Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 05/08

20080126471 - Method and apparatus for generating plurality of applications, and method and apparatus for processing application suitable for broadcasting receiving apparatus: A method and apparatus for processing and selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing the selected application are provided. The application processing method includes: analyzing information on each of a plurality of applications providing a common broadcasting service; selecting an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126470 - Synchronization of distributed user interfaces: An initial user interface description is transmitted from a generation component to output modalities which include styling components configured to supplement the initial user interface description with layout information. The output modalities each include rendering components configured to render outputs based upon the initial user interface description and the layout... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080126469 - Transfer of application loggin status information across subsystem nodes: In a system including an application subsystem node having an application RSID table and a logging subsystem node having a logging RSID table, the application subsystem node makes a determination of a registration status of a ALSI string relative to the application RSID table during a logging operation of the... Agent: Frank C. Nicholas Cardinal Law Group

20080126472 - Computer communication: A computer communication system includes a host computer system executing software and a computational unit coupled to the host computer via an interface. The computational unit employs a plurality of computational resources and communicates with the host computer using a storage interface protocol, such as a block-oriented storage device protocol.... Agent: Sylke Law Offices, LLC

20080126473 - Method and apparatus for conducting a transaction between transaction processing systems: When investigating a failure occurring in a transaction between information processing apparatuses, it is possible to reduce the time required for the failure investigation. A first local ID for identifying a transaction processing of first information processing apparatus is related with a standard ID for relating transaction processing of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080126474 - Apparatus, system, and method for a programming model for accessing eis systems as services: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for accessing enterprise information system (EIS) resources in a service component architecture (SCA) for an integration server by selectively binding a service import to a low-level EIS resource adapter (RA) resource of an EIS service provider in response to a declarative binding definition,... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080126478 - Information collection system: A method and system of collecting information relating to an image. The method comprises presenting the image from a first computer. A plurality of second computers is connected to the first computer, and these second computers generate a plurality of data items relating to said image. Each of said data... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080126477 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving information in internet protocol network: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving information in an Internet Protocol (IP) network. In the method of allowing a client to receive information from a server, the client requests that a third client in a subnet to which the client belongs transmit the information, and receives... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126475 - Method and system for providing supplemental information in a presence client-based service message: A method for providing supplemental information in a presence client-based service message includes receiving a first message from one of a requesting client and a servicing client of a presence service. In one embodiment, the first message is compatible with a transmission format that provides a service element for carrying... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080126476 - Method and system for the creating, managing, and delivery of enhanced feed formatted content: The invention provides a method, system, and computer usable medium including a program for sponsoring customizing feed content. The method includes associating a user with a profile group based on characteristic response data; receiving at least one keyword from the user; determining whether feed formatted content contains the keyword; associating... Agent: Cardinal Law Group, LLC

20080126479 - Method, server, terminal and system for transmitting electronic service guide: A method for transmitting an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) includes: sending, an ESG request message to a server; receiving information of to-be-transmitted fragments; requesting fragments required by a terminal from the server according to the information of the to-be-transmitted fragments; and receiving the required fragments sent from the server. Embodiments... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080126480 - Collaborative, event driven system management: A collaboration system is provided in combination with a system administration monitoring system. The monitoring software for the system may recognize an error or other event in a component that is being monitored. The monitoring software then sends a message to all administrators that may be associated with the error... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080126484 - Method and system for determining and sharing a user's web presence: A method and system for determining and sharing a user's web presence have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises providing web presence information associated with a first user from a first computer having a first software module. The web presence information is received at a... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080126481 - Method and system for providing communication context specific formality control: A system for automatically providing different levels of formality controls in a communication is disclosed, in which a formality level is determined based on a current communication context. The formality level is used to enable an appropriate level of automatic checking of the communication contents. The determination of a formality... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080126483 - Method for contesting at least two interactive systems against each other and an interactive system competition arrangement: The invention describes a method for contesting at least two interactive systems (2A, 2B) against each other where a message (M) of a first of the interactive systems (2A) is output by the first interactive system in form of an audio-visual and/or tactile expression (AE, VE, TE) and where the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080126485 - Method, apparatus and system for saving instant message: A method for saving instant messages includes: determining a session saving policy; sending the session saving policy to a server; and saving, by the server, instant messages in a session in accordance with the session saving policy. A client, server and system are also provided.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080126482 - Trusted contact name validation: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to validating a specified identity for a participant to a chat session and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for trusted contact name validation for an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080126487 - Method and system for remote collaboration: A collaboration method and system where a first workstation participates in a collaboration session with one or more other workstations. Firstly, a first event message is received at the first workstation where the first event message includes information regarding an interaction with a displayed image at the one or more... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080126486 - Personal messaging application programming interface for integrating an application with groupware systems: A personal messaging application programming interface can be utilized by a developer in order to add groupware functionality to an application. The interface can include various schemas and providers that allow the schemas to connect to a collaboration server which provides the groupware functionality. The schemas can further include item... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080126488 - Collaborative arbitration of polling results in a collaborative computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to arbitrating polling results and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for collaborative arbitration of polling results in a collaborative environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative arbitration of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080126490 - Method and apparatus for presenting information concerning a set of incoming communications: A method (400) and an apparatus (600) for presenting information concerning a set of incoming communications includes determining and storing (405) data associated with each incoming communication of the set of incoming communications, identifying (410) a subset of communications-by-type from the set of incoming communications, determining (415) subsets of communications-by-originator... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080126489 - Method and apparatus to manage e-mail messages: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing e-mail messages. Responsive to receiving an e-mail message for a recipient, a determination is made as to whether a condition is present in the e-mail message using a policy associated with the recipient. If the condition is present... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080126495 - Method and system for providing electronic communications with dynamically provided content to third party mail transfer agents: A system provides content to opened electronic communications based on the time in which the electronic communications are opened. The content is provided in accordance with identifiers and providers for content associated with the identifiers. The electronic communication may be, for example, an electronic mail (e-mail), data corresponding to an... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080126491 - Method for transmitting messages from a sender to a recipient, a messaging system and message converting means: The invention describes a method for transmitting messages from a sender (5) to a recipient (6). A message is inputted in an input representation form on the sender (5) side, converted into a message in a defined transmitting representation form depending on the semantic content of the message, converted into... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080126494 - Method of communication by coding a questionnaire in an im application: e

20080126492 - Pinging for the presence of a server in a peer to peer monitoring system: A system that comprises a dynamically changing set of client and server devices (10). Client devices send detection messages (64a, 66a, 68a) to a server device (10), for detecting active presence of the server device (10) in the system. The server device (10) selects assigned time points for transmission of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080126493 - Scanner-driven email message decomposition: A method, system, and computer program product for scanning emails by reducing the amount of decomposition processing that is performed to only the minimum necessary to fully scan the emails. This reduces the server resources needed, which improves server throughput and reduces costs. A method for processing email messages comprises... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080126496 - System and method for improved client server communications of email messages: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080126500 - Control system methods that transfer control apparatus information over ip networks in web page-less transfers: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080126497 - Controller apparatus with shared expansion connection and method for the same: A controller apparatus with shared expansion connection and method for the same includes a plurality of controller and each controller with a built-in programmable logic controller (PLC). The controllers communicate through signal interfaces and detect unused transmission interfaces in the programmable logic controllers. The unused transmission interface can be used... Agent: Hdsl

20080126498 - Coordinated reboot mechanism reducing service disruption in network environments: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a plurality of network elements for reinitiation, wherein the network elements are operative to manage at least one child element; selecting a first network element from the plurality of network elements, transmitting a disable message to the first network element; determining whether the... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080126499 - Multi-master referential integrity: A method and apparatus for maintaining referential integrity in a plurality of directory servers is described. In one embodiment, a first directory server receives a request to operate on an entry in the first directory server. The request is serially repeated in at least one other directory server if the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080126501 - Service take-over method based on apparatus disaster recovery, service transfer apparatus and backup machine: A service take-over method based on apparatus disaster recovery, the method includes: transferring, by a service transfer apparatus, a service control message originally sent to a production machine to a backup machine which configures disaster recovery ability for the production machine, when detecting that the production machine gets a failure;... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080126504 - Contention detection: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which n computers (M1, M2 . . . Mn) each run a different portion of a single application program written to execute only on a single computer. The local memory of each computer is maintained substantially the same by updating all computers with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126503 - Contention resolution with echo cancellation: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which n computers (M1, M2 . . . Mn) each run a different portion of a single application program written to execute only on a single computer. The local memory of each computer is maintained substantially the same by updating all computers with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126502 - Multiple computer system with dual mode redundancy architecture: An architecture for multiple computer systems which incorporates redundancy is disclosed. For each group of “n” first computers M1/1, M2/1, . . . Mn/1, a second “mirror” group of computers M1/2, M2/2 . . . Mn/2 is provided. Changes to the memory locations of each computer of the first group... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126505 - Multiple computer system with redundancy architecture: An architecture for multiple computer systems which incorporates redundancy is disclosed. For each group of “n” first computers M1/1, M2/1, . . . Mn/1, a second “mirror” group of computers M1/2, M2/2 . . . Mn/2 is provided. Changes to the memory locations of each computer of the first group... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126506 - Multiple computer system with redundancy architecture: An architecture for multiple computer systems which incorporates redundancy is disclosed. For each group of “n” first computers M1/1, M2/1, . . . Mn/1, a second “mirror” group of computers M1/2, M2/2 . . . Mn/2 is provided. Changes to the memory locations of each computer of the first group... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126507 - Shared memory message switch and cache: A method and apparatus are described to provide shared switch and cache memory. The apparatus may comprise a message switch module, a cache controller module, and shared switch and cache memory to provide shared memory to the message switch module and to the cache controller module. The cache controller module... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080126508 - Synchronization with partial memory replication: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which the local memory of each computer (M1, M2, . . . Mn) can be different having some memory locations (A, B) which are replicated in other computers and other memory locations (E) which are not. When any computer seeks to acquire or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126509 - Rdma qp simplex switchless connection: A local RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) network adapter that comprises a simplex switchless connection with a counterpart QP on a remote RDMA network adapter in an example is selected for a Queue Pair (QP). An apparatus in an example comprises a requester RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) session fail-over... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126514 - Method and apparatus for creating and manipulating digital images: A system and method for creating an image object or set from a plurality of captured images. The system comprises an interface for receiving the captured images from a client location, a storage device for storing the images and a processor for converting the received images into a format compatible... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20080126511 - Method for handing off applications for webos-enabled user devices: A system for handing off an application in a mobile telecommunications environment is provided. The system comprises a first telecommunications network serving a first location, a second telecommunications network serving a second location, and a handset. The first network comprises a first server operable to execute the application and an... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080126510 - Method for providing internet services to a telephone user: Once a connection has been established between the application and the user, the user's ID for that application is stored at the first server, and is used as a destination for the application to forward messages directed to that user at times when the user is not actively connected to... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080126513 - Methods and apparatus for enterprise document distribution: The invention provides, in some aspects, methods for electronic document distribution that permit automatic transmittal of a set of documents to one or more recipients. The set includes documents pre-existing at the time the distribution is specified, as well as at least one that is subsequently created. Such “mixed-mode” distribution... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080126512 - Remote control unit for changing allocated url channel numbers.: The invention provides the means for allocating channel numbers to web site addresses (URLs) that offer movies and presentations through web-sites on the internet for viewers of such programs to be able to change program material by changing channels, just as they would on TV. A computer is embedded or... Agent: Mehran Randall Rasti

20080126516 - Advanced contention detection: A multiple computer system is disclosed in which n computers (M1, M2 . . . Mn) each run a different portion of a single application program written to execute only on a single computer. The local memory of each computer is maintained substantially the same by updating all computers with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126515 - Advertising content management system and method: A system and method of managing advertisement content on websites and the like allows affiliates to create unique rich media advertisements using stored sponsor ads, videos, and graphic elements, to select website addresses to which each unique advertisement is to be directed, and to associate each unique advertisement and associated... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080126517 - File transfer system, transmitting device and receiving device: In order to provide a file transfer system in which a transmitting device verifies a file transfer capability of a receiving device and which enables efficient file transfer in the case where the transmitting device autonomously transfers files to the receiving device via a network using an HTTP POST method,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080126518 - System, mobile terminal and method for storing data into web storage using wireless lan: Provided are a system, mobile terminal, and method for storing data into a web storage using a wireless LAN service. The method includes setting synchronization of the mobile terminal and a web server providing a web storage service; setting data of the mobile terminal to be stored into a web... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080126519 - Automatic assignment of a network id: For the automatic assignment of an identification (SSID2) which designates a network (1), network server means (3) and access means (4) connected to these network server means are used, wherein the access means (4) are set up for communication with at least one network client (6) and the network server... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080126520 - Devices, systems and methods for network device conversion: The present invention is a converter for abstracting network devices away from manufacturer specific syntax and/or semantic capabilities by making the network devices configuration independent trough syntax and/or semantic conversion. An application program interface converts between input options and output options. The converter allows the user to choose from any... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080126521 - Network device management system and method: A network device management system comprises a network-attachable device having logic for automatically renaming, using a network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) protocol, the device in response to a network name collision associated with the device on an attached network.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126525 - Computer system and dynamic port allocation method: Either a controller in a storage system, or a management computer monitors a bandwidth used in each I/O port in the storage system, and a bandwidth used by each host computer connected to each I/O port, and redirects a host computer using a bandwidth close to a difference in bandwidth... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126523 - Hierarchical clustering of large-scale networks: A method and system are provided for identifying groups in large-scale networks. The large-scale networks include a collection of nodes and edges that may represent relationships between entities or individuals. The large-scale network is split into a number of fractions satisfying an edge threshold. In turn, the nodes in each... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080126524 - Method and apparatus for facilitating communication between a managed system and management systems: The invention includes method and apparatus for generating a protocol agent adapted to facilitate communications between a managed system and at least one management system. The method includes generating an implementation of a unified information model from an information model specification and generating the protocol agent from a protocol specification.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080126527 - Method and apparatus for managing information for mobile network service: An apparatus for managing information about a mobile network service in a server that manages a network providing the mobile network service, including an information change identification unit which identifies a change in the information about the mobile network service, an information transmission unit that transmits a message including the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080126529 - Method and system for managing log information of user using location servers belonging to plurality of groups: A system and method of managing log information of a user, includes: a service server receiving a login/logout request from the user; the service server selecting a location server group to transmit a log message to, corresponding to the login/logout request, based on the user's user identifier; transmitting the log... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080126526 - Network system: A network system including a management device with both a status managing unit for collecting status information on a terminal status and a terminal instructing unit for transmitting a shift start message to the terminal to make transfer data to the server on the basis of the status information collected... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080126528 - Peer-to-peer (p2p) connection despite network address translators (nats) at both ends: Methods of operating a first endpoint device (ED) facilitate the making of a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection between the first ED and a second ED despite intervening network address translators (NATs) at both ends. The P2P connection extends across a system compliant with the internet protocol (IP) whose architecture that includes... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080126522 - Synchronizing vital product data for computer processor subsystems: A computer processor subsystem, e.g. called a “target”, in response to receiving an update to vital product data of the system from a source computer processor subsystem, examines the update to detect the vital product data of the target computer processor subsystem stored by the source computer processor subsystem; and,... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080126536 - Apparatus for constructing ring network: As apparatuses which construct a ring network, a structure including a monitoring apparatus and other relay apparatuses is employed. The monitoring apparatus monitors only a ring status of such a ring network to which the own monitoring apparatus belongs. The monitoring apparatus periodically transmits health check frames from ring ports... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080126531 - Blacklisting based on a traffic rule violation: In some embodiments, a network system includes an access point to wirelessly associate with a client that provides signals with traffic specification attributes to the access point. The system also includes circuitry detect if at least one of the signals violates a traffic rule through considering at least one of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080126532 - Buddy list pruning for instant messaging system performance enhancement: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to buddy list management for instant messaging systems and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for buddy list pruning for instant messaging system performance enhancement. In one embodiment of the invention, a buddy... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080126538 - Event type estimation system, event type estimation method, and event type estimation program stored in recording media: An event type estimation system includes a log aggregation unit that generates time-series data representing the fluctuation in traffic to a site from log data, a deviation testing unit that extracts an interval showing an anomalous fluctuation from the time-series data, a waveform decomposition unit that optimizes a peak waveform,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080126533 - Feedback based access and control of federated sensors: A method and system is provided for managing or controlling a network of federated devices. In one example, the devices in the network capture data corresponding to an object or entity of interest. The captured data is sent to a server component such as a hub or backend processor which... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080126534 - Method and system to monitor parameters of a data flow path in a communication system: A system and method of monitoring a dataflow path in a multilevel client server environment. A proxy is introduced into the dataflow path between a communication process on the client and the server. The proxy acts as a conduit in the data path and monitors the performance parameters of the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080126537 - Method for automatic definition and assembly of composite portal applications: The present invention is directed to a method and system for configuring portal applications in web-based environments. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: automatically capturing and storing user browsing navigation data; reading portal configuration data corresponding to a user-browsed portal; automatically analyzing the configuration... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080126539 - Monitoring thread usage to dynamically control a thread pool: A method, system, and program for monitoring thread usage to dynamically control a thread pool are provided. An application running on the server system invokes a listener thread on a listener socket for receiving client requests at the server system and passing the client requests to one of multiple threads... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080126530 - System, method, and computer program product for identification of vendor and model name of a remote device among multiple network protocols: There is provided a method, system, and computer program product for extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol. The method includes: retrieving, from a first memory, vendor and model information of the monitored device; determining vendor and model through the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126535 - User plane location services over session initiation protocol (sip): A method and mechanism to allow a location server to initiate a user plane location service (e.g., SUPL defined by OMA) procedure to a user plane enabled device via Instant Messaging, or alternatively, via an existing SIP session if a multimedia session is already established. The location request is signaled... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080126543 - Data management server, data management system, data management method, and program: There is provided a data management server that is connectable to a plurality of content servers that store content data and metadata that includes content data attribute information and to a client device that acquires the content data based on the metadata. The data management server includes a data collection... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080126540 - Hierarchical cable modem clone detection: A hierarchical cable modem clone detection system: A cable modem clone detection system uses a cable modem media access control (MAC) address and physical location information such as information relating to a cable interface, upstream and downstream port numbers, fiber node information, and load balancing group descriptors to determine if... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080126542 - Network switch load balance optimization: A network load balancing method in a blade grouping chassis can be provided. The method can include detecting system conditions among blades coupled to a single blade grouping chassis. The method also can include maintaining a rotation of selected ones of the blades among which individual blades are selected for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080126541 - System and method for providing multimedia services: In certain embodiments, the present invention comprises a system and method for providing feature services in a multimedia communication environment. The system and method comprise comparing signaling messages with control data to identify one or more service enablers and application servers that are responsive to the signaling message. Each responsive... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080126544 - Resource allocation apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof: A resource allocation apparatus, method, application program, and computer readable medium thereof are provided. A plurality of data streams are transmitted to a plurality of receiving ends via a network resource, wherein each of the receiving ends has a subscribing status. Each of the data streams comprises a plurality of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080126547 - Resource allocation in computers: A method and tangible medium embodying code for allocating resource units of an allocatable resource among a plurality of clients in a computer is described. In the method, resource units are initially distributed among the clients by assigning to each of the clients a nominal share of the allocatable resource.... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080126545 - Routing of communications to a platform service: Systems and methods for routing communications to a platform service are provided. A message including payload data is received. The information in the payload data of the message is examined in order to determine the type of message. The message is then relayed to an appropriate platform service based on... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080126546 - System and method for communication between servers in a cluster: A system and method for communications between servers in a cluster. The system allows for point-to-point messaging to be used in a clustered environment to provide communication of services provided by each server or member of that cluster. Each server or member within the cluster advertises its services as before.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080126548 - Method and system for providing ethernet protection: A method is provided for protecting a connection between a multi-service platform (MSP) and a local area network (LAN) that includes providing first and second LAN cards in the MSP. The first and second LAN cards are each coupled to the LAN over separate links. The method also includes providing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080126549 - Multimedia communications using preferred devices: Aspects of the present invention are directed at allowing users to establish a multimedia network session in which each user is allowed to employ multiple computing devices to exchange data. In this regard, a method is provided for collecting control information from at least two local computing devices associated with... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080126550 - Service publication restriction apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium: A service publication restriction apparatus includes a connection unit configured to connect the service publication restriction apparatus to a network and a restriction unit configured to restrict a publication of a service by a publication unit if the connected network is not a registered network.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080126551 - Cimom abstraction layer: An improved system and method is disclosed for transparent and agent-less remote access to CIMOMs and the management information they provide, regardless of the CIMOM communication protocol implemented. Differences between disparate CIM object manager (CIMOM) implementations are abstracted to provide clients a common interface when accessing information management data. A... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080126554 - Communications device, communications method, communications circuit, communications system, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium containing the computer program: A communications device 1a is a primary station which communicates with a secondary station. The communications device includes a communications protocol analyzing section 160a and a protocol control section 110. The section 160a is capable of receiving both a first response to the first-connection-routine command and a second response to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080126553 - Fast-path apparatus for transmitting data corresponding to a tcp connection: A system for protocol processing in a computer network has an intelligent network interface card (INIC) or communication processing device (CPD) associated with a host computer. The INIC provides a fast-path that avoids protocol processing for most large multi-packet messages, greatly accelerating data communication. The INIC also assists the host... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20080126555 - Ip based notification of device management operations in a network: A method and system for interfacing to an electronic device is disclosed. The interfacing may comprise one or more servers in a wireless network communicating internet protocol (IP) based messages to one or more electronic devices, where the wireless network may also communicate with the electronic devices using a network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126552 - Processing data across a distributed network: A system, method, and related techniques are disclosed for processing data across a distributed network to a plurality of machines. The method may include receiving a first user-supplied transform and generating a first package based on the first user-supplied transform. The method may further include receiving a designated key and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080126556 - System and method for classifying data streams using high-order models: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for classifying a data stream using high-order models. The data stream is divided into a plurality of data segments. A classifier is selected for each of the plurality of data segments. Each of a plurality of classifiers is clustered into... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080126558 - Method and system for data transmission: A method for transmitting data. Data received from a data source is retained in a buffer. Initial data may be provided from the buffer. Additional data may be provided from the buffer.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080126559 - Method and system for securing a network utilizing ipsec and macsec protocols: Aspects of a method and system for securing a network utilizing IPsec and MACsec protocols are provided. In one or more network nodes, aspects of the invention may enable conversion between Ethernet packets comprising payloads secured utilizing IPsec protocols and Ethernet packets secured utilizing MACsec protocols. For example, IPsec connections... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080126557 - System, method, and computer program product using an snmp implementation to obtain vendor information from remote devices: There is provided a method, system, and computer program product for extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol. The method includes: retrieving, from a first memory, vendor and model information of the monitored device; determining vendor and model through the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126560 - Communication system, communication method, and data processing apparatus: The present invention relates to a communication system and communication method which enable various types of near field communication, and a data processing apparatus. NFC communication apparatuses 1 to 3 have two features in that each can perform communication in two communication modes and that each can perform data transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126561 - Proximity control method for transmitting content and node in network using the proximity control method: A proximity control method for transmitting a content and a network node using the proximity control method is provided. A proximity control method for transmitting a content performs a different proximity control mechanism depending on each of a single proximity control (SPC) domain, a mixed proximity control (MPC) domain, and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080126562 - Data flow control with duplicate acknowledgement: A method of controlling the flow of an amount of data from a sending peer to a receiving peer of a predetermined communication protocol is described. The method comprises dividing the amount of data into a plurality of data segments, where the data segments are ordered in a sequence. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080126563 - Computer program product for recovery of a failed flash of a blade service processor in a server chassis: A computer program product is presented for recovering a server blade, in a multiple server blade computer, that is lost during a flash update operation on a service processor in the server blade. Because of the flash update failure, the lost server blade is unaware of its location on a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080126565 - Ad hoc network, node, routing control method and routing control program: An ad hoc network is configured of a plurality of nodes. The node includes: a link setting unit configured to set a plurality of links to a plurality of adjacent nodes on a one-to-one basis; a Bloom filter storage unit configured to store a Bloom filter in association with each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126564 - Multiple context single logic virtual host channel adapter supporting multiple transport protocols: Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a work queue pair from one of a plurality of host nodes, to scan the work queue pair for known data formats corresponding to one of a plurality of transport protocols, to optionally convert the work queue pair to produce a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080126566 - Dynamic clock phase alignment between independent clock domains: An apparatus and method is described for dynamically aligning clocks in independent clock domains with minimal latency. In the preferred embodiments, a reference clock in the destination clock domain that is some multiple times the data clock of the destination clock domain is used to sample a data sample signal... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080126568 - Synchronous communication method and synchronous communication device: A synchronous communication device for processing communication synchronously among a plurality of information terminals connected to a communication line, comprising: judging means for judging whether or not the plurality of information terminals connected to the communication line are in a normal communication state; input information setting means for, when on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080126567 - System and method for preserving consumer choice: Methods and systems for preserving user attribute data by way of managing and synchronizing redundant storage locations.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080126570 - Computer system providing selective wireless network enablement: A computer system is provided with an antenna which disables inappropriate wireless communications when a communication controller is inconsistently connected with the antenna. The computer having a diversity antenna connected to a detachable wireless LAN card containing a controller for providing wireless communication is mounted in a mini PCI slot,... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080126569 - Network on chip (noc) response signal control apparatus and noc response signal control method using the apparatus: A network on chip (NoC) response signal control apparatus and an NoC response signal control method using the apparatus are provided. The NoC response signal control apparatus includes: a network interface (NI) slave which outputs an enabling signal for a response signal via a response signal wire if a predetermined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126571 - Computer system and method using efficient module and backplane tiling to interconnect computer nodes via a kautz-like digraph: Computer systems and methods using efficient module and backplane tiling to interconnect computer nodes via a Kautz-like digraph. A multinode computing system includes a large plurality of computing nodes interconnected via a Kautz topology having order O, diameter n, and degree k. The order equals (k+1)kn−1. The interconnections from a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080126572 - Multi-path switching networks: A switching network for multiple computer systems is disclosed which utilises pairs of multi-port switches (S1-S4) and (preferably) less complex switches (S5-S7). The multi-port switches are arranged in pairs with a computer of the multiple computer system being able to be connected to each port of each multi-port switch except... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080120359 - Information distribution method, distribution apparatus, and node: A distribution apparatus distributes content catalog information to a plurality of nodes in an information distribution system. The plurality of nodes are capable of performing communication with each other via a network, and are divided into a plurality of groups in accordance with a predetermined grouping condition. The content catalog... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080120358 - Method of associating multiple modalities and a multimodal system: The multimodal managing system invention comprises: a modality linking data generating unit that generates association data in order to associate a first modality and a second modality of the plurality of modalities; an association correspondence unit that sends content that includes association data, wherein association data is combined with the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080120368 - Client appartus for updating data: A client apparatus receives first data from a server and later receives second data from the same server in response to a refresh invocation. The client apparatus parses the received data to generate logical structures representing the data and then compares the logical structures using a tree walking algorithm. Where... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080120364 - Content insertion in a mesh network: Embodiments of methods and systems for inserting customized content into web pages viewed by users of client devices are disclosed. The method includes the wireless mesh node providing wireless access to a client device to create a connection to a wired server, and the mesh node inserting customized content into... Agent: Tropos Networks

20080120361 - Data package with recovery data: An improved solution for communicating content over a network, such as a peer-to-peer network, is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, when content is published in a data package for sharing with other peers on the network, recovery data is included in the data package. Subsequently, a peer can... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro Llc

20080120365 - Dhcp client/server device and method of providing dhcp server services on a network: A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server device and method of providing DHCP server services on a network uses a set of commands to convert the DHCP client/server device to function as a DHCP server. The DHCP client/server device is converted when a response message in response to a request... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080120360 - Method for receiving email attachment on a portable electronic device: A method for downloading an attachment to an attachment viewer of a portable electronic device includes: sending an initial data request from the attachment viewer to a server in response to receipt of an email message including the attachment, building and storing a graph structure within the server representing a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080120366 - Methods and apparatus for providing access to vehicle electronic systems: One embodiment is directed to providing access between external systems and embedded vehicle electronic systems. That is, an interface module may receive information from a system external to the vehicle, determine an embedded system of the vehicle to which to provide the information, and provide the information to the embedded... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080120367 - Process control system with networked digital data processors and a virtual machine environment: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080120362 - Single virtual client for multiple client access and equivalency: A single virtual image of client information centrally located at an always-on network location for maintaining equivalency among multiple user devices. The image can be accessed by the user devices when coming online to upload and receive changes in the client information. A mid-tier system can be employed as the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080120363 - System and method for facilitating property comparisons: A system and method allowing a user to quickly receive a ranked comparison of homes for sale based on default criteria or criteria of the users choice. An interactive website is provided into which a home buyer can enter details of several properties under consideration for purchase and receive a... Agent: Mr D G Loveland

20080120375 - Activity partner matching system and method: Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for computer implemented matching of activity partners.... Agent: Axios Law Group. Pllc

20080120369 - Media center for picture sharing: A media center for sharing audio and/or visual (A/V) files among a plurality of mobile devices. The media center includes digital storage for storing A/V files; a wireless local or personal area network transceiver for receiving A/V files transmitted from the mobile devices and storing the received A/V files in... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080120376 - Method for using collaborative point-of-view management within an electronic forum: A method for conducting online discussion and collecting point-of-view information on a topic of discussion that includes displaying a hierarchy of topics, each topic corresponding to a position statement representing a consensus point of view of one or more supporters of the topic. At each level of the hierarchy, topics... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080120373 - Methods and apparatus for accessing vehicle electronic systems: One embodiment is directed to providing access between external systems and embedded vehicle electronic systems. That is, an interface module may receive information from a system external to the vehicle, determine an embedded system of the vehicle to which to provide the information, and provide the information to the embedded... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080120374 - Protecting privacy in group communications: Methods and systems for protecting the privacy of a user of a communication system that include enabling a first user to block a second user so that the first user generally appears to the second user to be unavailable. The method includes allowing a third user to establish a group... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080120371 - Relational framework for non-real-time audio/video collaboration: A method, apparatus and computer program product providing time-independent conferencing is presented. A conference is initiated, and is assigned an identification number. A conference session is initiated and a session identifier is assigned to the conference session, wherein the identification number and the session identifier uniquely identify a conference session.... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080120372 - Systems and methods for image sharing in a healthcare setting while maintaining diagnostic image quality: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for image sharing and display. The method includes selecting an image, establishing a context with a peer workstation, and displaying an image on the peer workstation based on the established context. The context may include an image sharing coordinate system, the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120370 - Virtual meeting server discovery: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprises an input circuit to receive registration messages from virtual meeting servers, wherein each registration message comprises a network address of the respective virtual meeting server and an identification string for the respective virtual meeting server; a memory to store an association for... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080120377 - Architecture for anonymous trading system: An anonymous trading system comprises a network of broker nodes, each of which have an equal status and can match orders, initiate deals and distribute prices. Trading agents are connected to some or all of the broker nodes. The network is arranged to conform to a series of rules and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080120384 - Automated recognition of employee awards via internal e-mail: A method, system, and computer program product for automatically recognizing employee achievements via enterprise e-mails is provided. In one embodiment, an enterprise e-mail server receives an e-mail from a sender within the enterprise. The enterprise e-mail server generates a recognition link to a dynamically generated web page, wherein the web... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080120381 - Escalation from a conversation to a conference: Conversations between two parties are seamlessly and transparently escalated into a conversation between multi-parties with minimal user interaction. If the two initial parties are joined to a central focus and a media, a third or more participant is invited to join the conversation. If either of the two initial parties... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080120380 - Internet relay chat (irc) framework for a global enterprise service bus (esb): An enterprise service bus (ESB) having a plurality of internet relay chat (IRC) clients and internet relay chat (IRC) ‘bots’ that provide ESB like routing and mediation functionality. The internet relay chat (IRC) framework provides messaging transport, and utilizes SOA specific tooling to turn IRC into an SOA framework.... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20080120385 - Method and system for generating a referencing secondary electronic mail message from a primary electronic mail message: In a method and system for generating a referencing secondary electronic mail message from a primary electronic mail message, a reference to accompanying data in the primary electronic mail message is obtained that allows reconstitution of the accompanying data from the reference. The referencing secondary electronic mail message is composed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080120386 - Method and system for managing a shared electronic mail account: A method of managing a shared electronic mail account co-owned by at least two owners includes intercepting electronic mail account configuration settings received from the at least two owners; combining the intercepted electronic mail account configuration settings based on a shared electronic mail account profile so as to generate shared... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080120383 - Method and system for preventing thread insertion or removal: A method and system for preventing recipients from being added and/or removed from a message thread in an e-mail and/or calendaring application. Recipients of a thread message may be allowed to seek and obtain permission from a thread originator to insert a recipient to and/or remove a recipient from the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080120382 - Method, computer program product, and user interface for making non-shared linked documents in electronic messages accessible to recipients: Linked non-shared documents within email messages are made accessible to a recipient. Upon initiation of sending of an email message by a user, the MIME of the email is automatically parsed through to detect URL tags indicating that a linked document is contained within the email message. Upon detection of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080120387 - System and method for managing contacts in an instant messaging environment: A computer-implemented method is described for instant messaging comprising: categorizing two or more instant messaging contact names into a single meta contact; receiving a request to transmit an instant message directed to the meta contact; selecting one of the two or more instant messaging contact names within the meta contact... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080120379 - System and method for sorting e-mail: A system for intelligently sorting e-mail comprises a client which downloads e-mails from a server. Prior to presenting the e-mails to the user, the client sorts the e-mail into classifications based upon whether the e-mail is from a personal contact, i.e. someone that that the user knows, whether the e-mail... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080120378 - Systems and methods for automatically updating electronic mail access lists: A system and method for permitting a sender to provide electronic mail (email) to a recipient, said method comprising providing a recipient email address to the sender; requesting of the recipient that the sender be allowed to send email to the recipient; determining whether the request is acceptable based on... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080120388 - Workflow systems and methods for project management and information management: The present invention relates to workflow systems and methods. In one embodiment, the invention relates to integration of a calendar system with a workflow system where a calendar event can initiate a workflow by sending a message to a form route manager. The completion of a workflow or step in... Agent: Robert Moll

20080120389 - Hybrid buffer management: A computing device selectively receives a media stream. A buffer included within the computing device selectively stores frames from the media stream, the buffer being configured to be a certain size. Program instructions within the computing device are for sending an alert message when the alert threshold is reached and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080120391 - Real time monitoring service providing system: The present invention provides a real time monitoring service providing system. The system comprises: an emergency detection device including a camera to obtain monitoring information; at least one remote computer connected to the emergency detection device via a network to remotely control the emergency detection device; and a server computer... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080120390 - Date management within a social interaction network: Systems (and corresponding methods) that enable users to transition virtual social networking encounters into the real world are provided. The innovation discloses mobile technologies that enable users to advertise a date to others, and for helping pairs of users to create a date on their mobile phone or online. Additionally,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080120392 - Member information identifier apparatus, system and method: A member information identifier apparatus comprises a display, a receiver, a deactivation device, and a substantially encasing member. The member information identifier apparatus, or similarly, the member information apparatus may be practiced according to a member information system by following a method of use thereof.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080120395 - Methods and systems for communicating with service technicians in a telecommunications system: Methods and systems are provided for communicating with a technician at a customer service location in a telecommunications system. One method embodiment includes generating an electronic message in an administration system; transmitting the generated electronic message from the administration system through a technician server operatively associated with the administration system;... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080120394 - Network apparatus, data provision location providing method, and recording medium: A network apparatus providing data-related information outside the network apparatus in accordance with a format of structured description, the data-related information being related to data to be provided, is disclosed that includes an external data storage location management part configured to manage the data storage location of the data-related information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080120393 - Web control simulators for mobile devices: Web control simulators for mobile devices are described herein. In one embodiment, a process for simulating Web controls includes, but is not limited to, receiving a first Web page requested by a mobile device over a network, the first Web page having a first element that is not recognizable by... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080120396 - Personal contact and marketing system: The method and system hereof is for a computer-aided personal contact and marketing system that operates to provide a collaborative personal contact network whereby individuals can participate and which allows businesses and organizations to communicate with select individuals within the network thereby optimizing their marekting efforts. Preferably, the method and... Agent: Mark F. Smith

20080120397 - Peer-to-peer social networking optimization engine: The Social Marketing Optimization Engine is a web-based technology that allows for the automatic distribution of video, audio, graphical or text-based content to multiple websites, with built-in optimization of the content so that it automatically has a higher probability of being viewed within a socially-driven website. It is based on... Agent: Jalali Hartman

20080120398 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium therefor: A communication apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect that the communication apparatus enters a coverage area of a network, a first storage area configured to store first network identification information, a second storage area configured to store information necessary for accessing a first network from a second network,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080120399 - Direct binary file transfer based network management system free of messaging, commands and data format conversions: Telecommunication network management operations are performed based on accessing network management data (NMD) files via GUIs and general purpose computers including a network management system (NMS) server, and automatic routines for transferring binary NMD files between the general purpose computers and remote network elements (NEs) being managed. A system user... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080120405 - Apparatus and method for searching/managing home network service based on home network condition: Provided are an apparatus and a method for searching/managing a home network service based on a home network condition. The apparatus, includes: a service storing unit for storing a home network service; a device information analyzing unit for analyzing home network device information and checking a type of the home... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080120401 - Device constellation management: A method and apparatus is provided for managing a plurality of devices in a federated network and a sub-network within the federated network. The devices in the sub-network may have a functional capability of performing a function associated with the federated network. For example, the federated network may include devices... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080120404 - Management server and content moving system: A management server to manage a plurality of media servers each to store contents, the server comprising: a failure rate calculating section to calculate a failure rate of each of the plurality of media servers; a judgment section to judge whether or not there is a media server having the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080120402 - Method and system of determining possible change in location of network element: A method and system for determining a potential change in a physical location of a network element. The potential change being assessed to determine whether operating characteristics associated with the network element may reflect conditions and/or circumstances indicative of a possible change in the physical location of the network element.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080120400 - Systems and methods for constructing relationship specifications from component interactions: Techniques for automatically creating at least one relationship specification are provided. For example, one computer-implemented technique includes observing at least one interaction between two or more components of at least one distributed computing system, consolidating the at least one interaction into at least one interaction pattern, and using the at... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080120403 - Systems and methods for provisioning homogeneous servers: The present disclosure relates to a system for provisioning homogeneous servers comprising an image repository coupled to a plurality of servers through an internet protocol (IP) networks wherein the image repository comprises a base virtual disk file. The system may further comprise a logical virtual disk file instance for each... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080120406 - Monitoring performance of dynamic web content applications: Monitoring performance of dynamic web content applications, including receiving, at run time, by a monitor agent, data corresponding to each one of a previous verification point and a current verification point; determining, by the monitor agent, whether decision criteria are satisfied, wherein the determining includes comparing the data corresponding to... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080120408 - System for providing web page having home network function and method of controlling home network devices: A system for providing a web page having a home network function and a method of controlling home network devices, the system including: a plurality of universal plug and play (UPnP) devices forming a UPnP network, wherein a first UPnP device from among the plurality of UPnP devices includes a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080120407 - Tracking usage of portable media device: Tracking usage of portable media device such that usage information associated with the media device may be tracked while the media device is offline. The usage information may relate to any number operating parameters and conditions of the media device, including media consumption and usage information.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080120409 - Presence service system and method for publishing presence information: A method for publishing presence information enables the presence information to be preset and published at a preset time automatically. The method includes the steps of: setting the presence information to be published, and setting the publishing time corresponding to each piece of the presence information to be published; when... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080120410 - Enabling display of a recipient list for a group text message: A device, system, and method are directed towards providing a recipient list for a message to be communicated within a group associated with an event. A recipient list for the message is defined based on identities of a plurality of members in the group. Ordering information for the recipient list... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080120411 - Methods and system for social online association and relationship scoring: A method and system adopting mathematical and vastly in-depth analytical resources in order to evaluate, measure and ultimately place a unique and highly determinative score that provides information on such items as the quality of individual relationships in on line social networks and the context and characteristics of these relationships.... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, Llc

20080120412 - System and method for providing a hypertext transfer protocol service multiplexer: A system and method for registering one or more services at a location where clients can access the services both locally and remotely is provided. A HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) service multiplexer (HSM) may be accessed at a recognizable location, which may be any suitable location or resource that a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080120415 - Filtering access to data objects: In one embodiment, a code server and edit server are provided. The code server stores the source code. Users do not access the code server directly. Rather, an edit server is used where users can log in to the edit server and send requests to edit portions of the source... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080120413 - Process for abuse mitigation: Method of limiting offending messages communicated over a network, such as but not limited to messages associated with Spam and DoS attacks. The message limiting optionally including limiting bandwidth or other communication capabilities associated with an entity communicating or facilitating communication of the messages.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080120414 - Representing resource constrained devices in a network: An access point to enhance the representation of the resource constrained devices in a network. The resource constrained devices may be coupled to a short-range network and may wake up from sleep mode only in pre-specified time durations. The access point may create proxy device for each identified resource constrained... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080120416 - System and method for peer to peer compensation: A system and method for compensating content owners and users that share content on a peer to peer (P2P) network. An enrollment system is accessed over the P2P network for registering a plurality of users and content owners, and establishing a financial account for each user and content owner that... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20080120417 - Network-initiated session recovery: Techniques for network-initiated session recovery are described. A relationship is maintained between two identifiers both associated with a session between a first device and an access terminal in a wireless network. The first identifier is associated with the first device, and the second identifier is associated with a second device... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080120418 - Method, system and program product for delayed disconnection of a client from a server: When a request for a web page is received on a server from a client, the web page is returned to the client with a client program (e.g., an applet) and a program tag. The program tag specifies a session identifier corresponding to the client. Once the web page is... Agent: Jeanine S. Ray-yarletts Ibm Corporation

20080120420 - Characterization of web application inputs: The inputs of a web application are detected through a technique such as crawling, and then the characteristics of the inputs are determined. The characteristics are determined by identifying how the inputs react to various probes containing varying characters and varying numbers of characters. As such, the characters allowed by... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company Intellectual Property Administration

20080120421 - Communication using delegates, such as delegates specified in an email or scheduling application: A facility allows for automatic delegation of incoming real-time communications based on a delegation scheme. The delegation scheme may be rules-based and may be applied to a single real-time communication channel or multiple communication channels, including both real-time and non-real-time communication channels. The delegate information may include rules that indicate... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080120422 - Method of controlling device connected to universal plug and play home network via internet, and system and device for the method: A method, system, and device for controlling a device connected to a UPnP (universal plug and play) home network using the Internet is provided. This method includes: subscribing to the external device outside the UPnP home network and informing the external device of control information about the device connected to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080120423 - System and method of actively establishing and maintaining network communications for one or more applications: According to one embodiment of the invention, a communication module, stored with machine-readable medium and executed by a processor of the electronic device, is adapted to detect signaling identifying a wake-up event and to automatically establish connectivity to a network in response to detecting the signaling.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080120419 - Transparent global computer communication network: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for a transparent global computer communication network. A published public source is used to confirm that an organization requests access-enabling information. In response to confirming that the organization requests access-enabling information, the access-enabling information is sent to the organization. The... Agent: David Yamartino

20080120424 - Content-aware adaptive packet transmission: The embodiments of the invention relate to video streaming, particularly adaptive and selective transmissions, for example, based on feedback reports received from receivers. The feedback reports are used to determine transmission rates and which content elements within the transmission buffer, for example, are to be dropped or not sent by... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, Pc

20080120427 - Maintaining real-time conversations over unreliable connections: A method and system for maintaining real-time conversations over unreliable connections is provided. The reliable messaging system initiates a conversation from a sending participant to a receiving participant by sending an invitation to join the conversation to the receiving participant. Once a connection is established, the reliable messaging system associates... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080120426 - Selective acceleration of transport control protocol (tcp) connections: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to TCP processing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for selectively accelerating TCP connections. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of selectively accelerating TCP connections in TCP/IP based inter-process communications... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080120425 - Systems, methods and computer program products supporting provision of web services using ims: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message including an embedded web service request is received at an IMS network from a device. The received SIP message is protocol translated to generate a non-IMS message including the web service request. The non-IMS message is conveyed to a web service provider, and a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080120428 - Unique compressed call identifiers: A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for converting text-based messages to binary messages when communicating a Voice-Over Internet Protocol call. The method is able to convert unique text-based fields into binary representations in a manner that maintains the global uniqueness of the text-based filed while reducing its size.... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20080120430 - Peered content distribution: A server/client media file distribution system is provided in which the server system is adapted to receive transmission requests from clients, status information from a network, and protocol information from each client. The server, based upon this information, adaptively transmits a given media file stored therein to one or more... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080120429 - Systems and methods for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices that independently source digital data: In a system for distributing data, distribution device is configured to distribute timestamp, offset and source location information for a digital data stream to an execution device, and the execution device is configured to seek digital data corresponding to the received information. The execution device is further configured to execute... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080120431 - Communication network system of bus network structure and method for transmitting and receiving data using the system: Disclosed is a communication network system in a bus network structure and a data transmitting/receiving method, the system including: a broker processing a message routing; a connector; and a plurality of services connected to the broker via the connector, wherein: the service is a communicable terminal node and a network... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080120432 - Electronic commerce infrastructure system: A networked commercial interaction management method assembles information into bundles that include a data element reference and meta data describing the data element. The method distributes the meta data and the data element reference from the bundles through the network, and distributes copies of the data elements in the bundles... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080120433 - Method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic: Methods and apparatus are described for intelligently redirecting and/or processing traffic. In one embodiment, a method of facilitating redirection of traffic sent from a first processing device (e.g., a client) to a second processing device (e.g., a server) is disclosed. At a third processing device (e.g., a router) associated with... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080120434 - In-line network device for storing application-layer data, processing instructions, and/or rule sets: A network device located in the data path between a user computer and a server stores application data, processing instructions, and/or rule sets. By storing user computer-specific application data, processing instructions, and/or rule sets in the data path between the user computer and the server, the invention reduces the complexity... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080114827 - Message forwarding backup manager in a distributed server system: A distributed server system may include a primary manager, one or more backup managers communicatively coupled to the primary manager, and one or more workers communicatively coupled to the one or more backup managers. The one ore more backup managers may receive a command to backup the state of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080114828 - Network system: Disclosed is a network system including: a remote control device, to which a piece of identification information is assigned, wherein the first electronic device includes a first transmission section to transmit the set data and identification information to the server device; the server device includes: a save section to save... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080114830 - Intelligent migration between devices having different hardware or software configuration: A system (and method) discloses migrating data of a first client device to a second client device. A second client device transmits configuration information of the second client device to a remote server. The remote server compares this data to data from the first client device that was previously sent... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080114829 - Selective communication of targeted information: Described is a technology by which by which information (an electronic note from a producer) that is available for delivery to a client consumer is only selectively delivered. The selective delivery may be based on metadata associated with the information, client identity data and other criteria, including a location of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080114831 - Website visitor coordination system and method: A website visitor coordination method includes receiving a request for an electronic document from a user device and providing the electronic document in response. The electronic document includes executable code which searches for, and stores to, a user device visitor identification information. The code also sends data containing visitor information,... Agent: Howard Ip Law Group

20080114832 - Using multiple policy distribution points to initiate a network-based service: A system allows subscribers quickly to self-activate network-based services by automatically configuring network elements. A service provider preconfigures a state machine on a core server. At the time of self-activation, activations are sent to policy distribution points (PDPs) that translate the activations into device-specific instructions, which in turn configure network... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080114833 - Mail server appliance and support service: Embodiments of the present invention provide electronic mail that is easy to automatically setup. Embodiments of the invention provide a mail server appliance that is designed to operate with a support service. Each mail server appliance is pre-configured to use the support service as part of an integrated product. The... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080114834 - Social networking system: A server 102 and user apparatuses 103 through 105, 106A through 108A, and 106B through 108B are connected to a network to configure a social networking system. The server 102 stores multimedia data of respective users and best friend lists for identifying users with whom the respective users have established... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080114835 - Method and system for using chat room in instant message system by instant message user not belonging to the instant message system: A method and system for using a chat room in an instant message system by an instant message user not belonging to the instant message system is disclosed. The method includes firstly configuring an interworking server which is connected with servers in different instant message systems. Thereafter, if a user... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080114842 - Communication protocols in concurrent computing environments: A communication protocol is provided for processes to send and receive arbitrary data in a concurrent computing environment. The communication protocol enables a process to send or receive arbitrary data without a user or programmer specifying the attributes of the arbitrary data. The communication protocol automatically determines the attributes of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080114846 - Communication terminal, and destination-address right/wrong determining method and program thereof: A communication terminal having an email message sending-and-receiving function includes an email-message history information storing unit configured to store email-message information of at least a sent email message as email-message history information, an intended-to-be-sent email message storing unit configured to store email-message information of an intended-to-be-sent email message, the intended-to-be-sent... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080114849 - Information communication terminal, method of marking mail as read, and program for marking mail as read: The present invention is an information communication terminal having a function of displaying, together with a received mail list, part or all of a message of a received mail in the selected state in the preview. The information communication terminal includes: a judgment unit judging whether all of the message... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080114847 - Method and system for automated coordination and organization of electronic communications in enterprises: A method and system for automated coordination and organization of electronic communications in enterprises optimizes a communications network, intelligently streamlining communications and enabling workflow within enterprise applications. The system allows a user to use whatever authoring tool the user is already familiar with, such as email or word-processing, to immediately... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080114843 - Method and system for handling unwanted email messages: A method, system, and computer program product for scanning incoming emails reduces the server resources needed, which improves server throughput and reduces costs. A method for processing incoming email messages comprised the steps of scanning incoming email messages to obtain an address of a sender of each incoming email message... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080114836 - Methods and devices for digital media distribution: A brokerage for digital media distribution allows initial recipients of digital media to promote and generate additional distribution of the digital media. The brokerage may involve transferring a copy of the digital media from the device of the initial recipient to a device of an entity interested in obtaining the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080114837 - On-line virtual robot (bot) security agent: Various embodiments can provide a virtual online robot (bot) or security agent. The agent or guardian can monitor on line conversations and can act to intervene in an event a conversation's content meets certain definable criteria that indicates that the content might be inappropriate or possibly harmful or risky. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080114848 - Overlaid display of messages in the user interface of instant messaging and other digital communication services: The invention relates to instant messaging communications, and more particularly to overlaid messages, e.g. texts, graphics, images, animations, movies, or any combination of them, with or without sounds, that are delivered from a sender's instant message client to at least one recipient's instant message client. Typically, such overlaid messages are... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080114845 - Questionnaire server capable of providing questionnaires based on device capabilities: A mobile device or a sender's PC, notebook, PDA or laptop creates questionnaires and sends it to other recipient devices. The questionnaire is created by user of mobile device using audio inputs for a questionnaire preamble and for preambles for a question. A server in the network incorporates other generic... Agent: Bindu Rama Rao

20080114844 - Shared space for communicating information: Embodiments provide a shared space for communicating information. In an embodiment a number of users associated with a computing environment can use a shared space to communicate information with one another. Each computing device of the computing environment can include a shared space application. The shared space application includes a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080114840 - Suggesting meeting locations for conducting meetings: A meeting location availability system determines the meeting locations that are available for use during a specified meeting time and suggests some or all of the available meeting locations as possible locations for conducting a meeting at the specified meeting time. The meeting location availability system maintains meeting location information,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080114841 - System and method for interfacing with event management software: A system and method are provided for interfacing with event management software. The method includes the operation of sending a text message from a wireless user device to a conversion module. The text message can be converted into an event record using the conversion module. A further operation is creating... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080114838 - Tracking messages in a mentoring environment: A method for tracking messages in a mentoring environment includes presenting to a reviewer a computer-based activity tracking form that is populated with data from an underlying relational database, wherein the underlying relational database includes a content of e-mail messages addressed to an adult mentor and a content of e-mail... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080114839 - Version control for application message models: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for version control for application message models that include establishing, on a message sending device, a sender message model, the sender message model specifying a message format for interpreting application messages, the sender message model including one or more sender field specifications, each sender... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080114850 - Method and arrangement for communicating multimedia content: A method and arrangement for conveying selected media content from a sending entity (A) to a receiving terminal (B) when the sending entity sends the media content for immediate delivery over IP. A session manager detects that the receiving terminal is unable to receive the selected multimedia content by immediate... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080114851 - System and method providing session aware remote access: A computer implemented method provides remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer. The method includes initiating a master process in a context independent from the sessions, establishing a first slave process in a context of a first session, and maintaining communication between the master process and the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080114852 - Serial communications protocol: A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules is provided. The design comprises providing a media connection between software modules, wherein the software modules employ a communications protocol and participate in a bi-directional master-slave relationship between a master module and a slave module. The... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080114853 - Network protocol for network communications: A network protocol is disclosed in which the network switch reports failure to transmit a message or packet to the source computer of a multiple computer system. The destination computer(s) is/are then instructed by the source computer to re-initialize the relevant memory locations. A transaction identifier (TID) is used to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080114854 - Transparent file migration using namespace replication: A NAS switch provides file migrations in a NAS storage network that are transparent to the clients. A source file server exports an original NAS file handles indicative of object locations on the source file server to the NAS switch. The NAS switch modifies the original NAS file handles to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080114857 - Method and apparatus for advertising using an electronic gateway: A method and apparatus for providing information stored in a networking device responsive to communication requests from a client. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving communication requests from a client at a networking device, and providing information stored in the networking device to the client responsive to the... Agent: Eric J Snider

20080114855 - Over-the-air device services and management: An over-the-air device services and management system includes a web applications server for providing a software download service, an account management server for providing an account maintenance service, and a synchronization server for providing a data management services. The suite of services offered by these servers may be wirelessly accessed... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080114856 - System and method for autonomously delivering information on demand: Disclosed is a system for delivering information, such as a portfolio, on demand and over a wireless network. The system comprises an autonomous portfolio delivery device and a mobile device. The portfolio delivery device has a memory device encoded with portfolio information and embedded software for transmitting the portfolio to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldrige LLP Song K. Jung

20080114859 - Data retrieval in a two-way network: A system receives a first request for data associated with a data stream received over a first network from a remote source and then determines when the requested data will be available based on analyzing the data stream. The system communicates a second request for the requested data over a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/open Tv

20080114858 - Reconstructing data on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for reconstructing data on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit data packets that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The data packets are captured at the data centers. The data packets are... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080114860 - Remote distribution/installation utility & associated method of deploying executable code: A method of dynamically managing software functionality of a plurality of non-general purpose computing devices via a network including receiving a management request, storing an identification file and a modification package, accessing the identification file with a management agent in response to the reception of the management request, establishing communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080114861 - Method of inserting promotional content within downloaded video content: The method is provided for downloading video content to a user/client's device. The video content includes episode content and ads content. Each content includes metadata. The ads content is inserted in the episode content for viewing during a playback. The ads content is inserted automatically or at a certain designated... Agent: Dva/pioneer Research Center Usa, Inc.

20080114862 - Consumer configurable mobile communication web filtering solution: Consumer configurable mobile communications solution enabling web filtering based on policy-enforcement services allowing authorized users to define, manage and enforce restrictions for mobile web data and services of a secondary mobile device.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP Ip Group, Columbia Square

20080114863 - System and method of configuring network infrastructure using functional building blocks: A method of, and system for, configuring a network infrastructure, which includes representing the network infrastructure as a composition of a predetermined number of functional building blocks, configuring a network blue print based on the predetermined number of functional building blocks, and mapping the predetermined number of functional building blocks... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080114864 - Mac layer bridging of network frames between isolated and external networks: An apparatus, program product and method bridge an isolated network such as a virtual network to an external network such as another virtual network or physical network by utilizing a network adapter on the other network that is assigned the same Media Access Control (MAC) address as an isolated network... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080114865 - Methods and apparatus to manage computing platforms: Methods and apparatus to manage computing platforms are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a first electromagnetic signal at a computing platform, determining a location of the computing platform based on the received electromagnetic signal within at least one of a manageability engine, active management technology or an embedded information... Agent: Hanely Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080114867 - Internet portal for managing social websites: Systems of the present invention allow for managing multiple social websites. An exemplary system may comprise a Personal Portal Website hosted on a server that may be communicatively coupled to a Network. The Personal Portal Website may resolve from a domain name registered to a Registrant. The Personal Portal Website... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080114866 - Managing server load by varying responses to page requests: A web server system regulates its own load level by dynamically varying its responses to requests for like web pages. The responses are preferably varied at least in-part using variables that directly or indirectly specify the type and/or quantity of processing to be performed in responding to requests for dynamically-generated... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080114868 - Systems for managing a domain name registrant's social websites: Systems of the present invention allow for managing multiple social websites. An exemplary system may comprise means for registering a domain name to a Registrant, at least one social website, and a Personal Portal Website communicatively coupled to the registering means and social website(s). The Personal Portal Website also may... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080114869 - Using social domains to manage a domain name registrant's social websites: Methods of the present invention allow for managing multiple social websites. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of registering a domain name to a Registrant, generating a Social Domain (that corresponds to a social website) by concatenating at least one subdomain to the Registrant's domain name, mapping the Social... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080114870 - Apparatus, system, and method for generating a resource utilization description for a parallel data processing system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating a resource utilization description for a parallel data processing system. The method comprises developing a system model using the data flow graph for a target data processing job. The system model is then tuned based on a sample data set. The... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080114872 - Computer systems and methods for process control environments: This invention generally relates to computer systems and architectures, methods and computer program code for increasing the robustness of process control and manufacturing automation systems and the like, in particular to provide improved handling of error and/or failure conditions. We describe an architecture for an OPC Failover system, the architecture... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.l.p.

20080114873 - Event source management using a metadata-driven framework: A system and method that relates to managing multiple network device connections and/or collectors for collecting event source data from one or more network devices, filtering event source data, continuously monitoring connection status to the one or more network devices, controlling raw data collection from the one or more network... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080114876 - Image forming apparatus and management system of image forming apparatus: A first managing image forming apparatus and a second managing image forming apparatus having a backup function are provided to manage a plurality of image forming apparatus connected to each other through a network. The second managing image forming apparatus is designated or selected by the first managing image forming... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080114871 - Mechanisms for providing intelligent throttling on a nat session border controller: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for managing session data in a session border controller (SBC), where the session data is sent from a first node, such as a first phone, to a second node, such as a registrar or second phone. In one example embodiment, the following operations are performed... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080114875 - Methods and apparatus for real user monitoring: A system monitors browser operation on a web page to identify objects referenced by the web page. For objects referenced by the web page, the system tracks a performance metric associated with each object. The system performs post-processing on the performance metrics of objects referenced by the web page to... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080114874 - Root cause analysis in a communication network: Root cause analysis in a communication network may be provided in a network management system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The system receives a set of events the network. One such received event may indicate a network problem. The system, through time windowing and/or filtering, identifies... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080114877 - Serial data transmission method and serial data transmission apparatus: Data transmission and reception is effected via a data transmission line between a master device, which is capable of controlling data transfer, and a slave device in synchronism with a clock signal transmitted from the master device to the slave device via a clock transmission line. A signal indicative of... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080114878 - Monitoring and management of assets, applications, and services using aggregated event and performance data thereof: A method and system for monitoring and managing applications and services. A repository comprising information identifying a plurality of assets and one or more relationships among the assets is maintained. One or more assets used to support an application are identified, along with one or more applications that are included... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080114879 - Deployment of configuration data within a server farm: Deployment of configuration information within a server farm may be provided. Often one or more servers are connected to increase processing and storage capabilities for providing content to a website and receiving content from the website. Accordingly, coordination must occur between the connected servers in order to accurately manage website... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080114881 - Method and system for establishing session for message communication between converged ip messaging service client and short messaging service client: A converged IP messaging client transmits a session establishment request for interactive message communication. When a converged IP messaging server receives the request, it determines whether a target client of the interactive message communication uses a converged IP messaging service. If not, the converged IP messaging server transmits the session... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080114880 - System for connecting to a network location associated with content: Computer-readable media storing operational instructions for connecting to a network location associated with content is disclosed. In one embodiment, a network location associated with content is obtained, the content is accessed, and a connection is made to the network location at a time other than when access to the content... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080114882 - Multiplexing multiple client connections in a single socket: An apparatus, program product and method allow for multiple connections to communicate with a server through a single socket without the need for a proxy. A plurality of client connections is associated with a socket. A multiplexer is utilized to multiplex in the socket a plurality of requests received from... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080114883 - Unifying user sessions on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for unifying user sessions on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The user requests... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080114884 - Centralized mobile and wireless messaging opt-out registry system and method: Provided herein is a centralized registry service enabling subscribers to “opt-out” of any or all mobile messaging programs. The registry service supports access to storage medium information by mobile and wireless carriers, companies operating mobile messaging programs, mobile applications or platforms, and most importantly, individual subscribers. The registry service can... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080114886 - Detecting and interdicting fraudulent activity on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting and interdicting fraudulent activity on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080114885 - Detecting fraudulent activity on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting fraudulent activity on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The user requests... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080114887 - Content service aggregation system: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080114890 - Broadcast transport stream distribution system, and broadcast transport stream distribution apparatus, user terminal device and distribution method for use in the system: In a transport stream distribution system, a transmission rate control unit takes in an IP packet output from an IP transmission processing unit, obtains a TTS to be added to an arbitrary TS packet in the IP packet, and compares the TTS with a time stamp generated internally to determine... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080114889 - Methods and systems for http streaming using server-side pacing: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for controlling the transmission rate of streaming processes.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080114888 - Subscribing to data feeds on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for subscribing to data feeds on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit data packets that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The data packets are captured at the data centers. The data... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080114891 - Method and system for broadcasting live data over a network: Method and system for broadcasting live data over a network are described. In one embodiment, live data is accessed. Next, a first client is authenticated. The live data is then broadcast to a first client, wherein the first client is capable of buffering and re-transmitting the live data. Next, a... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080114892 - Method and apparatus for providing flow based load balancing: A method and apparatus for flow based load balancing are disclosed. For example, the present method receives at least one packet from a flow. If the flow has not being previously classified, then the flow is classified based on the characteristics of the flow. Once classified, the present method matches... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080114893 - Method and apparatus for guaranteeing service specific bandwidth in the ethernet frame transmission system: An apparatus and method for guaranteeing a service specific bandwidth in an Ethernet frame transmission system. In the method, memory status information of an input frame buffer and usable bandwidth information of a present Ethernet network are obtained if congestions or errors occur in the Ethernet frame transmission system. Then,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080114894 - Methods and systems for http streaming using an intelligent http client: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for controlling the transmission rate of HTTP streaming processes with an intelligent HTTP client.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080114895 - Method for balancing load among subsystems in communication network system of bus network structure: A method for adjusting a load among subsystems in a communication network system having a bus network structure, wherein: the communication network system includes a broker processing a message routing, a connector, and a plurality of services which is a communicable terminal node connected to the broker via the connector,... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080114896 - Asynchronous data transmission: A method of, and system for, asynchronous data transmission are disclosed which have application in the transmission of stock exchange data or replicated memory data. Later transmitted data (14) is used to overwrite earlier transmitted and received data (13). However, earlier transmitted data (14) which is received later than later... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080114897 - System and method for transmission of dns beacons: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for transmitting a DNS beacon for storage. A method according to one embodiment comprises generating one or more data items for logging and transmitting a DNS request to an authoritative DNS server for a logging domain, with the host name of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080114898 - Address translation equipment, terminal equipment and mobile communication method: A packet sent in a mobile IP communication between different regions passes through a particular address translation unit, so that the communication route cannot be optimized. The packet cannot be delivered to a mobile node not having a fixed home address. To overcome the difficulties, the address translation unit includes... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080114899 - Switch protocol for network communications: A switch protocol for network communications (particularly but not exclusively for multiple computer systems) is disclosed in which each switch (S1, S2, S3) maintains a list of addresses which can be reached via each port (A, B, C) of the switch. In addition, prior to delivering a message or packet... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080109509 - Computer architecture for communicating between objects: An apparatus and method of passing messages between client systems is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a first client system and a second client system. The first client system assigns a priority to a message and transmits the message to the second client system. The second client system processes the message... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080109510 - Medicine container: A medicine container is provided. The medicine container may include at least one closable compartment operable to accommodate a medicine; a memory operable to store data; and a display element including a digital paper operable to display medicine data.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080109511 - Method, system and server for managing data transmission: Method, system and server for managing data transmission. The method comprises the fellowing steps: the first client requests the server for data update; the server analyzes the request of the first client and takes the control measurement to the data that the client requests to update according to the predetermined... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080109512 - Method and system for implementing network device access management: A method and system for implementing network device access management. The system includes at least one device domain storage unit and at least one Access Server (AS), and the method groups all network devices into at least one device domain managed by at least one AS; sets a uniform communication... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080109513 - Method of data transfer: A method is described for transferring and displaying data over a network. The method includes a client and a server. The client includes a client application to operate in a network environment. The server includes a server application to provide streaming data, snapshot data and historical data via the network.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080109514 - Method of initiating a connection with an individual: A method of initiating a connection with an individual on a wide area network. The method includes determining a personal identifier associated with an individual, accessing a personal profile of the individual by inputting the personal identifier into a remote terminal and initiating a connection with the individual based upon... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20080109515 - System and method for regulating a shared connection: A system operable to regulate a shared connectivity with a client system having a client display is provided. The system includes a remote computer station in communication with a server connected in communication with the client system, and a graphic interface illustrated on the client display of the client system.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080109520 - Communication device: A communication device is capable of transmitting e-mails directly to a destination IP address in a format complying with the RFC2822. A direct SMTP transmission function of e-mails and a usual transmission function via a mail server are provided. In a direct SMTP transmission, an alternative e-mail address registered in... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080109519 - Interactive communications system: An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080109518 - Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing the storage of email message information for a mobile station: Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing the storage of e-mail message information for a mobile station are described. In one illustrative example, a plurality of e-mail messages are received by the mobile station through a wireless network and stored in memory. If a size of the e-mail messages reaches a... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20080109516 - Motivating and demotivating message responses: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message response management and provide a method, system and computer program product for motivating and de-motivating message responses. In one embodiment of the invention, a message reply motivation and de-motivation method can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080109517 - Scheduling a conference in situations where a particular invitee is unavailable: In one embodiment, a method includes sending an electronic invitation to an endpoint associated with a user. The electronic invitation requests that the user attend a conference session to be held at a specified time over a network. A set of filtering rules is then applied to the electronic invitation... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080109522 - Video/audio electronic mail system and the method of the same: An audio/video electronic mail system which is stored in a computer readable or access-able storage media comprises an address book providers to access to directory information; an audio/video e-mail generator coupled to the address and provided to generate an audio/video e-mail; a spooler coupled to the audio/video e-mail generator and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109523 - Email transmission terminal apparatus, email transmission method and email transmission program: An email transmission apparatus operates to reduce mis-transmission of an email even if a mistake occurs in the check of a destination address. The email transmission apparatus for transmitting a mail to an address designated as a destination includes a counter for counting return mails which were returned with the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080109521 - System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device: A scheme for message folder synchronization. In one embodiment, a method may comprise: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server for a user; storing the message in a first folder of a first folder system associated with the user at the messaging server; processing at least a... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080109524 - Method and system for dynamically specifying a format for data provided by a web service invocation: A method and system for dynamically specifying a format for data provided by a web service invocation. A server providing a web service receives a client request for data residing on the server. The server receives an executable template script within the request. The template script includes an instruction for... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080109525 - System and method for automatically linking multiple consoles: A linking system automatically sets communication protocol and station numbers for multiple consoles. One console is set as master console and the remaining consoles are set as slave consoles. Each console comprises a serial input end, a serial output end and a master/slave communication end. The serial output end of... Agent: Hdsl

20080109526 - Rdma data to responder node coherency domain: An apparatus in an example comprises an RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) network adapter located at an interface of a requester node coherency domain that sends an RDMA read request to a responder node coherency domain to flush into the responder node coherency domain data previously sent by the RDMA... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080109529 - Method and apparatus for targeted content delivery: A method and protocol for creating and configuring customized paths, such as channels, for the delivery of electronic content to a variety of devices associated with a user is provided. A content provider may create a channel for each device registered by a user by creating a provisioning Uniform Resource... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080109528 - Method of providing content to a wireless computing device: A customised Network Application suitable for a specific type of Wireless Computing Device is automatically generated and sent to that Device. The Application is able to download a preview of content on demand by an end-user from a Server that stores the content and to play the preview of the... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080109527 - System method and program for managing browser scripts sent from server to client: System, method and program for managing a script program sent from a first computer to a second computer. The first computer embeds in the script program an identity of a program module within the first computer that generated the script program. The first computer sends to the second computer the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080109530 - System and method for bundling information: A scheme for redirecting data items to a user of a mobile data communication device that is associated with a host system and communicates therewith via a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method comprises: maintaining a folder structure at the host system for data items received for a user... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080109531 - Method and system to enable contact with unknown internet account holders: A method of enabling a server to contact an unknown Internet account holder can begin with the server receiving a request for a resource. The server then determines whether the request for the resource warrants sending a notice, and if so, identifies a notice destination to which the notice is... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080109532 - Method and device for transferring digital data with a progressive format: Method of transferring digital data between a client device and a server device on a communication network, said method being implemented within said server device and comprising: i) coming from the client device, receiving a request in markup format for the delivery of a digital object or part of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080109534 - Communication system using communication network and communication method: A communication system for guaranteeing only one each of two processing operations, correlated with each other and executed on different devices. A server has a unit which, on receipt of a first processing request, with identification information, executes this processing only once for one item of the identification, and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080109533 - Method and apparatus for distributing computer files across a network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for distributing files across a network. During operation, the system receives a request at a server to download a file to a client. If the server is not currently downloading the file, the system commences a download stream for the file... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080109535 - Point of sale device configuration systems and methods: A system for configuring a point-of-sale (POS) device includes a server computer programmed to interactively collect POS device configuration information from a remotely-located user computer and cause the POS device configuration information to be stored as a POS device configuration file. The server computer is programmed to interactively collect the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109536 - Method of forming cluster individually by each sensor node over sensor network: Provided is method of forming a cluster individually by each sensor node over a sensor network, in which each sensor node has cluster information and authority to assign cluster membership and recognizes a sensor node that is not a cluster member in a radius of the cluster in order to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080109538 - Redirection of notifications to a wireless user device: Redirecting a notification to a wireless user device includes registering for notification of incoming messages for an account on a message server, the incoming messages being directed to an account on the message server. The redirecting also includes receiving at least one notification and redirecting the at least one notification... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080109537 - Systems and methods for auto-configuration of a generic data device on a wireless network: Systems and methods are provided for the automatic configuration of digital utility meters. One embodiment provides for pre-producing digital devices, the digital devices comprising integrated module components, configured for communication with a data management system via a wireless network and further configured for monitoring capability, producing a list file associated... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080109539 - Automatic network reconfiguration upon changes in dhcp ip addresses: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for detection and network reconfiguration upon changes in dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) IP addresses are disclosed. Embodiments of a method may include setting a renew time and a rebind time of a DHCP configuration and establishing an IP address with a first DHCP... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080109540 - Method and system for distributing software components: The present invention is directed to a method and system for distributing software components. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a distribution hierarchy is established. The distribution hierarchy includes nodes associated with software components. A distribution path in the distribution hierarchy may be determined. The distribution... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080109541 - Method for automatic dispatching ip addresses to each testing apparatus in a testing system and the system: A method for automatic dispatching IP addresses to each testing apparatus in a testing system, according to this method, the testing system can automatically dispatch IP addresses to the each respective apparatus. The each testing apparatus comprises a testing circuit board for positioning a circuit element/device under test thereon; a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080109542 - Software distribution application supporting operating system installations: A software distribution application (205,250,255) supporting the installation of operating systems on pristine computers (110) is proposed. A new configuration element (210) is added for virtually defining an operating system; the configuration element points to a corresponding image of the operating system on different pristine servers (120). Moreover, the pristine... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080109544 - Computer system and method using a kautz-like digraph to interconnect computer nodes and having control back channel between nodes: Computer system and method using a Kautz-like digraph to interconnect computer nodes and having control back channel between nodes. A multinode computing system includes a large plurality of computing nodes interconnected via a Kautz topology having order O, diameter n, and degree k. The order equals (k+1)kn−1; The data interconnections... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109543 - Inbox management: Media devices that transfer content to other devices may man age a user's received media files by creating a media device inbox. Shared content may be stored in an inbox cache that is separate from the device's main content library to exclude limited-access inbox content from interaction with the device's... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080109545 - Method and system for two-phase mechanism for discovering web services based management service: A management device may determine the presence of WS-Management services in a network device, and may discover capabilities of discovered WS-Management services in the network device. The management device may determine the presence of the WS-Management services utilizing a unicast ping mechanism in instances where the MAC and/or IP address... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080109546 - Fault recovery method in a system having a plurality of storage system: System availability is improved in a second storage system, connected to a first storage system, and having means for virtualizing devices within the first storage system as its own devices. When the virtual storage system or a storage management server detects a fault in the virtual storage system, the management... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080109547 - Method, system and program product for determining a number of concurrent users accessing a system: A method, system and program product for determining a number of concurrent users being served by a system at a given point-in-time is provided. The method includes running, at a pre-determined point-in-time, a collection script for collecting user data from one or more target systems, the user data collected including... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080109548 - In-operation system check processing device, method, and program thereof: In an in-operation system check processing device, an automatic exploration unit automatically checks presence/absence of devices of the in-operation system and relationship between the devices according to the design data of the in-operation system. A check list storage unit contains information on check conditions concerning problems of the devices constituting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080109549 - Rental server system: The service provider stores a program to use a service and license information in a memory card including an IC card chip, a flash memory, and an interface controller. According to the license information, the user can select a specification of a server PC on the service provider side and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080109550 - Disk jockey streaming sessions: A media player may stream media content, such as music, to other media players over a data network connection, for example, a WiFi/802.11 connection. An encounter object may be used to keep a record of each media object transmitted. The encounter object may include information about the transmission itself, such... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080109551 - Performing presence service in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080109552 - Internet application for young children: A computerized method for providing a child with Internet based services. The child uses a client computer running an Internet browser which is attached to a server over the Internet. A contact list is prepared for the child by a guardian, and the contact list includes at least one contact... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080109553 - System and method for reducing click fraud: The present invention provides a way to reduce click fraud by verifying that a human user is making URI requests. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a client-side plug-in or other suitable component adapted to: (a) assemble a list of enabled domains; (b) when a user first requests... Agent: Lott & Friedland, P.a.

20080109554 - System and method of enabling tcp splice with a content-based charging proxy: A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a content-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20080109555 - Method and system for improving overall network response time during the exchange of files between telnet 3270 servers and telnet 3270 clients: Today, a Client and an associated Server use a single IP priority for all the data packets exchanged over a TCP session used to transport the Telnet traffic (file transfer and screen related interactions). The present invention discloses a method and system to provide the Client with the capability, when... Agent: Andrew M. Calderon Greenblum And Bernstein P.L.C

20080109556 - Adaptive insertion of content in streaming media: A system receives streaming media data and stores the received data related to main content in a first buffer. The system selectively extracts the received data from the first buffer to begin playback of the main content. The system halts playback and re-fills the buffer with received streaming media data... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080109558 - Method and apparatus for providing independent content to multiple terminals within a vehicle with modifiable playback stream features: A system 10 for distributing content includes a content provider 12 that provides content through various devices including a satellite 26 or a terrestrial-based system 38. The content provider 12 provides content to a content distribution system 70 within a vehicle 60. A first content stream is provided to a... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080109557 - Method and system for reducing switching delays between digital video feeds using personalized unicast transmission techniques: Multi-media and video content distribution and transmission scheme. Method and system for reducing video media channel switching delays that might conventionally occur between different digital video feeds using a personalized unicast video distribution and personalized transmission techniques. Method and system for performing a unicast channel change operation between a client... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080109559 - Automatically controlling operation of a bras device based on encapsulation information: A technique controls operation of a BRAS device. The technique involves extracting encapsulation information from a communications exchange between a CPE device and an external server device (e.g., a DHCP server). The communications exchange passes through the BRAS device and a DSLAM device. The technique further involves storing the encapsulation... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080109560 - System and method for bundling information: A scheme for redirecting data items to a user of a mobile data communication device that is associated with a host system and communicates therewith via a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method comprises: detecting arrival of data items for a user at the host system from one or... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080109561 - Method of data synchronization: There is described a method of synchronization in a personal information entertainment product (10) for periodically updating data content stored in memory (50) of the product (10). Moreover, apparatus (10), for example advanced personal information entertainment products, capable of operating according to the method are elucidated. A system and software... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080109562 - Network traffic controller (ntc): A Network Device (ND) may be configured to enable secure digital video streaming for HD (high definition) digital video systems over a standard network. The ND may operate in at least one of two modes, a co-processor mode and a stand-alone mode, and may provide at least three high level... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080104166 - Mobile operation support center: Modular mobile operation support center for supporting oilfield operations is disclosed that overcomes the lack of mobility or quick-response capability of existing solutions and well as other problems. The modular mobile operation support center comprises one or more portable, self-contained modules or stations, each module or station capable of providing... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080104165 - System and method for providing network connectivity and computer status information: The present system and method for providing network connectivity and computer status information is displayed to a user and presents useful troubleshooting information related to various networks and computer status information. The present system includes means for determining at least one of the group consisting of a computer's IP address,... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080104168 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for displaying high resolution content related to the exploration and production of geologic resources in a thin client computer network: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for displaying high resolution content generated by a securely hosted application program for the exploration and production of geologic resources on a thin client system in a client/server computer network. A user interface is presented for accessing the application program which is hosted... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080104167 - Systems and methods for conducting internet content usage experiments: A system and method for efficiently executing a plurality of live parallel Internet content usage experiments using a large pool of randomly selected participating users (separated into control and test groups) while minimally disturbing offered content is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a content provider communicates the parameters for a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080104170 - Collaborative networks for parallel downloads of content: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) are described herein that relate to parallel downloads of content using devices. The tools for parallel downloading may cause a first device to request that a second device collaborate in downloading the content from a server. The tools may also cause the first device to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104172 - Content delivery in virtual social networks: Systems and methods for content delivery in virtual social networks are provided. Content may be provided to the virtual social network by users of the virtual social network, professional content developers, etc. Any content provided to the virtual social network may be stored in a content database and tagged based... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104169 - Processing initiate notifications for different modes of communication: A method and system for processing initiate notifications for a mode of communication received during a conversation of a current mode of communication is provided. A conversation system coordinates a real-time conversation for a current mode of communication. When the conversation system receives an initiate notification that a user requests... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080104171 - Method and apparatus for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session: A system, method and computer program product having instructions stored thereon for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session comprises receiving an Internet-based interface at a session moderator, said Internet-based interface configured for said session moderator to enter a request for data streaming a multiparty conference session, automatically establishing a... Agent: West Corporation C/o Michele Zarinelli

20080104173 - Third-party application chat integration: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to persisting threads of conversation from a messaging system and provide a method, system and computer program product for third-party application chat integration. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for third-party application chat integration can be... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080104174 - Method and apparatus for remote processing of image data: A technique is provided for collaboratively processing and/or analyzing a set of image data. The technique provides for the initiation of a collaborative session by an application server. One or more collaborative workstations may join the collaborative session, providing common access to an image data set and to tools for... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080104175 - Automatically transmitting e-mail to specified backup address for out-of-office recipient: An Out-of-Office utility provides a notification reminder to an email sender and automatically populates the address field with an email address of a specific backup recipient when the sender composes an email to an out-of-office recipient from whom the sender had previously received an automated out-of-office reply. When an automated... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104181 - Electronic mail processing system: Systems and methods for processing electronic messages are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a message processing system connected to a network and the message processing system includes a mail processing unit connected to the network and a mail server connected to the mail processing unit. In addition, the... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080104183 - Graphical presentation of e-mail: The invention relates to presenting e-mails to a user in a manner that graphically depicts topic threads between the e-mails and enables the user to pursue a particular thread to view associated e-mails.... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080104179 - Intelligent physical mail handling system: A system and method for handling unwanted physical mail pieces having a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical mail, which produces an electronic image of a front panel of each piece of mail, and which physically retains pieces of mail in temporary physical storage, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104176 - Intelligent physical mail handling system for conducting a mailing campaing with a virtual mail preview: A method of controlling bulk mail processing equipment through previewing bulk mail to intended recipients. Intended recipients view proposed mail piece front panel information prior to the actual production of the mail pieces. Intended recipients indicate which pieces of a mail are acceptable to receive, and which would be rejected... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104178 - Intelligent physical mail handling system with bulk mailer notification: A system and method for notifying bulk mail senders of unwanted and rejected pieces of physical mail, including a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical mail, which produces an electronic image of a front panel of each piece of mail, and which physically retains pieces... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104177 - Method to facilitate sender notification of out-of-office status of e-mail addressee: A method, system and computer program product for providing an out-of-office notification reminder to a user composing and sending emails from an email account is presented. In particular, an Out-of-Office utility provides a notification reminder to an email sender if the sender composes an email to an out-of-office recipient from... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104180 - Reputation-based method and system for determining a likelihood that a message is undesired: A system and method for providing a reputation service for use in messaging environments employs a reputation of compiled statistics, representing whether SPAM messages have previously been received from respective a selected set of identifiers for the origin of the message, in a decision making process for newly received messages.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080104182 - Server apparatus and method of preventing denial of service attacks, and computer program product: A server apparatus receives a query message, calculates an identifying data based on an address and a query name containing in the query message, creates a response message containing the identifying data for requesting a redirect reply or a response message containing an answer to the query name, determines whether... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104186 - Automated whitelist: A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a whitelist, including: obtaining message data based on an email message sent by a user; extracting recipient information from message data; updating the whitelist using the recipient information.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104188 - Message challenge response: A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104185 - Message classification using allowed items: A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104187 - Message testing: A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104190 - Method of managing e-mail messages: In a data processing system (100) supporting an electronic mail messaging system, a method of managing e-mail messages comprising, under the control of a mail user agent of a message sender user (QRS): keeping a list (455,450) of messages sent by the message sender user; enabling the sender user selecting... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104184 - Using distinguishing properties to classify messages: A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying in the message a distinguishing property; generating a signature using the distinguishing property; and comparing the signature to a database of signatures generated by previously classified messages.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104189 - Web interface to a device and an electrical network control system: A method and interface module for communicating messages with a remote location and to provide access to an at least one intelligent electronic device (IED) operably connected to a communication network. The interface module is comprised of a central processing unit and an operating system operating the central processing unit.... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (b&w)

20080104191 - Intelligent physical mail handling process: A method of generating revenue in return for a service of handling unwanted physical pieces of mail such as letters, flyers, pamphlets, and catalogs, through notifying bulk mail senders of unwanted and rejected pieces of physical mail, including a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104192 - Method and system for negotiating interface data path establishment: A method and system for negotiating interface data path establishment is provided in the invention, including: making a decision, by Target ASN-GW, on whether to establish an R4 data path or an redirect R3 data path, and sending a corresponding request to the Anchor ASN-GW according to the decision; and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080104193 - Clustered storage system with external storage systems: A data storage system comprises a first platform storage system including a first network interface to communicate with a host computer, a first storage unit to provide storage volumes, a first storage controller to control the first storage unit, and a first memory to store a first control program to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080104194 - Content request optimization: Content item requests are identified in a web page source document. For each request, it is determined if a content item request has been generated, and if a content item request has not been generated, a content item request for all requests in the web page source document is generated.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080104198 - Extensible cache-safe links to files in a web page: Linking content and functionality files in a cached client-side web page to a corresponding server-side web page is provided so that a client-side browsing application is notified of changes made to the server-side web page to allow the client-side browsing application to retrieve a server-side web page or server-side web... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080104199 - Identity and preference management via universal identifier: A system is disclosed for utilizing a universal identifier (“ID”) that allows for access to information associated with the ID. The ID may be a substitute for a variety of information, such as contact information. When a user requests information for a given ID, an ID server may provide that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080104197 - Method and apparatus for distribution of data among computing resources: A method and apparatus for distribution of data among computing resources are disclosed. A data provider system architecture for “grid” computing resources can include a plurality of data providers. At least some of the data providers each have an associated cache for storing data to provide the data to the... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080104196 - Network access device capability alert mechanism: A system on a computer network device for managing a network access device capability arranged to alert a computer network administrator if a network access device lacks the capability to implement a user access profile.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104195 - Offline execution of web based applications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for offline execution of Web based applications. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the local storage of Web based executable instructions and data at a computer system. The Web based executable instructions and data can be used to locally... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080104200 - System and method for wireless data terminal management using telecommunication signaling network: A method, system, and computer program product that provides the capability to manage, control, and reconfigure wireless devices remotely over a wireless network with acceptable reliability and security. A method for remotely managing a wireless device over a telecommunications network comprising a server and the wireless device, the method comprises... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080104201 - System and method for utilizing mobile station information in a communication system: A system and method for utilizing MS information in a communication system are provided, in which an MS, an MS information server stores MS information about the at least one MS, a content server receives the MS information from the MS information server, upon receipt of the request for the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080104204 - Method and apparatus for power-managing storage devices in a storage pool: A method for power-managing storage devices in a storage pool involves monitoring the storage pool to determine whether a storage management policy is satisfied, where the storage pool comprises a first storage device that is powered up and a second storage device that is powered down, powering up the second... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104202 - Multi-dvr media content arbitration: Multi-DVR (digital video recorder) media content arbitration is described. In an embodiment, client devices are each a node of a multi-DVR system where the nodes are implemented for communication with each other. An arbitration algorithm can arbitrate media content rendered by the client devices so as not to exceed a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104203 - Viewing digital information over a network: Methods and systems described herein provide a name-based access mechanism that can enable name-based requests to be generated and sent to a server to retrieve correspondingly named parts of a document. In at least some embodiments, a resource designator associated with the document is wrapped or encapsulated using a special... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104205 - Method and system for providing media content over a computer network: A method and system to provide a media file appropriate for playback. The system identifies an ability of a computer system to playback media content locally by querying a computer system over a network to assess a local playback capability of the computer system. Next, the system creates the media... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080104206 - Efficient knowledge representation in data synchronization systems: An efficient way is provided to represent and exchange knowledge across nodes when synchronizing between any two nodes. A first node sends a second node its knowledge, including objects and versions of those objects. The second node compares its knowledge with the knowledge of the first node, and then sends... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104207 - Use of configurations in device with multiple configurations: The invention relates to a method for arranging use of configurations in a device with multiple configuration data sets manageable by one or more external managing entities. The device comprises access control information originated and/or controlled by an external managing entity for defining a right to access a configuration data... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080104208 - Appliance network with a client driver: A network includes an appliance with a node on the network. The node has a unique software architecture that enables the node to expose its functionality to the network. A client has a driver to enable communication with the node so that the client can affect a cycle of operation... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080104209 - Network based device for providing rfid middleware functionality: Some embodiments of the present invention provide middleware functionality integrated into a module of a network device, such as a router or switch, that is configured to provide application-oriented network (“AON”) services. Some preferred implementations of the invention provide policy-based application services for RFID data, such as conditional routing, security... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080104211 - Remotely-controlled imaging system: A remotely-controlled imaging system for capturing and transmitting images and videos from an image capturing device to a Web portal on the World Wide Web. The Web portal is capable of storing, organizing and presenting those images and videos to Web users. The image capture device's operating parameters may be... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080104210 - Systems and methods for signal reduction in wireless communication: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing wireless communication sessions with reduced signaling. A system of the present invention includes an Access Gateway (AGW) system configured to interface with at least one radio access network and at least one packet data network, wherein the AGW system... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20080104212 - Software architecture system with embedded virtual router: The invention relates to a network system of at least two appliances, each appliance configured to perform a cycle of operation on an article, and each appliance having its own software architecture. An embedded virtual router enables communication among appliance components independent of the architecture of the software.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080104219 - Content sharing system, content management server, client station, method for managing content, method for acquiring content, and program: A content sharing system includes a plurality of client stations, each including a content acquiring unit, and one or more content management servers that manage a plurality of content items. The content management server includes a storage unit that stores meta data of the content items, a tree structure generating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104220 - Identity migration apparatus and method: An identity migration program provides interfaces for a user to manage operations for migrating locally-managed identities to centrally-managed identities. The provided interfaces include a project management interface, an identity selection interface, a migration rule editor interface, and a project scheduling interface. In certain embodiments, the identity migration program includes a... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080104214 - Message dissemination: A method of generating a message by providing on a communication channel an indication of a message identifier, the combination of communication channel and identifier uniquely indicating a message for any specific destination.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080104217 - Method and system for executing and undoing distributed server change operations: A method and system for executing and undoing distributed server change operations for a collection of server objects across multiple target servers in a transaction-safe manner is provided. In one embodiment, server change operations for a collection of server objects, such as files and configuration file entries, are specified in... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080104216 - Method and system for managing and monitoring virtual storage servers of a hosting storage server: A storage management application is provided to manage and monitor virtual storage servers in a hosting storage server. In addition, in order to facilitate virtual storage server management and monitoring, a virtual storage server administrator role is provided. The role is allowed to access details of the virtual storage server... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080104215 - Method and system for managing server configuration data: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions for managing server configuration data by configuring a first server using local server configuration data, where the local server configuration data is stored on the first server and as shared server configuration data by a first directory service instance operating on the first... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104218 - Methods and apparatus for membership management of network nodes: Techniques for managing membership of a network of nodes are provided. Nodes of the network are organized into a tree structure having a plurality of vertices. Each vertex of the tree structure comprises a group having a plurality of nodes. Membership information is maintained at each node. The membership information... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080104213 - Network administration systems and methods: Network administration systems and methods are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method of administering a computer network may include listening to inter-switch communication at a server computer in the computer network. The method may also include parsing the inter-switch communication. The method may also include extracting data about the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104221 - Method and system for simple network management protocol based data management: A method and a system for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based data management are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a network element, a data management control message from a network manager through a data management node set in an SNMP Management Information Base (MIB); and implementing, by the network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104222 - Application usage metering management system: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing an application usage metering system are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include initiating discovery agents for one or more server resources and interrogating by the discovery agents the one or more server resources to discover a plurality of discrete server processes... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080104224 - Method and apparatus for determining application responsiveness over a network: Application responsiveness over a network, such as for a web site or web-based application, is monitored and optionally recorded by tracking actual end users interacting with the application and the time it takes for their requested web pages to load. The process involves a web server that sends instrumented web... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080104230 - Method and system for monitoring performance of a client-server architecture: An arrangement which jointly exploits an agent component installed in a server-side portion of client-server architecture for emulating requests of actual clients of the client-server architecture and measuring a server execution time indicative of a time elapsed between reception of an emulated end-user request at a server component and generation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104228 - Method and system for providing recommendations for internet content providers: A user's content presentation device automatically measures the technical objective quality of an Internet video stream and/or estimates the perceived subjective quality of the stream, and provides feedback to the user regarding one or both of these estimates.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080104236 - Network management method and network management program: Blade enclosures are connected to storage devices through FC switches, and management blades and FC switches are connected to a SAN management device. Automatic setting modular program displays an input screen on a display. A manager inputs IP addresses of FC switches so as to be associated with IP address... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080104231 - Network monitoring system and method: A method for monitoring a wireless channel or wireless network. Preferably, the method and system monitors a web-based network. Active data probing is used to estimate bandwidth availability when no a-priori knowledge of the current channel or network condition is available, and passive monitoring is used to track ongoing web... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080104223 - Plug-in accelerator: A system and method for accelerating the execution of applications in computing environments. The method includes receiving a request for execution of a plug-in of a computing application and analyzing a network for accelerators for executing the plug-in. The method further includes identifying a designated accelerator residing on a device... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104227 - Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time: A device, system, and method are directed towards providing location information from a social network. A GPS coordinate and a search criterion are received from a client device associated with a member of a social network. The social network is searched for another member associated with a location name based... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080104232 - System and method for preventing unauthorized bridging to a computer network: The invention provides a system and method for enhancing the security of a computer network by automatically preventing unauthorized bridging to the network. In several embodiments, software operative on the network allows activation of only a single communications adapter while inactivating all other communications adapters installed on each computer authorized... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080104229 - Systems and methods for managing event messages: In one embodiment a method for managing event messages includes predicting an event message arrival rate, determining a current capacity of an event message repository in which received event messages are stored, and calculating a time at which to perform event message deletion relative to the predicted event message arrival... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104226 - Using feed usage data in an access controlled team project site environment: Feed usage information can be generated. Entries within an existing server log can be identified. The entries can correspond to user requests for a feed from a selected Website. Feed usage data from the identified entries can be identified. The feed usage data can be stored within the selected Website.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080104225 - Visualization application for mining of social networks: A social network visualization and mining system that includes a visualization application for mining social networks of users in an online social network. This visualization can be used to mine the social network for additional information and intelligence. The social network is displaying in graphical form, such as a node-link... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080104234 - Distinguishing between live content and recorded content: Distinguishing between live and recorded content in a network comprising a rendering device, an access device, and a storage device. The rendering device broadcasts a message requesting devices in the network to respond if they diffuse a content, and sets a timer. The devices respond if they diffuse the content.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080104235 - Message classification: A technique for classifying a message is disclosed. The technique includes determining the domain from which the message is purported to be sent, determining an IP address from which the message was relayed at some point in its transmission, associating the domain with the IP address, and classifying the message... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104233 - Network communication method and apparatus: A networked computing platform implements an opportunistic data communication method. The computing platform creates, at the instigation of at least one application executing on the platform, data packets for transmission over a network. The packets are created using a hierarchy of programs (‘stack’) implementing a corresponding hierarchical suite of network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104237 - Auto-generation or auto-execution of web service description language call flow implementation: Development tooling receives the extended Web services description language with call flow interactions. The development tooling allows the user to select trivial message exchanges in the call flow. The development tooling may generate servlets for the selected message exchanges automatically to form a template form of the application that will... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104238 - Extending web service description language for sip/call flow interactions: An extended Web services description language (WSDL) is provided to allow for the merging of call flow XML with the interface description. This is accomplished through additional WSDL bindings for operations that associate an operation with segments or message points within the call flow. In addition, the extension to WSDL... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104239 - Method and system of managing accounts by a network server: Methods and systems of managing accounts by a network server. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are network server devices comprising a processor, and a non-volatile storage device coupled to the processor. The network server device does not support a directly coupled display device. The processor receives account information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104240 - Method of cascading transfer of authorization rights for file access: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for transferring authorization rights to access a file. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: designating a location to store the file; creating a file-transfer-reference for the file based on the location; creating an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080104241 - Terminal device management system, data relay device, internetwork connection device, and quarantine method of terminal device: A proxy server includes a harmful site information memory portion storing source site identification information for identifying a Web site that provides harmful data, an access log memory portion storing a data obtaining log indicating which terminal device has obtained which data, an access control portion making the terminal device... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080104242 - Balancing wireless access based on centralized information: A method and apparatus for managing and balancing wireless access based on centralized information is provided. A request to provide service to a wireless client is received from a first access node in a plurality of access node. An access policy, applicable to the first access node, is selected from... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080104247 - Adaptive management of computing resources: A method of managing a plurality of computing resources including obtaining a first load threshold and a second load threshold, obtaining a first load value and a second load value, comparing the first load threshold and the second load threshold with the first load value and the second load value,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104248 - Computer system and method for monitoring performance of the computer system: Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system connected to the host computer via a network, and a management computer connected to the host computer and the storage system, in which the management computer obtains performance information indicating performance of resources contained in at least one... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080104250 - Identity migration system apparatus and method: An identity migration agent operating on a local identity server and/or user computer retrieves locally managed identities for an identity migration server. The migration server merges the locally managed identities with centrally managed identities according to a plurality of rules, and creates an identity map that maps the locally managed... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080104249 - Method and apparatus for preventing duplicate saving of resource between universal plug and play devices providing content directory service: A method and apparatus for preventing duplicate saving of a resource between universal plug and play (UPnP) devices, which provide content directory service during content synchronization, are provided. The method includes receiving a change log including metadata about a changed resource from a UPnP device of a transmitter, determining whether... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104246 - Method and apparatus for tagging content data: An apparatus for tagging and provisioning user generated content in an intuitive-associative manner, comprising: a content item receiver, configured to receive at least one user generated content item from a first user, a content tag assigner, configured to assign at least one tag to at least one of the received... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080104244 - Provisioning of resources in a computer network: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively and programmatically provisioning resources on a computer network. A role-based access manager discovers one or more network resources. A provisioning manager then provisions the discovered network resources.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104243 - System and method for dynamic allocation of information handling system network addresses: Network addresses are dynamically allocated to blade information handling systems supported by a blade chassis having plural blade slots. A network address seed stored in memory associated with the blade chassis is retrieved by a management controller of a blade information handling system and applied by a network address generator... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080104245 - System and method for selectively controlling the addition of reserve computing capacity: In one embodiment, a system and method is disclosed for changing the resource availability of a particular user in a manner calculated to add the least cost to the user. A cluster of partition servers are arranges, in one embodiment, with a master controller for keeping track at any point... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104251 - Method for realizing dynamic qos in wimax system and a wimax system: Embodiments of the invention disclose a method for realizing WIMAX dynamic QoS and a WIMAX system. The method includes: a media gateway making awareness of the type of a service requested by a user terminal, and notifies a subscriber station to establish a corresponding connection with a base station; the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080104253 - Obje network device service apparatus and method in upnp network system: An Obje network device service apparatus in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system, the apparatus including: an information providing unit which discovers an Obje device, and provides information about the discovered Obje device; and an Obje service generation unit which generates a UPnP device, a counter Obje component,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104252 - Resuming a computing session when rebooting a computing device: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transparently resuming the network connection after a reset or reboot. In one aspect a data processing apparatus comprises an operating system unit configured to create and store state information comprising one or more parameters for a network connection between a first computing device and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080104254 - System and method for establishing and maintaining a voice over internet protocol connection between wireless devices: A system and method for establishing and maintaining a voice over internet protocol connection between wireless devices, in one example embodiment, may comprise a receiving module to receive a communication device identifier, and a request to establish a communication data link to another communication device. The communication device identifier may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080104261 - Method to configure a network device, service providing system, service providing device, and computer usable medium therefor: A method to configure a service providing system having a service providing device and a service requesting device in a network is provided. The method includes steps of obtaining function parameters, which indicate specific values configurable in the service requesting device for receiving the data processing service, when the service... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080104259 - Methods and systems for communicating with storage devices in a storage system: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for communicating with storage devices in a storage system. One embodiment includes calculating a time for a host computer to abort data requests in a storage network; receiving a data request at a storage device from the host computer; and sending the host computer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104255 - Sharing state information between dynamic web page generators: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for sharing session state information between the web page generation infrastructures. A web page generation infrastructure receives a request for a web page from a client computer system, where the request is directed to one of the other web... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080104256 - System and method for adaptively refreshing a web page: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104258 - System and method for dynamic data discovery in service oriented networks with peer-to-peer based communication: A method and apparatus for dynamically discovering and communicating data in a communications network are described. A broker in a communications network receives a communication from a first service provider over the communications network, the broker comprising a metabroker and a service broker. The metabroker communicates messages to the service... Agent: Jones Day

20080104257 - System and method using a refresh policy for incremental updating of web pages: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104260 - Systems and methods for information exchange using object warehousing: Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising receiving a first transport request, the transport request comprising one or more first transport attributes, wherein the... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080104262 - Method for minimizing denial of service attacks on network servers: A method for providing communications network security can include receiving a round-trip network latency for a client specifying an open port duration. A port can be opened to receive a request from the client. The port can be closed when an amount of time at least as great as the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080104264 - Load balancing in a storage system: Link level load balancing is provided based on time utilization of a link or workload utilization of a device. Time utilization achieves load balancing by giving each device the same amount of connection time to perform Input/Output tasks. Workload utilization achieves load balancing by managing a number of frames or... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080104265 - Method and system for string preferences extension for media transfer protocol: In a method and system for indicating a string preferences extension for the media transfer protocol (MTP), a preferred string format for string transfers to and/or from a device that communicates via said MTP may be specified in one or more extensions of the MTP. The preferred string format for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080104266 - Reliable messaging using message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving, in a transport engine of a message receiving device from an active message sending device, active transport packets on an active message stream established from the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080104267 - Systems and methods for reducing display latency between streaming digital media: A client-side device is able to request streaming media from a server over a network connection. In one embodiment, the client device sends streaming media requests to the server and, in response, a streaming media connection is established between the client-side device and the server in accordance with an appropriate... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080104268 - Controlling subscriber information rates in a content delivery network: A plurality of content providers provide multiple resources to multiple clients. At least some of the resources are to be served to clients from a shared content delivery network (CDN) formed by a plurality of repeater servers. Each content provider provides at least some resources via one or more content... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080104269 - Method and apparatus for web browser page fragmentation: A method, in a web page fragmentation server proxy having a processor, communication means and memory, of providing new and updated fragments to a mobile device, the mobile device requesting a web page with the request including identifiers for fragments of the web page already stored by the mobile device,... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080104270 - Method and apparatus for communicating information about a data reception environment: A method and apparatus for communicating data. The method of receiving data by a first device from a second device includes generating a session initiation protocol (SIP) message including information on a data reception environment of the first device; transmitting the generated message to the second device; and receiving data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080104271 - Method and apparatus for providing an integrated network of processors: A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NPU appears logically separate from the host computer even though,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080104272 - Method and system for routing a message over a home network: A method and system are described for routing messages over a home network. In one aspect of the subject matter disclosed herein, a method for routing a message over a home network is described. The method includes establishing a relationship between a home network appliance class and a home network... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080104273 - Distributed traffic controller for network data: A distributed gateway for controlling computer network data traffic dynamically reconfigures traffic assignments among multiple gateway machines for increased network availability. If one of the distributed gateway machines becomes unavailable, traffic assignments are moved among the multiple machines such that network availability is substantially unchanged. The machines of the distributed... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20080104274 - Name service in a multihop wireless ad hoc network: A naming service in a multihop wireless ad hoc network having a plurality of network nodes. A database in each node stores information associating user information with network information. The stored user information may include user identifications, available services, authority levels of users, and network addresses. When changes occur to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080104275 - Visual guidance and verification for interconnecting nodes: Systems, methods, and software for guiding electronic connections between nodes of a computer system are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of servers, each having a plurality of connection ports and a service processor in electronic communication with the connection ports. A plurality of selectively-operable visual indicators are included, each... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080104276 - Real-time identification of an asset model and categorization of an asset to assist in computer network security: A unique identifier is assigned to a network node and is used to obtain an “asset model” corresponding to the node and to determine whether the node is a member of a particular category. An asset model is a set of information about a node (e.g., the node's role within... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080104277 - Method, system, client and server for implementing data sync: This invention discloses a method for synchronizing a plurality of devices, including: obtaining, by a first device, an extended address of an informational node of a plurality of informational nodes of a second device, the plurality of informational nodes arranged in a hierarchical tree structure; and utilizing the extended address... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080104278 - Port configuration: Methods, computer readable media, and device embodiments are provided for port configuration. One method embodiment includes defining a number of ports for which a number of port configuration properties are to be configured, grouping the number of ports into one or more port configuration groups, and defining the number of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company