Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 12/07

20070299904 - Method, system, and program for remote resource management: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing resources in which a local processor sends remote operation requests to be executed by a remote processor having multiple resources. In the illustrated embodiment, the local processor and the remote processor each have a resource manager, each of which maintains a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070299905 - System for setting print end notification either when data transmission ends or when printing ends based on print check ability of printing devices: An information processor sets timing for a print end notification to when printing by a network printer ends or when transmission of data to a print device ends. If the timing for the print end notification is set to when transmission ends, the print end notification (display) is performed when... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070299906 - Server change management: In one embodiment, methods and systems for change management are described. A server system may include a physical server and a virtual server capable of being deployed on the physical server. A server change group may include one or more server change objects. Each server change object may represent a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070299907 - Tag editor: Systems and methods for object linking and embedding for process control networks are disclosed. The exemplary system may include one or more field devices. The system may also include a process control server for monitoring the field devices, storing field information and one or more parameters for each of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070299909 - Accessing content related to the exploration and production of geologic resources in a thin client computer network: Embodiments are provided for accessing 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 determination is made of a least utilized node in the client/server computer network for executing an application program... Agent: Attn: Alton Hornsby Iii Merchant & Gould LLC

20070299908 - Telephone/transaction entry device and system for entering transaction data into databases: A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions which are immediately transmitted upon completion to an external database server for... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20070299910 - Electronic client data acquisition and analysis system: A medical data acquisition and analysis system is disclosed. The medical data acquisition and analysis system includes a algorithm engine that receives a plurality of content, and that generates enhanced diagnosis content therefrom, a plurality of inputs to the algorithm engine, wherein each of the plurality of inputs receives content... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070299911 - Information delivery apparatus, information delivery method and program product therefor: An information delivery apparatus includes a delivery portion that delivers conference information to a user terminal, and an interest degree calculator that calculates an interest degree of the conference information of a user, on the basis of a browsing status of the user with respect to the conference information delivered... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070299912 - Panoramic video in a live meeting client: The present panoramic video technique embodied in the unified client provides panoramic video and other data from various sources for live web-based conferencing applications. In one embodiment, the panoramic video is provided by a panoramic collaboration and communication device, termed a RoundTable Device (RTD). The RTD is a collaboration tool... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070299914 - Integrated network and application session establishment: A session manager recognizes the creation of a new collaboration session and creates a new network connection to host the collaboration session using information about the new collaboration session. More specifically, an identifier for the new host network connection is based on the name given to the collaboration session. In... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070299913 - Method and system for triggering activation of ims applications on a mobile radio terminal: A method of remotely activating a non-native IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) application of an electronic device. The method may include receiving at least one of a general IMS availability registration from the electronic device or a native IMS application registration from the electronic device; identifying the non-native IMS application using... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070299920 - Anonymous email address management: A system, method, and a computer program product generates an anonymous email address corresponding to a pair of customer and merchant. Based on the received customer identifier and merchant identifier, an anonymous email key and address are generated. The anonymous email address is then used in communications between the customer... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070299915 - Customer-based detection of online fraud: Various embodiments of the invention provide devices, methods, systems and software for detecting, analyzing and/or responding to a fraudulent activity. In particular embodiments, an email message incoming to an organization may be analyzed to determine whether such messages are returned messages, which might indicate a delivery failure of an original... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070299918 - Electronic mail communications system with client email internet service provider (isp) polling application and related methods: An electronic mail (email) communications system may include a mobile wireless communications device, a wireless communications network connected to the Internet, and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) server connected to the Internet for receiving emails for a given user. The system may further include an email proxy server connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070299922 - Management assistance device, management assistance method, and compuer program for managing responses to e-mails: A mail sending and receiving unit provided to a terminal for person in charge receives inquiry mails to which uniquely identifiable receipt numbers are added, and reply mails sent in response to the inquiry mails. An e-mail storage unit stores the incoming e-mails received by the mail sending and receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070299919 - Method of initiating automatic actions by an instant messenger service in response to identified incoming messages: A method for initiating an automatic action by an instant messenger service (IMS) device in response to an identified incoming message, including: pre- configuring an action list to be executed on a first IMS device when the user of the first IMS device is unavailable, the action list containing specific... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20070299917 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for instant messaging: A method, apparatus and computer program product for instant messaging between one or more clients. An instant messaging partner (e.g., buddy) can be associated with specialized text, lists, or programs.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070299924 - Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium comprising program element for electronic mail communication: A computer-readable storage medium comprising a program element for execution by a processing device to implement an electronic mail processing entity. The program element comprises program code for receiving an indication of an electronic mail message selected by a user, the electronic mail message including a header portion, a body... Agent: Martin Tremblay

20070299916 - Spam risk assessment: An apparatus, program product and method assess a spam risk associated with submission of a user's private information to an entity such as a web site. For example, the spam risk associated with an entity accessible over an electronic communications medium may be assessed by monitoring an account of a... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070299921 - System and method for handling electronic mail mismatches: A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070299925 - Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length reduction profile for producing human-readable compressed text is associated with a source... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070299926 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing electronic mail messages on a remote electronic mail messaging system: A system and method for receiving email instructions allowing users to remotely manage email messages on a specially adapted email server. The adapted email server comprises a registration module and database and other programming logic for verifying the user and determining the user's instructions for managing the email on the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070299923 - Methods and systems for managing messaging: Methods and systems for handling electronic mail provide an audit trail of recipient interactions with an electronic mail message. By tracking, for example, whether attachments were opened and which portions of the message have been displayed, a recipient of an electronic mail can preserve a record of what information the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070299927 - Routing messages using presence information: Routing a message (e.g., text message, voice message, etc.) based on the accessibility of an intended recipient's associated communication channels (e.g., email, fax, instant message, cell, landline, etc.) may involve discovering information relating to an accessibility state of one or more communication channels associated with the message recipient; maintaining a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070299931 - Aggregate storage space allocation: Storage space is pooled for usage across a plurality of web services. A customer enters into an arrangement to purchase a plurality of web services from a web service provider, and also purchases an aggregate allocation of storage space for storing data relating to the customer's use of those services.... Agent: Peter M. Ullman LLC

20070299929 - Client device interface for portable communication devices: A client device interface system comprises a host processor and a switch. The host processor has a host bus interface and a plurality of general purpose input output (GPIO) ports, where each GPIO port is uniquely associated with a client device bus of a plurality of client devices buses. The... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070299930 - Continued transfer or streaming of a data file after loss of a local connection: A server receives a request for transfer or streaming of a data file sent in the local network from a portable communication device. The server provides the portable communication device with an identifier allowing the data file to be located on the server via a wide area network and transfers... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070299928 - Maintaining sessions using cookie updation: The present invention provides a methodology for maintaining user sessions using cookie updation. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: periodically updating a value in a session cookie using a program implemented in a source code of a web page; stopping the updating of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070299932 - System and method for storing and accessing data: This disclosure generally may disclose a web-based online network drive that may be utilized by many users. Furthermore, this disclosure may provide for an efficient, web-based file system, which may be available as a network drive on a local computer.... Agent: Ketan S. Vakil, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070299934 - Appliance metaphor for adding media function to a web page: A media appliance metaphor (111) for adding a media function to a Web page (34) downloaded at a processor platform (24) includes a software device of a graphic representation representing a real world counterpart for display in connection with the Web page (34). The metaphor (111) is formed by a... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070299933 - Target advertisement system in community of network and method thereof: Disclosed is a target advertisement system and method of implementing the target advertisement system through network communities. Target advertisement is performed by using advertisement skin images in the community provided through the network. When a user accesses a community page using advertisement skin images through the network, the user's characteristic... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070299935 - Content feedback for authors of web syndications: Transmit user feedback from a user to a web syndication author. A first communication link is opened. Content data from the web syndication author is received. The received content data is stored on a first client device. The opened first communication link is terminated after receiving the content data. User... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070299936 - Interactively streaming data from a database in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products arc disclosed for interactively streaming data from a database in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include receiving, in a stream administration server from a subscribing client device, a request for a message stream of historical data from a database; brokering, by the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070299938 - Method and system for enhancing a home page: A method and apparatus for enhancing a home page (also called a “start page”) by modifying the URL or address associated with the home page are disclosed. Specifically, the URL or address associated with a user's home page is modified in such manner as to cause the web browser application... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070299937 - System and method for delivering business intelligence data in a client/server architecture: A business intelligence analysis client system is used with a business intelligence analysis sever system having an object model representing one or more data sources. The client system maintains a business intelligence analysis client copy of the object model that is maintained by the server system. The client system obtains... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070299939 - Providing content delivery during a call hold condition: An approach for providing content transmission upon placement of a call on hold is disclosed. A data communications system includes a proxy server that is configured to receive a message from a first client indicating the hold condition of a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) call with a second client.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070299941 - Device identification number based name service: A method for addressing a client device, wherein a unique identification code, such as a serial number or an International Mobile Equipment Identity code of a mobile device, is attached to the device name. The unique identification code can be used as a part of the name or attached to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070299940 - Public network distribution of software updates: Updates for an enterprise's software product are made available to user devices on-line, even when network resources of the enterprise are unavailable. Software update sets and notifications concerning the update sets may be published by an enterprise for consumption by content distribution partners of the enterprise and parties not affiliated... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070299942 - Method and apparatus for automatic network address assignment: In one embodiment, a first network node in a subnet retrieves a network configuration from a second network node located outside the subnet. The first network node communicates with at least one other network node to collect information from inter-node communication packets containing network address information other than an address... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070299943 - Ignoring redundant symptoms in modular self-healing systems: Techniques for processing events in a self-healing system. In one embodiment, the system receives system events, one or more of which may indicate a possible fault condition in the system. A hierarchal rule structure is used to generate a correlated event set. A determining operation determines at least one corrective... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (rsw)

20070299944 - Client device configuration with hooks: Configuring a client device including associating a hook in a configuration bundle with customized programming, downloading the configuration bundle for a client device to a services gateway, and executing the configuration bundle on the services gateway, including calling the hook.... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070299949 - Activity-centric domain scoping: A system that can automatically narrow the search space or recognition scope within an activity-centric environment based upon a current activity or set of activities is provided. In addition, the activity and context data can also be used to rank the results of the recognition or search activity. In accordance... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070299953 - Centralized work distribution management: Distribution of network maintenance tasks is managed in a centralized manner. Information associated with components of a communication network, such as status, malfunctions, technical specifications, and the like, is collected from various data sources and tickets for repair or maintenance tasks are made available to technicians in a centralized list.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070299955 - Data replication in a distributed system: A global state management service manages replication in a distributed system. A distributed system can have several replica groups. The global state management service manages state associated with each replica group. Data replication is implemented without implementing an instance of a state machine on each device in a replica group.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070299952 - External network management interface proxy addressing of data storage drives: Management communication for data storage drives, for example, of an automated data storage library. An external network management interface is configured to communicate externally of the library employing at least one proxy address for the data storage drives and employing TCP/IP packaging of network management information. At least one processor... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20070299951 - Method and apparatus for in-band management of storage devices: A management request from a management client to perform an operation on a storage element includes an instance identifier identifying the storage element. A translator translates the instance identifier to a storage identifier that uniquely identifies the storage element. The method identifying the operation and the storage identifier is encapsulated... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070299947 - Neural network-based mobility management for healing mobile ad hoc radio networks: A self healing ad hoc communications network and method of training for and healing the network. The network includes wireless devices or nodes that include a neural network element and the ad hoc network operates as a neural network. Some of the nodes are designated as healing nodes that are... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20070299946 - Neural network-based mobility management for mobile ad hoc radio networks: A self managed ad hoc communications network and method of managing the network. The network includes wireless devices or nodes that include a neural network element and the ad hoc network operates as a neural network. One of the nodes is designated as a Network Management System (NMS) that provides... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20070299958 - State synchronization apparatuses and methods: A method for state synchronization, performed by a first electronic apparatus, comprises the following steps. A first service state version identification (ID) is acquired from a local cache of the first electronic apparatus. Multiple second service state version IDs stored in local caches of second electronic apparatuses are acquired by... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070299950 - System for creating optimally-sized clusters: A system clusters nodes of a network of a plurality of nodes. The system includes: a receiver for obtaining information about a local neighborhood around a first node of the plurality of nodes, the first node having a first clusterhead node; a compiler for generating a list of clusterhead nodes;... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20070299954 - System, method and program for determining a network path by which to send a message: System, method and program determining a network path by which a workstation can send a message to a target network. The workstation accesses a first part of the network path via a network access server. A plurality of other servers by which the workstation can access a second part of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070299948 - Using mobile agents to perform operations of an information life-cycle management system: Facilitating performance of an operation in an information life-cycle management system comprising management elements organized levels includes generating a mobile agent operable to perform the operation. The mobile agent is embodied in executable code and is operable to move through at least a portion of the information life-cycle management system.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070299961 - Information receiving system, information receiving method, information providing device, information providing method, information providing method providing medium, information processing device, information processing method and information processing: An information providing device for providing various provide information formed with the predetermined format responding to a transfer request, and the information receiving system comprised of information processing device for receiving the provide information to be transmitted from the information providing device via the predetermined network and conducting information processing;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070299957 - Method and system for classifying networked devices: The present invention is a method of creating and assigning a class of storage that is defined by the customer at initialization, such that specific object code is assigned to and used by the devices in a class of storage and such that the devices themselves are grouped according to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070299959 - Network-attached storage system, device, and method with multiple storage tiers: A network-attached system, device, and method supports multiple storage tiers. Data may be migrated between storage tiers, for example, based on a data migration policy.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070299960 - Performance profiling for improved data throughput: A computer-implemented system and method for performance profiling on a target device. The computer-implemented method includes configuring the target device to operate in a first mode or a second mode, and receiving a write command from a host device. When the target device is configured to operate in the first... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070299945 - Radiology image traffic metrics: An embodiment of the present invention includes a system and method for detecting and monitoring confidential and DICOM image traffic on a computing device in a PACS network. Embodiments of the present invention protect patient confidentiality by preventing the simultaneous display of confidential images and patient identification information when measuring... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070299956 - Sensor network system, gateway node, and method for relaying data of sensor network system: Provided is a method for transferring data of a sensor network system in which communication is made with multiple sensor nodes SN1s connected via a wireless network to transmit sensing data measured by the sensor nodes SN1s to a server SNS connected via a wired network. The method includes: receiving... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070299966 - Apparatus for temporally associating a user with a location: A system for temporally associating a user with a location. The system includes a receiving component for receiving identity data from an electronic sensor, the identity data being indicative of a user's presence being detected at a location at a given time. The receiving component further receives scheduling information about... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070299963 - Detection of inconsistent data in communications networks: Inconsistent data in communications networks is detected. The detection is performed by a component of the network that is separate from where the recovery takes place. The detection employs a packet sequence number, which is checked when the packet is received. The packet sequence number is initialized to define a... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070299965 - Management of client perceived page view response time: A system and method for managing perceived response time includes transmitting a request or response. If the request or response is dropped, response time is managed by providing a retransmission from a response time manager, without the response time manager satisfying the request or response. The response time manager is... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070299964 - Web-beacon plug-ins and their certification: Tools and techniques are provided to allow partners of analytics providers and others who use web-beacons to submit web-beacon plug-ins for scrutiny, and for the plug-in to either be refused or else to be certified for use in a core JavaScript file or similar component. Analytics providers and others may... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20070299962 - Application for testing the availability of software components: An Information Systems (IS) monitoring approach is described that is capable of monitoring and displaying the availability of various software components, including “foundational” operation features of the IS infrastructure. A further capability is that the availability of the individual software components upon which a specific business logic process depends may... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070299968 - Method for the early indication of serialization bottlenecks: The present invention provides a method for identifying a serialisation bottleneck in a computer system (FIG. 1). The method comprises the steps of providing statistical data with regard to the actual response time (FIG. 2) of a computing resource, providing statistical data with regard to an expected response time of... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070299967 - Systems and methods to selectively acquire a domain name registration during an add grace period: A method to selectively acquire a domain name registration comprises obtaining a registration for the domain name, and, during an add grace period, collecting traffic data regarding the domain name and determining whether to keep or cancel the domain name based on the collected traffic data. The registration of the... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070299969 - Document management server, method, storage medium and computer data signal, and system for managing document use: There is provided a document management server including a receiving unit that receives an access request and a first ID representing a document to be an object of the access request, an ID processing unit that issues, when an operation is performed on the document in response to the access... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070299971 - Radio lan system using communication apparatus, and method for setting operation mode: A radio LAN system includes a server configured to hold a file; an access point connected with the server; a LAN terminal connected with the access point by radio; and a client terminal configured to issue a file transfer request to the server. An operation mode between the access point... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070299970 - Secure handle for intra- and inter-processor communications: A protocol element referred to as a secure handle is described which provides an efficient and reliable method for application-to-application signaling in multi-process and multi-computer environments. The secure handle includes an absolute memory reference which allows the kernel to more quickly and efficiently associate a network data packet with an... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070299972 - Relay of enterprise messaging system events among client devices and one or more enterprise messaging systems: A system is configured to interface a plurality of electronic messaging systems to a plurality of client devices connectable wirelessly to the system. At least some of the electronic messaging systems process messaging system events according to a first particular messaging system format that is different from a second particular... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070299973 - Reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070299974 - Video reproducing apparatus and control method thereof: A technique for sequentially updating a recording medium as if sub contents, related to a video image as a main content recorded on the recording medium, are stored on the recording medium, such that the sub contents can be reproduced. When reproduction of the video image as a main content... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070299975 - Systems and methods for migrating data: The present invention provides systems and methods for migrating data from at least one data source to at least one data target according to one or more migration objects or migration rules. The migration rules, for example, may control how the data migration is done. For instance, the migration rules... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070299978 - Management of podcasts: Improved techniques that facilitate the use of podcasts are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, organizing, searching, browsing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, tags are embedded into syndication feeds (e.g., RSS feeds) that may be made available for distribution by an... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070299976 - Personal video channels: Systems and methods provide personal channels from a network-capable user terminal. A first user terminal may receive a request from a second user terminal for access to a personal channel created by a user and stored on the first user terminal in association with media content. In response to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070299977 - Use of uri-specifications in meta-data driven instrumentation: A method for managing an asset that includes identifying a relative location of a scheme, wherein the scheme is used to manage the asset, creating a relative Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) using the relative location, wherein the relative URI that includes at least one variable, and creating an entry in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070299979 - Stateless publish/subscribe messaging using sip: The present invention discloses a system and method for stateless publish/subscribe messaging using SIP that provides SIP with similar functionality to JMS™-based publish/subscribe messaging, thereby allowing client applications that require both SIP and JMS™ messaging to be implemented using SIP only.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070299980 - Maximal flow scheduling for a stream processing system: Disclosed is a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for processing data packets. The method includes receiving an allocation for at least one computing resource. At least one data packet at one or more upstream processing elements in an upstream processing node is received. The method also includes... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20070299981 - Techniques for managing multi-window video conference displays: Techniques for dynamically mapping source video streams of sources to the requested destination video streams based on a policy are provided. The source video streams that are mapped to the destination video streams are changed based on events that cause changes in the mapping based on the policy. The mappings... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070299983 - Apparatus for synchronizing multicast audio and video: A multicast data stream synchronizer includes a video decoder for deciphering and decoding a video stream, an audio decoder for deciphering and decoding an audio stream matching an audio presentation profile, a video buffer, an audio buffer, and an AV synchronizer to generate a synchronized frame of audio video data.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070299982 - Device independent data streaming: A system and method are provided for controlling data distribution in a network (108, 109). The network has data-generating and data-receiving devices (101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 206). The system includes memory means (209), processing means (203), networking means (212), at least one input... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070299984 - Application firewall validation bypass for impromptu components: A method of controlling data transfer between a Web client and a Web application by building a response with a target. The target indicates a destination to an impromptu component of the Web application. The target is signed when a response is built. After receiving the response by the Web... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070299986 - Systems and methods for automatic website construction: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for a user friendly, low cost, automatic website design. In one embodiment, a user wishing to design a website uses an automatic website design interface in order to automatically create a website. The website design interface obtains user preferences and automatically... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070299985 - Systems and methods for template based website construction: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for a user friendly, low cost, automatic website design. In one embodiment, a user wishing to design a website uses an automatic website design interface in order to automatically create a website. The website design interface obtains user preferences and automatically... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070299987 - Methods and systems for packet aggregation combining connection-oriented and connection-less techniques: The present invention provides methods and systems for aggregating packets combining connection-oriented and connection-less techniques. The methods and systems of packet aggregation utilize connection-oriented techniques to forward data from multiple clients to an access switch and utilize connection-less techniques to forward data from the access switch to the multiple clients.... Agent: Clements Walker

20070299988 - Header compression in messages: Compression of message headers. A message including an uncompressed header, a message including a compressed header or a request to support header compression is received. In response, a determination of the impact of header compression on performance is determined. If the determination is favorable, then header compression is supported for... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294332 - Processing device for end customer operation: In one embodiment, a processing device may create a hardware inventory of hardware devices included in the processing device. A medium of the processing device may be prepared for installation of an operating system. The operating system may be installed onto the medium. One of a number of hardware abstraction... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294337 - Client-side information processing system, apparatus and methods: System, apparatus and methods of information processing comprising receiving a request to execute an application on a configurable platform, receiving parameters corresponding to an emulation architecture for execution of the application, generating the emulation architecture according to the parameters for execution on the configurable platform, reconfiguring the configurable platform for... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070294338 - Database access method and system capable of concealing the contents of query: A data relay server connected between a client computer and a database server produces a query message obtained by encrypting a retrieval condition designated by the client computer, and transmits the query message to the database server. The database server encrypts a specific data item which is designated by the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070294335 - Global peripheral device sharing system and method: A global peripheral device (GPD) sharing system enables users to remotely utilize various peripheral devices via a connection, such as the worldwide web (Internet). Client software is loaded on the computers associated with the users and the owners of the peripheral devices. A centralized GPD server is connected to a... Agent: Mark Brown

20070294334 - Method and apparatus for controlling a computer over a tcp/ip protocol network: The present invention permits virtually the entire functionality of a computer system to be made accessible over a network such as the Internet or an Intranet. More particularly, the present invention permits a computer system to be run as a “virtual machine” through a web page provided at a web... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC (dba Tips Group)

20070294343 - Method and apparatus for restructuring of personalized data for transmission from a data network to connected and portable network appliances: A system for retrieving and disseminating information records from Internet sources includes a client device and an intermediary server system, including software, between the client device and the Internet. The system collects a record specific to a client from an individual one of said Internet sources in a first form... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070294340 - Method and system for providing a payment incentive for distributing digital files over a network: A method and system for providing a payment incentive for downloading and promoting digital content files over a network, e.g., the Internet, are provided. The present disclosure provides for providing a web site for promoting content hosted by at least one server in communication with the network; receiving an indication... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070294341 - Pricing products over a network: System and method for receiving purchase information for a client system, e.g., a measurement system. A configuration diagram visually representing a current configuration of the client system is displayed. Multiple product icons are displayed representing products (hardware and/or programs) available for use in the client system. User input is received... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070294336 - Proxy-based communications architecture: A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070294339 - Reputation management system: A reliable reputation management system in which the users of the services vote for reputation. The votes are collected to a reputation server which computes reputation for specific services. When a large group of users have voted, the result will be reliable. The reputation server is independent in order to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070294342 - Specifying products over a network: System and method for receiving purchase information for a client system, e.g., a measurement system. A configuration diagram visually representing a current configuration of the client system is displayed. Multiple product icons are displayed representing products (hardware and/or programs) available for use in the client system. User input is received... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070294333 - System and method for progressive delivery of multimedia objects: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for progressively delivering multimedia content over a network. According to one aspect, a system for delivering multimedia content through a network includes a server side sub-system and a client side sub-system. The server side sub-system is configured to: concurrently send a first... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070294344 - Automatic scheduling system: A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling conferences between a client and one of a plurality of knowledge workers of an organization. The method includes the steps of each of the plurality of knowledge workers providing one or more time intervals when the knowledge worker is available for conferences... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Jon P. Christensen

20070294345 - Enhanced refresh in sip network: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for refreshing a session. A session is refreshed using a refresh message that is enhanced for a refresh. For example, the refresh message does not include an SDP or any other message body. The message includes only a reduced header. This reduces time... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070294346 - Performance enhancements for video conferencing: A conference server may request a key frame from a conference participant in response to determining that the conference participant should become a most active participant, and the conference server may make the conference participant the most active participant in response to receiving the key frame from the conference participant.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294348 - method and system for providing a common collaboration framework accessible from within multiple applications: The invention provides a system adapted to enable contextual collaboration within a computer network. The invention provides a collaboration manager that supports manipulation of collaboration spaces. The collaboration spaces contain one or more collaboration elements that have potentially different collaboration modalities. The context manager maintains resources and resource interrelationships within... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070294347 - Message transmission controller capable of confirming viability of message and method of transmitting message by the same: A message transmission controller with location information and time information. Location and time information are used to control delivery to receivers.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070294349 - Performing tasks based on status information: Tasks based on status information are performed based on a voice query across a computer network. Information in the voice query is associated with a particular contact entity and status information is accessed in order to perform the tasks.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070294350 - Methods and apparatuses for locating an application during a collaboration session: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include requesting an expert during a collaboration session; determining a subject matter of the collaboration session; detecting a potential participant to serve as the expert; and inviting the potential participant to join the collaboration session.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070294353 - Apparatus, method and program product for limiting distribution of e-mail: An e-mail software program is provided with an exclusionary function which removes the name of a sender from a list including the sender before forwarding a message received from the sender to others on the list. On receiving an e-mail message, the name of the sender is saved and subsequently... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070294352 - Generating phish messages: Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions (including inter alia, systems, methods and software) for dealing with online fraud. In particular, various embodiments of the invention provide ways to incite unsolicited email messages (such as spam messages, phish messages, etc.). In accordance with some embodiments, a bait email address may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070294357 - Geospatial community facilitator: A geospatial community facilitator including a plurality of clients and a server, wherein at least one client includes the geospatial data and a program for communicating the location on the client of the geospatial data to the server, and the server includes a session list, which includes a list of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070294355 - Method and system for making a portable network user mailbox from an archived network post office without restoring to the original active post office: An exemplary method, system, and computer program product for retrieving selected e-mails from an archived location is provided that, in one embodiment, includes the following steps. Rebuilding an e-mail system post office on a network location from archived offline data to produce a rebuilt post office. Installing the e-mail system... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070294354 - Providing context information to a called party for a call initiated in response to selecting tags in electronic documents and applications: The present invention provides context information to a called party or network resources when a caller initiates a click-to-call (C2C) call. The context information bears on the reason for the call, and in particular to the software entity from which the C2C call was initiated when a user selected a... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070294356 - User selection type e-mail delivery system: A mail magazine delivery system is customized to suit categories that a user desires, by containing in the contents to be delivered as a mail magazine an option to select future mail delivery and giving the user a choice as to future mail delivery. User terminals and a delivery server... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070294358 - Autonomic e-mail processing system and method: Systems and methods for processing autonomic e-mails, which each have at least one unique identifying number attached to them, are disclosed. Internally within an organization, e-mails are often sent to multiple recipients, such as to all members of a particular distribution list, to request information or ask that a task... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20070294351 - Method for the monitoring the transmission of electronic messages: The invention relates to a method for the computer-aided monitoring of the transmission of electronic messages within a data network (1). According to said method, a sender identification statement of an incoming electronic message is first determined, whereupon an electronic database (11) is interrogated and verification is made as to... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20070294359 - System and method of implementing remote access and control of registered personal appliances via instant messaging: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-usable medium for implementing remote access and control of registered personal appliances via instant messaging. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a user registers at least one appliance as a client with an instant messaging server, logs into said instant messaging server, interacts... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070294360 - Method and apparatus for localized adaptation of client devices based on correlation or learning at remote server: Techniques are disclosed for localized adaptation of client devices based on correlation or learning at a remote server. For example, a method for modifying a behavior of a client device in a data collection system, wherein the client device collects data and transmits data to a server, includes the following... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070294361 - Method and automation system for operation and/or observing at least one field device: The object is to provide a method for operating and/or observing at least one field device in the simplest possible manner. A first central control device which executes the automation engineering software generates a first command to control the at least one field device and transmits the first command to... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070294366 - Data synchronization and sharing relationships: Systems and methods for synchronizing and sharing data associated with sharing relationships are disclosed. Such systems and methods may be implemented by interfacing with an application that manages or accesses the data to be shared, and by making shared data available using a feed along with some mechanism for tracking... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294364 - Management of composite software services: A computer implemented method, data processing system, computer usable program code, and active repository are provided for management of a software service. A request is received to deploy the software service in a computer network. A dependency analysis is performed for the requested software service to determine component software services... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294368 - Method and system for providing secure remote access and control: A network appliance is configured to communicate with a representative system and a customer system. The network appliance permits control and access to the customer system by the representative system or to the representative system by the customer system for providing remote support service. The network appliance manages, logs, and... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070294365 - Method for modifying an electronic map: The present invention relates to a method for modifying an electronic map, comprising the steps of executing a modification process to modify a target map so as to display a specific screen corresponding to the target map on the display unit, selecting a plurality of position points on the specific... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070294363 - Quorum establishment based on a vote from a voting device: A cluster system including as few as two cluster nodes and a plurality of links, each one of the plurality of links coupling one of the cluster nodes to a voting device wherein a single surviving cluster node obtain a vote from the voting device. A method of establishing quorum... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294367 - System and method for delivering data: The present invention processes hierarchical data into a structure suitable for display on compact terminal devices having different display and performance capabilities. A data server includes a data storage section configured to store, by category, a plurality of records constituting data to be delivered. The server also a determining section... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070294369 - Event monitoring and management: Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070294362 - Method and system for selectively distributing data to a set of network devices: A method selectively distributes data to a set of devices linked by a network, where each device has at least one unique identifier. The method comprises selecting devices to be members of the set, the set devices being selected to receive the data based on the at least one unique... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070294371 - Method for determining input focus for web pages having aggregated content: One embodiment of the invention provides a method for setting an input focus to a user interface element on a web page generated from one or more executable components. The method includes including a focus-designator in a requested webpage, the focus-designator configured to set the input focus to the user... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070294374 - Music reproducing method and music reproducing apparatus: A music reproducing method in a music reproducing apparatus includes the steps of obtaining time-series meta information including a plurality of pieces of partial meta information corresponding to a plurality of parts of song data, each piece of the partial meta information including partial reproduced position information indicating a reproduced... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070294370 - Scheduling and information sharing and distribution system and method: A system and method for coordinating online and offline schedules. The system allows a user to streamline calendar information from various online and offline sources into one distribution channel. The system and method provides an online interface with numerous outlets to other calendar systems, without the need for a license... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20070294375 - Server, client, and method of storing shared text data: A server deletes a mask object in a structured text as a part of a shared text. A client issues a mask object constituting each layout object of the structured text, according to the authority of the client, and adds the mask object to the shared text data from which... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070294372 - System and method for representing an infrared pass-through protocol in a home network: A system and method in a local area network based on the Universal-Plug-and-Play (UPnP™) technology represents an infrared (IR) remote control (RC) pass-through protocol in the Content Directory Service (CDS) of a media server that transmits an audio-video (AV) media stream over the network to a media renderer. The CDS... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20070294373 - Management of content download: A proxy acting as a content gateway manages the download of content data from a server to a client PC. Rather than serving the content data directly to the client, the proxy intercepts the download and instead passes a download management entity (DME) to the client PC. A range of... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070294376 - Method, apparatus and program product for software provisioning: A software provisioning model which effectively combines characteristics of both push and pull models. In response to a request, a server sends a workflow or recipe of actions along with code server parameters and a requesting client computer system executes the,workflow and pulls necessary software updates and services to the... Agent: Daniel E. Mcconnell The Mcconnell Law Firm

20070294379 - Integrated access management of element management systems: Access to network elements of a telecommunications network is integrated through a common access point by an integrated access application which receives a request for communication with a network element. An element management system (EMS) group, including at least one EMS server, associated with the network element is identified. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070294383 - Management system: A management system including: a management apparatus including a first control unit functioning as an agent; and at least one piece of field equipment connected to the management apparatus with communication connection, the field equipment including a field equipment main body and a second control unit functioning as a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070294378 - Method for capturing multiple data packets in a data signal for analysis: A method for selectively capturing selected portions of multiple data packets within a packet data signal for analysis by capturing only desired or necessary portions of the data packets and assembling them into substantially contiguous data streams prior to transferring them for analysis.... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070294381 - Method of controlling services between network services, network device capable of performing the method, and storage medium that stores the method: A method of controlling services that can be used between network devices using only one network device, the network device that performs the method, and a storage medium that stores the method are provided. The method includes the operations of producing integrated service information from service information of a network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070294377 - Method to dynamically create a virtual network: A method creates a virtual network dynamically, with automated configuration for the new virtual network to function. The virtual network creation is initiated by a network node sending a request for a virtual network to a network controller. The network controller services the request, creating the virtual network by automatically... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20070294380 - System and method for periodic server-to-client data delivery: A server-to-client data delivery system and method is provided. The system includes a server capable of providing a variety of services to one or more client devices. Each client device periodically transmits a heartbeat signal to the server over an associated network including client device identification data. When the server... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070294386 - Composition service for autonomic computing: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for providing an improved directory service for storing information about hardware and software components is disclosed. The directory service stores not only the information that other hardware and software components require to locate, and make use of, the components listed in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294385 - Device management in a network: Methods and devices supporting the management of a plurality of electronic devices and processing of update information for updating software and/or firmware in the electronic devices. Prompting of users may be made using a language associated with the electronic device, and authorization to update an electronic device may be secured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070294384 - Network system: A network system is constructed by connecting a plurality of terminals to each other so that information such as audio data can be sent and/or received through peer-to-peer communication. The network system includes a plurality of groups each constituted from a plurality of terminals that execute the peer-to-peer communication with... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070294382 - Profile acquiring method, device, program, and recording medium: A printer (702) manages profile information and communicates with another device across a network (710). The printer (702) receives an acquisition request (1001) of the profile information, issues an acquisition request (1002) of profile information of a display (703), and receives a result response (1003) as the profile information from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070294394 - Abstraction of multiple aggregated physical counters into a virtual counter: An embodiment is directed towards a method of abstracting multiple embedded counters from a number of network devices for use in a network monitoring application. The method includes initializing a metacounter for network devices for categories of metacounts. The method further includes, per metacounter, initializing a constituent counter for applicable... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070294390 - Apparatus, and associated method, for alerting user of communication device of entries on a mail message distribution list: Apparatus, and an associated method, for alerting a respondent that generates a reply to a received mail message of addressing of the reply message to a non-secure address. A detector detects reception of a received mail message, and a correlator determines whether any of the entries on a distribution list... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070294392 - Apparatus, system, and method for intelligent polling support for websphere adapters based on the self-configuration characteristic of an autonomic computing model: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for intelligent polling support for Websphere JCA adapters based on the self-configuration characteristic of an autonomic computing model. The apparatus, system, and method maintain a set of statistical parameters across multiple poll cycles that are used to adjust polling parameters. The polling parameters... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070294400 - Control system: Disclosed a control system 1 performing, through an HTTP communication, a communication between a client terminal 10 that remotely performs an operation instruction and a controller 20 related to a control/monitoring for an equipment, passing the instruction, which goes from the client terminal 10 to the controller 20, through a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070294393 - Method and system for functional redundancy based quality of service: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for preserving bandwidth in data networks. The method includes determining whether to perform functional redundancy processing for a current data set. Determining whether to perform functional redundancy processing for a current data set may be conducted according to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070294396 - Method and system for researching pestware spread through electronic messages: A method and system for researching pestware spread through electronic messages is described. One embodiment detects automatically the presence of an electronic messaging client on a computer, the electronic messaging client having an associated contact list, each contact in the contact list having an associated address on a network; adds... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070294399 - Network service performance monitoring apparatus and methods: Network service performance monitoring apparatus and methods are disclosed. Performance information associated with a network service is collected from multiple service monitoring points. The service monitoring points include at least a service monitoring point in a first communication network and a service monitoring second communication network that is controlled independently... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20070294397 - Physical presence indication for a collaborative communication: A physical presence indicator as described herein generates indicia of the real-time user presence status for one or more users of a collaborative communication application, such as an instant messaging application. The physical presence indicator communicates with the collaborative communication application, which may be hosted by a computing device. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294401 - Providing collected profiles to media properties having specified interests: To improve monetization of electronic advertisement placement, a profile owner company operates an automatic system for identifying media properties that have interests in specific profiles or profiles of a specified category or kind. The profile owner recognizes a collected visitor profile as one that a media property has previously requested... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20070294391 - Service provider based network threat prevention: Systems and methods responsive to communicated network threats are disclosed. An example method includes assembling a collection of files, inserting a network traffic monitor that identifies a first domain responsible for communicating a known threat, searching for and classifying files not in the collection of files, and updating the collection... Agent: Robert A. Blaha Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20070294395 - Service-centric communication network monitoring: Service-centric communication network monitoring apparatus and methods are provided. Service traffic, associated with a third-party service provided by an external service provider that is controlled independently of a communication network, is identified in communication traffic that is being transferred through that communication network. The identified service traffic is monitored, for... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070294398 - System and method of dynamically persisting data and settings to a network location: Described is a system and method for dynamically persisting data and settings to a network location. The system may include a network device which receives wireless communications from a mobile unit. The wireless communications may include user information for the mobile unit to be stored. The system may also include... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070294388 - Apparatus and method for automatic response time measurement of ldap server operations: An apparatus and method for automatic response time measurement of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server operation are provided. The apparatus and method make use of an LDAP server plug-in interface and LDAP server plug-in modules to automatically inject response time measurement code before and after each LDAP server operation... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070294389 - Method and apparatus for performing call trace filtering in a signal analyzer system: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for performing high-level filtering processes on data prior to the data being stored in the capture buffer, or on data that is currently stored in the capture buffer. In both cases, the amount of data that is ultimately paged from the capture... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070294387 - System architecture for load balancing in distributed multi-user application: A system architecture for a distributed multi user application requiring concurrent data transactions comprising in a modular networked system of servers and of network services: a plurality of application servers providing execution of services based on data from multiple users, a service comprising one or more processing tasks applicable to... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070294402 - Extensible email: An email server and systems and methods for providing requested data are provided. The email server is configured to automatically determine capabilities or version information of connecting client software on per account basis. The e-mail server is also configured to store the determined capabilities or version information, and to transmit... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070294403 - Third party database security: A method for increasing the control people and companies have over release of financial and other sensitive information. The method includes the use of a password that expires in a predetermined amount of time or after a predetermined number of uses. The password is given to a creditor or other... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070294406 - Automated service level management system: A method for service level management comprises identifying connected enterprise application components and, under control of an automated system, relating historical performance for the connected enterprise application components and electronically creating a service level agreement based on the historical performance relation.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070294405 - Method and apparatus for middleware assisted system integration in a federated environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for instantiating a service on a network. A service infrastructure manager determines whether a service is available at a requested quality of service in response to receiving a request for the service that specifies the quality... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294404 - Method and system for authorization and access control delegation in an on demand grid environment: The method of the invention provides for dynamic on-demand delegation of control and access in a grid computing environment comprising granting authority of a grid node to a first moderator by a superauthority; admitting the first moderator to the grid node; modifying the access control list of the grid node... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070294407 - Method, system, and computer program product for a relay server: A relay server is located outside a firewall and provides access to a server inside the firewall. Both the server and a client (the client is outside the firewall) initiate a connection with the relay server. The relay server then sets up a connection between the server and client, to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070294408 - Optimized multi-component co-allocation scheduling with advanced reservations for data transfers and distributed jobs: Disclosed are systems, methods, computer readable media, and compute environments for establishing a schedule for processing a job in a distributed compute environment. The method embodiment comprises converting a topology of a compute environment to a plurality of endpoint-to-endpoint paths, based on the plurality of endpoint-to-endpoint paths, mapping each replica... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20070294409 - Internet based network topology discovery: A system and method are provided for internet-based network topology discovery. A server in communication with a client, the server having a console having a managing device is provided to manage one or more network devices. A search engine is provided that is in communication with the managing device via... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070294410 - Software, systems and methods for managing a distributed network: A system and method for managing network bandwidth consumption. The system may include an agent module loadable on a networked computer and configured to aid in managing bandwidth consumption within a network. The agent module is configured to obtain an allocation of network bandwidth usable by the networked computer, and... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070294412 - Discovering transactions silently propagated off-machine: Discovering transaction managers participating in a transaction. A method may be practiced, for example, in a commit tree topology including a number of transaction managers to manage transactions. The transactions include a set of operations that are all performed if a transaction is completed or all aborted if a transaction... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070294411 - Methods, apparatuses, a system and computer program products for providing early session media to announce another media session: An apparatus for providing early session media to announce another media session includes a processing element. The processing element is configured to communicate an invitation for a target terminal to receive early session media content, provide the early session media content to the target terminal in response to acceptance of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070294413 - System and method for enabling assisted visual development of incoming message handling operations for applications on a communication device: A message wizard enables assisted visual development of operations to process an incoming message for an application on a communication device. The wizard provides a series of pages from which a developer can select a desired action to perform on a target upon receipt of the incoming message and select... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070294414 - Thin client system using session managing server and session managing method: A thin client system includes a thin client server, a thin client terminal, and a session management server. The thin client server contains a plurality of execution sections respectively provided for tasks. The session management server is configured to assign the thin client terminal to a specific one of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070294415 - User interface: A method of controlling communication quality between one node and at least one other node in a packet switched communication system, the method comprising the steps of detecting at one of said nodes a condition that indicates that communication quality is below an acceptable threshold, automatically generating instructions based on... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070294416 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for enhancing computer network security: A security management approach that combines network security management with application layer or software service security to address the threat of internal network security attacks. The invention is directed to a method for enhancing network security on a computer network. Data access privileges relating to users and services are interpreted,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070294418 - Integrated procedure for partitioning network data services among multiple subscribers: A method and apparatus for partitioning network data services among multiple subscribers uses information stored in several tables to define a plurality of independent networks where each independent network comprises a set of access ports and a unique set of destination addresses and is logically separate from all other independent... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20070294417 - User specific automatic data redirection system: A data redirection system for redirecting user's data based on a stored rule set. The redirection of data is performed by a redirection server, which receives the redirection rule sets for each user from an authentication and accounting server, and a database. Prior to using the system, users authenticate with... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070294420 - Method and apparatus for policy-based change management in a service delivery environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for maintaining a computer network. Resources and services affected by a change to a resource are identified in response to receiving a request for the change. A determination of an optimal time for the change is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070294421 - Methods and apparatus for maintaining network addresses: This present invention relates to a method for using hypervisors to enable stable wireless network connections. The crux of the invention involves pushing the control of the networking devices from the Operating System level down to a networking front end hypervisor level. The hypervisor will control all networking devices, the... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070294419 - Recursive dns nameserver: A recursive DNS server receives a request for domain name information associated with a domain name from a subscriber. In response to the request for domain name information, the recursive DNS nameserver determines a subscriber identifier and subscriber information associated with the subscriber identifier. The recursive DNS nameserver resolves the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070294422 - Methods and systems for push-to-storage: Method and systems for distributed storage and retrieval comprising a plurality of storage-and-computing elements, each storage-and-computing element stores a plurality of pushed content fragments and is able to retrieve other pushed content fragments from other storage-and-computing elements using Internet protocol.... Agent: Patentvc.com

20070294424 - Conversion of webcast to online course and vice versa: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, and/or question, are described herein. In various embodiments, the computing device may also determine one or more events in the audiovisual content and determine a set... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070294425 - Enhanced colorful ring-back tone by mixing content streams in real time: Methods and systems for enhanced Colorful Ring-Back Tone (eCRBT) services by mixing multiple digital content streams in real time are provided, including audio, video, data, text-based message, and hypermedia object streams. One or more properties of the content streams, such as volume or pitch of an audio stream, or brightness... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070294423 - Multi-client single-session media streaming: Multi-client single-session media streaming is disclosed. One process includes setting up a single logical connection to a media server for a media to be transmitted, and transmitting the media from the media server over the single logical connection to a plurality of clients.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070294426 - Methods, systems and protocols for application to application communications: A protocol suite for inter-process communication in multi-process and multi-computer environments is described which supports one or more loosely flow-controlled connections to be established over a tightly flow-controlled connection. The tightly flow-controlled connections between processes provide a reliable underlying network between the members of a multiprocessing environment over which multi-computer... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070294429 - Device transfer of a server stored data item based on item id and determined nature of intended destination: There is provided a method and system for communicating data items about a communication network. An original data item for communicating to a destination device is cached to a network data store in association with unique ID (UID) generated to identify the original data item. The UID is then sent... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070294430 - Generating a device address persistent across different instantiations of an electronic device: Generating a device address persistent across different instantiations of an electronic device at a computer system. A device identifier identifying the electronic device is received from the electronic device communicatively coupled to the computer system at a interface. An interface identifier identifying the interface is received. A persistent device identifier... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070294428 - Method and system for email messaging: A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining (120) the intended recipients of an email message prior to sending and comparing the intended recipients to defined recipient groups (126, 122). Potential errors in the intended recipients are identified and... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070294431 - Digital identity validation: Systems and processes of the present invention allow for digital identity validation. In an example embodiment, a digital identity is registered to a Registrant. During the registration process, one or more registration records are collected from the Registrant and stored in a Records Database. The registration records may include information... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20070294427 - Resolution of domain names: A plugin for an Internet web browser is disclosed. The plugin operates upon detection of a DNS look-up failure to attempt a DNS look-up on an alternative name server. By providing this functionality in a browser plugin, installation and operation are transparent to the user. Moreover, the plugin operates only... Agent: Albert T. Keyack

20070294432 - Device, method and program for providing matching service: A computer for a service provider receives from each member of two groups who is a user of a service via a mediating computer, a priority list in which member IDs of the other group is permuted in the priority order of a user and processing information that are encrypted... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20070294433 - system of implementing switch devices in a server system: A system of implementing switch devices in a server system At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a plurality of servers coupled to a midplane board, and a first and second switch slots (where each switch slot enables coupling of a switch device to the midplane board).... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070294434 - High-speed data transfer in a networked server environment via laser communication: A system and method are provided for accelerating data transfer between networked databases. First provided are a plurality of databases coupled by a network. At least one laser unit is coupled to each database. In operation, such laser units are capable of communicating data between the databases via free space... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC (dba Tips Group)

20070294435 - Token based flow control for data communication: An embodiment of one of the inventions disclosed herein is a computer system that includes a plurality of interconnected computational hosts, each of which are connected to one of a plurality of buffers. Each of the buffers includes a plurality of buffer spaces. Each of the computational hosts may be... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070288543 - System and method for modifying a device profile: The present invention provides a system and method for modifying a profile of a user device prior to sending the profile to a destination server, wherein the destination server customizes content provided to the user device based on the modified profile. In general, the profile of the user device may... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070288544 - Data processing device and data processing method: A data processing device includes a notified party storage unit for storing a party notified of information on the data processing device; a notification unit for notifying each notified party of the information on the data processing device; a reception unit for receiving from an information processing apparatus a registration... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070288545 - Network management: Methods of managing a network comprising a plurality of agents. The methods may comprise the step of storing a plurality of agent data files corresponding to the plurality of agents. The methods may also comprise the step of receiving periodic status messages from at least a portion of the plurality... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070288547 - Edge incremental redundancy memory structure and memory management: A system for implementing Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations in a wireless receiver includes at least one processing device, an IR processing function, and IR memory. The at least one processing device is operable to receive analog signals corresponding to a data block, to sample the analog signals to produce samples,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070288546 - Groupwise collaborative suggestion moderation system: An automated suggestion moderation system is provided that enables a group of users of portable computing devices to collaboratively pose suggestions and make decisions with the support of a software-moderated process. In one embodiment a user of a first portable computing device enters a suggestion into a user interface of... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070288549 - Information processing system, server device, client device, and program: Conventional information processing systems and the like have a problem in that it is impossible to easily acquire information. It is possible to easily acquire information with a server device, comprising: a management information storage portion in which at least one piece of management information, which is information for managing... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070288548 - Protocol optimization for client and server synchronization: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data synchronization and provide a method, system and computer program product for protocol optimization for client and server synchronization. In one embodiment a protocol optimization method for client and server synchronization can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070288551 - Distribution of files from mobile devices: The description discloses the step of associating pre-selected email addresses with each folder, so that the files are automatically distributed to the pre-selected email addresses. Preferably, the user can configure folders using a Web user interface on a computer. Preferably, the user can transfer files in multiple folders on the... Agent: Laurent F. Sidon

20070288554 - Network management: Methods of configuring a first agent for operation on a network. The methods may comprise the steps of receiving an indication that the first agent is active on the network and determining if the first agent is scheduled to become active on the network within a predetermined amount of time.... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070288552 - Server-controlled testing of handheld devices: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with testing of an application (e.g., software application) on a handheld device are described. Testing can be initiated by the handheld device, however, the testing regimen is controlled by a server. Logic associated with testing is stored on the server with statements being... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070288553 - Client processor device: A client processor including a communications receiver for receiving file fragments for the device, a micro-controller system including a microcontroller and a programmable non-volatile memory system, for building and storing application and data files from the fragments, and executing an application of the device by processing at least one application... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070288550 - Information processing server, remote control system, and remote control method: There is provided with a remote control method using a terminal device connected to a first network and an information processing server connected to a second network, including: setting a tunnel between the terminal device and the information processing server; transmitting a broadcast or multicast packet output from service providing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070288558 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple management interfaces to a network device: A method and apparatus for managing a network access device is provided. Embedded within the access device are three distinct software layers. The first layer is a combined text-interface generator and Hypertext Transport Protocol client. The second layer is a combined Hypertext Transport Protocol server and Simple Network Management Protocol... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070288557 - Server device, control instruction processing method therefor, and terminal device: There is provided a server device including a thinning processing unit which, if an object of operation with control instructions received by a reception unit is an application program stored in a storage unit in association with the control instruction, executes thinning processing for the plurality of control instructions received... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070288556 - System and method for encoding and decoding data files: Distributed compression of a data file can comprise a master server module for breaking the data file into data blocks and for transmitting the data blocks to worker server modules. A first worker server module can compress a first data block using a first compression algorithm, resulting in a first... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070288555 - System and method for transaction processing with delegated commit feature: A transaction service that allows lightweight clients to perform a delegated commit at a server. This process allows lightweight clients to begin and terminate transactions, while the actual responsibility for transaction commit processing is delegated to a commit server and transaction manager running on the machine hosting the server. Client... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070288570 - Automatic numbering method and system exploiting e-mail: A server machine accepting a numbering request by an e-mail is operated in an error-free fashion. The server machine (numbering server) includes numbering management section (mail analysis section 213 and command executing section 214) which analyzes an e-mail sent from a client machine and performs automatic numbering on an electronic... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070288560 - Chat tool for concurrently chatting over more than one interrelated chat channels: The present invention discloses a chat tool including a chat window configured to permit a user to simultaneously receive chat messages for two or more different chat sessions, thereby permitting side discussions within a secondary chat session. Each of the different chat sessions can correspond to a session specific chat... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070288566 - Communication support system, communication support method and communication support program: A communication support system is connected with a network enabling communication among user terminals and is capable of accessing a user information recording portion in which shared information concerning users and access information showing users who accessed the shared information are recorded. The communication support system includes: a user identification... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070288563 - Facilitating interaction between web browsers: Users browsing the same website may join in a single communication forum by navigating to a predefined communication web server or website. Navigating to the predefined communication web server includes transmitting an access request to the web server. The access request includes various information including identification information associated with the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070288564 - Handling a message: In a chat, conference-related capability information on a recipient is maintained in the network; and when a message is received, a value corresponding to the conference-related capability information is determined, and a decision whether to send the message to the recipient or to store the message and send a link... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070288561 - Hyperlink-based notification system method: An alarm system and method for communicating an alarm message from a client device to an identified recipient. No user-installed application programs related to the alarm system are stored on the client device. A hyperlink shortcut is automatically generated on the client device, linking the client device to an alarm... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20070288559 - Matching website with context sensitive profiling: An online matching service provides a personal profile of at least one subscriber, wherein the personal profile is preferably automatically updated using information that is extracted from electronic communication between the subscriber and another person using the service. While in some aspects a person reviews the electronic communication to update... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070288568 - Message handling by a wrapper connected between a kernel and a core: A wrapper operates to store data relating to messages received from a kernel such that kernel-specific data or information is not passed to a module core. The wrapper on receiving data from the module core uses the data stored in the relevant part of the memory to provide the data... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070288571 - Method and device for the production and distribution of messages directed at a multitude of recipients in a communications network: A method and a device for the production and distribution of messages directed at a multitude of recipients in a communications network, wherein a message to be transmitted is characterized by at least one semantic feature that defines the content of the meaning of the message, and a number of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070288567 - Network management: Methods of managing a network comprising a plurality of agents. The methods may comprise the step of receiving a periodic status message from each of a first group of agents selected from the plurality of agents The methods may also comprise the steps of querying a router on a local... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070288562 - Techniques for providing caller id of participants in a conference call invitation: In one embodiment, techniques for sending a conference invite that provides access to a list of participants in an existing conference are provided. A participant in a conference may decide to send an invite for the existing conference to the user. A request for inviting the user into the existing... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070288565 - Hyperlinks: A form of hyperlink is provided comprising a first component identifying a network entity and a scheme by which to communicate with that entity, and a second component comprising a further scheme and further address by means of which to access a resource relative to the network entity identified by... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070288569 - Methods and apparatuses for recording and viewing a collaboration session: In one embodiment, the systems and methods attend a collaboration session; detect content shared during the collaboration session; automatically record the content and a time stamp corresponding to the content; and play at least a portion of the content during the collaboration session.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070288572 - Management and allocation of services using remote computer connections: A computer-implemented method for allocating services among a plurality of service operators where each capable of providing at least one service and each service operator operating a respective computer to receiving at a support server a request for service from at least one computer being operated by a user, generating... Agent: Stephen H. Luther Allen, Dyer, Doppeit, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20070288573 - Resource list management system: A system for providing group accessibility is provided. A representative resource list management system includes a group management system operable to store a resource list for a user, and a service manager operable to detect a status of a contact associated with the resource list. The resource list includes at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070288576 - Disambiguating responses to questions within electronic messaging communications: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for disambiguating responses to questions within electronic messaging communications that include identifying within electronic messaging communications a question, rendering on a message graphical user interface (‘GUI’) a response request indicator adjacent to the question within the electronic messaging communications, and providing a response to... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070288578 - E-mail address inspection: A method for e-mail address inspection may include providing a list of suggested or predicted addresses in response to a partial e-mail address being received. The method may also include checking the partial e-mail address for other possible matches in an electronic address book in response to an address being... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070288575 - Email addresses relevance determination and uses: A computer implemented method for assisting email users. The method determines the relevance of email addresses to users and utilizes the relevance information to assist users in addressing emails. The method may include gathering email addresses from one or more sources including inbound user emails associated with an email user,... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070288577 - Email with an answer-required field: In an embodiment, a send command is received that specifies a reply email, which is a reply to a source email. If the source email includes an answer-required field associated with a question, a determination is made whether the reply email includes an answer associated with the answer-required field. If... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070288574 - System and method of email streaming digital video for subscribers: A video email system and service for subscriber composed of (1) video email software residing on a subscriber's electronic device (110); (2) a server maintained by a provider to manage each subscriber's account and to stream the video on demand to an email recipient (120); and (3) a recipient computer... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20070288581 - Mail server, mail reception device, mail server program storage medium, mail reception program storage medium, mail mediation method, and mail reception: The present invention relates to a mail server, a mail reception device and the like of a mail system for mutually performing transmission and reception of a mail between mobile devices or personal computers (PCs) through mediation of a mail server, which construct a mail system for significantly alleviating labor... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070288579 - Network asset tracker for identifying users of networked computers: A network attached apparatus, system, method and computer program product for identifying users of networked computers is provided. The apparatus is installed at core network uplink points and analyzes packets as they traverse the network and intelligently correlates the contents of the traffic with user contact and system access information.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070288580 - Policy-based management of instant message windows: Techniques are disclosed for managing instant messages, including the display of windows for incoming messages, as well as for managing status information for instant messaging users. In one aspect, an instant messaging user defines policy information to programmatically determine a response to an arriving instant message. As an example, the... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070288582 - Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device: A notification system and method for a mobile data communication device is provided. A client-based software program operates at the mobile communication device to manage and execute user-selectable notification schemes (“notification module”) in response to data items transmitted to the mobile device from a host system via a communications network.... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070288583 - Systems and methods for saving internet content into a handheld internet appliance: Systems and methods for transferring Internet content displayed on a web site in a handheld Internet appliance to a local database in the handheld Internet appliance are provided. The systems and methods of the present invention consist of a software solution that enables users of handheld Internet appliances to automatically... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070288584 - Transition and display system of frame image and cursor and method thereof: A transition and display system including a controlled computer and a client computer transmits and displays a frame image and a cursor. The controlled computer includes a frame image capture unit for outputting image data according to primal image data of a primal image and a cursor capture unit for... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070288585 - Cluster system: In a cluster that is composed of two computer nodes and has no common storage, mutual aliveness is monitored over networks. However, this is insufficient because a party node may be wrongly determined as inactive. If failover is performed according to wrong determination, the counterpart may be restored to a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070288586 - Cache on demand: Methods and systems are provided for delivering content from a website to a computer device. The website and computer device negotiate terms for use of a cache memory coupled to the computer device. The computer device requests content, such as web page objects, from the website. In addition to transmitting... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070288587 - Transactional shared memory system and method of control: A transactional shared memory system has a plurality of discrete application nodes; a plurality of discrete memory nodes; a network interconnecting the application nodes and the memory nodes, and a controller for directing transactions in a distributed system utilizing the shared memory. The memory nodes collectively provide an address space... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070288588 - Content delivery network (cdn) content server request handling mechanism: To serve content through a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN must have some information about the identity, characteristics and state of its target objects. Such additional information is provided in the form of object metadata, which according to the invention can be located in the request string itself, in... Agent: David H. Judson Suite 225

20070288590 - Assembly, and associated methodology, for provisioning computer device with operating software: An assembly, and an associated methodology, for provisioning a computer server, or other device, with an operating system or other computer data. The computer server is positioned at a build area that includes wireless local area network apparatus that broadcasts provisioning software. A mobile start cart is positioned at the... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070288593 - Chargeable peer-to-peer file download system: A server terminal is interconnected with a number of client/peer terminals, as part of a network. For chargeable peer-to-peer file downloads, a client terminal establishes and accesses an account on the server. An information file associated with a data file of interest is obtained by the client from the server.... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070288597 - Computer system and read-write medium therein: A computer system comprises a receiver and a read-write medium. The receiver is used to receive a remote control signal from a remote controller. The read-write medium is applied to the computer system, and an operating software is stored therein. The computer system can analyze the remote control signal via... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070288591 - Method, system, and program product for caching application data in a browser cache: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for caching application data in a browser cache. In one embodiment, a method according to the invention includes: providing to a web browser a uniform resource locator (URL) directed to application data; making a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request using the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070288592 - Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment with improved storage system: Network-enabled electrical power distribution equipment comprises at least one networked intelligent device coupled to a power distribution system and measuring and storing at least one sensed condition in the power distribution system; a server for storing and retrieving data relating to the sensed condition and the power distribution equipment; local... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20070288595 - System and method for distributing classified ads: A system and method for distributing classified ads. The system is capable of simultaneously posting a classified ad to a plurality of websites. Specifically, using the present invention a user (e.g., a seller) is simply required to complete a single form and designate the websites to publish the ad on.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20070288589 - Systems and arrangements for providing archived web page content in place of current web page content: In accordance with the present disclosure a user can return to a previously viewed/archived version of a web-page when the content of the currently available webpage is different from the archived content. To facilitate such an interaction, a browser can archive displayed versions of web pages and their network address... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070288594 - Method and apparatus for accessing a remote location with a reader having a dedicated memory system: A method of accessing a remote location on a network using an optical reader. The optical reader has an optical scanning system and a dedicated address memory system. The optical scanning system, in response to the user scanning an encoded indicia therewith, sends to a first computer disposed on the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070288596 - Methods and systems for storing content definition within a media file: Various embodiments of the present invention enable better utilization of a media file of a digital content by storing a definition of the digital content within a metadata section of the media file. A user may purchase, obtain, or download the media file of the content to a computing/communication device,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070288598 - Networked computer system for communicating and operating in a virtual reality environment: The present invention relates to interactive virtual reality networked computer systems and methods that facilitate communication and operation in a virtual reality environment. The virtual reality networked computer system has an infrastructure that includes a number of users, hosts and servers. The interconnected hosts and servers allow users to effectively... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20070288599 - Dragging and dropping objects between local and remote modules: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for dragging and dropping objects between local and remote modules. Terminal server components simulate the functionality of participants in drag and drag operations to facilitate the dragging and dropping of objects between local and remote modules and vice versa.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070288602 - Interest-based communities: Embodiments of a method and system for interest based communities are disclosed. A community is accessed within a networked system. The community includes community content and a group of users of the networked system with a similar interest. The community content is related to the similar interest and available for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20070288601 - Real-time blogging system and procedures: An instant message is received, converted to blog-compatible information, and posted on a blog.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070288600 - Telecommunications system and method of initiating file transfers from voice endpoints: A communications system and method of transferring data over the communications system. The system includes audio communications devices (telephones and/or, soft phones) connected to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints with multiple line capabilities and a unique Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) associated with audio communications that has the form x@y.z. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070288603 - Receipted transmission of electronic documents over the internet: A method and apparatus is provided for the transmission and receipt of electronic documents over the internet in which an electronic receipt is returned to the transmitter 1 by the receiver 2 over the connection through which the documents are transmitted by the transmitter 1 to the receiver 2.... Agent: Robert Onslow

20070288609 - Configurable interfaces: Embodiments of a method and system for utilizing a configurable interface are disclosed. An interface server may include a configurable interface. The configurable interface may provide a user interface to enable communication in a system with a client operating on a client machine. An interface data structure comprising may include... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20070288605 - Method and system for bulk negation of network configuration-commands: In one embodiment, a method and a system for negation of multiple configuration-commands at the Command Line Interface (CLI) have been provided. The invention provides a ‘no-wrapper’ sub-mode command for the CLI. The ‘no-wrapper’ sub-mode command negates the multiple configuration-commands from a configuration of the network device. The negation of... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20070288604 - Method for determining optimal number of connections in multi-connection download configuration: A method is provided to determine the optimal number of servers to connect to a download client, in order to achieve efficient file transfer. A number of connections are initially opened between the client and servers, and after waiting for a stabilization period, the over-all transfer speed is determined for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070288608 - Method of requesting services of network devices, network devices capable of performing the method, and storage medium for storing the method: A method and apparatus of requesting service between network devices in which the range of service between network devices can be flexibly managed, a network device capable of performing the method, and a storage medium thereof are provided. The network devices includes: a network device requesting a partner network device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070288607 - System and method for loading a network configuration program on a wired/wireless network product: A method for loading a network configuration program on a wired/wireless network product is provided. The method includes the steps of: installing a driver of a wireless network interface card (NIC) and corresponding software bundle in a flash memory (23) of the network product (2), the software bundle comprising a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070288606 - Communication terminal apparatus, electric device and communication method: A communication terminal apparatus, an electric device and so on that apply an appropriate protocol. A message, which includes a protocol type designated by an electric device (102) with which a mobile telephone (101) is to directly connect and also includes the address and setting information of an NAT router... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070288610 - System and method for managing, routing, and controlling devices and inter-device connections: A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user provides commands via the control client to a server that maintains a representation of the environment and the devices... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20070288611 - Method for physically updating configuration information for devices in a wireless network: A method for providing configuration information for use in installing a new wireless station to a wireless network that minimizes errors is presented. The configuration information is distributed by storing the configuration information onto a device with a memory and then distributing the device to the users interested in installing... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070288612 - Assembly, and associated method, for provisioning computer device with computer data: An assembly, and an associated method, for provisioning a computer server, or other computer device, with operating system software and other computer data. A mobile start cart is positioned at a build area at which provisioning data is broadcast. The broadcast data is detected by a communication element of the... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070288616 - Management of media content ratings information: A method, system and/or computer program product for managing the use of media content ratings information by a media content receiver, including communicating media content for presentation by a media content receiver; communicating media content ratings information for the media content, the media content ratings information being communicated discretely from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070288614 - Method and apparatus for folder synchronization and management: A method of sharing data accessible by a server, with a portable electronic device of a first entity includes receiving permission at the server to share with the first entity, data associated with a second entity, the data for use with an application. The server retrieves the data associated with... Agent: Geoffrey Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070288618 - Method of establishing network topology capable of carrying out relay transmission among subnetworks in backbone network: Disclosed is a method of establishing a network topology capable of carrying out a relay transmission among sub-networks in a backbone network having the plural sub-networks composed of at least one device. The method includes each of sub-master devices controlling communications in the respective sub-networks transmitting an ID request message... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070288613 - Providing support for responding to location protocol queries within a network node: Various systems and methods are disclosed for providing support for responding to location protocol queries within a network node. One such method involves associating a location with a network identity by associating a network port with a network identity and also associating the network port with the location. The association... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070288617 - System and method for networked endpoint registration: A system and method for registering one or more networked endpoints devices includes indicating each user account to be associated with a registered endpoint. Each user account is assigned a unique PIN that will be used during registration of an endpoint. Once the endpoint is connected to the communication network,... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20070288615 - Technique for dispatching data packets to service control engines: A dispatching technique dispatches packets to a plurality of service control engines (SCEs) which in aggregate may be configured to handle traffic produced by a high-speed high-capacity data link. Upstream and downstream packets that are associated with a data flow between a subscriber and a destination node in a communication... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070288622 - Administering devices with domain state objects: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include receiving a domain state object, identifying an action in dependence upon the domain state object, and executing the action. In many exemplary embodiments, receiving a domain state object includes receiving a signal to download... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian, PLLC

20070288623 - Device management system: A device management system is provided which is used in a client/server architecture system, enabling safe sharing of a device without compromising user convenience. In a case where the device which is connected to a client is accessed from a server, in order that the device connected to the client... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070288620 - Method for managing state in a wireless network: A method for managing states by a Media Access Control (MAC) layer in a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes determining next occurable physical interrupts for each of the states; configuring a link of the states according to the determination result; transitioning to a state to be linked next... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288621 - Methods for managing presence information in a real-time communications network: Methods for updating presence information between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE over a communications network are presented including: on an INVITE message delivery failure to the second UE from the first UE, sending a first PUBLISH message on behalf of the second UE to a presence... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20070288624 - Network information analyzing method and apparatus: A network information analyzing method is disclosed for determining the status of a network including plural communication apparatuses. The method involves assigning a line identifier to each logical line used for establishing data communication between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, transmitting from a management apparatus to the communication... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070288619 - Terminal apparatus for wireless connection and a wireless connection administration method using the same: A wireless connection terminal unit is controlled to download a web page in portable Internet, the control apparatus including a HTTP packet analyzer for analyzing a starting a HTTP packet and a HTTP session management unit including a HTTP packet transmitting/receiving information table at which HTTP request packet information is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288626 - Kalman filtering for grid computing telemetry and workload management: In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for Kalman filtering for grid computing telemetry and workload management is disclosed. The method includes monitoring telemetry data at a node of a grid computing engine with a Kalman filter, determining whether the monitored telemetry data is outside of a bounds of a... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070288632 - Method and system for remotely accessing devices in a network: A method and system for remote access to a device is provided. This involves establishing a connection between a local device connected in a local network and a remote device via a communication link; sending a message from the local device to the remote device via the communication link, indicating... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070288627 - Method for sensing user presence for buddy list applications: A method and system for sensing and reporting various types of user presence using “buddy list” applications. A buddy list client senses various types of user presence of a user and sends status information corresponding to the sensed user presence to a server. The buddy list client also receives status... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070288628 - Reporting portable device statistics: A system, a method and computer-readable media for collecting device usage information from portable devices. The portable devices are enabled to maintain device operation parameters. This information is communicated from a portable device to a host device. The host device may communicate the received information over a network to a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070288625 - System and method to optimally manage performance's virtual users and test cases: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for improved load testing of subsystems comprising a larger system by intelligently and stochastically distracting virtual users from healthy subsystems such that they collaboratively converge on a subsystem exhibiting operating health problems. Virtual users are progressively targeted at a degraded subsystem to force it... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20070288629 - Adaptive device-initiated polling: A method includes periodically sending a polling call to an enterprise system outside the firewall at a first polling rate during normal operating conditions, monitoring for a fault condition, periodically sending polling calls to the device outside the firewall at a second polling rate when a fault condition is detected,... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070288633 - Method and system for visualizing network performance characteristics: Techniques for visualizing and monitoring the quality of service for a computer network. Herein, a method and system monitor network transactions and behaviors for the computing network, which computing network includes one or more client subnets accessing one or more servers, the monitoring may be independent of client site monitors.... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070288631 - Monitor control system, information processing terminal, monitor control method, and program: One personal computer includes a combination of an SNMP manager, an SNMP mediator, an application initiating function, and a local craft terminal. The personal computer is connected via a local area network to a monitor target unit to be monitored and then logs into the target unit to conduct monitor... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070288630 - Quality of service monitor in a packet-based network: A method and system of monitoring quality of service in a packet-based network includes a three-tier architecture, wherein one or more applications can request customized quality of service reports from a quality server. The customized reports may include, for example, a desired report format or trigger events indicating when the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070288634 - Computer readable recording medium storing control program, communication system and computer data signal embedded in carrier wave: A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer arranged on a same terminal as a resource to execute a process for authentication performed at the time of accessing to the resource, the process including: determining whether or not a request from a browser to the resource... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070288637 - Distributed secure content delivery: Techniques for distributed and secure content delivery are provided. Requests for content are routed to a centralized service where the requestors are authenticated for access to the content. The centralized service generates access statements for the requesters. The requestors are redirected to particular distributed content services having access to the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070288636 - Dynamic endpoint aggregator for web services: A dynamic endpoint aggregator aggregates dynamic endpoints of requested Web services for efficiently delivering the Web services to a Web service client. The client communicates to the aggregator a plurality of SOAP requests each having a SOAP header containing a redirect URL for the aggregator in turn to access each... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070288639 - Load balancing with direct terminal response: Generally, a terminal can access a resource selection device to access a content source, the content source being structured and arranged to respond directly to the terminal. For example, a PC (“personal computer”) may be pointed at a load-balancing switch. The load balancing switch translates the PC's traffic and directs... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070288638 - Methods and distributed systems for data location and delivery: A category overlay infrastructure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content search and a cost-effective large-scale on-demand media streaming are described. Based on a novel hierarchical P2P model, the category overlay infrastructure can provide good load balancing and efficient keyword search services for large-scale networks. The category overlay search services may be applied... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070288635 - System and method for scalable processing of multi-way data stream correlations: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing multi-way stream correlations. Stream data are received for correlation. A task is formed for continuously partitioning a multi-way stream correlation workload into smaller workload pieces. Each of the smaller workload pieces may be processed by a single host.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070288640 - Remote rendering of multiple mouse cursors: Embodiments provide for a mechanism that extends the protocol of a remote session by enabling clients to simultaneously display multiple cursors, without having to modify data instructions for the protocol. Each viewer will have the ability to control its own mouse pointer, which will not be automatically synchronized in shape... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070288641 - Score based decisioning: The invention aids an entity operating on the Internet or on another network to selectively request additional data about a user who has made a request for an interaction with the entity. The invention helps an entity to determine when and how to request additional data so as to reduce... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070288642 - Method for initializing a peer-to-peer data network: A method initializes and/or updates a data network, particularly a peer-to-peer network, with a number of computers. A computer identity is assigned to each computer and each computer is able to establish a data link to another computer. One or more keywords are stored in each computer that characterize the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070288643 - Delivering electronic content: Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that might cause a computer to collect information including a network address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070288646 - Communication interface device and communication method: The communication I/F unit according to the present invention includes a chain executing unit that executes all the chain SWRs. The SWR-chain storage unit stores therein a chain of SWRs. The chain executing unit sequentially reads the SWRs and executes the corresponding operations of an atomic operation so that the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070288648 - Host-based intelligent results related to a character stream: Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070288650 - System and method for streaming of dynamic weather content to the desktop: A method, system and program product for streaming of dynamic information content over an interactive media such as the Internet. The dynamic content, such as dynamic weather data, is collected from a plurality of collection sources such as geographically distributed local weather reporting stations. The data information can be relatively... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070288652 - Network application layer routing: Techniques for network application layer routing are provided. Requests for services are inspected at an application layer of a network. A priority for a requestor is obtained and in response to the priority the requests are routed to particular processing environments. Depending on the priority the processing environments may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20070288654 - Reverse context system: One aspect relates to indicating at least partially relative to an at least one receiving communicating device a called entity information at least partially describing an at least one desired contacting or forwarding entity that an at least one contacting communicating device is attempting to contact. Another aspect can relate... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070288657 - Method, apparatus, mobile terminal and computer program product for converting from a first forms markup language to a second forms markup language: An apparatus includes an adaptation proxy which is configured to receive data in a first form markup language that is intended for a client device and adapt portions of the received data which are incompatible with the client device into a second form markup language that is compatible with the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070288659 - System and method for certifying and authenticating correspondence: In a preferred embodiment, a method and system are disclosed for certifying contents of a correspondence sent from a sender to a recipient. Steps and modules are provided for receiving by an information processor over a communication network an electronic file from a sending workstation associated with the correspondence. Further... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070288660 - Automatic conversion system: A method for transferring information between a server and a client, through a converter. The method includes receiving an Internet hypertext document by the converter from the server, inserting a plurality of objects into the Internet hypertext document without substantially changing the outward appearance of the hypertext document, wherein the... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070288662 - Distributed push-pull information service system: A distributed push-pull information service system comprises an information service server and at least one client device. The server provides at least a first kind of information in a pushing basis by means of broadcasting and a second kind of information in a pulled basis by means of user demand.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070282939 - Field device and system employing the same: A field device connected to a network includes: a storage section; a communication section for performing communication via the network; and an arithmetic control section for controlling the field device entirely by executing a main task under an execution environment, and controlling an operation mechanism that operates under the execution... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070282941 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070282940 - Thread-ranking apparatus and method: Thread-ranking apparatus includes unit collecting threads from a bulletin-board site, the thread each including a set of identifiers, articles each related to book-information items, and the book-information items, unit detecting, for each article, whether a reference part that refers to a part of a posted article of the articles is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070282945 - Method and system of browsing using smart browsing cache: Provided is a method and a system of browsing using a browser cache involving interacting with a browser and performing a cache associated action performed by a user using a mobile device. The method involves mapping an action performed by the user to a browser event and passing the browser... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070282943 - Relocation services via a shared service center: A method for providing a relocation service via a Shared Service Center (SSC) is presented. The method includes defining a block of relocation services to be offered from a Shared Service Center (SSC); setting a benchmark for the block of relocation services, wherein the benchmark defines how many hours are... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070282942 - System and method for delivering an integrated server administration platform: The invention enables server administrators (SAs) to improve their productivity and performance. With the methods and systems described herein, the prior art needed to search for appropriate tools for appropriate tasks is minimized and/or eliminated. Easier scripting and automation that does not require implementation across tools is provided. A consistent... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070282944 - Sensor network system, gateway node, and method for relaying data of sensor network system: Provided is a method for transferring data of a sensor network system in which communication is made with multiple sensor nodes SN1s connected via a wireless network to transmit sensing data measured by the sensor nodes SN1s to a server SNS connected via a wired network. The method includes: receiving... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070282950 - Activity history management for open overlay for social networks and online services: Embodiments of the-present invention provide methods and systems that allow users to share information about their recent activities with other users. In particular, as users receive and/or share multimedia content with other users, information that indicates the locations of this content, such as a website, playlist, or file, is passively... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070282948 - Interactive presentation method and system therefor: A method and apparatus for use in presentations, lectures, seminars, and similar applications that preferably includes an application server computer that runs an interactive presentation facilitating software application and that is connected via a network to a presenter computer and to a number of client computers. The application server computer... Agent: Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P.

20070282947 - Method and system for providing simultaneous awareness across multiple team spaces in real time: A system in which awareness information about multiple team rooms to which a user belongs is simultaneously made available in real time through a team member's team room user interface, including visual representations of all the team rooms to which the user belongs, and where the visual representations of the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070282946 - Method for providing a structured e-mail query: The present invention is a method for providing a structured e-mail query. The method includes receiving an input of a destination e-mail address, the destination e-mail address being associated with a service provider. The method further includes activating a query formatter in response to receiving the input e-mail address, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20070282949 - Shared playlist management for open overlay for social networks and online services: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems that allow users to share information about their recent activities with other users. In particular, as users receive and/or share multimedia content with other users, information that indicates the locations of this content, such as a website, playlist, or file, is... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070282951 - Cross-domain solution (cds) collaborate-access-browse (cab) and assured file transfer (aft): Systems and methods for providing a cross-domain, remote terminal secure browse capability are disclosed. The Collaborate-Access-Browse (CAB) Cross-Domain Solution (CDS) enables high-side users to browse low-side material with the same privileges as any other low-side user. The Assured File Transfer (AFT) CDS allows the high-side user to initiate file transfers... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070282956 - Displaying complex messaging threads into a single display: A method for organizing a message thread containing one or more messages. A root message and reply groupings are identified, each reply grouping depending from the root message. Each reply grouping has one or more child reply messages depending from a common parent message. The child reply messages within each... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070282957 - Email message creation: In a method of operating a wireless handheld device, upon receipt of a user request to compose an email, an email composition screen is displayed with a field indicating an email service to be used. Then, upon a user request launched from this email composition screen, a list of all... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070282959 - Message push with pull of information to a communications computing device: An alert system and method are provided in which a message is used to send an alert to the communications computing device and an application on the communications computing device can retrieve information/data based on the message.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070282955 - Method and apparatus for preventing outgoing spam e-mails by monitoring client interactions: Methods and apparatus for preventing spam e-mail messages from being propagated or transmitted by monitoring user interaction events associated with the system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for processing a first e-mail message on a system that transmits e-mail message and has an... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20070282953 - Perimeter message filtering with extracted user-specific preferences: Propagating messaging preferences of one or more users from a recipient mailbox to a perimeter network administering e-mail content blocking and routing. A content filtering application located outside a trusted network receives messaging preferences information from within the trusted network regarding the mail recipients. This messaging preferences information may be... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070282954 - Providing an actionable event in an intercepted text message for a mobile device based on customized user information: A network device, method, and apparatus are directed towards intercepting a message, such as an SMS, EMS, MMS message, email message, or the like, from a source device directed towards a mobile device. The intercepted message's contents are analyzed. In addition, a mobile user profile is determined from characteristics of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070282958 - E-mail community system, program and recorded medium: The object of the invention is to prevent problems, before they occur, in a multiple-participant network game wherein e-mails inside and outside the game can be communicated in cooperation with each other and wherein the game can be used with Internet e-mail addresses, which are personal information, not opened. To... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070282961 - Electronic mail system: An E-mail terminal device comprises a judging unit which judges whether or not a reply destination mail address extracted from an E-mail received is an address of a mailing list capable of broadcasting the same E-mail to a plurality of destinations at one time, an extracting unit which extracts, when... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070282952 - Electronic message source reputation information system: Disclosed herein are filtering systems and methods that employ an electronic message source reputation system. The source reputation system maintains a pool of source Internet Protocol (IP) address information, in the form of a Real-Tine Threat Identification Network (“RTIN”) database, which can provide the reputation of source IP addresses, which... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070282960 - Sorting electronic messages using attributes of the sender address: Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070282962 - Auto-subscribing to syndication feeds using contact lists: An application executes on a client device to automatically subscribe a user to a particular syndication feed. In at least some instances, the user can be preliminarily unaware that they have been subscribed to the feed. In at least some embodiments, the application automatically subscribes to feeds using one or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070282963 - Instant messaging using browser: Methods and systems for instant messaging using a browser to eliminate the requirement of installation of instant messaging software at the user end is described. When a source user sends an instant message to a target user, the source server (the server which the source user is logged in) searches... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070282964 - Method and apparatus for processing remote shell commands: Methods and apparatus for processing of a distributed remote shell command are disclosed. In some embodiments, a target host receives from a client a remote shell command specifying an operation to be performed by an operating system at the target host. The target host performs the specified operation and formulates... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070282965 - Method for sharing communication information using local proxy: A method for sharing communication information using a local proxy that operates in the same process as a browser operating on a terminal. A method includes a local proxy that operates on a terminal operating as a proxy for communication between an application operating on the terminal and a server,... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070282966 - Method, system, and program for managing locks and transactions: A request is received with a first operation identifier to lock a first resource. The first resource is locked with the first operation identifier. It is determined whether a second resource should be locked with the first operation identifier or with a second operation identifier based on whether an operation... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070282967 - Method and system of a persistent memory: A method and system of implementing a persistent memory. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are a system comprising a first computer slice comprising a memory, a second computer slice comprising a memory (the second computer slice coupled to the first computer slice by way of a communication network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070282968 - System having interfaces, switch, and memory bridge for cc-numa operation: A node comprises at least an interconnect, one or more coherent agents coupled to the interconnect, and a memory bridge coupled to the interconnect. The memory bridge is configured to maintain coherency on the interconnect on behalf of other nodes. In one embodiment, the interconnect does not permit retry of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070282975 - Communication device and communication method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a communication device including a communication portion which conducts communication with a server device and an external device on a network for controlling contents, a database portion which stores route certificate data, and a processing portion which transmits to the external device address... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070282974 - Distribution server, multifunction appratus and distribution server system: A distribution server distributes over a network, menu information that contains information for executing a job using a multifunction apparatus and information for identifying the job. The distribution server sets at least a portion of the information for executing the job using the multifunction apparatus as additional information added later... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070282973 - Method and apparatus for message notification via rss feed: Methods of receiving audio transmissions over a telecommunication connection, extracting information about the transmissions, and publishing the information to an RSS feed are described and claimed. Systems and software using the methods are also described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070282969 - Methods and apparatus for transferring media across a network using a network interface device: A network bridge connects a host device, such as digital media player, cell phone or camera, to content sources over a network to permit the host device to transmit or receive digital media. The network bridge includes a network interface module that identifies at least one media source as well... Agent: John Stattler, Esq. Stattler Johansen & Adeli LLP

20070282972 - Personal media player apparatus and method: A compact portable, self-contained digital media player is provided whose content is not recordable or removable by a user. The content is playable in a high fidelity format. The binding of the content to the media player results in a significant degree of copyright protection. The compactness of the player... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070282970 - System and method for passive server-to-client data delivery: A passive server-to-client data delivery system and method is provided. A web service request is received by a server from a client device requesting the performance of a web-based service. The identity of the client device is then ascertained and the server determines that new software is available for the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070282971 - System and method for secondary mode facsimile transmission notification: A system and method for the automatic secondary mode facsimile transmission notification of a facsimile recipient or facsimile sender. The sender of a facsimile transmission selects a designated recipient and, when required, selects primary destination data. The sender then selects a secondary mode notification address, associated with the sender, the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070282976 - System, method and program for controlling image display: According to one embodiment, an image display control system includes a transmitting-side information processing device comprising shared data and a receiving-side information processing device viewing the shared data via a network. The transmitting-side information processing device further comprises transmission means for, upon receiving an access from the receiving-side information processing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070282977 - Data storage system using network: An agent program (12) installed in a terminal device (10) is used to upload data, which are to be stored, to a data storage device (100) via a first network (N1). Data uploaded to a first data storage unit (110) are stored therein as they are. On the other hand,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070282978 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a detector which detects an external device capable of making connection via wireless communication, a display unit which displays a screen urging a user to select whether or not the connection with the external device via the wireless communication should be... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070282980 - Client-side data scraping for open overlay for social networks and online services: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and system for allowing an open overlay service for a social network to interface with other online services. In particular, the open overlay service configures its clients to make requests on behalf of the social network. Responses to the requests are routed back... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070282979 - Managing stateful data in a partitioned application server environment: A computer implemented method for managing a request for processing of stateful requests in a partitioned application server environment. A request is received from a client at the partitioned application server environment to form a received request. An application server in a plurality of application servers is identified in the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070282981 - Aggregating policy criteria parameters into ranges for efficient network analysis: A network configuration is processed to identify each policy and the criteria associated with each policy. The criteria of the policies are processed to identify a non-overlapping set of ranges of the criteria parameter, each range being associated with a particular policy or set of policies. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070282984 - Autonomic web services pricing management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing service level guarantees for a Web service and provide a method, system and computer program product for Web service pricing in an on-demand environment. In one embodiment of the invention, an automated Web services pricing management... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070282990 - Context-aware migration of communication session: Techniques and systems are disclosed for context-aware migration of a communication network session. For example, a system for migrating a communication session established between a first entity and a second entity in accordance with an application module includes the following elements. A context monitor module supports the application module and... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070282988 - Device registration in a hierarchical monitor service: Monitor services deployable on device networks may be implemented using a modular approach, in which a core monitor service is mapped to one or more devices included in, or associated with, the device networks. Additional monitoring-related functionality may be provided to such devices using plug-ins, add-on services or service components,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070282993 - Distribution of system status information using a web feed: Disclosed is a mechanism for notifying potential responders of a condition of a system. Status information is received in response to a condition in a system. The condition is of the type requiring notification of a potential responder—for instance, an alarm in a building energy management system. A status web... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070282987 - Identity management for open overlay for social networks and online services: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for managing the multiple identities used by a user. The user's existing contact lists, website accounts, buddy lists, and the like are analyzed to determine the identities used by the user. A graph is then constructed in order to track and... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070282995 - Management system, control method therefor, and computer program: A plurality of device groups are layered and displayed on a display unit based on management information for grouping a plurality of image processing devices and managing them as a device group having a layer attribute. Setting of function restriction information on a function restricted in use in executing a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070282992 - Method and system for service management in a zone environment: A method for managing a service executing in a zone environment involves receiving a service management request, identifying a collection of requirements required by the service management request, triggering a data collector to collect zone-specific performance attributes from a plurality of zones in the zone environment, identifying at least one... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070282982 - Policy-based management in a computer environment: A system for policy-based management in a computer environment, the system including at least one rule configured to be applied to an element of a computer environment, at least one policy including at least one of the rules, at least one profile including at least one element of the computer... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070282989 - Proximity filtering of multiparty voip communications: A method for adjusting sound data that is transmitted between a first client and a second client is disclosed. The sound data may adjusted or an adjustment indicator that indicates how to adjust the sound data may accompany the sound data. The method comprises determining a proximity between the clients;... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070282991 - Remote song selection: A system and method for remote song selection on any of a plurality of digital jukeboxes. Each of the digital jukeboxes store and play digital music files that may be downloaded from a central music repository. A data center is provided for managing the jukeboxes. The data center receives and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070282986 - Rule and policy promotion within a policy hierarchy: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for nominating rules or policies for promotion through a policy hierarchy. An administrator at any level in a policy hierarchy may create a rule or policy. The administrator may then nominate the rule or policy for inclusion in a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070282985 - Service delivery using profile based management: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for automatically aggregating entities via a profile-driven management. A profile is created, wherein the profile includes a set of search criteria comprising one or more server attributes. A list of attributes of each server in the data processing system... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070282983 - System and method for information handling system management with a directory service tool box: A directory service architecture simplifies management of operations of plural server information handling systems. A server object associated with each server information handling system applies an associated server policy to perform tasks of a task list at the associated server information handling system. The tasks call tool box objects from... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070282994 - System and method for managing virtual collaboration systems: A system includes a communication network, a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled to the communication network, a gateway subsystem communicatively coupled to the communication network, and a management subsystem communicatively coupled to the gateway subsystem. The gateway subsystem is configured to receive and translate signals from the plurality of nodes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070282996 - Network connection apparatus and providing service control program: According to one embodiment, a network connection apparatus includes a network connection unit connected to a network and configured to detect a change in a network, a registering unit configured to store identification data obtained from a partner apparatus via the network, and to register the partner apparatus, a collecting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070283006 - Automatic identification and blocking method of spam cell: Disclosed herein is a method of visually or auditorily indicating spam status or a spam class for a calling number through a called terminal. The method includes the steps of the destination switching system requesting service from a spam call blocking server by delivering the calling number and a called... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070283009 - Computer system, performance measuring method and management server apparatus: In a computer system including physical servers on which virtual servers for business use operate and a management server communicably connected to the physical servers, the management server requests physical servers that are targets of performance measurement to activate a performance measurement virtual server based on a virtual server image... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070283005 - Dynamically responding to non-network events at a network device in a computer network: A technique dynamically responds to non-network events at a network device in a computer network. According to the novel technique, one or more sensors automatically detect (sense) one or more non-network events, and notifications of the non-network events are then transmitted over the network. One or more network devices (e.g.,... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070283008 - Logging of radio listening and interactivity: A system for collecting, evaluating and using usage activity includes one or more media devices and a network with a ratings service. A media device includes a logging service for logging usage activity when media content is accessed and played, shared, deleted and/or stored. When a connection to the network... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070283000 - Method and system for phishing detection: A method for detection of phishing attempts in received electronic mail messages includes retrieving the source code, displayed text, and a list of all specified addresses contained within the source code of a received electronic message. Visual character normalization is applied to each specified address to develop all possible address... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070283002 - Modular monitor service for smart item monitoring: Monitor services deployable on device networks may be implemented using a modular approach, in which a core monitor service is mapped to one or more devices included in, or associated with, the device networks. Additional monitoring-related functionality may be provided to such devices using plug-ins, add-on services or service components,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070283003 - System and method for provisioning a computer system: There is provided a system and a method for provisioning a computer system. More specifically, in accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a computer system configured to generate provisioning information for the computer system, wherein the provisioning information includes a product identifier and a passphrase, and upload the provisioning... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070283001 - System monitor for networks of nodes: Systems and methods are described that provide a system monitor component, e.g., for a sensor network, which may include, e.g., a server component that is continuously running and monitoring zero or more networks consisting of (possibly wireless) devices, where each network may be executing a different communications protocol, such as... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070283004 - Systems and methods for distributed monitoring of remote sites: Templates are used to define generic site layouts in terms of site-independent elements. The templates are customized by site-knowledgeable users and employed within a surveillance system.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070282999 - Technique for collecting information about computing devices: A computing device is provided on which device analysis information is generated. The device analysis information may be generated from the use of diagnostic and monitoring applications and code. The device analysis information is handled by an application/central processor and then stored on a removeable storage device.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070282997 - Centralized monitor and control system for laboratory instruments: A laboratory computer network is set forth. The laboratory computer network comprises a plurality of laboratory instrument workstations connected to respective laboratory instruments. Each laboratory instrument workstation is adapted to provide video screen data indicative of the operational status of the respective laboratory instrument. A transmission medium is provided to... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070282998 - Method for monitoring connection state of user: The present invention is directed to a method for monitoring the connection state of users. In the method, when a user accesses a network, the network loads a recognizable browser page on the user terminal and monitors the connection state of the user through message interaction with the browser page.... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20070283010 - Method, system, and storage medium for collecting snmp bandwidth data: A method, system, and storage medium for collecting bandwidth data is provided. The method includes producing master and slave text files in response to simultaneous collection of data samples from a network device by servers. The method also includes generating a clean data file by sorting data in the master... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070283007 - System and method for network vulnerability detection and reporting: A system and method provide comprehensive and highly automated testing of vulnerabilities to intrusion on a target network, including identification of operating system, identification of target network topology and target computers, identification of open target ports, assessment of vulnerabilities on target ports, active assessment of vulnerabilities based on information acquired... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070283012 - Alarm-driven access control in an enterprise network: An alarm access controller is operative to control access to an enterprise network of a communication system responsive to alarms generated by products that are part of a set of internal resources of the enterprise network. In one aspect, the alarm access controller is implemented by a server or other... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070283013 - Communication method for device in network system and system for managing network devices: A communication method for a device in a network system and a system for managing network devices are disclosed. The communication method for a device in a network system includes connecting a management server that manages at least one device in an internal network, the at least one device, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070283011 - Synchronizing configuration information among multiple clients: A user of multiple client devices (clients) makes application configuration changes on the clients from time to time. The configuration changes are stored in a local event log on each client, as well as in a synchronization server. When one of the clients connects to the synchronization server, for example... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070283014 - Access control method, access control system, and packet communication apparatus: An access control method for a network including a plurality of packet communication apparatuses is disclosed. The access control method includes a first step in which a sender packet communication apparatus attaches user attribute information to a packet to be transmitted, and a second step in which a communication control... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070283017 - Driving data backups with data source tagging: Implementations of the present invention allow clients (e.g., end-users, administrators, etc.) to associate data with one or more protection intents at the data/data source level. A backup server can then associate the data with a specific protection mechanism regardless of where the data/data source(s) are located, or regardless of how... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070283018 - Method and system to connect between single wireless device and plurality of hosts using wireless usb: A wireless connection method and system to connect between a single wireless device and a plurality of hosts. The method and system may use a wireless universal serial bus (USB) through which the single wireless device is able to connect to the plurality of hosts depending on the presence of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070283016 - Multiple resource control-advisor for management of distributed or web-based systems: A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20070283015 - Supporting ephemeral ports in a virtualized environment: Methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems for receiving a request for an allocation of one or more ephemeral ports from a pool of ephemeral ports associated with a physical device, for a virtual machine of the physical device, are described herein. In various embodiments, an ephemeral port manager of the physical... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070283019 - Network system, terminal and recording medium: A network system includes printers as terminals interconnected via a network. Each of the printers can obtain information on the others, and transmit the obtained information together with information on itself to a browser computer as a controller. Therefore, by obtaining the information only from one of the printers, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070283022 - Allocation of a call state control function to a subscriber: A method of allocating one of a plurality of call state control functions to a subscriber, the method comprising: sending registration requests to the plurality of call state control functions; storing information regarding the availability of the call state control functions in response to unsuccessful registration requests; and determining a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070283020 - Automatic generation of portlets for visualizing data by exploiting object relationships: A method of automatically creating portlets for a portal system can include identifying a location of structured data described by a data model specification and automatically determining, from the data model specification, relationships between a plurality of objects within the structured data. The method further can include automatically generating a... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070283021 - Method and apparatus for establishing multiple sessions between a database and a middle-tier client: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for establishing multiple sessions between a database and a middle-tier client. During operation, the system receives a request for a plurality of sessions at a database from a middle-tier client. In response to the request, the system authenticates the middle-tier client,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070283023 - Selecting proxies from among autodiscovered proxies: Network devices include proxies and where multiple proxies are present on a network, they can probe to determine the existence of other proxies. Where more than two proxies are present and thus different proxy pairings are possible, the proxies are programmed to determine which proxies should form a proxy pair.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070283024 - Address manipulation for network transparency and troubleshooting: In address-manipulation enabled transaction accelerators, the transaction accelerators include outer-connection addressing information in packets emitted over an inner connection between transaction accelerators and inner-connection addressing information is added in packets sent over the inner connection. The inner-connection addressing information can be carried in TCP option fields, directly in other fields,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070283025 - Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a multicast service. The parameter is associated with controlling the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070283026 - Method and device for reliable broadcast: The invention is embodied in a technique for broadcasting content data from a broadcaster (including a multicaster) to a plurality of clients. After a client receives content data from the broadcaster, a plurality of available proxy servers may be contacted for post-processing after the content data broadcast is determined. The... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070283027 - System and method for providing quantities of data for a communication: A method for providing a quantity of data for a communication between at least a first user and a second user of a communication system includes granting a first user an access right for using the quantity of data for active use. The quantity of data is also provided to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070283031 - Image pickup apparatus having communication function, method for controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium: An image pickup apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture a subject; a generating unit configured to generate a request packet to request information of an image stored in an external apparatus, wherein the request packet includes a parameter of the capturing; a request packet transmitting unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070283028 - Name challenge enabled zones: A method and system for implementing name challenge enabled zones is described herein. A DNS server receives an update from a client device. If the DNS server hosts an authoritative zone for the update, the DNS server determines whether there is a record for the host name. If so, then... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070283029 - Populating service requests: A method, apparatus, architecture and computer program product for populating a service request is disclosed. A service request is modeled to determine the steps involved. The data is missing from a service request for each step of the request is assessed. The data sources for the modeled request are identified.... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070283030 - System and method for batch process control with diverse distributed control system protocols: A system and method for batch process control with diverse distributed control system (DCS) protocols is disclosed. A run-time extension acts as an adaptation layer that allows a single batch manager to supervise controllers utilizing diverse DCS protocols. The run-time extension receives commands transmitted from the batch supervisor in a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070283032 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving status report in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a status report in a mobile communication system where Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) and Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) operate together. An ARQ receiving (Rx) entity determines whether transmission of the status report is permitted, if a predetermined status report generation condition is satisfied.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070283034 - Method to support data streaming in service data objects graphs: The present invention provides a method, system, and program product to support data streaming in service data object (SDO) graphs. Specifically, under the present invention, the method includes attaching a binary object stream to a SDO graph; streaming the binary object to a repository; and also streaming the SDO graph... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070283033 - System and method for mobile telephone as audio gateway: Disclosed is a system and method for using the mobile telephone as an audio gateway. In one embodiment, a mobile telephone requests: access to a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes at least one remote server that contains multimedia content. The mobile telephone assigns a subnet internet protocol (IP)... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070283035 - Method and apparatus for buffering streaming media: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for buffering streaming media, including: determining whether there is no free buffer chunk to buffering streaming media currently in a playing buffer; if so, stopping downloading streaming media from the network; otherwise, buffering the streaming media downloaded from the network in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070283036 - System and method for providing a web page: Method and system for providing a web page. Preferably, the method and system composes a web page based on real-time conditions. In an exemplary method, a web page including a plurality of data objects is received. For each of the plurality of data objects, content importance is evaluated. Available bytes... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070283040 - Electronic device, network connecting system, network connecting method, and program product therefor: An electronic device including a memory area that stores a program to be executed by the computer and data, the electronic device connecting a computer and a server device in a communicable state. The program includes a first processing portion that retrieves connection information from the computer and writes the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070283039 - Mail application with integrated text messaging functionality: A network device, method, and mobile device are directed towards enabling a user to compose a message using an email interface, and then to send the message to a recipient as a text message. The message is automatically converted into one or more SMS, EMS, MMS messages, or the like.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070283038 - Method and system for providing ad-splicer redundancy in a cable/mso network: Method and system for providing ad-splicer N+1 redundancy in a network by employing TIP network intelligence & techniques to facilitate a redundant ad-splicer presuming, within few seconds, the functionality of the failed primary ad-splicer. The network triggers the installation of unlist and multi cast route on an interface by tracking... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070283037 - System and method for broadcasting instructions/data to a plurality of processors in a multiprocessor device via aliasing: A system and method for broadcasting instructions/data to a plurality of processors in a multiprocessor device via aliasing are provided. In order to broadcast data to a plurality of processors, a control processor writes to the registers that store the identifiers of the processors and sets two or more of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070283041 - System and method for recognizing offloaded packets: The present invention relates to a method and system for recognizing offloaded packets. Firstly, according to the method of the present invention, a common attribute of connection identifications among a plurality of offloaded connections is calculated. Then, a connection identification of a packet is recognized to determine whether the connection... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070283042 - Selecting routes through a network: Routing a communication from a first computer system, through a network, to a second computer system, may include determining whether a route through the network meets a metric, and assigning an output address of the first computer system and an input address of the second computer system based on whether... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070283043 - Information delivery system, delivery request program, transfer program, delivery program, and the like: A first node device transmits to a second node device unique identification information corresponding to specific common information, receives from the information saving node device the relevant information regarding the information saving node device, and requests to a selected information saving node device delivery of the specific common information, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070283045 - Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected: Apparatus and methods for determining a switching device and port to which a user selected end-node in a computer network is connected may include receiving an address of a user determined end-node and discovering a switching device that forwards traffic to no other device on the same port as the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070283046 - Methods and apparatus for providing media from content providers using a network interface device: A network bridge connects a host device, such as digital media player, cell phone or camera, to content sources over a network to permit the host device to transmit or receive digital media. The network bridge includes a network interface module that identifies at least one media source as well... Agent: John Stattler, Esq. Stattler Johansen & Adeli LLP

20070283044 - User interface for a handheld device: A user interface and method for composing a message to be sent over a wireless network environment using a handheld device is disclosed. According to the method, upon receipt of a user request to compose a message, a screen is displayed with an input recipient field for a recipient address,... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070283048 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing universal information transcoding: An apparatus comprising a conversion application includes a capability determining element and a local transcode server. The capability determining element is configured to determine a first format of source data, determine an information format for converted data, and determine local conversion capabilities. The local transcode server is configured to convert... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070283049 - Resolving conflicts while synchronizing configuration information among multiple clients: A user of multiple client devices (clients) makes application configuration changes on the clients from time to time. The configuration changes are stored in a local event log on each client, as well as in a synchronization server. When one of the clients connects to the synchronization server, for example... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070283047 - System and method for processing alphanumeric characters for display on a data processing device: A system is described comprising: character analysis logic configured at a data service to analyze original content requested by a data processing device, the original content containing one or more original characters; a database containing display capabilities and limitations of said data processing device; the character analysis logic being further... Agent: Thomas C. Webster Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070283050 - Scheduling reporting of synchronization states: A synchronization system schedules the reporting of synchronization states between a synchronization client computing device and a synchronization server appliance device, based on relevant events in the synchronization process. A file system hierarchy is built by a scanning module based on recursive scanning of the file system on the synchronization... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC