Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 02/08

20080052340 - Method and system for content advertising in ad hoc networks: A method and system for incentive based content advertising using proxies in an ad hoc network. The method comprises of identifying (205) one or more proxy nodes that volunteer to provide content advertising services, based on one or more predefined parameters. Further, the method comprises of sharing (215) the information... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080052342 - Image forming apparatus, resource holding apparatus, image forming system, resource requesting method, resource holding method, resource managing method, and program: An MFP which holds resources stores resource information of the held resources. Whether or not a resource holding request has been added to a resource downloading request from an SFP is discriminated. If it is determined that the resource holding request has been added, a holding priority to decide a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080052341 - System and method for processing data associated with a transmission in a data communication system: A method and system are provided for processing large amounts of data associated with messages and other transmissions that are routed through a data communications system. A distributed system is used to process the data in parallel. The system includes a master processor and at least one additional processor. The... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080052343 - Usage-based prioritization: A syndication platform provides a supplemental feed of most-viewed items in a syndicated data feed.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080052347 - Apparatus and method for matching protocols of embedded audio/video contents: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for matching protocols of embedded audio/video (AV) contents. The apparatus includes a remote user interface (RUI) server which receives uniform resource identifier (URI) information of AV contents embedded in user interface (UI) data and protocol information of the AV contents; an RUI... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080052345 - Data displays utilizing peer-to-peer communications in a measurement system: A synthetic instrument having a local area network, a plurality of component modules and a data source module is disclosed. Each component module has an input for receiving an input signal, an output for transferring an output signal derived from the input signal by that component module, and a network... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080052344 - High availability for voice enabled applications: The present invention provides methods and systems for providing high availability voice applications. More specifically, one or more applications may share an extension of a switch among each other. This allows each application to receive data from the switch without occupying additional extensions of the switch. A first application sharing... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080052349 - Methods and system for aggregating disparate batches of digital media files captured during an event for the purpose of inclusion into public collections for sharing: A system distributed over a network for aggregating multiple disparate batches of media files for inclusion into a collection of media files includes a first computing device on the network for creating and defining a collection, a server on the network for validating the created collection and publishing the collection... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080052346 - System for mobile workforce, vehicle, asset and service management: An integrated, pervasive service management system of a service organization for a mobile workforce and vehicle that includes an application server to coordinate communications between the system and field service entities that include service technician communication devices. The system also includes an integration hub server to communicate between the service... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080052350 - A virtual network resource infrastructure (vnri) arrangement: A virtual network resource infrastructure for hosting and managing a plurality of e-malls and each e-mall uses the virtual network resource infrastructure for offering e-commerce solution and the hosting of: e-shops, e-distributors and web sites. Also, on-line foreign language interface translation and interface exchange. Further having satellite e-malls with e-services... Agent: John Almeida

20080052348 - Configurable personal audiovisual device for use in networked application-sharing system: A method for facilitating sharing of widget programs among a plurality of personal electronic devices is disclosed. The method includes establishing a database of the widget programs capable of being executed by the plurality of personal electronic devices. The method further includes receiving, over a communication network, a widget forwarding... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080052352 - System and method for managing server configurations: A computer system comprises servers running application programs which are controlled, at least in part, by configuration parameters. The parameters are updated by first updating a database of configuration parameters, and then automatically updating the servers in accordance with the database updates to automatically maintain synchronization between the server configuration... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080052351 - System and method for preventing timeout of a client: A system for preventing timeout of a client interface accessing a main Java Servlet executing in a first thread which monitors an application executing in a second thread. A task status object is accessed by the application to post its completion state and by the client interface responsive to a... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080052353 - System for recording and distributing recorded information over the internet: A system for recording and distributing information is described. The system includes a controller computer capable of establishing a communications connection via a communications interface with information providers and users. The controller computer also maintains a web site through which information providers can list and describe the information services to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080052354 - Method of giving the invitee information on an instant messaging meeting prior to acceptance: A method for distributing information to an invitee of an instant messaging (IM) meeting prior to acceptance of the meeting. The method includes initiating an instant message (IM) meeting via a moderator. The next step includes sending an invitation to an invitee to join the meeting. The invitation includes the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080052355 - Method, system, and program product for organizing the contributions of each of a plurality of participants to an electronic communication: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for organizing the contributions of each of a plurality of participants to an electronic communication. In one embodiment, the invention includes providing a list of participants to an electronic communication; accessing contents of the electronic communication; correlating at least one portion... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080052356 - Remote operation of process control equipment over customer supplied network: A DCS protocol message addressed to a remote DCS station is generated at a local distributed control system (DCS). The DCS protocol message is received at a local tunneling device. The local tunneling device packages the DCS protocol message into a SCADA protocol message. The SCADA protocol message is transmitted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080052357 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing dynamic customization of environment for enhanced network meeting experience: A method, apparatus and computer program product implement dynamic customization of environment for enhanced network meeting experience. Users connect to a network meeting and environment data are submitted for the users to a computer system for a presenter. A primary recipient is selected by the presenter. A view is rendered... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080052358 - System for performing collaborative tasks: A system for performing collaborative tasks which permits collaborators to determine the form of a model of the collaborative work, to modify the model in the course of the collaborative work, and to use the model to access information related to the collaborative work. A graphical user interface permits collaborators... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20080052361 - Method and system for managing a process through an e-mail client: A process, such as a training program, is managed through an e-mail client. The process includes one or more datasets such as training programs. The one or more training programs are scheduled, based on one or more categories such as the date, time and location of the training. Users associated... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080052360 - Rules profiler: A set of filter rules are applied to pieces of text. The runtime for each rule of the set of filter rules is determined. The runtime performance of the set of filter rules based on the runtime for each rule is outputted.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080052364 - System and method for protecting e-mail sender identity via use of customized recipient e-mail addresses: A system and method are disclosed for protecting e-mail sender identity by redirecting e-mail messages to an e-mail forwarding server via use of customized recipient e-mail addresses. An e-mail message is sent from a user's actual e-mail account to a customized recipient e-mail address. Because an e-mail forwarding server of... Agent: Xiang Zhou

20080052359 - System and method of addressing email and electronic communication fraud: A system and method may respond to a fraudulent attack, such as a Phishing attack. The system and method may send a number of responses to party committing fraud, the responses designed to mimic the responses to a Phishing attack. The responses may include codes or marked information designed to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080052362 - System and method for hunting out mail recipients in order to obtain a response: The present invention discloses a method, system and computer program to be executed on a sender side of a mail management application, for automatically hunting out electronic mail recipients for whom a response is expected when no response is received within a predefined period of time. The method comprises the... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080052365 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for message status indication. One embodiment of a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server for a user having a mail address thereat, the message being displayable on a computer for the user with a status indicator... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080052366 - System for low power operation of wireless lan interfaces: A computer program product includes instructions for causing a processor to: alert a client of the configuration of said computer program product; use a memory space for buffering the network application data destined for the client; release the network application data to the client, based on at least one occurrence... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080052363 - Systems and methods for interoperable message service with mobile support in a mobile community platform: Methods and systems for an interoperable message service allow users of a community-based platform to send an instant message to another user through any one of multiple message service platforms, and to allow the user to access and utilize the interoperable message service from a standard networked computer, or from... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080052367 - Method and system for sharing metadata between interfaces: A system communicates a client application and a web application and receives configuration data operable within the web application and the client application. The system distributes the configuration data to the client application and the web application. The distributed configuration data is then used to configure the client application and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080052368 - System and method to shuffle and refill content: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting network-based content from a network to a mobile telephone. The system and method generally provides the mobile telephone requesting information from a remote source. The request generally includes the amount of available memory in the mobile telephone. Optionally, the request may include... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080052370 - Managing searches on mobile devices: This disclosure pertains to solutions, including without limitation, systems, methods, and software programs, that provide the ability to quickly and efficiently search mobile devices for relevant information. An exemplary search server has the ability to communicate (either directly and/or via a host PC) with one or more mobile devices to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080052372 - Method and system for presenting information with multiple views: Method and system for presenting information on a user device are disclosed. The method includes collecting a plurality of data objects on the Internet, annotating each data object in the plurality of data objects in accordance with user-defined data and implicit data, wherein the user-defined data and implicit data form... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080052369 - Persistent saving portal: Method and computer program product for collecting information on the Internet are disclosed. The method includes parsing contents of a web page to form a plurality of collectable objects, selecting one or more objects from the plurality of collectable objects, storing the one or more objects to one or more... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080052371 - System, apparatus and method for discovery of music within a social network: A system, apparatus, and method to assist in the discovery of music or other content by members of a social network. The present invention permits network members to network together and share information about their music collections and listening habits with a processing platform and with each other. The processing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080052376 - Exactly once cache framework: A system for managing objects in a clustered network includes a file system containing at least one copy of a data object. The system can include several clustered servers in communication with the file system. A distributed consensus algorithm is used to select a host server. The selected host server... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080052374 - Method and apparatus for multiple agent commitment tracking and notification: A system for tracking client contacts for a host organization utilizes a multimedia database and a user interface at a connected computer device. The database stores client communications as full content, and relates contacts by issue, and the user interface displays client contact communications as objects, such as icons, in... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080052373 - Systems and methods for a community-based user interface: Systems and methods for providing a desktop user interface for accessing and using community-based contact management, communication tools, websites and application pods in a convenient and integrated fashion, in an always-on mode. The desktop user interface resides on the user's desktop as an application and provides access to the aforementioned... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080052375 - Systems and methods of network operation and information processing: Systems and methods are disclosed for network operation and information processing involving engaging users of a network. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of engaging users of a public-access network. Moreover, the method includes associating a processing component with the public-access network; transmitting a request for authorization... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080052377 - Web-based user-dependent customer service interaction with co-browsing: Systems and methods for communication between customer service representatives and users, for example, users of a website, are disclosed. In connection with rendering an informational resource, such as a World Wide Web page, on a browser, a user is provided with an indication that communication between a representative and the... Agent: Patentbest

20080052378 - Network analysis assisting apparatus and method, program and recording medium: A network analysis assisting apparatus for assisting analysis of a network formed from a plurality of nodes and edges indicating interconnection between the nodes includes an edge attribute setting unit that sets an edge attribute indicating a meaning of the interconnection, to each of the edges.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052379 - Network analysis assisting apparatus and method, program and recording medium: A network analysis assisting apparatus for assisting analysis of a network formed from a plurality of nodes and edges indicating interconnection between the nodes includes a modifying control unit that receives a designation of a node attribute indicating a meaning of a node to be added to the network or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052380 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that transmits information to a server, the apparatus including: connection determination means for determining whether a portable terminal has been connected to the information processing apparatus; information acquisition means for, when the connection determination means determines that the terminal has been connected to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052381 - Method and system for selecting a transcoder to convert between content types: A server may provide transcoding services (e.g. to transcode Web content for mobile devices) using a plurality of transcoders. To facilitate transcoder selection, server operations may be configured using a configuration framework in which the transcoders and respective mapping priorities are specified. The framework also supports the specification of, for... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080052382 - Method and apparatus for closing browser windows after a maximum idle time: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing browser windows. A determination is made as to whether window management is enabled for a window associated with a browser by checking a set of stored parameters, wherein the window displays content from a source identified by a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052384 - Network administration tool: A tool for managing a network of interconnected devices. The tool may provide a user with an interface that allows the user to view the type and status of each network device (that is, each device connected to the network), and even the status of the network itself. The tool... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080052388 - Substitutable domain management system and method for substituting the system: A domain management method and substitutable system is provided. When a domain manager, which manages digital rights in a local area, permanently or temporarily becomes unavailable, the domain management method and system may protect the digital rights of the area by using another domain manager.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080052383 - System and method for mobile device application management: A system for managing mobile electronic devices in a network, including a plurality of mobile electronic devices, at least one network processor, directory service software executing on the at least one network processor for providing user data pertaining to users of the plurality of mobile electronic devices, at least one... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080052387 - System and method for tracking application resource usage: A system and method for tracking application resource usage. Network performance information of a communications network is gathered using performance information packet data packets. The network performance information is communicated to an application. Instructions in the application are executed in response to receiving the network performance information.... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080052385 - Method and network management apparatus for implementing information service level inheritance in network management system: A method for implementing Information Service (IS) level inheritance in a network management system includes: defining a WSDL file for an inheriting IRP, including the base management operations of the base IRP in the WSDL file for the inheriting IRP during the defining action to establish the IS level inheritance... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080052386 - Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an ip network: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for control using field and control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network. By way of non-limiting example, such field device can be an “intelligent” transmitter or actuator that includes a low power processor, along with... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080052389 - Method and apparatus for inferring the busy state of an instant messaging user: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for inferring the busy state of an instant messaging (IM) user. A method for inferring the busy state of an IM user in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a plurality of messages from a system of the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080052394 - System and method for initiating diagnostics on a packet network node: A system and method for diagnosing a problem on a packet network. Network performance information associated with data packet communications over a packet network may be collected. A network performance information parameter may be monitored and a determination that the network performance information parameter crosses a threshold value may be... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080052393 - System and method for remotely controlling network operators: A system and method for controlling communications networks. Network performance information is gathered from a first communications network using performance information packet data packets. A network operator of the first communications network is controlled from a secondary communications network using the performance information packet data packets. Changes to the network... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080052391 - System and method for updating information using limited bandwidth: A system and method detects an amount of data attributed to a device including reports sent to the device, and reduces the amount of data being used to provide reports to the device if the amount of data attributed to the device exceeds an amount assigned to the device. Data... Agent: Innovation Partners

20080052390 - System and method for virtual private network address persistence: A system for virtual private network (VPN) address persistence is provided. The system includes a VPN capable network device, wherein the network device further includes a VPN data monitor and a VPN queuing device. The system may also include a server, an enterprise firewall, and/or a gateway server, each with... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080052395 - Administration of protection of data accessible by a mobile device: The protection of data on a client mobile computing device by a server computer system such as within an enterprise network or on a separate mobile computing device is described. Security tools are described that provide different security policies to be enforced based on a location associated with a network... Agent: Michael T. Sanderson, Esq. King & Schickli, PLLC

20080052392 - System and method for monitoring a user's online activity: A system and method for monitoring online activity by a user or other online agent, for example, in web browsing, viewing of video or music content, or other online activities. In one aspect, the method comprises receiving program code (e.g., a script) on a client (e.g., running a web browser)... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080052397 - Future locking of resources: A system for allocating resources to demand requests is set forth. The system is configured to identify a set of resource requirements based on a demand request. The system is also configured to choose a resource that satisfies at least one of the identified resource requirements. The system is further... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052398 - Method, system and computer program for classifying email: Email is classified by generating a fuzzy membership function based on calculated weighted factors related to the persons identified in the “From;”, “To:” and “cc:” fields of the email together with the persons identified in emails already present in the folders of the user's email system. The fuzzy membership function... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080052396 - Providing a service from an application service provider to a client in a communication system: A method and apparatus for providing a service from an application service provider to a client in a communications system including a network proxy describes a first step of defining services provided by the service provider as Extensible Markup Language (XML) metadata. A next step includes defining services desired by... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080052401 - Pin-hole firewall for communicating data packets on a packet network: A pin-hole firewall network communications device that includes a first port configured to communicate data packets over a packet network and a first counter module in communication with the first port. A pin-hole firewall module may be in communication with the first counter module. A call control module may be... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080052399 - System and method for protecting emergency response services in telecommunication networks from attack: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for protecting emergency response services in telecommunications systems from attack. In one example, a system may include a network, a token generator, and a token validator. The network may be configured to communicate with a client via a network interface. The... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080052400 - Communications method and apparatus, database information retrieval method and apparatus: A method is provided of establishing a communications session between first and second devices associated with first and second parties respectively. A session request message indicates a request to establish the session and comprises session information. In response to the session request message, further information is retrieved and included in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080052402 - Method, a computer program, a device, and a system for protecting a server against denial of service attacks: m

20080052403 - Input/output routers with dual internal ports: Dual ported Input/Output (“I/O”) routers couple I/O devices to a cross-coupled switching fabric providing multiple levels of data path redundancy. Each I/O router possesses two or more internal ports allowing each I/O router to access multiple switches in a cross-coupled switching fabric. The additional redundant paths between each I/O device... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080052404 - Method and system for fault tolerant media streaming over the internet: A replication process provides fault tolerance for a continuous media stream in a computer network. In one embodiment, the original or source signal is sent to several splitters which, in turn, each make copies of the signal and send the copies into a second layer of devices, which are referred... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080052405 - Recording medium recording program causing computer to perform data transfer: A data sending apparatus, on sending data to a receiving apparatus, searches its storage for a transmission method to the receiving apparatus. After sending data to the receiving apparatus, the sending apparatus receives from the receiving apparatus a transmission result including a transmission condition and capabilities of the receiving apparatus.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080052406 - Media transmission method and apparatus in a communication system: A media transmission method and apparatus of a first server using a session-based messaging service in a communication system. The first server sets Media Relay Capacity (MRC) information of a first User Equipment (UE), transmits the set MRC information to a second server, receives a response from the second server... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080052407 - Method and system for information broadcasting: A system (100) and method (200) for information broadcasting is provided. The method can include collecting (202) information for distribution to a plurality of mobile devices, adding (204) context sensitive flags to the information to produce context information, broadcasting (206) the context information to an infrastructure having communication with the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080052408 - Data transmission system, receiving apparatus, and receiving method as well as sending apparatus and sending method: A data transmission system may have a sending apparatus that sends streaming data, and a receiving apparatus that receives the streaming data and transmits a request of switch of the streaming data to the sending apparatus, in which the sending apparatus may switch the streaming data in response to the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080052409 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting data items from a messaging system to a user's mobile communication device. One embodiment of a method comprises: configuring a plurality of redirection trigger events for a user, wherein upon occurrence of a redirection trigger event, a redirection flag configured for the user is set so... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080052410 - Method, system and means for transmitting a data package to a plurality of computers distributed through a set of distinct local networks: A system and a method of distributing a data package (1) by a control server (3) to a plurality of computers (7a to 11c) distributed over a set of separate local networks (7, 9, 11). At the request of a particular computer (7a) of a particular local network (7) wishing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080052411 - Network system that can easily remotely access other networks: A network system that can easily carry out remote access of a different network. The network system comprises a first image processing apparatus connected to a first network and a second image processing apparatus connected to a second network having a network address different from that of the first network.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080052412 - Distributed portel system, content page creation server and recording medium: A distributed portal system 20 is used for designing and managing the creation and management of website content pages at two or more sites and comprises a main Web server 21 and one or more part execution servers 22, 23. The main Web server is connected to the part execution... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080052414 - Network adaptation of digital content: A method and system are provided for wireless multimedia customization for different access networks with variable network conditions and device types. In one aspect, when a multimedia content clip is available, the clip is processed for transport by processing it in accordance with different options for the content clip in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080052413 - Serving locally relevant advertisements: A method and system for providing location-based advertisements to requesting devices is provided. An advertisement system aggregates advertisements by collecting advertisements from multiple advertisement sources, extracting data from the collected advertisements, and storing the extracted data in a common format. After aggregating the advertisements, the advertisement system transforms each advertisement... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080052415 - Media processing system supporting different media formats via server-based transcoding: Methods and systems for processing media content are disclosed and may include a server operatively coupled to a network, a first communications device operatively coupled to the network, and a second communications device operatively coupled to the network. The second communications device may receive, from the first communications device, a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080052416 - Obtaining utility devices to communicate with a control unit in a data processing system: In a data processing system, configured utility devices are designated in logical storage subsystems. The identification numbers of the designated utility devices are stored by a network interface. When a non-device specific command or query is received from a server by the interface, the interface obtains the ID of one... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20080046499 - System and method for attaching advertisements to media files: The present invention relates to a polymer composition with good chemical properties and barrier properties being multimodal and comprising a polymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of lower than 6000 g/mol and a polyolefine (B) having a higher weight average molecular weight than polymer (A) and a filler... Agent: Ade & Company P.o. Box 28006

20080046502 - Information distribution system and method for distributing content information: This invention provides an information distribution system comprising an image data processing device (11), a server (12), and a portable telephone unit (15 having image data acquisition means for acquiring image data with a destination address attached thereto and display means for displaying the image data, wherein the image data... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080046501 - Managing uneven authorizations in a computer data exchange: Techniques are provided to integrate applications having different data structures. Data from the application having a less restrictive data structure is provided to the application with a more restrictive data structure as the application is capable of storing the data. Data from the application having a less restrictive data structure... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080046500 - Process management apparatus, computer systems, distributed processing method, and computer program: When performing distributed processing in processing devices connected to a network and a processing managing device for managing the processing devices, it is possible to eliminate the overhead of the processing management device. When the processing management device (PU) (203) managing processing devices (SPU) (207) under its control receives a... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080046503 - Control device and analyzer: The present invention quickly resolves troubles in an analyzer and performs effective external quality control management. An analyzer (2) and a control device (1) are connected by a network (3). Error data and sample data taken from assay of a quality control substance are transmitted from the control device (1)... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080046504 - Method and apparatus for extended management of state and interaction of a remote knowledge worker from a contact center: A network system for managing remote agents of a communication center includes a primary server connected to the network the primary server controlling at least one routing point; one or more secondary servers distributed on the network and accessible to the remote agents, the secondary server or servers having data... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080046506 - Method and apparatus for a multiplexed active data window in a near real-time business intelligence system: A method of optimizing a first set of graphical display elements on a client device. The method also includes coupling a first server to the client device by a first connection; coupling a second server to the client device by a second connection; and generating the first set of graphical... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046505 - Method and apparatus for ensuring accountability in the examination of a set of data elements by a user: A method for substantially assuring the examination of a set of data elements by a first user with a messaging device, the set of data elements further comprising a metadata portion. The method further includes determining a set of data elements, each data element of the set of data elements... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046507 - System and method for facilitating ease of use of a web page user interface: A system and method for facilitating ease of use of a user interface which monitors usage of a Web page to discern usage patterns associated with the Web page. The discerned usage patterns associated with the Web page are then used to form a plurality of user interface types each... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080046509 - Peer to peer distribution system and method: Methods and related systems relating to peer to peer content distribution.... Agent: Searete LLC

20080046508 - System and method for abbreviating information sent to a viewing device: A system and method for transporting user-requested framed data from a gateway device to a handheld viewing device includes an information source, a gateway device, a relay network and a handheld viewing device. The gateway device includes a fetch and cache component, storage, and a wireless transport layer. The wireless... Agent: David B. Cochran Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20080046512 - Method and system for enhanced electronic communications: A method for providing enhanced participation in a chat application is disclosed. The chat application allows an inviter to invite a guest, via a guest chat client, to participate in a conversation between the inviter via an inviter chat client and at least one participant via a participant chat client,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080046510 - Method for selectively sending a notification to an instant messaging device: A computer-implemented method for sending a message. The computer-implemented method also includes monitoring, using a first set of rules, for an event that triggers a message to be transmitted. The computer-implemented method further includes ascertaining, using a set of notification rules and at least one of a first present parameter... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046513 - Method, system, and computer program product for message mapping of communications: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing message mapping of communications is provided. The method includes receiving a communication and a time-stamp of the communication from a messaging system of an originating terminal device and receiving a request to respond to the communication from a messaging system at... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080046511 - System and method for conducting an electronic message forum: An electronic message forum is operated by receiving a communication from an individual. The communication includes a content for the electronic message forum. For example, the content may correspond to text and/or images, authored or selected by the individual. Information about the communication or the individual making the post is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080046514 - System and method for electronically designating co-chairs: A system and method that allows electronic collaboration events to be co-chaired, thus eliminating restricted process access or bottlenecks and therefore providing a more efficient electronic collaboration event is provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of peer level chairperson positions for the electronic event and identifying at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080046515 - System, method and program for facilitating an electronic chat session: Computer system, method and program product for facilitating a chat session. An icon or a definition of the icon and a corresponding intelligent agent program are received at a workstation. In response, the workstation displays the icon in a chat session window. A selection of the icon is received during... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080046516 - System and method for propagating inquiries and answers thereto through on-line human network: Disclosed is a method for sharing reliable information or knowledge with regard to a question using an on-line human network. The on-line human network-based knowledge sharing method is to share knowledge based on an acquaintance information database. The database stores the IDs of a plurality of users, and the correspondence... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046523 - Electronic mail communication device: An electronic mail communication device is used in connection with a server for communicating an electronic mail. The electronic mail communication device is provided with an input device that inputs an electronic mail communication command, a storage that stores information indicating whether or not an electronic mail communication through the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080046518 - Enhanced e-mail system: An enchanced email system integrates office applications to track information related to the office application documents and emails within the email system, so as to monitor the work status and productivity of office work and to improve efficiency. The enhanced email system enables the creation of automatic folders amongst a... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080046521 - Network device: A network device is to be connected with a communication network. The network device is capable of executing a communication function by utilizing the communication network. The network device is provided with an input device, a storage, a communication device, and a communication test device. The input device inputs communication... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080046517 - Routing of peer-to-peer messages in a communications network: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for routing of peer-to-peer messages (M1, M2, M3) in a communication network. The messages are routed between a first instance (Y) in a first node (A) and a second node (B). The method comprises inserting information (I1) in a first... Agent: John C Han Ericsson Inc

20080046519 - System and method for messaging to edit a file: A method for messaging to edit a file, the method includes the steps of: assigning an editor of a case; uploading to-be-edited file(s) of the case to an application server (30), and saving the to-be-edited file(s) as a case file in a database server (40) connected to the application server;... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080046520 - Method, system and software product for locating competence in a group of users connected to an electronic communications network: A method for locating competence in relation to a given subject in a group of users that are connected to an electronic communications network, includes sending a message to a user via said network, the message inviting the user to return a response message containing a reference to one or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046522 - Method, system and terminal for processing an emn: A method for processing an EMN (E-Mail Notification) is disclosed, including: a terminal obtains an EMN policy of a user; and the terminal controls the processing of an EMN according to the EMN policy. The present invention further provides a terminal for processing an EMN, including: an EMN policy setting... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080046524 - Multimedia messaging: The present invention comprises customizable, multimedia messaging over a subscriber television system, such as a cable or satellite system, utilizing a service independent framework. The present invention comprises a multimedia messaging (MMM) server generally located at a headend of a cable or satellite system, and an MMM client at a... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080046525 - Presence information management method and presence information management system: In the presence information management method of the present invention, the e-mail address of the user and the terminal address of a terminal are extracted upon receipt of an e-mail transmission request, the e-mail address and terminal address correspondence table is retrieved by using the extracted e-mail address, and the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080046528 - System and method for pushing encrypted information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A message redirection scheme, comprising: receiving a notification that a message is available for redirection, the message comprising an e-mail originated from a user's mobile data communication device; obtaining a user ID related to the message and retrieving a user record based on the user ID; obtaining a site ID... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046529 - System and method for pushing encrypted information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting messages between an Internet Service Provider (ISP) host and a mobile device associated with a user having a mail address at the ISP host. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: receiving incoming messages directed to the user's mail address at the ISP host;... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046526 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A message delivery scheme operable at a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: determining that a received message is a redirected message from a messaging system for a user associated with the messaging system, the received message including a new... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046527 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: In one embodiment, a computer-accessible medium having instructions which, when executed on a computer, effectuate redirection of messages between a mail system and a mobile communications device. The computer-accessible medium comprises: program code for determining occurrence of a trigger event configured to control redirection of messages at the mail system... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046530 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for mobile message delivery operable with a wireless mobile data device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: determining that a message received over a wireless network is from a messaging system for a user associated with the wireless mobile data device; determining... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046531 - System for routing electronic mails: A computerized telephony call center for serving a customer base has a central switch connected to a plurality of telephones at operator workstations and adapted to route calls to individual ones of the telephones, and also connected to a public switched telephone network, and a first processor connected to the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080046533 - Data processing program recording medium, data signal, data processing device and data processing method: When a process is carried out relative to data and an error occurs in the process, information containing a URL to be designated to thereby access a Web page to thereby instruct re-execution of the predetermined process relative to the data is transmitted to the user having instructed execution of... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080046532 - Delayed instant messaging for assured communication: In some embodiments, a computer-readable storage medium containing a set of instructions for a general purpose computer having a user interface may include one or more of the following features: (a) an instant messaging session associated with said user interface for permitting an originating party to communicate with a destination... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080046534 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for message status indicator synchronization operable with a mobile data communication device. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: upon receiving a message over a wireless network for a user, determining that the message is a redirected message facilitated by a redirector component associated with a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046535 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting messages from a messaging system to a mobile communication device associated with a user having a mail address at the messaging system. An embodiment comprises one or more of the following: maintaining a folder list at the messaging system for incoming messages addressed to the user's... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046538 - Automatic load spreading in a clustered network storage system: A cache is used in a network storage system that includes a plurality of data storage nodes in a storage cluster, to automatically spread read and write access load, by a plurality of storage clients, for file system data and metadata, across the plurality of data storage nodes.... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080046536 - Method and apparatus for a report cache in a near real-time business intelligence system: A method of optimizing the delivery of a set of data elements from a first device to a second device. The method includes retrieving from a data source the set of data elements, including a first subset of the set of data elements, a second subset of the set of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046539 - Method and apparatus for providing internet service to home network: Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing an Internet service to a home network. The method enables a user to use the Internet service by utilizing a device, in which a web browser is not installed, by representing the Internet service as a virtual home network device, receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046537 - System and method for alerting a user of the availability of web feeds: A method, computer program product, and client device for selecting an identifier on a display of the client device, the identifier corresponding to a website having one or more web pages stored on a server. In response to selecting an identifier, an indication is transmitted to a server requesting that... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080046540 - Methods and apparatus for providing coverage for sender of transmission data: The present invention provides systems and methods which afford a technical application for insuring, bonding, and underwriting a transmission of a data set, streaming data, and/or document over the Internet through TCP/IP and all other electronic media such as WAP, VOIP, fiber optic channels, microwave channels, and through standard electrical... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20080046542 - Communication apparatus, relay apparatus, communication system, communication method, and communication program: A communication apparatus has a plurality of interfaces serving a plurality of networks. The communication apparatus selects an interface according to electric wave reception intensity to reduce power consumption and contribute to the maintenance of reliability in communication. The communication apparatus (communication terminal apparatus, the other party's communication terminal apparatus)... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080046541 - Content navigational shortcuts for portal environments: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface navigation and provide a method, system and computer program product for content navigational shortcuts for portal environments. In one embodiment of the invention, a content navigational shortcut method can be provided. The method can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080046543 - System and method for automatically obtaining web feed content: A method, computer program product, and electronic device for transferring updated digital content to a client device includes determining that the updated content is available from a web feed. The updated content is obtained from the web feed and stored within a datastore. An indication is provided to the client... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080046544 - Content acquisition method, content acquisition device, and content acquisition program: The present invention allows for the acquisition of content data. The present invention temporarily stores the first and second process progress information in the storage medium, and, when the requested content data and license data 301 are registered in the database after being downloaded and temporarily stored in the storage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046546 - Efi based mechanism to export platform management capabilities to the os: In some embodiments of the present invention, an architecture comprises a cross platform specification for platform manageability to provide a secure execution environment independent of the host operating system which can execute third party management capability extensions, called Capability Modules (CM's) to enhance platform manageability. At least one embodiment of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080046545 - In-band device enrollment without access point support: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for configuring a wireless device, so as to enable the wireless device to join a secured wireless network, by broadcasting a series of broadcast packets encoding a network configuration parameter (e.g., a shared secret key) from a computer coupled to a wireless... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080046547 - System for low power operation of wireless lan interfaces: A wireless client unit for communicating with at least one apparatus for buffering network information destined for the wireless client unit includes: a wireless interface between the apparatus and the wireless client unit; a module for determining whether at least one of the apparatus is available for use by the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080046548 - Network booting using a platform management coprocessor: Embodiments of a system and method for enabling a target computer to download a boot image and operating system from a boot server computer over a network are described. The target computer system includes a host processor environment and a platform management coprocessor subsystem that includes a microcontroller for providing... Agent: Courtney Stanford & Gregory LLP C/o Intellevate

20080046550 - Message based network transmission for selection and auditing of internet services: A computer communicates with a referral server according to a web service definition to select and audit performance of an internet service. The computer sends and receives messages requesting internet services available in a geographic region and the message includes an identifier where the computer is located. Other received messages... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080046549 - Methods and systems for passive information discovery using lomb periodogram processing: A system processes communication signals in a network [100, 200]. The system may obtain time of arrival information for chunks of data in the network and construct a signal [410, 420] represent the time of arrival information. The signal may consist of data that is non-uniformly spaced. The system may... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080046553 - Network-management device, network-management method, and computer program product: A network-management device includes a map storing unit and a map state storing unit. The map storing unit stores therein a map created based on information on network devices. The map state storing unit stores therein a creation state indicating that creation of the map is in process or completed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046551 - Programmatically managing connections between servers and clients: The present invention generally provides for the programmatic management of connections between servers (e.g., open system servers) and clients (local and/or remote). Specifically, under the present invention, a management console is provided through which connections between the servers and clients are established, maintained and/or terminated. Software loaded on the management... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080046552 - Service resiliency within on-premise products: Described is a technology by which a remote network (or local) service is monitored for failure, e.g., by determining whether data corresponding to operation of the service achieves a threshold. When a threshold is achieved that indicates that the service has failed, the service is automatically deactivated for use with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046554 - Peer-to-peer relay network: Methods and apparatus for implementing peer-to-peer relay. In one implementation, a peer-to-peer relay network includes: a plurality of N peer systems; wherein each peer system is connected to a number of other peer systems that is less than or equal to a connection limit, said connection limit is greater than... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080046555 - Peer-to-peer relay network: Methods and apparatus for implementing peer-to-peer relay. In one implementation, a peer-to-peer relay network includes: a plurality of N peer systems; wherein each peer system is connected to a number of other peer systems that is less than or equal to a connection limit, said connection limit is greater than... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080046560 - Exchange, exchange control program, exchange control method: An exchange is connected between a terminal and a network. The exchange comprises: a monitor section that monitors a state of the network; and a channel control section that secures, before transmission from the terminal on a call-out side, a channel for use in the transmission from the call-out side... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080046556 - Method and apparatus for distributed rule evaluation in a near real-time business intelligence system: A method for optimally monitoring a set of data elements for an event. The method includes determining a set of data elements, each of which further comprises a state. An event is commonly a change in this state. The method further includes creating a rule for monitoring the event, wherein... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046558 - Method and appliance for using a dynamic response time to determine responsiveness of network services: In a method and appliance for using a dynamic response time to determine responsiveness of one or more network services on a server, a monitor determines a response time for each of one or more network services. The monitor establishes an average response time based on the determined response time... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080046559 - Method and system for identification of decisive action state of server components via telemetric condition tracking: A method for performing server monitoring via condition tracking and state identification of server components. In one embodiment, the method includes continuously monitoring a server, the server having a plurality of components, determining whether a component of the plurality of components has entered a maintenance state, and triggering a maintenance... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20080046561 - Networking hardware element to couple computer network elements and method of displaying information thereon: In one embodiment, a networking hardware element (1100, 3100) capable of coupling together computer network elements (1010) includes a network diagnostic mechanism (2140) and a display (2110, 3110, 5110). The display is electrically coupled to the network diagnostic mechanism and is capable of displaying network information and additional information.... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20080046557 - Method and system for designing, implementing, and managing client applications on mobile devices: A system that designs, implements, and manages client applications on mobile devices using runtime executives and an IDE. In one aspect, the runtime executive delivers consistent GUI and application behavior within and across mobile development platforms. In another aspect, the runtime executive can set up data files of an IDE-generated... Agent: Doris L Cheng

20080046563 - Network intrusion prevention by disabling a network interface: Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums containing programmed instructions are disclosed for detecting an intrusion in a communications network. Data packets processed by a transport layer of a network protocol associated with the communications network are scanned using signatures from a repository of the signatures. A determination is made if the... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080046562 - Visual web page analytics: A method and system for tracking user utilization of a web page. The invention can use a tracking script, which can be a client-based Javascript code in some embodiments. The tracking script can be executed in a visitor's web browser when the customer's web page is loaded on the visitors'... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080046565 - Method for implementing information flow transmission in next generation network: A method for implementing information flow transmission in an NGN, includes: setting in the NGN a signaling channel for transmitting a signaling flow of an NGN service, and reserving resources for the signaling channel; transmitting, by a sending terminal and with a highest priority, the signaling flow of the NGN... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080046564 - Systems, methods and protocols for securing data in transit over networks: Methods, systems, and protocols are described for securing data in transit over networks. A communication session is initiated between a client and a server. One or more communication channels can be set up between the client and the server. Each established communication channel may have zero or more intermediary nodes... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080046566 - Wireless perimeter security device and network using same: A Radio Frequency based security system for providing security for wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) that allows the creation and maintenance of arbitrarily shaped secure wireless access areas with boundaries around said wireless Local Area Network and prevents access to the said wireless LAN from outside the perimeter of the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080046567 - Automatic detection and integration of network workloads: Described is a computer networking-related technology by which a network workload that is not integrated into a network is detected and integrated into the network. The workload may comprise a device, a service or a product. The detection and integration may be automatic, at least in part. Upon detection, configuration... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046568 - Methods and apparatus for maintaining application execution over an intermittent network connection: A method for optimally maintaining the execution of a first application, wherein the first application is further configured to received a set of sequential data elements from a second application, and the set of sequential data elements further includes a first data element and a second data element. The method... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080046571 - Pervasive inter-domain dynamic host configuration: There is provided pervasive dynamic host configuration in a communication system comprising a plurality of domains being separated from each other by intermediary devices blocking host configuration messages, including encapsulation-based dynamic host configuration messaging and an enhanced host apparatus for dynamic host configuration.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080046569 - System and method to identify, rank, and audit network provided configurables: A computerized method for identifying, ranking, and auditing configurable providers is described. The method receives and stores information about plural providers including provider name, provider icon, provider contact information, landing URL, configurables offered, geographical locations, and descriptions of configurables. The method receives a request from a computer that includes a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080046570 - Web format-based wireless communications: Web compatible information is effortlessly exchanged over wireless communications utilizing web-based formats. These techniques can be employed over, for example, NFC air links and other wireless communication means to share information between devices in actual web exchangeable forms. The communication techniques allow lightweight communications to be automatically established between resource-constrained... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080046573 - Mechanism for charging and session handling supporting forking: A network node, such as a network control node like a CSCF or an application server, executing forking forward only the first successful response message arriving from a forking branch, which enables the charging function in the forking node and in nodes in the backward direction from this point to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080046572 - Session-reuse in networks: Systems and methods for establishing a first session with a first client device to deliver first content, receiving a request for a second session with a second client device to deliver second content, and re-using the first session for the second session.... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080046576 - System and method for detecting unused accounts in a distributed directory service: A distributed information processing system in an enterprise computer network comprising a collection of servers providing a directory service and a directory-enabled access control system is augmented with the ability to detect user accounts in the directory service for users who have not recently authenticated to an application that uses... Agent: Mark Wahl

20080046575 - Caching directives for a file delivery protocol: An extension to a file delivery protocol which permits the signaling of cache control information to a receiving device. Various embodiments of the present invention permit a server or other sending device to signal instructions regarding cache control to a receiving device using the file delivery protocol. This signaling may... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080046574 - Relay device and program product: A communication system in which, even when an HTTP session is disconnected from a mobile device, the HTTP session can be continued or a response from a Web server can be returned to a user, without installing a special application in the mobile device. A load-distributable system is provided for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080046580 - Account creation system and call processing system: The present invention generally describes a method and a corresponding system and network entities to create an account for a terminal capable to establish a call via at least a first and second access technology at a server entity, the server being enabled to handle calls via the at least... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080046578 - Controlled access to a video recording over an ip multimedia subsystem, ims, telecommunications network: A telecommunications network is provided comprising a server and a database. The server is configured to store a video recording made by an authenticated first user terminal in the database. The server is configured to control access to that video recording by user terminals according to a predetermined rule selected... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080046577 - Distributing content data: A system for distributing various content data to user terminals having at least one application for interpreting the content data and presenting it to a user, the system including a multiplicity of individual tokens, each token bearing an identity code, and having a user-removable obscuring means obscuring reading of the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080046581 - Method and system for implementing a mobile trusted platform module: A method for implementing a mobile trusted platform module includes establishing a connection with a first remote host device via a remote interface. The method also includes authenticating the connection. The method further includes, upon authenticating the connection, allowing the first remote host device to access a securely stored first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080046579 - Secure email recipient: A system and method for authenticating electronic communications between a sender and a recipient via an email authentication server is described. The system includes a processor, a network interface in communication with the processor, the network interface capable of receiving an email from a sender and forwarding the email to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080046582 - System, apparatus, and method for handling and representing context data in a service component architecture: A program product and system are disclosed for receiving a transport message from an external service component by way of an external transport protocol. The transport message includes both primary data and context data. Once received, the primary data and context data are extracted from the transport message and translated... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080046583 - Device management system for mobile devices that supports multiple-point transport: A device management server uses both point-to-point and broadcast transport protocols to remotely manage a plurality of electronic devices. The server uses extensions to a standard device management protocol to access, via the point-to-point transport protocol, device management information in memory of the electronic device. The device management information permits... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080046584 - System and method for controlling a network: A system and method for controlling network bandwidth that uses a timer to monitor the length of time that a set top box is set to a channel and, in response to the timer reaching a time limit, requesting a response from a user to verify that the channel is... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080046585 - Method of, and system for, webcasting with just-in-time resource provisioning, automated telephone signal acquisition and streaming, and fully-automated event archival: A multimedia business communications platform enables conference casting over a network. End users or so-called “audience members” participate in conference casts from anywhere on the Internet or behind an enterprise firewall using a standard Web browser running a streaming media player. The conference platform typically includes a number of subsystems:... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080046586 - Entitlement for call routing and denial: In one embodiment, a network device enforces entitlement rules based on call control traffic received. The call control traffic is received at the network device from an application associated with a first user for a second user. The network device determines identification information for the first user and/or the second... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080046587 - Communication method: A client terminal CT transmits an acquisition request for musical composition information. An associated information provision server KS continuously receives the acquisition request at a given time interval. The associated information provision server KS transmits timing specification information along with the musical composition information corresponding to the acquisition request to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046588 - Systems and methods for adaptively packetizing data partitions for transport over a network: In an exemplary embodiment, an RTP packetization component receives data partitions corresponding to a single slice of coded data from an H.264 encoder. The RTP packetization component evaluates a first set of conditions in order to determine whether to merge the data partitions into a single packet for transport over... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080046590 - Generation of contact information based on associating browsed content to user actions: A customer premises router identifies contacts based on web sites visited and searches conducted by a user device. The customer premises router also detects phone calls initiated by a user device (e.g., a Voice over IP telephony device), and identifies an association between a phone call to an identified called... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080046589 - Method for binding work label switching path and protection label switching path: A method for binding a work Label Switch Path (LSP) with a protection LSP, including: transmitting a first message including binding information to a Path Merging Label Switching Router (PML) via a Path Switching Label Switching Router (PSL) so as to request for creating a protection LSP of the work... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080046592 - System and method for pushing information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting data items from a messaging host system. One embodiment comprises one or more of the following: setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated with a mobile communication device to enable continuous redirection of data items thereto received from the messaging host system over a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046591 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: In one embodiment, a mobile data communication device operable with a redirector component disposed in a wide-area data network. The claimed embodiment comprises a structure for manipulating a set of filtering rules configured for a user associated with the mobile data communication device, the filtering rules operating in conjunction with... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046593 - Information providing service control system: In order to deliver information from an information transmission terminal to multiple user terminals in a specific area regardless of a type of an access network, a system includes managing location information of areas that the plurality of user terminals are located in association with multiple URIs; sending, in response... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080046594 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for redirecting information between a messaging host system and a wireless mobile data device that is associated with a computer connected over a network to the messaging host system. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting receipt of a mail item... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080046595 - System and method for providing customized rendering of content: Content data is programmatically received or retrieved programmatically from one or more network locations. The content data may be provided in part by a source entity, such as a carrier of a cellular network. A content is rendered from the content data on one or more user-interactive display objects. An... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080046596 - Method for caching and delivery of compressed content in a content delivery network: A content delivery network (CDN) edge server is provisioned to provide last mile acceleration of content to requesting end users. The CDN edge server fetches, compresses and caches content obtained from a content provider origin server, and serves that content in compressed form in response to receipt of an end... Agent: David H. Judson Akamai Technologies, Inc.

20080046597 - Method for switching ip packets between client networks and ip provider networks by means of an access network: There is disclosed a method for switching IP packets between client networks and IP provider networks by way of an access network. In a network element of the access network an IP session between a client network and an IP provider network is registered by means of a Layer 2... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080046598 - Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an ip network: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for control using field and control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network. By way of non-limiting example, such field device can be an “intelligent” transmitter or actuator that includes a low power processor, along with... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080040417 - System and method for allocating workflow operations to a computing device: A method includes determining capabilities associated with a first computing device and based on the capabilities of the first computing device, determining at least a subset of one or more operations in a workflow that the first device can perform. The method may involve transmitting to the first computing device... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080040418 - Accessing existing data using a service oriented architecture gateway: A Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] gateway is provided which exposes existing databases and business logic as basic W3C based web services. The SOA gateway enables databases and business logic on existing platforms to be accessed easily by known technologies. The SOA gateway runs on existing platforms where critical data and... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080040424 - Automated acquisition and maintenance of web-servable content via enhanced \"404:not found\" handler: A web server in a server network with a centralized administrative and/or content (CAC) server executes a modified “404: Not Found” Handler. When a requested file is present within the web server's temporary storage, the file is retrieved from the temporary directory and provided in response to the request from... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080040420 - Content distribution network: The invention relates to a content distribution network for the distribution of a digital object in a peer-to-peer network with a plurality of peers having a peer location identifier and a download client (103a) for downloading the digital object. A of distributed caches (312a, 312b) is present in the peer-to-peer... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080040419 - Custom asic combining voip and security ip: A custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) that simultaneously processes data packets and multimedia packets, including Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) packets, that are transmitted by a plurality of clients connected to a central server over a network, such as the Internet, and that are also transmitted by the central server... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080040422 - Information processing system, host device, and program for causing computer to execute information processing method: An information processing system including a host device and a client device which requests the host device to process information, includes: a communication unit which provides communication between the host device and the client device, wherein the host device includes: a communication completion judgment: unit which judges whether or not... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080040423 - Method for detecting status of host and/or i/o peripherals in centralized computer system: The invention discloses a centralized computer system, i.e., so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts and a plurality of I/O peripherals. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to the invention is capable of automatically detecting a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080040426 - System and method for placing a widget onto a desktop: The present invention provides a system and method for placing a widget onto a remote device. The system includes a widget module that indicates when the widget is to be acquired, and a transmission module that transmits widget data to a desktop application. In addition, the system includes a download... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080040421 - Systems and methods for integrating a patient kiosk with a healthcare information system: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for integrating a patient kiosk and a healthcare information system. Certain embodiments provide a method including generating a query for at least one of information and a service; forming a message including the query using a Web service; communicating the message between the kiosk... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080040425 - Real-time, customized embedding of specific content into local webserver pages: A web server utility executes on a server and provides the following functions: determining when a web page profile also includes an assignment of additional content; dynamically retrieving the additional content; and generating the web page with the additional content either appended to, prepended to, or wholly replacing one or... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080040427 - Community driven prioritization of customer issues: Community driven prioritization of customer issues is described. In an implementation, a selectable portion of a user interface providing interaction with a community forum is selectable by a user to indicate agreement and associate with a posting in the community forum. The user may then automatically be provided results generated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080040428 - Method for establishing a social network system based on motif, social status and social attitude: An online social network for social partnering or friend-making includes describing the members within the online social network with theme, social position, and social attitudes and enables the members to classify and evaluate peers within the online social network corresponding to theme.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080040429 - Systems and methods for sharing information between a user group and associated document: Systems and methods of the present invention connect a group of users who are involved in a common project. The information on this project will be stored in an electronic document. Each member of the group has an exact copy of the document and the method of this invention is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080040430 - System and method to facilitate operating a media-playing set: A system and corresponding method to facilitate operating a media-playing set with a display provides a storage device, a collection component transferring personal preference information to the storage device about the broadcast preferences of the user including personal program and setting information, and an access component enabling user access to... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080040438 - Device and method of sending and receiving a message: Provided are message sending and receiving devices and methods for distributed authentication as to whether a received message is sent by a service registered with a service provider. Among the devices and methods, the message receiving device receives a message of service sent by a message sending device and provided... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080040436 - Instant messaging integrated in a browser: Disclosed herein is a method and system of providing an instant messenger on a toolbar over an internet web browser. The system allows the user to access a list of instant messenger contacts in a buddy list bar upon successful authentication. The system displays multiple instant messenger accounts of a... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080040435 - Method and system for personalizing an e-mail signature: A method and system for personalizing e-mail signatures is disclosed. A method for generating personalized signed electronic mails to be sent from a client side to a server side of an electronic mail (e-mail) application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: creating a plurality of recipient... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080040434 - Method for logging onto a plurality of servers through an instant messenger: A method for logging onto a plurality of servers through an instant messenger is disclosed. The method includes logging onto a first server through an instant messenger to create a link; and logging onto a second server through the instant messenger while the link is still active.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080040437 - Mobile social networking platform: A mobile social networking platform integrates SMS (text messaging) services with Instant Messaging services so that cross-platform messages can be sent, e.g., text-to-IM and IM-to-text. In response to a text message sent by a user, an integration server prompts a corresponding IM message to be sent to the recipient. In... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080040431 - Monitoring and responding to instant messaging user activity: Method, system and article for responding to changes in the busy-level of a user interacting with an instant messaging (IM) application. The method includes monitoring whether the user is engaging in one or more predefined actions. Each predefined action may contribute some amount to an overall busy-level for the user.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080040433 - Personal directory services with presence indication: Included are embodiments of a method for communicating data. One embodiment, among others includes receiving a request from a user to contact the at least one data provider associated with at least one listing stored in a user-defined directory and in response to receiving the request, facilitating activation of instant... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080040432 - Source initiated autonomic recipient e-mail address correction redistribution: A computer system and associated method is disclosed for distributing electronic communication. The electronic communication is originated from a first originating destination and is to be sent to a distribution of recipient(s). The distribution can simply consist of one or a plurality of intended recipients. When delivery information is verified,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080040439 - Apparatus and method for handling electronic mail: A mail transfer agent adapted for determining the disposition of incoming e-mail from a sender includes a penalty count filter module (20 which functions on the basis of current communication system resource usage, such as the number of concurrent TCP connections being maintained, and penalty counts assigned for cumulative undesirable... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080040440 - Method, computer program product, and system for routing messages in a computer network comprising heterogenous databases: A message is received in a first form for communicating with a first DBMS wherein the first form comprises an internet message prefix and a data portion, the internet message prefix comprising routing information for a client. The message is modified into a second form wherein the client routing information... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080040441 - Push e-mail inferred network presence: The presence of a user or device on a network is inferred without requiring permission or exposure from a service provider or network operator. If updates for a user have been pending past a specified amount of time, the user can be inferred to not be present. If the user... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080040442 - Group interactive network (gin) system: Embodiments of the subject invention provide methods of using an integrated database management system and communication tool to provide group management and communication services through wide area networks (WAN). Embodiments of the invention can utilize computer-implemented methods and systems for uniquely organizing, integrating, and assembling the different information sharing and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080040443 - Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication: Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080040444 - Media map for capture of content from random access devices: A method and apparatus for storing and displaying information about the capture and/or transfer of digital media is provided, wherein data is stored such that a visual representation indicating characteristics of video data, such as whether portions of the video data have been transferred to another device or captured to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080040445 - Storage performance: A network (10), such as a computer network, is disclosed. The network (10) has a plurality of nodes (20; 120) and includes a first node (30, 130) for storing pieces of a digital object and having a storage (40, 50; 140, 150). A plurality of connections are present between the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080040447 - Managing transiently connected network clients: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for delivering data over a computer network.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040446 - Method for transfer of data: The invention provides a method for transferring data, in particular data pertaining to copyright, from a server with a first Internet Protocol address to a mobile device with a second Internet Protocol address. A mobile device transmits a request for at least one file by a mobile device. The first... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080040448 - Transferring web contents: To transfer web contents to a web server from a computer through a network, a plurality of files composing the web contents are stored in the computer. A processor of the computer then detects files to be transferred from the plurality of files to create a transfer file list table.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040449 - Hand-held computer device and method for interactive data acquisition, analysis and calibration: Systems and methods for processing data at a handheld device are described. The handheld device is couplable with a sensor and includes a data module to process data from the sensor. The handheld device may also include a display module to display data on a display of the handheld device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040450 - Maintaining portlet data currency while minimizing latency: Providing data to portlets can include a step of registering a plurality of portlets to determine a type of data required by the portlets. The registering can establish a portlet context for handling future data requests for the portlets. A type of information associated with one of the portlets can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080040453 - Method and apparatus for multimedia encoding, broadcast and storage: A method and apparatus for generating encoded media data, comprising a controller for distributing encoded media data to third party users, wherein the encoded media data is encoded in response to a control signal generated by the controller in collaboration with a media source.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080040452 - Device and network capable of mobile diagnostics based on diagnostic management objects: A device management (DM) technique in which diagnostics management objects (diagnostics MOs) are created and used for remotely detecting and resolving problems with specific device features or applications in an electronic device in a network. The network is capable of supporting customer care calls from a user of the electronic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080040454 - Method and apparatus for server load sharing based on foreign port distribution: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for handling requests in a data processing system. A plurality of processes is provided to handle the requests. Each of the plurality of processes is assigned to handle requests from a subset of foreign ports within a plurality of foreign ports such that a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080040451 - System and method for verifying user and provider information data delivery: A system and method for receiving a content request for content from a content provider, the request including a content provider identification identifying the content provider and a content identification identifying the content, validating the content provider based on the content provider identification, validating the content based on the content... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080040457 - Heterogeneous, role based enterprise priority manager: Prioritizing workload and tasks by first determining if a prioritization state change is necessary, and if so setting priorities to change the prioritization state, and if not examining prioritization state determining inputs, calculating new prioritization states, and updating prioritization states. Next interrupts are processes and prioritization states are updates. The... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20080040455 - Model-based deployment and configuration of software in a distributed environment: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates deploying software in a distributed network efficiently and accurately. An inventory collection component can collect data specific to the distributed network. An automatic software deployment component can automatically deploy software in the distributed network based at least in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080040458 - Network file system using a subsocket partitioned operating system platform: Embodiments of a system and method for allowing a network file system to be transparently reflected across a network are described. A platform that has hardware partitioning and sequestering of a set of cores launches a platform with two regions, a general partition (GP) and a sequestered or embedded partition... Agent: Courtney Stanford & Gregory LLP C/o Intellevate

20080040456 - System and method for performing a comprehensive comparison of system designs: A system for analyzing multiple network system designs includes a database and a processor. The database stores a multiple components in association with data indicating a type of component, a component provider and at least one component characteristic. The processor receives a first design that includes a first component of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080040459 - Resource management method and system with rule based consistency check: A resource management method (400c) and a corresponding system implementing an adaptive model are proposed. The method allows an authority to define a desired target state of several kinds of resources, which are directly controlled by different subjects. The authority publishes (460) a series of rules in a shared repository;... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080040460 - Method and system for communication: A method of communicating in a communication system and the communication system are provided. The communication system comprises at least one imaging station with multiple network interfaces. Each network interface of the imaging station is identified with a network address. The method comprises steps of selecting a first network interface... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080040461 - Method and system for configuring a computer for real-time communication: A method and system for configuring a client computer for real-time communication is provided, in which configuration settings are sent to the computer in the form of a configuration document, such as mark-up language document, that is readable by the client computer. The client computer may request the configuration document... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080040462 - Apparatus system and computer readable medium for booting a server from a shared storage system: An apparatus, system, and computer readable medium are disclosed for booting a server from a shared storage system. The present invention teaches at least one server having at least one processor, a storage system having a plurality of storage drives and at least one boot volume corresponding to the at... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080040463 - Communication system for multiple chassis computer systems: A system for providing communication between chassis in a computer system includes a plurality of management modules connected by a communication path. A first module is configured as a master module and the remainder of the plurality is configured as slave modules. A single module is located within each chassis... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080040464 - Dual phased manufacturing data processing methods and systems: Computer-implemented dual phased manufacturing data processing methods and systems. A data analysis phase is established. Manufacturing data is collected from various sources and categorized as at least two predetermined category data types. Data of one of the two data types is analyzed and actions thereof generated in accordance with the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20080040465 - Method and system for an offsite infrastructure detection of an enterprise network: A system implementing a method for an offsite detection of an infrastructure of an enterprise network. The method involves the system parsing enterprise machine data files into an offsite database supporting a logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among a plurality of machines of the enterprise network, and the... Agent: Frank C. Nicholas Cardinal Law Group

20080040467 - Method and system for dynamic loading of management information bases on network devices: In one embodiment, a Management Information Base (MIB) is dynamically loaded on a managed network device that is managed by a managing network device using a management application. Initially, one or more network management objects are identified. The identified one or more network management objects are then included in the... Agent: Craig E. Shinners Law Office Of Craig E. Shinners

20080040470 - Method for extranet security: A computing method includes running on a user computer a first operating environment for performing general-purpose operations and a second operating environment, which is configured expressly for interacting with a server in a communication session and is isolated from the first operating environment such that the general-purpose operations performed in... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080040468 - Remote screen sharing based support of consumer appliances: A method for facilitating remote support of an appliance is disclosed. A controlled client installed in an appliance is connected via a server to the controlling client installed in a remote computer. Upon proper initiation the controlled appliance display is shown on the controlling client. The controlling client is able... Agent: Foothill Law Group

20080040466 - System and method for object-oriented meta-data driven instrumentation: A method for managing an asset includes identifying an asset type of the asset, identifying a plurality of categories of the asset type, assembling a plurality of primitive definitions into a native asset interface definition according to the plurality of categories, where the plurality of primitive definitions are stored in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080040469 - Quality assured network service provision system compatible with a multi-domain network and service provision method and service broker device: The invention provides quality assured network services in a multi-domain network and comprises a network service management device for managing device clusters incorporated within the operations management network of each provider network and receiving service orders, and a multi-domain service broker for providing a broker function for achieving agreement between... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080040471 - System for determining unreturned standby resource usage: An apparatus, program product and method for determining unreturned standby resource usage. Unreturned standby resource data is monitored and stored separately from other standby resource data for billing and other accounting purposes.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080040473 - Enabling web analytics for interactive web applications: A method is provided for tracking user-interaction with an interactive web application associated with a web page. The method includes providing one or more modified HTML elements for use with the web page. The default behavior of the HTML elements is modified to include a call to a tracking server.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080040478 - System for extranet security: A system for communication with a server includes a user computer, which is configured to run first and second operating environments. The first operating environment is arranged to perform general-purpose operations. The second operating environment is configured expressly for interacting with the server in a communication session and is isolated... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080040475 - Systems and methods for measuring user affinity in a social network environment: A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080040474 - Systems and methods for providing dynamically selected media content to a user of an electronic device in a social network environment: A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080040472 - Ui display apparatus and ui display method: A television 201 being the UI display apparatus includes: a communication unit 102 that communicates with a DVD recorder, which is a communication device connected via the network, receives data sent from the DVD recorder via the network, and sends the received to the processing unit 103; a processing unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080040476 - Access point control system and access point control method: An access point control system enables transmission of statistic information on access point devices without communicating extra messages, that is, spending CPU recourses and network band resources unnecessarily. In the system, when the access point devices (101-1 to 101-3) send a session maintenance message to an access point control device... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080040479 - Connection locator in a power aggregation system for distributed electric resources: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080040480 - Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various communication modes for sending messages to a resource manager: A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080040477 - Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an ip network: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for control using field and control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network. By way of non-limiting example, such field device can be an “intelligent” transmitter or actuator that includes a low power processor, along with... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080040481 - Method and system for compensation in ad hoc networks: A system (100) and method (400) for mesh/ad hoc participation is provided. The method 400 can include compensating a first service provider (510) for allowing a device (539) of a second service provider (530) to operate in an ad hoc network (500) operated by the first service provider, and determining... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20080040482 - System and method for the location of caches: A method for selecting a preferred cache (312a) for the download of digital data from a plurality of caches (312; 312a-312d) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of requesting an address of the preferred cache (312a) and selecting the preferred cache (312a) from the plurality of caches (312a). The... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080040483 - Inter-server dynamic transfer method for virtual file servers: An object of the present invention is to dynamically transfer a virtual file server within a cluster that is configured by a plurality of file servers in which virtual file servers are set up. A storage system includes: a first file server; a second file server; and a disk subsystem,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080040487 - Apparatus and method for supporting broadcast/multicast ip packets through a simplified sockets interface: A method for configuring an IP address to receive broadcast or multicast data flow which modifies the bind( ) Application Programming Interface (API) to survey available local interfaces to determine their ability to be configured to receive data from a particular IP address, configure a interface to receive the IP... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080040485 - Customizable personal directory services: Included are systems and methods for providing a personalized directory. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a request to view at least one listing, the at least one listing including information related to a plurality of criteria. Other embodiments include providing a display that includes at least... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080040484 - Managing session state for web applications: A technique for managing the session state of a web application during transaction processing. When a message is exchanged between a web client and a web server, such as a web client request or a web server response, session information therein is stored on behalf of the client. Following an... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080040486 - Provisioning methods and apparatus for wireless local area networks (wlans) with use of a provisioning essid: Methods and apparatus for use in provisioning mobile communication devices in wireless local area networks (WLANs) are described. In one illustrative example, a mobile communication device associates with a wireless access point of a provisioning virtual local area network (VLAN) of the network with use of a provisioning network identifier... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080040488 - Context-aware mobile portal: Middleware interposed between a mobile client device and a server can limit rendered online services to those appropriate to a context for the mobile client device. For example, characteristics of the mobile client device, the type of connection, and the like can be taken into account when deciding which online... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080040489 - Method of assigning applications to specific network interfaces: A method for assigning applications to specific network interfaces including initiating a computer application from a plurality of computer applications, requesting a socket for establishing a connection between the computer application and a network interface. Then connecting the computer application and the socket. Then prompting a user to visually select... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080040490 - System and method for installing and configuring software applications on a mobile networked terminal: An application download server comprises a download request object and a configuration parameter object. The download request object receives a download request from a remote terminal. The download request identifies a requested application for download to the remote terminal. The configuration parameter object returns a configured application package to the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080040492 - Method and system for accessing web pages based on playback of recordings: Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080040493 - Method and system for performing post issuance configuration and data changes to a personal security device using a communications pipe: This invention provides a mechanism for performing secure configuration and data changes between a PSD and a hardware security module (HSM) using a communications pipe established between said PSD and said HSM. The data changes and configuration changes include but are not limited to installing, updating, replacing, deleting digital certificates... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080040491 - Method and system of accreditation for a client enabling access to a virtual network for access to services: A client is authenticated for access to a virtual network so the client can access services provided by service providers. The compatibility of the client with a predetermined access control protocol for access to the virtual network is determined. If the client is not compatible with the predetermined access control... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080040494 - Partitioning a transmission control protocol (tcp) control block (tcb): Partitioning of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Control Block (TCB) associated with a TCP connection into multiple, independently accessible data structures. A first of the data structures includes TCB data used in handling an egress direction of the TCP connection while a second of the data structures includes TCB data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040495 - System, method and program for field service of computers: System, method and program product for managing field service of a computer. Configuration information of the computer is wirelessly sent to a remote server. In response, a determination is made as to a recommended list of updates to install in the computer which are compatible with the configuration information and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040496 - Parser for parsing text-coded protocol: A parser for parsing a text-coded protocol includes: a parsing rule storage module, configured to store a parsing rule for parsing a packet of the text-coded protocol; and a packet parsing module, implemented by a logic chip, configured to parse the packet according to the parsing rule stored in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040497 - Alternate stream signaling for adaptive stream selection: A signal stream is transmitted when an available transmission bandwidth becomes reduced by providing alternate signal streams of different bit rates from the same source. The alternate signal streams are sub-sampled to form frames that have particular identifiers added thereto. The server is informed in advance, before actually providing the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080040500 - Method and apparaatus for distributing a media stream: A method and apparatus for distributing a media stream using both unicast and multicast techniques. The method and apparatus comprising a server for distributing a media stream using a unicast transmission to a first receiver within a subnet network. The first receiver is from a plurality of receivers, operating as... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080040498 - System and method of xml based content fragmentation for rich media streaming: A system and method for partitioning XML-based content into fragments, where transport packets are generated for encapsulating the fragments and streaming the encapsulated fragments to a receiver, such as a mobile device. Fragmentation of the XML-based content can be performed either with or without regard for any underlying XML syntax... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080040499 - Filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment: A method for filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment includes accessing offers associated with one or more offerors and requests associated with one or more requesters, each offer and each request including a set of filter components. Filter components of offers are compared with corresponding filter components... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080040501 - Adaptive file delivery system and method: An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its associated file segment and a wait portion... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080040502 - Automated tracking of class attendance: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on computer readable mediums are provided relating to classroom attendance tracking. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises the steps of harvesting personal identification data from each one of a plurality of students attending a class in conjunction with a conduct of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080040503 - Method and system for file transfer: A method and system for file transfer are provided in which a file is transferred between a source client and a destination client via a middle server. The server receives segments of a file from the source client and stores the segments of the file as they are received. The... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080040505 - Data-object-related-request routing in a dynamic, distributed data-storage system: One embodiment of the present invention provides an efficient data-object-related-request-routing method and component used within a dynamic, distributed data-storage system for efficiently routing data objects to component data-storage systems when component data-storage systems frequently become unavailable and new component data-storage systems are frequently added to the dynamic, distributed data-storage system.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080040504 - Techniques for guaranteeing bandwidth with aggregate traffic: Methods, systems, and apparatus guarantee bandwidth for a network transaction. A network is logically organized as a tree having a plurality of nodes. Each node can guarantee service for a network transaction through the network. Each node monitors its traffic and reserves predefined amounts of unused bandwidth with its adjacent... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080040506 - Method and apparatus for matching a user's use profile in commerce with a broadcast: A method for advertising over a network and broadcast media combination. A user's computer at a location on the network is operable to receive a signal from a broadcast generated by an advertiser, which signal has embedded therein unique coded information. The user's computer is connected to an advertiser's location... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080040507 - Methods and systems for a routing protocol: A method for routing data, using a stateless routing protocol includes communicating data between a source host and a destination host in a network with a plurality of hosts. Each host in the network has a unique numerical address. The method comprises determining a least common ancestor host of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080040508 - Supporting a response to a mid-dialog failure: In one embodiment, supporting outbound proxy discovery includes receiving a first registration request at a home proxy, where the first registration request is received from a user agent. An outbound proxy set is assigned to the user agent. The outbound proxy set includes outbound proxies. An outbound proxy set identifier... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080040509 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication in a mesh network with node activity monitoring: A method and apparatus for communication in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, one or more routers in a network may be available for communication with one or more star nodes at a randomized time and/or frequency. A connectivity assessment, which may be performed at several different frequencies and/or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080040510 - Web services broker and method of using same: An embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus, which includes a mediator operable to receive a user request and to transmit a user response; and a dynamic knowledge base including a web service classifier and a domain-relevant ontology. The mediator is operable to transform the user request into a web... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080040511 - Method and system for content synchronization and detecting synchronization recursion in networks: A method and system implementing a process for content synchronization that detects and prevents synchronization recursion in CDS transfer operations. A synchronization relationship is formed between the CDS containers in multiple devices. Then content synchronization processes are performed based on that relationship to avoid synchronization recursion.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080040512 - Network system and information processing method: A network system is composed of a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected to a ring network, and a program, which is to be executed by sharing the resources of the information processing apparatuses, is divided into predetermined units and stored in a plurality of information processing apparatuses, where an... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080034028 - System and method to provide an advertisement dragging system: A system and method for providing an advertisement dragging system. A user is authorized to use a set of internet-based tools by logging into a website, where a set of internet utilization enhancement tools are available on a screen having several different regions. When the user does a search for... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20080034029 - Composition of local media playback with remotely generated user interface: A media server in a home entertainment network coordinates with a media player connected with the network to provide a media presentation with a combined user interface (UI) on an attached display device. Media content is sourced locally on a networked media player. The media player extracts metadata related to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080034031 - Method and system for accelerating surfing the internet: The delivery of content is improved from a user's perspective by encouraging the cache of user devices to maintain more current data prior to requesting web pages that would invoke the download of the more current data. A cache simulation of the cache in the user devices is maintained. When... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080034030 - Providing predictive results based upon real time data feeds from multiple parties: The present invention cain include a method for providing a real time information service. The method can receive real time data feeds from remotely located data sources. Data from one or more static data feeds can optionally be combined with the real time data. Data elements from the feeds can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080034035 - Apparatus and methods for providing an audibly controlled user interface for audio-based communication devices: The invention is directed to techniques for providing an audibly controlled interface for a user of a limited audio-based communication device, for example, a telephony device such as a desktop telephone or a cellular telephone. The communication device has an interface connection with a proxy browser. The user initially accesses... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080034032 - Methods and systems for authoring of mixed-initiative multi-modal interactions and related browsing mechanisms: Application authoring techniques, and information browsing mechanisms associated therewith, which employ programming in association with mixed-initiative multi-modal interactions and natural language understanding for use in dialog systems. Also, a conversational browsing architecture is provided for use with these and other authoring techniques.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080034033 - Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication: Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080034034 - Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication: Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080034036 - Proxy server apparatus and method for providing service using the same: It is possible to control the data transfer between a proxy server apparatus and an application server that is connected to the proxy server apparatus. A value added service control command is added to an request message and/or the response data. In accordance with the value added service control command... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080034039 - Application-based backup-restore of electronic information: Systems and methods for storing and restoring backup data. One method includes receiving, while a current view of an application is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting a history view associated with the current view of the application. The history view is displayed in response to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034040 - Method and system for embedded group communication: A method and system for embedded group communications are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises providing software code to be embedded in a website. The website is loaded including the embedded software code. A configuration file is fetched from a configuration server in response to loading the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080034038 - Sharing application output in chat environment: Contents such as a GUI or application output can be shared in a chat environment. The user can choose to share own contents or request that contents be shared by another user (e.g., a chat partner). It can be possible to control the shared GUI or application from the recipient's... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034037 - Sharing graphical user interface output in chat environment: Contents such as a GUI or application output can be shared in a chat environment. The user can choose to share own contents or request that contents be shared by another user (e.g., a chat partner). It can be possible to control the shared GUI or application from the recipient's... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034041 - Method and system for providing joint viewing service of moving picture: Disclose is a method and system enabling joint viewing of moving picture while chatting. In order to match the screen being played and chatting message, a method for synchronizing contents playing times for the contents being played is further disclosed. A room master client among user clients joined the joint... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080034042 - Access limited emm distribution lists: An electronic mail message (EMM) addressed to a distribution list of an enterprise is received at a server of the enterprise from a sending address outside of the enterprise. If the distribution list has no external addresses, then the EMM is blocked from being delivered to the distribution list. In... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20080034047 - Calendar event, notification and alert bar embedded within mail: A compact functionally rich timeline bar is embedded within an e-mail application window so that time-related information, such as calendar events, can be viewed and managed from within the e-mail window. The timeline bar consumes a small area of the e-mail window while presenting an optimal amount of information without... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080034043 - Electronic mail message replay constraints: A method, article, and system for providing a sender of an electronic mail message (hereafter referred to as email) a means to specify to a recipient a reply length constraint for the text body of the reply message, as well as criteria for the size, number, and type of allowed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080034044 - Electronic mail reader capable of adapting gender and emotions of sender: A method for an email voice reader capable of adapting gender and emotions of a sender, the method comprising: sending email data by the sender via a directory service, the directory service storing a plurality of attributes of the email data, the plurality of attributes being pre-selected by the sender;... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080034046 - Email provider prevention/deterrence of unsolicited messages: An email sending service embeds identifying information within emails sent on behalf of its service consumers. A recipient notifies their email provider that an email received from the service is a spam email (e.g., an unsolicited message). The email provider forwards a complaint, including a copy of the email, to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080034048 - Method for delivery of printed materials (hard copy) sent via e-mail by the sender to the relevant branch of the delivery services office closest to the recipient's address: Many people use delivery services to send printed material. The printed material is collected by a courier from the sender's address and is transferred (by motorbikes, cars, and airplanes—according to need) to the recipient's address. When the sender's and recipient's addresses are far apart (for instance in different cities and... Agent: Amnon Shabtau

20080034045 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes monitoring, at an electronic subscription client, receipt of one or more subscription messages associated with an electronic subscription. Interaction with the electronic subscription client by a client may be monitored to... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20080034049 - System and method for the capture and archival of electronic communications: A system and method for the capture and archival of electronic communication is disclosed. A network interface card in promiscuous mode connects the invention to an electronic communications network. Network packets are received on the network interface card and sent to a pseudo TCP/IP stack, which reconstructs the network packets... Agent: Terry L Stokes

20080034050 - Process integrated messaging: A process integrated messaging system is provided. The system typically includes messaging interface logic, parsing logic, analyzing logic, and database interface logic. The messaging interface logic receives a first message via a messaging client from an originating party regarding a record. The parsing logic parses the first message into its... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080034051 - Redistributing messages in a clustered messaging environment: Messages are redistributed in a clustered messaging environment including messaging servers and consuming applications. Each messaging server has a queue partition operable to contain messages. Each consuming application can connect to a messaging server in to consume one or more messages from a queue partition local to that messaging server.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080034052 - Application prioritization in a stateless protocol: Techniques are disclosed that enable an application to prioritize its traffic in an application-specific manner, such that traffic which is most important to this application can be prioritized over traffic that is less important to this application, where this prioritization information is reflected in differential treatment of the traffic within... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080034053 - Mail server clustering: Multiple devices are automatically configured within a cluster through the use of exclusive file locks in a shared file system. The devices execute a process to determine the health of the enabled services and check for failed services. Actions are tailored based upon which services and roles are enabled for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034054 - System and method for reservation flow control: A technique for use in managing message passing between processors within a database system involves providing a plurality of message buffers on each of those processors that are configured to send or receive messages, the number of buffers on each processor being less than the number of processors. A reservation... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080034058 - Method and system for populating resources using web feeds: A software and/or hardware facility that identifies and characterizes web feeds and web feed content for purposes of populating a resource with targeted content. The facility identifies web feeds and characterizes the web feeds and/or content in the web feeds using attributes from an attribute taxonomy. The characterization may be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080034059 - Providing an interface to browse links or redirects to a particular webpage: Disclosed herein is a technique for providing an interface that allows a user to navigate backwards through linked webpages. Initially, a request to display inlinks of linking webpages that contain a link to a particular webpage is received. In response to the request, a new page that contains a set... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080034056 - System and method of collecting, correlating, and aggregating structured edited content and non-edited content: A mobile multimedia content aggregation and dissemination platform is provided that aims to automate the creation, collection, correlation, aggregation, and dissemination of RSS, ATOM or other syndicated-style data formats along with non-syndicated content for blogs and for searching by interested parties. Then non-syndicated content may be substantially any type of... Agent: John Etchells Room 2a-207

20080034057 - Systems and methods for managing a plurality of user sessions in a virtual private network environment: Methods for establishing an SSL/VPN session on behalf of a user of a client where the user has a previously existing session are described. Methods include receiving, by an appliance, a request from a first client operated by a user to establish a virtual private network session; creating, by the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080034055 - Workflow based and metadata driven reporting system: A flexible metadata driven and workflow based report generation system is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system comprises at least one client application on a client terminal and a report manager system. The client application allows a user to run a report from a user interface having the flexibility... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080034062 - Method and code module for adding function to a web page: A computer network (20) includes a first processor (22) for maintaining a Web page (34) having an embedded first code module (36) and accessible through a Web address (38). A second processor (24) supports a Web browser (52) for downloading the Web page (34) and executing the first code module... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080034060 - System and method for providing network-based technical support to an end user: An embodiment of a method for obtaining customer support includes transmitting parameters specific to an end user product to a network-based application operable to dynamically generate a web page instructive of a solution to a problem associated with the end user product based on the parameters; receiving an interactive link... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080034061 - System and method of tracking and recognizing the exchange of favors: A system and method for explicitly building, using, tracking and displaying relationship capital. In one embodiment, the system includes user profile data, a favor recognition system, and favor exchange and rating systems. Each user is able to enter their profile information and exchange favors with other users. The system tracks... Agent: Juneau Partners

20080034064 - Contents sharing method between mobile terminal and local server: Provided is a contents sharing method between a mobile terminal and a local server. The contents sharing method between a client terminal storing metadata and a server terminal storing the metadata, the method comprising requesting the server terminal for a contents share service; and receiving information on contents corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034063 - Method and system for retrieving a document associated with a message received on a mobile device: Embodiments are described herein relating to various components and methods that can be used to retrieve linked attachment documents that are indicated in a message received on a mobile device.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080034066 - Method for distribution of music: A method for distributing music of multiple artists from a website. Each artist uploads music to a website and sells access cards to consumers allowing the consumers to access his music and the music of one or more other artists who have uploaded music to the website.... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20080034065 - Mobile, seamless, temporary, wireless network access apparatus and method: A software and hardware “kit” provides users the ability to seamlessly connect to local area networks at temporary accommodations and remote locations. The “kit” provides the end user with the ability to install wireless network interface cards on a computer, while bypassing the standard “Plug and Play” process, and provides... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20080034068 - Automatic application provisioning: User preferences and configuration information are determined automatically when a user account is created. The configuration information is derived from service configuration files. The user account and configuration information is stored in a directory such that it is accessible by a client and applied to applications executing on the client.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034067 - Configurable blade enclosure: A blade enclosure is provided which may accommodate a first configuration which includes integrated drive enclosure blades (I-DEBs) or a second configuration which includes I-DEBs and non-integrated or switched DEBs (S-DEBs). Each I-DEB includes a pair of redundant RAID controllers, each having two configurable ports. In the first configuration, all... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20080034070 - Method and system for storing configuration information for network nodes in a network management system: A method for storing configuration information for a network node in a network management system, the method comprising: installing a node type package for the node in the system, the node type package corresponding to a node type of the node, the node type package being a pluggable software module... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080034071 - Method and system for providing virtualized application workspaces: Methods and systems for providing virtual workspaces are provided. Example embodiments provide a Application Workspace System “AWS,” which enables users to access remote server-based applications (e.g., thin client applications, terminal server applications, applications on hosted operating systems, etc.) using the same interface that they use to access local applications, without... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080034069 - Workflow locked loops to enable adaptive networks: A closed loop system is described for enhanced adaptive network capabilities in support of workflow missions. Multiple workflow-locked loops with different sampling rates are employed. A faster, lower loop is employed to gather data from the field and deal with network level exceptions such as faults, fades, and changing conditions.... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080034075 - Customer configuration of cellular communications device: Systems and methods are provided for offering customer configuration options when selling a cellular communications device. Offering to sell a cellular communications device can be done over the internet or via an in-store kiosk. The customer can configure at least one software configurable feature at the time of purchase, and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080034074 - Determination of graph connectivity metrics using bit-vectors: Determination of a connectivity-metrics for graphs representative of networks of interest. A graph that represents a network of interest is accessed. The graph includes nodes representing points in the network of interest, and edges corresponding to the nodes. Bit-vectors are generated corresponding to the nodes and/or edges, wherein individual bits... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080034076 - Load distribution method in nas migration, and, computer system and nas server using the method: Provided is a method for controlling a computer system including a first server computer, a second server computer, at least one data storing device, and a client computer. The first server computer manages a first file system. The second server computer manages a second file system. The second file system... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080034073 - Method and system for identifying network addresses associated with suspect network destinations: A method and system for identifying network addresses associated with suspect network destinations is described. One embodiment receives a target Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to be analyzed; segments the target URL into a set of component parts; classifies each component part in the set of component parts as a primary... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080034077 - Operation management method, operation management program, operation management system and operation management apparatus: An operation management method wherein a storage device stores a plurality of pieces of first allocation information representative of a correspondence among at least business or service, network segments and logical addresses of networks, and when an instruction of setup for at least business or service provided by each managed... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080034078 - Presence information management system, presence server device, gateway device and client device: The present invention provides a presence information management system, a presence server device, a gateway device and a client device, which notify of presence information in realtime while restraining communications traffic. The presence server device managing presence information of a plurality of presentities, comprises a delegating unit sending delegating notification... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080034072 - Systems and methods for bypassing unavailable appliance: Methods for redirecting, on a client, a communication of the client to a server to upon determining the server is not useable to communicate to the client include the steps of: establishing, by an client agent on a client, a transport layer connection between the client and an intermediary appliance,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080034079 - Diagram with configurable wires: Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagram. The diagram may be executable to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080034080 - Policy translator - policy control in convergent networks: The invention relates to a policy translator for a telecommunication network. The system includes an interface between the policy translator and a policy repository storing existing policies for one or more telecommunication networks, an interface between the policy translator and one or more gateways over which interface the policy translator... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20080034081 - Remotely controlling one or more client devices detected over a wireless network using a mobile device: According to one general aspect, a method according to the present application includes remotely controlling wirelessly networked devices via a mobile unit. The method includes receiving, at a mobile unit and from a user, an input, analyzing the input to identify a networked device associated with the input, determining whether... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034083 - Automatic identification of event classification errors in a network: A system and method to facilitate automatic identification of event classification errors in a network are described. Session data containing events logged by a user entity over a network in a predetermined period of time is retrieved from one or more event logs. Each event is further parsed to generate... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20080034082 - Intelligent performance monitoring based on resource threshold: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for selective monitoring of individual transactions in an instrumented software application. In response to receiving a new transaction at an entry point, a monitoring policy is checked to determine if the monitoring policy indicates that the transaction should be... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080034084 - Method, system and program product for monitoring client programs in a client-server environment: A method, system, and program product for monitoring client programs in a client-server environment are provided. Specifically, under the present invention, a client program on each of a set (e.g., at least one) of clients connected to a server is monitored with a monitoring program. The monitoring program is loaded... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080034088 - System and method for generating user contexts for targeted advertising: The invention provides a method and system for building contexts for mobile users by collecting information about the user and his activities through various end points of a network and also through a system specific application that transmit information to a centralized server for context generation and filtering. The contexts... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080034086 - Method and system for performance evaluation in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: A system for evaluating performance of a network providing communication services by means of a generalized processor sharing packet scheduling discipline. The services may include classes of services having real time and non real time (i.e. “elastic”) requirements, respectively, and the classes of services have relative priorities. The system includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034085 - Methods and apparatuses for monitoring attention of a user during a conference: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect devices participating in a conference; monitor the devices for an attribute corresponding to an attention level of each of the devices; and determine whether each device is active based on the attention level.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080034087 - Network connection switching unit: The invention relates to the field of data transmission in a network of distributed stations. In this case, the network contains a network connection switching unit which sets up desired connections between network subscriber stations arranged in a star formation. The network system under consideration has provision for network stations... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080034089 - System and method for detecting a delay in a computer network: Described is a system comprising a computing device, a wireless computing unit and a network management arrangement (“NMA”). The NMA receives a first signal and a second signal from the computing device. The NMA forwards the second signal to the unit and receives a third signal from the unit which... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080034091 - Portable computer accounts: User accounts, authentication information and user home directories are stored on an external storage media that can be transferred from one device to another. Measures are included for detecting tampering of stored information and for preventing possibly conflicting or damaging account and file information from entering a host device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034092 - Access control system and access control server: An access control system and an access control server using Terminal Services or the like, which prevents information from being leaked are provided. The access control system includes one or more computer units, one or more terminals, and the access control server that controls a hub. The one or more... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080034090 - Tender-bid method and architecture for intelligent network resource deployment: A method and architecture of the present invention uses market-driven resource selection and mission deployment techniques to increase mission performance by optimizing network resource utilization. A mission controller forwards a service tender to a plurality of coupled network service entities to inquire about the costs associated with one or more... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080034093 - System and method for managing resources: A resource management system including a plurality of computer systems and providing services through operations of task applications by combining the plurality of the computer systems, which comprises: a storage which is included in at least one of the computer systems for storing information for identifying the computer systems which... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080034094 - Method and system for selectively dedicating resources for recording data exchanged between entities attached to a network: Recording resources are selectively dedicated for recording data exchanged between entities attached to a network including at least one agent in an enterprise, a user, and a server connected to the agent and the user. At least one interconnection point is selected among interconnection points in the network including one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034096 - Method and apparatus for transferring multimedia signals from a handheld device to a computer system for display: A demodulated multimedia signal is generated based on a captured handheld multimedia signal or a captured terrestrial multimedia signal where the handheld multimedia signal is formatted for reproduction on a handheld device and the terrestrial multimedia signal is formatted for reproduction on a computer system. The demodulated multimedia signal or... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080034095 - Multi-representation media event handoff: A system and method provides transition continuity for an event across a plurality of media representation device types. The system and method allow identification information for a media event such as a sports game, talk show, music, video, etc. to be handed-off between various media presentation devices such as radios,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080034098 - Communication mediating apparatus for mediating communication over network: A mediation server 200 mediates a print demand from a client device 100 to a printing device 300. In order to elude a firewall F/W set between the mediation server 200 and the printing device 300, the printing device 300 first sends an HTTP request to the mediation server 200.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034097 - Server device, inter-server device connection method, program, and recording medium: A procedure from when device registration is completed until an always-on connection session with a server apparatus is established is simplified. Upon receiving a start request for directly accessing a controlled device from a controlling device via a service server, a direct-access management server transmits a direct-access URI obtaining request... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080034099 - Connection management system, connection management method, and management server: A reverse proxy server relays data between a client terminal connected to an external network and a host computer installed in an internal network segment using a session ID. A management server, in response to a connection request from the client terminal to the host computer via the reverse proxy... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034100 - Squelch break signaling for sip device: A squelch break signaling device includes a carrier operated relay cadence timer to set a time limit and a carrier operated relay counter to count the number of times a carrier operated relay transitions from inactive to active and back to inactive within the time limit to provide a session... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080034101 - Network interface controller with receive side scaling and quality of service: The present invention is directed to methods and systems for scaling receive protocol processing by allowing the network load from a network adapter to be balanced across multiple CPUs based on RSS and/or QoS traffic classification techniques.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080034102 - Transport belt cooling: Embodiments herein include a printing or copying device that includes a media transport belt and a vacuum manifold. The vacuum manifold has an air intake positioned adjacent the media transport belt and has a vacuum blower or other air moving device that forces air out an air outlet of the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080034104 - Video conferencing over ip networks: A method for communication includes establishing communication links over a packet network between a server and plurality of client computers that are to participate in a video teleconference. The server receives from the client computers uplink audio packets and uplink video packets, which respectively contain audio and video data captured... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080034103 - Internet modem streaming socket method: An Internet client communicates with an Internet server such as an HTTP server or SMTP server through a TCP streaming socket on the Internet device with the Internet client. The TCP streaming sockets can be established through an Internet ready command line interface. The Internet ready command line interface includes... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080034106 - Reducing power consumption for bulk data transfers: Methods and apparatus to provide reduced power consumption for bulk data transfers are described. In some embodiments, a query regarding data to be read on a bulk endpoint of a communication device is transmitted on an interrupt endpoint of the communication device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Intellevate

20080034105 - System and method for delivering contents by exploiting unused capacities in a communication network: There is provided a method of delivering a plurality of source streams from a plurality of servers to a plurality of clients through a plurality of routers over a communication network using a pay-per-period pricing scheme. Said method includes: splitting the source stream into a plurality of sub-streams to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080034107 - Method and system for allocating resources in a communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for allocating resources in a communication system. The method includes calculating a size of a transmission area for transmitting the generated data when data to be transmitted to mobile stations is generated; and controlling data to be transmitted through the transmission area and then... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080034108 - Rate sensitive packet transfer mechanism over a peer-to-peer network: An apparatus, method and system to improve data transfer across a communications network by employing an acknowledgment independent equalized data packet transfer mechanism on a peer-to-peer basis. The present disclosure teaches how many computers can send data to many other computers, with particularity on a peer-to-peer basis when desired, without... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080034109 - System for an open architecture deployment platform with centralized synchronization: One aspect of the preferred embodiment relates to an application framework for managing mobile clients and application programs. By utilizing the preferred embodiment, a system administrator may be provided the capability to manage and control multiple devices, directly and indirectly, using push (server-initiated) and/or pull (client-initiated) techniques from a single... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20080034111 - Systems and methods for hierarchical global load balancing: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a hierarchy of appliances to more efficiently access resources across a plurality of branch offices. A method comprises the steps of: establishing, by a first aggregator appliance, connections with a first plurality of branch office appliances; establishing, by a second aggregator appliance, connections... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080034110 - Systems and methods for routing vpn traffic around network disruption: Methods for using a client agent to route client requests among a plurality of appliances using transport layer information include the steps of: establishing, by a client agent executing on a client, a first transport layer connection with a first appliance of a plurality of appliances, the first appliance providing... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080034113 - Method of contextually determining missing components of an incomplete uniform resource locator: A technique and apparatus for connecting a terminal to a host server on the Internet in response to an incomplete uniform resource locator (URL). The present method and apparatus receives an incomplete URL from the user, e.g., just a host name. The present method and apparatus contextually determines the remaining... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080034112 - Method of switching between network connection devices using redundancy protocol and pseudo redundant configuration setting means and network system: Disclosed is a network system comprising: a plurality of routers 704 and 705 connected to each other through a network; pseudo redundant configuration setting means 702 and 703 which are connected respectively to the routers and which perform a communication using a redundancy protocol with respective routers; and association control... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080034114 - System and method for managing emergency notifications over network: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing event and emergency notification over a network. A message is generated in a first interface according to an emergency data sharing standard, the message having a length, duration, or size determined by each one of a plurality of data formats for transmission. The... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080034115 - Apparatus for handling hash collisions of hash searching and method using the same: An apparatus for handling hash collision of hash searching includes a hash table unit, a content addressable memory (CAM) and a multiplexer encoder. When the data are hashed to produce a hash index, and hash collision occurs, the data are stored into the CAM. When performing a hash search, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080034116 - Method for establishing a path based on node address change: A method for establishing a path, comprising: changing a current activation address of a node; setting a new address chain transmission path; attaching a first tag for indicating the new address chain transmission path is the changed address transmission path and a second tag for indicating the original address chain... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034117 - Stationery for electronic messaging: Stationery templates for electronic messages are provided in an electronic messaging system. For one embodiment, a user can select from a list of categories and within each category is a set of one or more stationery templates from which a user can choose. The user may edit the stationery template.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080034118 - Network system using name server with pseudo host name and pseudo ip address generation function: The host name to be used in responding to the reverse look-up request from the correspondent is generated at the name server side and returned as a response, and/or the IP address to be used in responding to the normal look-up request from the correspondent is generated at the name... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080034119 - Systems and methods of for providing multi-mode transport layer compression: Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating compressed and uncompressed content over a transport layer connection established by an appliance between a client and a server. One method comprises the steps of: establishing, by an appliance, a transport layer connection between a client and a server, and receiving, by the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080034120 - Multiple domains in a multi-chassis system: Creation of port domains in a multi-chassis system. The multi-chassis system includes two or more chassis that each includes one or more blades. In one embodiment, a sync group of at least two chassis is created, typically by connecting the two or more chassis with an interconnection means such as... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080034121 - Wireless deployment and execution of a graphical program to a measurement device: A system and method for deploying one or more graphical programs on a personal digital assistant (PDA). One or more selected graphical programs may be programmatically converted to an executable format that can be executed by the portable computing device. For example, the graphical programs may be initially represented as... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20080034122 - Apparatus and method to detect miscabling in a storage area network: A mechanism is provided for unique identification of each endpoint in a storage area network interconnect that is bridged by a specialized cable. Each endpoint is capable of querying peer endpoints for a unique identification. Once a unique identifier is obtained for all peer connections to a given endpoint, the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080034123 - Communications terminal: A communication terminal includes a CPU (28). The CPU (28) issues to a router (16) a send request for requesting the router (16) to send an ask signal for repetitive responses to a server (14). Then, the ask signal is sent to the server (14) by the router (16), and... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP