Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 04/08

20080098059 - Distributed data handling and processing resources system: The distributed data handling and processing resources system of the present invention includes a) a number of data handling and processing resource nodes that collectively perform a desired data handling and processing function, each data handling and processing resource node for providing a data handling/processing subfunction; and, b) a low... Agent: William C. Anderson Boeing Management Company

20080098060 - Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications: A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to phone network triggers, a phone... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098058 - Online ranking protocol: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080098061 - System and method for portable multimedia network learning machine and remote information transmission thereof: A kind of portable multimedia network learning machine, includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor, input unit and display, communication and download module, multimedia driving device and multimedia player. The said communication and download module are used for communicating with the calculator connected to the hand-held multimedia... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20080098063 - Method and device for controlling floor in push to service: A PT (e.g., Push-To-Talk, Push-To-View or Push-To-Data) service, and more particularly, to a method and device for controlling a floor (talk burst authority, permission to send media burst, etc.) in a PT service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method for controlling a state of a Push-To (PT) server,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080098065 - Network robot system and method of communication therein: A communication method in a network robot system having a middleware processing communication between a plurality of sensors, a server, and a robot, the method including: setting previously a communication framework of the middleware for distributed processing of function of the robot by using the plurality of sensors and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080098062 - Systems and methods for managing and monitoring mobile data, content, access, and usage: A system, method, and process for managing and monitoring mobile data, content, access, and usage of mobile devices are provided. The described exemplary system, method, and process provide an infrastructure for managing and monitoring various applications and services of mobile devices such as Internet access, voice, messaging, gaming, music, and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098064 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting virtual world content from a server system to a client: Virtual world content is transmitted from at least one server to at least one client computer by defining a camera position on the client computer and projecting a geometrical shape from the camera position in the direction of a viewing vector. This geometrical shape defines a subsection of the virtual... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20080098067 - Method and system for eliminating time lost in initial stages of a web conference due to participants not being in-place on-time: A system for eliminating the time lost in initial stages of a Web conference due to participants not being in-place on-time is disclosed. The system enables automatic steps to be taken at the server to pull conference participants into a conference based on their acceptance of an invitation to the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080098066 - System and method for implementing latest edition notification for messages of data processing systems: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-readable medium for implementing latest edition notification for messages on a data processing system. An e-mail client receives from a server a first message in a conversation thread, wherein the conversation thread includes a collection of messages. In response to receiving a command from a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080098069 - Dynamic creation of mail aliases usable in electronic communications: Mail aliases are dynamically created in response to replies of an electronic mail (e-mail) communication. An e-mail communication is sent to a plurality of recipients, and one or more recipients of the e-mail communication respond to the e-mail. In response to receiving the replies, one or more mail aliases are... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesitti P.C.

20080098073 - Email generation method and system: An email generation method and system. The method comprises receiving and storing by a computing system, a first data object. The computing system comprises XML files. Each XML file comprises email templates. The computing system receives language identification data identifying a first XML file of the XML files. The first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080098072 - Method and process to add recipients to an on-going electronic message thread: A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to be added to an electronic message thread, while providing for the new recipient to receive previous messages within the electronic message thread. In addition, members that are currently a part of the message thread are notified of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080098071 - Method and process to unsubscribe from on-going electronic message threads: A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to unsubscribe from an electronic message thread, in which case, the electronic message will not be delivered into the recipient's box, and therefore will not be utilizing any of the recipient's inbox space. The message server will hold the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080098068 - Space-time communication system: A technique for performing message communications while assigning a space and respective time periods or time points at present, in past and in future is disclosed. A space-time object intercepts a message. Alternatively, this object per se executes the processing for immediately transmitting a message to a target object under... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098076 - System and method of sharing contents using messenger: The present invention provides to a system and method of sharing contents using a messenger program, The system includes a device server which registers Consumer electronic (CE) devices of the same user and CE devices of different users, and generates a messenger account; a messenger server which registers the generated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098070 - System for adding new recipients to e-mail thread: A system for adding new recipients to an e-mail thread. The system includes a server device configured to administer an electronic mail (E-MAIL) application. At least one client device being operably associated via a network with the server device. The at least one client device configured to add new E-MAIL... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080098077 - Authenticating electronic communications: A method includes generating an authenticity indicator for an electronic communication based on a comparison of domain name data and purported sender data associated with the electronic communication, the authenticity indicator indicating a likelihood that the electronic communication was sent from a purported sender of the electronic communication. The authenticity... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080098074 - Method and apparatus for motivation enhancement: An automated method for boosting and/or maintaining a sense of well being of a person an automated method and apparatus assists individuals in regularly breaking out of immediate stressful situations which may otherwise contribute to long term deterioration in their health, well-being and/or vitality. The method is implemented by a... Agent: Unilever Intellectual Property Group

20080098075 - Method and system for providing electronic communications with dynamically provided content to third party mail transfer agents: A system provides individualized communications to each user, based on data corresponding to each user, for placement into electronic communications by a sending party, that may not be related to the party providing the content. The content provided to the electronic communications may be generated at least in part when... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080098078 - System and method for forwarding full header information in email messages: Systems and methods for selectively forwarding full header information in email messages are presented. When an email message is received by a user, and the user chooses to forward the received email message, an option is provided to the user to either include the full header information of the received... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080098079 - Instant messaging system configured to facilitate event plan management: An instant messaging service is operated in cooperation with an event plan manager system. Information is received regarding a planned event from an instant messaging client with which an event organizer is associated and, based thereon, information is provided indicative of the planned event to the event plan manager system.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080098080 - Extending functionality of workflow applications using instant messaging (im): Plug-ins for instant messaging (IM) systems are described. By using plug-ins in conjunction with IM systems, the functionality of IM systems may be greatly extended. Specifically, in business applications, such as workflow processes, IM provides a more reliable approach to determining actual delivery of messages.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080098081 - Moving image displaying method and system: A moving image displaying method to be executed in a network computer system having an operating-side computer and an operated-side computer coupled through a network, the operating-side computer coupling with the operated-side computer for performing input operation to the operated-side computer, and an operation result view appearing on the operated-side... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098085 - Service enabled tagged user interfaces: In one aspect, in a computer-implemented method it is determined whether a placeholder corresponding to a service includes an identifier similar to a tag associated with an element of a user interface. The placeholder is replaced with a value of the element associated with the tag based on the results... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080098083 - System and method for data de-duplication: A method of processing a file includes receiving a request to store the file, receiving the file, determining whether a database already contains the file, and storing the file in the database if the database does not already contain the file. A method of processing a file includes receiving a... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080098082 - Systems and methods for data transfer: A computer system is disclosed. The system comprises a connection interface, a download device and at least one first computer device. The first computer device generates a script file. The download device, coupled to the first computer device via the connection interface, comprises a processing unit, a network interface and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080098086 - file distribution system in which partial files are arranged according to various allocation rules associated with a plurality of file types: In a distributed file system, when a user requests a computer to create a distributed file, a management computer acquires a list of computers complying with an allocation rule selected by the user from allocation rules taking the performance, security level, reliability level and utility rate into consideration. When the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080098084 - Communicating additional information in a dns update response by requesting deletion of a specific record: A technique is performed within a DNS server to respond to a DNS message. The technique includes receiving the DNS message from a requesting device (e.g., a DHCP server), and generating a search result based on a search of a portion of the DNS message for a request to delete... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080098087 - Integrated electronic invitation process: A method and system to generate an electronic invitation are provided. The system may include a display module, a communications module and an invitation engine. The display module may be configured to display an invite control viewable with a member profile section. The member profile section may display a profile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080098088 - Communication system, terminal device and communication device: A communication system including: a terminal (121); and a device (111), a device (112), and a device (113) existing within a LAN (110) connected to the terminal (121) through the Internet. The terminal (121) includes: a representative device preference storing unit (14) that stores information about processing performed by plural... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080098090 - Computer implemented system and methods for mapping using web-based content: Computer implemented systems and methods for mapping using web-based content is provided. In one embodiment, a computer implemented system for mapping over the Internet is provided, comprising: a computer for receiving a map request and a content request from a client computer, the map request including a request for location-based... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20080098089 - Method and apparatus for retransmission request reduction in a network: A telecommunications system includes a connectionless network for distributing content which supports broadcast or multicast. The system includes a video server in communication with the network. The system includes a plurality of set-top boxes in communication with the network through which the set-top boxes receive packets from the server and... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080098091 - System and method for providing personalized multimedia broadcasting over a mobile telecommunications radio area network: A system and method of providing personalized broadcast transmissions Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network is provided. The Broadcasting Party can send multimedia content for a personalized broadcast to an IMS Application Server in a SIP Message and broadcast the multimedia content to the mobile telecommunications terminals... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080098092 - Microorganism separation system: when the microorganism detection sensor judges that a microorganism has passed, supply of the sample solution is stopped, the detected microorganism is discharged together with the sample solution, and then the solution starts to be injected into the receiver; and, the number of times microorganisms are detected during the time... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098093 - Offline automated proxy cache for web applications: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for managing content updates for web-based applications. In one set of embodiments, a configurable proxy cache is provided that executes rule-based content updates of web content on the behalf of an application (e.g., web browser) while the application is not running. This allows... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080098094 - Automated operating system device driver updating system: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080098095 - Adaptive integrated circuitry with heterogeneous and reconfigurable matrices of diverse and adaptive computational units having fixed, application specific computational elements: The present invention provides an adaptive integrated circuit. The various embodiments include a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080098097 - Method and apparatus utilizing protocol hierarchy to configure or monitor an interface device: A method and apparatus for establishing a communication means for an interfacing device that utilizes a communication means hierarchy to decipher a communication means to be used by other hardware devices so that they may operative cooperatively. Particularly, a controlling device queries an interfacing device for the manufacturer of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098096 - 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

20080098098 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a search unit which searches for a network device having a function of communication by the first communication protocol and a network device having a function of communication by the second communication protocol, and a setting unit which, when a network device detected by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080098099 - Facilitating deployment of customizations of enterprise applications: A management system facilitating deployment of customizations of an enterprise application, with the enterprise application containing software modules pre-installed on a set of servers. In an embodiment, the management system first receives a set of deployment units each containing data defining a manner of configuration affecting the operation of at... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080098100 - System for and method of streaming data to a computer in a network: A system for and method of rapidly streaming data to one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's) from a server employing virtual disk emulation and broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server. In some embodiments, the streamed data includes files necessary to boot and... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080098104 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an interface unit to communicate with a network server through a network, and a controller to store a registration reservation information in the storage unit to register with the network server, and controls the interface unit to transmit the registration reservation information.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080098103 - Methods and apparatus for tunneling legacy network management messages through snmp (simple network management protocol): Software and/or hardware modules enable secure management of legacy network products. In an illustrated example, if a network device is managed using unsecure SNMPv1 or SNMPv2, the invention acts as an intermediary and applies SNMPv3 security, without the need to migrate the existing network management code to SNMPv3. The invention... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080098101 - Peer-to-web broadcasting: A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, including a plurality of publisher computers, for broadcasting media over the Internet, each publisher computer including a video transcoder, and an image processor, a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing broadcasted media, an application server for transmitting web page content to HTTP... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080098102 - System and method for scalable internet helpdesk automation: User computers are enrolled in a management system over the Internet only at such time as a help request is tendered, and once the request is resolved, a user computer is disenrolled, facilitating use of a manageably small help resolution database and reasonable performance from the management system.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080098106 - Apparatus and method for managing a plurality of kinds of storage devices: A storage system including a memory unit having a disk management program, plural disk controllers each having a SAS port which can be attached to either a SAS disk drive or a SATA disk drive, and a LAN port which communicates with a user interface program in a management console.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080098105 - Method, apparatus, and system for communication-information management, wireless-communication device, and relay device: An access-point device authenticates a cellular phone capable of peer-to-peer communication, and connects the cellular phone to the Internet. The access-point device relays data communication between the cellular phone and a contents-provider server or a company server when a communication-information management apparatus permits the data communication. The communication-information management apparatus... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080098108 - End-to-end tracking of asynchronous long-running business process execution language processes: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for end-to-end transaction tracking of long-running processes such as a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process in a data processing system, such as a data processing system implemented in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A computer implemented method for tracking and correlating... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098109 - Incident resolution: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus for obtaining resolution information related to an incident report related to a monitored object in an IT infrastructure comprising: an incident report analyser for identifying an object identified in the report relevant to the incident and for identifying... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098107 - Method for notarizing packet traces: A system and method for capturing non-forgeable packet traces. Upon start-up of a sniffer, a first quote of Platform Configuration Register (PCR) values in a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) utilized by the sniffer is obtained, wherein the first quote comprises a list of starting values in the PCRs and is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098110 - Method for analyzing performance information: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080098111 - Integrated application access: An application portal selectively provides a user access to items of a plurality of remote applications. At least one of the items is related to more than one of the remote applications. An authorization layer is included in the portal and includes a map indicating that the user is permitted... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098112 - Systems and methods of network operation and information processing, including engaging users of a public-access network: 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

20080098113 - Stateful firewall clustering for processing-intensive network applications: A system and method for balancing network traffic that includes a master node addressable by an external device, at least one slave node addressable by the master node, at least one filter running on the master node and the at least one slave node, and a clusterware application running on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080098114 - Fencing of resources allocated to non-cooperative client computers: Techniques are provided for processing an Input/Output (I/O) request in which an identification message is received from a client computer. It is determined whether the client computer is a rogue client based on whether a current operations record exists for the client computer.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080098115 - Method and apparatus for dynamic content generation: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080098117 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for setting transmission path: A communication state between a session initiation protocol server and another session initiation protocol server to be a destination for transmitting a request message is determined. When it is determined that the communication state is in a communication unavailable state, a subsequent session initiation protocol server of the session initiation... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080098118 - Computer system and method for transmitting user status information: A computer system enabling mutual exchange of information between users and digital content, in a manner corresponding to each individual disk, comprises a plurality of computers each capable of being loaded with a disk having a unique disk ID, and a verification server capable of being connected with the computers... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080098116 - Method for establishing a multimedia connection: In one aspect, a method for establishing a multimedia connection between at least one calling user and at least one called user via packet-oriented computer networks is provided. The users independently recognize contradictory requests of the calling user and the called user to each other and then send a request... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080098119 - System and method for analyzing http sessions: Software intended to operate in a clustered environment can be tested for appropriate failover behavior through the use of an automated tool which allows failover to be simulated without requiring that the application be deployed in a cluster environment and observing the effects of actual failover. Such an automated tool... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080098120 - Authentication server auditing of clients using cache provisioning: Sharing resources on a network include, for example, a domain controller hierarchy scheme, which is used in some implementations to organize and share both secure and non-secure resources in an efficient manner. Using authentication information can be used to architect a trustworthy system to divulging sensitive client data (such as... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080098121 - P2p sip enabled multimedia network communication system: A P2P SIP enabled multimedia network communication system is disclosed. The network communication system supports various application, such as IP-based audio, video and instant messages. The network communication system comprises a P2P network and a plurality of user terminals. The P2P network comprises a plurality of ADs acting as nodes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098122 - Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating seamless, virtual integration of online membership models and services: Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating integration of the functionality associated with a first on-line service entity with the functionality associated with a second on-line service entity. Embodiments of the present invention allow a first on-line service entity having its own membership model to efficiently collaborate with a second on-line service... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080098123 - Hybrid peer-to-peer streaming with server assistance: Implementation of hybrid peer-to-peer streaming with server assistance is described. In one implementation, a media source is selected from amongst a plurality of media sources for retrieval of streaming media content. The selection might be based, for example, on an amount of the streaming media content received at respective time... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080098124 - Method and apparatus for measuring bandwidth: For a network that connects several computers, a method of determining the network bandwidth between two computers. The method measures a first time interval between when one of the computers (1) sends a first data set to the other computer and (2) receives a first response. It also measures a... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080098125 - System and method for managing digests comprising electronic messages: A system and method for managing digests comprising electronic messages is presented. A selection criteria that defines message-based content for a digest is defined. Properties and characteristics of the content of the digest are defined. A delivery criteria that specifies periodic sending of the digest is accepted. The digest is... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080098126 - Network secure communications in a cluster computing environment: Secure communications are provided over a network in a distributed workload environment having target hosts which are accessed through a distribution processor by a common network address. Secure communications are provided by routing both inbound and outbound communications with target hosts which are associated with a secure network communication through... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20080098128 - Associative memory having a mask function for use in a network device: An associative memory 4 for primary searching operation of an associative memory 23 supplies a valid state to a primary match line 13 corresponding to storage data coincident with search data 10 taking mask information into account, and supplies a value obtained from a result of a logical sum operation... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080098127 - Method and network element for rerouting traffic, while maintaining the quality of service, in networks with slow route convergence: A route for routing traffic is established by the emission of a route announcing message to a network element of a network. The network element is then triggered in such a way as to route the traffic according to the route announced in a time-delayed manner by means of an... Agent: John P Musone Siemens Corporation

20080098129 - Compression device wherein compression is adapted as a function of the transport medium, and associated decompression device, for communication equipments: A device (D1) is dedicated to compression of streams of packets of data, for a communication equipment (E1) constituting a transmission end point in an Internet Protocol communication network (R), the packets of a stream each comprising, in particular, an IP header including a destination end point (E2) identifier, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098130 - Synchronization among pluralbrowsers: A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080091763 - method for sharing functionality and/or data between two or more linked entities: A method for sharing functionality and/or data between two or more linked entities using a network. The method comprising the steps of creating on at least one entity at least one real object, each real object providing access to the functionality and/or data of the entity. The method further comprising... Agent: Arnold & Knobloch, L.L.P.

20080091764 - Integrated circuit, method, and computer program product for recording and reproducing digital data: An integrated circuit to control a media player/recorder having a wireless receiver, a storage device, and an output circuit, wherein the wireless receiver receives a signal representing encoded media data, and a method and computer program product for same. It comprises a processor comprising a digital signal processor, and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080091761 - Method and apparatus for information exchange over a web based environment: With the ever increasing size and the explorative growth of digital document and content, the traditional electronic information exchanging tool such as email and instant message, web-meeting etc. can not fully satisfy massive user's needs. With the development of central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (CCDSVM) and the web-based computer... Agent: James M. Wu, Esq. Orion Law Group

20080091762 - Methods and systems for compliance confirmation and incentives: Methods and systems of monitoring use by a user of a research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion compare monitored data or requested data with reference data. Methods and systems for promoting use of a research device by a user in compliance with at least one... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080091768 - File transfer server: A technique allows shared use of a file between different networks via the Internet. File transfer servers on different LANs access file servers on the respective LANs to prepare a list of shared files, respectively. The file transfer servers are registered in a SIP server, and then send a SUBSCRIBE... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080091765 - Method and system for detecting undesired email containing image-based messages: A system and method of detecting undesired email containing image-based messages employs a statistical analysis process which identifies and assigns probability values to the presence of each of a pre-selected set of text-related characteristics of an email under consideration and to the presence of each of a pre-selected set of... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080091767 - Method and system for mitigating automated agents operating across a distributed network: A content delivery network (CDN) service provider extends a content delivery network to gather information on atomically identifiable web clients (called “user agents”) as such computer-implemented entities interact with the CDN across different domains being managed by the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, a set of machines, processes, programs,... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080091766 - Processing of data in networks: A processing node for processing data items in a data network, comprising means for receiving data items, means for receiving characterisation metrics associated with the data items and identifying characteristic values in respect thereof, and a process selection means, said process selection means comprising means for deriving a collective value... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080091769 - System and method for managing distributed objects as a single representation: An architecture and method for managing at least two distinct machines (or objects) in which resources are shared as a single entity (or object) in an agent-based system. The agent-based system comprising a controller, a local agent coupled to the controller, and at least one clustered machine. The at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080091770 - Data transfer device for use with an intelligent electronic device (ied): The data transfer device is a hand-held device which includes a communication port and a port for accepting a rewriteable, removable memory card. The device further includes a microcontroller with an operating system capable of executing a file stored on the removable member card. The removable memory card is capable... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20080091773 - Dynamic polling control for content distribution: The invention allows controlling content distribution polling dynamically. A predetermined event is detected. In response, client-specific polling instants are determined in order to arrange the client-specific polling instants into polling time slots, wherein each polling time slot has no more than a predetermined maximum amount of polling instants. The determined... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080091772 - Methods and systems for providing a synchronous display to a plurality of remote users: Methods and systems for providing a synchronous display to a plurality of remote users are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a synchronous display from a host to a plurality of remote users comprising rendering a frame on the host, determining a communication characteristic between each of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080091771 - Visual representations of profiles for community interaction: Members of a media community share content where each member of the community is associated with a profile and a portable media device. A portion of the profile is used to create a media card that includes on or more actionable elements that enable the member to interact with the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080091774 - Customer relationship management system and method: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080091776 - Information processing apparatus and information processing system: By linking an information processing apparatus which is newly added/connected to a communication network with an existing information processing apparatus, a more advantageous service can be provided, a system is arranged as follows: An information processing apparatus 9 contains a processing program 23 which corresponds to a predetermined process operation... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091775 - Method and apparatus for parallel operations on a plurality of network servers: A method and apparatus for parallel operations on a network software product deployed on a plurality of network servers are disclosed, comprising the steps of: performing an operation on the network software product instance on one network server of the plurality of network servers; generating a first request to the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080091777 - Method, system and program product for building collaboration applications using multiple-peer user interface libraries: A method, system and program product for building a collaboration server for deploying a collaboration application. The method includes installing on a server a collaboration server application having multiple-peer user interface libraries capable of creating and synchronizing multiple peer widgets for each widget created by a collaboration application. The method... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080091778 - Presenter view control system and method: A method for providing partial layout synchronization in a teleconferencing system is described. In the method, a conference client application enters a presenter participant mode and accepts a layout modification from a local user. The layout modification alters a selection or arrangement of conference components in a user interface. The... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080091779 - Resource consumption reduction via meeting affinity: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to resource consumption in a clustered environment hosting an e-meeting and provide a method, system and computer program product for resource consumption reduction for an e-meeting via meeting affinity. In one embodiment of the invention, an e-meeting affinity... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080091780 - Integrated secure mobile collaborative environment that facilitates structured data capture and communication: A method, system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions to build a configurable electronic forms messenger (EFM) system which includes a configuration module and an EFM module. Each of these modules has its own client and server components and both share a common EFM data store. These components enable businesses... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080091781 - Group communication: In order to provide a server of a network operator of a group message sender with feedback information relating to a delivery of the group message, the feedback information is obtained by the server delivering the group message and the feedback information is sent to the server of the network... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080091784 - Converting a text-based email message to an email message including image-based fonts: An email message is analyzed to identify sections of characters having a common formatting characteristic. Sets of character images are generated for the characters in each section. An analyzed e-mail message is converted from a rich text format to a platform-independent format that specifies the structure of the e-mail message.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080091782 - Method and system for delegating and managing tasks over instant messenger: A method and apparatus for allowing for the exchange of tasks, over an instant messenger (“IM”) infrastructure, are disclosed. An IM application, running on an electronic device, may provide functionality to create, assign, track, view, export, import and manage tasks. An IM application enhanced with functionality to handle tasks, may... Agent: Attn:steven Rueben Petnote LLC

20080091785 - Method of and system for message classification of web e-mail: Web based e-mail classification is disclosed. A toolbar adds the ability to classify message such as web e-mail, calendar items and meeting appointments based on specific properties such as security classification, information type, document type, document retention, document caveats, and the like associated with the message. The toolbar through dropdown... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080091783 - Method and apparatus for real-time receiving of mails: The present invention provides a method for real-time receiving of mails, comprising: step 1 of a control block controlling a wireless block to receive the mails from a mail server and storing them in a storage block when a computer is in a sleep, suspend or shutdown mode; and step... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080091787 - System and method for responding to multiple messages: There is shown and described a messaging device (102), and a method thereof, for responding to multiple messages. A user interface (208) detects (406, 506) selection of existing messages from a message receptacle and identifies (414, 508) an outgoing message. A processor (202) then populates (416, 510) an outgoing header... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080091786 - Systems for communicating current and future activity information among mobile internet users and methods therefor: A computer-implemented method implemented via the Internet for coordinating a current or future event between a user of a mobile Internet device and other users communicating through the Internet. The method includes receiving the current or future activity information pertaining to the future event from the user via the mobile... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080091788 - Controller, address control method, and data transmission system using the same: A controller (10) for controlling a plurality of slave devices (111, 112) having a same address includes a plurality of pins (C11, C12), a determining module (103), a controller module (104), and a switching module (105). One of the pins transmits a first signal, and another of the pins transmits... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080091789 - Distributed multi-media server system, multi-media information distribution method, program thereof, and recording medium: A distributed multimedia server system includes a buffer server module, a storage server module, and an intercluster connection network. Based on memory information on a buffer memory of the storage server module that stores divided multimedia information, the buffer server module obtains the divided multimedia information from the buffer memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080091791 - Detection and notification of network-related events: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) that relate to detecting network-related events and providing notification of the same are described herein. In different implementations, the tools may receive indications of network accesses from users who are remote from a given machine. In response to the indications, the tools may provide notifications... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080091790 - File sharing administration: A file sharing service facilitates file sharing between a client and a host over a network. An extensible architecture provides an interface by which the file sharing service can be expanded to include additional functionality.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080091793 - Methods and apparatus to provide service information and activate communication services at a network demarcation point: Methods and apparatus to provide service information and activate communication services at a network demarcation point are disclosed. An example method comprises detecting coupling of a subscriber communication device to a network demarcation unit, and automatically providing service information from the network demarcation unit to a user of the communication... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080091792 - System and method of remotely managing and loading artifacts: A system and method of remotely loading artifacts is disclosed. The method involves storing and indexing a plurality of artifacts in a centralized location. A query is received from a client to locate an artifact, and the artifact is located within the central location. A reply is then returned to... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20080091798 - Communication system, communication device and communication method: A communication system exchanges electronic mail information. Communication devices are operable to input a telephone number that includes an identification number of a telephone telecommunication services operator and to transmit electronic mail information together with the telephone number. A storage device is operable to store a reference table in which... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080091795 - Method for improving web performance by adapting servers based on client cluster characterization: The present invention is a method for improving delivery of content to a client communicating with a server on the Web. Groups or clusters of clients are formed by processing the IP addresses of the clients according to a network-aware, radix-encoded trie classification process. The groups of clients are categorized... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080091797 - Method, system and computer program product for cataloging a global computer network: On a display device, within at least one web browser window, an information handling system displays a first web page that is associated with an address of a second web page. The first web page includes commentary about the second web page by one or more human reviewers. The first... Agent: Davis Law Group, P.C.

20080091796 - Methods and apparatus for customized content delivery: Systems and methods for customized content delivery are provided. Customized and individualized electronic content over a network are included. The content delivered through content feeds may be specifically tailored to a specific user based numerous criteria including, but not limited to, attributes of a user, usage characteristics, subject matter of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091794 - System and method for secure remote access: A system provides for remote communication between a service computer and a machine control at a machine. The system includes at least one central computer that is protected by a Firewall, a connection between the service computer and the central computer, and communication connections that are allocated to each of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080091799 - Access to internet content via telephone: A system and a method to provide access to Internet content via telephone includes a control center that allows a user to select content sources, or modes, via a web browser interface. Once the modes are initially selected, the user calls the control center, is authenticated, and the user cycles... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080091800 - Local user interface support of remote services: A multifunction device enables access to both services resident on the multifunction device (MFD) and remote services through a user interface that processes digital documents through use of a Web browser. The device includes a browser for requesting and viewing external web applications pages on the local user interface of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080091801 - Method and apparatus for enabling real-time bi-directional transactions on a network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for enabling object routing, the method comprising the steps of creating a virtual information store containing information entries and attributes associating each of... Agent: Clifford Kraft

20080091802 - Plug and play scheme for ip based devices and their failover scheme for quality of services: A plug and play scheme for IP based devices and their failover schemes for quality of services includes establishing a infrastructure in the Internet so that the IP based devices can be plug and play in the present or oncoming Internet. Through the Dynamic IP and the Internet, a visitor... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080091812 - Automatic proxy registration and discovery in a multi-proxy communication system: One embodiment comprises an apparatus for automatic proxy registration and discovery in a multi-proxy communication system. The apparatus executes a proxy server that is configured to provide optimized connections to remote proxy servers that are communicatively connected to the proxy server over a Wide Area Network (WAN). A file server,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080091815 - Diagnostic agent in device that retrieves key performance indicators: One disclosed embodiment of an electronic device includes an electronic device comprising an interface for communicating with at least one remote server, and one or more processors operably coupled to the interface and to memory, the one or more processors operable to, at least, create at least one device management... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080091809 - Distributed pce-based system and architecture in multi-layer network: A distributed path computation element based system in a multi-layer network. The system comprises at least one higher-layer path computation element, and at least one lower-layer path computation element, adapted to provide dynamic multi-layer path computations; at least one higher-layer traffic engineering database, and at least one lower-layer traffic engineering... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080091806 - Dynamic on-demand clustering: An apparatus, program product and method utilize on-demand clustering to handle client requests received by a clustered computer system. With on-demand clustering, clusters of nodes may be dynamically created in response to requests to perform work received from clients of a clustered computer system. By doing so, a clustered computer... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080091804 - Media delivery utilizing intelligent group list management: A system for delivering content from one user to a plurality of other users across a network is disclosed. A user transmits content and a list of users to a network server. The network server determines what devices each target user is presently operating. The network server may convert the... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20080091805 - Method and apparatus for a fault resilient collaborative media serving array: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for a fault resilient collaborative media serving array comprising a plurality of nodes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for creating a fault resilient collaborative media serving array where the array nodes do not share memory, the... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080091810 - Method and apparatus to provide independent drive enclosure blades in a blade server system with low cost high speed switch modules: A high speed fabric is provided and is partitioned into sub-fabrics for host adapter traffic and device adapter traffic. A high-speed switch includes an expander for host adapter traffic and an expander for device adapter traffic. The high-speed switch also includes a plurality of connectors, where each connector is partitioned... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080091803 - Method for managing a virtual private network: The present invention discloses a method for managing a Virtual Private Network (VPN). In the method, basic display elements of corresponding icons in a topology view are determined, and corresponding relationships between VPN states and icon displayed states are set up; the method further includes the following steps: a network... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080091814 - Network connection fast recovery: A network connection that uses a connection protocol for discovery, operation, and tear-down may call for a server timeout period when the network connection is abnormally terminated. For example, when a tear-down message is not transmitted to end a session when a fault occurs, a server device may require a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20080091807 - Network service usage management systems and methods: Network service usage management systems and methods are disclosed. Associations between network services and network service user groups are used to enable usage of network services by members of the network service user groups. The network service user groups are independently and separately manageable, to form respective virtual extranets for... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.

20080091808 - System and method of remotely managing and loading artifacts: A system and method for remotely loading artifacts is disclosed. The system and method involves monitoring application installation events on a computing device. In response to detecting an application installation event, the application installation event is intercepted. The application associated with the application installation event is searched for artifacts, and... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20080091811 - Triggering bandwidth reservation and priority remarking: In one embodiment, a reservation proxy monitors for received connectivity check messages or beginning-of-media-flow indication messages. When either type of message is observed, the reservation proxy requests resource allocation for a media flow associated with the received message. The amount of resource allocation requested may be coordinated by exchanging messages... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080091816 - Management method and a management system for volume: It is made possible to update information registered in a database of iSNS, SLP and the like in response to a configurational change in a storage device, and for a host computer to discover a disk volume. In response to changes in contents of operation to alter a storage configuration... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080091813 - Method, device, and software for keeping track of content: The invention relates to a method, a client device (CL1) and a computer program product for keeping track of content in devices of a network. The client device discovers (D) devices (MS) in a network, obtains information about events (E) provided by at least some discovered devices, obtains additional information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080091822 - Connectivity outage detection: network/ip sla probes reporting business impact information: Techniques for accurate determination of service impact are provided by provisioning network deployed probes with actual business object information related to business entities, such as VPN sites. Such probes are capable of sending a network trap (or alarm) containing actual business information in response to detecting a loss of connectivity.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20080091819 - Ethernet ping watchdog: A client computer system and a method of using Ping as a watchdog to reset a device. The computer system includes a printed circuit board, a software ping watchdog, and logic configured to drive the relay to change the power input to the controlled device. The printed circuit board includes... Agent: Chongguan Yang

20080091820 - Multiple-listing referral tracking system: A referral-tracking system accepts listings from originators and generates referral identifiers that represent referrals of those listings. A referral identifier represents a referral by the originator or by someone who, after receiving a listing identifier from an originator or someone else, applies to the system to be recognized as a... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080091818 - System and method of employing web services applications to obtain real-time information from distributed sources: A system and method are provided that employ web service applications to obtain up-to-date information from a plurality of distributed sources in substantially real-time over a network. The system includes web service applications that reside at a plurality of distributed devices. One or more client terminal devices submit data requests,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080091821 - System, method and computer program product for auditing xml messages in a network-based message stream: A system, method and computer program product for auditing a message in a message stream are disclosed. Messages in a message stream are captured including at least one message in an extensible markup language (XML) format. Each message in the XML format is then extracted from the captured messages and... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080091817 - Systems and methods for locating terrorists: Systems and/or methods for locating and/or identifying individuals that use network-enabled client devices to access particular network resources are provided. In certain example embodiments, a system and/or method is provided wherein a software module (e.g. one or more worm(s)) is configured to be stored on a server device and transmitted... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080091823 - Computer system having terminal information reporting function and computer for use in said system: A computer system adapted to track the subsequent movement of a terminal or a data recording medium in the case that the terminal or the data recording medium is brought out without permission and simultaneously a terminal suitable for the computer system. A computer system has a terminal information reporting... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080091824 - Providing mobile core services independent of a mobile device: The present disclosure includes a method and system for providing mobile core services independent of a mobile core device. In some embodiments, a method includes presenting a network element as a Base Station Controller to a first Mobile Switching Center (MSC) to provide mobile core services to a device foreign... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091825 - Dynamic allocation of home coherency engine tracker resources in link based computing system: A home agent allocates trackers to each of a plurality of caching agents, monitors each caching agent's usage of the allocated trackers, and determines whether a caching agent under-utilizes or over-utilizes them. In the case of under-utilization, the home agent retrieves at least one tracker from the allocation to the... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080091826 - Apparatus and methods for co-location and offloading of web site traffic based on traffic pattern recognition: Apparatus and methods for identifying traffic patterns to web sites based on templates that characterize the arrival of traffic to the web sites are provided. Based on these templates, determinations are made as to which web sites should be co-located so as to optimize resource allocation. Specifically, web sites whose... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080091827 - Method, device and system for allocating media resources: A method of allocating media resources includes: receiving a media resource request from a media resource requesting entity; selecting a media resource processing device capable of fulfilling the requirement according to previously acquired media resource capability information of media resource processing devices, to perform the service operation relating a media... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080091828 - Method and system for fine and course-grained authorization of personal feed contents: In one embodiment, method that can be performed on a system, is provided for fine and course grained authorization of personal feed contents. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating one or more profiles, each profile to receive one or more feeds over a network, the feeds for each profile... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091831 - Supporting proxy discovery: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an invitation request message at a first outbound proxy. The invitation request message is received from a first home proxy. The invitation request message requests a communication session with a user agent. The first outbound proxy lacks a registered communication flow with the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080091829 - Systems and methods for providing online collaborative support: A first support node and a third node provide online collaborative support to a customer node over a computer network. An online support session facilitating, at least in part, bi-directional communication between the customer node and the first support node is established. The third node is also connected to the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080091832 - Configurable connector: Embodiments of the present invention provide a connector adapted to convey data between a first application and a second application (or application components). The applications may be hosted by different computer systems interconnected by a communications link or network. The connector in addition to being interposed between the first and... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080091830 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and file transfer system: The present invention provides a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a file transfer system, by which processing of transferring a file is efficiently executed, even if the file transfer is temporarily stopped for a long time in the file transfer system in which the transmitting apparatus voluntarily transmits the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080091833 - Method and apparatus for interfacing with a restricted access computer system: An apparatus (200) for interfacing with a restricted access computer (10) includes a data storage component (202), a peripheral component (204), and an interface controller (206). The interface controller (206) enables electronic communication between the peripheral component (204) and the computer (10) and between the data storage component (202) and... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080091836 - Network system, service retrieving method and image forming apparatus: There is described a network system, which make it possible not only to easily retrieve a desired service, but also to heighten the security level of the network system. Instead of displaying all of the apparatuses residing on the network in such a manner that these are totally perceptible for... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080091834 - Systems and methods for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network: Automated systems and methods are provided for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network for a community of users, with little or no input from any given user. To establish the personalized trusted social network, one or more trusted sources are identified for a given user. The identified trusted... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080091835 - Register/unregister system and a register/unregister method: The present invention discloses a register/unregister system, which comprises: a client end, which is capable of delivering a service request message to the service management server, and capable of delivering a plurality of register/unregister service requests for different services to respective service register/unregister servers based on the information of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080091837 - Hitless application upgrade for sip server architecture: The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network environment. The engine tier can send, receive and process various messages. The state tier can maintain in-memory state data associated with various SIP sessions. Various applications can be running on the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080091838 - Multi-level congestion control for large scale video conferences: A method for streaming data is described. In the method, a pair of timing packets is periodically transmitted to a client, the second packet of the pair being transmitted after the first packet with a known delay. A plurality of reports are received from the client, each of the reports... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080091839 - Streaming video communication: Communicating by video is described. A video of a menu is streamed to a client device. A signal that identifies a selection from the menu is received. A first video associated with the selection is streamed to the client device. The first video is a member of video conversation that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080091840 - Method and system for caching streaming multimedia on the internet: An apparatus and method to enhance existing caches in a network to better support streaming media storage and distribution. Helper machines are used inside the network to implement several methods which support streaming media including segmentation of streaming media objects into smaller units, cooperation of Helper machines, and novel placement... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080091841 - Communication method, communication system, communication apparatus, and recording medium: A communication method is provided in which irrespective of whether the communication apparatus is in a condition of being able to cache the received data or not, it is made possible to receive segment data having a sequence number assigned thereto continuously with the reception of the resent lost data,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080091842 - Optimized scalable network switch: In a massively parallel computing system having a plurality of nodes configured in m multi-dimensions, each node including a computing device, a method for routing packets towards their destination nodes is provided which includes generating at least one of a 2 m plurality of compact bit vectors containing information derived... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080091843 - System and method for time-sensitive uri mapping: A system, method, and computer program for supporting legacy URIs, comprising the steps of: receiving a request for a uniform resource identifier; initializing said request with at least an expiration identifier, wherein said expiration identifier is one of a date, NOW, and NEVER; determining a redirection type based on a... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080091844 - Handover method in dhcpv4, handover apparatus and medium having instructions for performing the method: A handover apparatus and handover method in a DHCPv4 environment, and a medium having instructions for performing the method, the handover apparatus and method request a DHCP server to acknowledge an IP address lease and receive acknowledgement of the IP address lease as a response to the request.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080091846 - Creation and transaction processes of intelligent documents: Document transaction processes between systems comprising the following steps: The client requests a form; the host supplies the form rendered into HTML and PDF from XML template; the client fills in the form and submits the completed form to the host; the host receives and processes the form, extracts key... Agent: Chi Hung Dang

20080091845 - System and method for processing content: A system for routing media content files having different format characteristics to a plurality of clients over a communication network includes a content translation router. The content translation router is capable of retrieving the content files. In addition, the content translation router includes processing modules for concurrently modifying content files... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080086522 - Bot identification and control: Various embodiments employ methods and techniques to enable users, and others, to manage or otherwise become more informed about applications or bots with which they interact. The methods and techniques, in at least some embodiments, can provide various types of indications, visual or otherwise, that pertain to various types of... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080086524 - Method and system for identifying valid users operating across a distributed network: A content delivery network (CDN) service provider extends a content delivery network to gather information on atomically identifiable web clients (called “user agents”) as such computer-implemented entities interact with the CDN across different domains being managed by the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, a set of machines, processes, programs,... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080086523 - Method of data collection in a distributed network: A content delivery network (CDN) service provider extends a content delivery network to gather information on atomically identifiable web clients (called “user agents”) as such computer-implemented entities interact with the CDN across different domains being managed by the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, a set of machines, processes, programs,... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080086525 - Data processing system and method: A data processing system comprises a client device, a server system and a network connecting the client device to the server system. The client device is arranged to transmit a data request to the server system, the data request including a URL pointer to a repository address. The server system... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080086526 - System and method for processing function/data on demand over network: A method and system is provided for processing function on demand operation. A user interface at a user site is initiated. A selection of a processing function associated with an application is received via the user interface. A processing function on-demand (PFOD) request is transmitted via a network connection to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080086529 - Differentiated management of wireless connectivity: In some embodiments, a wireless management service provides the capability to manage connectivity between a device and one or more wireless networks on a differentiated basis. For example, network profiles may be managed in a way that is influenced by the identity of the user, such that profiles which are... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080086527 - Groupware portlets for integrating a portal with groupware systems: A set of groupware portlets can be deployed on an enterprise portal in order to add groupware functionality thereon. The groupware portlets can provide an abstract user interface to groupware functionality provided by several collaboration servers and can also allow users to navigate to specific groupware functionality provided by a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080086528 - User activity detection on a device: Communication information is sent to a device that a user is using rather than a device the user is not using. For example, a backlight of a device can be monitored and if the backlight becomes inactive (turns off) for longer than a predetermined interval, it can be inferred that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080086532 - Method for the verification of electronic message delivery and for the collection of data related to electronic messages sent with false origination addresses: Upon receipt of an electronic message purported to have been sent by a sending device a receiving device transmits a confirmation request to the sending device requesting that the sending device confirm or deny that it originated the message. If the sending device replies confirming that it originated the message,... Agent: Goodman, Allen & Filetti Pllc

20080086531 - System and method for managing presence based on relationship: A system and method for managing presence information based on a specified presence level between a user and other parties. An interface is provided that allows a user to specify a presence level between the user and one or more other parties. Once a user specifies a presence level, the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080086530 - System and method for restricting replies to an original electronic mail message: A system and method for restricting replies to an original electronic mail message are provided. The system and method may provide a mechanism for allowing a composer of an electronic mail message to specify whether or not responses or replies from particular recipients, e.g., secondary recipients, of an electronic mail... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080086534 - System and method that combines gaming and social networking: A system and method for obtaining personal data about registered users using gaming principles is described. A data storage component receives and stores one or more items of personal data for each registered user. Multiple messages authored by multiple registered users are generated and displayed to a user interface for... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20080086533 - Methods and systems for compliance confirmation and incentives: Methods and systems for monitoring use of research devices by users are disclosed. Systems and methods are disclosed that are useful for monitoring use of research devices in accordance with predetermined criteria, providing incentives for compliant use thereof and/or analyzing data relating to the use thereof.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c.

20080086535 - Instant messaging server suitable for notifying the accessibility of information to a client: This instant messaging server includes: means for receiving a first notification from a first instant messaging client, the first notification representing the availability of information for a second client; means for registering a state of presence associated with the first client representing the fact that the information is available for... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080086536 - Communication system, communication device, program and communication method: In a communication system comprising a communication device and a reproduction device capable of carrying out data communication with the communication device, the reproduction device includes a first storage unit in which content data are stored and a first communication unit engaged in data communication with the communication device, whereas... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080086537 - Invitation to bind to a device: A server device sends a list of account holders together with an invitation to bind to the server. A client device can decide to present the invitation to a user for decision only if the client device finds a match between the list and the user.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086538 - Address offset control circuit: The present invention provides an address offset control circuit that includes a plurality of address offset addition circuits, and a plurality of selection circuits. The address offset addition circuits respectively add predetermined offset values to addresses respectively outputted from processors (e.g., CPUs) which respectively obtain access to a memory, and... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080086540 - Method and system for executing a normally online application in an offline mode: Methods and systems for executing an online application in an offline environment. A bootstrap module is downloaded from the server to the client when an offline mode is selected for the normally online application. The bootstrap module extracts an appropriate offline module also downloaded from the server. The offline module... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20080086541 - Service proxy: A method of emulating a service in a computer infrastructure includes the steps of providing a service proxy instance as a stand-in for the service and running the service proxy instance on a computer accessible to the computer infrastructure. The service proxy instance is configured at run time in accordance... Agent: Kutak Rock, LLP

20080086539 - System and method for searching based on audio search criteria: A method of conducting a search includes tagging a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip. The audio clip is captured from the audio content and transferred to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080086543 - method and system for reviewing and rating scripts to generate a quantifiable score: The present invention discloses a method and system for reviewing script file(s) to provide a quantified quality score. The system includes a server system, a processing module, and a data storage module. The server system is configured to receive the script files from a writer and assign these script files... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.c.

20080086542 - System and method for communicating document information: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for communicating document information from any one of a plurality of client systems to any one of a plurality of recipient systems. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a control system receives a first request to send first document information to a first... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080086544 - Information terminal device, method of acquiring information corresponding to language identification information from server and program thereof, network system, additional function purchasing progam, and program function adding method: An information terminal device includes an acquisition unit acquiring language identification information concerning a language used on a display screen, a storage unit storing address information of a server, a language identification information synthesizer synthesizing the language identification information into the address information, and a transmitter transmitting the address information... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080086546 - Centralized deployment of wireless clients: A network enabled computer receives connection profile information in a generic form and creates one or more native mode profiles to establish connections. By accepting profile information in a generic form, profile information can be readily provided from one or more ways, including from a policy server, through a user... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080086545 - Network configuration using configuration parameter inheritance: In a network, a hierarchy of network element classes is identified in which members of a network element class share common configuration parameters. A sub-class of a network element class inherits configuration parameters from the parent network element class. At least part of the hierarchy of network element classes is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080086547 - Method and system for reduced distributed event handling in a network environment: The present disclosure details a system, apparatus and method for reducing the redundant handling of distributed network events. In one aspect, a proxy node is selected from a plurality of network nodes and an associated network management station (“NMS”) preferably addresses only the distributed events received from the proxy node.... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080086548 - Virtual machine interface for hardware reconfigurable and software programmable processors: The present invention provides a virtual machine interface (VMI) and an application programming interface (API) usable in conjunction with a reconfigurable wireless network communication apparatus. The reconfigurable wireless network communication apparatus comprises a plurality of hardware kernels. The apparatus can be reconfigured to support different or modified communication protocols over... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080086549 - Ppp access terminal, access service device and a method for getting an address of a provider server by the terminal: The present invention relates to a method for a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) access terminal getting the address of a provider server. The method includes that when the PPP access terminal is connected to a network through an access service device, the access service device sends the address information of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080086551 - Computer automated group detection: A method, system and computer program product implementing a computational algorithm that enables analysts to discover/find groups within a database of seemingly random electronic data in a relatively short period of time. A computer system is provided that includes a processor and program code executing on the processor for completing... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080086553 - Device, particularly a plug-in card, for a data processing device: The invention relates to a device (1), particularly a plug-in card, for a data processing device (2), e.g. for a computer, a printer or the like, the data processing device (2) being networked with at least one other data processing device (4, 6). The data processing device (2) comprises a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080086550 - Integration of data between devices: Methods, systems and computer-readable media are provided that enable multimedia content to be switched from a first to a second device. In one such method, multimedia content is streamed to a first device and a request to transfer the multimedia content from the first device to a second device is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080086552 - Method and apparatus for delivering portal services: A method and apparatus for delivering portal services is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a portal having an aggregation element that presents aggregated IMS services of one or more IMS service providers to an IMS client operating in a terminal device.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080086556 - Method and apparatus for updating a domain name server: A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program code for updating a domain name server. In response to detecting a failed network interface in a plurality of network interfaces on a content server, the content server identifies an IP address for the failed network interface. The content server... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080086554 - Methods and systems for network failure reporting: Methods and systems for alerting airline personnel to potential aircraft data network security breaches is provided. The airline personnel includes at least one of flight crew personnel and maintenance crew personnel. The method includes detecting and categorizing potential aircraft data network security breaches, and recording said potential aircraft data network... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080086557 - Network service provider platform for supporting usage sensitive billing and operation services: The present invention provides a platform for supporting usage based and usage sensitive billing and operation services and systems for network service providers. The platform provides an environment that supports the collection of statistics and call records from various network (voice, data, etc.) elements, validation of the data, conversion of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP Ip Group, Columbia Square

20080086558 - Session based web usage reporter: A system groups the data into sessions to allow tracking and evaluation of individual user behavior. By grouping clicks of a user in a session, the pattern of clicks can be observed, such as which path or pattern of clicks leads to a purchase. In particular, the session data is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086555 - System and method for search and web spam filtering: The invention is a system and method for the detection and filtering of search and web spam. More specifically, the invention relates to a number of software modules, including client and server software, processes, and algorithms that perform these functions. By detecting and filtering out search and web spam, the... Agent: David Alexander Feinleib

20080086562 - Management support method, management support system, management support apparatus and recording medium: In the present invention, the communication quality of a communication network that provides a plurality of types of communication services is measured, and the measured communication quality is compared with a preset criterion to determine an abnormality type and whether or not management is necessary. When a determination is made... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080086559 - Method and apparatus for tracking client interaction with a network resource: A method for monitoring client interaction with a resource downloaded from a server in a computer network includes the steps of using a client to specify an address of a resource located on a first server, downloading a file corresponding to the resource from the first server in response to... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080086561 - Method for obtaining log information from network element device by network management server, a network element device and a network management server: A method for the network management server to get the log information from the network element device comprises: firstly, the network element device allocates a section of the memory resource as the log buffer, and stores the log information generated by the network element device in the log buffer; then,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080086560 - Number of sons management in a cell network: The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20080086563 - Method of remotely controlling local network devices and apparatus therefor: Provided is a method of remotely controlling local network devices. The method includes periodically receiving an access request from each local network device in a local network, to which direct access from the outside is blocked, if a connection between a local network device and a server located outside the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080086564 - Communication application server for converged communication services: A communication application server for supporting converged communications in a communication system. The communication application server is responsive to communication service requests from external endpoints, applications or other c requesting entities, and in one embodiment comprises at least first and second components. The first component is operative: (i) to process... Agent: Ryan Mason & Lewis

20080086566 - Refreshing a session initiation protocol (sip) session: In one embodiment, a session is refreshed using a message that is simplified for refresh purposes. The refresh message that is used is a message used for another purpose in a protocol (e.g., SIP). For example, a reINVITE message may be used as a refresh message. If the reINVITE message... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080086565 - Voice messaging feature provided for immediate electronic communications: A system, method and program product for establishing instantaneous communication in a computer environment is provided. The method comprises: networking at least two nodes to one another such that they are in processing communication with one another, enabling a plurality of peers to use these nodes to establish peer to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080086567 - Sip server architecture for improving latency in message processing: The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network environment. The engine tier can send and receive messages and execute various processes. The state tier can maintain in-memory state data associated with various SIP sessions. For example, the state tier... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080086570 - Digital content buffer for adaptive streaming: Network transmission of live digital content from sources to receiving devices is enabled with real-time encoding, customization, and transmission of the live content according to user preferences, receiving device characteristics, network conditions and the like. Content, such as advertising customized to user profile and user location, may be conveniently inserted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086568 - Ethernet equipment utilizing catalogs and continuity checks to enhance upnp and avb applications: A method and an Ethernet local area network are described herein in which the Ethernet local area network is configured to enable a talking device (e.g., microphone) to send a media stream to one or more listening devices (e.g., speakers). In one embodiment, the method for configuring the Ethernet local... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080086569 - Strategies for integrating plural modes of content delivery: A hybrid system is described which allows an Internet Protocol (IP) set-top box to receive broadcast media content from a broadcast delivery infrastructure and on-demand media content from an IP delivery infrastructure. The broadcast delivery infrastructure can generate a quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) signal, while the IP delivery infrastructure can... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080086571 - Method of transmitting data including a structured linear database: A method, system and type of database for transmitting data is disclosed in which the data is organized into a structured linear database. The structured linear database includes a routing header portion, a file allocation table, a data portion and a tailbit portion. The structured linear database may be transmitted... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080086572 - Interconnecting initiator devices and recipient devices: An interconnect block for a data processing apparatus, said interconnect block being operable to provide data routes via which one or more initiator devices may access one or more recipient devices, said interconnect block comprising: a first and a second portion; said first portion comprising at least one initiator port... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080086573 - Distributed web services network architecture: Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating deployment, configuration and maintenance of web services networks. The present invention features a distributed web services network architecture that, in one embodiment, leverages the functionality of existing network infrastructure to provide a low cost, efficient and reliable web services solution. The web services network architecture... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080086574 - Remote domain name service: A content delivery network (CDN) for providing content objects and domain resolution. The CDN includes a connection with a terminal device, a second domain name service (DNS) system, an IP address store for holding authoritative Internet protocol (IP) addresses, and a content store holding at least one of the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086575 - Network interface techniques: Techniques are described that can be used to implement a network interface. A network interface may be communicatively coupled to a general purpose core or hardware thread. Various operations can be assigned to be performed by the general purpose core, thereby at least to provide flexible operation of the network... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080082600 - Remote network operating system: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082599 - System and method for integrating ads into presentation environments: A system and method for serving ads. According to an embodiment, an ad server receives over a network an ad request issued by an application engine on a user computer, the ad request issued by the application engine in connection with processing a content source file specifying in a format... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080082602 - Request transmission control apparatus and method: When request transmission is performed, a window selection section of this apparatus selects a window to handle the request based on a partition table. Then, if a relevant window does not exist, a window creation section creates a window based on a partitioning setting table. In the case of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080082601 - Resource standardization in an off-premise environment: A computing paradigm where information can be aggregated from multiple services/programs within a ‘cloud-based’ environment is provided. Thus, the system can provide a uniform interface that can combine computational tasks across the multiple services/programs. Thus, the innovation takes advantage of the computing device being a ‘thin client’ which affords greater... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082605 - Scrapbook server, method of controlling same, and control program therefor: A creator accesses a scrapbook server using a computer and executes a simulation for creating a scrapbook by affixing part images such as photographic images and decorative images to an image of a paper mount on the display screen of the computer. A procedural manual in line with the simulation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080082604 - Platform-independent distributed user interface client architecture: A distributed user interface (UI) system includes a client device configured to render a UI for a server-based application. The client device communicates with a UI server over a network such as the Internet. The UI server performs formatting for the UI, which preferably utilizes a number of native UI... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080082603 - Platform-independent distributed user interface system architecture: A distributed user interface (UI) system includes a client device configured to render a UI for a server-based application. The client device communicates with a UI server over a network such as the Internet. The UI server performs formatting for the UI, which preferably utilizes a number of native UI... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080082607 - Advanced discussion thread management using a tag-based categorization system: A system for discussion thread management using tag-based categorization, in which three types of tags are provided together to enable effective categorization of discussion threads, based on both automated and manual tagging. The three tag types are 1) user-defined tags, 2) moderator-promoted tags, and 3) system-generated tags. User-defined tags are... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080082609 - Controlling active and passive participation in a thread of conversation: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and persistent chats and provide a method, system and computer program product for controlling active and passive participation among participants in a thread of conversation in an instant messaging session or persistent chat. In one... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080082610 - Method and apparatus for providing collaborative user interface feedback: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates providing collaborative User Interface (UI) feedback. The system is designed to aid a programmer in structuring a UI to improve the user's experience. The system operates by receiving a command from a user while the user is using an... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080082608 - Multiple terminal collaboration system: Systems and methods relate to collaboration systems having multiple terminals per user. The collaboration system may include first and second collaboration agents, where the first collaboration agent is operable to transmit over a telecommunications network a collaboration call invitation from a first user first terminal associated with the first collaboration... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080082606 - Sending automatic reminders to invitees for invitations not acted on: A computer program product is provided for receiving invitations and automatically generating reminders for invitations that have not been one of accepted and declined. The program may be supplied as an add-in. The program provides for searching each invitation for a date, a start time, and a time duration; providing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080082611 - Unbiased information dissemination website: This invention relates generally to information dissemination web portals and more particularly to the dissemination of information where there is no advertisement and the person providing the information is unbiased. The information is unbiased because the person providing the information is an expert hired by the web portal provider and... Agent: Ty Ung

20080082613 - Communicating online presence and mood: Methods and apparatus are described for communicating an online presence of a first user in a network. An online presence indicator is presented in a first interface associated with the first user. The online presence indicator represents an online status of the first user as being online or offline. The... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080082614 - Deferred handling of a message: An apparatus for deferred handling of a message In a publish/subscribe system comprises a publisher for publishing the message and a subscriber for receiving the message. The apparatus comprises a handier for handling a first message published by a publisher, the first message comprising an instruction associated with said publisher,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080082612 - Methods handset and system for downloadable ims middleware: An embodiment relates generally a method of updating. The method includes establishing a session with a network and determining a network Internet Messaging System (IMS) client of the network. The method also includes retrieving the network IMS client in response to the network IMS client not matching a current IMS... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080082618 - Digital watermarks as a gateway and control mechanism: An electronic system where messages include information carried by digital watermarks. The digital watermarks are used to control the transmission and/or receipt of messages including images or audio transmitted over the system. The system prevents the accidental dissemination of information to unauthorized receivers. Furthermore, while no security system is fool-proof,... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080082615 - Electronic mail server apparatus, client apparatus, incoming mail notification method and incoming mail notification program: An electronic mail server apparatus used for sending and receiving electronic mail reduces a load thereof. The electronic mail server apparatus includes a registration unit (a delivery destination information registration unit) that registers instruction information notified from a delivery destination apparatus (client PCs) of the electronic mail, and a notification... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080082616 - Information processing apparatus and mail receiving method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprising a forming section which forms a copy of the received data stored in a disk storage medium to a nonvolatile memory in response to occurrence of a sleep event, a setting section which sets a timing at which the system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080082617 - Messaging system: A method of selecting a recipient of a message on the basis of data identifying access to previously transmitted messages, wherein each said message includes content data for display within a display area of a receiving terminal and control data including data indicative of a user selectable portion within the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080082619 - Spinning off chat threads: A solution for providing an instant messaging (IM) space, such as for a chat session, is provided, which includes provisions for spinning off of chat threads. An embodiment of the invention provides a method of providing an IM space, the method comprising: providing a first graphical user interface (GUI) space... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080082620 - Method and apparatus for determining availability of a user of an instant messaging application: An instant messaging application intelligently infers a user's unavailability from one or more indicia which include the user's electronic calendar. Preferably, the instant messaging application may report not only that a user is unavailable, but also give a reason for inferring unavailability, in order to provide other users with additional... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080082621 - Slave network interface circuit for improving parallelism of on-chip network and system thereof: There is provided a slave network interface circuit for improving the parallelism of an On-Chip network, including: a MUX for selecting one of a Write Address inputted from the On-Chip network and a Read Address to read data from a slave module, which is inputted from a slave network interface... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080082622 - Communication in a cluster system: Methods, systems and computer program products to communicate between System On Chip (SOC) units in a cluster configuration are provided herein. A local SOC unit that includes a local controller and a local on-chip memory is provided. In response to receiving a signal from a remote SOC, the local controller... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080082623 - Consistent binding of shared storage across clustered servers: An information handling system includes first and second nodes and a storage enclosure. The nodes share access to the storage enclosure. The nodes bind a logical unit number (LUN) in the storage enclosure consistently regardless of an order in which the two devices access the LUN. The system further preferably... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080082629 - Enabling users to repeatedly perform a sequence of user actions when interacting with a web server: Enabling users to repeatedly perform a sequence of user actions when interacting with a web server. The web server initially receives an indication to record a sequence of user actions. On receiving requests (corresponding to user actions) for web pages from a user, the web server translates the requests into... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080082627 - Method and apparatus for widget container/widget tracking and metadata manipulation: A method includes generating a widget container configured to be executed at a widget-container processing device in response to a reference to the widget container being accessed from a processor-readable vehicle. Parentage information is produced by associating a first instance of a reference to the widget container with a second... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080082625 - Method and system for distributed infrastructure for streaming data via multiple access points: Methods and systems for distributed infrastructure for streaming data via multiple access points. Aspects of one method may include apportioning multimedia information among a plurality of transmitting devices based on feedback channel information received from a destination receiving device by, for example, a transmission controller device The transmitting devices may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080082624 - Portable storage device with audio auto-playback function and operation procedure thereof: A portable storage device with audio auto-playback function and the operation procedure thereof is disclosed. The portable storage device is connected to a host end and can play audio data. The portable storage device comprises a memory block. The memory block comprises a ROM, a hidden sector and a rewritable... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080082628 - Scalable query infrastructure: Methods of querying a large number of endsystems are described in which metadata is replicated between endsystems. When a query is injected, an available endsystem receives a message relating to the query which identifies a range of endsystems for which that available endsystem is responsible. The available endsystem then generates... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080082626 - Typed authorization data: Requesting security tokens with typed information. A method includes accessing at a client, information to allow the client to request a token for accessing functionality of a service. The method further includes sending a client request from the client to a token issuer in a token request. The client request... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080082630 - System and method of fault tolerant reconciliation for control card redundancy: A system and method are provided for redundant control plane error handling allowing the inactive control plane to continue to act as a redundant failsafe when the inactive control plane database is in a compromised state which is below a certain predetermined level of maximum tolerable magnitude of error. Only... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080082631 - Inter application user interface integration in element management systems: Disclosed are a method and wireless device for automating an application client associated with an application server. The method includes transmitting via a controller module (120) and automation launch request (204) to an application server (130). The application server (130) resides on an information processing system (106). The automation launch... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080082632 - Method and apparatus for communicating data and program thereof: A server assigns one of a plurality of clients as a representative client to each of a plurality of block data in a round-robin manner, for example. The server transmits the block data and information indicating the representative client assigned to the block data to the plurality of clients by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080082633 - Recommending system, recommending server, content recommending method, and recommending program product: The present invention relates to a recommending system that recommends content so as to keep constant network traffic between a user terminal and a server. The recommending system includes a user terminal, a content server that transmits content prestored in a storage device to the user terminal, and a recommending... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082634 - Selecting a dtd for transforming malformed layout expressions into wellformed ones: A network client such as a world wide web browser and corresponding method that includes and involves a scanner component that accesses an input content stream via a network connection (e.g., such as via a URL, etc.) to extract renderable content therefrom, a parsing component coupled to the scanner component... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080082639 - Associating multiple devices with remote computers: A method comprises determining whether settings associated with a plurality of devices coupled to a client computer are provided in the client computer. The client computer is adapted to be coupled to a plurality of remote computer. If the settings are provided in the client computer, the method further comprises... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080082635 - Asynchronous communications using messages recorded on handheld devices: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include receiving a recorded message, the message recorded on a handheld device; converting the recorded message to text; identifying a recipient of the message in dependence upon the text; associating the message with content under management by a... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080082640 - Dynamic virtual private network (vpn) resource provisioning using a dynamic host configuration protocol (dhcp) server, a domain name system (dns) and/or static ip assignment: A method of provisioning resources, which includes hosting at least one resource at a first site. A secure connection is established between the first site and a second site, and a listing of available resources is exported to the second site. The second site publishes the listing of available resources... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080082638 - Reference tokens: Providing reference tokens. A method includes receiving a request for a token. In response to the request for a token and in place of a token, one or more rich pointers are sent referencing one or more tokens. The rich pointers point to locations where one or more actual tokens... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080082641 - State reflection: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082637 - Web-based configuration of distributed automation systems: A configuration tool provides a user interface that interacts with a gateway to remotely configure and/or monitor automation devices in an automation network. The configuration tool employs a self-contained software application (e.g., applet) that can be utilized for presentation and configuration interactions within a common web browser. The configuration tool... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080082636 - Web-based configuration server for automation systems: A configuration server provides a gateway for joining and exploring different networks to find and/or configure automation devices. The configuration server can be used for presentation and configuration interactions within a common web browser via, for example, a self-contained software application such as a configuration applet. The gateway can be... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080082642 - Context transfer and common ip address for dhcp proxy solution in wimax: A network comprising a network component configured with a common internet protocol (IP) address, wherein a similar network component in a similar network is configured with the common IP address, and wherein the network is in communication with the similar network. The disclosure includes a network component comprising a processor... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080082646 - Access control system and method for wireless application provisioning: A method for controlling access to content on a network, the method comprising the steps of associating access credentials with content to be published for download receiving a content download request from a mobile device, the content download request including access information, matching the received access information with the published... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (ott)

20080082643 - Application server billing: An Application Server entity in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network comprises an interface for interfacing with an application and control logic which is arranged to inspect signalling information received from the application via the interface in the form of Extensible Markup Language (XML). The received signalling information is compared... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080082647 - Connection reservation in dynamic node allocation computing environments: Exemplary computer system architectures and methods are described. In one embodiment, a computer network comprises a computing engine including a plurality of compute nodes, and a load balancer coupled to the computing engine and coupled to a processor and a memory module, wherein the memory module comprises logic instructions, which,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080082644 - Distributed parallel computing: A general purpose high-performance distributed execution engine for coarse-grained data-parallel applications is proposed that allows developers to easily create large-scale distributed applications without requiring them to master concurrency techniques beyond being able to draw a graph of the data-dependencies of their algorithms. Based on the graph, a job manager intelligently... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080082649 - Methods and systems for extensible markup language control of network equipment: Typically, services in a network are set up via direct provisioning performed by an EMS/NMS/OSS, i.e. a platform supporting multiple WDM spans in order to provide NM services or a system responsible for managing at least part of the network, and communicating with agents in order to help keep track... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080082648 - Secure peer-to-peer cache sharing: A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium are provided for secure P2P caching. In one method, a requesting peer obtains a hash of requested data from a server. The requesting peer then transmits a request for the data to other peers. The request proves that the requesting peer has the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080082645 - System and method for obtaining and executing instructions from a private network: Systems and methods for website and application monitoring and testing inside from a private network are presented. An agent module resident on an agent device inside the secured network periodically sends an HTTP message to a controller server and receives an HTTP response. The agent module parses out a set... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080082650 - Inter-client communication log management system: A system is provided that includes session management servers which mediate a secure communication performed between communication apparatuses. The session management servers create and maintain communication logs for recording at a start and end of the secure communication. The system includes log management servers which manage the communication logs of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080082657 - A system and method for dynamically grouping devices based on present device conditions: A method to dynamically group devices based on device information, which is associated with a system for monitoring the device information that communicates information between a device and an enterprise. Information is collected from a device information source to obtain an actual status of a device. The actual status of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080082655 - Click value determination with incentive schemes for website visitors and advertisers: Tools and techniques are described herein for determining click values, along with incentive schemes for website visitors and advertisers. These tools may provide a click value system that includes a click value determination unit and an incentive administration unit. The click value determination unit may compute respective click values for... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080082654 - Interrogating controllers for alarms and events: A system that facilitates automatic discovery of alarms/events in an industrial environment comprises an analyzer component that receives a subscription to an alarm/event and analyzes the subscription. An interrogator component interrogates a field device to determine whether the field device generates alarms/events that conform to the subscription.... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080082659 - Method and system for analysis of medical data: A system for analyzing medical data is provided for. The system comprises a server adapted to be connected to a communication network for storing medical data, wherein the medical data is generated by a medical device; a session manager for establishing an authenticated session for a user to communicate with... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080082656 - Object-based service oriented architecture method, apparatus and media: An information handling system having a processor and a computer readable medium accessible by the processor and having stored thereon a data structure operable as a directory service. The data structure includes a field comprising a service level object representing a service and comprising data defining roles for the service... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080082658 - Spam control systems and methods: Various embodiments of spam control systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises identifying an IP address as a spam source, and monitoring the activity of the IP address to determine if the IP address is re-assigned to another source.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080082652 - State replication: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082660 - System and method for assessing web service compatibility: Differences between two web services are identified and quantified by a set of parameters. Each parameter is drawn from a discrete set of values that describes an aspect of the difference. The set of parameters is provided to a client of the web service.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080082651 - System and method for providing a task reminder: An apparatus for providing a task reminder includes a monitoring module configured to monitor a location of a user via a mobile communication device associated with the user at predetermined time intervals for tracking historical travel information of the user and a data store for storing the historical travel information... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080082653 - Targeted data collection architecture: A targeted data collection system configured to collect processing data in a plasma processing system is provided. The system includes a data collection host and a plurality of plasma processing components having a plurality of sensors such that each of the plurality of plasma processing components having at least one... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20080082661 - Method and apparatus for network monitoring of communications networks: A network monitor autonomously determines the functional states of a plurality of network monitoring agents loaded on a plurality of network elements. The network monitor sends a query to each network monitoring agent. In response to a query, a network monitoring agent sends a reply back to the network monitor.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080082662 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to network resources based on reputation: Access to network resources is controlled based on reputation of the network resources. In an embodiment, a data processing apparatus is coupled to a first protected network and to a second network, and comprises logic configured to cause receiving a client request that includes a particular network resource identifier; retrieving,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080082663 - Management of tools that process data to describe a physical layout of a circuit: Embodiment of techniques to manage tools that process data to describe a physical layout of a circuit are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080082665 - Method and apparatus for deploying servers: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing servers. Images are sent to a set of logical partitioned computers during a first period of time in which less use of network resources by the set of logical partitioned computers is present compared to a second period... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080082667 - Remote provisioning of information technology: Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082664 - Resource selection: A system comprises a client, a plurality of remote resources, and a gateway. The gateway, on at least the basis of a user of the client or a user group to which the user is a member, selects a remote resource to be used by the client... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080082666 - User-host-computer system: A user-host-computer system includes at least two user computers, at least one host computer connectable to each of said user computers by a data network, each of said host computers running a virtualization program for virtualizing a plurality of single-user-guest-operating-systems as blade-type servers, a load balance relay unit implemented on... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080082668 - Presence information delivery based on session participation: The present invention addresses the shortcomings of existing presence systems by taking into consideration whether a subscriber to presence information of a monitored person is engaged in a communication session with the monitored person. Basic presence information for the monitored person is provided to subscribers who are not engaged in... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080082669 - Recording invocation of communication sessions: Systems and methods for recording a communication session between a customer and an agent of a customer center communication system are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: configuring a communication component of the customer center communication system to enable recording of a media stream associated with the communication... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082671 - Communication link generation in a cloud: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates communications between disparate clients that reside in a network topology (e.g., cloud). The system and method provides a component that receives one or more prospective end points, a set of desired communication criteria/characteristics, and desired content extant on one of the clients... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082672 - Phone home servlet in a computer investigation system: A system for conducting forensic investigations is provided which includes a target device, an examining device, and a server. The target device includes a phone home servlet which is configured to periodically transmit to the server a request for connection. The server grants the request for connection if there is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080082670 - Resilient communications between clients comprising a cloud: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates communications between disparate clients that reside in a network topology (e.g., cloud). The system and method provides a component that receives one or more prospective end points, a set of desired communication criteria/characteristics, and desired content extant on one of the clients... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082673 - Bookmark-based access to content feeds: At a client device, upon user selection of a respective bookmark, a document is downloaded from a network location associated with the bookmark, and then displayed at the client device. The bookmark contains a URL or parameter that references one or more content feeds to which the user has subscribed.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080082674 - Method, network and network proxy for transmitting information: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting data information and control information each having a source address and a destination address, from a server, having a server address, to a client, having a client address. The method comprises the steps of transmitting the control information from the server... Agent: Michael J. Chang, LLC

20080082677 - Communication system, and server and computer usable medium therefor: A communication system includes a server and at least one client. The server includes a first communication unit that performs first communication with each client based on a first protocol, a second communication unit that performs second communication with each client based on a second protocol, an information receiving unit... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080082675 - Data communications system, terminal, and program: To provide a system which allows large volumes of data to be exchanged efficiently through network connections using portable terminals. An example data communications system includes a data terminal which stores certain data; and an operation terminal which controls access rights to the data stored in the data terminal, in... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080082676 - Data communications system, terminal, and program: To provide a system which allows large volumes of data to be exchanged efficiently through network connections using portable terminals. An example data communications system includes a data terminal which stores certain data; and an operation terminal which controls access rights to the data stored in the data terminal, in... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080082678 - Communications network system and methods for using same: A communications network system, comprising: a first user device, wherein the first user device uses a first communications protocol; a second user device, wherein the second user device uses a second communications protocol, different from the first communications protocol; and, a server, in operative communication with the first user device... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20080082679 - Method and system for management protocol-based data streaming: A method for performing data streaming using a management protocol. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request of contents of a file at a first system from a second system, the file is associated with the first system, reading contents of the file at the first system, in... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080082680 - Method for provisioning of credentials and software images in secure network environments: A method of providing a secure download of a boot image to a remote boot environment of a computer system. In one embodiment of the invention, the remote boot environment and a boot image source engage in a boot image exchange through an authentication channel. In another embodiment, data related... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080082681 - Programmable logic control device with integrated database driver: The invention relates, in particular, to an automation system (10; 110), in which a programmable logic control device (20; 120) can be connected via a network (100; 200) to a database system (60; 160). So that the programmable logic control device (20; 120) can exchange data directly with the database... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080082682 - Method of and apparatus for transceiving data frame in wireless broadband internet network: A method of transmitting/receiving a frame between a portable terminal and a base station in a wireless broadband Internet network are provided. More particularly, a method of transmitting/receiving frames can include activating a session between the portable terminal and the base station, removing at least one header information field included... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080082683 - Communication of information between a plurality of network elements: A communications protocol interface may be configured as being divisible into a core portion and an extensible portion. The extensible portion of the communications protocol interface may be further configured so that each network element can communicate a unique and optimally small subset of actual interoperable data that corresponds to... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080082684 - computer implemented method and apparatus for content conversion, routing and execution: A computer-implemented method for converting and routing content over a network, the content having at least one portion, the method comprising receiving the at least one portion of content over the network, verifying whether the at least one portion of content was previously stored and converted for execution on one... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080082685 - Receive coalescing and direct data placement: A networked computer with a network interface device to which the network stack can offload a subset of the functions needed to process received data packets. The network interface device can receive a map between connections and application buffers. Upon receipt of a data packet through a connection, the network... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080082686 - Internet provider subscriber communications system: A system, method, and computer readable medium for communicating at least one real-time specially-composed bulletin message to at least one subscriber of a provider of Internet services, comprising a first device, and a second device communicably coupled to the first device, wherein the first device: accesses only subscriber upstream traffic... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080082688 - Apparatus and method for receiving and reproducing multimedia entertainment content: An apparatus and method for providing a ubiquitous entertainment environment for a user to browse, search, preview, purchase, and use multimedia content easily and in a convenient location. The user can use the selected multimedia contents by connecting a portable storage unit to at least one of a plurality of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080082691 - Communications between content and presentation players: Systems and techniques by which content and presentation players can communicate are described. In one aspect, presentation system for rendering a presentation for a user includes one or more output devices, a presentation including machine-readable descriptions of content and a service request triggering mechanism to trigger a service request, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080082692 - Dialog apparatus, dialog method, and computer program: A dialog apparatus includes a dialog unit configured to perform a dialog with a user and to collect a plurality of items to be referred to in accordance with the dialog as the dialog continues, a dividing unit configured to divide the items into normal items related to any usable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082689 - Method and apparatus for building centralized middleware: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses middleware to transmit data from a first system to a second system. During operation, centralized middleware receives a request from a user to transmit the data from the first system to the second system, wherein the centralized middleware comprises... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080082687 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing collaborative correction of online content: Methods and computer program product are provided for implementing collaborative correction of online content. A user of a web page is enabled to flag a location of an error and a category of the error. A web server logs error data into a database. A notification is sent to a... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080082690 - System and method for the dynamic loading of protocol adapters: A system and method is disclosed for the dynamic load of protocol adapters in a client-server environment. In operation, the client and a coupled data server may have different communications protocols. At startup or run-time, the client accesses a protocol factory and retrieves a protocol adapter that is operable to... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080082693 - Transportable web application: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082694 - Data file transmission method and device: The present invention relates to a data file transmission method and device using a low-rate data link. The method comprises the steps of selecting the data file to be transmitted, compressing the initial file data, converting the compressed file data into a data format compliant with a protocol specific to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080082696 - Method and system for deferred pinning of host memory for stateful network interfaces: Certain aspects of a method and system for deferred pinning of host memory for stateful network interfaces are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include dynamically pinning by a convergence network interface controller (CNIC), at least one of a plurality of memory pages. At least one of: a hypervisor and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080082697 - Power protection topology for information handling systems and media resource units: The present disclosure relates to circuit protection within an information handling system and a media resource unit. In one form, an information handling system can include a first external input power port and an information handling system docking interface operable to be coupled to a media resource unit interface of... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080082695 - Virtual interface to the poe device through an expanded registered map in a networking device such as a phy: Provided is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device. The PoE device includes a physical layer device (PHY) including a first number of registers PHY and a power sourcing equipment (PSE) device. The PSE device (i) includes a second number of registers and (ii) is electrically coupled to the PHY. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080082698 - Wireless handheld configuration device for a securable wireless self-organizing mesh network: A self-organizing mesh network is made up of individual devices configured to use other network devices to pass data from one point to another. The network also includes a secondary operating mode that accommodates handheld and other non-fixed transient network nodes. Each device in the network maintains a configuration link... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.