Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 07/08

20080183795 - Automated fastener data management system: In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed toward a data management system. The system has a corporate level server configured to receive manufacturing component data from a supplier. Additionally, the system has at least one local level server in communication with the corporate level server and configured to request... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080183796 - Clickstream analysis methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183798 - Data synchronization method between a plurality of information apparatus, information processing apparatus for executing the method, and program for executing the method: A data synchronization method is disclosed by which a data synchronization process is performed automatically between a plurality of information apparatus. A record which forms data possessed by each information apparatus includes a data item representative of deletion information of the record and another data item. Time stamp information is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080183797 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and program product: Each of a plurality of network-connected information processing apparatuses stores restriction information defined for each agent in order to restrict the operation of the agent which moves to the self apparatus and runs. When the agent is to move from the first information processing apparatus as one of the information... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 000449, 001701

20080183799 - System and method for collaborative hosting of applications, virtual machines, and data objects: To provide collaborative hosting of applications, the present invention first generates a virtual operating system image consisting of operating system code, application code, runtime code and supporting data repositories. The virtual operating system image may then be sent to and deploying on a physical computer or computer terminal at another... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183794 - System and method for effectively providing content to client devices in an electronic network: A system and method for effectively supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a content server and a peer-to-peer network of client devices. The content server stores content items received from a content provider. A recommendation engine of the content server creates a global recommendation list to identify an... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080183800 - Mobile device management proxy system: A general-purpose proxy mobile device management architecture. The architecture serves as a proxy for a mobile client seeking services from backend systems. A virtual client image of state information associated with the mobile client is stored such that when the mobile client interacts with the proxy, the virtual image updates... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080183811 - Collaborative multi-user method and system: A method and system for facilitating collaborative task performance using client and host software configured to establish multiple user connections between client devices and a host computer, and to enable the host computer to accept input from multiple client devices to update a single user interface in real time reflect... Agent: Absolute Technology Law Group LLC

20080183809 - Content transmission system, content sending apparatus and method, content reception apparatus and method, program, and recording media: A content transmission system has a content sending apparatus for sending content and a content reception apparatus for receiving content sent by the content sending apparatus. The content sending apparatus includes a metadata attaching unit, an execution processing insertion unit, and a data sending unit. The content reception apparatus includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080183810 - Distributed forum: A forum participation technique enables users to participate in postings and discussions directly to a blog from a plurality of websites. The technique allows an administrator to enhance a webpage by adding to it an in-page access to the blog. The technique also enables two-way communication between users of webpages... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183812 - Method and system for fault-tolerant remote boot in the presence of boot server overload/failure with self-throttling boot servers: A method and system are presented for facilitating a PXE-compliant (Preboot Execution Environment) remote boot process between clients and multiple available servers on a network. Each server device can respond to a PXE-extended DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Request message from any client device on the network. Each client can... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080183804 - Methods and apparatus for hosting digital content: Embodiments of the invention relate to hosting digital media assets on a hosting server that were uploaded to the hosting server by a user. When a viewer accesses a digital media asset, the viewer may be directed to a promotional opportunity, such as, for example, an entry into a sweepstakes.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080183803 - Methods and apparatus for providing access to a digital media asset: Embodiments of the invention relate to hosting digital media assets on a hosting server that were uploaded to the hosting server by a user. When a viewer accesses a digital media asset, the viewer may be directed to a promotional opportunity, such as, for example, an entry into a sweepstakes.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080183802 - Network recycle bin: A network recycle bin is used to store deleted files in a managed directory that is available across a network connection. Files stored in a shared directory or other network-accessible file storage system are moved to the managed directory upon deletion. Because the managed folder is part of the network-accessible... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080183805 - Presentation of media segments: An aspect of the present invention relates to tracking a computer user's behavior and providing related visual media segments with a graphical user interface. In embodiments, the visual media segments are slide-in visual media segments and the user has preemptive control over certain aspects of the visual media segments.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183806 - Presentation of media segments: An aspect of the present invention relates to tracking a computer user's behavior and providing related visual media segments with a graphical user interface. In embodiments, the visual media segments are slide-in visual media segments and the user has preemptive control over certain aspects of the visual media segments.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183807 - Providing conference data in a network communications system based on client or server information examined during a conference: An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080183808 - Providing conferencing data in a network communications system based on client capabilities: An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080183801 - System, methods, apparatuses and computer program products for providing step-ahead computing: A system for providing step-ahead computing may include a client and a server. The client may include a communication element, a user interface element and a processor. The communication element may be configured to receive a set of pre-computed actions. The set of pre-computed actions may be based on at... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080183817 - Application sharing security: A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for facilitating application sharing. In operation, a user selects at least one of a plurality of applications operating on a first computer to share with at least a second computer. The user then selects at least one of a plurality of security measures for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080183813 - Mechanism for entering, storing, pairing and providing user-defined and contact-defined contact information: The mechanism pertains to a databases generally located on a remote server and accessed via such vehicles as the World Wide Web. The mechanism revolves around a grouping of contacts for a user. The user defines contact and other information for each contact (user-defined information). Simultaneously, contacts provide information on... Agent: Hjcv, LLC

20080183816 - Method and system for associating a tag with a status value of a principal associated with a presence client: Methods and systems are described for associating a tag with a status value of a principal. One method includes receiving, from a client of a presence service associated with a first principal, a first status value associated with the first principal and sending, via the presence service, a first message... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080183815 - Page networking system and method: A method for enhancing the experience of a plurality of users who view the same resource using the Internet or an IPTV system. The method includes initially installing software by a portion of said plurality of users from a proprietary Web site. The method also includes creating, as a result... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20080183814 - Representing online presence for groups: Methods and apparatus are described for communicating an online presence of a group in a network. The group includes at least one member associated with the network. Each member of the group has an independent online status. A group presence indicator corresponding to the group is presented in a first... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080183821 - Apparatus and method for receiving signals in a communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for receiving signals in a communication system. A first processor inputs dc input messages through dc input nodes, respectively, generates one output message from the dc input messages using a predetermined operation scheme, and outputs the output message to dc output nodes. A corrector... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080183820 - Device orchestration: A system is provided that coordinates the operation of hardware devices and software applications in support of specific tasks such as holding a meeting. The system includes one or more computers connected by a network, at least one configuration repository component, at least one room control component, and one or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080183819 - Method and system for collaborative and private sessions: Embodiments of a method and system for collaborative and private sessions are disclosed. A cursor movement request may be received from at least two users of a plurality of users of a collaborative session during a time period. The cursor may move on a common interface according to the cursor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080183818 - Methods and apparatuses for automatically reconnecting a participant to a conference: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a conference; detect a connection between a participant and the conference; and automatically reconnect the participant with the conference after participant is accidentally disconnected from the conference.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080183828 - Communication system: A real time message broker (1) comprises classification (2), pairing (4), and location-seeking functionality (3) to perform real time information interchange. The broker (1) interacts automatically and in real time between mobile devices For example, it could perform real time brokering between two people going to a common destination from... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080183829 - Debating website with voting: Methods and a system for online debating are disclosed. Providing a presentation of a debate over the Internet to a user is also disclosed. A debate can be provided to an end user as a single or as multiple web pages. Providing a user with interactive capability on a web... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20080183822 - Excluding a group member from receiving an electronic message addressed to a group alias address: Systems and methods are provided for excluding one or more electronic message addresses associated with a group alias address from receiving an electronic message. A method of the invention comprises receiving exclusion criteria associated with the electronic message. The exclusion criteria identify a type of group member to be excluded... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080183832 - Instant messaging windowing for topic threads: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing multi-threaded conversations in an instant messaging system. The present invention provides a menu option to allow the start of a new topic of discussion within the current instant messaging session. When a new topic is selected, a new thread of conversation is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080183825 - Method and apparatus for notification and delivery of messages to mobile pc users: The invention includes a method and apparatus for notification and delivery of messages to mobile users using a secure client associated with a user device. The secure client includes a power module, a communication module, a storage module, and an alert module. The power module powers the client device independent... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080183831 - Method, system, mobile terminal and ri server for withdrawing rights object: The present invention provides a method, system, mobile terminal and RI server for withdrawing a rights object. According to the method, mobile terminal sends a request message of withdrawing the rights object to a rights issuer; after receiving the request message of withdrawing the rights object, the rights issuer authenticates... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080183824 - Methods for detaching an attachment file from a containing email message and generating metadata associated with the attachment file and the containing email message: Methods for detaching an attachment file from a containing email message and generating metadata associated with the attachment file and the containing email message are provided. In one exemplary method, the method includes retrieving the containing email message from a server email application, utilizing a client email application. The method... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080183823 - Reply and delete function for messaging system, messaging system including the same, and method of using the same: The present invention is directed to a messaging system, including an electronic mail messaging application having a reply and delete function, and a data storage having an inbox associated with the electronic mail messaging application, the inbox having at least one email stored therein. The reply and delete function composes... Agent: Daniel Valencia

20080183827 - System and method for multimedia messaging: A system and method of multimedia messaging are provided. The system includes an input to receive a multimedia message sent to an address associated with a group profile. The system also includes a group profile database with at least one group profile. The group profile may include routing settings that... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080183826 - System and method for transactional, addressable communication: A system allowing for a transactional, addressable communication over a network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first node connectable to the network for generating a message and a second node connectable to the network for receiving the message. The message is individually addressable over the network.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080183830 - Technique for customizing data transmissions: A technique for customizing data transmissions based on recipient-specific formatting rules is described. According to a method aspect of the present invention, a data structure having a plurality of data items is subjected to a formatting step before being transmitted via the computer network to a recipient, and the formatting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080183835 - Can system: Provided is a CAN system that can generate an error signal without requiring hardware for generating an error signal to be connected to a bus. A protocol processing part within a CAN controller incorporates error data into receive data or send data, based on error data information stored in a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080183833 - E-mail based advisor for document repositories: A method is disclosed which monitors a plurality of electronic messages. Two or more electronic messages from the plurality of messages may be identified. Each identified message may contain an attachment. The attachments of the identified messages may be compared to determine a similarity score. The similarity score may be... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080183834 - Method and system for dynamic reader-instigated categorization and distribution restriction on mailing list threads: A method of regulating electronic message traffic is proposed. The method comprises sending an electronic message as part of a thread, receiving a response to the message, and tabulating said response in a counter. A data processing system compares the counter to a threshold and, in response to the comparing... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080183836 - Network attached storage (nas) server having a plurality of automated media portals: According to one embodiment, a system comprises a network attached storage (NAS) server not having a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server comprises local data storage and a plurality of automated media portals each operable for receiving a direct communicative coupling of a portable storage media and reading data... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080183837 - Capturing and deploying an operating system in a computer environment: Systems and methods of capturing and deploying the operating system of a computing device. The method comprising: creating a file that contains one or more settings of the operating system of a source computer and storing the file in storage on the source computer, copying an image of the operating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183838 - Method, system and computer program product for delivering data to a storage buffer assigned to an application: A method, system, and computer program product in a computer-readable medium for delivering data, received from a network, to a storage buffer assigned to an application is proposed. An application designates a communication buffer within a local data processing system for buffering data communicated with an application. The local data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080183841 - Application software and data management method, management system, and thin client terminal, management server and remote computer used therefor: A thin client terminal that can perform information processing in an off-line state is provided. A thin client terminal 101a sends a request for registration of data to be used off-line and designation of application software to be used off-line to a management server 107 through a remote computer 104.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080183840 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e,g, a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080183842 - Methods and systems for improved system performance: Methods and systems are provided for improving system responsiveness while increasing efficiency and scalability of network communication by combining reliable and unreliable network transports. A method and system is provided for client polling a status server to see if there is new data, receiving a notification that there is new... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080183844 - Real time online video editing system and method: A system and method for online video editing allowing multiple users to simultaneously edit a production in real time. The system includes a method for exchanging asynchronous messages between a client computer and a server. The system further includes an atomic data structure of commands for manipulating multimedia assets. Client... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080183839 - System for computer to mobile device place shifting: A system for remotely accessing content of a computer via a mobile device, including a mobile device, a system server for receiving a connection request from the mobile device to establish a connection with a computer, the computer including a plurality of electronic files, software executing on the system server... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080183843 - Video downloading and scrubbing system and method: A video downloading and scrubbing system for use with a web-based video editing system is provided. The downloading and scrubbing system includes: a scrubbing subsystem configured to: receive a user request for a portion of a video at a particular time index; create a data stream beginning containing video data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080183845 - Data transfer scheme for reducing network load using general purpose browser on client side: In a client server system, the network load is reduced by using the fingerprint compression and the differential compression, by providing the proxy server at the server side and using the general purpose browser at the client side, without requiring a separate proxy server at the client side. The client... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080183846 - Method for transmitting content to at least one recipient with mobile equipment:

20080183847 - Method and system for shedding load in physiological signals processing: A method for shedding signal load in a network having a plurality of devices is disclosed herein. The method comprises computer-implemented steps of (a) issuing a load-shedding policy, where the policy includes (i) fraction f of the signal to be discarded; (ii) device D where fraction f of the signal... Agent: Mary Wakimura Hamilton Brook Smith And Reynolds PC

20080183848 - Parameter provisioning: A method of self-configuring a network device. The method includes transmitting non-unique structure information of a network device, from the network device to a configuration server, receiving, by the network device from the configuration server, one or more configuration parameter values responsive to the transmitted structure information and configuring the... Agent: Arpan Ghosh Avaya Inc.

20080183849 - Server time protocol control messages and methods: Server time protocol (STP) messages and methods of exchange thereof are provided for facilitating synchronization of processing units of a timing network. The STP messages include exchange time parameters (XTP) commands and responses, and STP control (STC) commands and responses. XTP message exchange processing includes: generating an XTP message command... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183851 - Apparatus and method pertaining to management of on-line certificate status protocol responses in a cache: Upon receiving (101) an OCSP response as corresponds to a remote-location Internet Protocol-based authorization terminal to use with respect to a secure connection with the remote-location Internet Protocol-based authorization terminal, one automatically caches (102) the OCSP response in a cache and thereby renders the OCSP response available to use when... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. / Fetf

20080183856 - Methods and apparatus for management of mixed protocol storage area networks: The invention provides improvements on a digital data processing system of the type having a first set of hosts, storage devices or other components coupled for communication with a first network manager. A second set of components is likewise coupled to a second network manager. Communications between the network managers... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080183854 - Network appliance: A network appliance is described that can provide a variety of software services, including both platform services, such as access method services, and a load balancing service. A network may include a network appliance that both provides one or more platform services and acts as a load balancer. When two... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080183853 - Private virtual lan spanning a public network for connection of arbitrary hosts: Architecture for exposing a virtual private network of peer devices into the public domain via an overlay network. Computing devices, peripheral devices, as well as mobile devices can be physically distributed, but appear to belong to the same virtual private (or home) network, and be accessible from anywhere. Benefits include... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080183855 - System and method for performance problem localization: A method and a system for resolving problems in an enterprise system which contains a plurality of servers forming a cluster coupled via a network. A central controller is configured to monitor and control the plurality of servers in the cluster. The central controller is configured to poll the plurality... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183852 - Virtual information technology assistant: A unified support system is adapted to a user to manage his or her entire personal electronics environment. The system supports a wide range of hardware, software and network configurations, as well as a vast universe of additional products and accessories that may be added to the user's personal electronics... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080183850 - Web services and telecom network management unification: A method of unifying web services and telecom network management is described. The method comprises exporting an external model representation of at least one entity of a service oriented architecture of a service oriented architecture manager and importing the exported external model representation of the at least one entity as... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183861 - Communication socket state monitoring system and methods thereof: The state of the communication socket is maintained at a network device and communicated to a device driver for the network device. The device driver can send messages to an interface program in application space, which stores the state information in dedicated application space memory. In response to a query... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080183860 - Intelligent node positioning in a site analysis report: In the context of a site analysis report showing paths between nodes, nodes are automatically positioned within the report in an intelligent manner, according to specified criteria so as to provide useful information about the represented pages. For example, the Y-axis can indicate relative depth of a page in the... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080183857 - Method and apparatus for providing transparent network connectivity: A client information handling system (IHS) connects to a network in a manner that provides transparent network connectivity. In one embodiment, the client IHS includes a polling application that monitors the network connection to determine if the client IHS exhibits a connected status or a disconnected status. An interceptor application... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20080183865 - Method and system for dynamically allocating servers to compute-resources using capacity thresholds: Servers are allocated for use in one of a plurality of compute-resources or for stand-by storage in a free-pool. Server load metrics are selected (e.g., ping-reply time or CP utilization) for measuring load in the servers. Metrics are measured for the servers allocated to the compute-resources. Several metrics can be... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183864 - Methods and apparatus for categorizing computer system states for use in identifying individual computer systems to receive state-dependent maintenance: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus that categorize states of computer systems selected to receive state-dependent maintenance activities as a prelude to the performance of those maintenance activities. In methods and apparatus of the present invention, it is determined, for example, that a certain version of an application program... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080183859 - Methods, systems, and products for promoting programs: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for conducting a location-based promotional program. Location information for a device is received. A database of promotional locations is queried for the location information. The database of promotional locations stores locations that qualify for entry in the promotional program. When the location information matches... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080183863 - Monitoring system and method: Disclosed is a monitoring system implementing a network including at least one source of dynamic data, the source being in communication with a machine, a monitoring module configured for communication with the source, receiving the dynamic data, and converting the dynamic data to output data for transmittal over the network,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080183862 - Network communication management system including network with improved safety and reliability: A network communication management system of the present invention comprises a maintenance server connected to a network and a terminal connected to the network via a gateway. The terminal transmits terminal information indicating an operating state of the terminal to the maintenance server via said gateway. When the maintenance server... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080183866 - Presence communication system: A presence communication system capable of efficiently reducing the number of messages exchanged between presentities and watchers, thereby preventing lowering in communication quality. A presence server sets a group identifier as an identifier which is used to collectively look up a group of multiple pieces of presence information provided by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080183858 - Retrieval mechanism for web visit simulator: A system creates and shows a display that simulates the websites during a visit, the flow of the visit and the pace of the visit. The system includes a web analytics tool, a data storage, a focus group module, a virtual focus group user interface module and a “More Like... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080183867 - Clickstream analysis methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183868 - Clickstream analysis methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183869 - Clickstream analysis methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183870 - Clickstream analysis methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080183873 - Change approvals for computing systems: Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for generating a change approval plan for a computing system. The computing system has at least one component and at least two user groups, and each user group has an approver. A request to change at least one said component is received.... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183872 - Method and system for authorization and access control delegation in an on demand grid environment: The method of the invention provides for dynamic on-demand delegation of control and access in a grid computing environment comprising granting authority of a grid node to a first moderator by a superauthority; admitting the first moderator to the grid node; modifying the access control list of the grid node... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183871 - Storage system comprising function for alleviating performance bottleneck: A storage system has a first type resource and a second type resource, which are different types of resources having a relationship in which, when the load on one type of resource becomes higher, the load on the other type of resource becomes lower, and this storage system comprises a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080183874 - Method and apparatus to facilitate secure connection provisioning: A transaction data processing node (200) can determine (101) that an opportunity to resume a secure connection with a remote-location Internet Protocol-based authorization terminal (204) is at least about to conclude and then automatically initiate (102) a new secure connection with the remote-location Internet Protocol-based authorization terminal notwithstanding that no... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. / Fetf

20080183875 - Program and information processing method and apparatus: The present invention relates to an information processing method and apparatus with which a connection can be formed reliably between apparatuses having different capabilities. An application #1, using a presence function, announces a profiled space ID representing processing for a service that can be provided. An application #n receives the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080183877 - Establishing a logical path between servers in a coordinated timing network: A technique for establishing a logical path between two servers in a coordinated timing network of a processing environment is provided. The technique includes the exchange of command and response message pairs by a server and an attached server, via a physical link. The server transmits a command message to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183876 - Method and system for load balancing: A method for load balancing in a server cluster that includes configuring a load management application to use a load balancing decision function selected from a plurality of load balancing decision functions, receiving a request in the server cluster, selecting a request handler from a plurality of request handlers by... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080183878 - System and method for dynamic patching of network applications: The present description provides a system and method for dynamic patching of the network applications. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to check if the system being updated is busy. In case the network applications are not busy the original components of the network application may be replaces... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183879 - System and method for facilitating xml enabled ims transactions: A system for facilitating XML enable IMS transactions includes a generic XML processor inside an IMS connect program to facilitate any TCP/IP clients, including WebSphere and non-WebSphere, to send and receive XML documents to and from existing IMS transaction business logic. Translations between XML documents and IMS transaction message data... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080183882 - Apparatus, system, and method for a device shared between multiple independent hosts: The invention includes a proxy request receiver module and a proxy request command module. The proxy request receiver module executes on a designated command proxy host and receives a proxy request from a requesting host. The requesting host is one of two or more hosts. Each of the hosts executes... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080183881 - Method for supporting mutual exclusion function and drm device thereof: A mutual exclusion method and DRM device is provided. The mutual exclusion method includes receiving an instruction associated with a predetermined stored file from the CE device, checking whether a performing instruction being performed associated with the predetermined stored file exists, and generating a collision error message informing that a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080183880 - Power control method and system: When a user depresses a power button of a client the client transmits a power processing request. A management server which collectively manages power control requests receives the power processing request from the client and processes the power of a server which is allocated to the user in place of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080183884 - Data-packet processing method in network system: A data-packet processing method is used in a network system. The network system includes a buffer for optionally storing a data packet to be transferred, and the method includes steps of: determining a type of the data packet to be transferred; determining a storage state of a buffer where the... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080183883 - Method and system to accelerate cryptographic functions for secure e-commerce applications: A device and method for accelerating functioning of a software application having multi-layer, high overhead protocols, wherein the device has a first processor operating a software application having a multi-layer protocol; a second processor configured to operate at least one layer of the multi-layer protocol; and a memory accessible to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080183887 - Client to server streaming of multimedia content using http: Systems and methods are described for streaming multimedia data from a client to a server using HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A session is initiated with a header that identifies a content length header that is a maximum allowed by the server, regardless of the actual length of the data to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080183886 - Data streaming method: Data paths extending to a first receiver from a plurality of data supply sources are each capable of supplying the same stream data. When providing the stream data to the first receiver rate-distortion of the data paths is optimized. Clocks asynchronous with each other per data path are set so... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183885 - Method of sending data packets from a server to a client, the client simultaneously using at a constant rate d the data that it receives: The present invention relates to a method of sending data packets from a server to a client. The client simultaneously uses at a constant rate D, the data that it receives. A stream of data packets from the server to the client is composed of a main stream P, a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080183888 - Fast dynamic measurement of bandwidth in a tcp network environment: The fast dynamic measurement of bandwidth in a TCP network environment utilizes a single pair of packets to calculate bandwidth between two entities on a network (such as the Internet). This calculation is based upon the packet-pair technique. This bandwidth measurement is extremely quick. On its journey across a network,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080183889 - Method and system for preventing web crawling detection: A method and system for preventing a detection of web crawling. A randomizing HTTP proxy server receives a first request from a web crawler to scan a website and forwards the first request to a randomly selected first proxy computer. The first proxy computer utilizes a first network address translation... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080183890 - Methods and apparatus for exchanging network connectivity and capability information: A method for managing transport node capability information includes discovering a link end of a local transport node, modelling the local transport node's capability information as a first set of information structures, discovering a neighbour transport node, establishing a control adjacency link between control elements of the local transport node... Agent: Tellabs Operations, Inc.

20080183891 - Two-level structured overlay design for cluster management in a peer-to-peer network: A method and system for designing file replication schemes in file sharing systems consider node storage constraints and node up/down statistics, file storage costs, and file transfer costs among the nodes, user request rates for the files, and user specified file availability requirements. Based on these considerations, a systematic method... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080183892 - Method and apparatus for enhanced internet telephony: A method and apparatus for enhanced Internet telephony ensures that communication between a source and destination is not interrupted by common network address translation. According to one aspect of the invention, communication may continue through a router that employs network address translation.... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel

20080183893 - Method for designating internet protocol addresses: A system and method for selecting one or more real IP6 addresses from a pool of real IP6 addresses in a system. Each of the real IP6 addresses is associated with a physical interface or a virtual physical interface. A human or an application program provides into the system a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080183898 - Channel subsystem server time protocol commands and system therefor: A protocol for communicating with the timing facility used in a data processing network to provide synchronization is provided via the execution of a machine instruction that accepts a plurality of commands. The interaction is provided through the use of message request blocks and their associated message response blocks. In... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183896 - Definition of a primary active server in a coordinated timing network: A timing network is provided that includes a plurality of servers. The servers of the network obtain information used to maintain the servers in time synchronization, thus ensuring the integrity of the servers.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183897 - Employing configuration information to determine the role of a server in a coordinated timing network: A stratum-1 configuration for a timing network is defined. The stratum-1 configuration includes a single active stratum-1 server usable in ensuring that the servers in the network use the same primary reference time to synchronize their clocks. The servers in the network are synchronizing to the same root primary reference... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183895 - Facilitating synchronization of servers in a coordinated timing network: A timing network is provided that includes a plurality of servers. The servers of the network obtain information used to maintain the servers in time synchronization, thus ensuring the integrity of the servers.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183899 - Server time protocol messages and methods: Server time protocol (STP) messages and methods of exchange thereof are provided for facilitating synchronization of processing units of a timing network. The STP messages include exchange time parameters (XTP) commands and responses, and STP control (STC) commands and responses. XTP message exchange processing includes: generating an XTP message command... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080183894 - Synchronizing cluster time: Synchronizing cluster time is described. Times of one or more nodes in the cluster to a master node of the cluster are synchronized. It is discovered that a node of a cluster has a clock time that is ahead of a master clock time of the master node. In response... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080183900 - Concurrent flashing of processing units by means of network restructuring: A network of processing units having at least one switch that allows to disrupt the network between a first and a second processing units is provided. Disruption of the network by means of the switch effectively disconnects the first processing unit from the network and couples the first processing unit... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20080183902 - Content transform proxy: The Content Transform Proxy (CTP) service is an advanced Web proxy service, the basic function of which is to modify incoming HTTP requests having a server-side destination and/or outgoing HTTP responses. The CTP service is implemented by the CTP program, which resides on a host in a data communications network... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080183901 - Network interface card transmission control protocol acceleration offload failure detection and recovery mechanism: A computer implemented method and data processing system for the detection and recovery of a network interface card TCP acceleration offload failure. Responsive to a failure to receive an acknowledgement of a transmission control protocol segment containing a request for a transmission control protocol offload function in a network interface... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080177818 - Apparatus and method for real-time packet reception: Provided is an apparatus and method for real-time packet reception. In a method for data reception in a socket layer with a latest packet only (LPO) function, it is determined whether an LPO mode is set. If the LPO mode is set, whether old data are present in a socket... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080177820 - Communication device control program, communication device and communication device control method: A communication device and method is disclosed for indicating a connection to a network and transmitting a living notification having a term of validity to the network when the device is connected with the network. The disclosed device includes an obtaining unit obtaining a first information representing a device status... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080177821 - Concurrent web based multi-task support for control management system: To support one or multiple users to perform multiple concurrent tasks within a single web-browser for system like CCDSVM, the software modules on systems of CCDSVM require to work and communicate together to collect resource information of CCDSVM, and to display them in each user's web-browser, and further to allow... Agent: Sheng Tai (ted) Tsao

20080177819 - System and method for contextual call-for-actions: A method and system for contextual calls-for-actions (CCFAs) includes providing a plurality of CCFAs from a coordination center to a plurality of supporters, including providing the CCFAs to computing devices of the supporters. The method and system further includes determining if a supporter is conducting an action context (AC). Whereby... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080177822 - Content playback system, playback device, playback control method and program: A first playback device, upon receiving a synchronized playback command while content playback is in progress, transmits, to a second playback device, information that pertains to the playback content and a synchronized playback start time obtained by adding a predetermined additional time to an elapsed playback time for the content.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080177823 - System and program for dual agent processes and dual active server processes: Disclosed is a system and program for task processing and monitoring of configuration and state information. A first server process and a second server process are detected. A first agent process is registered with the first server process. A second agent process is registered with the second server process. When... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080177829 - Data communications through a split connection proxy: Data communications through a split connection proxy in a data communications protocol, including receiving in a proxy from a client, asynchronously with respect to any other messages between the client and the proxy, one or more client messages including client message data items including a connection request for a connection... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177824 - Method and system for automatic setup in web-based applications: A method and system for automatic setup in web-based applications is provided. A plurality of HTTP requests and a plurality of responses between a client and a server are captured. The plurality of HTTP requests and responses are matched in a special order to extract one or more meaningful actions.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080177828 - Method for the management of access to at least one content and/or at least one service, corresponding computer program product, storage means and access device: A method for the management of devices in a communications network comprises at least one source device and at least one destination device, the destination device or devices being interconnected to the source device or devices by means of at least one other device of the network called an access... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080177825 - Server assisted device independent markup language: A platform for customized rendering of an editable mobile markup language document for a mobile device. A rendering context and an editable mobile markup language (MML) document for the mobile device is received by the platform, which performs processes that can paginate and fully render pages that are subsequently delivered... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080177827 - Software operation results management system, method, and program: A software operation results management system has a server and a client connected to a network. The server manages operation results of prescribed software that is supplied from the server to the client and operates on the client. The server has software for storing the prescribed software; and monitoring software... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080177830 - System and method for allocating resources on a network: A system and method for allocating resources on a network, including a server and at least one client. The resources are associated within a single set, such that the number of resources within the network can be easily incremented or decremented. Flags are associated with each resource, where the flags... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080177826 - System and methods for servicing electronic transactions: In an additional embodiment of the transaction service provider, the storage medium is further configured to store information corresponding to a plurality of vendors and the processor is further configured to create a database of vendor information; receive a transaction request from a client; analyze information in the database of... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080177831 - Communitized media application and sharing apparatus: The present invention provides a communitized media application and sharing apparatus. In particular, the communitized media application and sharing apparatus of the invention is able to upload or download the media contents, which belong to a specific community, by using technologies such as RSS.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080177834 - Content monitoring in a high volume on-line community application: Disclosed are embodiments a system and method for managing an on-line community. Electronic postings are pre-screened based on one or more metrics to determine a risk value indicative of the likelihood that an individual posting contains objectionable content. These metrics are based on the profile of a poster, including various... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080177835 - Methods and apparatus for managing and distinguishing instant messaging sessions and threads: A method of managing instant messaging communication over a computer network is provided. One or more instant messaging session windows are organized in an instant messaging session manager. At least one distinguishing session characteristic is attributed to each of the one or more instant messaging session windows. The at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080177833 - Peer-to-peer multi-party voice-over-ip services: A system and computer program product for establishing multi-party VoIP conference audio calls in a distributed, peer-to-peer network where any number of nodes are able to arbitrarily and asynchronously start or stop producing audio output to be mixed into a single composite audio stream that is distributed to all nodes.... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080177832 - System and method for accelerating action networks: A method and system for accelerating a response rate for action networks, wherein the action networks provide calls for actions (CFAs) to users, includes preparing a CFA for submission to the users. The method and system determines user contact information for the various users, which indicates if the CFA is... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080177838 - Dynamic media content for collaborators with client environment information in dynamic client contexts: Delivering dynamic media content to collaborators, including providing collaborative event media content, where the collaborative event media content further comprises a grammar and a structured document; acquiring data representing a client's environmental condition; storing, in the context server in a data structure comprising a dynamic client context for the client,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177837 - Dynamic media content for collaborators with client locations in dynamic client contexts: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured document; providing data identifying a client's location; storing, in the context server in a data structure... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177836 - Method and system for managing health and wellness programs: A system and method are provided that include a health and wellness system that includes a network configured to provide one or more members of an organization access to the health and wellness system, a web server configured to provide a plurality of web pages over the network, and a... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080177839 - Method, system, and program for integrating disjoined but related network components into collaborative communities: A system for integrating disjoined but related network components is presented. The system includes a network including a plurality of integrated collaborators where at least one of the integrated collaborators is designated as a head, at least one of integrated collaborators is designated as a parent and at least one... Agent: Chia Hao Chang

20080177845 - Api for representing a mailbox in a message system: The disclosed architecture is an application program interface (API) that includes a collection of class members defined in a single class for accessing mailboxes in messaging storage locations in an enterprise organization. Each mailbox in the organization has an identity that primarily encapsulates at least a mailbox server name, a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080177849 - Apparatus and method for message transmission: Provided is an apparatus and method for message transmission. The method includes receiving a selection of an acquirement object and information that includes the acquirement object, and when the acquirement object is a recipient, extracting a recipient list from the information, inputting the recipient list to a “Recipient” item of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080177851 - Awareness and negotiation of preferences for improved messaging: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for a computer-implemented method for improved messaging between devices, which are local or remote to each other. One example embodiment includes a first device, having a first set of messaging preferences, receiving a second set of messaging preferences from a second device, such as... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177841 - Dynamic combatting of spam and phishing attacks: A self training set of robots are configured to proactively search for selective communication abuses over a network. Robots may enter a chat room to proactively send messages. The robots then analyze patterns and/or content of a received message for potential abuse. Robots may also passively reside on/off line without... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080177843 - Inferring email action based on user input: A computer implemented computer method for assisting email users. When a user selects an action with respect to email source such as an email address, the user's intended action is inferred. The source validity is checked. Where a user provides input identifying an email as spam, the inferred action may... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080177840 - Media instant messaging for mobile device: In an instant messaging system, message latency is reduced by initiating traffic channel set-up at a receiving device concurrently while a sending device is generating the instant message. When a user begins generating an instant message, the sending device transmits a service request to a payload and connection server to... Agent: Coats & Bennett/oz

20080177847 - Method and apparatus for generating geo-targeted message with search results: Method and apparatus for generating a geo-targeted message with search results are disclosed. The method and apparatus allow client entities to present target messages to computer user recipients by providing geo-targeted messaging that provides search results to computer users along with a geo-targeted message. Client entities lease words based on... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080177850 - 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

20080177846 - Method for providing e-mail spam rejection employing user controlled and service provider controlled access lists: A method for providing e-mail spam rejection that includes identifying user controlled access lists that allow the user to determine which e-mail messages will be passed to the user and which e-mail messages will be rejected, and service provider controlled access lists that allow the service provider to determine which... Agent: Miller Ip Group, Plc

20080177844 - System and method for e-mail notification: A method to deliver a notification of receipt of an e-mail includes associating a set-top box identifier with at least one e-mail account. Through a mail server external to an IPTV network, it is determined whether an e-mail has been received for the at least one e-mail account. In response... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080177848 - System and method of sharing and dissemination of electronic information: m

20080177842 - Systems and methods for providing a message service for a site: A method for providing a message service for a site is described. It is determined whether a service is provided at the site. If the service is provided at the site, a request is sent to a node at the site that provides the service. Determining if the service is... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080177853 - Systems, methods, and media for playback of instant messaging session history: Systems, methods and media for playback of instant messaging session history in an instant messaging system by facilitating recording and playback of an instant messaging session history to a user are disclosed. Embodiments may include, during an instant messaging session where one or more instant messaging events occur, determining a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177852 - Systems, methods, and media for sharing input device movement information in an instant messaging system: Systems, methods and media for sharing input device movement information between users of an instant messaging system on a network by facilitating transmission and display to one user input device movement information from another user are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving tracking information by a first client computer system where... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177854 - Console redirection among linked computers: A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080177855 - Packet communication apparatus: A packet communication apparatus, which includes a CPU, a memory, and a packet communication circuit, acts as an interface between a network-connected controlled object and a network terminal that remotely monitors and controls the controlled object, and transmits and receives a packet between the controlled object and the network terminal,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080177856 - Systems and methods for providing remote assistance for controlling a site: A method for providing remote assistance for controlling a site is disclosed. A remote assistance request may be received from a control device. The remote assistance request may be sent from the control device to a remote server. Communication between the remote server and the control device may be established.... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080177858 - Arranging dynamic bookmarks based on service provider inputs: Providing dynamic bookmarks via a user device involves configuring a network access program user interface with dynamic bookmarks that facilitate user access of network content via the network access program. Data that describes the arrangement of the dynamic bookmarks is received via a network. The arrangement of the dynamic bookmarks... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20080177857 - Autonomic optimization of presence server performance: A presence system comprises a presence server and a plurality of users in a distributed community of users that are associated with the presence server. The presence server selects a set of mediators, e.g., based upon a predetermined event, or other suitable factors, wherein each mediator is associated with a... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.l.p.

20080177860 - Method of wirelessly sharing content among devices: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080177859 - System and method for displaying dynamic page content in a page-caching browser: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for displaying dynamic page content in a page-caching browser. The system and method prevent the loading of unintended page content from a local cache into a browser by ensuring the uniqueness of the content request. Such embodiments include (i) specifying... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080177861 - Method and apparatus for dynamic resource discovery and information distribution in a data network: A method for distributing information to a plurality of servers is described. The information is transmitted from a control manager server to a first group leader server. The first group leader server transmits the information to a second group leader server. The second group leader server requests instructions from the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080177862 - Systems, methods, and media for detecting outbound nagling on a tcp network connection: Systems, methods and media for detecting outbound Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may include creating by a sender computer one or more segments to be transmitted to a receiver computer and determining by the sender computer whether any of the one or more segments to be... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177863 - Convergence-enabled dvd and web system: A system integrates standards-defined multimedia storage system and an Internet browser. In one example, Universal Resource Locator (URL) information corresponding to web sites accessible by the browser is stored in fields within the DVD data. When a user actuates a DVD element that has a corresponding URL, the web browser... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080177866 - Differential dynamic delivery of content to users not in attendance at a presentation: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation including a session grammar and a session structured document, the session structured document including a classified structural element for a first user who will not attend a presentation and a classified structural element for a second user who... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177864 - Method and apparatus for obtaining digital objects in a communication network: A technique for obtaining digital objects (such as songs or video clips) from information providers in data communication networks (such as the Internet); the digital objects being sent through channels (such as Internet radio channels or Internet TV channels) or being otherwise made available. The end-user gains several advantages over... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080177865 - System and method for providing real-time streaming service between terminals: Provided is a system and method for providing a real-time streaming service between terminals by using a wired/wireless communication channel. The system for providing a real-time streaming service between terminals includes a server terminal for parsing and separately storing header information of media data, decoding and outputting each of video... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080177868 - Address provisioning: A method of self-configuring a network device. The method includes transmitting a first request for a network address in a configuration protocol packet, receiving a first response including a first network address assigned to the network device and additional information, responsive to the first request, transmitting a second request for... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080177867 - Configuration of a memory controller in a parallel computer system: A method and apparatus for configuration of a memory controller in a parallel computer system using an extensible markup language (XML) configuration file. In preferred embodiments an XML file with the operation parameters for the memory controller is stored in a bulk storage and used by the computers service node... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080177870 - Selecting information for ad hoc exchange: A method for organizing an exchange of information between software agents includes for each of the software agents: establishing a semantic information network; receiving a trigger signal; performing a search of the semantic information network; and performing actions related to the trigger signal. A system and a computer program product... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080177869 - System and method for configuring consumer electronics device for home network using the internet: A consumer electronics (CE) device is connected in a home network to a personal computer (PC) by first connecting them both to an Internet server, which downloads necessary communication information to the devices to allow them to communicate with each other.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080177871 - Method and system for dynamic binding in a storage area network: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically binding a server to a remote disk in a data center is provided. In a data center, servers and storage devices that manage multiple remote disks communicate over a switched fabric by using a standard protocol suite. The servers, storage devices... Agent: William L. Botjer

20080177872 - Managing aggregation and sending of communications: Techniques are described for managing communications between client applications and remote recipients, such as remote Web services or other network services. In at least some situations, the techniques include providing client communication management systems on each of multiple client computing devices to manage communications being sent from and/or to one... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080177874 - Method and system for visualizing network performance characteristics: Techniques for visualizing and monitoring the quality of service for a computer network. Herein, a method and system monitor network transactions and behaviors for the computing network, which computing network includes one or more client subnets accessing one or more servers, the monitoring may be independent of client site monitors.... Agent: Hulsey Ip Intellectual Property Lawyers, P.c.

20080177873 - Two-level structured overlay design for cluster management in a peer-to-peer network: A method and system for designing file replication schemes in file sharing systems consider node storage constraints and node up/down statistics, file storage costs, and file transfer costs among the nodes, user request rates for the files, and user specified file availability requirements. Based on these considerations, a systematic method... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080177877 - Computer system for estimating operational risk: A computer system comprising a plurality of first computers each operated by an operator and a second computer coupled via a network to the plurality of first computers. Each of the plurality of first computers executes at least one software, obtains operation information by the operator with respect to the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080177875 - Notifying network contacts of inquiries: A method, computer-readable medium, and user interface for displaying an inquiry indication related to an inquiring user's inquiry are described. An inquiring user prepares and submits an inquiry in an inquiry application. Upon preparing and submitting an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry is generated and routed to the inquiring... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080177876 - System and method for descriptor-based discovery of network document processing devices: The subject application is directed to a network document processing device discovery system and method. Multicast address data and local identification data are first stored in an associated storage. A probe message is then received from an associated processing device via an associated network. The probe message corresponds to stored... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080177878 - Multi-device communication method and system: A communication method and system. The method includes receiving, by a computing system, user identification data identifying a first user. The computing system receives first device identification data identifying a first device belonging to the user and second device identification data identifying a second device belonging to the first user.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080177880 - Methods and apparatus for efficiently placing stream transforms among broker machines comprising an overlay network in a publish-subscribe messaging system: The methods and apparatus of the present invention operate in publish-subscribe messaging systems including at least publishing clients, subscribing clients and a plurality of broker machines. The broker machines form an overlay network responsible for receiving input messages from publishing clients, transforming information contained in the input messages according to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080177879 - Transactional application processing in a distributed environment: Transactional application processing in a distributed environment using an application-aware network infrastructure element is described. In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises a plurality of network interfaces, forwarding logic, and transaction manager logic. The plurality of network interfaces are operable to communicatively connect to one or more packet-switched networks. The forwarding... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080177884 - Error control terminal discovery and updating: Systems, methods, and devices for novel error detection and retransmission processes are described. These processes may be implemented on intermediate communication links between two end terminals, wherein the intermediate links are via satellite. Error control mechanisms to detect and retransmit lost or corrupted frames may be implemented at the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080177882 - Method and system for preventing a timeout from reaching a network host: A method and system for preventing a timeout from reaching a network host when bringing up a down link that is slow to waken. The method generally comprises receiving a request to access an information. If a link along a path to a remote computer containing the information is down,... Agent: James C. Scheller, Jr. Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080177885 - Multi-device communication method and system: A communication method and system. The method includes receiving, by a computing system, user identification data identifying a first user. The computing system receives first device identification data identifying a first device belonging to the user and second device identification data identifying a second device belonging to the first user.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080177881 - System and method for applying quality of service (qos) in iscsi through isns: A method for applying quality of service in a storage network comprises registering a target with a server, and setting a quality of service priority for the target on the server, on the target, or on both the server and the target. An initiator registers with the server, and the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080177883 - Web server for managing session and method thereof: A web server that can be flexibly changed may include storage for a session state; a reception unit for receiving the session state while associating it with a primary HTTP request, from a terminal; storage for the received session state which is accessed as an HTTP session object by a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080177886 - Method and system for connection setup in wireless communications: A method and system for fast connection setup for wireless communication is provided. The connection setup involves establishing a connection by reserving a wireless data channel for data communication; upon completion of said data communication, maintaining the data channel reserved while indicating the data channel is unoccupied; and while the... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080177887 - Automated performance prediction for service-oriented architectures: The description relates to the field of automatically predicting the performance characteristics of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The prediction is made by setting up a model of the service-oriented architecture, generating a queue of services to be executed, simulating execution of the services by utilizing the model while processing the... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080177890 - Reliable datagram via independent source destination resources: A method includes producing units of work with at least one source application instance (AI) at a source device and consuming units of work with at least one destination AI at a destination device. A first reliable datagram service is established, with a first source and destination resource (SDR), between... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080177888 - Reusable application framework for translating between a client and an external entity: A reusable application framework for translating between a client and an external entity negotiates a first communication protocol with the client, receives an input request from the client, and parses the input request to extract client type and use case identifications. An application object module is configured for transferring the... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.c.

20080177891 - Specific method of setting transport-specific properties from transport-agnostic clients: The present invention is directed to a method and system of allowing the user-defined code to be written in such a way as to be independent on the underlying transport yet still send and receive information via transport-specific artifacts. As such, a user may not be required to develop unique... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080177889 - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing access to web services via device authentication in an ims network: An IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network provides access to Web services. A HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message addressed to a Web Service Provider along with the IMS identifier from a device is received in the IMS network. The IMS network validates registration of the device. The IMS identifier and the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080177893 - Dynamically adapting media content streaming and playback parameters for existing streaming and playback conditions: Adjusting media streaming parameters of a media streaming device and media playback parameters of a media playback device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system probes a network infrastructure to determine a network type, a playback device type, a streaming device type, a media content type, a preroll duration, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080177892 - Method for service oriented data extraction transformation and load: The present invention relates to a method for the configurable real time transformation of dissimilar data sources, the method further consisting of the steps of acquiring real time information pertaining to at least one data source, wherein the information comprises reference information that is associated with the data source, data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080177894 - Methods and apparatus for improving interactions between multi-server web environments and web browsers: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus that improve the perceived responsiveness of a multi-server web site or web environment to web requests issued by web browsers. In one aspect, the methods and apparatus operate by determining a likely sequence of web pages to be accessed by users. The methods and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080177895 - Serial concatenated convolutional code decoder: A serial concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) decoder is provided. The SCCC decoder is comprised of an input buffer memory (102), one or more processing loop modules (120), and an output buffer memory (112). Each processing loop module is comprised of a permutation module (110), an inner decoder module (104), a... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080177897 - Method and apparatus for request routing: A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080177896 - Service insertion architecture: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a service broker configured to: (i) register a service classifier, and to provide context information to the service classifier; and (ii) register a plurality of service nodes. The service broker can also receive capability and service requests from the service classifier. Further, the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080177898 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing access to a wireless network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing access to a wireless local area network are provided. A method includes establishing a communication between a first and second software intelligent agent via the wireless local area network. The first software intelligent agent is internal to the wireless local area network... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Endicott

20080177899 - Hybrid industrial networked computer system: A Kitchen Display System (KDS) includes a workstation including a first Personal Computer (PC)-based controller, a fanless workstation including a second PC-based or a non-PC-based controller having lower cost than the first PC-based controller, an Ethernet network operatively coupling the controllers, and a bump bar, keyboard, touchscreen, or keypad operatively... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080172443 - Automatic internet connection device: An automatic connection device in a data transmission system comprises the Internet, several local networks which are connected to the Internet, a first host computer being used by a first user and a second host computer being used by a second user connected to the Internet. The device further has... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080172444 - Delivery system and computer program product: When delivery data input to a delivery server is directly input to an MFP by an applicant, an examination request flow is determined as a flow to be executed next. When the delivery data input to the delivery server is transmitted from an information processing apparatus of an examiner, an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080172441 - Dynamic buffer settings for media playback: Improved responsiveness and reduced latency of media playback on a media player is achieved by dynamic adjustment of storage parameters for the jitter buffer in the media player. Decreasing the size of the jitter buffer to a smaller constant value may provide acceptable, starvation-free playback in many cases. Playback of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172440 - Knowledge utilization: Data is organized in a knowledge network by defining a set of nodes, each node comprising data describing knowledge and a task pertinent to the knowledge, and defining relationships between the nodes based on the data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080172445 - Method and system for increasing popularity of content items shared over peer-to-peer networks: The present invention relates to a method and system for increasing popularity of one or more content items shared over a peer-to-peer network, comprising: (a) a central server for receiving from an operator terminal by means of a user interface software component a list of said one or more content... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080172442 - Multi-computer system and configuration method therefor: A multi-computer system and configuration method therefor are provided, which are suitable for use in configuring multi-computer systems into operating in combination. The respective computer system is provided with at least one processor and a plurality of electronic devices to form a computer system that can operate independently. By operating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080172446 - Method and system for managing content submission and publication of content: A system and method may include assigning a review request to a queue based on a content subject matter category of content, the review request requesting review of the content, and generating a notification message indicating that the review request is pending in the queue. The system and method may... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080172447 - Hierarchical broadcast of ui assets: An audiovisual system (10) has a first client (14) and a second client (16), each client (14, 16) being connected to a server (12). The first client (14) includes a television (18), while the second client (16) includes a small screen (20) and a stereo system (22). The server (12)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080172451 - Meta data information providing server, client apparatus, method of providing meta data information, and method of providing content: An apparatus and/or a method for efficiently providing meta data information regarding content and the content to a user includes connecting to a meta data information providing server that provides meta data of at least one content, receiving fundamental meta data information including connection information, which is provided for retrieval... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080172453 - Method and apparatus for a low-level console: An apparatus and computer instructions for interfacing with an operating system on a data processing system. Registers in a processor are allocated for use in providing a low-level console interface to a remote data processing system, wherein the registers are accessed by the remote data processing system using the low-level... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080172456 - Method for detecting the ipv6 network application layer protocol: A method for detecting application layer protocol of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network, includes: sending, by an application layer protocol detection initiating node, a detection request message to an application layer protocol detection responding node. When detection request message is received, the detection responding node responds to the detection... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080172452 - Method for distributing non real-time media in a non real-time media distribution system, a related system, a related media server and media client: The present invention relates to a method for distributing non real-time media in a non real-time media distribution system. The non real-time media distribution system comprises a non-real time media server and a non-real time media client where the non-real time media server and the media client is coupled over... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080172457 - Method for testing the service performance of the file transfer protocol: A method for testing the service performance of the file transfer protocol in an IPv6 network, the network, including having a client and a server. The method includes the steps of (a) the client transmits a test connection request to the server to establish a connection controlled by the file... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080172449 - Methods for accessing a phone-based web server with a private ip address and related electronic devices and computer program products: A Web server is provided at an electronic device by registering the Web server with an Internet server that has a public Internet Protocol address, receiving a message at the electronic device that indicates a request is forthcoming to access the Web server, establishing a communication connection with the Internet... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080172450 - Mobile service apparatus: A mobile service apparatus includes a repository server and a mobile client. The repository server includes stores various programs and data therein. The mobile client is a portable device to be operated by user. The mobile client may be connected to the repository server to download predetermined programs and data... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080172448 - Packetized boot service broadcasting: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates partitioning, broadcasting and reassembling of a virtual file system on a machine dispersed on a network topology. The system and method includes partitioning virtual file systems into blocks and thereafter continually disseminating the blocks in packets. Additionally the system and method include... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080172458 - System and method for managing web services data and presence data related to a plurality of users: A system and method are described for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services including social networking web services. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprising a web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080172454 - System for providing multimedia content to customers and method thereof: Disclosed are a system and a method for providing multimedia content to customers at a vendor location. A control server and a plurality of patron devices are provided at the vendor location. The control server receives the multimedia content from at least one multimedia content source. Each patron device of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080172455 - System for providing multimedia content to customers and method thereof: Disclosed are a system and a method for providing multimedia content to customers at a vendor location. A control server and a plurality of patron devices are provided at the vendor location. The control server receives the multimedia content from at least one multimedia content source. Each patron device of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080172461 - Contextual persona management in a communication medium to enhance relationship based interaction: A method, system and apparatus of contextual persona management in a communication medium to enhanced relationship based interaction are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a communication system includes creating a persona profile having contacts of a user in a specific context of expression generating in the persona profile,... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080172460 - Invitation order system, method and medium: A networked invitation order environment is disclosed which includes an invitation order system, an invitee computing device, and inviter computing device. The invitation order system provides invitation order services for a restaurant. An inviter uses the inviter computing device to define an invitation order for the restaurant. The invitation order... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080172463 - Method and system for providing group chat service: A method for providing a group chat service includes: creating a chat group including a first member and one or more second members; establishing a P2P connection to each of the second members; receiving audio data uploaded from the second members through the P2P connections; mixing the audio data received... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080172459 - System and method for processing information and multiple network accounts for a user through a common account: The invention provides a system and method for managing account information and website information for a user having at least one messaging account. The system comprises: an account management module, a central message processing module and a message retrieval module. The account management module establishes an account for the user,... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080172462 - Thread-based conversation management: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with thread-based conversation management are described. One system embodiment includes a conversation manager that provides access to communication applications, that provides lifecycle management for an electronic conversation carried on over the communication applications, and that organizes conversation elements belonging to a conversation carried on... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080172464 - Generation of contextual information in communication between parties: A method, system and apparatus of generation of contextual information in communication between parties are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a communication system includes expressing an interaction between a particular user and user in a shared page such that the shared page includes documents, events, and/or communications relevant... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080172465 - Proxying transaction method for processing function of wireless node in peer-to-peer overlay network: A proxying process method for traffic of a wireless node and a system using the method are provided. The proxying process method includes: maintaining a virtual node which stores a communication packet from a server, destined for a first node; and transmitting the stored communication packet from the virtual node... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080172469 - Certified electronic messaging: A system whereby a first user can post messages securely to a central data server, which date stamps the messages and permanently records their content and dates. Other authorized users can access the account on the central data server, and preferably can post messages to the same. The dates and... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080172466 - E-mail delivery device, contact point guiding device, and e-mail delivery method and program: It is an object of the present invention to send information accurately to a target person having a plurality of e-mail addresses or contact points. A delivery server 10 is provided for sending an e-mail selectively to a target person having a plurality of e-mail addresses. The delivery server 10... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080172470 - Method and a system for the secure exchange of an e-mail message: In a method and system for the secure exchange of an e-mail message, the e-mail message is initially encoded and subsequently transmitted to a recipient, wherein the e-mail message is initially encoded by means of an encoding component of the system and subsequently transmitted by means of the system thereby... Agent: Ursula B. Day Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20080172467 - Store-and-forward messaging channel for occasionally connected mobile applications: Sending and receiving application or service data through an email transport for mobile computing devices occasionally disconnected from network connectivity. At a sending service or application, application or service data is intercepted from the application or service. The application or service data is packaged in an email message. The email... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080172471 - Systems and methods for screening chat requests: Systems, methods and media for screening member messages in an instant messaging environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, chat messages are stored as communications requests in a queue. A user-specified chat limit determines the maximum number of chats that may be taking place concurrently. When the chat limit is reached,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080172468 - Virtual email method for preventing delivery of unsolicited and undesired electronic messages: A method for an email recipient to assign individual virtual emails to each email sender to the email recipient and the assigned virtual email having at least two parts. That is, one part being the recipient email account and the other part being the sender ID for the sender. In... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20080172472 - Peer data transfer orchestration: A system, method, service, and program storage device implementing a method of transferring data, wherein the method comprises arranging a plurality of peer systems in a computer network; coupling at least one data server preferably comprises data to the plurality of peer systems, wherein the plurality of peer systems comprise... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080172473 - System for ensuring client access to messages from a server: The present invention is a system for ensuring client access to paired and unpaired response messages. In the system, the server detects one or more unpaired message which are stored in a data structure on the server. The data structure may be created when the server is started or automatically... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080172475 - Congestion information delivery system, mobile terminal, server, method of congestion information delivery and computer-readable medium storing program: At least one of cellular phones 102 measures congestion degree of surroundings by a congestion degree measurement unit 102B, transmits it to a main server 104 as congestion information, the main server 104 aggregates the congestion information from the cellular phones 102, stores it, and provides the congestion information relating... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080172474 - Methods for discovering a phone-based web server and related electronic devices and computer program products: An electronic device is operated by establishing a communication session between the electronic device and a requesting device using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), providing an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the electronic device to the requesting device using the SIP, receiving a request addressed to the electronic device using the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080172476 - Automatic configuration of client and server networking: Described is a technology by which a server automatically configures itself for adding to an existing network. Upon connection to the network, the server obtains settings including existing subnet and gateway IP addresses from a DHCP assigned IP configuration (e.g., a router). The server uses the settings to automatically configure... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172478 - Node device, shared information update processing program, shared information update method, and information sharing system: According to the present invention, there is provided a plurality of node devices mutually connectable through a network, each of the node devices saving shared information, used in common with the nodes, and in a case where each of the node devices transmits predetermined data to the node device, being... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080172477 - Programmatically choosing a router configuration provider: Described is a technology by which network server software has an interface into which a plurality of software router providers, that have methods to configure routers, may be plugged in. The network server software communicates with each provider to determine each of the provider's capabilities with respect to configuring a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172479 - Method, system architecture and computer software for communication between devices: A method for communication between a plurality of devices connected to each other through a network. Each device includes at least one service that provides a set of functions for controlling and/or monitoring the device. A service of a first device detects the presence of a second device, detects the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080172480 - Validation of module interoperability: A method for validating that a networked system of modules conforms to at least one interoperability rule pertinent to interoperability of at least two of the modules includes the steps of obtaining the at least one interoperability rule, the at least one rule being encoded in computer-operable format; obtaining configuration... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080172481 - Method of configuring network profile of network system: A method of configuring a network profile of a network system is provided. According to the method, a user inside or outside home can control or monitor the operations of appliances such as refrigerator or laundry machine through a living network such as an RS-485 network, a small output RF... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080172482 - Method and system for light-weight soap transport for web services based management: Certain aspects of a method and system for light-weight simple object access protocol (SOAP) transport for web services based management are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include managing a system using a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message that is mapped over one or both of: a remote management... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080172483 - Method and system for managing data, and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-reading storage medium: It is a method for managing data, the data are saved as e-mail or messages on a mail server and/or a server of a message signaling system. At least one application with at least one function for data processing is installed on a terminal. In addition, the terminal sends a... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20080172484 - Site integration management system for operational support service in an internet data center: A method for managing an event by a Management system for an Internet Data Center (IDC). The IDC includes an Information Technology and Network Management System (IT&N) for managing the IDC, and a Building Management System (BMS) for monitoring facilities related to the IDC. The BMS is connected to the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080172486 - Method and arrangement for handling client-related information in an application server: A method and arrangement for handling client-related information in an application server connected to a telecommunication network for a client that has registered with the network. The application server receives a message from the client that results in the activation of a client state in the server. The server then... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080172485 - Method and system for rating users of a dating service: A collecting user generated rating values for members of a dating service. The method includes monitoring a predetermined number of interactions between a first person and a second person via the service. Once a predetermined number of interactions has taken place, the service allows the first person to provide individual... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080172487 - Systems and methods for providing targeted marketing: Systems and methods are provided for automatically collecting information from a computer system and sending the collected information across a network to a centralized system. The information can include configuration information that describes the configuration of the computing system, such as the installed software, internal hardware, and attached peripherals. The... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080172488 - Reducing the impact of network latency on application performance: An exemplary method performed by a proxy server located between a content server and a client browser for reducing effects of network latency therebetween comprises intercepting a request from the client browser for a resource at the content server, obtaining a response by the content server to the request, determining... Agent: Law Office Of Roxana H. Yang

20080172490 - Data scanning system and method thereof: The present invention discloses a data scanning system and a method thereof for a server. The method includes steps of defining an auditing period, scanning an accessed data in a default scanning mode from the server by a user, obtaining a credit data of the user, and executing a rearranging... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080172489 - Scalable high-speed cache system in a storage network: The present invention discloses a scalable high-speed cache system in a storage network. It gives a solution to the bottleneck problem that the speed of seeking on the hard disk is slow, and realizes the high speed respondence to the input/output of the server. The present invention includes a high-speed... Agent: Lau & Associates, LLC Michael N. Lau

20080172491 - Automatic ad-hoc network creation and coalescing using wps: A device previously configured as a registrar and that has established an independent ad-hoc network is automatically discovered by another device also previously configured as a registrar. To form an ad-hoc wireless network between these two devices, each device periodically enters a scanning mode to scan for and intercept beacons... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080172492 - System and method for virtualized resource configuration: A system and method for configuring client access to a network includes at a first port, accessing a first server on a first local area network associated with the first port. An authorized local area network other than the first local area network is determined to which an authorized connection... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080172494 - Method and apparatus for determining communication protocol: A method and apparatus for determining a communication protocol are provided. The apparatus for determining a communication protocol includes a protocol recording unit which records one or more applicable communication protocols, and a protocol parsing unit which parses a common communication protocol determined by another apparatus among the recorded communication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080172493 - Method, system and host for telecommunications involving ipv4 and ipv6: A host for a telecommunications system includes a container. The host includes an IPv4 stack disposed in the container. The host includes an IPv6 stack disposed in the container. The host includes a mapping layer disposed in the container in communication with the IPv4 stack and the IPv6 stack to... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080172495 - Cookieless tracking system: A method of tracking during an affiliate referral transaction without relying on cookies is provided. The method includes requesting a unique session identifier from a merchandiser. A hyperlink is then published on a website of an affiliate. Next, the unique session identifier is added to a sub-domain portion of a... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080172496 - System and method for providing web services for wireless communication devices: A system and method are described for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services including social networking web services. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprising a web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080172497 - Method and apparatus for interworking ethernet and mpls networks: MPLS networks offering PW or VPLS services may be interconnected with Ethernet networks implemented according to 802.1ah or 802.1Qay. The MPLS network may be a core and offer services to the Ethernet access networks, or vise-versa. Additionally, a mixture of different types of access networks may be interconnected by an... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20080168121 - Arrangement and a method for safe data communication via a non-safe network: In order to utilize the bandwidth available in the non-safe network for sending safe data in the best possible manner, it is provided for the safe data on the transmitter side to be combined by a network protocol-dependent transmitter optimization device in a network message or divided among several network... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080168120 - Link trace frame transfer program recording medium, switching hub, and link trace frame transfer method: The disclosed apparatus includes a MAC learning table storing a MAC address and port identification information that uniquely identifies a port for transferring a frame to which the MAC address is assigned. The apparatus includes updating the MAC learning table, reading a MAC address of a link trace frame, transferring... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168124 - Method of transmitting/receiving digital contents and apparatus for receiving digital contents: A method of transmitting/receiving digital contents and an apparatus for receiving the digital contents are disclosed. In a system connected with an Internet protocol (IP) network, service event information may be included in a service discovery record and transmitted/received. Accordingly, the apparatus for receiving the digital contents can receive a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080168117 - Methods and systems for exploring a corpus of content: Methods and systems are described for exploring a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080168122 - Publish/subscribe system: In a publish/subscribe system, messages may be received from one or more publishers and forwarded to one or more subscribers who have registered an interest in receiving messages on topics to which the messages pertain. An improved retention mechanism is implemented by identifying a message is one for which retention... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080168118 - Usb based virtualized media system: In a virtualized desktop system an interfacing module is coupled to peripheral ports of a target device. The interfacing module is connected to a network. A digital user station is connected to the network. The digital user station is configured to be coupled to peripherals. The interfacing module and digital... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080168119 - Variable internet banner: The invention relates to a banner (1) capable of being displayed on a part of a display area (5) of a display panel (4) which display area further is capable of displaying a selection member (12). The banner comprises variation means capable of varying the appearance (11A-11D) of at least... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080168123 - Web-based media file delivery to a media device: Transferral of a media file to a media device comprises establishing a short-range connection (2-0) between the media device and a personal computer and an Internet connection (2-5) to the web server. The server transfers (2-10) a program module to the computer which determines (2-15) the media device's identity, eg... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080168125 - Method and system for prioritizing requests: A system for prioritizing resource requests. One or more resource requests are received. The one or more resource requests are prioritized in a queue according to a priority attribute that is associated with each of the one or more resource requests. A resource request with a highest priority in the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080168126 - Synchronization methods and systems: Systems, methods and computer readable media for synchronization of electronic message accounts. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information to establish an electronic message account on a first data processing system, the electronic message account being defined by setup information, and synchronizing the setup information onto a store on... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080168127 - System and method for scheduling device management: A device management system and a device management command scheduling method in the system, wherein the device management system comprises a server for generating a device management scheduling context including a device management command and a condition to execute the device management command and then transmitting the generated device management... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080168128 - System for providing immediate assistance in an electronic trading system: In a system and method for providing immediate assistance to a user of a computer-based system such as an asset trading system, the system provides an object such as a button for a user to select or activate while using the system. Once the object is selected, the system initiates... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080168132 - Method and apparatus for content service: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing suitable a content service according to the characteristics of a client terminal, and a method and apparatus for using the content service. The method of providing the content service includes receiving device information from the client, determining a service profile including a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080168130 - Method and system for determining whether to send a synchronous or asynchronous resource request: A system for making a determination to send a synchronous or asynchronous resource request. In response to sending a request to receive response time data for resource requests, the response time data for resource requests is received and stored. A request from a requester is received for response time data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080168129 - Pairing a media server and a media client: A system for use in presenting media content includes a media server configured to provide media content and a media client configured to obtain the media content from the media server and to present the media content on a device. The media client is configured to generate a first code... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168131 - Platform for defining single-page web signup facilities: Embodiments of the invention provide a platform for defining a single-page signup facility which includes a plurality of modules. In some embodiments, the platform is flexible and extensible in that different modules may be developed by different parties and incorporated in, removed from and modified within various signup facilities. Some... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080168133 - Video distribution system including progressive playback: A receiver driven approach for playback of remote content is described. One embodiment includes obtaining information concerning the content of the media file from the remote server, identifying a starting location within the media sequence, identifying byte ranges of the media file corresponding to media required to play the media... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080168137 - Continuing education portal: A system of providing remote access to conferences having a plurality of live conference sessions presented by a presenter includes a content provider creating a virtual conference session by capturing the live session. A conference provider receives and aggregates the virtual conference sessions, and then transmits the virtual conference sessions... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20080168135 - Information infrastructure management tools with extractor, secure storage, content analysis and classification and method therefor: The present invention is a method of organizing and processing data in a distributed computing system. The invention is also implemented as a computer program on a computer medium and as a distributed computer system. Software modules can be configured as hardware. The method and system organizes select content which... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20080168136 - Message managing system, message managing method and recording medium storing program for that method execution: Disclosed are a message management system, a message management method, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method. When message information transmitted by a user terminal through the Internet is managed, a message is transmitted through the user terminal, a contents node for storing message information is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080168138 - System and method for notifying an offline global computer network user of an online interaction: A system and method for notifying an offline global computer network user of an online interaction in which the offline user could participate. The system and method specify notification criteria of the offline user, monitor activities occurring on the global computer network, compare the activities to the notification criteria, and,... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080168134 - System and methods for providing relevant assets in collaboration mediums: A method for providing assets in a collaboration medium includes receiving information from an entity; analyzing the information to identify metadata; searching a system to locate assets relevant to the identified metadata; filtering the assets located on the system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080168140 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically suggesting an application based on a collaboration session: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect shared content during a collaboration session; detect a content type based on the shared content; suggest an application based on the content type; and initiate the application during the collaboration session.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080168139 - Persistent collaborative framework for interactive web applications: A framework for facilitating collaborative interaction between users of a web application is presented. The framework provides persistence and sharing mechanisms for arbitrary application-defined objects. The sharing mechanism is coupled with a consistency mechanism that keeps client states consistent even when users perform conflicting operations. This framework is application-independent in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080168145 - Active e-mail filter with challenge-response: When a user receives potential junk e-mail from an unknown sender address, an active filter installed in or cooperating with the user's e-mail system sends a challenge e-mail back to the sender address. Unless the user receives a correct response e-mail from the sender address and/or a response that meets... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080168143 - Control system of interactive toy set that responds to network real-time communication messages: A control system of an interactive toy set that responds to network real-time communicating messages has at least two toys and two network computer devices connected to the toys, respectively. Each toy has a processor built in with a table of corresponding real-time communicating messages and control commands. Each computer... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080168146 - Electronic messaging system and method: An electronic messaging system and method, the system including at least two electronic messaging platforms, each electronic messaging platform including software for generating electronic message loquia, each electronic message loquium including a file consisting of message content and identification information, software for carrying out background messaging between the two platforms... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20080168147 - Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications: The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses from which incoming e-mails are received. When a user creates... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080168150 - Method and apparatus for metadata driven web service mediation: A mechanism lets a service consumer add mediation metadata in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message and lets a service provider perform server side mediation based on the pre-defined mediation metadata. A client side mediation engine is plugged into a client SOAP engine. When the client side mediation engine... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20080168141 - Method for implementing electronic mail dictionary transporter: A method, system and computer program product that creates a transport dictionary, which links preferential terms and definitions to the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) of an outgoing electronic mail (email). Prior to sending a message, users are provided the option of transporting words or acronyms unique to the dictionary... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080168142 - Method for intelligent verification of electronic mail message addresses: A method for the intelligent verification of recipient electronic message addresses with active alerts for incorrect and ambiguous recipient electronic message addresses provided to a sender prior to the dissemination of an electronic message, wherein the method includes adding the recipient electronic message addresses by the sender to the electronic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080168144 - Method of, and a system for, processing emails: A system for identifying unknown email as spam. An extractor extracts components of email which contains pseudo-random data. This data is passed to the pattern generator which identifies the pattern descriptions found within the data. Pattern descriptions which are found to match components in a store of components from previously... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080168148 - Monitoring and reporting usage of non-hypertext markup language e-mail campaigns: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tracking and reporting e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in a tagged e-mail to form a modified e-mail, wherein the data type of the instruction set is set to hypertext markup language. The modified e-mail is sent to a distribution... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080168149 - Processing rules for digital messages: Systems and methods for handling email messages are described. Some embodiments are directed to determining whether an email message meets a predefined condition, and executing an action in an instant messaging (IM) system in response to determining that the email message meets the predefined condition. Other embodiments are directed to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080168151 - System and method for automatically executing corresponding operations using peer groups: A system and method for causing a master operation that is executed on a master map, window, document, or database to also be automatically executed in its corresponding form on one or more slave maps, windows, documents, and/or databases. Embodiments of the invention can operate with masters and slaves that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080168152 - System and method for a portable memory device to access and acquire additional memory from a remote location: The present invention is a system and method for a portable memory device to access and acquire additional memory from a remote location by utilizing a network connection to access remote memory. A portable memory device comprising of software that can determine the location of data to be stored based... Agent: Jafari Law Group, P.C.

20080168153 - Method, computer program product, and system for selecting and migrating information and device drivers to a computer system: A method performed by a first computer system includes receiving one or more of a plurality of files from a second computer system in response to a selection of the one or more of the plurality of files by a customer of the second computer system and receiving network settings... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080168154 - Simultaneous sharing communication interface: A user can share (show) multimedia information while simultaneously communicating (telling) with one or more other users over a network. Multimedia information is received from at least one source. The multimedia information may be manually and/or automatically annotated and shared with other users. The multimedia information may be displayed in... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080168157 - Data replication: Apparatus and method to improve the speed, scalability, robustness and dynamism of multicast data transfers to remote computers. Many Grid Computing applications, such as Genomics, Proteomics, Seismic, Risk Management, etc., require a priori transfer of sets of files or other data to remote computers prior to processing taking place. Existing... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080168156 - Event liaison system: The event liaison system of the present invention comprises portable event liaison devices as part of an overall system that may communicate via wireless and wired protocols. The system organizes and manages events, providing communication of upcoming events, speaker information, meeting materials, and post event access to information via a... Agent: Lambert & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080168158 - Virtual device hub: A virtual device hub, into which local devices are plugged, enables those devices to be virtualized locally and with a remote virtual machine. Those devices then appear as available to the remote application, and can be used, for example, to print a report being processed on the remote host to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080168155 - Web hard disk server for sharing identical broadcast contents and download method thereof: The present invention relates to a system and method for a web hard disk server to download broadcast contents from a broadcast content providing server and to store a minimum number of broadcast contents in order to avoid redundancy among downloaded broadcast contents. More specifically, among several individual broadcast contents... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080168159 - Configuring a device in a network via steps: A device, which is encoded with ordered steps, is connected to a network. In an embodiment, each of the steps includes a type, a link that points at a respective tool, and a completion condition. The steps are sent from the device to an address in the network. A selection... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080168163 - Information processing device assignment method, information processing system and management server: A management server connected to information processing devices and terminals via a network includes a first storage unit for storing state information of assignment of the information processing devices to the terminals, a second storage unit for storing condition information of assignment of the information processing devices to the terminals,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080168164 - Inventory management system: A system for managing inventory is provided that comprises a plurality of user terminals, each at a point-of-use location associated with an inventory-consuming entity, a web portal server computer accessible by the plurality of user terminals through an internet, the web portal server administered by the inventory-consuming entity, and a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080168166 - Method for creating and processing a soap message, and method, apparatus and program for processing information: The present invention creates a SOAP message without using DOM by generating a body part by sequentially performing such a process of a message as encryption or signing for each piece of the message, generating a header part by using information acquired during the process, and by combining the body... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080168162 - Methods and apparatuses for automatically initiating an application: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an application associated with a requester; suggest the application based on a requester parameter; select the application by the requester; and automatically initiate the application for the requester.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080168160 - Power management for multi-interface device clusters: Multi-interface devices with at least a high-power network interface and a low-power network interface may form into power management clusters. Power management clusters may be maintained over low-power networks associated with the low-power network interfaces. One or some relative few of the cluster participants may be designated lead devices. Designated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080168165 - Service provisioning system, service provisioning equipment and method therefor: To provide a service provisioning system, a service provisioning equipment, and a method therefor, which provide a user terminal with a service. An SCIM server creates service orchestration information, and performs a processing of storing the service orchestration information in an XML document management server (XDMS). The SCIM server also... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080168161 - Systems and methods for managing faults within a high speed network employing wide ports: Systems and methods for managing faults within a high speed network employing wide ports. Exemplary embodiments include a system including a switch module coupled to an end device, the switch device and the end device each have a plurality of PHYs, each of the PHYs on the switch module coupled... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080168170 - Method for accessing distributed file system: In order to access a distributed file system (DFS) of the present invention using a conventional protocol such as the one for an NFS or a CIFS without making a modification on a client side, a gateway unit for receiving a conventional protocol and performing processing in conformity the protocol... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080168168 - Method for communication management: A method for communication management includes receiving at least one keyword and receiving a replay time span input. Further, the method includes receiving a plurality of communication inputs including at least a first communication input and a second communication input, monitoring at least the first communication input and second communication... Agent: Ibm Corp. (rcr) C/o Rolnik & Associates, P.C.

20080168169 - Request tracking for analysis of website navigation: Provided are methods, apparatus and computer programs for enabling tracking of a user's sequence of Web Browser requests when navigating within a single Web site. Requests for access to resources within the Web site are compared with redirection criteria and, if matching, are redirected to a request tracker which determines... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080168167 - Service provided by a single entity for all applications: Provided is a system that enables a computer user to purchase and maintain installed operating systems and applications. Also provided is a method and system that detects and installs updates to programs and operating systems (OSs) on a computing system and ensures that the upgrades are compatible with existing software.... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080168171 - Method, system and computer program product for implementing a surrogate client: A method for processing requests from a client to a server, the method comprising: receiving a service request from the client at a service manager implemented on the server; negotiating the type of workflow engine to use between the server and the client; negotiating the type of notification to use... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080168172 - System and method for controlling and managing sessions between endpoints in a communications system: In a communications system having at least one service entity and a plurality of endpoints each including a logical entity and a terminal, a method facilitates a session between at least two of the endpoints in the system. The method includes: receiving a first message having information that includes a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080168174 - Computer on demand: The invention is a renting system to access computer hardware apparatus from any location to users without the need of purchasing and maintaining it. This connection can be achieved using standard telephone lines, local area network, Wireless connection, an Internet Service Provider or any other communication system that can get... Agent: Manuel Jose Acosta

20080168173 - System and method for providing information on a received communication for an electronic communication device: The invention relates to a system, method and device for providing information relating to a received communication for a device. For the method, it comprises: while the device is composing an outbound communication, monitoring for receipt of an inbound communication; if the inbound communication is directed to the device, evaluating... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080168175 - Method and system for local search and social networking with content validation: A social networking and local search service validates content including personal information, business information, text, photographs, music, video and/or other media or content. The service provides each member of with the ability to author and share content with the fellow members and visitors. In an embodiment of the invention, if... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (seattle Office)

20080168176 - Method and apparatus for controlling an sctp protocol instance: The invention relates to a network node (NN) comprising a first SCTP protocol instance (PI) providing redundancy of an SCTP endpoint the first SCTP protocol instance (PI) is connectable to a peer SCTP protocol instance via an SCTP connection (C1). Furthermore the first SCTP protocol instance is connectable to a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080168178 - Dynamic sdp update in ipdc over dvb-h: Various embodiments of present invention relate to the synchronization of an SDP stream to the media stream. In various embodiments, the SDP-consuming application initiates a FLUTE receiver and retrieves new versions of the SDP file. The terminal also retrieves information from the RTCP layer about the current sender time. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080168177 - Estimation of web client response time: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to estimating response time and other performance metrics in network communications. Some embodiments of the invention allow users to monitor and estimate response time in real time. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed below can be used to estimate response time using server logs.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080168179 - Method and apparatus for providing load diffusion in data stream correlations: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for performing load diffusion to process data stream pairs. A data stream pair is received for correlation. The data stream pair is partitioned into portions to meet correlation constraints for correlating data in the data stream pair to form a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080168180 - Routing of data transmission connection: A problem with known data transmission networks is that the connection of the terminal equipment to the data transmission network is not flexible. The user must himself actively perform the choice and connection of access as well as it registration with the network nodal point. The invention concerns a method... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080168181 - Initiating communication sessions from a first computer network to a second computer network: The invention relates to a method, an interface device and system of computational devices for enabling starting of sessions from a first to a second network and to a computer program product performing the method. A name and service query is received (68) in an interface from a first computational... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080168185 - Data synchronization with host device in accordance with synchronization preferences: Improved techniques and apparatus for managing data between a host device (e.g., host computer) and a media device are disclosed. The data being managed can, for example, pertain to media data for media assets. The managing of the media data thus can involve transfer of media assets between the host... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080168183 - N-way synchronization of data: The invention relates to the use of history information as an aid to synchronization in a peer-to-peer system. In particular, node trees are used to represent portions of files systems designated for synchronization. The nodes in the node tree embody history information regarding associated objects. The history information includes version... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080168184 - Synchronization methods and systems: Connection architectures, methods, systems and computer readable media are described. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer readable medium comprises a first software component which is configured to interface, through first software based messages, with synchronization software components during a structured data synchronization process between a host and a device and... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080168182 - System and method of synchronizing real time clock values in arbitrary distributed systems: A system and method of determining a master node in a computer system having a plurality of nodes includes establishing a hierarchy of master nodes from the plurality of nodes, wherein the master node synchronizes the plurality of nodes in the computer system with a clock value and determining the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080162619 - Methods and systems for distributing software: Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to the distribution of software. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for distributing software from a first system to a second system may comprise determining a software object to be transported and storing the software object in a database. The method... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162620 - Methods and systems for distributing software: Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to the distribution of software. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for distributing software from a first system to a second system comprises determining a software object to be transported. The method stores the software object in a storage device and... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162621 - Methods and systems for distributing software: Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to the distribution of software. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for distributing software from a first system to a second system may comprise determining a software object to be transported. The method may then create, on the first system, a... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162622 - Systems and methods to implement extensibility of tenant content in a provider-tenant environment: The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants over a network in a computer-based environment in which a provider may store a shared data structure having shared data. A tenant receives a request for a shared data structure and retrieves the shared data structure from the provider based... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162625 - Apparatus for end-user transparent utilization of computational, storage, and network capacity of mobile devices, and associated methods: Mobile devices, systems, and methods enable individual mobile devices and network services to utilize idle mobile computer resources through virtualization and wireless mesh networking in a manner that is transparent to users. Other embodiments include apparatus and systems of devices for dispatching virtual node modules to perform service functions.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080162624 - Processing multiple requests by a statically identified user server prior to user server termination: The simultaneous processing of requests under multiple user identifiers is facilitated. The requests are processed by user servers, in which a user server has an association with a particular user. A user server has a static identity associated therewith and is capable of processing a plurality of requests prior to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080162623 - Video encoder and content distribution system: A method of distributing electronic audio or video content from a distributing computer system to a user device (such as a computer, PDA or mobile telephone) over a telecommunications network, comprising: the distributing computer system detecting at least one characteristic of the user device, the distributing computer system selecting a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080162626 - Workflow system and method of controlling the same: A workflow system includes a host computer connected between an image forming apparatus having no workflow function and a workflow server. The workflow server generates a work form of the image forming apparatus using capability information of the image forming apparatus stored in the host computer. A user makes a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080162631 - Enabling client systems to discover services accessible by remote procedure calls (rpc) on server systems: Information representing the RPC servers, on which each RPC service is currently being provided, is maintained on a directory server. A client may query the directory server and determine a specific one of the RPC servers on which to cause execution of a desired RPC service. Each RPC server may... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080162629 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program for generating setting information for electronic device: The present invention provides an apparatus, method, and program for automatically generating setting information for a different model on the basis of settings previously made. Additionally, the present invention is directed to automatically determining one piece of setting information to be set for a different model on the basis of... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080162628 - Simultaneous visual and telephonic access to interactive information delivery: Output service may be provided. First, content data and identification data may be received. For example, the content data and the identification data may be received from an interactive device configured to receive the identification data from a user device. Next, an output device associated with the identification data may... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080162630 - User input based allocation of bandwidth on a datalink: In a computer network, user input is used to control the bandwidth used by particular applications. Data is sent from either a data source computer or an intermediate computer (e.g. dial-up server) to a client computer according to the user input. The allocation of bandwidth may be managed from the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Intellectual Property Law, Dept. Qpza/ 210

20080162627 - Using telecom data to enhance web interaction: A search server is provided to conduct a search in response to a web request received from a computing terminal and deliver a web page, including any search results, back to the computing terminal in response to the web request. Telecom data obtained by the search server is used to... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080162637 - Application services infrastructure for next generation networks including a notification capability and related methods and computer program products: A system for supporting a notification capability for a plurality of applications utilizing a next generation network having a network layer includes an application services middleware between the applications and the network layer comprising a plurality of common infrastructure elements usable by the applications. The common infrastructure elements provide both... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080162633 - Automated instant messaging chat suspension and resumption: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for. In one embodiment of the invention, a chat session suspension and resumption management method can include establishing a chat session among at least two conversants,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080162634 - Message correlation: Message correlation wherein messages from multiple network elements may be correlated as a function of correlation IDs included within the messages. The correlation IDs may be determined independently by each network element and in a stateless manner. The correlation IDs may be unique for each session and determined from unique... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080162635 - Method and apparatus for participating in a conference session over a data communication network: A method and apparatus for participating in a conference session over a data communication network, the method comprising the steps of initiating a data communication conference session by a presenter with the an at least one viewer; establishing communication between the presenter and a thin server, wherein the thin server... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080162632 - Predicting availability of instant messaging users: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for probabilistic prediction of availability in an instant messaging system. In one embodiment of the invention, a probabilistic prediction method for instant messaging... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080162636 - System and method for replying to questions on-line: The present invention provides a method for replying to questions on-line. The method includes: defining multiple roles, and assigning the roles to users, wherein the roles comprise questioners, repliers and auditors; setting categories of the questions and a replying process and an auditing process for each category of questions correspondingly;... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080162638 - Role-based chat: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for role-based chats. In one embodiment of the invention, a role based chat method can be provided. The method can include dynamically specifying a role in a chat request, resolving an assignment of the role to a collaborator... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080162639 - System and method for identifying peer-to-peer (p2p) application service: Provided are a system and method for identifying a peer-to-peer (P2P) application service. The method includes the steps of: (a) collecting an Internet protocol (IP) packet and generating a flow; (b) identifying the P2P application service on the basis of a port number using the generated flow; (c) when the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080162654 - Anonymous network communication system and methods of doing business: A communication system is provided to enable users to anonymously communicate, through various media, with others. In one aspect, a communications hub receives a communications directive from a user. The hub then acts on the directive, which may involve sending an electronic message, such as an email, to an intended... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080162653 - Apparatus and method for blocking email receipt response: An apparatus to block an email receipt response includes a reading unit to read tag information of an email and a forging unit to perform a forging process on a predetermined information item of the read tag information.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080162656 - Apparatus and method for processing sequenced records across multiple network connections: An apparatus and method allows processing sequenced records across multiple network connections. A “logical connection” is defined to include one or more network connections. Each message is assigned a sequence number that allows the messages to be ordered on the other end according to sequence number, regardless of which network... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080162655 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e,g, a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080162644 - Auto selection of connectors in a middleware framework: The invention describes a method for auto selection of connectors in a middleware. The method includes receiving a message at a middleware, dynamically identifying if a connector for a target system is capable of handling the message and transmitting the message to a capable connector.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080162642 - Availability filtering for instant messaging: A method and system for filtering instant messages. The instant messages can be received and filtered using multi-factor rules. The multi-factor rules can be associated with a recipient profile.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080162648 - Device and method of expressing information contained in a communication message sent through a network: A method of expressing information contained in a communication message sent through a network from a sending party to a receiving party that includes receiving the incoming message, scanning the incoming communication message to identify pre-defined information therein, generating an operating message from the pre-defined information to control a functional... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20080162641 - Drm protected content sharing: A system and method for transmitting protected real-time content from one user to another is described. In a first aspect, a user sends a Rights Object to another user. In a second aspect, a user sends a Rights Object to another user via an intermediate server for a multiparty communication.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080162657 - Dynamic information selection based on associated data: An approach to handling dynamic information selection based on associated is presented. A user configures a plurality of endnotes in order to assign one of the endnotes to a recipient address. Each endnote may include signature text (e.g., name, phone number, etc.), as well as images, web page links, and/or... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080162649 - Image based electronic mail system: An image based email system associates images with different electronic mail (email) senders. The email system receives email messages from different email senders and then looks through either website member profiles or user contacts for associated images. Any located image is displayed in a list of recent senders. This allows... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080162651 - Mechanism for generating a composite email: A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080162643 - Method and system for merging electronic messages: What is described is a method and system for merging electronic messages. The method includes receiving a message at a client, determining if the message relates to a stored message, merging the message in the stored message to generate a merged message if the message relates to the stored message,... Agent: Sap Ag

20080162645 - Method and system for providing contact specific delivery reports: A method includes selecting a contact for receiving a message from a computing device, and determining delivery report options individually for the selected contact, where the delivery report options are maintained for each message sent to the contact regardless of a global setting for delivery reports in the computing device.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080162640 - Method and system to intelligently route message requests: A computer-implemented method of routing an electronic message. The electronic message is received. A rank, within an organization, of a sender of the electronic message is determined. The electronic message is routed to a destination computer based upon the rank of the sender.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080162646 - System and method for secure and/or interactive dissemination of information: An interactive information dissemination system includes a media server (210) for receiving a plurality of media elements and storing the media elements in a database. A sender client (200) enables a first user to identify message data, a recipient identifier, and a media element from the database of media elements.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080162652 - System for applying a variety of policies and actions to electronic messages before they leave the control of the message originator: A system that allows senders to manage electronic messaging content at the point of origin integrates with the client application being used to prepare the message for sending. A send request is intercepted inside the client and a series of message analysis steps is performed that analyze the sender, recipient,... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20080162650 - User-chosen media content: A method includes sending a user-chosen media clip to a device of a buddy of the user, the clip to be played upon a triggering event not controlled by the buddy.... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080162647 - Video mail through peer to peer network: Illustrated is a system and method to record video mail using a peer to peer network. In some embodiments, a first computer system is operatively coupled to a second computer system, wherein the first and second computer systems are in a peer-to-peer configuration, a receiver resides on the second computer... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162659 - Assigning priority to network traffic at customer premises: A device may receive a message from a client device and determine whether the message includes particular data. The device may identify an address within a particular address group when the message includes the particular data. The traffic associated with addresses within the particular address group are assigned priority over... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162658 - Method and system for presenting a message during load time: A method includes recognizing that load time is occurring in a computing device, calculating the load time, and selecting one or more messages to be presented during the load time.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080162661 - System and method for a 3-hop cache coherency protocol: A system and method for implementing a cache coherency protocol are described. The system includes a first caching agent to send a first cache request to a home agent. The system also includes the home agent including a queue to store the first cache request.... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080162660 - Systems and methods for accessing a shared space in a provider-tenant environment by using middleware: The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants in a computer-based environment in which a provider stores a shared data structure. Each of the tenants may communicate with a middleware module storing metadata referencing the shared data structure and a tenant-specific data structure specific to the first tenant... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162662 - Journal migration method and data recovery management method: Provided is a computer system including a first storage subsystem and a second storage subsystem. The first storage subsystem has a first storage unit and a first control unit. The second storage subsystem has a second storage unit and a second control unit. The first control unit records journals, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080162663 - Computer system with network interface retransmit: A computer system is provided including a computer having a bus coupled to a computer system memory with a user buffer allocated therein. A network interface controller is coupled between the bus and a network. A retransmit buffer is coupled to the computer system memory, a transmit/receive buffer coupled to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080162666 - Information processing device, download method, download interruption method, download resuming method, and program: An information processing device for downloading content from a content distribution server via a network includes a mounting unit configured such that a storage media is detachably mounted thereto, a downloading unit arranged to receive content to be downloaded from the content distribution server, and to record the received content... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080162665 - System and methods for synchronized media playback between electronic devices: Methods for synchronized media playback between a number of electronic media devices wherein the electronic media devices are in electronic communication are presented, the methods including: creating a media play list on an originating media device, selecting a member media device for sharing the media play list; negotiating the media... Agent: Damon Kali

20080162664 - Technique for throttling a web service dynamically: A method for generating a scrip dynamically for a server hosting a web service in a communication network. The properties of the scrip are determined dynamically and issued to a client requesting access to the web service. The scrip allows throttling the web service dynamically. The scrip also allows balancing... Agent: Sap Ag

20080162667 - Method and system for rapid dissemination of public announcements: The announcement may be displayed by redirecting the user to a web page containing the announcement. Alternatively, the announcement may be displayed in a pop-up window or in a banner on a web page requested by said user. A banner displaying such an announcement may incorporate a link to permit... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080162670 - Automatic configuration of embedded media player: In general, techniques are described of automatically configuring an embedded media player. For example, a user interface such as a web page or a user interface of a media player may include an embedded media file that is to be presented. In addition, the user interface may display an input... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080162668 - Method and apparatus for mutually-shared media experiences: To bring back the social aspects of sharing and enjoying music, images, video, or other media with others, network addressable personal media players communicate with one another to create a shared, synchronized real-time playback experience.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080162669 - Reproducing apparatus and control method of reproducing apparatus: A reproducing apparatus which receives contents from a server over a network and reproduced the contents is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus includes: a server access part configured to make access to a route folder of the server; a folder attribute acquiring part configured to acquire a folder attribute added to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080162672 - Communicating with a status management component in a computer system: Communication with a status management component of a computer system is enabled. A status adapter is provided to a processing runtime environment for use in accessing a status management runtime environment. The processing runtime environment includes data object node instances resident in computer memory and enables access to persistent storage... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162673 - Method and apparatus to manage sensors: A method and an apparatus to manage sensors on an autonomous computing network, platform and similar other systems are illustrated. The sensor management module may comprise a sensor management server, a sensor management client and a sensor driver. The sensor management module may discover presence or absence of the sensor... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080162671 - Proxy object configuration of industrial component: An electrical device may be configured by coupling the device to a human machine interface (HMI) that is equipped with software for interacting with a configuration station. The software may include components that can enumerate properties of objects on the device to be configured. The device to be configured provides... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080162675 - Method and apparatus for removable device modification of system configuration: A method and apparatus for updating the system configuration settings of a computer system. Embodiments include a remote system configuration system that enables a user to update the system configuration of a target machine from a server machine over a network or similar communications system. Another embodiment includes a system... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080162674 - System and method for hot deployment/redeployment in grid computing environment: A technique for hot deploying/redeploying applications in a grid computing environment to improve operating efficiency and reduced overhead. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by notifying a client application manager associated with each of one or more grid nodes about a type of data transfer protocol to use upon... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080162676 - Method of gaining access to a device: The method is for activating a device. A communication device (14) is provided that is in communication with a server unit (20) that has a processor for generating a number series (38). An application device (16) has a processor (19) for generating a number series (36). The communication device (14)... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080162679 - Alerting as to denial of service attacks: A method and a system, wherein the system comprises a first server operatively coupled to a router, to receive a copy of network traffic processed by the router, a database operatively coupled to the first server, wherein the server records parsed network traffic information onto the database, and a device... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162684 - Apparatus and method for backing up data on server using at least one cache as a client: An apparatus and method is provided in which a server causes a client to back up a part of resource data of a server by use of an HTTP protocol. The method includes the steps of: transmitting the resource data to be backed-up to the client; determining whether or not... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080162680 - Internet memory access: The present disclosure relates to memory access, and specifically to memory access utilizing internet protocol (IP) addressing semantics.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080162682 - Maintaining network connectivity while operating in low power mode: A sub-system may maintain the network connectivity of the device, while the device is operating in low power. The sub-system may determine whether a pre-specified pattern is present in the incoming packet. The sub-system may send network messages such as keep-alive or time-out messages on behalf of the device if... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080162677 - Method and apparatus for dynamically qualifying mass storage devices: A field-upgradeable database that is separable from system software contains information about mass storage devices that may be present in a storage array. When an uninitialized device is detected in the array, the field-upgradeable database is consulted to discover which non-standard functions the device supports, and one of the non-standard... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080162678 - Self-service circuit testing systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, an exemplary system includes a test management subsystem configured to provide a user portal to a user of a circuit provided by a service provider, the user portal including a tool enabling the user to select a signal loop for testing at least a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162681 - Topology static zones: Systems and techniques are provided for Topology-Static (TS) architecture within a computer system, and more particularly to the management of a Topology-Static architecture incorporating a storage area network (SAN). A SAN management system for monitoring and controlling zone integrity of a SAN. The SAN management system includes a monitoring module... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080162683 - Unified management of a hardware interface framework: A method and/or a system of unified management of a hardware interface framework is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of the hardware interface framework includes applying to a client interface module with a generic agent module agnostic to a change in a device coupled to the hardware interface framework... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20080162690 - Application management system: An application management system 300 including a network tracking component 310 for obtaining network data 355, 360, an application translator 315, where the application translator 315 receives at least part of the network data 355, 360, and the application translator 315 analyzes the received network data and returns analyzed data... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080162691 - Blade server management system: The present invention discloses a blade server management system comprising a plurality of management subsystems provided on each blade in a blade server and connected to each other via a local area network, each of which implements remote control and self-management for the corresponding blade, and said management subsystems including... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080162687 - Data acquisition system and method: A method and computer program product for capturing data includes monitoring a plurality of inbound data elements that are received by a webserver that serves a website. At least a portion of the plurality of inbound data elements are written to a log file for the website. A plurality of... Agent: Holland & Knight

20080162685 - Information management architecture: A method for information management comprises applying a software architecture for a first hardware configuration; applying the software architecture for a second hardware configuration; wherein the software architecture includes: monitoring an output from an application; distributing packets; and storing the packets.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162689 - Internet-wide scheduling of transactions: A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080162693 - Message router: The present disclosed system is directed toward a communication and management system that dynamically targets network devices for content deployment, such as application programs, device drivers, configuration files, and registry subhives. Moreover, the present system targets users of network devices for promotions, such as advertisements offered by Internet e-commerce sites.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080162686 - Methods and systems for pre-caching information on a mobile computing device: Systems and methods for pre-caching information on mobile computing devices are set forth in this disclosure.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080162688 - Proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor: A proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor. User sensors extract data from user interaction with a computer terminal and pass extracted data to a sniffer agent. The sniffer agent checks for an indication of a user problem by comparing user behavior data against... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20080162694 - System and method for adjusting the traffic carried by a network: A system and method for improving or maintaining the quality of service delivered by a network with respect to a preferred type of information carried by the network. The status of the network is monitored to determine if the actual or projected quality of service being provided by the network... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080162692 - System and method for identifying and blocking sexual predator activity on the internet: A method for preventing undesired communication with a target computer across a distributed network. At least one rule regarding electronic communication is stored. Electronic communications are monitored at a server. The server applies at least one rule to the electronic communication. The server controls the electronic communications with the target... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080162696 - Method of analyzing non-preemptive dram transactions in real-time unified memory architectures: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for determining access to non-preemptive DRAM devices. This method comprises determining real time need... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080162695 - Method, communications assembly and communications device for controlling the access to at least one communications device: The invention relates to a method for controlling the access to at least one communications device (NE) by means of at least one additional communications device (NMS1, NMS2) in a communications network. According to said method, when the aforementioned communications device or devices (NE) is or are accessed, information representing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080162700 - Automated server replication: Methods and apparatus for detecting a change in demand for server resources across a load-bearing system having one or more content servers hosting identical content, the load-bearing system being connected to a network of content servers; and automatically modifying the number of content servers on the load-bearing system in response... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080162697 - Power-based resource sharing in a mesh network: A method of sharing processing loads among a plurality of communication devices interconnected within a mesh network is described herein. According to one exemplary embodiment, a communication device with a processing load selects one or more helpers to share the processing load from a set of load sharing candidates within... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080162698 - Rule-based routing to resources through a network: Techniques for determining which resource access requests are handled locally at a remote computer, and which resource access requests are routed or “redirected” through a virtual private network. One or more routing or “redirection” rules are downloaded from a redirection rule server to a remote computer. When the node of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080162699 - Selectively apportioning user web traffic: A set of two or more web pages containing page elements with differing structures is provided. Thereafter, conversion metrics associated with each web page in the set are. User traffic is then automatically apportioned in the set such that those web pages in the set which perform better based on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080162702 - Automatic detection and establishment of network connection: A device attempts to establish a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) connection and attempts to establish a point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) connection when the attempt to establish the DHCP connection is unsuccessful. The device establishes the DHCP connection when the attempt to establish the DHCP connection is successful, or... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162703 - Dynamic client/server session recovery in a heterogenous computer network: A method and system for establishing and maintaining a connection in a client/server environment is disclosed. A client requests a connection from a server, and the client and server negotiate environment options to establish the connection including a recovery location comprising, in one example, an IP address and port. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080162701 - Virtual contact center with dynamic routing: A network-based interaction system includes a machine connected to the network for receiving and routing an interaction request, a server application having access to the network for matching an interaction request to a profile, and a data repository for storing profile information.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080162705 - Dynamic service triggers in communication networks: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed for dynamically defining service triggers. Responsive to receiving a session initiation message for a session, an application server defines one or more subsequent service triggers for a service provided by the application server for the session. The subsequent service triggers identify messages or... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080162704 - Establishing network policy for session-unaware mobile-device applications: The present invention provides the benefits of negotiated network resources to session-unaware applications. When a session-unaware application runs on a mobile device, the device, knowing that the application is session-unaware, negotiates appropriate network-policy parameters for the application. The application remains unaware, but it receives the benefits of the network-policy parameter... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080162706 - Interface device: An interface device (10) for enabling wireless data communication between a host device (12) and a remote device (14) has a host serial interface (16) which is connected to the host device (12) and a wireless interface (18) for wireless data communication with the remote device (14). The interface device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080162708 - Method and apparatus for enabling a user to perform telecommunications operations: Methods and apparatuses for enabling a user to perform telecommunication operations are disclosed. A method disclosed includes receiving a device having a storage containing data corresponding to an account identifier and data associated with a voice portal and then establishing a connection with a server associated with the voice portal.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162707 - Time based permissioning: A user object is created via an administrator interface. The user object indicates access to system resources for an individual user. The user object is provided a permission time period specifying when a user associated with the object can access the system resource with a computing device. To access the... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080162710 - System and method for providing messages from a fixed communication device via a gateway: A fixed communication device includes a transceiver operable to transmit and receive communications to a gateway, and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor is configured to facilitate establishing a foreign exchange office (FXO) connection to the gateway over the transceiver; formatting a message in a multiple data... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080162709 - System for processing application protocol requests: A system for processing application protocol requests is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Application Protocol Assignment System having a controller element that assigns each of one or more application protocol requests to a select one or more of a plurality... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162713 - Media stream slicing and processing load allocation for multi-user media systems: Transrate/transcode functionality of media processing units in devices distributed within a networked media system are harnessed to enable media streaming to devices across networks while overcoming insufficient bandwidth to transmit the source content or while providing reformatted media to devices that do not support the source format. A policy engine... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080162714 - Method and apparatus for reporting streaming media quality: A streaming media client negotiates a single value for each reporting parameter associated with all accepted quality metrics applied to the same level of a streaming media session. This way, each quality metric applied to the same level of a streaming media session is reported with the same rate and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080162712 - Method and apparatus to facilitate sharing streaming content via an identity provider: An identity provider (200) communicates (101) with a first logged-in user who seeks to receive particular streaming content at a first corresponding first user platform and who has also identified at least one other user with whom this user wishes to share the receiving of this content. The identity provider... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080162715 - Method for securing a data stream: To manage the security of the communications coming from and sent to a mobile terminal, these communications including voice communications because the mobile terminals are capable of setting up communications known as voice on IP (VoIP), a local proxy server is installed in a local proxy server. This management is... Agent: Perman & Green

20080162716 - Playback apparatus and playback control method: In a playback apparatus adapted to receive stream data transmitted from a server and play back the received stream data, attribute information is sequentially received from the server and stored in an attribute information buffer, and, on the basis of the attribute information stored in the attribute information buffer, a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080162711 - System and method for dynamically refreshing an active home screen: A system and method for providing time-sensitive information to a handset using a scrolling ticker. The method includes receiving the time-sensitive information at a server, determining the time period before the next update for a second set of information, and if less than a pre-determined value, then streaming the time... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080162717 - System and method for network infrastructure and internet applications with p2p paradigm: A communication system comprises a plurality of nodes for P2P sharing of ZOC resources among a user community and an architecture. The architecture comprises (1) sensing layer, (2) access layer, (3) mesh layer, and (4) control layer.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080162718 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in blocks: A method for transmitting data in blocks includes steps: the source for transmitting data monitors the connection and disconnection request of clients for receiving data continually, establishes a control data set for the clients that request transmitting the same content, and the control data set includes the communication data of... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20080162721 - Information processing system, apparatus and method for processing information, and program: In online shopping or the like via the Internet, a user transmits information indicating a credit card number or the like from a client computer of the user to a server of a mail-order dealer. Before such information is actually transmitted, the client computer displays an object selected depending on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080162720 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a pluggable policy module within a session over internet protocol network: In one embodiment, a method includes associating a pluggable policy module with an application when executing at a session layer device within a session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network. A policy service request can be received at the session layer device from an endpoint in communication with the session layer... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080162719 - Versatile information management: A method for information management comprises intercepting an output from an application; distributing packets according to a routing scheme, wherein the packets are associated with the output, and wherein distributing the packets may occur when the application is associated with a first operating system, and may also occur when the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162722 - Technique for controlling selection of a write adapter from multiple adapters connected to a high speed switch: A technique is provided for facilitating writing of messages to multiple adapters connected to a high speed switch in a distributed computing environment. The technique employs a first, relatively quick filter to initially test whether a previously used adapter of the multiple adapters should be used to send a new... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080162723 - Method and apparatus for updating probabilistic network routing information: A method of updating probabilistic network routing information is disclosed. A “backward ant” data packet is received. The backward ant data packet contains information about the quality of a network route, at least a portion of which was selected based on a set of router-probability associations, and through which a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080162724 - Direct domain name service query: A direct domain name service query, wherein the requesting device requests the IP address of the domain name server authoring the domain name of the destination device. Then, the requesting device requests the IP address of the destination device from the domain name server authoring the domain name of the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080162725 - Sink device addressing mechanism: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method to assign unique addresses to each sink device in a content network based on port numbers of a source and branch devices in the network. Sink devices connected to a port on the source or the branch devices are assigned... Agent: Ryder Ip Law C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080162726 - Smart tunneling to resources in a remote network: A client computer hosts a virtual private network tool to establish a virtual private network connection with a remote network. Upon startup, the virtual private network tool collects critical network information for the client computer, and sends this critical network information to an address assignment server in the remote network.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080162727 - Web server and web service method thereof: A web server that compresses a web resource and provides the compressed web resource, the web server including: a compression unit to substitute strings including combinations of symbolic characters of different types for strings of a file of a web resource to compress the strings; a storage unit to store... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080162728 - Synchronization protocol for loosely coupled devices: A transport agnostic synchronization protocol is provided for use in the context of loosely coupled clients. The synchronization protocol enables a stateless server freeing the server from maintaining synchronization state of ever scaling clients. A discoverability service is provided for clients to learn about different synchronization services for groups of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080162729 - Gaming system download network architecture: Download distribution points are geographically distributed throughout the at least one casino property and a download and configuration management server determines relatively optimal download distribution points for downloading to gaming machines and points the gaming machines to the optimal download distribution point. Optimization may be based on one or more... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080162730 - Restricting communication of selected processes to a set of specific network addresses: Selected processes are associated with sets of specific network addresses, and the associations are stored. When a selected process creates a child process, an association between the child process and the set of network addresses with which the parent process is associated is stored. When a selected process is deleted,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080162731 - Providing advertising content to at least one communicating terminal: An apparatus for providing advertising content to terminals communicating over a communications network is provided. The apparatus includes a processing element that communicates with network elements residing on the network or other networks to receive information regarding the terminals and their users. At least one of the terminals may be... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080162732 - Redundant network shared switch: In one embodiment, a computer cluster network includes at least three switches communicatively coupled to respective at least one client nodes. At least one of the at least three switches communicatively couples together at least two other ones of the plurality of switches. In a method embodiment, a method of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP