Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 09/07

20070226290 - Intelligent grid system: The future of the utility industry will be defined by how its leaders can transform the grid from a “passive” network of cables, wires, poles, and other hardware to a self-aware and fully controllable grid system—an Intelligent Grid System (IGS). We will discuss a novel set of design guidelines for... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20070226291 - Methods and systems for collecting, tracking, and analyzing safety and health related information: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide for performing a facility inspection. A mobile data collection device or client receives scheduling information corresponding to an inspection to be performed at a facility. The mobile data collection device or client collects inspection data corresponding to the inspection to be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070226293 - Service provision system for electronic musical apparatus: An electronic musical instrument 1 and a portable terminal 2 are connected to a wireless LAN 3. The wireless LAN 3 is connected to an Internet 4 via a router. A distribution server 5 residing on the Internet 4 is a server which provides Internet services. A pairing between the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070226292 - Method and apparatus for preserving updates to execution context when a request is fragmented and executed across process boundaries: A Fragment Context Preserver has two components, a Fragmented Request Preserver and a Request Context Helper. The Fragmented Request Preserver program runs on a surrogate attached to a client computer and distributed computer environment, and a Request Context Helper runs on each application server on the distributed computer environment. Working... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070226294 - Method and system for accessing network services: A method and system for accessing network services. A client sends a request for a service. The request includes an address of the client. One or more resolvers receive the request for a service. The one or more resolvers determine at least one service location to return to the client... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070226296 - Method and apparatus for iterative computer-mediated collaborative synthesis and analysis: A method and apparatus for iterative computer-mediated collaborative synthesis and analysis synthesizes a first focus topic in accordance with ideas collected from a plurality of cooperating users. The first focus topic triggers an analysis of that focus topic. The conclusions of this analysis indicate shortcomings in the first focus topic... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070226295 - Method and apparatuses for retrieving messages: The invention relates to retrieving a conversation or part of the conversation from a database to a terminal. The database contains one or more groups of messages having a first identifier. Each group of messages comprises messages of a conversation. Each message in the group may also have a second... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070226305 - Ecards from multiple users: Techniques described herein allow multiple users to sign the same ecard. For example, a first user signs onto an ecard website, and selects an ecard template. After personalizing the ecard, the first user selects an option to invite other users to sign the card. Invitation messages are sent to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070226309 - Instant messaging system: An instant messaging system is disclosed that provides a means for presenting information to a user about current conversants and for managing the handling of multiple messages from different parties. A priority hierarchy is established and set by a user with respect to each conversant. Messages from high priority conversants... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Naughton, Moriarty & Mcnett LLP Suite 3700

20070226306 - Messaging interface between telecommunications service provider processing systems: A messaging interface provides the flexibility to allow interchangeability of underlying telecommunications service provider processing systems, such as billing systems. At the same time, the messaging interface extends the underlying functionality of the telecommunications service provider processing system to a series of business events defined as part of a common... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070226308 - Method and system for implementation of an instant message service: The invention concerns a system for implementation of an instant message service (CHAT AB). The system includes data transmission networks, and in connection with these are arranged communication devices, which are entitled to use the data transmission network of the established operator (A, B) and which communication devices are provided... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070226299 - Method and system for providing an instant messaging quorum monitoring service: A method for providing an instant messaging quorum monitoring service includes receiving a request from a first user to monitor instant messaging availability of a first number of users comprising at least one user who is currently unavailable. The method also includes receiving at least one quorum parameter for an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226297 - Method and system to stop spam and validate incoming email: A match and destroy (MaDe) technique for filtering spam mail assigns at least two email addresses per user when the user first registers for an email account or when the MaDe software is installed on the server. The first email address is designated as the “True address,” and the user... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070226307 - Method for providing location information of game character by operating with messenger server and systems thereof: The present invention relates to a method and an online game system for providing position information of a game character in an online game, and more particularly, to a method and an online game system for providing position information of a game character in an online game by interworking with... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070226298 - Methods and systems providing metadata in service signatures: Methods and systems providing metadata-containing messages that will minimize any adverse impact on processing of a service when raised. A metadata-containing message may be declared in a signature of a service. When a condition corresponding to the message occurs during service processing, the message may be generated while minimizing any... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070226304 - System and method for migrating user account data: A system migrates user account data from an integrated electronic mailbox to a new electronic mail service. An electronic mail (email) server is operative as a web client and has an integrated electronic mailbox of a user and user account data. A mobile office platform is operative with the email... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070226300 - System and method to prevent the sending of email messages to unqualified recipients: Improved methods, systems and articles of manufacture for avoiding transmission of an email to unqualified recipients.... Agent: Suzelle Smith

20070226303 - Wireless email communications system providing device capability set update features and related methods: A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a device identification (ID). Each device ID may have associated therewith a device capability set from among a plurality of device capability... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070226302 - Wireless email communications system providing resource updating features and related methods: A wireless communications system may include a plurality of wireless communications networks and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for sending and receiving wireless electronic mail (email) messages over the wireless communications networks. The system may further include a resource deployment server for storing a plurality of resource deployment... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070226301 - Wireless email communications system providing subscriber account update features and related methods: A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a unique identification (ID). The system may further include at least one electronic mail (email) server comprising a database of subscriber accounts... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070226310 - Automatically providing announcements for a push-to-talk communication session: Providing announcements for communication sessions includes facilitating the communication sessions among endpoints comprising a half-duplex push-to-talk endpoint. It is established that a trigger event has occurred at the half-duplex push-to-talk endpoint, where the trigger event indicates an activity status of the half-duplex push-to-talk endpoint. One or more announcements associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226314 - Server-based systems and methods for enabling interactive, collabortive thin- and no-client image-based applications: A server receives image, graphic and/or analytic data and processes and asynchronously outputs that data to a thin/no client. The server inputs image data in a variety of different formats and renders a normalized format that can be streamed to the thin/no client using light-weight protocol(s). The server updates the... Agent: Lathrop & Clark LLP

20070226315 - System and method for identifying common media content: A system and a method identify common media content with two or more terminals that are remote with respect to each other for users to access, to consume and/or to experience a multimedia file of the common media content. A first terminal of a first user connects to and/or invites... Agent: Patents+tms A Professional Corporation

20070226313 - Method and device for recording or playing back a data stream: A distributed storage system able to support real-time recording of streaming data shall be provided. Therefore, on the basis of MXF files a data stream is packed into at least a first MXF file (1) and a second MXF file (2). First connection data 1-N) are inserted into the first... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070226311 - System and method for mobile telephone and upnp control point integration: A system and method for enabling the integration of mobile telephone functions and the UPnP-enabled digital home. In an UPnP control point device, such as a UPnP mobile telephone, implementing the present invention, events such as the receipt of an incoming telephone call or message in the UPnP control point... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070226312 - System and method for using web syndication feeds as a change log for synchronization in a upnp audio/video environment: The use of ATOM/RSS feeds as a change log for web syndication. According to the present invention, whenever the SystemUpdateID changes, the CDS logs the change as a new entry in the ATOM feed. The SystemUpdateID is checked by a control point whenever it joins the network. If the SystemUpdateID... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070226316 - Systems and methods for reports based on transmission-failure claims: The present invention provides systems and methods which afford a technical application for insuring, bonding, and underwriting a transmission of a data set, streaming data, and/or document over the Internet through TCP/IP and all other electronic media such as WAP, VOIP, fiber optic channels, microwave channels, and through standard electrical... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20070226319 - Interactive wireless broadband network and business support system: A wireless broadband network employing application specific software components in conjunction with existing hardware elements to permit Internet connectivity, VoIP, communications and other broadband and wireless applications in an automated and integrated environment. The system includes a network-accessible software module accessible by a public network to provide access into and... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070226317 - System, method, and device for communicating between a field device, device controller, and enterprise application: A system for communicating between a field device, a device controller for the field device, and an enterprise application distinct from the device controller includes a single communication device configured to communicate with each of the field device, the device controller, and the enterprise application. The single communication device is... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070226318 - System, method, and device for communicating between a field device, device controller, and enterprise application: A system for communicating between a field device, a device controller for the field device, and an enterprise application distinct from the device controller includes a single communication device configured to communicate with each of the field device, the device controller, and the enterprise application. The single communication device is... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070226322 - Data transmitting method, data transmitting system, data receiving method and receiving terminal: In a method and system for transmitting and receiving data, specified data can be transmitted only to a specific receiving terminal by assigning unique terminal information to the receiving terminal. When transmitted with data, the unique terminal information identifies the specific receiving terminal as the destination of transmission from among... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070226320 - Device, system and method for storage and access of computer files: Briefly, some embodiments of the invention provide, for example, devices, systems and methods for storage and access of computer files. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention may include, for example, receiving from a remote site a request to access a first file having a plurality of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070226321 - Image based document access and related systems, methods, and devices: Methods, systems, and devices for providing to a user information associated with an acquired image are described. A method may include acquiring an image from a printed item, and identifying a virtual rendition of the item based on the content of a portion of the acquired image. A method may... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070226323 - Systems and methods for migratable services: A migration framework provides for the migration of services in a cluster. A migratable target contains a list of servers in the cluster capable of hosting a migratable service. A migration manager can migrate the service between servers in the migratable target, and can activate an instance of the service... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070226324 - Apparatus and method for high-availability identification and application installation: An apparatus and method is described for identification of applications that benefit from HA features and assisting a system administrator in the installation of the applications in an application server with HA features configured properly for run-time operation. In preferred embodiments, an HA policy engine allows a system administrator to... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070226330 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium that stores program for implementing it to be readable by information processing apparatus and that program: Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070226326 - Method and apparatus for automatically managing sub-layer interfaces: A method of generating a standardized network-management representation of a multiple-layer network communications interface sub-stack having a non-standardized network-management representation includes determining, based on a signature indicating a layered structure of the network communications interface sub-stack, whether an expected type of sub-layer interface of the network communications interface sub-stack exists.... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070226331 - Migration of control in a distributed segmented file system: A method of managing segments in a distributed-file system implemented by a plurality of file servers includes determining a segment of the distributed-file system controlled by a first file server for which control is to be migrated, selecting a second file server, that is different from the first file server,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070226329 - Network system, network device, and network belonging judgment method: The present invention improves user-friendliness and protect content with increased reliability when judging whether network devices belong to the same home network. While the connection to a network is established, each network device uses a peripheral device information collection unit to collect peripheral device information indicating which ones of devices... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070226327 - Reuse of a mobile device application in a desktop environment: A method, system, and program product for providing for reuse of a mobile device application in a desktop environment is disclosed. The method includes obtaining an application that is configured for running on a mobile device, and then running the mobile device application on a desktop. A method for deploying... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070226328 - Storage management method and server: When the application I/O performance problem is solved, the I/O amount from the application is increased. In the conventional technique, no consideration has been taken on the affect of the increase of the application I/O performance to other applications. A resource whose I/O load is reduced by setting modification of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070226325 - Virtual private network service status management: Virtual Private Network (VPN) service status management apparatus, methods, Graphical User Interfaces, and data structures are disclosed. A service-specific status of a service site in a communication system with respect to a VPN service is managed independently of a service-specific status of the service site with respect to a different... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070226335 - Information processing system and program for causing computer to execute client device control method: An information processing system includes: a host device, and a plurality of client devices, each of which is in communication with the host device, the plurality of client devices having unique identification information for specifying each of them. The host device includes: a specification unit which detects the identification information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070226336 - Method and apparatus for evaluating performance on host data transfer within a tape drive: A method for evaluating data transfer performance within a data recording apparatus is disclosed. The data recording apparatus includes a buffer and a recording medium. Initially, a Pause time P when data transfer between the buffer and a host being stopped temporarily is measured. Then, an ideal Pause time Y... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20070226334 - Mobile terminal and software update method: A mobile terminal having a communication function. The apparatus includes: a nonvolatile memory including a memory area storing a main-unit program including an update engine for updating software and an alternative unit area for a unit area in the memory area; a working memory; and control means for accessing both... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070226333 - Integrated heartbeat monitoring and failover handling for high availability: A computing system method for high-availability operation is disclosed. Implementations of the system include a plurality of host computers connected together in a network, each host computer running an HA process to monitor activity on the host computer. The system further includes a master HA process, designated from all other... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070226332 - System and method for managing storage system performance as a resource: A scheduler selects an I/O from a session of a pool and updates token buckets associated with resource limits and reserves for the session and the pool and statistics used in determining fair sharing. To select an I/O, the scheduler identifies sessions with a non-empty queue, identifies head I/Os in... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20070226337 - Completion of partially specified paths: Mechanisms are provided for completing partially specified paths. For example, users can partially specify paths by specifying some preferred entities and roles along the paths so that these paths have to incorporate these preferred entities and roles. From then, queries can automatically complete the paths, unless more specification information is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070226338 - Registration of peer-to-peer services: Techniques for registration of peer-to-peer (P2P) services are provided. A first principal registers a P2P service with a network service provider. The first principal supplies a criterion for granting access to the P2P service. The network service provider distributes an access token to a second principal if the criterion is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070226343 - Software settings based on geophysical location: A network-connected device may receive specific software configuration settings based on geophysical location information known about the device. The geophysical location information may come from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver or any other mechanism for determining a location for the device. The software settings may be stored in a... Agent: Mediacell Licensing Corp

20070226344 - Centralized resource manager with power switching system: A centralized resource manager for distributed networks manages resources available on the network, such as network bandwidth, CPU allocation, TV tuners, MPEG encoders and decoders, disk bandwidth, and input/output devices. The centralized resource manager also allocates the resources of network clients and a network-associated media server, in response to requests... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070226340 - Electronic communication work flow manager system, method and computer program product: The present invention provides systems, methods and a computer program product for the management of electronic work items by providing uniform methodology across an enterprise. Work items are electronically received by an organization and routed to available users depending upon the business rules of the organization and certain parameters of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070226339 - Multi-user system with dynamic data source selection: Techniques to dynamically select data sources for users and to direct queries for the users to the proper data sources. Initially, user information (e.g., user name) for each user is received and used to determine a data source designated for the user. The designated data source may be determined via... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226341 - System and method of determining an optimal distribution of source servers in target servers: A method of, and a system for, optimizing the distribution of a plurality of source servers amongst a plurality of target servers each having a resource, wherein each of the source servers has a functional characteristic and two or more of the source servers belong to a cluster.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070226342 - Transaction request processing system and method: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for distribution of processing of large amounts of data. According to one embodiment, a method of distributing processing of a dataset maintained by a mainframe from the mainframe to one or more of a plurality of servers can comprise initiating a job on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070226355 - Automated document processing with third party input: Automated document processing with third party input is described. A method for processing a document includes receiving a news story request from a client terminal at a server terminal, processing the news story request at the server terminal, generating a news story request response at the server terminal, and transmitting... Agent: George W. Luckhardt

20070226353 - System and method for providing and maintaining dynamic media: Exemplary systems and methods for creating and maintaining dynamic media are provided. In exemplary embodiments, selection of a dynamic media triggers communication with the media provider. The media provider then provides the dynamic media to the user. In exemplary embodiments, the dynamic media may be customized to user preferences and/or... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070226351 - System and method for transmitting high throughput data between multiple devices: A system for transmitting data directly between a plurality of client network devices in a network is disclosed. The system may include a first client network device having a first client (“STA”) module and a second client network device of the plurality of client network devices where the second client... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070226350 - Systems and methods for providing secure communications for transactions: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing secure communications. One aspect of an embodiment of the invention creates a virtual private connection to a remote server or network utilizing a connection server and at least one direct connection between a client device and the remote server,... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070226354 - Apparatus and method for integrated billing management by real-time session management in wire/wireless integrated service network: An apparatus and method of integrated billing management by real-time session management, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The integrated billing management apparatus performs billing management functions, that is, analyzes various messages related to the billing service request, manages sessions in real time, processes reliable billing information data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070226345 - Automated document processing with third party input: Automated document processing with third party input is described. A method for document processing includes receiving a first document input from a user at a first terminal, and transmitting the first document input to a second terminal. The method also includes receiving, at the second terminal, a second document input... Agent: George W. Luckhardt

20070226348 - Computer-implemented method, system and program product for approximating resource consumption of computer system: In general, the present invention provides a method, system and program product for approximating/estimating computer resource consumption of a computer system. Specifically, under the present invention, a more efficient or reduced computer work gradient matrix (hereinafter “matrix”) is first built. This occurs by creating load measurements for a set of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070226356 - Dynamic protocol construction: A method includes advertising a policy characterizing communication properties supported by a node. The policy may be distributed to another node in response to a request for the policy. Policy expressions in the policy include one or more assertions that may be grouped and related to each other in a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070226347 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing the tcp behavior of a network connection: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that dynamically changes the TCP behavior of a network connection. First, the system receives a request to change the TCP behavior for a network connection that allows communication between a first computer system and a second computer system. In response, the... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070226349 - Mobile terminal, data processor, and data transmitting and receiving system: A mobile terminal acquires related information with respect to a user, retains the acquired related information, transmits the retained related information, detects a position of the mobile terminal, transmits a transmission request signal that requires the transmission of the digest when the detected position satisfies a predetermined condition, and receives... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070226352 - Service providing apparatus, service providing method, and control program: A service providing apparatus has an obtaining unit that obtains specific information to specify a service notified by a client device, and a response unit that outputs response information on the basis of whether or not the service specified by the obtained specific information can be provided.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070226346 - System and method for utilizing environment information in upnp audio/video: An environment variable for use cases such as UPnP AV use cases. The environment variable of the present invention is used to store the physical location of the user. For example, the environment variable can be used to identify a particular location as being a user's living room, kitchen, etc.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070226358 - Delegated network management system and method of using the same: A method for providing a management function requested by a user that uses a managed device includes establishing a session on a managed device in response to a user logging into an account on the managed device, establishing a delegated management session on a management device, the delegated management session... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070226357 - Providing an aggregate reachability status: A customizable mechanism is provided for determining and reporting the overall reachability of a user based on the current statuses of a variety of network elements associated with the user, such as devices or applications that a user may use to communicate with others. The system can evaluate customizable reachability... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226359 - System and method for providing java based high availability clustering framework: A system or framework for high availability clustering that includes a cluster server having a variety of resources and interfaces, including a cluster application program interface, group services, failure management, resource management, membership services, communications, a heartbeat interface, cluster database and management, a JNDI interface, and a resource API interface.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070226363 - Content distribution system, content distribution control apparatus, content distribution control method, content distribution control program and content distribution control program storage medium: A content distribution system, content distribution control apparatus, content distribution control method, content distribution control program and content distribution control program storage medium realizes the distribution of content to much more clients. The user PC 4 reserves a distribution channel at the live casting server 150 in order to distribute... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070226361 - Method and system to enhance performance of a session initiation protocol network and its elements: In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, a communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to send and receive messages on a network. Each message has a message header configured to include a plurality of header fields, where the message header includes a suppression header field... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070226362 - Monitoring regular expressions on out-of-order streams: A system, method and computer-readable medium provide for regular expression matching over a plurality of packets. The method embodiment comprises, for each data segment in a flow with no predecessor in a stored list of objects generated from traversing a deterministic finite sate automation (DFA) associated with the regular expression:... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070226360 - Multi-protocol iscsi device discovery for on demand device enumeration: A target discovery manager associated with a target discovery layer is interposed between a host initiator and one or more discovery protocols. The target discovery manager maintains a list of target devices found by each of several target discovery protocols. For each discovered target device listed, the associated discovery protocols... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070226364 - Method for displaying interactive video content from a video stream in a display of a user device: The invention is further directed to a mobile application product, comprising code means for implementing the steps in the method according to the invention and a platform comprising a server or a set of servers.... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070226365 - Aspects of digital media content distribution: Techniques for distributing digital media content to personal electronic devices are discussed. Digital media content is collected from a variety of disparate digital media content sources. Specific digital media content is identified and transcoded into a selected format prior to receipt by a particular personal electronic device. The selected format... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070226367 - Electronic message forwarding control: Systems and methods are disclosed that control whether a recipient of an electronic message (e.g., text messages, multimedia messages, email messages, etc) is allowed to forward the electronic message to third parties. When an electronic message is created or selected for transmission to a recipient, a forwarding control indicator is... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070226366 - Method, apparatus and system for dispatching messages within a system: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method of dispatching information within a system. The method includes receiving a message. The method also includes extracting address information from the message. The method further includes determining a destination from the address information. The method also includes routing the message to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226368 - Method of digital media management in a file sharing system: Provided are methods and systems for legally sharing files in a peer-to-peer network on the internet in a manner that compensates the content owners, artists, authors and/or programmers, and the like. Example methods include incentive programs, which allow users to earn credits that may be redeemable for later file downloads... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20070226369 - Method and apparatus for organizing information in a world wide web page format: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for organizing information in a world wide web page format. In one embodiment, information is received from a user (e.g., via a graphical user interface) and transformed into a world wide web page. The world wide web page is... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070226370 - Method and apparatus for managing foreign-owned fields in versioned messages: A method and system for transforming client messages including foreign-owned fields that utilizes an infrastructure to transform the foreign-owned fields independently of the transformation of the client message.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20070226371 - Method and system for class-based management of dynamic content in a networked environment: The present application discloses methods and systems for configuring and managing class-based condensation. One aspect thereof includes an automated mechanism to receive a user request for a document, retrieve the document from a content server, and compare the document to a base file of a document class. If a delta-difference... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070226373 - Network device and method for establishing communications: A network device (10) for establishing communications between a first terminal device (30) and a second terminal device (50) connected to a local exchange (LE) (20) sending a communication request signal from the second terminal device to the first terminal device, includes a signal processing module (100), a timing module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070226372 - Distributed authorized domain management: The present invention relates to an authorized domain including a plurality of Authorized Domain Managers (ADMs). The plurality of ADMs contrary to a single ADM solution enables portable ADMs, that do not have to be continuously connected to the AD. The invention provides a solution for keeping the ADMs synchronized.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070226375 - Plug-in architecture for a network stack in an operating system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a plug-in architecture for a network stack in an operating system. The network stack includes a set of functions configured to modify a set of parameters that are likely to change based on the network environment. The architecture includes a plug-in framework within... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070226374 - System and method for identifying favorite service providers: A system and method for identifying favorite or local favorite service provider(s) comprising searching, sorting, and/or filtering of service providers based on average user rating, review and/or recommendation of such service or the number of users who add service provider to their list of “My Favorites” or the number of... Agent: Mathew L. Grell, Esq.

20070220079 - Apparatus, system, and method for tool-based creation of a hub server/application interface: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for creating a hub server/application interface. An adapter development module and an object discovery agent development module receive an adapter developer input. The object discovery agent development module generates an object discovery agent project from the adapter developer input. The object discovery agent... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070220083 - Estimation of initial dynamic rendering control data: Facilitation of web page rendering using dynamic rendering controls. A server identifies a representation of a page to be downloaded to a client. The representation includes a dynamic rendering control that may be used to render a portion of the page. Rather than leaving it to the client to gain... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070220088 - Method of distributing group ids in plc network, method of receiving group ids in plc network, authentication apparatus, and plc apparatus: A method of distributing group identifiers IDs (GIDs) in a power line communication (PLC) network, a method of receiving the GIDs, an authentication apparatus, and a PLC apparatus are provided. The authentication apparatus includes: an authentication mode storing unit which stores an authentication mode having a value including one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220084 - Apparatus, system, and method for remote management console for business integration scenarios: An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing a remote management console for business integration scenarios. The apparatus may be implemented as a computer program product comprising a computer useable medium of computer-readable program. A computer, when executing the computer readable program retrieves environment information from a customer integration server;... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070220085 - Control channel discovery protocol: In a telecommunications/data network (10), IP control channels between out-of-band control plane entities are automatically created through discovery of information by state machines implementing an ICDP (IP Control channel Discovery Protocol). Control plane entities executing the protocol send address information in BootStrapMessages and optional GatewayMessages through their local network element... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070220080 - Method, system, and computer program product for downloading medical awareness objects on communication devices: Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for downloading medical awareness objects on communication devices. In one embodiment, the method comprises: accessing a web server through a network by the communication device; sending a menu data to be displayed on the communication device upon authentication of the communication... Agent: Sean Humphrey

20070220089 - Modular distributed mobile data applications: Computer-implemented system and methods for deploying a distributed client-server system, enabling developers to rapidly create and deploy read-write distributed data interfaces for host database systems. The disclosed system is especially advantageous for mobile clients as connection to the server environment can be intermittent without unduly impeding local (disconnected) operations. One... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070220081 - Override of automatically shared meta-data of media: An override of automatically shared meta-data of media method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes automatically populating a hierarchy using a play-list history data associated with a media data of a client device and modifying the heirarchy based on a user override.... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20070220086 - Record access document retrieval system and method: The present invention relates to a system and method for facilitating requests for health information related to at least one party in a lawsuit. The invention includes a user interface that enables users to requesting and receiving health information request forms, to enter and viewing the information regarding the request,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070220082 - Synchronization of event processing at a media gateway: A method and apparatus of communication processing at a client (e.g., media gateway) connected to a server (e.g., media gateway controller) includes collecting events in a quarantine buffer. The contents of the buffer are examined to determine whether the collected events include one or more synchronizing events. An instruction signal... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070220087 - System for the sharing of electronic peripheral equipments: A system for the sharing of electronic peripheral equipments, wherein the system allows various industry standard electronic devices to share at least one electronic peripheral equipment. The aforesaid system comprises: a main server and a peripherals sharing interface that is installed in the main server, wherein the peripherals sharing interface... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070220094 - Methods and systems for multi-party sorting of private values: Disclosed embodiments include a computer-implemented first method for providing the blinded result of a subtraction of a first split value of a first system from a second split value of the first system for a comparison. Furthermore, a computer-implemented second method is disclosed for computing a comparison of the blinded... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070220093 - Tr69 based service interface for osgi bundles: A method to configure data of a bundle (BDL) deployed on an OSGi service platform (OSGi_SP) in a device. The OSGi service platform is remotely managed by a remote management server (RMS) via a management agent (MA) using a remote management Protocol (TR69). The method comprises the step of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220091 - Instant communication method: The present invention is a method for implementing instant messaging, including: registering, in a Hook function, a function for registering an instant messaging sub-process in a current running program used for defining a condition for registering the instant messaging sub-process and a process for registering the instant messaging sub-process as... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070220090 - System and method for online group networks: A method and system is described for providing groups, organizations, associations and their chapters (groups) the ability to recruit members online, network and communicate with group members online, network and communicate with other groups online. A membership group is allowed to create a group online. This group is able to... Agent: Rohan Hall

20070220092 - System, apparatus and method for enabling mobility to virtual communities via personal and group forums: A system and associated apparatus and methods for enabling members of a group or virtual community to create and access voice messages, audio, video, text or other content over the Internet. The invention provides a model of a voice bulletin board or forum in which multiple members of a group... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070220100 - Collaborative rejection of media for physical establishments: A system, computer implemented method, and computer readable storage medium is provided which enables customers of an establishment to collaboratively reject a media file that is currently playing and/or pending to be played within that establishment by entering data into a personal wireless portable computing device on their person, for... Agent: Law Office Of Philip A Steiner

20070220098 - Method for exchanging messages between an email client and a unified messaging system: An apparatus and method are disclosed for exchanging messages between an email client and a unified messaging system. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a unified messaging system (UMS) (102) having a controller (108) that manages operations of a communications interface (104) that... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070220099 - Method, apparatus and communications network for managing electronic mail services: For managing the transmission and/or reception of electronic mail messages by a user connected to a communications network, at least one apparatus is configured in such a way as to request, to another apparatus being part of the communications network, an identifier associated uniquely with the user (for example his... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070220097 - Systems, methods and computer program products for controlling distribution of announcement files: A method for managing electronic messages by a recipient wherein the electronic messages may be accompanied by at least one announcement file associated with an attribute of the electronic message. The method includes determining whether a received electronic message has an associated announcement file accompanying the electronic message. The at... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070220095 - Systems, methods and computer program products for electronic information transfer by a sender: A method for electronic information transfer by a sender. The method includes composing an electronic message on a sender terminal. At least one announcement file is associated with an attribute of the electronic message, the announcement file configured for playing at a recipient terminal upon the recipient terminal receiving the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070220096 - Systems, methods and computer program products for obtaining responses to announcement files: A method of obtaining a response to associated announcement files. The method includes associating a first announcement file including an attribute of a tangible item with an email and associating an interactive information file with the email. The email is sent with the associated announcement file and the associated interactive... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070220101 - Information processing system and method and information processing apparatus, method, and program: The information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected via a network. Each apparatus includes one or more modules interconnected via a system bus. At least one of the modules is a network module having a network communication function. The information processing apparatus that inputs an external... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070220108 - Mobile global virtual browser with heads-up display for browsing and interacting with the world wide web: This disclosure describes a new method to browse and interact with the World Wide Web and other users while mobile comprising the following components: 1) a mobile communications device including but not limited to Blackberries, personal data assistants, or smartphones; 2) special glasses or viewing surface including but not limited... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook PLLC

20070220102 - Digital asset management collaboration system: A Digital Asset Management system is provided. The Digital Asset Management system, is displayed by means of a login session at a website constructed by software on a server computer system, wherein a portion of the website is devoted to a logo, and/or messaging area, when the user logs in... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20070220106 - Method for distributing content to a user station: A method for controlling a user station configured for communications with a multiplicity of independently-operated data sources via a non-proprietary network includes steps for providing a user interface to enable a user at the user station to select multiple ones of the multiplicity of independently-operated data object sources to be... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070220107 - Method for distributing content to a user station: A method for controlling a user station configured for communications with a multiplicity of independently-operated data sources via a non-proprietary network includes steps for providing a user interface to enable a user at the user station to select multiple ones of the multiplicity of independently-operated data object sources to be... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070220105 - Methods and system for enhanced prior art search techniques: The present disclosure provides various novel means for performing prior art searches for patent applications. The disclosure describes various automated means for performing and refining prior art searches with decreasing examiner input and generating office actions based on such searches.... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070220104 - Methods, devices and computer program products for providing device status information: Methods, devices and computer program products are provided for remotely obtaining status information associated with a network-enabled device. An information feed associated with status information of a target network-enabled device is selected and associated with a reader. The status information provided in the information feed of the target network-enabled device... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070220103 - Targeting personalized content to mobile users: A method of providing content to users of mobile devices. The process includes first the step of identifying a user population, including the sub-steps of assembling contact information regarding the members of the user population and assembling preference information concerning the members of the user population. The process further includes... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070220109 - Method and apparatus for data communication utilizing the north american terrestrial system: A method and apparatus for enhancing the current data communication capabilities of the North American Terrestrial System (NATS) Network is presented. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an airborne data server (ADS) is added to the airborne architecture of the current NATS Network and a ground data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070220112 - Adaptively predicting and modifying a communications user interface: In various embodiments, a communications user interface which can be adapted based on predicted communications is provided. In an embodiment, a method of providing a communications user interface using a media player is provided. The method includes displaying a set of communications interfaces. Also, the method includes receiving data related... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20070220110 - Method of displaying traffic information on a web page: A method of displaying traffic information on a web page is provided. The traffic information includes traffic conditions of one or more specified roads. A web browser requests a web page that includes programming code related to some traffic information. The web browser interprets the programming code and requests at... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070220118 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for delivering randomly accessible audio and video media: The invention includes a method for delivering randomly accessible audio and video media. An application at a client computer requests a media file, and specifies a seek time into the media file, where the seek time is measured from the beginning of the media file. An application at the server... Agent: Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP

20070220114 - Advanced search feature for upnp media content: An advanced search system for UPnP media items such as audio and video. According to the present invention, a content directory service of a UPnP media server is capable of creating various “favorite” lists of most requested, accessed and/or played media items. A UPnP AV control point, when entering a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070220117 - Distribution of streaming content between media players configured to locate each other: The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit, at least one data connection to a data network to which several devices provided with a data processing unit are connected by means of a data... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070220116 - Filter for a distributed network: There is disclosed a filter for a distributed network. A method may include receiving index requests from indexing nodes over over a network and providing over the network index responses to the indexing nodes in response to the index requests. The index responses may instruct a receiving indexing node to... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070220115 - Generating and binding web services to application components: For each of a set of business application classes on an application server, a web service class consisting of a separate web service method for each of a set of actions is generated. Each web service method contains a call to an interface web service method stored on a web... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070220111 - Personal communications browser client for remote use in enterprise communications: In various embodiments, a personal communications browser client is provided. In an embodiment, a communications client operable on a remote computer is provided. The client includes a media player and a content file accessible by the media player. The media player operates responsive to the content file. The media player... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20070220113 - Rich presence in a personal communications client for enterprise communications: In various embodiments, a personal communications browser client is provided. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes displaying a set of communications interfaces in a user interface. The method further includes receiving data related to a schedule of communications. Also, the method includes receiving data related to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20070220119 - System and method for efficiently accessing internet resources: A system and method for efficiently accessing Internet resources is disclosed One example method for providing information from a database of an institution is disclosed which comprises the step of receiving a request from a centralized database management system to forward information from the database of an institution. The method... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070220120 - Computer system: A computer system can always execute processing under the same environments not depending on the terminal device that is directly used by the user, no matter where the client used by the user is, and no matter what device is used. In the computer system, one of plural computer PCBAs... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070220122 - Finding a management server: To find a management server, a computer selects one of plural techniques of obtaining an address of the management server. One of the plural techniques comprises the computer exchanging configuration messaging with a configuration server to obtain the address of the management server.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070220121 - Virtual machine migration between servers: A virtual machine is migrated between two servers. A method, at the first server, dismounts a volume on which all the files relating to the virtual machine are stored, and which was previously mounted at the first server. The method, at the second server, mounts the volume on which all... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070220131 - Apparatus and method for field device management: A correspondence storing section stores correspondence between a device type of a field device and an information processing algorithm conforming to the device type. A device type obtaining section obtains a device type of the field device from the field device. An algorithm selecting section specifies the algorithm corresponding to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070220126 - Distributed intelligent systems and methods therefor: A distributed intelligent system. The distributed network includes at least one gateway server configured for receiving meter data from one or more nodes of a distributed meter network and at least one subscriber station in communication with the at least one gateway server via a communication network. The at least... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070220129 - Method of granting control of device and device using the method: A universal plug and play (UPnP) device that grants a control point (CP) to control a device is provided. It is determined that the CP joined a domain joined by the device to selectively allow the CP to control the device, thereby allowing only a specific CP to control the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070220132 - Server device and communication system: A data management device is provided in a Local Area Network inside a firewall, and a server is provided in a Wide Area Network outside the firewall. When the data management device carries out a TCP connection request to the server and a TCP connection is established, the data management... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070220127 - Methods, systems, and products for processing responses in prompting systems: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing responses in a prompting system. Responses are monitored to a menu of prompts in the prompting system. A response to a prompt is tagged with a location identifier. The location identifier identifies subject matter that corresponds to the prompt. The location identifier... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070220124 - System and method for automatically creating and enabling zones in a network: A system and method for automatically creating and enabling zoning in a network are disclosed. A method includes transmitting data from a host device coupled to the network to at least one switch coupled to the network. The transmitted data includes information indicating that the host device requested access to... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070220123 - System and method for service provider search: A system and method are disclosed for the creation of future time based search. Service providers identify their availability. This information is then searchable by potential clients to determine if relevant, local service providers are available to perform needed service.... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070220128 - System for visualizing a community activity and a method thereof: Disclosed is a system and method for visualizing a visitor's activity in a community such as a cafe, homepage, blog, miniroom, or mini-homepage, and the like, which are established in web sites on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: a) by a visitor, accessing the community and selecting... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070220125 - Techniques to control electronic mail delivery: Techniques to manage electronic mail delivery may be described. An apparatus may include an internal message transfer agent to determine a message flow rate for an external message transfer agent based on a trust value associated with the external message transfer agent. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070220130 - Traffic information system for vehicles using wireless peer to peer (p2p) connections: The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit, at least one data connection to a data network to which several devices provided with a data processing unit are connected by means of a data... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070220136 - Distributed meter networks and systems for monitoring same: A system for monitoring one or more nodes of a distributed meter network. The system includes at least one meter device at each node for metering a product and for generating a signal representative of a corresponding metering rate. A computation device in communication with the at least one meter... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070220139 - Performance information collection method, apparatus and recording medium: In order to collect performance information of a computer capable of executing more than one application software, collection information indicating a timing at which the performance information is to be collected is prepared by the unit of application software. This collects the performance information by referring to the collection information... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070220143 - Synchronous message management system: An improved system for managing synchronous messages between messaging parties is disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, a centralized synchronous message management system is provided as a subscription service to various clients without the need for installation of additional equipment at the client's location. The synchronous message management system is... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070220144 - System and method for activity monitoring and alerting: An Internet activity monitoring and alerting capability operating within a Service Provider (SP) provides value-added services to Service Users (SUs, e.g., users of Wireless Devices). Through the optional use of a Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor a SP may reach a broad universe of SUs. As a SP monitors activity it looks... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070220140 - System and method for social service event processing and management: An event processing mechanism is provided as a system interface between software applications that contain events that need to be processed, a BRF program that executes event rules, and workflow processes that capture the processing of the events. A social service eventing program enables centralized and streamlined event processing by... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070220142 - Automation control system having digital logging: A convergence and automation system includes (a) an internet-protocol based network, (b) hardware implemented with a web service for devices (WSD) protocol, wherein the hardware includes a plurality of devices connected to the network, each device being configured to perform at least one service, and a server connected to network... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070220137 - Computer system evaluation: A system, computer program and method for inspection of a system under inspection. The system may include an inspection program configured to access information available at the system under inspection and generate inspection data for the system under inspection. A runtime platform independent from the inspection program at the system... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070220134 - Endpoint verification using call signs: A computer system is configured to verify a connection to a web site. The computer system includes a user interface programmed to receive a uniform resource locator and a call sign associated with the web site. The computer system also includes a validator module programmed to calculate a hash value... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070220138 - Extensible alert types: A facility for providing extensible alert types is described. The facility includes an endpoint component that has an associated application, an alert handler component provided by the application for handling received messages and providing alerts to the application, and a message transport component that receives a message, determines whether the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070220141 - Method and system for a set of network appliances which can be connected to provide enhanced collaboration, scalability, and reliability: The invention is directed to a network-enabled appliance. The appliance may aid the remote monitoring of various measured data. The device may monitor a variable or set of variables and output the data upon request. In addition, the appliance may issue alarms, alerts, warning and other notifications when a variable... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070220133 - Method for correcting time data in a network management application using a snmp: The present invention is directed to a method for correcting time data in a network management application. In a conventional Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) application, time errors occur due to a time tick or a time delay in the network. To resolve the above problem, the present invention suggests... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070220135 - System and method for computer service security: In an embodiment, a computer-based service security system receives a communication such as a query. The system processes that query in a server, which may be referred to as a lead server, and creates a plurality of copies of that lead server. The query is transferred to the plurality of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070220146 - Reliability authorizing method, reliability authorizing device, and reliability authorizing system: A reliability authorizing device determines whether to authorize a service transfer based on reliability of a partner device or a partner user when one user of one device authenticates other user of other device to exchange the service between devices connected to a network. A partner-reliability collecting unit collects reliability... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070220145 - Computer product, access-restricting method, and proxy server: A proxy server stores therein an access prohibiting list; analyzes contents requested by a user; extracts link information included in the contents; checks whether the link information includes an access-prohibited URL included in the access prohibiting list; deletes the link information if it includes the access-prohibited URL; and sends the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220147 - Method for provisioning a server in a computer arrangement: A method for provisioning servers in a computer arrangement allows more than one administrator to utilize the servers and prevents the servers from being influenced by more than one administrator at the same time. The computer arrangement includes at least one server, at least one administrator operable to control the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070220149 - Load balance control method and load balance control apparatus in data-processing system: The delay of an ongoing configuration change process, which may result from resource insufficiency, is restrained to avoid a great difference between the actual load condition and the load condition predicted before a configuration change, and provide proper service arrangement. A load distribution control device distributes the requests received from... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070220148 - Managing parallel requests in a communications environment supporting serial and parallel request handlers: A facility is described for managing parallel requests in a communications environment having devices or applications (“request handlers”) that support serial and parallel message processing. In various embodiments, the facility receives messages directed to a recipient from an application and sends a first message to the recipient without sending subsequently... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070220150 - Source switching method for multimedia interface: A convenient, low-cost method is provided herein for switching between one or more source devices, which are connected to a sink device via a multimedia interface. According to one embodiment, the method described herein may be used for switching between a plurality of source devices compatible with the High Definition... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070220151 - Downlink resource allocation and mapping: Embodiments of the present invention provide for downlink resource allocation among a plurality of users. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070220152 - System and method for providing advanced reservations in a compute environment: A system and method are disclosed for dynamically reserving resources within a cluster environment. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for resources in the cluster environment, monitoring events after receiving the request for resources and based on the monitored events, dynamically modifying at least one of... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20070220154 - Authentication and authorization of extranet clients to a secure intranet business application in a perimeter network topology: Methods and systems authenticate and authorize an extranet client to a secure intranet business application with a perimeter network topology, where connections to the secure intranet business application from outside the secure intranet are not permitted. A perimeter network proxy is authenticated within the secure intranet. The perimeter network proxy... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220156 - Instant messaging session invite for arranging peer-to-peer communication between applications: Arrangements and procedures for arranging peer-to-peer communications sessions between applications are described. In one implementation, a first application executing at a first device utilizes online presence information of an instant messaging service to select a second application with which to engage in the peer-to-peer session. The second application is associated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070220155 - Server session management application program interface and schema: Application program interfaces (APIs), schemas and procedures manage multiple sessions within a server system has a create session request call for establishing a session between a client and a server within the server system. Each of plurality of sessions among the servers is persisted within a database operatively coupled to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220153 - Wireless traffic prioritization: Packets to be transmitted in a wireless communication system are prioritized based on a time parameter associated with the packets.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070220160 - Peer to peer gateway: A method and system for interconnecting a number of peer to peer networks is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a peer to peer gateway communicates with one or more peer to peer networks. The gateway communicates with these networks through the Internet, to which it is connected. The gateway may... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070220157 - Simple network management protocol (snmp) agent system and method: A system for managing a network resource is provided. The system includes an OIDInformation file provided on the network resource and operable to maintain data related to the network resource. The system also includes an SNMP agent operable on the network resource to communicate with an SNMP manager. When the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070220159 - Tool for data generation for simple network management protocol (snmp): A tool is provided for automated SNMP data generation. The tool includes a special header file operable to contain standard header file data and special comment data. The tool also includes an extractor, a MIB generator component, and an OIDInformation file. The extractor component is operable to convert the special... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070220158 - Unmanaged programming language interoperability with managed internet protocol context: Methods and systems access managed Internet protocol context information by receiving an unmanaged Internet protocol context class call from an Internet application written in an unmanaged programming language. An unmanaged Internet protocol context class, which is written in an unmanaged programming language, is instantiated in response to the call. Interaction... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070220161 - Broadcasting a presentation over a messaging network: A presentation file is broadcast over a messaging channel during a messaging session. A video signal is generated in response to navigation of the presentation file within a presentation application. An encoded video stream suitable for transmission over a messaging network is derived from the generated video signal. The encoded... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070220165 - Internet protocol based media streaming solution: A system and method for streaming media data in a Web Service environment between two or more units are disclosed. The first unit processes the media data for transfer, using a media streaming application. A network implemented with Web Service transfers the processed media data using a real-time media streaming... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070220162 - Media processing abstraction model: Techniques are described for providing media services. A media processor receives one or more input media streams and provides an output media stream to one or more endpoints. A media controller issues commands to the media processor for controlling the media streams. The media controller and the media processor communicate... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070220163 - Method and apparatus for providing video on demand: A session border controller includes a first port to communicate with a user using a first signaling protocol, a second port to communicate with a content provider using a second signaling protocol, and a processor coupled to the first and second ports. The session border controller may send a PLAY... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070220164 - Reduction processing method for parallel computer, and parallel computer: A parallel computer operates to reduce data held by a plurality of nodes. Each node constituting a parallel computer transfers the data divided into n to other nodes, and each node summarizes the respective 1/n data and operates, then a plurality of nodes transfer the respective operation result to a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220167 - Method and system for identifying a device address: A method is disclosed for identifying a device address of a destination device having a device address unknown to a source device. The method may include sending a communication, with a hunt address in place of a known destination address, from a source device to a destination device having a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070220166 - Marine pipelay system and method: A method of updating routing tables stored at a multiplicity of Signalling End Points of an SS7 over IP signalling network following the introduction of a new Signalling End Point into the network, the method comprising sending a message from the new Signalling End Point to an existing Signalling End... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070220170 - Cascading network apparatus for scalability: Various embodiments directed to a cascading a network apparatus for scalability. In one or more embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an extensible markup language (XML) device to receive a content based message comprising a header, a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, and destination port number via one or more received... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070220168 - Efficient encoding of alternative graphic sets: Embodiments provide for efficient encoding and rendering of remote graphic displays by applying one or more of the following: (1) field encoding for identifying fields of a graphics set such that commonalities of various fields across different graphics languages are identified; (2) resource caching, which treats heterogeneous resources in a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070220169 - Systems, methods and computer program products for associating announcement files with electronic messages: A system for associating at least one announcement file with attributes of electronic messages sent from the system. The system includes a source announcement files library storing a plurality of source announcement files, the announcement files configured for playing at a recipient terminal upon the recipient terminal receiving the electronic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070220172 - Method of synchronizing screens: A method of synchronizing screens in a meeting. The method includes updating a database with the status of at least one participant, synchronizing the view of a facilitator with the view of at least one participant, calling a web service at timed intervals, checking the status of each participant, determining... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20070220171 - Systems and methods for synchronization of asynchronous networks: A client decoding clock is synchronized to a server's clock over an asynchronous network. In one embodiment, a time stamp based on a server clock value is added to a data frame that is broadcast out over the network to a plurality of clients. In one embodiment, the time stamp... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070220174 - Marker placement in a mapping environment: A method, apparatus, and system of marker placement in a mapping environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a marker in a mapping environment using an algorithm based on an address data, placing the marker in the mapping environment adjacent to a physical location identified through the... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20070220173 - Image commercial transactions system and method: An image commercial transactions system and method that are able to implement sales to the purpose of the seller. An e-commerce system for selling a picture and a handling condition specific to the picture, both being recorded on a predetermined recording medium in a predetermined format. The picture to be... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070220175 - Method and apparatus for media distribution using vpls in a ring topology: A method or corresponding apparatus is employed for distributing media on a ring network. Multiple nodes and communications links are configured to distribute media in the ring network. Distribution of the media is disabled on a communications link between a selected pair of adjacent nodes in the ring network in... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070214206 - User-configurable network performance monitors: A network analysis system provides for a user-definable display of information related to messages communicated on the network. The network analysis system includes one or more display formats that provide a display of message exchanges between nodes of a network, and a display augmenter that provides additional information on the... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070214208 - Business process externalization execution platform, system and method: The present invention includes a system, method, and software-platform whereby business services are orchestrated to create a holistic solution where each business service is provisioned to a network of rated service providers. The invention includes a method that effectively productizes business services and sells them as on-line commodities.... Agent: Peter A. Haas, Esquire

20070214207 - Method and system for accurate issuance of data information: Exemplary embodiments of method and system can be provided for an accurate issuance of data information applied to a transmission of network data information, including: setting a client program; collecting relevant information of a user when the user uses the client program; deriving characteristic data of user from the relevant... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070214209 - Platform and method for mobile servers: A method (500) and system (100) for facilitating access to a mobile server (MS) (107) can include a proxy server (111), a MS status database (MSSDB) 110, a search engine (109) and a SMS-push server (112) that can support transmission of information from the MS to wireless clients (105 or... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070214211 - Method and system for providing a payment incentive for distributing digital files over a network: A method and system for providing a payment incentive for distributing digital files over a network are provided. The method and system allow a publisher, distributor(s), and/or users to receive a payment incentive for downloading digital files on the Internet. The present disclosure creates a method and system where every... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070214214 - Data relay system, data relay method, data relay program, information processing method, and information processing program: In accordance with the present invention, even in the case where the language used in the server system 1 providing a service on the Internet is different from the language used in the client system 2, it is possible to recognize the information from the server by the client with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070214210 - Display of web page code: Among other things, on a client, on which a web browser can run, unprocessed markup is stored which represents a first portion of a web page, in a manner to be inaccessible for display by the browser.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070214215 - Intelligent patch checker: A method for remotely updating software in a plurality of computer systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a client computer sends application information about a software application to a server system. The server system performs a comparison between the application information about the software application and the most-updated upgrade package... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070214213 - Personal video network: The invention is a personal wireless network that generally compnses at least a lightweight wireless client to send and receive audio and video from another system component. The personal wireless network also provides a wireless-enabled routing component, which stands alone to route traffic within the personal wireless network. Also provided... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070214217 - Contents server and contents server system: The present invention relates to a communication system, and the invention specifically provides a contents server that appropriately stores media contents from group users in a PoC service and a conference service. The contents server includes: a recording unit that records media information from plural users in a communicatable state... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070214216 - Email and discussion forum system: Systems, methods, and media associated with coordinating a discussion forum application and an email application are described. One example system includes a data store and a coordination logic. The data store may store a discussion forum message in a data structure accessible to both an email logic and a discussion... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070214218 - Publication management system: A publication management system connects to a network and stores publication related data and content related data. Based on the data, the system generates publication and/or content schedules. The system may include a processor, and a storage device. The processor may access publication related data and content related data. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070214225 - Communication terminal apparatus and image forming apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus capable of registering sender's e-mail addresses upon receiving e-mails including the e-mail address registration instruction information in the subject. The communication terminal apparatus relieves users from the cumbersome task of manually inputting the recipient's e-mail address to the e-mail address storage unit 17 and achieves simple... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070214223 - Electronic mail send program, electronic mail send device, and electronic mail send method: The present invention is to direct sender's attention to sending destination addresses and to prevent occurrence of missending of electronic mails. An electronic mail send program according to the present invention makes a computer execute: a determination step that determines whether or not a sending destination address specified for an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214226 - Method and system for pushing electronic mail: A method and system for delivering emails is provided, wherein emails are pushed from an email server to an email client without polling. Emails are delivered to the email client directly by pushing, without requiring the email client to poll an email server periodically.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070214222 - Activating automatic messaging session: Methods and systems are directed toward enabling a user of a target device, such as a mobile device, to register for automatic initiation of a messaging service on the target device. A target device user interface, such as a login user interface, provides a selectable activation element for the user... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070214227 - Assured comprehension advertising system: Methods and apparatus for providing messages (12) with embedded advertising (20) that are sent by a sender (10) to a recipient (14) who share an affiliation (27) with a common organization (24) are disclosed.... Agent: Thomas N. Giaccherini

20070214221 - Method and system for email notification using auto-forwarding and a lightweight mail notification sender: There is provided a method and system for notifying of new email received at a user's mailbox on a mail storage system. A mail processing system, integrated with the mail storage system, is configured to receive new email auto-forwarded from the mail storage system and to define and send a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070214220 - Method and system for recognizing desired email: A system and method for recognizing an incoming email as a desired email examines outgoing email messages to arrange the email into fragments for which representations are created and stored. When an incoming message is received, the message is arranged into fragments for which representations are created. The representations of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070214219 - Method of inquiring e-mail sending status in real time: A method of inquiring status of a sent e-mail includes displaying a screen of e-mail list having records each including size, subject, sending time, success times, failure times, and times to be sent; clicking the e-mail in the list to enter a screen about details of sent e-mails including a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070214224 - System and method for transmitting cyber threat information in real time: A system and method for transmitting cyber threat information in real time, which is designed to minimize overload of a server in order to support large-scale clients, is disclosed. Important related information such as countermeasures against cyber threats or cyber attacks is transmitted in real time to a user through... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070214228 - Notification platform architecture: The present invention relates to a system and methodology to enable a variety of information associated with one or more notification sources to be directed to one or more notification sinks via a notification platform architecture. The architecture includes a context analyzer for determining a user's state such as location... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070214229 - Systems and methods for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices without a voltage controlled crystal oscillator: Exemplary systems and methods include a distribution device that maintains a clock rate and distributes a series of tasks to a group of execution devices. Each task has a plurality of samples per frame associated with a time stamp indicating when the task is to be executed. The execution devices... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070214230 - Systems using mix of packet, coherent, and noncoherent traffic to optimize transmission between systems: An apparatus may include a first system and a second system. The first system includes a first plurality of interface circuits, and each of the first plurality of interface circuits is configured to couple to a separate interface. The second system includes a second plurality of interface circuits, and each... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070214231 - Method and apparatus for automated personality transfer for a wireless enabled handheld: A method and system for restoring device personality after failure. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and system for automated personality transfer in a wireless enabled handheld device. In one embodiment, the present invention automatically extracts personality information that is unique and critical to the proper functionality of an... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070214238 - Context enriched communication system and method: A communication system according to the current invention contains a context vault (104) and context community manager (105) for enriching a communication session between a first user (101) and second user (102) with context information. The context vault (104) maintains context information, e.g. location or agenda information, and/or context information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070214237 - Systems and methods of providing web content to multiple browser device types: Methods and systems for providing information to geographically proximate client are disclosed. One method includes: receiving an instruction to associate a geographic location with a web page; in response to the instruction, associating the location with the web page; associating content with the location; and when a mobile device comes... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070214235 - Application server for processing medical image data: A method and system for sharing intermediate medical image processing results among several different applications is disclosed. An application server serves as mediator between a medical image database storage, image processing applications, and a workstation display resident on a computer network. The application server polices the intermediate processing results from... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP One Dayton Centre

20070214236 - Electronic apparatus: A communicator is adapted to perform communications with an external apparatus. A rewritable memory stores a control program configured to control an operation of the electronic apparatus, and a first communication program. An unrewritable memory stores a second communication program. A first inspector is operable to judge whether the control... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070214233 - System and method for implementing a hypervisor for server emulation: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for implementing a cluster network including a collection of clients that further include a client operating system and a server operating system, wherein the server operating system caches data retrieved from the cluster network from prior successful access to the cluster network, removing at... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20070214232 - System for uniform addressing of home resources regardless of remote clients network location: A method and apparatus is provided for enabling devices to access and control each other though located on different and remote networks. A gateway resolves device name problems such that same device names are resolved to different IP addresses depending if the DNS lookup request originates from the internal network... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070214234 - Systems and methods for mapping media content to web sites: Systems and methods for mapping viewable and non-viewable media to websites are disclosed. Mapping is executed through associated or embedded data, based upon frame and/or time segment of the media. The media-to-browser-destination-data (MBDD) may be embedded in media content, embedded in a transmitted signal, downloaded or pushed to a media... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070214241 - Method and system for remote access to universal plug and play devices: A method and system for remote access to UPnP devices is provided, which allows remote access to UPnP devices in a private network, and utilizes message forwarding at the UPnP layer. Existing UPnP control points can remotely access UPnP devices in a private network without modification to UPnP standards.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070214239 - Dynamically updated web page: Among other things, in response to interaction of a user with a web page, a portion of the web page is updated, the portion being less than the entire web page, in a manner such that hidden values of the web page are consistent with non-hidden values of the web... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070214240 - Method and arrangement for integrating an accelerating client into an application: A method provides a content provider with a new way to provide acceleration services and it also provides a user with an easy way to utilize the acceleration services. In more detail, the user can transparently deploy an appropriate accelerating client to his/hers terminal, such as a mobile phone or... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070214242 - Network configuration change evaluation program, network configuration change evaluation device, and network configuration change evaluation method: The present invention provides a network configuration change evaluation program, a network configuration change evaluation device, and a network configuration change evaluation method which can evaluate influence due to configuration change of a network. There is provided a network configuration change evaluation program that makes a computer execute the evaluation... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070214244 - System configuration information comparison device and computer program: A system configuration information comparison device and a computer program are provided that allow easy comparison of system configuration information and a parameter sheet. The invention provides a system configuration information comparison device (130) that includes a receiving portion that receives system configuration information (112) and a parameter sheet (120);... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070214243 - Method, system, server and unit for setting configuration information of a presentity client: A method, a system, a document management server, a presence server and a delegation check processing unit for setting configuration information of a presentity client are used to solve the problem that the setting of configuration information must be done by a presentity client and cannot be delegated to other... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070214252 - Content distribution apparatus system and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a content distribution system including a first distribution source located in a publicly accessible facility adapted to hold a first library of content items. A second distribution source adapted to hold a second library of content items, and a system control module is adapted... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070214251 - Naming and accessing remote servers through security split reverse proxy: Naming and accessing remote servers through a security split reverse proxy disclosed a virtual network system allowing internet clients locate a remote web server by URL and access the remote web server through a reverse proxy which split as two portions connected by at least one security connection. The virtual... Agent: Zhong Li

20070214248 - Network management method, program, and system: An interconnection network is provided with switch devices for computers for a plurality of computers, respectively, a predetermined number of physical lines for switch devices for computers are bound to form each of logical lines, the physical lines forming the logical lines interconnect the other switch devices for computer via... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214249 - Peer-to-peer trading platform: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent item information on at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070214250 - Peer-to-peer trading platform with search caching: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes including a first peer-to-peer client, a second peer-to-peer client,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070214253 - Fault notification based on volume access control information: In case a fault has occurred in a volume, it was so far difficult to correctly notify a fault by using a host computer which can access the volumes managed by a management computer that integrally manages a plurality of devices constituting a network. The management program of the invention... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070214245 - Method and system for controlling contextual information push services: A system, server, method, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating the creation of push messages pertaining to context dependent services and managing their delivery to mobile wireless devices having diverse routing, scheduling, and context or event-triggering requirements. A web-based interface is presented on an administrator console for defining... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070214246 - Method and system for streaming user-customized information: Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for a service provider to stream user-customized information. In an embodiment, the user-customized information includes tickers, advertisements and other types of user-specific information. Users can register for categories that interest them, from an available set of categories. The service provider can then stream the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070214247 - System for spatial backoff contention resolution for wireless networks: Spatial backoff methods allow source stations to search for appropriate carrier sense threshold and transmission rate operating points to improve network aggregate throughput. In one method, each source station performs a search process to find the best carrier sense threshold and transmission rate, based on a defined utility function. In... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070214259 - Peer-to-peer trading platform with relative reputation-based item search and buddy rating: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes including a first peer-to-peer client and a second peer-to-peer... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070214261 - Analysis method and apparatus: An analysis method for carrying out an analysis for responses of a computer system including a plurality of servers, includes: obtaining data concerning a CPU utilization ratio of each of the plurality of servers from the computer system, and storing the data concerning the CPU utilization ratio into a CPU... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214254 - Method and system for topology discovery in an ad hoc network: A method and system for topology discovery in an ad hoc network is useful for reducing unnecessary network signaling messages and improving network efficiency. The method includes receiving, at a first node, a first topology discovery signal transmitted from a second node (step 405). A response shedding rule is then... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070214255 - Multi-node computer system component proactive monitoring and proactive repair: A highly available multi-node computer system is operated by monitoring the aging and usage of a plurality of hardware components that are part of the system's networked nodes. While monitoring the components, a determination is made that one of the components has aged, worn, or both, to a level that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070214260 - Music distribution system: Systems for distributing music to a plurality of customers via the Internet provide each customer with a uniquely identified proprietary device for receiving, playing and recording music. A music server computer system is provided for distributing the music to the proprietary devices over the Internet. The system provides for tracking... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070214262 - Personal server technology with firewall detection and penetration: A first personal server within a firewall protected network initiates communications with a connection server that is coupled to a network of remote clients that can remotely access the first personal server. A series of tests using communication protocols of increasing complexity are executed until a communication protocol enabling communication... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070214258 - Real-time, self-directing updating of asset state: A system allows a remote asset, via an Intelligent Device and interconnected Central Data Server to autonomously, and continuously monitor and update its status on various parameters; and from these, to calculate an overall asset state that may be caused by various combinations of the parameters.... Agent: Leo Stanger

20070214257 - System analysis apparatus and method: In a system analysis apparatus, a per-SrcIP filter section captures packets in client-Web server segments on a per-SrcIP basis. An ON/OFF filter section allows captured packets to pass through only when its flag is set to “ON”. A request/response analysis section controls a flag of the ON/OFF filter section of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214256 - System and method for ip address discovery in rapidly changing network environment: A system and method for Internet protocol (IP) address discovery in a rapidly changing network environment is presented. A server and a client use an adaptive discovery polling process to determine an optimum heartbeat interval that minimizes network traffic and allows the server to monitor the client's source address. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070214264 - Device social-control system: A device social-control system includes: providing a computer system; and connecting the computer system to a network for: facilitating set up of an access right and an access level to control a device through the network; determining the access right from another computer system and the access level from an... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070214263 - Online-content-filtering method and device: The invention relates to an online-content-filtering method and device, including the use of a device, a case external to or a card internal to the computer, which is disposed between the computer and a computer network providing access to the online content. The device receives the content from the network.... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20070214267 - Security server monitoring device and load distribution system: A security server monitoring device is provided that performs quick redistribution of loads when a server load increases due to virus infections. A security server performs a virus check on data flowing through a network, thus statistical data relating to detected viruses can be obtained. For example, future communication traffic... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070214268 - Apparatus and method for using storage domains for controlling data in storage area networks: Storage domains respectively have associated configurable storage management properties that are separate from individual physical capabilities of physical storage resources available through a SAN. Logical volumes are created and allocated to hosts in the context of the storage domains. The presentation of such logical volumes to hosts accommodates storage resource... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070214265 - Scalable captive portal redirect: A system (100) and method (200) are disclosed for scalable captive portal and re-direct. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an authenticating server (114) having a controller (302) that manages operations of network application server (104) and a plurality of network routers (106).... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070214266 - Secure load balancing in a network: The present invention relates to a system comprising at least two resources (3) and a hash function (4), which system is arranged for distributing external users (1) to the resources (3), where the number of users (1) is larger than the number of resources (3). Further, the system comprises means... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070214271 - Enterprise application platform: A business platform can provide access to applications and provide for the integration of resources with other applications, including internal and external applications, services and systems. A portal framework included within the platform can render portals including graphical user interfaces for displaying and receiving content that can be used by... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070214269 - Method, control device and network node for maintaining a connection when a request is pending: A method and a device in a communication apparatus for maintaining an established connection between said apparatus and a network node. The connection is established by a mobility management unit for providing a mobility management procedure. An acceptance message is issued by the node in response to a request relating... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070214270 - Triggering dhcp actions from ieee 802.1x state changes: A client device obtains an Internet Protocol (IP) address in response to completion of an authentication protocol process. The IP address can be provided in accordance with, for example, the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP). The authentication protocol can be, for example, that which is defined by the IEEE 802.1x... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070214273 - Across firewall communication system and method: An across firewall communication system and method is used with a conventional firewall positioned between a conventional intranet and an outside network, such as the public Internet. The across firewall communication system provides enhanced communication between one or more inside devices on the intranet and one or more outside devices... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070214272 - Light-weight multi-user browser: A multi-user web browser is stored on a computer. The multi-user web browser permits more than one user to create and use a browser user account without requiring different users to log into different operating system user accounts. Instead, a browser user can log into the multi-user browser by providing... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20070214274 - Portable device and a method for accessing a computer resource of a temporary registered user: In a portable device connectable to a network system, an access right information acquisition unit acquires access right information of a computer resource assigned to a user temporarily registered to the network system from a computer which manages the computer resource in the network system. An access right information preservation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070214276 - Device emulation to facilitate data transfer: Described is a technology by which a circuit, such as one incorporated into a USB-like cable, couples a client computing device to a server computing device. The circuit outputs identification information to each computing device to indicate that the circuit corresponds to a type of hardware device, (e.g., a CD-ROM... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070214278 - Dynamic folder browsing method using bluetooth and system for the same: Provided is a function for more efficiently pulling files in a browsing folder is implemented. A client pulls folder lists items in a basis of a number displayable on a screen thereof by subdividing a process pulling the folder lists items. In detail, a new operation is defined between a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070214277 - Peer-to-peer network communications using sata/sas technology: A conventional serial communications protocol that is limited to supporting only host-to-slave communications, such as SATA or SAS, is extended to support peer-to-peer communications, e.g., by adding a memory-map layer into the conventional protocol stack between the link layer and the protocol layer. The addition of the memory-map layer enables... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070214275 - Technique for preventing routing loops by disseminating bgp attribute information in an ospf-configured network: A novel technique is provided for preventing routing loops by disseminating Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attribute information in an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) configured network. Specifically, a new OSPF sub-type-length-value (TLV) is introduced for transporting a conventional BGP autonomous system (AS) path attribute through the OSPF-configured network. Like the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070214279 - Client apparatus and method of streaming content, and computer readable recording medium storing program for performing the method: An apparatus and method of streaming content by adaptively selecting a peer-to-peer (P2P) method or a server-client method according to a network environment, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method are provided. The apparatus includes middleware which supports the P2P method, middleware which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070214280 - Backup bgp paths for non-multipath bgp fast convergence: A technique institutes backup Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) paths for non-multipath BGP Fast Convergence in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a protecting node, e.g., a border router, calculates a best BGP path to a destination prefix, and also calculates one or more backup BGP paths (i.e., non-multipath... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070214281 - Scaling and delivering distributed applications: Systems and methods for distributing applications across a server and one or more nodes in a network. When a node is turned on or booted, a node application is requested from the server and loaded on the node. The node application provides a user interface through which other feature applications... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070214284 - Domain name management system and method: A method for identifying a registered domain name as auctionable is provided. The registered domain names may be pulled from a database of desired domain names, such as a collection of domain names that one or more interested entities have requested to register using a domain name registration system. Requesting... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070214282 - Load balancing via rotation of cluster identity: A method and system for implementing load balancing via rotation of cluster identity is described herein. A cluster MAC address is associated with a first server in a cluster of servers. A switch forwards packets having the cluster MAC address as the destination address to the first server. A cluster... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070214283 - Method and apparatus for automated infrastructure ad hoc mode and autonomous ad hoc mode selection: Techniques are provided which can allow a host to determine whether to send a DNS request via a distributed Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol or a regular DNS protocol.... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070214285 - Gateway server: A method and apparatus for interfacing a client using a first communication protocol with a distributed file system using a second communication protocol is described. The apparatus has a client interface and a file system driver. The client interface communicates with the client using the first communication protocol. The file... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070214286 - Network access control: A communications protocol is configured to determine whether multiple simultaneous communications can take place among a plurality of network devices in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a first network device can determine the maximum interference in can sustain while still conducting intended communications with another network device. The first... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070208798 - Subject indicating method and subject information storing device and terminal: A subject indicating method includes the steps of registering subject information in a subject information storing device connected to a network, the subject information being input from a calling terminal at the time of calling; notifying a called terminal of the subject information read from the subject information storing device... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070208802 - Method and system for messaging and communication based on groups: Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070208801 - Method for sharing resources over a network: In a client/server network, each of a plurality of IP devices has access to a network capability, such as an analog line, when connected to a central server. At least one of the IP devices is in direct communication with a second analog line and grants other IP devices access... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070208800 - Generic electronic laboratory notebook: The present invention relates to an electronic laboratory notebook system in a distributed communication network comprising: at least one application server running an electronic laboratory notebook server application; at least one client work-station running an electronic laboratory notebook client application in communication with the at least one application server via... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070208803 - Method and system for email and pim synchronization and updating: A system for sending data from at least one computing device, which may be an email server, located at a user location, to a plurality of handsets. The system includes an internal system monitor associated with the at least one computing device, and the monitor provides application connectors deployed at... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20070208805 - Methods and systems useful in linking from objects to remote resources: An identifier corresponding to an object is used in establishing links to related electronic resources. The identifier can be obtained by decoding a watermark, performing a hashing algorithm on content data, reading a bar code, etc. The object can be physical (e.g., a magazine page) or electronic (e.g., music or... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070208804 - System for invoking web services by means of sip signaling: a user client (1) of the Web service generates a session initiation request indicating as the URI of the request the SIP URI of the provider and describing said session by means of SDP in which an interaction context is described to negotiate the consumption of said service, where said... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070208799 - Systems and methods for business continuity: In an embodiment, a system for business continuity is described. The system may include, a central server, the central server including a virtualization module and an initialization module, and a local server, the local server located at a client location and providing one or more services to one or more... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070208806 - Network collaboration system with conference waiting room: A network collaboration system facilitates collaborations between network clients having access to a digital network. The system uses audio mixes to provide different levels of voice conferences between the meeting participants. When a virtual meeting space is created, each meeting participant is given certain access privileges. In a main collaboration,... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20070208808 - System and method for application viewing through collaborative web browsing session: A collaborative Web browsing session may take place over a network, allowing the Presenter on a first computer to direct the audio and visual components of a browser on one or more second computers. The Attendee on the second computer logs into a control site computer located on the Web... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070208807 - Tree-based broadcasting service over push-to-talk mobile ip network: A method for generating a plurality of messages for inviting communication devices to a communication conference. The method includes establishing a first communication conference with a plurality of first communication devices, receiving a plurality of communication device identifiers from a communication device participating in the first communication conference, which communication... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070208809 - Group invitation: In a system providing a group communication service and supporting groups containing other groups as group members, the group members not hosted by a server hosting the group are invited to join to the group by sending an invitation to join the group to a server hosting the group member.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20070208811 - Information exchange support device, information exchange support method, and information exchange support program: An information exchange support apparatus 1 includes reception means 101, exchange determination means 102, transmission means 103, and storage means 104. The reception means 101 receives exchange request information containing the information to be exchanged and information identifying the exchanging party from a terminal. The transmission means 103 transmits the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070208813 - Machine translation instant messaging applications: An instant messaging translation plug-in interacts with an instant messaging program to intercept incoming messages and forward these messages to a language translation service. The plug-in then displays a translation received from the service along with the original message. This provides translation which can be used by instant messaging users... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070208810 - Message handling: The invention relates to handling a message addressed to a client terminal, which client terminal includes a messaging client for handling said messages. The method includes the steps of receiving a message addressed to the client terminal, said message including content destined to an “upper level” application, the “upper level”... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070208814 - Method for switching between embedded communications and external communications: The invention includes a method for processing messages at a component. One method includes receiving a message formed according to an embedded protocol or an external protocol, processing a portion of the received message for identifying the protocol used to form the message, and processing the received message using the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070208815 - Methods and apparatus for implementing version-based electronic mail: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for managing e-mail creation and display operations. In particular, in one aspect of the invention, a new e-mail is generated as a new version of a pre-existing e-mail. Both the pre-existing and new e-mail are identified by version numbers which are displayed to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070208817 - Source reputation information system with blocking of tcp connections from sources of electronic messages: Disclosed herein are filtering systems and methods that employ an electronic message source reputation system. The source reputation system maintains a pool of source Internet Protocol (IP) address information, in the form of a Real-Time Threat Identification Network (“RTIN”) database, which can provide the reputation of source IP addresses, which... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070208816 - System and method for electronically facilitating, recording, and tracking transactions: A method to facilitate a transaction using an instant messaging client comprising, receiving a formatted transaction request from the client via a messaging protocol, identifying a recipient and transaction information, facilitating the transaction and sending a notification of completion of the transaction via the messaging protocol.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070208812 - System and method for presence notification for video projection status: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for communicating a presence notification to an end-point of a demand-based messaging system. The method includes monitoring an auxiliary output port for a video signal; detecting a video signal on the auxiliary output port; and reporting a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070208819 - Asymmetric control of high-speed bidirectional signaling: A system including asymmetric control of high-speed bidirectional signaling includes a slave device and a master device that is coupled to the slave device via a plurality of bidirectional data paths, for example. The master device may control data transfer between the master device and the slave device. More particularly,... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20070208818 - Identifying changes to media-device contents: A method to expose information about a set of data objects to a master device is provided. A benchmark sequence indicator is used in connection with a set of sequence indicators that are each related to data objects (such as media files on a device) to satisfy multiple independent requests... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070208820 - Apparatus and method for out-of-order placement and in-order completion reporting of remote direct memory access operations: A mechanism for performing RDMA operations over a network fabric. Apparatus includes transaction logic to process work queue elements, and to accomplish the RDMA operations over a TCP/IP interface between first and second servers. The transaction logic has out-of-order segment range record stores and a protocol engine. The out-of-order segment... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070208821 - System and method for zero copy block protocol write operations: A system and method for zero copy block protocol write operations obviates the need to copy the contents of memory buffers (mbufs) at a storage system. A storage operating system of the storage system receives data from a network and stores the data in chains of mbufs having various lengths.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070208822 - Honey monkey network exploration: A network can be explored to investigate exploitive behavior. For example, network sites may be actively explored by a honey monkey system to detect if they are capable of accomplishing exploits, including browser-based exploits, on a machine. Also, the accomplishment of exploits may be detected by tracing events occurring on... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070208824 - Method and apparatus for transmitting arbitrarily large amounts of data over the internet: Embodiments are described that leverage commonly used HTML tags to enable the transfer of large quantities of data in a network. Embodiments are described where large amounts of data can be sent to a server by fragmenting data into small portions and encoding each portion as part of a URL... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070208823 - System and method for making a data silo to distribute electronic data: We have a method of making a Web Service and a website, which we call a Silo, that lets a sender upload a file (or directory) of arbitrary size, that she wants distributed electronically to one or more recipients. The uploading can be done via a standard web browser. The... Agent: Marvin Shannon

20070208825 - 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

20070208827 - Image processing system including plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to network for use by plurality of users, and image processing apparatus included in the image processing system: When user identification information is input, if user data including the input user identification information is stored, an MFP serving as an operation terminal requests an MFP serving as a home terminal specified by the apparatus identification information associated with the accepted user identification information by the user data to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070208830 - 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

20070208829 - System and method for providing continuous downloading service of large size contents through wireless network and record media recored program for realizing the same: A method of providing a continuous downloading service of large size content through a wireless network consisting of a mobile terminal and a content server is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises receiving a request; receiving a package list from the mobile terminal; comparing information of an individual file... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070208826 - System and method of storing data files at a remote storage facility: A system may include a network, a remote storage facility coupled to the network, and a client coupled to the network. The client may be adapted to receive a store command for a data file, to prompt a user for a file name for the data file, and to receive... Agent: Venable LLP

20070208828 - Systems and methods for data mining and interactive presentation of same: A data mining and presentation system including a first processor for obtaining data of interest to a user from one or more data sources. The first processor designed to receive one or more user specified parameters in connection with the data, and in communication with the data sources via a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070208831 - Autonomous transfer of data: In an interface, a host device or controller configures a peripheral or remote device to send data back to the host device. The remote device is operatively coupled to one or more sensors located throughout the vehicle and performs an analog to digital conversion on signals received from the sensors.... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070208834 - On-demand software service system and method: An on-demand software and service access system has a remote processing system or remote service provider accessible via the Internet or other network, and a local system which runs on a user's local device. The remote system has a plurality of different software applications, operating systems, and central data storage... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20070208832 - Rfid edge server allowing configuration updates without restart: An RFID edge server can receive configuration info for an associated RFID reader. The RFID edge server can update the configuration of the associated RFID reader without restarting another RFID reader of the associated RFID readers.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070208833 - System and method of communicating data for a hospital: A system used by a local health care facility to communicate with a remote health care facility via a data communication network. A controller at the local health care facility controls communication on the data communication network, including data communicated between the local health care facility and the remote health... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070208841 - Self-assembling wireless network, vehicle communications system, railroad wheel and bearing monitoring system and methods therefor: A low power self-organizing network is made up of a plurality of wireless communication nodes communicating wirelessly with each other. The nodes each have a sensor providing a respective sensor data value indicative of a physical parameter in the environment of that node. The wireless network discontinues communication with any... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070208843 - Service level management system: A service level management (SLM) system where the system learns the structure of a web application, monitors the operation of the application, and controls the processing of incoming requests to achieve optimal performance as defined in a service level agreement (SLA). The system is operative for example in enterprise web... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20070208844 - Computer arrangement and method for providing services for clients over a network: A computer arrangement for providing services to clients over a network includes: at least two servers, each server hosting at least one application, an automated administrator configured to automatically provision the servers to provide the services, and at least one network load balancer connected to the clients and the servers.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070208837 - Device management system for processing client requests: A device management system is provided for processing client requests. When a client request is received, the device management system selects a particular network device from a plurality of available network devices to process the request. The selection is based upon user preference data and network device attribute data. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070208840 - Graphical user interface for network management: A graphical user interface (GUI) provides a plurality of views of a network and its elements in the same viewing engine. A user can switch between the plurality of views in a context-sensitive manner, each view showing relationship or interconnection information. The GUI allows a user to view inter-related objects... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070208839 - Hierarchical timestamps: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to digitally encoded hierarchical timestamps that are stored in computer readable mediums. The hierarchical timestamps of the present invention include a first field that stores a timestamp value and a second field that stores a processing-level indication that indicates the scope of the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070208846 - Management system for multimodule multiprocesssor machines: The present invention relates to a global management system for a multimodule, multiprocessor machine (PK). The system is characterized in that it comprises an independent module (SM) dedicated to the global management of a plurality of first modules (M1 through Mn), the independent module (SM) being connected to each management... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070208838 - Method and system for mirroring dropped packets: A system for mirroring dropped packets by extending port mirroring. Networking devices, such as firewalls and routers drop some packets during data transmission due to various security issues, congestion and errors in the packets. The dropped packets are mirrored at a user-specified destination port by extending port mirroring. The mirrored... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070208842 - Methods and systems for pushing and pulling network data in user interface design: A network management system is provided for allowing a user to interface with network management data provided by a network agent via a network. Application level logic obtains and formats the network management data to thereby create a display presented to the user. A library of software processing structures for... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070208847 - Modifying beacon levels for wireless lan access points: An apparatus is described for modifying beacon levels. The apparatus includes a service unit to determine a need to reduce a load of a first access point having a first beacon interval, the first access point being in a network of a plurality of access points. A set interval unit... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070208845 - Novel method and system of anonymizing real time internet communications between peers: A method and system of establishing a direct communication between two peers over the Internet without revealing their real identities and personal information to each other, comprising of a first client node, a second client node, an intermediate anonymizer server node, the first anonymizer interface and the second anonymizer interface.... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20070208836 - Presentation of virtual arrays using n-port id virtualization: A storage array presents virtual arrays to hosts through use of virtual port IDs. The storage array includes groups of logical units of storage. The groups are coupled to a switch through at least one physical port. Each group is assigned a unique virtual port ID for each physical port... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070208835 - Radio base station controlled by a monitor coordinating xml-defined tasks, method of operating such a radio base station, and corresponding computer program product: A radio base station has a monitor (31), memory (33, 49) and one or more resources (35(i), 37(j), 39(k), 41(m), 43(n), 45(o), 47(p)). The memory (33, 49) is connected to the monitor (31) and stores tasks and data. Each of the resources (35(i), 37(j), 39(k), 41(m), 43(n), 45(o), 47(p)) is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070208851 - Broadband intelligent event repository: A broadband intelligent event repository may be provided. The broadband intelligent repository may allow a cross processing life cycle phase view of an event. In addition, the broadband intelligent repository may provide for the ability to associate all recordings associated with a given event. Furthermore, the broadband intelligent repository may... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070208852 - Network sniffer for performing service level management: A network sniffer where the sniffer learns the structure of a web application, monitors the operation of the application, and optionally controls the processing of incoming requests to achieve optimal performance as defined in a service level agreement (SLA). The network sniffer is operative for example in enterprise web applications... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20070208848 - Device connection routing for controller: Device connection routing for controllers is provided. A computing device is configured with multiple controllers that provide connections for peripheral devices. The controllers enable the peripheral devices to interact with the computing device through a bus. Each device connection is routed to one of the multiple controllers based on one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070208850 - Electronic message and data tracking system: Systems and methods for tracking electronic messages and data are provided. According to one embodiment, steps for tracking an email message, or other electronic message, may include identifying an email message for tracking, associating a linking object with the tracked message, and responsive to activation of the linking object by... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070208849 - Method for tracking and storing time to complete and average completion time for storage area network l/o commands: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing continuously updated completion time and an average completion time information for I/O commands on a per-LU, per-target, per-port basis. This measurement is performed by a kernel device driver that handles the I/O for the system at lower layers, so the measurements... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070208855 - Capability exchange during an authentication process for an access terminal: In one embodiment, during an authentication process between a network device and an access terminal, an authentication message for access to the network is received. The network device is configured to allow access to an IP network. The network device determines one or more capabilities of the access terminal from... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070208854 - Network interface device: There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for defining a policy including a set of rules for a packet forwarding device by receiving information sufficient to enable a first rule related to one of security or traffic management to be defined, and based on the received information, enabling... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070208856 - Feedback loop for spam prevention: The subject invention provides for a feedback loop system and method that facilitate classifying items in connection with spam prevention in server and/or client-based architectures. The invention makes uses of a machine-learning approach as applied to spam filters, and in particular, randomly samples incoming email messages so that examples of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070208853 - Multilevel anti-spam system and method with load balancing: There is disclosed a system and method for managing spam within an email message stream. In an embodiment, a method comprises defining a plurality of anti-spam filter levels where each anti-spam filter level includes at least one anti-spam module configurable for filtering spam messages. An anti-spam request including a user... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20070208857 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for granting time-based permissions: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for delegating access permissions in a network system are provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070208863 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and peripheral: In a system in which an information processing apparatus and a peripheral are connected to each other. Initially, the information processing apparatus transmits, to the peripheral, a request to use a service provided by the peripheral. The peripheral determines whether to grant use permission to the received request, and notifies... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070208862 - Transferring session state information between two or more web-based applications of a server system: In certain embodiments, a method for transferring session state information between web applications comprises receiving control of a first session from a first web application via a second session with the first web application. The first session comprises interaction between a browser and a first web application and is associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070208858 - Method and apparatus to save and resume a session associated with a logical structure: A flowchart-based tool can be used to build a logical structure. In the context of a customer relationship management (CRM) system, the logical structure can comprise an ordered set of questions and branching logic that are presented to a customer of the business when the customer contacts the business with... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208864 - Mobility access gateway: A gateway for mobile access includes a foreign agent that receives user profile data and session state data from a home authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) system of a mobile node, and a dynamic packet filter that performs multi-layer filtering based on the user profile data. The foreign agent transfers... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070208859 - System and method for interactive session provision: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in interactive session provision. One or more nodes and/or other computers might, for example, provide to one or more other nodes and/or other computers the ability to employ certain software for an interactive session. A node and/or other computer providing the ability might, for... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070208861 - User preference interpretation: Included are embodiments of a method for interpreting user preferences. At least one embodiment includes receiving preference information from a user and adapting at least a portion of the preference information into at least one theme. Other embodiments include adapting the theme to at least one setting related to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070208860 - User specific data collection: Included are embodiments of a method for collecting user specific data in an environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving a user identifier from a portable user device and receiving information related to at least one user action, the at least one user action being associated with the environment. Other... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070208865 - Facilitating negotiations between users of a computer network through messaging communications enabling user interaction: Interactions between users of a computer network may be facilitated by transmitting a first user's proposal for a communications session to another user, the proposal comprising one or more parameters descriptive of the proposed communications session, receiving a response from the other user, the response comprising a counterproposal having one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070208868 - Electronic communication relationship management system and methods for using the same: A method performed by a validator computer system for facilitating electronic communications from a sender to an electronic message program associated with a recipient. The method includes registering the sender in the validator system, registering the recipient in the validator system, and receiving approval from the recipient to designate the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070208869 - Digital identity registration: Systems and processes of the present invention allow for digital identity registration. In an example embodiment, a Registrant may access a website to enter a requested digital identity and registration information. The requested digital identity may comprise a piece of client software, a digital certificate, or a URL comprising any... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20070208866 - Multi-protocol authentication and authorization in computer network environments: A multi-protocol authentication and authorization system including a request interceptor configured to receive from a requestor a first request using a first transport protocol and a second request using a second transport protocol, and an authenticator for validating a digest received from the requestor, where the request interceptor is configured... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070208867 - Portable voiceprint-lock remote transmitting system and operation method thereof: A portable voiceprint-lock remote transmitting system includes a network voiceprint database and network communication devices connecting with the network voiceprint database on a network. The network voiceprint database includes a public-access voiceprint directory and a plurality of public-access voiceprint keys. The network communication device can download the public-access voiceprint key... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070208870 - Reporting queue delays in soap messages: A delay indication can be added to SOAP messages by a queue so that receiving web services get a better understanding of the SOAP message freshness.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070208871 - Technique for dynamically restoring original te-lsp attributes for interdomain te-lsps: A technique dynamically restores original attributes of a Traffic Engineering La-bel Switched Path (TE-LSP) that are provided in a source domain for a destination domain when traversing one or more intermediate domains that may translate the TE-LSP attributes in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a head-end node... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070208872 - System and method for processing streaming data: A streaming data processing system used in a client connected to a streaming server is provided, the streaming data processing system including: a recording module, a reading module, a frame determining module, and a reformatting module. The recording module is for receiving streaming data from the streaming server, and for... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070208874 - Technique for optimized routing of data streams on an ip backbone in a computer network: A technique optimizes routing of application data streams on an Internet Protocol (IP) backbone in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a client router learns of server states (e.g., number of pending requests, etc.) of a plurality of application servers and also determines metrics of intermediate links between... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070208875 - Automatic digital document processing: In a network of connected nodes, a system and method are provided for automatic digital document processing. The method comprises: embedding a processing profile with a digital document; and, processing the digital document in response to the embedded processing profile. Typically, embedding the processing profile includes generating a packet having... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20070208873 - Mechanism for enabling a network address to be shared by multiple labeled containers: A mechanism is disclosed for enabling a network address to be shared by multiple containers. By allowing multiple containers to share a network address, a limit on network addresses does not limit the number of containers that can be implemented. Despite the fact that the network address is shared by... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070208876 - Method and apparatus for efficiently processing data packets in a computer network: According to an embodiment of the invention, a network device such as a router or switch provides efficient data packet handling capability. The network device includes one or more input ports for receiving data packets to be routed, as well as one or more output ports for transmitting data packets.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070208877 - Method and apparatus for providing name services: An embodiment of the invention comprises a method and apparatus for resolving textual references into numerical addresses. One exemplary method comprises obtaining a multi-part textual reference associated with a name resolution server. The multipart textual reference comprises at least a first host domain reference and a first resource location reference.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070208879 - Method and apparatus for defining, distributing, and redeeming sms and mms coupons: A method and apparatus is disclosed that allows advertisers to define and distribute Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) coupons to consumers, and for consumers to redeem the received coupons, where such SMS and MMS coupons are used by businesses to promote their products and services to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070208880 - Method for displaying image data: The invention relates to a method for displaying an image (3) or image data. The image (3) or the image data is/are adapted according to parameters established in the user device (1) and are displayed in the display (2) of the user device (1). The parameters can, for example, be... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070208878 - Service request common object: Service request information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is synchronized with the service request information in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format by using an service request common object data model.... Agent: Csa LLP