Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 05/07

20070124358 - Method and system for installing an application on a wireless mobile device when initiated from a pc: A method for installation by a computing device of an application from a website to a mobile device of a user. The method includes the step of installing software of the mobile device on the computing device. The method also includes connecting the mobile device to the computing device and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070124359 - Method for delivering service guide source for generation of service guide in a mobile broadcast system, and method and system for delivering notification event/notification message: A mobile broadcast system for delivering a notification event for generation of a notification message for information provisioning to a subscriber receiving a broadcast service is provided. The mobile broadcast system includes a first apparatus for managing subscriber information of the broadcast service, handling generation of at least one notification... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070124361 - Action console framework: An apparatus, system and method includes an action manager to receive a manual action selected by a user and an action console coupled to the action manager to present via the action console a user interface specific to the manual action selected by the user. The apparatus, system and method... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070124360 - Systems and methods for processing audio using multiple speech technologies: An audio splitting system for sharing speech data associated with the same utterance between multiple speech technologies (consumers). In one aspect, the system comprises one or more queues for storing data, a plurality of consumers each sharing the data stored in the one or more queues and a scheduler for... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070124362 - Extensible framework for handling different mark up language parsers and generators in a computing device: A client can operate with a parser or generator for both text (e.g. XML) and binary (e.g. WBXML) mark up languages; the client uses a unique integer value that can be interpreted in an index of elements, attributes and attribute values needed to describe a particular type of mark-up document,... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070124363 - Instrument-based distributed computing systems: An instrument-based distributed computing system is disclosed that accelerates the measurement, analysis, verification and validation of data in a distributed computing environment. A large computing work can be performed in a distributed fashion using the instrument-based distributed system. The instrument-based distributed system may include a client that creates a job.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070124367 - Integrated mobile diagnostics and electronic customer care test script with browser: A system for mobile diagnostics and electronic customer care is provided. The system includes a mobile handset and a server. The mobile handset has a diagnostic software application stored on the mobile handset, and a second software application executable on the mobile handset. The server is operable to interpret results... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070124368 - Message broadcasting admission control system and method: A system and method of admission control for authorizing a submission of a broadcast message to a broadcast target area includes receiving a broadcast message record including the broadcast message and the broadcast target area for the broadcast message and validating the authority of a broadcast message originator originating the... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070124365 - Method, apparatus and program storage device that provides a user mode device interface: A method, apparatus and program storage device that provides a user mode device interface for enabling software reuse. The user mode device interface allows device interface requests to be sent and received, including commands and data structures, via socket communication. A device state machine on the client side is implemented... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070124366 - Storage control method for managing access environment enabling host to access data: A server program 51 relates access environment information, which indicates an access environment enabling an AP 31A to access data in an LV #03 and an LV #04, to the LV #03 and LV #04 on a table 61. The server program 51 copies the data in the LV #03... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070124364 - Web site content management: Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure provide for updating data for a dynamic web page. At least one embodiment of the method includes receiving a data structure name of a data structure related to the web page and providing an update option for a user to update at least a... Agent: Jodi L. Hartman Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20070124377 - Apparatus and method for a communication conference: A communication conference including at least one unambiguously identifiable conference media data flow. The access right within the communication conference is assigned by taking into consideration the conference media data flow.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070124371 - Calendar interface for digital communications: Information from communications is displayed in a calendar format. Text from the communications is used to determine whether a scheduling entry should be created. If so, text from the communication is used to create a proposed calendar or to-do list entry, which can be saved, modified or canceled by the... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070124370 - Interactive table based platform to facilitate collaborative activities: A unique system and method that facilitates multi-user collaborative interactions is provided. Multiple users can provide input to an interactive surface at or about the same time without yielding control of the surface to any one user. The multiple users can share control of the surface and perform operations on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070124379 - Media-channel based interactive voice/video/data discussion-forums: A method for communicating includes the steps of presenting a topic on the media channel with a phone number or IP address to a real-time interactive forum regarding the topic. There is the step of calling the phone number or IP address by an individual. There is the step of... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070124376 - Messaging architecture: A messaging architecture is disclosed which enables a single messaging application, handling non-transport specific attributes and operations, to manipulate any commonly known message type (such as fax, e-mail, pager, SMS, voice mail) using dynamically loadable plug-ins which contribute the ability to handle all transport specific attributes and operations. This architecture... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070124375 - Method and apparatus for defining relationships between collaboration entities in a collaboration environment: In a software environment for team collaboration, a relationship processor defines relationships between collaboration entities (artifacts) in the collaboration environment. The relationship processor is operable to define, capture, and traverse relationships in a generic manner independently of the underlying types of artifacts included in the relationships. Accordingly, participant artifacts of... Agent: Chapin & Huang, L.L.C.

20070124378 - Method and system for indicate and post processing in a flow through data architecture: Aspects of a method and system for indicate and post processing in a flow through data architecture are presented. Aspects of the system may include a network interface controller that enables storage with zero copy of at least a portion of a plurality of received messages based on policies that... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124380 - Method and system for servicing requests in a dynamic cluster: A method for servicing requests in a dynamic cluster that includes receiving, by a first replica of the dynamic cluster, a first request that includes a first membership label from a client, wherein the client stores the first membership label and a first cluster list, determining whether the first membership... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070124373 - Methods and apparatus for defining a collaborative workspace: A workspace template is operative to store a collaboration workspace for successive reuse. A template script processor creates a parameterized metadata definition of a workspace. The metadata definition is written as an XML file to a storage repository. A template script processor parses the metadata XML representation to reinstantiate the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070124374 - Methods and apparatus providing collaborative access to applications: A system, method and apparatus provide collaborative access to an application by identifying an application from a set of independently operable applications to be accessible from a collaborative workspace. The system creates an application container within the application for storage of application data on behalf of users accessing the application... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070124369 - Real-time interactive system for discussion on documents, images, and videos and method for the same: This invention provides the real-time interactive system for discussion on documents, images, and videos and method for the same, comprising a display screen, a telecommunication module, a handwriting module, and a controller. The handwriting module may receive handwritten tracks when sensing the inscribe movement of handwriting pen on a handwriting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070124372 - Using a mobile phone to control a personal computer: Systems and methods are described for using a mobile phone to control a computing device. In one implementation, a communication protocol stack is established that includes a wireless layer, such as a Bluetooth stack, a communication layer that multiplexes the wireless layer into virtual channels, and an application adaptation layer... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124382 - Media fusion remote access system: The present invention is a system that receives data in different formats from different devices/applications in the format native to the devices/applications and fuses the data into a common shared audio/video collaborative environment including a composite display showing the data from the different sources in different areas of the display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124381 - Method and system for providing electronic pickup meetings: A method and system for providing real time collaboration sessions among computer users. When a scheduling user selects a group of people for a real-time collaboration session, and some of the desired participants are not currently available, interface options are simultaneously provided that enable the user to either start the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070124389 - Anti-spam application storage system: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for storing short message service (SMS) and e-mail messages for detecting sources of spam messages and especially spam messages for fraud or pornographic purposes. Since storage of critical messages may be required for longer intervals and since the amount of spam message traffic... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070124403 - Communication system, device, and program: In a communication system using a standby screen, a portable communication terminal accesses a communication server at a predetermined time interval, uses RSS to receive and store new messages in a cyber sub-community in which the portable communication terminal participates, and sequentially displays tag buttons on the standby screen to... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070124399 - Dynamic content system and method: In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computerized dynamic content system and method for use on the internet or other network is described. The ability to communicate personally with customers about products and services they are interested in is one of the most important advantages internet marketing offers... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070124391 - Electronic mail system for a work machine: An electronic mail system for a work machine is disclosed. The system includes a controller configured to affect at least one operation of the work machine. The system also includes at least one communicator operatively connected with the controller and configured to communicate at least one signal with the controller.... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070124396 - Electronic mailing method, system and computer program: An electronic mailing method comprises: upon sending an electronic mail message to a recipient, activating an automatic monitoring of the receipt of a reply message to the message, said automatic monitoring comprising: ascertaining whether the reply to the message has been received, and in the negative case, alerting at least... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070124395 - Geography-based filtering of broadcasts: A communication system for filtering multi-destination messages is disclosed. The communication system includes a number of transmitters, an interface, a first filter, and a second filter. The number of transmitters are configured to send information wirelessly to a number of wireless terminals. The interface is configured to receive messages intended... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070124394 - Method and apparatus for propagating address change in an email: There is provided a system, method and computer program product for managing an email comprising a plurality of email boxes with corresponding email addresses; a first selector for selecting, in one email box, an email that has been sent to at least one addressee; a second selector for selecting an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070124388 - Method and system for a method for evaluating a message based in part on a registrar reputation: A method and system for evaluating a message. A message including an originator is received. A registrar lookup for determining a registrar for the originator is performed. A registrar reputation lookup for determining a registrar reputation for the registrar is performed. The message is evaluated based at least in part... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070124386 - Method for regulating instant messaging traffic: A method of regulating message traffic in an instant messaging system that reduces message traffic and conserves mobile station battery power. The method includes determining whether an event prompting an instant messaging related message for a user has occurred, and determining whether an information send trigger has occurred, such as... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070124383 - Multiple mail reducer: A technique for reducing multiple emails is described. In one embodiment, this involves checking mailing lists to which an email recipient subscribes. A method according to the technique includes receiving a message forwarding a forwarded message, comparing a recipient of the message to recipients of the forwarded message, and marking... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070124402 - Multiple server email system: An email system for providing improved access and increased efficiency is disclosed. The system includes a master server with substantially constant connection to the internet and at least one local server that at least periodically interfaces with the master server to create a substantially identical copy of emails and settings.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070124392 - Mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages: A method for providing mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages, including identifying a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message, and sending the email message to the BCCG addressees, where each of the email messages sent includes the addresses of... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070124385 - Preference-based content distribution service: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for distributing content over a network. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving an electronic message addressed to a single network account; categorizing content of the electronic message... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124393 - Presence based notifications: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for using past presence information to help determine a current presence of a user. In one embodiment, determining presence of a user on one or more devices or networks can comprise periodically querying a plurality of devices to determine a presence of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070124387 - Previous communication updating in instant messaging: Methods, systems, and program code for implementing instant messaging systems having a feature permitting modification/deletion/substitution of previously transmitted messages in an instant messaging session are provided. In an example, a first computer is operable to interpret a user action as a request to modify at least one previous instant message,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070124404 - Recurring message system and method: In a preferred embodiment, a recurring message system and method allows a business user or layperson user to send emails at regular intervals based on rules the users have created. This feature can be implemented in many different ways. For instance, the user may utilize the recurring message system and... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070124400 - Sub accounts system and method: A software system that utilizes a computerized messaging system with sub accounts for use on the internet or other network is described. A sub account lets the user establish multiple levels of access within the email system. As the administrator, the user may set up additional accounts and determine the... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070124401 - Subscriber list system and method: The present invention is related to a software system that solves the above-mentioned problems. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computerized subscriber list creation and management system for use on the internet or other network is described. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a business may... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070124390 - System and method for managing e-mail messages: A system for managing the download of e-mail messages is disclosed. The system has an e-mail host holding e-mail messages for download to a recipient's e-mail client. Prior to downloading the messages, the e-mail client uses a message manager to evaluate the characteristics of the communication connection between the e-mail... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070124398 - System for preserving message order: Order associated with messages is preserved in an environment wherein a message includes an associated order identifier; a receiver is operable to receive a first message associated with a first order identifier and a selection component is operable to select a first entity for processing the first message. The system... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070124397 - Systems and methods for forwarding text, voice, and data in a telecommunications network: A method for sending a message from a telecommunications device to a receiving device. The method includes recording the message as an audio file, receiving an address of the receiving device, and sending the audio file as an attachment to an electronic mail message to the receiving device.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124384 - Voicemail and fax filtering: The subject innovation pertains to filtration of voice, facsimile and the like communications. These messages can be analyzed to determine if they are unsolicited bulk communications (i.e., spam) or include malicious code. Analysis or filtration can be accomplished by, among other things, transforming the message into an email. The email... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070124405 - Chat detection: A method, system and apparatus for chat detection is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes detecting a series of related emails. The method also includes querying a first user to determine if the first user desires to switch to a chat. The method further... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070124406 - Using a mobile phone to remotely control a computer via an overlay network: Systems and methods are described for using a mobile phone to remotely control a computing device. In one implementation, a communication channel between the mobile phone and the computing device uses an overlay network, such as an instant messaging (IM) service, to exchange communication data packets. An exemplary system includes... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124407 - Systems and method for simple scale-out storage clusters: Systems and associated methods for flexible scalability of storage systems. In one aspect, a storage controller may include an interface to a fabric adapted to permit each storage controller coupled to the fabric to directly access memory mapped components of all other storage controllers coupled to the fabric. The CPU... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070124409 - Secure processing unit systems and methods: A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively small fraction of the overall device hardware, this type of SPU can... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124408 - System and method of providing information on computer memory use: A system and method of providing information about memory use of a remote computer upon a user's request. The system includes an operating system core (kernel), an operating system core unit, a coupling unit, and an agency unit connected to an interrogating computer by a communication channel. The agency unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124423 - Apparatus and method for flexible web service deployment: An apparatus and method for deploying web services in a web services infrastructure are provided. With the apparatus and method, a deployment descriptor for a web service is retrieved from a configuration file. A location type in the deployment descriptor is provided for identifying whether the web service is implemented... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070124411 - Centralized third party software and services upgrading and authorization: A system for upgrading and authorizing a third party component loaded onto an information handling system which includes an upgrade and authorization module which enables a customer to indicate a desire to upgrade at least one upgradeable component wherein the upgrade and authorization module is executed by a system supplier,... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070124421 - Data communication apparatus and method of controlling same: An image input/output system is used to input information for specifying the transmission source of data and a period of time during which the data should be received as search conditions for specifying the data that should be received. On the basis of the input conditions, the reception history of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070124422 - Data push service method and system using data pull model: A data push service method and system are provided. The service data push method includes: providing a device with data push information regarding service data to be pushed to at least one device; and pushing the service data to the device when receiving a data push service request from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124410 - Delivering dicom data: An image and associated information provided in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) dataset can be delivered to a web browser. The DICOM dataset is separated into image data and associated data. The image data is translated into an image file and the associated data in an associated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070124419 - Distribution of data to multiple recipients: In a trading system market data from a matching engine is distributed by a broker to a plurality of trading floors repeatedly every T seconds, typically one second. This one second distribution period is divided into a plurality of time slots and each trading floor is randomly assigned to a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070124418 - Information device: A device for obtaining, storing and displaying information from a remote server, the device has a modem for establishing communication sessions with the remote server. A memory coupled to the modem stores the obtained information, and a display is coupled to the memory for displaying the stored information. The device... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070124417 - Method and apparatus for controlling a user's pc through a broadcast communication to archive information in the user's pc: A method for allowing a consumer to access an advertiser's location over a global communication network. A normal broadcast program is broadcast to a class of consumers having a unique signal embedded therein, which unique signal embedded therein is associated with a particular advertiser and a predetermined location on the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070124420 - Method and apparatus for providing reference information, method of displaying reference information, and computer program product: A positional-information acquiring unit acquires positional information relating to a position of an object or a user in a predetermined region. An extracting unit extracts a hierarchized region where the object or the user exists, based on the acquired positional information. A selection receiving unit receives a selection of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124415 - Method and apparatus for reducing network traffic over low bandwidth links: A method is disclosed for reducing network traffic. At a sender, a data chunk is identified for transmission to a receiver, which is connected to the sender over a communication link. The sender computes a signature of the data chunk and determines whether the data chunk has been previously transmitted... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070124412 - Method and apparatus for remote discovery of client and access point settings in a wireless lan: To conserve energy, components in mobile devices have to transition less frequently between “active” and “sleep” modes, and to sleep for longer intervals. In accordance with at least one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is broadly contemplated herein an approach for remote discovery of wireless client and access... Agent: Ference & Associates

20070124413 - Methods and apparatus for verifying modules from approved vendors: A technique verifies a that a module is from an approved vendor. The technique involves obtaining vendor data and a first magic code from a module (e.g., a small form factor pluggable component), and generating a second magic code based on the vendor data. The technique further involves outputting (i)... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070124424 - Program product and connected device for linking operations between multiple connected devices: A program product stored on a recordable medium for linking operations between multiple connected devices connected to each other via a network. The program product comprises: program code for setting a state of a linked device for execution of linked operations between the connected devices, a state change (occurrence of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070124416 - Real-time on demand server: Various embodiments of the invention provide novel solutions for providing real-time content in an on-demand environment. In a novel aspect of some embodiments, a real-time on demand server may be configured to integrate real-time content with on-demand content. This can allow a subscriber to enjoy the benefits of on-demand programming... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124414 - Substitute uniform resource locator (url) generation: Methods of generating a substitute URL are disclosed. In one implementation, a form is presented by a web server on a web site home page for the submission of a first URL for which a user wishes to generate an alias URL. A second URL is then generated for the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124425 - System & method of delivering content based advertising: A system and method is disclosed for presenting relevant advertising to user search queries. The ads are based on content which is derived from a set of documents/pages from websites forming a collective.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070124426 - Internet device providing quality and link information: A receiver (17, 18, 19, 20, 21) for receiving information data outputs feedback information (FI) to a device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) provided for monitoring the retrievability of the information data (RD), which device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) outputs fault report information to the devices (D2, 16) in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124427 - System and method for obtaining equipment status data over a network: A portable status sentry comprises a portable memory device, an interface adapted for connecting the portable memory device to a computing device, and auto-run instructions. The auto-run instructions comprise status instructions and are executed by the computing device when the portable memory device is installed in the computing device. Upon... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070124428 - Method and arrangement for automatically searching information soruces accessible through a data network: A method for automatically searching at least one information source (2, 3) accessible through a data network for contents (4A-4F) that satisfy predefined criteria, which contents comprise useful information (NI), such as stream of audio, video or news data, and metadata (ZI) that characterizes the useful information (NI), comprises: selecting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124429 - Reception device and management device of service advertisement information: A transmission means 2 of an information processing device 1 transmits user identification information which identifies users, a password, and device identification information which identifies the information processing device 1 to a management device 7 which manages the information processing device 1. A receiving means 3 receives registration completion information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124432 - System and method for scoring electronic messages: A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and the identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. The system comprises an electronic data discussion system wherein electronic messages are collected and analyzed according to characteristics and data inherent in the messages. The... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070124430 - Tags for management systems: Management related data is provided to a user. Tags are attached to the provided management related data upon user instruction. A tag is way to identify a piece of management. The tags that correspond with the management related data are stored in a database of the management system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070124431 - Tie resolution in application load level balancing: In a network such as a cellular telephone communications network, a control server balancing processing loads among several resource servers resolves a tie between resource servers using the resource servers' prior, current and future load state data and call gap percentages in each of the prior, current and future load... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070124435 - Database server discovery using a configuration file: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for enabling client machines to discover server configuration information for accessing a remotely stored file. A first client identifies a remotely stored file and determines if an associated configuration file exists. If a configuration file exists, the client uses the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070124434 - Network access control for many-core systems: In a processor based system comprising a plurality of logical machines, selecting a logical machine of the system to serve as a host; the host communicating with a policy decision point (PDP) of a network to provision a data channel interconnecting the processor based system and the network and to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070124433 - Network supporting centralized management of qos policies: A computer system that implements a quality of service policy. Information defining the quality of service policy is stored in a central location, such as a server within an enterprise. Policy management software on clients in the network download quality of service policy information from the central location to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070124447 - Bridge apparatus and bridge system: A bridge apparatus is disclosed, the bridge apparatus being connected between a first network and a second network and achieving a communication between equipment connected to the first network and equipment connected to the second network. This apparatus accepts communication from the equipment over the first network to equipment disconnected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124445 - Browser adaptation for context based navigation: An interceptor component for generating a uniform resource locator for associating with a forward navigation button for transmitting to a browser application, the interceptor component comprising: an inbound/outbound controller for determining whether a received data packet is an inbound request; a parsing component for identifying a unique identifier and a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070124442 - Computer and control method thereof: A computer and a control method thereof, includes: a connection interface to receive a communication signal having at least one of a first communication signal and a second communication signal; a communication signal sensor to sense whether the first communication signal is received through the connection interface; a communication driver... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070124448 - Device and service management methods and systems: A method for device and service management comprises the following steps. A first instant and a valid duration corresponding to an advertisement message comprising information regarding a device or a service therein are provided. The advertisement message is received at the first instant. A second instant is determined to be... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070124439 - Device interface architecture and protocol: An interface architecture and protocol are provided for transferring messages between a plurality of devices. The architecture provides the capability to generate a plurality of service messages according to a single message format, and to transfer the service messages between a plurality of control points or service entities according to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070124451 - Embedded system and method for controlling, monitoring of instruments or devices and processing their data via control and data protocols that can be combined or interchanged: A system is described herein where an embedded computer method for (‘router’) is provided for full-duplex (two-way) communication between devices and/or instruments and TCP/IP-based networking. This system uses a process development component, which configures the router to communicate with a range of devices. A controller is described that can manage... Agent: Userspace Corporation

20070124453 - Handling un-partitioning of a computer network: A system and method for handling un-partitioning of a computer network are disclosed. Routing information may be stored on a first node in the network when the network is partitioned into a first group of nodes and a second group of nodes, where the first node is in the first... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070124441 - Home network system using fuel cell and controlling method thereof: A home network system using a fuel cell, comprises: a plurality of home electric units for receiving remote control data, analyzing the received remote control data, and thus performing each controlling operation; and a communication server for receiving the remote control data from outside through an internet and transmitting the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070124444 - Management device, network system and control program therefor: A managing device includes an identification information requesting unit that requests each network interface for the identification information of all the network interfaces belonging to the image forming device via the network, and an identification information receiving unit that receives reply information from the each network interface in response to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070124443 - Method and apparatus for managing data flow through a mesh network: Traffic streams through mesh points in a mesh network are managed. Data arriving at the mesh point are aggregated in packet queues. The packet queues segregate arriving data by the data's Quality of Service (QoS) requirement. An appropriate communication channel is selected. The communication channel is accessed through a contention... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070124449 - Method and apparatus for transmitting byebye message when operation of controlled device in upnp network is abnormally terminated: A method and apparatus for transmitting a Byebye message when an operation of a controlled device is abnormally terminated are provided. A new field is added to discovery and Event messages defined in the UPnP standard. These messages are exchanged to allow a control point to monitor the controlled device.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124446 - Method and system for controlling the processing of requests for web resources: A system, method and computer program product for controlling the processing of requests for web page resources from a web server are provided. The method comprises monitoring a run level of the web server; receiving requests for one or more web page resources; determining a priority of received requests based... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070124438 - Method and system for providing service control and brokering in ims-based telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a service registration, control, and brokering method in an IMS-based communication system, and a system using the same. In the case that a user moving to a visited network from a home network wants to receive local service in the visited network, the user checks... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070124437 - Method and system for real-time collection of log data from distributed network components: Methods and systems for collecting log data from one or more components distributed in a network are described. In one example, a method may include providing a server with a persistent storage device such as a disk drive and the server may be in communication with the one or more... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070124440 - Network device, network system, and its power saving control method: A network device has a power saving function, wherein the network device shifts to a power saving mode depending on a transition condition and returns from the power saving mode depending on a return condition. The network device includes a first notifying unit adapted to transmit notification information indicating that... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070124436 - Print server, mobile computing device, system and method for printing using a mobile computing device: Disclosed herein are a print server, a mobile computing device, a method of printing, and a system for printing using a mobile computing device. The print server includes a submission processor, an orchestration processor, and a positioning processor. The print server is configured to track the global position of a... Agent: Diane F. Covello Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070124454 - System and method for converting requests between different multicast protocols in a communication network: The invention provides a system and method for generating and evaluating a request in a protocol from another request formed in another protocol. Therein, the request relates to a change of membership to a group and the group relates a service to a host of the service in a communication... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070124450 - Tone generation system controlling the music system: In a plurality of rooms, hubs are installed to build a star-shaped LAN, and tone-generation-related devices, such as a keyboard, tone generator device and speaker, are connected to the respective hubs. For example, in an internal network, the keyboard is logically connected to an input side of the tone generator... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070124452 - Urtone: A system and method for administering, designing and distributing content to a device having systems for transferring content from a content owner to a storage system; for interacting with a user; for selecting a type of device; for selecting desired content for the device; for editing the desired content; for... Agent: Michael Ries

20070124457 - Analysis of nodal affinity behavior: Method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for measuring the performance of a multi-nodal computer system. In one embodiment, a number of system related events may be instrumented. When an instrumented event occurs, instrumentation routines may be invoked to record the state of system variables related to the event. In particular,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070124466 - Audio instructions for appliances: A communications network, system, and method includes a server; a primary device in communication with the server through a communications channel, wherein the primary device comprises a component that detects data transmissions from the server, converts the detected data transmissions into audio transmissions, and audibly transmits the audio transmissions; and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070124461 - Auto control of network monitoring and simulation: In response to an automatic baseline input, a default control template for a site in a telecommunications network is translated into monitoring and simulation templates. Current end-to-end application and component information are translated into operational modes for monitoring and simulation modules according to the monitoring and simulation templates. Operational controls... Agent: Francis Maguire Ware Frescola Van Der Sluys And Adolphson LLP

20070124455 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple vendor support to remotely monitored devices: A method and apparatus for providing multiple vendor support to remotely monitored devices is described. The method includes querying a monitored device to obtain at least one of manufacturer, model, and a unique identifier of the monitored device, using a hierarchical technique to determine if the monitoring system is configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124458 - Method and system for event notification on network nodes: A method and a system for notifying a user regarding events occurring on nodes in a network are provided. Information related to the events occurring on the nodes is received at a network device. The received information is converted into a syndicated format. A part or whole of the converted... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070124456 - Methods and apparatus for passive mid-stream monitoring of real-time properties: Methods and apparatus are provided for passive mid-stream monitoring of real-time properties. A passive mid-stream monitoring process is disclosed that determines whether a system is faulty. The passive mid-stream monitoring process obtains a real-time correctness property and a passively monitored mid-stream observation of the system. A timed correctness property, Aσ,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070124463 - Methods and computer program products for providing network quality of service for world wide web applications: Methods and computer program products are disclosed for providing QoS for Web applications via an internet service application programming interface “ISAPI”) filter running on an internet information server, wherein the ISAPI filter uses a traffic control application programming interface to manage bandwidth for individual HTTP requests. Responses to HTTP requests... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070124464 - Methods and systems for automatically configuring network monitoring system: An automatically configurable network monitoring system includes a network monitoring communications protocol used for communications between a network monitoring client executing on a routing node (100) being monitored and a network monitoring server executing on a network monitoring processor (106). According to the network monitoring communications protocol, the network monitoring... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070124459 - Mobile terminal apparatus and software install method: A software-source monitoring unit monitors a software source that provides software required for using the peripheral device, and stores data pertaining to acquirable software and the software source in a corresponding manner in a memory unit. A peripheral-device monitoring unit monitors connection status of the peripheral device. A software-source selecting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124462 - State information acquisition processing program, state information acquisition apparatus, and state information acquisition system: A state information acquisition processing program embodied on a computer-readable medium, which when executed on a computer provided for an information processing apparatus, enables the computer to perform predetermined operations, the predetermined operations includes: detecting a change in a state of connections between the information processing apparatus and devices; determining... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070124465 - Synchronized network and process performance overview: A visualization system analyzes the data from a first capture system that captures communication events to and from a processing node, and a second capture system that captures processing events at the processing node, synchronizes the data to a common time base, and presents an integrated display of these communication... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070124460 - System and method for providing testing for a communities framework: A community for maintaining user membership can be provided. Each major component of the communities framework can have multiple portals associated with its series of tests. Each of these portals can start out as a portal file. These portal files can be ran through the dissassembler in order to render... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070124469 - Common interest community service via presence messaging: A method of implementing common interest community services in a presence system comprising creating a common interest community in which an interest state of a presence message is aggregated into a group in the presence system, publishing a member presence information to the common interest community to be selectively made... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070124470 - Computer for displaying parent object automatically and display method therefore: Provided is a method of managing a computer system including a host computer and a storage subsystem, the host computer and the storage ubsystem being coupled to a management computer through a first network, the host computer and the storage subsystem being coupled to each other through a second network,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070124467 - Method and apparatus for managing publication and sharing of data: A first user is generally designated as being eligible to operate as a publisher of data publications. The first user specifically defines a first data publication. A second user is generally designated as being eligible to operate as a contributor of data to data publications. The first user specifically authorizes... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20070124471 - Secure data exchange between data processing systems: A data transfer method performed at a proxy server includes intercepting a data request from a client computer that is directed to a target server, encrypting profile information, augmenting the data request by adding the encrypted profile information to the data request, and sending the augmented data request to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070124468 - System and method for installation of network interface modules: The present invention is directed to a method and system for installing and programming a network interface module within a security system. A security programming system may be implemented from a computing device connected over a network with the network interface module. The computing device may communicate with a server... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070124472 - System and methods for using an application layer control protocol transporting spatial location information pertaining to devices connected to wired and wireless internet protocol networks: Application layer signaling is provided from users registering at a presence server for a presence service wherein upon reception the signaling is checked for spatial location information and stored for future use in providing the presence service in association with other user information, such as user identity. The application layer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070124473 - Apparatus and method for non-mediated, fair, multi-type resource partitioning among processes in a fully-distributed environment: The present invention sets forth a methodology that allows involved processes to partition among themselves a pre-defined set of multi-type resources in a way that all processes end up satisfied with the outcome of the partitioning, and no central mediation for such partitioning is required. One exemplary embodiment of the... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator -room 3j-219

20070124475 - Creating proxies from service description metadata at runtime: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating proxies from service description metadata at runtime. A proxy creation request is received from a requesting application while the requesting application is executing at runtime. The proxy creation request requests creation of a proxy instance to facilitate... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070124477 - Load balancing system: A load balancing system for routing a request sent by a first computer, wherein the request is operable to initiate a communication protocol with a second computer, wherein the second computer is operable to process the request, and wherein the first computer comprises an inserter being operable to insert data... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070124474 - Multi-user display proxy server: A multi-user host computer system comprises processor blades combined with terminal services blades to provide acceleration and proxy server functions for supporting a variety of remote terminals. For each remote terminal, the terminal services blade and proxy server functions may improve the video and graphics performance. This allows the multi-user... Agent: James Eppa Hite, Iii

20070124476 - System and method for digital media server load balancing: A system and method for load balancing a plurality of servers is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a plurality of servers in a video-on-demand or other multi-server system are divided into one or more load-balancing groups. Each server preferably maintains state information concerning other servers in its load-balancing group including... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070124479 - Execution of server-side dynamic pages: A system (30) and method are provided for single-pass execution of dynamic pages across multiple request-response cycles. The system (30) comprises a client (32) and server (34) in communication with one another. A container (35) resides on the server and handles requests made for the result of a dynamic page... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC

20070124478 - Providing probe signals from a node to a centralized controller: Providing probe signals from a node includes receiving at the node an instruction to send the probe signals over channels, where the instruction comprises probe parameter values describing deployment of the probe signals. The node sends the probe signals to a controller through access points. Each access point is associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070124480 - System and method for persistent user tracking using cached resource content: Embodiments of the present invention include a system, device, and method for persistent user tracking including associating a session management item with a client computer identification item, wherein said session management item and said client computer identification item are both associated with a single value of a marker. Embodiments of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070124481 - System and method for sharing event-triggered, location-related information between communication devices: A system and method for supplying a data object to a user of a communication system. The method comprising the steps of: establishing a session between a first and second communication device; transferring, in a first transferring step, a request for a data object from the first communication device to... Agent: Hunton & Williams, LLP/ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (usa), Inc.

20070124482 - Extranet access management apparatus and method: An access management apparatus and method for managing or controlling access to an extranet for xSP. To overcome “the problems of centralized authority and authorization cache”, the present invention decentralizes the role of access management by using ACL cached, and synchronizes the decentralized access management roles by using an AA... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070124483 - System and method for high qos digital content-based services: A digital content mediator (“DCM”) communicates with a network resource controller/manager (NRM) to allocate the appropriate network resources for a digital content transfer. A DCM client provides a signal to the DCM requesting the desired digital content transaction. The DCM checks a content information database to see if the content... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070124486 - Address resolution protocol (arp) processing method for ethernet matching: An address resolution protocol (ARP) processing method for Ethernet matching is provided in which a message authentication code (MAC) request message including IP information is received from another application module and provides a MAC corresponding to the MAC request message, the method including: determining whether a MAC matching the IP... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070124485 - Computer system implementing quality of service policy: A computer system that implements a quality of service policy. Information defining the quality of service policy is stored in a central location, such as a server within an enterprise. Policy management software on clients in the network download quality of service policy information from the central location to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070124487 - Dns server: Even if a mistaken reply to a host name resolution request of IPv6 is issued by a DNS contents server, a requesting terminal can still acquire an IPv4 address. When a host name resolution request of IPv6 (AAAA query) is received, a DNS proxy server generates a host name resolution... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070124490 - Method and apparatus for integrating billing and authentication functions in local area and wide area wireless data networks: A converged network accessible by client terminals is provided. The converged network includes a wide area network, a local area network, and a gateway linked to the wide area and local area networks. The gateway integrates billing and authentication functions of the wide area and local area networks.... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070124489 - Nat access control with ipsec: An architecture that can provide for improved network content filtering is described herein. In particular, access to remote resources can be controlled by a remote mechanism. In accordance therewith, a gateway can seamlessly and/or transparently redirect packets from a client that are meant for an intended destination to an access... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070124484 - Retaining mail for availability after relay: A processor 104 executes computer-executable instructions to receive messages 302; store 304 the received messages in a foreground memory 108; process 306 the stored messages in the foreground memory 108; send 306 the processed messages; move 308 the sent messages to a background memory 110; evaluate 310, 312 the messages... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070124488 - Vertical services integration enabled content distribution mechanism: The invention relates to an enhanced ADSL Data Network (ADN) with vertical services capabilities. In general, vertical services capabilities are data services offered directly from a central office to an end user, without compromising the integrity of the user's guaranteed bit rate to the Internet through the ADN. One such... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070124491 - Dynamic in-game soundtrack for a console game machine: Background audio for a game being played in a video game system is provided via streaming from an outside source. The background audio played is based on details regarding the state of the video game system, including information regarding the game being played on said video game system. The user... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070124492 - Poc system and method for distributing media data in poc: The present invention provides a PoC system (push-to-talk over cellular system) and a method for distributing media data in PoC. The PoC system includes a plurality of clients, a controlling server and a first participating server. In the present invention, since a media receiving port is established in the first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070124493 - System and method for ordering content for user review: A system which seperates content into different streams, generally organized on a content subject matter basis. Inside each stream individual content items are ordered based on personal ordering criteria. The content item is analyzed and compared with the criteria to determine a predicted level of interest. A feedback process is... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070124494 - Method and apparatus to facilitate improving a perceived quality of experience with respect to delivery of a file transfer: One determines (101) an amount of initial delay as corresponds to delivery of a file transfer service from a source to a wireless communication system. When this amount of initial delay exceeds a predetermined duration (102), one then dynamically and automatically effects (103) a predetermined action to improve a perceived... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070124496 - Method and equipment for making a routing decision dependent on a quality-of-service class: Method and equipment for creating routing data in packet-switched data communications when the quality-of-service class of the data transfer packet to be routed influences the routing data. Based on protocol data, which can be, for example, an IPv4 destination address, and information of quality-of-service class, auxiliary routing data is defined,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070124497 - Method for verifying newly provisioned customer network route advertisements: Route advertisement requests made by a customer are received at route provisioning center (20) to effect either advertisement of a newly provisioned route or withdrawal of an existing route. In the case of a request to advertise a newly provisioned route, the request is subjected to validation, and if unable... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070124495 - Methods and systems for policy based routing: A system is provided that includes a hardware forwarding engine that performs policy based routing. The system also comprises a processor coupled to the hardware forwarding engine, the processor having a software forwarding engine that performs policy based routing. If a data packet is forwarded from the hardware forwarding engine... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070124498 - Optimal sync for rapid spanning tree protocol: In one embodiment, a rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP) is executed on an intermediate network device. The RSTP may designate a first port of the device to a Root Port Role and designate one or more second ports of the device to Designated Port Roles, and place the one or... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070124500 - Automatic substitute uniform resource locator (url) generation: Methods of generating a substitute URL are disclosed. In one implementation, a form is presented by a web server on a web site home page for the submission of a first URL for which a user wishes to generate an alias URL. A second URL is then generated for the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124499 - Substitute uniform resource locator (url) form: Methods of generating a substitute URL are disclosed. In one implementation, a form is presented by a web server on a web site home page for the submission of a first URL for which a user wishes to generate an alias URL. A second URL is then generated for the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124501 - Method and apparatus for changing font size of message in a mobile communication terminal: A method and an apparatus for enlarging a message in a mobile communication system is provided. Selection of a font size change menu is monitored during message writing or reading. If the font size change menu is selected, a pop-up window or a magnifier window is invoked and a message... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070124502 - Script language based network device configuration management system and method: This invention discloses a network device configuration management system comprising at least one control terminal for an operator to enter one or more network device configurations, at least one user interface module for generating one or more first command scripts written in a general-purpose markup language in response to operators'... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070124504 - Clock synchronization for a machine control system: A clock synchronized control system includes a controller configured to control at least one function of a work machine. The controller may also be configured to select a clock source from among a plurality of external clock sources based on a predetermined order. The controller may be further configured to... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070124503 - Distributed sensing techniques for mobile devices: Methods and apparatus of the various embodiments allow the coordination of resources of devices to jointly execute tasks or perform actions on one of the devices. In the method, a first gesture input is received at a first mobile computing device. A second gesture input is received at a second... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070124505 - Virtual host isolation and detection of embedded operational flight program (ofp) capabilities: The present invention relates to an object oriented architecture that includes a plurality of host aircraft interface objects that enable a plurality of different host aircraft or variants to be attached or interfaced to an associated store, such as a targeting pod or a weapon system. The union of all... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070124506 - Systems, methods, and media for dynamically generating a portal site map: Systems, methods and media for dynamically generating a portal site map, including portlets of the portal site map, are disclosed. Embodiments may include determining a root node of a navigational construct of a portal site, where the root node has one or more child nodes. Embodiments may further include recursively... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070118586 - Method and apparatus for delivering service guide contents and notification event information in a mobile broadcast system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting information necessary for generation of a notification event for a mobile broadcast (BCAST) service in a wireless communication system. A request message is generated including notification event information and appropriate attributes indicating a change in the BCAST service, and is transmitted to... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070118585 - Wireless communications system: The present invention is a wireless communications system for simultaneously establishing a basic access network and a wireless access network using at least two kinds of wireless communication networks. The basic access network executes signaling communication in which communication is controlled so as to be continuously switched, whereas the wireless... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070118587 - Communication system, storage medium having communication program stored thereon, and communication terminal: A WEP key is generated from predetermined binary data and stored in an access point. The binary data is converted into an SSID using a predetermined conversion algorithm. The access point transmits the SSID in a beacon. A mobile game apparatus receives the SSID and recovers the binary data from... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070118588 - Method and apparatus for remote health monitoring and providing health related information: A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070118589 - Method and apparatus for remote health monitoring and providing health related information: A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070118590 - Method and system for electronic scheduling for playback of media contents: Methods of electronic scheduling for playback of media contents. Discrete items of content are scheduled for play back based upon a schedule created by the integration of five standard scheduling methods into a single scheduling algorithm. In the first scheduling method, a discrete item of content is assigned a frequency... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070118591 - Receiver-driven multi-source streaming of content: The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit, at least one data connection to a data network to which several devices provided with a data processing unit are connected by means of a data... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070118594 - Communication system: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals are connected to a communication network and a server apparatus which are connected to the communication network, the server apparatus includes a first renewing unit to renew the network configuration information in the second management table and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118595 - Detecting loops between network devices by monitoring mac moves: A technique for detecting a loop between network devices such as customer and carrier edge devices involves counting the number of media access control (MAC) address moves that occur at a device and comparing the number of MAC address moves to a pre-established MAC move threshold. The technique includes artificially... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20070118592 - Method for the transmission of additional information in a communication system, exchange device and user station: The invention relates to a method for the transmission of additional information in a communication system (10), whereby a communication context connection (15a, 15b) is established from a first user station (11) to at least one second user station (12), for the transmission of information and/or data. Additional information is... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070118593 - Positioning system and method for led display: A positioning system and method for a light emitting devices display have been disclosed.... Agent: Heimlich Law

20070118596 - System and method for implementing a client side http stack: A software components and methods are provided for implementation of a client side HTTP stack, which provide high performance and scalability. Multithreading and completion ports are employed in the client side HTTP layer in association with sockets and a thread pool, thereby providing support for business-to-business and other more recent... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070118598 - Collaborative editing of a document: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for a first client to facilitate collaborative editing of a document with a second client. The document contains data of a first data type and is accessible by a first application for processing the first data type. The first application is used... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070118597 - Processing proposed changes to data: Processing proposed changes to data includes notifying a server of a proposed change to master data, receiving, from the server, an indication as to whether there is a concurrent change to the master data, where the concurrent change corresponds to a change to the master data in addition to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070118599 - System and method for service specific notification: A flexible, programmable messaging system and method for associating specific happenings with particular services and users associated with those services is disclosed. The contact means for the users are held in a single database with retrievable historical information regarding the user and/or the service. Users and administrators are defined where... Agent: Miele Law Group

20070118600 - Automatic resizing of shared memory for messaging: Methods and systems for estimating the hypothetical performance of a messaging application are disclosed. A number of pool sizes may be identified, each pool size being a potential size for the memory allocated to the messaging application. An online simulation is running during the execution of the messaging application. The... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070118603 - Interactive messaging system: The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes the message to a recipient's wireless device if the wireless device... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070118601 - Method and apparatus for parallel sequencing of messages between disparate information systems: A system and method are provided for coordinating concurrent processing of a plurality of messages communicated over a network between a source system and a target system. The plurality of messages are configured for including a pair of related messages having a common first unique message identifier and at least... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1 First Canadian Place

20070118602 - Method and system for delivering messages in a communication system: The present invention relates to a message delivery system and methods for delivering messages to a computing system. The system uses a message ID structure and a message ID database to allow a user to check whether he or she is recipient of a new message without having to contact... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070118604 - System and methods for using an application layer control protocol transporting spatial location information pertaining to devices connected to wired and wireless internet protocol networks: Application layer signaling is provided from users registering at a presence server for a presence service wherein upon reception the signaling is checked for spatial location information and stored for future use in providing the presence service in association with other user information, such as user identity. The application layer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070118605 - Method and computer system for information notification: The first server 1 sends information which is used when the second server 11 backs up (hereafter called catalog information) to the first storage system 21. The first storage system 21 converts the received catalog information into an electronic file having a predetermined file name and writes it to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070118609 - Distributed computing architecture and associated method of providing a portable user environment: A client terminal presents a graphical user interface (GUI) to a distributed computing environment. A first interface is configured to receive data of a portable storage medium. The data includes a key authentication signal and user settings. The key authentication signal identifies an authorized user of the distributed computing environment.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070118613 - E-business systems and methods for diversified businesses: A system for virtual restructuring of a diversified company, or of a joint business enterprise, allows a plurality of disparate, autonomous business units within the diversified or joint entity that each may have its own business methods and information systems to nevertheless collectively reach, and market to, customers as if... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070118610 - Information providing device: In the present invention, a moving-picture editing program (12) controls the recording of the data transmitted from a personal computer (1-1), into a user video-data management database (4). The program (12) determines whether the data should be supplied to another personal computer (1-2) in response to a demand made by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070118607 - Method and system for forensic investigation of internet resources: The present invention involves a Method and System for a forensic investigation of internet resources (IP addresses, e-mail addresses, website addresses, SSL certificates, routing table lines etc.) in order to reveal relations, dependencies and connections between these internet resources. Starting from a given internet resource, a set of examinations is... Agent: Niko Nelissen

20070118608 - Method and system to deliver multimedia alerts to a mobile phone: A method and system for transferring content to a communication device or other destination are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a subscription service to create and store subscriptions to a channel; a channel queue to obtain a multimedia message associated with the channel; and a delivery engine to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118611 - Method for document viewing: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070118612 - Method for document viewing: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070118606 - Virtual content directory service: A serving device (MS) stores media content information (meta-data) in a directory, such as the Content Directory Service (CDS, 55) of UPnP. Querying devices, such as UPnP Control Point devices (CP), can query the CDS (55) to obtain information. An alternative representation of the CDS (V-CDS) is maintained by an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070118615 - Information technology system with multiple item targeting: 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 targeted information to the users. The targeted information is selected based upon multiple item sources. A plurality of user devices are each connected to... Agent: David E. Lovejoy, Reg. No. 22,748

20070118614 - Method for broadcasting a series of contents from a source to receiver terminals, through a computer network, related signal, broadcasting source and terminal: A method of broadcasting a succession of contents through a computer network from a broadcasting source (S) to a plurality of receiver terminals able to receive from the source. The method includes, for each content, sending data units conveying the content from the source through the computer network, and supplying... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070118617 - Method for delivery of software upgrade notification to devices in communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing software upgrade notifications to user devices that utilize unicast and multicast communication techniques in a wireless communication environment. Bandwidth and power consumption is minimized by permitting determination to be made regarding whether a given software update is relevant to the user device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070118618 - Method for initiating or recovering a media-on-demand session, and protocol redirector: s

20070118619 - Network media channels: Methods and apparatus for providing network media channels. In one implementation, a system for providing a network media channel includes: a network; a server connected to said network, wherein said server includes storage for storing media files, and a network media channel manager for receiving and sending media files according... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070118621 - Processing numeric addresses in a network router: Processing of numeric addresses is facilitated by using a user interface, rather than system modules, to handle name resolution. Processing the addresses at the user interface level avoids delays and packet blocking problems associated with using system modules to perform the task. Relieving the system modules from the responsibility of... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070118620 - Registering and using multilingual domain names: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described for registering and using multilingual domain names that include characters outside the ASCII character subset supported by the DNS system. Such multilingual domain names can in some situations be registered by first being converted into appropriate ASCII-Compatible Encodings (ACEs) that represent the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070118616 - Unified directory system including a data model for managing access to telecommunications services: A subscriber profile access management system provides technical solutions to providing a single point of access to telecommunications subscriber profile information. As the products and services offered by the service provider grow, and given the many different access mechanisms through which a subscriber connects to services, the single point of... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118623 - Multi-platform data communication interface with self-recognizing and self-learning of the host vehicle: A data communication interface connectable between a vehicle function-specific electronic device and a control module of a vehicle. The data communication interface includes a first programmable hardware for receiving signals from the control module of the vehicle and recognizing an identity of the vehicle based on the received signals. The... Agent: Robic

20070118622 - Simple switch control language with switch controller: A method for configuring a switch with a switch controller that includes obtaining a switch program, wherein the switch program comprises a plurality of instructions written using a switch control language, and executing the switch program on the switch controller, wherein executing the switch program includes for each instruction in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070118624 - Storage configuration changing apparatus and method thereof: A storage configuration is automatically changed depending on a storage configuration change schedule which is defined previously by an administrator. Moreover, it is verified whether a storage configuration can be changed or not at the time designated when the schedule is changed.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070118628 - Live network configuration within a link based computing system: A method is described in which, in response to notice of a configuration event yet to happen within a network that is part of a link-based computing system, a component within said link based computing system: a) identifies networking configuration information changes to be made by components within the link-based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118627 - System and method for implementation of instant messaging hunting groups: System and method for implementing hunting groups for instant messaging (“IM”) are described. One embodiment is a method for implementing IM group hunting by an IM event server (IMES). The method comprises receiving a request from a first user to initiate an IM session with any one member of a... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070118626 - System and method for updating wind farm software: A method is provided for updating software of at least one installation in a wind farms wherein the at least one installation is connected to a wind farm network. The method including the steps of establishing a connection between a remote control center and a connection unit of the wind... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20070118625 - Upnp av device interworking method of upnp-based network system: Disclosed is a UPnP AV device interworking method of a UPnP-based network system which allows UPnP AV devices located on different networks to interwork with each other. Applications of the UPnP devices are widely expanded at a low cost by transforming a private address to a public address by URI... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070118633 - Cluster command testing: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for testing commands in a cluster environment. One embodiment includes saving an original system state of two or more targeted cluster members by invoking a first operation with a testing tool and automatically testing the system states of the two or more targeted cluster... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070118635 - Medical diagnostic apparatus, medical network system, and method of controlling medical diagnostic apparatus: When an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is connected to an HIS/RIS server, a PACS server, and an imager through a hospital network, the state of communication or connection with the HIS/RIS server, the PACS server, and the imager is determined using information stored in a common system designing table. In addition,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070118634 - Message oriented construction of web services: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to Web services construction and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for message-oriented Web services construction. A method for the message oriented construction of a Web service can include graphically assembling a selection... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070118631 - Method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems includes representing a distributed computing system as a state transition model. A queuing network is then superimposed upon the state transition model, and the effects of one or more policies on the distributed... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070118629 - Method and server for coordination of telecommunication services: The invention is intended to co-ordinate telecommunication services (2) provided to users by means of terminals (3, 4, 5) which are connected to different telecommunication networks (1). For said purpose, the invention comprises the following steps: a service mediation server (10) co-ordinates different telecommunication services activated by users; the terminals... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070118636 - Network resource provisioning method for bandwidth guarantee per flow: Provided is a network resource provisioning method for bandwidth guarantee per flow in a differentiated service Internet in which bandwidth needed for each flow is individually requested. The method comprises setting an optimum path between a source node and a destination node based on a request for traffic for a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070118630 - Server/client system, load distribution device, load distribution method, and load distribution program: In a server/client system in which a plurality of servers and a client are connected through a network, and process-executing servers execute a process based on a process request from the client and transmit a process result to the client, a load distribution device includes a process information receiving unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070118632 - System and method for providing a directory service network: A system and method are provided for efficiently evaluating directory service operations in a directory service network. The directory service network may comprise a plurality of directory servers. Each of the directory servers may maintain information about the other servers in the network. The directory servers may share information received... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070118638 - Abnormality processing system: A system, device, method, and program for informing abnormality, providing a user with abnormality information of equipment in an easy-to-understand manner so that convenience is enhanced. When abnormality occurs in equipment including home electric appliances, abnormality information indicating abnormality is transmitted to a server through an information terminal, and based... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070118644 - Consensus testing of electronic system: Consensus testing of electronic system. A tester (112) for testing an electronic system (100) includes: a traffic interface (114) to receive traffic (102) from a test of an electronic system (100); an element comparator (118) to extract a value from an element of the traffic (102) and to compare the... Agent: Ober/kaler C/o Royal W. Craig

20070118642 - Event forwarding: Handling events. A method may be practiced, for example, in a networked computer system including an event handling computer connected to one or more event generating computers. The method includes an act of generating an event at an event generating computer. The event is rendered into a rendered event in... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070118643 - Method and system for network planning: A method of performing network modification in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method comprises storing a database comprising a master inventory defining network resources available in the network. A network modification is performed by a process comprising modifying the database storing the master inventory; and modifying the network in... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070118639 - Method and system for user modelling: An improved user modeling server for use in media delivery networks, wherein a plurality of applications exchange usage data via at least one user modeling server. The user modeling server has an associated function for regulating exchange of usage data between any of a first application and a second application... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118637 - Method for controlling network connection and apparatus thereof: The present invention is relative to a method for management for connection to a network of an electronic apparatus having a networking function in which, when a malfunction has occurred in a connection to the network, a malfunction attributable to the own apparatus and a malfunction attributable to the external... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070118641 - Securing serial console redirection via serial-over-lan (sol): An information handling system has the capability of securing serial console redirection via serial-over-LAN (SOL) by using a baseboard management controller (BMC) and a baseboard serial controller. The BMC may be coupled to the baseboard serial controller over a DCD and/or GPIO bus. De-assertion of the data carriage detect (DCD)... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070118640 - Techniques for measuring above-the-fold page rendering: Techniques for measuring above-the-fold (ATF) page rendering are provided. Visible objects for an ATF portion of a browser page are identified. A start and end time for each visible object is recorded. Furthermore, a total elapsed time to finish loading each of the visible objects to the ATF portion of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070118650 - Data input/output system, data input/output server, and data input/output method: The present invention provides a data input/output system, a data input/output server, and a data input/output method in which it is possible to implement unitary security management in a simple manner by changing the input and output control of data based on the security standards provided for each function. In... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070118647 - Message identification, correlation, recipient authentication, and reception confirmation in multi-event and multi-media environments: A generic approach for identifying, authenticating, and correlating a received message with a particular event and a particular recipient, regardless of the number of events, number of recipients and types of media used for the originally sent message, is achieved by the inclusion of a unique ID embedded in the... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070118645 - Method and apparatus for theft protection for devices in a network: A plurality of methods, apparatus and computer programs for detecting both the authorized and unauthorized removal of a plurality of consumer electronic devices configured in a network based on these devices being in a protected or unprotected state. In a preferred embodiment, a thus protected networked consumer electronic device considers... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070118649 - Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for protecting networks against attacks that use forged messages: Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for protecting a network against forged messages, or impersonation attacks, which do not require the use cryptography. One or more nodes on the network are configured to detect a forged message and to output an indication that a forged message has been detected. Nodes that... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070118646 - Preventing the installation of rootkits on a standalone computer: The present invention includes a system and method of preventing remote installation of software on a computer. The method may include preventing installation of software when a computer is operating in a normal mode and rebooting the computer into a safe mode wherein network connections of the computer are disabled.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070118648 - Service broker integration layer for supporting telecommunication client service requests: A telecommunications architecture processes telecommunications service requests received from third parties through a secure access gateway. The third parties may be other telecommunications service providers which employ the services to support their own products and services or may be or individual subscribers. The service broker provides a flexible and efficient... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118651 - Trusted index structure in a network environment: Methods and apparatuses of a trusted index structure in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a master device and at least one slave device to communicate with each other through a network; and a master lock status of a shared storage device to determine the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118652 - Bundling and sending work units to a server based on a weighted cost: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, accumulate multiple work units into a bundle and send the bundle to a selected active server. The active server is selected based on the relative costs for the work units and costs for servers. In an embodiment, selecting the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070118654 - Method and apparatus for provisioning heterogeneous operating systems onto heterogeneous hardware systems: A method for provisioning a plurality of heterogeneous operating systems on a plurality of target hosts that includes for each of the plurality of target hosts, obtaining a type of operating system (OS) to be provisioned on the target host, populating an OS profile model based on the type of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070118655 - Network-based autodiscovery system for mac forwarding dispatcher: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for detecting a connection configuration of a network system. An embodiment includes acquiring first and second network data flowing in the network system; determining whether the contents of the first network data are identical with those of the second network data, and whether... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070118653 - System, method, and computer program product for throttling client traffic: A system for throttling data traffic on a network to a client includes an application node and a throttle manager. The application node receives requests from the client via the network. The throttle manager is in communication with the application node. The throttle manager is configured to track a parameter... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070118656 - Inter-server multimodal network communications: Included is a method for communicating session information to a first communications device, the session information being related to a communications that is established between a second communications device and a third communications device. Embodiments of the method include receiving session information related to the second communications device and storing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070118657 - Method and system for sharing podcast information: A method (200) and system (100) for sharing podcast information includes a wireless communication device (101) having a transceiver (102), and a processor (104) coupled to the transceiver. The processor can be programmed to play (202) a podcast having associated metadata on a wireless communication device and transfer (204) a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070118660 - Recording session contents in a network: A mechanism is disclosed whereby contents associated with a session can be stored in a network. A user can indicate commands such as start recording and stop recording in the network. The network can inform the user when recording stopped, perhaps due to reaching a storing limit or some error... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070118659 - Session set-up between two communication entities: An improved session set-up between communication entities over a communication network, wherein a communication entity performs the steps of receiving, from a requesting communication entity, a request for setting up a desired session, including desired session attribute information of the requesting communication entity; retrieving matching capability attribute information of the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070118661 - System and method for mobile digital media content delivery and services marketing: Techniques for delivering content to mobile communication devices. In one embodiment, a communication session involving a mobile communication device is detected. The communication session may be a voice call, mobile gaming application, website browsing application, instant messaging session, etc. Context parameters associated with the communication session are determined. Content is... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070118662 - Systems and methods for providing concurrent mobile applications to mobile communication devices: A system is provided that enables the delivery of multiple concurrent mobile applications to a mobile communication device. A concurrency application server interfaces to a mobile switching center to obtain call parameters in order to determine a context of a mobile device call. The concurrency application server also interfaces with... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070118658 - User selectable management alert format: In one embodiment a computer system, comprises a processor, a basic input/output system (BIOS) including logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to present, in a user interface, one or more devices coupled to a computer system and one or more management alert formats applicable to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070118663 - Live connection enhancement for data source interface: The invention provides for the connection of a plurality of remote applications with a data source, to maximize the speed and reliability of data transfer. An interface module interfaces with a remote application such as a web browser. A port module interfaces between interface module and a data source. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20070118664 - Mail dispatch system: A mail dispatch system for a computer subsystem has at least one data processing server. An interface device is configurable to electrically couple to the server. The device has an input/output (I/O) port for sending and receiving information A mail dispatch module is adapted to be operable on the interface... Agent: Quarles & Brady Streich Lang LLP

20070118665 - Tcp/ip offload device with fast-path tcp ack generating and transmitting mechanism: A network interface device has a fast-path ACK generating and transmitting mechanism. ACKs are generated using a finite state machine (FSM). The FSM retrieves a template header and fills in TCP and IP fields in the template. The FSM is not a stack, but rather fills in the TCP and... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20070118666 - System and method for reducing data loss over radio frequencies to roving digital receivers: Transmitting streaming media data in overlapping bursts can reduce data loss when transmitting over radio frequencies to a roving digital receiver. A digital transmitter transmits streaming media information in bursts, where each burst of data preferably contains several seconds of streaming media information. The streaming media information to be transmitted... Agent: Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070118667 - Domain name resolution based dynamic resource assignment: A content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content over the Internet is disclosed in one embodiment. The CDN is configured to deliver content for others and includes a domain resolution service (DNS) server, caching servers and an Internet interface. The DNS server receives a first domain resolution request and produces... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070118668 - Domain name resolution resource allocation: A content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content over the Internet is disclosed in one embodiment. The CDN is configured to deliver content for others and includes a domain resolution service (DNS) server, caching servers and an Internet interface. The DNS server receives a first domain resolution request and produces... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070118669 - Domain name system security network: In one embodiment, a DNS security network includes several DNS appliances and a security operations center (SOC) server computer. The SOC server computer may receive telemetry data from the DNS appliances, the telemetry data comprising information about DNS client queries received in the respective DNS appliances. From the telemetry data,... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20070118670 - Load balancing network access requests: A method of load balancing network access requests comprises receiving a network access request from a serving node linked to a radio access network. The network access request identifies a mobile node receiving wireless service from the radio access network and identifies a data network to which the mobile node... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112908 - Determination of passages and formation of indexes based on paragraphs: The present invention mainly relates to a method determining passages and forming index. An application of this method is information retrieval. The method of the present invention is to form passages by merging each N consecutive paragraphs, Wherein N is a number greater than 1. Among the passages formed by... Agent: Jiandong Bi P.o. Box 1-6

20070112909 - Information processing apparatus and system: An information processing apparatus, enabling to communicate with an external apparatus through a communication network, comprising: a memory portion, which is configure to memorize information relating to service therein, describing the service provided with the information processing apparatus and the external apparatus as constituent elements thereof; and an output portion,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070112906 - Infrastructure for multi-modal multilingual communications devices: Infrastructure for a multi-modal multilingual communications device (MMCD) is presented. A communications component is provided that includes wireless and wired IP networks (e.g, LANs, MANs, and WANs, . . . ), as well as cellular and/or wired telecommunications networks for cellular communications. A management component can include software and hardware... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112907 - Remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment: A remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment to obtain operational data and the status of remote machines is disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with the remote machines from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controllers communicate with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070112910 - Method and system for filtering notirication of e-mail messages: A messaging system for notifying subscribers of incoming e-mail messages that includes an e-mail system communicating with a notification system is disclosed. The e-mail system includes a user interface that permits subscribers to populate filter lists with e-mail message attributes, such as sender e-mail addresses. The filter list is provided... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070112912 - Control system and method therefor: A flexible control system and method of controlling a processing operation. The control system and method may be employed to control a high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk for simultaneously conveying... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20070112911 - Method and system for communicating between clients in a computer network: A method and system for communicating among clients in a client-server computer network. The method and system allow a client to identify another client using a first identifier, such as a domain name of the other client. It is not necessary for the client to identify the other client with... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070112913 - System and method for displaying html content from portlet as a page element in a communites framework: A community that is accessed via a portal can be provided for maintaining user membership in a collaborative computing environment. Groupnote resources can maintain information posted by the community members. Data for the groupnote resource can be stored in a repository in the form of nodes which are wrapped by... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112914 - System, method, and user equipment for managing the floor for multimedia communication service in poc system: Disclosed is a method and a system for a Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) session open between PoC clients supporting various types of media. Although a PoC client providing an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) PoC multimedia communication service supports a plurality of uncommon types of media, it is possible to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070112917 - A keyboard for quickly activating instant messaging on the internet: A keyboard for quickly activating instant messaging (IM) on the Internet, the keyboard having a hot key installed thereon or any one of existing keys on said keyboard acting as a preset key, said hot key or said preset key working with an instant messenger executed on a computer and... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070112927 - Apparatus and method for transmitting a message: An apparatus for transmitting a message includes a message generator in which a data structure is generated. The data structure includes a plurality of address fields. Each address field includes at least one message recipient address. The message generator generates a message which includes a common message field and a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070112925 - Audio message delivery over instant messaging: One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for sending instant messages having audio recordings. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes a communications client of a user that is configured to generate an instant message having an audio recording and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070112928 - Dynamic subject information generation in message services of distributed object systems: A system, method and medium of sending messages in a distributed data processing network is described, and contemplates receiving a message that includes subject information that is generated based on one or more pre-selected portions as the message is generated. A message delivery system in a client-server environment is also... Agent: (dc) Wilmerhale/applied Materials

20070112920 - Email open rate enhancement systems and methods: A method of increasing the likelihood an electronic message will be opened by a targeted recipient includes determining a time zone corresponding to an address of a targeted recipient and accessing an opening history for a set of electronic mail recipients within a domain including the targeted recipient. From the... Agent: Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. Patent Prosecution Group

20070112923 - File download systems and methods: A file download system is disclosed. The file download system comprises a client, an email box, and a content provider having at least one file. The content provider receives a download request for the file from the client, and transmits the file to the email box indicated by the content... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070112922 - Information processing device and method, and program: An information processing device connected via a network to another information processing device that recognizes action of a user on a basis of an output of a sensor incorporated in the other information processing device and transmits action information indicating the recognized action of the user includes: a table DB... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070112921 - Mapping electronic files contained in an electronic mail file to a file class: A computer-implemented method for identifying selected electronic files from a set of electronic files that contains at least one mail file includes the steps of: (i) using an operating agent and a mail server gateway, opening the mail file; (ii) for each of the plurality of electronic files in the... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070112926 - Meeting management method and system: A meeting management (MM) system and method is adapted to manage meetings and their output. The MM system provides users a simple way to capture, distribute and archive critical meeting information while providing comprehensive action item tracking and management.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070112916 - Method and system for organizing electronic messages using eye-gaze technology: A method for organizing messages received and transmitted between at least two computer systems over a network and a system configured to implement the method are described. In one aspect, the method includes tracking where a user is gazing as the user is composing an outgoing message on a first... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070112924 - Method for instant communication through internet: A method for instant communication through the Internet is provided. The method provides the users to instantly communicate with the online registered members through a web page connection without having to install software and register an account. In addition, the method provides Internet service providers with a purchase channel, such... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070112919 - Self-updating email message: The present invention provides a self-updating email message. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: sending an email message to a recipient, the email message including encapsulated content; and selectively updating the email message in accordance with the encapsulated content when the email message is... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070112915 - System and method of message transport selection: A method and system of message transport selection for a communication device configured for communication over a plurality of message transports are provided. A determination is made as to whether any of the plurality of message transports is available for sending an outgoing message from the communication device. One of... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20070112918 - Systems and methods for screening chat requests: Systems, methods and media for screening member messages in an instant messaging environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, chat messages are stored as communications requests in a queue. A user-specified chat limit determines the maximum number of chats that may be taking place concurrently. When the chat limit is reached,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070112929 - Method, device and software for automatic notification about delayed meeting participation: A method, device, and software product are presented for providing a notification of lateness regarding an appointment entered in a calendar. This notification is sent from a first appointment participant to at least one other appointment participant. The notification occurs when the first appointment participant receives a first appointment reminder... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070112930 - Method and system for managing storage on a shared storage space: A method, a system, a machine-readable medium, and an apparatus for managing storage on a shared storage space, for example, on an email server, are provided. A plurality of emails is compared. If the content of each of the plurality of emails is the same, then a single copy is... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070112931 - Scsi-based storage area network having a scsi router that routes traffic between scsi and ip networks: A system and method for accessing Storage Area Networks over an IP network. A SCSI request is generated and encapsulated in one or more IP packets. The encapsulated SCSI request is routed over an IP network and received by a storage router. The storage router extracts the SCSI request from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070112934 - Communication scheme for realizing effective data input/setup in compact size portable terminal device using locally connected nearby computer device: A communication scheme in which it becomes possible to improve handling of a user interface or omit tedious operations in a portable terminal device by cooperating the computer device with the portable terminal device is disclosed. The portable terminal device obtains a prescribed information regarding the computer network that is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070112936 - Identification, storage and display of land data on a website: Disclosed is a land website that provides a personalized database on which data can be stored, retrieved, customized and communicated (e.g., by e-mail) relating to a particular piece of property. The database can be accessible via a password and a security code over the Internet and may be encrypted for... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070112933 - Network system and method of providing data distribution service: A network system according to the present invention has portable terminals (101, 102) connectable to a network, a distribution server (4) for distributing video and/or audio data to the portable terminals (101, 102) through the network, and a storage server (5) for storing a message of video and/or audio contents... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070112935 - System and method for accessing electronic program guide information and media content from multiple locations using mobile devices: A system and a method for accessing an electronic program guide (EPG) and media content from multiple locations using mobile devices. The media content is available from a content provider via a first network. The system and the method have a first terminal that may be located in a first... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20070112932 - Upnp-based media contents reproducing system and method thereof: Disclosed are a UPnP-based media contents reproducing system and a method thereof capable of fast and consecutively reproducing media contents reproduced by a first control point in another space by a second control point by informing state information of the media contents reproduced by the first control point to the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070112938 - Intermediary, source and methods for sharing content: A method for sharing content includes an intermediary receiving a source reference identifying content stored by the source, and thereafter receiving one or more requests for the content, the request(s) including a first request identifying the content by an intermediary reference. The intermediary can also receive the content from the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070112940 - Reproducing apparatus, correlated information notifying method, and correlated information notifying program: A reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section, a notifying section, and a notification controlling section. The reproducing section reproduces content data. The notifying section notifies a user that there are content data correlated with content data reproduced by the reproducing section. The notification controlling section... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070112937 - Storage system for pervasive and mobile content: A system and method for storage and retrieval of pervasive and mobile content is provided. System may be comprised of a controller and a plurality of storage devices. Plurality of storage devices may include a first storage device located in a first geographic location and a second storage device located... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070112939 - System and method for home automation: A home automation system and method are disclosed for configuring a device state including accessing a graphical user interface (GUI) in a database at a server, sending the GUI from the server to the client device, receiving an input from the client device at the server, configuring the device state... Agent: Gilbreth Roebuck Bynum Darrington Schmidt Walker & Tran, LLP

20070112941 - Client capture of vulnerability data: A security information management system is described, wherein client-side devices preferably collect and monitor information describing the operating system, software, and patches installed on the device(s), as well as configuration thereof. A database of this information is maintained, along with data describing vulnerabilities of available software and associated remediation techniques... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070112942 - Method of detecting audio/video devices within a room: A system and method for automatic identification and integration of audio/visual devices in a room for multi-media conferencing operation. Each device includes a circuit that periodically emits a signal that is recognized by another device. Upon receiving the signal, the other devices respond with information relating to how they can... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070112943 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for remotely updating security systems: Methods, systems, and computer program products for remotely updating security systems is provided. The method includes defining a messaging sequence exchange between a host system and a gateway. The gateway is in communication with a security system panel. The method further includes identifying an update for the security system panel... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070112944 - Method and system for establishing a service-application execution environment in a hetergoneous, distributed computing system and a user-friendly data-transfer service application executing within the service-application execution environment: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for data transfer between electronic, hand-held devices, including cell phones, and computer systems, including servers and PCs, as well as component methods and systems of these data-transfer methods and systems. Component methods and systems of the present invention... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070112950 - Domain name expiration protection: The present invention provides a method for a Facilitator to provide a domain name expiration protection service for an Entrepreneur. The Facilitator may renew the domain name for the Entrepreneur if the Entrepreneur has not renewed it himself. Further, the domain name expiration protection service may be bundled with domain... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20070112949 - Metasearching a plurality of queries and consolidating results: A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed by a user on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of server devices, which may be search engines, each of the plurality of... Agent: Harvey Lunenfeld

20070112945 - Supply and demand project management tool: A scheduling engine calculates a difference between a forecast supply of Information Technology (IT) resources and a forecast demand for the IT resources at an application team level. One or more teams may impact the release of a product of a project, whether or not a specific team is assigned... Agent: Matthew E. Burr Lake Austin Marina

20070112946 - System and method for detecting errors in electronic document workflow: A system and method for detecting errors in a document transfer scheme. A user submits an electronic document transfer scheme to the document processing device including document handling instructions. The electronic document transfer scheme is then received by the document processing device and parsed, via the controller, to extract data... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070112947 - System and method of managing events on multiple problem ticketing system: The “Multiple Problem Ticket Creation Tool” (MPTCT) creates problem tickets on a network connected by an enterprise services bus having servers on the network with different problem ticketing systems. The MPTCT receives an original problem ticket, converts the original problem ticket to an XML or other format, determines which problem... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070112948 - System for on-demand access to local area networks: A roaming company makes payments to an aggregator of independent WLAN operators in exchange for providing Internet access services to subscribers of the roaming company. Independent WLAN operator accounts are maintained at the aggregation company.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070112958 - Apparatus and method for managing user interface: An apparatus for and method of managing a user interface. The apparatus for managing a user interface including: a packet generation unit that generates a notification packet indicating that one or more remote servers exist on a network, a web server that manages a command for storing a state of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070112953 - Automated performance monitoring for contact management system: The computer-implemented method includes automatically determining typical behavior pertaining to at least one system parameter of a contact management system. The typical behavior is determined from performance data of the contact management system captured over a first predetermined time period. A deviation from the typical behavior of at least one... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070112951 - Automatic website workload management: The present invention is directed to a system and method of automatic site workload management (ASWM) on a website. The features or services and the associated web objects are identified which may be disabled when the workload on a website and the associated servers exceeds a defined threshold for specific... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070112954 - Efficiently detecting abnormal client termination: The invention is directed to managing an abnormal client termination of a network connection with a server. When a client establishes a connection with the server, the server provides various heartbeat values to the client. The server may also send heartbeat values at various other times based on a variety... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070112955 - Method and apparatus for providing trend information from network devices: A method of providing performance trend information from a device in a packet-switched network to a network management station comprises maintaining in the device one or more state variables that store values associated with data processing functions of the device; storing in the device a trend indicator value and a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070112959 - On-line web traffic sampling: A method for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site first comprises storing a web page on a first server coupled to a network. When the web page is requested from a visitor computer, the visitor computer is selected (or not selected) for inclusion within a sample group,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070112956 - Resource optimisation component: A resource optimisation component for optimising the performance of a process operating in a data processing system, the resource optimisation component comprising: a monitoring component for gathering performance statistics about a process and identifying a resource that has an effect on process performance; a throttling component for restricting the available... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070112952 - System and method for synchronized startup of document processing services: A system and method for monitoring the startup process for a plurality of document processing services to determine if each of the process has started properly. A service startup manager initiates the startup and monitors a plurality of processes associated with a document processing device. The service startup manager then... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070112957 - Systems and methods for remote rogue protocol enforcement: A user agent residing within a remote client and configured to enforce message protocol policy is disclosed. The user agent includes a communication monitoring element and a communication controller element. The communications monitoring element is configured to examine a communications connection between the remote client and an external message server... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070112960 - Systems and methods for removing duplicate search engine results: The present invention is directed toward efficiently locating desired information and, more specifically, to providing a system and method for removing unnecessary multiple references to a common resource such as redundant listed Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that reference the same display URLs (and thus the same Web page) as another... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070112961 - Access control system for automation equipment: System for controlling access to automation equipments connected to a first network, from at least one client station connected to a second network. The system includes determination means of a functional profile containing a list of business functions that a user of the client station is authorized to carry out... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070112964 - Caller-callee association of a plurality of networked devices: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for establishing and maintaining communication between two or more communication devices coupled to communication networks. Some specific aspects relate to communication between a plurality of communication devices each of which is coupled to a respective network. Other aspects relate to establishing... Agent: Ibrahim M. Hallaj, Ph.d. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,

20070112962 - Network connection establishment using out of band connection request: A data connection between a client and a server via a primary network path where the client is unable to establish the data connection to the server using established procedures of the primary network path. A connection request message is formed that substitutes for a connection request of the primary... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070112963 - Sending routing data based on times that servers joined a cluster: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, send a broadcast message to a cluster of servers receive a point-to-point message from a coordinating server of the cluster, where the coordinating server joined the cluster before all other servers in the cluster. The point-to-point message includes routing... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070112965 - System and method for maintaining presence and communicating over a computer network using the http protocol: A computer-implemented process facilitates communication with an entity over a network. A static HTTP URL is associated with the entity. Communications information reflecting the entity's current online presence including the entity's dynamic session information as determined using the HTTP protocol is linked with the URL. Communication with the entity is... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070112966 - System and method for maintaining presence and communicating over a computer network using the http protocol: A computer-implemented process facilitates communication with an entity over a network. A static HTTP URL is associated with the entity. Communications information reflecting the entity's current online presence including the entity's dynamic session information as determined using the HTTP protocol is linked with the URL. Communication with the entity is... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070112967 - Re-authentication system and method in communication system: Disclosed are a system and a method for performing re-authentication in a communication system. A user Authorization, Authentication and Accounting server transmits a user Master Session Key (MSK_U), which is generated by performing user re-authentication for a mobile station (MS) according to a twice Extensible Authentication Protocol scheme, to a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070112968 - Secure identification system: Methods and apparatus are described which provide secure interactive communication of text and image information between a central server computer and one or more client computers located at remote sites for the purpose of storing and retrieving files describing and identifying unique products, services, or individuals. Textual information and image... Agent: John G. Chupa Law Offices Of John Chupa & Associates, P.C.

20070112970 - Data communication server, data communication method, and program: A data communication server capable of communicating data with a plurality of portable terminals through a communication line includes a terminal information acquiring part for acquiring terminal data that represents the amount of transmission standby data and a data transmission efficiency, regarding each of the plurality of portable terminals, a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070112969 - Generic application level protocol analyzer: A generic application-level protocol analyzer (GAPA) is adaptable to model an application and its response to messages in different protocols, including multiple, layered protocols in a network context. One mode of a GAPA includes an analysis engine having a plurality of objects adaptable to model an application and its response... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070112972 - Encrypting data in a communication network: A method for communicating in a network is presented. The method includes encapsulating content from a plurality of high level data units from a high level layer to generate a stream; dividing the stream into a plurality of segments; individually encrypting at least some of the segments, wherein an encrypted... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070112971 - Real time video streaming and data collaboration over wireless networks: A method of real time computerized image collaboration of a computerized image stored in memory of transmitting computer. A window is opened which selects a portion of the computerized image and a corresponding portion of memory. Image data stored in the memory portion is compressed and the compressed image data... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Mr. Bill Polkinghorn

20070112973 - Pre-cached streaming content method and apparatus: A communication device (400) responds to detecting a likely streaming content downloading event by dynamically determining (102) an amount of the streaming content to locally pre-cache prior to detecting an instruction (105) to download the streaming content and to then pre-cache (104) that amount. This determination can be based (201)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070112974 - Computer system, storage device, management server and communication control method: The invention provides a communication control method for switching paths at high speed to switch storages without a special path switching means in a host computer, without stopping an application or without changing settings, and a device for realizing the same. The present computer system comprises a host computer 20,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070112975 - Redirecting network traffic through a multipoint tunnel overlay network using distinct network address spaces for the overlay and transport networks: A method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic through a multipoint tunnel overlay network using distinct network address spaces for the overlay and transport networks. In an IP implementation, redirecting traffic to be tunneled across a network comprises deriving the transport IP address of a multipoint tunnel endpoint from the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070112977 - Online ringtone creation utility and service: The invention allows a user to connect to a remote location, such as a website, upload a sound file from their computer to the website, edit the sound file to the user's taste, and download the new sound file onto their mobile device. The user would typically use this music... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20070112978 - System and method for providing configurable, dynamic multimedia message service pre-transcoding: System and methods for providing multimedia message service (MMS) interoperability between an initiating carrier and a destination carrier. A transcoding facility receives an MMS message from an initiating carrier and accesses a number portability database to determine an identity of a destination carrier to which the MMS message is intended... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070112976 - System and method for using services within a communication network: The invention relates to a system and a method for the use of services within at least one communication network with internet mechanisms and at least one automation system, as well as a service access means to connect an automation system to a communication network. A system is proposed for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070106721 - Scalable visual search system simplifying access to network and device functionality: In one embodiment, an indication of information desired by a user is received, and a list of candidates for the desired information is provided for presentation on a mobile device of the user.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106722 - Non-persistent and persistent information setting method and system for inter-process communication: System, method, architecture, network device, and computer programs and computer program products for inter-process communications. Message structure, procedure for generating the message structure, applications of the message structure and messaging method for obtaining status, statistics, and other information and for performing an information or parameter set operation across one or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070106723 - Information processing apparatus, data displaying method, information processing system and computer readable recording medium recorded thereon the data displaying program: In an information processing apparatus connected to at least one data retaining apparatus over a network to execute a process on data kept in the data retaining apparatus, it is possible to display, with certainty, data identification information of data that was retrieved in the past and discriminate, with ease,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070106724 - Enhanced ip conferencing service: A system and method are disclosed for enhanced IP conferencing. In one embodiment, the enhanced IP conferencing allows for joining a conference call through a calendaring application. A web page or GUI is created that keeps track of all conference call participants, and monitors who is speaking along with speaking... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070106725 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a scheduler for multiple parties: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a scheduler for multiple parties. Methods include receiving information indicating requested attendees and a duration for a meeting from a requestor. A storage device containing available time slots and meeting preferences for the requested attendees is accessed. One... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070106726 - System, method and computer program product for collaborative background music among portable communication devices: A system, method and computer program product for enabling a plurality of users engaged in real-time voice communications over a wireless communications link to collaboratively select one or more musical media files and to jointly listen to the collaboratively selected musical media in approximate synchronicity as a mutually perceivable background... Agent: Law Office Of Philip A Steiner

20070106727 - Method and device for establishing a collaboration session: The invention concerns a method of transferring at least one message for the establishment of a collaboration session (126) by a collaboration session manager (125) between a plurality of clients, characterised in that a messaging system (122) is associated with the collaboration session manager (125) and in that the method... Agent: Gerald E Helget Briggs And Morgan

20070106733 - Cross-forest sharing: Users from one forest can share PIM data with users from another forest by replicating user account information from one forest into the other forest, including SIDs for each user account (referred to herein as a synchronization process). Using this replicated information, the sharing user wishing to share PIM data... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070106734 - Incentive driven subscriber assisted spam reduction: A system (100) comprising a server (120) and a method (300) for limiting proliferation of unwanted electronic messages. The server can receive a notification from a first user identifying a first electronic message (125) as Spam and compare parameters associated with the first electronic message against Spam criteria. Responsive to... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070106735 - Message and system for maintaining the security of transmitted personalized messages: A method for maintaining the security of transmitted embedded personalized messages sent over a communication network includes receiving messages directed to recipients having recipient destination descriptors and determining whether a message includes a personalized portion, with the personalized portion directed to one or more of the original recipients of the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070106738 - Message value indicator system and method: The Email Value Indicator comprises a computer implemented system and method for indicating the value of an email message. The system and method comprise collecting message values assigned to the email message; calculating a composite message value based on the collected message values; and inserting the composite message value into... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070106742 - Method and apparatus for filtering email: A method and apparatus for filtering messages comprising determining a first semantic anchor corresponding to a first group of messages, for example, legitimate messages and a second semantic anchor corresponding to a second group of messages, for example, unsolicited messages. Determining a vector corresponding to an incoming message; comparing the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106728 - Method and system for updating an electronic mail address book: A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) address book comprising: determining whether an email message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system contains address information; and, if the email message contains address information: identifying the address information in the email message; determining whether... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070106729 - Method and system for updating message threads: A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, the email message belonging to a thread of email messages received by the data processing system, the method comprising: determining whether one or more of the email messages... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070106731 - Method for correcting a received electronic mail having an erroneous header: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for correcting a received electronic mail having an erroneous header. Responsive to a recipient receiving an e-mail indicating the erroneous header, the recipient corrects the erroneous header to form a corrected header. Responsive to the recipient correcting the erroneous header... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070106730 - Method for correcting information in a received electronic mail: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for correcting information in a received electronic mail. Responsive to a correction of information in the received e-mail by a recipient of the received e-mail, a correction note is generated that contains the correction. The correction note is sent to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070106732 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefor: A method is provided for string conversion starting with identifying an original string for correction and receiving a command specifying an input mode. The method also involves generating an input sequence corresponding to the original string and interpreting the sequence according to the input mode, which generates a corrected string... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070106741 - Rule-based electronic message processing: In various embodiments, a computer-assisted method for processing an electronic message includes the steps of reviewing the recipients of the electronic message, evaluating whether any of the recipients of the electronic message are potentially incorrect, and prompting the sender of the electronic message to evaluate whether the potentially incorrect recipients... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070106740 - System and methods for wireless messaging: Systems and methods for enabling data messaging in a wireless communications system is provided in one embodiment. Wireless messaging is enabled by having a host service send enable messages to a mobile communications device. Once an enable message has been received at the mobile communications device, the generation of an... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070106737 - System and process for delivery status notification: The invention comprises a computer implemented system and process for delivery status notification of an electronic message, the system and process comprising: inserting into the electronic message a request for the delivery status notification; sending the electronic message to a recipient address; receiving a data packet having the delivery status;... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070106736 - Variable and customizable email attachments and content: A method for sending electronic mail messages having differing content and attachments associated with the various recipients of the electronic mail message includes composing an electronic mail message and differentiating those component(s) to be sent to the various recipients. Recipient transmittal directions, in the form of electronic mail addresses, aliases,... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070106739 - Wireless messaging using notification messages in a wireless communication network: A wireless communication system, comprising a host service, a wireless router system coupled to the host service, a wireless network coupling the wireless router system and a wireless mobile communication device (“mobile device”), adaptively delivers data to the mobile device in the wireless communication system using a pull message delivery... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070106744 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a destination at which a group of devices can store data associated with the devices: There is disclosed a method apparatus and computer program for a master of a group of devices to determine a destination at which to store data associated with the devices in the group. Destination preference information is received from each device in the group. Such information is analysed to arrive... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070106743 - Sharing disc changers among multiple user devices: In one embodiment, a system includes at least one disc changer to store media content, and multiple user devices coupled to the disc changer. At least a portion of the media content has copyright protection. The multiple user devices share the media content of the disc changer without violating the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106745 - Content acquisition method: The prevent invention ensures that the content acquisition device successfully receives attribute information of content data. By having an acquire/use information providing server 6, upon receiving a file request information sent from a client terminal 2 send an acquire/use file 35, wherein the acquire/use file stores content data content identification... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070106755 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106753 - Dashboard for viewing health care data pools: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106750 - Data pools for health care video: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106748 - Method and apparatus for storing information in a browser storage area of a client device: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing steps to cause encoded information to be stored at a client device during a first network session between a server and the client device. To cause encoded information to be stored at a client device, the server first determines a set of... Agent: Law Office Of Jeffrey M. Weinick, LLC

20070106746 - Method and system showing the most meaningful page from a book or content to customers as the first page: Showing the most meaningful page as the first page of a book or content to the potential customer gives the customer a special first impression on the book or content. The present invention has significant impacts on the customer interest and purchase decision for the book or content. The present... Agent: Sijian Zhang

20070106747 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting topical information referenced during a communication: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for presenting topical information referenced during a communication. A topic key phrase is received during a communication between a first party and a second party. A topic descriptor associated with the topic key phrase is identified. A topic descriptor weight associated with... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070106752 - Patient viewer for health care data pools: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106754 - Security facility for maintaining health care data pools: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106749 - Software distribution via stages: Software can be automatically distributed in stages. An administrator can specify a stage indicating software to be distributed to nodes in a network. The nodes can be organized into groups. Administration functions can be performed via an application service provider scenario. For example, a browser-based user interface can be used... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070106751 - Syndicating ultrasound echo data in a healthcare environment: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106756 - System and method for maintaining presence and communicating over a computer network using the http protocol: A computer-implemented process facilitates communication with an entity over a network. A static HTTP URL is associated with the entity. Communications information reflecting the entity's current online presence including the entity's dynamic session information as determined using the HTTP protocol is linked with the URL. Communication with the entity is... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070106757 - System and method for providing a web-based operating system: A system and method for providing a web-based operating system is disclosed. A web-based operating system is downloaded from a server to a network-enabled device. The web-based operating system provides a platform from which to run web-based computer applications. Web-based computer applications are downloaded from the server onto the network-enabled... Agent: Charles A. Rattner

20070106763 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106762 - Method and apparatus for realizing pvr using home network device: A method of realizing a personal video recorder (PVR) using a home network device is provided. A client receives contents and replays the contents in a home network. The client uploads first contents received from a real time broadcasting channel to the server from a time when an external time-shift... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070106760 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic presentation of advertising, factual, and informational content using enhanced metadata in search-driven media applications: A computerized method and apparatus is disclosed for dynamic presentation of advertising, factual, informational content and combinations thereof. In particular, the advertising content is dynamically presented according to the playback of corresponding segments identified within a media file or stream.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106759 - Progressively accessing data: Techniques relating to progressive data downloading are described. In one instance, a system includes an application configured to utilize data blocks to display content in a user-interface. The system also includes a progressive download component configured to retrieve specific data blocks from a data container responsive to requests from the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070106761 - Service-oriented architecture for process control systems: A service-oriented architecture for process control systems is disclosed. In one example, a method for conveying process control information between a client process and a server process in a process control system establishes a server process including a plurality of process control services, each of which has a corresponding service... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106758 - System and method for determining a quantitative measure of qualitative usability of related web pages: A system and method for determining a quantitative measure of qualitative usability of related Web pages. Web pages are accepted that each include at least one hyperlink referencing and proximal cues relating to distal content included in another Web page. An information goal identifying a target Web page is specified.... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070106766 - Event notification system: In a method of transmitting an event notification, a first data packet that includes a first event code is transmitted to a first individual via a not-automatically receipt confirmed communication. Upon receiving a response communication from the first individual, the first individual is requested to respond with the first event... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq.

20070106765 - Sending service data to an rfid tag while an attached computer system is powered off: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive service data at a computer system from an RFID tag, where the service data was sent to the RFID tag from an RF transmitter while the computer system was powered off. The RFID tag includes tag memory and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070106764 - System and method for device configuration using a portable flash memory storage device with an infrared transmitter: A system and method for configuring a consumer electronic (CE) device that has an infrared (IR) receiver uses a portable configuration-file transfer device. The CE device may be part of a local area network (LAN) and the configuration file may include network setup parameters, including a network security key, and... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20070106777 - Automatic functionality generating mechanism for network connecting appliances: To provide a system enabling a function for implementing providing of a service desired by an end user to be automatically generated in a network connecting appliance. When a resource server (RS) receives a request for a specification which is desired to be implemented from a particular service adapter (SA),... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070106772 - Autonomic application server unneeded process disablement: A method, system, and computer program product for enabling efficient start up of an application server with the components required for complete operation of the supported application. A pre-processor autonomically determines the specific services that are required by the application to be initiated within the application server during start up... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070106774 - Computer system controlling bandwidth according to priority state: Provided is a bandwidth control method for a computer system that includes: at least one storage system; a plurality of host computers connected to the storage system via a network; and a management computer connected to the host computers, the method including the steps of: monitoring a state of the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070106779 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106767 - Database device database search device, and method thereof: There is provided a database server capable of easily adding various kinds of associated data without modifying the structure of the database. A heading node (T node) is correlated with an associated node (A node) and an association role R is defined between the T node and the A node... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070106778 - Information and status and statistics messaging method and system for inter-process communication: System, method, architecture, network device, and computer programs and computer program products for inter-process communications. Message structure, procedure for generating the message structure, applications of the message structure and messaging method for obtaining status, statistics, and other information and for performing an information or parameter set operation across one or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070106776 - Information processing system and method of assigning information processing device: For the first use of an authentication device, a remote machine makes a query of an address of a local machine to be permanently assigned to the remote machine, to which the authentication device is connected, to a management server. In response to the query, the management server determines the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070106770 - Managing a remote device by a communication element that does not specify an identifier for the management object: A communication element used for remote management of information in a data processing apparatus includes an informational content portion and an identification portion associated with the informational content portion. During processing of the communication element, and in response to the identification portion, the informational content portion is used to produce... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070106773 - Method and apparatus for processing of heterogeneous units of work: Methods and apparatus are provided which may be employed to perform speech recognition processing on a grid computing system. In some embodiments, the grid computing system includes a server system which receives processing tasks from one or more client applications, divides the processing tasks into units of work, and assigns... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070106781 - Method and system for interfacing with a shipping service: A logistics node receives a purchase order from a customer. The logistics node selects an appropriate carrier to transport products specified in the purchase order and conveys shipping instructions to the selected carrier. The logistics node also coordinates the shipment by interacting with a source node (associated with a supplier... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070106768 - Methods for it network representation and associated computer program products: A method of creating an IT-network representation including automatically discoverable active elements and not automatically discoverable, passive elements. A logical discoverable-elements representation of the IT network is produced, by running a network auto-discovery tool. The representation includes the automatically discoverable active elements and a discoverable-elements network topology. Representations of not... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070106769 - Performance management in a virtual computing environment: A virtual zone management framework manages one or more virtual computing zones forming a global computing zone residing on a host computer. The virtual zone manager comprises a normalization engine, a zone probe, and an interface engine that manages each virtual computing zone residing on the host computer. The virtual... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070106771 - Reconciliation of independently updated distributed data: Independently updated data of a distributed communications environment is reconciled to provide consistent data to a plurality of members of the environment, such as a plurality of members of a cluster of a clustered environment. The data is reconciled using locally monotonically increasing values. One type of locally monotonically increasing... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070106780 - Social mapping of contacts from computer communication information: Social information, including computer communication information, is modeled according to a network approach, and users are provided with representations of patterns within their social spaces and graphical interface tools for navigating through the spaces. This can enhance the user's ability to seek out social information and manage their online social... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070106775 - System and method for creating a proximity map of plurality of living beings and objects: A proximity network map defines who and what objects have come in contact of each other including location and time. This map selects the list people who have come in contact with known infected people based on contagious disease epidemiology criteria to control its spread, or to prevent radiation poisoning,... Agent: Chon Meng Wong

20070106782 - Bandwidth management in each network device in a switched digital video environment: Bandwidth management in each network device in a switched digital video environment. Each device in a user's home and the switched digital video (SDV) device can evaluate the bandwidth requirements of a request from any device in the home and compare it to the bandwidth available at the user's home.... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070106787 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106788 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106789 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106790 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106791 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106792 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106783 - Independent message stores and message transport agents: Multiple independent MTAs transmit messages such that if one of the MTAs fails, the other MTAs may continue to transmit messages. Multiple independent message stores are provided such that if one of the message stores fails, messages on the other message stores may continue to be transmitted. Multiple notification agents... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070106785 - Learner for resource constrained devices: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for registering votes to predict an attribute value for a received instance are described herein. In one embodiment, the registering is performed in a weighted manner based at least on a weight and predicted target values associated with at least one of one or more rules... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070106793 - Method and apparatus for collaborative document versioning of networked documents: The system comprises an improved document monitoring agent in which user evaluations are used to decide whether a changed document should be saved in the system or not. The evaluation of importance of the change in a document is performed by one or more users who collaboratively monitor a networked... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070106786 - System and method for detecting an infective element in a network environment: A method for detecting an infective element in a network environment is provided that includes detecting, by a first computer, an infective element within a second computer. A signal is generated and communicated that identifies the second computer as being associated with the infective element. The signal includes an address... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070106784 - Systems, methods and apparatus to identify network maintenance zones: Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify network maintenance zones. An example system disclosed herein includes a network map database to receive and store location information of a network element. The example system further includes a repair database to receive and store repair data of the network element; and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070106794 - Method and system for access to electronic version of a physical work based on user ownership of the physical work: Access to an electronic version of a physical work is provided to a user. The electronic version of the physical work comprises images of the physical work that, when visually displayed, appear the same as the physical work. Access to the electronic version of the physical work is based on... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070106796 - Arbitration apparatus for allocating computer resource and arbitration method therefor: In a business system which allocates a request for one business application to one or more of the computer resources executing such business application, the computer resources are accommodated among the plurality of the business systems so that the load covered by each of the business systems is averaged out.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070106795 - Automatic orchestration of dynamic multiple party, multiple media communications: A communication orchestration service automatically orchestrates dynamic multiple party, multiple media communications. A customer expresses his or her communications needs in the form of a high-level goal or goals. A goal-based search finds a combination of building block predicates that can be used to satisfy the customer's needs. In conjunction... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070106798 - Method for provisioning resources: A present IT environment, in particular, a place such as a data center in which resources are concentrated at one place, requires a mechanism (provisioning) for allocating an excess resource (a server, a network apparatus, a storage, or the like) to the service in response to a load fluctuation of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070106797 - Mission goal statement to policy statement translation: A mechanism and framework is disclosed for translating high level goal statements to policy rules. In a first step, high level goal statements are translated to network services. In a second step, the network services are translated to network parameters. In a third step, the network parameters are translated to... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070106802 - Reproduction system and server: A server connected to a reproduction device for reproducing video data and/or audio data recorded in a recording medium, and transmits the reproduced data through a radio communication network, to a client terminal unit. The server includes: a breakage detecting part to detect a breakage of connection by the network... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070106799 - System and method for controlling access to legacy multimedia message protocols based upon a policy: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling access to telecommunications resources implementing a legacy protocol based upon a policy. These mechanisms and methods for controlling access to legacy protocols based upon a policy can enable embodiments to control access by third party created and other... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070106800 - System and method for controlling access to legacy push protocols based upon a policy: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling access to telecommunications resources implementing a legacy protocol based upon a policy. These mechanisms and methods for controlling access to legacy protocols based upon a policy can enable embodiments to control access by third party created and other... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070106801 - System and method for controlling access to legacy short message peer-to-peer protocols based upon a policy: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling access to telecommunications resources implementing a legacy protocol based upon a policy. These mechanisms and methods for controlling access to legacy protocols based upon a policy can enable embodiments to control access by third party created and other... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070106804 - Method and system for using message stamps for efficient data exchange: A data source includes a number of different messages to exchange with an occasionally connected device. When the device connects with the data source, the exchange of messages occurs transparently according to a set priority and order. Each message has associated therewith a set of one or more stamps that... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070106805 - System and method for peer-to-peer digital content sharing: This invention uses the ability of a digital content mediator (“DCM”) to track the distribution of digital content—i.e., authenticate the source and destination users/devices, and authorize the transfer based on the specified policies for the identified content. This tracking creates an undisputable audit trail that can be used for authorization... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070106803 - Web site subscription management system: In a method for managing subscriptions to a web site, a determination is made as to whether an end user accessing a web page at the web site is a current subscriber to the web site. If it is determined that the end user does not have a current subscription,... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070106809 - Data structure and method for initiating a flow over an extended channel: A method included a receiving a request that includes information that defines a service type and information that can identify the request for this service type, wherein the request is required in order to initiate a flow over an extended channel; checking whether the extended channel can support the flow... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070106806 - Messaging service interoperability methods and related devices: Messaging service interoperability methods. A client implements a messaging service version (X.Y), in which X is a major version number and Y is a minor version number. The client sends a PDU (Protocol Data Unit) with version (X.Y) to a server. If the PDU with version (X.Y) is not accepted... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070106807 - Method and apparatus for dial plan debugging: A method, system and apparatus for dial plan debugging are provided in the invention. The method includes hop-by-hop debugging of large inter-networks. Information related to a next hop is received at each hop. A set of results, based on this information, including the route pattern of a call, is displayed.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070106812 - Method for data distribution: Stream data is transmitted from a distribution server to a client without any loss of data. The capacity of a reception buffer to be prepared at the client can be made small and the network bandwidth necessary for data redistribution can be narrowed. A relay server interposed between the distribution... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070106811 - Methods and systems for real-time seeking during real-time playback of a presentation layer protocol data stream: A method for real-time seeking during real-time playback of presentation layer protocol data streams includes the step of receiving, by a foreground protocol engine, a request for rendering the contents of a packet in a presentation layer protocol data stream comprising a first plurality of packets already received and a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070106810 - Methods and systems for recording and real-time playback of presentation layer protocol data: A method for recording and real-time playback of presentation layer protocol data includes the step of intercepting, by a recorder, a presentation layer protocol data stream comprising a plurality of packets, during transmission of the presentation layer protocol data stream from a first device to a second device, the presentation... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070106808 - System and method for controlling data flow based upon a temporal policy: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling data flow based on a temporal policy. These mechanisms and methods for controlling data flow based on a temporal policy can enable embodiments to provide a different service level agreement to control network traffic selected from a plurality... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070106813 - Device and method for the preparation of sending data and corresponding products: The present invention relates to a device and a method for the preparation of data to be sent as a continuous stream via a communication network. The device comprises means for obtainment of the data originating from a database, which contains at least two data stream entities for data associated... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070106814 - Method and apparatus for content distribution via non-homogeneous access networks: A method and apparatus for streaming content to an access network in an interactive information distribution system. The method encapsulates the content in accordance to an Internet Protocol (IP). The content is then transcoded into a format supported by the access network, and streamed over a distribution network to a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Sedna Patent Services, LLC

20070106815 - System and method for routing directory service operations in a directory service network: A system and method are provided for routing directory service operations in a directory service network. A router may be included in a directory service network. The router may include a server knowledge list that maintains information about one or more directory servers in the directory service network. Directory service... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070106816 - Method and apparatus for utilizing an existing product code to issue a match to a predetermined location on a global network: A method for providing an interconnection relationship between a product and a desired location on a global communications network. A machine readable product code is disposed on the product machine readable product code, the machine readable product code having encoded product information contained therein. The product code has no routing... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070106817 - Method for document viewing: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070106818 - Method for document viewing: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070106819 - Method for document viewing: A client-side handheld device requests a server to convert server-side documents into a compression format prior to transmission of said documents to the client. The server retrieves and converts the requested documents to a raster image that is then compressed according to attributes based on information received from the client... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070100930 - Creating and using applicable information technology service maps: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating and using applicable information technology maps. Defined rules that indicate how information technology services interrelate to other computing components in the information technology infrastructure are received. A specified level of detail is selected, from among one or... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070100929 - Method, system and program storage device for assigning unique identification numbers to new user accounts and groups in a computing environment with multiple registries: A method, system, and program storage device for creating a new user account or user group with a unique identification number in a computing environment having multiple user registries is provided. In response to receiving a command to create a new user account or user group, an operating system of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070100928 - Url document viewing through a plug-in application for a mobile browser on a wireless device: A method is set forth of displaying a document identified by a URL on a mobile browser, comprising registering an attachment viewer plug-in to the mobile browser for a predetermined data stream content type, registering a mobile data service transcoder for predetermined document types, sending a request for the document... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070100933 - Application server blade for embedded storage appliance: A server blade includes a printed circuit board (PCB), including a connector for connecting the blade to a backplane comprising a local bus, and a removal mechanism for use by a person to disconnect the connector from the backplane for removal of the blade from a chassis while the chassis... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070100931 - Distributed managed system, system components, and methods of communicating commands: A distributed managed system including targets, clients, and a management processor. Each client is adapted to originate commands with at least some commands having a desired destination of one or more targets. The management processor is adapted to receive commands originated by the clients and generate a context value for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100936 - Method and apparatus for remote installation of network drivers and software: A method and apparatus for remote installation of network drivers and software. The present invention provides for the remote installation of a rerouting driver into the network driver interface in the path between one or more media access control units and one or more protocol drivers in a computer system.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070100935 - Portable record and/or reproducing device, reproducing method, and recording/reproducing method: A reproducing means for performing reproduction processing on digital data which is read out from a predetermined recording medium recording the digital data, a manipulating means for making an instruction of reproducing the digital data inserted in the recording medium, a control means for reading the digital data from the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070100932 - System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network: On-line health education includes displaying composites of personalized health content and patient-selected entertainment. Suitable sources of entertainment include generally available web pages and television programs. Composites are spatial (for page displays) or temporal (for image sequence displays). Health content is customized to health and personal situations of individual patients, and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070100934 - System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network: On-line health education includes displaying composites of personalized health content and patient-selected entertainment. Suitable sources of entertainment include generally available web pages and television programs. Composites are spatial (for page displays) or temporal (for image sequence displays). Health content is customized to health and personal situations of individual patients, and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070100941 - Method and system for session participation through chat poc group invitation reservation in poc system: Disclosed are a method and a system in which a client intending to participate in a chat Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) group, presents a session participation-invitation reservation to a server when the number limit has been exceeded pursuant to the policy of the chat PoC group, or when a chat... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070100939 - Method for improving attentiveness and participation levels in online collaborative operating environments: A method, system, and computer program product for improving attentiveness and participation levels in online collaborative operating environments. The mechanism of the present invention provides ways that participants can maintain their focus on the collaboration meeting by allowing participants to interact with the presentation and other participants, and determine the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070100938 - Participant-centered orchestration/timing of presentations in collaborative environments: A method, system, and computer program product for providing participant-centered orchestration/timing of presentations in collaborative environments. With the mechanism of the present invention, participants in an online collaboration environment are allowed to control the real-time presentation of collaboration materials. The mechanism of the present invention polls the participants in the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070100940 - Systems and methods for implementing a single-number follow me service for videoconferencing: A conferencing system and method having, a conferencing unit to initiate a remote conference, wherein the remote conference is initiated by inputting a conferencing identifier into the conferencing unit; more than one client associated with the conferencing identifier; and a conference network device to determine which of the clients has... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070100937 - Workgroup application with contextual clues: A workgroup application with contextual clues. The workgroup application allows any one of multiple participants to provide input, such as commands to edit a document or speech. The effects of the input are presented to other participants in a workgroup session in conjunction with a participant indicator. As one example,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070100951 - Duplicate notification message processing method in terminal: A duplicate notification message processing method in a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a notification message indicating the reception of a multimedia message from an MMS server; deleting the notification message when the notification message is a duplicate notification message and a multimedia message corresponding to the notification... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070100947 - Method and apparatus for determining whether an email message is ready for transmission: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to analyze an email message using a policy to form a result in response to detecting a request to send an email message. A determination is made as to whether the result indicates that the email message is complete. An... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070100946 - Method and apparatus for facilitating generation of electronic mail: A computer system, method and program code product which parses an electronic message as i is composed by a computer user for a message constituent which logically implies the presence of an attachment of a determined file type, determines whether an attachment is present, and prompts the computer user if... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070100945 - Method and apparatus for stopping output of a correspondence: Method and apparatus for stopping output of a correspondence are provided. A correspondence is created and it is determined whether an automatic flag is defined in the user settings for the correspondence and if the automatic flag is set. If it is determined that the automatic flag is not defined... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070100948 - Method and system for generating template replies to electronic mail messages: A method for responding to an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, comprising: receiving a command from the user to generate a reply to the email message using content from one or more template replies, the reply having a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070100942 - Method and system for multimedia message service communication: An interactive method, a user terminal and a communication system am provided for multimedia message services. The method comprises the steps of receiving a multimedia message from a server; generating a page displaying or playing the multimedia message at a user terminal, wherein one or more controllers are embedded into... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070100950 - Method for automatic retention of critical corporate data: An electronic mail retention mechanism for automatically retaining critical corporate e-mail data. The e-mail retention mechanism analyzes each e-mail in the corporate e-mail system based on a set of relevancy criteria for a particular area of interest. Relevancy criteria in the form of interrelated arguments and algorithms are used to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070100949 - Proofs to filter spam: Embodiment of proofs to filter spam are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070100943 - Systems and methods for enhanced message support of common model interface: Methods and systems are described for providing for messages having parameters to an interface. An exemplary method includes determining whether at least one message is related to one or more objects at a server based on a first parameter included within the message; determining a lifetime of the message based... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070100944 - Uniform resource identifier decoration to enable connectivity for instant messaging providers serving non-authoritative namespaces: A technique for interconnecting users of different instant messaging services without requiring the users to change their account identifiers. A first user of a primary messaging service can communicate with a second user of a second, federated messaging service, where the first user is associated with a non-managed domain of... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070100952 - Systems, methods, and media for playback of instant messaging session histrory: Systems, methods and media for playback of instant messaging session history in an instant messaging system by facilitating recording and playback of an instant messaging session history to a user are disclosed. Embodiments may include, during an instant messaging session where one or more instant messaging events occur, determining a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070100953 - Systems and methods for application management and deployment: In embodiments, a multi-phase approach can be used to deploy an application across a network or server cluster. A master deployer on an administration server is contracted, such as by a deployment took, indicating that an application is to be deployed. The master contacts a slave deployer on each managed... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070100954 - Modified machine architecture with partial memory updating: The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2 . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Memory locations (A, B, D, E, X) in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070100956 - A system and method for enabling prospects to contact sponsoring advertisers on the telephone directly from an internet-based advertisement with just a single-click, and efficiently tracking from what internet location (url) the telephone contacts are ini: It is the objective of the current invention to provide a system and method for more convenient and more measurable telephone call based pay-for-performance Internet advertising. The present invention remedies the shortcomings of the prior art by allowing callers to connect to advertisers over the telephone by just a single... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20070100964 - Application server blade for embedded storage appliance: A method for transferring data within a network storage appliance is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a packet on an I/O link from a server to a first portion of a storage controller. Transmitting the packet on the I/O link is performed within a single blade module in a chassis... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070100959 - Customizing rss content for use over a network: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing customization of a subscription and/or an alert for an RSS feed over a network. An RSS Content Source (RCS) may provide feed templates that may be used to modify a subscription interface. The RCS may further provide additional feed templates that... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070100962 - Dynamic flight packaging: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070100961 - Grid processing in a trading network: Methods and apparatus can enable a trading network can use participant nodes of the trading network as a hub node to distribute tasks within the trading network, instead of a fixed server as a fixed hub. The trading network can allow for distribution of tasks for grid computing. The trading... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070100960 - Managing content for rss alerts over a network: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing an alert to a subscriber based on a change of content at an RSS content source (RCS). A content collector identifies changes in content from various RCSs. In one embodiment, the RCS may notify the content collector of a change in... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070100957 - Method and apparatus to provide guaranteed deployment of applications to nodes in an enterprise: A method, system and computer program product for updating distributed applications in a multiple application-server environment, in which at least one server receives updates later than another server and update delivery is tracked by an update tracker in the form of a message history, is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070100958 - Method for selecting a functional domain name server: A method of choosing a domain name server to resolve a name resolution request includes receiving a name resolution request and associating at least one domain name server listed in a domain name server table with a timestamp. The method further includes accessing a domain name server from the domain... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070100963 - Remote content storage for mobile telephones: A system for managing mobile telephone content provides a locker to a user. The locker includes pointers or references to mobile telephone content that is stored in a central location or at a remote third party location. The system further stores mobile telephone attributes for different mobile telephones. When the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070100955 - System and method for using known geographic locations of internet users to present local content to web pages: This invention enables viewing local content over the Internet. By putting the smarts in a hub/node near the Internet user, where the geographic location of the user is known, a mechanism on said hub can either provide this location to requested web sites, or present the local information to the... Agent: Oran Joseph Bodner

20070100965 - Method for selecting an additional-information by a server: To increase the relevance of additional-information (7) that is selected by an information server (3a) and is transmitted to a client (11), the information (3a) server and the client (11) being connected to a communications network (2), with a set of additional-information (7) being assigned to the information server (3a),... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20070100967 - Application program interface for network software platform: An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET™ platform.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070100966 - Method of playing content and device for playing content: The invention relates to a method and device for playing a content. The method comprising: reading a pre-stored content which include information relevant to a downloaded content; detecting available bandwidth; sending a request for downloading the downloaded content according to the information relevant to the downloaded content, wherein the request... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070100970 - Automatically setting method and related system: An automatically setting method and related system for a network communications system having a remote console is disclosed. The method provides a network serving equipment having a management controller, and connects a network serving equipment through the network communications system to the remote console. The method sets the network serving... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070100969 - Method and system for automatically configuring software: A method and system for automatically configuring software distributed through a network. A server of the software vendor gathers certain information such as the user's name during a software download or purchase process, and generates a custom webpage containing software configuration information and/or a user id. The software being distributed... Agent: Ying Chen

20070100968 - Proprietary configuration setting for server to add custom client identity: The invention relates to a method for updating a wireless device connected to a cellular network utilizing Instant Messaging and Presence Service protocol (IMPS) defined by open Mobile Alliance. In the method a server connected to the cellular network transmits a configuration message to the wireless device including a CIDPrefix,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070100971 - Service provider inheritance in a digital information system: A computer-implemented method of configuring a computing system may include receiving first user-actuated input selecting an existing service provider that processes data objects having a first data object type. The existing service provider may include at least a first class and a second class. Second user-actuated input may be received... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100972 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, and control method thereof: During wireless data communication with a digital camera, when a setting operation of communication parameters is designated by a communication setting button, the data communication with the camera is suspended, and the network is switched to a network for setting communication parameters for another camera. With this network, a setting... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070100973 - System and method for reliably purging a fault server: Improvements to existing trap-generated message memory purge procedures and processes are shown and described. The improvements may be implemented in a telecommunications system having a plurality of managed elements, each of the managed elements potentially generating traps which are communicated to one or more fault servers.... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070100981 - Application services infrastructure for next generation networks including one or more ip multimedia subsystem elements and methods of providing the same: A system for supporting a plurality of different applications utilizing a next generation network having a network layer includes an application services middleware between the applications and the network layer that includes a plurality of common infrastructure elements usable by the different applications. The common infrastructure elements provide both services... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070100983 - Communication control device, method of determining communication control device, and storage medium for performing the method: A device and method for controlling communication among a plurality of communication devices, the device and method including causing each of one or more candidate devices to which control rights of a network are transferable, from among the plurality of communication devices, to transmit a pseudo information signal, counting, for... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070100980 - Computer system and method for managing log information: A computer system for managing log information, enabling correct comprehension of system logs for an identical resource before and after migration among plural nodes. A global ID, being unique in the system, is given to a resource (LU) migrated from one file share server to another. The global ID remains... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070100976 - Distributed communication equipment architectures and techniques: Distributed communication equipment architectures and techniques are disclosed. A host system includes an expansion unit through which control information and communication traffic may be exchanged with an expansion system. The expansion system is thereby controllable by a controller at the host system, significantly simplifying the design and reducing the cost... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070100984 - Identifying scope esg fragments and enabling hierarchy in the scope: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for identifying a desired ESG fragment in a list of ESG fragments. The list of ESG fragments or bootstrap ESG may be created by a designated service provider, operator or other apparatus or system. The bootstrap ESG may contain... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070100978 - Method and system for an uncompromising connection from a computing device having information storage like email server to a wireless mobile device: A system for sending data from at least one computing device, which may be an email server, located at a user location, to a plurality of handsets. The system includes an internal system monitor associated with the at least one computing device, and the monitor provides application connectors deployed at... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070100982 - Methods and apparatus for communicating information in a network: Methods for communicating parameterised information between entities which in, at least, one embodiment comprise a method of specifying the state of a node in a network comprising the steps of: defining n parameters Ai={A1, A2 . . . An}, where i=(1,n), which specify the state S of the node; defining... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100977 - Methods and apparatus for re-provisioning a server of a data center: In a computer-implemented method for re-provisioning a server of a data center, and while the server is provisioned to a first virtual network of the data center, the server is provided 1) a pseudo-random data stream, and 2) instructions on how to overwrite substantially all of its data storage volumes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100974 - Quality of service for network connected clients: A network server for communicating with a network client over a network comprising: a client configuration detector for detecting a configuration of the network client; a server configurator for changing the configuration of the network server; a comparator for determining if the configuration of the network client is compatible with... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070100975 - Scalable software blade architecture: A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade manager for managing states of the one or... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070100985 - System and method for information sharing: A distributed system architecture with components each having an autonomous “hub” or dependent “hub” and a related differential indexing method for obtaining data are disclosed.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070100979 - Virtualized utility service platform: A virtualized utility service platform includes a network infrastructure on which a plurality of virtual networks can be provisioned; a hosting infrastructure on which a plurality of virtual hosting systems can be provisioned; a computing infrastructure on which a plurality of virtual computing systems can be provisioned; and a storage... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070100993 - Assessment of click or traffic quality: Systems and methods enable displaying an indication of traffic quality. The system retrieves keyword or other traffic data for at least one keyword associated with at least one search engine. The system compares the traffic data for a first time period to the traffic data for a second time period,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100992 - Comparison of website visitation data sets: A system compares website visitation data sets in response to receiving user input. The system includes a client for processing the input to define one or more data sets as a query to a network, which returns the requested data. The system calculates, for at least one website visitation metric,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100996 - Consolidating web visitor behavior statistics for sales prospect qualification: A web data analysis system, computer software product, and method of operation thereof, that uses Internet based data sources, and which operates in an automated manner to collect weighted visitor behavior statistics, and consolidate collected data into a single qualification score to accompany and supplement the entry of web site... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20070100988 - Event bookmarks: Transferring events. A method may be practiced in a network environment including one or more interconnected systems. The method includes subscribing to receive an event stream from a sending system. Subscribing to receive an event stream includes sending a bookmark subscription. The bookmark subscription specifies events that should be sent... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070100997 - Generating metrics for networked devices: Groups of network devices may be identified automatically based on interface tags associated with network device interfaces such that network devices within a group are automatically identified, periodically or otherwise, based on an association of one or more common interface tags between the group and the network device interface.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070100995 - Interface for a database for a field unit: A communication module for a measuring instrument may include a first interface, a second interface, and an integrated web client. To the first interface a measuring instrument can be connected, whereas to the second interface a database can be connected. The communication module is configured to receive at the first... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070100991 - Method and program product for tracking a file attachment in an e-mail: A method and program product for tracking a file attachment in an e-mail is provided. The method includes attaching one or more file attachments to an e-mail, selecting one or more return receipt properties for the file attachments attached to the e-mail, sending the e-mail to one or more intended... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070100987 - Method and system for virtualized health monitoring of resources: A method and system for monitoring computational resources within a data processing system is presented. A monitoring service receives a non-application-specific request to perform a monitoring operation in order to gather information about the usage of a computational resource within a data processing system. The monitoring service automatically selects a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070100986 - Methods for improving interactive online collaboration using user-defined sensory notification or user-defined wake-ups: A method, system, and computer program product for improving interactive online collaboration using user-defined sensory notification or user-defined wakeups in online collaborative operating environments. The mechanism of the present invention employs user-defined wakeup signals, including sensory notification alerts, to alert the meeting participant when a specific event occurs or specific... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070100994 - Modeling interactions with a computer system: In certain embodiments, a method for modeling interactions with a computer system includes collecting interaction information for each of a number of interaction sessions with a computer system, each interaction session being associated with a corresponding agent system and including one or more states and one or more state transitions.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070100989 - Obtaining server usage information: Methods of obtaining server usage information and organization information related to the market/organizational context in which the server is operated. Server information is collected from servers and is sent over a network. Server usage information may be obtained by receiving server information over a network and processing the server information.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070100990 - Workflow decision management with workflow administration capacities: Methods, systems, and products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a plurality of device usage patterns in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a plurality of workflow scenarios in dependence upon the device usage patterns; determining a workflow administration capacity in... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100999 - Method, system and software for rendering e-mail messages: A method, system, and software of displaying an electronic communication, includes rendering an incoming original electronic message into a non-executable format and displaying the non-executable format to a user. An indication is received from the user that has viewed the non-executable format regarding whether the original electronic message should be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070100998 - System and method of accessing a resource on a translated network device: Systems and methods of obtaining resources from translated network devices are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070101001 - Apparatus, system, and method for reassigning a client: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for reassigning a client. A selection module selects a second computation module that is hardware compatible with a first computation module. A suspension module suspends a software process for a client executing on the first computation module. An execution state module copies a... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070101000 - Method and apparatus for capacity planning and resourse availability notification on a hosted grid: A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for dynamically changing allocation policy in a host grid to support a local grid. The host grid is operated according to a set of allocation policies. The set of allocation policies corresponds to a predetermined resource allocation relationship between the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070101002 - Data processing system: Computer-implemented methods, computer systems and computer program products are provided for generating user specific web pages. Data related to items that are supposed to be in the possession of an employee may be retrieved from distributed data sources. A web page is generated using these data values for the employee's... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070101004 - Internet protocol telephone system: A telephone system that can be controlled by graphical user interfaces (GUIs) displayed using a graphical page description language (GPDL), e.g. HTML, on a touch-sensitive display screen provided with the telephone. An application program interface (API) enables a commonly available user interface tool, e.g. Microsoft Front Page, to program any... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20070101003 - Methods and systems for providing proprietary access to a server: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing proprietary access to a server. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a first service request from a client. The first service request may include a client identifier. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include creating a session identifier when it... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070101006 - On-line schedule system with personalization features: An on-line scheduling application allows users to personalize how television-related, entertainment-related, and social event related information is provided. Users may select one or more sources from which the information is obtained. Users may set up a date book that is also uses as a source. Users may select one or... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070101005 - System and method of transmitting emoticons in mobile communication terminals: An apparatus and method transmitting emoticons in mobile communication terminals are disclosed by which compatibility in exchanging graphic emoticons between mobile communication terminals can be ensured. The present invention includes receiving a transmission request message in a first mobile communication terminal, the transmission request message related to a first graphic... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070101008 - Method and apparatus for managing and/or retrieving information relating to a user: A method and apparatus for managing information related to a user in a client-server environment comprising a client computer and a server computer, include the client computer receiving a first cookie sent from a server computer related to a web-based service; storing the first cookie related to the web-based service;... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070101007 - Workflow decision management with intermediate message validation: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070101010 - Human interactive proof with authentication: A method and system for authenticating that a user responding to a HIP challenge is the user that was issued the challenge is provided. Upon receiving information from a sender purporting to be a particular user, the authentication system generates a HIP challenge requesting information based on the user's identity.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070101009 - Method and system for automatic/dynamic instant messaging location switch: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for improved functionality within an instant messaging system. A user's identification is authorized when the user logs on to a current device. A determination that the user is logged on to another, original, device is made. Applicable instant messaging... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070101011 - Data communications: The present invention provides methods of, computer programs for and apparatus for control and/or observation of a device with communication capabilities by a controller device with hypertext or hypermedia communication capabilities. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to methods of, computer programs for and apparatus for control... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070101012 - Method and apparatus for automatic switching of multicast/unicast live tv streaming in a tv-over-ip environment: A system for live TV transmission over IP networks incorporates a content encoder receiving live TV broadcast and converting to RTP packets for multicast streaming. A streaming server receives the multicast RTP packets from the content encoder and converts the multicast stream to a unicast stream. The streaming server is... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070101013 - Scalable multi-threaded media processing architecture: The allocation of data storage in the data storage means includes the steps of selecting data from one of the data sources and supplying a code execution address to a programmable data sequencer (1004). The code from the code execution address is executed to cause data to be written to... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070101014 - Circuit for driving network indicator: A circuit assembly for indicating statuses of a network includes an indicator circuit having a first indicator and a second indicator, a networking chipset including a first port for outputting a network type signal, a second port for outputting a linking status signal, and a third port for outputting a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070101019 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing response latency: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing response latency. An identification module identifies a computation module that may communicate with a client through one or more communication modules. A calculation module calculates the number of communication modules that transceive a packet between the computation module and the client... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070101015 - Fast opportunistic distributed resource reallocation for established connections in a multihop network: A multihop network and nodes are described herein that implement a reactive routing protocol that enables resources of the multihop network to be continuously adapted in a distributed/opportunistic manner in response to a topology change within the multihop network so as to optimize the performance of a connection between a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070101018 - Inter-domain qos reservation establishment and modification: A Resource Manager node and methods for establishing and modifying an inter-domain QoS reservation between a first node in a first domain and a further node in a further domain. After detection that the QoS reservation with at least one QoS characteristic is needed or needs to be refreshed, obtaining,... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070101016 - Method for confirming identity of a master node selected to control i/o fabric configuration in a multi-host environment: In a distributed computer system having multiple root nodes, a challenge protocol is provided, for use in determining or confirming the root node in which a PCI Configuration Manager (PCM) actually resides. This node is referred to as the master node. The challenge procedure is activated whenever the identity of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070101020 - Packet transmitting method of wireless network: A packet transmitting method of wireless network is provided. The packet transmitting method determines whether the packet to be transmitted is a real-time packet or not, and, when the packet is a real-time packet, a re-transmission mechanism of the packet is determined to be ON or OFF according to the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070101017 - System and method for routing information: Systems and methods are disclosed for routing information in a work machine environment. In one embodiment, an information routing system is disclosed that includes a set of subscribers and an information router. The information router may be configured to store a set of parameter data received from a set of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070101021 - Recovering a blade in scalable software blade architecture: A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade manager for managing states of the one or... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070101022 - Sharing data in scalable software blade architecture: A system and method for sharing data between two users on different blades in scalable software blade architecture are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of blades, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, each blade serves a predefined group of users, and each user is associated with... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070101023 - Multiple task offload to a peripheral device: In one embodiment, to determine what tasks may be offloaded to a peripheral hardware device (e.g., to be performed in hardware on the peripheral device, rather than on the CPU(s) of the host computer), an indication from the at least one peripheral hardware device may be provided, without the peripheral... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070101024 - System and method for achieving interoperability in home network with ieee 1394 and upnp devices: In a home network, a proxy is used to convert information in UPnP format from UPnP devices to IEEE 1394 format so that IEEE 1394 devices in the network can access the information which was originally in UPnP format. Likewise, the proxy converts information in IEEE 1394 format from IEEE... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070101025 - Synchronizing certificates between a device and server: Systems and methods for processing messages within a wireless communications system are disclosed. A server within the wireless communications system maintains a list of certificates contained in devices that use the server. The server synchronizes or updates the list of certificates based on information contained in message to and from... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC