Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 06/07

20070150534 - System, computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes an image forming apparatus configured to display interactive menus so as to allow an operator of the image forming apparatus to interact with a document manager. The display interactive menus are downloaded from the document manager to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150533 - Systems and methods for electronic message content identification: An electronic message identification method and system is provided for identifying and managing electronic messages. The electronic message identification method and system may be used for sending an electronic file to a customer by receiving an approval from the customer indicating acceptable content for electronic files that are sent to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070150535 - System and method for visual chat: Disclosed is an inventive method for providing visual chat. A character image is read into memory representing a character a user wishes to be for the duration of the visual chat. Continuous frames of video images are then received, typically using video camera, which include image data of a person.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070150538 - Method and apparatus for managing direct i/o to storage systems in virtualization: A network storage virtualization method and apparatus in a network storage system having a plurality of network storage devices. According to the, present invention a client connected via a network is allowed to access the network storage devices as one virtual network storage system. In addition the client is permitted... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070150536 - Peripheral device having user preference history and method of operation: A peripheral device includes a processor adapted to generate a list, the list including at least one job previously performed by the device, a user interface in communication with the processor and adapted to display the list and a storage medium in communication with the processor and adapted to store... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070150537 - Social network e-commerce and advertisement tracking system: The present invention relates to methods of advertising, social networking systems, and individualized profiles located within social networking systems. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method of advertising within a Social Networking System is provided, which is carried out by providing a group of users with... Agent: Law Office Of J. Curtis Edmondson

20070150539 - Method and apparatus for collaboratively manipulating source scripts: Source script (250, 260, 270) on multiple user portals is collaboratively manipulated by exchanging metadata (210) among the plurality of user portals to represent chosen segments of the source script. The metadata (210) contains properties (230-241) for the chosen segments of the source script. A common copy (250, 260, 270)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070150540 - Presence and peer launch pad: Managing peer-to-peer application components. A method may be performed, for example, at a computer system that includes application components including peer-to-peer application components. The peer-to-peer application components allow the computer system to communicate with other agents, such as host computers, operating systems, frameworks, application code and the like, in a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070150541 - Inbox management for threaded message views: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to inbox management in a messaging system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for inbox management for threaded message views. In one embodiment, an inbox management method for threaded message views can... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070150542 - Method and system for automatically updating contact information within a contact database: A method is proposed for automatically updating and maintaining contact information for various contacts stored in a contact database without requiring an individual to manually update their contacts by using an automated reply process for the maintaining of contact information, as well as only requiring one individual to be a... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070150543 - Verification scheme used for email message containing information about remotely monitored devices: The present invention relates to sending control or monitoring information between two hardware devices utilizing email. Control information relating to either a first hardware device or a second hardware device is determined. This information is incorporated into an email message. Directing information for directing the control information is incorporated into... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150545 - Host state-sensing for message interruption: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing interrupting requests to engage in a collaborative session and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for host state sensing for message interruptions. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070150544 - System and method for providing an information service to distribute real-time information to users via a presence system: A presence system provides information services, such as lottery information, stock quotes, entertainment information, travel information and delivery information, to users. The presence system includes a presence server for collecting and storing presence information on an information provider that provides an information service to users. The presence information includes real-time... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070150546 - Web services runtime architecture: A runtime architecture for Web services utilizes a container driver to accept an invoke request for Web services. The container driver performs any necessary data binding/unbinding required to process the invoke request and associated message context, utilizing an appropriate plugin component. An interceptor receives the context information and modifies the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070150547 - Multi-measurement vortex flowmeter: Two-wire transmitters are described in which the required voltage that a control room must supply to the transmitter is lower at high current than at low current, thus freeing up more voltage for other uses, and in which a constant set of operating voltages may be maintained. A corrected pressure... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070150549 - Portable recording and/or playback apparatus and operation method thereof: A portable apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The method includes accessing information on resources of a second portable apparatus, if the second portable apparatus is connected to a first portable apparatus; and operating the first portable apparatus using the accessed information on resources and information on resources... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070150548 - Reproduction apparatus and content reproduction method: An embodiment of a content reproduction method including downloading supplemental contents from a supplier's contents associated with a set optical disk, retaining the downloaded supplemental contents in a predetermined storage section, and in the case where an optical disk is reproduced by a reproduction apparatus which is different from the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070150550 - Method and a pervasive device of automatically downloading a midlet triggered by push messages: A method and a pervasive device for service providers to actively trigger an automatic downloading and installing process of a midlet are provided. The invention is accomplished by receiving a push message comprising midlet downloading information; parsing said push message to get said midlet downloading information; and downloading the midlet... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070150551 - Automatic sharing of online resources in a multi-user computer system: A software tool assists users of a computer network to share items from each others' personal workspaces without requiring manual interaction on the users' part to receive and store items therein. An authoring user enters a command to share the object with “target recipients” and identifies the target recipients. Thereafter,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070150552 - Peer to peer network communication: Methods and apparatus for peer to peer network communication. In one implementation, a method of communicating between a first client system and a second client system includes: discovering first address information for a first client system connected to a first network address translation device; sharing the first address information with... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070150556 - Method for analyzing state transition in web page: A method that enables a tester to efficiently perform confirmation behavior of a Web page that utilizes DHTML or difference in behavior of the Web page among various browsers, or assignment of information relating to accessibility of the Web page or verification of the information. A method is provided that... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070150557 - Apparatus and method for providing location-based advertisement information in a broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing location-based advertisement information in a BWA communication system, in which a shop terminal provides advertisement information to a service provider server. The service provider server uses the advertisement information as accounting information and provides path guidance information to a user terminal. A... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070150555 - Method, devices and system for implementing a time-shift television: A method for controlling the data flow of the time-shift TV is disreleased and includes: establishing and holding a control channel between a playing terminal and a media server; transmitting a time-shift playing command to the media server by the playing terminal through the control channel; and upon receiving the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150554 - Systems and methods for providing distributed user interfaces to configure client devices: A client device having at least one user configurable setting is detected by a user interface device. The user interface device and the client device are in electronic communication with each other. Setting signals identifying user configurable settings of the client device are received at the user interface device. A... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070150553 - Workflow and in-context e-mail recipient handling: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the workflow process for resolving data elements, such as email addresses. These technologies and techniques allow the user to perform such tasks in the same context as the activity or message. In addition, user can start and stop the resolution process at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070150559 - Method and apparatus for dynamic provisioning of an access control policy in a controller hub: A method and apparatus for dynamic provisioning of an access control policy in an input/output (I/O) controller hub are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the establishment of a control channel during evaluation stages of a network access request. In one embodiment, the control channel enables resource enumeration of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070150558 - Methodology and system for file replication based on a peergroup: The claimed invention adapts an existing operating system native replication service component to interface with a general application running on a peer-to-peer network. The claimed invention provides the general application with replication services without the need for coding this functionality from scratch. The claimed invention also adapts the replication service... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070150561 - System and method for verifying a network device's configuration: A system and method for verifying the state of a device configuration corresponding to a network device is described. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a desired state of a device, retrieving a device configuration stored in a repository, retrieving another device configuration from the network device, and identifying... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070150560 - Wireless human interface device host interface supporting both bios and os interface operations: A host-side wireless interface services communications between a wireless user input device and a serviced host. The host-side wireless interface includes a wireless network interface, a host interface, and may include additional components. The wireless network interface wirelessly communicates with the wireless user input device. The host interface communicatively couples... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070150571 - System, method, apparatus and program for event processing: To that end, the event processing system of the present invention holds event messages, which are received owing to state transitions of an IT service system, in an event message holding unit in order of issue. Among the event messages held in the event message holding unit, the event processing... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070150569 - Chat rooms for television: A processor (22) receives a televised programming signal from a source (30) of televised programming. The processor (22) also receives a signal indicating chat room content from a chat room facility (40). The processor (22) associates a visual representation of the chat room communication with a televised visual image so... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070150564 - Dynamic network identity architecture: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving indication of an event at a platform operating in shared address mode, the platform having an auxiliary entity, in response to the indication of the event, switching operation of the platform to multi address mode by... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070150578 - Managing a remote device: An agent obtains data from a device by receiving a plug-in containing system calls for obtaining the data from the device, loading the plug-in into the agent, obtaining the data from the device using the system calls, and transmitting the data over an external network using one or more of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070150575 - Method and system for dynamic distributed data caching: A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The method includes providing a cache community (402) comprising at least one peer (413). Each peer has an associated first content portion (511) indicating content to be cached by the respective peer. A client (404) may be allowed to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070150576 - Method and system for dynamic distributed data caching: A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The method includes providing a cache community (402) comprising at least one peer (413). Each peer has an associated first content portion (511) indicating content to be cached by the respective peer. A client (404) may be allowed to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070150577 - Method and system for dynamic distributed data caching: A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The method includes providing a cache community (402) comprising at least one peer (413). Each peer has an associated first content portion (511) indicating content to be cached by the respective peer. A client (404) may be allowed to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070150563 - Method and system for providing efficient object-based network management: A method for providing efficient object-based network management is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a reference to an object that represents at least one managed network element. A determination is made regarding whether the object is currently activated. The object is activated based on the request for... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070150574 - Method for detecting, monitoring, and controlling web services: A method scans SOAP and/or XML messages over TCP/IP and performs detection, monitoring, validation, and/or prevention from a monitoring, compliance, security, or integrity perspective. The method achieves these goals through a combination of scanning SOAP and/or XML non-intrusively, without reliance on Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), and providing external enforcement.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070150572 - Non-centralized network device management using console communications system and method: A system and method for the management of one or more wide area or local area network connected devices by a collocated managing device. The managing device includes communications connectivity to each of the managed devices via a console connection and optionally via shared local area network connections. Additionally, the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070150568 - Non-destructive synthetic transaction configuration: Non-corrupting synthetic transactions are generated for testing a web service. The transactions do not corrupt data for a front end web server of the web service or a back end application server accessed by the web server. The synthetic transactions may be generated using code inserted into an application and... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070150566 - Remote system override: An apparatus and a method for providing remote supervisory override of a lockout at a workstation is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first workstation an override response module which is configured to receive an override request message. The override response module provides an override response message that includes an indicator... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070150567 - Remote system override: A system and a method for providing remote supervisory override of a lockout at a workstation is disclosed. The system includes a first workstation and a second workstation. The first workstation has lockout functionality, wherein at least a portion of the functionality of the workstation is locked when a lockout... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070150565 - Surveillance network system: Embodiments of a sensor network system provide surveillance capabilities in multiple contexts/environments (e.g., military, commercial, scientific, civic, urban, wilderness, etc.). Network nodes may include devices such as sensors, network routers, network controllers, etc. Network sensors may be configured so that power management objectives are maximized. Network sensors (both individually and... Agent: Perkins Coie, LLP

20070150573 - System and method for advertising on a network: A system for advertising to an end user in a computer network is provided. The system includes a server configured to transmit instructions to a client application to display an advertisement and a call-to-action for a reward in proximity to each other. The system is further configured to receive a... Agent: Dovas Law P.C.

20070150562 - System and method for data quality management and control of heterogeneous data sources: System and method for data quality management and control of heterogeneous data systems. In a preferred embodiment, the system functions as a resource management tool that simplifies the process of managing data systems. More specifically, the system provides connections to source data systems, allows users to view data structures and... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20070150570 - Systems and methods for discovering and interacting with services: A requester multicasts a service command. When a service receives the service command, it performs the operation that is specified by the service command, which may generate response data. The service may then send, and the requestor may receive, a response message via unicast. The response message may include the... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070150587 - Method and apparatus for populating a software catalog with automated use signature generation: A method and a corresponding apparatus for managing software licenses on a plurality of computer are proposed. The present method and system aim at populating a software catalog without the manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070150588 - Apparatus and method for providing a marketing service: Apparatus and method for providing a marketing service are described. In one embodiment, a computer-readable storage medium includes: (1) a preferences module that is configured to collect a set of preferences of a user; (2) a monitoring module that is configured to monitor a web site based on the set... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070150584 - Apparatus, system, and method for determining server utilization in hosted computing infrastructure: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining server utilization in a hosted computing resources infrastructure/environment. A monitor module intercepts a packet communicated between a client and a server. An extraction module extracts a service indicator from the packet. In a certain embodiment, an identification module identifies the client... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070150589 - Context-awareness based system supporting autonomous system construction and method of operating the system: Provided are a context-awareness based system supporting autonomous system construction and a method of operating the system. A context-awareness based user system operating in association with at least one server providing system software and platform software includes a platform manager downloading at least one piece of software required to operate... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070150583 - Method and apparatus for controlling actions based on triggers in a conference: Disclosed are conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for implementing a trigger-based conferencing system to facilitate increased productivity meeting participation. An exemplary method, in accordance with embodiments, of managing a workflow application in a conference, where the conference includes a plurality of events, can include: (i) creating a trigger by... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070150580 - Method and device for monitoring the exchange of data between application systems: The invention affords a possible way of checking whether the transaction of a data packet from a first application system to a second application system was effected successfully and within a predetermined transaction time, even if a series of further application systems are between the two application systems, the application... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070150579 - Method of managing alerts issued by intrusion detection sensors of an information security system: A method of managing alerts issued by intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c) of an information security system (1) including an alert management system (13), each alert being defined by an alert identifier and an alert content. Each of the alerts issued by the intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070150582 - Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for monitoring, examining, and/or blocking traffic associated with a network element based on whether the network element can be trusted: A communication network is operated by determining whether a network element can be trusted and monitoring traffic associated with the network element based on whether the network element can be trusted. At least some of the monitored traffic may be selected for examination based on the degree of trust for... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070150585 - Multi-dimensional aggregation on event streams: Multi-dimensional aggregation on event streams for generating reports based on metadata about what events are available. An aggregation definition tool receives the event stream and, responsive to user input, identifies events of interest and specifies a correlation pattern for defining activities from the events. A user interface permits a user... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070150581 - System and method for monitoring system performance levels across a network: Method of monitoring performance levels across a network, including steps of monitoring in real time performance levels of (i) at least one program application operating on the network, and (ii) at least one component of infrastructure of the network, and consolidating and storing data corresponding to the monitored performance levels.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070150586 - Withdrawing requests in a shared memory system: A notification of a request is entered into a queue that supplies request notifications to a first worker node amongst a plurality of worker nodes. The first worker node is targeted to process the request. Before the notification is serviced from the first queue, the notification is withdrawn from the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070150590 - Computer system and storage virtualizer: The computer system is capable of setting centralized modules so as to make most of access requests to a virtual storage unit correspond to physical storage units assigned to a centralized module, which receives the requests. The computer system comprises a storage virtualizer having: a unit for selecting a centralized... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070150591 - Reliable page flow control: A method and system are provided for maintaining flow control in a multi-page process. Each page that is produced by a server is embedded with an identifier. Similarly, each event that is processed by a browser is embedded with an event identifier. Both of these identifiers are stored in a... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070150596 - Content publication: Publishing content using a peer-to-peer content distribution system is described. A publisher is required to request authorization to publish from an authorization body. Resources such as tracker and seed nodes are allocated in a peer-to-peer content distribution system and pre-processing of content to be published is carried out. For example,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070150595 - Identifying information services and schedule times to implement load management: Identifying a location and download schedule of web services. Responsive to a request from the application program, the system generates a list of the web services available to an application program along with locations and schedule times associated with the web services. The schedule times implement load management of the... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070150597 - Launching service applications using a virtual network management system: A network service administration system including a plurality of service objects, a plurality of address objects; and a service configuration application for a multifunction appliance running on a client computer coupled to the appliance via a network. The service configuration application includes an interface allowing subscribers to configure at least... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070150593 - Network processor and reference counting method for pipelined processing of packets: A network processor and a deterministic method are described herein that can prevent a dataplane malfunction within a packet processing pipeline by delaying a configuration manager from being able to immediately re-use entries which have been freed-up/deleted from shared memory.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070150592 - Portable device for receiving media content: A portable device (200, 210) comprises a power source (70) and a processing system (15, 20, 25, 30, 35) for processing media content received from a service provider (100) via a delivery channel. A control apparatus (50, 60) determines remaining capacity of the power source (70) and receives information from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070150598 - System and method for providing highly available processing of asynchronous service requests: Highly-available processing of an asynchronous request can be accomplished in a single transaction. A distributed request queue receives a service request from a client application or application view client. A service processor is deployed on each node of a cluster containing the distributed request queue. A service processor pulls the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070150594 - System, method, and program product for providing local load balancing for high-availability servers: The present invention is directed to a method, system, and computer program product for providing local load balancing for high-availability servers. In particular, the present invention is based on the use of an HACMP cluster of servers (for high availability) each running an instance of a TCP splitter (for load... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070150602 - Distributed and replicated sessions on computing grids: Distributed and replicated sessions are implemented in a grid architecture. A session including conversational state is stored at a server in the grid. An incoming request is directed to a server via a load balancing mechanism. When a server receives an incoming request, it either a) retrieves the session from... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070150599 - Generation of resource-usage profiles for application sessions of a number of client computing devices: Resource-usage profiles for application sessions of a number of client computing devices are generated, by aggregating profiles generated from application sessions running on the client computing devices. In particular, resource-usage information for application sessions is generated as the application sessions are generated within each client computing device of a number... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC

20070150601 - Interactive electronic desktop action method and system: A method and system are disclosed for increasing the yield of response to an electronic solicitation to take action by presenting direct action links within the solicitation itself. These direct action links are distinguished by the ability to initiate a transaction when a user interacts with them, without the need... Agent: Steve Angelica

20070150600 - Method and apparatus for collecting data for characterizing http session workloads: A web server comprising multiple computer systems includes at least one system which maintains a database of redundant session-persistent data on behalf of other systems which process HTTP session workloads for clients. A session analyzer extracts information from this redundancy database to characterize HTTP session workloads. Preferably, session workloads are... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070150603 - System and method for cross-domain social networking: Social networking systems and processes include cross-domain functionality. Requests for access to websites coupled to an authentication system may be received. Whether a user is logged on to the authentication system may be automatically detected. The authentication system may allow a user to be logged on to a second website... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070150604 - Method and apparatus for identifying message field names: The invention includes a method and apparatus for identifying a field name. The method includes receiving a message comprising a plurality of fields, each field having a field name, and processing each of a plurality of characters of the received message for identifying the field names, where each character is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070150608 - Method of enabling a wireless information device to access data services: A method of enabling a wireless information device to access data from several data services providers in which the method comprises the step of the device using an extensible framework which handles data passing to and from several applications resident on the device, the framework being shared by each of... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070150605 - Selective throttling presence updates: Presence communications are selectively controlled to reduce signaling traffic associated with one or more presence attributes without impacting when or how frequently presence messages associated with other presence attributes may be sent. A first threshold condition is determined that is associated with sending a presence publication message including first presence... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070150606 - Systems and methods for advertisement tracking: Systems and methods for recording viewing of an advertisement on a mobile computing device. In an example method the mobile computing device initiates presentation of a digital content file having one or more associated advertisements, transmits from the mobile computing device at least one of an identifier for the presented... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070150607 - Systems and methods for amplifing social dynamics using mobile devices: Systems and methods for allowing communication between two or more proximate mobile computing devices. In one method a first device detects the presence of a second device. A signal is sent by a first device for requesting a comparison of the lists of media files. The signal can be sent... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070150609 - Method and system to download and track digital material: A method of providing a digital data item to a user, the user having registered on a server so that user information has been stored in a User Information Database, an application also having been associated with a user terminal by encoding a unique identifier of the user terminal in... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070150611 - Dns based client-server system and its use in electronic devices: A system configured to expand the utility of DNS in a network is disclosed. A DNS command not only carries the host name for an application server but also a command name or reference and optionally one or more parameters for the command. In other words, a command may be... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070150610 - Javascript relay: A platform-independent, SOAP toolkit-independent, server environment providing web services in which a web browser can make an application-to-application web services request over HTTP by having one or more proxy servers installed on an application server to receive such web services requests from a browser. The proxy server adds customer credential... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20070150612 - Method and system of providing multimedia content: A method and system of providing multimedia content. There includes: capturing audio data; capturing full motion video data; collecting the data in a single file; chroma-keying and masking the full motion video data; including the mask in the single file; storing the single file; providing a calling module that calls... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070150615 - Carrier interoperability for critical services: A system processes communication path requests in an autonomous system. The system includes a proxy server that receives a request message from an external system requesting establishment of a communication path through the autonomous system. The request message includes a desired communication path profile including a desired level of redundancy.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070150614 - Method and apparatus for implementing filter rules in a network element: Multiple non-conflicting actions associated with filter rules may be located and applied to a packet using a single ACL lookup by causing action records to be created from ACEs in the ACL, and then causing the ACL lookup to return the action record rather than any one particular ACE. Radix... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070150613 - Method for substitute switching of spatially separated switching systems: An identical clone, with identical hardware, identical software and an identical data base, is allocated to each switching system to be protected, as a redundancy partner. Switching is carried out in a quick, secure and automatic manner by a superordinate, real-time enabled monitor which establishes communication with the switching systems... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070150617 - Resource application program interface utility for changing user interface elements on wireless devices: Embodiments of a mobile device incorporating a resource application program interface for downloading user interface components for a resident application are described. Resource profiles are defined by device manufacturers for each model of mobile device. The resource profiles specify the composition, format, and appearance of one or more user interface... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070150616 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network management system which can perform processing, conversion and transmission of data between a plurality of client devices and a plurality of home appliances. The home network management system resides in a home master device connected to at least one home appliance through a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070150619 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple management interfaces to a network device: A method and apparatus for managing a network access device is provided. Embedded within the access device are three distinct software layers. The first layer is a combined text-interface generator and Hypertext Transport Protocol client. The second layer is a combined Hypertext Transport Protocol server and Simple Network Management Protocol... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070150618 - Method and system for responding to inquiries from users: A method for responding to inquiries from a user by a response support system. A request displaying a second screen is received from a user terminal of the user in which a first screen is being displayed. An inquiry destination of the response support system is identified in the first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070150620 - Efficient synchronization of element management systems to network element attributes: A system, apparatus and a method are described that synchronizes multiple element management systems with a network element. The synchronization between the management entities within the element is maintained by employing special attributes, such as sentry identification for managed objects and guard attributes for managed object tables. Using these attributes,... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP Carothers, W. Douglas

20070143390 - Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system: An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070143391 - Wireless network system: A wireless network system wherein just inputting information regarding new wireless network settings from one client system enables the wireless network settings in the wireless network wireless communication control system and all of the client systems to be synchronously changed. The wireless communication control system is provided with a setting... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070143397 - Caller-callee association of a plurality of networked devices with direct dial through thin client: 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: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070143395 - Computer system for sharing i/o device: Provided is a computer system in which an I/O card is shared among physical servers and logical servers. Servers are set in advance such that one I/O card is used exclusively by one physical or logical server, or shared among a plurality of servers. An I/O hub allocates a virtual... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070143392 - Dynamic remediation: A network in which remediation is provided to keep protective software in network clients up-to-date. As network clients connect to an access control server, the clients provide status information concerning their protective software. The access server determines whether the clients comply with a quarantine enforcement policy. Clients that comply with... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143396 - Method for client-server-based communication over several interfaces and client supporting the method: A method for communication between a client (CL) and a server (SV) using a client that is able to use one of at least two interfaces (INTF1, INTF2, . . . , INTFN) and to switch between these interfaces (INTF1, INTF2, . . . , INTFN) during a communication session.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070143394 - Server based date/time coordinate system: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the interpretation and display of schedule data on a client. A server stores the schedule information and a user time zone setting. A client requests the schedule information from the server. The server translates the schedule information into one or more data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070143393 - Systems and methods for enhanced message support using a generic client proxy: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for controlling message communication between a first computer and a second computer. An exemplary method includes receiving, at the first computer, one or more messages from the second computer, the messages being stored in a buffer associated with an interface at... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070143401 - Buddy watch: A method and a system for managing communications over a network. The method can include receiving from a first user at least one user identifier associated with a second user and receiving at least one session identifier. The session identifier can correlate to a chat session on the network. Responsive... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070143398 - Central work-product management system for coordinated collaboration with remote users: A multi-component system for linking remote uses to a central work-product management system includes central processing device, central storage device, and a selection of different remote access devices and associated central system interface means for remote user to collaborate with central system licensee-owner work-product computer applications. The central storage device... Agent: Jean Ann Graham

20070143402 - Conference aided system, input board and control method thereof, and program: This invention provides a conference aided system, which is configured by interconnecting a conference management server, an input board having a board surface and used to input handwritten information, and an image storage device via a network, and aids execution of process associated with a conference. The server stores conference... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070143403 - Method and system for automatically controlling forum posting: A method, for automatically controlling a data submission in a forum, the control being based on the respective data content, comprises: the data content submitted by a user for the forum is automatically parsed with respect to specifically selected characters, the selected characters being provided together with respective selection ancillary... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070143400 - Presentation navigation over telephone infrastructure: During a presentation conducted between a presentation computer and a user/participant computer, synchronization of displayed pages on the presentation computer and a user/participant computer is achieved consistent with allowing the user/participant to browse the presentation pages by storing a page identifier responsive to each page change at the presentation computer... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070143399 - Scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment: Provided are a method, system, and program for scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment. A form is transmitted over a network to be rendered at an organizer computer to enable entry of information on a meeting. The form is received having organizer entered information on one meeting. The... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070143404 - Method and system for establishing and maintaining data communication between a first and a second local area network: The invention discloses a method for establishing communication between a first party (C1) offering a service, and a second party (C2) needing said service, the parties being in respective LAN:s, unable to establish communication with each other. The first party registers with a switchboard function (SWB) which assigns it an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070143405 - Techniques for measuring peer-to-peer (p2p) networks: Techniques for measuring Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks are provided. P2P are initially seeded with links to feigned content. As a P2P participant accesses a link metrics are recorded about the P2P network being used by the participant. The metrics are used to form measurements to compare different P2P networks relative to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070143430 - Methods of routing messages using a listener registry: A method of routing messages may include providing a listener registry of a plurality of listeners and associated namespaces so that at least one namespace is associated with each of the plurality of listeners. A message may be received from an originating application, and the message may include a message... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070143415 - Customizable presence icons for instant messaging: Included are methods, for an instant messaging environment. One embodiment of the method include providing a first instant messaging user with an option to determine at least one instant messaging presence signifier; receiving a information related to at least one selected instant messaging presence signifier; and associating the at least... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143424 - Distribution list for a reply message: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to electronic messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for distribution list management for a reply electronic message. In one embodiment of the invention, a distribution list management method for a reply message in a... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070143419 - E-mail attachment as one-time clickable link: An e-mail attachment as a one-time clickable link reduces the overhead of sending a potentially large number of e-mails with potentially large attachments to a mailing list. A method of providing the subscribers to the mailing list with the same information just as secure by the use of a one-time... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070143407 - E-mail certification service: A method is provided to handle an electronic mail message such that the receiver of the e-mail message can verify the integrity of the message. A request is provided from a sender's side to a service. The request includes information regarding the e-mail message. The service processes at least a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070143426 - E-mail protocol for instant message: Allowing a message, composed as an instant message, to be transmitted using an e-mail protocol and displayed at a recipient as an instant message or an e-mail is disclosed. In particular, on a message originator, one embodiment includes, composing a message as an instant message, and transmitting the message using... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143431 - Email attachment management in a computer system: An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The time variance interface of the e-mail browser also provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of the e-mail... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143418 - Email transport rule per-recipient condition: A schema for a rule transport engine to be applied to an email having multiple recipients. The schema defines a rule which executes one or more specific actions for a particular recipient or a particular group of recipients receiving a message instance of a bifurcated message when the message meets... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070143413 - Email transport rule recipient flat declaration condition: A schema for a rule transport engine to be applied to an email having multiple recipients. The schema defines a rule which executes one or more specific actions for a particular recipient or a particular group of recipients receiving a message instance of a bifurcated message when the message meets... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070143409 - Email transport rule recipient tree condition: A schema for a rule transport engine to be applied to an email having multiple recipients. The schema defines a rule which executes one or more specific actions for a particular recipient or a particular group of recipients receiving a message instance of a bifurcated message when the message meets... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070143408 - Enterprise to enterprise instant messaging: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for communicating between private networks. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving a request to initiate an active communication session between a first user of a local private... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143411 - Graphical interface for defining mutually exclusive destinations: A user defines mutually exclusive inbox and spam folders to which emails are routed based on a rating assigned to each email. A variable user-defined range defines a mapping of the ratings to each folder. Incoming emails are routing to one of the folders according to the range. A reference... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070143417 - Instant messaging confirmation and receipt: Included are methods for providing information related to whether an instant messaging recipient received a message. Embodiments of the method include receiving an instant message from an instant messaging sender, wherein the instant message is configured for delivery to an instant messaging recipient and including information related to a read... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143423 - Method and system for allowing a session initiating user to select one or more privacy settings to be applied to an instant messaging session from among multiple possible privacy controls: A system and method allowing a session initiator to select from among multiple privacy levels to be applied to an instant messaging session. When a user initiates an instant messaging session, multiple selectable privacy settings are presented, from which the user can select. The disclosed system may provide a session... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070143428 - Method and system for displaying indications of messages from important persons and from new persons at a high display priority in a gathered threads view of an electronic mail (\"email\") user interface: A system for providing a gathered threads view of email messages that effectively indicates the presence of messages from important persons and/or from new participants in the thread. When a message in a thread is received, the sender of the message is compared to a list of important persons for... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070143425 - Method and system for providing version control for electronic mail attachments: A system for providing version control for documents attached to electronic mail messages in which a user's personal document library is used to store documents attached to the email messages the user sends and/or receives. Each time an attached document is transmitted or received within a message thread, a different... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070143427 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing ontological domain services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing ontological domain services is provided. The method includes creating an ontological domain using information elements accrued from sources and in response to detectable behaviors of an individual or entity over time. The method also includes analyzing the ontological domain to anticipate... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070143420 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for sorting electronic-mail messages: Methods, systems, and computer program products for sorting e-mail. Methods include receiving an e-mail message for a user at a first mailbox. The e-mail message includes an attribute. A probability that a copy of the e-mail message belongs in a second mailbox is calculated. The calculating is based on a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070143422 - Phonebook use to filter unwanted telecommunications calls and messages: This invention relates to the use of a customer phonebook feature for storing white lists and black lists for filtering unwanted voice calls or data messages. It also relates to the automatic population of a customer phonebook of identifications of a destination of outgoing calls. Advantageously, the phonebook can be... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070143412 - Providing meeting information from a meeting server to an email server to store in an email database: Provided are a method, system, and program for providing meeting information from a meeting server to an email server to store in an email database. A meeting database has information on scheduled meetings. A meeting server manages access to the meeting database. The meeting server calls an email server to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070143414 - Reference links for instant messaging: Embodiments discussed in this disclosure can be configured to provide for including a reference link in an instant message by a sender for a recipient includes receiving an identifiable character string in the instant message, the identifiable character string being associated with an entity, determining an entity type that is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143416 - Saving un-viewed instant messages: Included is a method for saving instant messages. Embodiments of the method include receiving a message from a sender, wherein the message is configured for delivery to a recipient. Embodiments of the method also include determining whether the recipient has viewed the message, and in response to determining that the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143410 - System and method for defining and translating chat abbreviations: A system and method for defining and translating chat abbreviations. A system is provided for modifying messages in real-time based on an identity of an intended recipient, including: a rules database that includes rules for translating chat abbreviations based on the identity of the intended recipient; a system for identifying... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143421 - System and method for reviewing attachment content on a mobile device: Messages with an associated attachment document are first delivered to a mobile device without the attachment document. If the mobile device user wishes to review attachment data related to the attachment document, the user submits an attachment processing request to an attachment server that handles the attachment processing requests to... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070143406 - System for enhancing the transmission security of the e-mails in the internet network: System for enhancing the security of the e-mails transmitted from a sender (10) to a receiver (12) over a data transmission network such as Internet wherein a Message Transfer Agent (MTA) (14) associated with the sender is in charge of transmitting over the network an original e-mail sent by the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143432 - System for processing electronic mail messages with specially encoded addresses: A method for processing an electronic mail message is disclosed comprising the steps of: accepting a request for e-mail server address information for an electronic message having an address, the address having an electronic mail receiving system domain with a recipient name encoded therein; providing an e-mail server address for... Agent: Sonnabendlaw

20070143429 - Technique for handling incoming reply messages: Messages are handled by a determination that an incoming message is in response to a previous outgoing message, where the previous outgoing message is sent from the computing device. The previous outgoing message is identified, as stored on the computing device. Data that indicates information relating to receiving the incoming... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070143434 - Accessing web services: One Embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for accessing web services. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving a request for a web service, the request being in an instant messaging format; converting the request... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143435 - Presentation of un-viewed messages: Included are embodiments for saving instant messages. At least one embodiment of a method includes establishing a connection with a sender client and establishing a connection with a first recipient client and receiving an instant message from the sender client, the instant message configured for delivery to the first recipient... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143433 - Using statistical tracking information of instant messaging users: Embodiments discussed in this disclosure provide for determining the presence of a user on a first client device. Embodiments of a method include receiving data related to instant messaging activity of the user, storing the data related to the instant messaging activity of the user, and creating at least one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143436 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing light weight system calls to improve user mode performance: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing light weight system calls to improve user mode performance is disclosed. A range of system call code for the light weight system calls is provided in a system call table. The light weight system calls skip the code for saving and... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070143440 - Application updating in a home automation data transfer system: An automation network includes automation network devices connected to the network and a system level interface that interfaces with a transport layer and an application layer of the automation network. A method is disclosed that programs an automation network device in communication with an automation network, where the automation network... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070143441 - Content transmission system, transmission server, communication terminal, and content transmission method: In a CP server, when a copyright determination unit determines that requested content is copyrighted content, a set up unit sets up a copyrighted content public URL comprising information that can specify a memory region where copyrighted content is stored, and corresponding to a content delivery request by a cellular... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143437 - Global and local entity naming: An improved entity naming scheme employs the use of two sets of names: local names and global names. The local and global naming scheme may be applied to entities that are assigned to a number of different global compartments. Local entities are entities that are assigned to the same compartment,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070143438 - Methods and systems for facilitating asymmetric communications between parties: Methods and systems for facilitating communications and commerce between remote device users and merchants or sponsors, particularly adapted for small-screen portable devices such as cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. The invention enables sponsors to quickly and easily, without the requirement for specialized or expensive equipment, establish Web sites to... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070143439 - Personalized multi-service computer environment: A system and method for tracking a user history, for presentation thereof within a browser display. An executable software construct operates at a client machine to trap object references, which are then transmitted to a server. The server analyzes the object references and organizes them into a display structure. The... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070143442 - Scalable publish/subscribe broker network using active load balancing: A scalable broker publish/subscribe broker network using a suite of active load balancing schemes is disclosed. In a Distributed Hashing Table (DHT) network, a workload management mechanism, consisting of two load balancing schemes on events and subscriptions respectively and one load-balancing scheduling scheme, is implemented over an aggregation tree rooted... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070143443 - Outsourced burning, printing and fulfillment of dvds: A method for electronically submitting a DVD order for burning and printing at a remote location is provided. The present invention allows software applications that burn DVD discs through a local DVD-ROM drive to easily integrate a virtual DVD publishing device. The virtual DVD publishing device allows users to order... Agent: Tomasz Johannsen

20070143447 - Methods and systems for providing a structured application: Systems and methods provide a structured application. The systems and methods may include calling an application service in response to a received request and receiving first data through the application service. Furthermore, the systems and methods may include calling an enterprise service from the application service in response to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070143448 - Mobile terminal and method for connecting to a web site and managing connection information: A mobile terminal and a method for quickly accessing the internet are provided. The mobile terminal comprises a radio frequency (RF) unit which performs access to a web site through the Internet, an access information collector which collects access information of the web site, a web access configuration unit which... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070143444 - Communication system, relay device, and communication control method: A communication management table is provided to a gateway server 400 relaying data communication between Java-enabled MS 600 and Java-enabled CS 200. Gateway server 400 refers to Java application related information included in a request message sent from the Java-enabled MS 600 and to a communication management table stored in... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070143449 - Discovering network services: A method includes sending a request for network services to plural devices, where the request identifies the network services using a self-describing data structure, and receiving a response to the request from at least one device, where the response identifies which of the network services are supported by the at... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070143445 - Method for offering and refreshing digital content on fixed image platforms: A method of offering and refreshing content on fixed image platforms which includes storing a fixed image on an imaging server, storing content which is regularly updated in an imaging server, merging the fixed image and at least some of the content to provide a merged fixed image, and installing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070143446 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for installing an application from one peer to another including application configuration settings and data: Methods, systems, and computer program products for installing an application are disclosed. According to one method, an installation of an application on a source device is detected. Responsive to detecting the application installation, a descriptor is produced including source-device-specific installation information. The descriptor is published to a descriptor data store... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070143452 - Dynamically-generated operating system for sensor networks: Application requirements may be determined for executing an application using a sensor network, the sensor network including a plurality of devices. Hardware constraints associated with the devices may be determined, and an operating system may be generated, based on the application requirements and the hardware constraints. In this way, an... Agent: Brake Huges PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070143451 - System and method for configuring a control system: A system for configuring a building automation control system includes a user interface configured to receive system data regarding specifications for the building automation control system from a user. Configuration logic is coupled to the user interface and is used to generate at least one view of the building automation... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070143453 - System and method for configuring a packet-switched network based on a network quality survey: A method is presented for configuring a packet-switched network. The method provides for emulating a variable quality of service for the network and collecting survey data for the variable quality of service. In another embodiment a system is presented for configuring a packet-switched network based on quality of service survey... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070143450 - System and method for web-based monitoring and control of a plurality of spatially distributed installations: The invention relates to a system and method for web-based monitoring and control of distributed installations, with at least one web client which interchanges data/information with web servers in the respective distributed installation via communications links, where the at least one web client has applications and an integration layer for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070143454 - System for automatic configuration of computers in a server farm: A load balancer in a server farm automatically detects the addition of a server to a pool, decides on a proper configuration of the added server, and automatically configures the added server. A network configuration event such as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) event is used as the basis... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070143464 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer program: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of connecting units that individually connect to a first network to which a predetermined data processing apparatus is connected and a second network, and a determining unit that determines that a connecting unit that receives data including an address of the predetermined data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070143465 - Connection tapping: There are disclosed systems and methods for managing network devices and/or physical layer devices involving a server computer, a client computer coupled with the server computer, and a connector device coupled with the server computer, and a plurality of network devices and/or physical layer devices coupled with the connector device.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070143467 - Data storage device and data storage method: A data storage device includes: a reception unit that receives data transmitted from a transmission device via a network; a storage unit that stores the data which has been received and creates registration history data for the stored data; and a charge processing unit that identifies an access point which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070143466 - Device management method using broadcast channel: A device management method using a broadcast channel which is capable of simultaneously initializing services provided to a plurality of terminals, varying set values of the plurality of terminals, or upgrading part of software, the method comprising: receiving bootstrap information including data (content) for connecting to a typical device management... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143456 - Exchange of centralized control data: Apparatus and method (FIG. 2) for providing a user with unit as a gateway for communicating with home or office devices (252), as well as software developers, embed a second wired (240) or RF interface (270) in each device. This second interface, which supports standard protocols and user interface (UI)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070143460 - Load-balancing metrics for adaptive dispatching of long asynchronous network requests: Methods and systems are provided for load-balancing a data network, which is configured with a plurality of servers for servicing client requests asynchronously, and with a network dispatcher for assigning each new request to a selected server. The servers generate metrics indicative of their currently assigned workloads. The network dispatcher... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070143457 - Method of using tokens and policy descriptors for dynamic on demand session management: Tokens and policy descriptors are used for dynamic on demand session management in a distributed and scalable architecture for on demand sessions and resource management. The architecture includes an on demand client, a purchase server, and a session manager. A purchase token is generated at the purchase server and assigned... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070143462 - Method to securely initialize, protect and recover system date/time: The claimed method and system monitors computer system timer(s) relative to other timers to detect discrepancies and/or may capture an offset to provide a method of more accurately determining a current time. The invention may also provide a method to detect power source tampering using a last known good time... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070143468 - Methods and apparatuses for transferring data: The present invention provides several methods and apparatuses for transmitting multimedia data using streaming media protocols such as real-time transfer protocols (RTP) and real-time streaming protocols (RTSP) in a computer network environment. In one exemplary embodiment, a request for RTP data and its associated extension is sent from the caching... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070143455 - Monitoring operational data in data processing systems: Provided are methods, apparatus and computer programs for monitoring operational data relating to a sequence of data processing operations in a network of data processing units. In response to specified boundaries for data gathering, operational data is selectively gathered into discrete data partitions for a desired time period, a desired... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143459 - Protection of privacy-sensitive information through redundancy, encryption and distribution of information: A method and system for protecting privacy-sensitive information through redundancy, encryption and distribution of information is provided. Information to be stored is received from one of a number of devices. The information is divided into a number of segments that are stored distributed across a set of storage facilities that... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070143461 - System and method for monitoring data in a telecommunications network: A system and method for generating an analysis and detection engine operable to monitor and report data in a telecommunications network includes a plurality of selectable processing modules. Each module is individually configurable to perform predetermined processing and data storage functions including specification of dimensions for which processing is to... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070143463 - Systems and methods for managing faults in a network: A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least one event.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070143458 - Systems and methods for providing a selective multicast proxy on a computer network: A plurality of non-multicast nodes that do not process multicast messages register with a selective multicast proxy. In response to receiving a request for a service from a requestor via multicast, the selective multicast proxy identifies among the plurality of non-multicast nodes one or more providers of the requested service.... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070143474 - Web service information management in service-oriented architecture applications: Web server information management in a service-oriented architecture application comprises intercepting a service request message issued by a Web service requester for a Web service in response to executing the service-oriented architecture application on the Web service requester side, adding a tracing header in the service request message for requesting... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143470 - Facilitating integrated web and telecommunication services with collaborating web and telecommunication clients: The present invention configures web clients, which support web services over a web services network, to obtain telecommunication information from an associated telecommunication client. The web client will then provide the telecommunication information to a web server in association with a web service, which requires the telecommunication information to use... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070143469 - Method for identifying and filtering unsolicited bulk email: An improved method is provided for identifying unsolicited bulk email messages. The method includes: monitoring electronic messages being sent to a plurality of recipients; identifying a subset of the electronic messages advertising a particular domain name; assessing reputation of the particular domain name; determining how many recipients received an electronic... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143472 - Method for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of instant messaging based on monitoring user activity: A method for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of instant messaging between users on any computing devices. One aspect of the invention is to automatically identify the status of an intended recipient and transform the details into a meaningful summary status which will be displayed to the sending user. Another... Agent: Eugene I. Shkurko, Attorney IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20070143471 - Methods, systems and computer program products for evaluating suitability of a network for packetized communications: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for evaluating suitability of a network for packetized communications, including identifying devices on the network and obtaining a plurality of assessment rules selected to evaluate the suitability of the network. Configuration data is obtained from the identified devices and the plurality of... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070143473 - Server apparatus, method for controlling the server apparatus, related control program, and storage medium storing the program: An event notification method for a server apparatus configured to notify a client apparatus of generated events, includes setting an event notification rate indicating the interval of notification notifying generated events, and determining an event to be notified to the client apparatus among events generated within a unit time corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070143476 - Guidance apparatus related to operation of information equipment and guidance method related to operation of information equipment: To provide a technology indicating guidance for a usage method of information equipment and for solving an abnormality of the information equipment to not only users having knowledge about terminology of the information equipment but also users having none of the knowledge about the terminology of the information equipment. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070143475 - Identification services: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for verifying information about an entity. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving a request to release independently verified information about the entity, the entity being identified by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143477 - Reducing round trips across a wide area network for resource locking by extended locking and delayed unlocking: A locking mechanism for a data resource is disclosed, which can operate across LANs and a WAN. The technique temporarily imposes an extended lock on the requested data resource. While the extended lock is in force, all lock and unlock requests issued by the same client for the resource are... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070143480 - Apparatus system and method for distributing configuration parameter: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for distributing configuration parameters. The present invention includes one or more storage devices configured to store data, a first DHCP server configured to process DHCP messages and redirect communications regarding configuration parameters for the storage devices to a second DHCP server, and a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070143478 - Method and apparatus for managing floor control in a network: A method for managing floor control in a network is disclosed. The method includes beginning a ballot timer when at least one of a) a first node packet is created at the node and b) a second node packet is received at the node from a second node. The first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070143479 - Systems and methods for centralized custodial control: Systems and methods for centralized custodial control are desribed. One described custodial control system includes a primary controller having a first network adapter, the primary controller configured to receive a custodial control parameter and generate and transmit a custodial control command, and a plurality of remote nodes each having a... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070143484 - Pro-active http content delivery: A method and systems for multicasting web content to users is disclosed. According to the invention, the behavior of Internet users is analyzed for determining user profiles. The data accessed by a user are multicast to all the users sharing the same profile. Optionally, information relative to the number of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143481 - Method and apparatus for communicating data between computer devices: A client server system (100, 200, 300) comprises a client subsystem (100), a server subsystem (200) and an interconnecting data network. The client subsystem includes a client application (110, 120, 130, 140, 150) operable to initiate a secure connection over the interconnecting network with the server subsystem (200). The server... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070143483 - Method and system for managing session information in a mobile communication system and apparatus therefor: A method and apparatus are provided for managing session infonnation of an access tenminal (AT) that has moved from a source subnet to a target subnet in a mobile communication system for high-speed data transmission. The AT transmits a message with a prior universal access terminal identifier (UATI) to a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070143485 - Solution for adding context to a text exchange modality during interactions with a composite services application: The present invention discloses a solution for handling text exchange input in a composite service environment. The method can included a step of conveying text exchange input to an ACM engine. The ACM engine can map the text exchange input to field and variable values of a component services application.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070143482 - System and method for handling multiple user preferences in a domain: A preference-handling system includes one or more communication interfaces, user interfaces, memory, and a controller. The controller can be used in a vehicle to handle preferences. The communication interfaces communicatively connect with devices in a domain, and the memory stores preferences for users. The controller is operably coupled to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070143486 - Method and apparatus for supporting user mobility by allowing guest access in internet service network, and billing method based on the same: A method and apparatus for supporting user mobility by allowing guest access in an Internet service network and a billing method based on the same are provided. The method for supporting user mobility by allowing guest access in an Internet service network includes the steps of: performing user authentication and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070143489 - Communication network device for universal plug and play and internet multimedia subsystems networks: The present invention relates to a device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The network communication device includes a universal plug and play (UPnP) interface and an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070143487 - Encoding enhancement: Encoded signal reuse implementations are described. In one implementation, an already encoded signal may be selected, in a favor of encoding a signal, if a parameter associated with the already encoded signal substantially matches an evaluation parameter used to select an encoding procedure. The implementations may also enable selection of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070143488 - Virtual universal plug and play control point: Disclosed is a device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The present invention utilizes a dynamic virtual control point to represent an IMS device on the UPnP network, which allows communication... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070143492 - Automated superdistribution: A mobile device wirelessly detects another device that is proximate. The mobile device provides to the other device identifications of which content from a particular content source is stored by the mobile device. The mobile device provides to the other device content from the particular source that is stored by... Agent: Fsp LLC

20070143490 - Data requesting and transmitting devices and processes: It relates notably to a data requesting device from a data server, comprising means for sending requests of determined data to the server, means for receiving streamed data from that server and for providing said data to processing means, and means for producing pause control signals, intended for pausing data... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070143491 - Method and system for preempting control of data streaming: Methods and systems have been provided for preempting a secondary service provider from streaming information. The primary service provider sends an Ad-insert control packet for giving control of the streaming to the secondary service provider, during still periods determined on the basis of the Ad-insert control packet. When the primary... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070143493 - System and method for delivering video and audio content over a network: A content delivery system according to various embodiments of the invention substantially concurrently streams a plurality of live videos to a client computing device over a network, allowing the user to view two or more live videos at the same time. In a particular embodiment, the system is configured to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070143498 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data: In a method for transmitting data of various traffic types an xDSL modem is utilized. Detectors are used to detect the traffic types of the data which are to be transmitted and the detected traffic types are taken as a basis for dynamically adjusting a data transmission rate for the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070143494 - Method for generating and/or processing a data stream description: This invention relates to a method for producing and/or processing a data stream description. According to said method, the data stream description is used to write and/or reference and/or classify sections of a data stream and the data stream description can be transformed by means of a processor using a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070143495 - Personal messaging systems: A personal messaging system includes a portable device (100) for recording and transmitting a voice message to the server (106) per FIG. 1. The server is operative to receive the voice message, extract the identity of a recipient from a predefined portion of the voice message, look up the recipient... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070143497 - System and method for performing multi-path storage operations: Systems and methods for allocating transmission resources within a computer network are provided. In some embodiments of the invention, communication links may be assigned based on predefined preferences or system configuration to facilitate the transfer of data from one point in the network to another. In other embodiments, system operation... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070143496 - Web services availability cache: A Web Services availability cache is part of a computer system, such as an enterprise system of a business or organization. The availability cache is populated with information from Web Services communicatively connected to the computer system by a network connection. In one embodiment, the availability cache is populated based... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070143500 - Method and system for searching and processing contacts: A system and method are disclosed for searching and processing contacts. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a mobile communication device (MCD) (116) has a transceiver (202), and a controller (212) for controlling operations thereof. The controller is programmed to receive (302) from... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070143499 - Proximity triggered job scheduling system and method: A system and method combine mobile computing device, wireless communication interface, and an application program to provide the mobile computing device user to schedule and execute jobs based on the proximity to other wireless communication interface. The scheduler schedules jobs and chooses a proximity relation of presences of one or... Agent: Ting-mao Chang

20070143501 - Conforming web services to an updated contract: Example embodiments address current problems associated with changes in service contracts by providing automated mechanisms to update portions of an existing service implementation. For example, one mechanism modifies an implementation's skeleton (e.g., methods, method signatures, data structures, etc.) in order to conform to changes to an NPDL (e.g., WSDL) contract.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070143502 - Content aggregation service for mobile environment: A server device configured to provide a content aggregation service. The server device comprises a first transceiver unit configured to communicate with a terminal, a second transceiver unit configured to communicate with content network sources, a memory for storing a resource list of addresses of the content network sources, and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070136412 - Integration of xml and tlv for query and/or responses in network discovery for mobile devices: In some of the preferred embodiments, methods for converting XML data to TLV format are provided for use in, e.g., query and/or response in, e.g., network discovery and the like applications.... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070136413 - Sip server sharing module and sip message relay system: An SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server sharing module relays SIP messages which are transmitted and received between a plurality of client groups and a SIP proxy server shared by the plurality of client groups. The SIP server sharing module includes a message source group identifying section configured to identify a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136418 - Communicating information relating to a network resource: In an information retrieval system, a system and method for presentation of information and/or resources that are pertinent to an individual's interests or task. Guiding individuals to places of interest on a network where information is stored. Displaying or otherwise presenting useful information to the user.... Agent: Mark A. Wolfe

20070136417 - Guest browser: One embodiment of a guest browser system, among others, includes a guest browser interface configured to provide an address bar interface for accepting a network address for retrieving a first web page. The guest browser interface is rendered from code of a second web page, where content of the second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070136415 - Method and system for efficiently handling navigational state in a portal: The present invention provides a method and system for efficiently handling navigational state by separating the latest navigational state into a base navigational state part and a delta navigational state part. The base navigational state which describes that part of the latest navigational state that is identical across all URLs... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070136416 - Method and system for testing audio server: A method and system for testing a media server is provided. The media server is capable of delivering prompts simultaneously to a plurality of devices. According to various embodiments, these prompts are present as one or more chunks on the media server. The media server is prepared for testing by... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070136414 - Method to distribute speech resources in a media server: A method and a system for distributing media processing resources. A first request formatted in accordance with a first protocol can be received from a client requesting a media processing resource. The first request can be morphed into a second request that is formatted in accordance with a second protocol.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070136419 - Picture provisioning system and method: A technique for image provisioning in an instant messaging (IM) environment involves storing images on a web server. The images may be made available to a low level IM client that receives instant messages from a high level IM client. The images may be, for example, avatar images, custom emoticons,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070136422 - Computer-readable recording medium recording communication programs, communication method and communication apparatus: Disclosed are a computer-readable recording medium which records communication programs, communication method and communication apparatus capable of easily performing selection and execution of communication units according to communication units of communication partners. A profile management unit manages specific information including a combination of device type information and user identification information... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070136425 - Embedded digitization system: An embedded digitization system enables a military platform to receive, transmit, and process a variety of types of information for a variety of purposes. An apparatus and method provides a means to ensure information interoperability between the invention and external sources. The invention provides a development environment that enables a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070136423 - Methods, systems, and media for managing a collaboration space: Methods, systems, and media for managing a collaboration space are provided. In some embodiments, methods for managing a collaboration space are provided, comprising: defining an event related to the collaboration space; and upon occurrence of the event, performing at least one of automatically cleaning-up the collaboration space, cataloguing the collaboration... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070136421 - Synchronized view state for composite services delivery: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for synchronizing view states among views for respective channels of access to a common session for a composite service. The method can include establishing at least two channels of access to a common session for a composite... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136424 - System for managing object in virtual space: An object management device using at least partially the object in the virtual space, which is divided into ordered partial space regions, as a target of management, wherein the object used as the management target has an ordering key which is defined in relation to an order related to a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070136420 - Visual channel refresh rate control for composite services delivery: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A method for managing refresh rates for visual channels in a composite services enablement data processing system can include establishing multiple channels of access to a common... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136430 - Delivery confirmation for e-mail: A delivery confirmation is provided to the sender of an e-mail message. When the e-mail message is composed, a link, such as a hyperlink, is inserted into the e-mail message, such as in the body or header. The link can include information such as a message identifier and identifiers of... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070136429 - Methods and systems for building participant profiles: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for selecting cohorts to participate in information aggregation. One embodiment is a method for software execution. The method includes building a profile of plural individuals from information extracted from documents that include names of the individuals; disambiguating ambiguous names of the plural individuals... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070136427 - Methods, computer programs, and apparatus for performing format conversion of files attached to electronic messages: Methods, computer programs, and apparatus for performing format conversion of a file attached to an electronic message. A message entered by a user is accepted. The user's selection of a file is also accepted, and the file is copied for accompanying the message as a file attachment. The file attachment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070136428 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing community messaging services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing community messaging services is provided. The method includes calculating a receiver pool for receiving a broadcast message, the receiver pool being a subset of a messaging community. The method also includes transmitting the broadcast message to the receiver pool and tracking... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20070136426 - Process of decentralized distribution of e-mail messages: A process of decentralizing distribution of electronic mail messages. The goal of this invention is to decentralize the distribution of email messages for the purpose of decreasing the number of messages sent through a single IP address. This will decrease the percentage of messages which are filtered out as spam... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20070136431 - Short message website-address device and system and method for implementing short message value-added service: A short message website-address device includes a short message website-address analysis module for receiving information from a Short Message Service centre (SMS centre), determining a short message website-address and an application server address according to the information, or further determining service option information, and sending the information and the short... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070136432 - File sharing system, file sharing method, and recording medium storing file sharing program: A file sharing system connected to both a telephone network and a data communication network includes a telephone conversation state monitoring part for recording information for identifying speakers having a telephone conversation for each telephone conversation in a recording part as telephone conversation state data, a sharing space generating part... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070136434 - Information processing system, server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and control method thereof: This invention enables an operation checker to easily select a specific one of a plurality of servers on a load distribution system and cause the selected server to respond to a request for a server test or operation monitoring. To accomplish this, a Web service system (1) includes Web servers... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070136433 - Intelligent buffer and related applications: An integrated communications application reads information copied to a shared buffer by a user from another application. The information copied can comprise any format and can originate from any application from which the user can paste information. In this way there is no restriction on the source of information. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070136435 - Path-token-based web service caching method: Provided is a path-token-based web service caching method including determining whether or not stored cache data exists when a web service call request exists, and when the cache data does not exist, creating a predetermined path-token set and a predetermined tag data set based on a message schema of Web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136439 - Browser, method, and computer program product for managing documents: A browser, method and computer program product for managing documents. The browser can receive and process a request from an input device of a image processing device. Based on this processing, the browser can transmit information over a network to a document manager connected to the scanning device via the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070136437 - Method and system for real time detection of threats in high volume data streams: A high speed detection system and method capable of generating audits of investigable patterns from log data using techniques for grouping and filtering the data so as to create vectors of patterns which can be then further analyzed by applying conditional filters to conclude that a threat may be active... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070136438 - Method for editing media contents in a network environment, and device for cache storage of media data: In the domain of studio engineering (film studio, television studio, communication studio), streaming server-based computer networks have increasingly made an entrance. The streaming servers (RSA, RSB, RSC) are used to archive the original data from the recorded articles and to make them available to the various editing computers (EA, EB)... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070136440 - Network system for distributing protected content: A network device includes a content requesting interface for adding desired selected content to a queue associated with a remote content provider. Memory stores received selected content that is received from the remote content provider. A network interface provides at least one of usage and storage status data relating to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070136436 - Selective view synchronization for composite services delivery: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment, a method for selectively synchronizing content across different views of a composite service can be provided. The method can include establishing for a common... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136445 - Method and system for remote television replay control: A method, system, computer medium, and other embodiments for integrating unrelated web hosted services with stand-alone media-based devices are provided. Users can access and control the media-based device conveniently with a web-browser through various portals on the Internet. In one embodiment, users access the media-based device through one or more... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070136441 - Multimedia user interaction over ip network: The present invention is to disclose a multimedia interactive system, which comprising a plurality of multimedia interactive clients, a multimedia interactive server, and a multimedia content server connected to an IP (Internet Protocol) network. Each of said multimedia interactive client further comprising a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) user agent and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070136443 - Proxy server collection of data for module incorporation into a container document: A proxy server system comprising a request input unit that receives a request to collect data from a target server, a target server collection unit that collects data from the target server and an output unit that transmits the data for use by a module to generate data for a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070136442 - Seamless reflection of model updates in a visual page for a visual channel in a composite services delivery system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for seamlessly updating a user interface element in a visible page for a visible channel of access to a common session in a composite services enablement environment can be provided. The method can include establishing a visible... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136444 - Transmission of business rules to portable devices: A system that facilitates implementation of business rules for multimedia content on a portable device comprises a receiver component that receives a request for support of extensions to a protocol that enable transfer of customized business rules associated with multimedia content from a host device to a portable device, the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136446 - Wireless media server system and method: Portable media devices allow a user to access music or other media stored on the device, and two portable media devices equipped with wireless technology can exchange stored files over the air.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070136447 - Controlling method, computer system, and processing program of booting up a computer: Respective WWNs (World Wide Names) which can be allocated to a plurality of computers, business application identity information of programs to be booted and area identity information, of areas in a storage system in which the programs are stored, are associated and stored. In response to the entry of a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070136452 - Apparatus and method for providing access to a data stream by a plurality of users at a same time: A system for providing access to a data stream by a plurality of users at a same time. A data stream splitter manager listens for new client device connections. When a new client device connection is identified, the data stream splitter manager generates a pseudo-terminal for the client device and... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070136455 - Application behavioral classification: The present invention is directed to a method and system for automatically classifying an application into an application group which is previously classified in a knowledge base. More specifically, a runtime behavior of an application is captured as a series of events which are monitored and recorded during the execution... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070136450 - Automatic incubation and revival of messages in message systems: A computerized message transaction system has an incubation function and a storage repository. In this system a transaction or a version of the transaction may be stored for a pre-specified period of time, and may be revived at the end of the specified time.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070136448 - Channel presence in a composite services enablement environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment of the invention, a channel presence detection method for a composite services enablement environment can include establishing multiple channels of access to a common... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136451 - Method of providing interoperability of heterogeneous network devices and network device using the same: A method and device of enabling interoperation between different devices over a network are provided. A test code corresponding to a service to be performed using device information received from a service providing device in a network is generated, the test code is transmitted to the service providing device, a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070136453 - Networkable electrical power distribution plugstrip with current display and method of use: A power management device can include a power management device housing, a power input associated with the power management device housing, and a plurality of power outputs associated with the power management device housing. At least certain power outputs can be connectable to one or more electrical loads external to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070136454 - Performance procurement system: A method for a sponsor to elicit submissions of performances to be prepared by multiple players. A digital media request (DMR) is posted for a digital media asset (DMA), where the DMR includes guidelines describing the performance and provides directions about a format that the performance should be embodied in... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070136449 - Update notification for peer views in a composite services delivery environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. In one embodiment of the invention, an update notification method for peer views in a composite services enablement environment can include establishing multiple channels of access for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070136457 - Automatic detection of online commercial intention: Features extracted from network browser pages and/or network search queries are leveraged to facilitate in detecting a user's browsing and/or searching intent. Machine learning classifiers constructed from these features automatically detect a user's online commercial intention (OCI). A user's intention can be commercial or non-commercial, with commercial intentions being informational... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136458 - Creation and management of atpt in switches of multi-host pci topologies: A PCI control manager provides address translation protection tables in switches in a PCI fabric. The PCI control manager discovers the fabric and provides a virtual tree for each root complex. A system administrator may then remove endpoints that do not communicate with the root complex to configure the PCI... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070136463 - Interception method and system for compensating disadvantageous characteristics of a communication protocol: A data communication method that compensates for a disadvantageous characteristics of a first protocol. A client application and a server application employ a second protocol (i.e., a TCP/IP protocol) that is mapped onto the first protocol. A data communication request is received by a SOCKS client in accordance with the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070136456 - Method and system for efficiently handling navigational state in a portal application: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for efficiently handling navigational state by encoding the navigational state into each URL of a page. The navigational state is encoded in such a way that it can be easily decoded from the URL in order to restore the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070136460 - Methods and systems for providing a proxy service: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a location proxy. The disclosed systems and methods include associating a user device with a confining area. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods include reporting the location of a proxy device corresponding to the confining area as the location of the user device.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070136462 - Non-intrusive interactive notification system and method: A method for displaying an image which can include a text or graphic message on a display driven by an electronic device that includes a graphical user interface, including the steps of storing the image at an electronic device, displaying the image in relation to a cursor icon of the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070136459 - Session continuity in multimedia services: A system and method are disclosed for session continuity in multimedia services. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a multimedia services system has a plurality of service centers each capable of offering one or more multimedia services to an end user, and a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070136461 - System and method for applying a communication feature extension: A system and method for applying a communication feature extension includes facilitating an exchange of requests between an originating endpoint and a terminating endpoint using a first identifier associated with the originating endpoint and a second identifier associated with the terminating endpoint. A modified request is received during the exchange.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070136464 - System and method of polling electronic mailboxes: A communications system includes a polling agent that can be part of a mobile office platform for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID's) of electronic messages. A database stores the UID's resulting from the polling operation. The polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070136467 - Device substitution: There are disclosed systems and methods for managing network devices and/or physical layer devices involving a server computer, a client computer coupled with the server computer, and a connector device coupled with the server computer, and a plurality of network devices and/or physical layer devices coupled with the connector device.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070136465 - Method for allowing multiple authorized applications to share the same port: In a method comprising an embodiment of the invention, an original application initially binds to a port, and selects or designates a confidential key, which usefully may be a conventional cookie. The invention also sets a socket option, referred to by way of example, as SO_SECURE_REUSEPORT. The confidential key, together... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070136466 - Privacy protection on application sharing and data projector connectivity: Privacy protection of data content is provided by identifying one or more applications running on a suitably configured device, and marking each of the applications to indicate that a respective one of the applications is permitted or not permitted to issue messages in an all share public mode. The data... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070136470 - Delivery of localized resource over a network: Localization management. A method may be practiced, for example, in a networked computing environment including a local server. The method includes passing a look-up key from the local server requesting a language key to a server external to the local server. The look-up key specifies a culture for web pages... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070136469 - Load balancing and failover of distributed media resources in a media server: A method and a system for load balancing media resources among a plurality of servers. A first request can be received from a client requesting a first media processing resource, the request being formatted in accordance with a first protocol. The first request can be morphed into a first morphed... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070136468 - Method for redundant data management in computer networks: In one aspect, a method for redundant data management in computer networks, wherein data is redundantly stored in a plurality of computers is provided. The data management application programs used for the computers have a coinciding address identification, which the application programs have as component of a virtual sub-network of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070136473 - Method for selecting a communications network mode having an optimum efficiency: A method for utilizing a personal agent in a communications device for selecting the method of delivery of at least one communication having multiple networking type modes (200) includes discovering all available delivery options (203). One or more operational parameters are detected (205) including information based on the agent's knowledge... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070136471 - Systems and methods for negotiating and enforcing access to network resources: In network access devices configured to provide a client device an Internet Protocol (IP) address when a client device attempts to access the network associated with the network access device. The client device can then provide its credentials to the network access device. The network access device can then “shop”... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070136472 - Systems and methods for requesting protocol in a network using natural language messaging: A network access device is configured to receive requests for network resources from a client device, parse the natural language request and generate a natural language response to the request. The natural language response can be sent to the client device using a communication program such as an email program,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070136478 - Communications method: A computer-implemented method for establishing a communications link between a source and a target comprises: a) receiving, at a server, data identifying the source and the target; b) for each of the source and the target, retrieving a respective communication profile identifying one or more communications systems by which the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070136476 - Controlled peer-to-peer network: An internet broadcast system is provided that uses a fixed amount of bandwidth, making low fixed demands on broadcast server resources, regardless of the number of recipients. The system can provide content authentication, source authentication, a clear path to the source of intellectual property rights abuse, and reduced security vulnerability... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20070136477 - Http header intermediary for enabling session-based dynamic site searches: In a computer network environment, a content-based session request issued by a search engine agent is modified to enable the search engine to index information from a server to maintain a state connection where the search engine agent cannot maintain session identification. The content-based session request is modified by a... Agent: Spyros J. Lazaris Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

20070136475 - Limiting access to network functions based on personal characteristics of the user: Establishing a data communications session involves determining a personal characteristic associated with a user of a terminal. A predetermined criterion for allowing establishment of the data communications session based on the personal characteristic is obtained. A token is embedded in a signaling message used to establish the data communications session.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070136474 - Method and apparatus to facilitate provision of a call-specific logic operator: A network element (501) can determine (101) a substantially present need to support a communication for a communication system user (507) and receive (102), from a remote location (504), information regarding at least one call-specific logic operator to be employed when supporting the communication for the communication system user. Such... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070136480 - System and method for projecting content beyond firewalls: A system and method for exchanging information between clients separated by firewalls is disclosed. A server may receive the information as posted through a browser client from beyond a first firewall and relay it to another client beyond a second firewall without lowering the security levels of the firewalls.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070136479 - System for automated device-to-device transfer system: A session transfer module of a session server provides the capability to a user to direct a transfer of an on-going session from one device to another device while maintaining the session. The session transfer module is invoked by a user in a way consistent with the user interface of... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070136481 - Method for improved network performance using smart maximum segment size: A method, system, and computer program product for negotiating a smart maximum segment size of a network connection for a data transfer. A client request to initiate a network connection, which includes a first maximum segment size, is received at a server. The server calculates a second maximum segment size,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070136483 - Image forming device to create a passcode and method thereof: An image forming device in communication with at least one host apparatus through a network. The image forming device includes an engine unit to perform an image forming operation, a password generating unit to generate a password, a password transmitting unit to transmit the password to at least one host... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070136482 - Software messaging facility system: A secure message facility transfers authentication data between various applications, operating systems, and authentication devices and software in the form of messages. These messages comprise a data structure with a standard header with fields that describe the class, length, and type of message, and routing information. This header information is... Agent: Hugh D Jaeger, P.A.

20070136485 - Information processing apparatus: When a device on a network is detected with network plug and play and its driver is installed, a function installed by the device information is uniquely decided. The high priority device function is selected based on information of client and the device function is automatically decided with network plug... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070136484 - Transmit request management in a distributed shared storage system: If a distributed shared storage system is used to provide high bandwidth real-time media data that is shared by a large number of users, several complexities arise. In such an application, the high bandwidth real-time media data is distributed among multiple storage devices or servers. Multiple client applications or machines... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070136487 - Contents providing system and method for streaming service: A content providing system and method for a streaming service are provided. The content providing system is connected to at least one of wired/wireless terminals and a wide area server. The content providing system includes at least one of local servers and a manage node. The local servers store contents... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136488 - Method and device for switching media renderers during streaming playback of content: A method and a device for switching a media renderer to another media renderer while a client performs streaming playback of content of a server are provided. Accordingly, a first client that performs streaming playback of the content transmits playback environment information and a URL of the content to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136486 - Tv broadcasting: A system and method enable video contents to be selected by a user via the Internet (140) and distributed via a multichannel video broadcasting system, for the selected video content to be displayed at the user's location on a TV monitor (150) or on a PC (160) provided with a... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20070136489 - System and method for processing packets in a multi-processor environment: A method for processing packets in a multi-processor environment, that includes receiving a set-up request packet for a communication session and directing the set-up request packet to a selected one of a plurality of processors. A set-up reply packet is generated at the selected one of the plurality of processors,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070136491 - Computing system, method and computer readable medium for group interactive multicast using upnp av architecture: A computing system, method and computer readable media for group interactive multicast using UPnP AV architecture on a network are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of devices and control points coupled to the network. The devices include a plurality of renders and a server, in which those renders form... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070136490 - Wireless hub and data store: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with a personal wireless hub and data store are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for wireless communication to a very local area network. The example system also includes a memory configured to store data for devices on the very local area... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070136492 - Method and system for compressing/decompressing data for communication with wireless devices: A system is disclosed. The system includes a server in communication with a device over a network. The server having a compressor/decompressor to identify a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message via web services description. The compressor/decompressor at server is further to compress the SOAP message according to the web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136493 - Systems and methods for using points with a network event: A system for using points in a network event includes a communications interface and a processor. The communication interface receives a communication message indicating an entry from a user for a network event. The processor processes the communication message to determine whether to accept the entry for the network event.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070136494 - Method for connection between communication networks of different types and gateway apparatus: In a gateway apparatus for conducting connection between different types of communication networks, that are a line-switched network and a packet-switched network, there are provided a method and an apparatus in which sound breaks otherwise caused by delay or loss of speech encoded data is eliminated and deterioration of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070136495 - Tcp/ip offload network interface device: A system for protocol processing in a computer network has a TCP/IP Offload Network Interface Device (TONID) associated with a host computer. The TONID provides a fast-path that avoids protocol processing for most large multi-packet messages, greatly accelerating data communication. The TONID also assists the host for those message packets... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20070130243 - Electrical power distribution plugstrip with current information display and method of use: A power management device can include a power management device housing, a power input associated with the power management device housing, and a plurality of power outputs associated with the power management device housing. At least certain power outputs can be connectable to one or more electrical loads external to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070130244 - Multilayer correlation profiling engines: A profiling engine is disclosed. The profiling engine collects information from a variety of sources in real time and stores the information in a profile. The profile may have a number of layers, each layer having a number of categories. The profile is made available for use by applications and... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20070130245 - Portable internet terminal apparatus for wireless broadband internet: Provided is a portable Internet terminal apparatus for wireless broadband Internet, including: a processor core unit controlling a wireless Internet connection or a wired Internet connection if the wireless connection to the Internet is difficult or impossible; a user input and output unit controlling connections to peripheral devices comprising a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130246 - Variably delayable transmission of packets between independently clocked source, intermediate, and destination circuits while maintaining orderly and timely processing in one or both of the intermediate and destination circuits: In a system having independently-clocked job-performing circuits (e.g., payload processors) and independently-clocked job-ordering circuits (e.g., request and payload suppliers), coordinating mechanisms are provided for coordinating exchanges between the independently-clocked circuits. The coordinating mechanisms include those that use transmitted time-stamps for scheduling contention-free performances within the job-performing circuits of requested jobs.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070130247 - Framework system: Disclosed is a framework system improved such that flow of complex business logic for processing a variety of messages may be easily defined and changed without need for programming. Messaging service(s) 15 may relay message(s) between client(s) 11, 13 and framework service(s) 16. Among request message(s) relayed from client(s) 11,... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070130248 - Autonomous and dependent data collection for traffic analysis: A central control system operates in conjunction with multiple mobile traffic probes to analyze and characterize traffic in a particular region or area. The traffic probes operate autonomously to collect traffic related data and report the collected data to the central control system. The traffic probes can analyze the collected... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070130249 - Wireless communication apparatus and method, and web browser using the apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus and method, and a web browser using the apparatus are disclosed. The wireless communication apparatus is configured to communicate with a wireless base station. The wireless communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a switch unit, and an adjustment unit. The switching unit repeatedly switches the wireless... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070130254 - Apparatus for entitling and transmitting service instances to remote client devices: A server in a subscriber television network receives service instances from a headend of the subscriber television network. The server is adapted to encrypt according to an encryption scheme and re-transmit service instances to a client-receiver. The server reformats the service instance from a first format into a second format... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070130250 - Catch-up streaming: A system and a method for catch-up streaming of data to an end user. The system utilizes a rapid, high content transmission of streaming data which may be easily de-compressed and viewed by the end user almost instantaneously from the time of selection of that data. The high content, rapid... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070130251 - Computer system: In a computer system in which a plurality of server units and a plurality of terminal units are connected via a network and application software is consolidated on the server units, each of the server units stores a specific file in which information on the connection with each of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070130252 - Method and system for enabling personalization of services: A method and system for enabling personalization of services for a user. A first and second computerized service system that includes a first and second server, respectively, is utilized. An information server of a computerized information system receives a different request from the first and second server for first and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070130253 - System and method for multi-layered network communications: A multi-layered network for transporting data comprises a first network layer that provides a first session topology, and a second network layer that provides a second session topology. The second network layer uses the first network layer to transport data. In one embodiment of the invention, the data sent by... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070130256 - Collaborative contact management: A solution for managing a set of collaborative contacts is provided. Each collaborative contact includes one or more collaboration capabities, each of which corresponds to a unique collaboration tool (e.g., voice over IP, instant messaging, email, and/or the like). Identifying text can be used to search the set of collaborative... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070130255 - Data access, replication or communication system comprising a distributed software application: The present invention envisages a data access, replication or communications system comprising a software application that is distributed across a terminal-side component running on a terminal and a server-side component; in which the terminal-side component and the server-side component (i) together constitute a client to a server and (ii) collaborate... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20070130257 - Methods, apparatus and program products for achieving text summarization: Summarization of text in a document may be requested in dependence upon the position of the text in relation to other text within the document or the position of the document containing the text within a plurality of documents in a document structure. Summarization of text in a document may... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070130259 - Multi-system instant messaging (im): Systems and methods for instant messaging (IM) with multiple contacts from multiple IM systems are presented. In one embodiment, incoming IM messages from multiple IM systems are translated and displayed to the user. Similarly, outgoing IM messages from the user are translated for compatibility with each of the multiple IM... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070130260 - Presence based telephony: A device is provided including a processor and a display configured to list more than one presence enabled contact. A user agent is configured to indicate an availability status of the device to a presence server. The user agent is at least partially executed by the processor. Moreover, at least... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070130258 - Web-based public messaging system: A system for users of web browsers a global communications network to communicate messages when visiting the same web sites. A client is installed with each browser and a server is provided remotely on the network. The client communicates its user's member and current web site information to the server.... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070130261 - Control/satellite electronic work station configurations in which stations interact among themselves on a real-time basis: Interspersing switch interfaces amongst the keyboard, processor and monitor components of a standard electronic work station allows some flexibility of operation. When this concept is applied to a control-and-satellite electronic work station configuration the control station can share work area content and view screen display with each satellite station real-time... Agent: Frances Jeanne Shaub

20070130262 - Document object model api for mime: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate interpreting Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data. An interface can obtain MIME data. For instance, a stream of MIME data can be obtained, MIME data can be loaded from a static file, etc. Moreover, any disparate type of RFC 822... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070130263 - Electronic mail data cleaning: A cascaded processing approach is used to clean noisy electronic mail or other text messaging data. Non-text filtering is first performed on the noisy data to filter out non-text items in the data. Text normalization is then performed on the filtered data to provide cleaned data. The cleaned data can... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070130264 - Email server system and method: An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self configure, without requiring dedicated servers, through self addressing and discovery and announcement protocols. An email server can act as a... Agent: Torys LLP

20070130268 - Information processing apparatus and communication control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication device, a first system, and a second system. The first system is configured to operate under a control of an operating system. The first system executes, when a main body of the apparatus is in a power-on state,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070130271 - Intelligent messaging: Techniques for sending messages with automatic device selection and content conversion are provided. A recipient and devices associated with the recipient are determined for a message. A device is selected and the format of the message may be converted based on the selected device, if necessary. The message is then... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070130267 - Internet-based message delivery with pstn billing: A global computer network message delivery service is disclosed. A sender enters a short message for delivery to a recipient's telephone. The sender also enters the recipient's telephone number. The sender may also enter the telephone number that he can be reached at in case the recipient wants to converse... Agent: Devon K. Grant, Esq. Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070130273 - Mailbox pooling pre-empting criteria: Mailbox pooling pre-emptive criteria is set forth for use in an adaptive polling system for synchronizing data between a mail server and a mobile communication device. The polling engine stores an indication of the number of messages in the mailbox, the total mailbox size (i.e. the used storage size in... Agent: Perry & Partners

20070130265 - Message control program, message control device, and message control method: Disclosed is a message control device capable of processing messages in order suited for conveniences of a receiver, regardless of the order in which messages are sent. A receiver's terminal 3 registers a priority calculation expression in advance in a priority calculation formula DB 2a of a message control device... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070130266 - Method, system and computer program product for processing a plurality of electronic mail files: A method of processing a plurality of electronic mail files is disclosed, wherein each electronic mail file includes a subject field having one or more strings comprising the steps of establishing a list of strings, checking the first string in the subject field of each electronic mail file to determine... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070130274 - Multimedia messaging automatic reply service method and system: Provided is a multimedia messaging automatic reply service method and system. The method includes in a multimedia messaging service relay/server, storing and setting an automatic reply message in response to a request for setting the automatic reply message from a predetermined mobile communication terminal; and in the multimedia messaging service... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070130272 - Remote electronic mailbox access: An apparatus for retrieving electronic mail messages via a wireless network. The apparatus comprises a gateway for sending an electronic mail retrieval reply message to a wireless device in response to receiving an electronic mail retrieval request message from the wireless device. The apparatus further comprises an application module. The... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070130269 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages: Systems and methods provide for a server system that is programmed to receive a message addressed to an Internet user, provide a secure mailbox for the Internet user and store the message in a storage area associated with the secure mailbox. The secure mailbox and the message contained therein are... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070130270 - Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages: Systems and methods provide for receiving a message addressed to an intended recipient, in a first file format. The message is converted from the first file format to a second file format, wherein the second file format comprises a mark-up language file format.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070130276 - Facilitating retrieval of information within a messaging environment: Techniques and mechanisms are provided that allow participants in an electronic messaging conversation (e.g. email or instant message) to retrieve information related to words and phrases in the electronic messaging conversation without leaving the electronic messaging environment. An electronic messaging environment is provided that includes user interface tools that allow... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070130277 - Intelligent processing in the context of away and offline instant messages: An electronic assistant handles instant messages sent to a user when the user is away or offline. The electronic assistant may respond intelligently and helpfully to inquiries regarding the user's away or offline status, may take messages for delivery to the away or offline user, and may intelligently forward messages... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130275 - Method and system for managing instant messaging status: A system for managing instant messaging status. An occurrence of an event for a user in a calendar application is detected. A status of the user for an instant messaging system is controlled during the occurrence of the event in response to detecting the occurrence of the event.... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070130279 - Geo-fence location-specific equipment status based trigger directed content delivery: A dispatcher free control system that combines location and tracking technology with wireless communication technology to enable deployed workers to be tracked and assisted while on the job. More particularly, mobile units are deployed with the work force. The mobile units include location tracking technology such as GPS, and wireless... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070130278 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system which can achieve communication between a home master device and a remote control server by using a predetermined message structure. The home network system includes a home master device connected to a plurality of home appliances, and a remote control server connected... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070130280 - Home server capable of implementing energy-saving and service convergence and method for controlling the same: A home server for service convergence and energy-saving, and a method for controlling the same are disclosed to provide broadcast services, Internet services, game platform services, and a broadband network distribution function required by each home network. The home server includes a broadcast processor, a service, a network distribution, a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130281 - Method for acars application communication over an ip network: Methods and systems are disclosed for preparing to transmit data over a network. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to send message in a first communication protocol, the request to send message having a destination address; causing an initial write request to be transmitted to the destination... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070130282 - Computer system and methods therefor: A distributed computer network includes a front interface on a first computer and a corresponding back interface on a second computer wherein instructions communicated from the first to the second computer can be selectively encoded from a set of one or more available encodings. Instructions may also be communicated by... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070130285 - Electronic apparatus with router device for managing connections: A method and electronic apparatus is provided for establishing a connection in a first electronic apparatus to a second electronic apparatus using one of a plurality of clients. The method comprises determining whether the first electronic apparatus and the second electronic apparatus, to which a connection is requested, is operating... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P. Suite 600

20070130284 - Method for domain name registration and a corresponding apparatus: The disclosed method and apparatus makes possible the registration of domain names in one or more registration state-types, each registration state-type being associated with a set of functional rules or parameters. Certain of the registration state-types are allowed to have priority over other of the registration state-types, meaning that a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070130283 - Method for exchanging content between communication devices: A system (100) and method (300) are disclosed for exchanging content between communication devices. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (200) having a transceiver (202) for exchanging messages with alternate communication devices (104-112), and a controller (214) for managing operations... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070130286 - Network device management: A network device management tool that allows a client, such as a network management tool or network device setup utility, to reliably obtain information about a network device. Variations of the network device management tool may alternately or additionally allow a client to deliver information to the network device, such... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070130287 - System and method for communicating physiological data over a wide area network: A system and method are provided for network-based monitoring of physiological data. At least one patient-side device collects physiological data from a patient. A provider-side device receives the data from at least one patient-side device via a wide area network. An engine communicates with at least one patient-side device and... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070130288 - Distributed communication through media services: A communication system using Media Services (MS) routes all types of communications to and from the user through the user's MS and not directly to the user's associated endpoints. The MS is a dedicated application for each user and may be a subscribed-to service and a license fee may be... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20070130289 - Remote access: A computer system is able to remotely access applications and data through a proprietary user computer system. Once the computer system seeking access has been authenticated, the remote proprietary user computing system is powered on. A conduit computing system is used to channel user input signals received over a general... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130290 - Method and system for data transmission between a client and a server, wherein the client selects one out of several physical links: Method and system for the transmission of data between a client and a server over at least two physical links. The client decides which physical link that should be used for the transmission of data when a user of the client requests a service from the server. Disclosed is also... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070130293 - Method and system for providing asynchronous portal pages: The present invention provides a method and system for implementing asynchronous portal pages, comprising a portlet monitor resident on a web browser and implemented with a script. When a user interacts with a portlet, the portlet monitor sends a XMLHTTP request to the portal server. The portal server obtains the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070130291 - Method and system to transmit data: A system for transmitting data includes a user interface module to prompt a user via graphical use interface to enter information into a plurality of information fields displayed on the graphical user interface and to receive via user input device information input by the user for at least one of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070130294 - Methods and apparatus for communicating with autonomous devices via a wide area network: A controller for providing autonomous control of an electro-mechanical device is described. The controller includes a processing device, a memory associated with the processing device, and at least one input/output (I/O) interface associated with said processing device. The controller is configured to operate at least one electromechanical device connected thereto... Agent: John S. Beulick C/o Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

20070130292 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing an application executing on a computing device: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes each item... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070130297 - Interface device, interface cable apparatus, and communication method and system having the same: An interface device, an interface cable apparatus and a communication method and system having the same are disclosed. The interface device interfaces between a first electronic device which supports a first interface and a second electronic device which supports a second interface, to facilitate communication between the first and second... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070130296 - Method and apparatus for automatically establishing connection in wireless communication network and wireless communication network using the same: Provided is a method and apparatus for establishing a wireless connection between devices to enable wireless data communication in a wireless communication network. The method includes: establishing the wireless connection with default wireless setting values; receiving currently set wireless setting values of an external device from the external device; and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070130295 - Technique for implementing virtual fabric membership assignments for devices in a storage area network: A technique is provided for facilitating fabric membership login for an N13 Port of a storage area network. A communication from a network node is received. The communication may include a portion of criteria associated with the N13 Port. Using at least a portion of the portion of criteria, a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070130298 - Image formation apparatus, network system, and program product for network operation at low cost: A supervision feasible apparatus capable of operating in a supervisory mode directed to supervising supervision information related to a plurality of apparatuses detects, when set at a supervisory mode, an apparatus attaining a data access enable state and an apparatus attaining a data access disable state with respect to a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070130300 - Configurable multimedia sip client: A configurable multimedia SIP client and method are disclosed. As one example, a configurable multimedia SIP client is disclosed, which includes a client user interface, a call processing configuration manager, and a configuration adaptor coupled to the client user interface and the call processing configuration manager. The configuration adaptor is... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070130299 - Dynamic definition for concurrent computing environments: The present invention provides a method and system for dynamically configuring computing environment for concurrent computing. Given a specific configuration and/or the number of concurrent computing labs at start up of an executable process, the executable process may be set up for parallel computing environment using local resources and/or remote... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070130309 - Apparatus and method for dynamically binding binary code and virtual forwarding component of network processor: The present apparatus classifies the network system into a forwarding plane and a control plane, arranges a service combination controller at the control plane, arranges a service connection agent at the forwarding plane, and defines an application program and a binary code of a network processor as a component for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130303 - Apparatus, system, and method for recovering messages from a failed node: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for recovering a message from a failed node. A message module communicates a message to a request queue and a copy queue. A transfer module transfers the message from the request queue to a first target node in response to the message residing... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070130301 - Configuration for substitute-switching spatially separated switching systems: An identical clone, with identical hardware, identical software and an identical data base, is allocated to each switching system to be protected, as a redundancy partner. Switching is carried out in a quick, secure and automatic manner in real time by a superordinate monitor in the network.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070130314 - Distribution apparatus, receiving apparatus tree-type distribution system, and information processing method etc.: It is the object of the present invention to provide a processing apparatus, a tree-type network system, processing program and recording method that are capable of performing requests to a higher-order apparatus at the same time, while reducing the load that is concentrated in the communication path upstream in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070130310 - I/o module with web accessible product data: An industrial control system provides I/O modules with web-servers and dual protocol ports so that product information stored in the I/O modules can be served over the same network interface used by the industrial control system to any Internet ready browser.... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20070130305 - Maintaining session states within virtual machine environments: Sessions states within virtual machine (VM) environments are maintained. Each VM environment hosts a guest operating system (OS) and one or more application programs running. The guest OS and the application computer programs of each VM environment constitute a session. A connection broker maintains a state machine as to states... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070130302 - Managing heterogeneous data streams for remote access: The present invention relates to a system and method for intelligent computer-implemented transmittal of data, the system determining and using the best available method of transmission for the data In determining the best available transmission method, the system considers at least one of available transmission methods at a particular site,... Agent: Deere & Company

20070130308 - Method for updating contents of a dms in a dlna system: A method for updating contents of a Digital Media Server (DMS) in a digital living network alliance system (DLNA) is dislcosed. An update process is performed through a periodic update event in a Digital Media Player (DMP) that receives all content information of the DMS. Upon determining that information loss... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070130304 - Next site for distributed service connections: Registering a client with a distributed service. A method may be practiced, for example, in a network computing environment including a client at a local site and a number of distributed services at a number of remote sites. The method includes pinging one or more distributed services at one or... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070130313 - Queuing system, method and computer program: The present invention provides a method for managing requests for service over a communications network. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: receiving a request for service from a customer terminal at a queue server via the communications network; allocating a queue identifier to the request for service;... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070130307 - Selective activation of tcp/ip link and traffic: Discloses is a method of selective activation of server applications in a computer network system. The computer network system includes a server computer, a plurality of client computers, a set of server applications loaded on the server computer, and a given protocol stack for managing activation of the server applications.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070130306 - System and method for comparing a service level at a remote network location to a service level objective: A system and method to store a service level objective, produce one or more network conditions on a first network link where such network condition matches the state of such network condition on a second network link, and where the second network link connects to a remote network location, execute... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070130315 - System and method for providing provisioning and upgrade services for a wireless device: In one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a wireless data processing device, a messaging service to maintain data objects on behalf of a user, and a data center, coupled to the wireless device and the messaging service. The data center establishes a plurality of routing connections between... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130311 - Telephone-coupled device for internet access: An apparatus is provided which can be physically connected underneath a guest telephone in a hotel. The apparatus is set up with interconnection logic and a networking card so as to allow for a notebook computer to interconnect with a local area network in the hotel. The apparatus is set... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070130312 - Web service provision apparatus and method and web service request apparatus and method: Provided are a web service provision apparatus and method and a web service request apparatus and method. The web service provision apparatus includes a message generation unit, a session management unit and a task processing unit. The message generation unit generates an access request message including connection maintaining information. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130329 - Blind notification of e-mail forwarding: A notification message is sent back to the originator or an e-mail message whenever the e-mail message is subsequently forwarded on to a second addressee. New data fields in an RFC compliant message header are read by the e-mail programs handling the message, the fields identify the message originator as... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070130327 - Browser system and method for warning users of potentially fraudulent websites: A user is warned of a potentially fraudulent document, such as a webpage, by a warning message that is overlaid on top of the document and of the browser chrome. The warning message is associated with a warning icon displayed in the browser chrome. The potentially fraudulent document is rendered... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070130320 - Efficient, centralized management of application log configuration settings: A log manager for tracing a user or process in a data processing system is provided. A user inputs various criteria in the log manager, indicating exactly what is to be traced. A tracer key is created based on this information. The tracer key is then transmitted to the appropriate... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070130321 - Event detection and reporting for a mobile electronic device: Disclosed is an event detection and reporting system for a mobile device, including a controller for detecting events on the mobile device, a database accessible by said controller and containing the type of information to be logged for different types of events, software executing on the controller for determining the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070130318 - Graphical support tool for image based material: An analysis tool for analysing a plurality of interconnected pages, said tool comprising a navigation component for navigating said plurality of interconnecting pages an image extraction component for collecting images of individual said pages addressed by said navigation component; and an analysis component for ordering said plurality of page images... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070130323 - Implied presence detection in a communication system: The present invention provides for systems and methods for determining the likelihood that an intended recipient is currently available to communicate via at least one communication mechanism. A presence module monitors the computer usage activity of the intended recipient. The data relating to the computer usage activity of the intended... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070130332 - Lightweight management and high availability controller: A network storage appliance having a main computing unit is provided with an embedded microcomputer for monitoring startup and operation of the main computing unit. The microcomputer has the ability to restart, power down or power up the main computing unit if any corresponding predetermined conditions exist. Local nonvolatile storage... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070130319 - Method and management agent for event notifications correlation: Methods and agent for correlating event notifications are provided wherein the agent comprises an interface receiving an event notification, a Peer Agent Notification Category List (PANCL) storing peer agent notification categories of event notifications that other agents are interested in receiving from the agent, and a notifications processing engine that... Agent: Alex Nicolaescu Ericsson Canada Inc.

20070130331 - Method and system for discovering communication device capabilities: A method for discovering capabilities of a communication device, including updating the capabilities of the communication device, generating update information corresponding to the communication device after updating the capabilities of the communication device, and transferring the URL of user agent profile and the update information of the communication device to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070130324 - Method for detecting non-responsive applications in a tcp-based network: A method for detecting a non-responsive condition of an application in a TCP/IP system comprises a step of monitoring a TCP/IP connection between a client and a server in order to detect an incomplete close sequence of the connection when the application has become not responding.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070130334 - Out-of-band remote management station: A management system for a computer data network comprises a remote management station connected to an analog communication system and connected to a device console port of a co-located computer device. The remote management station comprises (a) an embedded processor, (b) a connecting means to the analog communication system, and... Agent: John H. Thomas, P.C.

20070130328 - Progress tracking method for uptime improvement: A system for tracking uptime performance improvement includes a pre-process module that retrieves operation data based on pre-process parameters. A post process module filters the operation data based on post process parameters. A trends module that automatically determines a top number of offenders from the operation data. And a report... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070130326 - Secure gateway with alarm manager and support for inbound federated identity: An SSL VPN gateway or other type of secure gateway is operative to control access to an enterprise network of a communication system. The gateway in accordance with an aspect of the invention comprises an alarm manager. The alarm manager receives an alarm from a vendor product that is part... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070130322 - System and method for bulk network data collection: A system and method for bulk data collection for multiple network elements is provided. The method includes initiating a session between a data collection server and a network server, maintaining a correlation between a plurality of queries and a corresponding plurality of network elements, and concurrently sending the plurality of... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070130325 - System and method for comparing service levels to a service level objective: A system and method of producing network conditions on a link between points of a network; changing a condition of the produced network conditions; recording a service level or other metric achieved by a transaction of an application under the change in network conditions; and comparing the recorded service level... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070130316 - System and method to generate hosting company statistics: Methods, apparatus and process consistent with the invention as described herein, to use tools and data to generate comprehensive periodical reports and statistics on the consumers, products and vendors in the Web Services industry. Data is gathered through various means, processed (through automated programs and manual assistance) and converted into... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070130330 - System for inventing computer systems and alerting users of faults to systems for monitoring: A System is monitored by detecting activity signatures of network components. Some of the activity signatures are generated by sensing patterns of operations in data streams. Some of the activity signatures are precompiled in the system, or are standard in computer systems. The activity signatures are stored in a database.... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p

20070130317 - Tracking vibrations in a pipeline network: Tracking vibrations on a pipeline network includes installing multiple vibration recorders on the pipeline network, with each recorder including a sensor, a timer, a processor, and a digital communication device. At each vibration recorder, vibration signals are received from the sensor at programmed times under the control of the processor... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130333 - Wireless application connection auto-detection mechanism: The present invention provide Auto Detect mechanisms to automatically determine the connectivity configuration of a handset. The Auto Detect mechanisms are used to develop applications that do not require connection configurations from the user and that work with handset settings as they are, whether the wireless device is set for... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070130335 - Advertisement validation: A method and a system for advertising over a network. The method can include forwarding to a client a first advertisement that includes a first pass code. The advertisement can be formatted in accordance with a first format. A user of the client can be prompted to enter a second... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070130339 - Internet-based education support system and methods: A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070130338 - Methods and systems for a communications and information resource manager: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing the communications and information resources of a user. Identity information relating to the user is received. The user's preference for withholding an incoming communication is obtained. An entry is created in a message log for the withheld communication. The user is not notified... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070130337 - Remote access system and method and intelligent agent therefor: The invention relates to remote access systems and methods using automatic speech recognition to access a computer system. The invention also relates to an intelligent agent resident on the computer system for facilitating remote access to, and receipt of, information on the computer system through speech recognition or text-to-speech read-back.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070130336 - Resource control: In a method for controlling an access to at least one resource by a plurality of clients, at least one set of rules is selected from a plurality of available sets of rules upon occurrence of an event relating to an access to the at least one resource by at... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070130342 - Allocating management method of computer: A blade management server is provided for managing the allocation of blade PCs to remote operating terminals, respectively. The blade management server responds to a request for alternative from the remote operating terminal to search for any one of the blade PCs that is not allocated yet, and notify the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070130340 - Cross-platform redirection of communications: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide redirection of a communication across multiple platforms of potential diverse types. Cross-platform redirection of communications can comprise receiving a request to initiate a communication from an initiating end device. The request can identify an intended recipient device. A plurality of options... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070130341 - System for power savings in server farms: A threshold-based approach is used to assign tasks to servers in a server farm. A “number of connections” count or “connection rate” is maintained for an active server and when the count achieves a first value a wake up signal is sent to a next (inactive) server to alert the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070130343 - Means and method for generating a unique user's identity for use between different domains: Mobile operators presently offer services on behalf of service providers where such services are really carried out for the users. Mobile operators act as identity providers in this scenario, wherein service provider and identity provider share a unique identity to identify each particular user accessing a number of services. As... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070130347 - Method and apparatus for providing calculated and solution-oriented personalized summary-reports to a user through a single user-interface: A system for harvesting information from network-based sources for a user has a network-connected server with software stored on and operable from a data repository accessible to the server, a user profile stored in the repository, comprising identification of network information sites storing information personal to the user, user ID... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070130345 - Method for extending the use of sip (session initiated protocol) for providing debug services: A method (200) for providing debug services between two SIP compliant endpoints is presented. The method extends SIP compliance by including a SIP DEBUG message (370). The method (200) extends the SIP protocol for allowing SIP compliant endpoints to configure themselves for providing debug capabilities. The endpoints can be a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070130346 - Method for maintaining telnet session, telnet agency and computer network system: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for maintaining a telnet session in a computer network system, comprising: creating sessions with a telnet client and a telnet server respectively by a telnet agency based on a telnet request from the telnet client, and maintaining a telnet... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070130344 - Using load balancing to assign paths to hosts in a network: Provided are a method, system and program for using load balancing to assign paths to hosts in a network. Host path usage information is received from hosts indicating host usage of paths to a target device. A load balancing algorithm is executed to use the received host path usage information... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070130348 - Method of transmitting data and network: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data between a content server (11) and a terminal (17) belonging to a discontinuous coverage network, said terminal (17) moving from a first radio coverage area (14, 161) to a second radio coverage area (14, 162) over an area (14a) comprising... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130351 - Aggregation of reputation data: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for aggregating reputation data from dispersed reputation engines and deriving global reputation information for use in handling received communications.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130349 - Systems and methods for reputational analysis of network content: Systems and methods are described to evaluate the reputation of Internet communications. The system and methods of the present invention can be applied to a variety of communications systems, which include, by way of example but not limitation, the following: email antispam blogging comment spam and splogs Instant Messaging Voice... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070130350 - Web reputation scoring: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for assigning reputation to web-based entities based upon previously collected data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130354 - Distributed server network: A method for providing a distributed TFTP server network among a plurality of IP devices, said method including providing a plurality of IP devices in communication with a central TFTP server, each IP device maintaining a list of available servers with the central TFTP server being at the bottom the... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070130353 - Link level retry scheme: A link layer system is provided. The link layer system a first link layer control module and a retry queue for storing a transmitted data packet. The retry control module is coupled to the first link layer control module, which directs the retry queue to discard the transmitted data packet... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070130355 - System and method for determining a preferred mirrored service in a network by evaluating a border gateway protocol: An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for selecting a mirrored service in a network, such as the Internet, by utilizing a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attribute. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the BGP attribute, which may be stored in a border router,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070130352 - 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.

20070130356 - Tcp/ip offload network interface device: An intelligent network interface card (INIC) or communication processing device (CPD) works with a host computer for data communication. The device provides a fast-path that avoids protocol processing for most messages, greatly accelerating data transfer and offloading time-intensive processing tasks from the host CPU. The host retains a fallback processing... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20070130358 - Faster than real time streaming in a playlist context: A method for facilitating multimedia streaming using server-side playlists comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for streaming current playlist selection data from a server that supports server-side playlists to a client having a jitter buffer. An operation is performed for receiving at the server a request for... Agent: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.

20070130360 - Receiver driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network: A “PeerStreamer” provides receiver-driven peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming for loosely coupled P2P networks. Peers in the network perform only simple operations, may cache all or part of the streaming media, do not collaborate with other peers, may be unreliable, and may drop offline or come online during any given streaming... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070130361 - Receiver driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network: A “PeerStreamer” provides receiver-driven peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming for loosely coupled P2P networks. Peers in the network perform only simple operations, may cache all or part of the streaming media, do not collaborate with other peers, may be unreliable, and may drop offline or come online during any given streaming... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070130359 - Resource-efficient media streaming to heterogeneous clients: A resource-efficient live streaming system includes a broadcaster and a streaming server. The broadcaster receives a live feed and broadcasts a media stream to the streaming server containing several descriptions of the live feed along with control information. The broadcaster includes a stream thinner that implements a pruning algorithm. If... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLP

20070130357 - Unexpected demand detection system and unexpected demand detection program: An unexpected demand detection system for detecting an unexpected demand for IT resources includes: a demand model recording part that records a demand model representing a time-based transition in a predetermined time period of a required amount of the IT resources; an unexpected demand model recording part that records an... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070130363 - Dynamic message routing: Various implementations are disclosed for routing messages according to a routing order, where sequences (e.g., sub-sections or subsets) of the routing order are progressively and/or iteratively resolved during a run-time of the message routing operation(s). The resolution of a sequence may involve determining identity information of recipients that were previously... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070130362 - Method and apparatus for facilitating management of multicast delivery to mobile devices: Embodiments of this invention provide a method and apparatus for classifying mobile multicast applications and services related flow, so that the flow may be managed at the mobile station. The method receives a multicast message flow having content and a flow identification, checks the type of content, and passes the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070130364 - Techniques to determine an integrity validation value: Techniques are described herein that may be used to instruct a network component to determine an integrity validation value over information as well as when to include the determined integrity validation value in a network protocol unit to be transmitted. For example, in some implementations, the network component may generate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070130365 - Universal document transport: A universal document transport facility is described where, in various embodiments, the facility recognizes document requests based on a received document, interacts with document routing rules and workflow requirements with respect to the received document, and manages content flows between network nodes or devices. In various embodiments, the facility includes... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070130366 - Virtual tunnel network router: A virtual host computer is presented that includes a virtualization software platform, at least one virtual machine executed by the virtualization software platform, a private network segment configured to prevent communications with at least one external computer, a public network segment configured to facilitate communications with the at least one... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070130367 - Inbound connection prioritization: Multiple listening sockets are supported on a single local address port through use of a duplication flag. Each of the listening sockets has a logical queue. Upon creation of a listening socket, the socket is classified and assigned an identifier. As data packets are received, a manager is provided to... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070130368 - Method and apparatus for identifying potential recipients: A method for identifying potential recipients of a message wherein the message comprises a text message and wherein the message is in electronic form is—regarding a possibly simple usability and user-friendliness—designed and further developed in such a way that the content of the message undergoes a text analysis and based... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070130369 - Email and taskmanaging software: An email and task-managing software for Microsoft Outlook users. An additional button on the user's Outlook toolbar enables the user to save emails and email attachments into notes, attachments, appointments, tasks, regular lists and to-do lists in related folders which can be easily accessed at a later time. It is... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC