Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 10/07

20070250560 - Content delivery network (cdn) content server request handling mechanism with metadata framework support: To serve content through a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN must have some information about the identity, characteristics and state of its target objects. Such additional information is provided in the form of object metadata, which according to the invention can be located in the request string itself, in... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070250561 - Method and system for administering devices with multiple user metric spaces: Method for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, and selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space. Methods also include... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20070250563 - System, method and computer readable medium for providing a visual still webpage in an online analytical processing (olap) environment: A system, a method and a computer readable medium for providing a visual still webpage in an online analytical processing (OLAP) environment while a user is utilizing the webpage. The present invention can achieve following steps: when the user end computer processes the webpage and triggers a request to the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070250562 - A system and method for automatically assigning an extension number to a telephone number to enable precise, efficient and scalable tracking of the origin of a telephone call from a prospect to an advertiser within a performance advertising multi-advertis: A system and method for automatically dynamically creating an extension number associated to an assigned telephone number to enable precise, efficient and scalable tracking of the origin of a telephone call from a prospect to an advertiser within a voice communication-based performance advertising multi-advertisement, multi-publisher framework. The present invention remedies... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20070250565 - Method and apparatus for coordination of client/server processes: The invention provides for the coordination of client/server processes. One or more embodiments provide a completion object comprised of various states of completion of a client request. The completion object may be manipulated to transition from one state to another by both the client and server. The following states of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070250564 - Method and system for providing a modular server on usb flash storage: A method and system for providing a modular server-on-a-USB-flash-storage is disclosed. The server-on-a-USB-flash-storage is installed on a computing device. The method and system include providing USB interface logic, USB Local Control Program, a flash memory and a set of control button connectors, light emitting diodes (LED) connectors and a liquid... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20070250567 - System and method for controlling a telepresence system: A system for controlling a telepresence system includes a plurality of visual conferencing components operable to host a visual conference. The system also includes a controller coupled to the visual conferencing components. The system further includes an internet protocol (IP) phone coupled to the controller and operable to display a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070250568 - System and method for displaying users in a visual conference between locations: A method for displaying a visual conference includes receiving a plurality of video signals from at least two cameras located at one or more remote sites. The method also includes assigning each video signal to a respective display of a plurality of displays at a local site for the duration... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070250569 - Third-party session modification: The present invention relates to a method, system, client device, conference server device and computer program product of controlling media composition in a multi-party conversation involving a central control point (50). At a participant (10) of said multi-party conversation, a scope information (SoM) which specifies members of said multi-party conversation... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070250566 - Announcing new users of an electronic communications system to existing users: Announcing new users of an electronic communications system includes receiving an indication of a new user of an electronic communications system. The new user has an identifier for the electronic communications system. Existing users of the electronic communications system that are known to the new user are identified. The identified... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070250572 - Data transmission and rendering techniques implemented over a client-server system: A technique is disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computer system. The computer system may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server computer system. A request is sent from the computer system to the server system. According to one embodiment, the... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070250570 - Feature-oriented test program development and execution: A resource constraint management unit for a target test system is described. The resource constraint management unit has an interface adapted for receiving, together with a test program, feature specifications for at least one test of the test program, said feature specifications indicating test system capabilities required for performing a... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070250571 - Method and apparatus for interfacing a network with a television or stereo for enhanced access of media content: A media device interfaces a television with the Internet and a computer such that media content discovered with a computer can be retrieved from the Internet by the device for display on the television. An instant message or chat interface is used to receive the digital content from an instant... Agent: Jason L. Hornkohl

20070250574 - Continuous deployment: A method is provided. The method stores a first version of an artifact in a first environment. Further, the method stores a second version of the artifact in the first environment. In addition, the second version of the artifact is distinct from the first version of the artifact. The method... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250575 - Deployment: A method is provided. The method develops code for an enterprise module in an enterprise module development environment. Further, the method modifies the code to output customized code that runs in an enterprise module production environment. In addition, the method deploys the customized code to the enterprise module production environment.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250573 - Method and system for selectively supplying media content to a user and media storage device for use therein: A method and system for selectively supplying media content to a user includes a first media storage device acquired by the user from a media content provider. The storage device includes first media content and information related to second media content, both of which are preferably accessible from the storage... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070250587 - Method for allowing exchange of permissible information between users in a hosting website: Method for exchanging permissible information between a sender and recipient that are connected to a data network through a hosting website. Textual information is exchanged between the sender and recipient using an accessible electronic dictionary that contains a set of permissible words, excluding combinations of characters that are not permitted... Agent: Daniel Roberts

20070250588 - Method, apparatus and computer program for identifying any discrepancies in an email distribution list: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for identifying any discrepancies in an email distribution list. An email addressed to a list of recipients is received from an originating client. The list is examined to identify one or more possibly amendments to the list of recipients. The originating client... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070250583 - System, method, and user interface for searching for messages with attachments on a mobile device: Embodiments of a system, method, and user interface for searching for messages with attachments on mobile devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a messaging application is programmed such that, in operation, a user is presented with a search screen in which the user may define search parameters for a search.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070250580 - Method and apparatus for cost optimization of cellular networks indication: A telecommunications system includes a personal computer having a unified communication system including a presence application and a cellular telephone network identifier operably coupled to the unified communication system and configured to identify a cellular telephone network of multiple parties; and a cellular network gateway appliance operably coupled to the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070250579 - Method and apparatus for presence indication of cellular telephones: A telecommunications system includes a plurality of cellular telephone networks; a presence server configured to receive cellular telephone network registration information from presence clients and provide cellular telephone network identification indicia to others of said presence clients.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070250576 - Method and system for automatically providing an abstract of a response message in a subject line of the response message: A system for making the contents of the “Subject:” field of a response email message more meaningful and more useful within a conversation thread of email messages by providing an abstract of the response message within the “Subject:” field. Before a response message is sent, the system automatically generates at... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070250586 - Method and system for selectively blocking delivery of electronic mail: The origin address of an e-mail message is validated to enable blocking of e-mail from spam e-mail sources, by preparing, in response to the receipt of a predetermined e-mail message from an unverified source address, a data key encoding information reflective of the predetermined e-mail message. This message, including the... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070250584 - Method apparatus and business system for online communications with online and offline recipients: The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted... Agent: Techcoastlaw

20070250585 - Method of leveraging social networking with a messaging client: A computer-implemented method for leveraging social networking information with a messaging client are disclosed. In one aspect, a messaging client (e.g., email client), or an application designed to be closely integrated with an email client, analyzes a message to identify a sender, and then generates a query including information identifying... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070250582 - Peer-to-peer buddy request and response: A system for providing secure asynchronous message publishing and retrieval in a serverless environment. The system may be used on ad-hoc and segmented networks such as peer-to-peer networks. The system may provide a method of sending and storing asynchronous message requests/responses via a Distributed Hash Table (DHT), a method for... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070250578 - Searching for electronic mail (email) messages with attachments at a wireless communication device: A set of email messages is received at a wireless communication device. Each of the email messages has at least one attachment. For each attachment, an indicator of whether any content of the attachment has been presented at the wireless communication device (e.g. displayed on a display or played on... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070250581 - Techniques for alerting a user of unchecked messages before communication with a contact: In one embodiment, techniques for alerting a user of unchecked messages correlated to a contact before communicating with the contact are provided. The check for unchecked messages may be performed across a plurality of communication modalities. If one or more unchecked messages are found, then the user is alerted that... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070250577 - Web feed presence: Web feed presence techniques are described herein. In an implementation, a method includes obtaining a web feed describing content of the user and presence data of the user. The web feed is output with the presence data concurrently.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070250589 - Approach for caching electronic products: An approach for caching an electronic product generally involves the use of confirmation data that indicates that an electronic product was successfully provided from a cache to a user. A request to provide an electronic product to a user is received at a cache. In response to receiving the request... Agent: Hickman Palmero Truong & Becker LLP/ Yahoo! Inc.

20070250594 - File sharing method and file sharing system: The client computer accesses a disk device directly to perform input/output processing relating to a file operation through a channel switch based on real file information obtained by the client computer from a parent server computer upon a file-open operation. Further, a child server computer manages the disk device, which... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070250590 - Ad-hoc proxy for discovery and retrieval of dynamic data such as a list of active devices: The claimed method and system describes a dynamic construction of a virtual proxy using a set of virtual proxy hosts. The virtual proxy hosts may maintain a shared data store that contains a record of discovered services on a network. The virtual proxy hosts may work together to respond to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070250592 - Messaging in a home automation data transfer system: An automation network includes automation network devices connected to the network and a system layer interface that interfaces with a transport layer and an application layer of the automation network. The system layer interface includes messaging command libraries configured to implement human-readable messages for the automation network devices, where the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070250591 - Personalized information communications: A personalized information communications system enables a source user to provide personalized information in a datastore for access and display by a communications device of a recipient user. An aggregation server records user settings of the source user in a datastore, and collects personalized information of the source user into... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070250593 - Reconfigurable semantic processor: A storage server uses a semantic processor to parse and respond to client requests. A direct execution parser in the semantic processor parses an input stream, comprising client storage server requests, according to a defined grammar. A semantic processor execution engine capable of manipulating data (e.g., data movement, mathematical, and... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070250597 - Controller for modifying and supplementing program playback based on wirelessly transmitted data content and metadata: A wireless data processing module for use with a portable audio or video player. The module connects to the expansion port connector on an existing player which provides an interface port for exchanging data and control signals between the auxiliary module and the player. The module includes a radio receiver... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070250598 - Dynamically fabricated store for distribution of media content: A method for implementing a media content store includes providing a set of exemplary storefronts for the media content store; receiving a designation of a selected storefront and media content in an origination format; transforming the media content into a distribution format; and offering the transformed media content to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070250599 - Information terminal: The present invention provides mobile terminals with various types of services such as electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service. User applications required for the electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service are respectively configured as service objects each having a server facility, and... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070250595 - System and method for protecting a computer network: A system for protecting a computer network from vulnerabilities can be provided that generally includes a remedy and patch server located at a client site and adapted to receive a global remedy package and a global patch package. The global remedy package may include at least one remedy and the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070250596 - System and method for providing security backup services to a home network: Methods and systems of providing security backup services to a home network are described. In one embodiment, the gateway for a home network is registered with a service provider. A network device is enrolled with the home network, and periodically reenrolls. The device detects whether the gateway has been replaced... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070250601 - System and method for prefetching uncachable embedded objects: A system and method for prefetching one or more embedded objects marked uncacheable using a staging area on a prefetch cache to temporarily store (load) the uncacheable object. The staging area is a buffer allocated to a socket that is established between a prefetch cache and the server subsequent to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070250602 - Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter-alterable session copy of a user profile: Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter alterable session copy of a user profile. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification; receiving,... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20070250600 - System and method for queuing data for an application server: A method for queuing data for an application server is described. The method includes creating a queue entry record corresponding to the data, storing a queue entry including the data and the corresponding queue entry record in a queue, and receiving a command regarding the data from the application server.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250607 - Apparatus, system and method for executing discovery in network: An apparatus, system and method for executing discovery in a network are provided. The system for executing discovery in a network is configured with a SyncML server and a SyncML client, and includes a SyncML server that transmits a multicast search message to the SyncML client in order to search... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250606 - Portable metadata service framework: A method is provided. The method determines a set of components to include in an enterprise module. Further, the set of components is divided into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components. In addition, abstract computer code is prepared for each of the components... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070250605 - Automatic discovery and configuration of network devices: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically configuring devices on a network. The network adapters on a device are enumerated with a DHCP DISCOVER request. The system determines that the DHCP DISCOVER request will not return a complete set of information needed to configure the device, and broadcasts a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070250604 - Proximity-based memory allocation in a distributed memory system: A system and method for allocating the nearest available physical memory in a distributed, shared memory system. In various embodiments, a processor node may broadcast a memory request to a first subset of nodes connected to it via a communication network. In some embodiments, if none of these nodes is... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070250603 - System and method for enhancing dhcp and snmp messages with rfid epc id: A system and method for utilizing Electronic Product Code (EPC) information for configuring client components such as servers within a managed information handling system includes one or more client components (each including an EPC) connected with a management server. The management server communicates with an inventory database including a listing... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070250609 - Client device configuration with hooks: Configuring a client device including associating a hook in a configuration bundle with customized programming, downloading the configuration bundle for a client device to a services gateway, and executing the configuration bundle on the services gateway, including calling the hook.... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20070250610 - Providing a reliable operating system for clients of a net-booted environment: A method and apparatus are provided for supplying a reliable and maintainable operating system in a net-booted environment. According to one embodiment, a network computer (NC) client boots from a boot image provided by an NC server. The boot image includes information identifying the location of one or more system... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070250608 - System and method for dynamic server allocation and provisioning: A management tool that streamlines the server allocation and provisioning processes within a data center is provided. The system, method, and computer program product divide the server provisioning and allocation into two separate tasks. Provisioning a server is accomplished by generating a fully configured, bootable system image, complete with network... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070250615 - Method and system for determining compatibility of computer systems: Systems and method for performing a consolidation analysis and visually representing the analysis are provided. The analysis is conducted by performing an audit, performing system compatibility and workload compatibility analyses using the audit data and rule sets. The results of the individual analyses are combined to create an overall compatibility... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070250616 - Computer networking techniques: One embodiment includes a dwelling (24), coaxial cabling (25), and a number of networking devices (98) coupled together with cabling (25) to provide a computer network (51). Devices (98) include a master module (100a) and adapters (100) that communicate over network (51) in accordance with a first communication protocol. Module... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070250613 - Method and apparatus for configuring a workflow: An apparatus and method are disclosed for configuring a workflow. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device having a controller programmed to identify one or more active objects from a content source, and structure the one or more active objects into... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070250617 - Method for managing user domain: A method of delegating user domain management authority is disclosed to provide flexible and continuous user domain management. According to this method, user domain management authority may be delegated from a first device in the user domain to a second device in the user domain. Delegation of user domain management... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070250612 - Method for updating a virtual private network in a multi-protocol label switching network: A system and method are disclosed for updating a virtual private network (VPN) in a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) having a controller that manages a communications interface coupled to an MPLS... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070250611 - Method of and system for providing performance information in a uddi system: A method of and system for providing performance information in a Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) system periodically requests data from Web service providers that are registered in a UDDI registry. The method and system determine performance attributes for the Web service providers based upon the requested data. The... Agent: Jonathan E. Jobe, P.C.

20070250614 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing confirmed over-the-air terminal configuration: An apparatus for providing confirmed OTA terminal configuration includes a processing element configured to communicate configuration data to a mobile terminal. The processing element is also configured to initiate a confirmation sequence to confirm proper receipt of the configuration data at the mobile terminal, and to receive information indicating whether... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070250618 - Independent actionscript analytics tools and techniques: Tools and techniques are provided to support presentation analytics, such as Flash or Flex analytics, independently of embedded JavaScript web analytics code used in web pages. A presentation analytics engine, which may be implemented in ActionScript, includes code for capturing information about user interaction with a multimedia presentation, code for... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20070250624 - Method and system for learning web applications: A method and system for automatically learning and identifying web applications. The method discovers and identifies transactions, web applications, their modules, interfaces, and relationship between the modules. The method further includes dynamically creating application definers is provided.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20070250621 - Method for evaluating computer systems: A method for evaluating the differences between computer systems is provided. The systems are evaluated using one or more differential rule definitions and one or more differential rule sets. The rules evaluate the differences between specific parameters in the computer systems and are used to generate a score that indicates... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070250625 - Real-time services network quality control: A network quality control system includes a user control console to probe, calculate, and display the quality of an enterprise's network connections to remote SNMP managed devices supporting real-time services like VoIP. Traceroute-like messages are sent to each remote SNMP managed device to report on the path, and hop latency,... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20070250620 - System and method for optimizing maintenance of geographically distributed processing units: A system and method are provided for optimizing maintenance of a geographically distributed data processing system. The method comprises selecting a primary territory having associated operating hours, identifying maintenance hours that exclude the operating hours, and selecting a maintenance time within the available maintenance hours. The midpoint of the maintenance... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070250622 - Alerts for monitoring user status: A method of monitoring a user of a communication system includes enabling a first user to initiate monitoring of a second user, automatically monitoring status of activity by the second user on the communication system, and delivering to the first user, one or more of an indication that the second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070250623 - Dynamic power cycling: In a virtualized desktop system, a digital user station communicates with an interfacing module coupled to a target device via a network. The digital user station controls the power of the target device and the interfacing module by determining the power status of the interfacing module and sending a power... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070250619 - Real-time heartbeat frequency regulation system and method utilizing user-requested frequency: A system and method for regulating real-time the heartbeat frequency of the host according to the user-requested frequency, wherein the heartbeat frequency of the host is regulated through the service request signal sent from the user's end to the host by making use of a cluster system comprising a host... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070250627 - Method, apparatus, signals and medium for enforcing compliance with a policy on a client computer: A method and system for enforcing compliance with a policy on a client computer in communication with a network is disclosed. The method involves receiving a data transmission from the client computer on the network. The data transmission includes status information associated with the client computer. The data transmission is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070250628 - Network/service control method: A network/service control method comprises a step of acquiring, when providing a communication service to a user, a user context defined as knowledge information about the user associated with an environment surrounding the user and a past behavior pattern of the user, a step of acquiring a user profile defined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250626 - System and method for uniform disaster recovery system access: A method, with a corresponding system and computer program product, for directing access to a server data processing system The method includes storing a first uniform resource locator and a associated with a first network address, where the first network address corresponds to a primary server data processing system and... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20070250631 - On-demand global server load balancing system and method of use: A method and system for measuring performance and balancing workload of sites and servers is provided. The method comprises measuring performance of one or more servers located at different sites of the network and computing a performance metric for each of the sites or one or more servers at each... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070250630 - Method and a system of generating and evaluating potential resource allocations for an application: Embodiments of the present invention are described which pertain to methods and systems of generating and evaluating potential resource allocations for an application. In one embodiment, metrics are associated with an application. Measurements for the metrics of the application are calculated. Potential resource allocations are generated based on the measurements... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250629 - Method and a system that enables the calculation of resource requirements for a composite application: Embodiments of the present invention that pertain to methods and systems for the calculation of resource requirements for a composite application are described. In one embodiment, information describing what component applications are associated with the composite application is received. Information describing metrics that are to be measured for the component... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250633 - Negotiated call delivery capability: According to the invention, a method for establishing a personal communication between an originating end and a terminating end of a communication system is disclosed. In one step, a first number of personal communication modes associated with the originating end is retrieved. A determination is made if a second number... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070250632 - Processing device, method for establishing processing device communication session, program, and recording medium: A controlled device executes processing for device authentication and processing for device registration, receives a response of registration completion from a direct-access management server, and sets an automatic connection flag indicating the registration is completed. When the automatic connection flag is not set, the controlled device establishes an always-on connection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250634 - Reconcilliation of web server session states with client browser states: The present invention provides a method, a system, and computer readable media for reconciling a web-server session state with a client web-browser state. The method involves responding to an nth request, by reading an mth session-state identifier included in the request, where n>m≧1. The server then assumes an mth session... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250635 - Flexible traffic management and shaping processing for multimedia distribution: Apparatus for distributing streaming multimedia to at least one end client over a network includes memory and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory. The processor is operative: (i) to receive the streaming multimedia from at least one multimedia source via at least one of a plurality of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070250636 - Global interactive packet network broadcast station: Streaming systems and methods are described for integrating and distributing live, pre-recorded and/or on-demand media content via a packet network. The streaming systems receive a plurality of content signals from live, pre-recorded and/or on-demand content sources. The streaming systems establish a streaming session for a selected content signal that is... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070250637 - Method and apparatus for reducing jitter in a receiver of a selective combining system: A jitter reducing method in a receiver of a selective combining system includes determining a slowest cell corresponding to the receiver in the selective combining system, treating a plurality of missing packets as being received when a data stream transmitted by the slowest cell is detected to comprise the plurality... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070250638 - Superposition coding in a wireless communication system: The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to compile a superposition coded packet by compiling user candidates for superposition coding, ranking the user candidates based on a result of an evaluation function, selecting a deserving user candidate from among the user candidates, and compiling a superposition coded packet... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070250639 - Transmission of ip packets of contents by addition to those ip packets of information data relating to the contents: IP encapsulation equipment comprises encapsulation means responsible for encapsulating into bursts IP packets representing sets of multimedia data delivered by at least one multimedia content server and accompanied beforehand by information data at least partly defining the set of data that is integrated into those IP packets and/or the content... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250640 - Method and apparatus for assigning ipv6 link state identifiers: A system in routing system for determining a link state identifier for a link state advertisement from a result of applying a hash function to a prefix and length of the prefix contained in the link state advertisement.... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070250641 - Meetings structures and global unique identifiers: A series of unique records may be published to establish and maintain ad hoc or online meetings on a peer-to-peer network. The published records include a creator record, a presentation record, a file sharing record, a friendly name record, and invitation status record, a capabilities record, and a presence record.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070250644 - Electronic message source reputation information system: 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

20070250643 - Marking feed items in mobile terminals for further reading: The user of a mobile device is able to mark selected portions of content viewed on the mobile device (e.g., URLs associated with web feeds) for later viewing. The selected portions may be transmitted to a server and used to create a user profile associated with the user. The user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070250642 - Using multiple tunnels by in-site nodes for securely accessing a wide area network from within a multihomed site: A multihomed site includes in-site network nodes, and first and second gateways configured for providing access outside of the multihomed site. The network nodes and the gateways are configured for utilizing in-site addresses having an in-site address prefix that is not advertised outside of the prescribed site. Each gateway is... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070250645 - Mobile phone data backup system: A method and apparatus for backing-up and synchronizing mobile handset data are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a Mobile Solutions Platform (MSP) architecture and server are defined, such that the MSP provides back-up and synchronization servers to a wide variety of mobile handsets. In addition to supporting... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070250646 - Communication management using ethernet interface: A system and method for controlling and monitoring a wireless communication device. Communication between a communication manager and a wireless communication device is via Ethernet data, and communication between an Ethernet interface controller and a wireless communication module, both in the wireless communication device is via USB data.... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070250647 - Communication terminal using ethernet interface: A system and method for controlling and monitoring a wireless communication device. Communication between a communication manager and a wireless communication device is via Ethernet data, and communication between an Ethernet interface controller and a wireless communication module, both in the wireless communication device is via USB data.... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070244962 - Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices: Methods, media and systems for managing a distributed application running in a plurality of digital processing devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes running one or more processes associated with the distributed application in virtualized operating system environments on a plurality of digital processing devices, suspending the one... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070244963 - Printing system: An imaging system is provided with an authentication data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of authentication data in relationship to user IDs respectively representing owners of the plurality of communication devices. Further included is a reading system that reads out one of the plurality of pieces of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070244964 - Method and system for caching message fragments using an expansion attribute in a fragment link tag: A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product are presented for a fragment caching methodology. After a message is received at a computing device that contains a cache management unit, a fragment in the message body of the message is cached. Subsequent requests for the fragment at... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation C/o Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070244965 - Negotiated wireless peripheral systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent... Agent: Eric M. Dowling Interlink 731

20070244970 - Conference system: A conference system includes a terminal that displays a document presented by a presenter in a conference and that is capable of receiving writing inputs from a participant for enabling exchange of opinions, and a document storage unit that stores the document used in the conference and the written information.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070244968 - Method and arrangement in a communications network: A first portable communication device may include a chat client; an activity application that is settable in a state; a chat start application; a first input device adapted to activate the activity application and set the activated activity application in a specific state; a second input device for activating the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070244967 - Appropriately rendering terminal server graphical data at multiple client side monitors: The present invention is directed to appropriately rendering terminal server graphical data at multiple client side monitors. In some embodiments, a client sends client side monitor configuration for a plurality of monitors to a server. The server simulates a virtual desktop for the plurality of monitors based on the client... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070244966 - Establishing and utilizing terminal server dynamic virtual channels: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and utilizing terminal server dynamic virtual channels. In some embodiments, a terminal server sends a new channel request to a terminal server. The client receives the new channel request and forwards the new channel request to a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070244969 - Methods and apparatuses for locating and contacting an invited participant of a meeting: In one embodiment, the methods and systems detect a meeting; detect a missing participant scheduled to attend the meeting; identify a device actively utilized by the missing participant; and transmit a reminder message to the device.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070244971 - Transaction-based enterprise application integration (eai) and development system: An architecture for a computing environment wherein transactions preferably model the enterprise and its business processes directly, allowing third-party systems, like ERP, supply chain and Web portals, to be more loosely coupled. Because the system will often be distributed throughout the enterprise, reliance on central critical servers is reduced. The... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070244972 - Method and system for an os virtualization-aware network interface card: Aspects of a method and system for an operating system (OS) virtualization-aware network interface card (NIC) are provided. A NIC may provide direct I/O capabilities for each of a plurality of concurrent guest operating systems (GOSs) in a host system. The NIC may comprise a GOS queue for each of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070244977 - Dynamic e-mail system and method: A computer program product and method of sending an electronic message. The program allows the content of the message to be changed dynamically after the message is sent. Changes can be made by the sender after the message has been transmitted or by predetermined user preferences. The program provides embedded... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070244976 - Method, system, graphical user interface, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries from email messages: A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer data structure that includes an email message with an embedded link. The embedded link contains event information corresponding to multiple parameters for an event described in the email message.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070244975 - System and methods for processing operating experience data: A system and method for processing operating experience data. The operating experience data is received and parsed into individual message and attachment files. Using user provided search criteria, the individual messages and attachment files are filtered in order to discover messages and attachment files containing or relating to the search... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070244973 - Accessing web based email applications: A system for sending an email through a web based email provider while using a web application includes a web application server and a web based email application server. The web application server displays a web page at a client having at least one selectable link, receives an instruction from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070244974 - Bounce management in a trusted communication network: An embodiment of a method handles bounced messages in a private network processing hub that is configured to handle messages submitted by a plurality of member networks that are registered with the private network processing hub, and wherein the private network processing hub and the plurality of member networks form... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070244978 - System and method for tailoring of electronic messages: A system and method for tailoring of electronic messages by combining in a composite electronic message information with an indication that at least one portion thereof is targeted for at least one predetermined class of recipient; performing a comparison of the indication contained in a received composite message with a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070244979 - System, method and apparatus for communicating via sound messages and personal sound identifiers: A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more sound messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. Each sound... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070244980 - Instant messaging plug-ins: Various embodiments provide a standardized way to interact with and extend instant messaging applications. A platform is provided and enables developers and other third parties to create extensions for instant messaging applications. Through a set of APIs, interacting applications or plug-ins are “sandboxed” in their own areas where they are... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070244988 - Method for searching communications addresses: A method for searching communications addresses is used in a communications device having an address book recording a plurality of communications addresses of a contact unit. The method includes receiving a command for establishing communications corresponding to the contact unit, selecting a communications address fitting a predetermined rule from the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070244986 - Central system providing previews of a user's media collection to a portable media player: A system and method for providing previews of media files from a user's media collection to an associated portable media player are provided. In general, media files from the user's media collection are selected based on a play history of the user and optionally a user profile of the user.... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070244981 - Disseminating information about security threats: A facility for disseminating homeland security information is described. The facility identifies a mobile device used by an addressee of a message containing homeland security information, and transmits this message to the identified mobile device.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070244982 - Hybrid unicast and multicast data delivery: Hybrid unicast and multicast data delivery involves delivering data to client devices partially using a unicast communication and partially using a multicast communication. For example, higher-relevancy television metadata may be extracted from television metadata. A server transmits the higher-relevancy television metadata to a client via a unicast communication burst. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070244984 - Portable media player enabled to obtain previews of a user's media collection: A system and method for providing previews of media files from a user's media collection to an associated portable media player are provided. In general, media files from the user's media collection are selected based on a play history of the user and optionally a user profile of the user.... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070244989 - Remote automated volume mounting: A method and apparatus for remotely and automatically mounting volumes over a network. The invention uses an interface, such as a web browser, to authenticate a client on a server. The server supplies volume mounting parameters specific to the authenticated client via a plug-in installed on the client. The plug-in... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070244983 - System and method for delivering content based on demand to a client: A content delivering system and method based on demand over a multi-network environment. In one embodiment, the system comprises a server and a client. The server further comprises a content input and a selector unit in communication with the content input, where the selector unit assigns content received from the... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20070244987 - Systems and methods for accelerating delivery of a computing environment to a remote user: The present invention is directed towards the acceleration of delivery of a computing environment to a remote user of a client at a remote location. The computing environment may include an application and a data file used or processed by the application. The application and data file may be stored... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070244985 - User system providing previews of a user's media collection to an associated portable media player: A system and method for providing previews of media files from a user's media collection to an associated portable media player are provided. In general, media files from the user's media collection are selected based on a play history of the user and optionally a user profile of the user.... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070244991 - Negotiated wireless peripheral systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20070244990 - Web browser graph user interface element with rich interactive capabilities: A system and method for graphing data for a web application. A developer associates a graph component with a web page. In response to a web browser accessing the web page, the web server executes the graph component. The graph component generates information useable to display a graph in the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070244992 - Data access and management system as well as a method for data access and data management for a computer system: The present invention permits improved data access and improved data management in a computer system. To this end, data are divided into individual partial data (F) and stored in cells (Z) of storage devices (C) in such a way that the partial data (F) being accessed and managed are present... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070244993 - Managing network response buffering behavior: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing network response buffering behavior. A computer system receives a request for content from a client. The computer system has a default response buffering behavior used when transferring content. The computer system maps the request to a handler... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070244995 - Method and system for automating collateral configuration in a network: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for automating collateral configuration in a network is provided. A service is configured on a network device (termed as service providing device). The service providing device sends a Collateral Configuration Request Protocol (CCRP) message to other network devices (termed as service accessing... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20070244999 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for updating software: Current configuration information of an information processing apparatus, post configuration information after updating a software, configuration information of a network device are stored in a database. A selection of a software image for updating the software of the information processing apparatus and a change of a configuration of the network... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070244994 - Methods and arrangements for activating ip configurations: Methods and arrangements for activating Internet Protocol (IP) configurations are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic for activating in an end node of an IP network an IP configuration suitable for IP communications between the end node and another end node upon the detection of a... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070244997 - System and method for configuring a network device: A system and method for communicating with network devices without regard to the device type and/or manufacturer is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a global graphical user interface (GUI) for communicating with various network devices. The global GUI includes an intuitive interface driven by a template library.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070244998 - System and method for configuring a network device: A system and method for communicating with network devices without regard to the device type and/or manufacturer is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a global graphical user interface (GUI) for communicating with various network devices. The global GUI includes an intuitive interface driven by a template library.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070244996 - Web enabled exchange server standby solution using mailbox level replication: This invention provides the capability to plan, monitor and control post-failure switching of user mail access hosted on Microsoft Exchange servers at the granularity of individual user mailboxes. It offers a convenient point-and-click mechanism for achieving a very complex task, and allows replication of e-mail data from a Primary Exchange... Agent: W. Patrick Kelley, Sr. The City Hotel

20070245000 - System and method for providing ipv6 services: A system for providing IPv6 services, including a node registration agent for use in applying for a home address for the device, registering the device to a home agent and informing the device of the home address. A method for providing IPv6 services, comprising: the device accessing an IPv6 network... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070245007 - Automatic selection of a home agent: The claimed subject matter relates to assigning a home agent to a wireless terminal during authentication, authorization, and/or accounting with respect to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal can provide identifying indicia which can be relayed to a AAA server by way of a base station. The AAA server can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070245009 - Image processing system, information processor, and method of processing information that can notify that job is completed: In an image processing system an information processor is connected to an image processor. When the image processor detects that a job is completed, the image processor transmits to an image processor that indicates the job information notifying in accordance with a first or second communications protocol that the job... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070245008 - Mobile terminal, method, and computer program for communicating data with servers: A mobile terminal, data communication method, and a computer program stored in a computer-readable medium for communicating management data in a more efficient way. A management data communication interface communicates management data regularly with a management server, while an application data communication interface communicates application data with an application server... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070245006 - Apparatus, method and computer program product to provide ad hoc message recipient lists: A method includes initiating a message composition operation with a device; a user selecting a media as a message content; and the device automatically selecting at least one message recipient based at least in part on a type of media selected by the user.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070245004 - Autonomic computing system with model transfer: Methods and systems are provided for autonomic control and optimization of computing systems. A plurality of component models for one or more components in an autonomic computing system are maintained in a system level database. These component models are obtained from a source external to the management server including the... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20070245002 - Community-based information view, management and delivery system with micro-access control for data view and data scope: A computer-implemented data view management system is provided in which data search, view, presentation, and management are conducted in a community-based concept that allows for managers of a community to control users' access to data views data scopes, attributes, data, and action items at a community-wide level, a subcommunity level... Agent: Office Of Donald Grant Kelly Intellectual Asset Management Associates, LLC

20070245003 - Connection maintenance when one node takes over for another node: A connection between a first node and a second node is maintained within a computer network. The second node receives first data from the first node and places the first data received within a data window. A third node taking over the connection from the second node receives second data... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070245013 - Cross domain provisioning methodology and apparatus: A cross domain provisioning method, system and architecture for securely managing digital identities across a wide variety of IT systems, providing unified administration, compliance and auditing, and simplified connectivity. The combined use of certain aspects of the illustrative IDM Provisioning Platform (DataForum™), Connectivity Component Architecture, Design-Time Client Workflow Tool, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070245005 - Method and data processing system for managing a plurality of interfaces: The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for managing a plurality of interfaces. An application selects a subset of the plurality of interfaces. In response to the selection, the application is bound to the subset of interfaces, wherein the application... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070245011 - Methods and apparatus for ip management traffic consolidation: Consolidation of management traffic is performed in a network by employing a gateway network management device (NMD) to route management messages between a controller and NMDs located at sites in the network. Management addresses are assigned to components of a network management system, including the management controller and NMDs. The... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070245014 - Printing system: An imaging system is provided with an authentication data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of authentication data in relationship to user If)s respectively representing owners of the plurality of communication devices. Further included is a reading system that reads out one of the plurality of pieces of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070245012 - Remote power control system with tickle capability: An SNMP network comprises a power manager with an SNMP agent in TCP/IP communication over a network with an SNMP network manager. The power manager is connected to control several intelligent power modules each able to independently control the power on/off status of several network appliances. Power-on and load sensors... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070245001 - System and method for administrating electronic documents: System for administrating at least one electronic document, the system comprising: a communication terminal (105) adapted for communication with a server (115) via a network (110), said server being adapted for communication with a database (120), wherein the electronic document comprises a first information entity and a second information entity,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070245010 - Systems and methods for multi-perspective optimization of data transfers in heterogeneous networks such as the internet: Systems and methods are described for optimizing network data transfers using multiple classes of network resources and network intelligence gathered and integrated by a multi-perspective network optimizer so as to maximize the performance, scalability and commercial controllability and minimize the cost of network data transfers in heterogeneous networks such as... Agent: Vermette & Co.

20070245017 - Push service system and information acquisition terminal: A push service system and a terminal used in the system are operated according to a following operation scheme of information transmission. The terminal sends to a host in the system a request for re-transmission of information through a communication network when the terminal returns to a waiting condition from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070245016 - System and method of single-channel account reporting: A system and method of single-channel account reporting between the data-path and the control-path in a packet switch or any charging device using a similar accounting scheme. The system framework includes a packet processing module for monitoring data flow within a data path, an accounting module within the control path,... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070245015 - Method and system to capture and playback network activity: A method and system to capture and playback network activity are disclosed. The system comprises a recorder to continuously record data directly from a live network over a selected period of time. The system also comprises a simulator to create a simulated network based on the data recorded by the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070245018 - Dynamic access control in a content-based publish/subscribe system with delivery guarantees: Improved access control techniques for distributed messaging systems such as content-based publish/subscribe systems are disclosed. For example, a method for providing access control in a content-based publish/subscribe system, wherein messages are delivered from publishing clients to subscribing clients via a plurality of brokers, includes the following steps/operations. One or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070245022 - Dynamic content for online transactions: Various methods and systems are disclosed to provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070245019 - Interactive media content delivery using a backchannel communications network: Interactive media guidance systems, devices, and methods that enable media content delivery and/or control by a media content user via a user equipment device capable of interfacing with a media content source using a backchannel network.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070245020 - Publishing scheduler for online content feeds: The present invention relates to a system and method for publishing files online via feeds. In one aspect, the present invention includes a method and system for allowing web site operators to cause files to be published automatically based on directive information provided by a user. In one example, the... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070245021 - Server apparatus and server control method in computer system: A server apparatus and a server control method which transmits display data to a client apparatus and which displays the display data on a display screen of the client apparatus, wherein there are provided a plurality of accelerators, each of the plurality of accelerators being equipped with a difference detection... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070245023 - Method and system for locating storage devices in a storage facility with an inband enclosure node: A method for performing locating storage devices in a storage facility with an inband enclosure node is disclosed. The method includes requesting that a first device adapter identify a first port on which it is communicating to a processor ordering the processor to identify a first fibre channel loop on... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20070245025 - Methods and apparatus for resource management architectures for internet protocol based radio access networks: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for radio resource management (RRM) architecture for Internet Protocol (IP) based radio access networks. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070245024 - Systems and methods for prioritizing the storage location of media data: A digital media recorder includes a first storage device associated with the digital media recorder and an interface for removably attaching a second storage device to the digital media recorder. Each of the first and second storage devices are configured to store media data representing programming from a media source.... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070245026 - System and method for controlling device usage: Mobile device usage may be monitored and restricted by pushing enabling/disabling events from an administrator the device. The events impose a certain set of rules that can “lock” certain features provided by the device, according to permissions and pre-established policies, for a certain period of time. Such restricted periods may... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070245028 - Configuring content in an interactive media system: A method for configuring content to be provided to a client comprises receiving information specifying characteristics of the client; modifying reference content that represents content to be provided to the client according to multiple modification processes to generate multiple versions of the reference content, each modification process applying different modifications... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070245029 - Method for determining validity of command and system thereof: Disclosed are method and system for determining the validity of a command line, comprising the steps of: maintaining a first IP address database including first IP address information or at least one terminal specification information associated with the first IP address information, in which the first IP address information includes... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070245027 - User session dependent url masking: The present invention is directed toward a method, device, and system for enhancing web security by masking a URL embedded in at least some portion of web content. A session dependent URL is generated and masked on a server side prior to being distributed to a customer for viewing. The... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070245032 - System and method of a data blocker based on local monitoring of a soliciting website: A system and method of an outbound data blocker based on local monitoring of a soliciting website is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a data blocker module associated with a personal computer includes generating a list of protected metadata based on at least one field data registered by... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20070245031 - Icap processing of partial content to identify security issues: A system receives a first part of a response that includes a number of parts, determines whether there is a security issue associated with the first part of the response, stores the first part of the response when there is no security issue associated with the first part of the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070245030 - Secure windowing for labeled containers: A secure windowing service is disclosed. When the windowing service receives an indication that a second client (executing in a second container) wishes to be given access to a set of windowing information provided by a first client (executing in a first container), the windowing service determines, based upon sensitivity... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070245033 - Link layer discovery and diagnostics: Described is a technology including an Ethernet layer 2 protocol by which a node of a computer network can discover information about other network computing elements, including discovering network topology information, and/or collecting diagnostic information. The protocol allows multiple responders to communicate data with a mapper node for topology discovery,... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070245034 - Dynamically configuring and verifying routing information of broadcast networks using link state protocols in a computer network: A technique dynamically configures and verifies routing information of broadcast networks using link state protocols in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a router within the broadcast network receives a link state protocol routing information advertisement from an advertising router, e.g., a designated router or other adjacent neighbor.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070245035 - Systems and methods for creating, navigating, and searching informational web neighborhoods: Systems and methods are described for the creation of hierarchical networks of overlapping informational Web neighborhoods, where each neighborhood comprises a set of closely linked pages that share a common set of concepts and intent and purpose. A general description of a category of information can be used to generate... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070239821 - Method for controlling a device in a network of distributed stations, and network station: The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the current UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) standard allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. An extension to this standard also provides for the interchange of AV data (Audio/Video data). One of the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070239818 - Method, apparatus and system for transforming, converting and processing messages between multiple systems: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method of sending change information from a first database to a second database. The method includes managing a set of transactions to produce a first message using custom scripts and default processing. The method also includes transforming the first message into a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070239819 - Service and messaging infrastructure to support creation of distributed, peer to peer applications with a service oriented architecture: A system and method allowing engineers to create large scale, consumer oriented, distributed applications that utilize peer to peer messaging patterns and service oriented architectures. Applications built using the method produce operational cost curves typical of successful peer to peer systems. The system includes mechanisms to deal with reliably and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070239820 - System and method for providing quality feedback metrics for data transmission in rich media services: An improved system and method for providing quality feedback metrics for data transmission in rich media services. Extensions are provided to quality measures concerning the transmission of rich media content to the client. Such measures are defined as new extensions in the PSS Base Vocabulary, PSS Quality of Experience and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070239822 - Asynchronous messaging using a node specialization architecture in the dynamic routing network: A network routes update messages containing updates to properties of live objects from input sources to clients having the objects. When the clients receive live objects, the clients identify the object IDs associated with the objects and register the object IDs with the routing network. The routing network is adapted... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070239823 - System and method for entertainment game: A communication system for use in entertainment games comprises a server accessible by a plurality of game users via a mobile communications network. The server is configured to request the availability of first data, preferably correlated to money, from game users and facilitates real-time communication between users. The server allows... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070239825 - System and method for distributing video conference data over an internet protocol television system: A computerized system and method for distributing video conference data over an internet protocol television (IPTV) system are disclosed including structures and methods for allocating an IPTV video conference channel to groups of video conference participants' set top boxes (STBs), accessing STB data at the server indicating a group of... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20070239827 - Global chat system: A chat system.                ... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070239828 - Method and apparatus for collaborative work: A method and apparatus for collaborative work is provided. One embodiment of a method for facilitating a collaborative task undertaken by a plurality of users, where each of the users uses a networked computing device that displays a user interface including a public panel representing a shared workspace and a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070239824 - Method and system for managing virtual talk groups: A method for managing virtual talk groups includes facilitating communications from a plurality of endpoints via an interoperability system. The plurality of endpoints comprises endpoints of different communication networks. The method includes configuring a virtual talk group comprising a first group of the plurality of endpoints and assigning to at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070239826 - Method, device, and program product for a social dashboard associated with a persistent virtual environment: Device, method, and computer program product that provides a user interface for monitoring the social health of a persistent virtual environment. The disclosed technology allows a user to monitor and diagnose the health of the persistent virtual environment based on the social interactions between subscribers of on-line entities who have... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070239829 - System and method for automating scientific and engineering experimentation for deriving surrogate response data: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically deriving unique surrogate response data from experiment results in which inherent data loss occurs in a sufficient number of the samples to disallow quantitative effects estimation at the experimenter's desired level of confidence for statistical significance. In part, the unique... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070239837 - Hosted voice recognition system for wireless devices: Methods, systems, and software for converting the audio input of a user of a hand-held client device or mobile phone into a textual representation by means of a backend server accessed by the device through a communications network. The text is then inserted into or used by an application of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070239835 - Communicating a response to the creator of a voice message forwarded by another: In one embodiment, a method for responding to a voice message includes accessing input from a first user at an endpoint indicating a desire to communicate to a second user a response to a voice message created by the second user and forwarded to the first user by a third... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070239832 - Communication presentation in a calendar perspective: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide presentation of communication records in a calendar perspective. In one embodiment, a method of presenting records of communications in a calendar perspective can comprise receiving from a user a request to view communications to or from the user. One or more... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070239833 - Device specific communication notifications: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide device specific notification of incoming communications. In one embodiment, a method of providing device specific notification of incoming communications can comprise receiving a request to initiate a communication from an initiating end device. The request can identify an intended recipient device.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070239831 - Interface for editing, binding, and displaying an annotation for a message: Methods and systems are directed toward associating, displaying, and managing notes or other annotations with emails, instant messages, or other messages. A user interface provides a listing of message headers. Selecting an annotation area associated with a message header causes an editor to open, and allows a user to enter... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070239830 - Method and apparatus for instant message notification and forwarding: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for receiving an instant message to form a received message. A determination is made as to whether a response to the received message has occurred within a period of time. The received message is selectively forwarding to a set of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070239836 - Method for providing a memo function in electronic mail service: Disclosed is a method and system for providing memo in electronic mail. Memo data is further added to general mail data. Electronic mail sender sends electronic mail including memo data. The memo data may be inserted in the mime header or may be inserted in the form of attachment file,... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070239838 - Methods and systems for digital content sharing: In some embodiments, computer-implemented methods are provided to allow users to store electronic files in a central repository accessed over a network. The stored files are associated with the users and can be associated with particular channels established using a server based application. The channels can designate parties that have... Agent: Dwc Law Firm, P.s.

20070239834 - Sortable address list for email: The present invention provides for the sorting of an address list associated with an email. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: actuating a selection mechanism associated with the email; sorting a plurality of email addresses in the email in response to the actuation of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070239839 - Method for multimedia review synchronization: Disclosed is a method of synchronizing media review on first and second nodes. The method may include the step of loading a media file having sequenced data segments into the first and second nodes. The media review may be related to processing the data segments for output. The method may... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070239840 - System and method for distributing and tracking media: A system and method for tracking media is disclosed. A tracking device package includes a container for shipping media and a tracker coupled to the container wherein access to the media is monitored electronically by the tracker to enable media access. The tracker can be a combination of a GPS... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070239845 - Image processing apparatus, method therefor, and image processing system: When the destination computer for receiving image data is specified, a command for activating a screen saver in the destination computer is transmitted through a network. After the screen saver is activated in the destination computer, image data is transmitted to the destination computer through the network.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070239848 - Uniform resource locator vectors: A URL Vector is a URL represented by a digital picture, sound, or video. For example, a URL Vector consisting of a digital picture is created by taking a picture of an object that includes a logo in the picture frame. The logo is processed and used to perform a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070239844 - Image processing apparatus and method for transmitting display screen: A method and an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a client apparatus including storing an electronic document whose access right is controlled, displaying an electronic document stored in the storing unit, receiving a transfer request from the client apparatus to transfer contents of a display screen to be... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070239849 - Intelligent interaction between media player and host computer: Improved techniques for interaction between a host computer (e.g., personal computer) and a media player are disclosed. According to one aspect, interaction between a host computer and a media player, such as automatic synchronization of media contents stored on a media player with media contents stored on a host computer,... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070239846 - Navigation device and method of activating information on a navigation device: A method and device are disclosed for activating information on a navigation device. In one embodiment, the method includes prompting selection of information for receipt from a remote server, connected to the navigation device via an internet connection; requesting, upon selected information requiring activation, input of further information before activating... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070239847 - Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing apparatus, recording method, reproducing method, recording and reproducing method and recording medium: A recording and reproducing apparatus and method and a recording medium are disclosed. Operation metadata is generated using operating information from an operation input unit for controlling the operation of a content provider. A recording processing unit records the generated operation metadata in a recording medium in association with the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070239850 - System and method for delivering last mile computing over light from a plurality of network edge locations: In one embodiments, a system includes a processing platform that provides processing at multiple levels to multiple endpoints coupled to the processing platform via one or more intermediate networks. The system includes an optical transceiver coupled to the processing platform that receives from the processing platform multimedia content processed at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070239843 - System and method for provisioning a remote library for an electronic device: The invention provides a system and method of provisioning a resource to an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of: (a) maintaining a library of resources at a remote server from the device; (b) after a triggering event, providing a data transmission to the device, the data transmission containing... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070239842 - System and method for provisioning a remote resource for an electronic device: The invention provides a system and method for updating a resource to an electronic device. The method provisions a resource to an electronic device by: (a) maintaining the resource at a remote server from the device; and (b) after a triggering event, providing a data transmission to the device containing... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070239841 - Systems and methods for distributing software to a host device in a cable system: A system and method is disclosed for orderly distribution of software modules to various hosts in a cable system. A download manager ensures distribution of required and compatible software objects to various hosts in a cable system. The system abstracts various software dependencies and host-specific aspects from the network operator,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070239853 - Fault prediction agent design for a multi core system: According to some embodiments, a virtual network driver is provided to support multicored chipsets.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070239855 - Media processing system supporting different media formats via server-based transcoding: Systems and methods that reformat media are described. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a server, a first communications device and a second communications device. The server, the first communications device and the second communications device may be operatively coupled to a network. The second communications device... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070239854 - Method of migrating process domain: An embodiment of a method of migrating the process domain includes attaching a process-domain interface that includes an internet protocol address to the process domain. The process-domain interface along with the process domain is moved from a first host to a second host.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070239852 - Method of tracking mobile station location: A method in a wireless communication device for tracking the location of the device using cookie files (104). The location of the device (102) is determined by the device (100) itself or the infrastructure (114) in communication with the device. The location cookie files are created by or transmitted to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070239851 - Process restart on a compute node: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for reducing load time of a program in a highly-parallelized or distributed computer. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by selectively reusing entries in a page table generated during a previous invocation of the program at a particular compute node of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070239856 - Capturing broadcast sources to create recordings and rich navigations on mobile media devices: The present invention provides a capture system for creating recordings associated with a user, the capture system comprising a capture portal, including a recording broker for creating a schedule for making recordings and a rich navigation broker for deriving rich navigation metadata associated with the recordings. The capture system further... Agent: Essam Abadir

20070239857 - Protocol conversion \"bearer independent protocol (bip)\" - tcp/ip for communication between sim and terminal: The services of an HTTP or HTTPS server, being implemented by or running on a first electronic device, are offered to a second electronic device by exchanging HTTP messages between the first electronic device and the second electronic device over a communication channel according to the Bearer Independent Protocol. An... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070239858 - Business to business integration software as a service: The present technique includes a software framework which makes it possible for providing Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software as a service (SaaS). The framework follows a hub and spoke model wherein the hub and spoke communicate through web services. While the hub and spokes act as integration gateways with the enterprise... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070239859 - Method and system for providing virtualized application workspaces: Methods and systems for providing virtual workspaces are provided. Example embodiments provide a Application Workspace System “AWS,” which enables users to access remote server-based applications (e.g., thin client applications, terminal server applications, applications on hosted operating systems, etc.) using the same interface that they use to access local applications, without... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070239860 - Information processing device, network connection method, and program recording medium: An information processing device which is connectable to a network, the information processing device includes: a fixed address setting unit adapted to set a first fixed address of the information processing device in the network; a dynamic address obtaining unit adapted to obtain a dynamic address of the information processing... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070239861 - System and method for automated operating system installation: A system and method for automatically installing an operating system from a deployment server to a target server utilizing a directory service. The directory service utilizes target objects and policy objects to authenticate the identity of a particular target and then to direct the target system to a deployment server... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070239863 - Information processing apparatus and control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first system which is adapted to operate under the control of an operating system, and second system which is adapted to operate independently of the first system. The second system makes a decision of whether to start the operating system... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070239864 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing contents of home network devices: A method and apparatus for synchronizing contents of devices in a home network are provided. The apparatus includes a determination unit which determines whether a first device and a second device support a common synchronization protocol. A synchronization request unit then requests at least one device to synchronize the contents... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070239865 - Method and system for internationalizing domain names: A method and system for internationalizing domain names is provided which allows domain names to be in any language without having to modify the existing Internet domain name servers. When a domain name includes non-English characters, a domain name transformer intercepts the domain name prior to reaching the resolver. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070239862 - Smart data dissemination: Methods and systems for smart data processing and dissemination in wireless sensor networks are provided herein. In one aspect, the present invention provides dynamic and independent data processing and dissemination at individual sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network. In another aspect, the present invention provides data processing and/or dissemination... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070239872 - Network device and information synchronization method thereof: A network device connected between a client and a local exchange is provided, and includes a status information system, an interface system, and a management system. The status information system includes a main and a backup status information module for recording status information of the client. The interface system includes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070239866 - Managing rich presence collections: A method and system for increasing the computational and network efficiency of presence servers having collections of publications is provided. The presence system uses several techniques that enable a presence server to provide rich presence information without requiring expensive processing. First, the presence system accepts batches of publication updates in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070239867 - Method, apparatus, network entity, system and computer program product for sharing content: A method, apparatus, network entity, system and computer program product are provided for content sharing. In particular, a technique is provided whereby an individual desiring to share content including, for example, photograph albums, music or video files, or the like, need only select the individual(s) with whom he or she... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070239870 - Network-enabled electrical power equipment with integrated content management system: Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment includes one or more networked intelligent devices coupled to a power distribution system and measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in the power distribution system; a server in the power equipment for storing a document that can be accessed by browsers and that... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20070239868 - Rfid bridge for rfid system administration: An RFID bridge can provide a translation of management messages to SOAP messages for ALE units at multiple RFID edge servers. A console can use the RFID bridge to manage the multiple edge servers.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070239873 - Service quality monitoring process: A method and system are provided for monitoring service quality of at least one network connection point of a remote network connection service. The method includes establishing a network connection between a client device and the remote network connection service via the network connection point. The network connection point may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070239871 - System and method for transitioning to new data services: A system and method for providing a transition to new market data services is disclosed. The system and method include a market data services provider and a client. The provider presents the client with a standard scorecard which is used to report the progress and status of various aspects of... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070239869 - User interface for user presence aggregated across multiple endpoints: A method and system for presenting a user interface displaying a view of a user's presence aggregated across multiple endpoints is provided. The view provides a visual display of the user's aggregated availability by displaying an indication of the user and an icon that pictorially indicates the aggregated availability of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070239874 - System and method for pushing information to a mobile device: A system for pushing information to a mobile device includes a information source, a wireless network, and a proxy content server. The information source stores information. The wireless network sends and receives transmissions to and from the mobile device. The proxy content server is coupled to information source and the... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20070239877 - Function setting system, setting machine, function setting method, program, and computer-readable recording medium: To provide a function setting system, a function setting method, and the like that can easily and efficiently perform accurate setting and simultaneously perform setting for plural devices even when a large number of parameters have to be accurately set the same among devices that perform communication with one another.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070239876 - Cooperative diagnosis in a wireless lan: Communication software to aid portable computers monitor, and correct problems accessing a network through a wireless access point. The software controls the exchange of information with other portable computers in the vicinity of the wireless access point. The information exchanged may be used to diagnose problems at the wireless layer,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070239875 - Method and apparatus for maintaining local area network(\"lan\") and wireless lan (\"wlan\") security associations: Cooperating entities share a signaling interface. Each entity establishes a security association between itself and an endpoint, and one of the entities transmits keepalive messages over a channel associated with the security association. Chipsets and systems to implement related methods are also described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070239878 - Method and apparatus for rendering user accounts portable: Improved approaches for enabling user accounts to be portable across different multi-user computer systems are disclosed. A user account created at a multi-user computer can be stored to an external, portable data store, thereby rendering the user account portable. The multi-user computer system, e.g., through its operating system, locates user... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20070239879 - Method and apparatus for router recovery: An apparatus and method are disclosed for router recovery. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a designated router (DR) (108) having a controller programmed to detect (308) a querier router (QR) (110) routing content to gateways (114) by way of a LAN (112),... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070239880 - Translation of messages between media types: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide content of various media types to various platforms or devices. In one embodiment, providing content of a first media type to a recipient end device can comprise receiving from an initiating end device a request for a communication with the recipient... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070239883 - Devices, systems, and methods for producing and distributing multiple variations of an instance of a media presentation: Devices, systems, and methods are described for authoring, producing, securing, and/or distributing multiple variations of an instance of a media presentation. For example, one device embodiment includes a processor and memory having instructions executable on the processor. The instructions can allow a producer of media content to define a number... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20070239882 - Method and system for minimizing client perceived latency through effective use of memory in video-on-demand clusters: A method (and system) of transferring data of multimedia objects from servers to clients using memory in video-on-demand clusters, includes dividing multimedia objects into segments and independently serving and caching the segments on a plurality of servers, retrieving the segments from the servers, directing the client to the server that... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070239881 - Multiplexing binary encoding to facilitate compression: Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for receiving a stream of data, splitting the stream of data into a plurality of substreams based on one or more criteria, and selectively recombining the substreams based on one or more additional criteria, to improve overall effectiveness in compressing the stream of data,... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070239884 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating background processing of push content: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a communication device operable pursuant to a push content communication scheme. An instruction detector detects a message containing a instruction by which to operate upon push content. The message is, for instance, generated by a mobile station at which an application associated with the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070239885 - System and method for dynamically upgrading / downgrading a conference session: A conferencing system includes a plurality of ports for network connection to endpoint devices of participants to a conference session. A mixer receives input audio streams from the endpoint devices and then outputs a mixed audio stream back to the endpoint devices. A processor runs a program that automatically downgrades... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070239886 - Systems and methods for preserving transport layer protocol options: The solution of the present invention provides systems and methods for preserving transport layer header options traversing network devices that terminate transport layer connections. The solution described herein provides a bi-directional intelligent proxying system by which a proxy client exchanges transport layer option information with a proxy server via an... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20070239887 - Method and apparatus for buffering data at a transport layer on a client: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that buffers data inside of a byte-stream protocol at a transport layer on a client, which is receiving the data from an external source. The system operates by receiving a configuration parameter at the transport layer from an application executing on... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070239888 - Controlling transmission of data: Techniques for controlling transmission of data are disclosed. A method of designating slots of a transmission frame, the transmission frame comprising a plurality of the slots, each of the plurality of slots being utilisable for the transmission of data in a system-on-a-chip over an interconnect coupling a plurality of master... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070239889 - Method of bandwidth control by rewriting ack number: A network relay apparatus installed with a TCP shaper has a packet converter that changes an ACK number of a confirmation reply packet in response to downstream data transmitted from a WAN side host to a lower value while transferring the packet.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070239891 - Method and apparatus for point-to-multipoint distribution using pseudowires: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing point-to-multipoint multihop distribution using Pseudowires (PWs) is presented. Data is received at a switching provider edge (S-PE) router from an upstream originating provider edge (O-PE) router by way of a first PW, the first PW having a head-end coupled to the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070239890 - Method, system and program storage device for preventing a real-time application from running out of free threads when the real-time application receives a device interface request: A method, system and program storage device for preventing a real-time application from running out of free threads when the real-time application receives a device interface request. A set of special data packets for the main user application is provided. Shared functions are provided as part of the device interface... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070239892 - High-performance addressing and routing of data packets with semantically descriptive labels in a computer network: A method, system and apparatus for routing data through a network based on the content or semantics of the data. Semantic routing engines route the data through the network based upon information maintained in routing tables. The routing tables used to route the content through the network are derived by... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070239893 - Method for allocating ports in a communication network: A system (100) and method (300) are disclosed for allocating ports in a communication network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (102) having a controller that manages a transceiver coupled to a firewall networking element (104). The controller (206) can... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070239896 - Transcoding method and apparatus of media server and transcoding request method and apparatus of control point: A method and apparatus are provided for transcoding data to a format desired by a control point with the aid of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) media server. In the method and apparatus, the control point discovers the media server, detects one or more formats to which data can... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070239895 - Cross-platform push of various media types: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide content of various media types to various types of platforms or devices. In one embodiment, providing content of a first media type to a recipient end device not normally associated with the first media type can comprise receiving from an initiating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070239894 - Method and device for processing a time-related data entry: A method of, and computer device for, processing a time-related data entry is provided. The method comprises obtaining the data entry from a user of the device, and obtaining a first time entry related to a first time zone. The first time entry and the first time zone are selected... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070239897 - Compressing or decompressing packet communications from diverse sources: Compressed input/output communications may be handled without requiring any alteration of system topology. In some embodiments, when a communication is received by a device such as a network interface card, an alert may be provided to an agent that may handle compression or decompression, independently of a main operating system... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070239898 - System and method for full wireless synchronization of a data processing apparatus with a messaging service: A system is disclosed in which a data processing device is completely synchronized with a messaging service. One embodiment of the system comprises a wireless data processing device; a messaging service to maintain messages and other information on behalf of a user; and synchronization logic for maintaining synchronization of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070239899 - Middleware server for interfacing communications, multimedia, and management systems: Disclosed herein is a middleware server for interfacing a MCU with a communication system and/or a management system within the context of an organization. The middleware server uses modular architecture, making the middleware server highly adaptable to different types of communication systems and management systems. The middleware server is useful... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070233776 - System for transmitting high throughput data between multiple devices: A system for transmitting data directly between a plurality of client network devices in a network having an Access Point (“AP”) device separate from the plurality of client network devices is disclosed. The system may include a first client network device having a first client (“STA”) module and a second... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070233775 - Exposing device features in partitioned environment: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process an input/output (I/O) transaction. An emulated device driver in a guest partition interacts with a virtual machine (VM) manager in processing an input/output (I/O) transaction on behalf of an application via an operating system (OS). The I/O transaction is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233779 - Client-side information processing system and methods: An information processing platform and related methods are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070233777 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically classifying web pages: A method, system, and computer program product for dynamically classifying web pages associated with a search engine is provided. The method includes calculating a composite respect value for messaging accounts. The calculating includes generating a local respect list for each of the messaging accounts. The local respect list includes a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070233778 - Process integration persistency: The addition of a datastore to an application system using process agents for communication allows for maintaining a persistent state by storing records of messages sent between process agents. These records may be retrievable by process agents in order to determine the state of the system. This allows process agents... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070233783 - Communication device: Composed video data is transmitted from a communication unit to a recipient communication device. Management information in which a position of an image composed in the video and corresponding file data are associated is stored in a storage unit. The recipient communication device displays the received composed video on a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070233781 - High density array system having multiple storage units with active movable media drawers: A storage system is provided having at least one primary storage unit, the primary storage unit having a power source, a server mother board, an expander device connected to a second data storage unit and a plurality of retractable media drawers wherein each of the retractable media drawers comprise a... Agent: Spectra Logic C/o Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20070233782 - Method & system for acquiring, storing, & managing software applications via a communications network: A comprehensive software storage and management method and system includes a storage network and an online, preferably web2.0 software application, which allows the user(s) to store and manage their software applications over the network for any digital device that communicates with the Internet, whether mobile or non-mobile, and whether or... Agent: Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC (formerly Known As Dkw Law Group LLC)

20070233780 - Lead referral system: A system for processing lead referrals is capable of assigning leads by product line, language and/or availability of the representative. The system is also capable of high lead referral throughput using steps such as filtering repeat visitors to a company from new leads, non-corporate leads from corporate leads, and avoiding... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070233784 - Wrapper playlists on streaming media services: Systems and methods for combining streaming media content items for streaming to a client computer across a network are described. In one aspect, a server computer receives a request from a client computer for one or more content items. Responsive to receiving the request, the server computer identifies a data... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070233785 - Communicating using collaboration spaces: A collaboration interface including a collaboration space and a collaboration space list. The collaboration space can be associated with at least one key attribute. The collaboration space list can include an identifier for each communicator occupying the collaboration space. The communicators occupying the collaboration space can be automatically and dynamically... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070233786 - Method and system for collaborative substitution on projects: A method and system are provided for collaborative information sharing to facilitate the substitution of individuals working on a project or at a task by linking documents in a business information system with office products, such as for example a shared appointment calendar application. The collaborative information sharing functionality provides... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070233787 - Apparatus and method for filtering and selectively inspecting e-mail: An apparatus and method are disclosed for selectively filtering and inspecting incoming e-mail. The steps to selectively filter and inspect incoming e-mail include: assigning a risk value to each section of an incoming e-mail, presenting the incoming e-mail with sections blocked based on the risk value, and selectively disclosing blocked... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070233796 - Automatic verification of messenger contact data: The invention specifies a method, an apparatus and a computer program product for automatically verifying messenger contact data. In this context, a computer unit (2) receives input messenger data from a user via a data link (5) and automatically, as a subscriber in an instant messaging system (6) associated with... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070233789 - Determining failed delivery of email messages using email notifications: Notifying a user that an email message sent to the user was not received by the user. Users can register to receive notifications. When a sender sends an email message to a recipient, a separate notification also may be sent to a notification server that populates and controls access to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070233790 - Determining failed delivery of email messages using email notifications: Notifying a user that an email message sent to the user was not received by the user. Users can register to receive notifications. When a sender sends an email message to a recipient, a separate notification also may be sent to a notification service that populates and controls access to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070233794 - Email control system utilizing permissions for behavior determination: The present invention is an email control system that utilizes the concepts used in everyday client/server applications where permissions determine the behavior of such systems. Because current permissions strategies are too limiting and archaic in their intelligence and implementation, a new permissions system is to be developed that will use... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20070233795 - Managing messages between multiple wireless carriers using a relatively limited number of identifiers: A method and system for identifying a reply message using a relatively limited number of message source identifiers. In an exemplary embodiment, a message is sent with a source device to one or more target mobile devices on one or more wireless carriers. A gateway assigns one of a limited... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070233797 - Method and apparatus for viewpoint collaboration: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing messages. A viewport is displayed on a display in association with a chat window in which the viewport defines an area on the display. The image is defined as graphical data in the area defined by the viewport to form a selected... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070233793 - Method and device for hiding messages: Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070233791 - Method for presenting an attachment within an email message: A method for presenting an attachment within an email message on a display of a portable electronic device includes displaying the email message using a messaging application, sending a conversion request to an attachment server in order to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device,... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070233792 - Method for viewing non-image attachments on a portable electronic device: A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format is provided. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, building a graph structure within an attachment server... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070233788 - Selective attachment delivery: A computer readable medium stores a program for controlling email attachment delivery. The medium includes an attachment recipient field generating code segment, an attachment recipient button generating code segment, an attachment recipient drop down menu generating code segment, an attachment recipient designating code segment, and a display code segment. When... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070233799 - Sharing, managing and communicating information over a computer network: A egocentric network including an author, a document created by the author, the document for dissemination over a computer network, a recipient for receiving the document from the author, a first egocentric network monitor for presenting a visual and/or audio representation of a point of view of the author for... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070233798 - System and method for determining a presence state of a user: Presence information associated with a presence entity (102) is received. A composition rule associated with the presence information is also received. The composition rule is applied to the presence information in order to determine a presence state for the presence entity (102).... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070233800 - System and method for electronic message status notification: This invention is directed to a system and method for providing a status notification for a message in a communications network. An embodiment of this invention is a voicemail system, which provides a caller in a telecommunications network with the option of requesting a status notification for a voicemail message... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070233801 - Caching message fragments during real-time messaging conversations: Creating and managing an editable cache of unsent message fragments during conversations using real-time messaging systems (such as instant messaging, text messaging, chat sessions, and so forth). Using this cache, a user participating in a real-time messaging conversation can cache at least one message fragment, and can then recall selected... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070233802 - Methods and arrangements for implementing whisper mode conversations during a multiparty telecommunication session: Methods for implementing a whisper mode conversation during a multiparty PoC session are presented, the method including: transmitting a whisper request to a media server by a whisper requester, wherein the whisper request includes a whisper recipient(s), and wherein the whisper requester is a participant in the multiparty PoC session,... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20070233803 - Method for implementing an unplanned shutdown of a computer system: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for managing system actions on a network. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for managing system actions on a computer network, comprising the steps of initiating a system action sequence in response to a received command, transmitting information about the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070233805 - Distribution of parallel operations: Parallel operation sets for use by a software application are identified. Each parallel operation set is then provided to a master computing thread for processing, together with its associated process data. Each master computing thread will then provide its operation set to one or more slave computers based upon parallelism... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070233804 - Providing remote application access in accordance with decentralized configuration information: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing remote application access in accordance with decentralized configuration information. Client side data representing a request for a list of remote applications is received. One or more lists of remote applications resident at terminal servers are accessed. Filter... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233807 - Activex detection and handling in mozilla-based browsers: A system and method is disclosed that allows ActiveX functionality to be conditionally invoked by a non-ActiveX-enabled browser, such as those based on Mozilla technology, through the implementation of user-defined controls to mitigate system security vulnerability. ActiveX controls can be identified from within a Mozilla-based browser and the user can... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070233806 - Method and system for conducting an internet search using a mobile radio terminal: A mobile radio terminal, a message center and an Internet server are configured to allow a user of the mobile radio terminal to conduct an Internet search and view search results without subscribing to an Internet service offered by a communications service provider. The Internet search is conducted using an... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070233808 - Propagating useful information among related web pages, such as web pages of a website: Web pages of a Website may be processed to improve search results. For example, information likely to pertain to more than just the Web page it is directly associated with may be identified. One or more other, related, Web pages that such information is likely to pertain to is also... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070233809 - Reconfigurable, virtual processing system, cluster, network and method: A platform and method of deploying virtual processing areas networks are described. A plurality of computer processors are connected to an internal communication network. At least one control node is in communication with an external communication network and an external storage network has an external storage address space. The at... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070233810 - Reconfigurable, virtual processing system, cluster, network and method: A platform and method of deploying virtual processing areas networks are described. A plurality of computer processors are connected to an internal communication network. At least one control node is in communication with an external communication network and an external storage network has an external storage address space. The at... Agent: Peter M. Dichiara Hale And Dorr LLP

20070233811 - Collaborative online spreadsheet application: A distributed spreadsheet application executes at a server and a client in a network. The networked spreadsheet application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific spreadsheet software prior to using the application. In one implementation, the spreadsheet application may include a client engine that executes... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070233819 - Content playing system, playing apparatus, streaming play method and computer-readable recording medium: A content, which is streaming-distributed, is easily resume-played. A content server stores content data which can be streaming-played. A first playing apparatus now performing streaming play determines whether or not a second playing apparatus, which the first playing apparatus means to perform resume playing, is turned on, and controls the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233818 - Recording medium storing input/output screen generation program, and method for suppressing an unreasonable screen shift: A recording medium stores a program used to direct a server machine to execute a process of generating input/output screen information for transmission to a client, and includes: a step of storing, in memory of the server machine, command information about the input/output screen information to be transmitted to a... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070233812 - Common communication framework for network objects: A computer implemented system comprising a server-side object framework implementing a standard communication interface, a filter object to send a filter value over the standard communication interface, and a consumer object to receive the filter value over the standard communication interface. A developer may create a consumer object with a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070233816 - Digital media management system and method: A system and method for managing digital media data files owned by a user via a network are disclosed. The system and method include at least one processor and at least one database, communicatively connected to the at least one processor, for storing at least one data file, and at... Agent: Thomas J. Mcwilliams Reed Smith LLP

20070233815 - Initialization picture displaying method: An initialization picture displaying method is applicable to a server such as a network-attached storage (NAS) server without a display chip for remotely displaying working messages of the server. The initialization picture displaying method includes (1) utilizing a chipset to reserve a region of a memory as a display chip... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070233817 - Method and system for distribution of map content to mobile communication devices: A system and method are set forth for distributing map content from a server to a communication device by transmitting a request from the communication device to the map server for a maplet index of map data covering a specified area and identified by coordinates for defining the map data,... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partners

20070233814 - System and method for interacting with data using visual surrogates: The present invention relates to systems and methods for facilitating the interaction with data using interactive data structures. The method of the present invention comprises generating one or more objects associated with one or more items of content. The one or more objects are combined to form an interactive data... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070233813 - Systems and methods for submitting data from a wml-based browser: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for communications between a client and server, both of which support a markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML). In one exemplary embodiment, the system, method, and apparatus may include generating, at a server, a WML deck, the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070233824 - Adaptive system and method for networked media applications: The invention is a flexible and adaptive application framework and method for providing media services via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable media services server device. A method of the preferred embodiment of the invention includes distributing or partitioning computation, data storage, and/or data transmission between... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept. Ms 4.3.518

20070233822 - Decrease recovery time of remote tcp client applications after a server failure: An apparatus and method for saving client/server socket state information to recoverable storage (disk, nonvolatile cache, tape, or other storage). After a server failure, upon recovery the server will be able to send out RSTs to inform remote clients of the server failure. The result is faster recovery for the... Agent: Eugene I. Shkurko IBM Corporation - Ms P386

20070233820 - Dynamic web service configuration broadcasting: Methods and apparatuses enable dynamic configuration of a client to access a Web service. A Web service configuration provider can receive a broadcast for a Web service from a client. The client need not be pre-configured with information to access the Web service requested. The Web service configuration provider determines... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070233821 - Managing system availability: System availability is managed. It is determined that a data communications link has been established and that the data communications link is less than fully functional. Communication is performed across the data communications link to a device to configure the device for the data communications link. The device is caused... Agent: Richard M. Sharkansky

20070233823 - Metadata-based configuration of rfid readers: A computer readable medium can be a metadata-based description of the configuration of an RFID reader. An RFID edge server can interact with the metadata-based description to configure the RFID reader.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070233825 - Reconfigurable, virtual processing system, cluster, network and method: A platform and method of deploying virtual processing areas networks are described. A plurality of computer processors are connected to an internal communication network. At least one control node is in communication with an external communication network and an external storage network has an external storage address space. The at... Agent: Peter M. Dichiara Hale And Dorr LLP

20070233826 - System and method for configuration, management and monitoring of network resources: A method and apparatus to configure, monitor and manage network devices without regard for device type and/or manufacturer is disclosed. One implementation of this embodiment includes a network manager unit disposed between the network administrator and the network devices. The network manager unit allows the administrator to holistically view, configure... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070233827 - Ad hoc distributed resource coordination for a wireless grid: A system and method for the ad hoc distribution of resources within a wireless grid for coordinating dynamic resource sharing. The architecture of the present invention comprises four primary modules: a resource descriptor that specifies the language for defining the resources; a service agent that facilitates interactions between the requesting... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070233841 - Apparatus, method and system for managing event information: An apparatus for managing event information is provided. The apparatus includes an event-registration module that controls a controlled device, and performs an event-registration process on the controlled device; an event-managing module that receives event information about events that have occurred in the controlled device according to the performance of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070233842 - Device detection system for monitoring use of removable media in networked computers: A device detection system for detecting use of removable media such as flash drives, portable storage, disks, and digital cameras in computers. From each monitored client, messages are sent by a client device detection application to a server application running on a central or administrator computer or node. The messages... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070233831 - Management of extensibility servers and applications: Extensibility computer servers and extensibility applications can be managed. Extensibility computer servers and extensibility applications can be discovered using a management application on a management computer server. An extensibility agent can be installed on an extensibility computer server, and used to provide status information. Tasks can be created for managing... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070233843 - Method and system for an improved work-load balancing within a cluster: t

20070233838 - Method for workload management of plural servers: An object of this invention is to facilitate the workload management of a virtual server by an administrator in environment that a plurality of virtual computers configuring a single or a plurality of task systems are distributed among a plurality of physical computers. To achieve the object, there is provided... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233844 - Relay device and communication system: A relay device requests a status notification of another relay device to a server device. When the relay device is notified that the other relay device is under a logged-out status, the relay device stands by. When the relay device is notified that the other relay device has logged in,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070233836 - Cross-cutting event correlation: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for cross-cutting event correlation in an enterprise computing monitoring and management system. An enterprise computing monitoring and management system can include a hierarchy of nodes, where several of the nodes are each coupled to a corresponding embedded... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070233830 - Data model centralized configuration and management of an enterprise wide rfid system deployment: A hierarchical data structure can be used for storing management information concerning RFID edge servers and RFID readers. The data structure can include RFID edge server information with associated management states.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070233833 - Data transmission system for electronic devices with server units: A data transmission system applicable to an electronic device with server units is provided. The electronic device also has a management unit for managing the server units, and the management unit includes a transmission interface for transmitting data to a monitoring mainframe. Each of the server units and the management... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070233846 - Delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment: A method for delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment. At least a first resource associated with a first content provider and maintained on an origin server references a second resource. The second resource is associated with a network formed by a plurality of repeater servers operable to... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070233837 - Job assigning device, job assigning method, and computer product: A job assigning device submits a job to a remote environment created for each user on one of nodes that constitute a grid. The job assigning device compares software information indicating software necessary to execute a job with remote-environment information indicating one or more remote environments associated with a user... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233839 - Method and apparatus for delivering a virtual reality environment: A system is described for providing assistance and guidance to users of a virtual reality environment that includes at least one input device for each of the users, at least one client device, each coupled to a network an operable to respond to a plurality of commands from each input... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070233845 - Method and system for remote access to universal plug and play devices: A method for remote access to one or more Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) resources in a network is provided. An access policy for discovery of a UPnP resource in the network is maintained. Upon receiving a remote discovery request from a remote requester over a communication link, the access... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070233832 - Method of distributed hash table node id collision detection: A method for joining a network resource as a joining node to a peer-to-peer network includes establishing a node ID for the joining node to be joined to the peer-to-peer network, routing the join message to an assignment node that manages resources with resource IDs closest to the node ID... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070233835 - Methodology for scheduling data transfers from nodes using path information: Wireless network communications utilizing routing information. A group of nodes of a wireless network are organized into one or more hierarchical clusters based, at least in part, on routing information corresponding to a path between a selected node and a cluster head node. A sleep state and an awake state... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233828 - Methods and systems for providing data storage and retrieval: In a method of providing data storage and retrieval an asset stored by a first resource is identified. An asset record identifying the asset is generated. At least one of the following is transmitted to an agent associated with a second resource: the generated asset record, metadata associated with the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070233840 - Peer of a peer-to-peer network and such network: The invention relates to a peer-to-peer network where said peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of peers (P), wherein said peer (RP) comprises and maintains a communication record (CR) defining a plurality of candidate peers (CP) from which information representative data (S) may be downloaded, wherein said plurality of candidate peers... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070233834 - Printer driver with print search function: Improved techniques which enable a user of an information terminal to select a printer for printing a print job are provided. Such techniques may be embodied in a printer driver installed on the information terminal, or a printing application provided through a network to the information terminal. The information terminal... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070233829 - System and method of monitoring an enterprise wide rfid deployment using standards based jmx technology: An RFID administration server can provide administration and monitoring for the multiple RFID edge servers. An RFID Management console can allow a user to administer the multiple RFID edge servers.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070233858 - Diagnostic access system: A dedicated processing system for monitoring, processing and combining mass statistical diagnostic data of a process control system. Through real time and near real time network health monitoring by the system statistical inferences can be made to anticipate potential system and device problems with notification(s) to users. A variety of... Agent: Pei Michael T. Perkins

20070233857 - Network device for monitoring and modifying network traffic between an end user and a content provider: A network device for monitoring and modifying data traffic between a client device and a server device is disclosed. The network device is configured to provide targeted advertisements to a user based on some or all of the data traffics generated the user. Different from a proxy server, the network... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070233855 - Adaptible keepalive for enterprise extenders: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to keep alive processing for enterprise extenders and provide a method, system and computer program product for adaptable keep alive processing for enterprise extenders. In one embodiment of the invention, an EE keep alive data processing system can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070233847 - Apparatus, system, and method for error assessment over a communication link: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assessing error over a communication link. The apparatus for assessing error is provided with a logic unit containing a plurality of modules configured to execute the necessary steps of creating one or more test packets, determining an amount of test packets to... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070233856 - Cross session process action: Cross session process actions such as diagnostics in which a diagnostic process running in one process attaches and performs diagnostics on a process running in another session. Upon determining that diagnosis is to be performed on a process of another session, diagnostic process uses an intermediary session to launch diagnostic... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233853 - Displaying users connected to computer servers: User connection information can be displayed. User connection information can represent user connections to a plurality of computer servers of a multi-server system. User connection information can be received from a plurality of computer servers, user details can be obtained, and a representation of the user connection information for the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070233854 - Management status summaries: Management status summaries can be displayed representing conditions of aspects of a computer network. Status information relating to an aspect of a computer network can be obtained from network resources. Status rules can be evaluated based on the obtained status information, and a condition indicator set. A visual representation of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070233859 - Method and apparatus for providing presence information: The present invention discloses a method for providing presence information, a watcher, a presence server, a presence system and a presentity. It enables the provisioning of history and future presence information, while the prior arts can provide only presence information corresponding to the current time. The method provided by the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070233849 - Methods and devices for maintaining sessions based on presence status information: Sessions, such as on-line gaming sessions, are maintained by proxy agents on behalf of users even when the users are inactive. The agents, along with other components, form a novel “always-on” architecture that greatly reduces the time it takes to initiate and carry out sessions.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC Attn: John Curtin

20070233848 - Monitor management that enables enhanced data collection: A solution for managing a monitor that includes enhanced data collection capabilities is provided. A set of triggers, each of which is capable of monitoring a computing environment for a condition, and a set of collectors each of which is capable of collecting environment information for the computing environment are... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070233852 - Presence logging in calendar systems: Presence information of presentities is logged in a calendar system using a presence logging calendar connector. A presence server collects and stores presence information on a presentity. The presence logging calendar connector is in communication with the presence server via a presence protocol to receive the presence information in a... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070233851 - System and method for handling persistence information in a network: A system and method for selectively using persistence information in a network. In a specific embodiment, the system includes a proxy device for the client, wherein the proxy device includes a mechanism for employing persistence information associated with the client to perform a function for the client via the network.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070233850 - User status control for a messaging interface: Methods and apparatus are described for controlling an online status of a user in a network. A messaging interface is provided with which the user may initiate communication with other users in the network. The messaging interface includes first status information representing the online status of the user. The messaging... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070233863 - Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233861 - Method and apparatus for implementing sms spam filtering: A method and apparatus for implementing short message service (SMS) SPAM filtering is provided. The embodiments described herein integrate policy management into spam message filtering rules to enhance an SMS anti-spam mechanism.... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070233860 - Methods and systems for exchanging security information via peer-to-peer wireless networks: A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a first key is exchanged between a granting node and a requesting node via a peer-to-peer wireless network. Further, a human-perceptible hash is generated at the granting node and the requesting node, utilizing the first key. Such human-perceptible hashes... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070233862 - Trend analysis based on network admission control fingerprints: Various embodiments of a method for detecting a trend in a computer network comprising a plurality of nodes are described. According to one embodiment of the method, network admission control is. performed for each node in the network. One or more configuration fingerprints may be created for each node in... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20070233870 - Cluster control apparatus, cluster control method, and computer product: A cluster control apparatus controls an allocation of a job to each node in a cluster system formed by mutually connecting a plurality of nodes by a high-speed network. A node selecting unit selects an allocation node for allocating the job and a similar node that is similar to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233864 - Detecting serving area of a web resource: Methods and systems for determining the serving area of a web resource by address, by query content, and by business category are provided. A location system may determine the serving area of a web resource based on addresses of users who access the web resource. The location system may determine... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070233865 - Dynamically adjusting operating level of server processing responsive to detection of failure at a server: A facility is provided for dynamically adjusting operating level of server processing within a computing environment including one or more servers processing multiple types of server tasks. The facility includes, responsive to detection of a failure at a server of the environment, determining a situational severity threshold for continued computing... Agent: Ibm Corporation Department 417

20070233873 - Image storage system and image accumulation apparatus: An image accumulation server has a storage area management section for managing a storage area of an image storage section and a customer information management section for managing customer information. The storage area is set to reserve a predetermined capacity as the initial state for one customer and after the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070233867 - Method and apparatus for preserving mac addresses across a reboot: An example network node includes multiple line cards that learn Medium Access Control (MAC) addresses in a distributed manner. In an event a software upgrade is to occur, which requires a processor having the MAC addresses on the line cards to reboot, the line cards transfer the learned MAC addresses... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070233866 - Method and system for dynamically allocating servers to compute-resources using capacity thresholds: Servers are allocated for use in one of a plurality of compute-resources or for stand-by storage in a free-pool. Server load metrics are selected (e.g., ping-reply time or CP utilization) for measuring load in the servers. Metrics are measured for the servers allocated to the compute-resources. Several metrics can be... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.,

20070233872 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for managing operation: A system resource manager of a site management server registers a server domain as a group of servers having a uniform physical wire connection, registers a server group as a group of servers that use uniform software in a registered server domain, and changes an application of a server by... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070233871 - Programmatic management of software resources in a content framework environment: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamically integrating software resources (such as web services and other back-end software resources) using the services of a content framework (such as a portal platform). A portlet model is leveraged to allow programmatic portlets to serve as proxies for web services,... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070233869 - Restricting device access per session: The present invention is directed to restricting device access per session. Entries in a device list are configured to store session ID values in addition to values for other device properties. A session ID value for a device can be set to the session ID value of a (e.g., RDP)... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233868 - System and method for intelligent provisioning of storage across a plurality of storage systems: A system and method for intelligently provisions storage among a plurality of storage systems. A flexible storage manager (FSM) executing within a storage system environment manages the intelligent provisioning of storage. The FSM sorts an ordered list of data containers within the storage system environment according to a predefined list... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070233874 - System and method for multi-tier multi-casting over the internet: System and method adapted to multi-cast over the Internet using multiple tiers of servers. Preferably, the content server transmits content to servers in the next lower tier, which may include one or more client servers, using multi-cast, but may use uni-cast. Preferably, each server in all intermediate tiers transmits content... Agent: J. V. Myers & Associates, P.C.

20070233875 - Aggregating user presence across multiple endpoints: A presence aggregation system provides a presence server that allows users to publish information regarding their availability with the presence server. The presence server maintains a record of each user's published information. When an endpoint publishes information regarding a user's availability at that endpoint with the presence server, the presence... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070233878 - Enhanced upnp av media renderer: A system for providing various overlay information one UPnP AV media renderers. According to the present invention, indications of messages and/or other information received by a UPnP mobile telephone or other UPnP control point can be directly transmitted to a renderer and exhibited in different manners. The present invention also... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070233876 - Interprocess communication management using a socket layer: A solution for managing interprocess communication is provided. A connection request that identifies another process is received from a first process on a socket. The invention determines if the identified process has a second socket that can be used without transmitting data outside a computing device. If so, then the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070233880 - Methods, media and systems for enabling a consistent web browsing session on different digital processing devices: Methods, media and systems for enabling a consistent web browsing session on different digital processing devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes storing data relating to one or more virtualized processes associated with a web browsing session on a first digital processing device in a storage device; connecting... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070233879 - System and method for advertisement identification, selection, and distribution involving a peer-to-peer network: A method of presenting an advertisement to a user executing content at a device is provided. A request for content is sent to a device in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. A file is received from the P2P network. The file includes the content requested and a campaign file. The campaign... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070233877 - Transparently proxying transport protocol connections using an external server: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for processing data packets using a router and a proxy in order to transparently proxy a connection between a client and a server. One method involves mapping a TCP connection to a connection ID and sending a segment from the TCP connection to a proxy,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070233881 - Active intervention in service-to-device mapping for smart items: Systems and methods allow service-to-device mapping by which services are mapped onto best-suited smart items selected from a plurality of smart items of a sensor network. As part of the mapping, and/or subsequent thereto, a deployment of the service(s) onto the smart items is initiated. However, in some cases, the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070233882 - Method & system for providing centralized web usage tracking: In accordance with a method and system for centralized network usage tracking, documents on a network server include a reference to content on a centralized logging server. When one of the documents is accessed by a client computer, the process of rendering the content at the client computer includes requesting... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070233883 - Method and system for access control in distributed object-oriented systems: A method and a system for accessing services provided by network resources in communication networks. Access to service capabilities is controlled at the application level by controlling the access through a gateway wherein an object-oriented service architecture based on abstracted application programming interfaces is implemented. Preferably, the service architecture is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070233884 - Shared content delivery infrastructure: A method of processing requests for resources in a system in which a plurality of content providers provide multiple resources. Content providers offload the serving of some of their resources to a shared content delivery network (CDN) formed by a plurality of servers. The CDN is shared among the content... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070233888 - Conversion adapter, medical system and communication method: A conversion adapter according to an embodiment of the invention is connected between a control apparatus that controls a medical appliance and the medical appliance and operates as the virtual control apparatus and medical apparatus. Thus, the communication between the control apparatus and medical appliance having different protocols and communication... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070233887 - Method and apparatus for neighborhood discovery across disparate point-to-point networks: A method or apparatus in an exemplary embodiment supports first and second layer network nodes that may be configured to communicate with each other via a communications path. In embodiments a first network node communicates via a second network node across a layer 2 network to send data. The first... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070233885 - Architectures for assuring the inter-domain transport of qos sensitive information: The transport of Quality-of Service (QoS) sensitive information over domains operated by different service providers may be assured using architectures that include separate forwarding and control planes.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC Attn: John Curtin

20070233886 - Method and system for a one bit tcp offload: Certain aspects of a method and system for a one bit TCP offload may comprise initiating offload processing of TCP data based on assertion of at least one bit without receiving TCP connection state information from a host. The asserted at least one bit of data may comprise at least... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070233892 - System and method for performing information detection: A flow information search section determines whether or not the flow of input data is to be subjected to software processing. If the flow is to be subjected to the software processing, input data is verified by a software processing section. If the flow is not to be subjected to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070233890 - Data stream recovery: A method and processor for recovering a plurality of individual data streams from a composite data stream The composite data stream having been formed by first bit reordering the individual data streams with respect to themselves, combining the individual data streams and second bit reordering the combined individual data streams... Agent: John Deluca

20070233889 - Method and apparatus for improved multicast streaming in wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing multimedia content to a plurality of wireless terminals. The method includes transcoding an original media stream to form at least one companion media stream, each media stream having a different data rate, and advertising each media stream to each of the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070233893 - Method and system for providing multimedia information on demand over wide area networks: Systems and methods for delivering streaming data content to a client device over a data communication network in response to a request for the data content from the client device. The client request is received by a server or a controller device that is typically located on a network switch... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233891 - Multi-output packet server with independent streams: A method of serving content to multiple clients via a network is provided. Independent sessions with each of a plurality of clients are maintained, wherein the number of clients in the plurality of clients can vary over time, and wherein the start of each session and the end of each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070233894 - Shared buffer for near-end and optical interface flow control in fiber optic communications: A shared buffer for near-end and optical interface flow control in fiber optic communications is described. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving data from a client as frames in a first format, storing the data in a addressable buffer, recording addresses for the end of each received frame, reading... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233898 - Method and system for accelerating browsing sessions: The delivery of web content over an IP based network is accelerated by utilizing an intermediate node to receive requests for ML files, analyze ML files and create multipart objects that compound two or more browser's objects referenced by browser's links in the original ML file. The ML file is... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070233895 - Managing traffic flow on a network path: A network device determines the traffic specification values based on the session values that represent the application parameters of an application, which is provided differentiated service levels. A user of the network device may provide and/or choose the session values. The network device may generate one or more streams corresponding... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233897 - Method for using the loopback interface in a computer system having multiple workload partitions: In a computer system divided into multiple separate workload partitions, wherein at least one of the partitions contains multiple applications, and a loopback interface is made available to each partition, a method is provided for routing packets from one application to another application. In one embodiment of the invention, each... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070233896 - Network load balancing and overload control: Load balancing and overload control techniques are disclosed for use in a SIP-based network or other type of network comprising a plurality of servers. In a load balancing technique, a first server receives feedback information from at least first and second downstream servers associated with respective first and second paths... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070233899 - Locating devices: Location data associating data network access devices with corresponding physical locations is maintained, a voice service from a mobile device served by a data network access device is accessed, and location data during the voice service is accessed to determine if the data network access device has a corresponding physical... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070233900 - System and method for synchronizing copies of data in a computer system: An improved synchronization system and method for copies of data in a computer system. The computer system comprises a cluster, wherein each computer in the cluster may store a local copy of a data set along with a validity flag for the local copy. The computer system further comprises a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070233902 - User interface methods and apparatus for rules processing: The invention provides, in one aspect, a user interface method that includes processing one or more BPM or other rules with a rules engine executing on a server digital data processor. The rules engine generates, for presentation on a client device, a user interface having one or more display, input... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070233901 - Methods and systems for integrating network services with multiple communication protocols: The methods and systems for interconnecting communications in different communication protocols, comprising: (i) an internal interface having at least one client using at least one of a first group of communication protocol, for communicating with a user, (ii) an external interface having at least one client using at least one... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP