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

20070266115 - Sharing of digital media on a network: A method (and a system) for a computer user to share files by publishing references to them at websites, e.g., by filling HTML forms. This method allows the user to transparently upload said files to a third party hosting service. Files which originally reside on the user's computer are automatically... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070266109 - Apparatus and method for sharing data among multiple terminal devices: Apparatus and method for propagating data between multiple terminal devices includes determining the functional operability of a plurality of devices to assess which devices are properly configured. If a device is properly configured, operating the device in a transmit-mode to transmit functional operability data. If a device is not properly... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070266108 - Method and apparatus for providing high-performance and highly-scalable storage acceleration: A method and apparatus of providing high performance and highly scalable storage acceleration includes a cluster node-spanning RAM disk (CRD) interposed in the data path between a storage server and a computer server. The CRD addresses performance problems with applications that need to access large amounts of data and are... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070266113 - Method for cache object aggregation: A system including a first user agent configured to transmit request data corresponding to a requested web page, wherein the request data includes a request data header, and an optimization server configured to receive the request data, to determine whether the request header data matches a classification of a grouping... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070266114 - Personal icon providing system and method thereof: Disclosed is a personal icon providing system and method. When a user is accessed through a network, information on personal icons provided to the user is collected. The information on the collected personal icons is transmitted to the user's terminal to be stored therein, and the user's personal icon is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070266110 - System and method for managing switch and information handling system sas protocol communication: An SAS domain map is automatically generated at an SAS concentrator switch by a virtual mapping device that presents itself as a target for discovery by SAS devices interfaced with the concentrator, such as information handling systems and storage devices. During the SAS protocol discovery process, the virtual mapping device... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070266116 - Systems and methods for automatically accessing internet information from a local application on a handheld internet appliance: Systems and methods for automatically accessing Internet information and local applications from another local application on a handheld Internet appliance is provided. The systems and methods of the present invention consist of a software solution that enables users of handheld Internet appliances to interact with the Internet and other local... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070266112 - Technique to incorporate human interaction during document routing: A computer program product enables selective human interaction in an automated document routing process. The computer program enables users associated with one or more nodes of the process to selectively flag a document for human intervention at one or more other process nodes. When the document is moved to a... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070266111 - Web-internet operating system-the next dimension of internet logic: This is an Internet web operating system that uses the next dimension of an Internet program logic exchange that is embedded in the web site operating system and is working with Internet multiple requests and responses by using Internet multiple/multiplex server pages and is operating in an Internet control processor... Agent: Gunter H. Schubert

20070266117 - Method and system for managing and linking machines with users or other machines which are remote: Method and system of managing and linking fixed or mobile machines with users or other machines that are remote. The invention also relates to a system includes at least one machine device (D) which is connected to a given machine, a central co-ordinator (C) and at least one fixed or... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070266118 - Contact management system and method: A computer-implemented contact management method includes creating a contact record in a contact management system, generating a unique serial number corresponding to the contact record, conveying the serial number to a recipient, entering, by the recipient, the serial number into an internet-enabled computer application, requesting, by the application, the record... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070266123 - Multimedia processing method and device for resource management using virtual resources: A multimedia processing device and method for using virtual resources to manage multimedia content system resources and access to such resources by system applications. A multimedia content processing device, such as a set-top box, is configured to provide virtual resources that emulate actual resources, such as a media playing resource,... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070266119 - Methods and apparatus to synchronize local times at nodes in a computer network: Methods and apparatus to synchronize local times at nodes in a computer network are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a sequence of time sample pairs, wherein each time sample pair in the sequence of time sample pairs comprises a respective local time measurement generated by a node... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070266122 - Multimedia session management: A multimedia provider (100) generates, based on a request for a media channel from a user terminal (10), a session set-up description that is returned to the user terminal (10). The description defines, when processed in the terminal (10), a session window (20) that is displayed on a screen (12)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070266121 - Remote configuration of devices using a secure connection: Methods and systems for configuring a remote device are described. In one embodiment, a method of configuring a remote device while negotiating a secure connection between the remote device and a central server is described. The method involves transmitting a configuration request from the remote device to the central server,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070266120 - System and method for handling instructions in a pre-boot execution environment: Systems and methods for handling instructions in a pre-boot execution environment are disclosed. A controlling server may connect to a pre-boot control (PBC) proxy server via a network and transmit over the network from the controlling server to the PBC proxy server instructions for a pre-boot task to be completed... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070266124 - Method for controlling the operation of at least one specific computing system in a network: The systems and methods of the present invention provide for controlling the operation of at least one specific computing system in a network based upon the aspects of the computing system that are present for an operating session of a specific computing system by updating the configuration attributes in a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070266125 - Method and apparatus for automatic network address assignment: In one embodiment, a subnet mask is automatically determined by a first network node attached to a subnet in a packet communication network. The first network node issues plural communication packets from plural source addresses to at least one address known to be used in the subnet to evoke responses,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070266137 - Method and apparatus for automated testing of multiple device platforms through a command line interface: A method for automated testing of a device (e.g., a router, switch, mobile terminal, barcode reader, or the like) includes creating a metafile, establishing a network connection to the device, parsing the metafile to determine a device command and an expected result, apply a terminology substitution process to the device... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070266139 - Methods, systems and computer program products for invariant representation of computer network information technology (it) managed resources: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for invariant representation of computer network information technology (IT) managed resources. A common information model for representing the managed resources is defined. An identification of a resource managed by an IT resource management point product is received. The identification includes an identification... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070266138 - Methods, systems and computer program products for managing execution of information technology (it) processes: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing information technology (IT) processes for a computer network. An incident report, including associated data, is received from an application monitoring resources on the computer network. Additional data associated with the computer network resources to be obtained based on the incident... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070266140 - Network management apparatus: A network management apparatus, including a communication section connected to a network, a memory for storing a network configuration diagram, a display, an input section, and an arithmetic control section, wherein when at least one device being connected to the network is detected, the arithmetic control section displays an indication... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070266130 - A system and method for presenting offers for purchase to a mobile wireless device: The present invention relates to a system and method for presenting offers for goods and services and facilitating payments for the goods and services through the use of a mobile wireless device such as a cellular telephone. This is accomplished through the use of a mobile client stored on the... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070266134 - Adaptive cross-layer cross-node optimization: Methods and systems for adaptive cross-layer cross-node optimization in wireless communication systems are provided. Adaptive cross-layer cross-node optimization allows for conventional cross-layer optimization coupled with the ability to adaptively optimize cross-layer interactions across node boundaries. In one aspect, adaptive cross-layer cross-node optimization includes adaptively and dynamically shifting functions/layers among nodes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070266126 - Data processing system and method of data processing supporting ticket-based operation tracking: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units coupled by a plurality of communication links for point-to-point communication such that at least some of the communication between multiple different ones of the processing units is transmitted via intermediate processing units among the plurality of processing units. The communication... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070266127 - Internal virtual local area network (lan): An internal virtual local area network (LAN). A system includes a plurality of internal, virtual LAN devices. Each virtual LAN device has a virtual address unique among the virtual LAN devices in the system. In some embodiments, a virtual LAN driver is coupled to the plurality of virtual LAN devices... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070266128 - Method and apparatus for monitoring deployment of applications and configuration changes in a network of data processing systems: A method includes storing status information relating to the implementation of operational updates for various data processing systems in a network of such systems. The status information may be stored in the form of a log of various actions related to the implementation of the operational updates. In response to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (shc) C/o The Culbertson Group, P.C.

20070266132 - Method and system for providing distributed allowed domains in a data network: Method and system for providing distributed domains in a fiber channel fabric including determining a domain configuration of a resource, retrieving one or more current domain configuration parameters, determining a list of domains in a fiber channel fabric, and generating an updated domain list for the resource in the fabric... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070266135 - Multiple active session management interface: A user interface allows for managing multiple active computing sessions. The interface displays a primary active session in a primary display and indicators for each of a plurality of secondary active sessions, which include sessions computationally active in the underlying processing environment but not actively engaged to the user through... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070266131 - Obtaining and using primary access numbers utilizing a mobile wireless device: The present invention relates to a system and method for obtaining and using primary access numbers on a wireless mobile device. This is accomplished through the use of a mobile client stored on the mobile wireless device. The mobile client being connected via a wireless network to a system server,... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070266133 - Priority task list: Tasks for managing a network can be displayed in a priority task list. Tasks can be selected for inclusion based on rules, such as rules relating to best practices. The rules can be applied against network status, usage status, user profiles, and the like. Upon selection of a user interface... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070266136 - Providing a unified user interface for managing a plurality of heterogeneous computing environments: In certain embodiments, a method for providing a unified user interface for managing a plurality of heterogeneous computing environments comprises displaying at least a portion of a framework user interface, the framework user interface comprising common functionality and a standard layout for the unified user interface. A listing of a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070266129 - Three-dimensional networking structure: Disclosed herein is a multi-layer silicon stack architecture including: one or more processing layers including one or more computing elements; one or more networking layers disposed between the processing layers, the network layer includes one or more networking elements, wherein each computing element includes a plurality of network connections to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20070266149 - Integrating traffic monitoring data and application runtime data: Information is obtained from an application monitoring system which monitors the execution of an application and a traffic monitoring system which monitors traffic between clients and the application. The clients interact with the application to perform transactions or other tasks. Traffic monitoring data, such as information regarding defects and incidents,... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070266148 - Synthetic transactions based on system history and load: Synthetic transactions for a network system are generated based on monitoring of the network system. One or more network system monitoring systems receive network system traffic, traffic monitoring data and/or application runtime data during a monitoring process. The traffic monitoring data may be derived from network system traffic and the... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070266150 - Systems and methods for self-checking and identifying errors in rich-media advertisements: The advertisement server is communicatively connected to the web browser and the web server. The advertisement server is configured to receive the advertisement unit request and send the advertisement unit to the web browser in response to the advertisement unit request. Each advertisement unit includes an error checking call script... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070266142 - Cross-cutting detection of event patterns: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the detection of correlation rules in an enterprise computing monitoring and management system. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for detection of correlation rules can be provided. The method can include receiving events from... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070266147 - Knowledge acquisition system for remotely managed client computer: A method is disclosed whereby parameters on a client computer are filtered, and those relevant to a remote IT manager are displayed and/or transmitted to a remote IT manager server. The system provides a concise listing of parameters of interest to an IT manager.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070266145 - Method, system and program product for collecting web metric data: A method, system and program product for collecting web metric data is disclosed. The method includes inserting a script at the top of each web page to be metered, sending a web page request to a web server for a web page, loading the web page while executing the script... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070266141 - Processing taxonomic extensions on the world wide web to implement an integrity-rich intelligence apparatus: Methods for implementing an Internet Operating System are described at the core as a Unified-Dynamic Domain Name Server (UD-DNS) system and may be referred to as a web integrity service (WIS). A list of root http addresses resides in a database. The top level domain (TLD) is parsed from the... Agent: Michael A. Norton

20070266146 - System and method for directing attention to web site functionality: A system determines if functionality offered via a Web site is being underutilizing by a user, e.g., not being using at all or not being using with some desired degree of regularity. When it is determined that the functionality offered via the Web site is being underutilized by the user,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070266143 - System and method for distributing proxying error information in wireless networks: A system and method for distributing proxying error information in wireless networks is provided. The includes associating a proxy node with a non-routable node; sending a data packet from an initiator node to the proxy node for delivery to the non-routable node; determining by the proxy node that the non-routable... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070266144 - Usage based indicators to assess the impact of scholarly works: architecture and method: Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. A technical, standards-based architecture... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070266156 - Contact management system and method: A computer-implemented contact management method includes creating a contact record in a contact management system, generating a unique serial number corresponding to the contact record, conveying the serial number to a recipient, entering, by the recipient, the serial number into an internet-enabled computer application, and requesting, by the application, the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070266155 - Content use management system, content-providing system, content-using device and computer readable medium: A content use management system includes a content-providing system and content-using device. The content-providing system includes a providing unit that provides, to the content-using device, digital content having content identification information corresponding to user-side-specific information specific to the content-using device or a user of the content-using device and a primary... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070266157 - Reducing collisions in wireless systems: A device comprising processing logic and transceiver logic coupled to the processing logic. The data is transmitted and received on at least one of a first channel and a second channel. The processing logic determines whether the first channel has been idle for at least a predetermined length of time... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070266152 - Computer peripheral device with computer security control mechanism: A method for controlling access to a computer first provides a peripheral device with an identification number, and which is coupled to a computer. Next, the accuracy of the identification number of the coupled peripheral device is verified. Operation of the computer is prevented if the identification number is not... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070266151 - Method and system for display area optimization in a role-based user interface: Embodiments of the present invention relate to making optimal use of display screen real estate in a role-based user interface. In an administrative mode of the user interface, a full range of navigation functions may be displayed. In a working mode of the user interface, navigation functions may be hidden... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070266158 - Security checking program for communication between networks: A method for determining if a multiplicity of networks are authorized to communicate with each other and what IP protocol can be used for communication between each combination of two of the networks. For each network, a computer readable data base stores a record of (a) IP protocol(s) permitted to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070266154 - User authentication system, fraudulent user determination method and computer program product: A system and method is provided for easily detecting a fraudulent user who attempts to obtain authentication using voice reproduced by a reproducer. A personal computer is provided with an audio data obtaining portion for picking up ambient sound around a person as a target of user authentication using voice... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070266153 - Video signal processing apparatus and methods: Video signal processing apparatus and methods are disclosed. An access termination terminates an access communication link that operatively couples a video service customer site to a communication network in which communication signals comprising video signals are distributed to video service customer sites. A video signal processor is co-located with the... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070266160 - Automatic application server fail fast and recover on resource error: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems and apparatus for managing back end problems at a server. Resources at a server may become unavailable for several reasons, for example, due to heavy traffic accessing the resource, errors while running applications, accessing databases, and the like. When requests for accessing... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070266159 - System and method for communication between remote objects and local proxies: The invention relates to a system and to a corresponding method for communicating between remote objects provided by service providers (10). The methods thereof are accessible as web services (5) and client-sided local proxies (proxies 3) in a computer network (9), in particular Internet or LAN. A general service (8)... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070266161 - Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using h.324 and related telecommunications protocols: A method of reducing a call set-up time between a pair of H.324-like terminals coupled to one or more telecommunication networks includes providing a first capability identifier in at least one of a non-standard or generic field of a first TCS message, transmitting the first capability identifier from the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070266163 - Method for distributing service according to terminal type: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for distributing a service according to a terminal type, wherein a correspondence relation table for storing correspondence relations between a terminal type and an IP address of a network administration server, and an IP address of a service server is preset... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070266162 - Session initiation protocol redirection for process recycling: Fault tolerant process recycling in unified messaging software applications implementing application layer signaling protocols. A manager process redirects incoming calls to available worker processes using a redirect method of the application layer signaling protocols. The redirection occurs independent of the network connection details of each of the worker processes.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070266164 - Personal domain controller: A method of accessing a data resource identifies the data resource, the data resource accessible through a first device and associated with a resource locator, the first device configured to provide access to the data resource responsive to possession of a whitelisted credential. The method includes receiving a second-device credential... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20070266166 - Aggregating network activity using software provenance data: A method and system are described for receiving, at a first node, provenance data including at least a handle relating to a first software program active on a second node and executing one or more instructions received from the second node, on the first node.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070266167 - Providing different network services to a network agent: Differing network services can be provided to a single network agent such that a single agent can access services billed to different accounts. Different services and billed to different accounts by the network agent sending a network agent identifier to the network which identifies the agent. After an agent is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070266165 - Test automation method for software programs: A method for testing a software program creates test data by simulating data exchange messages between a server and a client and stores test data in Comma Separated Value (CSV) files. Data repository files stored in the CSV format can be edited by common tools, like a spreadsheet program, and... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070266170 - Interactive, rich-media delivery over an ip network using synchronized unicast and multicast: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for delivering rich media over a digital network. The invention includes processing rich media in two or more sub-streams. The rich media includes video content or audio content. The sub-streams include digital packets for transport over IP networks. The invention includes adding synchronizing... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070266171 - Media contents distribution system and method: A server stores a media content and an execution program for processing the media content, and determines a usage rule for the media content to be transmitted to a terminal. The server distributes the usage rule, the media content, and the execution program to the terminal. The terminal stores the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070266168 - Prioritization of audio streams for platform adaptive audio decoding: This disclosure describes audio techniques that exploit a prioritization scheme of audio streams of a software application, such as a video game that execute on a mobile device. The priority of the audio streams are defined by a content creator of the application. In addition, priority of an additional audio... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070266169 - System and method for streaming media objects: A method and system for streaming media objects. A streaming system includes a group of end nodes and at least one core node connected via an overlay network. The end nodes cache segments of media objects and stream the media objects to a client segment by segment. Each end node... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070266172 - Method, system and computer program for configuration of a data lens for translation of data between storage locations: A method for configuration of a data lens for use in translation of information between first information located in a first information storage location and stored in a first information format and a second information stored in a second information storage location and stored in a second information format, comprising... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070266174 - Method and system for reliable multicast datagrams and barriers: Aspects of a method and system for reliable multicast datagrams and barriers are presented. Various aspects of the system may include a hub that enables storage of data received from a data source in a multicast group. The data source may be associated with a computer in a distributed cluster... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070266173 - Multiplexed communication between host computer and smartphone used as wireless modem: Data is communicated between a first computing device and a second computing device over a transport employing a communication protocol in a multiplexed manner. The second computing device also includes wireless communication capabilities. Data is received from a first application and a second application through a first virtual port and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070266175 - Method for distribution of software and configuration data and corresponding data network: In one aspect, software or configuration data that is to be distributed is subdivided into data blocks and a list created based on the data blocks created. Users receive the list and a portion of the data blocks. The users form ad hoc networks or P2P connections among themselves. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070266176 - Updating a web user interface on a client device: A computer-implemented method for updating a web user interface on a client device is provided. A router back-boned to the Internet communicates with the client device web-user interface data defined in markup language to dynamically update the web-user interface on the client device. The router contains no logic regarding the... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070266177 - Communication device with indirect command distribution: The invention provides a communication device with a programmably arranged first means, a programmably arranged second means and a programmably arranged third means. The programmably arranged first means requests the programmably arranged second means to transmit the certain command to a non-existing network address, wherein the programmably arranged second means... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tomtom

20070266178 - Secondary channel in multiplexed communication between host computer and smartphone: Data is communicated between a first computing device and a second computing device over a transport employing a communication protocol in a multiplexed manner. The second computing device also includes wireless communication capabilities. Data is received from a first application and a second application through a first virtual port and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070266179 - Intelligent network processor and method of using intelligent network processor: An intelligent network processor is disclosed that provides a PCI express (PCIe) host bus adapter with firmware selectable hardware capabilities and firmware enabled emulation of capabilities not supported by hardware. Support for Fibre Channel (FC) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) protocols are provided through the same fabric ports, including multiple port... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070260668 - Methods and apparatus to perform process placement for distributed applications: Methods and apparatus to perform process placement for distributed applications are disclosed. An example method comprises determining a mapping between a communication graph representative of communications of a distributed application and a topology graph representative of communication costs associated with a computing network, and executing the distributed application with the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070260669 - Method for dividing computations: In certain aspects, the invention features methods that include receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices of a distributed computing system. Such an... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070260672 - A post/bios solution for providing input and output capacity on demand: Basic server resources may be extended by the completion of a Capacity on Demand (CoD) Agreement. The CoD Agreement provides authorization to the server for activation of inactive resources. A Power On Self Test (POST) works in conjunction with a system management interrupt, a memory unit, and a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20070260678 - Av server: There is provided an AV server capable of internally establishing a logical connection and appropriately managing connection with a plurality of client devices even when a physical connection is firstly requested from a client device. The AV server (10) includes a communication unit (11) which communicates with the client device... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070260679 - Content distribution system; content distribution method; distribution server, client terminal, and portable terminal used in the system; and computer readable recording medium on which is recorded a program for operating a computer used in the system: A user accesses a sound data distribution server by operating a client terminal. The sound data distribution server transmits data for displaying a list of distributable music. The data are displayed on a display unit of the client terminal. While referring to the display on the display unit, the user... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070260671 - Customization of content and advertisements in publications: A method includes receiving personalized content from a plurality of content sources. The personalized content is based on user input. The method further includes receiving a personalized advertisement based on user input, and creating a customized publication including the personalized content and the personalized advertisement.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070260673 - Dynamic syndicated content delivery system and method: A dynamic syndicated content delivery system and method, the system having: a push proxy, the push proxy having: a deferred retrieval message store, the deferred retrieval message store adapted to storing deferred content for future delivery; a push agent, the push agent adapted to push content; and a push scheduler,... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070260675 - Method and system for adapting a single-client, single-user application to a multi-user, multi-client environment: The invention provides a method and system for adapting a single-user, single-client application for multiple clients operated by multiple users. An instance of an unmodified single-client, single-user application is executed in each of the clients, and the execution of the multiple instances of the application is coordinated by a wrapper... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070260676 - Method of selecting one server out of a server set: A method of selecting one server (S1-S4) out of a server set for the purpose of requesting one or more service/s, for example related to an internet- and session-based application, each of the servers (S1-S4) of the server set being capable of supporting the service/s, whereby a status vector is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070260677 - Methods and systems for displaying videos with overlays and tags: In a system and method for displaying a video and an overlay or tag, an application that runs through a browser on a client is used to send a request from the client to a server over a computer network. In response to the request, at least the following is... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070260674 - Push framework for delivery of dynamic mobile content: A push proxy and push client for use in a generic dynamic content delivery system the push proxy having: a content provider registration service provider interface, said service provider interface adapted to register said push proxy with content providers and to further receive channel metadata for the content providers; a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070260680 - System 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.

20070260670 - Web application integration with dialogue based scripts: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to scripting integration in a Web application environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for Web application integration with dialogue based scripts. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for integrating a Web application... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070260687 - Method and apparatus for collaboration among individuals: Method and systems for establishing a collaboration among individuals and an imaginary character in a virtual world are disclosed. An exemplary method may include establishing an internet protocol channel between a first individual and a program represented by the imaginary character. The exemplary method may also include establishing a non-internet... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070260683 - Computer program product for providing parallel presentations: A computer program product for providing presentations to a plurality of individuals includes instructions for creating a plurality of sub-presentations related to a master presentation wherein each sub-presentation comprises a plurality of slides having content customized for each of the participants; distributing the plurality of sub-presentations to each of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070260684 - Managing conference call participants in a roster: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for managing a conference room roster. A method identifies a meeting participant. The method determines whether the meeting participant is associated with a meeting location and if the meeting participant is associated with the meeting location, provides an indication of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070260686 - Method and system for conferencing control: A method for conferencing control includes determining at least one participant, determining at least one participant location corresponding to the participant, determining at least one participant indicator corresponding to the participant wherein the participant indicator is displayed on a representational interface based the participant location, determining a plurality of participant... Agent: Andrew L. Discher

20070260688 - Method of determining a refund on a communications network: A method of determining a refund on a communications network The method comprises the steps of allowing a user to request responses to a query through the medium of the communications network in return for a fee paid by the user. A selected time the request for responses terminates, and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070260681 - System and method for generating communication history for a plurality of participants: System and method for generating a communication history for a plurality of participants corresponding to one or more collaborative systems are disclosed. The method includes searching a collector-database for one or more communication instances corresponding to the plurality of participants in one or more collaborative systems. The collector-database stores information... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070260685 - Techniques for providing a conference with a virtual participant: Techniques for conducting a meeting using a meeting management system are provided. A connection from a user to a connection interface is received for a meeting being offered by the meeting management system. An input is received that provides contact information for a user. The user may choose to be... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070260682 - Wireless communications connection device: A method and apparatus is provided for setting up a wireless conference call, wireless non-call conference, and sharing audio and/or video content. The method includes the steps of providing an audio mixer that receives an audio input from each of at least three audio interfaces, mixes, cleans, and amplifies and/or... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Intellectual Property Department

20070260690 - Method and apparatus for remote voice-over or music production and management: A desktop application and supporting web site for recording voice-over or music sessions is introduced, wherein the production staff and talent may be in separate remote locations. The application includes providing a high quality data format for transferring audiovisual data, recordings and the like, and a lower-quality data format for... Agent: Charles A. Rattner

20070260689 - Methods and systems for managing shared state within a distributed system with varying consistency and consenus semantics: Methods and systems for managing shared state within a distributed system with varying consistency and consensus semantics are described. In one configuration, a computing device receives a first plurality of objects representing the state of a first item and a second plurality of objects representing the state of a second... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070260693 - Method and apparatus for utilizing portable e-mail addresses: A signal bearing medium tangibly embodies a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations comprising receiving an email message having an extended email address encoded virtual address, resolving said address to an actual email address, replacing the virtual address with the actual email address,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070260692 - System and method of efficiently generating and sending bulk emails: A method of efficiently generating and sending emails including creating an email template, setting up a campaign query, and distributing the email template and a set of information associated with the campaign query to a plurality of server groups. The method also includes running the campaign query on each of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070260691 - Wireless local area network capacity triggered upload and download: Disclosed is electronic equipment (e.g., a mobile telephone) and method directed to electronic equipment having an improved electronic mail (E-mail) application for transmitting and/or sending E-mail messages based on one or more characteristics of the E-mail message (e.g., file size). In one embodiment, the user implements a network communication priority... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070260694 - Computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for automatically replying to an instant message: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, tool, and program product for sending a customized reply to an instant message. Specifically, under the present invention, a customized message may be provided for a specific instant messaging contact/availability status combination. When the availability status is selected and a message is... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070260695 - System and method for interactive, multimedia entertainment, education or other experience, and revenue generation therefrom: A system and method provide a story line with which a participant may interact using various forms of media. Mechanisms to generate revenue in connection with the participating with the story line are also provided.... Agent: Jones Day

20070260696 - System and method for providing three-way failover for a transactional database: A method for providing three-way failover for a database server group includes identifying a master server failure or a master server shutdown, designating a first replication server as a new master server, and copying data from a second replication server to a new replication server while the first replication server... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070260697 - Method and system for wireless transmission of multi-media data from a portable multi-media device: A method and system for wireless transmission of multi-media data from a portable multi-media device to a compatible electronic device using two steps; step 1 involves conveniently selecting to the compatible electronic device using the portable multi-media device; step 2 involves transmitting multi-media data over the wireless network from the... Agent: Peter Shapiro

20070260705 - Mapped parameter sets using bulk loading system and method: A system and method are provided that allows users to define a set of parameters for Uniform Resource Locator (URL) mapping rules. A URL may be defined for each output parameter condition, input parameters inspected, and the output parameter value determined. Business logic is executed before and after URL mappings... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070260700 - Method and system for providing persistent media across web pages using only browser plug-ins: A method and system for providing persistent media across Web pages using only browser plug-ins. Media selected through a Web browser can play in a way that is embedded in the content, but the media can continue to play while Web pages transition. The content providers benefit from the flexibility... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070260704 - Method of providing service for user search, and apparatus, server, and system for the same: A service provision method is provided for user search, and an apparatus, a server, and a system for the same. A service provision method includes transmitting a terminal search request message including a contents information element to a service provision server, receiving positional information of a terminal, which is playing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260702 - Web browser architecture for virtual machine access: Applications and services are accessed over the Web without requiring any modification to the currently available code for such applications. Virtual machines (VMs) can each be associated with one or more pre-configured and pre-installed software applications and hosted by Web sites. A VM is accessed and run when a user... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070260699 - Configurable system for using internet services on ce devices: A configurable system brings Internet services, designed for PCs, to consumer electronics (CE) devices, and allows using external services such as Internet Services on CE devices. This reduces the need for input devices such as keyboards and mice, thereby making the configurable system suitable for CE devices. The configurable system... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070260707 - Method and apparatus for providing web services using preference information: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing web services by which the performance of web services is improved and exchanges of a large quantity of messages are effectively supported. The method includes: preparing the preference information, which pre-describes information required by a web services provider, to provide web services... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070260698 - Method for managing information: A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes... Agent: The Law Offices Of Steven Mchugh, LLC

20070260703 - Methods and systems for transmission of subsequences of incremental query actions and selection of content items based on later received subsequences: The invention features a method of reducing perceived network latency in processing a query from a handheld client device processed by a remote system. The client device receives incremental input including a sequence of incremental user actions for identifying content items on the remote system. The client device transmits a... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070260701 - System and method for cacheing web files: A system and method receives a request for a file containing an identifier of the requested file and a message digest, containing an expected hash result of the requested file. The system and method identifies whether it has already stored a file having that identifier and a hash result matching... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070260706 - System and method for portal infrastructure tracking: A method and system for collecting and transmitting data across or through a firewall using HTTP and/or XML between computer systems that do not otherwise grant access to each other. A method and system for preparing data reports using data and report generation modules using HTTP and/or XML between computer... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070260709 - Federated multiprotocol communication: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. The server... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20070260710 - Federated multiprotocol communication: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. The server... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20070260708 - Portable contextual menu for triple play service: A method for accessing triple play services provided through a server over a network to a portable device, the method comprising: receiving a signal from a user defining respective preference levels for the triple play services; determining a location for the portable device; determining which of the triple play services... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070260711 - System and method for configuring a station device to access an enterprise network: A computing device may be configured to communicate with an enterprise network. A computer file may be generated from a remote resource for purpose of enabling configurations needed by the computing device to be pre-specified. The computer file may include a plurality of configuration items that are to be used... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070260713 - Automation control system having a configuration tool: A convergence and automation system (CAS) includes an internet protocol based network, hardware connected to the network, implemented with a web service for devices (WSD) protocol and including a plurality of devices, wherein each device is configured to perform at least one service, and a configuration tool to configure the... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070260712 - Configuration verification, recommendation, and animation method for a disk array in a storage area network (san): A system and method for establishing a storage area network (SAN) is described. The method includes providing a predefined template for inputting data associated with a SAN. A first tool may utilize the template to validate an entered SAN configuration based on accessing data in a database. A second tool... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070260721 - Physical server discovery and correlation: A virtual server system and a method of provisioning a plurality of virtual servers is described. The system may comprise a plurality of physical servers, at least one switch connected to the plurality of physical servers, and a virtual frame director to direct provisioning of a plurality of virtual servers... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070260719 - Apparatus and methods for efficient insertion and removal of mpa markers and rdma crc digest: The invention relates to insertion and removal of MPA markers and RDMA CRCs in RDMA data streams, after determining the locations for these fields. An embodiment of the invention comprises a host interface, a transmit interface connected to the host interface, and a processor interface connected to both transmit and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070260714 - Asynchronous interconnect protocol for a clustered dbms: A method, system and computer program product for an asynchronous interconnection between nodes of a clustered database management system (DBMS). Node timestamps are provided when each of the nodes in the cluster are started. Two or more communication conduits are established between the nodes. Each communication conduit between a local... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260717 - Method and apparatus of wafs backup managed in centralized center: A system including a plurality of servers each executing an application, a plurality of Wide Area File System (WAFS) clients which are correspondingly connected to the servers, a WAFS server which is connected to each WAFS client, a storage system or network attached storage (NAS), connected to the WAFS server,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070260716 - Method and system for collaborative self-organization of devices: Methods and systems for automatically organizing devices in a network are disclosed. Information may be collected for a plurality of devices in a predetermined area over a predetermined period of time. The information may include device location information and device information for one or more user groups. Each user group... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070260718 - Method and system for optimizing metadata passing in a push content processing protocol: A method and system of optimizing content delivery at a processing element in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the method having the steps of: receiving a content and metadata envelope at the processing element; checking the content and metadata envelope to determine whether the content and metadata envelope includes metadata... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070260715 - Methods and systems for bandwidth adaptive n-to-n communication in a distributed system: Methods and systems for bandwidth adaptive computing device to computing device communication are described. Bandwidth adaptive communication includes receiving a communication from a first participant, storing the payload data of the communication in a channel memory element associated with the first participant, and transmitting the payload data to a second... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070260720 - Mobility domain: A technique for buffering multicast messages in an access point (AP) relates to buffering multicast messages in an AP when a client of the AP is in powersave mode. Attributes of clients are used to group the clients into subsets, so multicast messages only need to be buffered if one... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070260724 - Networking architecture: An architecture and system for speed networking is disclosed. In accordance with the embodiments of the invention a computer-based system is configured to generate and store user profiles that contain user interests and goals. The system matches user profiles to define a group of users with the same or similar... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070260722 - System and method for securing remote administrative access to a processing device: The subject application is directed to a system and method for securing remote administrative access to a processing device. Incoming data packets, including source data, destination data, and a data portion for administrative control of a processing device are received at a designated port associated with administrative control. Binary mask... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070260723 - Virtual service switch: Virtual service switching includes contracting to provide a requestor with a unit of computing capacity to a service within a specific time period, creating one or more plans based at least in part on the contracting, scheduling execution of the one or more plans using the computing capacity, and if... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070260730 - Automatically updated instant messaging (im) presence of roaming im user: Constant availability and/or presence information of a roaming Instant Messaging (IM) user is provided. The invention recognizes that IM users are not always sitting at their computer where their IM client application is installed. Detection of an unrelated short-range wireless communication device, e.g., a Bluetooth cell phone, or an RFID,... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070260727 - Information output system and method: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070260728 - Systems and methods for generating network diagnostic statistics: A network diagnostic system may include a statistics module. The statistics module may include a plurality of stages and may include stage-transition code. The stage-transition code may be used to help maintain one or more network diagnostic statistics. The statistics module may be implemented using a network processor unit, and... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070260726 - Aircraft health and usage monitoring system with comparative fleet statistics: A Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) utilizes a common architecture which permits OEM and rotorcraft operators to view and trend HUMS data for an entire aircraft fleet independent of aircraft model, HUMS vendor, or raw data format. The system operates through a web portal that provides users with comparative... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070260725 - Determining influential/popular participants in a communication network: Determining influential and/or popular participants in a network using messages exchanged among a group of participants. One method includes: representing the group of participants and the messages exchanged among the group of participants as nodes and links, respectively; analyzing the messages to produce message relevant data for each node; and... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070260729 - System, method, apparatus and means for evaluating historical network activity: A system, method, apparatus, and means for adjusting network preference information which includes detecting network activity. A characteristic of the network activity is measured. Network preference information is adjusted based on the characteristic. In some embodiments, network activity is network activity by a client device such as a computer accessing... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070260731 - Method and apparatus for providing security in a remote communication system: A method for selectively guarding static interface regions and dynamically created interface regions in a host system having a host system user interface includes designating at least one static interface regions of the host system user interface as limited remote access interface regions. The host system also identifies creation of... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20070260733 - Method and system for providing high availability to distributed computer applications: Method, system, apparatus and/or computer program for achieving transparent integration of high-availability services for distributed application programs. Loss-less migration of sub-programs from their respective primary nodes to backup nodes is performed transparently to a client which is connected to the primary node. Migration is performed by high-availability services which are... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070260732 - User load balancing systems and methods thereof: A method, computer readable medium and system for user load balancing includes identifying when an overall load in at least one of two or more servers exceeds one or more thresholds that are related to one or more user loads. One or more of the user loads in the identified... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070260736 - Method of and system for crediting an online publisher in an affiliate marketing relationship: A method of crediting an online publisher when a user uses the online publisher to access an online advertiser using a web browser is disclosed. The online publisher displays a tracked advertisement on the user's browser, the tracked advertisement being identifiable by a publisher tracked advertisement identifier, with the online... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070260734 - Display device for indicating connection statuses of a communication channel provided between two systems and method thereof: A display device for indicating connection statuses of a communication channel between two systems is disclosed, the communication channel having a plurality of communication links. The display device comprises a detecting circuit coupled to the communication channel for detecting a plurality of link statuses of the communication links; an indicator... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070260735 - Methods for linking performance and availability of information technology (it) resources to customer satisfaction and reducing the number of support center calls: A method and system for evaluating a performance of an IT service. A program tool is loaded onto an end-user computer which determines a performance result with respect to a particular service utilized with the end-user computer. The result is compared to at least one threshold and based on the... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20070260737 - Method and system for the creation of service clients: A computer-implemented method (and structure) for creating a service client for a service and a role includes exercising an application programming interface (API) of the service to perform activities of the role, discovering data and behavioral models exposed by the service during this exercise, and configuring a selected set of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070260738 - Secure and modifiable configuration files used for remote sessions: Embodiments herein address some of the problems associated with compromised configuration files used in a remote sessions of a virtual computing environment. Accordingly, a subset of settings in a configuration file are secured from malicious or accidental modification, while other portions of the configuration file are modifiable by a user... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070260741 - Location-specific content communication system: A system and method for location-specific content messaging enables location matching between users of internet access devices and content that is particularly relevant at or near a certain location. The location-specific content is communicated only to one or more internet protocol-enabled (IP) devices that are accessible by wired or wireless... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070260739 - Apparatus, and associated method, for generating and transmitting an anonymous routing identifier to identify user agent: Apparatus, and an associated method, for generating and transmitting an anonymous GRUU, or other routing identifier, to identify a user agent in a communication system that utilizes SIP signaling. A user agent-generated message is generated that identifies a user agent-request for anonymous operation. And, a SIP registrar, or other network... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070260740 - Transfer syntax notational system and method: The system and method for defining messages of communication networks in a formal notation called Transfer Syntax Notation One (“TSN.1”) and compiling TSN.1 message definitions into a software message parser using a TSN.1 compiler are provided. The parser is designed to speed up the development of wireless communication software. It... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070260743 - Adaptive streaming buffering: A system receives streaming media data and stores the received data in a buffer to fill the buffer. The system selectively extracts the received data from the buffer to begin playback of the streaming media data. The system further analyzes remaining media data in the buffer, to identify a location... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070260742 - Media storage and distribution in a local area network: Software for storing and distributing media in a local area network is disclosed. The software comprises library software and player. The library software manages encrypted media files, for example, video files, and sends them to the player on request. The media files may be chapterised and the player may request... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20070260744 - Multi-layered enveloped method and system for push content metadata: A method and system for adding processing intelligence to content payload in a dynamic content delivery architecture having at least a first processing element and a second processing element, the method having the steps of: creating a first envelope, the first envelope including content payload and second processing element metadata,... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070260745 - Tcp acknowledge for aggregated packet: A method and apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention are operable to detect the accumulation of redundant ACKs (acknowledgment signals) in a queue for streaming data packet units, and to delete a portion of the redundant ACKs to improve transmission efficiencies. In one embodiment, only the most relevant... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070260746 - Maintaining igp transparency of vpn routes when bgp is used as a pe-ce protocol: A technique maintains Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) transparency of Virtual Private Network (VPN) routes when Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used as a Provider Edge Device (PE) to Customer Edge Device (CE) protocol in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a first CE generates a BGP advertisement to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070260747 - Protecting electronic file transfer from unauthorized access or copying: An electronic file is decomposed into a number of fragments. The fragments are assembled into a number of fragment files. Instructions for restoring the electronic file are generated. The fragment files are sent to a recipient device at different times and/or in a random (or different) order. In some implementations,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070260750 - Adaptable data connector: A dynamically adaptable data connector is provided. The connector can dynamically adapt to connect disparate systems regardless of system initiation protocol, data type, data format, transfer protocol, content encoding, etc. Accordingly, data can be converted or otherwise configured to effectuate communication between disparate systems that were not originally designed for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070260749 - Configuring user interfaces in electronic devices: A method and an electronic device arranged to execute application programs, wherein the device comprises an operating system enabling a separation of user interface data from the rest of the data processing system, the device being arranged to check, in response to starting an execution of the application program, whether... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070260748 - Method and apparatus to reduce the size of objects transmitted over a network: An Internet device, such as an accelerator, to speed up the delivery of content in a dynamic fashion, the device parsing code to identify a block of code that is not an embedded object, performing a hash function on the parsed block of code to provide a source URL and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070260752 - Method of synchronizing multiple content directory services, and content directory service devices and a system thereof: A method of synchronizing a plurality of content-directory service (CDS) devices is provided. The method includes retrieving and discovering N CDS devices in a home network by a control point (CP), transmitting a StartSync message that requests the start of synchronization to a certain CDS device of the N CDS... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260751 - System and method for synchronizing personal data among a plurality of devices storing such data: A system and method for maintaining data synchronization across a plurality of user devices is provided. The system and method manage data synchronization among a plurality of data storage devices includes a mobile personal information system adapted interface with a number of data storage devices. A personal information system supports... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070255782 - Clustered computer system: A clustered computational system comprises a clustered computational engine, a program host, and a queue manager. The clustered computational engine comprises a plurality of clustered computers and is configured to perform computations. The program host stores a plurality of programs that define computations that can be performed by the clustered... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070255781 - Content driven process routing for integrated enterprise applications: In one embodiment, an application integration system receives business application information and generates certain business flow and state information for the application, users based on the shared business content within the system. The content driven routing process facilitates the routing of application processes and user communication on the basis of... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070255783 - Ordered writes for srdf assist: Transmitting data from a source to a destination, includes receiving the data from the source and providing the data to the destination using a network, where the data is acknowledged to the source as being successfully received at the destination prior to all of the data being provided to the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070255784 - Communication system for use in communication between communication equipment by using ip protocol: A server apparatus selects one of communication equipment that has a waiting and reception capability as a waiting and receiving side communication equipment based on waiting and reception capability information on the respective communication equipments, and selects another communication equipment as a connection side communication equipment. The waiting and receiving... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070255787 - Method and apparatus for maintaining consistency of a shared space across multiple endpoints in a peer-to-peer collaborative computer system: In a peer-to-peer collaboration system, deltas containing data change commands are organized in a persistent data structure called a delta log. The delta log is organized into blocks, which are the largest division in the delta log. In turn, blocks contain groups, groups contain chains and chains contain deltas. Delta... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255786 - Method and system for managing meetings using group calling: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for managing meetings using group calling. The method can include the steps of detecting (212) one or more meeting participants for a meeting, comparing (214) the detected meeting participants with a listing of scheduled meeting participants and generating (216) a dynamic... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070255785 - Multimedia sharing in social networks for mobile devices: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards sharing multimedia information on a mobile device based at least in part on vitality information and other social networking information. Multimedia information may be received and/or synchronized on the mobile device based on a relationship between vitality information of members of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070255788 - System and method for collaborative control of a remote software application: A system and method for collaborative control of a software application is disclosed. The system includes a network collaboration control engine configured to connect remote users to share control of an application. A queuing module is configured to assign a control priority in a shared application control queue to the... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070255792 - Method and apparatus for an email gateway: An email gateway capable of managing the email experience of users operating on disparate communication devices and networks. The gateway allows configuration of emails on the basis of the hardware and software capabilities of the receiving, a.k.a. targeted communication device. The email gateway includes: a splitter, a database, a device... Agent: Ip Creators

20070255793 - Method for providing service between heterogeneous networks: A method for a Portable Subscriber Station (PSS) to be provided with a service in a communication system where heterogeneous networks interwork with each other. The method includes receiving a first message including an authorization token that is bearer resource authorization information, generating a flow identifier for distinguishing between at... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070255789 - Dynamic set operations when specifying email recipients: A method for specifying email recipients that includes specifying a first set of email recipients, a second set of email recipients, and a set operation. A third set of email recipients can be automatically is generated by performing the set operation upon the first set and the second set. Email... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070255790 - Embedded email reciever authentication: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing an option when sending an email which will require the recipient of the email to provide an extra level of authentication before displaying the email contents in order to prove that he or she is indeed the correct recipient... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070255794 - Multi-conversation instant messaging: Methods and systems for integrating and displaying multiple instant messaging conversations in a single sequence are described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20070255791 - System and method for managing threadsd in a network chat environment: A system and method is provided for managing conversation threads 520 in a chat room 505 operating in a network chat environment. A chat controller 120 provides an exchange of information in the form of a plurality of chat lines between a plurality of chat clients registered with a chat... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070255795 - Framework and method of using instant messaging (im) as a search platform: A framework and method to integrate a Search Service in an IM environment is provided. A Search Service is represented by one or more buddies or contacts of an IM user. An IM user performs inline search by adding a buddy representing a Search Service to a new or existing... Agent: Wei Shi

20070255796 - Home network system: The present invention discloses a home network system (1) which can efficiently configure a new home appliance (50) in the existing home network system. The home network system (1) includes at least one new device (50) newly connected to a master device (30) through a network (20), for transmitting a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070255802 - Method and system for transparent tcp offload (tto) with a user space library: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent TCP offload with a user space library are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) without transferring state information to a host system. When an event occurs that terminates the collection of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070255804 - Method of meeting others via the world wide web: A method of meeting others for friendship, group interests, companionship, or relationship, through the use of illustrations of ones, interests, and/or, personality, and/or likes or dislikes, and/or, personification of oneself. The individual wishing to meet another individual or group of individuals will create an illustration which will personify one self,... Agent: Keith Cangiarella

20070255800 - Automatic goodbye messages: A facility is described for automatically sending goodbye messages. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication to terminate a conversation session that was previously established to exchange messages with a converser. The facility then retrieves a goodbye message, sends the goodbye message to the converser, and terminates the conversation... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070255798 - Brokered virtualized application execution: Methods and apparatuses enable brokering the execution of an application. Rather than setting up a complete application execution environment including hardware and software, an execution broker enables execution of an application in a system that is generated or made available in response to a request to execute the application. Some... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070255801 - Digital cable and satellite television remotely automated notice system: A device and method for broadcasting advisory alerts via a central notification computer which is operable to broadcast advisory alerts to digital cable and satellite televisions. The advisory alerts are sent to television addresses stored in a subscriber database in a computer retrievable format. The subscriber database contains subscriber data... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20070255797 - Method for selecting an air interface using an access list on a multi-mode wireless device: Application-specific access lists are provided for a multimode mobile wireless device. The multimode mobile device has an access list for each wireless technology. Typically, these technology specific access lists are standard for each technology, and are provided by a service provider or the manufacturer of the multimode mobile device. For... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070255799 - Method of discovering and accessing web pages: A communication terminal accesses a web page for a target entity using the telephone number of the target entity. The communication terminal directs a web access information request to a web access information server maintained by the target entity using a telephone number entered by the user or retrieved from... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070255803 - X-mail (tm): The invention covers certain improvements to the Internet methods of handling “stray” email messages, which are sent to old “invalid” email addresses. It provides means and methods to salvage such stray messages. It proposes to establish a depository center, to store information in database files, to be referred to as... Agent: Gabe Cherian

20070255805 - Creating a virtual university experience: A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a training opportunity to understand and solve optimally. The technique establishes a virtual university by... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070255806 - Personal voice-based information retrieval system: The present invention relates to a system for retrieving information from a network such as the Internet. A user creates a user-defined record in a database that identifies an information source, such as a web site, containing information of interest to the user. This record identifies the location of the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070255809 - Server, reconnection control method, device, reconnection method, program, and record medium: A server connectable to a device through a network is disclosed. The server includes a designation section and a transmission section. The designation section designates a first time interval for which the device repeatedly reconnects the server. The transmission section transmits an information corresponding to the designated first time interval... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070255810 - Modifying apparent browser operation: Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a method, apparatus and system for directing an on-line user to predetermined information. Preferred embodiments of the instant invention interface with the user's browser to utilize the functions of the browser for directing user “traffic” on a network. In preferred embodiments, when... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070255807 - Social networking for mobile devices: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling an integrated display of live views. The integrated live views are generated by employing social networking information, including moods of a person, avatars, status of a member's activities including whether they are in an IM session, or the like. Integrated... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070255808 - System and methods for updating registration information for a computer jukebox: Systems and methods for updating registration information for a computer jukebox are provided. The registration system and methods provide updated information for registration or authorization of a jukebox to a central computer after the occurrence of a pre-selected event (e.g., changing MAC address, changing the hard drive, memory, or Central... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070255811 - Dynamic data presentation: Dynamic data presentation is described. In an embodiment, drawing instructions are captured as a template at a content provider, and the drawing instructions template is communicated to the computing-based client device that processes the drawing instructions to render a presentation layout in which the dynamic data can be displayed. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070255812 - Ospf optimization for hub and spoke environment: A method and apparatus for routing data in a network is disclosed. A spoke router signals its intention to act as spoke in a new bit in Hello and database descriptor packets. A router acting as hub acknowledges the spoke request. Once the spoke router receives the hub's acknowledgement, it... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070255815 - Software, systems, and methods for secure, authenticated data exchange: Systems, methods, and software for the secure exchange of electronic information are provided. In a first aspect, the present invention provides a system for secure electronic information exchange, comprising a secure electronic communications server computer in secure electronic communication with at least one sender of electronic information and at least... Agent: David P. Lentini

20070255816 - System and method for processing data signals: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for processing data signals in real-time via a global computer network. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for processing data signals comprising a first data signal received from a first client, a... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070255813 - Compatibility enforcement in clustered computing systems: In one embodiment a method of creating a clustered computing system, comprises storing license information for a computing cluster in a memory module associated with a computing node, wherein the licensing information includes a bundle-type parameter that identifies a characteristic of the cluster and one or more node license parameters... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070255817 - Coordinated operation method, and communication terminal device: An application load unit 72 of a host unit loads an application main body of an engine application which has been acquired to an engine unit 40. Subsequently, when an execution command for the application main body is issued by the user, an execution decision means within an application execution... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070255814 - System for server consolidation and mobilization: A system for consolidating multiple discrete machines and applications into a single rack mounted server system. Dedicated application servers maintain the discrete machines as virtual machines accessible by thin clients through secure hardwire or wireless connections and through client management servers. The system polls the application servers to compile lists... Agent: Charles W. Hanor, P.C.

20070255826 - Method and system for user-designed application deployment: Embodiments of a method and system for utilizing user-designed applications are disclosed. A user-designed application that utilizes at least one high-level API available within a system may be received. The user-designed application may be deployed server-side within the system. A user request may be processed server-side for the user-designed application... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20070255825 - Data management system, data transmitter-receiver, data management server, and data management method: When a communication button 21 is pushed, a relay key 12 transmits predetermined information to a data measuring instrument 14 or the like. The data measuring instrument 14 or the like transmit measurement data to the relay key 12 side. The relay key 12 transmits to the PC 11 measurement... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070255824 - Device for tapping userful data from multimedia links in a packet network: In one aspect, a method for tapping useful data of multimedia data connections in a packet network is provided. Useful data that includes a plurality of subcomponents is provided. One of the subcomponents is separated from the useful data and sent to an interception device. The useful data is transmitted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070255822 - Exploiting service heartbeats to monitor file share: Detecting the failure of file transfers via a network copy service from a source computer to a destination computer via a network monitoring service. If the network monitoring service determines that the source computer is no longer available, the destination computer initiates a second file transfer request via the network... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070255823 - Method for low-overhead message tracking in a distributed messaging system: A method for tracking a sent message in a distributed messaging system is presented. The method includes providing a sequence of data structures that when queried have a known probability of returning a false positive result and creating a message history by associating a range map with each of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070255818 - Method of detecting unauthorized access to a system or an electronic device: Characteristics of a user's behavior on an electronic device are captured and stored. These stored characteristics are compared to the characteristics of a subsequent user purporting to be the same person. If the differences in the characteristics are such that fraud is suspected, an alert is activated.... Agent: Richard W. Tanzer

20070255820 - Methods and apparatus for a consolidated switch for use with networked rf components: A consolidated RF switch includes a cell controller configured to process data packets received from an access port communicatively coupled to a plurality of mobile units via a wireless network, and an RFID network controller configured to process tag information received from an RFID reader communicatively coupled to a plurality... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070255819 - Methods and arrangements to detect a failure in a communication network: Methods and arrangements to monitor communication components such as a network adapters for activity, and identify components that have lower than normal levels of activity are provided. An identified communication component can become suspect component and a candidate for further testing, including different forms of interrogation. Process for interrogating candidates... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070255821 - Real-time click fraud detecting and blocking system: This invention is a real-time system that detects click fraud and blocks those click fraud. This system will be used as an arbitration system to evaluate the quality of every click referred from PPC publishers, thus helping advertiser saving money. The invention uses innovative matching between two logs, client side... Agent: Li Ge

20070255828 - Method and apparatus for controlling registration traffic for a server in a communication network: Method and apparatus for controlling registration traffic for a server in a communication network is described. In one example, a network port associated with the registration traffic on ingress links to the server is blocked. The network port associated with the registration traffic is unblocked on at least one of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070255829 - Network operation center architecture in a high bandwidth satellite based data delivery system for internet users: The Network Operations Center (“NOC”) of an internet broadcast system receives video and other content from a content provider and uplinks that data to a satellite for delivering at high bandwidths to edge nodes and thereafter to internet users.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070255827 - Termination of a security association between devices: A secure association may be established between a first device and a second device for providing secure communication. When the secure association is to be terminated, a first device may save an indication that termination of the secure association is pending, if it is unable to communicate with the second... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255836 - Agent allocation program, method and apparatus: There is provided a program for allocating an agent on a computer including a plurality of interconnected nodes, each having a CPU and a memory; the program causing each of the nodes of the computer to perform the steps of: storing the amount of data transmitted between an agent residing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070255834 - Coordinating a transition of a roaming client between wireless access points using another client in physical proximity: Systems and methods for handling a transition of a roaming mobile user device (i.e., a roaming client) from one access point (AP) to a target AP, referred to herein as soft inter-AP handoff. This technique involves a second mobile user device that is already connected with the target AP, called... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255835 - Resource reservation for massively parallel processing systems: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for reserving resources in a massively parallel processing system comprising. The method includes receiving a reservation request for reserving at least one resource within a massively parallel processing system. The massively parallel processing system includes compute nodes, base partitions,... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070255831 - Contextual mobile local search based on social network vitality information: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing contextual based mobile searches. A context oriented user interface interprets inputs from a mobile user based on vitality information. In one embodiment, the input may be interpreted as a request to perform a context-based search over a network using at least... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070255830 - Identifying a configuration for an application in a production environment: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, computer system and computer program product provide a configuration recommendation. Request-processing performance data of an application is received. The request-processing performance data is collected by an application monitor during an execution of the application on a source hardware system. One or more request-processing performance... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20070255832 - Method for configuring a windfarm network: A method for automatically configuring a local network in a windfarm is provided, the method including the steps of (a) automatically assigning an IP address to a device connected to the local windfarm network, (b) automatically receiving an identifier tag from the device, and (c) relating the automatically assigned IP... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20070255833 - System and methods for managing resources in grid computing: A system, method, and computer program product for managing resources, including a server adapted for interacting with at least one control system to schedule multiple jobs using at least one resource is disclosed. The system further comprises an agent adapted for monitoring execution of the at least one resource and... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070255838 - Providing guest users network access based on information read from a credit card or other object: Guest user are enabled to access network resources through an enterprise network using a guest user account. A guest user account may be created for a guest for a limited time. Guest account credentials of the guest account may be provided to the guest to use the guest account using... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255837 - Providing guest users network access based on information read from a mobile telephone or other object: Guest user are enabled to access network resources through an enterprise network using a guest user account. A guest user account may be created for a guest for a limited time. Guest account credentials of the guest account may be provided to the guest to use the guest account using... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255841 - Authorizing service requests in multi-tiered applications: Services of a multi-tier application can authorize (e.g., including authenticating) each other with one or more service access tokens provided by a security token service. In one implementation, an end-user can authenticate with the security token service to obtain one or more security tokens for communicating with an upstream application... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070255840 - Offering and provisioning secured wireless virtual private network services: An electronic device may present a user interface for making selections related to connecting to a network or selecting a network from a plurality of available networks. Additionally, a user interface may give a user an opportunity to secure to an open, unsecure, connection, for example, an ad-hoc wireless connection,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070255839 - System and method for scheduling wireless channel resources: A system and method are provided for enabling and performing scheduling for wireless devices supporting multiple users or devices. The system has a wireless subscriber device that is enabled to support multiple users or devices. The wireless system may operate accordingly to a wireless air interface such as WCDMA, CDMA2000,... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070255843 - Configuration of clients for multiple computer services: A method and apparatus for configuration of clients for multiple computer services. An embodiment of a method includes receiving multiple computer services, the computer services including a group of computer services, with the group of computer services having a logical address. A client is configured for the group of computer... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070255842 - Policy calendar: A calendar tool displays policies that are scheduled to function in managed networks. The tool allows the network administrator to select and view individual scheduled policies, many individual scheduled policies or scheduled policy suites. The calendar identifies the different scheduled policies as rectilinear colored blocks of time on a calendar.... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070255847 - Systems and methods for preparing network data for analysis: Preparation of network data for analysis. An original frame representing a frame transmitted in a communications link can be received wherein the original frame comprises a payload. At least a portion of the payload can be removed from the original frame. Statistics can be inserted into the original frame to... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070255846 - Distributed storage of media data: Methods and systems thereof for storing a stream of media data are described. The media data describes an instance of media content. The media data can be scalably encoded. The scalably encoded data is separated into at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of scalably... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070255844 - Guided random seek support for media streaming: Seek support facilitates convenient access to portions of a media file a user wishes to access. Seek support is provided by a usage model based on prior users' access of a media file or expected user access patterns. The usage model reflects expected next segments a user will seek when... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070255845 - Mobile device control of mobile television broadcast signals from broadcaster: Disclosed is a portable mobile communications device that can view a scrambled alternate version of a mobile television program broadcast by a mobile television service provider. The portable mobile communications device includes a mobile television receiver capable of receiving broadcasts from a mobile television service provider. A processor in the... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070255848 - Embedded dns: An embodiment is directed to a method for selectively routing a DNS request in which a DNS request to translate a domain name is received from a local client device. The DNS request is directed to a remote DNS server on a remote network. A link status to the remote... Agent: Jack H. Mckinney Ormiston & Mckinney

20070255849 - Network for permutation or de-permutation utilized by channel coding algorithm: A network for channel coding permutation and de-permutation comprises: a first side and a second side, each of which has at least one terminal. The network further comprises: two or more columns of nodes located between the first and second sides. A first column of the columns interfaces the first... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070255850 - Methods and systems for data prioritization: Methods and systems for data prioritization are described. In one example embodiment, the method includes the steps of assigning data an urgency and importance, and prioritizing the data using the assigned urgency and importance. In one specific example, such prioritization is then used in communicating, e.g., dispatching, the data. For... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070255851 - Adaptive data reduction for performance enhancement of large data set displays: A method for adaptive test data reduction is performed by cooperative software applications running on a client computer and a server computer. On the client, a plotting application requests a range of test data, such as by specifying a starting time and either an ending time or a total number... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070255852 - Mobile gateway device: The WS-Mobile Gateway is the interworking gateway between users of a mobile network and a WS extranet. The mobile gateway comprises a mobile end-user interface on the side of the mobile network, for user authentication and for separating the web services (WS) traffic from the non-WS traffic. A logic unit... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Zegeer

20070255853 - Sharing digital content via a packet-switched network: In one aspect, the invention provides a method for sharing content. The method is performed by a data acquisition device and comprises upon encountering a content transfer condition, if a size of content is greater than a predefined size threshold then performing a lossy compression operation on the content to... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070255854 - Synchronization orchestration: Systems and methods for orchestrating synchronizations between different targets in a synchronization community. The order and nature of synchronizations may depend on multiple factors, including the initiator of the synchronization, the data being synchronized, and other characteristics of the synchronization participants and synchronization community.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070255855 - System and method for transferring different types of streaming and packetized data across an ethernet transmission line using a frame and packet structure demarcated with ethernet coding violations: A communication system, network, interface, and port architecture are provided for transporting different types of data across a network. The network can be arranged by connecting the ports in a daisy-chain fashion to achieve a ring architecture or topology. The network forwards data according to a specific network protocol, and... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070255856 - Proxy commands and devices for a home automation data transfer system: An automation network includes automation network devices connected to the network and a system level interface that interfaces with a transport layer and an application layer of the automation network. The system level interface includes proxy command libraries configured to designate a proxy device from the automation network devices. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione