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 e