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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization August list RSS, inventions by patent category 08/07

20070203969 - Application providing system, portable terminal devices, server device, application providing method and computer programs: An application providing system is provided. The application providing system includes a portable terminal device having an IC chip configured to perform radio communications; and a server device; the application providing system connecting the portable terminal device and the server device through a communication network, wherein the portable terminal device... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070203968 - Portable device and method for entertainment interaction data: A system and method for use with a portable device, includes but is not limited to a method including accessing of one or more entities computationally capable of being networked to one or more of the portable device and/or a computing device operable via a user interface, querying of the... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20070203970 - Mechanism and method for controlling network access to a service provider: Described are methods and mechanisms for controlling data access to a service provider. The method includes receiving an instruction at a proxy from a service provider to initiate a session and the instruction. The instruction includes service provider authentication data. The method further includes initiating the session at the proxy... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070203971 - Method and apparatus for planning and customizing a gaming experience: The invention includes a system and method for planning and customizing a gaming vacation. Initially, a central controller receives preference and configuration data from a user at a user terminal. A preparation code is then determined and associated with the configuration data. The configuration data and the associated preparation code... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070203972 - Remote application publication and communication system: The invention is a system and method for publishing distributed applications accessible over a distributed network without having publishing computer to accept remote procedure calls from clients, and also allow integration between such distributed applications. In one embodiment, the invention includes a remote application computer having a service agent, translation... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070203975 - Html code for providing a store locator feature: A method for a web-based photo service company to conveniently provide locations where a customer can pick up printed photographs by providing HTML code to a company with more than one photo printing location for insertion into the company's home web page. The code generates an address selector box where... Agent: Frank V. Gallucci, Esq. Fujifilm America, Inc.

20070203976 - Fail-safe system for managing of client-server communication: The invention relates to a system for managing of communication between at least one client (10a-d) and at least one server (12a-d) with a primary broker (20) which comprises a first volatile memory (23) and which manages at least one request of the at least one client (10a-d) at the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070203973 - Fuzzing requests and responses using a proxy: A system for fuzzing requests and responses using a proxy includes a client that may include a client application, a server that may include a server application, and a proxy coupled between the client and the server. The proxy communicates message traffic between the client and the server related to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070203977 - Industry-specific communication framework: A system includes a client device and a server including a communication module configured to be accessed by the client device through which a user of the client device connects to another user via one of a plurality of communication services connected to the server, wherein one of the plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070203974 - Method and system for generic application liveliness monitoring for business resiliency: A system and method for monitoring liveliness includes a management device which has an application layer where applications are executed. A connection monitor is located other than on the application layer, and the connection monitor is configured to receive requests from clients and deliver the requests to components on the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070203981 - Electronic device capable of recording conference information, computer system, conference information processing method, and program product therefor: An electronic device that is connected to an external interface of a computer and has a memory unit that stores a program to be executed by the computer and data. The program includes a first operating unit that causes the computer to perform an operation of acquiring conference information containing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070203982 - Methods and devices for including a plurality of users in a conversation over a communication network: Methods and devices are disclosed for including a plurality of users in a conversation over a communication network. A conversation is initiated when a text message is received requesting the conversation. A conversation is established using conversation gateways currently unused by users to be included in the conversation. Communication may... Agent: Kenton R. Mullins Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins, LLP

20070203983 - Server: A server capable of reducing an overloaded state even if a refreshing message is frequently generated. A central processing unit receives a first message transmitted from a terminal to establish a session. The central processing unit, when receiving the first message from the terminal, allocates to itself and the other... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070203979 - Home communications server: In some embodiments a request for an outside line for a telephony call is identified by a requesting extension device coupled to a home network, telephony calls via an Internet connection are placed on behalf of the requesting extension device, inbound calls from the Internet connection are detected, and the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070203978 - Reduction of i/o-operations in a server at a trading system: A method, system, computer readable medium, and computer program product for a computer system communicating with a plurality of clients, the system including first/primary and second/secondary servers for receiving incoming messages of the system, the first server comprising a storage means for storing incoming messages and a business logic unit... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070203980 - Subsystem-scoping architecture for breakout rooms in a virtual space: A method, system, and architecture for providing a web conference system that efficiently provides a breakout room or multiple breakout rooms within a single web conference (also referred to herein interchangeably as a “meeting” or “virtual meeting”) is provided. In some embodiments, the web conference system architecture provides a web... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070203984 - Sharing skins: A system and method for sharing skins between a first user and a second user on a computerized network. A first skin selected by the first user is transferred to and displayed to the second user. The transfer and/or the display is performed automatically. A second skin selected by the... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070203996 - Method and apparatus for knowledge generation and deployment in a distributed network: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for knowledge generation and deployment in a distributed network. In one embodiment, a method for processing messages in a social network includes receiving a new message from a first node in the network, the new message including a query,... Agent: Kin-wah Tong, Esq. Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070203997 - Categorizing electronic messages based on trust between electronic messaging entities: The principles of the present invention provide for categorizing electronic messages based on trust between electronic messaging entities. Messaging servers maintain trust lists indicating levels of trust between electronic messaging entities. Trust lists can be generated from existing trust information, such as, for example, address book entries. Messaging servers also... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070203994 - Communications system providing message aggregation features and related methods: A communications system may include a plurality of source message servers for storing messages for delivery to a user, a target message server having a target message box associated therewith, and an aggregation server for periodically aggregating the messages from the source message servers to the target message box for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070203988 - File protection methods and systems: A file protection method. At least one file attached to an e-mail is retrieved. An executable file including the attached file is automatically generated. The file attached to the e-mail is automatically replaced by the executable file. The e-mail is transmitted to a destination terminal. When executed, the executable file... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070203993 - Instant messaging control: This invention relates to a method and apparatus to control instant message (IM) traffic. A receiver terminal/device provides a filter function to an instant message server. The server checks the filter function to determine whether the receiver is willing to receive a message from a sender terminal/device, and transmits or... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070203995 - Method for processing deferred message: A method for processing deferred messages includes a storing process, a notification process and a retrieving process of a deferred message. In the storing process, when a user presets and requires to store the deferred message, the system stores the deferred message to be sent to the user; in the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070203992 - Method, system and apparatus for partial electronic message forwarding: An electronic message server (400) including a message receipt module (408) operable to receive at least one electronic message (500) having a message size from at least one sender (402); a message size comparison module (410) operable to compare the message size to at least one message size limit; a... Agent: Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20070203991 - Ordering personal information using social metadata: A unique system, method, and user interface that facilitate ordering personal items based on past personal interaction between a user and the user's correspondents are provided. In particular, the system provides alternative views of information, such as messages, that is organized around people using an ordering based on the history... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070203989 - Process for direct transmission of email messages, when possible, falling back to traditional transmission when not possible: A process for direct transmission of email messages, when possible, falling back to traditional transmission when not possible with the steps of: Standard email client software provides the entire user interface to this system, A client program then becomes the email server with which this standard email client software communicates,... Agent: Dan Cappannari

20070203985 - Response linking in instant messaging: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium are presented for, in a text messaging (e.g., instant messaging-IM) application, displaying a visual cue on a User Interface (UI) that associates a response text message with one of a plurality of received text messages.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070203987 - System and method for voice-enabled instant messaging: A multi-modal voice-enabling instant message system and method permitting instant messaging to occur either a text format or an audible format with conversion occurring there between. This permits a mobile user to receive instant messaging and reply to instant messaging without having to use a text input keyboard or other... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070203986 - System and method of instant messaging between wireless devices: A system and method of instant messaging is disclosed and includes transmitting an indication from a wireless device to an instant messaging server that instant messaging is enabled at the wireless device. Further, a plurality of communication signals between the wireless device and a plurality of base stations are monitored.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070203990 - Techniques for establishing subscriber sessions on an access network using dhcp: Techniques for supporting subscriber sessions for access to an IP network include receiving from a first node at a different second node, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) formatted echo-request message. The echo-request message includes a DHCP option field that holds data that indicates an echo-request type. In response to... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070203998 - Persistent instant messaging status indicators for disconnected communicators: A method for instant messages can include a step of an instant messaging server receiving a status request for a user from a status requester. The instant messaging server can determine that the user is not connected to the instant messaging server. A status repository can be queried for an... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070203999 - Techniques for replacing point to point protocol with dynamic host configuration protocol: Techniques for providing remote access to a service provider network include exchanging multiple Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) formatted messages instead of any Point to Point Protocol (PPP) message to provide all PPP functions for accessing a service provider network from a customer node. The service provider network is on... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070204000 - Device, system and method for data exchange: A device, a method and a system for portable data storage and transfer through a simplified device interface. The operations of the device are restricted, in order to increase the ease of use of the device, and in order to provide certain core functions. These core functions include reading data,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070204003 - Downloading a file over http from multiple servers: The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent delivery system (IDS) provides... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070204006 - Methods and systems for distributing movies for ownership: The present invention relates to methods for obtaining one or more copies of a movie or media via the internet using a computer having a hard drive and a digital media device. A movie or media is made up of a set of digital files. The methods include downloading the... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C.

20070204004 - Apparatus and methods of distributing content and receiving selected content based on user personalization information: Apparatus and methods include the distribution of a plurality of content, at least one of which is tagged with descriptive metadata. Further, the apparatus and methods include selecting content from the plurality of content based on a match between a personalized content preference descriptor stored on the device and the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204007 - Centralized processing and management system: A centralized processing and management system includes mail processing equipment, a central server, and a client, all of which may communicate via a network. Performance and event information from the mail processing equipment may be received at the central server. The performance and event information may be monitored, stored, reported,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070204002 - Method and system for dynamic updating of network based advertising messages: An Internet advertising system and method enables a client to dynamically send advertising messages to a customer via an intermediary. The client distributes software prepared by the intermediary to a customer base. When installed and activated by the customer, the software creates two bi-directional network links: one between the customer... Agent: Michael A. Calderone-with Gratitude, Inc.

20070204001 - Method of evaluating documents: A method of evaluating at least one document. The method includes compiling first data indicative of a first document that includes a plurality of first data fields. The method also includes receiving second data indicative of a first criteria that includes at least one of a quantity of first data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070204008 - Methods and systems for content definition sharing: A system comprises a content originator, a content sharing device, and a content receiver. The content originator (e.g., one or more of a personal computer, a mobile telephone, a PDA, or other computing device) allows a user to generate content using a plurality of content components stored locally. A content... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070204005 - Multicast peering: Multicast peering in commercial Internets is performed by a trusted third party which has a connection into two or more Autonomous Systems. Multicast streams pass from the trusted third party into the Autonomous Systems independently. There is thus no need for any sharing of information between the Autonomous Systems, with... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC

20070204009 - Silent acknowledgement of routing in a mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for sending a single cast frame from a first node to a second node in a mesh network; sending the single cast frame from the second node to a third node in a mesh network; using the first node to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070204014 - Mobile webcasting of multimedia and geographic position for a real-time web log: Systems and methods for mobile webcasting of multimedia and geographic position for a real-time web log are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods capture multimedia at multiple consecutive geographical locations during a web logging session. The systems and methods also acquire geographical position data corresponding to multiple geographical... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070204011 - Systems and methods for offline access to video content of a web-site: The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent delivery system (IDS) automatically... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070204012 - Client extended error handling: Techniques for clients and servers to use the web authoring extensions, and in particular, extended error handling to allow servers to provider richer web authoring error information to clients. One technique includes sending an authoring request to a server, receiving a response message with extended error information by a client,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070204013 - Method and apparatus for creating a website: An apparatus is provided for use in conjunction with the Internet for creating web sites. A host server includes an administrative application, the sever application being connected to the administrative application. Host storage is provided for retaining design elements. A host database is connected to the server application and to... Agent: John Maier, Iii

20070204010 - Remote module syndication system and method: A syndication system and method for the syndication of remote modules. The system comprises a syndication server that receives a module request from a syndication recipient server, identifies one or more modules based on the module request, and outputs data based on one or more module specifications associated with the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070204027 - Method for displaying a real-time message on a mobile communication device: A method for displaying a real-time message on a mobile communication device is applied to a mobile communication device linked to the Internet. When the mobile communication device is linked to an access point or is turned on, a webpage or data navigating program is executed, and the contents provided... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070204028 - Method of maximizing the information access rate from/to storage units in wired/wireless networks: m

20070204023 - Storage system: A plurality of storage nodes are connected via a network to build a storage system. Each of the storage nodes includes a storage device. A condition holding unit holds a state condition indicating an inactive state and an active state of the storage device. A state control unit controls a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070204015 - Apparatus for mediating in management orders: A method and an apparatus for mediating in management orders between a plurality of origin managers and a plurality of managed devices in a telecommunications system. The apparatus comprises: a Communication Receiver Component (201) arranged for receiving management orders, a Communication Sender Component (203) arranged to send an allowed management... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070204025 - Community oriented electronic directory and business development system and method: An interactive community oriented business directory system (40) and process that and a media encoded with instructions and data that, when executed, enables a customer to search for businesses located within a specific region where a data processing system (40) creates and maintains community oriented business directory databases and businesses... Agent: Merle W Richman Richman & Associates

20070204017 - Factorization of concerns to build a sdp (service delivery platform): A service layer is provided that is concerned with providing a service. Also, a network layer is provided that is concerned with communicating with devices. The concerns of each layer are separate. For example, the service layer performs the service without worrying about any network dependencies. Also, the network layer... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070204019 - Management of connections to external data: Embodiments of present application treat Connection Information Files contained in an instance of an application, such as a workbook, as independent objects and multiple data objects, such as data summary tables, may link to one Connection Information File. Maintaining Connection Information Files as independent objects within an instance of an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070204024 - Mapping managing devices to managed devices: Mapping managing devices to managed devices includes checking an amount of time taken by a managing device to service a managed device is checked. Based at least in part on the amount of time taken by the managing device to service the managed device, a determination is made as to... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070204021 - Method and apparatus for myopic root node selection in an ad hoc network: Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070204018 - Method and system for obviating redundant actions in a network: Methods, systems and apparatus for obviating redundant actions in a network are provided. A data packet is tagged with a label at a transmitting end, based on a set of labels registered with a receiving end. This label indicates a set of actions performed on the data packet at the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070204022 - Method for acquiring information, and hand-held mobile communications device for implementing the method: A method for acquiring information is implemented in a hand-held mobile communications device to access information in a remote information server through the Internet. The method includes enabling the communications device to acquire information from the information server at predetermined times, to filter the acquired information according to a filtering... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070204026 - Method for blocking unwanted e-mail based on proximity detection: The abstract must be less than 150 words, or 200 words when no figure is to be published. Proximity detection algorithms are used to determine whether or not the render of the message is authentic, by verifying if the sending host (242) is within proximity of registered MX Hosts 182,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070204029 - Network database control device and method thereof: A network device control unit and method are provided in which, not all MIB objects under the control of the network management software are simultaneously acquired during startup of the network management software so the almost simultaneous flow of a large volume of SNMP packets in the LAN will not... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070204016 - Persistent public machine setting: Embodiments of persistent public machine setting are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204030 - Server management program, server management method, and server management apparatus: A server management program, a server management method, and a server management apparatus that allows an environment for providing a service corresponding to a server group for executing processing in cooperation with a server computer to be formed automatically in a standby server computer added to the server group. An... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070204020 - System and method of stream processing workflow composition using automatic planning: An automatic planning system is provided for stream processing workflow composition. End users provide requests to the automatic planning system. The requests are goal-based problems to be solved by the automatic planning system, which then generates plan graphs to form stream processing applications. A scheduler deploys and schedules the stream... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070204032 - Locally responsive kiosk signage from on-line source: Displayed content of signage at a distal location is at least partially controlled by a processor and database that directs signage display from a distal location. A central location processing system collects information on local, area wide, national or international conditions, events or changes in status and directs local signage... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20070204036 - Method and apparatus for creating policies for policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows: Techniques for creating policies for use in policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows are described. Policies are defined based on information about types of flows generated by an application and quality of service functions that are available in the network. Application information is received... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070204034 - Method and apparatus for providing a network traffic composite graph: A method and apparatus for providing network traffic composite graphs for packet networks are disclosed. The graph enables analysts to visually determine the relative size of an event in relation to other traffic activity. For example, a user or a network analyst creates categories of applications for the river-chart graph... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070204033 - Methods and systems to detect abuse of network services: Methods, apparatus, and systems to detect abuse of network services are disclosed. An example method involves obtaining network service activity information associated with a plurality of network service accounts, comparing via a fraud detection system the network service activity information with a term of a service agreement of a service... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070204035 - Semantic information network (sion): A semantic information-oriented network provides delivering network of an event comprising semantic information and data. For delivering event information, the semantic information-oriented network comprises an apparatus that provides an event place that is a place for comparing an event from an event sender with a filter being information related to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070204031 - Storing and retrieving user context data: A system and method for storing context data in a network device that is in the data path between a user computer and a server, thereby allowing for the secure and ongoing storage of user computer-specific context data without adding unnecessary complexity to existing web server methods, while at the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070204042 - Method of using a sender-selected audio security feature for authenticating access over a network: The present invention include systems, equipment, software, and protocols that enable a sender to select an audible sound, such as an audio security feature or ringtone to be played by a target recipient for the purpose of identifying and/or authenticating the sender, or to enable access to a secured network,... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070204041 - Apparatus, system, and method for securely associating ownership information with an electronic device: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for securely associating ownership information with an electronic device with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of securely associating ownership information with an electronic device. These modules in the described embodiments include a presentation component coupled to an... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070204044 - Device independent authentication system and method: A system is disclosed which facilitates authentication processes with web-enabled wireless devices, including those that do not support the use of cookie files. To facilitate such authentication, a web server analyzes an HTTP request file from a communication device for the presence of security token data. Where none is found,... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070204038 - Global names zone: A DNS server includes one or more zones that store information, such as IP addresses, associated with domain names. These zones include a global names zone that stores data correlating host names to domain names. When a name query is received from a client device, the DNS server checks the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070204043 - Method, system and apparatus for rejecting unauthorized or spam e-mail messages.: A new method, system and apparatus of rejecting junk mail by using an access code that the sender inserts anywhere in the “SUBJECT” or “MESSAGE” sections of the e-mail message, and only those e-mail messages containing a valid access code either previously defined by the owner of the e-mail or... Agent: Claudia L. Espinosa

20070204037 - Multiuser web service sign-in: Embodiments of multi-user web service sign-in are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204040 - System and method for domain name filtering through the domain name system: A system and method of filtering a domain name through the DNS includes a domain name processing application that generates a filtering domain name based on a filter service to a domain name. A DNS resolver sends the filtering domain name to a filter service through the DNS. The filter... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070204039 - System and method of downloading restricted applications to wireless devices: A method of downloading an application to a wireless device is disclosed and includes requesting a download of the application. The method also includes receiving an indication that the application is restricted. Further, the method includes receiving an indication that authorization from a supervisor wireless device is required to download... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204046 - Methods and apparatus for balanced load distribution in wireless switch architecture: Load-balancing is achieved in a wireless switching system or other client/server system operating over a digital network by transmitting current server loads to the clients, which then include the transmitted server load value in an ensuing reply. If the system load changes significantly between the original transmission of the server... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070204045 - Printer management server, printer, and printer management system: In a printer management system of the invention, multiple printers are connected via a network to a management server, which performs exchange of setting information inherent to each of the multiple printers. Each of the multiple printers sends management information representing at least part of a service status of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070204048 - Method, system and apparatuses for transferring session request: A method for transferring a session request including: acquiring a routing table related to a session during establishing the session; the routing table recording the address information of an AAA proxy server related to the session; transferring a session request of the session according to the address information of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070204047 - Shared telepointer: A facility is described for providing shared telepointers and for enabling hosts and participants to highlight portions of documents or applications using the shared telepointers. In various embodiments, the facility establishes a sharing session wherein an application executing on a host computing device is shared with a participant computing device,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070204049 - Software method for maintaining connectivity between applications during communications by mobile computer terminals operable in wireless networks: A method of maintaining connectivity and synchronization of data from a first application resident in a first mobile computer to a second application resident in a second computer wherein the data is transmitted over a data communications network including a plurality of stationary access points, determining, in said first mobile... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070204054 - Asn.1 protocol processor and method for asn.1 protocol processing: The present invention discloses an ASN.1 protocol processor for protocol interacting between the server and client and transformation between protocol data and byte stream data, comprising: a protocol data description module in which ASN.1 protocol is integrated and a protocol procedure module in which protocol procedure codes are integrated; wherein... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070204055 - Communication system, peripheral device and computer progam product: A communication system includes a host device and a peripheral device which are communicate with each other according to a main communication protocol that allows the command to be transmitted only from the host device to the peripheral device. The peripheral device accepts an input and to generate a trigger... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070204053 - Device configuration and data extraction using a portable transaction format: Method for performing a data transaction (200) with a server (108) using a portable computer (106). The method includes receiving (402) in the portable computer a portable transaction file (104-1, 104-2, 104-3, 104-n) in a predetermined portable transaction file format (500) that includes two or more data fields. The data... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070204050 - Method of radio access bearer for ip multimedia session in umts network: A method of Radio Access Bearer for IP Multimedia Session in UMTS Network, including: establishing an IP Multimedia Session between the User Equipment and the IP Multimedia Subsystem; mapping associated SDP parameters into authorized IP QoS parameters, abstracting media IP packet format information from the associated SDP parameters, and transferring,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070204052 - Method, apparatus, and system of wireless transmission with frame alignment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus, and system of wireless transmission with frame alignment. For example, a method in accordance with demonstrative embodiments of the invention may include synchronizing between a transmitter using a first modulation scheme, which may have multiple frame formats, and a receiver using... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070204051 - Proxy dns for web browser request redirection in public hotspot accesses: There is provided a system for resolving a proxy server name for a web browser request issued by a user device in a network. The user device has a browser configured with the proxy server name. The system includes a Domain Name System (DNS) server and a web server. The... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070204057 - Systems and methods for providing a similar offline viewing experience of online web-site content: The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent delivery system (IDS) delivers... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070204059 - Application server and streaming server streaming multimedia file in a client specified format: A method and data communication system for transferring multimedia data which stores on an application server a multimedia file including a plurality groups of multimedia data. Each group has a predetermined data size. Next, the system receives a client request and reads a client address at the application server. The... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070204058 - Method and system for transforming input data streams: The present system and method transforms an input data stream in a first data format of a plurality of first data formats to an output data stream in a second data format of a plurality of second data formats. A plurality of input connector modules receive respective input data streams... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070204056 - Systems and methods for reducing the effects of variations on the playback of streaming media: In an exemplary embodiment, a streaming client is playing a media stream that is being streamed from a streaming server. The media stream is being played at a certain playback rate. While the media stream is being played, the level of a streaming buffer is monitored. If it is determined... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070204060 - Network control apparatus and network control method: A traffic statistical analysis processing unit is provided in a network control apparatus so as to detect an abnormal traffic. When the abnormal traffic is detected, a filter is set to a packet transfer processing unit so as to stop transferring operation of the abnormal traffic. At the same time,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070204061 - Strong routing consistency protocol in structured peer-to-peer overlays: A structured peer-to-peer overlay performs a key-based routing (KBR) that achieves a strong routing consistency guarantee as well as reasonable scalability. The key space of the structured overlay is partitioned into zones, each separately managed by a group membership service that provides total ordering of membership query and change actions.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070204062 - Active dynamic rule engine: A system, method, and device for routing a request in a contact center are disclosed. The exemplary system may have a workstation for transmitting a request and a server responsive to said at least one workstation. The server may have a servlet container and filter portion for receiving and routing... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070204063 - Electronic message delivery using a virtual gateway approach: Message delivery approaches are disclosed in which senders can define filters with associated actions for evaluation in relation to specified messages. After creating and storing filters with specified actions, senders dispatch messages to a processing system, which evaluates the filters against the messages. If a match occurs, the processing system... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070204065 - Method and system for providing communication protocol interoperability: A method for providing communication protocol interoperability includes receiving a first request from a first endpoint for communication with a second endpoint. The first endpoint uses a first type of request of a first protocol, and the second endpoint uses a second type of request of a second protocol. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070204066 - Method of identifying data relating to individuals in order to chain said data: A method of identifying data relating to individuals in order to establish chains in said data, the method consisting, in a local center for collecting data, in creating an encoded first identifier of an individual from identification data of said individual, and of said individual's father and mother, in transmitting... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070204064 - Optimally adapting multimedia content for mobile subscriber device playback: A multimedia content distribution method including a) storing an item of a multimedia content, b) firstly transcoding the content for playback on a first multimedia device, c) generating a content ID of the firstly transcoded content, d) storing the content ID of the firstly transcoded content in association with the... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070204067 - Methods and systems for rate control within an encoding device: This disclosure describes techniques for adjusting encoding variables of an encoding device. In response to a request to resize a segment of data, an encoding module adjusts at least one encoding variable used to encode one or more subsequent segments of data such that the subsequent segments of data are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204068 - Ring network and master node: A master node transmits a probe packet for checking a condition of a network in a ring in both directions thereof to detect the occurrence of a fault on the ring. A slave node increments a hop count included in the received probe packet, transmits it to an adjacent node... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070198628 - Cell processor methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for cell processors are disclosed. A policy module is loaded from a main memory of a cell processor into the local memory of a selected synergistic processing unit (SPU) under control of an SPU policy module manager (SPMM) running on the SPU. A selected one or more... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070198627 - Method for providing performance characteristics on demand: A method for transmitting on-demand software and/or data from a server to a terminal in a packet network is provided. According to the method, a bandwidth test is performed as a prerequisite for transmission, said test verifying whether the currently available bandwidth is sufficient for transmitting the requested software or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198629 - Scalable content based event multicast platform: In an infrastructure solution for content-based forwarding, filter pipelining enables handling of the high-rate message streams. Documents are distributed in the network by forwarding from publisher proxy servers to attribute trees associated with particular attributes in the message. The trees filter the messages based on attribute values, and deliver the... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070198635 - Apparatus and method for interpretation and enrichment of documents and exchange thereof: The present invention allows computer users to enrich network loaded documents, including HTML-sites, discussion boards, forums, blogs, chat sessions, web links, and documents represented in a browser, with additional information from a multitude of information sources which can be web-based or locally stored. The enrichment of information is controlled by... Agent: Awamba Inc.

20070198630 - Delivery of archived content to authorized users: A method and system for consolidating old support documents for a product that is out-of-support into a single archive file package (“archive package”) that is accessible from a single webpage. The archive package includes static and unchanging updates, fixes, redbooks, Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APARs) and Document Control Facility (DCF)... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070198631 - Method and system for data exchange between servers and mobile devices: A method for communicating information of tasks includes originating the tasks, planning tours by grouping the tasks into tours, and transferring information of the tours to mobile devices. A method for exchanging information of tasks includes originating the tasks, grouping the tasks into tours at a tour engine, transferring information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198636 - Method and system for distributing file: A server that manages a distribution of a file and at least two client devices including a first client device that requests the file and a second client device that transfers the file are connected via a network. The second client device includes a storing unit to store the file,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070198634 - Method for training a server for content delivery based on communication of state information from a mobile device browser: A method for training a server for content delivery based on communication of state information from a mobile device browser, the method comprising providing a control channel between the server and mobile device browser, transmitting over the control channel a plurality of request messages from the mobile device browser to... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070198633 - System and method for delivery of pc content through a server based relay system using really simple syndication: A novel system and method for delivering personal computer (PC) based content through a server based relay system using really simple syndication (RSS). The mechanism of the present invention is operative to stream any type of PC content such as directories, files, video, audio, etc. A multimedia server (MMS) resides... Agent: Zaretsky & Associates PC

20070198632 - Transferring multimedia from a connected capture device: A method and system to transmit multimedia data from a connected capture device is provided. The system includes a capture device wirelessly connected to a secure storage device, which authenticates and communicates with a second communication device. The connected capture device captures multimedia data and metadata and stores the multimedia... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070198638 - Conference support apparatus, information processor, teleconference system and computer product: An information sharing area, employed by all conferees for sharing information (object) or personal knowledge transmitted via information processors from conferees, and an editing display area, employed for editing a structure of the information (object) or shared knowledge, can be definitely distinguished from each other and displayed in a large... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198637 - Conferencing system with data file management: By associating with a data file one or more descriptors that describe the data or specify access to the file, the data file management system facilitates locating and providing access to data files stored in a conferencing system.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070198644 - Process for 2-way email:

20070198643 - Address retrieval system and method: Methods and systems for obtaining an email address. One method includes automatically compiling email address information and corresponding identifying information for a plurality of well-known entities from at least one data source; creating an address subsystem including an address database based on the email address information and the corresponding identifying... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070198639 - Discussion association for e-mail: A system and method for allowing users to associate various e-mails within at least one of the user's mailboxes under a common discussion topic or “thread” for organizational purposes. This user-controlled organization may be carried out regardless if the e-mails which are desired to be associated are from different senders... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070198642 - Filtering email messages corresponding to undesirable domains: An email message is filtered to determine whether or not it is an undesired email message (e.g., “spa,” “junk mail,” etc.) that originates from an undesirable domain, such as, for example, a domain designated as originating from an undesirable geographic location. In some embodiments, upon determining that the email message... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070198640 - Mail processing server, mail processing method, and mail processing program: It is intended to provide a mail service capable of maintaining user's anonymousness and preserving convenience of mail function. This invention enables connecting a forwarding mail address to be used for receiving mails with at least a mail address of a user and a forwarding criteria in generating the forwarding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070198641 - Method and system for mediating published message streams for selective distribution: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for delivering published messages to at least one subscriber in a publish-subscribe messaging system. A computer implemented method for delivering published messages to a subscriber includes receiving a plurality of message streams, and analyzing at least one message from each of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070198649 - Removable media device capable of notifying network device of insertion of removable media: When a memory card is inserted into a card reader of an MFP, a selected network address is set as a connection destination, and a memory card insertion signal is transmitted to the connection destination. On the other hand, when no network address is selected, all network addresses stored in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070198645 - Method for providing in-context responses to instant messaging conversations: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing an in-context response to an instant message. One or more instant messaging chat conversations are displayed to a user. When a determination is made that the user has selected a turn in the chat conversation, a response... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070198646 - Method for providing quick responses in instant messaging conversations: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for allowing a user to quickly and directly responds to a turn in an instant messaging conversation. One or more instant messaging chat conversations are displayed to a user. User input is received selecting a turn in the one... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070198648 - System and method for displaying im session history as time-based calendar events: A system and method for displaying instant messaging (IM) session history as time-based calendar events is presented. A messaging system logs chat sessions between users and stores them as “chat events.” When a user wishes to view previous chat sessions as time-based calendar events, the user sends a chat history... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070198647 - System, method and program for managing chat sessions: System, method and program product for managing a chat session. A server maintains an identity and list of member(s) of a group that can be added to a chat session, and a list of people authorized to request that the group of member(s) be added to the chat session. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070198654 - Network server: A network server connected via a network to a content playback device that requests content. The network server comprises: content information creating means for creating content information including the fine name of the content and a content URI including playback stop position information concerning the content; and recording means for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070198651 - Automatic internet access system: A data delivery engine with a custom programmed disc with differing Internet addressing capabilities which allows any computer user to automatically access and receive a wide range of predetermined streaming audio and video content from a multimedia server. In the preferred embodiment, the disc comes with an autorun feature that... Agent: John C. Smith, Esq.

20070198650 - Method for providing multimedia information to a calling party at call set up: The invention relates to method for presenting multimedia information related to a calling party to a user of a called party's terminal MS-B and for presenting multimedia information related to a called party to a user of a calling party's terminal MS-A. Information enabling presenting of multimedia information is sent... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070198652 - Pxe server with multiple provider model: Multiple providers of application logic are used to deploy and install an operating system image to a client. Each provider configured with application logic designed to deploy and install an operating system image to a distinct class of clients. When a server receives a request associated with deploying and installing... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070198655 - System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070198653 - Systems and methods for remote computer-based analysis of user-provided chemogenomic data: The invention provides systems and methods for remote computer-based analysis of user provided chemogenomic data. The invention includes computer-based systems and software that allow a remote user to access a centralized comprehensive chemogenomic database and use the correlative tools of that database to assess the user's data. The tools allow... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070198656 - Methods and servers for establishing a connection between a client system and a virtual machine executing in a terminal services session and hosting a requested computing environment: A method for providing access to a computing environment includes the step of receiving a request from a client system for an enumeration of available computing environments. Collected data regarding available computing environments are accessed. Accessed data are transmitted to a client system, the accessed data indicating to the client... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070198660 - Advertising supported recorded and downloaded music system: Music tracks are made available to users at no cost because advertisements are automatically intermixed between the tracks. Free music tracks, ads and machine readable instructions for playing the ads are downloaded from a central computing system to digital media players. Portable digital media players are well suited for practice... Agent: Marc Cohen

20070198658 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing assets across distributed systems: The invention includes a method and apparatus for synchronizing an asset within application space. The method includes receiving asset information comprising an original position of the asset within application space on a sending system and a trajectory of the asset within application space on the sending system, and determining an... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070198662 - Deleted account handling for hosted services: An application service server provides hosted services to clients. Upon receiving a request to delete a user account associated with a user of the hosted services, the server deactivates the user account to prevent the user from accessing the user account for a predefined probation time period. If the server... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070198659 - Method and system for storing data: In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a data set is stored in a database, at a first moment in time, at least first and second segments of data within the data set are defined, and a portion of a selected one of the at least two segments... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20070198657 - Redirection to local copies of server-based files: Mapping a server file to a corresponding locally stored copy of a server file and redirecting an application to a server file or to a corresponding local copy of the server file are provided for opening a most up-to-date and/or most reliable version of the desired file.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070198661 - Retrieving data from a server: A system includes a server and a controller embedded in a device. Both the server and the embedded controller are capable of communicating over a computer network. The embedded controller sends a command to the server over the computer network that identifies an instance of the device. In response, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070198667 - Method and system for automatically cloning it resource structures: A method and system for automatically cloning IT resource structure in stateful web services environments by employing a new approach for configuration management. The present new approach models the configurational state of each resource as a stateful web service. Configuration data are provided by this service's resource properties. Relationships between... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070198665 - Method of configuring devices in a telecommunications network: A method of configuring a telecommunications system to provide a service involving multiple devices is disclosed. The method includes receiving a configuration script specifying a sequence of configuration instructions for configuring at least two of the devices to provide the service, and concurrently executing an instance of the configuration script... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070198669 - Plug-and-play device for videophony applications on packet-switched networks: A device of a plug-and-play type, which can be integrated in a home network having at least one audio-video Media-Server device or else at least one audio-video Media-Renderer device. The device can be activated for selectively configuring parameters and devices for setting up audio-video calls for connection between the home... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070198663 - Configuring devices using context histories: A “Device Correlator,” operates to identify and configure complementary devices as a combined function of device “touching” and observations of contextual history of human interaction with the various devices in an ad-hoc network environment. New devices are brought into a local trust domain of the network via a “touch-based” process.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070198664 - Multi-server automated redundant service configuration: Automated redundant configuration of a computer service can be accomplished in a variety of ways. An installation answer can be received and used to automatically determine configuration settings for a computer service to operate redundantly across multiple computer servers. The configuration settings can then be used to configure the multiple... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070198670 - Quasi-high availability hosted applications: A client-server application is provided to clients across a network. Requests from the client are accepted by a reliable proxy and sent to master and standby configurations of the client-server application. Each configuration processes the request to produce master and standby responses respectively. The proxy selects one response based on... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070198668 - Remote mirroring in a switched environment: A mechanism to support remote mirroring of storage devices by data storage systems in a one-to-many switched environment. Each data storage system includes a disk director that is adapted to control at least one device group that is supported in a mirrored configuration with a corresponding device group controlled by... Agent: Emc Corporation C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070198666 - Systems and methods for configuration management: Methods and systems for configuration data management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a configuration management system may be configured to store a product operational control file for controlling a product based on configuration data. The configuration management system may define a plurality of orderable items and relationships between the orderable... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070198671 - System, computer program product and method for using a wireless device to control a wireless network device: Method, system and computer readable medium for use in a first wireless device for controlling a second wireless device. The method includes obtaining an address of the second wireless device via a limited access connection, obtaining identification information of the second wireless device from the second wireless device, and determining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198686 - Method and apparatus for distributing data to a plurality of game devices: Striped Multiplexing Download Queue software facilitates and increases throughput for client-server downloads through a limited communication device. In the “DS Download Station” application, this is used to queue many requests and to broadcast download segments to requesters seeking the same data. This works by employing a “download stripe” on both... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070198684 - Method and system for data processing with connection pool for the same: When an application server prepares the connection made to the database server, an identifier for definitely identifying the database server of connection destination is allotted to the connection. When a fault occurs in a database system, the database identifier of the connection is specified and only a connection allotted with... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198678 - Apparatus, system, and method for interaction with multi-attribute system resources as groups: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for interacting with multi-attribute managed resources as groups. The apparatus, system and method identify in a repository one or more groups associated with a target attribute. The apparatus system and method further determine a set of managed resources from the repository wherein each... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070198692 - Application management program, application management method, and application management apparatus: An application management program, application management method, and application management apparatus, which are capable of controlling the start of server computers with taking relations between multilevel applications into consideration. When receiving a request for starting provision of a service, a selection unit refers to server definition information to select a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070198674 - Automated remote site downloading on a geographic drive: A remote site downloading system is disclosed in which a local computer establishes a session with a content server, and a content file and geographic destination drive are selected. The local computer is typically on a first access network and the user wishes to have the file downloaded to a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070198690 - Data management system: A method of collecting information about data and data handling processes from different types of applications in the context of a storage system is described. The retrieved information is presented to the user to illustrate the relationships among the data, for example, in the form of a data view illustrating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070198687 - Delivering content on a network using differential caching system and method: A system and method for delivering content on a network using differential caching is described. A request for information is received from a request-generating element coupled to a browser associated with a client through the network. A static portion and a dynamic portion of a document to be included in... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070198683 - Information publication control method and apparatus, and information publication control instruction method, and apparatus: An object of the present invention is to carry out publication control for a portion of contents according to its valid period. This invention includes: reading out publication data including first data whose publication should be controlled, publication control condition data relating to a valid period of the first data,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198680 - Method and system for network management data collection: Methods and systems for network management data collection have been provided. Underutilized computers in the network are allocated as a Network Management Data Collection Client (NMDCC) to collect network management data. The NMDCC receives program files from the network management server. The received program files are downloaded by the NMDCC... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070198682 - Method and system for seamless media handover across devices: A method and a system for enhancing user experience by reducing the handover delay of media and more specifically for providing more seamless transfers of media experiences across devices. The method comprises steps of identifying (205) a trigger condition for the pre-handover procedure from a first device and preparing (210)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070198685 - Method and system for use of storage caching with a distributed file system: A storage caching method and system manages shared access to real time data files while maintaining data file coherency and consistency in a computer network including a plurality of remote computer workstations and at least one file server. The storage caching system is implemented by storage caches, which are associated... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070198673 - Method for inserting a new device in a community of devices: The invention relates to a method for inserting a new device in a community of devices wherein each device of the community is able to store insertion requests received from at least one new device and to forward these insertion requests to a device chosen by a user of the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070198675 - Method, system and program product for deploying and allocating an autonomic sensor network ecosystem: The present invention provides a method, system and program product for deploying, allocating and providing backup for an autonomic sensor network ecosystem. Under the present invention, the autonomic sensor network ecosystem includes: (1) a set (e.g., one or more) of sensor networks for storing data components; (2) a set of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070198691 - Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for interactive notification of events: A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for the interactive notification of events is provided. A notification client application program executes in a background state and receives notifications from a business application server computer that an event has occurred. The notification may include a request to display a visual indication... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070198681 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transaction-based internet protocol (ip) telephony call processing: Methods, systems, and computer program products for transaction-based IP telephony call processing are disclosed. According to one method, a signaling message associated with an IP telephony event is received at an IP telephony node. In response to receiving the signaling message, an IP telephony transaction instance is instantiated to process... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070198689 - Network system for distributing protected content: A system for delivering content to a network device comprises a content requesting interface that allows a user to select desired content from available content. A queue stores identifiers of the desired selected content. A remote content provider is located remote from the network device, communicates with the queue and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070198676 - Non-intrusive method for simulation or replay of external events related to an application process, and a system implementing said method: s

20070198679 - System and method for recording behavior history for abnormality detection: Disclosed is an autonomic abnormality detection device having a plurality of agents, a server with a one or more processors, a data storage device and a corrective actions engine. The device is adapted to detect and diagnose abnormalities in system components. Particularly, the device uses agents to track performance/workload measurements... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070198672 - Universal support for multiple external messaging systems: A method, system, computer system, computer program product and application programming interface to support the use of multiple external messaging systems from within an application program and to track activities performed using any of the multiple external messaging systems. The application program allows a preferred messaging system to prepare, send,... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198677 - Web based client/server notification engine: Various technologies and techniques improve the updating of client content in a client/server arrangement. A client notification engine of a user interface subscribes to receive notifications from a central server side notification engine. The client notification engine polls the server side notification engine at a specified interval. The server side... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198688 - Web server hit multiplier and redirector: A method of analyzing a resource leak on a first web server uses a second web server. A first HTTP request message is received from a client at a first Web server and includes an identifier of an information component stored on the first Web server which generates a reply... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070198706 - Method, system and computer program for collecting information with improved time-stamp accuracy: A solution for collecting information from multiple clients on a central server is proposed. Particularly, each client records the start and the stop of any software product, and then uploads the recorded information to the server periodically. For this purpose, the client retrieves the current value Ts(a) of the internal... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070198698 - System and method for scheduling content updates in a content-based application: Described are various mechanisms and techniques for influencing or controlling a content update schedule for a content-based software application on a mobile device. A content server issues one or more commands to the mobile device that establish a content update schedule for the mobile device. The mobile device then performs... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070198703 - System and method thereof: A system and method thereof are provided. The example method may include downloading first information, from a host device, associated with an operation of a non-volatile memory and downloading second information associated with an operation of the system including the non-volatile memory, the second information downloaded based on the operation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070198699 - Data reporting using distribution estimation: Application data is reported in response to monitoring an application transaction. Application data is obtained for an initial period of time. A function which estimates the application data is then identified for the reported application data. After identifying the function, subsequent application data is obtained, and function data is generated... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070198694 - Data transmission method, data transmission system, data transmission device, and data structure: A toy (10) equivalent to a storage medium containing communication start data and identification data is connected to an intermediate connection device (50) having identification data and connected to a PC (20). The PC (20) reads out the communication start data from the toy (10) and reads out identification data... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070198700 - Database system configured for automatic failover with user-limited data loss: Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer. In the automatic failover configuration, the primary database system remains available even in the absence of both the standby and the observer as long as the standby and the observer become... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson Patent Attorney PC

20070198695 - Method for three-dimensional inventory link: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method is presented for providing an end user with a virtual reality experience. A server generates three-dimensional information. The three-dimensional information is generated using real-time alarm information representing an alarm, VRML schema information and meta-data. A client receives the three... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070198697 - Method of refactoring methods within an application: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for refactoring methods of an application. A rating for a method within the application is identified to form a rated method. The rated method is placed in a grouping based on the rating identified for the method. A data processing... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070198709 - Opc server redirection manager: An OPC redirection manager maintains the information necessary for taking appropriate action when the target OPC server fails and for ensuring that no bad status is returned to the client. Any existing OPC client needing seamless failover between target OPC data access and/or alarm and event servers will connect to... Agent: Anthony Miologos, Esq. Patent Service Department

20070198704 - Processing media data for sip based session service: A method and terminal for processing media data for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based session service, in which a terminal checks a talk burst revoke reason code included in a talk burst revoke message received from a server to selectively perform either transmission or discard of remaining buffered media... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070198693 - Processing of consecutive inquiries from an external computer in a computer system comprising at least one first computer and one second computer: In a computer system comprising a first computer (A) and a second computer (B) consecutive inquiries (311, 312) from an external computer (E) are processed by the observation (410) of the processing time (T1) that the first computer (A) requires for processing a first inquiry (311) of the external computer... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070198708 - Sensor network system and data retrieval method for sensing data: A data retrieval method for sensing data for retrieving, from user terminals, data transmitted from a plurality of sensor nodes, the data retrieval method including: a step for storing in distributed servers the data sent from the plurality of sensor nodes, a step for setting information link pointers for indicating... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198707 - System and method for analyzing remote traffic data in a distributed computing environment: A system, method and storage medium embodying computer-readable code for analyzing traffic data in a distributed computing environment are described. The distributed computing environment includes a plurality of interconnected systems operatively coupled to a server, a source of traffic data hits and one or more results tables categorized by an... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070198705 - System and method for integrating resources in a network: A method for integrating a resource in a network includes receiving at a first adapter a command associated with a function to be performed by a resource. The method also includes receiving a first script associated with the command, and interpreting the first script to produce one or more first... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20070198701 - System and method for tracking contents via internet: A system for tracking syndicated contents via an Internet communications system includes a syndication server for transmitting a plurality of contents, at least one client's server for receiving the totality of contents transmitted by the syndication server and for transmitting the thus received contents to web pages, a tractability server... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070198696 - System and method for utilizing contact information, presence information and device activity: A method and system that utilizes presence information is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include determining whether a change in the presence information of a presence service client of the presence service clients affects the presence information or a capability of at least one service client. The... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070198702 - Traffic routing based on geophysical location: Applications requiring multiple network devices may use geophysical information about the nodes to route traffic. Each device attached to a network may have both a network address and a geophysical location. When an application requires the use of multiple devices, for example restricting content or services in a certain area... Agent: Mediacell Licensing Corp

20070198711 - Apparatus and method for managing the viewing of images over an on-line computer network: A processor implemented method for managing the viewing of images by a user comprising the steps of (a) providing a listing of at least one of acceptable images and unacceptable images; (b) receiving a request by a user for content from an address on the Internet; (c) obtaining the content... Agent: The Watson Intellectual Property Group, PLC

20070198713 - Display multi-layers list item in web-browser with supporting of concurrent multi-users: Computer user working environment has been evolved from punch card & paper tape to mouse click native window based in past few decades. This invention takes the course of this continuing evolution and creating a web based computer user work environment for a control management station and its associated systems... Agent: Sheng (ted) Tai Tsao

20070198714 - Mechanism for implementing file access control across a network using labeled containers: A mechanism is disclosed for enabling labeled containers on different host machines to share file system portions. Before a process in a first container on a first host machine is allowed to access a file in a file system contained within a second container on a second host machine, a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070198712 - Method and apparatus for biometric security over a distributed network: A client in communication with a server via a distributed computer network collects biometric information about a user at the client computer and transmits it to the server during a protocol exchange. The server validates the biometric information and provides a first resource if the validation is successful or a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070198716 - Method of controlling delivery of multi-part content from an origin server to a mobile device browser via a server: A method of controlling delivery of multi-part content from an origin server to a mobile device browser via a proxy server. The method includes: transmitting an original document request from the mobile device browser to the proxy server, the document request including state information regarding the mobile device browser; retrieving... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070198710 - Scalable distributed storage and delivery: Embodiments describe scalable distributed storage delivery method that can utilize commodity storage devices, thus there is little, if any, modification of the existing storage hardware or storage clients. According to an aspect is a system that can include a plurality of primary servers and application servers to deliver data to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198715 - System and method for communicating state management between a browser user-agent and a server: A method for communicating state information between a server and a mobile device browser, comprising the steps of providing a control channel between the server and mobile device browser, transmitting at least one message from the mobile device browser to the server over the control channel indicative of browsing-related cache... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070198723 - Apparatus and method for managing resources in containment framework environment: Provided is an apparatus and method for managing resources in a containment framework environment, more particularly, an apparatus and method for managing resource allocation and resource de-allocation in a containment framework environment including a plurality of applications having life cycles. The apparatus includes an identifier generating unit generating a unique... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198721 - Load balancing method and system: A load balancing method for continuation requests transmitted from client moves session information to continuation request to another business server and embeds a character string for making a request transmission apparatus identify the business server of destination in to a response to the continuation request to return the response to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070198720 - Method and apparatus for a interfacing device drivers to a single multi-function adapter: Systems which utilize a series of managers to handle resource management. Three types of managers are preferably used, with each manager being in one of two states, active or available. The types of managers are Global Interface Manager (GIM), Resource Manager (RM) and Access Manager (AM). Associated with each device... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070198717 - Method and system for internet protocol provisioning of customer premises equipment: Method and system for Internet Protocol (IP) provisioning over a cable network. The method and system including a plurality of embedded settop boxes (eSTBs) of at least two different vendors requesting IP provisioning according to a first protocol. The method and system further including a network provisioning unit (NPU) in... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070198719 - Method and system for minimum mean squared error soft interference cancellation (mmse-sic) based suboptimal maximum likelihood (ml) detection for multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless system: Various aspects of a method for minimum mean square error soft interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) based sub-optimal maximum likelihood (ML) detection for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless system may comprise selecting at least one constellation point in a constellation map based on at least one of a plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070198724 - Opc server redirection manager: An OPC redirection manager maintains the information necessary for taking appropriate action when the target OPC server fails and for ensuring that no bad status is returned to the client. Any existing OPC client needing seamless failover between target OPC data access and/or alarm and event servers will connect to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070198718 - System and method for providing virtual access, storage and management services for ip devices via digital subscriber lines: A method and system of providing virtual access, storage and management services to IP-enabled computing devices of a user includes establishing a first communication link between a first computing device and an online service provider that provides the offsite data storage, accessing all data residing in the first computing device... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070198722 - Systems and methods for granular resource management in a storage network: In accordance with some aspects of the present invention, systems and methods are provided for dynamically and/or automatically selecting and/or modifying data path definitions that are used in performing storage operations on data. Alternate data paths may be specified or selected that use some or all resources that communicate with... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20070198726 - Method and system for accelerating receipt of data in a client to client network: A method and system for accelerating receipt of data in a client to client network. The method includes the steps of intercepting queries and responses, storing the intercepted queries and responses in an acceleration server and transmitting the intercepted responses to clients submitting intercepted queries. The system includes at least... Agent: Docketing Specialist Sullivan & Worcester LLP

20070198725 - System and method for utilizing contact information, presence information and device activity: A method and system utilizes presence information for a plurality of presence service clients is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include determining the presence information for the presence service clients, individually tailoring the presence information for presentation to each of a portion of the presence service clients,... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070198727 - Method, apparatus and system for extracting field-specific structured data from the web using sample: A computer method, apparatus and system is presented to extract field-specific structured data from the World Wide Web using a sample. The method includes: collecting a sample automatically or by a user supervision that records how the user visits the data; analyzing the sample using a field-specific knowledge base to... Agent: Mark S. Leonardo, Esq. Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20070198728 - Generating and launching remote method invocation servers for individual client applications: A method of providing and launching private RMI servers for individual client applications is presented. A user software component such as a Web Accessible GUI is launched for a user. The user logs-in through the user component wherein a single RMI WAG Server process is provided for each client GUI... Agent: Emc Corporation C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070198735 - Method and system for supporting rsvp in ipv4/ipv6 hybrid network: In a method and system for supporting resource reservation protocol (RSVP) in an Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4)/Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) hybrid network, the method includes the steps of: transmitting, from a dual stack host in an IPv6 network, an end-to-end quality of service (QoS) session establishment request message... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070198736 - Use of variables in a number of automation systems: There is described a method and system for using at least one variable of a first automation system in a second automation system, with the variable being made available by the first automation system. An object is to allow a user to program access to a local and remote variable... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198730 - Embedded system with a bus and arbitration method for same: The present invention relates to an embedded system and method, and in particular relates to an embedded system with a bus and an arbitration method. An arbitration method is applied in an embedded system that comprises a plurality of devices, a bus and an arbiter. Each device comprises a buffer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198733 - Information terminal, method for controlling information terminal, program for controlling information terminal, and recording medium: A program information providing site sends, a broadcast station, IP address look-up information that informs association of URI of a program information providing site and an IP address of a particular site. The broadcast station broadcasts the IP address look-up information to portable telephones. According to contents of a broadcast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070198734 - Method for communicating state information between a server and a mobile device browser with version handling: A method for communicating state information between a server and a mobile device browser with version handling includes: providing a control channel between the server and mobile device browser; transmitting at least one message from the mobile device browser to the server over the control channel indicative of browsing-related state... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070198732 - Object-oriented discovery framework: An object-oriented programming framework allows developers to write applications for services and devices that are automatically “discoverable” by applications associated with other devices and services on a network. An attribute is added to a class in an application or web service object and an associated, generic discoverable base class is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198737 - Reliable delivery of multi-cast conferencing data: Conferencing data is reliably delivered to computer systems participating in a hierarchically arranged multi-cast conferencing session. When a child computer system does not receive a multi-cast packet (e.g., an IP multi-cast packet), the child computer system sends a negative acknowledgment to a parent computer system. In response, the parent computer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198729 - Sql network gadget: This invention describes a SQL Network Gadget which can be connected to a computer network. This invention does not use a microprocessor, it does not use an operating system and it does not run software. Devices in the network make a connection to the invention and send encrypted packets which... Agent: Sitaramarao Srinivas Yechuri

20070198731 - System and method for processing multimedia messages: A method of processing a multimedia message is provided. The multimedia message comprises an original payload. The original payload is divided into at least two sub-messages. A sub-message header for each sub-message is then generated. The sub-message header may include an identification code of the multimedia message, a total number... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198739 - System and method for routing media: The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a reservation system. The ESRP receives media from... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070198738 - Television integrated chat and presence systems and methods: An enhanced television system which enables users to communicate using a television, both via messaging and telephone. Users or the system may create a buddy list. Users may send and receive program information to and from each other, and change programs based on received information. The system may maintain information... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070198741 - Accessing information: The present invention relates to a method of providing direct access to webpages of an internet website, of the storage of the links to webpages, and to the evaluation of webpages. The present invention also relates to a mobile device. Methods and apparatus both fall within the scope of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070198740 - Broadcast driven virtual community of p2p network: Meta data accompanying a content broadcast includes an identifier of a group of peers on a P2P network. The group provides or shares a service to enable peers to connect and interact via the P2P network within the context of the broadcast.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070198742 - Dynamic support of multiple message formats: A method, system, computer system and computer program product to enable a single interface to be used to prepare and present messages in a variety of different formats. For example, the single interface can be used to prepare, receive or display messages in different languages, such as English or Japanese,... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198743 - Method and system for server synchronization with a computing device via a companion device: The A method and system for server synchronization with a computing device via a companion device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises synchronizing a device and an enterprise server via a companion device, which comprises retrieving a record extraction sequence from the server; providing the record extraction sequence... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198746 - Method, system, computer programs and devices for management of media items: The invention discloses a solution for synchronization of media items between a mobile terminal and another terminal device. The metadata structure (and metadata associations to media items) in the mobile terminal is updated based on the categorization work a user does in the storage system in assigning files to folders.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070198745 - System operator independent server alerted synchronization system and methods: A system for enabling server alerted synchronization between a client device and a synchronization server where the network address of the client device is subject to arbitrary reassignment by the network operator without communication with the synchronization server. The client device actively responds to dynamic assignments of a network address... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20070198744 - System, method, and computer program product for concurrent collaboration of media: A system, method, computer program product, and propagated signal for a real-time concurrent multi-user multi-way collaboration system that is able to incorporate one or more electronic devices including one or more portable devices that permits distributed users to easily and efficiently share both content and editorial input on such content... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070198747 - Method for processing a demand from a user of a digital terminal: To make the processing of a user request more fluid, a terminal of the user firstly sub-divides this request into resources to be implemented in order to meet the request. Secondly, for each resource, the terminal constantly maintains a list of offerers capable of offering the service linked to a... Agent: Perman & Green

20070198748 - Power line communication hub system and method: A power line communication (PLC) hub incorporates multiple network communication media and services for devices. Implementations can be plugged into an electrical outlet to furnish a single point for both electrical power and network connectivity. Each of the electrical outlets is tied through an electrical distribution system to a network... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070192400 - Anomaly management scheme for a multi-agent system: An anomaly management method is provided for a multi-agent system (MAS) in which a plurality of application agents are arranged to be capable of interacting with each other over a communications network. The MAS has a plurality of anomaly management agents arranged to receive reports from a referring agent regarding... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070192402 - System and method for automating workflow: Systems and methods for assigning, delivering, and monitoring tasks are discussed that allow the supervisor to view a task type on which a agent below the supervisor in the hierarchy is working, the amount of time that the agent is taking to complete that task, and the target amount of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070192401 - System and method for synchronizing syndicated content over multiple locations: A system and method for synchronizing content among a plurality of user agents is described. In one embodiment an aggregator receives, from a particular user agent, a request for a listing of content feeds, and the request includes information that identifies the particular user agent from among the plurality of... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070192409 - Advertising based on location behavior: Advertising communication system and method, comprising a computer-based server running a server application, a plurality of positioning electronic devices communicating to the server application information regarding location and time, a database residing on the server, the database comprising a plurality of subscribers' entries, each entry comprising information regarding locations and... Agent: Ms. Ronny Fogel Brux Software Solutions Ltd.

20070192404 - Anonymous integrity of transmitted data: The present invention relates to a method of ensuring integrity when transmitting data from a transmitting device to a receiving device, wherein said method comprises the step of adding a token to said data before transmitting said data. Thereby, by comparing transmitter tokens, the receiver can cancel out unwanted multiple... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070192407 - Apparatus and method for executing provisioning: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for executing provisioning in which integrally supervises and executes call information from a plurality of providers for providing particular services being connected to a server. This invention is comprised of a provisioning database, a client interface, a provisioning database interface, and... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070192405 - Assured validation for facade method invocations: A method and system for validating calling parameters of a method call. Validation conditions are evaluated utilizing original calling parameters provided by a validation method call by a client, where the call is required to initiate an activity. The evaluating facilitates determining messages to be provided to a user, where... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070192403 - Method and arrangement for indicating a size restriction of a message: The invention relates to indicating the size limit of messages, particularly multimedia messages, to the user. A device according to the invention includes an application program for composing multimedia messages. A multimedia message size limit defined by the network is registered in the device, so that it is available for... Agent: Perman & Green

20070192406 - Server consolidation in consideration of electric power consumption: The invention is directed to a method of consolidating an existing arrangement of servers into a consolidated arrangement of servers, taking into account electric power consumption of the servers. An autodiscovery tool is run on the existing arrangement which discovers optimization-relevant data about the existing arrangement and obtains optimization-relevant data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070192408 - Workflow-based management of medical image data: A method, an arrangement and a product are disclosed, where a multiplicity of nodes are provided which are designed for processing medical image data. Following determination of the specific workflow for processing the image data in at least one embodiment, local, relevant nodes are determined which have the functionality to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070192413 - Chat system, terminal device therefor, display method of chat system, and recording medium: A chat system in which conversations by characters in plural channels are displayed, and of these conversations, a conversation in a main channel and conversations in other channels are displayed in individual regions 23, 24 on a display screen, and an inputted statement is displayed in an intermediate region 22... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070192410 - Method and system for automatic handling of invitations to join communications sessions in a virtual team environment: A collaboration services suite is adapted to support a plurality of integrated telecommunications services accessed by geographically dispersed team members using a virtual team environment (VTE) client that generates a graphical user interface (GUI) for each of the respective team members. Communications sessions are automatically set up by the collaboration... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070192412 - Reliable delivery of multi-cast conferencing data: Conferencing data is reliably delivered to computer systems participating in a hierarchically arranged multi-cast conferencing session. When a child computer system does not receive a multi-cast packet (e.g., an IP multi-cast packet), the child computer system sends a negative acknowledgment to a parent computer system. In response, the parent computer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070192411 - System and method for efficiently accessing internet resources: A system and method for efficiently accessing Internet resources is disclosed. One example method for inputting and searching information in a database is disclosed which comprises a step of providing access for entering information of a first user. The example method also includes steps of receiving and storing the information... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070192414 - User interface for multi-channel communication: The present invention provides a user interface and method for communicating using multiple communication channels of different media types. The method include obtaining an event communicated via an incoming communication channel, where the event corresponds to a work item available to an agent. A notification of the work item is... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192421 - Image processing apparatus, mail processing method and mail processing program: An image processing apparatus comprising: a judgment unit for judging whether or not an e-mail received via a network is an e-mail delivered according to a mailing list or an e-mail forwarded after once delivered according to a mailing list; a recording unit; and a control unit for generating a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070192417 - Client side actualization of an automated information request process: An informational technology system and software for selectively seeking and reporting information are provided. A client system (“client”) is bi-directionally communicatively coupled via an electronic communications network to a data warehouse. The client downloads a software comprising an information request process. The client presents to a user of the client... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20070192423 - Document reminder system: A document reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing document management, email, calendar and other systems in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken on a specific document, and also provides notation to the user indicating... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070192416 - Electronic mail recovery utilizing recorded mapping table: A method for retrieving deleted data is described. The present method includes receiving a request to locate deleted data. The request includes criteria for approximating said deleted data. The deleted data is stored in a recovery log. The method also includes receiving an affirmation that the located deleted data is... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070192426 - Extending functionality of workflow applications using instant messaging (im): Plug-ins for instant messaging (IM) systems are described. By using plug-ins in conjunction with IM systems, the functionality of IM systems may be greatly extended. Specifically, in business applications, such as workflow processes, IM provides a more reliable approach to determining actual delivery of messages.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070192415 - Extensible interface for inter-module communication: A method and apparatus for inter-module communication is disclosed. The method includes forming a message that includes customer relations management system information. The customer relations management system information may include, for example, agent information, work item information, queuing information, statistical information, connection information or rule information, among other such information.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192424 - Information processing apparatus and method thereof: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a received mail information obtaining unit for obtaining received mail information including a mail account and a mail server address from an image code, a reply destination address obtaining unit for obtaining a reply destination address from the received... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192422 - Method and system for content driven electronic messaging: A method and system of electronic messaging is disclosed in which the electronic messaging system is configured such that the message content contains information which will drive the routing decision process. The message itself can be prioritized and routed to a pre-defined communications device or application, even before the recipient... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070192419 - Method and system for restricting automatic out-of-office email response to configured zone: A method for restricting an automatic out-of-office email response to a configured zone includes steps as follows. At least one domain name is specified for receiving the automatic out-of-office email response. An email is received from an email account. It is verified whether the email originates from one of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070192420 - Method, apparatus and system for a keyed email framework: A method, apparatus and system provide a keyed email address (“KEA”) framework designed to reduce SPAM. In one embodiment, a recipient's email server may generate and/or allow the recipient to generate and maintain various keys to authenticate incoming email for the recipient. These keys may be manually or automatically provided... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070192425 - System and method for sending electronic messages based on time zone information: A computer-implemented method and system for sending an electronic message from a sender to an intended recipient based on a time zone of the intended recipient. The time zone of the intended recipient is determined based on, for example, an Internet e-mail domain name. Based on the time zone information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192418 - System and method of sharing auto-reply information: A system and method routes messages based on an intended recipient's availability to receive messages. Each network user's current status is determined by tracking when the user activates and deactivates an auto-reply feature. The user's current status, return date and alternate contact(s) are specified in the auto-reply and stored and... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070192428 - Media content at the end of a communication: A method includes playing a video clip upon the end of a communication between two users. Another method includes playing an audio clip upon the end of a communication between two users. The audio clip may have been downloaded to a device of at least one of the users or... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070192427 - Ease of use feature for audio communications within chat conferences: Methods and arrangements to communicate aurally during a chat conference are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to communicate aurally during a chat conference by receiving through a user interface for the chat conference the designation of a participant in the chat conference, receiving through the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070192429 - Digital composite machine: A digital composite machine connectable to a server through a network, includes a scanner, a FAX communicator, a printer, an operation panel, and a controller, operable to accept a first processing request from the operation panel and to control the scanner, the FAX communicator and the printer to execute a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070192432 - Meta-application architecture for integrating photo-service websites for browser-enabled devices: A method and system for integrating web photo-services for a browser-enabled device is disclosed. The method and system include providing a server that communicates with the device over a network, and associating images stored on at least one photo-service site with a user account. Thereafter, an inventory of images stored... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070192431 - Method and apparatus for service oriented architecture infrastructure switch: A method for processing a service request that includes receiving the service request using a transport protocol, decoupling the service request from the transport protocol to obtain a decoupled service request, normalizing the decoupled service request to obtain a request object, and routing the request object to a first service... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070192430 - Processing system capable of performing download and execution processes concurrently and related method thereof: A processing system capable of downloading and executing firmware at the same time, and from multiple storages, is disclosed. The processing system includes a first storage unit for storing firmware; a second storage unit for storing frequently accessed firmware, the second storage unit having a higher operating speed than the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070192434 - Network system, terminal, and gateway: A virtual interface having a global address of a physical interface on an Internet side of a gateway is provided in a terminal. An application unit of the terminal transmits a packet to the Internet using the virtual interface. The packet is transferred to the gateway through a downlink transfer... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070192435 - Persistant client state in a hypertext transfer protocol based client-server system: A method and apparatus for transferring state information between a server computer system and a client computer system. In one embodiment of the method, an http client requests a file, such as an HTML document, on an http server, and the http server transmits the file to the http client.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070192433 - Storage area network port based data transfer acceleration: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for improving data transfers between hosts and targets connected through fibre channel switches. A host connected intelligent port and a target connected intelligent port associated with fibre channel edge switches are configured to snoop frames from the host and target... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070192441 - Network system based on remote user interface protocol and method of operating server and client of network system, and computer-readable medium having embodied thereon computer program for executing method of operating server and client of network system: A network system based on a remote user interface (RUI) protocol, which can provide a virtual pointing device service and in which an RUI server and an RUI client can share an RUI service based on movement of a pointing device, and method of operating a server and a client... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192444 - Apparatus and method for a proxy cache: In one embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus for caching data in a network, with the apparatus including a proxy cache configured to receive request for an object from a client and to fetch data blocks from a server. The proxy cache may be configured to cache the data blocks... Agent: Arnold M. De Guzman De Guzman & Associates, PC

20070192443 - Contents download system using wireless internet platform and method thereof: The present invention relates to a contents download system and method a using wireless internet platform. The contents download system of the present invention includes a contents providing server which stores a transmission log including transmission volume information in contents transmission; a short message server which transforms transmission log information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070192445 - Method and apparatus for assisting with playback of remotely stored media files: A software based system for facilitating streaming of media files to a device over a wide area network (WAN) includes an agent process, an authentication process, a client services process and a client process. The agent process catalogs local media files and advises the authentication process of its availability on... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070192437 - Method and system for conserving battery power in wireless devices operating in a wireless local area network: A method for conserving battery power in a wireless device coupled through an access point to a server in a network, the server being coupled to at least one client in the network, each of the wireless device, the at least one client, and the access point having a respective... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070192436 - Method to confirm the server identity for server-initiated services: A system and method for providing server identification to accept a server request in a vehicle wireless communications system. If the server wishes to send a request for a certain function to the vehicle, it will transmit the request and the vehicle will receive the request. If the vehicle receives... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070192440 - Phonetic name support in an electronic directory: A user of a client computer submits a directory request to a server executing a server email application. The server email application is responsive to the directory request to identify a custom directory containing contact data for one or more individuals. The server email application determines whether to transfer a... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070192442 - System and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content: A system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content for rapidly providing a user with a highly relevant collection of documents related to a query. The system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content includes a computer system with a storage means... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A. 4800 Ids Center

20070192438 - System and method for on-demand delivery of media products: A system and method of providing media on demand to a mobile device user having a wireless enabled mobile device is disclosed. The method includes identifying the mobile device user at a first retail location, providing a first set of media purchase options to the wireless enabled mobile device, receiving... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070192439 - System and method for providing an early notification when paging a wireless device: A system and method for a server to provide an early notification to a target group devices when paging a wireless device during a push-to-talk (PTT) communication. When a wireless device is ready to transmit a PTT communication, a message is sent from the wireless device to a server that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192449 - Redundant communications network: A method for operating a redundant ringlike communications network, that communicates bidirectionally, includes communicating at least one primary participant and at least two secondary participants with one another by a data transmission device; communicating the secondary participants with one another directly by the data transmission device, indirectly by the primary... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070192446 - Extensible file and path renaming during multimedia acquisition: A method and system to extending naming of captured multimedia data to secondary applications is provided. The secondary applications are registered and associated with identifiers. The identifiers are stored in naming templates utilized by a file-naming engine. A multimedia-acquisition engine captures the multimedia data and communicates with the file-naming engine... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070192448 - Method and system for network configuration: Methods and systems have been provided for pushing critical configuration to a set of network devices. According to various embodiments of the invention, a Network Management Station (NMS) creates a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) context and an SNMP view. Additionally, the NMS specifies a network configuration and a set... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070192447 - Platform independent configuration of multiple network services: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to network services protocol implementation configuration and provide a method, system and computer program product for platform independent configuration of multiple network services protocol implementations. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for configuring a network services... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070192469 - Align/notify compression scheme in a network diagnostic component: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a network diagnostic component or device that is placed in-line between a first and second node. The diagnostic component or device is used to compress pre-specified Dwords of a network data stream. For example, the first node may communicate with the second node using... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070192457 - Apparatus and method for providing a customized and interactive presentation over the internet: A system and method for providing a dynamically-generated mortgage presentation, the system includes a first computer having a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the memory is configured to store a plurality of client information and a plurality of presentation information related to the client information,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070192471 - Apparatus for playing media and method of setting resources thereof: An apparatus for playing media and method of setting resources thereof are disclosed, by which an application is able to substantially control a media player in a manner that a specific resource used for a media player is set to be allocated by the application. The present invention includes creating... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070192459 - Control method of computer, program, and virtual computer system: Provided is a technology for increasing reliability of communication carried out by OSes and application programs operating on logical partitions set on a computer. The computer has multiple logical partitions constructed therein by a control program, the physical interfaces are shared by virtual interfaces respectively set for the multiple logical... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070192472 - Download method and transmission device using the same: A disclosed download method for downloading software to a transmission device constituting a network includes the steps of: searching for an unused channel between the transmission device and an adjacent transmission device and setting up a cross-connect for the unused channel so as to set up a communication channel for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070192460 - Method of providing interoperatibility of different network devices capable of error handling and network device using the same: A method and device of enabling interoperation between different devices over a network are provided. A control script corresponding to a service to be performed using device information received from a service providing device in a network is generated, the control script interoperating with the service providing device is executed,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070192465 - Methods, systems, and products for accessing common functions for multiple applications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for accessing common functions for multiple applications. At least one of a common set of application programming interfaces is received in a request to execute an application. A common set of application service interfaces is accessed that allow access to modular functions that are... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070192458 - Reproducing control device, reproducing control program and contents reproducing device: A battery charger includes: a resume information table for storing resume information about contents to be started to be reproduced with a portable player being connected to the battery charger; a writing unit that writes resume information about a tune being reproduced just before the portable player is disconnected from... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070192462 - System and method for managing applications of home network devices: Disclosed is a system and a method for managing applications installed in home network devices (HNDs) providing services on an open service gateway initiative (OSGi) framework. In the system, a mobile hand-held device (MHD) including a display unit is defined as the subject of application management between a plurality of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070192477 - Application services gateway: Application services gateways that execute electronic application programs/services allows the application programs/services to be managed and administered out of a network rather than locally. The application services gateways are elements in a services delivery system that execute application programs/services that control or otherwise interact with systems and devices of a... Agent: D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070192476 - Communications system: A novel communications system is provided, including a plurality of user terminals capable of communication using a predetermined communication software program and accessible to Internet, and an administrator server on line with Internet, wherein each of the user terminals is capable of transmitting a character message comprising character information for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192454 - Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment: Provided are a method, system, and program for consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment. Information for each of a plurality of sessions comprising a cluster is stored in a memory of a processor session. Each session associates at least one primary system and... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070192470 - File transfer system: A source device includes: a storage unit which stores the file; a receiving unit which receives, from a sink device, a file acquisition request; a transmitting unit which transmits, to the sink device, data within a range specified in the file acquisition request received by the receiving unit, from among... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070192475 - Integrated storage appliance: A system and method for providing an integrated storage appliance is disclosed. The storage appliance includes a front-end processor cluster, a storage subsystem coupled to the processor cluster, and a customizable software stack executed by the processor cluster, wherein the customizable software stack includes an operating system and storage-intensive application... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070192450 - Method and system for distribution of media: A system for the distribution of media is disclosed. The system comprises a network center; a delivery system for receiving data from and transmitting data to the network center; and a plurality of multimedia teller machines (MTMs) for receiving data from the delivery system, and for providing a plurality of... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070192452 - Method and system of coordinating control point state in a home environment: A distributed coordination system for a home network environment provides data and functional coordination among multiple control points in a networked home environment. Data and other services (e.g., events) are duplicated among multiple control points. The duplication allows multiple control points to function independently regardless of other control points. Coordination... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070192455 - Method and system of remote diagnostic, control and information collection using multiple formats and multiple protocols with verification of formats and protocols: A system, method and program product for diagnosing, controlling and collecting information from devices. Information regarding events of each one of a plurality of target applications executing in an application unit is collected and formatted into one of multiple data formats for transmission through one of multiple communication protocols at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192464 - Monitoring system and method for connecting a monitoring device to a service server: A method according to the invention for connecting a monitoring device to a service server may comprise retrieving an address relating to a control server from a memory of the monitoring device, sending a connection message from the monitoring device to the address relating to a control server in response... Agent: Ip Creators

20070192453 - Object-based computer system management: A method, system, and architecture for managing computer systems is provided. A management system employs management objects (MOs) to provide administrators the ability to intuitively express the administrative intent in an information technology (IT) environment, and to act out the administrative intent based on the information gathered by the management... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070192473 - Performance information monitoring system, method and program: A performance information monitoring method using computers includes the steps of accepting information on a group relating to a first computer in the first computer; storing the accepted group information in a storage in the first computer; accepting performance information from a second computer in the first computer; comparing performance... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070192474 - Personalized content delivery using peer-to-peer precaching: A method and apparatus for peer-to-peer video precaching is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises building a user profile, periodically checking for new content of objects in the user profile, maintaining a data base of available objects and location of said objects, and determining the download location of an... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070192466 - Storage area network boot server and method: A SAN Boot Server or SBS, and a method operative in association with a host boot SAN or BSAN) having hosts and devices coupled via network links to a network switch. The SBS stores a mapping of virtual volumes, each with one boot image. The SBS is coupled to the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070192461 - System and method for dynamically generating and managing an online context-driven interactive social network: A system and method for calculating recommendations for a user is described. One embodiment includes a method for collecting actions performed by a plurality of secondary users; calculating correlations between the collected actions; generating a record of the collected actions and the corresponding calculated correlations; receiving an indication of a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070192463 - System and method for forecasting information using collective intelligence from diverse sources: System, method, computer program product, and business operating model. Information processing system comprising: server computer having processor for executing computer instructions and memory coupled to processor for storing instructions and data; communications link for communicating between server and information appliance client entities external to server, communication link enabling receipt of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070192467 - System and method for providing advertising and content in a distributed internet access environment: A method, system, and computer program product that enables persistent display of advertising and other service provider content during access via a gateway access system to third party content on a separate network. A connection is established between a personal computing device (PCD) and the gateway access system. When a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070192468 - System and method for providing persistent advertising with third party content in a distributed internet access environment: A method, system, and computer program product that enables persistent display of advertising and other service provider content during access via a gateway access system to third party content on a separate network. A connection is enabled between a personal computing device (PCD) and the gateway access system. The gateway... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070192451 - Techniques for distributing information using multicast subsets: Techniques for sending data in a packet-switched communications network include determining multiple subsets of adjacent network nodes of the network. The adjacent network nodes communicate without intervening network nodes with a particular network node through an interface on the particular network node. Each subset includes multiple adjacent network nodes. Subset... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070192456 - Web application system, web server, method and computer product for displaying web application message: A web server is connected to a terminal computer capable of performing hypertext transfer protocol communications with the web server. The terminal computer includes a browser for displaying information. The web server executes a plurality of web applications upon receiving a request from the terminal computer. The web server transmits... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070192479 - Communication state publishing gateway: Once a gateway connected to access networks and a packet network has received a notification of a communication state relating a terminal, a gateway that publishes communication states of terminals transforms a current communication state of the terminal into an instant messaging communication state. The instant messaging communication state is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070192482 - Interactive bandwidth modeling and node estimation: An interactive bandwidth modeling tool allows a user to estimate the bandwidth requirements in a network for a period of time of interest which may be a plurality of years. The user enters network plant parameters which are used to estimate the bandwidth requirements of the network for a variety... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070192483 - Method and system for adaptively setting a data refresh interval: A method and system is disclosed for adaptively refreshing a data using system. The data using system includes a data source and a data using device for utilizing data from the data source. The data using device has an initial refresh interval. A communication link is provided between the data... Agent: Pollack, P.C.

20070192480 - Method of measuring round trip time and proximity checking method using the same: A method of measuring round trip time (RTT) and a proximity checking method using the same. The method of measuring RTT includes: transmitting a hashed second random number and starting the RTT measurement; and receiving a hashed first random number from a device that received the hashed second random number... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192478 - System and method for configuring and viewing audit trails in an information network: An audit trail system allows a user to configure and view an audit trail of changes that have been made to various types of information that can be accessed by one or more users in a network of computer systems. The various types of information are grouped in business components.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192481 - Systems and methods for content type classification: A method for determining a type of content includes receiving a first packet, determining a state of classification for the first packet or for a session with which the first packet is associated, receiving a second packet, and determining a content type for the second packet based at least in... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070192484 - Distributed authentication system and communication control apparatus: Provided is a distributed authentication system and a communication control apparatus which allow a user to use a service with retained security. The distributed authentication system includes: a terminal; a communication control apparatus; and a server for distributing a service, the terminal, the communication control apparatus, and the server being... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070192486 - Home automation system and method: In one embodiment a method is disclosed for interacting with a controllable device in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system. The method receives at a control server, device state data for the controllable device from a first client device in the IPTV network; accesses user interface (UI) data from a... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20070192485 - Method, system, and computer program product for preventing a web browser from loading content from undesirable sources: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for preventing a browser from loading content from undesirable sources. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: selecting an area of a web page containing undesirable content; substituting an alternate Internet Protocol (IP) address... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070192487 - System and method for alerting on open file-share sessions on a user's electronic device: A method and system for detecting active file-share sessions on a client device, alerting the user of the client device, and enabling the user to terminate the file-share sessions, are disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed method and system, when a remote device (e.g., on a network, the Internet, wireless,... Agent: Petnote LLC C/o Steven Rueben

20070192488 - System and method for authenticating components in wireless home entertainment system: Configuration information is exchanged between a home entertainment system server and various wireless components by pushing a button on the server and a random button on a remote control device as it is pointed at the devices sought to be authenticated.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070192493 - Application verification for hosted services: In a client-server environment providing hosted services, an application service server receives from a client a first request for hosted services associated with a user-specified domain name. If the server does not provide hosted services for that domain name, the server designates the first request as pending and provides a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070192490 - Content-based filtering of electronic messages: Described are techniques and mechanisms for filtering electronic messages based on the content of the messages to prevent downloading certain messages to a client. Very generally stated, user-configurable content-based filters are used at the server to control the download of messages to the client. Identifying information about the client may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192492 - Load-balancing device and computer-readable recording medium in which load-balancing program is recorded: A load-balancing device having a specification-information insertion unit, a specification-information detection unit, and a destination determination unit. When a response message does not contain specification information specifying a destination server, the specification-information insertion unit detects the source server of the response message as the destination server, and inserts into the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070192489 - Method and apparatus to facilitate automatic selection of sotware programs to be distributed to network elements: A plurality of executable software programs are received (101). By one approach these executable software programs are intended for distribution to one or more available candidate distributed network elements. Example network elements include, but are not limited to, wireless sensor elements. These executable software programs are then automatically assessed (102)... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070192491 - Remote desktop system: In a remote desktop system, information pertaining to client resources is included in screen information that a server manages to display in a client. In the remote desktop system, the client collects information pertaining to units making up the client or to programs as resource information, and sends the collected... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070192496 - Transferring command-lines as a message: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide for a sending side with enough intelligence to isolate each command, examine it, perform some levels of validation, and deliver a structured representation of the command to the remote processor... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070192495 - Gateway for wireless mobile clients: the gateway (5, 5′, 5″) storing a session context (11), which session context (11) comprises the status of a session established between the core messaging system (7) and one of the clients (1, 1′, 1″), a state of the client connection associated with the session, and a session identifier which... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20070192494 - Intermediate device which can be introduced and removed in seamless way: An intermediate device which can be introduced and removed in seamless way is disclosed. The state information acquiring means acquires state information required to maintain the state of a session established between the first information processing device and the second information processing device for the information processing service, from the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070192498 - Method and apparatus for adaptively coupling processing components in a distributed system: A method is disclosed for adaptively coupling processing components in a distributed system. In one aspect, a second component requests an interaction with a first component by sending a service access request to access a first service of the first component. The service access request specifies parameters relating to a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070192497 - System and method for communicating in a networked system: There is provided a system and method for communicating in a networked system. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a computer system comprising a plurality of endpoints, each of the endpoints being configured to transmit data messages to each of a plurality of other endpoints by transmitting data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070192499 - Removing slamming protection to permit a change in service providers: A system for removing a protection associated with an account of a customer that prevents a change of a service provider of the customer includes a database server configured to receive a request from a prospective service provider of the customer to remove the protection associated with the customer's account... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070192501 - Determining connectivity status for unnumbered inerfaces of a target network device: Techniques are described for testing connectivity to unnumbered interfaces of a target device. For example, a software utility and protocol are described that allows an administrator to specify a logical offset that may be internally resolved by the target device to one of a plurality of unnumbered interfaces during the... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070192503 - Shell input/output segregation: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide for a sending side with enough intelligence to isolate each command, examine it, perform some levels of validation, and deliver a structured representation of the command to the remote processor... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070192502 - Shell sessions: Embodiments described herein are based on the principle that shells execute commands as units of characters sent within a message. Accordingly, embodiments herein provide for establishing a remote processing session for commands by using a binding mechanism that binds a series of commands to a remote shell using a message... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070192500 - Network access control including dynamic policy enforcement point: Systems and methods of securing a computing network are described. Communication from unauthorized devices is prevented by defining one or more dynamic policy enforcement points (DPEPs) on a network segment and specifying one of these DPEPs as an active policy enforcement point (APEP). The APEP prevents communication from unauthorized devices... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070192504 - Asynchronous computer communication: A computer array (10) has a plurality of computers (12). The computers (12) communicate with each other asynchronously, and the computers (12) themselves operate in a generally asynchronous manner internally. When one computer (12) attempts to communicate with another it goes to sleep until the other computer (12) is ready... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20070192505 - Auto-sequencing transmission speed of a data port: Embodiments of methods of auto-sequencing transmission speed of a data port are disclosed. One method includes the data port executing auto-negotiation with a second data port, to determine a highest common transmission speed supported by the data port and the second data port, each port advertising transmission speeds the port... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept

20070192506 - Roaming of clients between gateways of clusters of a wireless mesh network: A method and apparatus of allowing client roaming between gateways of a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The gateways are connected through a layer 3 network to an aggregation router. The method includes a first gateway sending a first route update to the aggregation router when a client joins a... Agent: Tropos Patent Dept

20070192507 - System and method for recognizing and assigning application-specific flows: In one embodiment, an intermediate network device includes a communication facility configured to receive a reservation request message that includes a flow spec object. The flow spec object specifies one or more flow parameters that describe a given traffic flow that desires to pass through the intermediate network device. A... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070192508 - Providing network address translation information: A method and apparatus is provided to allow telephony or other types of media communications and services to be provided for a device having a private network address that resides behind a firewall and network address and port translation (NAPT) module (which is not aware of the underlying protocol for... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070192509 - Server apparatuses, server control programs, and client apparatuses in a computer system: The present drawing data stored in the present drawing data storage unit is compared with the preceding drawing data stored in the preceding drawing data storage unit for each of the drawing areas divided by the area dividing unit, thereby determining whether there is a change in the preceding drawing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192510 - Method and apparatus for generating linking means and updating text files on a wide area network: Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to methods for automatically generating a link means in E-mail, web pages and other documents and files presented to users of wide area computer networks, and for automatically updating text and other types of files on a wide area network with linking means... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20070192511 - Device and method for transmitting data: An apparatus and method for transmitting data. The method for transmitting data includes compressing data to be transmitted and configuring a plurality of packets, arranging the packets such that the entropy mean between the packets neighboring in any one side approximates to a reference entropy set in proportion to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070192512 - Method of synchronizing a plurality of content directory device (cds) devices, cds device, and system: Provided is a method and system for synchronizing a plurality of content directory service (CDS) devices in a home network environment. The method of synchronizing the plurality of CDS devices of a home network, which includes the plurality of CDS devices and a control point (CP), comprises (a) requesting a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185954 - Method of conveying geographically conditioned information to vehicle or individuals: A method of transmitting geographically governed information to automotive vehicles or to individuals, based upon the location of the vehicles or individuals. The exact or approximate position of the vehicle or the individual is determined in relation to permanently spaced units for radio communication between those units and a vehicle-carried... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070185955 - Remote console apparatus, remote operation method and remote console program: The present invention provides a remote console apparatus including a storage unit for storing a remote console program which performs a remote operation of an electronic apparatus; a file for substituting for an operation interface of the remote console program; and a storage unit for storing an operation program which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185956 - Communication system and method: A communication system and method for optimizing a network (or web) conference. A communication system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a network conference server, at least one mail server, a moderator's client device, a plurality of participants' client devices, a network interconnecting the servers and client... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070185958 - Control unit operations in a real-time collaboration server: In a real-time collaboration server, a control unit manages a collaboration mode. The control unit operates a virtual client that maintains a virtual screen reflecting the status of the collaboration (e.g., the contents of a shared desktop or whiteboard). The virtual client renders collaboration data within the virtual screen. New... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070185959 - Control unit operations in a real-time collaboration server: In a real-time collaboration server, a control unit manages a collaboration mode. The control unit operates a virtual client that maintains a virtual screen reflecting the status of the collaboration (e.g., the contents of a shared desktop or whiteboard). The virtual client renders collaboration data within the virtual screen. New... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070185957 - Using a list management server for conferencing in an ims environment: The present invention uses a list management server for specifying conference participants in an IMS environment. More specifically, a conference list can be established for a standard list management server. The conference list can be a group list that is identified with a unique public URI. The group list can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070185962 - Coordinated changing of email settings on wireless electronic devices and wireless networks: A method and apparatus for changing settable email parameters in a system supporting email using a wireless device, the system including a wireless electronic device and a wireless network. Provided is a way of changing email settings on the wireless device, and storing those changes on both the device and,... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070185961 - Integrated conversations having both email and chat messages: Email and chat messages may be displayed as part of the same conversation, in an integrated conversation view. The conversation view would include items corresponding to email messages that are part of the conversation and chat messages that are part of the conversation. A user may reply to an email... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070185960 - Method and system for recognizing spam email: A method includes steps of receiving an email message comprising a plurality of packets and delivery-path information; determining a path for the email using the delivery-path information; comparing the path with a plurality of prior email paths; determining a measure of similarity between the path of the email received and... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070185965 - Extending functionality of workflow applications using instant messaging (im): Plug-ins for instant messaging (IM) systems are described. By using plug-ins in conjunction with IM systems, the functionality of IM systems may be greatly extended. Specifically, in business applications, such as workflow processes, IM provides a more reliable approach to determining actual delivery of messages.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070185964 - Integrated email and chat archiving with fine grained user control for chat archiving: Participants in a chat session can control the archiving of chat messages in the chat session. Participants in a chat session send and receive a first set of chat messages, which are archived. A command to deactivate archiving is made by one of the participants. Messages in the chat session... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070185963 - System and method for prioritizing electronic mail and controlling spam: The present system and method for prioritizing email and controlling spam provides capability to determine the priority of emails received by an addressee. Such emails are designed to alert an addressee of its priority by the number of times the characters of the email address of the addressee are repeated.... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070185968 - Communicating with a remote control: A method and system to communicate with a remote control are described herein. A device mode is selected from a plurality of device modes, each of which is associated with a media device. A user makes the selection in response to a prompt received from the media device. Next, mode... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070185966 - Device and method for controlling network equipment management data, for a communications network management system: A device (1) is dedicated to the control of management data for equipment (5) in a communications network comprising a network management system for managing the equipment (5) in the network using loaded management data modules, associated with the said equipment and stored in a memory (9). This device (1)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185967 - Multiple login instant messaging: Mechanisms are provided for allowing users to log into an IM provider from multiple clients concurrently. The messages are recorded and messages from the same users originating form multiple clients are differentiated. The user may then follow the IM session from any client device from which the user has logged... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070185969 - Drive with server: The present invention relates to a drive system that includes a module that operates as a server, where in at least some embodiments the module is at least one of directly integrated with another module that operates as a drive and fully integrated to include the drive. The server allows... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20070185974 - Communication terminal device and communication method: A communication terminal device registers destination information to be a transmission destination when transmitting transmission data, and registers a folder by associating with the registered destination information in a manner that the folder can be designated based on the registered destination information. The communication terminal device accepts a designation of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070185972 - Method and device for managing content, storage medium; and adaptive content playing method using the same: A content management method includes transmitting content from a content provider device to a client device over a predetermined network; and adding additional information comprising original content location information of the content transmitted to the client device and elapsed playing time information of the content. A content management device includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185973 - Pull data replication model: A data storage system, device, and method are provided for replicating data between different data storage systems or appliances. More specifically, the present invention allows an initiating data storage device to pull data from a target data storage device. Thus, the storage device that is supplying the data can act... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070185975 - Asynchronous hypertext messaging: An asynchronous hypertext messaging system and method are disclosed. The system and method use existing hypertext transfer protocols and is capable of transmitting real-time asynchronous data between server and client regardless of firewalls or proxy servers implemented at the client or the server. In a communication system comprising a client... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070185971 - Method and system for accelerating data communication that is using multipart: A more efficient and user pleasant delivery of web content is realized for the transmission of markup language based files that include multipart information. Knowing that a receiving device maintains a cache of previously received objects, a markup language file is parsed to identify multipart objects prior to transmission. A... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070185970 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing messaging services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing messaging services is provided. The method includes receiving a request to delete a message that includes an attachment from a computer system. In response to the request, a user of the computer system is provided with options to save the attachment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20070185977 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, storage medium, and package medium: A communication system is disclosed which includes: a storing element for storing content data corresponding to an image associated with a distributed storage medium; a retrieving element for retrieving address information on a network from the distributed storage medium; an accessing element for accessing the storing element based on the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070185976 - Documentation process for invoking help form a server: The use of a map at a server allows flexibility to the operation of a help system.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070185978 - Persistant client state in a hypertext transfer protocol based client-server system: A method and apparatus for transferring state information between a server computer system and a client computer system. In one embodiment of the method, an http client requests a file, such as an HTML document, on an http server, and the http server transmits the file to the http client.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070185979 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus for displaying and setting operating conditions of a peripheral device, includes: a display unit; an operating condition selection unit; a first comparison unit; and a first display control unit. The operating condition selection unit selects two or more operating conditions from a plurality of operating conditions.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070185981 - Power line communication apparatus and power line communication system: Power line communication apparatuses 100a, 100x each is equipped with a power line communication unit connected to a power line, for performing a power line communication; RFID tag 50a, 50x for storing thereinto communication setting information employed when a communication is carried out in the power line communication unit; and... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070185980 - Environmentally aware computing devices with automatic policy adjustment features: A method of automatically adjusting device settings can include a step of associating devices with device location beacons and associating users with user location beacons. The devices can be linked to a network that includes a location server. The location server can automatically determine location based relationships between the devices... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070185982 - Ticket issuing system, storage medium and electronic ticket issuing and managing method: There is provided a ticket issuing system issuing an electronic ticket for digital content to a user system attempting to utilize the digital content by means of the electronic ticket. The ticket issuing system includes a receiver that receives a request to issue the electronic ticket for the digital content... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070185985 - Method for requesting triggered location service between terminals in location information system: Disclosed is a method for requesting a triggered location service between terminals in an SUPL-based location information system, and more particularly, a method for requesting a triggered location service related to an area event. When a triggered service of a second terminal is requested in a certain area from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070185984 - System and method for issue severity handling for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070185983 - System and method for publishing advertisement service information: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and a method for publishing advertisement service information. The system includes an advertisement Portal sever, a data storage device, and an advertisement service central server. The method includes receiving, by the advertisement service Portal server of the system for publishing advertisement service... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070185990 - Computer-readable recording medium with recorded performance analyzing program, performance analyzing method, and performance analyzing apparatus: A recording medium which is readable by a computer stores a performance analyzing program for searching for a node that is peculiar in performance in a cluster system, as well as unknown problems. The performance analyzing program enables the computer to function as various functional units. A performance data analyzing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185989 - Integrated video surveillance system and associated method of use: An integrated video surveillance system and associated method of use is disclosed that includes at least one alarm monitoring center, each alarm monitoring center includes a main control panel with a first video recorder interface, at least one subscriber, wherein each subscriber is electrically connected to a control module, at... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070185988 - Apparatus and method for directing content to a user by an internet service provider: A processor implemented method for directing content to a user by an internet service provider comprising the steps of: tracking the websites visited by a user; identifying at least one on-line business visited by the a user; and providing a link to the on-line business through a browser.... Agent: The Watson Intellectual Property Group, PLC

20070185987 - Apparatus, system, and method for monitoring computer system components: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for monitoring computer system components in large or complex systems. The apparatus includes an identifier module for associating at least one visual identifier with a computer system component. A function module associates one or more control functions with the visual identifier. A presentation... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070185986 - Method and system of measuring and recording user data in a communications network: A system (2) for measuring and recording user data in a communications network and associating the user data with demographic data of the user, the user being able to access a user computer processing means (6) having browser means (18). The system comprises data processing means (4) for receiving from... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070185991 - Versatile terminal adapter and network for transaction processing: A terminal adapter, along with a value added network, is disclosed that interworks a plurality of terminals with a processing host to accomplish transaction processing. The terminals can use different protocols and typically incorporate card readers for completing financial or other types of transactions typically involving credit, debit, ATM or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070185992 - Authorization for device interaction with a remote service: A method for authorizing device interaction includes requesting, from a connected device, authorization data from a remote service. At the connected device, authorization data is received and then passed with an authorization prompt to a user interface device. From the connected device, a user interface device response to the prompt... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070185993 - Chat room communication network implementation enabling senders to restrict the display of messages to the chat room chronological displays of only designated recipients: A participant in an instant messaging chat room may send restricted messages to only a set of selected participants in the chat room. Enabling a user at a display station to select a set of only users to receive a restricted message, and send the restricted message to this selected... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070185994 - System and method for authentication permitting access control to electronic information and software applications between remotely accessed computer systems: A system and method for information security, more particularly relating to the intervention of an access requesting computer or ARC, by a permission processing access controller or PPAC, whereby the access requesting computer is desirous of accessing electronic information or software applications or digital token through electronic networks in which... Agent: Michael G. Lalonde

20070185995 - Method and telecommunications equipment for interworking internet and circuit networks: Methods and telecommunications equipment (102) for routing data are disclosed. The telecommunications equipment includes an interworking telecommunications network element (ITNE) (202) and an Application Controller (AC) (204). The ITNE has multiple connectivity resources. The method includes interworking between a circuit-switched network and a packet-based network through the telecommunications equipment. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070185996 - Method for reducing variability and oscillations in load balancing recommendations using historical values and workload metrics: The present invention provides a method of preventing harmful variability and oscillation in weight based, dynamic load balancing environments. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods to effectively determine the magnitude of weight changes in dynamic load balancing environments based on the workload magnitude and server farm capacity. This... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070185997 - Selecting servers based on load-balancing metric instances: In an embodiment, a request is received that is directed to a page. A determination is made whether a session associated with the request already exists by determining whether the request is dependent on a previous request. If the session does not already exist, then a decision is made whether... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070185999 - Persistant client state in a hypertext transfer protocol based client-server system: A method and apparatus for transferring state information between a server computer system and a client computer system. In one embodiment of the method, an http client requests a file, such as an HTML document, on an http server, and the http server transmits the file to the http client.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070185998 - Supporting options in a communication session using a tcp cookie: A defender operable to support options in a communication session intercepts a connection request packet sent from a client to a server. The defender identifies a client option combination associated with the client from the connection request packet. The defender establishes a client option index corresponding to the client option... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070186000 - Secure traffic redirection in a mobile communication system: A method of securely initialising subscriber and security data in a mobile routing system when the subscribers are also subscribers of a radio communication network. The method comprises, within the mobile routing system, authenticating subscribers to the mobile routing system using an authentication procedure defined for the radio communication network,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070186001 - Data replication method and apparatus: A data storage system, device, and method are provided for replicating data between different data storage systems or appliances. More specifically, the present invention affords communications between heterogeneous data storage systems that potential employ different communication protocols. A bridging communication protocol is utilized by one or both storage systems in... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070186004 - Method and system for stream processing web services: Systems and methods for stream processing message data relating to a web service application are described. One system has an input pipe for receiving multiple interrelated session based messages according to an order with which they originate. A processor processes an accumulation of the messages upon reaching a trigger point... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070186005 - Method to embedding svg content into iso base media file format for progressive downloading and streaming of rich media content: A method of embedding vector graphics content such as SVG into the 3GPP ISO Base Media File Format for progressive downloading or streaming of live rich media content over MMS/PSS/MBMS services. The method of the present invention allows the file format to be used for the packaging of rich media... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070186003 - System and method for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node: A scheme for retrieving digital multimedia content from a network node. An RTSP SET_PARAMETER message is provided to the network node by a client application executing on a digital multimedia device, wherein the message contains at least one of a playlist identifier, a media clip index and an indication of... Agent: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.

20070186006 - Systems and methods for creation and use of a timeline of broadcast streaming media programs: Systems and methods for controlling broadcast streaming media to a user's Internet-accessible device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a timeline temporally associating streaming media content programs from a plurality of Internet resources is created and sent to a server. After receiving a playback request form a user's device, the server... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070186002 - Videophone and method for a video call: A videophone. The videophone can include an imaging mechanism for taking a video picture of a scene. The videophone can include a mechanism for producing a first video stream of the scene and a second video stream of the scene from the video picture and sending the first video stream... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20070186007 - Downloadable server-client collaborative mobile social computing application: Systems and methods for collaborative and interactive computer applications. A downloadable server-client collaborative mobile social computing application and methods for using the same that connect users based on both their physical location and mutual geographic proximity. A wide variety of Web-enabled devices may be used by members to access the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070186009 - Methods and apparatus for providing multiple policies for a virtual private network: A system provides a request for a policy from a policy server, and receives the policy from the policy server. The policy indicates processing to be applied to a traffic partition passing through the device. The system configures the policy within a routing structure associated with the traffic partition for... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070186008 - Multiple level minimum logic network: A network or interconnect structure 100 utilizes a data flow technique that is based on timing and positioning of messages communicating through the interconnect structure. Switching control is distributed throughout multiple nodes 102 in the structure so that a supervisory controller providing a global control function and complex logic structures... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070186011 - Industrial protocol and gateway: A gateway component for an industrial automation system is provided. This includes an agent component to process network interactions for a network device. An industrial protocol object facilitates interactions between an industrial automation component and the network device, where a mapping component translates between industrial control protocols associated with the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070186010 - Extending industrial control system communications capabilities: Systems and methods are provided for communications across multiple networks in a substantially transparent and seamless manner. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a communications component to facilitate communications in an industrial controller network, where the communications component can include a protocol encapsulation component,... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070180017 - Alternative communications paths for data sent over power line carrier: Extensions to the concept of using a power line carrier to convey a data record from the secondary side of a first transformer to a receiver in a power distribution substation include receiving the data record over a secondary data path in the event that the primary path is not... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070180018 - Systems and methods for application deployment: A system for deploying applications that comprises a data storage component capable of containing at least one application to be deployed and an administration component capable of deploying the application from the data storage component to a managed component. The managed component is capable of receiving the application from the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180023 - Mobile device, and apparatus and method for transmitting content for the mobile device: A mobile device and an apparatus and method for the mobile device, in which intercept information about contents intercepted by a user is stored in the mobile device and is transmitted together with a request for contents from the user, so that the user can use only the selected contents.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070180022 - Client server system: A client-server system including: a server device including a contents transmitting unit to transmit contents; and a client terminal device which is connected to the server device through a wireless network, including: a content receiving unit to receive the transmitted contents; and an output control unit to output the received... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070180021 - Method and apparatus for controlling a computer over a wide area network: The present invention permits virtually the entire functionality of a computer system to be made accessible over a network such as the Internet or an Intranet. More particularly, the present invention permits a computer system to be run as a “virtual machine” through a web page provided at a web... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC Dba Tips Group

20070180024 - Methods and systems for control of content reception: A method of preventing the reception of content includes the steps of receiving a request for provision of content from a content reception system, the content reception system comprising a signal detector, and preventing the reception of content by the content reception system when the signal detector detects a signal... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20070180019 - System, method, and computer program product for internet tool: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an interface for receiving a user input and a user selection signal and for concurrently supporting a set of service templates; and a specification compiling system communicable to a network supporting the network resource for combining the user input with a user-specified... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070180020 - System, method, and computer program product for internet tool: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an interface for receiving a user input and a user selection signal and for concurrently supporting a set of service templates; and a specification compiling system communicable to a network supporting the network resource for combining the user input with a user-specified... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070180027 - Computerized news preparatory service: Techniques are disclosed herein for including news stories in radio shows and, more generally, for including content in online publications. For example, a user may submit content (such as a news story displayed in a web page) for possible inclusion in a radio talk show by performing a single action... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070180025 - Inter-device linkage method, device linkage control system, device linkage control program and terminal device: There is provided an inter-device linkage method in a device linkage control system capable of adaptively providing information according to a user context while protecting user individual information. In this method, firstly, communication is performed directly between an information output device (20) and a user terminal (10). When communication is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070180029 - Method and apparatus for restricting visual material for conference services: A method and apparatus for restricting visual materials in conference services provided on networks such as the packet networks, e.g., Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. For example, the customer subscribes to a service with integrated data and voice conferencing capabilities and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070180030 - Method for realizing dynamic qos in wimax system: Method for realizing dynamic QoS in a WIMAX system includes: a Media Gateway Control MGC makes awareness of a service stream from a Media Gateway MG, and transmits a resource request to a Resource Management Server RMS, which, in response to the request, decides whether there is enough resource; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070180028 - Preventing human error in instant messaging: A system, computer program and method for reducing communication errors in a messaging system. One embodiment of the invention involves delaying the transmission of a message to a discussion participant for a period of time. If a time countdown expires before activation of a message edit control, the message is... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (rsw)

20070180026 - System and method for conducting a physician-patient consultation: A system and method for conducting a physician-patient consultation is disclosed wherein the patient is located, at lest initially, remotely from the physician.... Agent: Alberto Q. Amatong, Jr.

20070180039 - Anonymous disposable email addressing system and method of use thereo: A method and system directed toward establishing a communication channel for communication between an email user and third party email users, employing anonymous disposable email addresses of the email user associated with one or more third party email users to minimize email spam. The email user may further block email... Agent: Turning Point Law

20070180038 - Apparatus and method for providing message service: An apparatus and method for providing a message service are provided. The apparatus includes an input unit through which a user inputs a message and a list of recipients who will receive the message; a transmitter multicasting the message input by the user and identification information of the user to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070180031 - Email opt-out enforcement: Email opt-out enforcement is described. Received email messages are processed based on trust levels associated with senders of the email messages, such that email from more trusted senders is not scrutinized as much as email from less trusted senders. When a user requests to opt-out or unsubscribe from a sender's... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180036 - Context aware message notification: A method for managing message notification to a user, comprising the operations of: receiving a message addressed to the user; obtaining context information based on the context the user is in; obtaining a user's preference based on the obtained context information; depending on the obtained user's preference, selectively generating and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070180035 - E-mail attachment selectable download: A method of transmitting e-mails with attachments over a communications network includes the steps of receiving an e-mail with an attachment file, causing the attachment file to be stored at a storage device, and transmitting a modified e-mail having an attachment indication with a pointer to a location of the... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070180034 - Method and system for filtering communication: Receipt and review of unwanted e-mail messages is curtailed by requiring acceptable e-mail messages to include a special indicator specific to the recipient. The recipient system processes incoming messages to search for the specific indicator. Messages that include the specific indicator are provided to the recipient for review. Messages which... Agent: Patent Department Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20070180032 - Method for email service in a visual voicemail system: A system and method are disclosed for an email service in a visual voicemail system (VVM) (110). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include a VVM having a controller (102) coupled to a communication network (101) that manages operations of the VVM, populates (304) an end... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070180037 - Method for processing push notification in multimedia message service: The invention discloses a method for processing a PUSH notification, including: placing non-compressible fields into the Push notification and placing into the PUSH notification a field signifying message type and a field of internal ID after the fields are compressed; determining whether the PUSH notification may be carried in one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070180033 - Virtual mail storage for mail distributed using corporate distribution lists: A method for distributing email includes receiving an email generated by a sender and addressed to a plurality of intended recipients. The generated email is stored in a designated location. A virtual email is sent to the plurality of intended recipients. The virtual email contains information for viewing the stored... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070180043 - Message object model: Embodiments described herein provide for an overall object mode that allows for a single message object to represent multiple messaging formats. A general message object is populated with fields for multiple available messaging formats, which can be appropriately filled with information with fields for both versions 1.1 and 1.2. Depending... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070180041 - Methods and apparatus for virtualizing an address space: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving a memory access request for data from a processor of a multi-processor system; determining whether the data of the memory access request is stored in a remote processing system coupled to the multi-processor system over a communications network; requesting the data from the remote... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070180040 - System and method for managing an instant messaging conversation: The invention is a computer implemented system and process for managing a threaded instant messaging conversation. The process comprises establishing an interactive messaging session for exchanging a conversation element; assigning a thread identifier to the conversation element; appending the thread identifier to the conversation element; and displaying the conversation element... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070180042 - User configurable automatic voice message prioritization: An apparatus in one example has: a mobile terminal; a voice mail system operatively coupled to a voice mail database, the voice mail database having a plurality of prioritized voice messages for predetermined mobile terminals; and a network operatively coupled to the mobile terminal and the voice mail system. Embodiments... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070180045 - Disk controller: In a disk controller having a plurality of controller modules (CMs), the CM includes a path obstruction determination unit for obstructing a part in which an anomaly occurs when the anomaly occurs on a communication path for communications between CMs, and, when the plurality of CMs cannot communicate between them... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070180044 - Operating device: An operating device for controlling several electronic devices is provided, in which an operator interface of an electronic device to be controlled is transmitted to the operating device.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070180053 - Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and computer-executable program: An apparatus is configured to acquire document domain information indicating a domain to which a document belongs, and to acquire destination domain information indicating a destination domain. The apparatus is further configured to determine whether to allow transmission of the document to the destination domain based on the document domain... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070180056 - Domain name registration system and methods for open top level domain environment: The invention proposes improved methods and system for registering top level domains (TLDs) and second (or lower) level domains (SLDs) suitable for open top level domain environment having a large, generally unlimited, number of TLDs. The method comprises the step of categorizing the TLD to be registered by assigning at... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20070180048 - Caching of private data for a configurable time period: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating cookies. A cookie value is retrieved in response to receiving the request. An expiration for the cookie value is set based on a time period in which the request is received. A set of unique identifiers, including the expiration,... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070180049 - Code hyperlinks: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing code hyperlinks. The disclosed systems and methods may include displaying a code hyperlink in a code view of a computer programming code. The code hyperlink may be associated with a first segment of the computer programming code displayed in the code view. Furthermore,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070180054 - Method and system for supplying products from pre-stored digital data in response to demands transmitted via computer network: The present invention relates to a digital data duplication system that utilizes one or more computer networks to automate the process from order-taking to delivery, eliminating the need for human supervision. Customers enter requests for a given number of machine-readable articles containing digital data, typically compact disks. The requests are... Agent: Sonnabendlaw

20070180046 - Method for transporting medical diagnostic information over a wireless communications system: A method is provided for controlling data transport in a wireless communications system. The method comprises using a portable diagnostic tool, such as an ultrasound system, to collect information from a patient. The collected information is then transmitted to a remote server of the wireless communications system. The remote server... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070180047 - System and method for providing authentication of remotely collected external sensor measures: A system and method for providing authentication of remotely collected external sensor measures is presented. Physiological measures are collected from a source situated remotely from a repository for accumulating such collected physiological measures. An identification of the source from which the physiological measures were collected is determined against authentication data... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070180052 - System and method for providing computer upgrade information: Systems and methods are disclosed which provide upgrade information for at least one computer. The method includes the steps of executing an upgrade program stored in a computer-readable medium on the at least one computer, detecting a current hardware configuration of the at least one computer, cross-referencing at least some... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070180050 - Systems, methods and computer program products for sharing three-dimensional body scan data: A network includes a web site of an intermediary and web sites of respective product/service providers. A customer accesses a product/service provider web site, initiates a purchase transaction, and transmits body scan data to the product/service provider. The body scan data is generated by a third party having a body... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070180051 - Version-specific content searching: Content returned by a search query is specific to a version of a product installed on or associated with the computer system requesting the search. Upon receipt of the search query, a search system accesses a persistent descriptor corresponding to a detected version of the product. The persistent descriptor may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070180055 - Xml based internet and browser system and method: The present invention, in accordance with one aspect, provides a new system and method for linking to internet files wherein a variety of options are presented. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a new architecture for a web site as well as systems and methods for providing... Agent: Glen M. Diehl Diehl Servilla LLC

20070180057 - Media play lists: List processing functionality (LPF) is described for creating a play list that defines an order in which video media programs are to be presented. Different techniques are described for creating the play list, including various manual techniques and various automatic (or semi-automatic) techniques.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180058 - System and method for providing mobile information server and portable device therein: A system and method for providing mobile information, a server and a portable device therein are provided. The server comprises an intelligent download manager and the portable device comprises a file browse manager. The intelligent download manager determines a downloaded file update rule and a file browse rule according to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070180059 - Light weight software and hardware inventory: A method of inventorying software and/or hardware. The method may be practiced for example in a network computing environment including at least one client and at least one server. The method includes requesting a rule file from the server. The rule file is received from the server. Information is gathered... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070180060 - Messaging system with content-based dynamic menu generation: A unified messaging system for an enterprise includes a messaging module operable to store a message sent by a first user to a second user in a first media type, and to deliver the message to the second user in either the first type or a second media type. A... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070180061 - Methods and apparatus for interactive specification of context-sensitive sevice level agreements; for provisioning of resources required during service delivery events regulated by service level agreements; and for monitoring compliance with service level: In a first aspect of the present invention, methods and apparatus implement graphical user interfaces for interactively specifying service level agreements used to regulate delivery of services to, for example, computer systems. An interactive graphical user interface allows a user to see the effects of varying values of service delivery... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070180063 - Network-enabled audio device and radio site: A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070180062 - Portable media encoder with remote setup management interface: A portable media encoder with a remote setup management interface is disclosed. The encoder provides a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video input source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio input source, and a digital output port... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070180064 - System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070180065 - System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070180072 - Edge qam configuration and management: A method of configuring an edge device in a network wherein a transport network interfaces with edge devices that interface with client devices involves a configuration file in a dynamic file format. The edge device is configured by downloading the configuration file to the edge device. The method comprises connecting... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070180073 - Generic quality of service protocol and architecture for user applications in multiple transport protocol environments: A generic quality of service (“G-QoS”) protocol and architecture for applications executing in multiple transport protocol environments is provided. G-QoS negotiators establish a QoS level for user applications by communicating over a network and exchanging network and application data via a G-QoS protocol that can be implemented using out-of-band ICMP... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070180069 - Management of component configurations in a computer system: Methods and apparatus are provided for managing relationships between individual components and configurations assembled to fulfill requirements in a computer system. In one embodiment, a method is provided whereby a configuration which includes a set of components is dynamically modified to add an additional component, so that the additional component... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070180070 - Managing component configurations in a computer system: Methods and apparatus are provided for managing relationships between individual components and configurations assembled to fulfill requirements in a computer system. In one embodiment, a method is provided whereby a configuration which includes a set of components is dynamically modified to add an additional component, so that the additional component... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070180067 - Method and computer for configuration of a communication node: A method and a computer for configuration of a communication node, by means of a communications application, installed on a computer are provided. Selectable instructions are thus displayed on a graphical user surface. At least one user address is represented by an element which may be moved on the graphical... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070180071 - Radio communication apparatus and control: A radio communication apparatus comprises a radio communication setting storage unit that stores a first radio communication setting for performing radio communication on a first radio network, and a second radio communication setting for performing radio communication on a second radio network which is different from said first radio network;... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070180068 - System and method for controlling settings for television services: The present disclosure provides a system, method and computer-readable medium for providing a television service. A group of settings relating to a television service is received from a customer device. A portal is provided to a remote device that enables updating the group of settings. A change to at least... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070180066 - System and method for searching data partially displayed on a user interface: The present invention includes systems and methods for customization of internet applications. Multiple levels of customization are applied to both static and functional aspects of user interface elements including, for example, tab-order, tab-over, immediate access keys, and hotkeys. Customization is also achieved with respect to searching over multiple user interfaces,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070180074 - Logic in a system that enables and disables support for a remote control based on whether an external device is coupled to the system: A system comprises a transceiver adapted to receive signals from any of a plurality of remote controls and logic that operatively couples to the transceiver. The logic enables and disables support for at least one of the remote controls based on whether an external device, which supports the remote control,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070180089 - Apparatus and methods for providing configurable task management of a wireless device: Methods, devices, computer readable media and apparatus are presented for providing configurable task management, such as data collection management, on a wireless device. Task management provides conditions and associated actions which may be dynamically configured and implemented in conjunction with any application executed on the wireless device.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070180087 - Computer allocation method: A rule evaluation unit classifies users into users of fixed PC allocation and users of dynamic allocation according to the user utilization characteristic and stores the classification result in a user classification table. When a user makes a PC utilization request, a PC allocation unit allocates a predetermined PC to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070180090 - Dns traffic switch: A device, method and system for regulating networks using Domain Name System (DNS) is disclosed herein. The exemplary method may receive a DNS transaction between a DNS client and a DNS server. DNS information associated with the DNS transaction is identified. An appropriate action for the transaction may be applied... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070180077 - Heartbeat heuristics: A device monitoring system for monitoring a device comprising: a database including a health record for the device; a heartbeat server coupled to the database; a heartbeat agent operating on the device and coupled to the heartbeat server; a heartbeat packet sent from the heartbeat agent to the heartbeat server;... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070180080 - Method and apparatus for partitioning resources within a session-over-internet-protocol (soip) session controller: A method and apparatus for partitioning resources within a Session-over-Internet-Protocol (SoIP) Session Controller (SC) are described. In one illustrative embodiment, an apparatus comprises data access logic configured to receive an instruction to define at least one virtual partition in a SoIP SC, grant a primary entity access to data associated... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070180088 - Seamless roaming across multiple data networks: A method for seamless roaming on a client comprises the steps of installing a proxy on a client, wherein the proxy communicates with a content server via a network connection and intercepting data from at least one user application via the proxy on the client before the data is transmitted... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070180086 - Authentication and authorization for simple network management protocol (snmp): A system is provided that includes a manager device that executes a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) manager. The system also includes an agent device coupled to the manager device. The agent device executes a SNMP agent that selectively provides access to managed data. The SNMP manager enables a user... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070180078 - Automated file distribution: Automated file distribution is described. A member of a peer-to-peer network receives from a file server, a file to be distributed. The file is then distributed via the peer-to-peer network to other members of the peer-to-peer network. Members of the peer-to-peer network can choose whether or not to receive a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180083 - Decentralized application placement for web application middleware: A decentralized process to ensure the dynamic placement of applications on servers under two types of simultaneous resource requirements, those that are dependent on the loads placed on the applications and those that are independent. The demand (load) for applications changes over time and the goal is to satisfy all... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070180099 - Edge side components and application programming environment for building and delivering highly distributed heterogenous component-based web applications: A method is provided for processing an application on an edge server, wherein the application comprises a set of defined presentation, code and data components, each of which are preferably URI-addressable objects. In response to a client request, the presentation, code and data components are processed according to a set... Agent: David H. Judson, Akamai Technologies, Inc.

20070180098 - Information communication system, information communication device, information communication method and computer program: An information communication system includes an information storage medium provided with a data communication function, and an information communication device for accessing the information storage medium, wherein the information storage medium is capable of storing one or more of application services, and stores service directory data describing attribute information for... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070180082 - Location based networked device utilization: A method for utilizing networked devices can include a step of receiving a network job associated with a network user. A location of the network user can be automatically determined. One of many possible networked devices can be dynamically selected based upon the determined user location. The network job can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070180079 - Method and system for peer-to-peer stream: A peer-to-peer system and a method of file streaming therein are disclosed. The peer-to-peer system includes a first electronic device connected to second and third electronic devices via a first network connection. The second and the third electronic devices are connected to each other via a second network connection, wherein... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070180085 - Method for building enterprise scalability models from production data: The invention provides a method for preparing a discrete event simulation model of a production network including a client and a plurality of servers on a plurality of network tiers connected by a network comprising the steps of executing a business function from the client on the production network, gathering... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20070180091 - Process for delivering, to a subscriber of a telecommunications network, content depending on the activity pattern subscribed to by said subscriber: e

20070180095 - System and method for centralized configuration and propagation for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180094 - System and method for error pattern matching for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180093 - System and method for flexible performance testing: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180092 - System and method for full results and configuration storage for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180097 - System and method for portal generator for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed portal automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180075 - System and method for synchronization of version annotated objects: Objects in a master database and objects in a replicated database are synchronized using identifiers and version stamps of the objects. Each object has a unique identifier and a version stamp that is incremented when the object is updated at the master database. A synchronization server uses the identifiers and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070180096 - System and method for variation testing for performance test: The present invention enables a performance testing framework that enables multiple components working together to test a deployed application automatically in an unattended manner and to analyze the test results easily. At very high level, the performance testing framework can run performance tests on a tested system with one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070180081 - Systems and methods for remote access of network devices having private addresses: According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a proxy server includes a memory and a communication unit. The memory is configured to store and retrieve a client device identifier and an associated client device transport address, while the communication unit is configured to send and receive messages.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070180076 - Usability by offering the possibility for usage analysis for ui elements: The present system provides a usage analysis engine that receives and stores data relating to the use of a computer interface. The present invention provides and enacts a plurality of algorithms that manage and store the data. The data received from the computer interface is temporarily stored until a screen... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070180084 - Wireless system and method for managing logical documents: A system and method is provided for managing logical documents using a wireless mobile device. The wireless mobile device, which may be a wireless handset, connects to the management system through a wireless communication network such as a public telecommunications provider network. The network has other devices, such as computers,... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070180103 - Facilitating event management and analysis within a communications environment: The management and analysis of events of communications environments are facilitated. Events, such as alert and network events, are separated into a plurality of pools, depending on the classification of event. Each pool has events exclusive of one type of event. The events are placed in the appropriate pools via... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070180102 - Method and apparatus for analyzing idle states in a data processing system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to collect information for a system or processor having a transition between an idle state and a non-idle state to form collected system or processor information. The collected system or processor information is provided for analysis by an application.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070180100 - Realtime approval control: Real time approval control systems and methods are provided. In at least some embodiments, a presence-based network is utilized to provide a parent or other adult who is in a position to approve or deny a request, more timely access to information to facilitate the decision-making process.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180107 - Security incident manager: A security incident manger includes events and network flows in the analysis of an attack to better identify the magnitude of the attack and how to handle the situation. The raw events are reported by monitored devices and the incident manager may request network flows from various devices corresponding to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070180108 - System and method for accumulating a historical component context: System and method for accumulating a historical component context. A request that includes a component context and an operation from a requester component is received. A contextual access policy that includes contextual access permissions to the request is applied. A contextual validation is checked that the request satisfies at least... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070180101 - System and method for storing data-network activity information: A system and method are disclosed that may include receiving a first event log for a data network user; identifying the user that is the subject of the first event log; updating a user activity record, within stored user activity records, with activity information included in the first event log,... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070180106 - System and method to predict the performance of streaming media over wireless links: An improved system and method for predicting streaming media performance through the use of real-time wireless network performance measurements and statistical analysis, combined with a generalized methodology for comparing digital media quality before and after transmission. Network performance parameters of a benchmark media stream, such as throughput and signal strength,... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070180105 - Technique for distinguishing between link and node failure using bidirectional forwarding detection (bfd): A technique distinguishes between link and node failure using bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a BFD session is established over a first link between a monitoring node and a first interface of a monitored node. In addition, one or more novel unidirectional... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070180104 - Technique for enabling bidirectional forwarding detection between edge devices in a computer network: A technique enables bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) between first and second edge devices in a computer network, wherein the second edge device is not configured for BFD. According to the novel technique, a BFD Echo session is established from the first edge device to the first edge device via the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070180110 - System and method for retaining information in a data management system: A system for retaining information in a data management system in which a memory manger is associated with a server, an interface is provided for controlling access to the memory manager, and one or more application components are adapted for implementing the interface. A method for retaining information in a... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20070180109 - Cloaked device scan: The invention described herein provides a method and system for the detection and location of unauthorized or otherwise targeted network devices on a network. According to aspects of the invention, the method disclosed herein consists of gathering a logical mapping of the devices on a computer network (which can be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070180111 - Content protection in a wireless network: A method for operating a device to protect an application from unauthorized operation is provided. The application will fail to operate on the device when the device is defined outside a selected operating region. The method includes transmitting the selected operating region for the application, and receiving the application and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070180115 - System and method for self-configuring multi-type and multi-location result aggregation for large cross-platform information sets: A system and method for self-configuring multi-type and multi-location result aggregation for large cross-platforms is presented. An enterprise tier component includes a request manager that receives query requests from a distribution tier component over a request path. The request manager retrieves one or more data thresholds and compares the data... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070180120 - Automated management of network addresses in a broadband managed access environment: Automatically managing network addresses in a managed access environment is described. A managed access environment is defined as one in which a service provider delegates responsibility for a portion of their address space to an access provider, which is responsible for distributing the addresses to devices used by subscribers of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070180112 - Changeable token bandwidth portioning: Embodiments of changeable token bandwidth protioning techniques are described herein. Techniques are described in which different types of tokens are designated to streams of content that are allocated to a viewing system by a content provider and that have different respective bandwidths. The viewing system includes a plurality of client... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180121 - Data transfer method and scheduled transfer destination database forming method: A data transfer method used in such a case that data is transferred via a physical transfer system among a plurality of independently provided transmitter/receiver apparatuses. In the data transfer method, when data is transferred, a database of a transfer-scheduled transmitter/receiver is added to the data, and then the database-added... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070180113 - Distributing load of requests from clients over multiple servers: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for balancing load of a plurality of requests from at least one of first and second clients between a first and a second server. The method comprises comparing the load of the plurality of requests to a threshold of processing requests... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070180117 - Management system, management program-recorded recording medium, and management method: A management system for managing a plurality of computers and a plurality of pieces of software in a computer center includes: a selection data storage part for storing data regarding allocation destination selection, the data including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070180118 - Media playing apparatus: Disclosed herein is a media player. The media player includes a play and a station. The player decodes media data. The station includes a first connection and a second connection unit The first connection unit connects to a network and transmits and receives data. The second connection unit exchanges data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070180114 - Methods and apparatus for allocating an object in computer system: In an aspect, a first method of allocating an object is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) providing a plurality of registers coupled together to form a ring such that an output of a last register of the plurality of registers is coupled to an input of... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20070180116 - Multi-layer system for scalable hosting platform: A hosting platform includes a main server layer and an auxiliary server layer. The main server layer includes one or more servers and a server of the one or more servers is designated to process requests for one or more hosts. The auxiliary server layer may be removably coupled to... Agent: John G. Rauch Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070180119 - Reliable event broadcaster with multiplexing and bandwidth control functions: A system, apparatus, and method for transmitting data in a broadcast mode to multiple devices operating in a network. The invention enables the efficient utilization of bandwidth while providing a desired level of quality of service for the applications executing on the devices that utilize the broadcasted data. The invention... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070180124 - Session data records and related alarming within a session over internet protocol (soip) network: A method and apparatus processes session layer parameters and/or extrinsic parameters with reference to an alarm condition to determine whether a route should be modified. When the alarm condition is either satisfied or unsatisfied, the route can be modified. The session layer parameters and/or extrinsic parameters are contained in a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070180122 - Method and apparatus for managing an interactive network session: Methods for controlling online session inactivity timeouts between a user terminal and a server involves the server polling the user's local terminal to determine whether the user presence at the terminal can be confirmed if there is a period of inactivity within the session. If so, or if the server... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070180123 - Multi user client terminals operable to support network communications: A network infrastructure operable to support the exchange of communications, such as voice communications, between a first client terminal having a first user identifier and a second (destination) client terminal associated with a second user identifier (handle). This second client terminal may be part of a family of client terminals.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070180127 - Preconfigured syncml profile categories: A system and method for storing and retrieving preconfigured, hidden SyncML server profiles on a client is described. Conventionally, users of client devices need to manually configure the devices to allow for synchronization with new servers via SyncML. Preconfigured SyncML profiles allow a client to synchronize with a SyncML server... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070180125 - Secure method of synchronizing cache contents of a mobile browser with a server: A method of securely synchronizing cache contents of a mobile browser with a server includes initiating a session between the browser and server, including transmission of browser state information regarding the cache contents and an authentication key to the server; maintaining a record of data sent from the server to... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070180126 - Systems and methods for establishing and validating secure network sessions: A method and system that employ a central server with an associated database and a Master Agent for establishing a TCP/IP connection between a client and an application server associated with a Remote Agent. The application server hosts one or more business software applications for the client, and the client... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070180128 - User account validity definition in clustered computer systems: Disclosed are a method of and system for defining user account validity in a cluster of computer systems. The method comprises the steps of providing a centralized management system for said cluster; and using said centralized management system to maintain a record indicating, for each user of the cluster, whether... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070180132 - Annotating portions of a message with state properties: Embodiments described herein provide for allowing processing code of a message to attach state thereto. More specifically, as a SOAP message is processed, various states known as properties (e.g., message security, message identifier, etc.) can be attached to the message for various purposes. In other words, embodiments provide for a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070180134 - Apparatus and method for determining transmission policies for a plurality of applications of different types: An apparatus for determining transmission policies for a plurality of transmissions of different types based on a first transmission data associated to a first transmission being of a first transmission type, and on a second transmission data associated to a second transmission being of a second transmission type is described,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070180133 - Extensions to rich media container format for use by mobile broadcast/multicast streaming servers: An extension to the ISO Base Media File Format to support ALC as a broadcast protocol. The present invention also provides for the extension of the ESG to include metadata specific to the transport of SVG over mobile broadcast/multicast networks. A “BMFDP hint track” is introduced in the container file... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070180131 - Locating and sharing geospatial information in a peer-to-peer network: Methods and apparatus are provided for searching, obtaining, and distributing geospatial information in peer-to-peer networks. A geospatial information application identifies regions of geospatial information available at various peer nodes. The regions may be multidimensional and time varying and are typically associated with associated with information layers and/or components. Regions that... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070180130 - Method and apparatus for multi-protocol digital communications: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for multi-protocol digital communications conducts a first portion of a communication between a first information processing device and a second information processing device in accordance with a first communication protocol. A second portion of the communication is conducted in accordance with at... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070180129 - System and method for automatically adjusting medical displays: A system and method for automatically adjusting medical displays is arranged to communicate medical information to a caregiver. The system includes at least one display for displaying medical information, a wireless communication device associated with the display and a wireless communication device associated with the caregiver. The wireless communication device... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070180137 - Streaming media system and method: A system and method for streaming media on a wireless network is provided. In one aspect, the system includes a streaming device driver; a multidestination wireless streaming protocol module, a multitank level algorithm module, a synchronization mechanism module, and an autoequalizing speaker and drive system module. The system and method... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070180136 - Distributed multimedia streaming system: A media content distribution system for distributed multimedia streaming communicates over a network and incorporates multiple independent media stations, each having a media director for control and a number of media engines for storage, retrieval and streaming of media content. A content request from a media console connected to the... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070180138 - Enhanced advertising using dual streaming video: A communications system particularly suited for a distributed network of computers such as the World Wide Web or the Internet. Connected to the distributed network is a broadcast computer which simultaneously communicates two streams of video. The first stream of video contains entertainment; the second stream of video contains commercial... Agent: Mark E. Ogram

20070180135 - Multimedia content exchange architecture and services: A method of managing media on a multimedia exchange server using a multimedia terminal includes receiving, at a multimedia exchange server, a request to establish a communication link between the multimedia terminal and the multimedia exchange server and establishing the communication link between the multimedia terminal and the multimedia exchange... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070180139 - Packet relaying method and packet relaying system: At the time of exchanging routing information of a remote site, it is examined whether there is duplicated routing information, and when the duplicated routing information exists, an address conversion rule is generated. With this, when performing communication, address conversion is performed only for the communication to a site having... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070180140 - Physiological alarm notification system: A method of context-based communication of physiological information over a network includes receiving physiological information, preparing a contextual data package, establishing a network connection, and communicating the contextual data package. The physiological information is received with a portable network interface module from at least one physiological monitor coupled to a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070180141 - Adaptive feedback for session over internet protocol: A method includes receiving an instruction associated with a definition of an alarm condition and modifying a session controller associated with a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network based on the alarm condition. The session controller can be modified when the alarm condition, which is defined based on session data,... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070180142 - Server, system and method for providing access to a public network through an internal network of a multi-system operator: A network service management server is provided for an internal network operated by a multi-system operator, at a selected location of the internal network, such as a network head-end. The server registers a client connecting to one of the network entities. It also assigns to the client an address associated... Agent: Arthur G Schaier Carmody & Torrance

20070180144 - Schema annotations for managing cached document fragments: The challenge of communicating document caching policies from document servers to client processes in the most generally applicable manner is solved by enabling the application of caching policies to classes of documents, rather than single instances of documents. Caching policies are applied to a given class of documents by specifying... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070180149 - Varying of message encoding: Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to vary the encoding of a message object rather than being bound to a specific one, e.g., the text encoding for SOAP messaging. Accordingly, a message encoding factory is provided that is responsible for mapping a message object (e.g., SOAP Infoset)... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070180146 - Apparatus for storing and formatting data: In one embodiment, apparatus includes a data populator that is provided to 1) receive a plurality of events, 2) create a plurality of data objects in memory, with at least some of the data objects corresponding to logical groupings of data implied by ones of the events, 3) relate data... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070180148 - Method and apparatus for creating scalable hi-fidelity html forms: A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing a computer to execute a method for reproducing an electronic form page on a Web browser, the Web browser having a graphical user interface (GUI) window displayable at a first resolution, the method including receiving a request for the electronic... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070180145 - Pluggable transceiver module with encryption capability: A pluggable module for insertion into the port of a network device includes an onboard encryption engine to provide for the use of secure links in networks having legacy switches or routers not including an encryption facility.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20070180150 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications: A system and method for communicating transaction information includes a plurality of client application devices distributed among one or more local client application devices and one or more remote client application devices, and a plurality of gateways distributed among one or more local gateways and one or more remote gateways.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070180147 - System for insertion of advertising content in user-requested internet web pages: A method for insertion of advertising content in an Internet web page, located on a target web site and requested by a web client. In one embodiment, a request from the web client for the web page is intercepted and used to retrieve the web page from the target web... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070180143 - Translation web services for localizing resources: Translation web services for localizing resources include a server receiving language-independent messages containing localizable resource elements. A client receives the messages from the server, and requests a localized version of the resource element in a specified human-understandable language. A translation web service receives the request, and provides a localized version... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070180151 - Model driven message processing: Systems and methods for model driven message processing are provided. In one embodiment, a method for propagating information object updates is provided. The method comprises logging a sequence of update requests made to a local information object by one or more applications, correlating the sequence of update requests with one... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070180152 - Method and apparatus to extend error-disable-and-ignore and port-bounce capability to a pc-facing port of an ip phone: An IP phone is enabled to error-disable or bounce a port its on-board switch so that a connected device can be isolated if it transmits traffic violating a security policy without disconnecting the phone from the network.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger