Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 11/07

20070276897 - Method of deploying a production environment using a development environment: Provided is a computer system, including: at least one storage system providing at least one logical volume, at least one host computer including an I/O device, and a management computer, in which the management computer creates a virtual computer within a network segment to which the management computer belongs, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070276898 - Apparatus and method for flexible web service deployment: An apparatus and method for deploying web services in a web services infrastructure are provided. with the apparatus and method, a deployment descriptor for a web service is retrieved from a configuration file. A location type in the deployment descriptor is provided for identifying whether the web service is implemented... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070276899 - Methods and system for distributing data to technical computing workers: A method and system is disclosed for providing a distributed technical computing environment for distributing technical computing tasks from a technical computing client to technical computing workers for execution of the tasks on one or more computers systems. Tasks can be defined on a technical computing client, and the tasks... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070276906 - Client server system: A client server system includes a server apparatus, and a client terminal apparatus connecting with the server apparatus via a wireless network based on regular connection information, and the client terminal apparatus includes a storage unit to store the regular connection information, a wired transmission unit to transmit temporary connection... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070276902 - Content distribution service: Methods and related systems related to content distribution.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070276904 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable information recording medium: An information processing apparatus for evaluating information which is submitted to an information display apparatus which a user operates, the information including characters and images, includes a state obtaining part obtaining at least any one of the number of the characters and the number of the images; a reading time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070276901 - Method and system for providing a graphical workbench environment with intelligent plug-ins: An apparatus and a method for analysis of point-gathered data. The apparatus and method provide a platform that includes a workbench providing a graphical working environment for a user to view and perform operations on point-gathered data and to interact with the platform, one or more plug-ins that operate on... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20070276900 - Global provisioning of millions of users with deployment units: Described herein is technology for, among other things, global provisioning of a service. The technology involves a provisioning server obtaining location information for a client. The provisioning server determines an appropriate deployment unit, based on the location information, to which the client will be assigned. The provisioning server transmits assignment... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070276905 - Method of provisioning network elements: A system and method for provisioning network elements, such as but not limited to the type of network elements used in cable television system to facilitate subscriber access to services. The provisioning may be accomplished without communications between multiple provisioning servers. This allows the provisioning to be conducted in a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070276903 - Server side web browsing and multiple lens systems, method and apparatus: A user may access a host server and receive display information within a single browser window. The display information includes at least one lens, wherein each lens controls server side web browsing and allows the user to view a separate web page from the Internet. The host server provides personalized... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070276910 - Conferencing system with desktop sharing: A system that facilitates the sharing of a computer desktop among a plurality of users.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070276908 - Method and apparatus for inviting non-rich media endpoints to join a conference sidebar session: A conferencing system and method includes, during the conference session, invoking an interactive voice response (IVR) routine that provides names of one or more conference participants to a user of an audio-only endpoint device responsive to a request from the user to create a sidebar session. An invitation to join... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070276909 - Publication of customized presence information: A presence aggregation system provides a presence aggregation server that allows for the defining and inclusion of custom presence states that are distinct from a set of default presence states that are provided by the presence aggregation system. When one or more custom presence states are defined and included in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070276907 - Sip routing customization: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing customization to routing of messages in a system where routing is based on stored addresses, such as, for example, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) system. In one embodiment, a method of providing customized routing of messages can comprise receiving a message... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070276914 - Method of using a plurality of subscriber types in managing a message queue of a database management system: A method of using a plurality of subscriber types in managing a message queue of a database management system is described and provided. The method comprises creating a subscriber with a set of rules to the message queue. The subscriber is designated as one or more of the plurality of... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070276913 - Providing access to missed text messages in a real-time text-messaging conference: This document describes tools capable of enabling participants in a real-time, text-messaging conference to access text messages that they have missed, whether that be because they joined the conference late, were disconnected, or did not receive a message due to some sort of failure. Assume, for example, that a conference... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070276912 - Apparatus and method for forming and communicating a responsive data message: Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communication of a data message, such as an e-mail message, in a bandwidth constrained communication system. An incoming data message is delivered to a mobile station. A responsive data message is formed by inserting responsive text into the incoming data message. A determiner determines... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070276915 - Managing messages between multiple wireless carriers to multiple enterprises using a relatively limited number of identifiers: Identifying a reply message using a relatively limited number of message source identifiers divided among multiple enterprises. 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. Each target mobile device can be associated with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070276911 - Method and system for transferring contact information and calendar events to a wireless device via e-mail: A method and system for transferring contact information and calendar events (FIG. 1, 131) to a wireless device (FIG. 1,141) via e-mail (FIG. 9) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing for one or more contacts (FIG. 10) to be included in an e-mail message (FIG. 14,1412) addressed... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070276916 - Methods and systems for updating clients from a server: An embodiment generally relates to a method of updating clients from a server. The method includes maintaining a master copy of a software on a server and capturing changes to the master copy of the software on an update disk image, where the changes are contained in at least one... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070276917 - Buffering streaming content: A method performed by a mobile terminal may include connecting to a network and transmitting a video data session to other mobile terminals. The video data sessions may be stored in a network server and accessed by the other mobile terminals. The method may also include sending invitations to mobile... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070276921 - Locating a portion of data on a computer network: A method for locating a portion of data is provided. In this method, a request for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with data is transmitted. The request comprises a labeling tag that is associated with the data. As a result of the request, an URL that comprises an anchor... Agent: Kokka & Backus, PC

20070276923 - Printed publication with an interface to a video or audio device: A book with a USB connection is provided. The book also has a memory and optionally a processor. One or more documents are stored in the memory. When the book is connected to a personal computer, the documents can be displayed on the personal computer. The documents can be modified... Agent: Glen M. Diehl Diehl Servilla LLC

20070276922 - System and method for learning including a book with a jump drive: A book with a USB connection is provided. The book also has a memory and optionally a processor. One or more documents are stored in the memory. When the book is connected to a personal computer, the documents can be displayed on the personal computer. The documents can be modified... Agent: Glen M. Diehl Diehl Servilla LLC

20070276920 - Consistency of routing rules in distributed system landscapes: A directory includes information about various systems (e.g., applications, processes, tasks, objects, services) and data, and may include data ownership information (e.g., data scope, read-write access, master-copy, etc.) and system role information (e.g., consumer or provider role). The directory may define existing systems, corresponding locations by address, and corresponding semantic... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070276919 - Services for data access based on a data ownership directory in distributed system landscapes: A directory includes information about various systems (e.g., applications, processes, tasks, objects, services) and data, and may include data ownership information. The directory may define existing systems, corresponding locations by address, and corresponding semantic names. The directory may also specify the role of each system, e.g., a consumer or provider... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070276918 - Symbol mapping for browser-based data retrieval: Real-time financial data from a number of independent data sources is displayed in separate frames within a single browser window. Each frame displays data from a different source, each source having its own symbology for representing the data. The web page which provides the browser display includes mapping algorithms for... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070276929 - Method and apparatus for tracking optical disc usage data: A software tool, method and apparatus for recording data relating to optical discs is described. Optical disc tracking software may include a reporting component, a tracking component and a database component. A tracking component may reside on an optical disc, which can be of a standard or mini size and... Agent: Serious Usa, Inc. C/o Torys LLP

20070276925 - Personal content server apparatus and methods: Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates Suite 375

20070276926 - Secondary content insertion apparatus and methods: Apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network, with dynamic or adaptive insertion of secondary content (e.g., advertisements or promotions) that are more relevant for that context. In one... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070276924 - Application controlled remote storage: User devices like disc players or set top boxes may lack a storage unit. A method of providing virtual local data storage for a user device that is connectable to a remote server (14) via a network (12) is described. A storage application (32) is provided in the user device,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070276928 - Methods and devices employing content identifiers: Content identifiers are associated with respective metadata. Through use of the metadata, a user's experience with the content can be enhanced. A variety of other arrangements are also detailed.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070276927 - Streaming player with time index memory and catalog: The present invention provides an intelligent client with a catalog of available streams and keeps a persistent record of each stream to which the user listens and the point at which they stop in each stream. An example method receives a selection for a streamed media file at a mobile... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070276930 - Dynamic definition for concurrent computing environments: A system generates an executable process for execution by a concurrent computing environment, generates a configuration that specifies configurable properties of the concurrent computing environment, and initiates execution of the executable process, with the concurrent computing environment, to initiate configuration of the concurrent computing environment based on the configurable properties... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070276932 - Method and system for detecting changes in a network using simple network management protocol polling: In an embodiment, methods and systems have been provided for detecting changes in a network using improved Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling that reduces network traffic. Examples of changes in the network include, but are not limited to, configuration and behavioral changes in a network device, and response of... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20070276934 - Networked queuing system and method for distributed collaborative clusters of services: A high-performance queueing method to implement a shared queue for collaborative clusters of servers, where each cluster of servers maintains a local queue, and those queues are networked to form a unified (or shared) queue for all those servers in clusters. Requests in an overcrowded queue are forwarded to some... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070276933 - Providing quality of service to prioritized clients with dynamic capacity reservation within a server cluster: A computer-implemented method for delivering a level of quality of service for a client requesting data in a connection arrangement including a server and a plurality of clients assigned one of a plurality of classes, wherein the determination of the level of quality of service includes estimating an arrival rate... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070276931 - Systems and methods for protocol detection in a proxy: Systems, methods, and computer products for detecting protocols in a network proxy are provided. Protocol detection includes receiving from a first computer a request for connection to a second computer, the request conforming to a first protocol; establishing a connection with at least one of the first computer and the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070276936 - Method and devices for matching data between a manager and a agent in a management network: The invention relates to a method for operating a management network of a telecommunications network comprising a manager (NMC1, NMC2) and an agent (OMC1), in which the manager (NMC1, NMC2) and the agent (OMC1) communicate with each other using an object model. In accordance with the object model objects (MOII,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070276935 - Method for processing asynchronous communication mechanism based on simple network management protocol: A method for processing asynchronous communication mechanism, including steps of: allocating identifiers for different operation command message; on receiving an operation command message transmitted by a manager module, an agent module determining whether the operation command is in need of an asynchronous notification, if the operation command is in need... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070276939 - Electronic apparatus and restarting method thereof: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a programmable logic device which loads forming circuit information to form a counter circuit to count a value of the number of times of the system reset and to set an initial value of the counter circuit from a memory device on... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070276937 - User presence aggregation at a server: A presence aggregation system provides a presence aggregation server that allows for the publication of presence state of a publisher from the publisher's multiple endpoints. A presence state includes an availability value and an activity. An activity may include an activity token and/or a custom string. When any one of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070276938 - Utilizing captured ip packets to determine operations performed on packets by a network device: Methods and systems for utilizing captured packets to determine the operations performed on packets by a network device are described. One or more packets are captured and forwarded through the network device. Operations performed on the captured IP packets are logged.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070276941 - System, method and computer program product for monitoring and controlling network connections from a supervisory operating system: A system, method and computer program product that is designed to support high-availability, rapid fault recovery, out of band condition signaling and/or other quality of service assurances and security in a networked environment. In one aspect, a method of the invention includes the step of providing a processing system with... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070276940 - Systems and methods for user identification, user demographic reporting and collecting usage data using biometrics: Several ways of identifying users and collecting demographic information and market information are disclosed, including branding a browser with a unique identification in each user request, identifying a user by his key strokes or mouse clicks, gathering demographic information using multiple data sets and by monitoring network traffic. Additionally, user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070276944 - Apparatus for access control and processing: The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing secure access control to a facility. An access control system comprises a scanner located adjacent to a venue entrance. A computer system is coupled to the scanner. The computer system is configured to receive a coded user identification data scanned... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070276942 - Method for providing a personalized user greeting: A method for providing information to a user of an electrical device as a part of a user greeting. The user selects personalized information he wants to include in the user greeting. A user greeting program is initiated by signals from a user interface and determines the type of personalized... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070276943 - Prevention of cloning attacks in a docsis network: A system and method are provided for preventing a cloned modem from completing the registration process with a communications network. A cable modem termination system (CMTS) compares the media access control (MAC) address of a modem attempting to register with the network with a list of cable modems that are... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070276945 - Fault-tolerant resource committal: This document describes tools that enable fault-tolerant resource committal for a system having computing devices needing to have operations of a particular type performed by one of multiple external resources. The tools may do so without relying on leadership from a pre-selected or altered computing device. Assume, for example, that... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070276946 - System and method of forwarding and sender approval: A system and method of operating a communication system including receiving a communication request from a sender to a recipient, determining whether the recipient is in a communication forward mode, and determining communication forwarding information based on the communication request and the communication forwarding mode determination.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070276947 - Systems and methods for integrating applications on user equipment utilizing special uri control messages: Methods for integrating an application on a user equipment (UE) utilizing a special URI (S-URI) control message over a communications network are presented including: registering a secondary application server on the communications network such that a primary application server responsive to the UE is notified of the secondary application server,... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20070276949 - Distributed local web-server architecture for storage devices: A data-processing system includes a storage device for running a local web-server residing in the storage device; a host device for connecting to the storage device; and an exchanging mechanism, residing in the host device, for exchanging information autonomously between the local web-server and a remote web-server connected to the... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070276948 - System and method for automated configuration and deployment of applications: A system and method are described for automated configuration and deployment of applications. Each participant to a transaction maintains “connection parameters” which contain an indication of the various connection capabilities (protocols, file formats, document sequences, etc) of that participant. Prior to entering into a series of transactions (e.g., document exchanges),... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070276951 - Apparatus and method for efficiently and securely transferring files over a communications network: A system and method to reduce the time to transfer files from one computer to another over a communications network, such as the Internet, through a client/server architecture includes a sending client, a receiving client, and a repository system. The sending client logs into the server and transmits data such... Agent: Sirote & Permutt, P.C.

20070276950 - Firewall for dynamically activated resources: A facility is described for providing a firewall for dynamically activated resources. In various embodiments, the facility registers a component for processing a message. The registration includes storing a unique identifier associated with the component. When the facility receives a message, it determines whether the message contains a unique identifier... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070276952 - Data packet decoding: Apparatus and method for generating decoding instructions for a decoder (262) for decoding data packets from a telecommunications network, each of the data packets having a plurality of fields formatted in a predetermined protocol defined by a protocol specification. The apparatus comprises an input (251), an instruction generator (215) and... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070276953 - Distribution system, information processing apparatus, distributing method and program: Index information that is used for identifying a reproduction start time is generated into stream data distributed from an encoder by the index information generation unit 121 of the accumulation server 120. The generated index information is then transmitted to the distribution server 150 via the management server 140. The... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070276954 - Low-delay high quality video streaming using tcp: A system and method for transmission of video data to a wireless client. In one example embodiment, the present innovations include a proxy server that receives video data from a video server. The proxy includes buffers individually associated to wireless clients. In preferred embodiments, buffers are managed independently so as... Agent: Groover & Holmes

20070276955 - Method, apparatus and system for rapid acquisition of remote nodes in a communication system: A method of acquiring a remote node in a communication network includes sending a first acquisition command from a hub to the remote that instructs the remote to send an acquisition response and includes a first frequency (S100). The method also includes sending a first acquisition response based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070276957 - Apparatus and method for providing data session source device information: A community translation service device for providing a translation service to a community of at least one source device is arranged to receive data traffic from a source device in the community. The traffic includes a native data session identifier and, as a source identifier, a source device identifier. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070276956 - Method and system for content similarity-based message routing and subscription matching: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for routing messages in a message stream. A computer implemented method for routing messages in a message stream includes receiving a specification of desired messages, the specification containing a payload and receiving at least one message, the message containing a payload.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070276960 - Qualification screening system and screening method thereof, qualification screening device and device under qualification screening: The present invention provides a qualification screening system which is capable of performing qualification screening on a device under qualification screening using a status of information to be updated that is retained by the device under qualification screening without having to know concrete procedures or methods for updating such information.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070276958 - System, method and program for encryption during routing: Computer system, method and program for routing. A nonencrypted message packet is received. In response, a payload in the message packet is read to determine if the payload contains sensitive information. If the payload contains sensitive information, the message packet is encrypted and subsequently, routed to a nonsecure communication path.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070276959 - Systems and methods for data transfer: Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I/O connections may be employed to interconnect a pair of ASICs to create a high bandwidth, low signal... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070276961 - Systems and methods for identifying user types using multi-modal clustering and information scent: Techniques for determining user types based on multi-modal clustering are provided. The topology, content and usage of a document collection or web site is determined. The user paths are identified using longest repeating subsequence techniques and a multi-modal information need vector is determined for each significant user path. Multi-modal vectors... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070276962 - File synchronisation: A method for synchronising data between a client device and a server device, at least one of the client device and the server device having synchronisation means, the method comprising: defining a first folder in a memory of the client device; defining a second folder in a memory of the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070271328 - Buddy system for navigation devices: A buddy system for navigation systems is disclosed. Further to the buddy system, a user of a navigation device can locate other navigation device users within a select vicinity. The buddy system further includes buddy lists compiled from a number of navigation devices grouped according to a common characteristic. The... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tom Tom

20070271327 - Method for distribution of data upon request and corresponding data network: In one aspect, a data network is provided. The data network includes a first user and a second user, a central device, data and a spontaneous communication connection. The first and second users are each ad hoc capable. The central device provides a distribution of data such that data is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070271329 - Command processing apparatus: A command processing apparatus includes a CPU (28). The CPU (28) determines whether or not a router (16) is compliant with UPnP, and issues a port releasing request to the router (16) when the determination result is affirmative. Thus, a specific port is released. Next, destination information including an identifier... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070271330 - Federated personalization of personal portal content: Providing enterprise and targeted content to a personalized portal at a client device in a distributed environment. An administrator managing the distributed environment defines a plurality of workspace pages to be displayed to a user via the portal. The portal also includes a personalized page. The administrator determines workspace content... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070271331 - System of archiving and repurposing a complex group conversation referencing networked media: System and method for creating a database of user media and associated user comments wherein the user's comments are collected, collated, stored, and made available to users through a Commenting Theater that allows for the simultaneous representation of and access to the entirety of an archived complex group conversation without... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070271332 - Dynamically updating rendered content: Techniques are disclosed for efficiently updating rendered content (such as content of a Web page) using a “slow-loading” content element, such as a slow-loading image. A reference is embedded within the markup language notation for the content to be rendered, where this reference identifies the source of the slow-loading content... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070271333 - Processing information using a hive of computing engines including request handlers and process handlers: A hive of computing engines, typically including clients, request handlers, process handlers, and task handlers, is used to process of a processing job in order to determine a processing result. A client assigns a processing job to a request handler, which assigns the processing job to a processing handler, which... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070271334 - Processing information using a hive of computing engines including request handlers and process handlers: A hive of computing engines, typically including clients, request handlers, and process handlers, is used to process of a processing job in order to determine a processing result. A client assigns a processing job to a request handler, which assigns the processing job to one or more processing handlers. One... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20070271336 - A system and method of spreading messages in a social network: This invention consists of a restricted online social network system that does not expose one member's friends to other members and a method of spreading a message in the system by members asking the system to show the message to their friends, recursively. The system records each member's actions on... Agent: Venkat Ramaswamy

20070271335 - Electronic conferencing system latency feedback: A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for coordinating electronic conferences. A server determines a presentation latency period in a set of attendee computers. A server transmits the presentation latency period to a presenter computer. The server receives screen content update. The server transmits the screen content... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070271338 - Methods, systems, and products for synchronizing media experiences: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing a media experience. A request is received from a host device for a shared collaborative session between the host device and an invitee device. An invitation is sent to the invitee device to join the shared collaborative session. A common control is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070271337 - Quorum for a real-time, collaborative electronic meeting: This document describes tools that notify participants of a real-time, collaborative electronic meeting when the meeting productively starts. To do so, the tools may build a quorum of events that need to occur before the meeting may productively start. These events may include a particular person joining the meeting, such... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070271339 - Telephone-based personnel tracking system with authorization control and reporting: A computer system includes hardware for interfacing with the public telephone network and for accepting incoming telephone calls. The computer system detects from the incoming telephone calls automatic number identification data (ANI data), such as Caller-ID data, which identifies the calling telephone and further accepts personal identification codes from the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070271341 - Apparatus, system, and method for setting/retrieving header information dynamically into/from service data objects for protocol based technology adapters: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for processing a technology specific message. In one embodiment, a computer program product receives a message having a conventional header and a user-defined header that both conform to a predefined header format, each header comprising a header name and a value; identifies each... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070271340 - Context enhanced messaging and collaboration system: A context enhanced messaging and collaboration system in which resources related to the context of text messages may be automatically identified and exchanged between users in association with the text messages, is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for instant messaging between client devices. The GUI operates in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070271344 - Electronic mail message document attachment: A system can include: an online storage system; and a computer-readable medium having encoded thereon a computer program structured to interact with an electronic mail system and to provide a file-attachment interface that uploads a document to the online storage system in a separate process, and adds associated link information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070271347 - Method and system for formatting messages into stylized messages for print out: Methods for formatting email messages into stylized templates for delivery to a printer. The templates include a variety of different formats to accommodate the various elements of the email message. The available templates can include themed templates, calendars, to-do lists, address books, stationary, and the like. The system and methods... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070271345 - Method and system for providing email continuity: A method and system are provided for providing email continuity by automatically following up an email message to which a reply has not been received. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: defining a workflow as a plurality of actions to be taken in a predetermined... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070271343 - Methods and apparatus for identifying spam email: Methods and apparatus of classifying received email are provided. At least one initial desirability scan is performed on a received email. When the received email passes the at least one initial desirability scan, it is determined if the received email comprises one or more browser-interpretable scripts. When the received email... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070271342 - Methods and systems to deliver electronic mail using payments: Methods, apparatus, and systems to deliver electronic mail using payments are disclosed. An example method involves receiving an electronic mail message at a server. It is then determined whether the electronic mail message includes information indicative that a sending entity has posted an electronic mail delivery payment to enable delivery... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070271348 - System and method of fault-tolerant and privacy-safe location tracking via email: The present invention is a location tracking method installed or embedded in an electronic device as an agent (for example software, firmware or hardware) that determines the location of the device and sends the location information to an owner's email address directly or via a relay agent in a fault-tolerant... Agent: Mark S. Hubert P.C.

20070271346 - Method and system for filtering electronic messages: A method for filtering an incoming electronic message sent by a sender and addressed to a user. The method includes providing a first temporary identifier, receiving the incoming electronic message from the sender, processing the incoming electronic message to detect the presence of the first temporary identifier therein, and upon... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070271349 - Secure storage of data in a network: A method of storing an item of data is described, performed in a general purpose computer in a network, and comprises identifying available storage means in the network, gathering information concerning the availability of data storage capacity in the identified available storage means, fragmenting the item of data in accordance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070271350 - Method and apparatus for data storage using striping: An apparatus for data storage includes a cluster of NFS servers. Each server has network ports for incoming file system requests and cluster traffic between servers. The apparatus includes a plurality of storage arrays in communication with the servers. The servers utilize a striped file system for storing data. A... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20070271352 - Monitoring landing page experiments: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for monitoring an experiment relating to the conversion rates of landing page variants to test landing page designs. One method includes computing respective conversion rates for each of a plurality of corresponding landing page variants, based on the number of times a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070271351 - Provision of connections for program components: A method and apparatus for provision of connections to program components. In an embodiment of a method, a call is received from a persistence engine, the call requesting a connection to a database. A method is called to obtain the connection from a data source. The connection is provided to... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070271353 - Windows rally wireless hid device: A system and method that identifies and effectuates communication between a connectable client and a wireless human interface device. The wireless human interface device utilizes technologies to abstract the complexities of IP based wired and wireless networks to provide mechanisms to easily discover, associate, utilize and diagnose the wireless human... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070271354 - Method and system for redirecting a client: A method and a system for redirecting a client are disclosed, the method including: sending by the client a request message to a redirect agent; returning by the redirect agent a first response message to the client, an identification of a second realm being carried in the first response message;... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070271355 - Method and apparatus for wirelessly networked distributed resource usage for data gathering: A method and system for gathering, collecting, and supplying geographically distributed data. In one embodiment, geographically distributed data is gathered in a server-commanded mode, such that the user of an electronic device need not participate in the capturing or transmitting of the data. In another embodiment, a server initiates requests... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070271357 - Network analysis device: A network analysis device is disclosed for recording and processing parameters of a communications network for data exchange in a distributed control system of a process engineering system. An exemplary network analysis device has at least one measuring head and a man/machine interface which are physically separate from one another... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070271356 - Web-based equipment firmware control system and method therefor: A web-based equipment firmware control system and method are provided, wherein a device is electrically connected to a computer executable platform through a communication interface, and a control webpage capable of controlling the equipment firmware is generated in a file system of the computer executable platform through the communication between... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070271358 - System and method for dynamically configured, asymmetric endpoint video exchange: Provided herein are exemplary embodiments of a system for and method of initially and dynamically allocating the available resources that affect video quality in an asymmetric endpoint network so as to provide an enhanced quality of video exchange. Relevant variables that may be dynamically configured to allocate resources include, but... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070271359 - Web-based interface for building management systems: A universal web-based interface is provided for remotely accessing any building management system capable of communicating with an external computer. During an initiation routine, the software providing the interface automatically determines what objects are connected to the building management system, and then creates data structures and web pages suitable for... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070271363 - Computer compliance system and method: According to some embodiments, a system and a method is provided to dynamically scan a network with a first network scanner and a second network scanner and to determine a new network address, wherein the new network address is discovered by the first network scanner and not discovered by the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070271365 - Database-less leasing: One embodiment of the present invention comprises determining a cluster leader and using the cluster leader to set up a lease table at an application server of a cluster of application servers. The lease table can be used to maintain at least one lease for a singleton service.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070271361 - Exceptions grouping: Methods of experience-based exception grouping are described. A number of exceptions are read. The exceptions are intelligently associated with one of a number of exception groups. Each exception group corresponds to a common user experience.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070271364 - Home caring system which combines the internet, a real-time communication, and a videophone background of the invention: A home caring system which combines the internet, a real-time communication and a videophone utilizes a wireless transceiver module, wireless telephone handsets, computer-related equipment, external equipment, and a radio communication module to set up a wireless network system at home for transmitting voices and images to the computer-related equipment. In... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070271362 - Implementation of reflexive access control lists on distributed platforms: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the filtering of data packets without substantially interrupting traffic flow in distributed systems. In one implementation, a network device includes a first line card associated with a first interface and adapted to maintain a first access control list. The network device further includes... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070271360 - Network vulnerability assessment of a host platform from an isolated partition in the host platform: According to embodiments of the present invention, host platform device includes an embedded firmware agent that may detect an attempt by the host platform device to fully connect to a network. The firmware agent may restrict traffic between the host platform device and the network to bootstrap traffic, test the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070271368 - Methods and apparatus for automatic system parameter configuration for performance improvement: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for automatic system parameter configuration for performance improvement. One embodiment of the inventive method involves formulating a black box optimization problem, and solving the optimization problem using an enhanced smart hill climbing method. The smart hill climbing method includes... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Suite 100

20070271366 - Multimedia player and browser system: A multimedia software application that can include audio, video and/or graphics, in a manner that combines the multimedia experience with the transfer of information from and between a variety of sources (126), in a variety of directions, and subject to a variety of prompts. The application provides a “Web in... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070271367 - Systems and methods for location-based social web interaction and instant messaging system: Systems and methods for location-based social web interaction and instant messaging are provided. A system according to the invention may be configured to detect a plurality of instant messaging (IM) users, display a map on a graphical user interface (GUI), and display a plurality of visual indicators on the GUI.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070271369 - Apparatus and methods for managing communication system resources: Apparatus and methods for managing communication system resources are disclosed. Based on status information received from a resource itself or from other sources, an operational status of a maintenance resource to perform a predetermined maintenance operation on a target communication system resource, for example, may be determined. Access to use... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070271371 - Attributes of captured objects in a capture system: A system and method for capturing objects and balancing systems resources in a capture system are described. An object is captured, metadata associated with the objected generated, and the object and metadata stored.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070271373 - Communication performance analyzing program, communication performance analyzing apparatus and communication performance analyzing method: A communication performance analyzing program, a communication performance analyzing apparatus and a communication performance analyzing method make it possible to highly reliably grasp the communication performance of a computer system by automatically analyzing the communication performance. The communication performance analyzing program that causes a computer to analyze a data tendency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070271370 - Controlled study of sponsored search: A computer system is operated to study effects on users of an advertisement under study. Actions by the users result in displaying information correspond to the actions of the users and of advertisements corresponding to the actions by the user and/or to the displayed information. In response to a display... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070271372 - Locational tagging in a capture system: A system and method for locational tagging in a capture system are described. Metadata associated with a captured object includes: information about a location in storage of an object and that objects association to a particular user; and/or tiered location information.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070271374 - Statistical information collecting system and apparatus thereof: A statistical information collecting system and device for finding the detailed state of traffic flowing in a network to effectively reduce the traffic flow by sending statistical information from a statistical information collection apparatus to a collector device. A statistical information collection system with a statistical information collection apparatus comprising... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070271376 - System and method for integrated presentation of information: There is provided a method and system to present event information to a user of an electronic messaging and organizing system. An integrated list of individual events is defined to include message-related events (e.g. email, SMS, phone logs, etc.) and time-organization-related events (future or current appointments, alarms). The integrated list... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070271377 - Event notification method in storage networks: A heterogeneous network includes network related hardware and software products from a plurality of vendors. The network includes a storage system configured to store data, a server configured to process requests, a switch coupling the storage system and the server for data communication, and a network manager including an event... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070271375 - Method and apparatus for monitoring real users experience with a website capable of using service providers and network appliances: A method and system for monitoring performance of rendering one or more web pages are described. The embodiments include defining a set of web pages by selecting a subset of the pages available on a website, wherein the set is identified by a naming string and monitoring a web page... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070271378 - Storage driver, electronic device, and access control method: A storage driver for controlling access to a storage unit having a password-type lock function checks, when executing processing for erasing all data stored in the storage unit, whether or not a password has been set for the storage unit, and invalidates the password-type lock function if a password has... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070271380 - Method of improving the reliablity of peer-to-peer network downloads: A method of improving the reliability of peer-to-peer network downloads includes the steps of initiating a search from a client on a peer-to-peer network. Next, a list of servers is downloaded that satisfies the search. At least one of the servers is selected from the list of servers. Next, one... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070271379 - Method, components and system for tracking and controlling end user privacy: A privacy service is provided for use in protection of user data transferred in a network, including a converged network. The privacy service extracts and measures service elements of a message containing user data. The service elements include an identity element, a trust element, a rights element and a security... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070271381 - Managing computing resources in graph-based computations: Executing graph-based computations includes: accepting a specification of a computation graph in which data processing elements are joined by linking elements; dividing the data processing elements into sets, at least one of the sets including multiple of the data processing elements; assigning to each set a different computing resource; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070271383 - Method and system for managing an electrical device over a power delivery network: Under the present invention, a data networking protocol is applied over a power delivery network to manage an electrical device. In a typical embodiment, the data networking protocol is 802.1X. To this extent, the present invention utilizes different configurations of a location component/function, an identification component/function (also known in the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070271384 - Method and apparatus for distributing notification among cooperating devices and device channels: Methods and devices for networked applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device instructs a proxy server to receive traffic inbound for the device, and to notify the device when such traffic arrives. The device can then sleep, except for a notification channel that listens for a wakeup message from... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070271382 - Operating method for a server: According to the invention, a server communicates with a client by transmitting to the client pages that the latter requested. The server adds to the pages identification data comprising at least one transmission identifier specific for the transmission of the page in such a manner that said data is transmitted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property

20070271386 - Content delivery service providing apparatus and content delivery service terminal unit: On the content delivery side, a user management control unit manages authentication information and the distribution of a delivery list at the time of delivering service, the acceptance of a content select request, and charging and settlement on a user basis. On the other hand, an encrypted content control unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070271385 - Managing web tier session state objects in a content delivery network (cdn): Business applications running on a content delivery network (CDN) having a distributed application framework can create, access and modify state for each client. Over time, a single client may desire to access a given application on different CDN edge servers within the same region and even across different regions. Each... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070271387 - Communication protocol for use with portable electronic devices: Improved techniques for communicating between a portable electronic device and an accessory (or auxiliary) device are disclosed. The accessory device can augment or supplement the functionality or capabilities of the portable electronic device. For example, in one embodiment, the accessory device can provide wireless communication capabilities to the portable electronic... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20070271388 - Server-side media stream manipulation for emulation of media playback functions: A media server in the home entertainment network allows a media rendering devices to act as a digital media receiver. The media server enables trick mode functions such as scan forward or reverse, slow motion, pause, and seek on rendering devices with capabilities limited to 1× playback. The media server... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070271389 - Dynamically updating rendered content: Techniques are disclosed for efficiently updating rendered content (such as content of a Web page) using a “slow-loading” content element, such as a slow-loading image. A reference is embedded within the markup language notation for the content to be rendered, where this reference identifies the source of the slow-loading content... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070271390 - Intelligent top-level domain (tld) and protocol/scheme selection in direct navigation: A system, method, and computer program are provided for improved top-level domain (TLD) and protocol/scheme selection during URL formation initiated via direct navigation techniques. As appropriate, intelligent URL construction mechanisms operate by 1) analyzing the available geolocational and lexical information related to the direct navigation instance, and 2) choosing an... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070271391 - Storage system and communication control method: A storage system includes: a protocol control unit that processes a file access request from a NAS client; and a priority calculation unit that calculates a priority set for the reply packet returned to the NAS client as a response to the file access request from the NAS client, based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070271392 - Generating landing page variants: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for showing different landing page designs to a user. One method includes displaying an advertisement on a starting page to a user interacting with a client, the advertisement having a hyperlink to an instrumented landing page; in response to the user selecting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070271393 - System and methods for domain name acquisition and management: A method for managing domain name acquisition comprises collecting desired domain names in a shared database and matching the desired domain names in the shared database to those that are available as candidates for a registration status change. A registration is then changed of at least one matched desired domain... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070271394 - Isolated mapping point: Techniques are provided to integrate application systems by using an isolated mapping point that is a computer system, a server, or other computing device that includes a mapping data store and performs mapping functions. An isolated mapping point receives data from the sending system, transforms the data as necessary, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070271395 - Method and apparatus for storing real-time text messages: A synchronization (“synch”) module may reside on a source computing platform and a destination computing platform. The synch module may be configured to operate as a source synch module or a destination synch module depending on which computing platform is a data source. As an data source or initiator, the... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070271398 - Configuring network settings for a power line networking device: A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable media are provided for configuring a power line networking device. According to one method, wireless network settings are converted into equivalent power line network settings compatible with a power line network. The converted settings are then utilized to configure the power line networking device... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070271397 - Molding-system controller-interface apparatus: Disclosed are: (i) a molding-system controller-interface apparatus, (ii) a molding-system controller having a molding-system controller-interface apparatus, (iii) a molding system having a molding-system controller including a molding-system controller-interface apparatus, (iv) an auxiliary-system controller having a molding-system interface apparatus, (v) an auxiliary-system including an auxiliary controller having a molding-system interface apparatus,... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20070271396 - Network management: A system for discovering, identifying and managing ad hoc networks and facilitating the communications within that network is disclosed. An addition to the network interface mediates discovery of adjacent computers with the same addition running and the exchange of profiles between these computers to allow device sharing and routing.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070266074 - High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers: A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual loop arbitrated, Fibre Channel capable, multiple-fault tolerant, hot swappable mass storage disk array, permits combinations... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070266084 - Method, system, apparatus, and program to facilitate communication between systems: The disclosed subject matter describes a method, system, apparatus, and program for interfacing multiple communication systems, comprising the following steps. The interface receives information from the client, followed by determination of the format of said information. The disclosed subject matter identifies the third party to receive the information and transforms... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070266083 - Resource brokering method, resource brokering apparatus, and computer product: In a resource brokering apparatus, a setting unit sets a value of each service, and a detecting unit detects whether resource nodes are insufficient when a request for one service is received by a receiving unit. When it is insufficient, a determining unit determines whether a first value of a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070266085 - S-cscf selection for application server originated requests: A server includes a sending unit configured to send a location information request to a home server for querying a default server name and capabilities of a unregistered subscriber for whom the server is originating the location information request. The server also includes a processing unit, if the default server... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070266079 - Content upload safety tool: Embodiments of content safety upload techniques are presented herein. In an implementation, outbound communications of client are monitored to detect personal identifying information (PII) in the content being communicated. Upon detection of PII one or more actions may be taken to manage the PII, for example warning a user, providing... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070266087 - Internet access via smartphone camera: A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image containing a written URL, the raw visual light image is converted to an electronic image, and the device locates... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070266076 - 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

20070266082 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for displaying high resolution content related to the exploration and production of geologic resources in a thin client computer network: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for displaying high resolution content generated by a securely hosted application program for the exploration and production of geologic resources on a thin client system in a client/server computer network. A user interface is presented for accessing the application program which is hosted... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070266077 - Presence and preference-enabled push to talk telephony system: A system for establishing a unilateral voice communication event between at least two nodes connected to a network has a first server operable on the network for receiving a request from a requesting node on the network and for forwarding the request for execution, a second server operable on the... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070266081 - Remotely managed lock or access point, via the internet, to a distribution receptacle or secure location: A locking mechanism that is electronically managed or Hosted at a remote central location via the Internet or wireless communication network with conditional code validations. The remote management interface software resides on Host computer servers, which are in turn accessed and managed by Users through a common browser interface via... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20070266075 - Session presence: A system, method and computer readable medium for session presence comprises collecting presence information from a session, aggregating presence information from at least one presentity and publishing the presence information of the session as a session presentity to the at least one presentity.... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070266080 - System and method for virtual benchmarking: The various embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for monitoring, analyzing and virtually benchmarking system, process and/or assets. By breaking down each of a plurality of similarly configured processes, systems or assets into a desired level of component specificity and appropriately identifying such specificity in one or... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070266086 - System, method, and computer program product for modulating the transmission frequency in a real time opinion research network: A computer-implemented transmission scheme is provided to control client-server interchanges within a distributed communications network, such as a real time opinion research system. Interchanges include transmitting media streams between one or more clients to a server over a network. Periodic interchanges can be simultaneously or staggeredly transmitted to a sampling... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070266078 - Wireless sensor node group affiliation method and apparatus: A wireless sensor node can obtain (102) a wireless sensor node group affiliation pursuant to an affiliation formation process and then subsequently transmit (103) information regarding that wireless sensor node group affiliation. By one approach this affiliation formation process can comprise, at least in part, using wireless sensor node group... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070266096 - Postponing an instant messaging session: A method of operating an instant messaging application comprises running an instant messaging dialogue session across a plurality of participant devices. When a user wishes to postpone the session, the application receives a postponement signal from a participant device, determines a future restart time and future participant devices, terminates the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070266095 - Seamless electronic mail capture with user awareness and consent: The present invention provides employees and/or associates the opportunity to share corporate knowledge via the storage of electronic message (email) with user awareness and consent features. In various embodiments of the invention, awareness and consent over email sharing is provided via automated message modification and message generation. In one embodiment... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070266094 - System for controlling multipoint conference and method thereof: A system and a method for controlling a multipoint conference are provided by the present invention. The system comprises a plurality of computers, a presentation gateway, and a projector, wherein the computers are stored presentation frames. The method comprises the steps of connecting a first computer to the presentation gateway... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20070266088 - Apparatus and method for report sharing within an instant messaging framework: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to facilitate an instant messaging conversation between a first computer and a second computer on a network. A first request for a report specified by the user of the first computer is processed. A first portion of the report is returned to a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070266089 - Archival of session data exchanged with a wireless communication network: Techniques for archiving data exchanged between a terminal and a wireless communication network during a session are described. Session data may be archived at a network entity in real-time while the session is in progress or may be uploaded to the network entity for archival after the session has terminated.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070266092 - Conferencing system with automatic identification of speaker: A local speaker within a multi-group conference is identified on a remote display by displaying a representation of the speaker, which could be the speaker's image, name, or other identifying information, on a remote display. The speaker is identified by an identification mechanism, such as a bar code reader, coupled... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070266090 - Emoticons in short messages: An apparatus for insertion of graphical items into a text message sent from a first telephony user to a second telephony user through a telephony network, including: a receiver, deployed in the network, configured to receive the text message from the first telephony user, a graphical enhancer, associated with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070266097 - Method for information gathering and dissemination in a social network: A method is provided for automatically and efficiently propagating information using previously established social methods of communication (e.g., email, instant messaging (IM), social network message posting, and short message services). In conjunction with the method, a system for collecting and disseminating information on a social network is provided, which includes:... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070266091 - Network advertising system: Systems and methods for transmitting content to a client via a communication network are provided. In one embodiment, a method of transmitting unsolicited content, such as an advertisement, to a client via the Internet may include one or more of the following steps: 1) intercepting a data transfer protocol request/response;... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070266093 - Workflow widgets: Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for workflow widgets. In some implementations, a widget workflow method includes: launching a widget at a first device; and updating the widget with content created at a second device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070266104 - Apparatus and method for report sharing within an instant messaging framework: A computer implemented method includes sending to a report server a first request for report content initiated by a first user. The report content is served to the first user. The report content is displayed to the first user. A second request from the first user is sent to the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070266105 - Apparatus and method for supplying report content within collaborative frameworks: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to monitor the exchange of messages between a first computer and a second computer in a network. Context from the messages is assembled. The context is used to form a query. The query is applied to one or more report documents.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070266106 - Mobile communication system, mobile terminal, mail server, and electronic mail reception-limiting method: When electronic mail is received in a reception mail server (30) and a relay-limiting management module (32) of the reception mail server (30) manages the mail address of the transmission destination of the electronic mail that has been transmitted in as a limiter's address, relay control module (31) of reception... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070266100 - Constrained automatic speech recognition for more reliable speech-to-text conversion: A device and method are provided which preferably establish cross-modal communications and allow telephony users and text-based users, such as Instant Messaging (IM) users, to communicate with each other. The device may include a processor that receives a text message preferably comprising a query, a keyword, and one or more... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070266102 - Email traffic integration into a knowledge management system: A plurality of e-mails are received, a portion of which contain attachments. The e-mails and the attachments are stored in one or more data repositories. The header information from the e-mails and the content from both of the e-mails and the attachments can be used to generate an index. Thereafter,... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070266101 - Method and system for inserting advertisements in unified messaging solutions: A method and an apparatus for inserting an included message into an e-mail message, wherein the e-mail message is transferred through a unified messaging solution have been provided. In one embodiment, the unified messaging solution detects transmission of a voice mail message as the e-mail attachment. The voice mail message... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070266099 - Method and wireless communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving contact information: A method and a mobile unit for transmitting and for receiving contact information are provided. A memory for transmission stores a profile datum and a multimedia datum of the contact information. An encoder retrieves the profile datum and the multimedia datum from the memory, encodes the profile datum in a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070266098 - System and method for emailing an entity using its non-email attributes: A method and system for sending a message to an email address of a recipient by using a non-email attribute of the recipient. The non-email attribute of the recipient is sent to partner servers which maintain records of a plurality of email addresses and non-email attributes associated with each of... Agent: Collage Analytcs LLC

20070266107 - System and method for full wireless synchronization of a data processing apparatus with a data 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

20070266103 - Television messaging system with identification function: A television messaging system with identification function is provided. To create a message, the person who leaves a message inputs and stores his/her identity information, a message, and the identity information of the person whom the message is for through the user interface in the database; to obtain a message,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

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