of magnitude: A system and method for providing a visual indicator of magnitude is provided. The method comprises displaying a visual indicator in association with a network space. A magnitude associated with the network space is then measured. The visual indicator is changed according to the measured magnitude.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070094333 - Video e-mail system with prompter and subtitle text: A video e-mail system eliminates the distribution of a video file to each recipient of a video e-mail by receiving a video e-mail designated for multiple recipients, storing the corresponding video file, creating a link to the corresponding video file in the e-mail, and sending the e-mail that includes the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070094342 - Detachable control window for instant messaging chats: The invention comprises a system for managing chat windows in an instant messaging program in a computer having a graphical user interface, including a display and a selection device, the method comprising receiving an input signal from the selection device indicating the selection and movement of a minimized chat window... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070094341 - Filtering features for multiple minimized instant message chats: The invention is a method of notifying a user of activity in an instant messaging session in a computer having a graphical user interface including a display, a selection device, and a network connection, the method comprising: receiving a selection input signal from the selection device indicating the selection and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070094343 - System and method of implementing selective session replication utilizing request-based service level agreements: A system and method of implementing selective session replication utilizing request-based service level agreements. The present invention includes, but is not limited to, a method, system, and computer-usable medium for assigning a collection of priority ratings to a collection of tasks; comparing a current level of system resource usage utilized... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094344 - Smart and integrated fcaps domain management solution for telecommunications management networks: Operations pertaining to FCAPS domain operations can be performed by the present technology in a highly efficient manner as SmartFCAPS solution makes user free from several operational issues such as selection, navigation relationships among objects, etc. SmartFCAPS provides an operations system for the end-user to perform FCAPS operations on various... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070094348 - Bits/rdc integration and bits enhancements: Virtual machine hard drive image files (VHDs) are stored in a virtual machine image store by a virtual machine image server. The BITS protocol with integrated Remote Differential Compression (RDC) is used to transfer one or more VHDs to a virtual machine client. The RDC may compare segments of preexisting... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070094349 - Controlled path-based process execution: There is proposed a method for executing a workflow, comprising providing the workflow comprising process level activities, at least one process level activity being able to access system resources, the access to the system resources being mediated by a plurality of backend modules. A backend module of the plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070094350 - Executing distributed, composite services: The systems, methods, means, and computer program products disclosed herein provide a framework and tools for creating composite services from the array of services available as distributed, loosely structured, ad hoc, remote programming interfaces on the Internet. The framework includes metaservices for coordinating the execution of multiple services in a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070094346 - Individualized rss feeds with archives and automatic cleanup: Personalized RSS feeds that are created for a user based on information associated with the user are generally unique and initially empty. By creating a generic RSS feed for receiving generic content items, the personalized RSS files can be pre-populated by copying the generic contents into the personalized RSS feeds.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094345 - Method and apparatus for detecting insufficient memory for data extraction processes: A handheld device performs a data update process to synchronize locally stored data with data from another device, which may be stored in different formats. The handheld device gets the size of the data from the other device. The handheld device applies a scaling factor to the size. The handheld... Agent: Lawrence E. Lycke Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070094347 - System for obtaining image using xslt extension and related method: A system for referencing alternative images for rendering presentation pages includes a server, which includes an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module having an extension. A storage medium contains the image. The XSLT module is operative for calling the extension to determine where an image exists in the storage medium and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070094352 - Method and apparatus for displaying web page: A method and an apparatus for easily displaying a web page on a consumer electric device are provided. When a request for exporting user context information of a web page through a user interface of the web page is received, the user context information is exported to a device capable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094351 - Method of navigating through content of cellular network: The present invention discloses a method for enabling a mobile communication device, dynamic navigation between wireless network pages of content provider and advertising agency. Said method includes the steps of maintaining the last network page address visited by a specific user at content publisher network site and editing the advertising... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070094354 - Storage area network file system: A shared storage distributed file system is presented that provides applications with transparent access to a storage area network (SAN) attached storage device. This is accomplished by providing clients read access to the devices over the SAN and by requiring most write activity to be serialized through a network attached... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070094353 - System and method for modifying documents sent over a communication network: A system and method applied to a communications network which transmits document portions in which an original document portion having an identifier portion and an information portion is replaced or swapped with a substitute document portion. The system has a controller, typically a proxy server, for reading the identifier portion... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070094355 - Click fraud prevention method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for accepting an access request from a client computer connected to a server computer through a network including receiving the access request for the server computer from the client computer, generating a predetermined number of random characters to form a string in the server computer in... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr

20070094357 - Computer system for balancing access load of storage systems and control method therefor: Provided is a control method for a computer system including one or more host computers, one or more storage systems, and a management computer. The storage system includes a plurality of controllers connected to the host computers through a network, and one or more logical volumes for storing data used... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070094356 - System and method for context aware profiling for wireless networks: Described is a method and system for context aware profiling for wireless networks. The system may include a mobile unit and an access point. The mobile unit may includes a plurality of predefined contexts; each context including corresponding network settings. The mobile unit selects one of the predefined contexts and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070094358 - System, computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes a document manager that is configured to search for application services providers (ASPs) over a network and based on a user input. The document manager can search documents within the ASPs, retrieve documents and URLs, store documents... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094363 - Configuration for ad and content delivery in time and space shifted media network: A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070094360 - Control options for instant message display and notification: The invention described in detail below is an improved method, product, and apparatus for configuring an instant messaging program in a computer having a display, an input device, and more than one open chat session, the method comprising: receiving a chat selection input signal from the input device indicating the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070094359 - Method and apparatus for configuring a client computer using a global configuration profile: A method and apparatus for configuring a client computer by retrieving a global configuration profile; parsing the global configuration profile; identifying a variable tag within the configuration profile; evaluating the variable tag; and setting a configuration attribute according to the evaluated tag.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094362 - Method for automatically configuring terminal equipmet: A method for automatically configuring terminal equipment improves the performance of configuring and managing the terminal equipment. The method includes: after being powered on/reset, the terminal equipment reporting the current configuration information to the terminal management unit; the terminal management unit determining whether the configuration information reported by the terminal... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070094361 - Multipath routing process: Methods and apparatus that enable more than one server to host a resource using a shared IP address such that a client may generally access the resource on any of the servers using the shared IP address are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Oracle

20070094373 - Atomic session-start operation combining clear-text and encrypted sessions to provide id visibility to middleware such as load-balancers: A load-balancer assigns incoming requests to servers at a server farm. An atomic operation assigns both un-encrypted clear-text requests and encrypted requests from a client to the same server at the server farm. An encrypted session is started early by the atomic operation, before encryption is required. The atomic operation... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070094375 - Dynamic server consolidation and rationalization modeling tool: A method and system for providing efficient and flexible techniques for modeling technical and economic benefits of consolidating information technology (IT) systems, hardware, software, network, and other infrastructure are described. The system includes a data processing system configured to receive data from a user. The system also includes an input... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094374 - Enterprise-managed wireless communication: A system for facilitating wireless communication. The system includes a client device configured to operate in a plurality of networks. The system also includes a server coupled to the plurality of networks and managed by an enterprise. The server is configured to store connectivity information of the client device, to... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070094372 - Integration of legacy applications: A method and apparatus are disclosed for integrating an legacy application hosted on an application server onto a network, such as the Internet. This allows one or more remote computers to access the legacy application over the network. The disclosed method and apparatus do not require changes to be made... Agent: Anthony England

20070094370 - Method and an apparatus for automatic creation of secure connections between segmented resource farms in a utility computing environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for automatic creation of secure connections between segmented resource farms in a utility computing environment. According to one embodiment, farms are automatically created using visual representations of the farms as a specification. A shared subnet is created as the basis of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094371 - Method and an apparatus for creating visual representations of farms that enables connecting farms securely: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for creating visual representations of farms that enables connecting farms securely. In one embodiment, a visual representation of a first farm and a visual representation of a second farm are created. A visual representation of a secure connection is created. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094376 - Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server: A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070094364 - Method and array for transparent, dynamic provision of a web services: A method is disclosed for transparent, dynamic provision of Web services, wherein a request, for example, a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message of a Web service can be rerouted transparently to a local instance. If a local instance is not yet available, a dynamic provision of the Web service,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070094369 - Methods and devices for disconnecting external storage devices from a network-attached storage device: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices and methods for disconnecting storage devices from a network-attached storage device. In one embodiment of the present invention, a network-attached storage device includes a bus that interconnects a central-processing unit, internal storage, and a port. The port is capable of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094367 - Object-based virtual infrastructure management: In certain embodiments, a method for virtual infrastructure management includes discovering a plurality of heterogeneous virtual environments, each virtual environment comprising one or more components and being associated with one or more vendor-specific management operations. The method further comprises generating, for each of the plurality of heterogeneous virtual environments, one... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070094365 - Provision of secure rss feeds using a secure rss catcher: A device that resides behind a firewall and receives content to be further directed towards one or more users, such as high-volume emails. The device captures the incoming content that is delivered over a secure communication channel from an external content source and creates personalized RDF or XML files for... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094378 - Storage area network methods and apparatus with centralized management: Novel storage area networks (SANs) and methods of operation thereof utilize a plurality of hosts coupled via an interconnect with one or more storage units. A manager device, process or other functionality in communication with a plurality of agent processes, devices or other functionality, each of which is associated with... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070094377 - System and method for documenting delays associated with a project: A system and method for documenting delays associated with a project. The present invention includes provisions that enable a field personnel working on a project on the field to document excusable delays as the delays are encountered. The field personnel is equipped with a communications device that has access to... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070094366 - System and method for real-time processing and distribution of media content in a network of media devices: A system and method for managing media content between media devices is disclosed. In a centralized embodiment, a server monitors the media devices actively connected to the network and maintains information on each of the active media devices. The information includes the functions of each of the active media devices... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070094368 - System for acquiring rights to lease well services: A system for acquiring rights to lease well services including leassee client devices, leassor client devices, and a database server system is disclosed. The leassee client devices and leassor client devices communicate with the database server system. The database server system maintains a catalog of well services available to potential... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070094382 - Automatic transmission of support information from storage apparatus: Backup storage apparatus and related methods that are operative to transmit error logs to a support organization. A controller controls and monitors a robotics assembly that loads and unloads storage media into and from storage devices. An operator control panel coupled to the controller controls functions of and displays information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094383 - Jdbc diagnostic image: A diagnostic image can be used to store JDBC subsystem information.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070094384 - Macro information generation system, macro information generation device, macro information generation method and macro information generation program: By integrating at a center and analyzing not only data accumulated in a single site but also data accumulated in distribution in a plurality of sites, macro information can be obtained. An aggregation unit of a site device of a plurality of remote sites extracts information contained in accumulated data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094380 - Method and apparatus for collocating application monitoring reports with web applications: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to display a Web site with its corresponding monitoring information. A determination is made as to whether a user at a client data processing system is permitted access monitoring information for a Web site. The Web page is retrieved to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070094385 - Method for communication of multiple sensor nodes in a sensor network: The present invention relates to a method for communication of multiple sensor nodes in a sensor network having a receiving node, particularly a sensor node of the sensor network, a receiving node prompting other sensor nodes to transmit sensor data to the receiving node by transmitting at least one synchronization... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070094386 - Method for establishing a sensor network: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a sensor network having multiple sensor nodes, sensor nodes being able to connect to one another to transmit sensor data to a central receiving node, and information, in particular time information, being in stored in every sensor node from other neighboring... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070094381 - Methods and systems for developing a capacity management plan for implementing a network service in a data network: Methods and systems are provided for developing a capacity management plan from performance and topology information relating to the implementation of a network service in a data network. The data network includes a group of network management functions and a computer database for storing forecast reports which include performance and... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070094379 - Server power management: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, calculate the average number of servers that executed an application in a previous time period, decide whether the current number of servers that execute the application is less than the average number of servers, and, if so, power on... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070094388 - System and method for the operator control and for the monitoring of an automation system over the internet using an asymmetric internet connection: The invention relates to a device and a method for transmitting data over the Internet, in particular data for operating and monitoring an automation system using a bidirectional user data connection, even behind fire walls and even from a client which is not visible as a server on the Internet.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070094387 - Systems and methods for providing in-band and out-of-band message processing: A personal messaging agent (220) performs enhanced messaging services. The personal messaging agent (220) includes a user profile (310), a message filter (320), and at least one external helper (330). The user profile (310) stores user preferences for processing messages. The message filter (320) receives messages, performs in-band processing on... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070094392 - Central adminstration of one or more resources: A central administration tool or manager supports entry or selection of attribute data or datum (e.g., an attribute value) associated with at least one of a resource and a user. The entered or selected attribute data is arranged into a data structure (e.g., a file) for transmission over a communications... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070094390 - Delivery of sensitive information through secure rss feed: Content directed towards a user is identified and the content is modified to include confidential data. The confidential level of the data is determined and used in the creation of a personalized RSS feed that gives a user controlled access to the data. Thus, commercial content providers can be utilized... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094391 - Feedback metrics for rss feeds: Feedback metrics for activity pertaining to an RSS feed and/or and individualized RSS feed are provided by utilizing feedback hooks. One feedback hook includes web beacons placed within portions of the RSS index file and the RSS content files. Another feedback hook includes redirecting links associated with the RSS content... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094389 - Provision of rss feeds based on classification of content: Content directed towards a user is identified and the classification of the content is determined and used in the creation of a personalized RSS feed that gives a user controlled access to the data. Multiple classes of RSS feeds are generated based on the contents and as such, a user... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070094395 - Computer system, storage area allocation method, and management computer: A volume management server 1010 groups together logical volumes which use the same physical disk of a storage device 1020 as a volume group and allocates a storage area on the physical disk to be used on a priority basis by this volume group to the volume group, and thereby... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070094393 - Intelligent logical unit provisioning: In one embodiment, a storage controller comprises a first I/O port that provides an interface to a host computer, a second I/O port that provides an interface to a storage device, a processor that receives I/O requests generated by the host computer and, in response to the I/O requests, generates... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094394 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmission control of sensitive application-layer data: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying sensitive application-layer data and controlling transmission of the data in a network. According to one method, sensitive data in a system resource is identified at an application layer. A packetization of the identified sensitive data is detected. A flag indicative... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070094396 - Server pool management method: Standby computers are dynamically divided into groups according to the difference between the software thereof and the software required of a business system. When a computer is made available, the standby computers divided into groups by software structure are searched and an appropriate one is extracted to quickly complete the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070094397 - Apparatus and method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment: An apparatus and a method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment. The apparatus includes an analyzer and a mirror manager. The analyzer is operative to analyze intercepted packets conveyed by entities in a network and to generate analyzed data based on information associated with at least some... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070094398 - System and method for automatically downloading network content: A method for automatically downloading network content, comprising steps of receiving user preferences; downloading network content; determining whether the network content corresponds with the user preferences; and transmitting the network content to a client if the network content corresponds with the user preferences.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070094399 - Jdbc monitoring and diagnostics enhancements: A profiling component can be used to maintain profile information concerning a connection pool and the prepared a statement cache.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070094402 - Method, process and system for sharing data in a heterogeneous storage network: A method, process and system of controlling the transmission of data in a heterogeneous environment having mainframe based storage using FICON and an open system based storage using FC. The invention bridges the heterogeneous environment while maintaining DASD/Disk neutrality. The bridge is a gateway programmed to permit applications residing on... Agent: Moss & Barnett P.A.

20070094400 - Software installation within a federation: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for software installation within a federation. Embodiments include receiving, by an installation administration proxy server from a user agent installed on a user computer, an install request; validating, by the installation administration proxy server, the install request including validating a security token... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070094401 - Support for wispr attributes in a tal/car pwlan environment: A computer configured to serve data services in a one-way cable plant having telco-retum for upstream data resources to requesting computers in a networked environment is disclosed. The computer includes a subscriber edge services manager server and a radius proxy server, the radius proxy configured to classify received radius requests... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070094404 - Digital transmission circuit design support apparatus, digital transmission circuit design support program, and digital transmission circuit design support method: A digital transmission circuit design support apparatus that supports design of a digital transmission circuit, comprising: a storage section 12 that stores a standard design-flow file that represents the design procedure of a digital transmission circuit and an examination tool file to be specified, as a program serving as an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070094403 - Mapping services to a transport mechanism: Providing a service includes establishing service parameter values for a service, where a service parameter value describes a metric of the service. The service parameter values are mapped to first network parameter values operable to configure a first wide area network port for a first transport mechanism. The service is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070094407 - Methods and apparatuses for transferring data: The present invention provides several methods and apparatuses for transmitting multimedia data using streaming media protocols such as real-time transfer protocols (RTP) and real-time streaming protocols (RTSP) in a computer network environment. In one exemplary embodiment, a request for RTP data and its associated extension is sent from the caching... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070094406 - Multimedia playing apparatus and method: A multimedia playing apparatus is provided. The multimedia playing apparatus includes a memory for storing image files, picture files, and multi media hyper link (MMHL) files, each MMHL file comprising timeline information, audio information, and text information; and a central processing unit (CPU) electrically connected to the memory for reading... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070094408 - Providing remote access to media streams: A multimedia player is provided access to recorded multimedia data including data of a first media type, e.g., voice, and at least a second media type, e.g., text, exchanged between at least one user and at least one server. The recorded multimedia data of the first media type is synchronized... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094405 - System and method for presenting streaming media content: One embodiment provides a system and a method for presenting streaming media content delivered through a peer-to-peer overlay network. During operation, a data-transfer mechanism sends requests to a plurality of peer nodes to receive data for streaming media content. The system stores received data for the streaming media content into... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070094409 - System and method for adaptive media bundling for voice over internet protocol applications: An apparatus and method for adaptively bundling media frames in a data packet for transmission in a wireless data network. When a wireless device is ready to transmit an audio communication, a message is sent from the wireless device to a communication server that checks for network usage conditions and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070094410 - Systems and methods for discovering network topology: A method for determining network topology of a provider network includes selecting a first network element, selecting a first port on the first network element, and iteratively performing connectivity validation tests using the first port, wherein each connectivity validation test is associated with a type of network element and yields... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070094411 - Network communications system and method: A network communications system and method are disclosed. The system and method allow clients that are connected to separate networks interconnected using network address translation (NAT) to resolve names without the need to implement a split DNS system. The method provides for performing name resolution in a computer network, the... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070094412 - Providing telephony services to terminals behind a firewall and/or a network address translator: A method and apparatus is provided to allow telephony or other types of media communications and services to be provided for a device (24) having a private network address that resides behind a firewall and network address and port translation (NAPT) module (which is not aware of the underlying protocol... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070094414 - Mail-based web application and document delivery: A method and system for synchronously transferring information across the Internet. A user transmits a first message to a MAILS client. The MAILS client synchronously transmits the first message across the Internet by electronic mail to a MAILS server. The MAILS server synchronously transmits the first message to a software... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070094413 - System and method for display sharing: According to one embodiment, a method comprises detecting a graphics call directed from an application executing on a host computer to an operating system's graphics interface, wherein the operating system's graphics interface does not trigger synchronization of a guest computer's display. The method further comprises, responsive to such detecting, triggering... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094415 - Method and system for monitoring a telecommunications signal transmission link: A method and system for monitoring a telecommunications signal transmission link. The system's event monitors monitor at least one transmission link. Each event monitor receives transmission link addresses from an address sequencer and transmits related event data to a centralized storage register. The address sequencer also transmits the addresses to... Agent: Gregory S. Bernabeo, Esquire Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP

20070094416 - Distributed computing system architecture: A computing system architecture is based upon a peer-to-peer, asynchronous model. The architecture specifies a set of infrastructure facilities that comprise an inter-prise operating system. The inter-prise operating system provides all the facilities that make application coding as easy in the peer-to-peer asynchronous model as it is in a hierarchical,... Agent: Farella Braun & Martel

20070088776 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for emerging warranty issues analysis: Computer-implemented methods and systems for analyzing claims related to a warranty. Statistical analysis is performed in order to examine claim counts with respect to a time period (e.g., production period, claim period, etc.). A claim issue is detected based upon the statistical analysis with respect to the time period.... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070088775 - Method and network for synchronistic processing and providing data: A method for synchronously providing data on distributed devices of a network includes storing, by a master device, an extrapolation data set including at least one update time point. The update time point is in the future and marks the beginning of an extrapolation interval. The master device transmits the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070088777 - Agent system: In an agent system having a plurality of agents each of which executes predetermined processing while moving through a plurality of nodes connected to an information network, the plurality of nodes respectively have a plurality of agent platforms which receive and execute the agents, one of the agent platform and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088778 - Communication apparatus, communication method and communication program: When a retrieval keyword that requires contents is transmitted to a server, the server retrieves contents from a database based on the retrieval keyword, and generates page information including retrieved list information of contents, and appending information that displays whether or not the page information is provided with a consecutive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088779 - Operation reproducing method, operation reproducing apparatus and system: Operation history information in which information on an operation using multiple devices on a network performed in another system is recorded is acquired from the other system, and it is determined whether or not the operation performed in the other system is reproducible based on the operation history information. And... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070088780 - Image data transmission system, process and program, image data output device and image display device: When a connection is established between a server 20 and projectors 301 through 30n, a communication command is issued according to UDP-based broadcasting to retrieve connectable projectors 301 through 303. Thereafter, the projector 301 to be connected is selected and is assigned an IP address to establish the connection. In... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070088782 - Storage and playback of media files: A networking system is claimed. The system includes a local network. The system includes at least one multimedia resource at a first physical premises in communication with a wide area network. The wide area network is in communication with the local network. The system includes at least a first client... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070088781 - Storing and accessing media files: A content storage and distribution networked system is described. The system includes at least one local network at a first physical premises, at least one audio-video storage device in communication with the local network, and at least two client devices in communication with the local network. The audio-video storage device... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070088783 - Collaboration apparatus between information processing systems, integrated information processing system, and recording medium storing a collaboration program between information processing systems: The present invention relates to a collaboration apparatus between information processing systems for allowing a plurality of information processing systems to collaborate with each other without awareness of the difference in architecture, and an integrated information processing system in which a plurality of information processing systems are combined by using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088784 - Data processing device, data processing method and data processing program: There is provided a data processing device capable of easily creating a message based on a received message by the same procedure or configuration used when the message was created. Template data includes a display area and a creation area. When the data processing device displays a message from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070088791 - Email server performing email job processing for a given user and related methods: An electronic mail (email) server may include a pending email job queue manager for storing a plurality of email jobs for a plurality of users, and a processing email job queue manager. The processing email job queue manager may be for processing a plurality of email jobs from the pending... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070088788 - Method and system for enhancing e-mail correspondence: A computer-implemented method and system for enhancing electronic mail (e-mail) correspondence is provided. The method includes, prior to sending an e-mail message, determining a status of a recipient of the e-mail message, and presenting the status to a user. The system includes an enhancement module to determine a status of... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070088789 - Method and system for indicating an email sender as spammer: In one aspect the present invention is directed to a method for indicating a sender of an email message as spammer, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining an identifier associated with the real identity of the sender; relating the email message to the identifier; calculating the mail flow rate... Agent: D.r. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070088785 - Method for monitoring and reporting usage of non-hypertext markup language e-mail campaigns: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tracking and reporting e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in a tagged e-mail to form a modified e-mail, wherein the data type of the instruction set is set to hypertext markup language. The modified e-mail is sent to a distribution... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070088790 - System and method for providing asynchronous notifications using synchronous data sources: A method for providing access to one or more notification-based Web services using a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of transmitting to Web service proxy a subscription request for a requested Web service, the Web service proxy supporting asynchronous communication with the mobile device, storing a device identification... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (van 1)

20070088787 - System and method of handling messages for forwarding field of the invention: A message received, over a first message handling service, on a mobile wireless communication device may be forwarded using a second message handling service. When a user wishes to forward a received message object associated with a first message handling service, the user may be provided, by a new verb... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070088786 - Using separate icons for invoking a computer program for presenting distinct sets of service-specific electronic mail messages stored at a wireless communication device: At a wireless communication device having memory storing multiple sets of electronic mail (email) messages, each of the sets of email messages having been received via a distinct email service account, multiple selectable icons are displayed. Each icon is for invoking a computer program for presenting a distinct one of... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070088793 - Filter for instant messaging: The present invention provides for methods and computer programs for filtering instant messages sent to a recipient. An initial instant message is received from a sender, intended for the recipient. Then, a reply message is sent to the sender requesting that the sender perform a verification process. The method monitors... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070088792 - Hardware processing of commands within virtual client computing environment: Commands are processed by hardware within a virtual client computing environment, such as graphics-related commands processed by graphics hardware. A server computing device includes graphics hardware, a virtual client computing environment, and a server computing environment. The graphics hardware processes graphics-related commands into responses. The virtual client computing environment includes... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070088800 - Browsing email addresses: The present invention, generally speaking, takes advantage of the currency of email addresses by making them browseable, thereby providing ready access to a personal web page of the owner of the email address.... Agent: Michael J. Ure

20070088803 - Computer network information systems, query systems and methods thereof: Computer network information systems, query systems and methods thereof to query a web address. The computer network information system comprises a client computer, a first host, a second host, and a plurality of remote devices coupled to the first host. The client computer transmits a query signal to the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070088801 - Device, system and method of delivering targeted advertisements using wireless application protocol: Devices, systems and methods of presentation of delivering targeted advertisements using Wireless Application Protocol. For example, a wireless communication device includes: a server to receive a request transmitted by a wireless communication device using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) to access a WAP-page of a WAP-site, the server to select an... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070088798 - Encapsulation of complex business logic: A complex business logic encapsulation system and method are provided. The system can encapsulate complex business logic, for example, for workflow application(s). The system includes a common business logic layer component that encapsulates the business logic of objects in a store. The common business logic layer can employ response objects... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070088802 - Generating digest for block range via iscsi: SCSI commands are used over IP (iSCSI) to trigger digest calculations of block span ranges. The parameters of the digest-calculation command include the command itself a block range, and the digest-calculation method to be used. A related combined command compares the digest-calculation result with a preexisting digest-calculation result. The parameters... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070088797 - Information technology system with application portal control: Disclosed is a computer system for providing functions to users at user devices connected by a network. A server connected to the network delivers functions and information to the users. A plurality of user devices are connected to the network where each user device displays a portal to enable users... Agent: David E. Lovejoy, Reg. No. 22,748

20070088795 - Internet small computer systems interface (iscsi) distance acceleration device: An Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) distance acceleration device accelerates data transfers between an iSCSI initiator and an iSCSI target over a network, such as the Internet or a wide area network (WAN). The acceleration device resides in a communication path between the iSCSI initiator and the iSCSI target.... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070088804 - Network-enabled audio device: A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070088805 - Presentation of secondary local content in a region of a web page after an elapsed time: Display of a webpage or similar file may require content from a remote source (i.e., content stored in a memory not associated with the device on which the webpage is being displayed). In cases where that remote content is unavailable or unusually slow in being provided, or the display system... Agent: Innovation Management Sciences

20070088807 - Programming interfaces for network services: The systems, methods, means, and computer program products disclosed herein provide a framework and tools for creating composite services from the array of services available as distributed, loosely structured, ad hoc, remote programming interfaces on the Internet. The framework includes metaservices for coordinating the execution of multiple services in a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070088806 - Remotely configured media device: Improved techniques for controlling operation of a portable electronic device are disclosed. Portable electronic devices which interact with a host electronic device can have their operational settings (e.g., configurations or preferences) remotely controlled. As a result, a host electronic device can offer a more sophisticated user interface and portable electronic... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070088799 - System and method for installing software: A method for installing software includes receiving configuration information at a server and installing a server software module on the server. The method further includes transmitting a client software module associated with the server software module to a plurality of clients and initiating, from the server, installation of the client... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070088796 - System and method for managing console redirection at a remote information handling system: A system and method is disclosed for disabling selected peripheral input devices at a remote computer system during the period that the remote computer system is performing a console redirection function. When a console redirection function is initiated at a remote access card, an interrupt is issued and an interrupt... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070088794 - Web-based method for information services: A method of providing the service of obtaining information for a client is disclosed, which may comprise, providing a search service brokering internet location; providing an information search identification internet location accessible on or through the search service brokering internet location; providing an information search reference internet location associated with... Agent: William C. Cray Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20070088808 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages: Systems and methods provide for receiving one or more user-selected preferences at a network server from a user's client device and creating a mark-up language file that is customized according to the user-selected preferences. The mark-up language file is transmitted from the network server to the user's client device via... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070088810 - Apparatus, system, and method for mapping a storage environment: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for mapping a storage environment. An identification module identifies a first controller defined storage unit. A test module tests for a second controller defined storage unit corresponding to the first controller defined storage unit. In one embodiment, the second controller defined storage unit... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070088809 - Control system for controlling, accelerating and distributing of competence development: The present invention relates to a control system for controlling, accelerating and distributing of competence development. The system comprises at least one first memory device operable to store assessments and self-assessments for validation and education material. The control system also comprises a coach module operable to administrate course packages, learning... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070088813 - Digital media review system for peer-to-peer file sharing system: A computerized service for reviewing digital media in a peer-to-peer network. Client modules each reside in client systems controlled by members of the service. The client modules intercommunicate in the peer-to-peer network, locally store one or more digital media container (DMC) files encapsulating at least a portion of a digital... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070088811 - Management system and method of storing components in a distributed system: An exemplary management system of storing components in a distributed system is disclosed. The management system includes a host node server (40) and at least one minor node server (10), and each minor node server is connected with the host node server via a network (30). Each minor node server... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070088812 - Media control system: A media control computer system provides centralized access and distribution of digital media content. The system provides a user full control of multiple media sources from any television or video screen connected to the system. The system provides for storage and distribution of various types of media in practically any... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070088814 - Network management server, control method, computer program, computer readable storage medium, and network system: Even in a large-scale network environment in which many clients and many devices exist on a network, this invention allows the network to function as an aggregation of logical small-scale networks in the execution of device driver setup. For this purpose, a management server manages a plurality of clients on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070088815 - Automated setup and test confirmation of dynamic dns service: Herein described is a system and method for providing automated setup and testing of DDNS services provided by a DDNS service provider. The method comprises using first graphical user interface to generate an account. Once an account is generated, the user may input his user identification and password information into... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088823 - Method and system for monitoring computer networks and equipment: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring a space and its contents over a network. The system can include an embedded Java microprocessor to provide processing and network connectivity capability, and sensors to detect physical parameters associated with the space. The sensors can generate one or more sensor signals... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070088820 - Method and system for registering favorites automatically: An automatic favorites registration method and system which can automatically register a website address of a particular website when a local computer accesses the particular website, and also can adjustably determine whether to add the website address to favorites by avoiding an unconditional automatic registration of the website address to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070088819 - Service level agreements and management thereof: Method and apparatus for service level agreement formation and management is described. More particularly, a service level agreement (SLA) manager is described. This SLA manager comprises an admission controller, a specification module and a performance measurement module. Such SLA manager is interposed between one or more client computer systems and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070088817 - Shared video service: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a shared video service that provides an interactive media environment. The shared video service includes a shared video service (SVS) management system, one or more SVS video servers, a number of client devices, and a number of video providers. The video... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070088818 - Sharing of presence-based time-zone information: A system for sharing presence-based time-zone information includes a database, and a controller. The database includes a plurality of presence profiles, each presence profile maintaining, for an associated network user, one or more network device identifiers and, for each network device identifier, a current presence status, indicating network availability, and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070088816 - System and method for monitoring the status of a bus in a server environment: A system and method is disclosed in which the buses of a server computer are monitored through server management software. A data structure for a monitored bus or group of buses is created and stored in a repository of data structures for other monitored devices within the server computer. As... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070088822 - System for distributing load over multiple servers at an internet site: Disclosed is a system and method for distributing connections among a plurality of servers at an Internet site. All connections are made to a single IP address and a local director selects the server from among the plurality of servers which is to receive the connection. Thus, the DNS server... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070088821 - Target information generation and ad server: An advertisement selection and delivery system for selecting advertisements based on profile information and rendering the advertisements as accessible to a user operating a network-capable appliance connected to a data-packet-network is provided. The system comprises, a first server node connected to the network, the first server node functioning as a... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070088824 - Remote control apparatus: The present invention provides a remote control apparatus comprising a controlled appliance and a server being connected via communication means, in which if data stored in the server is present, a notice command is promptly issued to the corresponding controlled appliance, and the controlled appliance having received the notice command... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070088825 - System and method of distributed license management: A distributed license management system and method for managing software licenses are provided. The disturbed license management system comprises a repository for storing workstation information, a message interceptor for intercepting a message call coming from a workstation to a server, a workstation identification module for determining if a workstation identifier... Agent: Perman & Green

20070088826 - Systems and methods for controlling the number of connections established with a server: A method for maximizing server throughput while avoiding overload of a server is presented. The method involves intercepting, via an interface unit, a client request for information from the server. Next, the interface unit determines the current server performance, where the server performance is based on the number of connections... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070088829 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, routing apparatus and communication control method: Two logical partitions within a single computer communicate with each other internally. The protocol stack of a first logical partition generates a frame in a memory space provided in a driver and referred to by the first logical partition. The driver transfers the frame generated in the memory space of... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070088827 - Messages with forum assistance: Embodiments of messages with forum assistance are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070088828 - System, method and program product for executing an application: A system, method and program product for executing an application is provided. The system comprises a local infrastructure configured to execute an application in a local environment, a grid infrastructure configured to execute the application in a grid environment, and a local-grid-facade having a parameter switch for selecting either the... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070088836 - Application service invocation based on filter criteria: An Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) device includes a memory configured to store a subscriber profile, where the subscriber profile includes at least one criterion relating to an event that occurs after a session request has been forwarded to a terminating party. The IMS device further includes a processor configured... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070088833 - Method and apparatus for providing multimedia data using event index: A method and apparatus for providing multimedia data using an event index are provided. The method includes; to detect a biometric signal of a user when the user captures a multimedia data, digitize the detected biometric signal and indexing the multimedia data using the result of the digitization, and selectively... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088835 - Method and system for transferring a communication session: The invention relates to a method of and a system for transferring a communication session from one service area (101) to another (102), where each service area is associated with a transcoding proxy (111, 112) for transcoding communication sessions established in said service area to and from a format suitable... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070088834 - Remote access to resouces: The invention provides systems and methods for securely transmitting data between a roaming computer and a managed network service over a shared public network. A secure connection is created between the roaming computer and a server computer that hosts or acts as a secure gateway to the managed network service.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070088830 - Selective communication of a mobile application based on air interface dormancy: Applications on a mobile radio device selectively communicate over a wireless network based on a dormancy of the air interface. Middleware is provided between the applications and drivers of the mobile radio device for facilitating communication sessions based on the dormancy status of the air interface. The middleware effects selective... Agent: Patents And Licensing LLC Daniel W. Juffernbruch

20070088831 - Sharing sessions between web-based applications: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing sessions between web-based applications. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide sharing sessions between web-based applications. A method embodiment includes receiving a request to access a second web application from a user currently accessing a first... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070088832 - Subscription control panel: Systems and methods are provided for centrally managing subscriptions to feeds accessible at different locations on a network. A subscription server is provided that a user can log in to from any of the user's rendering devices and use to manage subscriptions to feeds, including subscribing to feeds, listening to... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070088838 - Device, system and method of wireless content delivery: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of content delivery. For example, a system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a server to receive an application-initiated content request from a wireless communication device, and to selectively serve to said wireless communication device a content... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070088839 - Local time related presence automation and session control: The present invention provides a technique for using local time information associated with a monitored person when determining presence information and controlling communication sessions associated with the monitored person. The local time information is directly or indirectly related to the actual time or a time zone for the location at... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070088837 - Service platform for cellular telephony: A single platform for the provision of multiple services over a cellular telephone network, comprises a generic definition of a cellular service, which is designed to take specific service-defining parameters, and a parameter setting mechanism for inputting respective service defining parameters to the generic definition, thereby to implement a desired... Agent: Martin D Moynihan Prtsi Inc

20070088842 - Method and apparatus for managing configuration information in a distributed computer system: A configuration manager federated bean is provided for each host computer in the three-tiered management system. The configuration manager federated bean for a host computer is contacted by federated beans that manage each of the data services when a data service starts and stops using a data storage volume associated... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20070088840 - Methods and arrangements for managing and maintaining a switch environment: A computer-implemented method of coupling a user interface device (UID) with a system device. The UID and system device are coupled with heterogeneous UID switches. The method includes providing a switch command server (SCS), which is in electronic communication with UID switches. The method also includes receiving at the SCS... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070088841 - Methods and arrangements for managing automated switching: A method for automatically creating a complete first data path between a user interface device (UID) and a system device. The UID and the system device are coupled to a set of UID switches. The method includes providing a switch command server (SCS), which is in electronic communication with the... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070088843 - Ez save music library: What is new in the art to which this invention pertains is the ability to safely multi-task while driving in your automobile, archiving music selections to your Internet account for retrieval in seconds from your personal computer. This is in stark contrast to the present methods of digital music search,... Agent: Robert Joseph Normand

20070088844 - System for and method of extracting a time-based portion of media and serving it over the web: Methods of and systems for serving media are disclosed. One method includes selecting a segment of a block of media data, formatting a data package containing the selected segment for playing on a media player, and transmitting the data package to a client system. Preferably, the transmission forms streaming video... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070088845 - Effective policies and policy enforcement using characterization of flow content and content-independent flow information: Flexible network policies might be enforced by (a) obtaining a flow of network packets, (b) determining a content characteristic by characterizing content of the flow using bit-stream level statistics, (c) determining content-independent flow characteristics, port-independent flow characteristics, and/or application header-independent flow characteristics, and (d) enforcing a policy on the flow... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070088846 - Methods and systems for interchanging documents between a sender computer, a server and a receiver computer: A method for storing, accessing and interchanging voluminous confidential documents for review by a plurality of parties and for notifying selected ones of a plurality of receiving computers generally operated by unrelated business organizations of receipt by a predetermined host server of such electronic documents from a sender computer for... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070088847 - Method and system to interact with information services using messaging: In this invention we provide a method and system to interact with information services using a messaging client on a device. The system of the invention enables the user to invoke services using existing wireless/wired networks using messaging.... Agent: Sreeranga P. Rajan

20070088848 - Method for limiting the number of times to forward a multimedia message in mmsc: The present invention provides a method that restricts the number of times that a multimedia message can be forwarded among several multimedia messaging service centers (MMSCs). When the originator MMSC forwards a multimedia message to the next MMSC, the MMSC adds a new field: a forward counter, in the message... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20070088849 - Structured document, terminal apparatus, and apparatus for generating structured document: A structured document used in a terminal apparatus is disclosed. The terminal apparatus includes a network function including a socket waiting unit for waiting for socket connection at a predetermined port number and a socket connecting unit for connecting to a socket at the predetermined port number. The structured document... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088850 - Cross-platform support for a variety of media types: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide cross-platform support for a variety of media types. In one embodiment, a method of providing cross-platform support for a variety of media types can comprise translating content provided by one or more servers from one or more media types to one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070088852 - Device, system and method of presentation of advertisements on a wireless device: Devices, systems and methods of presentation of advertisements on a wireless device. For example, a wireless communication device includes a display unit to display one or more user-selectable operations selectively associated with an advertisement embedded within an incoming message.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070088851 - Device, system and method of wireless delivery of targeted advertisements: Devices, systems and methods of wireless delivery of targeted advertisements. A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a modifier to receive a message transmitted by a first wireless communication device and intended for reception by a second wireless communication device, and to selectively add an advertisement... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070088853 - Communication method between ipv6 mobile node and ipv4-based node using dstm in mipv6 environment: Provided is a communication method between an IPv6 mobile node and an IPv4-based correspondent node in a mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) environment, and more particularly, a communication method which can keep communication between a mobile node in an IPv6-based network and a correspondent node in an IPv4-based network, although the mobile... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070088854 - Apparatus for searching tcp and udp sockets: An apparatus for searching a socket ID of a received packet in a transmission control protocol (TCP) and a user datagram protocol (UDP) is provided. The apparatus includes: a master managing unit for analyzing command information from a processor, transferring a command to a branch table managing unit and a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070083588 - Systems and methods for automated provisioning of managed computing resources: Systems and methods are provided for automated provisioning of managed resources in a distributed computing environment. Automated provisioning of managed resources is realized by systems and methods that support automated execution of provisioning workflows through programmatic invocation of provisioning tasks (sequentially and/or parallel invocation) supported by a provisioning system, as... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070083589 - Method and apparatus for multi-user generation of domain specific knowledge and adjunct interface: A method for providing interactive, multi-user, self-managing, user-generated documentation for a software application accessible from multiple workstations comprising: running the software application that may be installed on the workstation, a network, or the Internet; invoking an adjunct interface for providing a user-to-user question and answer session associated with the software... Agent: Luke M. Olsen

20070083590 - Network system allowing a plurality of client computers to share a burner device and the method for the same: A network system includes a plurality of client computers coupled to a transmission network, each of the client computers capable of generating commands and data for used in burning; a burner device capable of burning burn data onto discs; and a network server coupled between the transmission network and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070083594 - Device for wireless networked communications: A method of communication between two users using a system is claimed. Two communication devices are registered with at least one communication network and are capable of at least one communication type. A first user is allowed to connect to at least one communication network by using the first communication... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083595 - Networked audio communication with login location information: A collaboration initiation software product includes machine readable code to allow a first user to log in at a first device. The code is operable to cause the first device to communicate first user location-related information to a network to allow a server to maintain a service record. The code... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083597 - Presenting images in a conference system: An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070083596 - Storing and accessing media files: A content storage and communication system is claimed. The system includes at least one local network at first physical premises. The system includes at least one audio-video storage device in communication with the local network. The audio-video storage device is configured for storing at least one media file, which includes... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083592 - System and method for distributing shared storage for collaboration across multiple devices: A method and apparatus is described in which anchors are used to produce a shared store display. The anchors are pointers to objects which are distributively stored on a peer-to-peer network. Not all of the objects are copied to each of the units in the peer-to-peer network. Additionally, not all... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070083591 - System and method for pause and resume message operations on destinations: The present invention enables messaging service users to programmatically and administratively control the system's behavior in the event of an external resource failure. A destination pause/resume feature enables the user to “pause” and “resume” the production and consumption of messages, that are newly produced or produced as a result of... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083593 - Wireless networked audio communication: A method of communication between a plurality of users is claimed. Two communication devices are registered with at least one communication network. At least one of the two communication devices is configured for wireless communication. Two users are allowed to use one of the two communication devices to connect to... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083598 - Email information providing server, email information providing system, email information providing method and email information providing program: The objective of the present invention is to easily acquire necessary information at arbitrary times. According to this invention, folder names that indicate directories are correlated with IDs, and are hierarchically managed in accordance with the correlated IDs; upon receiving an access email from a cellular phone, the folder names... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070083602 - Method, system and software for dynamically extracting content for integration with electronic mail: The invention is a system and method, with implementing computer program code, that automatically and dynamically formats an electronic mail (e-mail) message by extracting selected text and graphical components of a web page and “wrapping” the extracted computer data about the e-mail message. Thus the extracted data forms a border... Agent: Peter S. Canelias Law Offices Of Peter S. Canelias

20070083601 - Mobile terminal capable of canceling reserved transmission of mms (multimedia message service) message and method for use in the same: A mobile terminal for canceling a reserved transmission of a multimedia message service (MMS) message, and a method for use in the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a controller to receive a reserved transmission cancellation request of an MMS message, and generating a request signal to cancel the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070083599 - System for transforming application data using xslt extensions to render templates from cache and related methods: A system transforms application data into presentation information. A server includes an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module and a Java extension. A cache contains a template for a presentation document. The XSLT module is operative for calling the template from the cache into the presentation document through the Java extension... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070083600 - System, methods, software, and devices employing messaging: A mobile device is shown in the role of a centralized message transfer agent wherein it manages all messaging for a user for most if not all the time so as to provide a unified messaging approach across all messaging platforms. Other platforms are shown using the mobile device in... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070083606 - Foreign network spam blocker: A method involves blocking unsolicited e-mail being transmitted from a remote server when a roaming customer of the ISP logs onto the Internet through the foreign NAS. The roaming customer first logs onto the ISP through the foreign NAS by providing a user identification (USERID) and password, which are sent... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070083605 - Method of evaluating an additional service for a device of a user of a telecommunication system: A method of evaluating an additional service for a device (11) of a user of a telecommunication system is described. The device (11) supports one or more basic services. The kind of basic service/s being provided by the device (11) is examined. An additional service that could be combined with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070083604 - System and method for providing secure data transmission: A system and method are provided, embodiments of which comprise encrypting input data based on authorization from an application program launched on a local computer device by a user. The encrypted input data that is generated by the user is sent to a network communication interface associated with the local... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070083603 - Systems and methods for placing and dragging programmatic packages in clustered computing systems: The invention provides methods of placing programmatic packages in a clustered environment. An exemplary method of placing programmatic packages in response to a state change in a clustered computing system is presented including: receiving the state change; in response to receiving the state change, ordering programmatic packages, where each of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083611 - Contextual multimedia advertisement presentation: A contextual multimedia advertisement system and associated methods are disclosed. The architecture includes a component that determines content of a multimedia item, and a distribution component that facilitates presentation of one or more advertisements associated with the content. Additionally or alternatively, advertisement presentation, selection and/or generation can be based on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070083608 - Delivering a data stream with instructions for playback: An approach for delivering encoded content data to a portable device is described. The content data is encoded to form encoded content data. The instruction data is combined with the encoded content data to generate a data stream that is able to be recognized by a target operating environment as... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070083613 - Information providing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, program storage medium, program, and information providing system: Disclosed is an information providing apparatus comprising first reception control means for controlling the reception, from a first information processing apparatus, of user identification data for identifying a user of the first information processing apparatus and a request for purchasing a content, first transmission control means for controlling in response... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083610 - Method and a system for accessing a plurality of files comprising an application program: A method and system for accessing a plurality of files comprising an application program includes a method for accessing, by a local machine, a plurality of files comprising an application program. A local machine receives a file, including access information for accessing a plurality of application files and for executing... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083612 - Method and system for displaying progress of synchronization: A method and for displaying and informing of synchronization progress more precisely, while data synchronization is being performed between a mobile terminal and a server, are provided. A mobile terminal and a server are connected in order to perform data synchronization. An initialization task for synchronization is performed, while recognizing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070083607 - Method of operating a computer network: A method of invoking, from a device connected to a computer network, an electronic service, from amongst a plurality of such services, available from the network. The method comprises: receiving an electronic signal representative of a request for an electronic service, the service request being expressed in a first ontology;... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070083609 - Steel bands: This disclosure depicts the role of Steel Bands, its wireless protocol and topology in monitoring the human in mutation trends as organisms and units of change within populations under natural selection operating in geographic areas. The disclosures regarding drug, food, and alcohol addictions results in population statistics as applied to... Agent: Barbara Diane Becker

20070083614 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages: Systems and methods are provided for storing a mark-up language file and delivering the file from a network server to a user's computer via a packet switched data network using a hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP). The mark-up language file is stored in a storage area accessible by the network server,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070083615 - Cross-enterprise wallplug for connecting internal hospital/clinic imaging systems to external storage and retrieval systems: A WallPlug (interface) connects DICOM devices located at a hospital to external storage and retrieval systems. The external storage and retrieval systems can be part of the National Digital Mammography Archive. The WallPlug allows secure communications within the hospital setting, and allows only selected data to be transferred between the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070083619 - Interface switch system: A switch system may include a switch circuitry, an external housing for the switch circuitry, a number of first connector ports, and a second connector port. The switch circuitry is configured for coupling to input and output interfaces of the computers and is configured for switching a set of input... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070083618 - Method and apparatus for providing home network device service to an external device through web service: A method and apparatus provide an external device with a local service provided by a home network device in a home network. An OSGi gateway generates a WSDL document by using information about a local service provided by the home network device and distributes the WSDL document to allow the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070083616 - Multi-media center for computing systems: Various “media-components” are provided in a “multi-media center.” In modular architecture, a module-controller communicates with media-modules provided for various media-components. A media-module can include or obtain data pertaining to a particular media-component, identify media-player(s), and access information related to their media. However, the media-modules are isolated from each other, and... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070083617 - Video on demand system and methods thereof: A method for transmitting a video data over a grid infrastructure network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from at least one user for viewing the video data and identifying a plurality of attributes from a plurality primary grid enabled mini servers (GEMS), wherein the plurality of primary... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070083620 - Methods for selecting between a predetermined number of execution methods for an application program: A method for selecting between a predetermined number of execution methods for an application program includes selecting, by a remote machine, a method of execution for an application program. Credentials associated with a local machine are received. An enumeration of a plurality of applications available to the local machine is... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083621 - Method of configuring a computer to include the available options of a printer: A method of configuring a computer connected to a printer via a network by transmitting commands, such as SNMP commands, to the printer in order to retrieve the available options of the printer. In response to the transmitted commands, the printer transmits its available options to the computer, and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083628 - Automated, transparent and secure system and method for remotely managing network elements: A network management system for securely managing network elements (NEs) over arbitrary multi-operator networks, via managing copies of NE configuration files on general purpose computers on a network operations center (NOC). The NEs operate automatically and dynamically, under non-dynamic control by the NE configuration files sent from the NOC. The... Agent: Mark Henrik Sandstrom

20070083635 - Computer system: The Computer System consists of components including more than one Computer and Storage Subsystem to which more than one Computer are connected. The Storage Subsystem is equipped with more than one Storage Unit, Management Table registering information to manage Storage Units accessible by each of the Computers and Controller to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070083629 - Data processing system, data managing apparatus, and computer product: A first communication processing unit and a second communication processing unit communicates with a data processing device and a data storing device, respectively. An information managing unit stores and manages identification information for identifying the data storing device and the data processing device that is permitted to use the data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083622 - Ethernet switch and service processing method thereof: The present invention discloses an Ethernet switch for implementing intelligent service processing, comprising: an ASIC chip designed to divert and forward received messages; a network processor, which is connected with said ASIC chip in a closed loop for message forwarding, and designed to process messages from said ASIC chip and... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070083625 - Federated management of intelligent service modules: Intelligent services are provided in a storage network using intelligent service modules that can be cabled to a switch external to the switch chassis and yet be managed as part of the switch's logical domain. Data and management communications between the intelligent service module and the core switch are provided... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070083627 - Leveraging presence service system and method for distributed web service delivery and deployment: A method is described herein for optimizing the delivery and deployment of web services to consumers by providing presence information (presence attributes) in addition to business/technical information (if needed) about different web service providers to the consumers so they can select a web service provider based on various important factors... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070083624 - Method and system for providing service to wireless devices operating in a power saving mode: A method and system for a network component (700) for determining when to provide services to power saving client devices (701) is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of receiving a requested servicing method (420) from the client device (701), determining an ability to accommodate (420, 510, 630) the requested... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070083623 - Mobile terminal apparatus: There are provided a storage section 16 for storing transmitted electronic mails and received electronic mails, respectively; a control section 19 for detecting electronic mails exchanged with a party designated by an operation section 6 from the electronic mails stored in the storage section 16; and a display section 1... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070083626 - Secure data scrubbing: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a processor, an input/output request that designates at least one data block on a storage medium against which the input/output operation is to be executed; and altering a response to the input/output request when a scrub state data table indicates that the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083634 - System and method for goal-based dispatcher for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083633 - System and method for high-level run summarization for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083630 - System and method for performance testing framework: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083632 - System and method for pluggable goal navigator for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083631 - System and method for queued and on-demand testing for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083644 - Capturing, displaying, and re-creating network conversations and state information: Graphically representing network frame capture sessions, network frame data, network conversations and network state data using network protocol parsers formed from a network protocol script and enabling interaction with the network frames, conversations, scripts, and parsers is disclosed. Capture session frame data and capture session context data are stored in... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070083651 - Communication apparatus and computer program: A communication apparatus includes history information storing means for storing history information on communication; displaying means for displaying a calendar; means for classifying the history information on the communication of each day into a plurality of patterns; and image storing means for storing beforehand images corresponding to the plurality of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070083652 - Demand based domain name auctionability: A method for identifying a registered domain name as auctionable is provided. The registered domain names may be pulled from a database of desired domain names, such as a collection of domain names that one or more interested entities have requested to register using a domain name registration system. Requesting... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070083642 - Fully distributed data collection and consumption to maximize the usage of context, resource, and capacity-based client server interactions: A method, distributed-computing system, and computer program product for providing efficient workload management within a distributed computing environment. Each device within the distributed-computing environment is enhanced with a workload management controller (WLMC) functionality/utility, designed specifically for the type of device (i.e., client WLMC versus server WLMC) and utilized to collect... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070083640 - Link tracking: Link tracking includes generating an electronic communication with links providing for a destination URL and a target URL. Upon selection of the active link, a destination site is accessed, based on the destination URL. In the destination site, the tracking information associated with the incoming data access request is parsed... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070083639 - Monitoring of service provider performance: Monitoring of service provider performance is improved by providing detailed instructions for evaluating metrics relating to categories in which the service provider's performance is to be measured. Such instructions describe the metrics in sufficient detail such that they can be evaluated by a monitoring component without having to obtain monitoring... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070083638 - Offloaded neighbor cache entry synchronization: A method for the synchronization of network neighbor reachability between a host networking stack and a peripheral device, which offloads one or more network protocols is provided. The network neighbor reachability represents the reachability of another computer on the network. This invention enables conventional neighbor reachability to be extended to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070083643 - Performance counters for virtualized network interfaces of communications networks: Performance counters are provided for virtualized network interfaces of communications networks, while minimizing the use of hardware resources. A virtualized network interface includes physical resources, as well as logical resources. Dedicated performance counters are provided for the physical resources of the virtualized network interface, as well as for logical partitions... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070083649 - Performance monitoring of network applications: Network performance is monitored using timing information retrieved from a client device, server in communication with the client, or both. Client side timing information is retrieved using performance monitoring code provided by the server. The code may be provided to the client as part of a content response. Once content... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070083650 - Prediction of service level compliance in it infrastructures: A method is provided of predicting a degree of service-quality compliance in an IT infrastructure. The method is carried out at a current point of time within an evaluation period before the end of the evaluation period, wherein service-quality compliance means that a service-quality parameter of the IT infrastructure complies... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083637 - Protection from undesirable messages: A method and system for monitoring messages addressed to a first receiver (E1), comprising a first receiver (E1) which contains a first undesirable receiver device (UNE) and which prevents a user of the first receiver (E1) from accessing the undesirable receiver (UNE), wherein a message category is defined as undesirable,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070083636 - Remote control transmits xml-document: A remote control (3, 4) for controlling source devices (PC, DVD, RADIO, MP3, TV1, TV2) and playback devices (B1, B2, TV1, TV2, M) sends a command document (DOC) containing a control command (SB) in the form of text to the source device (PC, DVD, RADIO, MP3, TV 1, TV2) or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070083648 - Resource pool monitor: Resource pool depletion information, including the estimated time until the resource pool is depleted, is derived from resource pool data. Data regarding the size of a resource pool is collected over a period of time. The data may include the resource pool size and other information. One or more functions... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070083646 - Switching circuit implementing variable string matching: A content matching engine (CME) uses a content addressable memory (CAM) array that stores a plurality of strings in separate entries. The strings define one or more rules to be matched. The strings of each rule are linked, thereby providing a required order. The strings of each rule can be... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070083645 - System and method for logging and replaying asynchronous events: A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for logging and replaying asynchronous events are disclosed. One or more asynchronous events occurring during execution of a first instance of a computer program are logged. In logging the asynchronous events, a respective location in the execution of the first instance at which each... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070083647 - Systems and methods for response monitoring: Systems and methods for response monitoring are described. A method of generating a measurement for use in calculating an end-user experience metric in a server-based computing environment includes, transmitting a message from a client of the server-based computing environment to an application executing in a user space provided by an... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083641 - Using a standby data storage system to detect the health of a cluster of data storage servers: Detecting an operating condition in a multi-server data storage system. One or more of the data storage servers are designated with a status within the cluster. The designating may be performed by at least one of the data storage servers. The status is encoded into log data having records that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083653 - System and method for deploying information handling system images through fibre channel: Information handling system images are deployed through a storage area network Fibre channel fabric. The information handling system issues a deployment request through a host bus adapter to a deployment module associated with a storage processor of the storage area network. The deployment module allocates an image stored in a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070083657 - Method and apparatus for managing access to storage devices in a storage system with access control: A storage system is provided that includes a plurality of storage devices and a data structure, accessible to the storage system, that includes a plurality of records corresponding to a plurality of network devices that are coupled to the storage system. Each record includes configuration data that identifies each of... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070083655 - Methods for selecting between a predetermined number of execution methods for an application program: A method for selecting, by a remote machine, a method of execution for an application program includes receiving a request to execute an application. Credentials associated with a local machine are gathered. One of a predetermined number of methods for executing the requested application is selected responsive to a policy,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083654 - Network system, network control method, and program: A network system connected with a plurality of clients 10a over a network 20, and having process executing means 40 for executing processing requested from each client, comprises process request controlling means 50, and load distributing means 30 for selectively connecting a client that requested processing with process executing means... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070083656 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages: Systems and methods are provided for receiving and storing a message addressed to an intended recipient and for delivering the message to a client computer that has a graphical user interface. The received message is stored in a restricted-access message storage area associated with the intended recipient. A hyper-text transfer... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070083660 - Amorphic computing: System and method for providing computer resources to users. A first device is coupled to multiple human interface devices (HIDs), and a second device is coupled to multiple computing resources. The first device establishes a connection with the second device over a network, and in response to user input specifying... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070083658 - Network entity for interconnecting sip end-points of different capabilities: There is described a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network entity for operating in a communications channel between a first SIP end point and a second SIP end point in a communication network. The first SIP end point has available a first set of communication features and the second SIP end... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070083661 - Session control method and terminal for poc: The present invention discloses a session control method and terminal for PoC. The method includes the following steps: an originating client receiving an instruction from a user, creating and sending a session initiation request or a request for rejoining the session to a server, and entering into a creating state;... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070083659 - Streaming system: This streaming system includes a server and a client which transmit and receive a media stream having a layer structure including at least a session layer through a network. The server includes means for incorporating management information for managing the media stream in an SDP of the session layer of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070083662 - Resource command messages and methods: Resource command messages comprise commands and command urgency or importance information that is interpreted by a resource device and is coupled with information relating to the resource device to determine when to process the command within the resource command message. Resource devices comprising a plurality of resource nodes provide increased... Agent: Hani Z. Sayed, Esq. C/o Rutan & Tucker, LLP

20070083663 - Contents distribution system contents server contents receiving apparatus contents distribution method, program and storage media: In a network system for transmitting and receiving contents with one or more pieces of additional information corresponding to an internal attribute of the contents, a contents server can decide the data to be transmitted without regard to a division transfer method supposed for a contents receiving apparatus. The contents... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070083665 - Method and system for obtaining secure shell host key of managed device: A method and a system for obtaining a Security Shell (SSH) host key of a managed device, including: while detecting the managed device, the management station obtaining the related information of the SSH host key in a UDP transport mode. According to the present invention, the management station can obtain... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070083664 - System and method of presenting entities of standard device applications in wireless devices: A data entity presentation system and method of presenting data entities of standard device applications in wireless devices are provided. The data entity presentation system comprises an application runtime environment module for hosting component-based applications on a device, an integrated development environment for hosting component definitions and a device repository... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070083666 - Bandwidth management of multimedia transmission over networks: Methods and systems are provided for managing bandwidth in transmitting multimedia over a network. An audio stream is created from transmission of audio information over the network at an audio rate. A video stream is created for transmission of video information over the network at a video rate. A data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070083667 - Method and system for multicast delivery of multimedia content on demand: A server in connection with a plurality of multimedia sources that has a plurality of clients. The server determines if at least one of the clients is requesting to receive at least one of the sources. The server then multicasts these requested sources to the requesting clients, respectively. If none... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070083668 - Method and apparatus for facilitating network expansion: Systems and methods are provided for network expansion. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system is provided having a network connection device, a first network device, and a second network device. The first network device and the second network device may be coupled together in a network topology... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070083669 - State synchronization of access routers: Embodiments describe synchronizing access routers with wireless terminal state information. According to an embodiment is a wireless terminal that transmits a message that includes an address for at least two access routers. State change information can optionally be included in the message. According to another embodiment is an access router... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070083672 - Information processing apparatus and communication control method: Logical partitions in an information processing apparatus share an IP address and are assigned different MAC addresses. A representative logical partition communicates with an external entity on behalf of the other logical partitions. A driver is provided with a virtual interface and a physical interface. Internal communication between the logical... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070083670 - Method and system for protecting an internet user from fraudulent ip addresses on a dns server: Domain name system (DNS) servers provide Internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers must have for finding websites on the Internet. A recent problem with navigating the Internet is that hackers have discovered ways to change the IP addresses stored on the DNS servers. An altered IP address will cause an... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070083671 - Servlet filters to decode encoded request parameters: A method to decode encoded parameters may include finding and removing any parameters in a request Universal Resource Locator (URL) or the like. A servlet filter may be invoked to find and remove delimiters and parameters from the request URL. The method may also include creating a servlet request wrapper... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070083673 - Hypertext content filter: A system and method for providing fine grain, geographical targeting of content to wireless network users that are using a network in which each wireless access point has an associated location identity. Mobile device are assigned the same location identity as their wireless access point for the duration of the... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070083675 - Instant messaging interoperability between disparate service providers: An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks is provided. The apparatus includes translation logic for translating received communications related to an instant messaging service, the received communications associated with an external instant messaging service provider network and formatted according to a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070083674 - Method and apparatus for republishing electronic content from a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device, such as a cellular handset, is configured to retrieve published content through a supporting communication network, modify the published content by adding content and republish the modified content through the supporting communication network. For example, the device may retrieve published content through a web feed, offer... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070083676 - Method and system for transferring information during server synchronization with a computing device: A method and apparatus for transferring information in synchronizing a server and a handheld device. The information is binary information that is then compressed using a suitable compression algorithm. The compressed binary data is then text encoded using a suitable text encoding algorithm. The text encoded information is then encoded... Agent: Csa LLP

20070078924 - Modularly constructing a software defined radio: Systems and methods are provided for modularly constructing a software defined radio (“SDR”). Given an SDR kernel (i.e., a potentially platform-neutral definition of digital signal processing functionality and control operations necessary to implement the core portion of a software defined radio implementing a particular radio standard), an optional description of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070078925 - Porting an interface defining document between mobile device platforms: A wireless communication device may be configured with an application definition file, for interaction with an application executing at a server computing device. Using definitions for a user interface provided by the application definition file, the wireless device may present a user interface for the application. Preferably, the application definition... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070078926 - Multimedia system: A multimedia system is provided. The multimedia system relates to a main frame and at least a portable display device to proceed with transmission and communication. The portable display device includes a display module to display multimedia digital data, an image decoding module to receive and send a multimedia digital... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070078927 - Server-side service framework: Supplementing the traditional means of exposing a server service through a URL that maps to a physical file with a special extension containing the service, a pseudo-virtual path mapping directly to the service is provided to clients requesting the service. The pseudo-virtual path includes a special token that identifies a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070078928 - System and method for downloading content: Systems and methods for downloading content are provided in which a client device determines content to be downloaded and a downloading order of the content to request a downloading profile for the content, and a server device generates the downloading profile in accordance with a request for the downloading profile... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078932 - Audio communication with login location addressing: Two users are allowed to log in to respective first and second communication devices. The first and second communication devices are registered with at least one communication network. At least one communication network is a wireless network. Service records are maintained for the first and second communication devices. The service... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078929 - Distributed processing system and method: A solution for managing communicative interactions between network elements is described herein. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a processor module that monitors communications between a program resident on a user machine and a server program resident on a computing device remote from the user. The... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070078930 - Method for managing real-time communications: A system for real-time communication between a plurality of separated users is claimed. The system includes a record including associated location information of where a first user is logged in. Computer software causes display of a user identifier for a second user on the display of a communication device of... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078933 - Networked audio communication over two networks: Two users are allowed to establish communication over at least two communication networks by using respective first and second communication devices. The first communication device is registered with a communication network. The second communication device is registered with a communication network. A service record that includes the second communication device's... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078931 - System for managing real-time communications: A system for real-time communication between a plurality of separated users is claimed. The system includes a record including associated location information of where a first user is logged in. Computer software causes display of a user identifier for a second user on the display of a communication device of... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078936 - Detecting unwanted electronic mail messages based on probabilistic analysis of referenced resources: In one embodiment, detecting unwanted electronic mail messages based on probabilistic analysis of referenced resources comprises receiving a whitelist and a blocklist each having a plurality of network resource identifiers that have appeared in prior messages; retrieving a particular network resource identifier; generating a list of properties for the particular... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070078938 - Im client and method for item sharing: The present invention provides a system and method for performing files/folder share between IM clients. In the present invention, when a source client shares out files/folders to a particular contact person/contact person group, an access control list table is established and said particular contact person/contact person group and the files/folders... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070078937 - Method, system, and program product for managing communications pursuant to an information technology (it) migration: Under the present invention, an initial distribution list of electronic message recipients within an organization undergoing an IT migration is generated using a personnel directory of the organization and at least one selection criterion. Once initial electronic message recipients are known, messages will be generated and sent using information from... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070078935 - Retrieval of offline instant messages: Retrieving messages stored in a mail server and pending to be retrieved by a user is disclosed. A summary of the messages stored in the mail server and pending to be retrieved by the user is received at a terminal device of the user, each message associated with a unique... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070078934 - System and method for provisioning an email account hosted on an assured email service provider: A system provisions an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to a user's electronic mailbox from a remote device to retrieve user email. It includes a communications module for receiving email address parameters entered by a user from an assured email service provider from which previous... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070078939 - Method and apparatus for identifying and classifying network documents as spam: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for identifying and classifying a network document as a spam candidate. In one aspect of the present invention, a network document is retrieved. Affiliate identification... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070078940 - Remote configuration of persistent memory system att tables: Various embodiments of systems and methods for remotely configuring network memory are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises identifying a first device as having authority to control a memory device from a remote location, and writing start-up or reset parameters to memory of the memory device from the remote... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070078944 - Apparatus and methods for delivering and presenting auxiliary services for customizing a channel: Apparatus and method for customizing a media channel include receiving a presentation associated with a base service and an auxiliary presentation associated with an auxiliary service. Further, the apparatus and methods include providing a customized channel to a device, where the customized channel is based on a combination of at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070078947 - Apparatus, system and method for detecting old versions of an applet in a client browser's jvm: An apparatus, system and method for checking the version of a cached applet on a client device against version information stored on a host server is provided. By checking the version of the applet, it can be determined whether or not the applet is still usable with the host server.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070078942 - Developing applications online: A method and apparatus for providing a network based operating system for mobile clients is disclosed. Services may be developed that can be used to support different client devices with different capabilities. The services provide output with multiple variations based on different devices, and an intermediary selects the variation best... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070078948 - Media delivery system and method for transporting media to desired target devices: A media delivery system and technique are described to enable a media stream to be received at one end on a user's computer, and then re-streamed to a target device in a form that is suitable for that target. As an example of an implementation of such an embodiment, a... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070078943 - Message based application communication system: A method for communicating between applications on a network is provided. A first server having associated applications and a second server having associated applications are provided. The first and second servers are bridged together with a bridge functionality having at least one subscription list. A message is sent from at... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078951 - Method for data communication,data communication system and mobile communication terminal: A cellular phone 10 transmits management information including size information of object data desirably downloaded, and determines whether a size of the object data exceeds the second predetermined value or not, based on the size information. If the result is negative, the cellular phone 10 stores the object data, sent... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070078950 - Offline web services api to mirror online web services api: Methods and systems for simulating an online session between the client and a remote server when the client is offline including simulating a web services API to access information when the client is offline. The client includes a local interface that can communicate with the remote server. During an online... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070078941 - Partial item change tracking and synchronization: Embodiments herein change the way item syncing is handled and tracked between two devices. Changes to items are tracked in accordance with well defined property groups and each group is tracked independently of the other. For example, one group could contain large data items, e.g., attachments, while another group could... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070078946 - Preservation of type information between a client and a server: In a distributed computing system containing multiple entities such as servers and clients, an object passed between the entities is attached with metadata identifying the type of the object and/or types and values of properties associated with the object. Before the object is passed to an entity in the distributed... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070078952 - Storage subsystem and storage controller: A storage subsystem and a storage controller adapted to take advantage of high data transfer rates of fibre channels while offering enhanced reliability and availability and capable of connecting with a plurality of host computers having multiple different interfaces. A loop is provided to serve as a common loop channel... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070078945 - System and method for displaying information of a media playing device on a display device: A system for displaying information from a media playing device on a display device are provided. The system includes a media playing device (10) and a display device (20). The media playing device includes an network interface (103) for downloading network information from a network (40) and outputting the network... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078949 - System and method for mobile retrieval of electronic content for separate delivery: A system and method for remotely activating and remotely initiating retrieval of a content data file using a mobile communications device with public network access; a remote polling cycle and a playback device for retrieval of the content data file; and, a notification of file retrieval completion sent to the... Agent: Charles C. Mccloskey

20070078954 - Apparatus and method for providing high speed download service of multimedia contents: An apparatus for downloading a multimedia file including a file converter configured to convert a larger multimedia file into a smaller multimedia file by deleting prescribed medial information based on a media format contained in the larger file. Further, the file converter converts the larger file into the smaller file... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070078953 - User interface widget unit sharing for application user interface distribution: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to application sharing and provide a method, system and computer program product for user interface widget unit based application sharing. In a first embodiment, a data processing system for user interface widget unit based application sharing, can include a... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070078956 - Embedding controllers and devices with data to facilitate up-to-date control and configuration information: An industrial automation system comprising a processor with an updating component coupled to automation devices via a network. The updating component reads control information from machine readable representations of the devices and populates a data structure with the control information. The updating component also updates configuration information of a device... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078955 - Service quality management in packet networks: A method of managing traffic flows in a network without human intervention which comprises detecting the establishment of at least one of a session and a traffic flow between endpoints, assigning a classification to at least one of the session and the traffic flow, and configuring a number of network... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070078957 - Firmware-licensing system for binding terminal software to a specific terminal unit: An improved system and method for providing firmware upgrades and similar information to mobile electronic devices while protecting the firmware from impermissible copying and other undesirable activities. The delivery of a firmware upgrade to a terminal is divided into two parts. A firmware upgrade package contains the payload and the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070078960 - Grid computing accounting and statistics management system: Performance data is captured periodically from resources and groups of resources in a grid computing environment and stored in a content-addressable data repository from which it can be accessed in response to an arbitrarily complex query in regard to specifics of particular jobs or job portions, particular resources utilized, grid... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson. P.C.

20070078959 - Low-power proxy for providing content listings in ad-hoc, peer to peer networks: Providing access to content in an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network involves providing the content from at least one media server coupled to the network. Metadata associated with the content is sent from the media server to a proxy. The media server to enters a low-power state, and if the media server... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070078961 - Method for distributing data input/output load: A method for distributing data input/output load is performed by a management server which is connected to at least one storage device for storing data and for inputting or outputting the stored data in response to an external request, one or more computers for performing predetermined processes and making a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070078963 - Method of remote management of the look and functionality of a website by a third party service provider with the aid of scripting technology: A unique method allowing the external third party service provider to control the features related to a particular service on the website, taking advantage of the relationship of the website owner and the third party, and allowing dynamic status of what is to be controlled, without further modifications to the... Agent: Jeffrey Calfa

20070078962 - System, method and software for creating, maintaining, navigating or manipulating relationships and communications within a private network or private virtual network for gaming and reporting: The field of the present invention relates generally to computer systems, private computer networks or private virtual networks for managed peer to peer or peer to server communications with respect to activities of chance such as gaming and investing and to methods and software for accessing, utilizing and managing private... Agent: John J G Mullins

20070078958 - Traffic prediction for web sites: A traffic prediction component may automatically generate predicted traffic profiles for web sites based on tags that characterize the sites. An initial set of tags can be selected for a web site based on a set of predefined rules. An initial traffic profile may be selected based on the initial... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070078976 - Adaptive device-initiated polling: A method includes periodically sending a polling call to an enterprise system outside the firewall at a first polling rate during normal operating conditions, monitoring for a fault condition, periodically sending polling calls to the device outside the firewall at a second polling rate when a fault condition is detected,... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070078969 - Composite communication service management: Systems and techniques for managing a group of communication services as a single composite communication service are disclosed. When a composite communication service, to be provided by one or more communication services which are supported in a communication system, has been defined, a representation of that composite communication service can... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070078972 - Computer-readable recording medium with system managing program recorded therein, system managing method and system managing apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a system managing program for assisting in constructing an environment for efficiently operating a system depending on the access to data from an application. An application information collecting unit acquires management information representing access to data from an application function which is realized when... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070078967 - Guard tour event notification system: A system is disclosed that notifies a specific person or group of persons, as soon as possible, when a designated event or combination of events related to a guard tour occurs. The system utilizes configurable notification parameters related to each defined event in the guard tour system. Each event is... Agent: James A. Hudak, Esq.

20070078970 - Management of tiered communication services in a composite communication service: Techniques for managing tiered communication services in a composite communication service are disclosed. Component communication services for providing a composite communication service are arranged into tiers in a structure of the composite communication service. The tiers and order facilitate visualization of composite communication services and assessment of the effects of... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070078978 - Method and apparatus for updating information in a low-bandwidth client/server object-oriented system: Methods and apparatus for efficiently maintaining updated information on client/server object-oriented computing systems are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting a packet of data from a first computing system to a second computing system in a client/server object-based computing system includes identifying... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070078973 - Method and system to determine a user specific relevance score of a message within a messaging system: The present invention refers to a method and system to determine automatically a user specific relevance score of a message within a messaging system in a client-server environment, the message being provided with message specific meta-information. The disclosed method includes analyzing by means of an analyzing component of the client-server... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070078964 - Method of providing content to a mobile web browsing device: Content is automatically provided to a mobile web browsing device from a web server, by the following process: (a) receiving at a computer, remotely connected to the device over a wireless network, a log of data identifying content that has been viewed by the device; (b) automatically sending updated content... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070078971 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing activity data: Methods, systems and computer program products for providing activity data are provided. Activity data associated with an activity of one or more subscribers of a presence service is received at a presence server. The activity data is provided, from the presence server, to one or more other subscribers of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070078977 - Online forecasting system and method: System and method for real-time on-line interactive forecasting of an element, the method comprising: receiving a user input for a forecast element; and capturing at least one forecast of an element or event, storing that at least one forecast of an element or event, and sending collective contributed forecast information... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070078966 - Presentation of automation data: The subject invention pertains to presentation of data. A base presentation can supply coarse data concerning an industrial automation system, for instance. Specific base presentation items can subsequently be identified begetting production of more granular information. In particular, an element can be spawned that provides one or more of text,... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078965 - Server apparatus and client apparatus in presence display system: The mobile station 11 performs poling to the user data section 26 at predetermined time intervals, transmits location information of the mobile station 11 to the presence server 27, receives buddies state information and information indicating the proximity between the user and the buddies, and displays the presence of the... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20070078968 - System and method for determining a presence state of a user: Presence information associated with a presence entity (102) is received. A composition rule associated with the presence information is also received. The composition rule is applied to the presence information in order to determine a presence state for the presence entity (102).... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070078975 - System for monitoring cable interface connections in a network: A system monitors cable interface connections in a network. An individual cable interface connection includes a connection between a cable and an associated device in the network. The monitoring system includes a plurality of individual interface controllers for monitoring an associated plurality of individual cable interface connections. The plurality of... Agent: Jack Schwartz & Associates

20070078974 - Time synchronized wireless method and operations: A scanning method, computer readable medium, and device for suspending, during a first data scanning sequence including a plurality of discrete data scanning intervals, data scanning operations during at least one discrete data scanning interval chosen from the plurality of discrete data scanning intervals. A data transmission operation is performed... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070078982 - Application of virtual servers to high availability and disaster recovery soultions: Server virtualization technology is applied to virtualize and encapsulate all unique information of a server as an image that is stored on a storage area network at one site and replicated on a storage area network at another site to provide high availability of system resources and data recovery capabilities.... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070078980 - Control system: It is an object to provide a control system wherein a system configuration can be changed in a short time. To do this, the invention adds improvement to a control system established through a network. The control system includes: a plurality of system component nodes each having a communication section... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070078979 - Reducing load at a mail server: A method for reducing the load on a mail server (202) of a mail system. Uses information about users' schedule and/or habits in order to evaluate whether or not a user is likely to be at his/her desk at a specific time. E-mail is only retrieved from server if it... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070078981 - Wireless data transfer method and circuit: Disclosed herein are a method and a circuit for indicating data transfer rate in a data transfer transaction in place of indicating the wireless link quality. At another time, the mobile communication device may indicate a quality of a wireless link 202. Upon initiation of the wireless transfer of data... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070078983 - Dynamic robot traffic detection: A method for restricting access of a client to a web site hosted at first and second servers is described. A first tally that includes identification information of the client and a first number of access requests sent from the client to the first server is received. A second tally... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070078985 - Method, system and computer program product for preventing illegal user from logging in: A method for preventing an illegal user from logging in an online application with an authentic user's user log-in information is provided in the present invention. The system associates user log-in information with personal communication device information specified by the authentic user. In response to receiving the user log-in information... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070078984 - Storage system and license management method: A storage system and a license management method that can simplify license management are proposed. In a storage system in which a first storage apparatus is connected to one or a plurality of second storage apparatuses and the first storage apparatus virtualizes each of the second storage apparatuses, the first... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070078988 - Apparatus, method and system for rapid delivery of distributed applications: An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for visually constructing and rapidly delivering distributed applications. The system includes a virtual appliance apparatus and a composite appliance apparatus, as well as a system for virtualizing hardware resources and for provisioning, executing and scaling distributed applications.... Agent: Leonard Tachner, A Professional Law Corporation

20070078987 - Multi-mode remote user interface server: A multi-mode remote user interface server has been presented. In one embodiment, the multi-mode remote user interface server includes a first storage device to store instructions of a remote-capable application, a second storage device coupled to the first storage device to store a graphical interface description language (GIDL) document associated... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078989 - Population of an advertisement reference list: A list of advertisements, products, or services for which an impression is generated during the course of a digital environment session (e.g., a video game) may be imported to a list that may be viewed at the conclusion of the digital session. The user may then visit advertiser web sites... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070078990 - System for identifying the presence of peer-to-peer network software applications: A system and method for detecting peer-to-peer network software operating on a target computer. A target file is created, and placed in one or more folders on the target computer. A search is issued on a Peer-to-Peer network for the target file. Peer-to-peer software is detected to be operating on... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070078986 - Techniques for reducing session set-up for real-time communications over a network: Techniques for reducing session set up for real-time communications over a network include determining whether conditions are satisfied for storing session data for a first actual or prospective session and receiving the session data to be stored. The session data indicates multiple properties for real-time communications between a local node... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070078992 - Enabling online and offline operation: The present invention provides software developers with the capability to create applications that can access information online and offline without having to program such capabilities into their applications. An application can gather information from various remote data sources via a network or other communication means, and still have access to... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070078991 - Method and apparatus for making web service policy agreement: A method and apparatus for making a web service policy agreement between a web service user and a web service provider, the method including a function which requests a server to make an agreement document of a web service policy of a web service of a plurality of web services... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078993 - Providing and receiving content for computer networks using a gateway and server: Providing and receiving content for nodes of a computer network. In one aspect, a method for receiving content for nodes on a network includes establishing a computer device as a gateway device that can communicate in a first network and communicate with a server in a second network. The gateway... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070078994 - System and method for automatic wireless detection and identification of document processing service location: A system and method for automated selection of a wireless document processing device. Data representing a plurality of available document processing devices is first generated on a wireless data processing device. The wireless data connection is then detected between a portable data device and an associated access point, wherein the... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070078997 - Efficient endpoint matching using a header-to-bit conversion table: A header-to-bit conversion table is provided that includes a list of address headers for registered endpoints. Assigned to each address header within the list is a bit placement within a string of bits. As messages are received, select headers within a message are compared with the address headers within the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070079000 - Method and apparatus for presenting entity not supporting upnp as upnp device or content: A method and apparatus are provided for allowing a UPnP control point to recognize various entities. The method includes: generating a device description describing information on the entity in a format according to the standard using the information on the entity; and presenting a role of the device supporting the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078996 - Method for managing a network appliance and transparent configurable network appliance: A method for managing a network appliance includes establishing a management Internet protocol (IP) address for the network appliance, receiving a domain name service (DNS) query from a local computer at the network appliance containing a predetermined domain name corresponded to the management IP address, sending the management IP address... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078998 - Methods for improving call setup time: Methods and products for reducing the time required to set-up a call are provided. In particular, new functionality to H.324 is added by allowing the transmission of media to commence after a reduced number of H.245 messages have been exchanged by two calling devices. If two terminals involved in a... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070078999 - State synchronization of access routers: Embodiments describe synchronizing access routers with wireless terminal state information. According to an embodiment is a wireless terminal that transmits a message that includes an address for at least two access routers. State change information can optionally be included in the message. According to another embodiment is an access router... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070078995 - System for defining an alternate channel routing mechanism in a messaging middleware environment: A method and system for routing channels in which messages are transmitted from a source application to a destination application. The system includes a finite-state machine, source message queues, and a source queue manager for managing the source message queues. The source message queues include a transmission queue for holding... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070079001 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070079002 - Compiling method, apparatus, and program: Brings response time of a Web server and the like closer to a targeted value. A controller controlling the average response time elapsed between reception by information processing apparatus of a processing request and response of information processing apparatus to the processing request. The controller including: a section for obtaining... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070079003 - Network device: Network devices (30) receiving first packets from first devices (10) and in response transmitting second packets to second devices (20), and receiving third packets from the second devices (20) and in response transmitting fourth packets to the first devices (10), get manipulation means (40) for manipulating information at layers higher... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070079004 - Method and apparatus for distributed indexing: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing range based queries over distributed network nodes. Each of a plurality of distributed network nodes stores at least a portion of a logical index tree. The nodes of the logical index tree are mapped to the network nodes based on a hash... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070079005 - Method and system for prioritizing network services: A method, system and computer program product of prioritizing network services is provided. Such prioritization may comprise a better level of service, more timely system response and/or preferential treatment of traffic. In an embodiment, prioritization is controlled by defining modes and levels of prioritization typically based on criteria, such as... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070079006 - Image processing apparatus and method of acquiring information: An information processing apparatus is communicatable with an image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a request unit configured to request information about the image forming apparatus to the image forming apparatus, a setting unit configured to set proxy response device identification information to identify an proxy response device... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070079010 - Media exchange protocol and devices using the same: A media exchange description language (MX-DL) is disclosed. The media exchange description language (MX-DL) may be used to facilitate media exchange within a media exchange network, such as a home network. Methods of determining an operability of a media item within a media exchange network are also disclosed. The methods... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070079009 - Method for tagging and tracking non-hypertext markup language based e-mail: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tagging and tracking non-hypertext markup language based e-mail. An e-mail is converted from a non-hypertext markup language format to an encoded format. An item is identified in the e-mail. A tag is added to the item in the e-mail. The e-mail... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070079007 - Modifying service provider context information to facilitate locating interceptor context information: A method and system for tracking context information of a service provider and interceptors of service provider requests is provided. An interceptor modifies a portion of service provider context information to reference interceptor context information associated with a client. When the client requests a service of the service provider, the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070079008 - Wireless remote device management utilizing mesh topology: Disclosed is an end-to-end wireless solution for accessing, monitoring, and controlling remote devices, such as critical server systems, utilizing a mesh topology scheme via a short range, high throughput wireless connection. The present invention provides superior propagation in a multi-path environment as well as a low-power, non-intrusive solution to remotely... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070079011 - Apparatus and method for source compression and comparison: An apparatus and method is disclosed that configures two files for more rapid comparison by removing blank spaces from the code of all of the lines in each of the files to be compared and also by attaching a control to the beginning of each line of code in each... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070079012 - Universal electronic payment system: to include \"ps1 & pfn connect tm\", and the same technology to provide wireless interoperability for first responder communications in a national security program: The invention comprises two wireless repeater/controller devices which interface all types of electronic messaging and provide local inter protocol translation and routing to both distant networks and locally, to mini smart cells made up of these two units. The units are termed Primary Focal Node PFN and PS-1 (a smaller... Agent: Richard Walker

20070079013 - Adapting to different network locations: Systems and methods for a readily discoverable, consolidated UI of frequently modified system settings are provided. In one aspect, systems and methods may be deployed to efficiently adjust mobile settings. In one embodiment, tiles configured to represent the an application and further having at least one icon, the status of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797