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

20080208949 - Distribution request control method and unit, and program for distribution request control method: A maximum number of distributable requests is set arbitrarily for requests from a mobile communication network 10 to one or plural contents providing servers 31 provided on a communication network 30, the requests being made for distribution of signals including data of contents, and a request management apparatus sends the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080208952 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080208950 - Method and apparatus for integrating and managing information of mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for integrating and managing information of mobile terminal which provide content in accordance with an efficiency of a mobile terminal. Method comprises the steps of A) adjusting whether a mobile terminal supports a user agent profile and requesting an information of the mobile terminal;... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080208953 - Method for notifying presence information, a presence server, a client and a system: The present invention provides a method for notifying presence information, a presence server, a client and a system. A watcher subscribes to presence information of the presentity via the presence server. The presence server receives the published message sent by the presentity client or application sever and judges whether the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080208954 - Method for performing distributed administration: A master defines properties for a resource. The master assigns the properties to an owner. The owner associates the properties to an administrator object, the administrator object being an administrator of a company. The administrator can then associate the property to other objects associated with the company, thereby granting other... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c. - Novell

20080208951 - Method for processing mailed items: An exemplary method for processing mailpieces is adapted to be performed in a data network having a plurality of processing units connected to each other within the data network, wherein an image of a surface of the mailpiece is recorded in a first one of the plurality of processing units,... Agent: International Ip Law Group

20080208955 - Don't disturb service management system and implementation thereof: The present invention discloses a Don't Disturb Service management system and implementation thereof. The system includes a Don't Disturb Service management center and a subscriber identify module with the Don't Disturb function. In the Don't Disturb Service management center, a content management device records the content of messages and sets... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208964 - Client-server information system and method for providing graphical user interface: Described is an information system consisting of a server computer and one or more client computers connected with the server by a communication channel, wherein a data modification and retrieval operation being executed by the server computer, and the client computers executing the requests to the server for the data... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080208956 - Content aggregation and sharing system: A system for the aggregation and sharing of entertainment content on a global communications network, such as the Internet. A hosted service provides at least one server, one database, and software operating the server and the database to provide a web site on the network. The web site permits users... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080208960 - Directory server plug-in call ordering: A method and apparatus for ordering callbacks for server plug-ins of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server. Each plug-in registers with the LDAP server and has a designated priority and set of dependencies. The priority and dependency data are stored in an LDAP callback configuration entry or set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208959 - Hanging request system and method for client/server communication: A communication system for a computer network is described. The system has a Client Process configured to open a connection for requesting and receiving data across the computer network and a web server process operating on a web server configured to respond to a request across the computer network. The... Agent: Sean St. John Pmb 193

20080208966 - Hierarchical temporal memory (htm) system deployed as web service: A web-based hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) system in which one or more client devices communicate with a remote server via a communication network. The remote server includes at least a HTM server for implementing a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM). The client devices generate input data including patterns and sequences, and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080208967 - Method and system for improved internet color: The present invention provides a technique for providing color corrected images to a user over a network. In particular, the present invention allows multiple image providers to provide color corrected images to a user when the user's computer and its associated devices are not calibrated and/or characterized, or the calibration... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208963 - Online file sharing: Systems and methods are disclosed involving sharing data files amongst a group in a networked system. In a first embodied system and method, a user uploads a video file to a file sharing server over a network and the server makes the file available for access by a group of... Agent: Mayer & Williams Pc

20080208961 - Parallel retrieval system: In a parallel retrieval method for a web request to a particular web host from a client, a request for a target object is redirected to a best agent. The request for the target object is sent according to a designated domain name for agents instead of a domain name... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080208957 - Quarantine over remote desktop protocol: Described are systems and methods for implementing quarantine over a remoting protocol. The systems and methods verify whether remotely connected computing devices or client devices comply with specified system health requirements. This includes determining whether the remotely connected computing devices have correct security software installed, current operating system updates, correct... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080208962 - Real time automatic update system and method for disaster damage investigation using wireless communication and web-gis: Disclosed are a real time automatic update system and method for disaster damage investigation using wireless communication and a web-GIS (Geographic Information System), which are able to prevent disaster recurrence by effectively acquiring various data associated with a disaster area in disaster investigation, quickly establish a disaster register and enable... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080208958 - Risk assessment program for a directory service: Testing and evaluating a directory service of a distributed computing environment. Information related to the directory service is collected and a ruleset is executed to identify one or more problem issues as a function of the collected information. The identified problem issue includes a corresponding solution that may be applied... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080208968 - System and method for automated documentation for solicited trades: A system and method are provided that allow for automated documentation of all advice interactions between broker representatives on one end and clients, or prospective clients, on the other. This is accomplished by providing a computer system for storing appropriate data for each advice interaction with a client. The advice... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208965 - System, method and computer program for inputting information relating to a service or a product selected online by a user into a portable short-range wireless communication capable device: A system for inputting information relating to a service or a product selected online by a user into a portable, short-range wireless communication device includes: a first server for storing a first information facilitating the user to select a product or a service, the first server generating a second information... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080208972 - Apparatus and method for stateful web services enablement: A web services enablement system includes a computer adapted to send and receive information to and from a first service, to send and receive information to and from a second service, which may not be a web service, to manage a connection with a third, stateful, service and to send... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080208969 - Automatic selection of online content for sharing: Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to combing websites that can be edited over the Internet using distributed revision control. This also makes it possible to use writable web sites while not being connected to the Internet. In some embodiments, the present invention is applied to wikis. When... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080208973 - Contextual mobile local search based on social network vitality information: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing contextual based mobile searches. A context oriented user interface interprets inputs from a mobile user based on vitality information. In one embodiment, the input may be interpreted as a request to perform a context-based search over a network using at least... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080208971 - Social networking via communications over interactive devices: A social networking part for a mobile phone that allows initiating communications with persons within a vicinity.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080208970 - Systems and methods for enabling selective communications between participants: Systems and methods for selective communications, including: establishing a communication between one or more participants, where the communication is established according to configuration instructions, where the configuration instructions determine whether a one-way communication exists between one of the participants and another one of the participants.... Agent: Giorgos A. Georgakis Chowdhury & Georgakis, Pc

20080208974 - Method, electronic device, computer program product, system and apparatus for sharing a media object: A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and apparatus are provided for sharing a media object and, in particular for sharing the discussions and comments surrounding the media object. A user's device may automatically keep track of one or more comments and discussions surrounding a particular media object by,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080208975 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing a discussion forum and for associating network content for use in performing a search of a network database: Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing a discussion forum and for associating network content for use in performing a search of a network database are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method can include receiving identification of a subject from a client device. Further, the method can include... Agent: Bentley J. Olive

20080208977 - System and method for resolving a unit of work: A method for resolving a unit of work involving a plurality of participants, the method comprising the steps of: generating logic comprising an identifier generator; aggregating the logic with an owning application of a unit of work; and in response to the owning application initiating the unit of work, generating,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080208976 - System and method of providing quality of service-enabled contents in peer-to-peer networks: A system and method of providing quality of service (QoS)-enabled digital content in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are provided. The QoS-enabled service system on the P2P network includes: a service provider capable of providing digital content; one or more user nodes receiving digital content from the service provider; one or more... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080208988 - Automatic restriction of reply emails: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by an automated program, an attempt by a recipient of an email addressed to a plurality of addressees that includes the recipient to send a reply-all email. The automated program rejecting the reply-all email based on a pre-set policy rule that limits a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080208991 - Data processing arrangement: A data processing arrangement (BBP) comprises a system-host processor (SHP) and a system-guest processor (SGPl). The system-host processor (SHP) is provided with an operating system (OS) and an operating-system-message transceiver (SI) for receiving an operating-system-related message corresponding with a service request and for sending an operating-system-related message corresponding with a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080208978 - Data processing device for use in an ad-hoc network, and corresponding ad-hoc network: In one aspect, a data processing device which comprises an application for use in an ad-hoc network whereby the application is provided with a data interface to a central service for the processing of the first data is provided. A proxy instance is connected to the application via a first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080208979 - Dispatching client requests to appropriate server-side methods: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for dispatching client requests to appropriate server-side methods. When a client request is received, a Web server refers to a service contract framework that maps URI paths and HTTP methods to corresponding server implemented methods. A server implemented method... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080208997 - Electronic mail communication device: An electronic mail communication device may be provided with a receiving device that receives an electronic mail, a sequence map creation device, and an output device. The sequence map creation device may create a sequence map in which correspondent objects corresponding to the correspondents of a series of electronic mails... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080208995 - Electronic mail processing method and electronic mail processing system: Even when setting a complicated spam judging condition, it is possible to reliably determine a necessary electronic mail in reality (i.e a mail that is not a spam mail), without deleting a necessary electronic mail or the like. Based on the assumption that an electronic mail from a mail address... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080208980 - Email aggregation system with supplemental processing information addition/removal and related methods: An electronic mail (email) system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, a plurality of email storage servers, and an email aggregation system operatively connected between the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices and the plurality of email storage servers for directing emails therebetween. The email aggregation system... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080208987 - Graphical spam detection and filtering: Some embodiments of graphical spam detection and filtering have been presented. In one embodiment, an electronic mail addressed to an electronic mail account is screened. If a graphic image is embedded in a body of the electronic mail and a sender of the electronic mail is unidentified, then the electronic... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208992 - Mechanism for discovering and recovering missing emails in an email conversation: 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

20080208999 - Method and system for mediating published message streams for selective distribution: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for delivering published messages to at least one subscriber in a publish-subscribe messaging system. A computer implemented method for delivering published messages to a subscriber includes receiving a plurality of message streams, and analyzing at least one message from each of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208982 - Method and system for providing status information relating to a relation between a plurality of participants: Methods and systems are described for providing status information relating to a relation between a plurality of participants. One method includes receiving a first message from an agent associated with a relation principal for a relation between a plurality of participants, the message including relation status information of the relation.... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080208994 - Method and system to improve efficiency of email discussion within email clients: A method and email system for improving efficiency of email discussion within an email client comprising: an email tag filter for filtering a special tag in email contents, extracting original email contents, and identifying tag related information which includes at least an author name corresponding to the email contents; and... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080208993 - Method for distributing new services in an internet multimedia subsystem (ims), and a node adapted therefore: The present invention relates to a node in an Internet Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, adapted to carry Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, traffic between inviting and invited users, comprising means for distributing at least one address from where an SIP based application, required for a communication between the users, wherein the type... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080208989 - Method for provision of an address in a data network: The invention relates to a method for provision of an address of an online computer, connected to a data network, for at least one receiving computer. The aim of the invention is the provision of an address, in particular, a temporary IP address in which known disadvantages do not occur.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080208996 - Methods and apparatus for data transfer in networks using distributed file location indices: Methods and apparatus for data transfer according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a peer-to-peer (p2p) network associated with distributed file location index. For example, a system according to various aspects of the present invention may identify a high-demand file item according to communications on... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, Llc.

20080208990 - Presence system, communication terminal, server and computer program product therefor: A presence system in which communication terminals and a presence server may cooperate to provide status notifications. A communication terminal may provide the server a store message to suspend transmission of status notifications to that communication terminal. The presence server may be arranged so that in response to a store... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080208981 - Providing information regarding mailing list aliases: A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the method including displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias, and displaying an email address of a recipient of the email message in association with the mailing list alias.... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080208983 - Providing information regarding mailing list aliases: Systems and methods for providing information regarding mailing list aliases to recipients of email messages that are sent using mailing list aliases are provided in the present invention. A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases in an email message is provided. The method includes displaying an email message... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080208998 - System and method for improved synchronization between a server and a client: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080208985 - System and method for preloading content segments to client devices in an electronic network: A system and method for supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a peer-to-peer network of electronic devices. The electronic devices are initially preloaded in a distributed manner with various content segments from corresponding content items. When a system user selects a particular content item on a corresponding electronic... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080208986 - System and method for targeted healthcare messaging: A system and method for targeted pharmaceutical messaging is provided. The system includes a central targeted messaging server for receiving targeted advertisements or messages from a plurality of data sources, a notification database for storing the targeted messages and associated, pre-defined criteria, and a web server which can communicate with... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080208984 - User interface for transitioning between chat and email: Instant messaging, also known as chat, is integrated with electronic mail in a user interface that provides for conversion of messages between electronic mail (email) and instant messaging. A user interface is provided for allowing a user who is composing an email message to convert the message to a chat... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080209002 - Alert management messaging: Techniques are described for providing alert management messages in a broadcast environment to individual recipients or to identifiable groups of recipients.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080209000 - Community-based method and system for creating and subscribing to dynamic push channels: A system and method are provided for allowing a user to define and subscribe to channels of information to be pushed to a wireless device. In defining a channel a specific area of a web page is selected by the user to be monitored for change. The user may also... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080209001 - Media approval method and apparatus: An apparatus (180) for managing media approval messages in an advertising system (100) includes an approval module (182) that stores information identifying approvers for a piece of media content. A message module (185) routes a first message seeking an approval decision for media content to at least one approver in... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080209003 - Monitoring device and monitoring method: A computer executes a monitoring control by receiving a first notification which has been transmitted from another communication apparatus to a network, and acquiring first identification information which is identification information of the communication apparatus at a predetermined first layer, from the first notification. The computer acquires second identification information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209006 - Data processing system, data processor, and method of operating data processing system: A data processor is communicable with a host device via a network. The data processor includes a media connecting unit, a file creating unit, a data transmitting unit, and an operation executing unit. The media connecting unit is capable of connecting a storage medium. The file creating unit creates a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080209004 - Full mesh rates transaction in a network: In one embodiment a communication method comprises the steps of receiving a query at Layer 2 from an entry node by way of a coordinated network, the query requesting data rates of network resources of the coordinated network; transmitting a Layer 2 request for an available data rate to each... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP Ip Department

20080209005 - Information processing system, operation management method for computer systems, and program in a distributed network environment: An operation management system capable of simultaneously detecting and managing, in a computer distributed processing environment, employs physical location information about locations where computers are located and logical location information of software programs running on the computers. Physical location information of a network connection device, such as a network switch,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080209007 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing data associated with a plurality of similarly structured distributed databases: Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing data associated with a plurality of similarly structured distributed databases are disclosed. According to one method, a first value of a data element associated with a first distributed database is received from the first distributed database. A second value of a data... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080209010 - Information sharing between images: A content-based image retrieval technique for sharing image information between images. In the present image information sharing technique digital photographs containing relevant comments and links to web pages are supplied by a set of authors. A user of the image information sharing technique takes a digital picture of something that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080209014 - Meta-application architecture for integrating photo-service websites for browser-enabled devices: A method and system for integrating web photo-services for a browser-enabled device is disclosed. The method and system include providing a server that communicates with a browser-enabled device over a network. Further, an image-related web application is provided to the device over the network, the web application executable on the... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080209008 - Method and apparatus for processing remote control key data in home network device: Provided are a method and apparatus for receiving remote control key data in a home network and requesting a server to perform an operation corresponding to the remote control key data. The method includes converting the remote control key data to a code which can be referred to in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209012 - Method for establishing secure remote access over a network: A method and apparatus that provides means for remotely accessing a device over a network. The method and apparatus includes connecting, by a first device, to a server over a network for communication with a second device over the network, sending a request for remote access from the first device... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080209009 - Methods and systems for synchronizing cached search results: Search result files are synchronized among multiple servers so that each of the servers stores copies of the search result files stored by others of the servers. Such synchronizing may be performed periodically. In cases where search result files stored at different servers have similar labels, older ones of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080209013 - System and method for sharing playlists: A system for sharing playlists utilizes a network, such as the Internet. A player device other than a general purpose computer, such as a dedicated media player or a remote control for a dedicated media player, is in communication with the server over the network. The player device is configured... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080209011 - Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members: Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080209015 - Checking and repairing a network configuration: A technique for performing configuration checking of a network is provided. A network data store is scanned for at least one transaction. At least one event is generated for the transaction. At least one configuration policy is associated with the event. The configuration policy is compared with configuration data associated... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080209017 - Management of bandwidth allocation in a network server: A method and system for operating a network server to discourage inappropriate use are disclosed. A server is connected to a plurality of connected client devices, and is configured to transfer information between any selected one of the client devices and a memory for static storage of information. The method... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080209016 - Method and apparatus for policy-based provisioning in a virtualized service delivery environment: In a distributed computing network having computers interconnected with each other, a method and apparatus of providing policy based provisioning of middleware components to provide a solution for a service. With this invention, the middleware components that are necessary to provide the solution are determined. Then, the configurations of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080209019 - Method and system for automatic detection, inventory, and operating system deployment on network boot capable computers: A system for the automatic detection and inventory of a network boot capable computer and for the automatic deployment of an appropriate operating system to the network boot capable computer. First, an initial broadcast packet from the network boot capable computer is received. In response to receiving the initial broadcast... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080209018 - Method to enable infiniband network bootstrap: Firmware of an InfiniBand (IB) host computer device provides a representation of an IB Host Channel Adapter (HCA) within the hierarchical data structure during system initialization. An ib-boot support package encapsulates arguments for booting over an IB network using an ibport device. The ib-boot support package supports keywords identifying a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209020 - Dynamic performance management: A dynamic power management technique to optimize the performance to a pre-defined power or temperature limit. A computing system may comprise a performance management unit that may reconfigure the performance parameters, dynamically, based on the pre-defined power or temperature limit. Such an approach may provide performance enhancements as the power... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080209024 - Method and apparatus for evaluating visitors to a web server: Different web pages on a web server are associated with different qualification profiles, each of which is assigned a value by the web-site proprietor. Traffic data hits at the web-site are analyzed to determine which web pages the visitor viewed on the web server. Each qualifying visitor is thereafter associated... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080209023 - Method and apparatus for processing system management messages: Method and apparatus for processing system management messages are described herein. In one embodiment, a throttling policy associated with a network node is determined for throttling system management messages to be sent to a system management server over a network. The system management messages are then sent to the system... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209026 - Method for adaptively modifying the observed collective behavior of individual sensor nodes based on broadcasting of parameters: A method for continually controlling the collective behavior of a set of computing devices in a distributed data processing system. A gateway node disseminates a specification request comprising a set of parameters to a set of computing devices. The gateway node may be unaware of the number and identity of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080209025 - Storage system, information processing apparatus, and connection method: The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080209021 - Synchronous delivery of media content in a collaborative environment: An apparatus and method for facilitating a synchronous display of a time-based media object (e.g., a video or audio file) with a remote device is provided. In one example, the apparatus comprises control logic for controlling the display of a media object in response to a user entered command with... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080209027 - System and method for recording behavior history for abnormality detection: Disclosed is an autonomic abnormality detection device having a plurality of agents, a server with a one or more processors, a data storage device and a corrective actions engine. The device is adapted to detect and diagnose abnormalities in system components. Particularly, the device uses agents to track performance/workload measurements... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080209022 - Systems and methods for managing computer systems: A method of managing a plurality of computer systems is disclosed. The method includes using one or more scripts to provide a list of n computer system identifiers corresponding to n computer systems, wherein n is an integer greater than 1. The method further includes establishing concurrent management sessions between... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080209032 - Alarm method for insufficient storage space of network storage system: An alarm method for insufficient storage space of a network storage system is provided. The method includes the following steps. Preset a time alarm threshold value according to a current operation state of the system when allocating storage spaces to users. Estimate a time that written data fully occupy a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080209035 - Communications device and system for implementing a management system remote from devices: A communication device for implementing a system for remotely managing at least one item of equipment by a management application able to communicate via a telecommunication network with an application embedded in the item of equipment. The device includes a first communication interface allowing implementation of a local communication link... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080209028 - Discovering and determining characteristics of network proxies: A device, system, and method are directed towards determining network information. A network address is determined for a possible proxy. A determination is made whether a port on the possible proxy is open and/or if the port supports an HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy request. A request is sent to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080209033 - Event monitoring and management: Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, Llc

20080209034 - Home network system, method of controlling the same, method of setting residential gateway for the same, and method of processing event protocol for the same: The present invention relates to a home network system, in which devices constituting a home network can be installed to be provided with home network service, and can be controlled using various terminals, and to a method of controlling the home network system, method of setting a residential gateway and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080209036 - Information processing control apparatus, method of delivering information through network, and program for it: An apparatus including a section acquiring the information as to the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network, a section alternatively providing service to an access from the first network by using the acquired information, a section receiving and delivering the information from the first network by... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080209031 - Method of collecting and managing computer device information: A method of collecting and managing computer device information is provided to collect, analyze, and manage device information of a plurality of client computers in a network through a server/client application program. The method includes installing and running a client server application program on client computers in a network and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080209030 - Mining web logs to debug wide-area connectivity problems: Internet service providers and their clients communicate by transmitting messages across one or more networks and infrastructure components. At various points between the service provider and the clients, inclusively, records may be created of each messages occurrence and status. These records may be read and analyzed to determine the effects... Agent: Steven C. Stewart Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080209029 - System and method for monitoring business performance using monitoring artifacts: A method (and system) of monitoring business performance using a monitoring artifact includes processing an incoming event using the monitoring artifact... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080209038 - Methods and systems for optimizing placement on a clock signal distribution network: Methods for optimizing an initial placement a number of features over a clock signal distribution network on an integrated circuit (IC), wherein the plurality of features includes a plurality of registers and a corresponding plurality of local drivers are presented, the methods including: characterizing the number of features by a... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080209039 - Service chaining methods and apparatus: According to some aspects, a method of providing services to a first device over a network using a network switching center adapted to locate servers capable of providing the services to the first device is provided. The method comprising acts of identifying a first service to be provided to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080209037 - System and method for enforcing in real time corporate business rules on web users: The invention relates to a method for enforcing corporate rules in real time at a user end within a business web application operated from the corporate site server, wherein said web application conveys to a user browser a form to fill in, and wherein said form includes one or more... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.c.

20080209042 - Adaptive storage block data distribution: Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server. In one embodiment, the partitioned resource server comprises a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers appear to be equivalent to a client. Each of the individual servers may include a routing table that includes a reference for each... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080209044 - Load balancing of servers in a cluster: A system, method and program product for operating a cluster of servers. A load balancer, separate from the servers, selects servers to handle respective work requests assigned to the cluster based on a load balancing algorithm, and sends the work requests to the selected servers. The load balancer receives a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080209040 - Proxy caching for directory services: Proxy caching for directory services are presented. Requests for directory resources are intercepted and an inspection of cache is made to determine whether a resource being requested is identified in cache. When an identifier for the resource is identified in cache, a corresponding directory service associated with a cache entry... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080209043 - Server migration planning system and server migration planning method: A server migration planning system for planning server migration from source servers to destination servers is provided. A processor allocates the respective source servers to any ones of the destination servers, based on the resource usage of the respective source servers and resource capacity of the respective destination servers. The... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080209041 - Volume allocation method: A management device selects a storage device having a plenty of unallocated storage regions, selects a target using a port having a small allocation quantity from the storage device targets, and allocates the target, an initiator, and a storage region. When the number of targets and the allocated storage regions... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080209045 - Capture and resumption of network application sessions: A system and method for capture and resumption of network application sessions in a network system. A transaction may be detected between a client and server that includes application session state information. The session state information may relate to a session between the client and the server. The Application session... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080209046 - Health-related opportunistic networking: A wireless opportunistic network that can facilitate data transfer by way of interconnected devices is disclosed. In accordance with this opportunistic network, each of the devices effectively contributes to the transfer of the information thereby obviating the need for an external carrier. In this manner, the carrier infrastructure is embodied... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080209048 - Loading a mirror driver in remote terminal server session: Described are systems and methods for loading mirror drivers in remote sessions of a remote server that enables remote sessions at various computing or client devices to access the mirror drivers. The mirror drivers are video display drivers which receives video rendering output and/or graphics output from a graphics device... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209047 - Method and apparatus for distributed policy evaluation: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for distributed policy evaluation. One embodiment of a method for evaluating a systems management policy, where the policy includes a condition and an action to be taken when the condition evaluates to TRUE, includes forwarding the policy, by a first... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP Ibm Corporation

20080209050 - Multiple sessions between a server and a browser: A method and apparatus for a server capable of supporting multiple sessions with a browser. First session information of a browser is detected. Second session information of the browser is detected. A first session is initiated with a first browser instance of the browser using the first session information. A... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209049 - Systems and methods for enabling communications between clients and hosts: Systems and methods for linking clients and hosts, including obtaining, from one or more hosts, information on host attributes of the one or more hosts; obtaining, from one or more clients, information on desired attributes desired by the one or more clients; enabling a comparison of host attributes to desired... Agent: Giorgos A. Georgakis Chowdhury & Georgakis, Pc

20080209051 - Transport system for instant messaging: An exemplary method involves creating a master session over a first connection through a server; and creating a virtual channel over the connection, the virtual channel operable to communicate a feature session. The method may involve establishing a direct connection that bypasses the server, and switching communication of the feature... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209053 - Http-based peer-to-peer framework: An HTTP-based P2P framework is described. In one implementation, an exemplary system reduces network congestion caused by P2P traffic at Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by packetizing P2P data and recruiting pre-existing Internet web caches (for HTTP traffic) to cache the P2P traffic. Exemplary pinging techniques detect the web caches, which... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209054 - Method and apparatus for relaying streaming data: Provided are a method and apparatus for relaying streaming data between peers including a first device and a second device in a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network. A method of relaying streaming data from the first device to the second device includes determining whether requested streaming data is streaming data that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209052 - System and method for delivering value added services from services providers: A method and system for delivering value added service (VAS) applications offered by a service provider to a subscribing end user is presented. The method includes collecting, by a user service module, end user device information, forwarding, by the service provider, end user information, to a server, creating, by the... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (radialpoint)

20080209055 - Data communication system: A data communication system includes an address book provided with an address table having registered therein transmitter information of information via a facsimile and a mail and a user ID correlated with the transmitter information, and an ID information read unit configured to authenticate the user ID, and it conducts... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080209057 - System and method for improved internet content filtering: Briefly, the present invention provides a system and methods for filtering internet content. The system has an internet connection filter device that filters information being transmitted on the connection between one or more computers and the internet. The device stores rules on permissible and impermissible categories of content in local... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20080209056 - System and method of sharing multimedia content: Provided is a system and method of sharing content with a multimedia content server. The multimedia content sharing system includes: a content server providing multimedia content; a slave storing authentication information to be connected to the content server through a network; and a host connected to the content server by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209058 - Method and communication device for transmitting packet-oriented information: A communication network (PKN) fashioned in conformance with at least one transmission protocol is configured such that data packets (BPDU) having first address information (08 address) as protocol-specific address information are processed under the at least one transmission protocol. At least one communication device (PB) is assigned to the communication... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080209059 - Method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues during channel program execution: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues by a channel in a fibre optic switch environment that occur during channel program execution. The method comprises a channel receiving a status packet indicating a device is no longer busy. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080209066 - Method and apparatus for providing continuous playback of media programs at a remote end user computer: A method and apparatus of providing programmably seamless continuous playback of a plurality of media programs at an end-user remote from a media server facility is disclosed. The method permits playing a first media program via a first video reproduction engine disposed at the media server facility and transmitting the... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080209061 - Method and system for correlation of mobile channel subscription with delivery context: A method and system for establishing a delivery context for channel subscription in a mobile network comprising the steps of: establishing, from a mobile device in the mobile network, a subscription with a content provider; and passing a delivery context to a delivery server.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080209060 - Method for downloading with an advertising insert and specific player: The invention relates to a method of downloading at least one digital file from a digital network using at least one server and an external device, which are connected to the network. The method includes the steps of downloading the digital file through an external device and displaying an advertisement.... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080209065 - Method for sending stream media, signaling forwarding device and stream media system: A method for sending stream media, in which a signaling forwarding device is set in a stream media system, includes: receiving a signaling message sent by a terminal; selecting a media server for the terminal according to a predetermined policy, sending the received signaling message to the media server selected... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080209063 - System and generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability: A system of remote objects with network streaming ability includes a streaming client, a plurality of streaming servers, a streaming buffer area, a plurality of first continuous buffer areas, a streaming controller, a plurality of first network connections, and a plurality of second network connections. The plurality of streaming servers... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080209062 - System and method for augmenting real-time information delivery with local content: A method of delivering video on demand content, including selecting a video on demand asset, determining a portion of the asset that is stored on a storage media local to a client, playing the portion of the asset that is stored on the storage media local to the client from... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.c.

20080209067 - System and method for highly-scalable real-time and time-based data delivery using server clusters: The present invention provides loosely-coupled cluster systems comprising a plurality of servers based on storage attached to the plurality of servers. Videos, or other assets, are automatically replicated within the server system to increase the number of concurrent play requests serviceable. The server systems can detect spikes in demand that... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080209064 - System and method for transmitting data: A device (D1) for transmitting data to a further device (D2) is arranged for transmitting a first class of data (GT) as a guaranteed stream of data-units, and for transmitting a second class of data-units (BE) on a best effort basis. The device (D1) starts the transmission of a burst... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080209068 - Out-of-band keep-alive mechanism for clients associated with network address translation systems: Architecture for maintaining connection state of network address translation (NAT) devices by employing an out-of-band (OOB) technique externally to application connections without imposing additional requirements on the underlying native application(s). The OOB solution can be applied to arbitrary connections without requiring modification to an application protocol and works with TCP... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209069 - Congestion control and avoidance method in a data processing system: A congestion control and avoidance method including a method check step of determining whether the request contents is cacheable or uncacheable on the basis of the request inputted from the client terminal, a first Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) check step of, when it is determined that the request contents is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080209071 - Network relay method, network relay apparatus, and network relay program: changing the content of said first address information with time, said first address information enabling said relay device to access said first device, said relay device enabling other terminal devices to access said first terminal device by converting said first and second address information in reference to said table notwithstanding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209070 - Routing data in a cluster: Various techniques for routing data through a cluster are disclosed. The cluster includes a number of nodes that support communications by an access terminal. A node may be configured to use an identifier assigned to an access terminal to route data associated with the access terminal to another node in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080209072 - Data transmission: Data is provided over a network by negotiating a communications link with a network-connected terminal. First data is provided to the terminal over the communications link. Following receipt of a request from the terminal, provision of the first data to the terminal is stopped and second data is provided to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080209073 - Adaptive session compression management method, compression manager and session management: The invention provides an adaptive session compression management method and a compression manager in an application server, the compression management method comprising: acquiring the session state information indicated as needing to be saved from the session manager in the application server; determining whether to compress the session state information according... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080209074 - Method and apparatus for extended ordering over a wireless network of collections using priority and dependency levels: A method and system for extended ordering of collections of data for synchronization over a wireless network, each collection having an existing priority level, the method having the steps of: adding, to each collection, a dependency field having a dependency value; exchanging the priority level and dependency value for each... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080209075 - Synchronous delivery of media content and real-time communication for online dating: A method and system for facilitating online dating between users including real-time communication and the viewing of synchronized media objects. The method and system provide a framework for the synchronous display of images (e.g., of a photo book), web content, or time-based media objects (e.g., video or audio files) between... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080209076 - Method and system for fast ethernet controller operation using a virtual cpu: Methods and systems for fast Ethernet controller operation using a virtual CPU are disclosed and may comprise controlling an on-chip Ethernet controller utilizing a virtual CPU comprising a microcode engine that loads a single instruction and executes the instruction prior to loading or executing a subsequent instruction. The instructions may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080201399 - Apparatus and system for location assistance and providing other information: There is provided an interactive system of an apparatus, possessed by a user, and one or more servers or other computer type devices, for providing information to the apparatus over Local and Wide Area, Public, Cellular networks and other networks. The information may be based on location of the apparatus,... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080201400 - Method of executing service on a network, and flow processing apparatus: A flow processing apparatus generates second and third documents from a first document that describes a flow for executing services, registers the second document in a first apparatus and registers the third document in a second apparatus on the network on which the services exist. The flow processing apparatus then... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080201401 - Secure server authentication and browsing: Methods of authenticating a content-provider server by a server are provided. One method comprises determining a domain name of the content-provider server; obtaining a fragment of a database of IP addresses, the fragment corresponding to the domain name of the content-provider server and storing one or more IP addresses associated... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080201403 - Maintaning a view of a cluster's membership: A method for maintaining a current view of a cluster's membership comprising the steps of maintaining a list of member nodes and updating the list when a modification thereto is noticed by a first node by receiving a first update message from the first node in a second node, thereafter,... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080201405 - Method and system for generating a graphical display for a remote terminal session: In one aspect the invention relates to a method for generating a graphical display for a remote terminal session. The method includes monitoring output produced by an application program executing on a server, identifying a bitmap representation within the output produced by the application program and determining a check value... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080201402 - Method and system for providing instructions and actions to a remote network monitoring/management agent during scheduled communications: A method and system for sending configuration and action-related instructions to a remote network monitoring agent. The invention accomplishes this through an entity referred to as a web service. The remote network monitoring agent initiates a connection to a controlling management unit and acquires configuration instructions and actions to be... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080201404 - System for affecting the overall behavior of a peer to peer network: The invention relates to a strategic peer to peer system for affecting the overall behavior of a peer to peer network, which comprises: (a) A central server having communication with a plurality of remote agent machines; (b) A task interface within said central server for enabling an operator to define... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080201410 - Certification process for applications entering a web hosting community: An example of a certification process for an application to be made available to a plurality of Hosting Customers within a Web Hosting Community starts with a partner, from a Partner Web Site, submitting the application to a Hosting Provider. The Hosting Provider may perform a test on the application... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080201413 - Enhanced features for direction of communication traffic: An internet traffic redirection architecture is disclosed that allows for directing of various traffic to specified sites. The system and method allow a controller, such as an ISP, to benefit from unresolved IP Address requests and keyword and hotword queries by capturing this traffic and directing it to participating partners... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080201406 - Feature manager system for facilitating communication and shared functionality among components: The feature manager system for facilitating communication and shared functionality among components comprises a network of components, where one component receives or generates a request for a feature, searches its local system for the feature, and if the feature is not available locally, sends a request to a server component... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080201416 - Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server: Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a media server, a media client, and a media-server interface. The media server application produces media data, where the media data has a plurality of segments. For example, in some embodiments, the media data is a movie with video... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080201407 - Method and apparatus for communicating messages in a communications network: The present invention relates to a method of acquiring interoperability between a push to talk server and a chat server. The invention further relates to a push to talk server comprising an interface adapted to receive requests from another server to send messages to push to talk clients via the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080201411 - Method and system for filtering text messages: A system and method is provided for filtering text messages to determine which of the messages, if any, contains undesirable or unsuitable content. The method includes receiving a message containing at least one text character. The text is manipulated to generate a plurality of tokens that are compared with data... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd.

20080201409 - Method and system for managing computing resources using an electronic broker agent: A method for managing computing resources involves obtaining, by an electronic broker agent, a request to broker access to one or more computing resources, and brokering, by the electronic broker agent, access to the computing resource(s) based on the request.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080201417 - Method and system for providing version control of parameters in a command-based api using java serialization: A technique for determining whether a server host supports the functions in a command sent by a client host. The client host formulates a command including a command object that contains parameter objects. The parameter objects, which represent the functions, are serialized, e.g., using the Java serialization command, and communicated... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20080201415 - Peer to peer network: A system and method for data distribution is disclosed. A bulletin board is employed to maintain a list of requests from nodes in the system. The requests indicate data requested and identify the node making the request. Nodes are able to post requests for data as long as they maintain... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201412 - System and method for providing video media on a website: The system and method provides a web site publisher tool to use on a web site that converts a video data file to an HTML video snippet. The video file is distributed to a networked computer by delivering a snippet conversion module to a partner computer, where the snippet conversion... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080201408 - Systems and methods for services exchange: A services computing system may include a server and a plurality of clients in communication with the server. The system may further include a plurality of service exchange units in communication with the server with each of the plurality of service exchange units providing a service to a portion of... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080201414 - Transferring a virtual machine from a remote server computer for local execution by a client computer: Various embodiments of a system and method for transferring a virtual machine stored on a server computer system to a client computer system in order to execute the virtual machine locally on the client computer system are disclosed. The system and method may also be operable to transfer the virtual... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080201421 - Community web site for creating and maintaining a web hosting community: An example embodiment of a Community Web Site includes a Home Page, a Web Presence Tool Page, and a Product and Community Forum which is created and maintained by a Hosting Provider. The Home Page may be made accessible to Hosting Customers and Partners and is an ideal location for... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080201420 - Digital media frame with peer to peer networking: A digital media frame is provided for display of digital media data, such as digital images. The digital media frame includes a data network interface for communications via a data network such as the Internet. The digital media frame is capable of communications using an instant messaging communications protocol, through... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080201426 - Distributed mixer for on-line audio collaboration: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method of processing data signals. More specifically, in one embodiment, system architecture splits mixing functions between client and server to enable dynamic switching between a client-server and a peer-to-peer paradigm. In another embodiment, architecture allows one to efficiently trade-off... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080201419 - Efficient transmission of presence update information to presence service clients: To promote efficient transmission of presence update information to a presence service client associated or integrated with a communication client such as an instant messaging (IM) client, a separate computing device may be notified when the communication client becomes dormant. The separate device may buffer presence updates destined for the... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080201424 - Method and apparatus for a virtual concert utilizing audio collaboration via a global computer network: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method of processing data signals. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for processing data signals in real-time via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a system for processing data signals comprises... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080201427 - Method for transmitting destination user part unavailable message: A method for transmitting Destination User Part Unavailable message includes: signaling-point-transmitting, by an Application Server Process, a received DUPU message, if the Application Server Process is a signaling transfer point.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080201423 - Multisensorial communication method between services and remote users and system architecture for actuating it: A communication method between one or more users (20 and 40) associated to respective workstations and one or more remote services (26) located in different geographic places connected by a communication network (21), capable of establishing a direct connection between a remote service agent (31) and an interface agent (28... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080201422 - Senior citizen communication system: A system and method is disclosed whereby a patient at a senior care facility can send and receive messages via the inter-net. Tools are provided to manage the patients, the patient's relative contact, mail and photo collection. Relatives can be designated to suggest changes to the contacts and edit the... Agent: Richard L. Moseley

20080201425 - System and method for the automated notification of compatibility between real-time network participants: The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080201418 - Web-based sharing of documents: A technique is disclosed that enables telecommunications endpoints to conveniently share the addressing information—that is, the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)—of documents that are available on the World Wide Web. In particular, a server is used to provide a bookmark service. The server acts as a repository of tag-URI pairs, in... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080201428 - Method for operating a fixed prefix peer to peer network: A fixed prefix peer to peer network has a number of physical nodes. The nodes are logically divided into a number of storage slots. Blocks of data are erasure coded into original and redundant data fragments and the resultant fragments of data are stored in slots on separate physical nodes... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080201430 - System and method of wireless instant messaging: Instant messaging clients transmit, to a server, presence information indicating that the respective client is in a communicative state in which the client is receptive to communicating with the other clients. A server determines, for each client, that the respective client is in a communicative state if presence information was... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20080201429 - System supporting live electronic messaging communication between a healthcare worker and a patient: A system supports live electronic messaging communication between a healthcare worker and a patient. The system includes a communication processor for establishing a bidirectional, real-time, secure text message communication link between a healthcare worker at a first location and a patient at a location remote from the first location. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080201434 - Context-sensitive searches and functionality for instant messaging applications: In one or more embodiments, in the context of an instant messaging application, a conversation is analyzed and contextually or textually relevant keywords and/or phrases are identified. These keywords or phrases are then highlighted in a visually-identifiable manner for selection by an individual participating in the conversation. Once selected by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201440 - Electronic messaging recordlessness warning and routing system and method: A system and method for monitoring an electronic message. Messaging information is received for inclusion in an electronic message. The messaging information is utilized to determine a desired degree of recordlessness for the electronic message. One or more electronic messaging functionalities for generating and/or transmitting the electronic message is chosen... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080201439 - Email communications system with wireless device move reconciliation features and related methods: An email communications system for operating over a communications network may include an email server having a server inbox for receiving and storing email via the communications network and having a server email storage folder. The system may further include at least one wireless email communications device having a device... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080201436 - Enhanced information system and method: A method and computer program product for monitoring one or more actions taken by a user of a website. At least one of the one or more actions is associated with one or more experts skilled in a technological area associated with the one or more actions. Communication between the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080201438 - Instant messaging activity notification: A method of communicating user activity in a messaging system. The method comprises: monitoring an input region displayed to a first user of the messaging system in a client executed at a user terminal of the first user; responsive to receiving a user activated input at the input region, analysing... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080201441 - Method and system for instant messaging traffic routing: There is described an interconnect hub for routing an Instant Message (IM) or related communication between a sending IM device in a first IM community and a recipient IM device in one of a plurality of potential second IM communities. The interconnect hub comprises a router for determining the destination... Agent: Coats & Bennett/oz

20080201435 - Method and system for ordering addressees in address fields: A method and system for ordering addressees in address fields (141-143) is provided. The method includes entering a plurality of addresses in an address field (141-143) of a message; selecting an ordering policy (134); and ordering (132) the addresses in the address field (141-143) in accordance with the selected ordering... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080201431 - Method and system for providing permanent mail service: Disclosed is a method and system for storing mail permanently without restriction of storage space of mail box. When user requests to store certain mail permanently, mail server transforms the requested mail data into permanent mail data with predetermined format. The transformed mail data is transmitted to an external server,... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080201433 - Metric-based electronic mail system: Described are an electronic communication system and method for routing an electronic mail (email) message. The system includes a database and an email server that receives an email message from a client system over a network. The email message has sender-specified delivery criterion associated therewith. The email server communicates with... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080201432 - System and method for facilitating transfer of experience data in to generate a new member profile for a online service portal: System and method for facilitating trasfer of experience data to generate new member profile is described. In one embodiment, the method, which can be performed on a system, comprises, in response to a user being added as a member of an online service portal, accessing from a database of the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080201442 - System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application: In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080201437 - Systems and methods for viewing media content in instant messaging: Systems and methods for viewing media content in instant messaging are provided. In an embodiment, a first IM server that manages instant messaging of a first IM client receives a chat message having a media address from a second IM client whose instant messaging is managed by a second IM... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080201443 - Computer and control method thereof: A computer to include a plurality of memories which respectively stores unique identifiers (IDs); a communication unit which communicates to another computer based on the unique IDs stored in the plurality of memories; and a controller to examine the unique IDs stored in the plurality of memories, select one of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080201444 - File sharing system and file sharing method: A system includes a client device to which mount information representing a server device associated with the client is set; a first server corresponding to the mount information set to the client device; a second server communicably connected to the first server; a first disk device controlled by the first... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080201445 - Apparatus for communicating with external apparatus, controlling method, and computer-readable storage medium: An apparatus receives an address for use in communication with an external apparatus and a lease period of the address. When the apparatus is switched into a state where the amount of electric power provided to the apparatus is reduced, the apparatus determines whether the address is valid based on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080201446 - Method and system for collecting information about a user's media collections from multiple login points: A system and method for collecting information about a user's media collections at a central location from multiple login points and/or multiple devices owned by the user. The user establishes a user account at a central server. A client application may be downloaded to the user's device for establishing a... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080201448 - Method and system for diagnosing, collecting information and servicing a remote system: A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central service center using an Internet access module. The remote central service center monitors the received events and states for errors or warnings. The monitoring software... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080201449 - Method and system for updating rss feeds: In a method for updating RSS feeds, summaries of new content are downloaded on a regular basis from a subscribed feed. When a summary of new content is downloaded, the new content can also be downloaded via a URL in the summary according to user's settings so as to pre-load... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080201447 - Online social networking method based on third party's evaluation and system therefor: An on-line social networking method is presented based on a third party's evaluation, wherein third party's opinions are taken into consideration in constructing a community or building a network using the Internet. A network for only those users who can trust one another is guaranteed, and thus network quality is... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080201452 - Method and system for providing portions of information content to a client device: A method and system for providing portions of information content to a client device is presented. The present application provides a manner of personalizing information content for display on handheld or mobile devices. A user may identify sections of a web page as clips, and then request only the identified... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080201453 - Methods and system to create applications and distribute applications to a remote device: A remotely accessible integrated development environment, and a sub-system for deploying applications to a remote device is disclosed. The sub-system may further comprise a rendering engine which is configured based upon a platform of the remote device, wherein the rendering engine is configured to communicate with, and receive applications from,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080201450 - Owner controlled access to shared data resource: A method, system and computer program product for controlling an access to a data resource are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for controlling an access to a data resource comprises: communicating a request for the access to the data resource from a requester to an owner of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080201451 - Systems and methods for real-time media communications: A system for real-time media communication comprises a first server unit configured to interface between at least one user and a blog and a second server unit configured to process the real-time media content in a streaming mode. The first server unit comprises a publishing control module configured to identify... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080201456 - Method and apparatus for rendering user accounts portable: Improved approaches for enabling user accounts to be portable across different multi-user computer systems are disclosed. A user account created at a multi-user computer can be stored to an external, portable data store, thereby rendering the user account portable. The multi-user computer system, e.g., through its operating system, locates user... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080201455 - Moving execution of a virtual machine across different virtualization platforms: Various embodiments of a system and method for moving execution of a virtual machine from a first server computer to a second server computer are disclosed. The first server computer and the second server computer may implement different types of virtualization platforms. The first server computer may be configured to... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080201454 - Multi-level thin-clients management system and method: A system and method for managing connections between a proxy server and a distination server are provided. The multi-level thin-clients management system (TCMS) comprises a representation of the managed organization structure, per-level configurable management parameters and administrative permissions, management console adapted to enable user interaction for administrative purposes, database containing... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080201457 - Msi enhancement to update rdp files: A Terminal Server Administrator is provided with the ability to indirectly update RDP files that have been placed inside an MSI file. The TS Web Access server retrieves the RDP file from the MSI file being published by the Active Directory, contacts the corresponding Terminal Server for any updated settings... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201461 - Contents management system and contents management method: A system includes a contents management server that manages the locations of contents, a contents server that manages contents, a client terminal that receives or stores contents, and a network. The client terminal sends a contents sending request message to the contents management server. The contents management server, which has... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080201462 - Distributed network management system and method: A system and method for method of managing a network. Each of a plurality of servers includes an element management system (EMS) function for managing network elements within the network and a network management system (NMS) function for managing ones of the plurality of servers running the EMS function. An... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080201460 - Distribution of content: A content distribution system is described in which indicia defining a level of copyright control are encapsulated together with content to which it relates in a datagram for a delivery over a network. Depending on the level of copyright control defined by the indicia, a terminal receiving the content is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080201463 - Estimating network management bandwidth: Network management bandwidth is estimated. Customer requirements are mapped to device type categories. Bandwidth requirements for each device type category are calculated using unit fault requirements and unit performance requirements that are derived from fault attributes and performance attributes, respectively. Overhead bandwidth, polling equipment bandwidth, and web portal bandwidth are... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080201458 - Method and apparatus for flexible access to storage facilities: A method and apparatus for providing flexible access to storage resources in a storage area network is provided. One aspect of the invention relates to managing hosts and storage resources on a storage area network. At least one logical relationship among the storage resources is associated with each of a... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group/symantec Corporation

20080201459 - Method and system for managing computing resources using an electronic leasing agent: A method for managing computing resources involves obtaining, by an electronic leasing agent, a request to lease access to one or more computing resources, and leasing, by the electronic leasing agent, access to the computing resource(s) based on the request.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080201468 - Apparatus and method for measuring and using response to snmp requests to provide real-time network parameter estimates in a network management zone: Method creates Real-Time Estimates (RTE) of network parameters for responsive resources of a network management zone (NMZ) by sending requests in a management protocol and uses those real-time estimates to present a resource map of the NMZ, possibly altering a responsive resource, possibly posting a service schedule request. The invention... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20080201465 - Centralized monitoring of distributed systems: A remote server managing multiple client computers at a customer site communicates with a server at a service provider site. A proxy gateway at the remote server allows communications through a network to the server at the service provider site. Remote monitoring of the multiple client computers may be performed... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080201470 - Network monitor program executed in a computer of cluster system, information processing method and computer: A network monitor program operating in each node included in a cluster system, for causing the node to execute: when a response to an existence confirmation message from a relay apparatus, which relays a business request to the node, could not be received, obtaining status data of other nodes included... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080201464 - Prevention of fraud in computer network: Systems, methods, and computer programming media useful in the identification and prevention of fraudulent activity on computer networks. In various aspects the invention provides methods, systems, and programming for monitoring requests received by network resources for access to data by remote signal sources. Signal source identifiers such as URLs associated... Agent: Torys LLP

20080201469 - System and method for aggregating and extending parental controls auditing in a computer network: A system and method for aggregating and extending parental controls auditing in an unmanaged computing network are provided. A parental control system, including a parental control database, logging interface, and audit process, resides on each host computing device in an unmanaged computing network that is capable of synchronizing data residing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080201467 - System and method for event management: An event management system, comprising a server comprising a platform component architecture (PCA) and a software engine, wherein the PCA is configured to provide runtime discovery and display of system components. The system also comprises a data source for storing user define data objects and applications; at least one system... Agent: Ip Legal Department Tyco Fire & Security Services

20080201466 - Web hosting community: An example embodiment of a Web Hosting Community includes at least three members, i.e. a Hosting Provider, a Hosting Customer and a Partner. The Hosting Provider may have one or more Hosting Servers, and create and maintain a Partner Web Site and a Community Web Site. The Partner Web Site... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080201471 - Methods, systems and computer program products for controlling network asset recovery: Computer-implemented methods for controlling network asset recovery for a communication network include receiving an identification of a plurality of non-utilized assets from an asset identification system. Business rules to be applied to the non-utilized assets are identified. One of the non-utilized assets is automatically identified for recovery based on the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080201472 - System and method for generating personalized offers through an information gathering system: A method of generating a personalized offer for a user through an information gathering system disposed on the Internet includes storing a plurality of user profiles for a plurality of registered users in a profile database associated with the information gathering system, receiving an information request message at the information... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080201474 - Computer system: A technique for suppressing the need of active device check by an administrator by providing log data to the administrator for judging whether to replace hardware. A computer system includes: a terminal device in which a user performs direct operation or content check, a plurality of personal computers connected to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080201475 - Device management method using nodes having additional attribute and device management client thereof: A device management (DM) method and a device management (DM) client use a node having an additional attribute. The DM client includes a node having a common attribute indicating attribute information that is common to every node and an additional attribute indicating attribute information of each node. The DM method... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080201473 - Partner web site to assist in offering applications to a web hosting community: An example embodiment for using a Partner Web Site within a Web Hosting Community starts with a Hosting Provider creating the Partner Web Site, a Community Web Site, and operating one or more Hosting Servers. A Partner, from the Partner Web Site, may make an application available for purchase and... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080201476 - Persistence of inter-application communication patterns and behavior under user control: An end-user or administrator is allowed to couple portlets in a portal through user interface events taking place on the portal display itself. When the portal is displayed, if the user actuates a control corresponding to a property in a portlet, a menu of actions that can be performed with... Agent: Gerald R. Woods IBM Corporation

20080201479 - Associating virtual machines on a server computer with particular users on an exclusive basis: A first computer of a plurality of computers in a server computer system may be associated with a first user on an exclusive basis. An administrator of the server computer system may utilize an administrative user interface in order to specify the association. Associating the first computer with the first... Agent: Jefftrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080201477 - Client side replacement of dns addresses: A DHCP response is intercepted and the DNS address in the DHCP response is placed with an address for a server device when the server device is present on a local network. When the server device is not present, the DNS address from the DHCP response is used. The server... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201478 - Method for detecting fault in next generation network: A method for detecting fault in a next generation network includes: establishing a tool set and a corresponding command set for detecting whether the network is connective and detecting a range of network fault; creating dynamically in a PROXY an address mapping table storing a correspondence relationship between a user... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080201480 - Method for establishing peer-to-peer connection, method, apparatus and system for traversing nat to realize network communication: The employment relates to a realization method for establishing peer-to-peer communication connection, a method, an apparatus and a system for realizing network communication by traversing NAT. The employment mainly comprises following steps. When the user terminal may not directly communicate with the peer user terminal by the manner of peer-to-peer... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080201482 - Method for making secure an audio-visual communication network: In an audiovisual communications network, a first endpoint exchanges with a control element messages transmitting parameters registered or to be registered in the control element to enable the first endpoint to communicate with a second endpoint registered with the control element. The communications network is made secure by a method... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080201481 - Remote interface marshalling: A remote interface marshalling (“RIM”) platform is provided in which a protocol interface described using an interface definition language (“IDL”) is parsed to automatically generate the appropriate communication packets and a protocol layer to enable communication between terminal server components. Use of the RIM platform advantageously enables a developer to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201483 - Systems and methods for termination of session initiation protocol: Systems for graceful termination of support for session initiation protocol communications on a server are described. Systems include techniques for setting a time period for gracefully terminating such support, for sending a service unavailable message to a client, for causing the server to maintain support, until no later than the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080201484 - Content delivering system, server, and content delivering method: A receiver receives from a client, a participation request indicating that a delivery of a content is desired. An affiliated group-determining unit determines of which group corresponding to the attribute content the attribute of the user, included in the participation request is affiliated. When the other client corresponds to the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080201486 - Dynamic system and method for virtual private network (vpn) packet level routing using dual-nat method: A system and method for virtual private network (VPN) packet level routing using a Dual-NAT architecture to provide a bidirectional secure connection between applications, hosts, or networks at any two end sites without exposing each other's actual IP addresses and network topologies. The method includes providing a client a list... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080201485 - Printer user interface redirection over a terminal services session: User interface (“UI”) redirection for a local device, such as a printer that is operatively coupled to a client, is provided by an arrangement in which a dummy driver is installed on the terminal server. When an application on the terminal server makes a call to show a UI, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201487 - Open dynamic domain name system: Assigning subdomain names of domain names to users and allowing the subdomain names to receive dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) service is described herein. A downloadable application is configured to submit the domain name as well as subdomain names for registration. The owner of the domain name can other users... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080201488 - System and method for server-side optimization of data delivery on a distributed computer network: A system and method for the optimized storage and retrieval of video data at distributed sites calls for the deployment of “Smart Mirror” sites throughout a network, each of which maintains a copy of certain data managed by the system. User addresses are assigned to specific delivery sites based on... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080201489 - Mobile communication terminal and website browsing method: An object is to implement automatic selection of an optimal combination of a communication network with a web browser according to a connection environment, thereby improving user's convenience during browsing a website. A cell phone achieving this object is composed of a first browser for browsing web data described in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080201490 - Frequency domain data mixing method and apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method and apparatus for mixing a data signal in a frequency domain so as to realize computational efficiency and reduced latency. In one embodiment, a method of processing data comprises generating a data signal at a client, encoding the data signal... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080201491 - Communication network system: The invention relates to an active star coupler based network handling of redundancy in the physical layer by transmitting a message to both regular (30, 32, 34, 36, 138, 140, 146) and redundant links (38, 148). In error free case the message is forwarded by the regular interface (12, 14,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080195687 - Building management system and method: A building management system and method are disclosed. The building management system includes: a central control system connected with a network and centrally controlling at least one sub-system accommodated in a building; a multi-air-conditioner system including an outdoor unit and one or more indoor units connected with the outdoor unit;... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080195686 - Information data distribution system, distribution method, and information data storage terminal: Information data accumulated in a content database 9 arranged on the Internet 7 is acquired in a relay device 6. A music file 3 is outputted from a street loudspeaker 5 connected to the relay device 6. Simultaneously with or prior to the output processing via the street loudspeaker 5... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080195688 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: An information processing apparatus determines, upon receipt of a packet via a network while in one of a plurality of power-saving modes, whether the packet is a reply request packet not requiring a process to be performed by the information processing apparatus. When the received packet is a reply request... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080195691 - Method and system for accessing applications and data, and for tracking of key indicators on mobile handheld devices: A method, system, and apparatus for accessing data-driven websites and applications on a mobile client device are described. A request for a website received from the mobile client device is transmitted to a provider. At least one web page template of the website and application data corresponding to the at... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080195689 - Subscription-based management and distribution of member-specific state data in a distributed computing system: An apparatus utilizes distributed coordinating members to distribute member-specific state data to subscribing members in a distributed computing system. Member-specific state data is associated with different subjects, and coordinating members are configured to manage state data associated with particular subjects such that a reporting member that needs to report member-specific... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080195690 - Subscription-based management and distribution of member-specific state data in a distributed computing system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize distributed coordinating members to distribute member-specific state data to subscribing members in a distributed computing system. Member-specific state data is associated with different subjects, and coordinating members are configured to manage state data associated with particular subjects such that a reporting member that... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20080195693 - Method and device for monitoring and upgrading software in device management: A method for monitoring and upgrading software in device management includes: monitoring use frequency of software of terminal equipment and storing use frequency information of software; and providing the use frequency information of software to a device management server. Further, a method for upgrading software in device management, includes: monitoring... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080195692 - Method and system for converting interactive animated information content for display on mobile devices: A method and system for converting interactive animated information content for display on handheld or mobile devices is presented. Information content that includes files with frames intended to be sequentially played out for display may be converted into a single frame or a smaller collection of frames for display on... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080195695 - Contents distributing system, client, server, contents distributing method, and contents reproducing method: A contents distributing system capable of reproducing a plurality of contents continuously at the client not to put a waiting time can be provided. A server 100 reads respective contents constituting a group from a memory device 102 and then transmits continuously the contents when such server receives a request... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080195697 - Data reception apparatus of consumer electronics device, method thereof, data reproduction method, and consumer electronics device: A data reception apparatus of a consumer electronics (CE) device, a method thereof, a data reproduction method, and a CE device are provided. The data reception method includes connecting the CE device to an Internet server; receiving a CE device list and a content list of CE devices connected to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195700 - Method and system for local peer-to-peer traffic: A system and method providing for the flow of peer-to-peer traffic between end users within an access network without requiring the traffic to pass through a network gateway such as a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS). End user devices connect through access nodes to an aggregation network and a gateway.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080195698 - Method and system for transforming and delivering video file content for mobile devices: A method and system for accessing video file content is provided. When a user encounters a webpage with video content, the user can select to view the video content and wait for the server to transcode the video file and to stream the transcoded video file to the user's client... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080195696 - Method for intercepting http redirection requests, system and server device for carrying out said method: A redirection request interception method includes: a step (E10) of receiving an HTTP response sent to a user station; a step (E30) of obtaining a redirection address contained in that response; a step (E40) of creating and a step (E50) of sending a substitution request to that redirection address; a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080195701 - Method, system and article for dynamic real-time stream aggregation in a network: A graphic user interface of a network client (106) includes a stock ticker from a stock server (110) and a news sidebar from a news server (112) over the IP addresses advertised to the client (106) in its list of multi-homed addresses from the video server (104) specified under Stream... Agent: Bracewell & Patterson, L.l.p.

20080195699 - System and method for providing avatar with variable appearance: The present invention relates a system and method for providing an avatar with variable appearance. When a user is connected through a network, information on the avatar provided to the user is collected. The avatar has at least two exposed units. The user's location on the network is determined, at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195694 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing information regarding communication systems: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for accessing information regarding a communication system from a plurality of information sources and providing a consolidated view of the information are provided. A first request to access information regarding the communication system is received. In response to receiving the first request, the information regarding... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195702 - Determining and presenting communication device proximity information: A location and mapping application takes device information and produces location information for display on a communication-enabled computing device (e.g., a personal digital assistant or wireless phone). A current location of a wireless device may be provided with an announcement of an incoming call or message and may be in... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195704 - Management of stored conference data: 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 obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080195705 - Methods of collaborating within a shared electronic calendar: Methods of the present invention provide for collaborating within a shared electronic calendar. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of scheduling an event in an electronic calendar, notifying a plurality of users of the event, and collaborating with the users regarding the event via a collaboration tool on the... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080195703 - Negotiation and validation of a client in a video conference: An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those steams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080195706 - Group based communication method, system and client: The present invention discloses a group based communication method, including: initiating, by a communication initiating client, a connection request containing a recipient identifier to a backstage server; forwarding, by the backstage server, the connection request to a communication recipient client corresponding to the recipient identifier; and establishing, by the communication... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080195714 - Messaging system and method: A method of transmitting a message from a first entity to a terminal of a user over a communication system operated by a second entity. The method comprises: the second entity authorizing the first entity to access a message transmission means connected to the communication system; the first entity transmitting... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080195708 - Method and apparatus for management of broadcast-distributed data entities: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for reducing the storage needed for broadcast-distributed data entities, such as electronic mail messages from a mailing list, are disclosed. Locally stored data entities that are determined to have corresponding copies elsewhere are replaced with identifying information to allow the corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080195711 - Method and apparatus for transforming user requests and responses based on a persona: A Persona Based Interface associates a user's persona with a simple instant message request to a remote service. When the Persona Based Interface receives a simple instant message request from a user, the Persona Based Interface transforms the user's request based on the persona, and forwards the request to the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080195712 - Method and system for transferring content from the web to mobile devices: A web page architecture is provided for enabling a user browse the web within an inline frame embedded in a web page and drag and drop content rendered in the inline frame into a receiving panel in the web page for transmission to the user's mobile device. The delivery mechanism... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080195713 - Method and system for transmitting an electronic message: A method and system for transmitting an electronic message from a first user device to a second user device is disclosed. The system comprises at least a first server and a second server communicatively connectable to each other and to the first and second user device respectively. The first server... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080195707 - Schedulable e-mail filters: An e-mail filter may be associated with a schedule defining a recurrent active time period. As such, some e-mail filters may be active at specific times of day and on specific days of the week and inactive the rest of the time. Before applying any filters, the current time is... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080195715 - System and method for asynchronous exchanging electronic messages: A system and a method for asynchronously electronic messages exchanging are disclosed. The system includes a server and more than one clients. Each client has a geographic parameter generator and a message transmitter. The geographic parameter generator is configured to generate a geographic parameter. The message transmitter is configured to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080195716 - System and methods for sending an image from a communication device: A system and method for sending an image are described. A first exemplary method includes receiving an image via the image capture device. The method includes receiving an input indicating a recipient. The method further includes associating the input with an address for the recipient. The method also includes automatically... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080195710 - System, method and program for managing e-mail: Management of e-mail. A user at the originating workstation enters a first e-mail address into a primary address field, a second e-mail address into a secondary address field, a third e-mail address into a tertiary address field and text into the text field of an e-mail form to form an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080195709 - Throttling of mass mailings using network devices: A system and method that effectuates dynamic mass mail throttling utilizing an upstream network device. The system and method includes intercepting messages from sending mail server, determining whether the message relates to mass mailing advertising emails, and based the determination automatically and dynamically directing upstream network devices to gradually retard... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080195718 - Method, apparatus and system for processing a series of service messages: A method, apparatus and system for processing of a series of service messages. In one embodiment, the series of service messages is formed by a plurality of service messages, and at least two server instances provide real-time processing of the service messages and store the information provided by the service... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080195717 - System and method for providing an importance filter for electronic mail messages: A system and method for implementing an importance filter in an electronic mail message system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an incoming email message; rating the received email message in accordance with at least one criterion; and responsive to the rating, displaying in the email inbox... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080195719 - Resource reservation protocol over unreliable packet transport: A system and method for allocating physical memory in a distributed, shared memory system and for maintaining interaction with the memory using a reservation protocol is disclosed. In various embodiments, a processor node may broadcast a memory request message to a first subset of nodes connected to it via a... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20080195720 - System and method for delivering information at inaccessible locations: Systems and methods of using the systems for delivering information related to an inaccessible location to individuals at the inaccessible location are disclosed. The system comprises a memory device affixed to the inaccessible location, the information related to the inaccessible location residing on the memory device, and a portable memory... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080195722 - Exactly once data framework computer readable storage medium: A computer readable storage medium stores instructions for managing objects in a clustered network. Several clustered servers are in communication with a file system containing at least one copy of a data object. A distributed consensus algorithm is used to select a host server. The selected host server can contain... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080195721 - Exhibiting method of exhibition: The present invention involves exhibiting method of exhibition. Visitors visit the exhibitions or booth organized in any locale through the video network formed by connecting in turn the terminal, network exhibition platform and the online video & audio hardware devices installed at the exhibition or booth. The visitors can connect... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080195723 - Methods and apparatus for interactive specification of context-sensitive service level agreements; for provisioning of resources required during service delivery events regulated by service level agreements; and for monitoring compliance with service leve: In a first aspect of the present invention, methods and apparatus implement graphical user interfaces for interactively specifying service level agreements used to regulate delivery of services to, for example, computer systems. An interactive graphical user interface allows a user to see the effects of varying values of service delivery... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080195725 - Electronic apparatus and system capable of assigning appropriate address: In order to prevent unnecessary APIPA process from being executed in a LAN environment which does not adopt APIPA, an ICMP echo request for a predetermined IP address is broadcast. Whether there are more than N apparatuses using APIPA is checked based on the replies, and if there are, IP... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080195724 - Methods for interactive multi-agent audio-visual platforms: Multi-agent platforms are able to perform interactive improvisational scripts and/or interactive cooperative behaviors. The platforms can autonomously recognize their situation. Once the platforms discover their situation, they are able to configure themselves accordingly, such as by reacting to motion and proximity. Each of the platforms is embedded with a unique... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080195726 - Dynamical reconfiguration of distributed composite state machines: The present invention discloses a method for dynamically deployment and reconfiguration of services such as peer to peer type of services using a protocol suite running on a generic distributed middleware platform, such as ActorFrame where said method comprise the steps of: detecting changes in the configuration specification for one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080195731 - Distributed traffic analysis: A distributed system for analyzing traffic flow on a communications network architecture where a computer provides information over a data network to a concentrator, which provides a bridge between the computer and the end user terminals. The interface between the terminals and the concentrator is provided through access points for... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080195732 - Information processor and information processing system: An information processor disclosed herein prevents adverse impacts on higher priority processing due to extremely frequent receive processing when inbound traffic from a network is over-traffic state (under a DoS attack). The information processor attached to a network collects information about traffic state and, if it is determined that over-traffic... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080195730 - Location information server system and wireless communication system using the same: A location information server system for acquiring the status of a user terminal in wireless communication network, comprising: a plurality of sensor means capable of communicating through a network; a priority database to location information from each sensor means; location information selecting means for selecting a location information having a... Agent: Butzel Long Ip Docketing Dept

20080195727 - Method and apparatus for effecting telecommunications and multimedia communications over communications networks in general and, in particular, over the internet, using advanced communications terminals: A method for immediately effecting telephone and multimedia communications over the broadband Internet network that comprehensively supports digitalized telephone communications, multimedia communications and electronic data transmissions, through the use of specific Communications Terminals capable of automatically connecting to said Internet network quite like normal POTS telephone devices connect to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080195728 - Network subscriber experience modeling: Systems and methods for modeling a subscriber network experience. In one embodiment, a method includes the act of receiving a plurality of subscriber metrics associated with a subscriber to an access network. The method also includes the act of modeling the subscriber experience by applying at least one transformation to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080195729 - Path identification for network data: A solution is provided wherein a master process and two or more drone processes may be utilized to identify path information containing a pattern. The master process may send the pattern to the two or more drone processes, which may identify the pattern in path data. Each drone process may... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080195733 - Tunnel availability detection with reduced control plane overhead: Network devices can detect whether a tunnel is available (e.g., usable to convey traffic in both directions) by implementing a tunnel detection protocol that uses a combination of idle timers and multiple types of probes. In this protocol, the device at one end of the tunnel is configured as an... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080195734 - Method of using portable network-attached storage: A method of using portable network-attached storage includes the steps of (1) providing a user with a portable network-attached storage; (2) coupling the portable network-attached storage into an electronic apparatus, so that the portable network-attached storage is linked with a remote network host; (3) performing a storage unit in the... Agent: Shih-ho Hong

20080195738 - Connection managing unit, method and system for establishing connection for multi-party communication service: A method for establishing a connection for a multi-party communication service includes: establishing a shared connection between a centralized managing server and an access server; in which the shared connection is configured to transmit media data for at least two UEs accessing the access server.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080195737 - Host identity protocol method and apparatus: A method is provided of using the Host Identity Protocol, HIP, to establish a connection between a second host (32) and an application socket (42) on a first host (30), comprising establishing a new or selecting an existing HIP Security Association (46) between the first and second hosts (30, 32),... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080195735 - Motion triggered data transfer: Methods of controlling the transfer of data between devices are described in which the manner of control is determined by a movement experienced by at least one of the devices. The method involves detecting a triggering movement and determining a characteristic of this movement. The transfer of data is then... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080195736 - Wireless network connection supporting apparatus, connection supporting system, connection supporting method and program using same: A wireless network connection supporting apparatus, a supporting system using the same, a method therefor and a program wherein a wireless LAN to be supported is connected by trial to enable the decoding of an encrypted packet and also enables a confirmation of the operation of the main system of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080195739 - Resolving synchronization duplication: Systems, methods, and data structures associated with the detection and resolution of duplicate data that might result when using multiple synchronization protocols are described. These techniques may use different types of identification data associated with data that is synchronized, as well as a defined set of operations that may be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195740 - Maintaining session state information in a client server system: Techniques and mechanisms are provided for maintaining session state information in a client server system. Session state information such as session state, time stamp information, activity state, counters, etc. are generated and updated by a server. The session state information is sent in encrypted form to a client and the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080195741 - System and method for enabling wireless social networking: Exemplary systems and methods for sharing a personal network of a first user are provided. The exemplary method comprises receiving credentials for the personal network which are used to generate a network profile. When an indication to share the personal network is received, one or more user devices of a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080195742 - System and method for developing diameter applications: A system and method for developing Diameter applications are provided. The system and method extend the application server servlet model to support Diameter applications. A “base protocol” servlet is provided that handles the basic Diameter protocol functionality. Base application servlets are provided for each Diameter interface (for example, an “Sh”... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080195745 - Adaptive bandwidth utilization: Described herein is technology for, among other things, improving playback of media streams by maximizing bandwidth utilization. The technology may be implemented via a remote playback device on a network. It involves monitoring requests for portions of streaming media content and the associated responses to the requests and then adjusting... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195744 - Adaptive media playback: Described herein is technology for, among other things, performing playback in resource-limited environments. The technology involves identifying one or more primary streams and one or more secondary streams of a piece of media content based on the media content itself and/or on the particular playback scenario and then modifying playback... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195743 - Apparatus, system, and method for multi-bitrate content streaming: An apparatus for multi-bitrate content streaming includes a receiving module configured to capture media content, a streamlet module configured to segment the media content and generate a plurality of streamlets, and an encoding module configured to generate a set of streamlets. The system includes the apparatus, wherein the set of... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080195746 - Live content streaming using file-centric media protocols: Described herein is technology for, among other uses, performing playback of dynamic content using protocols designed for playback of fixed-length files. The technology involves strategically updating the duration of the content during playback under various conditions. During playback, as the playback position approaches the duration, the duration is refreshed. Also,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195747 - Control protocol encapsulation: Some bus protocols are useful for management of peripheral devices that exist on a computer's system bus. Such bus protocols include the industry standard architecture bus (ISA), peripheral component interconnect (PCI), PCI express (PCIe), etc. The usefulness of such protocols for control messages, interrupt management and more is limited to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20080195748 - Data delivery: A media server to stream content a client device over one or more network connections of varying quality includes logic to continually determine a network quality level during streaming of content, and logic to change a codec used to encode the content, the codec selected at least in part according... Agent: Fsp Llc

20080195749 - Protocol extensions for generic advisory information, remote url launch, and applications thereof: Methods, systems and computer program products to implement extensions of the Media Transport Protocol (MTP) are provided herein. The methods include opening a session between an initiator and a responder, exchanging one or more of device and system information and sending one of an operation or event based on control... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080195751 - Messaging system: A method of selecting a recipient of a message on the basis of data identifying access to previously transmitted messages, wherein each said message includes content data for display within a display area of a receiving terminal and control data including data indicative of a user selectable portion within the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080195750 - Secure cross platform auditing: A method and apparatus is described for recording or auditing events. In one example, a device is connected to a first host device and may receive data from the first host device. The first host device may further be connected in a network of devices. The device may be disconnected... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195752 - Module diagnostic toolkit for client-server based protocols: This paper describes a server diagnostic module toolkit which provides for the non-intrusive inspection and/or data transformation of stages, modules, and data on a server utilizing a request-response protocol. Diagnostic modules are installed on a server so that diagnostic commands may be sent by a client within an otherwise normal... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080195754 - Method and apparatus for affinity of users to application servers: A method and apparatus route hypertext protocol requests to one of a plurality of application servers, which share a database through a backend database management system. The application servers store session data in the database. Hence, if a subsequent request is routed to a different application server, the session data... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080195753 - Relay apparatus, recording medium containing relay program, and communication system: A relay apparatus that transfers packets each including identification information specifying connection between a first apparatus and a second apparatus, a destination address, and a source address performs: receiving, from the first apparatus, a first packet in which the identification information includes encryption information obtained by encrypting an address of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080195755 - Method and apparatus for load balancing with server state change awareness: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for load balancing in a cluster. In response to receiving a notification of an impending state change event in the server, a weight adjustment value for a server is identified to form an identified weight adjustment. An adjusted routing weight... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080195757 - Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing a connection of a device to a building management system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for automatically recognizing a device of a building management system which is capable of automatically recognizing a device when the device is connected to or removed from a certain communication port that is built into a BACnet gateway of a building management system, thereby... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080195756 - Method and system to access a service utilizing a virtual communications device: A method and system to access a service utilizing a virtual communications device is provided. The system, in one example embodiment, comprises a network layer to receive a message targeting a network address, the network address being associated with a service running on a host server; a network address detector... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080195758 - Method and server system for transferring an object to a wireless device from a predetermined web page: A method and system for transferring an object to a wireless device is provided. The method includes converting the format of the object to a wireless-device-format in response to a user input. The object is embedded in a predetermined web page and the wireless-device-format is a corresponding format supported by... Agent: Global Ip Services, Pllc

20080195759 - Efficient knowledge representation in data synchronization systems: A variety of flexible conflict resolution policies are provided for loosely coupled devices to implement according to a variety of different synchronization scenarios. Choosing a conflict resolution policy, such as “Most Frequent Updater,” “Priority,” “PerCent Change,” “Arbiter Deadlock Resolution,” etc., enables devices to select how and when to resolve such... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080195760 - Virtual personal computer access over multiple network sites: A computer system in a wide area network, including a workstation computer and a first virtualization server which maintains virtualization information in real time for the workstation computer on a first storage device, wherein the first virtualization server is located at a first site. A second virtualization server is located... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080195761 - Method and apparatus for the adaptation of multimedia content in telecommunications networks: An apparatus for adapting media content in one or more networks includes a controller module, one or more network interface modules, and one or more protocol interface modules coupled to the controller module. The apparatus also includes a script interpretation module coupled to the controller module and one or more... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189349 - Media transport protocol extensions for system information exchange, and applications thereof: Methods, systems and computer program products to implement extensions of the Media Transport Protocol (MTP) are provided herein. The methods include opening a session between an initiator and a responder, exchanging one or more of device and system information and sending one of an operation or event based on media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080189348 - Media transport protocol extensions for system integrity and robustness, and applications thereof: Methods, systems and computer program products to implement extensions of the Media Transport Protocol (MTP) are provided herein. The methods include opening a session between an initiator and a responder, exchanging one or more of device and system information and sending one of an operation or event based on media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080189352 - Complex event processing system having multiple redundant event processing engines: A system and method for replicating a distributed computer system state among a plurality of deterministic event processing engines are disclosed. A sender module receives a plurality of input events or input event streams and generates a serialized message sequence describing an order in which input events are processed. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080189350 - Devices, systems, and methods for providing data: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise, responsive to a request from a client for data services associated with an application, automatically transmitting a notification to the client indicating that a data set will be accessible asynchronously, the notification comprising an address associated with a future asynchronous transmission... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080189351 - Network system which performs peer-to-peer communication: To reduce a load inflicted on a network by peer-to-peer communication between terminals, the present invention provides a network system having a communication destination machine and a communication source machine, in which: the communication destination machine includes a unit which registers its own location information in a peer-to-peer network; and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080189353 - Systems and methods for inferring services on a network: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing services on a network. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving topologically relevant network information concerning nodes, interfaces, connections and/or protocols; resolving conflicts in the received information; determining and storing a network topology from the received and resolved information; and inferring one... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080189357 - Community journaling using mobile devices: A community journaling system is described. In various embodiments, the community journaling system can receive a message containing a journal entry and a command to post the journal entry to a journal, identify a sender of the received message, determine whether the journal entry should be posted to the journal,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080189359 - Content providing method, content playback method, portable wireless terminal, and content playback apparatus: Content data is provided as follows. If a request for providing a content is received from a portable wireless terminal or a content playback apparatus associated with the portable wireless terminal, then content data of the requested content in a form adapted for use by the portable wireless terminal is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080189360 - Contextual data communication platform: Systems and methods for a contextual data platform are provided. According to one embodiment, a request is received from a client at a server. Responsive to the request, the client is caused to display a customized menu structure by transmitting to the client contextual menu information based in part on... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080189354 - Method and apparatus for automated user review of media content in a mobile communication device: A method and apparatus that creates reviews of media content on a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include identifying media content being played for a user, receiving a review from the user based on the played media content, and sending the user's review to a remote media... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080189363 - Method and system for negotiating device information, and device thereof: System and method for negotiating device information and device thereof are disclosed by the various embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes the processes as follows: sending, by a network entity initiating a data synchronization process, a data synchronization initialization request carrying the identifier of the network entity initiating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080189358 - Method for distributing computing between server and client: A method and system for use in running a display-based computer application, the computer application comprising a plurality of application segments, where computing is distributed between a server and a client computer. The method comprises the steps of providing a generic client engine (20) to the client computer, the client... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080189361 - Method for serviing third party software applications from servers to client computers: An application serving system is disclosed that comprises a target client computer that connects to a server system and subscribing institution host Web Server, over a network. Both the client computer Web server and server system implement a network protocol layer to communicate across the network. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080189355 - Per-application remote volume control: In client-server architectures, systems and methods for per-application remote volume control are disclosed. In an implementation, one or more audio session are created between a client computing device and a server computing device corresponding to one or more media applications running on the server computing device. The volume of each... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189356 - Stealth entropy collection: In a computing system environment, methods and apparatus include tapping a plurality of connected computing devices and distilling small amounts of entropy from each, concentrating the entropy so collected, and performing all in a stealth or surreptitious fashion relative to the providers of the entropy. In this manner: the potential... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080189362 - System, server and method for realizing individual services for subscriber: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for realizing individual services for subscriber, and the method includes an individual service generating process as follows: receiving subscriber service data; matching the subscriber service data and a service rule pre-saved to obtain an individual service of current subscriber, in which the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080189364 - Method of updating information in an electronic note: The creator can alter the expiration time after the note has been provided to the recipients. The creator and recipients can exchange and update the note based on an agreement between them. Such an agreement can be embodied in an electronic contract that specifies the information in the electronic note... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080189366 - Online social and professional networking and collaboration services with enhanced communications capabilities: A virtual collaboration social or work unit or sphere of trust allows participants to contact others within the sphere, using a method designated by the participant being contacted without the participants needing to be aware of the underlying communications infrastructure or method of contact, and without any of the participants... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080189365 - System and method for managing group interaction session states: A services broker provides session suspend and resume capabilities to a computer-supported multi-user session made up of associations between a plurality of participants and the services broker. The services broker includes: a memory; an input/output subsystem for transmission of session data and for communicating with the plurality of participants; a... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080189367 - User-to-user communication method, program, and apparatus: A user-to-user communication system allows users to chat with each other by sending messages via a computer. The computer also includes a chatbot with which the users can chat; that chatbot generates response messages automatically. The computer keeps a history of messages sent by the users, infers users' interests from... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080189368 - System and method for linking terrestrial mail over a network: A system and method for linking terrestrial mail to the global computer network, e.g., the Internet, are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure will enable a user, e.g., a sender and/or recipient of a document, to link all types of terrestrial mail to the global computer network,... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080189376 - Automated message handling system and process: The present invention relates to a system and process for resolving messages from application components to back-end systems. The system comprises a standardized message definition which uses a tagged field format through which application components communicate to a message handler. The message handler applies rules that define actions to be... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080189369 - Computing system infrastructure to administer distress messages: A system and method that allows for distress or SoS messages from various managed resources to be sent to a reliable location such as a server. The server can gather the distress messages and provide a summary or health status based on the gathered distress messages.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189374 - Managing instant messaging sessions on multiple devices: Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at least a second instant messaging controller on a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189375 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for constructing topic structure in instance message meeting: An instant messaging communication method, computer program product and apparatus. The instant messaging communication apparatus includes input means for inputting an instant message and a semantic tag for the instant message; a network module for transmitting the input instant message and semantic tag and receiving an instant message with a... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080189378 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing community messaging services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing community messaging services is provided. The method includes calculating a receiver pool for receiving a broadcast message, the receiver pool being a subset of a messaging community. The method also includes transmitting the broadcast message to the receiver pool and tracking... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080189373 - Processing of messages to be transmitted over communication networks: The invention relates to processing, at a transmitting entity, messages to be transferred between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity. The method comprises: obtaining a message to be transferred to the receiving entity, defining a substantially unique identifier at least for one part of the message to be transferred,... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20080189379 - Selective transmission of an email attachment: Methods, devices, systems, and media are disclosed for replacing an email attachment with a call, and forwarding the email with the call to a user for selective display of the attachment by making a call. One embodiment includes receiving an email on a mail server, wherein the email has the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080189370 - System and method for image inclusion in e-mail messages: While populating an e-mail message with, among other details, an e-mail address for a receiver, an image of the sender is included as part of the e-mail message. Advantageously, at a device in use to execute an e-mail client application on behalf of the receiver, the e-mail client application may... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080189372 - System and method for providing business continuity through secure e-mail: A method for processing electronic communications is described. The method includes receiving electronic communications from a plurality of sources and processing the communications for delivery to intended addressees. The processing includes ensuring validity of sender, verifying operation of exchange mailbox corresponding to said addressee and routing the communication along a... Agent: Innovalex

20080189371 - System and method for venue-to-venue messaging: A system and method is provided for enabling venue-to-venue communication. A message is sent from a messaging device located in a first venue. The system receives the message via a communications network. The system transmits the message via the communications network to a local venue exchange associated with a second... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080189377 - System for transmitting and receiving an electronic mail: An electronic mail system comprises a transmitting terminal which transmits an electronic mail, a server which receives the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, retrieves a specific data relating to the electronic mail from at least one of a network coupled to the sever and an internal memory of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080189380 - System and method for curtailing objectionable behavior in a web-based social network: A system and method for curtailing objectionable behavior in a web-based social network is disclosed. The method includes monitoring various actions of users of a web-based social network for objectionable behavior. The monitored actions are those that affect other users of the social network. A policy is determined based on... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189381 - Method and system for secure communication between devices: The present invention relates to a closed system having multiple electronic devices and to a method of communicating between electronic devices in a closed system. The method and system encode at least one output of a master device using an encoding code specific to the master device, transmit the encoded... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080189382 - Media stream distribution system: A media server comprises a plurality of nodes each comprising a gateway, each gateway providing memory and communication of data between mass storage and I/O ports of a node, and/or providing communication of data between the node and other nodes. Each node utilizes one or more central processors. The media... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080189383 - Distributed cache between servers of a network: A distributed cache module that allows for a distributed cache between multiple servers of a network without using a central cache manager. The distributed cache module transmits each message with a logical timestamp. The distributed cache module of a server that receives the message will delay forwarding of the message... Agent: Uriarte Law

20080189384 - Dual porting serial advanced technology attachment disk drives for fault tolerant applications: The present invention is directed to an apparatus capable of dual porting a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) disk drive in a fault tolerant communication system, such as fibre channel. The dual porting apparatus includes two idle regenerators coupled to two serial master devices, a synchronization logic capable of synchronizing... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080189385 - Multiple machine architecture with overhead reduction: A multiple computer environment is disclosed in which an application program executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M1, M2, . . . Mn) interconnected by a communications network (53) and in which the local memory of each computer is not maintained substantially the same by updating in due course.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080189388 - Delivery of any type of information to anyone anytime anywhere: Information delivery system and methods detects and organizes information into canonical topics, such as who, what, when, where, price, etc., and facilitates a user to persistently subscribe to topics, web users, web resources, event streams, etc. The system facilitates a user to register devices and applications on which to receive... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080189387 - Instant messenger system with accessible group contact list: A method for changing a user A's contact list of an instant messenger system includes the user A transmitting a request to a user B, and adding the user B's contact list to the user A's contact list after the user B accepts the user A's request.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080189386 - Web-based methods and systems for manufacturing and selling custom-made, high-end products: A web-based method for manufacturing and selling custom-made, high-end products includes the step of receiving, by a designer, information from a remote client relating to the remote client's environment and preferences, all the information received from the remote client. The designer selects an item satisfying a design need of the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080189392 - Computer system with lan-based i/o: A computer system includes a local area network (LAN) and a plurality of computers. Each of the computers includes at least one central processing unit (CPU) and a LAN interface, which is coupled to communicate over the LAN, while the computers include no on-board input/output (I/O) device controllers other than... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080189391 - Method and system for delivering podcasts to communication devices: A method of processing a pod cast for transmission over a communication network, e.g., cellular. The method includes associating a database entry on a first server to an RSS feed from a second server at a first time. The first server includes a first website and the second server including... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189390 - Remote access of media items: Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified. Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080189393 - Remote access to secure network devices: An illustrative communication system provides remote access to target devices located behind a firewall or other network security gateway. The system includes an internal processor and target devices coupled to a network located inside the gateway, and an external processor and clients coupled to a network located outside the network... Agent: Overhauser Law Offices, LLC Paul B. Overhauser

20080189389 - Web-based method and system for providing person-to-person, high-end design services: A web-based method for providing person-to-person, high-end design services includes the step of receiving information from a remote client relating to the remote client's environment and preferences, all the information received from the remote client and at least some of the information received via real-time communications. A three-dimensional model is... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080189396 - Execution apparatus for executing function in response to request received via a network, and method of accepting request received via a network: An execution apparatus for executing a function in response to a request received via a network obtains interface information representing an interface via which a component that provides a function accepts a request, and generates an interface for allowing the execution apparatus to accept a request via a network, based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080189394 - Mesh-to-cluster protocol: A system and/or method for relaying messages in a network (e.g. a mobile network) are provided. Certain portable communications nodes are instrumented with omni-directional antennas. Certain static communications nodes are network cluster-head nodes with directional antennas, and, for example, achieve much of the gain possible when all nodes have directional... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080189395 - System and method for digital file distribution: Systems and methods for obtaining a digital file similar to one used by a device associated with a member of a social network are provided. Digital file information about the digital file is stored on a web-based social network database. The digital file may be located on the same server... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189397 - Logically centralized physically distributed ip network-connected devices configuration: A logically centralized physically distributed Internet protocol (IP) network-connected devices configuration is disclosed. The technology initially receives configuration information regarding an IP network-connected devices configuration. The configuration information is then disseminated to a plurality of devices coupled with the IP network-connected devices configuration. At least a portion of the IP... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189398 - Techniques for performing operating system installation on a headless device: Techniques are provided for performing software installation on a headless device. A first device is used to interactively obtain answers in connection with installation processing performed on the first device regarding the software installation for the headless device. The answers are communicated to the headless device. The answers are used... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189403 - Electronic device, computer readable recording medium and electronic device control method: An application operates in an application execution environment by a framework. A browser communicates with the application through a route for directly communicating with a controller element section in order to manage the application. The controller element section is commonly used by the application execution environment and the application.... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080189400 - Measuring client access licenses: Embodiments of measuring client access license (CAL) techniques are presented herein. In an implementation, a management service provides functionality to collect and centrally store configuration data from a plurality of clients in a network and topology data describing the arrangement of applications and servers in the network. Then, the collected... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189402 - Method and respective system for performing systems management on it-resources using web services: The present invention relates to performing systems management on IT-resources using web services, wherein the resources are managed in a computational network within a plurality of runtime environments having different respective instrumentations, wherein the web services are implemented according to a public web service standard, and wherein a resource configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080189404 - Method for executing managment operation by communication terminal and a terminal and system thereof: A method for executing a management operation by a terminal in a communications system. The method comprises the followings: The terminal receives the management operation commands that indicate the operation to target operation nodes in the device capability management object and operates them. The said operation initiates the process for... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080189401 - Orchestration of components to realize a content or service delivery suite: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or service delivery suite. According to one embodiment, orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or service delivery suite can comprise detecting an access of the content or service delivery suite.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080189399 - Social namespace addressing for non-unique identifiers: A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user to disambiguate an identity of a member included in a user's social network (USN), and towards enabling an operation to be performed based on information about the member. The USN is determined. The NID of the member is received.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080189407 - Apparatus and method for user communication in a communication system: An apparatus (101) for a data communication system comprises a user group processor (207) which generates a user group for a first user. A set of content topics is determined and stored in a topic set storage (211). A communication processor (201) monitors a data communication of the user group... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080189410 - Directing a network transaction to a probe: A method and apparatus for directing an entire network transaction to a network analysis device are disclosed. The apparatus can include an input port configured to receive network data from an inter-switch-link (ISL). The apparatus can further include a first probe port configured to transmit network data a second network... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080189405 - Method and system for identifying active devices on network: Active devices on a network are identified by simultaneously issuing to a plurality of worker threads a request for information identifying the devices. The worker threads are capable of performing identical functions in response to the request for information. Based on device architecture information provided in response to the request... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080189411 - Method and system for using data structures to store database information for multiple vendors and model support for remotely monitored devices: In a communication system having one or more monitored devices communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, a database having information related to the one or more monitored devices, a method of obtaining and maintaining, in the monitoring system, information related to the monitored devices is described. The method includes enabling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080189409 - Network interaction monitoring appliance: An appliance for analyzing a network interaction is disclosed. The appliance includes an input to monitor network traffic that includes a network interaction without interfering with the network traffic. The appliance further includes a processor to analyze network traffic to derive information about the network interaction wherein the information about... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080189408 - Presenting web site analytics: Site metrics are presented in association with search results. The site metrics are derived from site analytics that uses clickstream data collected from a panel of internet users to generate and present internet activity metrics. Data collected from a community of internet users may be augmented by clickstream data store... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080189412 - Refined quality feedback in streaming services: A method for quality feedback in a streaming service is shown, wherein at least one media stream is streamed to a client for playback, the method comprising determining a quality feedback value according to at least one quality metric from a pre-defined set of quality metrics, wherein the pre-defined set... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080189406 - System and method of a peer-to-peer web service monitoring network: A system and method of a peer-to-peer web service monitoring network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a central module of a peer-to-peer monitor networking includes embedding any number of monitoring agents of the peer-to-peer monitor network to any number of websites individually participating in the peer-to-peer monitor... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate,

20080189413 - System for monitoring server sub-system health: A server self health monitor (SHM) system monitors the health of the server it resides on. The health of a server is determined by the health of all of a server's sub-systems and deployed applications. The SHM may make health check inquiries to server sub-systems periodically or based on external... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080189414 - Method and apparatus for providing administrative registration: There is a need in the art for application servers to be able to exhibit the same behavior irrespective of the used access technology. In order to address this need the present invention provides methods and apparatuses for allowing one or more subscribers to be administratively registered.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080189418 - Dynamic application placement under service and memory constraints: An optimization problem models the dynamic placement of applications on servers under two types of simultaneous resource requirements, those that are dependent on the loads placed on the applications and those that are independent. The demand (load) for applications changes over time and the goal is to satisfy all the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20080189415 - Method and system of providing network addresses to in-premise devices in a utility network: One example embodiment provides a method and system where a node in a utility network receives a block of IPv6 network addresses from an access point in the utility network. The utility node allocates an IP network address from the block of IPv6 network addresses received from the access point... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080189416 - Method for accepting qos request, and apparatus and computer readable recording medium providing the same: Disclosed is a method of accepting a QoS request for utilizing resources of a network in a predetermined quality. The method receives from a terminal connected to the network a resource unnecessity notification indicating that resource allocated to the terminal has become unnecessary, and holds, as a free resource information,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080189417 - Method, system and computer program product for transitioning network traffic between logical partitions in one or more data processing systems: A method, system and computer program product for transitioning network traffic between logical partitions in one or more data processing systems are disclosed. The method includes defining a plurality of logical partitions with respect to one or more processing units of one or more data processing systems and dynamically reallocating... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080189422 - Communication device, communication system, communication method, communication program, and communication circuit: The present invention is a network layer protocol used for free-space optical transmission utilizing an LED or LD as a light source. In order to connect to a device, the network layer issues a connection request command (LAP_con_req2) to a lower layer when the network layer has received a connection... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189424 - Enhanced website visitor coordination system and method: A method for enhancing telephone interactions associated with website visits, including: transmitting substantially unique identifiers each associated with a receiving first computing device, respectively, wherein each first computing device displays the transmitted substantially unique identifier associated therewith in conjunction with one of the website visits; routing telephone calls associated with... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080189423 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request requesting Web information, said first request sent from the terminal through the network, and reference Web information is generated so as to include reference path... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080189425 - Media stream scheduling for hiccup-free fast-channel-change in the presence of network chokepoints: An implementation, as described herein, facilitates fast start-up of a new media stream while avoiding temporal interruption (i.e., “hiccups”) of the presentation of that new media stream. At least one implementation, described herein, coordinates the delivery of multiple simultaneous media streams on a media-stream network. Its coordination accounts for traversal... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189426 - Method and device for establishing network connection service, and automatically switched optical network: A method for establishing a network connection service includes: initiating a request for establishing a network connection service from the user side of a source end to the user side of a sink end; a network ingress node and network egress node of the network connection service negotiating through message... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080189420 - Method and system for mobilizing a management service platform: Described are a method and system for mobilizing a management service platform. A connection between a mobile unit (“MU”) and a mobile service platform (“MSP”) appliance is established within an operating environment. A user of the MU is authenticated as an administrator. If the user is authenticated as the administrator,... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080189421 - Sip and http convergence in network computing environments: The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network environment. The engine tier can send, receive and process various messages. The state tier can maintain in-memory state data associated with various SIP sessions. The SIP server can support converged HTTP... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080189419 - System and method to synchronize osgi bundle inventories between an osgi bundle server and a client: A system and method to synchronize OSGi bundle inventories between an OSGi bundle server and a client are presented. When a server detects that a client requires a bundle update, the server and client proceed through a data synchronization process prior to invoking in a device management session to provide... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080189427 - Enabling access to an application through a network portal: Systems and techniques to enable access of an application through a network portal to integrate that network application into the portal services provided to a user. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes using a template to identify a correspondence between a first parameter associated with a portal and... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080189428 - Computer program products for security processing inbound communications in a cluster computing environment: Methods, systems and computer program products provide Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) to a plurality of target hosts in a cluster of data processing systems which communicate with a network through a routing communication protocol stack utilizing a dynamically routable Virtual Internet Protocol Address (DVIPA) by negotiating security associations (SAs) associated... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080189429 - Apparatus and method for peer-to-peer streaming: A method and apparatus of communicating streaming content through the Internet. Elements of streaming content are segmented and stored across a plurality of network-enabled computer devices coupled to the Internet. Each segment of the streaming content contains a plurality of data packets and an identifier for the segment. A client... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080189430 - 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

20080189431 - Layer-2 management entity messaging framework in a network: A communications system and method comprises the steps of performing at least one Layer 2 transaction comprising a plurality of wave cycles, each Layer 2 transaction including performing a first wave cycle, concatenating the received first responses from each of the one or more nodes, and performing a second wave... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080189432 - Method and system for vm migration in an infiniband network: A virtual machine (VM) is migrated from a physical source node to a physical destination node in an InfiniBand network. A virtual host channel adapter (VHCA) is allocated on the source node for the VM to be migrated. The VHCA is suspended and put into the inactive state. The state... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080189434 - Data transfer scheme using caching technique for reducing network load: In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080189433 - Methods and apparatus for assigning a physical adapter to a virtual adapter: Apparatus and methods of assigning a physical adapter local to a computer to a virtual adapter in a computer through which the virtual adapter may receive and transmit data is provided. The apparatus and methods may include (1) providing a system including a plurality of computers coupled via a network,... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20080189435 - Intra-network switching: This disclosure provides a system and method for intra-network switching. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a communication in an Internet Protocol network. The communication is based, at least in part, on a cellular radio technology associated with a mobile switching center. The communication is routed to a network... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189436 - Method and system of providing ip-based packet communications in a utility network: One example embodiment provides a method and system where a node in a utility network registers with one or more access point devices associated with one or more local area utility networks. The utility node generates a unique network address using a network address prefix of a network address associated... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080189437 - Composite dns zones: DNS requests directed to the composite DNS zone may result in a plurality of answer candidates. Some embodiments include algorithms for searching the composite DNS zone and assembling a DNS answer from the plurality of answer candidates. The composite DNS zone may include telephonic DNS data according to the ENUM... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189438 - Integration of a service-oriented transaction system with an information storage, access and analysis system: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to integration of a service-oriented transaction system with an information storage, access and analysis system, such as a Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure. In general, in some implementations, a data transformation interface and a data transfer interface can be configured to effect data... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080189440 - Multi-way, peer-to-peer synchronization: A method of synchronizing data elements between devices can include receiving at a first device, from only one of multiple peer devices with which the first device is configured to synchronize, a request to synchronize data between the first device and the only one peer device; identifying data elements stored... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189439 - Synchronization framework for occasionally connected applications: A synchronization framework is provided for synchronizing data groups between a server and clients that may go off-line. The framework includes a client sync provider component that interfaces to client storage in a storage format independent way, a sync agent component that collects synchronization metadata maintained by the clients and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP